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communicate with others. sport is mandatory because it helps us to keep us fit and healthy throughout our school days. If I were Miss Allot, I would introduce ice skating BECAUSE it's fun. But I was not keeping "life" because that's boring. On the other hand, I was kept German because that helps us to learn about other cults. But I'm tired of sports so I was rid of it. If I were Miss Allot, I would swim imports because that makes fun. I was also there because I do not retain body, and it is interesting.


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Synonym(s): spruce_up, titivate, tittivate, smarten_up, slick_up, spiff_up
Hypernym(s): fancify, beautify, embellish, prettify
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· dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion; "He spruced up for the party"
Synonym(s): spruce_up, slick_up, smarten_up
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 31, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: VNDA) today announced top-line results of the Phase IIb/III clinical study (MAGELLAN) in Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), investigating the efficacy and safety of tasimelteon as a monotherapy in the treatment of patients with MDD. The clinical study did not meet the primary endpoint of change from baseline in the Hamilton Depression Scale (HAMD-17) after 8 weeks of treatment as compared to placebo. Both tasimelteon and placebo treated patients had an approximately 40% reduction of their MDD symptoms from baseline. Tasimelteon was shown to be safe and well-tolerated, consistent with observations in prior studies. Given these current proof of concept clinical study results, Vanda has decided to discontinue all activities in this indication.
"These results are disappointing, as there is still a significant unmet medical need for patients with Major Depression," said Mihael H. Polymeropoulos , M.D., President and CEO of Vanda. "Tasimelteon's application in the treatment of blind individuals with Non-24 remains our top priority as we pursue our planned NDA submission this year."
Vanda has recently reported positive results in two phase III clinical studies of tasimelteon in Non-24-Hour Disorder (Non-24) and plans to submit a New Drug Application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in mid-2013.
About MAGELLAN
MAGELLAN was a proof of concept, two arm (tasimelteon 20mg and placebo), 8-week, double-masked, randomized, phase IIb/III clinical study in patients with MDD. The study enrolled 507 patients in 43 sites in the U.S. The primary endpoint of the study was the change from baseline in the Hamilton Depression Scale (HAMD-17) at week 8.
About Tasimelteon
Tasimelteon is a circadian regulator in development for the treatment of Non-24. Tasimelteon is a melatonin agonist of the human MT1 and MT2 receptors, with greater specificity for MT2. Tasimelteon's ability to reset the master body clock in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), located in the hypothalamus, results in the entrainment of the body's melatonin and cortisol rhythms to align to the 24-hour day-night cycle. Tasimelteon is currently in Phase III development for Non-24. A New Drug Application, is expected to be submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in mid-2013 for Non-24.
Conference Call
Vanda has scheduled a conference call for today, Thursday, January 31, 2013 at 9 AM ET to discuss the MDD clinical trial results. Investors can call 1-888-895-5479 (domestic) and 1-847 619-6250 (international) and use passcode 34186999. A replay of the call will be available beginning Thursday, January 31, 2013, at 11:30 AM ET and will be accessible until Thursday, February 7, 2013, at 11:59 PM ET. The replay call-in number is 1-888-843-7419 for domestic callers and 1-630 652-3042 for international callers. The access number is 34186999.
The conference call will be broadcast simultaneously on Vanda's website, http://www.vandapharma.com. Investors should click on the Investor Relations tab and are advised to go to the website at least 15 minutes early to register, download and install any necessary software. The call will also be archived on Vanda's website for a period of 30 days, through March 2, 2013.
About Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.:
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of products for the treatment of central nervous system disorders. For more on Vanda, please visit http://www.vandapharma.com.
Company Contact:
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Various statements in this release are "forward-looking statements" under the securities laws. Words such as, but not limited to, "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "estimate," "intend," "plan," "project," "target," "goal," "likely," "will," "would," and "could," or the negative of these terms and similar expressions or words, identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based upon current expectations that involve risks, changes in circumstances, assumptions and uncertainties. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in the company's forward-looking statements include, among others: the inability to reach agreement with the FDA regarding Vanda's regulatory approval strategy or proposed path to approval for tasimelteon for the treatment of Non-24-Hour Disorder; Vanda's failure to obtain regulatory approval for tasimelteon for the treatment of Non-24-Hour Disorder or to comply with ongoing regulatory requirements; and other factors that are described in the "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" sections of Vanda's annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011 which is on file with the SEC and available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. In addition to the risks described above and in Vanda's annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, other unknown or unpredictable factors also could affect Vanda's results. There can be no assurance that the actual results or developments anticipated by Vanda will be realized or, even if substantially realized, that they will have the expected consequences to, or effects on, Vanda. Therefore, no assurance can be given that the outcomes stated in such forward-looking statements and estimates will be achieved.
All written and verbal forward-looking statements attributable to Vanda or any person acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements contained or referred to herein. Vanda cautions investors not to rely too heavily on the forward-looking statements Vanda makes or that are made on its behalf. The information in this release is provided only as of the date of this release, and Vanda undertakes no obligation, and specifically declines any obligation, to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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Here are three common causes of stress for new fathers and tips for handling each one.
Sleep deprivation
No one gets much sleep with a newborn in the house. Without the rest you need, you will find yourself running on fumes and easily prone to being stressed and irritable. Be creative to find time for you and your wife to rest. Consider taking turns during nighttime feedings (if your wife is nursing, she can pump milk into a bottle for one of the late night feedings), allowing one of you to get at least a few hours of sleep. Take naps, or at least rest, when your baby is sleeping during the day.
A crying baby
This is perhaps the greatest cause of stress for fathers. Not only can a newborn's cry be draining, men tend to be problem-solvers and fixers and sometimes it is quite difficult to soothe a crying baby. Here are six tips for soothing your crying baby.
- Swaddle her. Newborns feel secure when they are bundled up securely.
- Calmly and gently shhhh her. Babies like repetitive sounds, plus it makes you feel better to say it.
- Gently rock her. Try swaying back and forth to create motion.
- Change the way you are holding her.
- Give her a pacifier.
- If all else fails and you feel your blood pressure rising, walk away and pray. Crying never hurt a baby.
A crowded schedule
Life instantly gets hectic with a baby in the home which often leads to stress. Learn the art of prioritizing and clear as much off your calendar as possible. Allow the house to be a little messier than usual. Don't worry about mowing the lawn as frequently. Prepare simpler meals. Forgo your hobby for a little while. Don't make any commitments or appointments unless absolutely necessary.
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ATLANTA — Arkansas coach Mike Anderson believed his team was built for the postseason. But the Razorbacks still couldn't get past their first game Thursday.
ATLANTA — Arkansas coach Mike Anderson believed his team was built for the postseason. But the Razorbacks still couldn't get past their first game Thursday.
Arkansas was knocked out of the SEC Tournament in its first game for the sixth straight year with the 71-69 loss to South Carolina in the Georgia Dome.
The fact was hard for Arkansas' senior class — particularly fourth-year seniors Mardracus Wade, Kikko Haydar and Rickey Scott — to swallow after the game.
"It's just tough being here for four years and never made it through the first game," Wade said. "It's just really heartbreaking."
Arkansas' seven-game losing streak at the SEC Tournament is the longest current drought in the conference. The Razorbacks and South Carolina both entered the 2014 SEC Tournament with six straight losses dating back to the 2008 season, but the Gamecocks are 2-0 this week with wins against Auburn and Arkansas.
Arkansas' last SEC Tournament win came in a semifinal thriller against Tennessee during the 2008 SEC Tournament in Atlanta. Former Razorback Steven Hill made a last-second shot to help Arkansas advance with a 92-91 win during a tournament that was moved to Georgia Tech after a tornado hit the Georgia Dome. The Razorbacks lost to Georgia in the SEC Tournament championship game the next day.
Arkansas has since lost SEC Tournament openers to six teams (Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, LSU, Vanderbilt and South Carolina) in four cities (Atlanta, Nashville, Tenn., Tampa, Fla., and New Orleans).
"It's not a legacy we wanted to leave," Haydar said. "It's tough."
Mizzou Holds On
Arkansas' NCAA Tournament bubble likely burst with the South Carolina loss, but another conference foe held onto its hopes Thursday.
Missouri survived a 91-83 double overtime win against Texas A&M, advancing to the quarterfinals. The Tigers struggled to put away the Aggies at the end of regulation and the first overtime, but closed strong to improve to 22-10 this season.
It also sets up a game against top-ranked Florida this afternoon.
"It's a good opportunity," Missouri guard Jabari Brown said. "They're the No. 1 team. They had a real good regular season, but it's postseason now.
"It's a new season and we're looking forward to playing them."
Kingsley Key
Arkansas freshman Moses Kingsley turned in an impressive performance in his postseason debut Thursday.
The forward logged more minutes than usual because of Bobby Portis' foul trouble in the second half and finished with 7 points, 2 rebounds and 4 blocked shots in 18 minutes. Kingsley's dunk with 7:34 left helped Arkansas take a 59-56 lead.
Kingsley's 18 minutes were two shy of his career high (20 vs. UT-Martin). The four blocks also were close to his career-best performance (five vs. Savannah State).
Releford's Finale
Alabama guard Trevor Releford's college career ended with the Crimson Tide's 68-56 loss to LSU on Thursday night. Releford scored 11 points in his final game, which was his lowest point total since being held to 10 points at Missouri on Jan. 18.
But coach Anthony Grant said it didn't take away from his impact on the program.
"We'll miss him greatly," Grant said. "I told him after the game I'm just really proud of the way he's, first of all, walked in a s a freshman and had a lot on his shoulders from day one, the way he's handled that. … Also, I'm appreciative of his commitment, his work ethic and his dedication to the program."
Releford finished his career fourth on Alabama's career scoring list.
Back and Forth
The Arkansas-South Carolina game featured 15 ties and 21 lead changes Thursday.
Neither team led by more than six points. Most of the changes took place in the second half, when the largest lead was Arkansas' four-point edge with 6:26 left.
"We hit some buckets, but none of that really matters if we don't get stops," Arkansas guard Ky Madden said. "They kept coming back and answering. It was crazy back and forth. We've got to get stops to win."
Three From Three
Arkansas went 3-for-13 behind the 3-point line in Thursday's loss, struggling to knock down long-range shots against the Gamecocks.
Its 3-point total was the third-lowest mark this season. Arkansas went 1-for-13 in a win against Alabama on Feb. 5 and 2-for-13 against Louisiana-Lafayette on Nov. 15.


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Mmmmm...so much fanservice and so so guilty of enjoying said fanservice. But enough about my not-so-secret flame for Jiro Wang.
I had an inkling that the story would turn tragic at some point (it's an idol drama, come on, how could there not be any tragedy?), given that it's essentially about the love between a human and a robot, but I underestimated just how heart-wrenching this could be. In the last episode alone, I cried enough to fill a water bottle - was very embarrassing too, since I was on a train and discreetly trying to hide the fact that I was a) watching an Asian drama and b) flooded with tears. Had to pause several times to hold the gates back.
I'm glad they didn't drag it out (any more than they already did) - by this point, I was ready to believe that I was watching the death of an actual person, that's how 'real' Night had become. It was all so bittersweet and painful, knowing that everyone was helpless and that this was the final countdown. The ending itself still makes my tears well up - no hint as to whether he does get revived... :'(
I haven't seen too much of Jiro's work, but out of everything I have seen him in, I think this is his best show by far. He did such a good job as Night, and I don't really have anything bad to say about his character at all.
Xiao Fei, on the other hand...her character got exceedingly annoying in the middle of the story - is passiveness a common trait of all girls in Asian dramas? She just lets herself get carried into all of these nasty situations, and is just tooooo naive for my liking that it really started to grate on me. But towards the end, I let that go when she finally stopped dilly-dallying around and faced up to her true feelings. I thought the emotional growth there was very touching (and about time too!). Pity they never got round to consummating their love... >_<:;
All I can say about Zhong Shi is this: poor guy. He had to put up with so much crap, yet he stayed by her side until the end. If I had a friend as good as Zhong Shi I would never let him go. Same with Night... ^^:;
And Lei Wu Wu came into his own towards the end too. I always liked him, even though he is so obviously there for comic relief but also such a funny character too (I don't usually find Chinese comic relief characters funny as the humour is too weird for me -_-)! He always used threats but never really carried them out and always seemed to be a good guy at heart, so I'm glad he tried to save Night and saw him as more than a simple robot.
I wish there could be a single episode set in the future, just to wrap everything up - we deserve that, at least! >__<
And on that note, here's the music video of the ending credits song for you to drool over~~
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Last year for Father's Day, I made my first tart in my new (at the time) blue tart pan, a Lemon Cream Cheese Tart. Over the weekend, I recreated this tart, although this time with just a layer of homemade lemon curd over the cream cheese layer, instead of the lemon pastry cream I made last time (basically, just using a lot less butter).
The intensely yellow lemon curd proved difficult to photograph, to say the least, appearing almost neon on camera, but still sunny and cheerful during these increasingly colder winter days.
Using some of the tart dough, I rolled it out and cut shortbread cookies, using a round cutter with a pretty fluted edge. The cookies baked up beautifully pale golden, buttery and crunchy-crumbly, exactly the way shortbread should be.
I filled the cookies with a fluffy lemon buttercream and drizzled them with white and dark chocolate. The recipe for the cookies is at the end of this post, and the lemon tart recipe can be found here.
I had also planned to make some candied lemon slices for garnish, which I have done before with great results, but when you candy lemon slices then put them into the oven to dry out, don't fall asleep on the couch until 1am like I did. You'll end up with burned, completely inedible lemons glued to the pan.
Why all this lemony shortbread goodness, you might be thinking? Well, that's why I titled this post "The Lemon Project", because right at the moment, I really can't go into what the project was all about. Let's just say I needed to create a few signature desserts for "something", and now I just have to sit back, wait, and see what happens.
That's vague, I know, but the thing is, I don't know the ending to this story yet, either… ;)
Lemon Shortbread Sandwich Cookies
Shortbread Cookie Dough:
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 stick plus 1 tablespoon (9 tablespoons) very cold unsalted butter, diced
- 1 egg yolk
- 1-3 teaspoons ice water
In a bowl, whisk together the flour, powdered sugar and salt. Scatter the cold butter pieces over the flour, and using a pastry cutter, cut the butter into the flour until you have coarse crumbs with visible chunks of butter throughout. Add the egg yolk stirring into the flour and butter with your fingers. Work the dough with your fingers to incorporate the moisture into the flour. (The dough will appear very dry, and you might think it doesn't have enough liquid, but don't worry, it will come together.) After 2-3 minutes of working the dough, it should start to hold together enough so that you can gather it into a ball. Add the ice water, a little at a time, just to finish bringing the dough together so that you can roll it out.
Shape the dough into a disk and set on a piece of parchment paper, lightly floured. Place another piece of parchment paper on top of the dough. Roll the dough out to 1/4 inch thick. Use a cookie cutter to cut as many cookies as you can; transfer the cookies to a baking sheet lined with parchment or a silpat, placing the cookies 1 inch apart. Gather up the dough scraps, roll them out again, and cut more cookies, continue rolling and cutting until you've used up all the dough. You should be about to cut about 3 dozen cookies, depending on the size of your cookie cutter/s.
Freeze the cookies on the baking sheets for 45 minutes to an hour. This will help ensure that they hold their shape and do not spread out during baking.
Preheat the oven to 350. Bake the cookies (straight from the freezer) for 12 minutes, just until a very pale golden (the cookies do not rise or spread). Cool completely on a wire rack.
Lemon Buttercream:
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 teaspoons freshly grated lemon zest
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
Yields about 1 1/2 dozen filled cookies or 3 dozen cookies without filling.
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shafnutz05 wrote:AlexPKeaton wrote:And my answer is 20% Mother / 80 % zoo.
What killed the boy? The dogs. Who owns the dogs? The zoo.
Mother is responsible for broken legs. Zoo is responsible for the viscous mauling.
Nothing worse than being brutally attacked by a few quarts of Castrol GTX
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It's time for the annual "rhubarb ritual." This refers to the moment I realize there are still bags of rhubarb in the freezer that need to be used up. But then I think, "why would I want to use old, frozen rhubarb when there's new fresh rhubarb growing in the yard. Sigh. Another year's crop of carefully washed, cut and individually frozen on baking sheets before being packed into freezer bags for the winter rhubarb is destined for the compost. Why don't I use it? Why do I freeze it? Why do we eat rhubarb only once a year? (Twice if there are leftovers!) And what will this year's ritual rhubarb dish be?
Truthfully, I love rhubarb cobbler and I never get tired of it - how could I when I only make it once a year? But this year I wanted something a little different, so I decided to try combining the nicely tart rhubarb with very sweet bananas and raisins, just to see what would happen. I also wanted to use the very cool tart pan I was so excited to find at a garage sale a couple of years ago but have probably only used twice. It seemed appropriate to combine the once-a-year ingredient with the once-a-year pan.
Well, the rhubarb plant got a workout this year because I wasn't 100% satisfied with the first tart, and decided to try again. It's not that we didn't like it - we ate the whole thing - but it wasn't quite right. The crust was too hard and there wasn't enough banana. Looks like we'll be eating rhubarb more than once this year! I do want to warn you that I like things tart, and this tart is tart is tart is TART.
Rhubarb-banana tart (11" tart pan)
- 4-5 heaping cups fresh rhubarb, cut into 1" pieces
- 2 level tablespoons coconut flour (this is for thickening the rhubarb juices. Coconut flour is very absorbent so measure carefully. You don't want to soak up all the juice.)
- 1/2 cup sucanot (more if you like it sweeter) or other sweetener (I almost used agave syrup or maple syrup)
- 3 bananas, mashed
- 1/2 cup raisins
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 tablespoons unsweetened, dried coconut (optional)
- 1/2 cup walnuts, raw or toasted
- 1/2 cup rolled oats
- 1 cup white whole wheat flour
- 2 tablespoons sucanot
- pinch of salt
- 3 tablespoons oil
- 4-6 tablespoons cold water
- Pulse the oats and walnuts in a food processor until they look like cornmeal.
- Add the flour, salt and sugar, and pulse a couple of times to combine.
- Add the oil and pulse to incorporate. (I'm talking quick buzz buzz.)
- Add 4 tablespoons of water and pulse a few times. Continue adding water a tablespoon at a time until the mixture is still crumbly but sticks together when you press it with a finger.
- Lightly spray the pan with oil and, with floured hands, start pressing the crust into the bottom of the pan. You want a thin but not too thin, even crust. When the pan bottom is covered, nudge the remaining mixture onto the sides with the backs of your fingers. At this point I start to worry that there won't be enough, but there always is! When the crust is complete, place the pan into the fridge (or freezer if you have space).
- Toss the rhubarb with the coconut flour, sugar and cinnamon in a large bowl.
- Mash the bananas. If you mush them up a bit with your fingers while still in the skin, they will mash right up when the skin is removed. Mix the bananas and raisins into the rhubarb, taking care to incorporate completely. Arrange the filling in the crust.
- Bake in a preheated 450˚F oven for 15 minutes. Turn the heat down to 350˚F and remove the pan from the oven so you can sprinkle the top with coconut. Return the pan to the oven and bake 20 minutes or until rhubarb is tender but still holding its shape.
- Cool. Eat. I like my tart chilled.
|The unbaked pie going into the oven
Okay, so you're probably wondering if making this tart was a lot of time-consuming trouble. If you do it like I did, the answer would have to be "yes, about four days worth." First I went to get the tart pan but it wasn't in the drawer under the oven, where I've always kept it. In fact, it was nowhere to be found, and no one in the house had a clue what could have happened to it. (The usual.) I searched everywhere with no luck. I finally decided that I really do need this pan and walked to the local kitchen store (Orange Tree Imports on Monroe St.) and found the exact pan on sale for only $12.99. Cool. The problem was it came in two sizes (9" and 11") and being a Libra, it took me a ridiculous amount of time to decide which size to get. By the time I finally had a pan, it was late and I didn't want to make the tart anymore so it was put off until the next day.
The next day I started gathering my equipment and ingredients and discovered my 1/2 cup measuring cup was missing from the baking cupboard. Are there gremlins living in the house? What is going on? I did a thorough search of the pull-out trays in the cupboard, and in the process knocked over the dog's full water dish, which is on the floor near the cupboard. I could go on and on about how I couldn't sprinkle coconut over the tart because my husband used the coconut up making burned granola and didn't add it to the shopping list blah blah blah. But why bother; you get the picture. At one point my son bopped into the kitchen and remarked, "It seems to be taking you an awfully long time to make that." . . . And then I made it again two days later. It probably won't take you long at all.
Dangerous chemicals in "natural" productsI prefer as many of the products I use to be as safe as possible as well as cruelty free. I've been using Mrs. Meyer's dish liquid and other household cleaning products because I was assuming they were natural and safe, but the dish liquid tested out to have an alarmingly high level of 1,4 dioxane, a known carcinogen. Mrs. Meyers Clean Day Liquid Dish Soap had the highest levels of the carcinogen at an alarming 204 ppm (parts per million), ten times higher than any other product's current results in a recent study. Other products familiar to health-oriented shoppers were also found to have high levels of this dangerous chemical.
Two studies (the original, and a follow-up to determine improvements), "looked specifically at products that come in contact with the skin. The studies were commissioned by the Organic Consumers Association (OCA), a watchdog group with over 500,000 members, and were overseen by environmental health consumer advocate David Steinman (author of The Safe Shopper's Bible). The independent third-party laboratory, Bodycote Testing Group, known for rigorous testing and chain-of-custody protocols, performed all testing. The products selected for the study are available at popular retail outlets."
About 1,4-Dioxane
"1,4-dioxane is a petrochemical "known to the State of California to cause cancer" under Proposition 65. Due to its toxicity, many consumers would not expect to find it in "natural" or "organic" branded personal care products. The contaminant 1,4-dioxane is a byproduct of the ethoxylation process, which is a cheap shortcut companies often use to provide mildness to harsh cleaning ingredients. 1,4-dioxane is also a suspected kidney toxicant, neurotoxicant, and respiratory toxicant, according to the California EPA, and it is a significant groundwater contaminant. While previous studies have revealed the presence of 1,4-dioxane in baby, children's and adults products and those mislabeled as "organic" and "natural", this latest study shows the toxin is being significantly reduced as many brands reformulate."
You can find more information about the studies at the Organic Consumers Association Web site and also a link to a file listing specific products to choose or avoid as well as ingredients to avoid in products not on the list.
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Conan O'Brien's do's and don'ts for keeping the late night talk show genre alive: a) don't be afraid; and b) do be silly.
PopcornBiz asked O'Brien, whose late show "Conan" is clicking on all cylinders since debuting on TBS following his controversial ousting from "The Tonight Show," how he felt about the future of the genre that made him a star. We posited that in the current, cluttered TV landscape, total dominance akin to Johnny Carson's seems unreachable, and even the heights he, Jay Leno and David Letterman have experienced seem elusive for any host to achieve going forward. O'Brien agrees late night's future seems murky.
"I don't think anybody knows," O'Brien tells PopcornBiz. "We don't know if late night shows are going to be a pill that you take in three years or a saline drop that goes in your eye. None of us knows."
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He does believe that hope lies in a commitment to creative experimentation over time rather than knee-jerk reactions to immediate numbers.
"If I've taken one thing away from the last year, it's that fear here is the enemy," he says. "What I experienced a year ago, I think I was in a situation where a lot of people around me had just had a lot of fear about change and fear about which way things were going and could get paralyzed by it."
"I think that's the only answer right now, not to be so afraid," O'Brien says. "Whether it's jumping into Twitter, jumping into getting involved in social media as actively as I'm involved now, going around the country on a tour, starting this show on TBS, really trying to make the web component of our show really a vital part of the show and a creative entity unto itself and seeing where this goes and not being afraid of what's happening in media right now. Just saying 'Okay, I don't know what my place is in this, but I think if I'm honest with my audience and I'm funny and I'm constantly trying to challenge myself, I think there'll be a place for me in whatever this turns out to be.'"
O'Brien also thinks everyone should remember that a childlike sense of play is crucial, best evidenced by Carson himself.
"Let's not forget that the guy who everybody agrees was the best at it there ever was inherently very silly," he explains. "People have deified him and they've made him this mighty on-high sort of Greek statue. I think he should be deified as an icon, obviously, but what was great about him is he was not afraid to be really silly. Really silly – Carnac coming out and stumbling, the giant hat, falling into things and smashing things."
"Some of my favorite clips of his are him jumping into Ed McMahon's arms," he adds. "There was a physical silliness to the whole thing, sometimes a cartoonish silliness to it. He could also talk to anybody about astrology or astronomy or he could talk about physics. He was a very brilliant man, but he didn't think he was surrendering anything by being silly. He didn't think that he was giving away an essential piece of himself."
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As I stated in my last article, the collapsed building at 78-19 Jamaica Avenue was home to the Woodhaven Richmond Hill Ambulance Corps. and the Woodhaven Senior Citizen Center. With all the heavy snow we are thankful that this property has not collapsed further. Before it does it should be demolished."
The Woodhaven Business Improvement District and our WBID President Mathew Xenakis have been calling for the demolition of 78-19 Jamaica Avenue since its collapse on April 12. At that time, there were 42 violations on this building.
Since that time, our elected officials have been very supportive of our position.At the last meeting of the Woodhaven Residents Block Association, we were advised by Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley's representative that this property owner was fined $25,000 and a warrant for his arrest was issued.
We were very fortunate that only a car was crushed on that fateful day in April and there was no loss of life. It is time to demolish this building to rebuild our Woodhaven Richmond Hill Volunteer Ambulance Corps and bring back our Senior Citizen Center.
If this is not done the Department of buildings, this threat to our lives and to our community will remain. There will be a rally in front of 78-19 Jamaica Avenue on Sunday, March 2, at 1 p.m. Please show up and send a message to the Buildings Department to demolish this building.
Over the weekend we had great shopping and eating out weather. This week is Restaurant Week, so please go to one of our great restaurants or order in. You can also do some shopping before and after your lunch or dinner on our WBID "Everything Avenue" from Dexter Court to 100th Street.
Think positively; 13 days to Daylight Savings Time and only 24 days to spring. See you at the rally Sunday.
May God bless our leaders, may God bless our armed forces, and most of all may God bless our America.


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When he isn't making Oscar-nominated films in which Leonardo DiCaprio flies planes or shoots people, director Martin Scorsese enjoys making the occasional rock and roll documentary. "The Last Waltz," his movie about The Band, is considered by many to be the finest rock documentary ever made (I'll take "Anvil! The Story Of Anvil," but that's neither here nor there). He also did "No Direction Home," about Bob Dylan, and two years ago, he made "Shine A Light" with the Rolling Stones, a band whose music often appears in Scorsese's feature films, usually as the soundtrack to a bunch of people getting stabbed and thrown in meat trucks.
Now, Scorsese is returning to the musical documentary format with a documentary about the late George Harrison. Titled "Living in the Material World: George Harrison," Scorsese's movie includes archival footage from Harrison's estate that Scorsese culled together with the help of Olivia Harrison, George's widow. The Hollywood Reporter explains:
The documentary will take on the whole of the Beatles guitarist's life before, during and after his time in the world's most popular and successful band…
"His music is very important to me," Scorsese said of Harrison. "So I was interested in the journey that he took as an artist. The film is an exploration. We don't know. We're just feeling our way through…"
Olivia finally initiated the current project several years ago because she says she had been approached by numerous production companies, including the BBC, looking to make a documentary about Harrison from the moment he died in 2001.
Given his pedigree, Scorsese is not only the right man for this job, but probably the only one. Take away his feature film resume, and Scorsese's filmography is an essential chronicle of the most influential musical artists of the 60's and 70's. He should probably cover his bases and do Hendrix, Joplin, and Clapton while he's at it. After all, no one does rock and roll like Scorsese.


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This catalogue lists all the media available in the Research Room; books, CDs, microfiche, maps, etc. The catalogue will tell you if an item is available and where you can find it. There is no need to tell us in advance of your visit if you wish to use any of the items listed. Please note that items may not be borrowed.
To search the catalogue for an item, you should:
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Searching for "ship" will retrieve all the items with ships, shipping or shipbuilding in the title.
Many items such as microfiche and CDs are segregated by format. Books are arranged according to a classification scheme based on that used by the Society of Genealogists, with the subject identified by an alphabetic mnemonic code, usually of three letters. Books on Bristol are classified under BST, while occupations are under OCC. Many subjects are subdivided by one or more further codes, so that books on Fishponds are at BST/LOC/FIS while books on policemen are at OCC/POL.
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Thankfully, there is no single answer to this question. The specific qualities that make an Honors course may vary widely from discipline to discipline and professor to professor. Therefore, the following criteria are general guidelines, not prescriptive policies.
Perhaps the only definitive statement that can be made about Honors courses is that they should be qualitatively different than non-honors courses. This difference should not be based on simply assigning more work, be it pages to write or problems to solve. Rather, the Honors difference should be substantially designed throughout three broad and interrelated course elements: structure, content, and assignments.
When the Mahurin Honors College considers a proposal for a departmental Honors course, it looks for specific evidence that the course will have some of the characteristics listed below in order to create a substantial Honors experience for students. The points below are meant to serve as general starting points and aid in the creative process of designing an Honors course. They are not intended to be prescriptive and limiting, and we do not expect any single course to feature all of these traits.
- Honors courses are small enough to provide a richly interactive environment among the members of the class.
- Honors students are expected to take greater responsibility for the process of learning than in non-Honors courses. This responsibility includes spending non-class time learning and reviewing basic course material, which allows for more discussion, activity, and application in class.
- Learning can take place outside of the formal classroom setting (e.g. site visits, service projects, conducting interviews, field research, etc.).
- Students have opportunities for independent research.
- Written and oral communication skills are stressed, even in disciplines where this is not considered typical pedagogy.
- In-class activities and assignments stress synthesis, analysis, and critical thinking.
- Course uses teamwork, collaboration and opportunities for peer-to-peer learning.
- Students have the opportunity to publicly present or publish their work.
- Honors courses often focus on primary material, sources, and data, rather than textbooks or secondary readings.
- Course material can be approached from a thematic or unconventional perspective.
- Theories and principles are applied to "real life" applications and situations.
- Students critique, analyze, and evaluate course material to a greater degree than in non-Honors courses.
- The class may explore connections among various fields of study.
- Students learn the scholarship behind the discipline's core principles.
- The content shifts from one of closure to one of exploration and discovery.
- Basic course material may be more complex and mature than in non-Honors courses, but difficulty in and of itself is not the goal.
- Assignments in Honors courses typically allow for more student input, creativity, and control.
- Students are asked to confront primary material in deep and meaningful ways, perhaps by critiquing them, comparing them and applying them to other contexts.
- An assignment's outcomes may be made explicit, but the means to reach those outcomes are left to the student to a higher degree than non-Honors courses.
- Students are required to reconcile conflicting findings or to synthesize different points of view on assignments.
- Assignments are constructed so that students familiarize themselves with the professional practices and standards of research within a discipline.
- Students are encouraged to explore and take intellectual risks on assignments.
- Assignments can be case studies or complex problems that blend multiple aspects of course material.
- Students are always encouraged to articulate their knowledge, preferably to audiences other than just the professor.
- Students have frequent assignments, rather than only a couple, large assignments.
- As most Mahurin Honors College students continue on to graduate and professional schools, the course's assignments give students the skills, knowledge and competencies to be successful at the post-graduate level.
Because of the prevalence of online courses and remote content delivery systems, it is important to briefly state why the Mahurin Honors College requires that all Honors courses be taught through face-to-face instruction. The Mahurin Honors College realizes that online and remote courses can have high academic quality and can possess many of the criteria listed above. However, the Mahurin Honors College's mission is to create for its students a small, closely interpersonal, high-achieving environment akin to those found at the nation's best small colleges. The Mahurin Honors College's commitment to this type of intellectual community is found in its housing, programming, staffing and classes. Online and other remote-access courses, while suitable for some institutions that have different goals than the Mahurin Honors College, are not compatible with the nature of our small-college community.
Honors Colloquia bring the form and style of a small, collaborative seminar to Mahurin Honors College students for a challenging and distinctive academic experience. There are four key ingredients that make Honors Colloquia qualitatively different from other courses offered in the Mahurin Honors College and at WKU: an emphasis on active discussion rather than lecture; critical-thinking based writing assignments rather than exams and quizzes; the use of primary documents instead of textbooks; and an innovative, interdisciplinary subject matter. With these distinct features, an Honors Colloquium will challenge and engage students with the course material, with the professor, and with one another, for a unique academic experience that is at the heart of an Honors College education.
Active discussion instead of lectures
- A key difference between Honors Colloquia and a traditional course is that discussion is used as the primary method of instruction, rather than lectures, in order to promote active learning and meaningful dialogue between fellow students and between the students and professor.
- Colloquia should have an adventurous air of joint discovery where a professor takes the lead in shaping the discussion, but students actively participate in discussing and debating the material. Strategies for promoting active learning include class discussions, debates, simulations, group work, experiments, case studies, fieldwork, etc. For example, a strong colloquium course can include a set of readings on both sides of a contentious issue that engenders debate and discussion across a wide spectrum of positions. Lectures should be kept to an absolute minimum.
Critical thinking based writing assignments rather than exams
- Assignments should encourage analysis, application, inquiry, and synthesis rather than rote memorization. When possible, writing assignments should be employed as the method for students to express their understanding of the course material.
- The key is to encourage a sophisticated engagement with the material that is unlikely through memorization and exams but is fostered by written assignments. Colloquia do not include exams or quizzes as part of the course grade. With regard to assessment, the focus of a colloquium should be on quality of writing assignments, written or oral debates, presentations, group work, participation in discussion, etc.
- For a 1.5 hr colloquium, it is suggested that each student write approximately 10 to 12 pages of original content, with 20 to 24 pages being appropriate for a 3 hr colloquium. This page total may be reached through frequent short assignments or longer assignments. These are, of course, just guidelines, so there is a fair amount of latitude on the types and length of assignments based on discipline.
Primary sources instead of textbooks
- Readings should come from primary sources, rather than textbooks, whenever possible. Reading primary sources stresses "close reading" skills and encourages sophisticated critical thinking far more than pre-packaged, second-hand information explained in textbooks.
- Just as colloquia encourage students and professors to engage in dialogue with one another, by reading primary sources, students connect with the key ideas of the course on their own terms, are more likely to think critically about them, and can better understand them in all their complexities and nuances.
Innovative, interdisciplinary subject matter
- Colloquium courses should be themed on creative interdisciplinary topics. The overall topic of a colloquium should be accessible to all majors, regardless of the college from which the colloquium course originates.
- We encourage 1.5 to 3.0 hour colloquia; thus we encourage faculty to co-facilitate a three-hour colloquium, with both faculty receiving 1.5 hours of credit. This is particularly encouraged for professors teaming from different disciplines to develop an interdisciplinary colloquium.
- The theme/topic of the colloquium course should not be found anywhere else in the WKU curriculum. Equally, colloquia topics should be distinctive from one another and avoid repetitious offerings.
- Readings should be interdisciplinary and from a variety of perspectives.
For Further Consideration
- Many students develop their Honors Capstone Experience/Thesis from their colloquia. Ideally, the interdisciplinary subject matter, stimulating activities, and rigorous writing assignments will serve as a catalyst for CE/T projects.
- The professor typically serves as a facilitator, rather than the sole expert. The professor should share in the learning process with the students. Rather than relaying information to students as in a typical lecture course, the professor and students can work together to set the pace and direction of the course.
- The professor should model methods of learning, thinking and discovery. The professor can help students to become lifelong learners by revealing that he or she is continually learning and staying actively engaged within his or her discipline and the broader culture of academia. By modeling methods of learning, thinking, and discovery, the professor is not only teaching the students more about his or her discipline, but is also teaching the students about he process of scholarship.
- Colloquium courses should have no prerequisites. The only prerequisites for colloquium are good standing in the Honors College, sophomore standing and/or permission of the instructor.
HEECs allow departments more flexibility in offering Honors courses and create more Honors options for students in the major or minor. HEECs can only be offered in upper-division courses.
The best way to think about HEECs is to consider them similar in organization to a split-section graduate/undergraduate courses: physically there is one "class" that meets with the same teacher during the same class times, but there are two sets of syllabi and two different sections being conducted. The class instruction is necessarily the same, but for the "embedded" Honors section there are added opportunities and responsibilities that make the class an Honors experience.
What types of activities make for an "Honors experience" with the HEEC?
Of course, it varies greatly for different disciplines, courses, and professors, but the nature of the HEEC necessitates that the students have some sort of enriched experience outside of the classroom that improves the quality and depth of their knowledge of the course. This could be through additional assignments, more sophisticated assignments, more sophisticated course material, oral presentations, different methods of grading, special trips or activities, group work, or even special meetings with the professor outside of the scheduled class times (such as scheduled discussion groups).
They key is that while the classroom experience for the HEEC and non-HEEC sections will be very similar, if not identical, the HEEC's out-of-class work needs to provide a creative, active and enriched learning experience for the students. Often faculty will reduce the in-class assignments to create space for more inventive Honors projects/assignments.
How do I set up a HEEC?
HEECs are the prerogative of the professor's home department and thus must be accepted by the department chair. They are not a new course number, just a new course section, and thus they do not have to go before the University Curriculum Committee.
The Honors College does not provide professors with extra compensation for a HEEC; however, individual colleges or departments may provide some compensation. Also, there are many nonmonetary advantages to offering a HEEC. A HEEC does not increase the cap of a course. The HEEC is advantageous to professors because they can attract Honors students to your course, provide a stimulating classroom environment, provide professors with engaging and creative pedagogical opportunities and potentially increase the number of Honors students majoring or minoring in the department. If you have any questions or would like suggestions on how to set up an HEEC, feel free to contact our Interim Associate Director Susann Davis.
HEEC Agreement Form (Optional)
If you set up an HEEC and want to ensure your students are enrolled in the correct section, feel free to have your students sign this form.
Please keep the Honors College in the loop.
As you propose and develop your HEECs, please notify the Academics Director in the Mahurin Honors College so we can advertise your HEEC to the Honors students and discuss with you activities and assignments to complement your HEEC.
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For the next several articles in this series, we'll explore parallel and sequential merge algorithms. We'll utilize Intel Threading Building Blocks as well as Microsoft Parallel Patterns Library (PPL), which is part of Visual Studio 2010. We'll implement several different parallel and sequential merge algorithms, and investigate their performance on today's multicore processors. In this article, we'll leap right into a very interesting parallel merge, see how well it performs, and attempt to improve it.
Merge is a fundamental operation, where two sets of presorted items are combined into a single set that remains sorted. For example, given two sets of integers
2, 4, 7, 11, 16, 23, 28
5, 11, 12, 18, 20
2, 4, 7, 11, 16, 23, 28
The resulting merged set is
2, 4, 5, 7, 11, 11, 12, 16, 18, 20, 23, 28
The first set has five elements, whereas the second set has seven, and the result set has twelve. Merge does not require the source sets to be of equal size. Merge can operate on two input arrays, and produce an output array. The output array has to be large enough to hold the result, which is generated in
O(n) time.
Listing One shows a simple sequential merge algorithm implementation, where two read-only input arrays of different sizes are merged into a single output array. The input arrays must be presorted, monotonically incrementing. The resulting output array will also be sorted.
// _end pointer point not to the last element, but one past and never access it. template< class _Type > inline void merge_ptr( const _Type* a_start, const _Type* a_end, const _Type* b_start, const _Type* b_end, _Type* dst ) { while( a_start < a_end && b_start < b_end ) { if ( *a_start <= *b_start ) *dst++ = *a_start++; // if elements are equal, then a[] element is output else *dst++ = *b_start++; } while( a_start < a_end ) *dst++ = *a_start++; while( b_start < b_end ) *dst++ = *b_start++; }
Listing One
The first if statement compares the first element from
a[] array and the first element from
b[] array, outputting whichever is smaller, with ties choosing the element from
a[] to retain stability. Each array has a pointer that keeps track of the current position within that array. Only the pointer of the source array that is output gets incremented. When the current position of either array goes past the end of that array, the first
while loop terminates. When all of the elements from one of the arrays have been used, the other array may still have elements left. At that point, comparisons between input arrays are no longer possible. The second and third
while loops output any remaining elements.
Merge is
O(n), where
n is the number of output elements, since one element is output during each iteration of the
while loop(s). More complex merges support more than two input arrays, in-place operation, and can support other data structures such as linked lists.
Divide-and-Conquer Merge
The aforementioned sequential merge algorithm does not parallelize in an obvious fashion. Divide-and-conquer algorithms typically parallelize well. Merge is tricky since it's
O(n) and making the order worse is not desirable. In other words, we want an
O(n) or better divide-and-conquer merge algorithm. The authors of the latest (3rd edition) Introduction to Algorithms book [1] develop, describe and analyze such an algorithm, in the new chapter on multithreaded algorithms. Listing Two shows a direct translation of the pseudocode parallel implementation into sequential C++ implementation. A binary search algorithm is also shown, which is a translation of the pseudocode on p. 799. Figure 1 illustrates how the algorithm works by showing the process within one level of recursion.
// This version is borrowed from "Introduction to Algorithms" 3rd edition, p. 799. template< class _Type > inline int my_binary_search( _Type value, const _Type* a, int left, int right ) { long low = left; long high = __max( left, right + 1 ); while( low < high ) { long mid = ( low + high ) / 2; if ( value <= a[ mid ] ) high = mid; else low = mid + 1; // because we compared to a[mid] and the value was larger than a[mid]. // Thus, the next array element to the right from mid is the next possible // candidate for low, and a[mid] can not possibly be that candidate. } return high; } template < class Item > inline void exchange( Item& A, Item& B ) { Item t = A; A = B; B = t; } // Merge two ranges of source array T[ p1 .. r1 ] and T[ p2 .. r2 ] into destination array A starting at index p3. // From 3rd ed. of "Introduction to Algorithms" p. 798-802 // Listing 2 (which also needs to include the binary search implementation as well) template< class _Type > inline void merge_dac( const _Type* t, int p1, int r1, int p2, int r2, _Type* a, int p3 ) { int length1 = r1 - p1 + 1; int length2 = r2 - p2 + 1; if ( length1 < length2 ) { exchange( p1, p2 ); exchange( r1, r2 ); exchange( length1, length2 ); } if ( length1 == 0 ) return; int q1 = ( p1 + r1 ) / 2; int q2 = my_binary_search( t[ q1 ], t, p2, r2 ); int q3 = p3 + ( q1 - p1 ) + ( q2 - p2 ); a[ q3 ] = t[ q1 ]; merge_dac( t, p1, q1 - 1, p2, q2 - 1, a, p3 ); merge_dac( t, q1 + 1, r1, q2, r2, a, q3 + 1 ); }
Listing Two
The input to the divide-and-conquer merge algorithm comes from two sub-arrays of
T, and the output is a single sub-array
A. The two input sub-arrays of
T are from
[p and from
[p. The output sub-array of
A is from
[p. The divide step is done by choosing the middle element of the larger of the two input sub-arrays (at index
q in Figure 1 and in Listing Two) . The value at this index is then used as the partition element to split the other input sub-array into two sections — less than
X in Figure 1 and greater than or equal to
X. The partition value
X (at index
q of
T) is copied to array
A at index
q. The conquer step recursively merges the two portions that are smaller than or equal to
X — indicated by light gray box and arrow shading. It also recursively merges the two portions that are larger than or equal to
X — indicated by darker gray box and arrow shading.
The algorithm proceeds recursively until the termination condition — when the shortest of the two input sub-arrays has no elements. At each step, the algorithm reduces the size of the array by one element. One merge is split into two smaller merges, with the output element placed in between. Each of the two smaller merges will contain at least
N/4 elements, since the left input array is split in half.
The algorithm is stable, because each recursion step is stable. At each step, the elements of the left array are smaller (or equal to) the elements of the right array. When the split is made using the mid-left element, only right array elements that are strictly less than the split element (
X) are used in the subsequent right smaller merge, which is the crucial step ensuring stability.
Table 1 and Graph 1 show performance measurements for merging of two random input arrays that are pre-sorted, for the simple merge, STL merge, and divide-and-conquer merge.
The simple merge and STL merge algorithms are always faster than the divide-and-conquer merge algorithm, by 2-5 times. Performance measurements confirm all algorithms to be linear. The number of items in Table 1 and Graph 1 indicates the size of each of the two input arrays (of equal size), producing the resulting array of twice that size. Each item is a 32-bit unsigned number. Thus, the simple merge algorithm outputs items at a rate of 153 Million/second. The total memory bandwidth is 1.2 GB/second for reads and writes.


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Today we present a rule of team software development that should be obvious on the face of it, backed by in-depth observations from history.
In a previous entry, Development Advice of the Ages, we examined in the light of history the epistemological fallacy of believing that software development is something entirely new and different from humankind's other occupations and undertakings.Translated into plain American, we mean that the same basic rules that apply to farming, statecraft, or managing a restaurant apply to software development. We forget this in our hurry and repent at leisure!
Making and Not Making Decisions
Certainly one of the greatest (in the classic English sense of the word great, that is, large or momentous) decisions of the twentieth century was the decision to use the atomic bomb to end the Second World War. The man who made that decision, U.S. President Harry S Truman, was famed as a model of executive ability. In 1962, Harry Truman described his algorithm for decision making to interviewer Merle Miller, saying that when faced with a decision, he would always ask, "How long do I have?" Then, when informed of the deadline, he would send away the questioner until the deadline, at which point his decision would always be ready.
The lesson I've drawn from this is:
Don't make a decision until you have to, and when you have to, don't hesitate.
Anything you don't decide today doesn't have to be changed tomorrow when you know more. We software types love to build castles in the air and fall asleep dreaming of the crenellated towers of program architecture we plan to erect. Managers love to look decisive: they bang the table and enunciate long chains of directives often without knowing what they are talking about yet.
Specifying early on the basis of our dreams is no match for knocking down the details as we arrive at them armed with hard facts derived from already completed work. Learn to recognize the forks in the road where you must decide. Ponder, research, but don't specifiy until you reach the fork.
Recent history provides what is probably the most striking negative example ever of defying this rule. Without passing any judgement whatsoever on the goals and aspirations associated with the U.S. invasion of Iraq, it is clear that the management of the effort is sibling to the management of many software development efforts:
- Goals were enunciated without associated costs
- Targets and deadlines were established well in advance and set in stone without input from those charged with reaching the targets.
- Management closed its ears to all feedback from those on the front lines.


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Utah Church Records
|Utah Wiki Topics
|Beginning Research
|Record Types
|Utah Background
|Cultural Groups
|Local Research Resources
Online Resources[edit | edit source]
- Utah, FamilySearch, Early Church Information File, 1830-1900 - browse only index.
- Seventy Quorum Membership, 1835–1846, index
- Utah, Church Records, 1915-1972, index and images, incomplete
- Utah, Early Mormon Missionary Database — index and images
Churches keep records of baptisms, christenings, confirmations, marriages, burials, memberships, admissions, and removals. Some keep minutes of church meetings and the histories of their local churches. Each church has its own policies for record keeping.
Church records are important for family research because civil authorities in Utah did not begin registering vital records consistently until after 1895, although some marriage records exist as early as 1887. Church records may include names and dates and places of births, marriages, deaths and parents. The records are usually recorded at the time of an event and should be accurate for the specific event. You must determine your ancestor's denomination to find their church records.
Before 1900 the largest religious groups in Utah were The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Roman Catholics, Greek Orthodox, Methodists, and Presbyterians.[1]
Reported Membership by Denomination[edit | edit source]
1906[edit | edit source]
|Methodist Episcopal
|Protestant Episcopal
|Other Protestant
|Roman Catholic
|Greek Orthodox
|Latter-day Saint
|All other
Source: United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. Religious Bodies : 1906, Part I. "Table 4. Population in 1900 and Communicants or Members for Selected Denominations, For Each State and Territory, by Counties: 1906." Washington, D.C. : Government Printin Office, 1910. p. 364 Google Books edition.
1916[edit | edit source]
|Disciples of Christ
|German Evangelical Synod
|Latter-day Saint
|Reorganized RLDS
|African Methodist Episcopal
|Protestant Episcopal
|Roman Catholic
|Salvation Army
|Swedish Evangelical Free
|All other
Source: United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. Religious Bodies 1916, Part I. "Table 62. Statistics of Religious Bodies in Each State, By Denominations: 1916." Washington, D.C. : Government Printing Office, 1919. p. 226 Google Books edition.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons)[edit | edit source]
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been the predominant religion in Utah since the pioneers arrived in 1847. Membership records can identify parentage, birth, marriage, death, baptism, priesthood ordination and missionary information along with geographical locations where Latter-day Saint families were living between the1840s-1960s. For more complete information see Tracing Latter-day Saint Ancestors, including Temple records.
Family History Library
35 N. West Temple
Salt Lake City, Utah 84150
Phone: 801-240-2584 or 866-406-1830
The Family History Library has copies of ward, branch, district, stake and mission records up to 1948 with a few up to 1977. Copies of the films may be sent to FamilySearch Centers or other libraries with FamilySearch lending.
Church History Library
15 East North Temple
Salt Lake City, Utah 84150-1600
Phone: (801) 240-2272 The records The Church History Library has a much broader collection of historical records than the Family History Library.
To locate records of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints it helps to use an index. The LDS Family History Suite 2 and the Early Church Information File are two important indexes used to find Church members and other people of Utah. A source that describes events in Church history from 1805 to 1913 is:
- Jenson, Andrew. Church Chronology: A Record of Important Events Pertaining to The History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. FHL film 599327 it 2; FHL fiche 6051314; FHL book 289.303 J453c.
The following are a few general sources and histories for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Most of the sources are indexed in The Pioneer Heritage CD-ROM, LDS Family History Suite, and the Early Church Information File. Some of the complete text is also computerized on the compact disks:
- Jenson, Andrew. Encyclopedic History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret News Publishing Company, 1941. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library; FHL film 496776; FHL fiche 6053258; FHL book 289.309 J453e. Index: FHL film 928073 item 8; FHL fiche 6103908; FHL book 289.309 J453ei. This record contains histories of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints units describing when they were organized and if they were created from a different unit. From this you will be able to determine where the membership records are found. Leaders of the area are also listed. Indexed in the Early Church Information File.
- Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1830-1973). Salt Lake City, Utah: Historical Dept., 1969, 1973. FHL films 1259729-795. Films do not circulate to Family History Centers. This collection includes newspaper clippings and extracts from journals, letters, histories, biographies, rosters, and manuscript material. Daily events are arranged chronologically. Also available at the Church History Library and Church Archives. The sets at the Harold B. Lee Library and the Utah Historical Society Library are not as current.
- The Journal History Index is online from the Church History Libraary. (Images of a card index) The microfilm index is cataloged separately in Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The. Historical Department. Index to Journal History. Salt Lake City, Utah: Historical Department, 1973. FHL film 1233503 (first of 58). Films do not circulate to family history centers. This index contains an alphabetical listing of individual names, places, events, and subjects. Each entry gives the date and page where the entry is found in the Journal History films.
- 1877-1918 - Utah LDS Mission Calls and Recommendations 1877-1918 at FamilySearch — index
- Utah, FamilySearch, Early Church Information File, 1830-1900 — index and images
A register listing call numbers for membership records at the Family History Library is:
- Jaussi, Laureen R. and Gloria Chaston. Register of Genealogical Society Call Numbers. 2 vols. Provo, Utah: Genealogy Tree, 1982. FHL 129780 book 979.2258 A3j; fiche 6031507
Episcopal[edit | edit source]
Diocese of Utah
80 South 300 East Street
Salt Lake City, Utah 84111
Phone: (801) 322-4131
Each parish maintains its own records. The Diocese has records for some discontinued parishes. The Marriott Library at the University of Utah has a collection of their records. The Family History Library has a few records, including the following:
- Episcopal Church, Diocese of Utah. Episcopal Register of the Bishop of Utah (Bishop's Personal Register) 1899-1946, 1951-1967. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1975. FHL film 908728. This record has baptisms, confirmations, marriages, and burials. It covers all of Utah and some areas of eastern Nevada.
Lutheran[edit | edit source]
Rocky Mountain District, LCMS
14334 E. Evans Ave
Aurora, CO 80014
Phone: (303) 695-8001
Fax: (303) 695-4047
Each congregation maintains its own records. The Rocky Mountain District office can help you locate current congregations and provide suggestions for finding the records of discontinued congregations.
Methodist[edit | edit source]
Iliff School of Theology
Ira J. Taylor Library Archives
2201 South University Blvd.
Denver, CO 80210
Phone: (303) 744-1287
Fax: (303) 744-3387
United Methodist Church Rocky Mountain
2800 S. University Blvd.
Denver, CO 80710
Phone: (303) 733-3736
Fax: (303) 733-1730
The Methodist church was organized in Salt Lake City, Utah on August 8, 1872.Its history is found in the following:
- Merkel, Henry Martin. History of Methodism in Utah. Colorado Springs, Colorado: Dentan Printing, 1938. FHL book 979.2 K2m. This book has a bibliography and a list of pastors. Each congregation maintains its own records.
- The Ira J. Taylor Archives has the records for some of the discontinued congregations of Utah. Staff there can also help you locate existing congregations. See Iliff School of Theology above.
Presbyterian[edit | edit source]
Presbytery of Utah
342 West 200 South Street Suite 30
Salt Lake City, UT 84101
Phone: (801) 539-8446
Each Presbyterian congregation maintains its own records. The Presbytery of Utah can help you locate current congregations and will provide suggestions for finding records of discontinued congregations. The Westminster College Library has a miscellaneous collection of Utah Presbyterian records. Their address is:
Westminster College Library
1840 South 1300 East
Salt Lake City, UT 84105
Phone: (801) 484-7651
A historical society for Presbyterian churches maintains records of discontinued congregations and some current congregations. Their address is:
The Presbyterian Historical Society
425 Lombard Street
Philadelphia, PA 19147-1516
Phone: (215) 627-1852
For a history of the Presbyterian Church see:
- Murray, Andrew E. The Skyline Synod: Presbyterianism in Colorado and Utah. Denver, Colorado: Golden Bell Press, 1971. FHL book 978.8 K2m. It is indexed by the name of the church. It is a historical account of the church with a list of officials. There are some pictures of church buildings and reverends.
Roman Catholic[edit | edit source]
Diocese of Salt Lake City
27 C Street
Salt Lake City, UT 84103
Phone: (801) 328-8641
Fax: (801) 328-9680
Archives extension: 304
The diocese includes the counties of: Beaver, Box Elder, Cache, Carbon, Daggett, Davis, Duchesne, Emery, Garfield, Grand, Iron, Juab, Kane, Millard, Morgan, Piute, Rich, Salt Lake, San Juan, Sanpete, Sevier, Summit, Tooele, Uintah, Utah, Wasatch, Washington, Wayne and Weber.[2]
The Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City has records from the early 1870s to the present for all of Utah. The early records are incomplete. Each congregation keeps its records for a few years before sending them to the Pastoral Center.
For a history of the Catholic Church in Utah, see:
- Mooney, Bernice Maher. Salt of the Earth: The History of the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City, 1776-1987. Salt Lake City, Utah: Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City, 1987. FHL book 979.2258 K2m. This gives a history of the church for most Utah congregations. It includes photographs and an index. It gives a historical account and information of church officials, when church buildings were erected, and a list of reverends and their dates of service.
- Catholic Church, Diocese of Salt Lake City. The Official Directory of the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City, Utah: The Diocese, 1988. FHL book 979.2 K24c. Covers many parts of Utah in addition to Salt Lake City. It has a list of parishes with addresses and maps for Salt Lake City showing the 1988 boundaries. It includes a list of clergy, sisters, and deacons and their wives.
Finding Aids[edit | edit source]
To locate records for other churches, contact the existing congregations in Utah. The Utah State Historical Society and the Marriott Library of the University of Utah have church record collections. The following guide can also help you learn about church records in Utah:
- Historical Records Survey. Inventory of the Church Archives of Utah. Three Volumes. Salt Lake City, Utah: Utah Historical Records Survey, 1940. FHL book 979.2 K2h; fiche 6046577. This was prepared as a complete inventory of church records. It contains a history of religion in Utah and has a list of books arranged by the name of the denomination. It also contains an inventory for the various religions
A wiki article describing an online collections is found at:
Utah Births and Christenings - FamilySearch Historical Records
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ William Chamberlin Hunt and United States Bureau of the Census, Religious Bodies: 1906 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1910), Vol. 1:364. Digital version at Google Books.
- ↑ Map of the Roman Catholic Dioceses in the United States of America, Office of Catholic Schools Diocese of Columbus, accessed 3 Nov 2010.


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Stanley Kubrick & Malcolm McDowell on the set of A Clockwork Orange
"Well, as you know, when Singing In The Rain came out, for generations of people, [Gene Kelly] swinging around that lamp post and slapping in that water, and singing…it's one of the most euphoric moments we've ever seen on film. So when I had to come up with something for this sequence, which involved my character in a very brutal situation, that's when he's happiest. So Singing In The Rain just popped out. I just started singing it, and [Stanley] Kubrick bought the rights and we redid the whole thing and incorporated it.
A footnote to that is that a year afterward, when the film had been out and it was a big hit, I was invited to come to Hollywood by Warner Brothers. I came out and it was very nice to meet everybody. I had never been to Hollywood before. And some guy who was my minder said, 'Hey, there's a party in Beverly Hills tonight, Malcolm. Do you want to go, there's going to be lots of stars there?' And I went, 'Yeah!' I would love to!' I was like a kid in a candy store. And we go and he said, 'Hey, you won't believe this. Gene Kelly's here. Would you like to meet him?' And I went, 'Oh yeah!' (laughs)
So he had his back to me and he tapped him on the shoulder and said, 'Gene, I'd like to introduce you to Malcolm McDowell' and he looked at me…then turned around and walked off.
But you know, I totally got it. I totally understood. I took his glorious moment and put a different spin on it. I guess I kind of ruined his moment in a way. But of course, it was an homage to him, because it was so amazing. And so indelible in me as a person, that I blurted it out and started singing it [while filming the scene]."
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