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Today we focus on Jessica Nigri, one of the goddesses of the cosplay world. If you're into cosplay at all, then chances are that you've seen this babe's face somewhere before on cosplay sites or at conventions. And even you haven't seen her face, you'll probably notice her more prominent assets. And those definitely aren't props.
Watch her in action in the glorious GIFs below. You can see just how playful and sexy she can be, which makes it no surprise that nerds everywhere have fallen under her thrall. Find yourself being enamored by her incredibly hot nerdiness in the gallery below and go become a fan of hers!


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Rather than let rumors spread about the reasons for my move, I think I should be pretty direct in explaining my thinking here.
I should say first of all that I'm not leaving because of any problems with Harvard. On the contrary, I love Harvard, and will miss it a lot. The computer science faculty are absolutely top-notch, and the students are the best a professor could ever hope to work with. It is a fantastic environment, very supportive, and full of great people. They were crazy enough to give me tenure, and I feel no small pang of guilt for leaving now. I joined Harvard because it offered the opportunity to make a big impact on a great department at an important school, and I have no regrets about my decision to go there eight years ago. But my own priorities in life have changed, and I feel that it's time to move on.
There is one simple reason that I'm leaving academia: I simply love work I'm doing at Google. I get to hack all day, working on problems that are orders of magnitude larger and more interesting than I can work on at any university. That is really hard to beat, and is worth more to me than having "Prof." in front of my name, or a big office, or even permanent employment. In many ways, working at Google is realizing the dream I've had of building big systems my entire career.
As I've blogged about before, being a professor is not the job I thought it would be. There's a lot of overhead involved, and (at least for me) getting funding is a lot harder than it should be. Also, it's increasingly hard to do "big systems" work in an academic setting. Arguably the problems in industry are so much larger than what most academics can tackle. It would be nice if that would change, but you know the saying -- if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
The cynical view is that as an academic systems researcher, the very best possible outcome for your research is that someone at Google or Microsoft or Facebook reads one of your papers, gets inspired by it, and implements something like it internally. Chances are they will have to change your idea drastically to get it to actually work, and you'll never hear about it. And of course the amount of overhead and red tape (grant proposals, teaching, committee work, etc.) you have to do apart from the interesting technical work severely limits your ability to actually get to that point. At Google, I have a much more direct route from idea to execution to impact. I can just sit down and write the code and deploy the system, on more machines than I will ever have access to at a university. I personally find this far more satisfying than the elaborate academic process.
Of course, academic research is incredibly important, and forms the basis for much of what happens in industry. The question for me is simply which side of the innovation pipeline I want to work on. Academics have a lot of freedom, but this comes at the cost of high overhead and a longer path from idea to application. I really admire the academics who have had major impact outside of the ivory tower, like David Patterson at Berkeley. I also admire the professors who flourish in an academic setting, writing books, giving talks, mentoring students, sitting on government advisory boards, all that. I never found most of those things very satisfying, and all of that extra work only takes away from time spent building systems, which is what I really want to be doing.
We'll be moving to Seattle in the spring, where Google has a sizable office. (Why Seattle and not California? Mainly my wife also has a great job lined up there, but Seattle's also a lot more affordable, and we can live in the city without a long commute to work.) I'm really excited about the move and the new opportunities. At the same time I'm sad about leaving my colleagues and family at Harvard. I owe them so much for their support and encouragement over the years. Hopefully they can understand my reasons for leaving and that this is the hardest thing I've ever had to do.


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Bringing a new puppy home is an exciting yet tiring time, puppies really do require alot of attention, very much like a new baby in a family does.
Lacey, was just a little over 8 weeks old when we brought her home, the perfect age to bring a pup into your new home, but at this age they need toilet training, and teaching the house rules, they sleep lots, but when they are awake they like to chew, and will do so on most things.
Having had Jackson as a pup a few years ago we have been through the training stage before, but I didn't blog much when we first got Jackson, so I hope to make sure I keep a running blog of training Lacey, and the fun and mischief she gets upto, as its surprising how quickly you forget, I can't really remember how we went from a mischievous puppy boxer full of boundless energy to the mature boxer we have today, trusting him to be left home alone all day and know he won't put a thing out of place, or how we taught him to walk off his lead, or sit and stay or any of the other things Jackson seems to just naturally do. I hope to record life with Lacey so that its a record for us, but maybe be of help for others who want tips and tricks on puppy training.
So this is Week 1.
On the day we brought Lacey home we introduced her to Jackson, and she initially was not at all impressed with this huge dog she was greeted with in a new and strange environment, away from her mum and brothers and sisters. She whined when we put her on the floor and ran to hide behind the children away from Jackson, who thankfully just sat and watched her as she slowly built up enough courage to explore the room. Slowly she started creeping out and sniffing Jackson and within a hour or so she was confidently sniffing around the room, she had fully settled in and made herself part of the family within a couple of days, and now is best buddies with Jackson and they play together so well. I think training Lacey will be alot easier having Jackson to lead her by example.
Here's a video of the two of them, having a mad half hour (shame Lacey wakes up and wants to play around midnight tho!)
Vet check, worms and vaccinations
The first thing we wanted to do once we had Lacey at home, after the introductions to Jackson, was to get her registered and checked over by a vet, the people we brought her from were lovely but we didn't really have much background information about Lacey, so we took her along to the vets for her first vaccination and check up. Pups need two vaccination injections roughly 2 weeks apart, then a single booster once a year after that. Our local vets run a puppy pack style system where you can have all your flea and worm treatment for a year, the full course of vaccinations and a microchip for £55 this is a great price and means you have everything covered for your new pet.
One thing that initially bothered us was that Lacey had a slightly bloated tummy, and was otherwise quite slim, her previous owner had told us she had wormed the pups, but you never know if to trust the information they give you, or what style wormer they have used, quite often breeders will use shop brought wormers instead of the stronger variety you get directly from a vet, so the breeder may believe they have wormed the pups but there still might be worms there,so it was something we mentioned to the vet, who said a bloated tummy in puppies can be a sign of worms, or also due to the fact they simply have ate too much in one go, the vet gave us some strong worming tablets to be on the safe side and other than that said Lacey was in good shape.
|First Day home, you can see her slightly bloated tummy
A couple of days after the worming tablet, Lacey passed some worms in her poop. Her poo was then abit runny for a few days, which the vet said was normal after worming, but she was eating well, otherwise lively and happy, the bloated tummy disappeared and she is gaining weight much better now and is due her second vaccination next week, when we will also get her micro chipped.
The worms in Laceys Poo were long, white, abit like beansprouts or noodles, which we were told are Roundworms, it is quite common for dogs to get worms, especially dogs such as springer spaniels who love to run around in the bushes and fields amongst wildlife, and pups will pick up worms from their mum if she has them. However by keeping ontop of your worming treatment your dog should stay healthy and worm free. Here's a great resource for identifying worms if you think your puppy has them. : 5 ways to identify worms
Worms may sound horrible and look even worse, but as long as you treat them your pet will be fine, and good hygiene keeps everyone else in the family safe, thankfully we were sent some Zoflora Disinfectant to review the other week, perfect timing and this has been well used, it smells really strong which is great for eliminating odours, the lavender scent really did last much longer than other disinfectant I have used, when diluted correctly it is safe to use on areas where you pet resides, and you can even use it on their plastic bowls and toys, just rinse with water after you have cleaned them, killing 99.9% of bacteria it is just what you need when you have a new pup to house train!
Toilet Training
Obviously the main thing we have been focusing on in the time since bringing the puppy home, is toilet training, so our week has been spent training her to go outside to do her business, when we first got Lacey it was so cold and snowy and so for the first few days no one wanted to stand outside for too long, which meant things didn't initially go that well, as its hard to get the pup to understand what you want them to do, until they have done their business outside and you have rewarded them.
Thankfully the snow has gone and so for the past few days we have just about masted the toilet training, we did this by simply standing outside with Lacey until she had done her business and then rewarding her with fuss and bringing her inside, Keeping to a routine and putting her outside straight after she woke up and after she ate or drank or had been playing for any duration, if she did her business inside where we didn't want, we would quickly place her outside with a firm 'no' This has worked really well, and she now goes to the back door unprompted when she needs the toilet.
Not bad at all in only a week!
Sleeping Arrangements
We have a small crate, which my mum gave us to transport Lacey home in, but we have never used a crate for Jackson or our old dog Dennis, so we didn't want Lacey to use a crate either, I am a believer in teaching the dog to do as you expect rather than just crating them so they can't do something wrong, so other than coming home in the car we have not used the crate, however for some families it is simple a must have item.
Puppies naturally like to be close to people and whine and cry if you leave them alone,after all they have spent their whole live so far with their mum, so it is scary for them to not only be in a new place, but to also be left alone in a bed is often why they will cry and chew and scratch, we haven't yet left Lacey alone in the house, but she happily sleeps in her bed when someone is here with her, when we're downstairs she likes to lie behind the sofa, or under the coffee table so that is where we have placed her bed, she is also good in the car and comes with us when we go out, at night tie she comes to our room and is happy to sleep in her bed on the floor, (or on our bed!) Jackson did the same for the first year or so but now he chooses to sleep under Chloes bed, because he is too big to share with us!
If however you are getting a puppy and don't want them upstairs then it is best not to start this habit as it would be a tough one to break once they are no longer a cute little puppy but a fully grown dog!
Start as you mean to go on, and leave your puppy where you know it is safe, with nothing too valuable in reach that your puppy can chew and give your puppy lots of cuddly toys and maybe a hotwater bottle to snuggle up with, this will remind them of their mum and hopefully lessen the whining. teach the to go into their bed when you are in the same room and hopefully they will then be happier when you are not in the same room.
Lacey has been pretty good with regards to chewing and has only chewed one thing she shouldn't so far (Jakes xbox headset!) Mainly she entertains herself with Jackson, who thankfully doesn't seem to mind!


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Barnes & Noble's Web Terms Of Service Not Enforceable Without Evidence That They Were Seen
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Every so often, though, someone slips through the carefully designed system and does the impossible (at least according to the Terms of Service): drag a company to court. Barnes & Noble, despite the presence of an "arbitration only" clause in its TOS, found itself locked out of going its favored route, thanks to a lack of notification on its part. (Hat tip to Nate Hoffelder of The Digital Reader for sending this my way). Eric Johnson at the Blog Law Blog has the details:
The plaintiff in Nguyen v. Barnes & Noble 12-cv-0812-JST (RNBx) (C.D. Cal.; Aug. 28, 2012) sued because after he purchased two HP TouchPad tablet computers at a price he was happy with, Barnes & Noble e-mailed him saying they had cancelled the order.Now, instead of receiving two TouchPads at $101.95 each, Nguyen was "forced to rely on substitute tablet technology, which he subsequently purchased . . . [at] considerable expense."
Nothing unusual about this so far. Products sell out or pricing errors occur. The correct response would be to offer a replacement at the price Nguyen attempted to pay, but Barnes & Noble decided to simply cancel the order. Lousy customer service isn't uncommon, and B&N was likely surprised to find itself named in a lawsuit, especially when its Terms of Service clearly specify that taking it to court is not an option.
Barnes & Noble filed a motion to move this dispute to arbitration, a much more favorable venue, considering companies win in arbitration nearly 95% of the time. It claimed that Nguyen, simply by visiting the site, had agreed to the terms of use, which were buried in a link at the bottom of the page. Nguyen countered, stating that he did not "affirmatively assent" to the Terms of Use, as it was not necessary to click on the Terms of Use link to make a purchase and B&N never directs the customer to the Terms of Use at any point in the purchase process.
B&N's motion was denied as it couldn't show that Nguyen had "notice of the terms." It's a small oversight but one that could affect many other companies who choose to rely on the dubious legality of "browserwrap," rather than the more intrusive (and more enforceable) "clickwrap." Eric Johnson points out that Barnes & Noble had several options but instead chose to rely on a single, out-of-the-way link.
B&N could have had a pop-up "I agree" window or even just a box that Nguyen had to check saying he agreed to and had read the terms of service. They also could have written on the checkout screen about the transaction was subject to terms of service. But they didn't do any of that. So, as a result, it looks like Nguyen will get his day in court.This doesn't really do much for consumers, however. It just means that Barnes & Noble (along with other companies) will institute something like the above to make sure their preferred legal option is not circumvented. This will do nothing to make the system less stacked in favor of the "house," and long, unreadable Terms of Service will still be the order of the day. Considering that not agreeing to the Terms of Service means not using that service, companies can still rely on customers to sell themselves in order to proceed with transactions. As Eric Johnson points out, this effectively makes them "answerable to no one."


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Insanity Rules In East Texas: Jury Finds Newegg Infringes On Ridiculous Encryption Patent
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But, apparently TQP's lawyers' technique of attacking Diffie's credibility somehow worked. The jury said both that the patent was valid and that Newegg infringed -- and they awarded TQP $2.3 million -- a little less than half of what TQP wanted, but still a lot more than TQP settled with many other companies (including those with much bigger ecommerce operations than Newegg). In other words, yet another travesty of justice from a jury in east Texas. Newegg will appeal, as it did in its last big patent troll lawsuit (which was much bigger), against Soverain Software. Again, Newegg had lost in East Texas, but prevailed big time on appeal. Hopefully history repeats itself.
Joe Mullin's coverage (linked above) has a bunch of little tidbits about how everyone responded to the verdict, but I think Diffie's response is the most honest. Asked how he was feeling:
"Distressed," he said. "I was hoping to be rid of this business."Yeah, he's not the only one. The sheer ridiculousness of a jury simply not believing the very people who created the very building blocks of modern encryption, and instead buying the story of someone who did nothing special either with the concept behind his patent or with that patent once it existed, is just distressing. It shows how arbitrary jury trials can be, especially when you have jurors who simply don't understand the technology or the history at play. Blech. I think I may have to go buy an anti-patent troll t-shirt from Newegg.


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It's a common sight in San Francisco – the green grass of a neighborhood park is accented by brightly colored hoops twirling at improbable angles around people grooving stylishly to dance music under the afternoon sun.
These are the Bay Area Hoopers, who meet every Sunday afternoon in parks around the city to practice their moves, holding the hoops aloft, then spinning them around their midsections, arms, shoulders, and legs.
For Philo Hagen, cofounder of the Bay Area Hoopers and editor of Hooping.org, the hoop is a way to shift one's attention from the head to the rest of the body. He says hooping is fun, childlike, and meditative, all of which make it tremendously good for the spirit.
"It's hard to get caught up in anything too seriously when you're hooping, and it's pretty guaranteed to put a smile on your face," Mr. Hagen says.
Most commonly known as an outmoded childhood toy, the Hula Hoop has gone from being a 1950s fad to 21st-century fitness trend. Outdoor hooping groups have emerged across the country, and structured indoor classes are increasingly offered at fitness centers.
But Hula Hooping, or hooping, for those using larger, often homemade hoops rather than those patented by Wham-O, is to many enthusiasts more than just a fun form of exercise. Participants talk of improved self-esteem, revived social lives, and even lighter spirits as they learn to take basic hoop-swirling to the next level.
Hula Hooping, named after the Hawaiian hula dance, was made popular in the 1950s when Australian businessman Alex Tolmer started selling plastic hoops at his department store, Toltoys, according to the Encyclopædia Britannica.
Wham-O bought the American rights to the toy and introduced the Hula Hoop into the southern California market in 1958, after which an estimated 100 million hoops sold in just two years, according to Britannica.
The hoop came back for a time in the '80s, but this decade has seen the toy become part of an innovative workout trend combining fitness and dance.
Since Hagen started Bay Area Hoopers spontaneously with a friend in 2003, the group has gained hundreds of members, and a regular crew gathers each week. Early on, hoopers noticed that they were getting in great physical shape, and the fitness angle caught on quickly.
"We were just hooping for fun," he says, "and what we found was people were like, 'You're looking great!' "
Hagen lost a clothing size, and he says others have lost as much as 30 pounds.
Hooping can burn up to 600 calories an hour, according to hooping guru Christabel Zamor.
This was Ms. Zamor's experience; she went from being a shy, heavyset graduate student to a svelte fitness instructor and entrepreneur as a result of taking up hooping as a hobby in 2001, she says. She started practicing in the park once a week and soon found that it became one of the things she most looked forward to.
"I just felt so free and uninhibited, and I hadn't realized how uptight I had been," she says. "The more I hooped, the more lighthearted and easygoing I got."
Over time, more people started coming to Zamor's weekly hooping sessions in San Francisco. She developed classes and performances, eventually leaving her doctoral program in cultural anthropology and taking up hooping full time.
Since then, Zamor, founder and CEO of HoopGirl Inc., has become a key proponent of the new exercise trend. These days, she's seems positively aglow with success – HoopGirl is rapidly expanding, with an array of classes; performances; teacher certification programs; workout videos like "Hoopdance Evolution"; and a new book, "Hooping: A Revolutionary Fitness Program." The company now has more than 350 certified instructors in 12 countries.
For Sally Estrada of San Francisco, who was at the city's Esprit Park with the Bay Area Hoopers on an August Sunday, hooping is one of the best workouts she's found. A former personal trainer, she sees it as one of the most effective ways to strengthen "the core."
"It's very tone-building but it doesn't make you big because you're not lifting big weights," she says.
Julie Greicius of Palo Alto, Calif., joined in after seeing a woman hooping to DJ music last fall in front of a famous record store in San Francisco. She started taking classes and became a licensed teacher through HoopGirl. Ms. Greicius now takes her children, ages 11 and 6, out to the park several times a week and brings about 10 hoops for people in the neighborhood to use.
"There's a real community feel about it," Greicius says. "You might see people hooping alone, but not often."
Hooping has come a long way since its widespread popularity in the 1950s, as it has moved from being a toy to being a dance and exercise aid.
As Hagen says, "these are not your grandmother's Hula Hoops."•


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Ensembles Top Off Family Dayby Steve Charles • October 11, 2009 Share:
All five of the College's musical ensembles performed Saturday night in a rousing, sometimes moving conclusion to Wabash Family Day festivities.
Click here and here for photo albums of the Wamidan World Music Ensemble, Woodwind Ensemble, Brass Ensemble, Jazz Band, and the Wabash College Glee Club.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Strong pitching performances by both MIT and Springfield College resulted in a New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference doubleheader split between the Engineers and the Pride. MIT took the first game, 10-0, behind an outstanding effort from its starting pitcher, senior Torre Swanson (Redding, Calif.). In the nightcap it was Springfield that had the outstanding starting pitching effort, as sophomore Alex Williams (East Hartford, Conn.) led the Pride to a 2-1 victory.
Swanson did not allow a hit in game one until the fifth inning, setting down the first 14 hitters in a row. He went on to pick up the complete game win, allowing just three hits in seven innings, striking out three and allowing one walk.
MIT (11-12, 3-9 NEWMAC) got all the runs it would need in the first inning without the benefit of a hit. A hit batter, a walk and a dropped fly ball by the Springfield (12-10, 6-5 NEWMAC) center fielder loaded the bases for junior Ricardo Perez (Vienna, Va.). Springfield starter, senior Greg Marakovits (Rocky Hill, Conn.) hit Perez to bring in the first run before coaxing a double-play ball from the next Engineer hitter that scored the second run.
With the strong pitching of Swanson, a four-run third for MIT put the game out of reach. With one out a pair of walks set up an RBI single from Perez before a wild pitch brought home another run. Sophomore Sean Karson (Winter Park, Fla.) singled home Perez, with junior James McKinney (Wakefield, R.I.) scampering home with the final run of the inning on another wild pitch. The Engineers went on to tack on three more in the fourth and another in the fifth to complete their scoring.
In the second game the two starters, Williams and MIT senior Chris Hendrix (Richardson, Texas) dueled through four scoreless innings before the Pride put the first run of the game on the board in the fifth. Quist led off with a single and was sacrificed to second for sophomore Mike McGowan (Franklin, Mass.), who singled in the hole between short and third to bring in the run.
MIT tied it in the bottom of the eighth when senior A.J. Hansborough (Deltona, Fla.) led off with a single and came around to score on a one-out double by freshman Reid Bishop (Cypress, Texas). Springfield answered the run in the top of the ninth, loading the bases with one out. Milano came on as a pinch hitter and delivered, lofting a sac fly to right for what proved to be the winning run.
Senior Craig Zysk (Shelton, Conn.) gave up the tying run in the eighth, but worked around an error in the ninth to record the win. Williams went seven innings, allowing just four hits and a walk while striking out four. Hendrix was strong for MIT as well, allowing just one run on seven hits while striking out four in 6.2 innings.
MIT will host Endicott College on Monday at 3:30 p.m. in its next game, with Springfield playing at Wheaton College on Tuesday at 3:30 p.m.


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Correct me if I am wrong but wasnt the Astro glass just for a few months in 68 and then done? I have never heard of a 69 having the glass. Not saying it isnt possible. Heck I have only seen a hand full of 68's with it.. Two of them were previously owned..
The UX codes (July 68) on the quarter glass seem in line for a car built in September of 1968. The door glass does not seem to be original to me.


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March 21, 2011
Santa Barbara Calif - UC Santa Barbara men's tennis emerged victorious in both matches of its doubleheader Monday, defeating No. 71 Dartmouth 4-2 and sweeping Eastern Washington 7-0 at the Recreation Center Courts on campus.
The Gauchos have now won four consecutive matches to even their record at 7-7 on the season.
In the match against Dartmouth Benjamin Recknagel once again played the role of closer defeating Michael Laser 6-3, 4-6, 7-5 at No. 1 singles with Santa Barbara leading the match 3-2, to clinch the victory.
At No. 2 singles Alex Konigsfeldt had a dominant outing against Xander Centenari winning 6-4, 6-0.
Mathieu Forget won his fifth straight singles match at No. 4 singles defeating Cameron Ghorbani in straight sets 7-6, 6-2 and Max Glenn rebounded from a rough first set to defeat Stephen Greif 2-6, 6-4, 6-2 at court No. 5.
Freshman Alexander Gryaznov made his collegiate debut At No. 6 singles winning the first set of his match against Brandon DeBot, but failed to close out the match losing 4-6, 6-3 6-2.
In the match against Eastern Washington the Gauchos took the doubles point winning two of the three matches behind clutch performances by Recknagel and Forget at court No. 2. The duo rallied from an early deficit to defeat Kyle Koetje and Stefan Simikic 9-7.
In singles, Santa Barbara won all six matches. Gryaznov picked up his first collegiate victory defeating Chris Eriksson 6-3, 4-6, (10-7) in the final match of the day.
The next match for the Gauchos is at BYU Friday, March 25 beginning at 9 a.m. MT in Provo, Utah.
Complete results listed below:
UC Santa Barbara vs #71 Dartmouth
1.Benjamin Recknagel (UCSB) def. Michael Laser (Dartmouth) 6-3, 4-6, 7-5
2. Alex Konigsfeldt (UCSB) def. Xander Centenari (Dartmouth) 6-4, 6-0
3. Curtis Roby (Dartmouth) def. Taylor Chavez-Goggin (UCSB) 7-6, 6-3
4. Mathieu Forget (UCSB) def. Cameron Ghorbani (Dartmouth) 7-6, 6-2
5. Max Glenn (UCSB) def. Stephen Greif (Dartmouth) 2-6, 6-4, 6-2
6. Brandon DeBot (Dartmouth) def. Alexander Gryaznov (UCSB) 4-6, 6-3, 6-2
Winner UC Santa Barbara
Final Score
UC Santa Barbara vs. Eastern Washington
1.Konigsfeldt/Chavez-Goggin (UCSB) def. Simiki/Koetje (E. Wash) 8-3
2. Recknagel/Forget (UCSB) def. Henniger/Sanchez (E. Wash) 9-7
3. Eriksson/Russell (E. Wash) def. Jurgensen/Gryaznov (UCSB) 9-8
1. Alexander Konigsfeldt (UCSB) def. Fernando Mussolini (E. Wash) 6-2, 6-0
2. Taylor Chavez-Goggin (UCSB) def. Julian Sanchez (E. Wash) 6-4, 6-4
3. Mathieu Forget (UCSB) def. Mario Navarro (E. Wash) 6-0, 6-3
4. Max Glenn (UCSB) def. Stefan Simikic (E. Wash) 6-4, 6-3
5. Alexander Gryaznov (UCSB) def. Chad Henninger (E. Wash) 6-3, 4-6, (10-7)
6. Alexander Johnson (UCSB) def. Chris Eriksson (E. Wash) 6-2, 6-4
Winner UCSB
Final Score 7-0
Season W-L 7-7


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JOHNSON CITY (July 7, 2012) – A visit from 2011 Final Four participant VCU, road games at major programs such as North Carolina, Ole Miss, Georgia and Virginia Tech, and a Christmas visit to the Hawaiian Islands highlight the 2012-13 ETSU men's basketball schedule released Saturday by head coach Murry Bartow.
"As always, our early season schedule will be a challenge with a lot of games on the road against some really strong programs like North Carolina," Bartow said. "We do like the trip to Hawaii and the exposure that will give our program on ESPN's family of channels, and we think the home schedule this year will offer some great matchups for our fans."
The Buccaneers, who have reached postseason play five times in nine seasons under Bartow, will open their season with a home exhibition game against Carson-Newman on Nov. 3. ETSU will then begin regular season play for the second straight year at Virginia Tech, taking on the Hokies Nov. 10. ETSU's home opener will then follow on Saturday, Nov. 17 against Tennessee Tech, but the highlight of the Bucs' home slate will be a Jan. 2 visit from VCU.
"Hosting VCU, a Final Four team from two years ago, should be a lot of fun for our fans," Bartow said. "They obviously have a great program and have really made a name for themselves recently on the national stage."
Prior to the VCU matchup and as the New Year approaches, the Bucs will tune up for the start of Atlantic Sun Conference play with a trip to the Hawaiian Islands to take part in ESPN's Diamond Head Classic. The field for the tournament will include Arizona, Indiana State, Hawaii, Miami (Fla.), Ole Miss, San Diego State and San Francisco, with pairings to be announced at a later date.
"This will be one of the best tournaments from an exposure standpoint that we've played in," Bartow said. "It's a great opportunity for our program to get tremendous national exposure."
The Bucs will open their A-Sun schedule on the road at Lipscomb (Jan. 5), beginning a stretch of 18 straight league games over the final two months of the season. The conference championship is set for March 6-9 in Macon Ga. For more on ETSU men's basketball, visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the men's basketball link.
2012-13 ETSU Men's Basketball Schedule
Saturday, Nov. 3.............................. Carson-Newman (exhibition)
Saturday, Nov. 10...................................................... at Virginia Tech
Saturday, Nov. 17.................................................. Tennessee Tech
Tuesday, Nov. 20......................................... at Charleston Southern
Friday, Nov. 23..................................................................... at Georgia
Thursday, Nov. 29................................................................... Milligan
Wednesday, Dec. 5.............................................. at James Madison
Saturday, Dec. 8...................................................... at North Carolina
Friday, Dec. 14.................................................................... at Ole Miss
Tuesday, Dec. 18........................................... Charleston Southern
Dec. 22, 23 & 25..... ESPN's Diamond Head Classic (Honolulu)
Wednesday, Jan. 2....................................................................... VCU
Saturday, Jan. 5............................................................. at Lipscomb *
Monday, Jan. 7............................................... at Northern Kentucky *
Thursday, Jan. 10................................................................ Stetson *
Saturday, Jan. 12.............................................. Florida Gulf Coast *
Thursday, Jan. 17............................................................... at Mercer *
Saturday, Jan. 19............................................... at Kennesaw State *
Thursday, Jan. 24....................................................... Jacksonville *
Saturday, Jan. 26....................................................... North Florida *
Monday, Jan. 28...................................................... at USC Upstate *
Thursday, Jan. 31........................................... Northern Kentucky *
Saturday, Feb. 2............................................................... Lipscomb *
Thursday, Feb. 7............................................. at Florida Gulf Coast *
Saturday, Feb. 9................................................................. at Stetson *
Thursday, Feb. 14................................................ Kennesaw State *
Saturday, Feb. 16.................................................................. Mercer *
Thursday, Feb. 21.................................................... at North Florida *
Saturday, Feb. 23...................................................... at Jacksonville *
Friday, March 1........................................................... USC Upstate *
March 6-March 9................. Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament
..................................................................................... Macon, Ga., TBA
Home games in bold // All games listed Eastern Standard Time
* -- indicates Atlantic Sun Game


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KnowledgeBase 00006: Scanning Alternate Key Indices
The hashed file system locates a record by transforming the record id to the position of the group in which the record should be stored and then scanning the small number of records in the group for the one that is required. This provides very fast access regardless of the actual number of records stored in the file so long as the record id is known.
Alternate key indices allow records to be located based on the content of a data field without needing to search the entire file. The AK is effectively a secondary file in which the content of the corresponding data field is used as the key and each record holds a list of data file record ids that have that data value.
To find all records that have a particular value in the indexed field, QM will read the corresponding index record and can then go directly to the data records.
Internally, an AK is stored as a balanced tree structure in which the index keys (data field values) are in sorted order. This enables the index to be used to find records with a specific data field value or a range of values.
QMBasic provides a method by which an application can find an AK record for a specific data value and then walk through the sorted list in either direction.
Setting the Start Position
The SELECTINDEX statement is used by QMBasic programs to build a select list
of records that have a specific value in an indexed field.
As a side effect, SELECTINDEX leaves a pointer into the index structure at the position identified by value. If there are no records with the requested indexed value, the pointer is left positioned where such a value should go. Thus, if the index contained references to records with indexed values 1, 3, 5 and 7, a SELECTINDEX operation to build a list of records with an indexed value of 4 would return an empty list but would leave the index pointer between the entries for 3 and 5.
Alternatively, the SETLEFT or SETRIGHT statements may be used to position the pointer at the extreme left or right of the indexed values.
Walking the Index
The SELECTRIGHT or SELECTLEFT statements can be used to walk through the
index, starting at the position of the index pointer set by SELECTINDEX,
SETLEFT or SETRIGHT and moving to the right (ascending order of indexed value)
or left (descending order of indexed value).
This operation creates a select list of records with the next indexed value in the direction of the scan. The optional key variable receives the indexed value associated with the records included in the select list.
Thus, to walk through an index from beginning to end in ascending order, a program would use SETLEFT to position at the start of the data and then perform a series of SELECTRIGHT operations until no further data is available. For example, if we have an orders file open as ORD.F and there is an index named CUST.NO for the customer number, we could process orders in ascending customer number with a loop such as:
SETLEFT 'CUST.NO' FROM ORD.F LOOP SELECTRIGHT 'CUST.NO' FROM ORD.F SETTING CUST LOOP READNEXT ORD.ID ELSE EXIT ...processing... REPEAT UNTIL STATUS() REPEAT
The outer loop walks through the index returning a select list of orders for each customer, also setting CUST to the corresponding customer number. The inner loop processes the orders for the customer.
Partial Matching
A loop similar to that above can be used to perform partial matching on the leading part of an indexed value. If, for example, we want to find all names that begin with a specific prefix string, we could use a loop similar to that below.
SELECTINDEX 'NAME', PREFIX FROM CLIENTS.F LOOP LOOP READNEXT CLIENT.ID ELSE EXIT ...processing... REPEAT SELECTRIGHT 'NAME' FROM CLIENTS.F SETTING NAME WHILE @SELECTED WHILE NAME[1,LEN(PREFIX)] = PREFIX REPEATIn this example, we first try for an exact match against the supplied prefix using SELECTINDEX. As well as possibly returning a list of records for which there is an exact match, this operation also leaves the index scan pointer at the position at which this entry would appear in the index.
The inner loop will process any items returned by the SELECTINDEX operation. We then use SELECTRIGHT to move to the next index entry. The SETTING clause copies the indexed value associated with this entry into the NAME variable. The two WHILE clauses check that we have not run off the end of the index and that the next item still matches the supplied prefix. The inner loop will process these items before we once again attempt to move to the right.
Tracking Sequential Record Ids
Sometimes an application may build an AK on the primary key. This can be useful where, for example, the ids are not simple sequential numbers. For this discussion, we will imagine a log file for which the record id is a timestamp value.
Using a left to right scan loop similar to that above would allow the application to walk through the log records. Instead of terminating the loop when we reach the end of the index data, we could use SLEEP to pause for a while and then try again. This would allow us to process new records as they are added to the log.
Use of SETRIGHT positions after the last record in ascending sort order. Instead of scanning the entire log from left to right, we could use SETRIGHT to position at the extreme right and then process only records added after our program starts.
Migrating Index Processing from D3
Even though QMBasic provides similar capabilities, there is no direct one for one relationship between the ROOT and KEY statements used by the Basic language of D3 and the operations described above.
The c operator of KEY is equivalent to SELECTINDEX followed by a SELECTRIGHT if the SELECTINDEX did not find an exact match.
The l operator is similar to the example of partial key matching in the QM Reference Manual description of the SELECTRIGHT statement.
The n operator is equivalent to use of SELECTRIGHT except that QMBasic returns a select list of all items with the given index value rather than requiring repeated n operations.
The p operator is equivalent to use of SELECTLEFT except that QMBasic returns a select list of all items with the given index value rather than requiring repeated p operations.
The r operator is equivalent to use of SELECTINDEX.
The v operator has no direct equivalent but is broadly similar to use of SELECTINDEX.
The x operator is equivalent to use of SELECTRIGHT.
Migrating Index Processing from UniVerse
UniVerse combines the operations provided by the QMBasic statements described above into the BSCAN statement.
A UniVerse Basic loop such as
BSCAN KEY, ID.LIST FROM FVAR USING 'INDEX.NAME' RESET THEN LOOP LOOP ID = REMOVE(ID.LIST, MORE) ...process data... WHILE MORE REPEAT BSCAN KEY, ID.LIST FROM FVAR USING 'INDEX.NAME' ELSE EXIT REPEAT ENDbecomes
SETLEFT 'INDEX.NAME' FROM FVAR LOOP SELECTRIGHT 'INDEX.NAME' FROM FVAR SETTING KEY UNTIL STATUS() READNEXT ID ELSE EXIT ...process data... REPEAT
Migrating Index Processing from UniData
UniData has functions that are broadly equivelent to those of QMBasic.
The UniBasic SETINDEX statement has options that provide functionality that is similar to SELECTINDEX, SETLEFT and SETRIGHT.
READBCK is similar to SELECTLEFT.
READFWD is similar to SELECTRIGHT.
Assuming that the customer number is stored in field 3 of the order record, a UniData Basic program such as
OPEN 'ORDERS' TO ORD.F ELSE STOP 'Cannot open file' CUST = '1234' SETINDEX 'CUST.NO', CUST ON ORD.F LOOP READFWD ORD.REC FROM ORD.F ELSE EXIT WHILE ORD.REC<3> = CUST ...processing... REPEATbecomes
OPEN 'ORDERS' TO ORD.F ELSE STOP 'Cannot open file' CUST = '1234' SELECTINDEX 'CUST.NO', CUST FROM ORD.F LOOP READNEXT ORD.ID ELSE EXIT READ ORD.REC FROM ORD.F, ORD.ID THEN ...processing... END REPEAT
Walking an Index Record by Record
The SELECTRIGHT and SELECTLEFT statements return a select list of the ids of all records with a specific indexed field value. The BP file of the QMSYS account includes the source code of a QMBasic class module named INDEX.CLS that allows an application to walk through an alternate key index record by record in either direction.
Full details of how to use this class module are included in the source code.
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A New Hollywood Creative Paradigm?
The change is that instead of seeing themselves as the new Puritans, "saints" who persevere against a repressive, sexually and politically, "evil White male" regime, the new crowd sees themselves as Batman. Who everyone wants to save them, by extreme violence, while condemning them for doing so if they ever get caught.
Mostly, of course, I'm talking about the Nolan Brothers, and JJ Abrams. The Nolans are famous for the Batman movies, which endorse pre-emption and snooping and all sorts of vigilante violence. Abrams has joined with Jonah Nolan, Christopher's brother, to produce "Person of Interest," perhaps the most unsettling and for what it is, revolutionary conservative show on television.
Nolan's Batman, famously, exists in a world and a city that has failed. Gotham is a pit, decaying into corruption. The cops, save one man, Gordon, are corrupt. Criminals run everything. The few honest District Attorneys are slaughtered, or driven insane, and cannot function. Judges routinely send criminals into a revolving door nuthouse. Nothing works, which is why Batman is needed. He exists because no one else will save Gotham. Leaving it to him, and whatever methods he himself finds appropriate or not. The only lines he follows are ones he draws himself.
You can immediately see the appeal for Hollywood's creative people. All their institutions are failing or have failed. The Studio system that gave them money, a budget, people, and told them what to do are long gone. Have been for nearly forty years. What replaced them, the Agent system, is failing. People are not buying DVDs anymore, nor are Blu-Ray sales fixing the deficit. TV rights are down, foreign sales have been no help with massive piracy, and 3-D is a gimmick whose time has now definitively passed. As Chris Nolan says, film-makers and audiences have spent nearly a century getting ordinary films right, and knowing how to see them. You can't watch 3-D with vision problems (most of the audience), on an Iphone or Ipad, or on ordinary TVs, where people most want to watch movies.
Nothing has worked, and so a few creative people have cast themselves as vigilante heroes. Determined to save the city (Hollywood) from the forces of darkness and violence (foreclosing on the Malibu beach-house) by whatever means required (appeasing the audience with traditional heroes). This earns them disdain from the populace (Hollywood's in-crowd) but they are extra heroic and mavericky.
I'm sarcastic, but that is the process. And more are joining them. Captain America and Thor, no matter what their problems, were straight ahead super-heroic. Therefore, ultra-mavericky when everyone wants to be the hip new happening guy who is the toast of the town and ticks off audiences. Fear, desperation, and a desire to stand out have led the Nolans and others to make movies that appeal to ordinary people with heroics and a distance from the Hollywood mores of "you stupid hicks, your 1950's values stink!"
Person of Interest takes that even further. It is astonishing that a conventional liberal like Abrams is even associated with it (he executive produces). In a key scene, the character Finch explains to the character played by James Caviezel, what he did for the government. Finch, he tells the man he hopes will work with him, developed a software system that would sift through everything. All the phone calls, emails, bank account activity, surveillance videos, supermarket purchases, everything, in daily life, that records activity in a database. And it would look for things, to predict violent acts about to happen.
The public, he says, wanted no more 9/11s. They just did not want to know how it was done. The government having given itself permission to read any e-mail and listen to any phone call, after 9/11, used his program to find out terrorist plots. But he tells the Caviezel character, there was a problem. The program found other things, mundane murder plots not associated with mass casualty terrorism. So he threw those away, but later came back and had the system send him just the social security numbers, of those people who were of interest. They could be the killers, they could be the victims, he could not tell because all he could safely send himself was the social security numbers.
Here there is another failure. The government could, if it wanted to, stop the murders from taking place. As the Finch character tells Reese (Caviezel), while crimes of passion or the heat of the moment cannot be prevented, those plotted over days and weeks and months, often can, because the plotters leave clues that his system can spot. But the government only cares about mass murder terror plots. Because that is the only concern of the public.
Caviezel's character is a former CIA man, presumed dead, who killed a lot of terrorists and enablers after 9/11. He himself, like Batman, decides where he will draw the lines, and what he will or will not do. He does not like killing people, but is good at it. A burnt out and bitter man, he finds redemption in saving people who can be saved but the system lacks the will and ability to save.
The pilot was based on a screenplay developed by Abrams and Nolan, and is pretty revolutionary. The government, far from being an omnipresent fascist state, does the bare minimum to protect a public that wants to pretend it doesn't know what is being done. Again into the gap of failure, by the government AND the people, rush the heroes using new technology and will power, to "be there in time," to stop murders. The pilot tested off the charts, the highest of any drama pilot in 15 years, with "crazy broad appeal you don't usually see," so much so that CBS moved CSI aside for it, and won its timeslot in the premiere with 13 million viewers.
What Hollywood is very cautiously nibbling around the edges of, is that PC and Multiculturalism and restraint and all that, don't work. More 9/11s don't happen because lots of people get killed by drone strikes, combat patrols, and the like aided by outsourced torture, lots of software sweeps of bank accounts, phone calls, emails, travels, airline tickets, and more, plus human intel from forces needing US help/protection/assistance against enemies. Not by a heavy dose of hope and change. More like lots of drone strikes and SEAL missions never publicized, which the public would like to ignore.
Ultimately this is not sustainable, and the lone hero model while very dramatic has its own limitations, as actual policy. Which Hollywood's creative types understand because no one makes a movie by themselves. Indeed the series raises all sorts of questions. Are we willing to tolerate thousands of murders, each year, because we don't want to have intrusive, software-spying? If a couple of guys using the software can save that many, why not the police using it at will?
Naturally, this only around the edges. There is the PC heroic Black female cop. The usual "corrupt White cop ring" though the hot young female prosecutor is corrupt, the schlumpy divorced White guy is the intended victim not the killer. PC still reigns supreme in some areas. No one is asserting a broad-based challenge yet.
But … the whole point of the show is that the good guys use the ever-present surveillance technology (the hero Reese snoops a lot on targets electronically) to stop crimes from happening. In the pilot, they save three lives. They stop murders by not just breaking but obliterating every law, rule, and criminal procedure on the books. They step in because the government will not. The heroic Black female cop is shown as always three steps behind, not knowing who she is pursuing, or even why the hero acts as he does.
Let us put it this way. Not even JJ Abrams believes in Hope and Change and the West Wing anymore. Instead it's a couple of vigilantes stepping in where the FBI or NYPD will not.
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I think Americans prefer heroes over governments fixing things. Governments do everything with publicity in mind(making themselves look good) while heroes focus on the mission. And while heroes violate people's rights they're not doing so out of desire of controlling the populace as our government is wont to do. And most importantly if they go rouge we can do something about them. Our government has been rouge for generations now and we can't do crap all about it.
- September 25, 2011 at 9:24 AM
- Whiskey said...
What's interesting is that CBS in particular pioneered the "SWPL-anti-crime team" approach. Older guy (sometimes not always White, see Lawrence Fishburne and Dennis Haysbert), lead a team of "diverse" including at least one hot chick, people to solve crimes (against the PC order) and restore SWPL order. Never ever breaking the law, using technology to preserve PC.
See, CSI. Or NCIS.
Now CBS is effectively throwing that out. Amazing.
- September 25, 2011 at 11:46 AM
Meh, I'd rather watch The Wire again.
- September 25, 2011 at 2:29 PM
Do you really think there hasn't been another 9/11 because we're out there in Iraq, Afghanistan, and drone bombing remote parts of Pakistan?
- September 25, 2011 at 8:01 PM
- Whiskey said...
Kaz, yes. You need to know who to whack, and the whacking has not just been in "remote parts of Pakistan" but populated areas, including let me remind you Abbottabad, where Bin Laden holed up.
Being in Afghanistan and Iraq brought us into direct contact with people who for their own ends, sought to use us against Jihad rivals. They always have rivals and enemies. This led us to a lot of physical evidence (we are running a massive spy/scout operation deep inside Pakistan from Afghanistan) that is required to know just where to hit.
Clinton fired lots of cruise missiles, which killed no one, because by the time they hit anyone who was anyone was long gone. They weren't stupid. They did not hang around for long after a meeting, figuring it was betrayed. Being so close, means we can hit it, when say a courier arrives. Or tag him and follow him to roll up a network all at once. We've killed conservative estimate, about 5,000 fairly high level jihadis. These are the money men, the tribal leaders, the go-to-guys.
It is true the Muslim world is over-run with Mohammeds willing to blow stuff up, and sometimes themselves. But there are far fewer guys who can move money around, buy weapons, train people, run safehouses, connect with intelligence services (a lot of the jihadis we killed in Pakistan are active ISI or Pakistan military btw). We have not been hit because we have prevented the top planners from planning, their daily routine being stay alive.
AQ during the 90's evolved, from the Van Bomb (Oklahoma City style which was itself a re-run of Beirut) to attacks on the Cole, Embassy van bombs in Africa, and attempted missile attacks in Kenya on airliners. Culminating in something they'd never done before -- fly planes into buildings.
- September 25, 2011 at 11:14 PM
- Whiskey said...
What whacking these guys constantly (which again requires on the ground intel, not a Tom Clancy like sat feed) does is make them unable to come up with new plans. No say, remotely piloted "do it yourself UAVs" loaded with mustard gas, sarin, or chlorine, basic WWI technology married with off-the-shelf components. AQ had a big section researching poison gas, imagine that combo headed for a college football stadium. Or Yankee stadium, guided by an operator in a freighter off NYC ready to dump the equipment when done. Or imagine a Bombay-style series of attacks in NYC, Boston, etc. with gunmen to draw away SWAT while second waves attack schools, office towers, the like.
Your average AQ guy is going to be trying to set off a bomb in Times Square without much luck ... as long as the guys who know how to make effective bombs are dead, hiding, and can't reach him. There are not that many of them that know how to do this, the most effective way to stop them is to kill them. Which basically means a lot of Marine Scout-Snipers, Delta, SEALs, and other Spec-Ops folks spooking around Afghanistan/Pakistan to find these guys out based on tips, and guide the hellfire missiles in.
- September 25, 2011 at 11:21 PM
- Whiskey said...
Look at Britain. they cannot even deport London bomber accomplices because Human Rights laws forbid it. The public WANTS this stuff, the nice and PC things and no sending these guys back to wherever.
But they also don't want stuff blowing up in London. Since these guys were a bunch of middle class Muslims who did not know how to blow stuff up, the solution has been for the US and UK to kill the bomb-instructors in Pakistan, which is exactly what they are doing. You might as well ask, what has changed in Britain to stop more London tube attacks?
Killing bomb making teachers in Pakistan, basically. YES IT IS STUPID. But that is all PC and Multiculturalism allows. Most people in Britain want both stuff not blowing up all the time, and PC/Multiculturalism.
- September 25, 2011 at 11:26 PM
I don't know if the public in London really wants it. Their legislative, executive and judicial systems are far more democratic (at the whim of the mob) and simultaneously dictatorial. When the mob wants gun rights or the death penalty they are overruled but its democracy when it comes to bread and circuses.
Not that they're a great people, any country where "consultants" are still being hired to recommend schools stop using white papers to prevent racism is going down the drain.
- September 25, 2011 at 11:50 PM
Everything you said is applicable to the AfPak theater, Yemen, and parts of Africa. Iraq on the other hand fits in nowhere.
The premise of the Iraq war was a fraud and the criminal enterprise has cost tens of thousands of people their limbs and lives, diverted massive amounts of resources, manpower, and money from where it belonged, and created a messy political siutation who's ultimate outcome is yet unknown. I'm aware that you believe control of oil and petrodollars is important which I accept but then that should be the stated mission.
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Many people presume that those who drop out of school must be desultory losers, right? Not so, according to Marta Zaraska, who reported in her April 2 Washington Post article, "Too Much Happiness Can Make You Unhappy," that "excessive joy, or having lots of positive emotions and a relative absence of negative ones ... may hamper your career prospects."
According to Zaraska, "Psychologist Edward Diener … and his colleagues analyzed a variety of studies ... and discovered that those who early in their lives reported the highest life satisfaction ... years later reported lower income than those who felt slightly less merry when young. What's more, they dropped out of school earlier. Included in the studies was one involving a group of American college freshmen that in 1976 claimed to be very cheerful. Surveyed again when they were in their late 30s, they earned, on average, almost $3,500 a year less than their slightly less cheerful peers. Why? Diener suggests that people who don't experience much sadness or anxiety are rarely dissatisfied with their jobs and therefore feel less pressure to get more education or change careers."
Annoying neurotics everywhere are nodding their heads in agreement. Or, as former Intel CEO Andy Grove wrote, Only the Paranoid Survive.
I decided to look deeper into the findings of Dr. Diener, a.k.a. "Dr. Happiness," who is, fittingly, the Joseph R. Smiley Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois. For instance, a 2002 study Diener conducted with Martin Seligman found that, "the most salient characteristics shared by the 10% of students with the highest levels of happiness and the fewest signs of depression were their strong ties to friends and family and commitment to spending time with them."
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For my money, however, Diener's most notable contribution has been to debunk common happiness myths. Regardless of standard of living or cultural or racial homogeneity, Diener found that "collectivist" nations were far happier than "individualist" nations like the U.S. because collectivist nations were more willing to make do with what they had. Those who relentlessly pursue individual excellence or perfection are not as happy, noted Diener.
Moreover, Diener discovered that, after one's basic needs are met, wealth does not increase happiness either. Ditto for youth, marriage, sunlight, religion, and even pleasure in all its incarnations.
Most germane to this column, however, Diener found that neither a high IQ nor higher education correlate with high rates of happiness.
Ever the contrarian, I naturally posited alternate causalities. First, perhaps extra happy students see the futility in conventional schooling and are, thus, more likely to drop out to pursue their own dreams. Famous college dropouts, such as Microsoft's Bill Gates and Apple's Steve Jobs, come to mind. Or perhaps extra happy students are unwilling to bow to educational authority or to the allegedly oppressive nature of public schooling, as noted by Crotty guest columnist Cevin Soling in "Santorum And Harvard Anarchist Agree: Public Schools Must Be Abolished."
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So, how do you and I determine where we fall on the happiness spectrum? Fortunately, back in 1985, Diener created the Satisfaction With Life Scale and corresponding test, both of which are used by happiness researchers around the globe to measure what Diener terms Subjective Well-Being (SWB).
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