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The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son
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In this powerful and intimate memoir, the beloved bestselling author of The Prince of Tides and his father, the inspiration for The Great Santini, find some common ground at long last.
Pat Conroy's father, Donald Patrick Conroy, was a towering figure in his son's life. The Marine Corps fighter pilot was often brutal, cruel, and violent; as Pat says, "I hated my father long before I knew there was an English word for 'hate.'" As the oldest of seven children who were dragged from military base to military base across the South, Pat bore witness to the toll his father's behavior took on his siblings, and especially on his mother, Peg. She was Pat's lifeline to a better world—that of books and culture. But eventually, despite repeated confrontations with his father, Pat managed to claw his way toward a life he could have only imagined as a child.
Pat's great success as a writer has always been intimately linked with the exploration of his family history. While the publication of The Great Santini brought Pat much acclaim, the rift it caused with his father brought even more attention. Their long-simmering conflict burst into the open, fracturing an already battered family. But as Pat tenderly chronicles here, even the oldest of wounds can heal. In the final years of Don Conroy's life, he and his son reached a rapprochement of sorts. Quite unexpectedly, the Santini who had freely doled out physical abuse to his wife and children refocused his ire on those who had turned on Pat over the years. He defended his son's honor.
The Death of Santini is at once a heart-wrenching account of personal and family struggle and a poignant lesson in how the ties of blood can both strangle and offer succor. It is an act of reckoning, an exorcism of demons, but one whose ultimate conclusion is that love can soften even the meanest of men, lending significance to one of the most-often quoted lines from Pat's bestselling novel The Prince of Tides: "In families there are no crimes beyond forgiveness."
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About the Author
Pat Conroy is the author of ten previous books: The Boo, The Water Is Wide, The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, The Prince of Tides, Beach Music, My Losing Season, The Pat Conroy Cookbook: Recipes of My Life, South of Broad, and My Reading Life. He lives in Beaufort, South Carolina.
Hometown:San Francisco and South Carolina
Date of Birth:October 26, 1945
Place of Birth:Atlanta, Georgia
Education:B.A.,The Citadel, 1967
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The Promise
On June 4, 1963, I walked off the graduation stage of Beaufort High School without a single clue about where I was attending college next year or if I'd be attending one at all. My parents had driven me mad over this subject and neither would discuss it with me further. I had planned to get a job at the tomato-packing shed on St. Helena Island to earn some money if my parents somehow managed to enroll me in a college. But my father received orders to Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska, for the following year. I didn't want to leave Beaufort, and I sure as hell didn't want to move to Nebraska, a place where I didn't know another human being. I wanted to go to college.
My father had the car packed and ready when I turned my graduation robe in to my teacher Dutchen Hardin, hugged my other favorite Beaufort High teachers and classmates, then fled in tears toward my life in Nebraska. Before I entered the car, I composed myself, dried my eyes, and got in the shotgun seat. The motor was running and Dad threw me a map, saying, "You're the navigator, pal. Any mistakes and I whack you." Before a single graduation party had begun, we were already crossing the Savannah River into Georgia. Our journey took us on back roads and through scores of towns that we hurtled by in their sleep. It was the age before interstate highways were common, so most of our trip would take us through the rural South and the farmlands of the Midwest. To my shock, Dad planned to make it a straight-through shot to Chicago, pausing only for pit stops and gas.
"Dad, you sure you want to do this?" I asked.
"Hey, jocko, you a detective?"
"That's a lot of driving. It might be too much for you."
"That's why you're on guard duty, pal," he said. "I start nodding off, you rap me on the shoulder to keep me awake."
During the twenty-four-hour drive, my father fell asleep three times, and I knocked his right shoulder, hard, three delicious times. Once in Indiana, he had failed to follow the curve of the highway and drove the station wagon over a cow guard and into a field heavily populated with Black Angus cattle. When I punched his shoulder, he woke suddenly, dodging fifty cows on his way back to the highway.
"You'd get a court-martial for that one, navigator," he said.
"I kept all of us alive, Dad. This is getting dangerous."
We arrived at Uncle Willie's house on Hamlin Drive, where my mother had flown to the day before with her two youngest sons. Willie lived in a Polish neighborhood that looked like an elaborate card trick to me. The houses going up and down the street from Willie's were exact duplicates of one another as far as the eye could see. Variation was forbidden, and this neighborhood stretched for miles in all directions. You could sleepwalk out of Willie's house at night and find yourself lost as you tried to find your way back through a labyrinth that seemed to run on forever. It was an ugly house, as charmless as a Rubik's cube.
The Conroy kids were sent to the basement, where Uncle Willie had put pillows on the carpet and mattresses all around so we could camp out during our two weeks there. It turned out to be a deadly long visit, with tension breaking out unintentionally between my mother and grandmother, who lived nearby. Grandma Conroy was a harsh-voiced, unstylish woman who could have played a walk‑on shrew in some of Shakespeare's lesser comedies. I never saw her wear makeup or try to prettify herself, and her dresses all looked like she had bought them from castaway bins at the Salvation Army. To her Southern grandchildren, she seemed to be yelling at us all the time.
"Don't do that. Get out of the way. Go back to the basement," she would say to us. It became a joke to my brothers and sisters that Grandpa and Grandma Conroy had no idea what our names were and little curiosity in remedying this lack of knowledge. My father and his brothers played pinochle every day, then went out to catch a Cubs or White Sox game in the evening. My mother was left behind with her seven kids. Since she was terrified of getting lost in Chicago traffic, she could not use the car. When she asked my father to take her and the kids to the art museum, he refused. A fearsome argument broke out and I could feel Mom's fury rising as each day passed. Dad's neglect of Mom and her kids and his abandonment of his family by night and day were not sitting well with our pretty mother. The claustrophobia alive in that sad household was turning into a troubled, living thing.
It was Uncle Willie who set off the fuse. I had always liked my uncle Willie, because he was a schoolteacher and had no problem being around kids. He was the smallest of his brothers by far and looked like half a Conroy man as he stood in the middle of his platoon of tall brothers. His nose had been broken so many times in street fights that it gave him the appearance of a harmless bulldog. He was a droll man with a great sense of humor and we'd become golfing buddies on his visits to Beaufort. But Willie had a deep fear of my father that I could sense whenever Dad turned prickly. In his own house, Willie ignored my presence and barely spoke to me. When I offered to go golfing with him, he shrugged his shoulders and said he'd think about it. Three days later he took Dad golfing with some high school buddies of my father's, but didn't ask me to come. I never thought the same about Uncle Willie again.
But Willie did ask the combustible question that I think helped to get me into college. I was lingering after dinner as my grandfather and uncle were arguing about Chicago politics. Carol Ann had already joined the kids watching television in what she called "Dante's Inferno" in the basement. There was much talk about Mayor Richard Daley and the efficiency of his machine. My grandfather was a block captain for Mayor Daley and told a story of a man on his block who balked about promising to vote for the mayor in the next election. "He called Mayor Daley a corrupt Irish son of a bitch," my grandfather said, laughing at the memory. Grandpa Conroy reported it to the mayor's people and the man received no garbage pickup for three straight weeks. After his neighbors complained about the stench of his garbage overflow, the poor man appeared on the doorstep to beg for my grandfather's intercession with the mayor. He even added a small contribution of twenty-five dollars for the mayor's reelection campaign. His garbage was collected the following day, compliments of Mayor Daley.
"What a great story, Grandpa," I said. "Dad used to tell us about the great Daley machine, but I never knew how it worked."
"Are you interested in politics, Pat?" my grandfather asked. I was grateful he knew my name.
"Yes, sir, I sure am. I'm interested in everything," I replied.
Uncle Willie asked the question that ignited my parents' unspoken rage at each other yet again. "Where are you going to college, Pat?"
"That's a really good question, Willie. Where is Pat going to college next year?" Mom said in a voice that was pure acid.
"Shut up, Willie," my father growled. "It's none of your beeswax."
"None of my beeswax?" Willie echoed, not interpreting the signal flares of war lighting up my father's eyes. "Hell, college starts in two months' time, Don. If he's not enrolled in college now, he's not going."
"Drop it, Willie," my father warned again, but now my mother was in the middle of it.
"Pat hasn't even applied to college because the great wise one over there hasn't allowed him to do so," she said.
"Is your kid a dope, Don?" Willie said, studying me for signs of imbecility. "You can still get him into trade school."
"Shut your yap, Willie, or I'll shut it for you," Dad said.
"Shut my yap about what, Don?" Willie yelled back. "I teach school for a living. Pat should've been applying to colleges last fall. Our parents didn't have shit, and they sent all nine of their kids to college. Don't those Southern idiots have college counselors in their shitty schools?"
"We've got college counselors, Uncle Willie," I said.
"You shut the fuck up and get downstairs with the kids where you belong, asshole," Dad said to me.
"Let me know how the college search goes, Mom," I said.
"I told you to shut up," Dad said, then slapped me as I walked by.
"I will, Pat. That's a promise," Mom said. Dad slapped her in her face as my grandfather watched in wordless silence.
That night a fight between my parents rocked through the whole house. Five of us kids were watching TV in the basement when the screaming commenced. I went over and turned the TV off, then turned the lights out and said, "If Dad comes down here, pretend you're asleep. Otherwise, he'll start hitting."
The shouting ended thirty minutes after it began; then the door opened at the top of the stairs and Dad turned on the lights and came halfway down the stairs. When he satisfied himself that we were all asleep, he shut the door noiselessly, so as not to wake us up. The next day, we left Chicago for Iowa as the end of my boyhood moved insanely on.
Dad drove his family to the blue-collar town of Clinton, Iowa, where another of his brothers, Fr. Jim Conroy, served as chaplain in the local Catholic hospital. Uncle Jim was a gregarious pink-faced man who grew temperamental when he was tired and was rumored to pick fights with every bishop he served under during his embattled career as a priest. He became famous for saying the fastest mass in the Midwest, and Catholics flocked to his services when he took over Holy Family parish in Davenport at the end of his career. In my lifetime of listening to lusterless sermons by Catholic priests, I knew Uncle Jim was famous for being the worst public speaker in the Iowa diocese. I never trusted him after he'd slapped me around for a nightmarish six weeks when I went on a fishing trip with him to Minnesota, and I made sure that none of my brothers went anywhere near him.
But I rode with Uncle Jim from his hospital to his home on the Mississippi River that would be the Conroy family home until our quarters were ready for us to move into at Offutt Air Force Base. Uncle Jim confessed to me that his brother Willie had called and begged him to get those seven kids out of his house.
"You guys really got on Grandpa and Grandma Conroy's nerves," Father Jim said. "They were driving Willie crazy complaining about the mess you were making."
Uncle Jim drove across the Mississippi and turned north on a country road that paralleled the river, carrying us through beautiful Illinois farm country. We rode for twenty miles before he turned off to a dirt road, passed several farms, then pulled into the driveway of an insubstantial shack that looked both isolated and forlorn. The house sat on a hill above a tributary of the great river completely clogged with lily pads. You could fish all day and not get your hook wet.
When my mother toured the house, she erupted into another argument with Dad. "This is just great, Don. You're going to leave your wife and seven kids in this run-down dump with three beds, one toilet, no air-conditioning, no car, no stove, in the middle of goddamn nowhere. Real good thinking, Don. Great planning," she said, unhinged and wrathful. "There is no TV set, no radio, not a toy for the little kids to play with, not a bottle of milk or a loaf of bread or a jar of peanut butter. Jim, what were you thinking, having us here?"
"Not much, Peggy," Uncle Jim said. "I've never had a family. I just didn't think it through."
Dad said, "Okay, kids. Attention to orders. Start getting this place polished up. There'll be a formal inspection at fifteen hundred hours."
Of all the disconsolate summers the Conroy family spent following our Marine from base to base, everyone agrees that our summer on the Mississippi River was the most soul-killing of all. We sweltered in a summer heat that was brutal, and the house was so small and inadequate for our tribe that we stumbled over one another and got in each other's way from morning till night. In the mornings, we woke with nothing to do, and went to sleep because there was nothing to do at night, either.
Uncle Jim was solicitous and as helpful as he could be and provided our only lifeline to civilization and to groceries. Several times a week he would take us all for a swim at a public lake in a nearby town. It was the summer I thought my mother's mental health began to deteriorate, and I think my sister Carol Ann suffered a mental breakdown caused by that ceaseless drumbeat of days. Carol Ann would turn her face to the wall and weep piteously all day long. Mom appeared sick and exhausted and slept long periods during the day, ignoring the many needs of my younger siblings. The days were interminable and Mom grew more weakened and distressed than I had ever seen her. I asked what was wrong and how I could help.
"Everything!" she would scream. "Everything. Take your pick. Make my kids disappear. Make Don vanish into thin air. Leave me alone."
In July I got a brief respite when I took a Trailways bus on a two-day trip to Columbia, South Carolina, to play in the North-South all-star game. I'd not touched a basketball since February, was out of shape, and played a lackluster game when I needed to have a superlative one. After the game, Coach Hank Witt, an assistant football coach at The Citadel, the military college of South Carolina, came up to tell me that I had just become part of The Citadel family, and he wished to welcome me. Coach Witt handed me a Citadel sweatshirt and I delivered him a full, sweaty body hug that he extricated himself from with some difficulty. In my enthusiasm, I was practically jumping out of my socks. By then, I'd given up hope of going to any college that fall and had thought about entering the Marine Corps as a recruit at Parris Island because all other avenues had been closed off to me. My father never told me nor my mother that he had filled out an application for me to attend The Citadel. I danced my way back into the locker room below the university field house and practically did a soft-shoe as I soaped myself down in the shower. In my mind I'd struggled over the final obstacles, and there were scores of books and hundreds of papers written into my future. Because I'd been accepted at The Citadel, I could feel the launching of all the books inside me like artillery placements I'd camouflaged in the hills. The possibilities seemed limitless as I dressed in the afterglow of that message. In my imagination, getting a college degree was as lucky as a miner stumbling across the Comstock Lode, except that it could never be taken away from me or given to someone else. I could walk down the streets for the rest of my life, hearing people say, "That boy went to college." And then it dawned on me that the military college of South Carolina did not preen about being a crucible for novelists or poets. Hell, I thought in both bravado and innocence, I'll make it safe for both.
Reading Group Guide
My dear friends and fellow lovers of Santini,
You have written so many letters of condolence since my father died that I've been overwhelmed at the task of answering them. But know this: All of them meant something, all of them moved me deeply, all were appreciated, and all were read. Don Conroy was larger than life and there was never a room he entered that he left without making his mark. At some point in his life, he passed from being merely memorable to being legendary.
In the thirty-three years he was in the Marine Corps, Colonel Conroy concentrated on the task of defending his country, and he did so exceedingly well. In the next twenty-four years left to him, he put all his efforts into the art of being a terrific father, a loving uncle, a brother of great substance, a beloved grandfather, and a friend to thousands. Out of uniform, the Colonel let his genius for humor flourish. Always in motion he made his rounds in Atlanta each day and no one besides himself knew how many stops he put in during a given day. He was like a bee going from flower to flower, pollinating his world with his generous gift for friendship.
Don Conroy was a man's man, a soldier's soldier, a Marine's Marine. There was nothing soft or teddy-bearish about him. His simplicity was extraordinary. He died without ever owning a credit card, never took out a loan in his life, and almost all the furniture in his apartment was rented. I think he loved his family with his body and soul, yet no one ever lived who was less articulate in expressing that love. On the day the doctor told him that there was nothing more to be done for him, my father told me, "Don't worry about it. I've had a great life. No one's had a life like me. Everyone should be so lucky."
Don Conroy died with exemplary courage, as one would expect.
He never complained about pain or whimpered or cried out. His death was stoical and quiet. He never quit fighting, never surrendered, and never gave up. He died like a king. He died like The Great Santini.
I thank you with all my heart.
Pat Conroy
1. Certain members of the Conroy clan viewed Pat's writings as a betrayal of the family, exposing their dirty laundry to the public and tarnishing their reputation. Do you agree? How would you react if someone close to you novelized your life?
2. How do you think the real-life Conroys compare to their fictional counterparts in the Meecham family?
3. Conroy describes the lessons about love that he learned from his parents' marriage in startlingly vivid terms, writing: "[Love] was a country bristling with fishhooks hung at eye level, man-traps, and poisoned baits. It could hurl toward you at breakneck speed or let you dangle over a web spun by a brown recluse spider" (pages 2–3). How do you evaluate this assessment of love and marriage? Do you think Conroy's attitude shifts at all throughout the book? How did the example of his parents' relationship influence his own marriages?
4. Conroy writes of his "high contempt" for literary critics, claiming that "no writer has suffered over morning coffee because of the savagery of my review of his or her latest book, and no one ever will" (page 46). How do you reconcile this attitude toward literary critics with the suffering his writing caused the members of his family? Do the two positions contradict each other, or are they compatible? Why?
5. In the Introduction to this book, Conroy claims that other writers often consider autobiographical fiction to be a low form of literature. What do you think of this claim?
6. Conroy writes "I don't believe in happy families," going on to explain that "A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground" (page 144). Do you agree with this claim? Is there such a thing as a happy family?
7. Conroy describes his mother as playing the part of Scarlett O'Hara throughout her life. What part does Conroy play? Do we all play a role different from who we really are? If so, what part do you play?
8. Conroy sometimes describes his parents and childhood in mythic terms, comparing his father to Thor and to Ares, the Greek god of war. Is it human nature to make myths of our childhoods and deify our parents? What myths exist in your family lore?
9. The Death of Santini explores the impact of Conroy's Southern and Irish heritage on his upbringing. Discuss the importance of family heritage and ancestry in Conroy's life and in your own.
10. Conroy eloquently writes that "Your birthplace is your destiny" (page 100). What do you think of this statement?
11. The Conroy children sometimes have very divergent perspectives on their shared childhood memories. What do you think of this phenomenon? Can you think of similar instances in your own life? Is it possible to avoid editorializing memories?
12. In a much-discussed scene from The Great Santini, Bull Meecham's son chases his father around the Beauford green yelling "I love you!" Why do you think Bull/Dan runs away from this onslaught of affection?
13. Peg stuck with her marriage to Dan through some terrible times, yet the marriage could not survive the publication of The Great Santini. Why do you think that is?
14. In what ways did the filming of The Great Santini change Pat's relationship with his father?
15. Conroy experiences the rare pleasure of watching his novel come to life on the silver screen. Who would play you in the movie of your life?
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Pat Conroy is, plain and simple, a brilliant author. The Great Santini is one of my favorite films and it is sheer delight to get to known the man who influenced this story. Conroy writes with honesty that jumps off the page. I loved this book and highly recommend it.
Pat Conroy's new memoir of life with his outstandingly awful parents and often barely sane siblings is so brave and beautiful that it has left me nearly breathless. This work is to my mind so superior to The Great Santini that I am astounded. Each sentence is a specially crafted tribute to truth. Who says genius fades? In Pat Conroy's case, his art has just become clearer, sharper and bolder. Thank you, Pat Conroy. If you love The Great Santini, you will not be able to stop reading this. If you loved South of Broad, you will wonder at this man's ability to find the kindness that gives that work life.
Pat Conroy is one of the most brilliant writers America has ever produced. This book is a raw, insightful look at his family and the final days of the Great Santini. Highly recommend.
I have read everyone of Pat Conroy's books and loved all of them. The Death of Santini was touching, laugh out loud funny at times, honest.
This is a really funny and sad story. His reflections on his family made me laugh out loud, and made me cry. His phrasing is unlike any other author, I would recognise his work without his name on the cover. No one writes quite like him.
A perfect tribute to the Great Santini.very real and honest in tbe complications of the aftermath of dysfunction and great love.
The reader gets to really know Pat and his whole family and history. Every family has its problems and faults, as the author notes, and this book shares his family's best and hardest times. I hardly could pause. There are points I and others will disagree on. For example, I'd love to see him write a follow up book on how many liberal educational policies have harmed current minority children, especially in reading education. But even with disagreement in his political "idols" this book was "great" on so many levels. He revisited many of the themes from his former books with more information and insight. However, this book is interesting even if you have not read his other novels. This will make you want to read or reread them again. Highly recommended. I'd also like to recommend a "new" author on the Nook - William Jarvis. His novel, based on true events during World War II, "The Partisan" is also excellent and is also highly recommended. Both deserve A+++++
Few writers could tell their own story as candidly as Pat Conroy tells his in The Death of Santini. Part of me wishes I hadn't read this book. It was an emotional roller coaster ride for me. But then, most of his fiction affected me the same way. Discovering that all those books I've read by him were based on his experiences had me reliving those reading experiences. That made it a slow read. I could only digest so much at one sitting. I found Pat Conroy, the man, to be brave, flawed, passionate and probably more like The Great Santini than he realized before this introspection. No one could come away doubting that abusive parents affect the entire lives of their children. You don't "outgrow" the damage. Conroy transcends it, mostly successfully. I recommend this book, bur it is not for the feint of heart.
Pat Conroy doesn't dissapoint with The Death of Santini. Even someone that has never read any of his books will enjoy this one. Long Live Pat Conroy!!
I like Pat Conroy's writing, but I think he "overwrote" in this book. I found the description of his mother's illness especially unpleasant; I am not one who enjoys the most graphic details of an illness. I did finish this book and I don't finish every book I start and I will continue to read Mr. Conroy's books but I do not recommend this one except to avid fans of the author.
It is an okay book but not Pat Conroy's best. He belabors some parts and skips over parts I wished he had expounded upon.
I loved the book! Pat writes so beautifully and knows how to tell a story. A great example of forgiveness. Bless his heart!
A great story of one of the most dysfunctional families in the world. Glad to see there was some reconciliation before Don Conroy's death.
I am sure some people will rate this book as self indulgent. I saw it, however, as a literary tribute to Conroy's pain. He didn't sugarcoat how he felt about his somewhat dysfunctional family. It took courage to write it the way he did and helped me to understand the power our family has over us. I only hope his future works will possess the same power given that the author says this is the last book he will write based on the pain of his upbringing. Conroy's writing is so eloquent it is a true treat to read.
This is a "tell it like it is" story of the life of Pat Conroy's family, specifically involving his father--"THE Great Santini". I believe Conroy is one of the very best of American writers. This story comes from his memories of his life with his family----memories that are admittedly different for each Conroy family member. After years of best sellers with fictitious names telling family stories, this gets to the heart of this family with real names and memories. I have a special interest in Pat Conroy's writings because my husband was also a '67 Citadel graduate, and one of Boo's Boys (Conroy's first book). Conroy also spoke about his family at a CASA ( Court Appointed Special Advocate--working with abused and neglected children) conference that I attended in Charleston, SC when I was a CASA. Name dropping??-- Pat Conroy wouldn't know me if he ran into me on the street. But, these things have added another level of enjoyment to books that needed nothing additional to become favorites in my library!! Pat is the eldest of seven children born to a Chicago Irish Catholic highly decorated Marine pilot, and a beautiful daughter of a snake handling religious fanatic from the back woods country and a mother who deserted her four young children to defend for themselves. Pat's young life saw him going from place to place where ever his father was stationed at the time. Violence and love centered a difficult and volition family life, resulting in five of the seven kids eventually trying to commit suicide, with the youngest son eventually succeeding. But the real beauty of this ranting family life, is the continual love-hate relationship between everyone in the family. After The Great Santini was published, Pat was demonized by most of his family, but his father---"THE Great Santini"---took perverse pleasure in referring to himself by that name for the rest of his life. The movie version somehow brought family members back together again in a mixing bowl of emotions. This book is Pat's version of a famous line from his book, The Prince Of Tides: " in families there are no crimes beyond forgiveness." Though memories can be different for members of a family who lived through the same events, the raw emotions, and spectacularly open and dramatic telling of this story by Pat Conroy, makes this a timeless story of many families where violence harms and divides families, children and marriages take a beating figuratively and literally, and love and forgiveness manages to inch their way into people's hearts. Though this could have been a morbid tale if told be a different author, Pat Conroy brings this story into the realm of timeless story telling because of the explosive personality of someone who can get right to the heart of a classic tale! Wonderfully told and expertly written!
Conroy's art of storytelling has never been better!
The father was a pscho killer and it is surprising he didnt kill one of them remember what the bible said about who harmed children
But the damage done cannotbe forgiven while there is memory to constantly keep the wounds open one of the problems of group therapy that the horrows are repeated and repeated and ithers added to the burden there are some whose sanity depends on repression of memory and coping within a harmless functioning life style the author has used his writing to function but his siblings could not find that way . To say all is forgiven and the father repented in love of his family is part of his inability to accept the terrible reality of both his parents abuse and there was no help or rescue from church school medical or the army family.during all that time including any relatives on both sides a terrible story
I usually like Conroy's novels, but this one is just an excuse to whine and is a rude attack on his siblings. Don't waste your time.
Initially interesting but became quicky boreing with repetitive wearesome emotional family strife.


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In a part of Pleasanton where crime is usually uncommon, police are on the lookout for a man who reportedly grabbed a woman walking alone on Main Street toward her house.
Police said the victim was leaving a restaurant just after midnight Friday when she saw an early 90's Honda Accord drive past. She said the driver made a U-turn and parked on West Angela Street.
The 43-year-old Pleasanton woman said she heard the car's door open and the driver climb out. The next thing she knew he had grabbed her from behind in a "bear hug," police said.
The woman started screaming and was able to break free from the attacker. She quickly dialed 911, but the suspect jumped into his car and drove away.
The suspect is believed to be roughly 35 to 40 years old with short brown or black hair, and a muscular build. He was between 5-feet, 10-inches and 6-feet tall, weighed about 200 to 230 lbs., and was wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, police said.
The suspect's "long" face was clean shaven, while he was described as "clean cut" and "good looking," according to police.
Police said that a lot of businesses in downtown Pleasanton have surveillance cameras. They are hoping footage will provide them with leads as to the suspect's identity.
The seemingly random attack unsettled Kip Willis.
"It's very sad to hear no matter where it is," the Pleasanton resident said. "In your own town, it puts you on edge a little bit."

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Little Tony was staying with his grandmother for a few days. He'd been playing outside with the other kids for a while when he came into the house and asked her, "Grandma, what is that called when two people are sleeping in the same room and one is on top of the other?"
She was a little taken aback, but decided to tell him the truth. "It's called sexual intercourse, darling."
Little Tony just said, "Oh, OK," and went back outside to talk and play with the other kids.
A few minutes later he came back in and said angrily, "Grandma, it is not called sexual intercourse! It's called Bunk Beds! And Jimmy's Mom wants to talk to you!!"
Why can't a bike stand on it's own?
Because it is two tired.
Why couldn't the pony talk?
Because he was a little horse.
Did you hear about the guy whose left side was cut off?
He's all right now.
What did the grape say when it got stepped on?
Nothing, but it let out a little wine.
And, one of my favorites:
A piece of rope walks into a bar.
The bartender says, "We don't serve your kind in here! Get out!".
The piece of rope, dejected, walks outside. He looks around and gets an idea. He ties himself in a knot and toussles his hair.
He walks back into the bar, and the bartender says "Hey, aren't you the same piece of rope I just kicked out of here?"
The rope looks at him, and says "Nope, I'm a frayed knot!"


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After losing the most prestigious awards last season, Messi appeared for the match that the Barcelona camp claimed to have made them miss the FIFA Awards on Monday. MSN looked to be busy as goals from Messi, Neymar and Suarez shadowed Athletics' goal from Enric Saborit.
Struggling Barcelona advanced to the next stage on a 4-3 aggregate. The highlight of the night came in the 78th minute when Messi scored a free kick that made it his 26th free kick goal for Barcelona equaling the club record set by the current Everton Manager Ronald Koeman.
That made it his 31st free kick goal of his career. Let's hope the Argentine keeps up the heat to challenge Ronaldo this year.
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Jail overcrowding in San Joaquin County has meant many inmates have been released the same day they were arrested because of a lack of space. But a new release system will try to keep the more dangerous inmates behind bars.
The San Joaquin County Jail is under a court-ordered cap, meaning inmates must be released when the limit is reached.
Up to now, releases were based on the seriousness of the current charge.
In August the county released 50 inmates charged with felonies, and almost 350 charged with misdemeanors.
San Joaquin County Chief Probation Officer Stephanie James says the new system will look beyond the current crime and into an inmate's past.
She describes the type of inmate that's likely to remain locked up.
"So somebody who has a violent history, reported failures to appear in court, and have had bench warrants issued in the past," says James. "They don't have a job, not attending school they don't have a stable living environment."
James says the new program will create room at the jail and hold the worst offenders.
"It's going to free up 100 or 150 jail beds for that offender who is violent, that is continuing to commit crimes and really needs to remain in custody," says James.
Local police agencies say early jail releases have pushed the crime rate up.
The new jail release system goes into effect Oct. 27.


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Wednesday, February 5, 2014
This was a very different day, as we were visiting the Thai Government offices for the first time since our arrival to Mae Sot. On our drive there, we saw hundreds of people carrying bags with their belongings; people selling food; people making lines; sad faces, confused faces. Many were going back 'voluntarily', others were crossing the Friendship Bridge for the day. In my lifetime, I've had many airport goodbyes, and they were never easy, but for these migrants the feeling must be so bitter. I have not been to Tijuana yet, but I can imagine that it must be something very similar to what deportees from Southern California experience when they are taken in a bus to the border.
We arrived to the meeting, which was more formal than all the others we had attended that week. There were personalized name tags in our seats; microphones and breakfast goodies were served to us by their staff. I felt a bit tense, uncomfortable and extremely conscious -especially about not using the terms refugee or refugee camp during this session. We were welcomed by Superintendent Dr. Nakornsantipap who invited us to enjoy the Burmese tea that we were sipping (it was delicious). We listened carefully to a presentation about the different operations that the Immigration Department of the Tak Province is involved in. Most of these had to do with transnational criminal networks -which, unfortunately, they had named according to the country of origin of their leader, contributing to the creation of stigmas around certain nationalities. Then, I was shocked to hear him talk about Austrialia's Christmas Island as well as the USA's attempt to build a fence with Mexico as part of their "lessons learned" and was surprised to hear that he would be visiting Southern California in April, so I extended him an invitation to meet with some of my colleagues that collaborate closely with law enforcement in anti-human trafficking work. He shared with us that he's been part of a committee with UNHCR that is looking for ways to provide some status to the population fleeing conflict, but that the problem is that there are not enough countries that accept refugees. He feels that the only way to stop this problem is to have destination countries be open to receive them. If Thailand was part of the Refugee Convention it would mean more refugees coming and they can't handle that burden.
After his presentation, we toured the facilities and saw the detention / processing center, where immigrants are held for less than a day while they await their transport back to Burma. We were told that NGOs like IOM and World Vision conduct the assessments / interviews in cases where there's indication of possible human trafficking and that the Social Welfare department will handle the cases of minors and other victims.
Rights of Detainees in Thai, English and Burmese
Wednesday afternoon we traveled to the Labor Law Clinic of the Human Rights and Development Foundation, which was founded in collaboration with the Lawyers Council of Thailand and is partly supported by the American Center for International Labor Solidarity. This organization works in collaboration with Governments, NGOs, Social Security, Police, Labor Protection and Thailand's Welfare Office to ensure that the workers rights are respected, regardless of their nationality. The clinic provides legal consultations to both Thai and migrant workers in Mae Sot; they facilitate capacity building of NGOs to promote human rights and train legal professionals and through all this they promote understanding between Thai and Burmese communities. I was yet again inspired by the courage and motivation of these young lawyers who had chosen public interest law as their career, in spite of the numerous difficulties in a country like Thailand.
The day ended up very differently, with a bike ride to Mae Sot Football Club with Langan and our interpreter Sia. That night, Erin and I joined a team of expats, Thai and Burmese girls of the NGO sector in a friendly soccer match (end result was 5:5). This was one of my favorite intercultural experiences of the field trip, as it allowed us to connect with locals through a fun activity. After the game, we biked to a delicious Burmese restaurant, together with fellows Dara and Stephen. Note that we only had 4 bikes, but there were 5 of us 🙂 so there was a couple riding tandem…
Post game dinner
Thursday, February 6, 2014
Thursday was dedicated to the International Organization for Migration (IOM): in the morning we met with two staff of their Labor Migration Program and discovered that the Field Coordinator for the Labor Migration and Counter Trafficking Program is an alumna of the Rotary Peace Center in Queensland, Australia! This was an excellent meeting that provided us a deeper understanding on the dynamics of the migrant population and the programs that IOM is conducting to serve them. One of the projects they are working on is called "Reducing vulnerabilities of Burmese Muslims through Community Outreach and Increasing Access to Social and Health Services" (self-explanatory) and the other major one is called "Addressing the risks and needs of vulnerable migrants in the Greater Mekong Sub Region and Malaysia".
The afternoon session with IOM took us to their Refugee Processing Center, where refugees being resettled to the United States and Australia get their interviews, final cultural orientations and medical examinations. After a very informative presentation we toured the facility and saw some of the refugee children that were waiting for their parents to undergo the required panel physician examinations. At this time particular time only a small group of refuges is being processed to the United States, as there's a backlog still from the Government Shutdown of October 2013.
Friday, February 7, 2014
The last visit of our field study was to Mae Tao Clinic, the famous border clinic started by a Burmese doctor called Cynthia Maung. It was a privilege to meet with Dr. Cynthia and to hear from her directly. It was a good way to close the week as it allowed us to see the many needs that this migrant community have and to contextualize more the migrant reality in the border.
We closed the field trip with a group reflection, centering exercise and individual reflection, which was a way to motivate us reflect more about the field study. For future field trips, I hope to see a component of service that can allow us to connect the theory learned in class with what we were seeing in the field (how agencies operate, etc). It was an amazing week and I'm in awe of the great work that so many humanitarians are doing in this border town. I hope to return soon!


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The Onion skewers Microsoft's blue screen of death
For all the complaining people do about how Windows machines freeze up, crash and give us all these wacky error messages, we should thank our lucky stars that the problem is limited to PCs.
Imagine a world where it takes an hour and a half to watch one episode of "Scrubs," you have to hold down the power, mute and number seven buttons on your remote control to reset your TV, and error messages like "Windows does not recognize the device 'DVD Player'" pop up on your television.
Well, The Onion has. And it's not pretty. But it's hilarious.


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Hepatitis B Foundation and Institute for Hepatitis and Virus Research Host Biotech Success-Themed Regional Biotech Conference
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)-- The Institute for Hepatitis and Virus Research (IHVR), the research arm of the Hepatitis B Foundation, held its 12th Annual Regional Biotech Conference in October at the Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center in Doylestown, Pa. With the theme of "Biotech Success Stories of the Region – An Industry with Renewed Opportunity," Loren Danzis of Fox Rothschild; Nick Spring, formerly of Topaz Pharmaceuticals; James Datin of Safeguard Scientifics; and Pat Higgins, formerly of Pharmasset, Inc., were among the conference speakers.
Dr. Timothy Block, President, Hepatitis B Foundation / IHVR and PA Biotechnology Center; and Professor and Director, Drexel Institute for Biotechnology and Virology Research of Drexel University College of Medicine welcomed more than 100 of the area's leading life sciences and biotech entrepreneurs. Unable to attend, Pennsylvania State Senator Chuck McIlhinney sent remarks that Dr. Block read to the guests – designating October 21 as "Biomedical Research Day" in Pennsylvania by the state legislature, which also includes a $140 million fund for technology innovation.
Loren Danzis, a partner with Fox Rothschild, kicked off the conference presentations by addressing new trends in venture capital (VC) financing within the life sciences industry. He reviewed 29 regional companies, of which almost 50 percent were early stage – in terms of their funding sources and the funds they raised. He summarized his comments by noting that in 2012 the VC funding in life sciences is lagging behind the $30 billion invested in 2011 and that software and Internet companies have been delivering the best investment return rate.
Nick Spring, former CEO of Topaz Pharmaceutical and current CEO of Rainbow Pharma, shared his amazing story of turning a generic drug that had been shelved by a major company into a new sensation. Spring created Topaz in 2005 in Warrington, Pa., to turn ivermectin into a highly effective shampoo for head lice. He credited his success to using knowledgeable attorneys, business development and public relations firms from the beginning; not losing sight of the market potential of his product; and maximizing international opportunities for suppliers and expertise. In 2011, Topaz was bought for hundreds of millions of dollars by Sanofi-Aventis.
Jim Datin, EVP and managing director of Safeguard Scientifics and a board member of the Hepatitis B Foundation, shared how his company had such confidence in a young physician / entrepreneur at the University of Pennsylvania that they decided to invest in his company – Avid Radiopharmaceuticals, which was developing a new diagnostic imaging tool for Alzheimer's disease. Today, its diagnostic is the first of its kind to be approved by the U.S. FDA and Eli Lilly and Company recently bought Avid for more than $400 million. Safeguard reviewed more than 1,000 companies within the past year and funded only eight – Avid being one of those eight and a success story for which they are particularly proud.
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Snapshots of 2016
{Sici at 3 years and 2 months}
What a year! I think we finally caught our breath with this whole parenting thing. So far, age three has been a blast! We all have grown and stretched this year - it's crazy to look back and see how far we have come since January. We are just so thankful for another year to love each other and live each day to the fullest. Here's our top ten snapshots of 2016!
1. I finished two Project Life albums this year! I finished our first family album from 2015 and compiled all of Sienna's professional photo sessions into one album. It makes me so happy to have both of these completed. My next goal is to finish two more family albums this year, one for 2016 and one for 2017.
2. We went on four trips last year: one was with Bryant's work and the others were just for fun. I think we established that we love to get out of town three times a year: spring break, summer vacation and fall break. Even if its just a day trip or an overnight trip, I love to get away each spring. Last March we took an overnight trip to Oxford and it was the perfect little getaway to welcome spring. In May, we took an epic 17 day road trip to Sandestin and Walt Disney World. And after a day and a half at home we threw our clothes back into the suitcases and headed to Knoxville for the week with Bryant's work. We ended our trips for the year with a super fun fall getaway to Nashville.
3. I started the year off reading through a couple books a month and then slowed down after our summer vacation. This coincided with the time that Sienna started devouring books so most of what I read now are children's books. I'm still reading through the Steve Wiggins Bible Challenge with our church. This is my second year to read one chapter a day from the Bible. I love the slower pace and am excited that there is still an entire year left to go!
{My faves from 2016}
4. Along with all those children's books we read, we started Homeschool Preschool! I realized early in the year that Sienna needed more to keep her occupied, especially since she stopped napping and requires less sleep overall. I ordered the Deluxe Preschool Package for three year olds from My Father's World and we began in May. We took the summer off and started officially in August. She absolutely loves it! It has been so good for all of us to have some structured activities to fill our day.
{First day of preschool}
5. Sici got a new cousin this year! This year was all about baby Sam! We celebrated all year starting with his gender reveal party, three baby showers in the summer, and finally his grand entrance three days before Sici's third birthday! August babies are the best ;) We were all present at his baby dedication in the fall, and Christmas was extra special this year with two little ones to spoil. Sam, we sure do love you!
{Meeting baby Sam for the first time}
6. Sienna turned three this year! Looking back at our Snapshots of 2015, I mentioned that she was constantly on the move. Well this past year I felt like her brain was always on the move! This little girl loves to learn and it is a joy to watch her grow, develop and challenge herself. We celebrated her three years with a Daisy Duck and Minnie Mouse birthday party. We were still on a Disney World high so a character themed birthday party was a no-brainer ;)
7. After Sienna's birthday, we celebrated our 14th wedding anniversary and both our birthdays. Wow, we really sound old. But I love that we married young and am thankful for each year we have together. Life is such a precious gift - it should never be taken for granted. I sure do love this guy and our life together!
{Daddy's "Grinch" cake}
8. Miles turned 9 this year. My advice for those thinking of getting a pet: NOT during the little years! Pets are great before you have kids, and I'm sure just as great during the empty-nester stage. But oh my word, I don't need anyone else to take care of right now! (Sorry, Miles, it just is what it is.)
9. We joined a new Life Group this year at our church, and are really enjoying the people we have met. For the class Christmas party, we had a progressive dinner at three houses and we hosted the first stop of the night.
{Appetizer table}
10. Our family's word for 2016 was HARVEST. My first thoughts on "harvest" were all positive. Words such as joy, fruit, success, and abundance all came to mind. But as the year progressed I realized that reaping a harvest takes a lot of work. HARD work. You reap what you sow, and sowing is active. It takes effort. You must do the hard work today, knowing that the harvest is future tense. 2016 was a year learning to wait patiently for the harvest, trusting that even on the hard pathways He is dropping fatness all around us.
"You crown the year with a bountiful harvest, even the hard pathways overflow with abundance."
{Psalm 65:11}


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10 march, 2017 – Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari said on Friday he will continue to rest and undergo further medical tests in Britain within weeks, after returning home from two months of medical leave.
Buhari walked unaided from his plane after it landed at an air force base in the northern city of Kaduna. The former military ruler then boarded a waiting helicopter, state television showed.
The president's spokesman Femi Adesina later clarified that Buhari would not resume his duties at least over the weekend but would formalise his return to power next week.
Adesina said in a tweet that he will send a letter to the National Assembly on Monday, adding: "That makes his return to work formal, and constitutional."
The 74-year-old, who took power in May 2015, left Abuja on January 19 for treatment in Britain.
He had originally planned to stay 10 days but stayed longer to rest after consulting his doctors, deepening suspicions that his health was far worse than officials are publicly admitting.
"I deliberately came back towards the weekend, so that the Vice President (Yemi Osinbajo) will continue and I will continue to rest," he said in Abuja.
"All I will need is to do further follow ups within some weeks."
A reporter, said Buhari's return was announced last-minute after he remained out of sight for weeks.
"He has finally returned to the African soil," she said, adding that even though Nigerians are usually very sympathetic towards sick leave, there were concerns about how the country can run efficiently when the commander-in-chief is absent.
Adviser Adesina said on Thursday that Buhari's "holiday" had been extended on doctors' recommendations for further testing and rest. It gave no details about the health of the president.
"President Buhari expresses appreciation to teeming Nigerians from across the country, and beyond, who had prayed fervently for him, and also sent their good wishes," the statement said, giving no medical details.
Earlier on Thursday, the presidency had published pictures of a smiling Buhari meeting the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, in Abuja House, part of the Nigerian High Commission in London.
No official pictures of Buhari's meetings in London had been posted since February 15.
The government had sought to allay concerns of a void at the helm of Africa's biggest economy and most populous country by stressing that Buhari, who was elected to power on a campaign that vowed to root out corruption, had given Vice President Yemi Osinbajo full powers as acting president during his leave.
Osinbajo, a lawyer, held in Buhari's absence cabinet meetings and finished work on an economic reform plan needed to secure a World Bank loan to help to plug a deficit caused by low oil revenues.
On Thursday, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced that Nigeria's next presidential and parliamentary elections will be held in February 2019.
INEC said the early release of the election timetable was "to allow for proper planning by the commission, political parties, security agencies, candidates and all stakeholders".


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Remove First Word In A StringSep 2, 2009
How can I remove everything to the left of the first space in a String? For exapmle - 'Mr Adam Bill' should become 'Adam Bill'
How can I remove everything to the left of the first space in a String? For exapmle - 'Mr Adam Bill' should become 'Adam Bill'
Have problems using find and the Dictionary
What Im trying to do is find a certain word in a string then return the number associated with that word
how to automatically remove the word " Total" that Excel puts beside what you are totalling while using a subtotal?
For example, I am totaling a value of orders for one company and Excel puts "COMPANY NAME Total". Or is there a way to use the Right function to delete the 5 last letters of text in a cell? I've tried using the right function but can't seem to get it to work to delete text...
I have the function below from http://www.ozgrid.com/VBA/extract-words-function.htm
and have it working exactly as it's supposed to. Is it possible to adapt this to remove the last character of the text string, specifically the commas? My problem is that the raw data in one cell is like this (including commas) 0.333, 5.8874, 6.85423, 0.025. I separate each text string into separate cells but am left with the commas. I'm not using the "Data Text to Columns" option as I need the results in specific cells so they can then be used in calculations.
Function Get_Word(text_string As String, nth_word) As String
Dim lWordCount As Long
With Application.WorksheetFunction
lWordCount = Len(text_string) - Len(.Substitute(text_string, " ", "")) + 1
If IsNumeric(nth_word) Then
nth_word = nth_word - 1
Get_Word = Mid(Mid(Mid(.Substitute(text_string, " ", "^", nth_word), 1, 256), _
. Find("^", .Substitute(text_string, " ", "^", nth_word)), 256), 2, _
.Find(" ", Mid(Mid(.Substitute(text_string, " ", "^", nth_word), 1, 256), _ ............................
I am working on a macro and, as part of it, I would like to look at column A of my spreadsheet and remove all cell contents where the text in the cell does not start with the word "total." For instance, if the text of a cell in column H is "total money" I would like it to remain unchanged. However, if the text of a cell is "George Baker" I would like it removed. I ONLY want the text in column H to be considered ... no other column.View 3 Replies View Related
I need to replace the second word in a cell with another,
eg in cell AI1 I have Black Box.
Which formula would retain the first word, before the space and replace it with another, eg
I have put a formula in excel to count how many times the word 'administration' appears in a column:
Unfortunately, the output that I am searching has mulitple words in it, separated with a colon and no space. My formula skips the count if the word Administration is not completely on it's own
e.g. Administration counts 1
Administration;Cardiology does not count
I have random text strings which I need to extract the last part from in Excel.
The text string will be made up of code, but the word I need is always to the right of a prefix />
So for instance in A1 I have 76ruihfo:;.>6">/apple
I would want to extract "apple" from the string above into B1.
I want to delete a specific words from string but i have a problem with the code below. For example, i wan to delete the word "Inc" only but the problem with my code is that it is deleting from "Incorporated" too and i want only the code to delete only if it finds the word "Inc" only.View 11 Replies View Related
I want to take a string which is a list of words and compile a list of the words listed and how many times each one is listed. For Example, for the string "word1, word2 word1, word3 word2"
I want to get the following calculations:
word1 = 2
word2 = 2
word3 = 1
Let's say i do have words : cow, dog, giraffe, elephant, parrot.
The rest will try to explain in the excel file.
How can I extract the first word only from a Textbox string?View 2 Replies View Related
Lets say there is a string: " andy,andy,tom,amy,andy" and I would like to search the word "andy". The function would return 3.
How could I implement this using VBA?
I need to find the first occurrence of the word grandsal after each employee details thru VBA. Is it possible to do that. If yes how to construct the if loops.
I take this time to thank all the members of the ozgrid for their exceptional.
I have sample string: Cat jumped over lazy Dog
I only want to capitalize: LAZY
so it should be: Cat jumped over Lazy Dog
Proper capitalizes first letter of every word, just want one word capitalizaed.
Also, if I want to use an and function to capitlize multiple words, so it should be: Cat Jumped over Lazy Dog
where just Jumped and Lazy are capitalized.
I currently have a large amount of data extracted from a performance tracking system. The columns I am concerned with are Page Title and Time (the time it takes the system to navigate to the this page).
I am trying to create a dashboard to show:
Webpage Title (each unique instance of the webpage)Aggregate Time (total time it takes for all instances)# of Hits (Each time the value appears in the data)Average Time (this formula I can handle; Aggregate Time/# of Hits)
The major issue is that the webpage is extracted as XYZ001 -- PAGE1, XYZ439 -- PAGE2, XYZ854 -- PAGE1, etc. Basically, I am only concerned with what comes after the --.
Here is an example of the two tabs.
Page Title
Aggregate Time
# of Hits
Avg. Time
Basically, I am looking for a formula that says,
For any instance in the Page Title column that contains PAGE3, add the amount in the Time column (i.e., 1.2 +.5).
if you can remove the word total from each cell without deleting the numbers after you copy from a subtotal list?View 9 Replies View Related
I'm trying to remove everything after a specific character in a string.
I.e. change a website address to the hostname
I'm using this formula, which strips the http:// and the www., but does not replace the characters after the first remaining "/" as the wildcard is not recognized.
=SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A2,"www.",""), A2,"http://",""), A2, "/*", "")
I'm attempting to extract the Street Names from an Address.
For Example, if given "123 Very Big Street" I'd want to extract "Very Big".
If given, "123 Very Big" I'd want the same answer.
I've written code to do this, with a simple IF statement to identify mathcing last words like "Street" and "Drive".
How can I efficiently do this with a large list of last words? I'm drawing a blank on how to query against an array that would contain all these values.
If someone enters "1,000" in a TextBox, Isnumeric(TextBoxEntry) says True
If I convert it to a value with something like x = TextBoxEntry * 0, the 1,000 becomes 1
I would prefer it to be 1000. Just removing commas would do the trick. How to do it.
The below function concats a range of cells by csv. How can I get it to remove the last comma in the string when it's finished?
Function SpecialConcatenate(rnge As Range) As String
Dim r As Long, col As Integer
For c = 1 To rnge.Columns.Count
For r = 1 To rnge.Rows.Count
If rnge.Cells(r, c) "" Then
SpecialConcatenate = SpecialConcatenate & _
rnge.Cells(r, c).Value & ","
End If
Next r
Next c
End Function
I have a list of data that populates B2:B2900
This data is often prefixed by a 'reference code' that I wish to be removed.
Now rater than perform this manually aprox 3000 times is there a formula or some VB code that will complete this for me....
The list of data is shown like:
SC7547-05 - Payne, Freda
SC8706-08 - Rungren, Todd
SC8714-05 - Travis, Randy
SC7517-03 - Beach Boys, The
Love Song
Now You're Gone
SC7512-01 - Horton, Johnny
SC8721-15 - Journey
So I wish for the SC7547-05 - to be removed from the first example to just leave Payne, Freda and continue this throughout the list
However if the data is found not to include this code (as in the 5th/6th examples above) leave it alone
So if the code of formula is run for the above the outcome would be....
Payne, Freda
Rungren, Todd
Travis, Randy
Beach Boys, The
Love Song
Now You're Gone
Horton, Johnny
i would like to remove string "Total" from a list in col A,
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I have a string like: AAJDGYE030000460. How can I remove the first character in a macro? I need to look at the second,third, and forth characterView 3 Replies View Related
I have a set of data in column a that consists of email addresses. These email addresses all have underscores after them, ie "firstname.lastname@example.com_______". It will be a different amount of underscores everytime and I don't want underscores to be removed that are actually part of the address. I had been using the find replace function through vba, ie
Selection.Replace What:="_", Replacement:="", LookAt:=xlPart, _
SearchOrder:=xlByRows, MatchCase:=False, SearchFormat:=False, _
however this ofcourse removes from actual parts of the email address. Is there a way to do this?
I've come across multiple times where I have to do this same sort of task, and I don't think I am doing it the most efficient way.
What I need to do is take a variable which holds a string and remove the last 9 characters from it. Don't need to know what the last 9 characters are, all I care about is knowing what the other characters are in the string. I know this can be done through thingslike susbstrings, but I don't think VBA has a substring function.
I have a long list of process steps in a collumn e.g.
and then i have a list of tanks: Tank1, Tank2 etc. The i want a forumla to extract and return the tank in a adjacent cell:
_Tank1_CIP Tank1
_Tank1_CIP Tank1
_Tank2_CIP Tank2
_Tank4_CIP Tank4
_Tank_9_CIP Tank9
In column A, I have the following lines:
2014-05-15 02:08:43 @Centre INFO - CHANGE WORLD (Original World to Destination World)
2014-05-15 02:31:37 @Centre INFO - CHANGE WORLD (Original World to Destination World)
2014-05-15 02:37:19 @Centre INFO - CHANGE WORLD (Original World to Destination World)
2014-05-15 02:37:20 @Centre INFO - CHANGE WORLD (Original World to Destination World)
2014-05-15 03:07:19 @Centre INFO - CHANGE WORLD (Original World to Destination World)
2014-05-15 15:01:37 @Centre INFO - CHANGE WORLD (Original World to Destination World)
2014-05-15 15:04:46 @Centre INFO - CHANGE WORLD (Original World to Destination World)
I would like to use conditional formatting to highlight cells which have the same first 16 characters (yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm) before the "@" AND that contains the words "CHANGE WORLD". Therefore, I'm looking for a formula I could include in the conditional formatting so I can easily find the "CHANGE WORLD" that occurred at the same time (minus the seconds, they may vary slightly).
I need to pull a specific word from a string of text in a cell and have that word shown in an adjacant cell. For example A1 will contain the text "Smith Sun Alliance Pension Fund" I need B2 to show "Pension". I cannot use any filtering or text to columns as the word Pension can be anywhere within the text in A1 and I have thousands of entries. So I need a function.View 9 Replies View Related
I have two different functions, first is importing website to excel and the a second is testing string according to pattern. Each one of them is working ok. I'm trying to find a word " finance" in URL and put it into cell "A1".
Sub ParseWebsite()
Application.DisplayAlerts = False
On Error Resume Next
For i = 1 To 10
SiteURL = "URL;http://www.cnn.com"
With ActiveSheet.QueryTables.Add(Connection:=SiteURL, Destination:=Range("A" & i))
.FieldNames = True
.RowNumbers = False
.FillAdjacentFormulas = False................


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An unconventional initiative embedded full-time technology coaches in Tennessee publicschools, resulting in demonstrable boosts in teacher confidence and student engagement.
RISK-TAKING, innovation, and imagination are not typicallythe hallmarks of state government, but a risky, innovative,and distinctly imaginative route is exactly what JerryBates, director of applied school technology for the TennesseeDepartment of Education, designed for the structureof Title II-D competitive grants for the state's public schools.First, the initiative, titled Tennessee EdTech Launch(TnETL), called for awarding substantial funding to a smallgroup of schools rather than funding multiple schools withmuch smaller amounts.
Second, it focused on investing in people, providing extensive training for a single teacher from each of the 27 participating schools to serve as a full-time, embedded technology coach, as well as providing for a part-time tech-support person. As conceived, the coach would implement comprehensive, ongoing, and individualized professional development to meet the needs of each teacher on the campus, and the support person would troubleshoot hardware and software problems. The funding for the initiative was structured so that all equipment installation and initial professional development was completed prior to the start of school, so that teachers would have what they needed when students returned in the fall.
The plan's final component was an evaluation process called the Formative Evaluation Process for School Improvement/ Technology Package, which supplied the state, the districts, and the schools with evaluation data of all kinds. The varied types of data FEPSI/TP assembled included classroom observations, surveys, student performance assessments, interviews, focus groups, school-developed technology benchmarks, and analysis of student achievement. Use of FEPSI-TP enabled TnETL schools to develop ownership of their technology integration efforts, while also ensuring accountability to the state using common data points that addressed state and national standards.
"TnETL classrooms were more student-centered, projectbased,and academically focused. One teacher says,"I've been here 18 years, and this is the biggestsuccessful schoolwide event that we have ever had."
A Mixed Bag of Results
The two-year program was introduced in two overlapping parts. Launch 1 ran from 2003 to 2005, and Launch 2 from 2004-2006); the evaluation was conducted from 2003-2006. As with many technology-based initiatives, the results were mixed, depending upon the purpose of the initiative and the kinds of outcomes that were sought. Were schools able to achieve successful technology integration when key barriers that commonly impede such efforts—insufficient professional development, lack of funding for hardware/software, and inadequate technical support—were removed?
The answer is mostly yes, from the perspectives of participating students, teachers, principals, and technology coaches. TnETL students more frequently used technology as a tool to support learning, were better able to use spreadsheet software and the internet, and revealed a higher level of attention, interest, and motivation than students in control classrooms. In addition, teachers in the program reported improved technology skills and greater confidence to integrate technology into lessons than teachers in a control group. This confidence was evidenced in observation results showing that TnETL classrooms were more student-centered, project-based, and academically focused. As one teacher says, "I've been here 18 years, and this is the biggest successful schoolwide event that we have ever had."
Principals also had many good things to say. They were in general agreement that students were excited about using computers because they were fun and helped them to do better in school. Their greater interest in learning raised the quality of their work, which in turn motivated their teachers. Plus, the students took a great deal of pride in their digital tools. One rural school principal says that he knew the program was a success when a student declared, "We ain't no country school no more!"
At the heart of TnETL were the technology coaches, whose work facilitated the program's overall success. The coaches were primarily involved in designing technology training sessions, assisting teachers with computer skills, locating web-based materials, and troubleshooting classroom and/or lab computer problems—even though the schools were also given a part-time tech assistant. The coaches reported that the program's greatest achievements were the increased confidence teachers gained in using technology, and the boosts in student engagement and knowledge.
However, the extensive evaluation revealed less positive findings. Of concern to most educators was the lack of any discernable achievement differences between TnETL students and control students as measured by the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program, customarily used for summative assessment. In addition, although TnETL students used technology significantly more than control students, their experiences were mostly limited to using the internet and drill-andpractice software.
As the participants in the program look to the future, they express the usual concerns over funding-related matters, such as program sustainability and equipment upgrades—and keeping the technology coaches on board. Some are worried about the need to win over reluctant teachers and the time it may well take to see noticeable improvement in state scores.
Even with the mixed results, the positives of the program decidedly outweigh the negatives. The state's educators plan to continue furthering technology integration efforts by applying for grants, continuing the technology coach position, and providing additional professional development. It's a positive outlook and forward-thinking approach that draws entirely on students' growing excitement for learning and their growing confidence that they are better prepared for success in the new century.
-Deborah L. Lowther is an associate professor of instructional design and technology at the University of Memphis.
This article originally appeared in the 07/01/2007 issue of THE Journal.
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