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Welcome to the last day of the year. This is a time traditionally spent reflecting, looking at the year gone by, as well as years in the past, in an effort to help us prepare for tomorrow – the beginning of the future.
According to statistics, not much is going to change. If we look at the big picture, other than in technologies, we as a species have progressed very little from year to year. As an example, let's look at the politics in our beloved country.
The GOP has always hated the Democrats and vice versa. In today's political arena, when business is good and everyone appears to be prospering, the opposing party accuses the incumbents of creating a false economy that will end in an irreversible tailspin.
When the economy collapses, fingers are pointed in every direction, parties switch positions and the new management team blames the previous administration for the country's woes. Sound familiar? I thought it would. We have repeatedly played that same scenario with little change in even the dialogue.
Crises are given different names, but when described, they are the same crises as they always have been. Inflation, unemployment, crime, inadequate health care, expensive insurance, unfair labor practices, sexism, racism, inequality in the education system and senseless warfare are but a few of the topics that hold prominent positions in our daily conversations.
At least a few of these categories are areas of concern in all of our lives. Despite these seemingly unsolvable issues, we get up in the morning and put food on the table one way or another as we complain about our sorry existence throughout each day.
History tells us that no matter how many wars are going on, oil does not stop flowing and commerce continues with barely a hiccup in the business system. Amazing how one seems to support the other when logic says that the two together should selfdestruct.
The point is – we like to complain.
Even though, as a society, we live better than the rest of the world combined, we enjoy ranting about our elected officials not behaving the way we would like. We are also quick to let the world know that we are not getting our fair share of the American pie.
In other words, everybody wants their way, and they want more of the wealth. Some wise person in history once said, "Give a country what it wants and it will always want more."
Anyway, let's assume that our government is not doing an adequate job and we are not living the way we would like because of mismanagement. Let's just say that is blatantly obvious and true.
Now the big question: What are we going to do about it?
Go to the person you know who is the most bitter complainer about the way our country is run and ask him or her, "If you were president, what would you do?"
Most of the time, you will be met with a blank stare because those bitter complainers are unhappy with one issue that has adversely affected their lives and they do not have a solution for fixing it. Those who do have a solution generally recommend something that is self-serving and not for the greater good.
Nonetheless, if you are president, you don't get to pick one issue, solve it and call it a day. What about all the other issues that adversely affect everyone else? Ask your complainer about those.
You'll get a lot of stuttering, stammering and blustering, but you won't get any answers. Trust me on that one. I've tried. The person being questioned often gets angry because they have been exposed. They haven't the foggiest idea what they would do if they were president.
Few of us are qualified to understand the complexities of the problems that plague any government, not just ours. Unrest is rampant around the globe. There are certainly issues that our government has, in my opinion, handled poorly. But I assure you that I do not have better solutions.
If anyone has solutions to important issues, contact your representatives in Congress. If your ideas are valid, I am certain they would welcome the input.
To start the New Year, let's all be thankful that, with impunity, we have the right to complain to our hearts' content about living in a system that we can't understand, whether we have solutions or not.
That right is precious.


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Seventy-five years ago Edgar Allan Poe became a student in the University of Virginia. His entire sojourn here lies between St. Valentine's Day and Christmas, while his connection with the University covered exactly ten months and a day. There was at the time nothing strange, surprising, or even exceptional in his career, which would readily have been merged into hundreds of others equally uneventful and been forgot but for his subsequent fame. But this renown has carried the University's name to remote lands and made every incident of his student days, however insignificant in itself, of universal interest. Indeed, any fact in Poe's life is of value in enabling us to determine his erratic orbit and in furnishing us substantial material out of which imagination may make real the full picture of his perplexing life.
There was displayed by his earliest biographers a singular and perverse facility in creating for him an incongruous and impossible University experience, but the later students of his life here have striven zealously to discover and to disclose every fact. This they have done frankly, but not always with a due appreciation of the significance of these facts, and certainly not always with full sympathy for Poe himself.
Among the investigators of his University period Mr. Douglas Shirley (University of Virginia Magazine, March and April, 1880) and Mr. Schuyler Poitevent (idem, December, 1897) were most successful in adding to our limited store of knowledge. The facts furnished by them and by earlier students have, as far as possible, been verified as a basis for this sketch, which, however, contains other material, procured by a minute examination of all University records and by personal interviews. The University of Virginia, for many years lingering an unfinished creation in the fruitful brain of its prescient founder, Thomas Jefferson, was so far completed in 1825 that on Monday, March 7, the first session began, but without ceremony or celebration. There were fifty students present on that day, and during the whole session, which closed on December 15, there were one hundred and sixteen students. The session was peculiarly stormy. The professors, who were mainly English, and seem to have been unpopular because of that fact, were the victims of unpardonable disrespect. The faculty-meetings in the first session, when so many matters of policy should have engaged the attention of those called to direct aright the infant University, were [page 431:] largely given up to disciplining students guilty of the use of ardent and vinous liquors, or of gambling. There were open outbreaks as well as personal rebellion against rules. The University seemed in imminent peril- from within, because of the unrestrained wildness, rampant disrespect, and obstreperous conduct of a body of immature young men, who mistook this new liberty for license.
The second session began on February [column 2:] 1, 1826. On that day thirty-four students matriculated. After that they came in day by day, until by Tuesday, February 14, one hundred and thirty-one students had matriculated. On the 14th five students entered, among them Edgar Allan Poe, who was No. 136 out of a total enrolment for the session of one hundred and seventy-seven.
In the matriculation book, at the very bottom of the page, as shown in the cut, the line runs:
|Edgar A. Poe.
|19 Jan: 1809
|John Allen [[Allan]]
Unfortunately this is not in Poe's handwriting. The lists of students for both 1825 and 1826 were neatly copied out by the same hand that wrote the formal pledge required of all students in 1827 and since that day. Presumably the copyist was Mr. Brockenborough, the Proctor. The blank space under Remarks is itself of interest, and is prima facie evidence that Poe did not at any time during the session sever his connection with the University; for comments in this column show that of the one hundred and seventy-seven students of the session six withdrew, three were suspended, three dismissed, and three expelled, but no one of these records stands against Poe.
According to the unimpeached testimony of a college mate and warm personal friend, Thomas Goode Tucker, Poe roomed at first on the Lawn with Miles George, of Richmond. There is no evidence of any kind to show the location of this Lawn room. Miles George (born September 17, 1807), the son of Bird George, of Richmond, Virginia, matriculated on February 3, 1826, entering the classes of Professors Long and Key, and remained at the University two sessions. While he does not seem to have been engaged in any of the disturbances or guilty of any misdemeanours, he was not reported by any of his professors among those who excelled in their examinations. He afterward graduated from the Medical College of Pennsylvania.
Early in the session Poe and George had some difficulty. The cause of this youthful disagreement is unknown, and [column 2:] in all probability was not at all serious. The result, however, of the discord was a fisticuff in a field near the University, after which the participants shook hands and parted in peace. George remained in possession of the Lawn room and Poe moved to West Range.
If remaining in possession of the territory formerly occupied is good ground for inference as to the victor, then Poe was probably whipped by his older companion. Perhaps, however, Poe's withdrawal was merely one of the conditions of their amicable settlement and does not point to his defeat.
It is true that Poe was just past seventeen, but his athletic record was already well established. He was "rather short of stature, thick and somewhat compactly set, but very active, being quite an expert in athletic and gymnastic arts." It may spoil a poetic illusion to add that "he was bow-legged and walked rapidly, with a certain jerkiness in his hurried movements." His greatest athletic achievement dates from June, 1825, when he swam, under a hot sun, from Ludlam's Wharf (Richmond) to Warwick, a distance of six miles, against a very strong tide. "Any swimmer in the Falls in my days," says Poe, "would have swum the Hellespont and thought nothing of the matter." This feat on the James, which is duly attested, was indeed remarkable for a boy, and in a measure justifies his boast that he could swim the English Channel from Dover to Calais. But Poe's prowess was not confined to swimming. He had the reputation of being the best [page 432:] young boxer in Richmond; and if in fights he ever had to exercise the valorous discretion of flight, he could readily have outstripped most contestants, for his swiftness in running was noted among his companions. His athletic record in field sports, however, would have been made in the running broad jump, for during his early life, probably here at the University, he jumped twenty-one feet six inches on a level, with a running start of twenty yards. His chief competitor in athletic contests here was one of the Labranche brothers, of New Orleans, who had been educated in France and trained in physical exercise. But the sad-faced Poe took his sports seriously, and exhibited little boyish enthusiasm or spirit in his triumphs.
On April 29, 1826, William Matthews, formerly a cadet of West Point, was "allowed the use of the Gymnasium [then where the chairman's office now is] for the purpose of giving instruction upon military tactics to such of the students as may choose to be drilled. Mr. Matthews is held responsible to the faculty for all riots or other disturbances of the peace happening during his attendance upon the students composing his class." The first physical director proved worthy of his appointment, and so commended himself to the faculty that later in the session he was assigned one of the elliptical rooms in the Rotunda. Still later in the session, when his name was mentioned in connection with a local scandal, he was not only completely exonerated, but the faculty took occasion, officially, to commend him. As his class was not officially recognised, there is extant no list of his students and no account of their progress, but it is natural to suppose that among those who took particular interest in his course was the ex-lieutenant of the Junior Volunteers of Richmond.
But we have wandered too far from his matriculation and the early experiences of the session. Poe, after the difficulty with George, moved to West Range. There was for some while a tradition here that his room was No. 17, but no evidence of any kind can be found for this number. On the other hand, Mr. Tucker's confident assertion that it was 13 is in part confirmed by the memory of Mr. Jesse Maury, who still lives, in honoured old age, near the University. Mr. [column 2:] Maury's memory goes back some years prior to 1826, and still holds securely the important events of that year. During that session young Maury, who was never a student at the University, was put in charge of his father's teamsters, who were frequently employed in hauling wood to Conway's boarding-house. The wood-pile was just back of the block on West Range, containing rooms 5 to 15 (odd numbers). This block was then known as Rowdy Row. It was in this row, beyond any doubt in Mr. Maury's mind, that Poe roomed. Mr. Maury recalls vividly the charcoal decorations on his walls and his marvellous penmanship, of which Poe was then so proud. Poe used to entertain himself and his friends by writing on a bit of paper of fixed size the largest possible number of words. These independent reminiscences of Mr. Maury are themselves confirmed, for John Willis tells of Poe's talent for drawing and of the crayon sketches on his walls; and Thomas Boiling relates that he once found Poe engaged in copying on the ceiling of his dormitory an interesting plate from an English edition of Byron's poems.
With Poe now domiciled for the session in 13 West Range, we can turn to his occupations. The round of lectures — lectures — lectures, of which Dr. Emmet complained, had begun, and Poe, on the day he entered, had to elect what courses of lectures he would attend. Poe had shown at Stoke-Newington, in England, as well as under Masters Clarke and Burke in Richmond, not only an aptitude and fondness for literary and linguistic studies, but also an unusual skill in construing Latin and in "capping" Latin verses. In addition, he had exhibited a marked facility in French conversation. It was natural, then, that Latin and French should be among the subjects elected. The matriculation book shows that he took the classes of Professors Long and Blaetterman. The announcement for 1826 thus outlines these courses: "In the school of Antient Languages are to be taught the higher grade of the Latin and Greek languages, the Hebrew, rhetoric, belles-lettres, antient history and antient geography. In the school of Modern Languages are to be taught French, Spanish, Italian, German, and the English language, in its Anglo-Saxon form; [page 433:] [[illustrations: The Ragged Mountains and Scene in the Ragged Mountains]] [page 434:] also modern history and modern geography." It seems almost preposterous to suppose that any student would be required to pursue work in all these branches, yet we find that Henry Tutwiler at the end of the session is reported as having excelled in Greek, Latin, French, Italian, German, Spanish and mathematics, while Gessner Harrison, whom Mr. Tucker mentions with Tutwiler among the "hard students," excelled in Greek, Latin, French, Italian, German and medicine. It may, then be true that Poe was a member of the classes in Greek, Latin, French, Spanish and Italian, though there is no mention of him in connection with Greek.
Of his class-room career we know little except that Mr. Wertenbaker, a fellow-student and librarian, avers that Poe was tolerably regular in his attendance upon the French, Italian and Spanish classes, and was a successful student. He was publicly commended for a verse translation from Tasso. It is easy to believe that, with his previous training, he had little [column 2:] difficulty in keeping up with classes composed of young men, for the most part, with far less preparation than his. And, even if he were not a close student, he possessed, in addition to his training, a quick eye and an alert mind that made the perilous process of "reading ahead" less hazardous for him. According to the schedule of lectures made out by Mr. Jefferson in his own handwriting (see cut), Poe's classes came between 7.30 and 9.30 each day of the week, including Saturday. After the lectures were over there was the long day and the evening hours at his disposal. How did he pass his time?
To proceed gradually from studies to practices far removed therefrom, it is in place to mention first that he spent much time in the library. Mr. Tucker, who enjoyed his intimate friendship, gives a pleasing account of their reading together Lingard and Hume, their favourite historians. In view of the fact that Poe's writings have been declared not immoral, but unmoral, it is interesting to note that [[illustration faculty records]] [page 435:] Lingard had encountered the censure of strict Protestants, and Hume, by his philosophy, fallen under the temporary obloquy of all Christians. But these young readers turned willingly from history to English poetry, from Chaucer to Scott. From their chosen poets each copied for the other his own favourite passages.
During the early part of the session Central college building (Pavilion VII., West Lawn, now occupied by Professor Noah K. Davis) was used as a meeting-place of the Board of Visitors, and for a library and reading-room. The library was in the front room upstairs. But the Rotunda had been begun in the spring of 1823, and on November 5, 1824, was under roof and so far advanced that it was used for the famous entertainment given Lafayette. In October, 1825, Jefferson reports that the circular room, destined for the receipt of books, had been pressed forward, and "we trust will be ready for them." In October, 1826, Madison, the rector, says: "The library room in the Rotunda has been nearly completed and the books put in it." Exactly [column 2:] when this transfer of the books was made it is impossible to ascertain, and so we are forced into some uncertainty in picturing Poe in the library. He may have read in the somewhat restricted quarters of the upper room in the "Old Library," as Pavilion VII. was called as late as the forties, and he was certainly a frequenter of the large and meagrely supplied circular room in the Rotunda as it existed before the fire of 1895.
Poe not only used the books in the library, but, according to Mr. Wertenbaker, the librarian, borrowed during the session the following books: Rollin, Histoire Ancienne; Robertson's America; Marshall's Washington; Voltaire, Histoire Particuliere; Dufief, Nature Displayed.
The class-room and the library could not fully meet the requirements of his retiring and reflective nature. Love of moody solitude led him on long and lonesome walks in the Ragged Mountains, where he was surely a "first adventurer" in many a secluded dell. From these long walks, or rather on them, he found material for weird tales, written out and [[illustration Schedule of Lectures]] [page 436:] read to some boon companions, and, if favourably received, repeated perhaps to a larger audience, spellbound but somewhat irreverent toward art. His sensitive nature, so exacting of his own work as to destroy these college efforts, recoiled from harsh or jeering criticism. For example, the good-natured taunt that gave Poe the nickname of "Gaffy," because a character of that name was so prominent in one of his stories, cost the world this tale, for the author petulantly tossed the manuscript into the flames.
In the invention and elaboration of these stories Poe served his apprenticeship as a short-story writer, and enrolled himself as perhaps first in time, as he certainly became one of the first in importance in this art. It could hardly fail to be true, though it is now no longer capable of demonstration, that Poe, who was so frugal of his themes and so disposed to use his material over and over, has embodied the substance of some of these college stories in his famous tales.
Poe began to write verse at an early age, arid kept up the practice during his student days. Boiling recalls that sometimes while Poe was taking part in conversation he would also write verse, training himself to listen and think of something else at the same time. This rhyming, pronounced creditable, was after all but a sign of his skill in versification, which was also shown in his translation from the Italian. There is good reason for believing that during the session he was seriously busied with poetry. His first volume of poetry was published [column 2:] prior to August, 1827; it probably went to press prior to May, 1827, when he enlisted in the United States army as a private under the name of Edgar A. Perry.* Between December 20, 1826, and May 26, 1827, there was not very much time for writing poetry, because he was first in a Richmond counting house, then on a visit to Baltimore, then on his journeying to Boston. But Poe says that the contents of this volume were written in 1821-22, when he was twelve or thirteen years old. Very little credence can be given to this claim, for many of these poems show unexpected maturity of mind for a youth of seventeen, and could hardly have been written by a boy of twelve; and some of them were distinctly influenced by Byron, in whom Poe was especially interested during his University days. As this volume of 1827 was not, in all probability, written in the troublous months succeeding his University career, and could not have been written at a very early age. it is fair to conclude that some of the poems in this volume were written, and perhaps all of them, with a single exception ("The Song"), were revised while he was a student in the University of Virginia. His alma mater may justly claim him as her poet, though with his unique disregard of time and location he nowhere pays her a passing tribute.
Athlete, student, saunterer, story-teller and poet, he aspired [page 437:] also to another honour, and became very much interested in the debating society organised that year and named after the University's founder. Is it worth while now to prove that a boy of seventeen, so multifariously busy, could not have found time to be a habitual drunkard or an untiring gambler? There is no attempt to gloss over Poe's failings, but he is entitled to justice.
The students divided themselves into two classes; those like Gessner Harrison, Henry Tutwiler, and others who were noted for their quiet, studious habits, and those like the Brunswick County group, Dunn, Creighton, Gholson, and Tucker, who gave their studies a small share of their time. But in this large number who were not altogether studious there were all varieties of delinquents. There were the confirmed gamblers, who met over Jones's book-store, or in one of the rooms clearly designated in the faculty minutes, to play loo or all-fours, at from one to ten dollars a game. There were those who played occasionally for large stakes, but more frequently played whist or sevenup for small amounts, or indulged in the forbidden game of backgammon. In the faculty minutes, filled in that year with trials of students,, we read of visits to Mosby's and Daffan's confectioneries, where all manner of drinks, such as mintsling, mixed and unmixed wine, toddy, Madeira, eggnog, peach and honey, and ardent and vinous liquors, might be had; and we learn further of dormitory entertainments, where such beverages were known. But in all these records we nowhere find any mention of the name of Edgar Poe; and when a long list of students summoned to appear before the Albemarle grand jury was made out Poe was not included, though many of his boon companions were. Poe was not, then, among the offenders known to University or civil law, but from the private testimony of his college mates it is evident that he did sometimes play seven-up and loo, his favourite games, for money. That he was not so expert as Tucker considered him and his companions, would seem to be established by his considerable losses. His partner, afterward a devout clergyman, and his adversaries, including frequently two friends, who became respectively a well-known divine and a pious judge, were far better known to the [[Illustration In the Ragged Mountains]] [page 438:] University sporting circle than was Poe.
That there was much gambling at the University in the first sessions is, unfortunately, true. At one of the numerous trials conducted by the Faculty a certain witness deposed that there were not fifty students at the University who did not play cards. With as much readiness and no less accuracy he might have affirmed that not fifty of the fathers of these students were free from the same vice. The sentiments against it in the Faculty could not have been unyielding, for in 1825 three out of seven of the members wished gambling removed from the infractions punished seriously and transferred to the list of minor offences punishable by insignificant fines. It is no excuse for gaming that it was common, and but little extenuation that sentiment against it was not strong, but when gaming was both common and but mildly condemned, it is uncharitable to select one out of many and pronounce him the arch-criminal. It is unreasonable and unjust to select as this arch-criminal Edgar Poe, who, when others were tried and expelled for this offence, never at any time fell under any kind of official censure.
In the scurrilous and irresponsible indictment drawn up by Griswold in his notorious Memoir of Poe is the count that at the University of Virginia Poe "led a very dissipated life," and ''was known as the wildest and most reckless student of his class." Mr. Wertenbaker, on the contrary, who as librarian and class-mate saw him perhaps every day, says: "He certainly was not habitually intemperate, but he may occasionally have entered into a frolic. I often saw him in the lecture-room and in the library, but never in the slightest degree under the influence of intoxicating liquors." Mr. Wertenbaker evidently did not know of his own knowledge that Poe even occasionally entered into a frolic, but presumed this to be true because there was later a rumour to that effect. The rumour was true, but it does not seem to have been substantiated until Mr. Tucker wrote to Mr. Shirley in 1880, and his account probably states the whole case against Poe. "Poe's passion for strong drink was as marked and as peculiar as that for cards. It was not the taste of the beverage that influenced him; without a sip or smack of the mouth he would [column 2:] seize a full glass, without water or sugar, and send it home at a single gulp. This frequently used him up; but, if not, he rarely returned to the charge."* "He was very mercurial in his disposition and exceedingly fond of peach and honey," adds Mr. Tucker. There is nothing astonishing in this account of Poe's drinking. As a tiny tot he had been trained to stand on a chair at dinner parties, and with a glass of wine pledge the brilliant company in Richmond or at the Old White Sulphur Springs. He lived in a land veritably flowing with peach and honey, where every sideboard held its full weight of inviting decanters. Drinking habits then prevailing in the homes were naturally transferred in part to the University, and Poe did not entirely escape the temptation. Nor need we be surprised that Poe was so easily affected. He was a nervous, sensitive boy, and a full glass might, according to his physical condition, readily excite him to "wild and fascinating conversation," or render him unfit for any companionship.
Filled for Poe with the duties, diversions, and occasional dissipations, the session passed with but one event of public moment and few of local interest. The faculty in June passed this resolution: "That the students be permitted to celebrate the Fourth of July next by an oration and by a dinner within the Gymnasium." But before this day came Mr. Jefferson was seriously ill, and it took all the skill of Dr. Dunglison (then chairman of the faculty) to prolong his illustrious patient's life until July 4, a date for which he anxiously inquired. There is nothing more said of the celebration, which presumably was given up. On July 5 the faculty passed most appropriate resolutions drafted by Professor Tucker, and determined to wear mourning on the left arm for the space of two months and to attend individually the interment at the family burying place. This decision on the part of the faculty was no doubt operative among the students, who were probably present on the same sorrowful occasion.
The summer, as hot then as now, if we may judge from the complaints of the students of 1825, soon yielded to the [page 439:] golden autumn days, when rambles in the Ragged Mountains must have been a genuine delight. As December approached there was doubtless then as now the somewhat feverish preparations for the final examinations. In the previous session the Board of Visitors had decreed that there should be public examinations, which they themselves would attend, but at which by faculty resolution no strangers should be present unless specially invited. In issuing invitations, preference was to be given parents and guardians (of the male sex). These public examinations began on Monday, December 4, in the elliptical room of the Rotunda, and were attended during that week by Madison (rector), and Monroe, Joseph Cabell, and General John H. Cocke. The examination in modern languages was held on Tuesday, December 5; presumably ancient languages came on the previous day. If so, then Poe stood all of his examinations in the presence of these four distinguished men. There is no record of the length of the examinations, which were oral, but in July, 1827, they were either two or three hours long and began at the very unseasonable, if not unreasonable, hour of 5 A.M. They could hardly in midwinter have begun earlier than the usual lecture hour, 7.30.
The examinations were over on December 13 or 14, and on the next day, December 15, the Faculty met. The very first resolution offered indicates that the method of examination had not proved satisfactory, and provides for material changes next session. It was further resolved "that, for publishing the result of the examinations, a brief statement from each professor be subjected to the Faculty." The reports of the several professors were then submitted. "Mr. Long made a report of the examination of the classes belonging to the school of ancient languages and the names of the students who excelled at the examination of these classes." For the first time in the Faculty minutes for 1826 the name of Edgar Allan Poe appears, as fourth in a list of nineteen who excelled in Senior Latin. These distinguished students are divided into groups, and Poe is third in the second group, Gessner Harrison standing alone in the first group. At the same meeting "the names of the students who excelled in the Senior French class" were [column 2:] reported by Professor Blaetterman. The eight names are arranged alphabetically, so Poe's stands sixth in the list. Mr. Wertenbaker says that under regulations existing in 1869 Poe would have been entitled to diplomas as a graduate in these two languages. This is not to be reconciled with the fact that Gessner Harrison, who heads the list in 1826, is again reported as excelling in Senior Latin in July, 1827. In other words, Poe was not necessarily a graduate in these languages, but he had excelled in the examinations, and this was a high honour.
At the Faculty meeting on December 20, 1826, "the Chairman presented to the Faculty a letter from the proctor giving information that certain hotel-keepers during the last session had been in the habit of playing at games of chance with the students in their dormitories; he also gave the names of the following persons, who, he had been informed, had some knowledge of the facts." Then follows a list of nine, including Edgar Poe. Except in the official lists of those who excelled in examinations, this is the very first time Poe's name had ever been before the Faculty, and this time it was merely as a witness. The proctor, however, seems to have been misinformed as to the knowledge possessed by some of the witnesses summoned, for several have no information in point. Among these is Poe, for "Edgar Poe never heard until now of any hotel-keepers playing cards or drinking with students." It is not at all necessary to suspect this clear and explicit statement, for Poe's circle of gaming friends was perhaps select and was almost certainly small.
In his reminiscences Mr. Wertenbaker says: "As librarian I had frequent official intercourse with Mr. Poe, but it was at or near the close of the session before I met him in the social circle. After spending an evening together at a private house [could this possibly have been the evening when Professor Long led to the altar the beautiful Widow Seldon?] he invited me on our return into his room. It was a cold night in December, and, his fire having gone pretty nearly out, by the aid of some tallow candles and the fragments of a small table, which he broke up for the purpose, he soon rekindled it, and by its comfortable blaze I spent a very pleasant hour with him. On this occasion he [page 440:] [[Illustration of West Range]] spoke with regret of the large amount of money he had wasted and of the debts he had contracted during the session. If my memory is not at fault, he estimated his indebtedness at $2000, and, though they were gaming debts, he was earnest and emphatic in the declaration that he was bound by honour to pay at the earliest opportunity every cent of them. . . . I think it probable that the night I visited him was the last he spent here. I draw this inference not from memory, but from the fact that, having no further use for his candles and table, he made fuel of them."
Whether Mr. Wertenbaker's inference is sound or not, Poe's confession to him contains the real reason why he never returned to the University. Edgar Allan [column 2:] Poe was not expelled, nor dismissed, nor suspended, nor required to withdraw, nor forbidden to return, nor disciplined in any wise whatsoever at the University of Virginia; but Mr. Allan was shocked and incensed at the extent of his dishonourable "debts of honour" — which he at first refused to consider, but finally settled — and determined to put his extravagant foster son in his counting-room.
Like Hawthorne, Poe may have been guilty of "doing a hundred things the Faculty never heard of, or else it had been worse for him," but it is too late now to expel him for vices then undetected, or disgrace him for faults long ago outlived by his former college-mates and companions — the respected planter, the upright judge, the saintly clergyman.
[The following footnote appears at the bottom of page 436, column 2:]
* Just a few names above Poe's in the matriculation book (see Appendix 2) is that of Sidney A. Perry. Does this not suggest the source of his borrowed name?
[The following footnote appears at the bottom of page 438, column 2:]
* Thomas Goode Tucker to Douglas Shirley, April 5. 1880. Printed in Woodberry's Poe (American Men of Letters Series).
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Recently, I have been trying to find proper Latinisations for the names of states and regions of the U.S and Canadian provinces and regions. I assume that all state and province names have already been Latinised, but I cant find anywhere online to learn what most of those Latinisations are.
I have found New York, as Novum Eboricum, taken from the original Latin name for York in England. I havent found the original Latin for Jersey or Hampshire.
Arkansas has been Latinised as Arkansia since the state was founded, and Maryland was Latinised as Marylandia in colonial times.
Pennsylvania needs no translation since it's already Latin.
Obviously, state names like Virginia, Georgia, California need no change to make them work in Latin, nor do state names such as Alabama, Florida, Alaska, Montana, etc.
Other states have proven more difficult for a rusty amateur like me. Should Kansas become Kansia, or must we retain the final 's' since it is pronounced, giving us the rather unwieldy 'Kansasia'?
Another one that has me confused for the moment: Texas. 'Texia', 'Texasia'?
Tennessee: 'Tennessia', 'Tennesseia'?
Mississippi, Missouri: 'Mississippia', 'Missouria'? Or Missouri could be rendered as 'Missoura', because this is the pronounciation used by older generations of Missourians. Likewise, older generations in Alabama used to call themselves 'Alabamians', so 'Alabamia' could conceivably be an alternative Latinisation.
Ohio, Idaho, Colorado, Utah have me stumped. Perhaps worst of all is Illinois. How in the world do we Latinise it? 'Illinoia'? Or should we try to go back to the original meaning of the word, and Latinise that? If so, there seem to be at least two possibilities for the original meaning of that word.
Then there are Wisconsin, Michigan, Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, Connecticut, Wyoming. 'Wisconsia or Wisconsinia', 'Michigania', etc.? How do we do these?
Another difficult one: Hawaii. 'Hawaiia?', Hawaia'? Or could it remain unchanged?
Oklahoma could be retained as is, ir perhaps we could translate the original meaning into 'Rubrapopula'. Alright, maybe that's going a bit far.
What about New Mexico: Nova Mexicoa, Nova Mexica?
Delaware? Perhaps we could go back to the etymological meaning of 'Warre' ( the state is named after Baron de la Warre).
Well, Nova Scotia is a dead giveaway. What about Quebec, Labrador, or the region called 'the Maritime Provinces'. Is there not a shorter name for this region that could be Latinised, such as 'Maritimia'? Newfoundland: come on now, can we do better than 'Newfoundlandia', or some long winded Latin translation of 'new found land'? Perhaps 'Vinlandia', or 'Vitisia'?
Nova Anglia is easy enough.
The South proves to be a complicated case. It would logically be 'Australia', but this is already taken. Using the name of the South wind, we get 'Austria', also already taken (My God!) We could use the nominative, coming up with 'Austeria', or we could go with 'Austrinia'. Another alternative wouild be Meridia, but no, that's now the name for some silly new designer pharmaceutical, so how about Meridiana (this word may be the best since it has already been used before, in the name of the town of Meridian, Mississippi)? Or we could even go with 'Dixia'. Using the supposed origin of the word Dixie (the French 'Dix', or 'Ten') we could Latinise it into the ridiculous 'Decemia'.
The North: 'Septentriona', or even, from the name of the North wind, the more wieldy and wonderful sounding 'Aquilonia'? Alright, that's the movie homeland of Conan the Barbarian, but it was also a real region or dukedom or something like that in the baltic region in the middle ages and the renaissance. So perhaps we must stick with the longer, less wieldy word.
We could have Atlantica Media or Mediatlantica for the Midatlantic region, Mediocassia or Medioccidentalia or even Mediazephyra for the Midwest. I like combining the adjective with the noun better than using the adjective as a separate word, such as 'Zephyra Media'. It just seems more efficient and more fitting to render the name for a cultural or geographic region as a single word. After all, I would rather call myself a 'Mediocassian' than an 'Ocassia Median', lest someone think I were a Mede with some weird disease. But perhaps this is not acceptable.
Can someone just point me to some place online that might explain all this?
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"Davidson is a team that should end up contending for a league championships so for us to come in and play well is a big accomplish to how focused the girls have stayed over the last couple of weeks," said Brooks. "The whole key for us this spring has been our play in doubles so it was nice for the girls to get off on the right foot today."
ETSU opened play winning two out of three doubles matches. At No. 1 senior Yevgeniya Stupak (Kyiv, Ukraine) and junior Kelly Holtzhausen (Johannesburg, South Africa) made quick work of Virginia Berry and Teresa Wang, 8-4, sophomore Diana Navrostska (Kviv, Ukraine) and junior Tara Sheets (Gate City, Va.) won their contest against Samantha Galainena and Katherine Dicconsin, 8-3.
As singles action began ETSU extend its 1-0 lead as Stupak dropped Berry in straight sets 6-3, 6-2. Holtzhausen then gave the Lady Bucs a two-point advantage with her head-to-head victory over Rauh at No. 2, 7-6, 7-6, while sophomores Paula Jaime (Madrid, Spain) and Karina Kedzo (Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela) closed out the win with straight sets conquests over Teresa Wang and Ali Gores.
Junior Andra Voinea (Brasov, Romania) rounded out the points for ETSU with her second straight win as she defeated Galainena in straight sets 6-0, 6-1.
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NHIAA Football: Londonderry blanks MerrimackBy ROGER BROWN
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October 07. 2017 1:23AM
LONDONDERRY — Friday night's 21-0 victory over Merrimack helped the Londonderry High School football team move within shouting distance of a Division I playoff berth.
The Lancers (5-1) can secure one of the four playoffs spots that will be awarded to the South/West conferences by beating Alvirne next week.
"We talked to the kids about that," Londonderry coach Jimmy Lauzon said. "I just felt like we hadn't been in a game with this much at stake in the last three years, so this was big. The kids were excited. We were at home and the playoffs were on the line. We knew they were playing for (a playoff spot) and were coming off a tough loss so we figured we were going to get their best effort, and our guys stepped up."
Londonderry led 7-0 at halftime, 14-0 after three quarters and 21-0 early in the fourth. Londonderry received second-half touchdown runs of 3 and 7 yards from sophomore running back Jeff Wiedenfeld. The Lancers also scored on an 11-yard pass from quarterback Mike McAlister to slot back Tyler Kayo with 10:12 left in the first half.
Merrimack (3-3) did what it could to help Londonderry by turning the ball over four times (three fumbles). The first fumble gave Londonderry the ball at the Merrimack 43-yard line and set up the Lancers' first touchdown.
Later in the half, Londonderry's Shane MacEachern intercepted a pass near the goal line after Merrimack drove to the Londonderry 15-yard line.
Merrimack trailed 7-0 when it fumbled on the Londonderry 28-yard line on its first possession in the second half. The Tomahawks also fumbled on the Londonderry 30 early in the fourth quarter.
"Tonight it was turnovers more than anything, but I think the turnovers are a symptom of us not being able to take care of the things good teams take care of: missed blocks, physical errors, mental errors," Merrimack coach Kip Jackson said. "Any time you turn the ball over, there's a change of momentum and that was especially big for us because we've been struggling with our confidence."
Wiedenfeld gained 125 yards and 20 carries. The Lancers also received 74 yards rushing from McAlister, who ran the ball 19 times.
Londonderry held Merrimack slot back Joe Eichman to 72 yards on 10 rushing attempts. Ryan Devanna replaced Ben Eichman (Joe's younger brother) as Merrimack's quarterback in the second half and completed 11 of 16 passes for 73 yards. Ben Eichman gained 80 yards on 10 carries.


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Cercopithecus dryas
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Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Cercopithecus dryas Schwarz, 1932
Common Name(s):
Cercopithecus salongo Thys van den Audenaerde, 1977
|Taxonomic Source(s):
|Mittermeier, R.A., Rylands, A.B. and Wilson D.E. 2013. Handbook of the Mammals of the World: Volume 3 Primates. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
|Taxonomic Notes:
|The form Cercopithecus salongo, described by Thys van den Audenaerde (1977) is an age-variant of this species (Colyn et al. 1991). Sarmiento (2002) did not accept the synonymy of the two forms, but the current treatment follows Grubb et al. (2003) and Groves (2005).
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Critically Endangered C2a(ii); D ver 3.1
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|Hart, J., Butynski, T.M. & Hurley, M.
|Mittermeier, R.A. & Rylands, A.B. (Primate Red List Authority)
Although the precise limits of distribution of this species are not well known, it is clear from survey work that numbers of this taxon are low, probably not exceeding a few hundred individuals. All currently known animals are present in a single reserve. This species is a priority for further survey work in the region, to clearly establish the population status of this species and whether it might survive elsewhere.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|This species is known only from a few locations in the Lomela and Wamba regions of the Congo Basin in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Gautier-Hion et al. 1999). This species has also been recorded at Kokolopori where four wild populations have been indentified in secondary forests within the Kokolopori Reserve of approximately 500 km² (these populations are extremely fragmented and isolated). The estimated extent of occurrence is approximately 3,000 km² within the proposed Kokolopori Reserve, between the Luo and Lopori Rivers (which may serve as geographic barriers) (M. Hurley pers. comm.). Ranges to about 380 m asl.
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|With the exception of the recent observations from Kokolopori, this species has not been sighted in recent surveys undertaken in its known range (J.A. Hart pers. comm.; M. Hurley pers. comm.). Although there is no reliable information on its population status, estimates indicate that there could be fewer than 200 individuals left in the wild (M. Hurley pers. comm.).
|Current Population Trend:
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|This is a largely terrestrial species that occurs in thickets in dense secondary lowland moist forest, and perhaps also in swamp forest (Kuroda et al. 1985); primary forest seems to be avoided. They forage mainly in the lower stratum of secondary forest but also frequently on the ground. The home ranges for the four populations in Kokolopori vary between 2.8 and 7.0 ha and the troops seem to be squeezed between expanding agricultural degradation of their secondary forest homes and primary forests (M. Hurley in press). Troop size ranges from 2 to 15 individuals (Kuroda et al. 1985), but sometimes the species can be observed in troops of about 30 monkeys (M. Hurley pers. comm.); they also have been recorded forming mixed groups with other guenons (Kuroda et al. 1985).
|Major Threat(s):
|The main threats to this species are hunting and habitat loss to agriculture.
|Conservation Actions:
This species is currently known only from the community-managed Kokolopori reserve in north-eastern DR Congo. Effective management of this reserve will be key to the survival of this species. Further surveys are urgently needed to assess the distribution and population status of this species. No individuals are held in captivity.
It is listed on Appendix II of CITES.
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WINNIPEG _ Earlier this season in a game against Winnipeg, the Flyers set a dubious franchise record: most goals scored in a loss - eight.
On Tuesday night, they seemed destined to set another unwanted mark - most shots on goal in a road loss.
But in the closing seconds of regulation and the final minute of overtime, they scored on-the-doorstep goals, producing a had-to-see-it-to-believe-it 5-4 win over the Winnipeg Jets at the ear-splitting MTS Centre.
"We were just resilient tonight," said winger Wayne Simmonds, who tied the game by tapping in a James van Riemsdyk feed with 9.7 seconds left in regulation.
If the Jets had held on for 10 more seconds, they would have jumped from ninth to third in the Eastern Conference, and the Flyers would have slid to sixth.
Jagr converted a Danny Briere pass with 43.1 seconds remaining in overtime, preventing a dreaded shootout, where the Flyers are 1-5 this season and 20-39 in their career. (Jagr scored in his first game in Winnipeg since 1996, when he also had the game-winner in a 1-0 Penguins victory.)
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Over the last few weeks, I've been seeing teachers posting pictures of their classrooms on Facebook, saying, "My classroom's ready!" That takes me right back to my childhood, helping my mom prepare her classroom for the students in the waning days of August.
My mom taught second and third grade at Valley Cottage Elementary School. And I remember her ritual of using the days before Labor Day to ready her classroom for her students.
Of course, preparing the classroom — even back then — meant spending hundreds or even thousands of dollars out of her own pocket on supplies — just as her colleagues did and teachers do today.
When I was a kid, we were lucky to have a laundry room that housed the washer and dryer, of course, but also served as my mom's office, filled with all the supplies she bought for her class. It was a treasure trove of books and paper and pens.
She worked so hard every year to get ready to open the doors and welcome her students. Even years after she retired, when we were moving my parents out of that house, the laundry room was still stocked with school supplies. And my own basement is still stocked with all my lesson plans and supplies from the years I taught.
That brings me to my own time teaching. I remember the first day of school my first year in the classroom. My stomach churned with a mixture of excitement and anxiety. Could I do the job? Could I connect with the kids? Will there be the chemistry to build relationships and get the job done, or will I totally flop?
As much success as I had had doing legal work, doing litigation, advocating in the courtroom or negotiating at the bargaining table, it was really different teaching kids — and frankly much harder.
It's more than just knowing your content and what you're going to teach. It's classroom management. It's the connection with kids. Can I manage my classroom without a hiccup? Do I have a good set of classroom protocols? Do I have all my handouts in order, all stapled? Will I know what to say, or am I just going to melt into a puddle?
Because kids see you as you really are. It's like you're stripped down to nothing. It's almost like you're naked, and they can see whether you're a fraud or the real thing.
I remember my heart pounding as I walked into Clara Barton High School that first day. Will I be able to do it? Do I have what it takes to connect and teach and make a difference in the lives of these kids?
And for that same reason, the first day of school is the most optimistic day of the year. It's a new start. A new chapter. A new chance to engage with students and colleagues. The dawn of a new day and year.
I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society. I will never forget teaching Locke because during that lesson — on my first day of teaching and my first time teaching Locke — my principal walked in on my first class. I can still remember how loud my heart pounded in my ears.
The first day of school is a little chaotic and a lot stressful, but most of all it's joyful. And being able to hold that tension — anxiety and excitement, optimism and fear — that's what I remember most about the first day.
I also loved being a local leader and being in schools throughout New York City during those first few days, seeing the teachers and the kids so full of that same excitement and anxiety.
And of course, I loved seeing teachers — whether they were 22 or 60 — taking in those kids in that passionate, wonderful way, and embracing their responsibility and opportunity.
That's a big part of what always blows me away about the first day of school — seeing how it all comes off. Even in the darkest of times, even in the years of the biggest budget cuts, even with chaotic openings, the teachers and staff always pull it off. The classrooms are ready; the cafeterias and buses are ready; the schools are ready — because of educators and support staff. They're the glue that's holding it all together for these kids.
That's what gets me excited every year at back-to-school time. I remember that anxiety and the energy — and our members' tremendous commitment to make a difference in the lives of every kid who walks through their door on that first day.
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The Event Segmentation chartallows you to accomplish deeper segmentation on your events and the users who perform them. You can use this tab to compare or segment your events by user properties or event properties, over a selected time frame. In addition, you can also view your data in real-time (only available on Enterprise plans), hourly (only available on Enterprise plans), daily, weekly, or monthly granularity. Like any other chart in Amplitude, you can name it, save it, archive it, add it to a dashboard, and export it in various different file formats. You can also create shared links outof Event Segmentation charts.
Table of Contents
The chart control panel is made of up three modules to help you setup your chart: the Events module (left module), the Segmentation module (right module), and the Custom module (bottom module, this module always varies by the chart).
Use the left module to select up to 10 events to query on. After you select an event, hover over the event to add conditional clauses to that specific event:
In addition to the events you send to Amplitude, the event dropdown menu also offers four Amplitude events (prefixed by '[Amplitude]') to query on.
From top to bottom:
Use the right module to create and analyze segments of users or groups. There are many configurations in this module, and this section will detail how to create and modify segments.
Modify a Segment
By default, the first segment is called "All Users," indicating that no filters are applied to the segment. To apply a filter, click on the "Select user property..." dropdown menu to filter by a
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or behavioral cohort . Then, select the operator you would like the user property to follow: is, is not, contains, does not contain, less/greater than (or equal to), set is, set is not, set contains, set does not contain, and glob match.
If you wish to include a list of property values in the dropdown, you can copy and paste a list of comma-separated values. For example, if you've implemented "email" as a user property, you can paste the following string instead of selecting each value one at a time:
Using an 'OR' Clause To filter on multiple values of the same property, simply add more values in the "Select value(s)..." box. Adding a property value creates an 'OR' clause in the affected segment definition. As seen below, the segment now includes users who performed an event in the United States OR Canada OR the United Kingdom.
Using an 'AND' Clause To add additional filters, click on the "+where" button. Adding a filter creates an 'AND' clause to your segment definition. As seen below, the segment definition now includes users who performed an event in the United States AND using Spanish.
Add a Segment To add additional(not filters), click on the "+Segment" button. As seen below, we created two segments to compare: one of the users in the United States and one of the users in Canada.
The right module also contains the "Group By" function that allows you to quickly filter your segments by certain user properties.
After you select the property you want to use to group your users by, by default, the chart displays the top five segments by the measurement selected. You can select more or deselect segments via the data table below the chart. In the example below, we grouped by '[Amplitude] Device family' to graph the number of daily active users in the last 30 days, grouped by the device family they used.
You can group your data by a second property. In the example below, we created a segment that includes only users who have performed an event in the United States in the last 30 days. Then, with the group by function, we group the users by region and by service carrier. This graphs the number of daily active users in the last 30 days, who performed an event in the United States, grouped by region and by service carrier.
The right module also has the ability to save user segments for quick accessibility to common configurations of the right module across. Saved user segments can then be applied to any Amplitude chart and are global for other team members to use.
To do save user segments, click the "<->Shortcuts..." button and a separate window will appear to let you create segments and save them. For example, let's say we want to save a segment of users who are in the United States and are on iOS devices. Since this is a segment we want to use throughout the platform, it is much more efficient to save it instead of having to recreate it for every single chart. Once you create your segment and press the "Save" button, you will be prompted to rename it in the left sidebar.
You can use the left sidebar to search for previously saved segments created by yourself or others in your organization. For example, let's say another employee hasalready created a configuration that groups users in the United States by platform. So, instead of having to recreate all the parameters, you can simply search for it and apply it to your chart. You can then click the "Apply" button to apply it to any chart with the Segmentation module.
If you have a very complicated segment, then sometimes the default chart labels may be difficult to read. You can customize the names of your segments to reflect the user segment it represents. For example, the following chart has 2 segments where each segment is segmented by 4 different things. The default name is hard to read.
You can change the name by hovering over the segment name and clicking on it. Changing the segment name will also change the chart labels.
You can create simple behavioral cohorts inline directly within the right module of the chart control panel. This will allow you to create a behavioral cohort in the context of a chart without having to navigate away into the Behavioral Cohorts tab . To do this, select the "+perform" button in the right module. For example, the following chart would allow me to see outof the users who purchased a concert ticket in the last 30 days, how many also downloaded a song or video. This feature is only available to customers on our Enterprise plan.
For more information on the clauses available in the dropdowns to create cohorts, see our cohort documentation .
The bottom module allows you to specify which metric you want to query. Below is a description of the different metrics you can query in the Event Segmentation chart. You can select between these by using the "..measured by" dropdown in the bottom module. Depending on if you are viewing the chart as a line chart, bar chart, or stacked area chart, the metrics may display different things. For example, here is a bar chart visualization.
On the other hand, a stacked area chart visualization may be more useful if there are a lot of segments on your chart with similar values. This visualization stacks segments on top of each other where the height of each colored area is the value of each data point. The value represented on the Y-axis of the chart will vary depending on which metric you have selected. The Y-axis will show the sum of the values of the data points for each corresponding X-axis label. Stacked area charts make it easier to get a sense of the total size of each individual segment whereas it would be difficult to see that with a line chart. It is also useful in showing how the inflection of a certain segment affected the overall value on that day. For example,in the following chart Microscope shows that on June 22nd, there were 33,934 users in the United States. However, that data point corresponds to about 60,000on the Y-axis because the Y-axis is showing the sum of all the segments.
Event Segmentation also has a fourth visualization that is useful if you have multiple group bys applied to your chart. You can find more information about it below this table. The following table describes what each of the first three visualizations mean with respect to the metric selected in the bottom module.
If you have multiple group bys applied, then often times the default visualizations can become confusing and hard to interpret data. The group by visualization offers a clearer way to analyze your data. For example, the following chart control panel groups 'Play Song or Video' by 'Genre_Type' and also by country and platform.
The group by visualization will generate a table view that displays the values in separate columns. This makes it easier to digest the data. For example, we can see that for users in the United States who played pop songs, most of them were on an Android platform.
In an Event Segmentation chart, you can write formulas to perform or calculate specific analyses and metrics on events. You can plot up to four formulas on the same chart, separated by semicolons (;).You can also perform the following arithmetic operations: parenthesis, addition (+), subtraction (-), multiplication (*), and division (/). There are several functions you can use to create custom formulas to apply to your Event Segmentation chart. The text box will autocomplete with suggestions for formulas to use, and you can also press ctrl+space to display all formulas. To read more about each formula and see some examples of use cases, see our Custom Formulas article .
Rolling averages will display the unweighted mean and therefore "smooth out" a chart. This functionality is useful if you have cyclical users such as people who use your product Monday-Friday, but not on Saturday-Sunday. To apply a rolling average to your chart, select the "More" button in the right-hand side of the bottommodule. Rolling averages are not supported for the Histogram, Property Histogram, and Custom Formula measurement options.
Example 1: Measured by Event Totals
The belowline chart displays the daily Event Totals between February5th and March 7th, without a rolling average.
The below line chart displays the daily Event Totals, with a rolling average of7 days. In this chart, the February28th data point is an average of the numbers between February22nd and February28th from the first chart shown above.
You can read further data points as follows:
Example 2: Measured by Uniques
Similar to Example 1, suppose we create a line chart of daily Uniques as a rolling average of 30 days between February 9th and May 9th.
You can then read certain data points as follows:
When Rolling Average is active, Microscope's "View Users" functionality will continue to show users in the current data point chosen and not over the whole interval being averaged on.
Rolling windows will display the aggregate last N days of information in a single data point. This functionality is useful if you want to see metrics such as your 7-day active user count on a daily basis. To apply a rolling window to your chart, select the "Advanced" button in the right-hand side of the bottom module. Rolling windows are not supported for the Property Histogram and Custom Formula metrics.
The following chart displays daily Uniques between April 5th and May 5th without a rolling window. With Microscope, we can see that on April 21st, we had 173,144 users.
The below line chart displays the daily Uniques with a rolling window of 7 days. In this chart, the April 21st data point is the number of unique users between April 15thand April 21st. So, while the above chart is showing you the unique users on each day, the rolling window chart will allow you to look at unique users over 7 dayson a daily basis.
You can then read certain data points as follows:
The same logic applies for all other metrics in the bottom module that allow rolling windows.
When RollingWindow is active, Microscope's "View Users" functionality will continue to show users in the current data point chosen and not over the whole interval being aggregatedon.
You can set up and interpret any Event Segmentation chart easily as the UI allows you to read the parameters like a sentence. For example, the following chart shows you the number of 'PlaySong' events grouped by 'Type' performed by 'Users' in the United States and measured by Event Totals daily for the last 30 days.
You can choose to view the chart as a line chart or as a bar chart via the buttons in the upper right-hand corner of the chart. Depending on the metric you have selected, each visualization may represent information in a slightly different way. Please see
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for more information on the difference. You can also use the date picker to choose a more specific time range to analyze your data within and can switch between "Last", "Between", and "Since".
Additionally, you have the option to view data in real-time, hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly units by toggling between the different options in the dropdown menu next to the chart visual options. If you are looking at multiple segments in your chart, you can manually select and deselect each segment by hovering over the segment name in the bar below the chart and removing it or by clicking the "+" button to add it back. Finally, you can click on any data point in the chart and inspect the users that make up that data point by using Microscope .
Please note the following limitations when you view data on a real-time or hourly basis.
In Event Segmentation, you the ability to perform a period-over-period comparison by clicking the checkbox at the bottom of the date picker. You will then be able to select if you want to compare each data point to the previous interval or the same interval from the previous day, week, month, or year.
For example, let's say you want to compare the daily active users for the current week compared to last week.
The blue segment shows you the current period and the green segment shows you your data for last week. Microscope is currently shown on the data point for Sep 19, and the corresponding green data point would be for the day before, Sep 18:
Since the period-over-period comparison interval is configurable, you can choose what dates you actually want to compare. For example, here we're now comparing the current date with the same day from the previous week. Here, the corresponding green data point is now the same day the week before, so the chart is comparing Sep 19 to Sep 12:
Belowthe chart is a table of the data displayed. The following screenshotis an example data table of an event segmented with a group by applied. You can select or deselect which segments you see in the graph by clicking on the segment name in the data table.Furthermore, the data table can display some simple calculations for you depending on the metric you are viewing the chart in.The default purple selection will select all top values/events. These values/events will update automatically if new top values/events are sent to the platform. To turn off this functionality, deselect the segments and explicitly select the values/events you want to preserve on the chart. This will be a green selection. If you have multiple events selected, the data table below will show the event name. You can also click on the event name to include or exclude it from the chart. To sort by column, click the column name (i.e. Sum, May 21). Lastly, you can download the data table by clicking the "Export CSV" button.
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April 1, 2012
BOSTON — Before lawyers argued at the Supreme Court, groups behind the scenes and out of sight filed briefs with the high court to help the justices see more depth and nuance in the debate.
One of those groups, Doctors for America, supports President Barack Obama's health care plan.
DFA's co-founder and president is Dr. Vivek Murthy of Brigham and Women's Hospital.
"Our belief is if we know what we have in the law, not only are we better equipped to make sure that the law is implemented well, but we're also in a better position to advocate for the solutions we need down the line to make for a good health care system," he said.
To that end, Doctors for America is mobilizing a nationwide grassroots effort to help educate doctors, patients and the general public to the benefits of the Affordable Care Act that was argued before the Supreme Court March 26–28.
Before Manisha Sharma was a board member for Doctors for America and even before she was a doctor in the Bronx, she was a music student at Berklee who got hit by a car.
Even though she had health insurance, "the next 7 years I had to fight the health care system to pay my medical bills while I was paying their premiums in order to see a doctor," Sharma said. And then, "because I got hit by a car, I had a pre-existing condition. And that's how I came to become involved in health care reform."
Murthy said that the 15,000 members of Doctors for America represent various political persuasions — but that they are in sync about the need for health care reform and think the Affordable Care Act is the best they can get at this point.
And if it's struck down by the Supreme Court? Murthy wasn't concerned about that.
"Our belief is the law will be upheld. We only need to look to Massachusetts, to our own home state to see that provisions that the act is putting in for the country can really be beneficial. We know that when people are covered and have access to care, that correlates with better health," he said.
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Dundee United moved up to fourth in the Clydesdale Bank Premier League with a convincing win over Inverness at Tannadice.
John Rankin's long-range strike put Peter Houston's side in control at half-time and Scott Robertson and Johnny Russell added goals after the break.
United - sixth going into the game - have now leapfrogged Hearts and St Johnstone as they chase a European place. Inverness manager Terry Butcher will be disappointed at his side's finishing as their hopes of a top-six finish were damaged.
Dundee United boss Houston made just one change to the side that beat Hearts 2-0 at Tynecastle last weekend as Paul Dixon returned from suspension and replaced Barry Douglas at left-back.
Butcher tinkered with his line-up following a crushing 4-1 home defeat to Rangers in their last outing.
He made three changes, with Roman Golobart, Ross Tokely and Shane Sutherland replacing Steve Williams, Graeme Shinnie and Jonny Hayes.
United made the early running and Gary Mackay-Steven had a penalty claim turned away by referee Alan Muir after his cross struck Josh Meekings on the hand.
From the resultant corner, Gavin Gunning's attempted shot found Robertson and he headed over from six yards.
Caley responded briefly but United took the lead in the 14th minute with a wonder strike from Rankin. Inverness captain Richie Foran could not control a poor clearance from goalkeeper Ryan Esson and Rankin won the challenge, stepped forward and sent a dipping 25-yard drive into the top corner.
United deserved their lead but Inverness almost equalised instantly when Gregory Tade spun in the box and picked out Billy McKay. The striker managed to poke a shot towards the corner but United goalkeeper Dusan Pernis raced from his goal to make a brave block.
Tade blazed a 20-yard drive wide as Caley chased an equaliser while United midfielder Willo Flood tried his luck from a similar distance but his shot soared over the bar.
The game lost its flow as half-time neared and Inverness defender Golobart was booked for clattering into Russell.
United captain Daly - well marshalled by the visitors - then finally broke free but could not divert Dixon's raking pass on target.
Daly was involved again in the 40th minute when he slipped a pass to Russell, but Esson pulled off a fine low save to deny him.
United started the second half on top and Dixon twice picked out Daly with crosses, but the big striker could not convert.
The home side were out to kill the game and Robertson grabbed the second goal in the 52nd minute.
Foran was booked for a tug on Russell and Flood's free-kick found Daly at the back post. He climbed above Tokely and headed across goal for Robertson to head in from six yards.
Inverness faced an uphill battle but Nick Ross almost connected with Sutherland's free-kick at the back post.
United had another penalty claim turned down when Golobart blocked Russell's header with his hands. Caley were living dangerously and Esson survived a big scare when he dropped Robbie Neilson's long throw and Daly fired over the bar..
McKay fired over from 12 yards as Caley wasted a chance to get back into the game in the 70th minute. Substitute Claude Gnakpa also fluffed a good opportunity after creating space in the box.
United then killed the game off in the 78th minute with a moment of magic from Russell. Daly picked him out in the box and the Scotland Under-21 star danced past three challenges and found the bottom corner.


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I'm 36 and this is my last. I had a painful and traumatic pregnancy so I'm pretty paranoid about getting pregnant again. We used condoms for a year before we got pregnant with no problem. I have tried the Merina but I had it removed due to cramping.
I guess I'm torn. I don't want to be worried that I'll get pregnant from a condom failing or breaking or something. It's not that we can't be careful, but that I know myself and it will make me nervous. But we worked so hard to get here, I'd hate to fail now due to this.
I wonder exactly how heavy the periods are with the copper IUD.
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MIAMI - Talk about a leap of faith. Two BASE-jumpers celebrated Leap Day by jumping 460 feet from the top of the Conrad Miami Hotel.
The men are members of the elite aerial sports team known as the Red Bull Air Force. For jumper Miles Dasher, this was his 3,049th BASE jump and his first one in Miami. He said he never gets used to the thrill of the jump.
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"Those aren't butterflies. Those are bats in there, man," Dasher said as he pointed to his stomach. "It's like all night long, I couldn't sleep. It was like Christmas for me. This is our holiday for BASE-jumpers."
This base jump stunt on Leap Day was a promotion for the Red Bull energy drink.
"Oh, yeah, yeah, OK -- one every four years, so that's a good day probably to take a chance," said one spectator.
A crowd of dozens stood for nearly three hours along Brickell Avenue, looking skyward as they waited for the wind to cooperate for the two high-rise leapers.
"I don't know. I'm not that kind of adrenaline junkie. I don't know if I would take that kind of chance," said another onlooker.
The clouds cleared and the winds calmed at about 2 p.m., and the nervous crowd watched as the jumpers took the plunge and glided to graceful landing on Southeast 14th Street.
"Thank you, Miami. Happy Leap Day," Dasher said.
The Red Bull Air Force also did BASE jumps Wednesday in Detroit, Las Vegas and Atlantic City. It's the first time they've done four BASE jumps on the same day in different cities.
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LOS ANGELES, Calif - The Gauchos lost to the USC Trojans at McDonald's Swim Stadium 141 to 118. UCSB had good swims but it wasn't enough to put the Trojans down. Pat Cary won two events and teammates Good and Vogelgesang contributed with individual wins as well.
Scott Vogelgesang won the 200 free with a time of 1:41.46. Teammate Chris Good won the 100 back 52.08. Pat Cary was the only double event winner for the Gauchos winning the 100 and 200 fly, 49.66 and 1:49.97 respectively. Chris Wiggin came in second to Cary in the 200 fly, 1:52.21.
The Gauchos swim UC Davis at Campus Pool on January 13. 2007 at noon.