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Draft Article with suggested Edits "The People Versus Frank Smiley: Investigating an 1894 Sodomy Crime in Territorial Utah"
No full textText document "The People Versus Frank Smiley: Investigating an 1894 Sodomy Crime in Territorial Utah" article written by Randell Hoffman, proof read and edit suggestions by Connell "Rocky" O\u27Donovan. gives back grounds of Frank Smiley\u27s arrest and detention for "Buggary" for his relations with Willis Clark. LGBTQ History through arrest records.Converted from .docx to .pdf for compatibilit
KIT Smiley West corrected
No full text<p>This IFC4 dataset is based on the known Smiley West dataset from the <a href="https://www.ifcwiki.org/index.php?title=KIT_IFC_Examples#IFC_4">KIT IFC Examples</a>, original author: Institute for Automation and Applied Informatics (IAI) / Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).</p>
<p>The original dataset contains 27 illformed IFC entity instances of type IfcMaterialProperties which render the file invalid according to the schema. These took the following form with the mandatory "properties attribute" - cardinality S[1:?] - erroneously populated with a list of undefined elements - <code>()</code>:</p>
<p><code>#73244= IFCMATERIALPROPERTIES('Pset_MaterialThermal',,$),#73235);</code></p>
<p>These 27 entity instances where not refered to from any other entity and could thus be safely removed for the corrected version. Moreover, entities of the resource layer (like IfcMaterialProperties) cannot exist independent of non-resource entities according to the standard and thus these instances should be removed anyway.</p>
A Conversation with Jane Smiley
No full textJANE SMILEY: LOCATION AND A GEOGRAPHER OF LOVE
In her essay on place, Eudora Welty points out that Henry James once said there isn\u27t any difference between \u27the English novel\u27 and \u27the American novel,\u27 since there are only two kinds of novels at all: the good and the bad. Then Welty responds to him stating that for good novels fiction is all bound up in the local. The internal reason for that is surely that feelings are bound up in place .... The truth is, fiction depends for its life on place. Location is the crossroads of circumstance, the proving ground of \u27What happened? Who\u27s here? Whose coming?\u27-and that is the heart\u27s field. ! In fact, the novelist shares the real estate agent\u27s mantra: location, location, location.
Novelist Jane Smiley writes with great authority of people whose lives are so profoundly connected to place that they must ultimately yield to their heart\u27s purposes. Thus place is an agency of personal revelation. As the author of A Thousand Acres, in fact, Smiley has been credited with laying the major foundation piece for the Renaissance, the flowering, in the literature of the North American heartland that has occurred over the past fifteen years.
Jane Smiley is the author of over ten major works of fiction, including her celebrated first novel Barn Blind, The Age of Grief, The Greenlanders, Ordinary Love and Good Will, A Thousand Acres, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, Moo, The All-True Travels and Adventures of Liddie Newton, and Horse Heaven. She has also written essays for magazines such as Vogue, The New Yorker, Practical Horseman, Harper\u27s, The New York Times Magazine and The New York Times travel section, US News, Victoria, Mirabella, Allure, The Nation, and many others. She has written on politics, farming, horse training, child-rearing, literature, impulse buying, Barbie, marriage, Monica Lewinsky, and even the trials and tribulations of getting dressed. She is a Vassar graduate and holds an M.F.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. She taught at Iowa State University from 1981 until 1996 and now lives in California with her three children, three dogs, and at least sixteen horses.
Parents and children are often at the heart of Smiley\u27s writing. Very few writers are her equal in capturing the day-to-day truths of family life. And no one writes family tension as well-whether that life is in the uncompromising rooms of the horse ranch in Barn Blind; in the trackless reaches of medieval Greenland; on the thousand acres of Larry Cook\u27s place in Zebulon country in A Thousand Acres; in the Kansas-Missouri backwoods borderland traveled by the adventurous Liddie Newton; or among the stars and stumblebums who populate the racetracks of Horse Heaven.
The word that comes to mind in describing Jane Smiley\u27s work is a good Renaissance word: chicanery. It\u27s the chicanery of an aging father trying to outwit his fate in A Thousand Acres, the chicanery of a university professor trying to hide his strange and wonderful hog-breeding experiment in Moo, the plotting of a widow to avenge her murdered husband in Liddie Newton, and the schemes of racetrack people to make one big killing on a horse. Jane Smiley\u27s novels are the work of a true scandal-monger, reminiscent of Charles Dickens. They\u27re tapestries of planners and schemers, the doers and the done-to, the winners and the if-onlies, the dreamers and the damned, the why\u27s and the why-not\u27s
"Reckless for Christ " by Jane Poster
No full textA booklet entitled "Reckless for Christ " by Jane Poster, and a letter from the author to history professor David L. Smiley
Charles Dickens
No full textA superb, highly accessible biography of one of the giants of English literature by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres. From a bitter and poverty-stricken childhood to a career as the most acclaimed and best loved writer in the English-speaking world, Charles Dickens had a life as full of incident as any of those he created in his novels of life in Victorian England. The enormous quantity of work, his public readings and his difficult relationships has made him a figure of enduring fascination. In this biography Jane Smiley reveals Charles Dickens as his contemporaries would have done, getting to know him more intimately than ever before. At the same time Smiley offers interpretations of almost all of Dickens' major works, showing how 'his novels shaped his life as much as his life shaped his novels
Validation of the portuguese simple measure of impact of lupus erythematosus in youngsters (SMILEY) in Brazil
No full textBackground and Objective: Simple Measure of the Impact of Lupus Erythematosus in Youngsters (SMILEY) is a health-related quality of life (HRQOL) assessment tool for pediatric systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), which has been translated into Portuguese for Brazil. We are reporting preliminary data on cross-cultural validation and reliability of SMILEY in Portuguese (Brazil). Methods: In this multi-center cross-sectional study, Brazilian children and adolescents 5-18 years of age with SLE and parents participated. Children and parents completed child and parent reports of Portuguese SMILEY and Portuguese Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQLTM) Generic and Rheumatology modules. Parents also completed the Childhood Health Assessment Questionnaire (CHAQ). Physicians completed the SLE disease activity index (SLEDAI), Physician's Global Assessment of disease activity (PGA) and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus International Collaborating Clinics ACR Damage Index (SDI). Results: 99 subjects (84 girls) were enrolled; 93 children and 97 parents filled out the SMILEY scale. Subjects found SMILEY relevant and easy to understand and completed SMILEY in 5-15 minutes. Brazilian SMILEY was found to have good psychometric properties (validity and reliability), and the child-parent agreement was moderate. Conclusion: SMILEY may eventually be used routinely as a research/clinical tool in Brazil. It may be also adapted for other Portuguese-speaking nations offering critical information regarding the effect of SLE on HRQOL for children with SLE. © The Author(s), 2012.Department of Pediatrics Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Medical School University of Medicine, 89 French Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901Pediatric Rheumatology Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) Department of Pediatrics, São PauloDepartment of Pediatrics Universidade Federal de São Paulo Escola Paulista de MedicinaDepartment of Medicine Faculty of Medical Science State University of CampinasDepartment of Pediatrics Faculty of Medical Science State University of CampinasPediatric Rheumatology Universidade Federal Do Rio de Janeiro Department of PediatricsPediatric Rheumatology Division Adolescent Health Care Unit Universidade Do Estado Do Rio de JaneiroPediatric Rheumatology Unit Children's Institute Department of PediatricsHospital for Special Surgery, New YorkDepartment of Anesthesiology University of MichiganPediatric Rheumatology Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) Department of Pediatrics, São Paul
Review of the South African Spider Beetle Genus,<i>Pseudomezium</i>Pic, 1897 (Coleoptera: Ptinidae: Ptininae)
No full textPhoto of author Jane Smiley at private reading and reception for BMI donors in 2008.
No full textAuthor of A Thousand Acres, Horse Heaven, and Ten Days in the Hillshttps://oasis.library.unlv.edu/blackmountain_images/1005/thumbnail.jp
Photo of author Jane Smiley at private reading and reception for BMI donors in 2008.
No full textAuthor of A Thousand Acres, Horse Heaven, and Ten Days in the Hillshttps://oasis.library.unlv.edu/blackmountain_images/1005/thumbnail.jp
The Silent Voices of the Law
No full textThis essay examines how women\u27s stories, especially stories of violence, are often excluded by the legal system. For instance, the recent United States Supreme Court decision of United States v. Morrison, effectively silences and suppresses women. The author contrasts this decision with Jane Smiley\u27s novel, A Thousand Acres, a rewriting of the classic tale of King Lear. Smiley follows Shakespeare\u27s general plot, but makes a major plot change by including the father \u27s incestuous relationship with his two older daughters. Additionally, Smiley changes the point of view from that of the father (in Lear) to that of the older daughters. Smiley\u27s rewriting is an effort to provide a voice for the two older daughters in Lear, a counter-narrative typically suppressed by law. Thus, the novel provides a dramatic example of how lawyers and judges can change shift their thinking in order to hear these often-suppressed stories
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