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Letter from M.C. Morton, M.D., Director, Bluff Hospital, to Whom It May Concern, July 24, 1958
No full textThis letter, issued by Morton, M.C., M.D., Director, Bluff Hospital, Yokohama, Japan, explains that Tsugitada Kanamori has requested a certificate of ill health for the purpose of establishing dependency upon arrival to the Bluff Hospital in Yokohama. The letter describes his history of asthmatic attacks and the treatment for his cardiac asthma.This collection contains one box of documents belonging to Tsugitada Kanamori. Materials in this collection mostly pertain to Kanamori’s efforts regarding canceling his renunciation and reinstating his American citizenship
Letter from M.C. Morton, M.D., Director, Bluff Hospital, to Whom It May Concern, July 22, 1958
No full textThis letter, issued by Morton, M.C., M.D., Director, Bluff Hospital, Yokohama, Japan, explains that Tsugitada Kanamori has requested a certificate of ill health for the purpose of establishing dependency upon arrival to the Bluff Hospital in Yokohama. His illness had not been not identified.This collection contains one box of documents belonging to Tsugitada Kanamori. Materials in this collection mostly pertain to Kanamori’s efforts regarding canceling his renunciation and reinstating his American citizenship
2000 Sub-Librarians Meeting: Ace Atkins and M.C. Beaton
No full textThe Sub-Librarians planned and advertised a program with renowned science fiction and fantasy author Philip Jose Farmer. George Scheetz was instrumental in making that introduction. However, due to ill health, Farmer was unable to travel and had to cancel close to the program date.
However, on very short notice, Ace Atkins agreed to come to Chicago and speak to the group. Atkins had spoken to a very appreciative group of Sub-Librarians the previous year in New Orleans, and he gave another stellar performance in Chicago. He talked about his new book, Leaving\u27 Trunk Blues, which is another Nick Travers mystery, this one set in Chicago, from St. Martin\u27s Press.
St. Martin\u27s also stepped up and offered to have author M.C. Beaton join Ace as a speaker. M.C. Beaton is a pseudonym of Marion Chesney, who may be best known as the author of romance novels set during the English Regency. Her first detective story as M.C. Beaton came out for St. Martin\u27s in 1985. She has two series-one set in Scotland with Hamish Macbeth and one set in the Cotswolds with Agatha Raisin.
St. Martin\u27s generously provided copies of both authors\u27 books for signing after the program.
Marsha Pollak chaired the program, welcomed the audience, explained the change in speakers, called for toasts and introduced the authors
Drag it together with Groupie: making RDF data authoring easy and fun for anyone
No full textOne of the foremost challenges towards realizing a “Read-write Web of Data” [3] is making it possible for everyday computer users to easily find, manipulate, create, and publish data back to the Web so that it can be made available for others to use. However, many aspects of Linked Data make authoring and manipulation difficult for “normal” (ie non-coder) end-users. First, data can be high-dimensional, having arbitrary many properties per “instance”, and interlinked to arbitrary many other instances in a many different ways. Second, collections of Linked Data tend to be vastly more heterogeneous than in typical structured databases, where instances are kept in uniform collections (e.g., database tables). Third, while highly flexible, the problem of having all structures reduced as a graph is verbosity: even simple structures can appear complex. Finally, many of the concepts involved in linked data authoring - for example, terms used to define ontologies are highly abstract and foreign to regular citizen-users.To counter this complexity we have devised a drag-and-drop direct manipulation interface that makes authoring Linked Data easy, fun, and accessible to a wide audience. Groupie allows users to author data simply by dragging blobs representing entities into other entities to compose relationships, establishing one relational link at a time. Since the underlying representation is RDF, Groupie facilitates the inclusion of references to entities and properties defined elsewhere on the Web through integration with popular Linked Data indexing services. Finally, to make it easy for new users to build upon others’ work, Groupie provides a communal space where all data sets created by users can be shared, cloned and modified, allowing individual users to help each other model complex domains thereby leveraging collective intelligence
Riddle, Hon. Haywood Yancey of Tenn. Private in Confederate Army in 1861. The last years on the staff of General Wright and Mackall
No full textTitle from unverified information on negative sleeve.Annotation from negative, scratched into emulsion: H.Y. Riddle, Ex M.C. Tenn.Forms part of Brady-Handy Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
A Validated Framework for Measuring Interface Support for Interactive Information Seeking
No full textIn this paper we present the validation of an evaluation framework that models the support provided by search systems for different types of user and their expected types of seeking behavior. Factors determining the types of users include previous knowledge and goals. After an overview is presented, the framework is validated in two ways. First, the novel integration of the two existing information-seeking models used in the framework is validated by the correlation of multiple expert and novice analysis. Second, the framework is validated against the results produced by two separated user studies. Further, the refinements made by the first validation technique are shown to increase the accuracy of the framework through the second technique. The successful validation process has shown that the framework can identify both strong and weak areas of search interface design in only a few hours. The results produced can be used to either revise and strengthen designs or inform the structure of a user study
A Multi-Language Comparison of Influences on Author Verification using Character N-Grams
No full textWe create a new multi-language corpus for author verification based on Wikipedia talkpages, and evaluate the influence that differences in topic and time have on character n-gram author profiles. Topic alignment between two texts is found to increase author verification precision, and an authors writing style is found to change over time, but not more significantly after 3 years than after 1 year.Information ArchitectureWISElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Adaptive Presentation Supporting Focus and Context
No full textThis paper focuses on how content adaptation is provided in adaptive and adaptable hypermedia systems. Questions that we investigate are: How focus and context can be supported by content-adaptation techniques? Are there any techniques that can be easily generalized to adapt the content of generic Web pages without requiring much effort from the author of the pages? How different adaptation techniques should be compared? We propose a new technique of adaptive presentation of Web content, which derives from fisheye views. This technique applies adaptation by modifying the scale of the visual elements in Web pages. We present an adaptable Web application that applies the technique to a set of real-world pages. We also identify existing adaptation techniques that relate to the proposed technique and examine their strengths and weaknesses. Finally, we present and discuss the results of a pilot study which compared our fisheye technique against stretchtext adaptation. The results indicate that our technique is promising while they give valuable feedback about future work
Liveable lelystad, creating a senior friendly urban environment
No full textArchitecture and The Built EnvironmentUrbanismDesign of the Urban Fabric
Come riddle me down in your mind, dear mother,
No full textvoiceCollected by Raymond W. Whittier
For M.C. Parler
Transcribed by Linda Humphrey
Sung by: Irene Sargent West Fork, Ark. Dec. 3, 1960 Reel 303 Item 10
The Brown Girl
Come riddle me down in your mind, dear mother, Come riddle me down in your mind,
It's must I bring the brown girl home And leave fair Ellen alone?
It's aunt I bring the brown girl home And leave fair Ellen alone?
If I must riddle you down in my mind,
The brown girl you go bring.
The brown girl has both house and land;
Fair Ellen she has none.
The brown girl has both house and land;
Fair Ellen she has none.
He dressed himself up so neat.
The dressing was all in white.
And every town that he passed through.
He was taken to be some knight.
And every town that he passed through,
He was taken to be some knight.
He rode till he came to fair Ellen's house,
And jingled at the door.
Noone was as willing but fair Ellen herself To rise and let him come in.
No one was so willing but fair Ellen herself To rise and let him come in.The Brows Girl continued
Oh, what's your news? fair Ellen then said.
Sad news, bad news, said he.
l've come to ask you to my wedding.
Tomorrow is the day.
I’ve come to ask you to my wedding.
Tomorrow is the day.
Come riddle me down in your wind, dear mother, Come riddle me down in your mind.
It’s must I go to Lord Thomas's wedding Or stay at home alone?
It's must I go to Lord Thomas's wedding Or stay at home alone?
If I must riddle you down in ray mind,
Lord Thomas's wedding don't go.
A thousands of friends you may have there,
But a thousand may be your foe.
A thousand of friends you may have there,
But a thousand may be your foe.
She dressed herself up so neat.
The dressing was all in green.
And every town that she passed through,
She wee taken to be some queen.
And every town that she passed through,
She was taken to be some queen.
She rode till she came to Lord Thomas's house, Then jingled at the door.
No one was as willing but Lord Thomas himself To rise and let him come in. No one was but milling but Lord Thomas himself To rise and let her come in.The Brown Girl continued
Is this your wife? fair Ellen then said, I'm sure the is very brown.
You once could have married as fair lady As ever the sun shone on.
You once could have married as fair lady As ever the sun shone on.
The brown girl had a little pen knife It was so narrow end keen.
She stabbed it through fair Ellen's heart, And the blood came trinkling down.
She stabbed it through fair Ellen's heart, And the blood came trinkling down.Funding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation
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