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Mary Leapor (1722-1746), a Northamptonshire kitchen maid, produced a substantial body of exceptional poetry which was only published after her early death. This is a timely recognition of a gifted poet, whose work has remained almost forgotten for 200 years.

Wade Garrison sought revenge for his best friend Emmett Spears who was murdered in Harper, Colorado.

RESEARCH QUESTIONS - 1) Mixed Tendencies A smartphone shows me who, that I know, walks nearby, making life more social for me, yet I, face in phone screen as I walk, miss other friends walking by, making life less social for me - which wins overall? 2) More or Less Social Are our technologies making us more or less social? (Is the “social web” actually very social?) 3) Value of Socialness Are people and groups more social also more productive or innovative (and vice versa)? 4) How Increase Socialnesses How do we increase the amount of socialness of various types of persons and groups? 5) Is Tech ASocial? Are the makers of web apps somewhat autistic/psychotic and is what they invent somewhat autistic/psychotic too and does that state of affairs foster or hinder the socialness of people using what they invent? 6) New Types/Measures of Socialness What will socialness measures from existing but unpublished consults and work practices add to measures from traditional academic fields and from recent socio-tech research articles? METHOD - Three sources are reviewed: 1) very central measures of socialness from usual academic fields; 2) recent research articles on technology impacts on sociality; 3) unpublished consulting and technology practices. Their results are causally related and formed into 3 models, presented here, that generate a survey instrument. The resulting overall model of socialness dimensions is challenged with closing “provisos”. 16 types of socialness from consults/unpublished-practices are examined/combined, including: social index levels, social process balances, high performance culture traits, power types evoked, organization types evolved, amount of culture present, causal power present, cultures of growth/risk/development/self-change, creation power present, social life of info systems - to produce a survey instrument measure of specific types of socialness and their amounts of increase/decrease. Later studies, after the instrument is validated, can then compare extremely productive/creative groups for their amounts of these types of socialness, and vice versa, examine groups extreme in these types of socialness for their levels of productivity/creativity. Then impacts on such socialness types of various leaders, systems, devices, and products can be done to predict sales, versioning, user acceptance - RESULTS - the components of an overall architecture of socialness that enables making a questionnaire for measuring the amount of it present for later validation work.

This paper is forest not tree -- what the whole offers the particular. It counters academia's tradition of accumulating particulars (that Herbert Simon called “a weakness” of modern science). This paper induces abstract dimensions and theory (of design anthropology) from sixteen diverse cases across 40 years, 3 continents, 11 industries. Dimensions of difference (itself a design method) for each pair of the 16 cases were articulated, then grouped by similarity across cases. The result a model of design anthropology as: 1 overarching reality -- design as un-culturing, anti-designing, un-designing, civilizational self-negation, 5 forces influencing design, 5 influences on design from other Novelty Sciences, a 5-part ontology of design (designer, design purpose, design process, the design itself, design kinds), and 9 operations in designing: undoing rightnesses, global creation automata, crossing fields, undoing bias, expanding scope and scale, deploying design process protocols, applying negation powers, audience establishing and enchantment, model repertoires replacing single right-y models, designing sheer performance (a show business). Western civilization as a whole has been identified as a self-negating culture (of cultures) so design as as un-designing fits that essence interestingly. This elemental view of design as an operation within and of cultures that self-negate elucidates why traditional cultures “decorate” in festival design, though they self-negate in tooling design.

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Investigation has been conducted on the feasibility of utilizing digital radar data for "real-time" meteorological and hydrologic applications. Numerical techniques have been developed that enhance the usefulness of weather radar data in these applications. Falling within the scope of this study was an investigation of various coordinate systems, interpolation procedures, and grid intervals. It is demonstrated that a quadratic interpolation procedure and a 2 nm x 2 nm rectangular coordinate system preserve the characteristics of storms required for severe weather forecasting and hydrologic applications. Through the use of digital radar data measured at successive elevation angles in a storm system, an analysis technique is developed that presents a new dimension in mesoscale analysis and gives' means of detecting areas of "explosive development" in severe storms. This indicator presents the three-dimensional characteristics of a storm system in a two-dimension display of vertically-integrated liquid-water content (VIL). Constant altitude reflectivity maps (CAZM), CAPPI type displays, which are useful in mesoanalysis and/or the study of thunderstorm dynamics, also may be generated from digital radar data. Although a CAZM illustrates the echo or storm intensity at various constant levels, to identify precisely the most intense echoes it is necessary to look at the CAZM for each level and integrate mentally the intensities through the depth of the storm. This procedure fails to reveal clearly the "explosive development" in storms, a shortcoming that is not suffered by VIL. ...

Best Practice Tool for Gathering of Customer Requirements -- This article presents the leading method in private sector organizations for determining customer requirements -- questionless questionnaires -- and application of that method to public sector organizations: welfare and other government services, political election campaigns, government agency policy making, and the like. Tool Components -- The components of questionless questionnaires and a best-practice process for applying them are presented. Public sector challenges (globalization, population aging, urbanization, knowledge economy emergence, environmentization, and the internet) handled well by customer requirements gathering and new opportunities generated by it are examined. Customer Requirements Change What Leadership Is -- The nature of leadership changed when the private sector used this method; public sector effects are likely to be starker and more important. This is a qualitative study of such effects, generating hypotheses on how customer requirements gathering changes power, leadership, policy making, service effectiveness, and employee satisfaction. Recursive Tool Application -- Preliminary data are presented on: why public sector institutions resist applying methods developed in the private sector, what customers of the data produced by gathering customer requirements require of such data (the customer requirements of “customer requirements data”), what dimensions of any product or service determine customer satisfaction with it, and comparison of a particular customer requirements gathering method -- the questionless questionnaire -- with usual survey questionnaires. Application Examples -- Examples of successful private and public sector use of questionless questionnaires are presented. The role of methods other than questionless questionnaires for gathering customer requirements is described as well.

This is a short story about the last time I saw my father in 1961, and the memories that day brought back of my visits with him in the early 1950's when I was a young teenage boy. Dad owned a bar on Washington Avenue in Houston, Texas and it was a place where I learned a little more about life than most young men did at that age.

An indication of the magnitude of precipitation attenuation may be obtained by observation of a single, convective, precipitation echo with a dual-frequency radar system. The applicability of this attenuation in the study of convective liquid precipitation is investigated. The attenuation factor is calculated by use of the rigorous Mie solution for the total attenuation cross section and the Marshall-and-Palmer dropsize distribution. The attenuation factor is related to rainfall rate and liquid-water content. Analysis reveals that the in-cloud vertical velocity field must be known in order to relate the attenuation factor to rainfall rate. The problem of forward scattering by both solid and liquid precipitation is examined. For small, liquid-water drops, the amount of forward scattered energy is insignificant; however, for large ice particles, forward scattering becomes important. (Author).

This paper builds a theory of Transparent Social Change by uniting 4 social change processes -- innovation coalition building within organizations, political election campaigning, policy making, with social movement building among organizations -- in one model with 4 ways to improve systems -- parallel systems, emergent systems, total quality systems, and virtual systems. The 4 social change processes are modeled as different uses of coalition building sharing 6 steps. The 4 improvement ways are modeled as a 14 step process of improvement. Two applications of the model are reported. The first case applied the model to shorten the time to complete the work of Newt Gingrich's 1984 re-election campaign to the US House of Representatives. 600 Election volunteers were organized into 100 quality circles and themselves designed aspects of Newt Gringrich's 1984 campaign processes in a one day mass workshop event, a so-called Management by Events Participatory Town Meeting. The second case applied the model to unite five separate quality movements -- the Environment Movement fostering quality of the earth, the Quality of Worklife Movement fostering quality of work, the Consumer Movement fostering quality of life, the Spirit Movement fostering quality of mind, and the Total Quality Movement fostering quality of production. The resulting Global Quality Movement, is slowly taking shape as new techniques are invented that unite values from each group. The paper closes with 4 kinds of transparency to be obtained by future application of the model of social change processes presented in this paper.