It isn’t surprising to find happier tweets on weekends than on working days.

Researchers have been delving into people's moods expressed through Twitter and other social networks to detect positive and negative moods throughout days and seasons.

More than half a billion Twitter messages, from 84 countries were analysed by language detection software for positive and negative moods. Generally, most tweets are positive in the morning and climb in the evening.

Researcher’s claim that changes in the daylight do have an effect on people’s messages. Sleep is said to be an accurate cause of mood changes during the day.

Researchers claim that people are emotionally refreshed by sleep and this would explain why positive tweets appear in the morning.

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A man accused of trying to organize an attack against the Pentagon and the White House in Washington D.C. was arrested Wednesday in Boston.

26 year-old Rezwan Ferdaus allegedly planned to fly remote-controlled planes with bombs on them into the two buildings. He is also charged with trying to supply material to al-Qaeda and aiding attacks on U.S. military personnel.

U.S. Department of Justice authorities say an eight month undercover operation is what led them to the arrest.

They say Ferdaus supplied undercover FBI operatives with eight detonators for al-Qaeda to set off bombs in the Middle East. It is over the course of those eight months that Ferdaus also shared his plan to attack the Pentagon and the Capitol building in Washington, D.C.

The agents supplied him with explosives, a remote-controlled plane and weapons. They then made the arrest after he put the supplies in a storage container.

Ferdaus could face up to 15 years in jail for supporting a foreign terrorist organization if convicted. He could additionally face up to 20 years for trying to destroy national defense premises.

The Concordia University Board of Governors voted in favour of the By-Law changes proposed by the Ad Hoc Governance Review Committee and the amendments made by the joint Board/Senate committee during a meeting this morning. The final vote count was 27 in favour and seven opposed.  

The most disputed and alarming amendment was the reduction of the Board from 40 to 25 members. In the reduced board, students will have their seat total reduced from five to three with only two voting members as well as one alternate non-voting member.

The representatives voiced their concern that the 42 523 Concordia students won’t be properly represented by so few seats on the Board.  The Board is “trying to solve the problem of bad governance with more bad governance,” said Concordia Student Union President Lex Gill.

Also in the new By-Laws, the Faculty of Arts and Science will lose a member, while the pensioners will lose their only seat on the Board. In the end, Board members agreed to bite the bullet for the sake of compromise. As one member said, everybody loses, “but the winner is Concordia.”

When it came to the vote, Chairman of the Board Peter Kruyt motioned for a secret ballot despite the Governance Review Committee’s recommendation of transparent voting. When the student representatives voiced their objection, instead of a discussion on the matter, Kruyt motioned immediately for a vote. As soon as this happened, the student representatives left the meeting in protest.

“This was a foregone conclusion,” said Gill following the meeting. She continued to say that the student representatives were “bullied,” by Kruyt.

Undergraduate co-representative Cameron Monagle agrees. “We saw what happens when your proportion of votes is already as low as it is. And the answer is: you lose, representation goes down, and students lose ultimately.”