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Chronic administration of l-sulpiride at non-neuroleptic doses reduces the duration of immobility in experimental models of "depression-like" behavior. It has been shown that long-term administration of l-sulpiride induces a down-regulation of beta receptor-associated adenylate cyclase activity in the frontal cortex of rats, and adaptive response that is typically associated with the chronic administration of antidepressants. Here we show that in two animal models of "depression-like" behavior (forced swim in rats and tail suspension in mice), the long-term (21 days) administration of l-sulpiride at a non-neuroleptic dose (2 mg/kg IP twice a day) significantly decreases the duration of immobility, the effect being similar to that of desipramine (20 mg/kg IP). The same dose (2 mg/kg) of l-sulpiride, acutely administered, has no effect at all. On the other hand, either chronic (21 days) or acute administration of neuroleptic doses of l-sulpiride have an opposite effect, and indeed increase the duration of immobility. These results are an in vivo support to the in vitro findings suggesting that low doses of l-sulpiride may have antidepressant-like activity.

Kierán Suckling, Executive Director of the Center for Biological Diversity just completed a fact-finding mission to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill region. While he was in New Orleans, he spoke with Robert Rappaport. What spells romance for the average bark beetle? Mark Duggan looks at the research being done to better understand the world of these insects, information that can help to control the threat they pose as pests.

Teolindo Acosta Teolindo Antonio Acosta Lázaro (July 23, 1937 — August 2, 2004) was a Venezuelan professional baseball player. Listed at 5' 7", 168 lb., he batted and threw left handed. Acosta was a distinguished batter in his homeland. As a result, many people called him, in friendly way, as El Loquito que Inventó el Hit (the tiny crazy who invented the hit). His skills were shown in his motherland with the Aguilas del Zulia, Cardenales de Lara, Industriales de Valencia, Licoreros de Pampero, Llaneros de Acarigua and Tigres de Araguaof the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League. Besides, Acosta played nine seasons in the Mexican League for the Leones de Yucatán, Pericos de Puebla, Tecolotes de Nuevo Laredo and Cardenales de Villahermosa, now known as Olmecas de Tabasco . Along his prolific career of 23 years, Acosta won five batting crowns, two of them in his motherland and the rest of them in México. Professional career Early years Acosta broke into minor league baseball with the Class-D Dothan Cardinals of the Alabama–Florida League in 1958, batting .313 with 76 RBI and a league-leading 36 stolen bases in 124 games. For whatever reason, the parent Cincinnati Reds assigned him to Dothan for a second season in 1959, and he responded by bopping out a .337 average and again led the circuit with 46 steals. Sufficiently impressed, the Reds moved Acosta up to the Billings Mustangs of the Class C Pioneer League the next season, where he topped the loop with a .369 average (the first of his five pro batting crowns) and 45 swipes. He leapfrogged over B ball in 1961 to play for Class A Columbia Reds of the South Atlantic League, and once more was best in the league in batting (.343) and steals (40), marking his fourth consecutive stolen base titles. Venezuelan Winter League (1956–1979) Teolindo Acosta belong to a selected list of baseball players in Venezuela, who are in the top of several offensive departments; Acosta is the third in the list of most games played (1130); third in plate appearances (4324); he is fourth in Run scored (604); also he is third in hits (1289); additionally, is in the second place in Triples (56) and fourth in stolen bases (121). Along his long career of twenty three years in the Venezuelan winter league, Acosta won two batting titles. In between, he spent part of the 1959-1960 season with the Gavilanes and Rapiños clubs of the rival Occidental League. Mexico League (1968–1976) Acosta was one of the top batters in Mexican baseball for nine seasons between 1968 and 1976, winning three batting titles in a six-year span. Never a power hitter, the 5’6" 158-pound outfielder was a contact hitter who rarely struck out and sprayed the ball all over the field, similar in fashion to Rod Carew. He cooled off a bit over the next few seasons, batting between .269 and 294 from 1962 through 1966, and after only hitting .238 for Buffalo of the International League over 49 games in 1967, he moved south to Mexico for the 1968 campaign with Puebla. Acosta found his footing in the Mexican League, bettering .320 his first eight seasons. He hit .325 for the Pericos in 1968, followed by a Liga batting crown with a .354 average in 1969. Despite that, he moved on to Yucatán in 1970. After hitting .337 that season (including one game in which he went 6-for-6 with six runs), he was the top hitter in Mexico in 1971 with a career-high .392 BA and followed up with a solid .346 season in 1972. Acosta returned to Puebla during his .375 campaign in 1973, and won his fifth and final batting championship in 1974 with a .366 showing. After hitting .320 for Villahermosa in 1975, he wrapped up his career as a 39-year-old with Nuevo Laredo in 1976 by batting .276, his only sub-.300 season in nine Mexican League campaigns. The left-handed Acosta carried a lifetime .328 average in 19 seasons of professional baseball, collecting 2,724 hits with 64 homers and 389 stolen bases. He did even better in Mexico, knocking out a .345 batting average (sixth-best lifetime in the Liga) with 132 stolen bases. He led all of professional baseball in batting in 1971 and 1974. Despite these figures, he is not a member of Mexican baseball's Salon de la Fama. Career statistics Note: Some statistics are incomplete because there are no records available. Bold denotes category leader. Batting {| border="2" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #F9F9F9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size:95%;" |- align=center style="background: #F2F2F2;" !Season!!Team!!League!!GP!!AB!!R!!H!!2B!!3B!!HR!!RBI!!SB!!BA!!SLG!!Ref |-align=center | 1956–1957 || Licoreros de Pampero || LVBP || 21 || 42 || 12 || 10 || 0 || 1 || 0 || 3 || 0 || .238 || .286 || |-align=center | 1957–1958 || Licoreros de Pampero || LVBP || 38 || 148 || 35 || 57 || 4 || 2 || 1 || 11 || 3 || .385 || .459 || |-align=center | 1958–1959 || Licoreros de Pampero || LVBP || 45 || 188 || 30 || 63 || 9 || 4 || 0 || 15 || 7 || .335 || .426 || |-align=center | 1959–1960 || Gavilanes de MaracaiboRapiños de Occidente || LOBP || 18 || 71 || 12 || 19 || 4 || 0 || 1 || 11 || 3 || .268 || .352 || |-align=center | 1959–1960 || Industriales de Valencia || LVBP || 29 || 106 || 16 || 31 || 2 || 1 || 0 || 10 || 5 || .292 || .330 || |-align=center | 1960–1961 || Industriales de Valencia || LVBP || 46 || 172 || 27 || 47 || 1 || 0 || 0 || 11 || 8 || .273 || .279 || |-align=center | 1961–1962 || Industriales de Valencia || LVBP || 49 || 198 || 30 || 65 || 5 || 1 || 2 || 18 || 5 || .328 || .394 || |-align=center | 1962–1963 || Industriales de Valencia || LVBP || 39 || 169 || 32 || 54 || 7 || 6 || 0 || 12 || 8 || .320 || .432 || |-align=center | 1963–1964 || Industriales de Valencia || LVBP || 45 || 174 || 24 || 48 || 4 || 4 || 0 || 20 || 13 || .276 || .345 || |-align=center | 1964–1965 || Industriales de Valencia || LVBP || 48 || 195 || 29 || 63 || 7 || 1 || 0 || 11 || 6 || .323 || .369 || |-align=center | 1965–1966 || Industriales de Valencia || LVBP || 55 || 221 || 34 || 77 || 8 || 1 || 0 || 14 || 8 || .348 || .394 || |-align=center | 1966–1967 || Industriales de Valencia || LVBP || 59 || 229 || 29 || 66 || 6 || 2 || 0 || 15 || 5 || .288 || .332 || |-align=center | 1967–1968 || Industriales de Valencia || LVBP || 46 || 182 || 26 || 51 || 6 || 2 || 0 || 3 || 4 || .280 || .335 || |-align=center | 1968 || Pericos de Puebla || LMB || 99 || 354 || 53 || 115 || 16 || 6 || 4 || 39 || 15 || .325 || .438 || |-align=center | 1968–1969 || Llaneros de Acarigua || LVBP || 59 || 230 || 27 || 73 || 7 || 2 || 0 || 14 || 13 || .317 || .365 || |-align=center | 1969 || Pericos de Puebla || LMB || 142 || 534 || 87 || 189 || 29 || 9 || 6 || 82 || 18 || .354 || .476 || |-align=center | 1969–1970 || Aguilas del Zulia|| LVBP || 52 || 192 || 20 || 46 || 6 || 1 || 0 || 5 || 4 || .240 || .281 || |-align=center | 1970 || Leones de Yucatán || LMB || 140 || 469 || 76 || 158 || 26 || 14 || 3 || 55 || 14 || .337 || .471 || |-align=center | 1970–1971 || Aguilas del Zulia|| LVBP || 21 || 68 || 8 || 21 || 2 || 1 || 0 || 2 || 0 || .309 || .368 || |-align=center | 1970–1971 || Tigres de Aragua|| LVBP || 35 || 139 || 22 || 49 || 7 || 5 || 1 || 19 || 4 || .353 || .496 || |-align=center | 1971 || Leones de Yucatán || LMB || 133 || 441 || 75 || 173 || 22 || 11 || 7 || 71 || 17 || .392 || .540 || |-align=center | 1971–1972 || Tigres de Aragua|| LVBP || 60 || 242 || 31 || 68 || 6 || 4 || 0 || 17 || 5 || .281 || .339 || |-align=center | 1972 || Leones de Yucatán || LMB || 134 || 492 || 77 || 170 || 25 || 11 || 4 || 51 || 11 || .346 || .465 || |-align=center | 1972–1973 || Tigres de Aragua|| LVBP || 60 || 251 || 37 || 74 || 7 || 5 || 0 || 14 || 6 || .295 || .363 || |-align=center | 1973 || Leones de Yucatán || LMB || 121 || 419 || 64 || 157 || 17 || 8 || 9 || 66 || 11 || .375 || .518 || |-align=center | 1973–1974 || Tigres de Aragua|| LVBP || 59 || 225 || 40 || 82 || 6 || 6 || 1 || 27 || 0 || .364 || .458 || |-align=center | 1974 || Pericos de Puebla || LMB || 122 || 464 || 93 || 170 || 17 || 6 || 2 || 43 || 20 || .366' || .442 || |-align=center | 1974–1975 || Tigres de Aragua|| LVBPL || 57 || 213 || 17 || 50 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 15 || 0 || .235 || .249 || |-align=center | 1975 || Villahermosa || LMB || 109 || 416 || 43 || 133 || 9 || 8 || 0 || 30 || 19 || .320 || .380 || |-align=center | 1975–1976 || Tigres de Aragua|| LVBP || 59 || 231 || 24 || 65 || 5 || 4 || 0 || 15 || 3 || .281 || .338 || |-align=center | 1976 || Tecolotes de Nuevo Laredo || LMB || 101 || 384 || 48 || 106 || 5 || 0 || 0 || 19 || 7 || .276 || .289 || |-align=center | 1976–1977 || Tigres de Aragua|| LVBP || 41 || 126 || 8 || 24 || 0 || 1 || 0 || 10 || 5 || .190 || .206 || |-align=center | 1977–1978 || Cardenales de Lara|| LVBP || 63 || 237 || 39 || 67 || 5 || 2 || 0 || 27 || 7 || .283 || .321 || |-align=center | 1978–1979 || Cardenales de Lara|| LVBP || 44 || 146 || 7 || 38 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 10 || 2 || .260 || .281 || |-align=center |} The Sunset of Warrior Acosta, basically was sharing his time as active baseball player between México and Venezuela, and after 23 seasons, he decided to hung up his spikes in 1979 while he was playing with Cardenales de Lara in the Venezuelan winter league. Acosta retired with a lifetime .298 average, and five batting crowns in his pocket, two batting titles he won in Venezuela and the rest of them in México. After retiring from winter ball in 1979, Acosta settled down in Valencia where died from heart problems on August 2, 2004 at 67. Honors and Acknowledgments In 2006 Acosta received the honor of induction into the Venezuelan Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Sources Treto Cisneros, Pedro (2002). The Mexican League/La Liga Mexicana: Comprehensive Player Statistics, 1937–2001. McFarland & Company. Mexican Baseball Stars by John Phillips Nuñez, José Antero (1994). Serie del Caribe de la Habana a Puerto la Cruz. JAN Editor. Gutiérrez, Daniel; Alvarez, Efraim; Gutiérrez (h), Daniel (1997). La Enciclopedia del Béisbol en Venezuela. Gutiérrez, Daniel; Alvarez, Efraim; Gutiérrez (h), Daniel (2006). La Enciclopedia del Béisbol en Venezuela. LVBP, Caracas. External links Baseball Reference Bullpen Biography Teolindo Acosta player information from museodebeisbol.org'' Venezuelan Professional Baseball League statistics Category:1937 births Category:2004 deaths Category:Águilas del Zulia players Category:Baseball outfielders Category:Billings Mustangs players Category:Cardenales de Lara players Category:Columbia Reds players Category:Dothan Cardinals players Category:Gavilanes de Maracaibo players Category:Industriales de Valencia players Category:Leones de Yucatán players Category:Licoreros de Pampero players Category:Llaneros de Acarigua players Category:Mexican League baseball players Category:Pericos de Puebla players Category:Rapiños de Occidente players Category:Sportspeople from Maracaibo Category:Tecolotes de Nuevo Laredo players Category:Tigres de Aragua players Category:Venezuelan Baseball Hall of Fame inductees Category:Venezuelan expatriate baseball players in Mexico

Google Maps personalization could hurt public space and engagement - taylorbuley http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/05/google_maps_personalization_will_hurt_public_space_and_engagement.html ====== lexandstuff Even though two people may literally "look at the same map", their experience of it will be completely different. They will both have different places to call home and work; they will have their own mental no-go zones and various other associations. If this article is correct, it seems Google recognises this and is taking it to its logical next step: literally changing the map for the individual. As far as Google is concerned, services like this are very clearly what they are most interested in offering; convenient personalised digital experiences based on all the data we're willing to feed it. And, hell, they are getting pretty damn good at it! Which is not to say that local community engagement is not a valid problem to solve. Just that, it's one for a different organisation. ------ cromwellian If you've played with the new Google Maps, this is exactly wrong. I find the new maps actually encourages exploration. Everytime you click on the map, new stuff appears, along with photos on the bottom. It's like web surfing or hunting through Wikipedia. Each click changes the map and exposes you to more stuff. What's true is that a search will spotlight the things most relevant to you ("coffee"), but that means the highly related coffee joints by you, your friends, zagat, are slightly bigger on the map, it does not eliminate the other coffee joints, just visually ranks them differently (smaller, or just a small dot) Compared to the old google maps, where a search for coffee would return hundreds of little red dots that you'd have to click on before you could even see what they were, the new maps is far better because it shows more information up front, and clicking the lower ranked stuff is done better, I've spent hours just exploring stuff on the new maps, finding places I never knew about by clicking new stuff as it appears on the map. ------ ianstormtaylor Not convinced by this. If you compare Maps to Search like they did, it seems like the new maps is exactly what I'd want. Search doesn't __only __show you sites you 've visited in the past. If that was it's only metric for displaying results you'd never be able to search in the first place. Obviously that's a little extreme, but Maps will have the same requirements as Search; they need to help you find what you want to find. If you they don't, people will slowly stop using them. If they don't show me the pizza place I want, I'm going to get frustrated, and next time I'll just jump straight to GrubHub instead. ------ onecommentonly _giving preferential treatment to the places frequented by our social networking friends, the places we mention in our emails, the sites we look up on the search engine._ This all of the sudden looks like a nightmare to me, post NSA Prism. You aren't getting that info from me. Not Google, not Facebook. ~~~ kaeawc They're just using the data they have in a new way... you're not giving more.

Wichita Parks & Recreation will host a farewell event for Lawrence-Dumont Stadium on Saturday. It will be the final event held before demolition begins later this fall. A chair sale will be held at 9 a.m. until noon. Sales are cash only and limited to one seat per person. Blue seats will be sold at $35, Tan/blue seats at $20, and red seats will be $5. Purchasers will need to bring wrenches and screwdrivers to remove the seats. Doors will open to the public at 2:30 p.m. on the south side of the baseball complex. The Collegiate High School Marching Band will play during an exhibition game. Food trucks, a bartending service, and Kona Ice will be onsite to sell refreshments. Following the game, a short program of speakers, including representatives from the Lawrence and Dumont families, Mayor Jeff Longwell and Parks and Rec Director Troy Houtman, will speak. Following speeches, a local band “The Astronauts” will hit the stage, followed by a firework finale, weather permitting. The community is encouraged to bring blankets and chairs. “We are excited to honor Lawrence-Dumont Stadium and enjoy it one last time,” said Mayor Jeff Longwell. “While we’re excited about the future of baseball in our community, we want to ensure we celebrate the vibrant part Lawrence-Dumont played in our community.” This event will continue in the event of inclement weather.

Maine Senate candidates Dill, King and Summers have opportunities With the party nominations set for Maine Senate, the campaign provides major opportunities for each of the candidates. The greatest of these opportunities is becoming a U.S. Senator, being a member of what is sometimes called the world’s most exclusive club. In my view, King remains the favorite, even the prohibitive favorite. That’s because he is highly respected and trusted and, in Maine’s political culture, this creates a dynamic where it’s very hard for others to undermine their standing. Moreover, King is a very smart campaigner. He hasn’t sat around, waiting. Since announcing his candidacy, he’s gotten the campaign off the ground, building an organization – with a very strong virtual presence – and with a pool of highly competent staffers and energized volunteers. Along with money and organization, King has a message. This includes independence/civility/fixing the Senate, which, as I’ve said before, raises a prospect that can’t be fulfilled, since one person can’t change the Senate as an institution. However, Maine people do prize civility and independence and pragmatism, and those can be achieved by a senator, and so this is a very good message for King, especially good because it is believable when it comes to the man. It fits his character and reputation. King combines his messaging with his strategy smarts. Today, the day after the primary, he asked his opponents to turn away SuperPACs working on their behalf, with the promise to do so himself if they did. Americans don’t likeCitizens United and Mainers have embraced public financing. King took over part of the news cycle they could have owned, demonstrated he is not waiting around for a coronation, and pushed his message about the political process. It was very well done. But this is not King’s only message. Among other emphases, he is talking about the future, about technology, about what Maine and America should build in order to get where we should go. For example, King touts rural broadband, in a lovely way, tying it both to America’s past and its path forward. This, too, is believable coming from King. He’s talked about such issues for years. Indeed, messaging works best when it’s consistent with the messenger’s record. Having a great message and a reputation that’s led to high levels of trust and an excellent campaign, well, those are at least part of why King is a very formidable opponent. He’s also helped by what happened in 2010, when the vote was split such that Paul LePage was elected Governor, so that now those who don’t support Gov. LePage are very wary about splitting the vote in this race. Now all this doesn’t mean King will definitely win. Dill or Summers might win. But whoever loses has opportunities, depending on how the campaign goes. Let’s say King wins and Dill and Summers lose. Each of these candidates is certainly young enough to run again. When Susan Collins ran her first state-wide campaign, in 1994, she came in third. (This was King’s first race for governor.) But then she ran for Senate two years later and won. Whether they can put themselves in the position to run state-wide again depends on how they run their races. Given King’s advantages, fundraising may be a real challenge. Summers may find it easier because of the huge amount of money coming from Republican supporting SuperPACs. But if he pursues the approach that those groups support — to go really hard after King — Summers may undermine his own reputation and standing. And what is his reputation in the state’s general electorate right now? Probably what most Maine people know about his work as Secretary of State is that he supported ending election day registration and he went after students in a way many found questionable. If he runs a campaign Maine people see as nasty (and the threshold for this can be very low when it comes to candidates who are trusted and seen having dignity and independence), Summers risks being branded as mean and uncivil. Now, that risk may certainly be worth it to him. After all, it’s possible that he could win that way. Moreover, a number of people in his party base will want him to do so and he could undermine his reputation with them if he doesn’t push hard. But it is still a risk when it comes to his standing with the general electorate. Dill also has a substantial opportunity. She is not well known in the state right now and her base is in the southern part of Maine. Her rhetoric has sometimes been harsh. Given her positions on guns and a northern Maine national park, she has very real challenges in rural areas. But she also has an obvious commitment to public policy on behalf of the people. Whatever you think of her views and policy positions, it’s clear that Dill’s web site is the most policy-oriented of the three candidates — no question. Moreover, she spells out policy views in detail and with logic. Summers, who has some policy statements on his web site, has very little detail and his presentations read like party talking points, so that you don’t know if that’s all he really thinks or if there is more there there. King’s site has some policy content and what he presents is beautifully written and contains real depth, but there are not a lot of issues addressed. If Dill can gain a statewide reputation for being a policy wonk, thoughtful and creative, this could be a path to victory. But again, even if she should lose — and she doesn’t come off as mean or uncivil, she’s in a better place to run another time, or even to take an executive position or a high level leadership position for a nonprofit or political organization. These can provide even greater opportunity. In fact, we might call this the Chellie Pingree path. Pingree lost to Susan Collins in 2002, went off to DC to run Common Cause, and then came back to Maine to run for Congress and win her seat. If King loses, well, he can continue all that he has been doing. He probably won’t run for office again. But he’ll have a book to write and a national presence and following that will better enable him to spread his message. So the day after the primaries, a lot is uncertain. While, again, King is certainly the favorite, someone else may win. But whoever wins, the losers, depending on how they acted, could put themselves in a strong position for their own futures. Share this: Comments About Amy Fried Amy Fried loves Maine's sense of community and the wonderful mix of culture and outdoor recreation. She loves politics in three ways: as an analytical political scientist, a devoted political junkie and a citizen who believes politics matters for people's lives. Fried is Professor of Political Science at the University of Maine. Her views do not reflect those of her employer or any group to which she belongs. Post navigation Amy Fried Amy Fried loves Maine's sense of community and the wonderful mix of culture and outdoor recreation. She loves politics in three ways: as an analytical political scientist, a devoted political junkie and a citizen who believes politics matters for people's lives. Fried is Professor of Political Science at the University of Maine. Her views do not reflect those of her employer or any group to which she belongs.

Lung ageing and COPD: is there a role for ageing in abnormal tissue repair? Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the fourth leading cause of death worldwide, with increasing prevalence, in particular in the elderly. COPD is characterised by abnormal tissue repair resulting in (small) airways disease and emphysema. There is accumulating evidence that ageing hallmarks are prominent features of COPD. These ageing hallmarks have been described in different subsets of COPD patients, in different lung compartments and also in a variety of cell types, and thus might contribute to different COPD phenotypes. A better understanding of the main differences and similarities between normal lung ageing and the pathology of COPD may improve our understanding of the mechanisms driving COPD pathology, in particular in those patients that develop the most severe form of COPD at a relatively young age, i.e. severe early-onset COPD patients.In this review, after introducing the main concepts of lung ageing and COPD pathology, we focus on the role of (abnormal) ageing in lung remodelling and repair in COPD. We discuss the current evidence for the involvement of ageing hallmarks in these pathological features of COPD. We also highlight potential novel treatment strategies and opportunities for future research based on our current knowledge of abnormal lung ageing in COPD.

Q: PHP work out age in years and months from timestamp I am running this SQL: SELECT TIMESTAMPDIFF(YEAR,CONCAT(dob_year, '-', dob_month, '-', dob_day),CURDATE()) as age FROM members to work out users ages from a timestamp in the database. I have 3 columns (dob_year / dob_month / dob_day) the above query works out the age in years but I need it in years and months. So rather than age being 10 years, it should say 10 years and 2 months old. A: SELECT TIMESTAMPDIFF(YEAR,CONCAT(dob_year, '-', dob_month, '-', dob_day),CURDATE()) as years, (TIMESTAMPDIFF(MONTH,CONCAT(dob_year, '-', dob_month, '-', dob_day),CURDATE()) - TIMESTAMPDIFF(YEAR,CONCAT(dob_year, '-', dob_month, '-', dob_day),CURDATE())*12) as months FROM members

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Family Research Council (FRC), after reading the fact sheet on the new proposed HHS mandate rule pertaining to non-profit organizations and closely held for-profit entities, like Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties, again confirms that the HHS mandate violates the conscience rights of non-profit organizations and family businesses across the country. Arina Grossu, Director for the Center for Human Dignity at the Family Research Council, made the following comments: "This new proposed rule maintains the threat of crippling fines on non-profits who stand up for their freedom of conscience. "What remains an insulting accounting gimmick does not protect the rights of Americans with sincere conscientious objections. It is simply another clerical layer to an already existing accounting gimmick that does nothing to protect religious freedom because the employer still remains the legal gateway by which these drugs and services will be provided to their employees. It's very disappointing that the Obama administration is doubling down on its plans to punish charities and non-profits that assist the poor and homeless, who in some cases have nowhere else to turn for assistance. "Effective immediately, this latest rule still orders charities like the Little Sisters of the Poor, non-profit Christian colleges like Wheaton College, and religious broadcasters like EWTN to violate their consciences simply because they legally contract for health coverage. The government uses their contract as the basis to force their insurers to provide their employees with free contraception and drugs that can kill human embryos, against their sincere conscientious beliefs. "If these charities and non-profits follow their conscience and decline to participate in the meaningless accounting gimmick, the administration will make them pay huge penalties accruable on a daily basis -- one hundred dollars per employee per day. "Additionally, the government is also soliciting comment on new ways to force family businesses to violate their deeply held moral and religious convictions due to the HHS mandate in an attempt to address and skirt the recent Supreme Court ruling. However, the government's actions here still force family businesses to be complicit in what they view as morally wrong. "The Family Research Council urges the administration to offer a full exemption from the mandate to charities and non-profits that have sincere conscientious objections and to respect the Supreme Court's ruling regarding family businesses like Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties," concluded Grossu.

Q: Preserve tcsh history in multiple terminal windows How can we preserve or maintain the same history across multiple terminals? The same question, but for bash shell , were discussed in the below link Preserve bash history in multiple terminal windows let me know the corresponding settings for tcsh shell ? A: These variables set the history to merge itself instead of overwrite, and not save duplicates: set history=1000 set histdup=erase set savehist=(1000 merge) the secret sauce is this line: alias precmd 'history -S; history -M' which will save and merge your history prior to printing the prompt - i.e. after each command you type. all of the above should be added to your .tcshrc file.

… from Southfront Originally appeared at Freewestmedia [ Editor’s Note: As VT predicted, the real story on who was responsible for the horrors inflicted on Aleppo will be coming out, and some of the Western media are already looking for cover. We have reported on the many rat lines use by a variety of Western and Gulf State Intel agencies to arm the insurgents and jihadis and who later even provided Intel for their operations. NATO has been in it up to its eyeballs, in terms of knowing what is going on and assisting where deemed appropriate. The story below includes an interview with the Syrian MP who first reported the NATO and Gulf State officers in Aleppo, who we were already aware of, as they had been in other parts of Syria in opposition and jihadi command bunkers, which got a bit riskier when the Russians came in. But with the collapse of Aleppo, we knew there would be a treasure trove of hard evidence, and we are finding the ammo dumps that survived not being spotted and destroyed by the Syrian coalition. Much of this stuff will not have a paper trail from the US to Syria, but with some US and NATO ally stops along the way. Weapons all have serial numbers, which are wonderful things for tracing where they were made, with their transportation more of a challenge. A few tons of NATO weapons is a drop in the bucket. Most came through the CIA rat line into the Balkans and old Soviet States, and then the Western weapons bought by the Gulf States and transferred with a wink and a nod to the various jihadi groups. But at the end of the day, the bottom line is still aiding and abetting terrorism, which is a pretty serious felony, unless you are a state sponsor of terrorism, like you know who… Jim W. Dean ] ___________ – First published … December 29, 2016 – Huge stockpiles of weaponry and ammunition, many with NATO markings, were discovered in East Aleppo when the Al-Nusra militants, a local branch of Al Qaida, were pushed out of the city by Syrian forces. The previous reports that NATO personnel were captured are now retracted, as they were allowed to leave with the militants on the buses provided according to the agreement, to spare NATO the embarrassment. FWM interviews the Syrian MP Fares Shehabi, an Aleppo resident himself. He calls the discoveries “SyriaGate”. Mr. Shehabi, European mainstream media and leading politicians are upset about the liberation of Aleppo by the Syrian Arab Army. They write reports about massacres committed by the army and horrified civilians in Aleppo… – It is the total opposite. The news in Europe is a real problem because they report exactly the opposite of the real facts in Syria. We were able to liberate around 100.000 civilians who were held hostage by terrorists in Aleppo. A lot of them were taken hostage for more than four years. These liberated civilians are happy now. The 1.5 million civilians who left Aleppo since 2012 are now able to come home again. This is a very positive and happy moment for Aleppo and Syria in general. We were able to celebrate Christmas in Aleppo for the first time since 4.5 years – we celebrate Christmas every day now in our city! So the terrorists left the city completely? – Yes, but before they left they executed more than hundred Syrian soldiers and hundreds of civilians. We found their bodies. This is all documented. Any international independent investigation can see and check the evidence of these terrorist crimes. But we are happy that our city is now liberated. Some rural areas around Aleppo are still under terrorist occupation. The next step will be to liberate the countryside so the city is well maintained and well protected. Damascus reported about a huge amount of Western military material such as arms and ammunition in Aleppo… – What we found there whole weaponry warehouses which were put in former school buildings by the terrorist forces. Our schools were turned into Al Qaida military bases. We found at those Al-Nusra bases – Al-Nusra is a branch of Al Qaida – full with NATO weaponry. We found tons of these weapons. I call that “SyriaGate” – the US and NATO arm and support terrorist gangs which are even on the official UN terror list in order to topple the legitimate government of a sovereign country. This is totally ridiculous of the West… Why ridiculous? – Because nobody can guarantee that these weapons will not be used one day against the West itself by these terrorists. American and European tax payer’s money is abused to arm terrorist gangs which are ready to direct their guns any time against America and European civilians. This is a huge scandal. What do you know about the presence of Western military and intel experts and advisors in the terrorist controlled areas of Aleppo? Earlier reports spoke about captured NATO personnel. – We didn’t capture any European or American military advisor in Aleppo. However we have reliable information that many of them were there and left the city with the buses we provided for the evacuation of the terrorist forces after their capitulation. Also some of these so-called activists as Bilal Abdul Kareem who is an Afro-American from New York and a loud supporter of the Al Qaida gangs in Syria. Kareem’s presence in Aleppo was supported by the Obama administration and he was often in Western news introduced as “independent journalist”. And there were many other Western agents and terrorist supporters as well in Aleppo who left the city with the buses. This is by the way the reason why the West pushed so hard for this evacuation. Otherwise all these agents, advisors and supporters would have been captured by us and would have been exposed. That would have been a big embarrassment for the West. The fate of Aleppo didn’t play such a big role in Western media for the last 4.5 years. Since the start of the liberation operations of the Syrian Arab Army the situation changed completely: All of the sudden Western media, politicians and NGOs were campaigning – against the Syrian Army. They accused the Syrian Army of committing “genocide” in Aleppo, of bombarding hospitals, of massacring children and babies… – We Syrians paid in blood and destruction. Our own blood is the currency for these Western lies and this “misunderstanding”. Someone in the West can always say “Oh sorry, I got it somehow wrong!”, but we paid with our blood and our lives for this horrible ignorance. Aleppo was conquered by Al Qaida gangs in summer 2012. There were no Aleppo residence involved, our city was very peaceful, no one took the arms against the government. We were conquered by the terrorists with heavy weapons and they took 70 percent of our city. In 2012 around two million civilians lived in East Aleppo, 1.5 million left the occupied territory to safe zones. Nobody in the West spoke about the displacement of these 1.5 million people who were fleeing into government controlled areas. America and Europe were silent. Nobody in the West was interested in the 11.000 civilians killed by the terrorist gangs in four years of random shellings and bombardments. 30 per cent of these killed civilians are children. 4.5 years we were losing innocent civilians by terrorist grenades, explosives and snipers. European politicians, media and NGOs seem to care more about the fate of the terrorists than about the civilians of Aleppo? – There is no other explanation for that behaviour. Again: 4.5 years the terrorists brought the hell to the civilians of Aleppo, but the West didn’t care. When we liberate the terrorist controlled areas the West reacts with a huge campaign against us. At the same time the whole Western media campaigns for liberating the Iraqi city of Mosul from the terrorist gangs of the so-called “Islamic State”. Why is it allowed to liberate Mosul, but forbidden to liberate Aleppo? This is a big hypocrisy. I recommend to the Western audience to put themselves in our shoes. Imagine that tens of thousands Al Qaida terrorists occupy half of Berlin, Paris or London? What would the people do? They would hope for liberation by their army. We Aleppo people waited 4.5 years for our liberation! But we had to bring that sacrifice in order to minimize the civilian causalities. We had to wait for a superpower – the Russian Federation – to help us. If our Army would have immediately started the counter attack in 2012 we might have had thousands of civilian losses and much more destruction. But we waited and we liberated our city. Thank god. ____________

As Phoenix Leader, he participated in a mission to deliver food to the Imperial occupied planetIbaar, as an Imperial blockade cut off the planet's ability to receive off world resources needed for the world's populace to survive. The rebels' plan was to storm the blockade and send a transport loaded with food down to Ibaar's surface, where it would be received by local minerEesh Fahm. Phoenix Leader and four other A-Wing starfighters joined the CR90 corvetteTransport One, the chosen supply vessel, and the starshipGhost, captained by the Twi'lekHera Syndulla, in the mission. After initially engaging the Imperial blockade, the Imperial commander, AgentKallus of the Imperial Security Bureau, opened a communications line and ordered the approaching rebels to disperse. Instead, Syndulla and Phoenix Leader engaged the Imperial ships.[1] Syndulla ordered Phoenix Leader to concentrate on the Imperial TIE fighters and cover the Ghost, which Phoenix Leader promised to do. Despite the rebels destroying several TIE fighters in the ensuing fight, the skirmish turned towards the Empire's favor when Transport One was destroyed. The order to retreat was given, and Phoenix Leader had his men fall back. However, Phoenix Leader's escape was cut short by Imperial fire. News of his death spread through the rebel comm channels, and the remainder of Phoenix Squadron escaped the system.[1] Despite the initial failure, Syndulla returned to Ibaar with an experimental starfighter loaded with advanced weapons and helped the rebel forces break through the blockade and deliver food to the planet's populace. For her actions, Syndulla was promoted as the new Phoenix Leader.[1] Phoenix Leader was a human male with light-colored skin and blue eyes. When Syndulla asked whether or not Phoenix Leader was ready for the assault on the Imperial blockade, Phoenix Leader acknowledged that he and his men were ready for the mission at hand. Phoenix Leader was a capable pilot, and fought Imperial fighters off during the early stages of the mission. However, he was unable to out-maneuver enemy fire as he made his retreat.[1] While piloting his A-wing, Phoenix Leader wore a green jumpsuit and a beige helmet. His A-wing had blue, white, and red markings across it.[1]

Differentiation of a porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus vaccine strain from North American field strains by restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of ORF 5. The suitability of restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis for differentiating a porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) vaccine strain from other North American field strains was investigated. Open reading frame 5 nucleotide sequence data of the vaccine virus, its parent strain VR-2332, and 22 other strains of PRRSV included in this study indicated that 3 restriction enzyme gel patterns characterize the vaccine virus and the parent strain genotype. The combined 3 RFLP patterns differentiate the vaccine and parent virus from other PRRSV strains. This test will be a valuable tool in epidemiologic studies and will be useful in identifying individual strains in cases of multistrain PRRSV infections.

--- abstract: 'Nonlinear waves have been observed in synchrotrons for years but have received little attention in the literature. While pathological, these phenomena are worth studying on at least two accounts. First, the formation of solitary waves may lead to droplet formation that causes significant beam halo to develop. It is important to understand the conditions under which such behavior may be expected in terms of the machine impedance. Secondly, a variety of nonlinear processes are likely involved in the normal saturation of unstable oscillations, leading to the possibility that low-level, but potentially broadband fluctuation spectra may develop. The resulting fluctuation spectra carry indirectly the signature of the machine impedance. In this work we review a number of observations of nonlinear longitudinal waves made in Fermilab accelerators, and make a first attempt to develop appropriate theoretical models to explain these observations.' author: - |  P. L. Colestock,  L. K. Spentzouris, and  S. I. Tzenov\ *Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory\ *P. O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA** title: | Coherent Nonlinear Phenomena in High Energy Synchrotrons:\ Observations and Theoretical Models --- Introduction ============ Over the years, nonlinear wave phenomena have received scant attention in high energy synchrotrons, in part, because of the mathematical difficulty of this subject, but also due to the fact that nonlinear wave motion is usually associated with a pathological state of an accelerator that is best to be avoided. While this is indeed true for the most violent nonlinear effects, a broad class of low-level processes may be playing a role in many present machines, and the drive for ever higher beam intensities may lead to the widespread occurrence of nonlinear wave phenomena. In particular, in the case of the dynamical behavior in the vicinity of an intense, stored beam, we are interested in the formation of beam halo, either as a diffuse cloud, represented by a departure from a Gaussian distribution, or as droplets which may occur in a type of phase transition at beam’s edge due to coherent modes. In addition, it is useful to study the formation of an equilibrium state, if it exists, between a broad spectrum of marginally stable modes and some weak dissipative mechanisms that can lead to a saturated state of low-level turbulence, which, in turn, can affect the rate at which the halo population is generated. These phenomena can be expected to be most prevalent in hadron rings owing to the weakness of the damping mechanisms, and our attention in this paper is focussed on this case. While these subjects are mathematically complex, a rich literature already exists in the field of plasma physics that deals with these questions, although the interparticle force predominantly considered in this literature is due to space charge alone. At the relativistic energies typical in modern accelerators, the interaction between particles is dominated by wall image currents, i.e. the wakefields, which complicates the nature of the interaction, but can also lead to a wider variety of wave phenomena. It is our aim in this work to highlight observations of nonlinear wave phenomena in high-energy synchrotrons and to point out methods of analysis from plasma physics that can be applied to the study of these topics. The types of wave behavior in beams may be classified according to the degree of nonlinearity, in parallel with the concepts in plasma physics. In the linear regime, a resonant mode can be driven resulting in a response at the drive frequency which is characteristic of the beam intensity and the nature of the wakefield, or impedance, of the machine. When detected by a suitable pick-up, the driven response can shed light on the properties of the wakefields and the proximity of the beam to the stability threshold. This socalled transfer function method [@hofmann] is widely used to study accelerator stability. If an accelerator is operated just above its stability limit, the most unstable mode is driven into exponential growth by the wakes, reaching a saturated, though marginally stable, state as the beam distribution is altered by the growing waves. If the spectrum of unstable modes is sufficiently broad, the phase of the perturbation is effectively random, and the interaction of waves and particles leads to particle diffusion in phase space, known in plasma physics as quasi-linear diffusion [@kennel]. The analog in beams, known as the ’overshoot’ phenomenon, has been studied [@chin],[@bogacz], although the applicability of this model is unclear owing to the typically narrow unstable spectrum found in many storage rings. A recent numerical study of this phenomenon that shows the complexity of the interaction is found in ref. [@gerasimov]. However, particularly in hadron rings where the absence of synchrotron damping allows virtually unimpeded mode growth, unstable waves can grow to finite amplitudes that permit a significant fraction of the beam to become trapped in its own wake. The resulting wave motion couples to the trapped particles in such a way as to give rise to slowly damped oscillations. This phenomenon is known as nonlinear Landau damping in the plasma physics literature [@oneil1] (in comparison to linear Landau damping which is part of the linear beam response). It is to be expected that where a discrete spectrum of unstable waves can occur, as is often the case in a synchrotron, that nonlinear Landau damping can play an important role. At the next higher level of nonlinear interaction, coherent modes can resonantly interact in a process known as the three- wave interaction [@nishikawa]. This leads typically to a cascade in frequency which, due to the harmonic character of many modes in storage rings, readily occurs and can cause a broadening of the original unstable spectrum. This phenomenon has been studied in the simple case of longitudinal oscillations in a coasting beam, [@spentzouris] and it can be expected that similar wave-wave coupling can occur in the transverse plane and in bunched beams as well, albeit with different resonance conditions. If the coherent motion is particularly violent, and sufficiently dissipative, then the trapped portion of the beam can self-extract from the core of the beam distribution, forming droplets at the beam edge that can be self-sustaining. These are, presumably, a form of solitary wave, or soliton, which is perhaps unique to a high-energy synchrotron due to the complex character of the wake field. Such solitary waves may be a primary producer of halo particles for weakly-damped hadron rings. In general, we are interested in the final state of these various nonlinear interactions: the condition where the coherent modes reach marginal stability through either a change in the beam distribution, or through frequency spreading of the spectral distribution. In the latter case, the phonons themselves can be thought of as comprising a fluid which comes into equilibrium, the details of which depend on the inter-phonon interaction. In the plasma physics literature, scaling laws for the resulting turbulent fluctuation spectrum have been derived ([@zakharov] and references contained therein). For our purposes, we would like to understand how aspects of the machine impedance, and therefore the detailed design, contribute to the form of the equilibrium turbulent spectrum, if it exists. In this paper we review the observations made at Fermilab [@spentzouris] in stored high energy hadron beams and compare the observations with numerical simulations. Our experimental studies, and thus our theoretical work, have been focussed on the phenomena in perhaps the simplest of all cases, that of longitudinal oscillations of a coasting, or unbunched, beam in a storage ring. As such, the surface of this subject has only been scratched, and our aim here is to outline the steps that would have to be taken to study any of the many other possible situations where nonlinear waves can occur. Moreover, we would like to underscore the importance of understanding turbulence in beams that we feel will be playing an increasingly important role as beams are more commonly run close to, or even above, their linear stability boundaries. Review of Basic Phenomena ========================= Stability in Particle Beams --------------------------- In the case of a high-energy stored beam, the growth of coherent wave motion is normally undesireable. Wakefields can drive such waves, though the mode growth is counteracted by damping due to the spread in frequencies of the individual particles making up the beam, and this damping effect was first derived for a plasma, known as Landau damping [@stix]. A well known technique for determining the linear stability boundary of a beam is to excite driven oscillations on the beam and to monitor the amplitude and phase of the beam’s response, which includes the effects of wakefields. This technique, known as a beam transfer function, [@hofmann], yields for longitudinal motion in a coasting beam a response of the form $$R(\Omega) = \frac{1}{\frac{i(e \omega_s)^2}{2 \pi} \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} \frac{\frac{\partial f_o}{\partial \epsilon}} {\Omega - m (\omega_s + k_o \epsilon)} d \epsilon} + Z(\Omega) \label{eq:response}$$ where $ \omega_s $ is the harmonic revolution frequency, $f_o$ is the longitudinal particle distribution function, $\varepsilon$ is the energy deviation, $k_o$ is the frequency dispersion factor and $Z(\Omega)$ is the machine impedance. This function is directly related to the dispersion relation for longitudinal modes given by $$D_m(\Omega) = 1 + Z(\Omega) \frac{i(e \omega_s)^2}{ 2 \pi} \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} \frac{\frac{\partial f_o}{\partial \epsilon}} {\Omega - m (\omega_s + k_o \epsilon)} d \epsilon \label{eq:dispersion}$$ The stability boundary can be depicted in the impedance plane as the curve for which $Im( \Omega ) = 0$, as shown in Fig.\[figure:tfunc\]. The machine impedance can be extracted from the measurements as an offset of the centroid of the stability curve, provided the beam distribution is known, assumed to be Gaussian here. The Three-Wave Interaction -------------------------- Weakly nonlinear processes are described using the same techniques as in linear stability theory, with the exception that a second-order frequency mixing term is included in the description of the dynamics. The effect of the frequency-mixing leads to a resonant coupling phenomenon by which modes at two separate frequencies couple to produce a response at a third frequency, a process known as three-wave or parametric coupling. The process is characterized by selection rules such that $$\omega_1 = \omega_2 + \omega_3 \label{equation:selection}$$ corresponding to conservation of energy among the waves. A similar condition applies to the mode wavenumbers, corresponding to conservation of momentum. Due to the periodicity in a ring, this condition can be readily satisfied for a large number of normal modes. We have studied the coupling for longitudinal modes theoretically and found three-wave coupling obeys a dispersion relation that couples the linear response of harmonic m and m-n through an idler mode at harmonic n. $$\begin{aligned} \lefteqn{ D_{m}(\Omega)D_{m-n}(\Omega-\Omega_{0}) = } \nonumber \\ %RHS & & \frac { I_{0}^{2}Z_{m}(\Omega)Z_{m-n}(\Omega-\Omega_{0})V_{0}V_{0}^{*}\beta^{8} } { 64\pi^{5}m^{2}(m-n)^{2}\eta^{4} \left( \frac{\sigma_{\varepsilon}}{E_{0}}\right)^{8}(E_{0}[eV])^{4} } \nonumber \\ & \times & \int_{-\infty}^{\infty}\frac{xe^{-x^{2}}} {[\varepsilon-\xi_{1}] [\varepsilon-\xi_{2}]^{2}}\,dx \nonumber \\ & \times & \int_{-\infty}^{\infty}\frac{xe^{-x^{2}}} {[\varepsilon-\xi_{1}]^{2} [\varepsilon-\xi_{2}]}\,dx \label{equation:modedisp}\end{aligned}$$ where the drive frequency is at $\Omega_o = n \omega_s$ and $$\begin{aligned} x & = & \frac{\varepsilon}{\sqrt{2}\sigma_{\varepsilon}} ,\\ \xi_{1} & = & \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}\sigma_{\varepsilon}mk_{0}}(\Omega-m\omega_s) ,\\ \xi_{2} & = & \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}\sigma_{\varepsilon}(m-n)k_{0}}(\Omega -\Omega_{0}-(m-n)\omega_s) , \end{aligned}$$ and $V_o$ is the drive amplitude, $I_o$ is the beam current, $\eta$ is the slip factor, $\frac{\sigma_\epsilon}{E_o}$ is the fractional energy spread and $E_o$ is the beam energy. The implication of Eq. \[equation:modedisp\] is that three-wave coupling is most likely near the stability threshold for any of the modes involved. The selection rule Eq. \[equation:selection\] leads to a single-sided coupling, which was observed experimentally, as shown in Fig. \[figure:spectrum\]. An interesting issue to investigate is how the power in the excited modes varies in time, especially in the presence of damping. Experimental observations indicate that a very regular cascade toward lower frequencies takes place, evidently due to successive three-wave coupling events. This behavior is typical for a dissipative system with sufficiently high mode density, and may be described by the following system of equations for the mode amplitudes. $$\frac{\partial A_{m} }{\partial t} = s_{m}e^{i\phi}V_{mnk}A_{n}A_{k} \label{eq:adot}$$ where the matrix element of the interaction has been symbolized as $V_{mnk}$, and is defined by as the following, $$\begin{aligned} \lefteqn{ V_{mnk} = } \nonumber \\ %RHS & & \!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\! \frac %numerator { -i\frac{2(e\omega_s)^{3}}{\sqrt{\epsilon_{0}}(2\pi)^{2}} Z \int_{-\infty}^{\infty}\frac{\partial}{\partial \varepsilon} \! \left( \frac{\frac{\partial f_{0}}{\partial \varepsilon}} {\omega_{k}-(k)\omega(\varepsilon)} \right) \frac{1}{[\omega_{m}-m\omega(\varepsilon)]} \,d\varepsilon } %denominator { \left[ \left|\frac{\partial D_{m}}{\partial \omega_{m}}\right| \left|\frac{\partial D_{n}}{\partial \omega_{n}}\right| \left|\frac{\partial D_{k}}{\partial \omega_{k}}\right| \right]^{\frac{1}{2}} } \label{equation:amplitude}\end{aligned}$$ It is worthwhile to note that as the multiplicity of modes becomes sufficiently dense, the coupling between waves governed by Eq. \[equation:amplitude\] can lead to a solitary wave phenomenon [@fermi], and this subject will be described further in a later section. In the above mentioned work, only the interaction of longitudinal modes has been considered. It is also reasonable to expect that transverse modes can be coupled, especially where nonlinearities can play an important role, such as in the beam-beam interaction. This should be a fruitful area for further study. Nonlinear Landau Damping ------------------------ Sufficiently large wakefields disturb an initially smooth particle distribution by trapping particles within the potential wells of the waves generated. The particle motion decoheres with a time constant that is significantly longer than the inverse frequency spread, or linear Landau damping time. The trapped particles undergo synchrotron oscillations in the self-generated potential wells, alternately exchanging incremental energy with the wakefields. The combination of energy dispersion of the particles and the nonlinearity of the voltage waveform eventually causes phase mixing of the coherent motion. This nonlinear damping process is called nonlinear Landau damping, and was first studied in plasma physics. [@oneil1], [@dawson] - [@oneil2]. Experiments were carried out in the Fermilab Main Ring which clearly showed the signature of nonlinear Landau damping. In these studies, a short pulse of rf power was applied to the beam using an rf cavity at h=106 (5.03 MHz). The resulting response showed a characteristic response whose envelope decayed not exponentially but in an oscillatory manner, as shown in \[figure:bounce\]. This behavior is attributed to the exchange of energy between trapped particles and waves as described above. Both analytic [@oneil2], [@dawson], [@canosa], and numerical work [@oei], on nonlinear Landau damping has been carried out which descibes the behavior we have observed. This result will also be discussed further in a later section on simulations. It has also been pointed out [@oneil2] that the advent of particle bunching is accompanied by the appearance of coherent power in higher harmonics of the fundamental frequency of the wakefield as the trapped particle bunches compress within the potential wells. Such behavior has indeed been observed in the experiments described above [@spentzouris]. This compression of the bunch length is essentially wavefront steepening which is a prerequisite for the formation of solitons. Solitary Waves. ---------------- The formation of solitons in a beam is of interest, since solitons may well be the vehicle which carries coherent energy in a highly turbulent state that might occur in a beam with weak damping. A vast literature on solitons in various media exists [@drazin] - [@davidson], though little effort has been given to this subject in ultra-relativistic beams. In particular, solitons in plasmas have been studied extensively, [@sagdeev], [@davidson], which depend on the particular nonlinearity introduced by the Coulomb force, i.e. space charge. A similar space charge limit was studied for a coasting beam [@bisognano], [@fedele], and for a resonator impedance, [@arci2], leading to the possibility that solitons may exist in high energy beams under certain conditions. Since a wakefield force is fundamentally more complex than the space charge force, it can be assumed that the characteristics of a soliton will also be unique to the case of a high-energy beam. In particular, it is interesting to know what the impact of the wakefield dissipation has on the solitary wave behavior. Results from a variety of beam experiments suggest that long-lived solitary structures may form and extract themselves from the core of the beam over long times [@cosmo], [@carrigan]. In other work, transient solitary waves seem to appear [@spentzouris]. In all cases, solitons may be viewed as phase-space droplets that appear in the beam, and under some conditions, give rise to a phase-transition and clumpy halo formation. From this point of view, it is valuable to understand their dynamics. To this end we sketch here the results of an analytic study of longitudinal solitons on a coasting beam due to a general resonator impedance. This reperesents the simplest possible scenario for understanding such phenomena, will illustrate the mathematical procedure and serves as the starting point for more complex situations. For the reader’s sake we note that many steps have been omitted from the following derivation for reasons of space. Full details will be given in forthcoming work [@tzenov]. The model equations for the dynamics are given by the following system $$\frac{\partial f}{\partial T}+v\frac{\partial f}{\partial \theta }+\lambda _1V\frac{\partial f}{\partial v}=0,$$ $$\frac{\partial ^2V}{\partial T^2}+2\gamma \frac{\partial V}{\partial T}% +\omega ^2V=\frac{\partial I}{\partial T},$$ $$I\left( \theta ;T\right) =\int dvvf\left( \theta ,v;T\right) ,$$ where $f\left( \theta ,v;T\right) $ is the longitudinal distribution function, $V$ is the voltage on a resonator of $\gamma =\frac {\omega}{2Q}$, $\omega =\frac{\omega _r}{\omega _s}$ $\omega _r$ being the resonator frequency, and $I$ is the instantaneous beam current. Time $t$ has been normalized as $T=\omega _st$. Furthermore $% v=\frac 1{\omega _s}\frac{d\theta }{dt}=1+\frac{k_o\varepsilon }{\omega _s}$ is the dimensionless angular velocity of a beam particle and $$\lambda _1=\frac{e^2Rk_o\gamma }\pi ,$$ where $R$ is the resonator shunt impedance. Using standard moment techniques [@klimon] on the above equations, we may pass over to the hydrodynamic picture of longitudinal beam motion and start from the system of gas-dynamic equations $$\frac{\partial \rho }{\partial T}+\frac \partial {\partial \theta }\left( \rho u\right) =0,$$ $$\frac{\partial u}{\partial T}+u\frac{\partial u}{\partial \theta }=\lambda V-% \frac{\sigma _v^2}\rho \frac{\partial \rho }{\partial \theta },$$ $$\frac{\partial ^2V}{\partial T^2}+2\gamma \frac{\partial V}{\partial T}% +\omega ^2V=\frac \partial {\partial T}\left( \rho u\right) ,$$ where $\rho $ and $u$ are the density and the mean velocity moments of the distribution, respectively, (the variables $\rho $ and $V$ have been appropriately scaled) and $% \lambda =\rho _o\lambda _1$. ($\rho _o$ = constant is the equilibrium beam density.) Using a renormalization group approach [@tzenov], [@goldenfeld], we may derive a set of amplitude equations for the rescaled beam density $R_o$, the current velocity $u_o$ and the mode envelope function $E$. Before proceeding, we would like to examine the stability problem of stationary waves in this system, which can be done without a formal solution of the amplitude equations. The approach, introduced by Sagdeev [@sagdeev], is to look for forms of the nonlinear equations which correspond to harmonic motion in an effective potential well. Such states, if they exist, are conjectured to be allowed solitary waves in the nonlinear system. To this end let us write down the full system of amplitude equations, which after appropriate scaling reads as $$\frac{\partial \widetilde{\rho }}{\partial \tau }+\frac \partial {\partial \Theta }\left( \widetilde{\rho }\widetilde{v}\right) =0,$$ $$\frac{\partial \widetilde{v}}{\partial \tau }+\widetilde{v}\frac{\partial \widetilde{v}}{\partial \Theta }=-c_u^2\left( \frac 1{\widetilde{\rho }}% \frac{\partial \widetilde{\rho }}{\partial \Theta }+\frac{\partial \left| \psi \right| ^2}{\partial \Theta }\right) ,$$ $$i\frac{\partial \psi }{\partial \tau }+i\gamma b\psi +\left( 1-\widetilde{% \rho }\right) \psi =-\left( 1-\frac{2i\gamma }{\omega _o}\right) \frac{% \partial ^2\psi }{\partial \Theta ^2}+$$ $$+\frac{2i}{\omega _ob}\left( 1-\frac{i\gamma }{\omega _o}\right) \frac{% \partial \left( \widetilde{\rho }\widetilde{v}\psi \right) }{\partial \Theta }+\frac i{\lambda b^2}\psi \frac{\partial \widetilde{\rho }}{\partial \tau }% ,$$ where $$\widetilde{\rho }=1+R_o\qquad ;\qquad \widetilde{v}=\frac{ab\omega _o}% 2\left( 1+u_o\right) ,$$ $$\psi =\frac{\left| \lambda \right| }{\omega _o\sigma _v}Ee^{-\gamma T}$$ are the new (rescaled) dependent variables. The coefficients entering the above expressions are specified as follows: $$a=\frac 2{\sqrt{\sigma _v^2+3}}\qquad ;\qquad b=\frac{2\omega _q}\lambda ,$$ $$c_u=\frac{a\omega _o\omega _q\sigma _v}{\left| \lambda \right| },$$ where $\sigma _v$ is the normalized beam energy spread. The new independent variables (time $\tau $ and azimuthal position $\Theta $) are given by $$\tau =\frac Tb\qquad ;\qquad \Theta =\frac{a\omega _o\theta }2.$$ Moreover in the above set of equations the following notations have been adopted $$\omega _o^2=\omega ^2-\lambda \qquad ;\qquad \omega _q^2=\omega _o^2-\gamma ^2,$$ In order to proceed, we have to further assume that the resonator is weakly damped, namely the high-$Q$ case. For this case $\left( \gamma =0\right) $ the ansatz $$\widetilde{\rho }=\widetilde{\rho }\left( z\right) \qquad ;\qquad \widetilde{% v}=\widetilde{v}\left( z\right) ,$$ $$\psi =A\left( z\right) e^{i\left[ \left( a+v_o\right) z/2+\Omega \tau \right] }\quad ;\quad z=\Theta -v_o\tau$$ leads to a system of differential equations for $\widetilde{\rho }$, $\widetilde{v}$ and $\psi $ admitting the following integrals of motion $$C_1=\widetilde{\rho }\left( \widetilde{v}-v_o\right) ,$$ $$C_2=\frac{C_1^2}{2\widetilde{\rho }^2}+c_u^2\left( A^2+\ln \widetilde{\rho }% \right) ,$$ $$2E=\left( \frac{dA}{dz}\right) ^2+\left[ 1-\Omega +\frac 14\left( a+v_o\right) ^2\right] A^2-$$ $$-1+\widetilde{\rho }+\frac{C_1^2}{c_u^2\widetilde{\rho }}.$$ These integrals of motion suggest that the stability of stationary waves can be equivalently described in terms of motion of a single particle in a (pseudo)- potential well. Indeed, the function $$U\left( A\right) =\left[ 1-\Omega +\frac 14\left( a+v_o\right) ^2\right] A^2-$$ $$-1+\widetilde{\rho }+\frac{C_1^2}{c_u^2\widetilde{\rho }}$$ provided $\widetilde{\rho }$ is expressed in terms of $A$ from the second integral, comprises a pseudo-potential function. In Fig. \[figure:potential\] we show $U\left( A\right) $ for the simplest case of constant current velocity $% \widetilde{v}=v_o$ $\left( C_1=0\right) $. We note that a minimum in this pseudo-potential corresponds to solitary waves that can be effectively “trapped” in this potential well. In the following, we can proceed to find approximate closed-form solutions of these nonlinear equations, which will allow us to explicitly find the time behavior of the solitary waves in the presence of dissipation. Eliminating of the current velocity from the complete set of amplitude equations and expressing $\widetilde{\rho }$ in terms of $\left| \psi \right| ^2$ $$\widetilde{\rho }=1-\left| \psi \right| ^2$$ we finally arrive at the damped nonlinear Schrödinger equation $$i\frac{\partial \psi }{\partial \tau }+i\gamma b\psi =$$ $$-\left( 1-\frac{2i\gamma }{\omega _o}\right) \frac{\partial ^2\psi }{% \partial x^2}+\frac{a\gamma }{\omega _o}\frac{\partial \psi }{\partial x}% -\left| \psi \right| ^2\psi , \label{equation:soliton}$$ where $$x=\frac a2\left( \omega _o\theta +\frac{2T}b\right) .$$ Eq. \[equation:soliton\] admits closed form solutions that indicate solitary waves can exist, but due to the dissipation in the model, eventually disappear after initial generation. We interpret this behavior as a gradual shrinking of the potential well that occurs when the trapped particles have decelerated sufficiently from the the resonantor frequency. The results for the voltage amplitude and soliton (caviton) density are shown in Figs. \[figure:amplitude\] and \[figure:caviton\] respectively. We note that a similar equation has been derived [@fedele] from an entirely different perspective. It is also worth noting that Eq. \[equation:soliton\] is a special case of the complex, cubic Ginzburg-Landau equation [@cross], widely used to study various pattern formation phenomena and coherent structures. Turbulence. ------------ The study of turbulence in beams is valuable primarily because it may be a universal phenomenon, at least at low levels, which plays a role in determining the limiting phase-space density in any machine. The effect has likely been small in machines well below their stability thresholds, however, as intensities have been pushed closer to stability limits, nonlinear wave interactions can occur which lead to a marginally stable equilibrium. A first attempt at determining the fluctuation spectrum for a beam was obtained by considering the equilibrium state of a Gaussian beam [@parkhom]. The resulting spectrum was related to the linear dielectric function and showed that the fluctuation density would be strongly peaked for cases near the linear stability limit. It is our conjecture that such a situation may have occurred in the Fermilab Tevatron during recent attempts to realize stochastic cooling of bunched beams [@jackson]. A broad, stationary spectrum of fluctuations was observed at many times the expected Schottky, or shot noise, levels. The harmonic generation observed in the Fermilab Main Ring mentioned above is consistent with these observations as well. It is our aim in this paper to outline a theoretical approach to understand the formation of an equilibrium spectrum and to understand the spectral amplitude dependence on the character of the machine impedance. The approach taken is to develop a statistical description of fluctuations for an ensemble of coupled modes. This may be viewed as a development of the amplitude equations associated with coupled modes, as in Eq. \[equation:amplitude\]. The interaction between modes may be three-wave, as given in \[equation:amplitude\], or higher-order. In this work, we outline a general procedure, but keep only interactions up to the three-wave level. The result will be a scaling law for the envelope of the fluctuation spectrum. The starting point for our analysis is the system of equations for the fluctuation $\delta N$ of the microscopic phase space density and the fluctuation $\delta V$ of the voltage [@zakharov] $$\begin{aligned} \lefteqn{ \left( \frac \partial {\partial \theta }+v\frac \partial {\partial \sigma }+\lambda V\frac \partial {\partial v}\right) \delta N = } \nonumber \\ %RHS & & -\lambda n\frac{% \partial f}{\partial v}\delta V-\lambda \frac \partial {\partial v}\left[ \delta N\delta V-\left\langle \delta N\delta V\right\rangle \right] , \end{aligned}$$ $$\frac{\partial ^2\delta V}{\partial \sigma ^2}-2\gamma \frac{\partial \delta V}{\partial \sigma }+\omega ^2\delta V=-\frac{\partial \delta I}{\partial \sigma },$$ $$\delta I=\int dv\left( 1+v\right) \delta N\left( \sigma ,v;\theta \right)$$ written in the variables $\sigma =\theta -\omega _st$ and $% v=k_o\varepsilon /\omega _s$. Fourier transforming the above equations and using the concept of slowly varying amplitude of weakly nonlinear waves one obtains the following equation $$\left( \frac \partial {\partial \theta }+\Omega _g\frac \partial {\partial \sigma }-\Gamma _k\right) \delta V_k=-\frac i{\left( \frac{\partial \epsilon }{\partial \Omega }\right) _{\Omega _k}}$$ $$\times \sum_{k_1+k_2=k}\kappa _2\left( k,\Omega _{k_1}+\Omega_{k_2};k_2,\Omega _{k_2}\right)$$ $$\times \left( \delta V_{k_1}\delta V_{k_2}-\left\langle \delta V_{k_1}\delta V_{k_2}\right\rangle \right) e^{i\theta \left( \Omega _k-\Omega _{k_1}-\Omega _{k_2}\right) }+...$$ for the amplitudes $\delta V_k$, where $$\epsilon \left( k,\Omega \right) =1+i\lambda nZ\left( k\right) \int \frac{% dv\left( 1+v\right) }{\Omega -kv+io}\frac{\partial f}{\partial v},$$ is the dielectric permittivity and $$\kappa _2\left( k,\Omega ;k_1,\Omega _1\right) = \frac{n\lambda ^2Z\left(k\right) }{2\gamma }\int dv\left( 1+v\right)$$ $$\times\frac 1{\Omega -kv+io}\frac \partial {\partial v}\left( \frac 1{\Omega _1-k_1v+io}\frac{\partial f}{% \partial v}\right)$$ is the second order susceptibility of the beam. Here $$Z\left( k\right) =\frac{ik}{k^2-\omega ^2+2i\gamma k}$$ is the familiar resonator impedance function and $$\Omega _g=-\left\{ \frac{\partial Re\left[ \epsilon \left( k,\Omega \right) \right] }{\partial k}\left[ \frac{\partial Re\left[ \epsilon \left( k,\Omega \right) \right] }{\partial \Omega }\right] ^{-1}\right\} _{\Omega =\Omega _k}$$ $$\Gamma _k=\left\{ Im\left[ \epsilon \left( k,\Omega \right) \right] \left[ \frac{\partial Re\left[ \epsilon \left( k,\Omega \right) \right] }{\partial \Omega }\right] ^{-1}\right\} _{\Omega =\Omega _k}$$ are the group velocity of waves and the damping factor respectively. For the slowly evolving part $A_k$ of the wave amplitude $% \delta V_k$ it is straightforward to derive the equation $$\left( \frac \partial {\partial \theta }+\Omega _g\frac \partial {\partial \sigma }+i\omega _k-\Gamma _k\right) A_k=$$ $$=i\sum_{k+k_1=k_2+k_3}S\left( k,k_1,k_2,k_3\right)$$ $$\times \left( A_{k_1}^{*}A_{k_2}A_{k_3}-A_{k_2}\left\langle A_{k_1}^{*}A_{k_3}\right\rangle -\left\langle A_{k_1}^{*}A_{k_2}A_{k_3}\right\rangle \right) , \label{slwvamp}$$ where $$S\left( k,k_1,k_2,k_3\right) =\frac{\kappa _2\left( k-k_2,\Omega _{k_3}-\Omega _{k_1};k_3,\Omega _{k_3}\right) }{\sqrt{\omega ^2-\lambda n}% \left( \frac{\partial \epsilon }{\partial \Omega }\right) _{\Omega _k}\left( \frac{\partial \epsilon }{\partial \Omega }\right) _{\Omega _{k-k_2}}}$$ $$\times [ \kappa _2 ( k,\Omega _{k_2}+\Omega _{k-k_2};k-k_2,\Omega_{k-k_2} )$$ $$+ \kappa _2 ( k-k_2,\Omega _{k_2}+\Omega_{k-k_2};k_2,\Omega _{k_2} ) ] ,$$ $$\omega _k=\Omega _k-sign\left( k\right) \sqrt{\omega ^2-\lambda n}.$$ Averaging of the equation for $A_k$ yields the kinetic equation for waves $$\left( \frac \partial {\partial \theta }+\Omega _g\frac \partial {\partial \sigma }-2\Gamma _k\right) I_k=$$ $$=2\pi \sum_{k+k_1=k_2+k_3}\left| S\left( k,k_1,k_2,k_3\right) \right| ^2$$ $$\times \delta \left( \omega _k+\omega _{k_1}-\omega _{k_2}-\omega _{k_3}\right)$$ $$\times \left( I_{k_1}I_{k_2}I_{k_3}+I_kI_{k_2}I_{k_3}-I_kI_{k_1}I_{k_3}-I_kI_{k_1}I_{k_2}% \right) ,$$ where $$\left\langle A_kA_{k_1}\right\rangle =I_k\delta \left( k+k_1\right) .$$ Dimensional analysis of the kinetic equation for waves gives the following fluctuation spectrum law of Kolmogorov type $$I_k\sim const*k^{-7/3}.$$ We note that this power law spectrum, which in this case is due to a resonator, would indeed lead to the type of broad fluctuation spectrum seen in experiments. However, at this time, a detailed study of the scaling of the observed spectrum has not been made. An extension of the above work to consider bunched beams, and other types of machine impedance would be very worthwhile. Simulations =========== In this work, we are interested in demonstrating examples of the nonlinear wave behavior we have described analytically. No attempt is made to closely model a real device, though this could be done with the building blocks we provide here. We shall concentrate on the longitudinal plane, as explained above, and carry out simulations exculsively on a coasting, (unbunched) beam, for simplicity. We adopt the resonator model described above and follow approximately the procedure adopted in early simulation work [@keil]. The particle evolution equations are given by $$\frac{d \epsilon}{d t} = 2\pi e\omega_s V(t)$$ $$\frac{d \theta}{d t} = - \eta \epsilon$$ $$\frac{d V}{d t} = \frac{\omega_r R}{Q} (I-I_1) - \frac{\omega_r}{Q} V \label{equation:volt}$$ $$\frac{d I_1}{d t} = \frac{\omega_r Q}{R} V$$ where $\epsilon$ is the energy deviation from the synchronous energy and V is the voltage induced in a resonator with shunt impedance R, resonant frequency $\omega_r$ and quality factor Q. I is the instantaneous current given as the projection of phase-space onto the $\theta$ axis $$I = \frac{e \omega_s}{2 \pi} \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} f d\epsilon$$ The energy dispersion $\eta$ is assumed to be a constant and the particle distribution is advanced each time step according to Eq. \[equation:volt\]. Then the current is computed, followed by the voltage on the resonator using Eq. \[equation:volt\]. Results for the case of a coasting beam are shown in Figure \[figure:sims\] - \[figure:sims2\]. The simulation parameters are given in Table \[tab:simtab\]. In Fig. \[figure:sims\], the phase-space distribution is shown, initially assumed to be uniform in $\theta$ and Gaussian in energy. After 500 time steps, the resonator has developed a sinusoidal voltage from the initial noise level (due to the finite number of particles) which has succeeded in bunching a large fraction of the beam and synchrotron motion in the resulting potential well is taking place. The synchrotron motion can also be thought of as synonymous to the wave-breaking process which has been described in plasma physics [@dawson]. As time proceeds, Fig. \[figure:sims1\], shows a deceleration of the trapped particles from the core of the beam, and the decelerated portion remains well-organized, and even intensifies as its length is foreshortened. The voltage in the resonator then becomes phase-locked to the ’droplets’ and the voltage amplitude oscillates as they move in and out of phase with the remaining coherent structure in the beam’s core. We note that the droplets thus formed bear the characteristics of the solitons discussed in the previous section, remaining self-organized for long times. As the dissipation in the impedance continues to decelerate the solitons Fig. \[figure:sims2\], the resonator voltage drops due to the high Q value, or narrow bandwidth, assumed. This, in turn, reduces the deceleration rate and the depth of the potential wells that can sustain the solitons. As such, a steady state can be reached where the remaining trapped particles reach a stable equilibrium outside the beam, in accord with the analytic model for solitary waves. The envelope of the cavity voltage and the mean energy deviation of the solitons are shown in Fig. \[figure:envelope\], indicating deceleration of the trapped particles. A steady state is eventually reached, though not shown, where the solitons have moved sufficiently off resonance that the deceleration ceases. We show the final results for a low-Q cavity in Fig. \[figure:lowQ\]. These are qualitatively the same as in the previous case, but the structure of the solitons has taken on a decidedly random character. This is evidently due to the fact that the fractional contribution of noise to the cavity voltage is larger, owing to the wider bandwidth of the cavity, resulting in a more random distribution of potential well sizes. Droplet, or soliton formation, still occurs, but the resulting fluctuation spectrum is broader. The onset of the solitary waves can be viewed as a phase transition at the beam’s edge produced by the resonator’s wakefield. This is the case, we believe, that is most frequently encountered in actual machines. Parameter Value --------------------------------------------------------- --------------------- Resonator Impedance 100 Ohms Slip Factor $\eta$ .001 Resonator Quality Factor 10. Typical Beam Energy Spread $\sigma_{\varepsilon}/E_{0}$ $1-4\times 10^{-3}$ Number of Particles 10000 : Model Simulation Parameters \[tab:simtab\] We note that the fluctuation spectrum associated with the above distribution is due to the ensemble of strongly nonlinear waves and is likely beyond the realm of the three-wave interaction described in the scaling law in the previous section. An interesting study to be carried out is the experimental and theoretical determination of the spectral shape in a machine whose impedance is well-known. Conclusions =========== In this work we have attempted to outline various levels of nonlinearity in coherent interactions in high-energy beams. Besides the general academic interest of nonlinear dynamics, for which high-energy beams provide an excellent testing ground, there are at least two areas where the study of nonlinear waves can find application in accelerator physics. The first is the study of halo formation in which the nonlinear evolution of coherent fluctuations can lead to soliton, or droplet, formation, as described in previous sections. While there is suggestive experimental evidence that such states can occur, there has been little detailed study of this phenomenon, and we assert that there is much to be learned about machine wakefields through the study of solitary waves and their interactions. Specifically, we have only considered the simplest case, that of longitudinal waves in an unbunched beam, and there are many other cases of interest in high-energy accelerators. The second application is the study of non-equilibrium fluctuations driven by wakefields. 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There’s a long-lived myth that Silicon Valley and the technology industry are meritocracies where all that matters is the caliber of your code. But it turns out that tech companies are more likely than other employers to require college degrees when hiring software developers. Seventy-five percent of job ads for those roles at technology companies specify […]

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Top IT firms log on to social networking sites to hire middle & senior-level staff Srividya Iyer & Devina Sengupta, ET BureauJul 5, 2010, 08.08pm IST BANGALORE: Nearly half of new middle- and senior-level staff at top tech firms — including Accenture, Cognizant, Mindtree, HP-Mphasis and Wipro — are going to be hired from social networking sites such as LinkedIn, company officials and experts tracking the sector said. Tech firms are now realising that middle-to senior-level managers and leaders are best hunted from platforms such as LinkedIn, where professionals are not necessarily disgruntled job seekers. For instance, Accenture, the world's second-biggest technology consulting firm, plans to hire nearly 40% of its new staff over the next few years through social networking sites such as LinkedIn. And the consulting major is not the only tech employer riding this trend. In fact, software maker Oracle famously found its CFO Jeff Epstein through LinkedIn way back in 2008. "A lot of us who, until a few months ago were busy tweeting and updating Facebook profiles, are realising that LinkedIn is what the recruitment managers are really serious about," said Anushka Shivaram, a brand manager working with a software product firm who got hired through LinkedIn earlier this year. HP-EDS firm MphasiS used Facebook and LinkedIn extensively. For instance, it created a Facebook page called 'The great MphasiS treasure hunt' which was aimed at hiring people across India in application business and also drive footfalls. Around 7,000 people walked in across all centres for interviews and around 650 were hired. While most companies agree that recruitment firms are an indispensable part of the hiring process, they have started shifting to social networking sites. "This recruitment method comes at zero cost, the candidate comes in with references, which in turn reduces the attrition numbers," said Elango R, head of HR at MphasiS. Officials at Cognizant and Accenture who spoke to ET, on condition of anonymity, said their companies could hire nearly half of its new senior-to-middle-level managers through LinkedIn. "Unlike online recruitment with active job seekers, LinkedIn seems to be offering happily-employed people who we would like to hire," said one of the officials. "We sift through the relevant profiles, and even look through the recommendations provided by acquaintances of potential candidates," he added. The candidates are generally differentiated as active and passive job seekers in the recruitment parlance. Recruiters, as well as companies, look for the passive job seekers on sites such as LinkedIn and Facebook. Though it takes a long time, the quality of talent is quite good, according to recruitment managers. Meanwhile, these sites are mostly used to seek candidates for middle and senior levels.

News April, 7 Ian Brown hints at more Stone Roses concerts The Stone Roses want to play future gigs in the UK's less glamorous locations. The band is currently working on a third studio album in London and front man Ian Brown told a fan they would like to play some concerts off the beaten path after their stadium gigs in Manchester this summer. Speaking outside the recording studios, the 53-year-old singer said: "We'd like to play places you'd least like to live - like Sunderland, Grimsby. But not advertised it as that, know what I mean." It has been claimed the group's third album will be released this summer to coincide with their upcoming live dates, which include four headline shows at Manchester's Etihad Stadium. In addition to their Manchester headline shows, The Stone Roses have gigs lined up in Dublin, New York and Japan, as well as a headline slot at T In The Park. However, they have yet to confirm that they are even working on an album with drummer Reni telling NME: "I can't tell you anything because I'll get my arse kicked".

Men's Soccer Cornellians Tabbed to Guide Galaxy Thursday, August 21, 2008 Courtesy of Cornell Athletic Communications LOS ANGELES -- Bruce Arena (Cornell '73) has been named as the new head coach of the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer, the club announced on Monday. Joining Arena on the sidelines for the Galaxy will be fellow Cornell alumnus Dave Sarachan '76, who also served as coach of the Cornell men's soccer program from 1989-1997. Arena makes his coaching debut for the Galaxy when LA plays host to Chicago on Thursday. Arena and Sarachan take over MLS' flagship program, led by English midfielder David Beckham and American forward Landon Donovan. The Galaxy are currently tied for fourth place with Kansas City in MLS' Western Conference with 24 points. The top four teams in each conference qualify for the MLS Playoffs. Arena has been out of coaching since last November when he resigned as head coach of the New York Red Bulls, which he had directed since the middle of the 2006 season. Previously, Arena had served as manager of the United States National Team for eight seasons, guiding the U.S. on its historic run to the quarterfinals of the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Japan/South Korea. Before his time with the national squad, Arena was the coach of D.C. United of Major League Soccer, leading that team to back-to-back MLS titles in 1996 and 1997. Arena coached the United for three seasons before being named to direct the U.S. National Team. The move to the Galaxy for Arena reunites him with one of his most closely trusted assistants in Sarachan, who has coached alongside his fellow Cornell alumnus in three coaching stops. Sarachan, who first worked with Arena as an assistant coach for Arena at Virginia from 1984-88, also has head coaching experience in Major League Soccer after directing the Chicago Fire from 2002 through 2007. Sarachan left Virginia to become the head coach for the Big Red in 1989, staying for 10 years and compiling a 64-63-16 mark and leading Cornell to NCAA tournament berths in 1995 and 1996. Following the 2007 season, he left Cornell to rejoin Arena on the sidelines with the D.C. United, then again teamed with Arena on the staff of the U.S. National Team from 1999 through the 2002 FIFA World Cup, after which he was named to lead the Chicago Fire. Most recently, Sarachan has served with U.S. Soccer in the youth player development field.

Students, Community Groups Sue University of California to Drop Sat, Act - rhegart https://www.wsj.com/articles/students-community-groups-sue-university-of-california-to-drop-sat-act-11576008188 ====== goler "A UC task force is currently assessing the value of the SAT and ACT in admissions, with recommendations expected before the end of the school year, and the university will make a decision after that, said a spokeswoman from the UC president’s office." You would hope the UC system would already have a very good understanding of the value of _all_ of the elements they utilize in admissions decisions. If they don't know the value, why are they still using it?

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--- address: | EKU KRC\ Gyöngyös, Mátrai út 36, Hungary author: - 'T. Novák for the PHENIX Collaboration' title: COLLECTIVITY IN RHIC GEOMETRY SCAN AS SEEN BY PHENIX --- Introduction ============ One of the key discoveries at RHIC is the identification of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) and its characterization as a near-perfect fluid via its collective flow [@Arsene:2004fa; @Back:2004je; @Adams:2005dq; @Adcox:2004mh; @Heinz:2013th]. One of the first observations of collective longitudinal and radial flow and their hydrodynamical coupling in the invariant momentum distribution and Bose-Einstein correlations was made by the EHS/NA22 experiment  [@Agababyan:1997wd] in $h$+$p$ collisions at CERN SPS at the beam momentum of 250 GeV/c, corresponding to $\sqrt{s} \approx 22$ GeV. As one of the first results of the d+Au beam energy scan at RHIC, PHENIX observed collective hydrodynamical behaviour of elliptic flow in d+Au collisions [@Aidala:2017pup; @Aidala:2017ajz], providing evidence for collectivity in d+Au collisions from $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 20$ GeV to 200 GeV. The LHC experiments observed similar features in small-system collisions [@Khachatryan:2010gv; @CMS:2012qk; @Abelev:2012ola; @Aad:2012gla]. These results not only broaden the domain of the applicability of the hydrodynamical paradigm to a previously unexpected domain, but also raise several fundamental questions as well. Is it due to the appereance of sQGP (i.e. a strongly coupled fluid)? If yes, how much time is spent in the QGP phase? What is the origin of final state collectivity? Is it due to initial geometry and hydrodynamics? Is the initial state geometry the primary driver of final state momentum correlations in small systems? In order to test and answer these questions RHIC performed not only beam energy scan but also geometry scan measurements which allows for the investigation of the phase diagram of QCD matter by varying the beam energy in the region where the change from crossover to first order phase transition is suggested to occur. The beam-energy-scan program found real-valued $v_2$ in $d+$Au at all collision energies, providing evidence for collectivity in $d+$Au at all energies. Applying the unique capabilities of RHIC a projectile geometry scan [@Nagle:2013lja] was utilized in order to discriminate between hydrodynamical models that couple to the initial geometry and initial-state momentum correlation models that do not. To characterize the fluidity of QGP, the azimuthal distribution of each event’s final-state particles, $\frac{dN}{d\phi}$, is decomposed into a Fourier series as follows: $ \frac{dN}{d\phi} \propto 1+ \sum_n 2 v_n(p_T)\cos(n(\phi-\psi_n)),$ where $p_t$ and $\phi$ are the transverse momentum and the azimuthal angle of a particle relative to the beam direction, respectively, and $\psi_n$ is the orientation of the $n^{\rm th}$ order symmetry plane of the produced particles. The second ($v_2$) and third ($v_3$) Fourier coefficients represent the amplitude of elliptic and triangular flow, respectively. Varying the collision system from , to , to $^{3}$He+Au changes the initial geometry from dominantly circular, to elliptical, and to triangular configurations, as characterized by the 2$^{\rm nd}$ and 3$^{\rm rd}$ order spatial eccentricities, which correspond to ellipticity and triangularity, respectively. The mean $\varepsilon _2$ and $\varepsilon _3$ values for small impact parameter $p/d/^{3}$He+Au collisions are shown in Fig. \[fig:hydro\]a. The definition of the $n^{\rm th}$ order spatial eccentricity of the system, $\varepsilon_n$, is $ \varepsilon_n=\frac{\sqrt{\langle r^n\cos(n\phi)\rangle^2+\langle r^n \sin (n\phi)\rangle^2}}{\langle r^n \rangle},$ where $r$ and $\phi$ are the polar coordinates of participating nucleons [@Alver:2010gr]. Based on the calculation from a MC Glauber model, the average second and third order spatial eccentricities ($\epsilon_2$ and $\epsilon_3$) are shown as columns in Fig. \[fig:hydro\]a. The second and third order spatial eccentricities are called ellipticity and triangularity, respectively. Hydrodynamical models begin with an initial spatial energy-density distribution with a given temperature that evolves in time following the laws of relativistic viscous hydrodynamics using an equation of state determined from lattice QCD [@Gale:2013da]. Examples of this temperature evolution are shown for $p/d/^{3}$He+Au collisions in Fig. \[fig:hydro\]b using the hydrodynamical model SONIC [@Habich:2014jna]. Based on haydrodynamical models a clear prediction for the ordering of the experimentally accessible $v_2$ and $v_3$ can be given, namely $$v_2^{{\mbox{$p$$+$Au}}}<v_2^{{\mbox{$d$$+$Au}}}\approx v_2^{{\mbox{$^3$He$+$Au}}}, \hspace{50pt} v_3^{{\mbox{$p$$+$Au}}}\approx v_3^{{\mbox{$d$$+$Au}}}<v_3^{{\mbox{$^3$He$+$Au}}}. \label{eq:vn-hydro}$$ This ordering assumes that hydrodynamics can efficiently translate the initial geometric $\varepsilon_n$ into dynamical $v_n$, which is indeed seen in hydrodynamical simulations with small values of specific shear viscosity, as indicated on Fig. \[fig:hydro\]. {width="0.8\linewidth"} There exist a class of alternative explanations where $v_n$ is not generated via flow, but rather is created at the earliest time in the collision process as described by so-called color glass condensate or initial momentum space correlation models [@Mace:2018vwq]. The expectation from models based on initial-state momentum domain correlations for the ordering of the magnitude of the $v_2$ and $v_3$ coefficients is: $$ v_n^{{\mbox{$p$$+$Au}}}>v_n^{{\mbox{$d$$+$Au}}}>v_n^{{\mbox{$^3$He$+$Au}}}, \label{eq:vn-momentum} $$ while the MSTV model in which gluons from the Au target do not resolve the individual color domains in the projectile $p/d/^{3}$He does not follow Eq. (\[eq:vn-momentum\]).[^1] Models vs. data =============== Fig. \[fig:v2\_v3\] summarizes the results of elliptic and triangular flow measurements in the RHIC $p/d/^{3}$He+Au geometry scan. The data points follow a geometrical ordering in a qualitative agreement with expectations from hydrodynamics. {width="0.75\linewidth"} Fig. \[fig:hydro\_mstv\] compares quantitatively the PHENIX elliptic and triangular flow measurements for $p/d/^{3}$He+Au collisions with the results of numerical simulations. Two of these, SONIC and iEBE-VISHNU indicate predictions from numerical solutions of 2d+1 relativistic hydrodynamics with lattice QCD equation of state. The third model MSTV is on the other hand is based on initial state correlations and a color glass condensate initial state. Hydrodynamical models are consistent with the $v_n$ data in all three systems, however, they tend to diverge at higher $p_T$ in case of $v_3$, which may be more sensitive to the hadronic scattering. Focusing on the MSTV, Fig. \[fig:hydro\_mstv\] shows that this model does a fair job in case of $v_2$, but fails in case of $v_3$. {width="0.75\linewidth"} In order to distinguish these models, a statistical significance test was made and provided a $p$-value for the MSTV calculations of $v_2$ and $v_3$ for the three collision systems of effectively zero, in contradiction to the robust values found for the hydrodynamical models. The MSTV paper made a clear prediction that the $v_2$ will be identical between systems when selecting on the same event multiplicity. Shown in Fig. \[fig:samemult\] are the previously published (20-40%) and (0-5%) $v_2$ where the measured mean charged particle multiplicities ($dN_{\mathrm{ch}}/d\eta$) match [@Adare:2018toe]. Our results contradict to this MSTV prediction, as they indicate clear differences between the $v_2$ of $d$+Au and $p$+Au collisions even if they are measured in the same multiplicity class, as indicated by Fig. \[fig:samemult\]. The results are however in a reasonable qualitative agreement with hydrodynamical predictions. {width="0.4\linewidth"} Note Added in Proof {#note-added-in-proof .unnumbered} =================== Subsequent to the preparation of this manuscript we were made aware that there is an issue in the MSTV calculation and that the calculation no longer agrees with the PHENIX data when the issue is corrected. For details see <http://www.int.washington.edu/talks/WorkShops/int_19_1b/People/Mace_M/Mace.pdf> . Acknowledgments {#acknowledgments .unnumbered} =============== The author is grateful for the support of EFOP 3.6.1-16-2016-0001, and NKFIH grant FK 123842 - 123959 (Hungary), as well as to the full list of [PHENIX funding agencies](https://www.bnl.gov/rhic/phenix.asp). References {#references .unnumbered} ========== [99]{} Arsene, I. *et al.* . Back, B. B. *et al.* . Adams, J. *et al.* . Adcox, K. *et al.* . Heinz, U. & Snellings, R. . N. M. Agababyan [*et al.*]{} \[EHS/NA22 Collaboration\], Phys. Lett. B [**422**]{}, 359 (1998) C. Aidala [*et al.*]{} \[PHENIX Collaboration\], Phys. Rev. C [**96**]{}, no. 6, 064905 (2017) C. Aidala [*et al.*]{} \[PHENIX Collaboration\], Phys. Rev. Lett.  [**120**]{}, no. 6, 062302 (2018) Khachatryan, V. *et al.* , 091 (2010). Chatrchyan, S. *et al.* . Abelev, B. *et al.* . Aad, G. *et al.* . Nagle, J. L. *et al.* . Alver, B. & Roland, G. . Gale, C.,Jeon, S. & Schenke, B. . Habich, M., Nagle, J. L. & Romatschke, P. . Mace, M., Skokov, V. V., Tribedy, P. & Venugopalan, R. . Adare, A. *et al.* [1807.11928]{}[ (2018)]{}. [^1]: Please see the Note Added in Proof at the end of this manuscript for an important update regarding the MSTV calculation.

58 F.Supp. 692 (1944) WILLIAMS v. McGOWAN, Collector of Internal Revenue. Civ. No. 1528. District Court, W. D. New York. December 9, 1944. Mandeville, Buck, Tester & Marpending, of Elmira, N. Y., for plaintiff. Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Andrew D. Sharpe and Benjamin H. Pester, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., and George L. Grobe, U. S. Atty., and R. Norman Kirchgraber, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Buffalo, N. Y., for defendant. KNIGHT, District Judge. The case has been submitted on an agreed state of facts. Two questions are at issue, to wit: (1) Are attorneys' fees paid for obtaining an income tax refund deductible expenses; and (2) Was the sale in question a sale of "capital assets". Aaron F. Williams, taxpayer, and one Jacob Reynolds were copartners in a hardware business commencing in 1926 and continuing until Reynolds died on July 18, 1940. On September 6, 1940, the taxpayer purchased the Reynolds interest from the executrix of his will. The taxpayer had owned two-thirds interest in the business and Reynolds one-third. On September 17, 1940, the taxpayer sold all of his interest in the property and assets to the Corning Building Company, Inc. The taxpayer operated the store from the time of Reynolds' death to the time of the last-mentioned sale. *693 I. Are attorneys' fees paid for obtaining an income tax refund deductible expenses? In 1936 and 1937 the copartners sustained losses on certain gas rights and lease holdings. An attorney was employed and performed legal services in the obtaining of a refund on account of these losses and was paid $700 for his services. Section 121(a) (2) of the Revenue Act of 1942, Chap. 619, 56 Stat. 798, 26 U.S. C.A. Int.Rev.Acts, reads: "Non-trade or non-business expenses. "In the case of an individual, all the ordinary and necessary expenses paid or incurred during the taxable year for the production or collection of income, or for the management, conservation, or maintenance of property held for the production of income." (Italics mine.) In tax cases the statute is to be construed most strongly against the government, but exemptions are to be most strongly construed against the taxpayer. United States v. Stiles, 56 F.Supp. 881; Yazoo & M. V. R. Co. v. Thomas, 132 U. S. 174, 10 S.Ct. 68, 33 L.Ed. 302; New Colonial Co. v. Helvering, 292 U.S. 435, 54 S.Ct. 788, 78 L.Ed. 1348; Deputy v. DuPont, 308 U.S. 488, 60 S.Ct. 363, 84 L. Ed. 416. Stoddard v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 2 Cir., 141 F.2d 76, 79, seems directly in point and to the effect that this legal expense is not deductible. Construing Section 121(a) (2), the Court said, in part: "A contest over the correct amount of petitioner's income taxes in previous years was not an ordinary and necessary expense paid `for the production or collection of income, or for the management, conservation, or maintenance of property held for the production of income.'" The facts there seem comparable to those in the instant case, and the decision is controlling here. The taxpayer cites two opinions in the Tax Court: Mary Lily Bingham v. Com'r, 2 T.C. 853; and McFaddin v. Com'r, 2 T.C. 395. These are not controlling. The taxpayer concedes that this deduction is not allowable in full under the language of Regulation 111, Sec. 29.23(a) (15), but asserts that the deduction is within the contemplation of 23(a) (2) Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C.A. Int.Rev.Code, § 23(a) (2). He intimates that if this new regulation is controlling, he is entitled to some deduction because of the provision in Rule 111, supra, "that part thereof (expenditures) which the taxpayer clearly shows to be properly allocatable to the recovery of interest required to be included in income" is deductible. The answer to this is that there is no showing in the stipulation of the percentage of recovery represented by interest. II. Did the sale of the assets and property which represented the taxpayer's original interest in the former partnership result in a long term capital loss? There is some difference in the computation made by the taxpayer and the Commissioner as to the amount of any loss, but that difference can affect only the amount of the tax and not the question of whether the loss was a capital loss. The total investment of the copartnership was $96,924.02. The taxpayer had invested $73,379.23 and Reynolds $23,644.79, as appears from the settlement of the accounts between the partners as of January 31, 1940. The taxpayer added the amount paid by him for the Reynolds interest to the amount he himself had invested together with $1,555.38 withdrawals by Reynolds and restored to arrive at his total investment. From this he deducted the total amount received from the Corning Building Company, Inc., or $69,834.60, thereby leaving a net loss of $17,287.99. The Commissioner first computed the two-thirds interest of the taxpayer in the copartnership as of February 1, 1940, at $64,616.01, or two-thirds of $96,924.02. He deducted $46,556.40, or two-thirds of the amount which he received on the sale, from $64,616.01. This method of computation shows a loss of $18,059.61. To the last-stated amount the Commissioner added profits, between February 1, 1940, and the time of the sale, in the amount of $5,718.08, making a total of $23,777.69. I do not seem to be able to harmonize the amounts given to show these profits. Defendant's brief states that the profits were $5,908.32, while as appears in the foregoing computation they were $5,718.08. The allowable credit on the loss of $23,777.69 is $11,888.84, or fifty percent thereof. On the sale from Reynolds to Williams there is shown a short time gain in the amount of $2,327.01, which the Commissioner allows. The net income of the taxpayer as claimed in his return was $9,796.92. To this the Commissioner adds the aforesaid *694 sum of $11,888.84 (or 50% of $23,777.69) to make the net income as finally adjusted. On this basis the tax liability was $3,734.40 of which the taxpayer has paid $819.10, leaving a deficiency of $3,115.30. Section 117(a) (1) of the Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C.A. Int.Rev.Code, § 117(a) (1), reads: "The term `capital assets' means property held by the taxpayer (whether or not connected with his trade or business), but does not include stock in trade of the taxpayer or other property of a kind which would properly be included in the inventory of taxpayer if on hand at the close of the taxable year, or property held by the taxpayer primarily for sale to customers in the ordinary course of his trade or business, or property, used in the trade or business, of a character which is subject to the allowance for depreciation provided in Section 23(l)". Section 23(e) provides that "In the case of an individual, losses sustained during the taxable year and not compensated for by insurance or otherwise — "(1) if incurred in trade or business; or "(2) if incurred in any transaction entered into for profit, though not connected with the trade or business;" Section 117(a) (5) defines: "Long-term capital loss" as "loss from the sale or exchange of a capital asset held for more than 18 months, if and to the extent such loss is taken into account in computing net income." The agreement between Williams and Corning recites, in part: "Whereas, the said party of the first part is the owner of a certain hardware business * * *, known and designated as the A. F. Williams Hardware" and "Whereas, the party of the first part (Williams) is desirous of selling said business * * *" and "Whereas, the party of the first part has made or caused to be made a computation of the estimated liquidating value of said business as of the 1st day of February, 1940, and Whereas, said computation has been accepted by the party of the second part as a basis for the purchase of said business, * * * the party of the first part agrees to sell and the party of the second part agrees to buy all the right, title and interest of the party of the first part in and to the hardware business now being conducted by the said party of the first part, including cash on hand and on deposit in the First National Bank and Trust Company of Corning in the A. F. Williams Hardware Store account, accounts receivable, bills receivable, notes receivable, merchandise and fixtures including two G. M. trucks, good will and all other assets of every kind and description used in and about said business for the sum of $63,926.28 plus an amount to be computed by multiplying the gross sales of said business from the 1st day of February, 1940, to the 28th day of September, 1940, both dates inclusive, by .08394%, and the assumption by the party of the second part of all liabilities against said business as of the 28th day of September, 1940." Under the terms of this agreement it makes no difference whether part of the property included would come within the exemption provisions of Section 117, supra. The agreement calls for the sale of the entire assets together with the good will of the A. F. Williams Hardware at a liquidation value fixed as of February 1, 1940. As was said in Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Shapiro, 6 Cir., 125 F. 2d 532, 535, 144 A.L.R. 349: "The price paid for the property in question may have been based partly on assets excluded under the act from the phrase `capital assets' such as inventories or property held by the partnership primarily for sale to customers in the ordinary course of its trade or business. * * * Respondent sold all of his interest to the partnership, tangible and intangible, as a going concern, which in all essentials is different from the ordinary assets of the partnership used in the usual course of its business." Further, the court said: "capital assets" "means all capital invested plus all surplus accounts or undivided profits left in the business for the purpose of accumulating and being used in the business and in addition such good will as had been established and accumulated over the years of its existence. The present partnership was dissolved by the sale under the fundamental principle that every change in the personnel of a firm works dissolution, and that an existing partnership is terminated and a new partnership formed whenever a partner retires or a new one is admitted, but where, as here, there is a sale of a part interest in the partnership as a going concern, no change is wrought in the character of the property sold. *695 "It is fundamental in applying tax statutes that matters of substance are of first importance." In Stilgenbaur v. United States, 9 Cir., 115 F.2d 283, the taxpayer, with partners, carried on a general produce business. He transferred to his partners all his right, title and interest in and to specific property described as all his right, title and interest to stock in trade, goods, merchandise, machinery, tools, leasehold premises and effects, etc. The court held that the sale was of capital assets. In McClellan v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 2 Cir., 117 F.2d 988, the question was whether loss sustained by a partner in withdrawing from the partnership is an ordinary loss or capital loss. The court held that the transaction amounted to sale of "capital assets" to remaining partners. The court, in part, said: "The effect of the retiring partner's withdrawal was to transfer to the other partners for continuance in the business his interest in the stock exchange seat and real estate. The Board correctly held that the transaction amounted to a sale of a capital asset to the remaining partners." The court there cites as supporting this view: Bull v. United States, 295 U.S. 247, 55 S.Ct. 695, 79 L.Ed. 1421; Munson v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 2 Cir., 100 F.2d 363. Various factors go to show the intent to sell the entire assets of the business as of February 1, 1940. The purchase price of the Reynolds' interest and the sale price to the Corning Building Company, Inc., were both based on the inventories as of January 31, 1940. The profits received between January 1, 1940, and the date of the sale by the taxpayer were estimated, returned to the business and included in the sale to the Corning Building Company, Inc. Under the agreement for the purchase of the Reynolds' interest there was never any accounting for income received and no credit given for profits of the business from July 18 to September 16, 1940. This being a sale of the entire assets, it can hardly be contended that the property as a whole was "held by the taxpayer primarily for sale to customers in the ordinary course of his trade or business." It is true that part of the property sold is stock in trade of a kind which may "properly be included in the inventory" of the taxpayer, and part of the entire property sold was "of a character which is subject to the allowance for depreciation provided in Section 23(l)", but these facts do not militate against a holding that the sale of the entire assets as one sale was a sale of "capital assets." Under the facts and circumstances hereinbefore shown, it seems to the court that the sale is to be construed as a sale of the partnership as of February 1, 1940, and that therefore there was a "long-term capital loss" of $23,707.60. Upon this the taxpayer is entitled to a credit of 50 percent of this loss, or $11,888.84. While the cases to which we have hereinbefore referred relate to sale of partnership interests, no reason is seen why the same results would not obtain in the case of the sale of the business as of September 17, 1940, by the individual owner. The question is whether the assets sold were "long-term capital assets" within the meaning of the statute. The complaint must be dismissed with costs.

The Times and NightJack: an anatomy of a failure (This post sets out what Lord Justice Leveson has since described as a "mastery analysis" at paragraph 1.33 of his Report.) The award-winning “NightJack” blogger was outed in 2009 by the Times of London. At the time the newspaper maintained that its controversial publication of a blogger’s real identity was based on brilliant detective work by a young staff journalist. However, it is now clear that the blogger’s identity was established by unethical and seemingly unlawful hacking of the blogger’s private email account. If the hack was not bad enough, the Leveson Inquiry has also heard how the newspaper in effect misled the High Court about it when the blogger sought an urgent injunction against his forced identification. The blogger lost that critical privacy case and it is possible that the case could have been decided differently if the Times had disclosed the hack to the court. The following is a narrative of what happened. It reveals a depressing sequence of failures at the “newspaper of record”. Most of the sources for this post are set out on the resource page at my Jack of Kent blog. Background: the police blogger who won the Orwell Prize NightJack was an outstanding blog and its author was one of the best the blogging medium had ever produced. The blog was an unflinchingly personal account of front-line police work set in the fictional -- and generic -- urban environments of “Smallville” and “Bigtown”. The world it described was very different from the glamorous police shows on television. Readers who otherwise would not know what police really did and what they had to put up with could now gain a proper understanding of the modern police officer’s lot. The blog’s narrator -- “Jack Night” -- could have been any police officer working under pressure in any town or city. NightJack was a perfect example of the value of blogging, providing a means -- otherwise unavailable -- by which an individual could inform and explain in the public interest. After he was outed, the author explained how the blog was started and how NightJack gained a good following: It all began around December 2007 when I began to read blogs for the first time. I read blogs by police officers from all over the UK. They were writing about the frustrations and the pleasures of what we all refer to as “The Job”. As I read, I began to leave comments until some of those comments were as long as the original posts. Reading and responding made me start to consider my personal feelings about “The Job”. So it was that in February 2008, I made a decision to start blogging for myself as NightJack. That decision has had consequences far beyond anything that I then imagined possible. My head-on accounts of investigating serious crime and posts on how I believed policing should work within society seemed to strike a chord and my readership slowly grew to around 1,500 a day. And then, a year after the blog started, something happened that made NightJack one of the best-known blogs in Britain. February to April 2009: NightJack and the Orwell Prize In February 2009, the blogger learned that his work had gained formal recognition: [U]nexpectedly, in February 2009 I was longlisted for the Orwell Prize. In March 2009 NightJack made it on to the shortlist. I realised that what had begun as a set of personal ruminations was achieving a life of its own. I cannot deny that I was happy with the recognition, but at the same time I had the feeling that the Orwell Prize was a big, serious, very public event. Win, lose or draw, my blog was about to move out of the relatively small world of the police blogosphere and get a dose of national attention. On 22 April 2009 NightJack became the first winner in the new blog category of the Orwell Prize, regarded as the leading prize for political writing in the United Kingdom. The judges were clearly impressed; they said of NightJack: Getting to grips with what makes an effective blog was intriguing -- at their best, they offer a new place for politics and political conversation to happen. The insight into the everyday life of the police that Jack Night’s wonderful blog offered was -- everybody felt -- something which only a blog could deliver, and he delivered it brilliantly. It took you to the heart of what a policeman has to do -- by the first blogpost you were hooked, and could not wait to click on to the next one. However, the winning blogger was keen to maintain his carefully protected anonymity. He arranged for the prize to be collected by a friend and for the £3,000 to be donated to a police charity. He later wrote of the attendant media interest: The morning after I won the award, there was a leader inthe Guardian and a full page inthe Sun. The readership went up to 60,000 a day (more people have read NightJack since I stopped writing it than ever read it whilst it was live). My email inbox had offers from newspapers, literary agents, publishers and people who wanted to talk about film rights and TV adaptations. There was a lot of attention heading towards my blog and I was nervous that somehow, despite my efforts to remain unknown, my identity would come out. As an anonymous blogger, I was just another policing Everyman but if it came out that I worked in Lancashire, I knew that some of my writing on government policy, partner agencies, the underclass and criminal justice would be embarrassing for the Constabulary. Also, as an anonymous police blogger I was shielded from any consequences of my actions, but without the protection of that anonymity there were clearly areas where I would have to answer for breaches in the expected standards of behaviour for police officers. During the next month I began to relax a little. It felt like everything was going to work out and my identity would stay secret. I contacted one of the literary agents and said that the blog was not for sale at any price and that I wouldn’t be trading on the Orwell Prize. There was press and TV attention but nobody seemed to want to publicise who was behind my blog. 17 to 27 May 2009 – the hacking of an email account Unfortunately, this happy situation would last for only a month. A staff journalist at the Times called Patrick Foster had become interested in NightJack. Foster covered the media rather than crime, but he was intrigued by this anonymous police blog that had won the Orwell Prize. As Foster later said: In the first instance, this was down to the natural journalistic instinct of trying to unmask someone who tries to keep their identity secret. But Foster was not to use conventional journalistic methods to unmask the blogger. On or about Sunday 17 May 2009, Foster decided to hack into the NightJack author’s Hotmail account. He did this, it would seem, by “forgetting” the password and guessing the answer to the subsequent security question. The Times did not sanction or commission the hack. From the details available in the email account, Foster was apparently able to identify the author of the blog, as well as obtain the blogger’s private mobile phone number and see correspondence between the blogger and a literary agent. This hacking exercise was undertaken on Foster’s own initiative and was similar to an exercise he had undertaken as a student journalist at Oxford. (The police originally treated this earlier hack as a potential breach of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 and referred it to the university authorities.) Thus, Foster was not a stranger to email hacking or to the applicable legislation, which does not have any public-interest defence. On Tuesday 19 May 2009, Foster contacted his line manager, Martin Barrow, the Times’s home news editor, about his discovery. First, Foster emailed Barrow: “Martin, sorry to bother you. Do you have fiveminutes to have a quick chat about a story -- away from the desk, down here in the glass box, perhaps?” It appears Barrow then immediately referred Foster to Alastair Brett, the long-serving Times legal manager. 20 May 2009 – Foster and Brett have a meeting Foster emailed Brett the next day: “Hi Alastair, sorry to bother you. Do you have fiveminutes today? I need to run something past you.” They then had what proved to be a significant meeting. Two years later, Brett recalled the meeting for the Leveson Inquiry: I remember Patrick Foster coming to see me on or about 20 May 2009 about a story he was working on. He came into my office with Martin Barrow, the home news editor, who was his immediate line manager. Mr Barrow indicated that Mr Foster had a problem about a story he was working on. From my best recollection, Mr Barrow left shortly after that and Mr Foster and I were left alone. Mr Foster then asked if we could talk “off the record”, ie, confidentially, as he wanted to pick my brains on something and needed legal advice. I agreed. He then told me thathe had found out that the award-winning police blogger, known as NightJack, was in fact RichardHorton, a detective constable in the Lancashire Police, and that he had been using confidentialpolice information on his biog. As his activities were prima facie a breach of police regulations,Mr Foster felt there was a strong public interest in exposing the police officer and publishing hisidentity. When I asked how he had identified DC Horton, Mr Foster told me that he had managed to gain access to NighJack’s email account and as a result, he had learnt that the account was registered to an officer in the Lancashire Police, a DC Richard Horton. This immediately raised serious alarm bells with me and I told him that what he had done was totally unacceptable. At that first meeting, Mr Foster wanted to know if he had broken thelaw and if there was a public -interest defence on which he could rely. I had already done somework with Antony White, QC on the discrepancies between Section 32 and Section 55 of the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) and the government’s intention of bringing in prison sentences forbreaches of S55 of the DPA. I knew there was a public-interest defence under Section 55 of theDPA. I told Mr Foster that he might have a public-interest defence under the section but I wasunsure what other statutory provisions he might have breached by accessing someone’scomputer as I did not think it was a Ripa (Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act) situation. I said I would have to ring counsel to check there was a public-interest defence and what other statutory offences Mr Foster might have committed. I cannot now remember if I phoned OneBrick Court, libel chambers, while Mr Foster was in my office or shortly thereafter but I do know I spoke to junior counsel around this time and he confirmed that S55 of the DPA had a public-interest defence and it might be available. He did not mention anything about Section 1 of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 during that conversation or point me in that direction. I do remember being furious with Mr Foster. I told him he had put TNL and me into anincredibly difficult position. I said I would have to give careful consideration to whether or not Ireported the matter to David Chappell, the managing editor of the newspaper and the personon the newspaper who was responsible for issuing formal warnings to journalists and couldultimately hire or fire them. As Mr Barrow, the home news editor, had brought Mr Foster up tosee me, I assumed that he was also fully aware of Mr Foster having accessed NightJack’s emailaccount and that he, as Mr Foster’s immediate line manager, would take whatever disciplinaryaction he thought appropriate about a journalist in his newsroom. I also remember making it clear that the story was unpublishable from a legal perspective, if it was based on unlawfully obtained information. It was therefore “dead in the water” unless the same information -- NightJack’s identity -- could be obtained through information in the public domain. I told him he had been incredibly stupid. He apologised, promised not to do it again but did stress how he believed the story was in the public interest and how important it was to stop DC Horton using police information on his blog. He said he thought he could identifyNightJack using publicly available sources of information. I told him that even if he could identifyNightJack through totally legitimate means, he would still have to put the allegation to DCHorton before publication. This process is called “fronting up”, and is an essential element of theReynolds qualified privilege defence in libel actions. However, at the time, Foster took a far more encouraging view of events. Foster emailed Barrow straight after the meeting: Alastair[Brett]on side. Foster then told Barrow: Am tryingto take it out of paper this Saturday for three reasons: (1) am away this Friday, (2) want a little more time toput ducks in a row and pix [photographs], (3) want little more space between the dirty deedand publishing. The “dirty deed” was presumably the unauthorised hacking of the victim’s email account, to which he had just admitted to the Times legal manager. 27 May 2009 – the blogger takes legal action On the morning of Wednesday 27 May 2009, a week after the meeting between Foster and Brett, Detective Constable Richard Horton of the Lancashire Constabulary was told by colleagues that the Times picture desk had been in contact asking for photographs. Then at around lunchtime, Horton received a call on his private mobile telephone number. The caller was Foster. Horton later wrote: Then one morning I heard a rumour thatthe Times had sent a photographer to my home.Later in the afternoon came the inevitable phone calls fromthe Times, first to me and then to Lancashire Constabulary, asking for confirmation that I was the author of the NightJack blog. That was easily the worst afternoon of my life. As Horton’s lawyer later told the High Court: [Horton] was approached by a journalist, Mr Pat Foster, claiming to be from the Times newspaper. Mr Foster told [Horton] that he had identified him as the author of the blog and was proposing to publish his identity as author of the blog together with a photograph of him in the next day’s edition of newspaper. [Horton] has no idea how Mr Foster identified him as the author of the blog. Foster later described the same call in a witness statement for the High Court: On May 27 I contacted Richard Horton by phone and put it to him that he was the author of the blog. He seemed agitated and would not confirm or deny the allegation. In the course of the conversation he admitted that he had had contact with journalists about the blog. Hesaid he was writing a book, but said it could be coincidence that the author of the blog had also written on the blog that they were writing a book. At the end of the conversation I was certain that he was the author of the blog. Horton was indeed the author of the NightJack blog, as Foster knew before he made the call. However, Horton was not going to simply accept his imminent “outing”. He contacted the Orwell Prize administrators about Foster’s call and they referred him to Dan Tench, an experienced media litigator at a City law firm. Tench promptly faxed the Times to warn in general terms that the publication of Horton as the blogger would be a breach of confidence and a wrongful disclosure of personal information. Horton’s legal challenge took Brett by surprise and it placed the Times in a difficult position. Brett had not thought the outing of Horton would lead to litigation. However, Tench was now demanding an undertaking that the Times would not publish the identity of Horton without giving 12 hours’ notice. The Times agreed. This meant Tench and Horton would now have to be told well before any publication, allowing them an opportunity to obtain an injunction to prevent publication. Accordingly, the newspaper did not out the blogger the next day as it had intended. So what public domain information did the Times have on 28 May, the intended publication date, which connected Horton with NightJack? It is difficult to be certain, as there is little direct evidence of any investigation taking place before 27 May 2009 though there had clearly been analysis of some of the posts. And, in his call to Horton, Foster seemed to mention the literary agent only as supporting evidence. This detail was presumably taken from the email account, as was the number he dialled. The newspaper appears to have had little more than the information Foster had been able to elicit from the Hotmail account or deduce from comparing some news reports with statements on the blog. 28 May 2009 – Horton applies for an injunction The morning after Foster’s call to Horton, Brett emailed Tench, giving the required “notice that the Times would be publishing a piece in tomorrow’s paper about your client being the Night Jack”. Tench replied at lunchtime to confirm that Horton would be seeking a temporary injunction at the High Court. An injunction hearing was hurriedly arranged for 4pm the same day before Mr Justice Teare. This was to be the first of two High Court hearings for this case. At the initial hearing, Horton’s legal team set out for the High Court the many detailed steps taken by Horton to protect his anonymity. Because of these steps, Horton’s lawyers contended that any identification by Foster could only have been in breach of confidentiality or an invasion of privacy. At the hearing of the application for the injunction, the barrister for the Times (who had not been made aware of the hack) was instructed to say that the identity had been worked out “largely” by detective work: My instructions, having discussed [the confidentiality] argument in particular with my instructing solicitors and the journalist, who is here, are that the proposed coverage that will be given, which will involve the disclosure of this individual’s identity, is derive …from a self-starting journalistic endeavour upon the granting of the Orwell Prize. It is a largely deductive exercise, in the sense that the blogs have been examined and contemporary newspaper reports have been examined. This first hearing was a relative success for Horton and his lawyers. It was adjourned to allow the Times to put in a skeleton argument and witness evidence at a resumed hearing the following week. In the meantime, the Times undertook not to publish its story. 29 to 31 May 2009 – the Times finds a “golden bullet” After the first hearing, there was frantic activity at the Times to establish that Horton’s identity could somehow be established by entirely public means. Unless this was possible, it was likely that the Times would lose at the resumed hearing. It was at this point, it seems, that Brett realised the Times did not actually have a copy of NightJack’s entire blog. Horton had taken the blog down after the call from Foster, and it appeared neither Foster nor Brett had thought ahead to retain a copy before that call was made. So, on Friday 29 May 2009, the day after the initial hearing, Brett asked Tench for a full copy of the NightJack blog: It is important we see a full copy of the blog in order to make a detailedanalysis before the hearing next week. Why was Brett requesting the blog at this stage? The implication is that the Times had yet to make a detailed analysis of the blog’s content. The Times was looking for any information which would allow it to show that Horton could be identified by information in the public domain. On Saturday 30 May 2009 there was a breakthrough. An excited Foster emailed Brett: Alastair, I cracked it. I can do the whole lotfrom purely publicly accessible information. Brett is delighted, and he replied the same day: Brilliant -- that may be the golden bullet. Canyou set it out on paper? This “golden bullet” -- discovered some ten days after Foster had first raised the case with Brett, and two days after the first High Court hearing and the original intended publication date -- consisted of comments left by Horton on his US-based brother’s Facebook page. To obtain this crucial information, Foster had had to sign into Facebook as a member of the Houston Texas network, but he now had the final detail for the “fronting-up” exercise. This fortuitous discovery was made on 30 May 2009. But, of course, though the Times had originally intended to run the story on 28 May, two days before it obtained its “golden bullet”. Monday 1 June 2009 – Dan Tench writes an important letter By that same weekend, Tench was highly suspicious about the real source of the original identification by Foster. So, on Monday 1 June 2009, he wrote a detailed and substantial letter to Brett expressing concern that there had been unlawful interference with Horton’s email account. Tench set out a number of circumstances that gave rise to the strong likelihood that Foster had identified Horton by means of an email hack. He referred to the comment of the Times’s barrister at the first hearing the previous week, that the blogger had been identified only “largely” by a process of deduction. The password incident of 17 May 2009 was now mentioned, and cuttings were included of Foster’s previous hacking activity as a student at Oxford University. (Those cuttings happened to mention the offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990, the existence of which was news to Brett.) Tench asked Brett directly to what extent Horton had been identified through a process of deduction. He also asked how Foster could have gained details of Horton’s home address, private phone number and literary agent. Tench even requested express confirmation from Brett that Foster did not at any time make any unauthorised access to any email owned by Horton. As he stated bluntly to Brett: It would be an extremely serious matter if Mr Foster had made an unauthorised access into any email account. Tuesday 2 June 2009 – the misleading letter and witness statement But Brett now had his “golden bullet”. When he replied to Tench on Tuesday 2 June 2009, Brett started by complaining about Tench not providing full disclosure of the requested NightJack blog: I think it would be fair to describe your client’s refusal to produce the full copy of the blog in this case asincompatible with that duty to revealall material that isreasonably necessary and likelyto assist the Times’s case and defence at the forthcoming hearing. Brett then proceeded to deal with Tench’s contentions about the likelihood of email-hacking: I am still working on Patrick Foster’s witness statement but apart from inserting all page numbers which is being done while I write this letter his witness statement is now almost ready to be served. I therefore attach a copy of it as it sets out through a process of elimination and intelligent deduction your client’s identity can be worked out [sic]. It is important that you read his witness statement as there cannot be any reason for your continuing to withhold the full blog from us when you have seen that process of deduction set out in the witness statement. As regards the suggestion that Mr Foster might have accessed your client’s email address because he has a “history of making unauthorised access into email accounts”, I regard this as a baseless allegation with the sole purpose of prejudicing Times Newspapers’s defence of this action . . . [. . .] As regards his deductive abilities, please see [Foster’s] witness statement. Brett’s explanation of how identification was obtained and his apparent assurance that the allegation of hacking was “baseless” were at best misleading. Brett himself has put it since that he was being “oblique to an extent which [was] embarrassing”. Yet it was the witness statement that presented as fact that the identification of Horton had been made entirely through accessing material in the public domain. The witness statement, in Foster’s name, was prepared by Brett. (There is nothing unusual in this. Witness statements are often drafted by lawyers, as long as the witness is then fully content with the statement when he or she signs it. In this case, the witness statement would not have been given to Foster to sign until Brett was satisfied with it.) So the witness statement provided a compelling account of excellent detection, describing how Foster, working from scratch, had gone painstakingly through a range of information in the public domain to work out Horton’s identity as the author of NightJack. As Lord Justice Leveson later described, it looked a beautiful forensic exercise. But it was false. The witness statement also included various flourishes that make one think that a clever and elaborate investigation had been carried out step by step. Examples of such details included: I resolved to try to uncover the identity of its author . . . I began to systematically run the details of the articles through Factiva, a database of newspaper articles . . . Because of the startling similarities between the blog post and the case detailed in the newspaper report, I began to work under the assumption that if the author was, as claimed, a detective . . . I tried to link personal details about the author that are revealed on the blog with real-life events . . . I began to examine the posts on the blog in chronological order to try and find personal information about the author . . . Having undertaken this process, it was clear that the author of the blog was DC Richard Horton . . . At the Leveson Inquiry, Brett said that he was only being careful not to allow Foster to be incriminated. This is an admirable sentiment. However, that could have been achieved by other means. For example, the witness statement could have shown how it was possible for the identity of the blogger to be established by materials in the public domain without positively asserting that that was how it had actually been done. Towards the end of the witness statement, almost as if it was an afterthought, Foster then set out the comments on Horton’s brother’s Facebook page as mere “further confirmation” of the identification, rather than the “golden bullet” of his email exchange with Brett. Foster then signed his witness statement and everything was set for the resumed High Court hearing. 4 June 2009 – How the High Court was misled The injunction hearing resumed on Thursday 4 June 2009. This time, the judge was Mr Justice Eady, a specialist in media. By this second hearing, however, Horton’s application was not as strong as it had been at the initial hearing. Because Brett said that the allegation of hacking was essentially “baseless” and because of the story set out in Foster’s witness statement, Horton’s lawyers reluctantly had to drop their contention that the blogger’s identity could only have been established by breach of confidentiality or through an invasion of privacy. Brett was careful not to tell the barristers acting for the Times about the email hack. One (perhaps unintended) consequence of this was that the barristers could not help but effectively mislead the court through no fault of their own. The hearing thereby proceeded on the incorrect basis that Horton had been identified entirely by the detective work set out in the witness statement. So, as Eady later described in the judgment: On 4 June 2009 I heard an application in private whereby the claimant, who is the author of a blog known as “Night Jack”, sought an interim injunction to restrain Times Newspapers Ltd from publishing any information that would or might lead to his identification as the person responsible for that blog. An undertaking had been given on 28 May 2009 that such information would not be published pending the outcome. I indicated at the conclusion that I would refuse the injunction but, in the meantime, I granted temporary cover to restrain publication until the handing down of the judgment, when the matter could be considered afresh if need be. The following passage from the judgment was critical: It was asserted in the claimant’s skeleton [argument] for the hearing of 28 May that his identity had been disclosed to the Times in breach of confidence. By the time the matter came before me, on the other hand, Mr Tomlinson was prepared to proceed on the basis that the evidence relied upon from Mr Patrick Foster, the relevant journalist, was correct; that is to say, that he had been able to arrive at the identification by a process of deduction and detective work, mainly using information available on the internet. Given this concession, Eady summed up the predicament of Horton’s legal claim: [Horton’s barrister] needs to demonstrate that there would be a legally enforceable right to maintain anonymity, in the absence of a genuine breach of confidence, by suppressing the fruits of detective work such as that carried out by Mr Foster. Eady is evidently much taken by the “fruits” of Foster’s apparent detective work. Hugh Tomlinson, Horton’s QC, tried to contend that there was still a public interest in protecting sources from exposure by the national press, even if their identity could be worked out by other means. But to no avail. At the end of the hearing Eady said he would not grant the injunction. Horton had lost. But, perhaps significantly for what follows next, the judge reserved judgment and was careful to keep cover in place until his decision could be handed down, “as the matter could [then] be considered afresh if need be”. In other words, if any matter did emerge before judgment was made public, Eady could take those matters into consideration before the judgment was handed down. 5-17 June 2009 – What the editor of the Times knew, and then what he does and does not do So, what did James Harding, the editor of the Times, know about any of this, and when? According to his later witness statement to the Leveson Inquiry, Harding came to know of the potential identification of the NightJack blogger on 27 May 2009, the day before the originally intended publication date. He also knew of the possible injunction application the same day, though he was not told of the hack. Harding was copied in to an email from Brett to the managing editor, David Chappell, on 4 June, the date of the second hearing. This was an important message stating that Foster had gained unauthorised access. Harding did not read the email at the time, even though it contained information about a serious and apparently criminal incident of hacking by one of his staff reporters. The email said: David, you asked me to do you a memo on NightJack and events to date. I first saw Patrick Foster on or about 19 May when he told me he’d been able to identify real live cases that an anonymous police blogger had been writing about. Patrick felt this was seriously off side and probably a breach of the officer’s duty of confidence to the force. He therefore wanted to identify the guy and publish his name in the public interest. He then said he had gained access to the blogger’s email account and got his name. This raised immediate alarm bells with me but I was unaware of the most recent law governing email accounts. After this conversation, I told Patrick: “Never ever think of doing what you have done again.” I said he might just have a public interest defence if anyone ever found out how stupid he’d been. He apologised and promised not to do it again. Further, he said he would set about establishing Horton’s identity without reference to the email account. I did though say he would have to put it to Richard Horton that he was NightJack. Last Thursday afternoon, our barrister told the court that through a process of deduction and elimination, Patrick could identify Horton as NightJack, but it looked as though we would lose the application because Horton’s silk was convincing the judge that he was entitled to have the information protected by the law of privacy and confidence. On Monday of this week, Olswang wrote to us saying: (a) that Patrick had a history of accessing email accounts and pointing us to an incident at Oxford where he’d been temporarily rusticated for accessing someone else’s email account without authority, and (b) that their client’s email had been hacked into. Looking at the old Oxford cuttings about Patrick’s brush with the proctors, I became aware of the possibility that Patrick’s access to Horton’s email account could constitute a breach of Section 1 of the Computer Misuse Act. Patrick has always believed that his investigation of NightJack was in the public interest. When he came to me to say that he had found out that NightJack was Richard Horton and he had also obtained access to his email account, I made it very clear that this was disastrous, as he should not have done it. Given my own failure to spot what could be a breach of Section 1 of the Computer Misuse Act, I am not in a position to advise sensibly in this case, but I would suggest that Patrick is given a formal warning that if he ever accesses anyone’s computer ever again without authority, whether it’s in the public interest or not, he will be sacked. You might add that the only reason he has not been sacked now is because he was told he might have a public interest defence if he was pursued under the [Data Protection Act]. This email clearly stated that there had been a hack, and that the hack was how Foster had got Horton’s name. The email also revealed that Brett had realised from the cuttings sent by Horton’s lawyers that such a hack could constitute a possible breach of the Computer Misuse Act 1990. Harding has since explained that the point at which he became aware of the hack was the day after this email, when it was raised in a meeting with Chappell. In his written evidence to the Leveson Inquiry, Harding stated: At that time, it was not clear to Mr Chappell or to me exactly what Mr Foster had done, but the suggestion that he had accessed someone’s email account was a matter of great concern to both of us. One would think Brett’s email of 4 June 2009 was quite clear about what Foster had done and its legal importance, in particular two points regarding exactly what Foster had done and its legal significance could not have been made clearer by Brett: [Foster] had said he had gained access to the blogger’s email account and got his name . . . . . . failure to spot what could be a breach of section 1 of the Computer Misuse Act . . . Some might ask why, when he became clear about the hacking, Harding did not try, as would seem to have happened, to find out more about the implications of it or what the High Court had or not had been told about it. However, Harding has said that he did not know at this point that the High Court had not been told about the hacking and that he would have left decisions about what to put to the court to Brett. On 12 June 2009, Mr Justice Eady’s judgment was made available in draft. Eady held that there could be no injunction because blogging is a public activity and Horton had no legitimate expectation of privacy in respect of information that was in the public domain. There was therefore no need to balance the public interest of disclosure against that of privacy. However, Eady also stated that even if Horton had a legitimate expectation of privacy, the public interest in disclosure of his identity would outweigh any right to privacy; but this second point was made without the court having had the benefit of hearing any argument or seeing any evidence on the email hack. It is therefore entirely possible that, had the hack been put before the court, the decision could have gone the other way. For some reason, Harding did not read the draft judgment. But two days after the draft was provided, there was a further important email, this time from Chappell to the then deputy editor, about the impending editorial decision whether to now publish Horton’s identity: There are three things to consider: (1) What is the editorial value of this story? (2) Given there is a significant legal precedent in this, we’ll want to run something. Given the trouble it’s caused, are we now cutting off our own nose to spite our faces if we decide the story isn’t that interesting? Are we now stuck in a position of having to run something because of the legal processes? (3) What do we do about Patrick? Chappell then asked two questions showing that at least he, as the managing editor (if not Harding), was aware of the significance of Foster’s hack: If we publish a piece by Patrick saying how he pieced together the identity (for which Eady praises him!) what happens if subsequently it is shown that he had accessed the files? What are the ramifications for him, you and the editor -- does our decision to publish, knowing that there had been a misdemeanour, indicate complicity and therefore real embarrassment or does Eady’s judgment get us off the hook? There followed a meeting on 15 June 2009 between Chappell, Harding and the then deputy editor. In the words of Harding’s later witness statement: Discussion at that meeting focussed on whether publishing a story identifying Night Jack was in the public interest. We debated the arguments for and against. We also discussed whether in effect we had little option but to publish because the Times had pursued High Court action and the injunction had been lifted. In these circumstances, I decided to publish. Harding amplified this in oral evidence to the Leveson Inquiry: We had a meeting, as I remember, to discuss this issue. The first and biggest one was: what was the public interest argument? And of course, what was very frustrating was that’s exactly the conversation we should have had in advance of going to the High Court. We had it after the fact and after the fact that Mr Eady’s judgment was being handed down, but it was an important argument that we had to address, because on the one hand, some people said, “Why are we trying to identify someone who is essentially a citizen journalist who is an anonymous blogger? Surely, if you like, he’s one of us?” And on the other side there was a question which was: here is a police officer who appears to be in breach of his police duties and also there is a real question about this kind of commentary made anonymously on the internet -- the whole issue of anonymity on the web. And, having listened to that debate, I took the view that this was -- and [I] still believe that this was -- firmly in the public interest. This was what dominated that conversation. The second issue was: what do we do about the fact that this case has been taken without our knowledge to the High Court? What do we do if we’ve taken up the time of the High Court? Mr Justice Eady has ruled that this is in the public interest; we are thereby enabling everyone to publish the identity of NightJack. But more importantly, will the Times not then get known for bringing vexatious lawsuits to the High Court if we don’t honour that judgment? Third, there was a question which was: the reporting had already led to Mr Horton’s identification within the Lancashire Constabulary, and fourth, we believed we had a behavioural problem with one of our reporters. We were going to have to address that. The way it had been presented to me -- and that’s obviously different with hindsight -- but the way it had been presented to me was there was a concern about Mr Foster’s behaviour but that he had identified him through entirely legitimate means. On that basis, and in the light of all of those four things, I took the decision to publish. However, as Harding later admitted: I can now see that we gave insufficient consideration to the fact of the unauthorised email access in deciding whether or not to publish. This “insufficient consideration” was notwithstanding the separate emails of Brett and Chappell, both emphasising the significance of the hack. Interestingly, at the same meeting on 15 June 2009, Harding instructed that disciplinary proceedings be launched against Foster for a “highly intrusive act”. So it would appear that Harding somehow regarded the hack as being very serious as an employment issue, but somehow not of particular weight as an editorial issue. Nonetheless, Harding later insisted at the Leveson Inquiry: If -- if it had been the case that Mr Foster had brought this to me and said, “I’d like to get access to Mr Horton’s email account for the purposes of this story,” I would have said no. If Mr Brett had come to me and said, "Mr Foster has done this; can he continue to pursue the story?”, I would have said no. If Mr Brett had come to me and said, “Do you think we should go to the High Court, given the circumstances of this story?”, I would have said no. However, in my opinion, there was no good reason why Harding could have not said “no” at the editorial meeting of 15 June 2009 in light of the emails of Brett and Chappell, both emphasising the significance of the hack. Eady’s judgment was formally handed down the following day and the Times website exposed Richard Horton to the world as the author of NightJack. The story was also published in the print edition of 17 June 2009. It was one month to the day from when Horton’s email account had probably been hacked. 19 June 2009 to October 2011 -- the immediate aftermath The outing of Richard Horton was controversial. To many observers, it seemed a needless and spiteful exercise by a mainstream media publication. The public interest arguments appeared hollow: no one else had been able to match information in the generic posts with any real-life cases. The supposed “advice” of the blog to those arrested was playfully ironic rather than subversive of policing. There just seemed no good purpose for the outing, and the public benefit of an outstanding and informative police blog had been pointlessly thrown away. Even other journalists were unimpressed. As Paul Waugh of the London Evening Standard wrote at the time: In NightJack’s case, I still cannot believe that the Times decided to embark on a disgraceful and pointless campaign to out him. Having found some clues about him, the paper inexplicably decided that this was some great issue of media freedom. The Times’s legal team then refused to back down rather than lose face. The damage that the Times inflicted was far worse than just threatening one honest copper with the loss of his career. It undermined any policeman who wanted to speak off the record, the lifeblood of decent crime reporting. It also undermined any whistleblowing blogger, any public servant who wanted to tell it as it is from the front line, without the filter of a dreaded “media and communications office”. Maybe one day the Times will apologise, but knowing newspaper office politics as I do, I suspect it never will. To which the Times columnist and leader writer Oliver Kamm replied, unaware of the true circumstances of what had happened: I’m stupefied at the way Waugh has depicted this. Be aware that when he says, “The Times’s legal team refused to back down,” what he means is that the Timesdecided to defend itself against a legal attempt to muzzle it. Its reporter had discovered the identity of the police blogger (Richard Horton), through public sources and not by subterfuge or any invasion of privacy. Horton sought to protect his anonymity, and in my opinion he had no plausible grounds for doing so other than his own convenience. If the Times had pried into Horton’s family life (of which I have no knowledge whatever), then that would have been wrong. But it didn’t. Horton wrote his blog, expressing partial political opinions, using information gained from his employment as a public servant. I once worked in public service (at the Bank of England), and I consider there is an ethos of confidentiality and political neutrality that you do not breach. Of course it was in the public interest to disclose Horton’s identity when he left clues to it. I’m surprised that Waugh retails uncritically the complaint of the freemasonry of bloggers, who assume that the constraints that we journalists observe ought not to apply to them. Kamm added in another post: A Great Historical Question to Which the Answer is No (“Was NightJack hacked into too?”) The Times had not only hoodwinked Mr Justice Eady; it had now hoodwinked one of its own leader writers. The Waugh/Kamm exchange illustrates essentially the state in which the story of NightJack’s outing remained for over two years: lingering concerns and confident counter-assurances, depending on whether one thought the Times had done a good thing or not. In the immediate aftermath, Horton underwent disciplinary proceedings and received a written warning from Lancashire Police. He did not return to blogging. Foster also received a written warning for the hack. Brett eventually left the Times in July 2010 and Foster left in May 2011, both in circumstances unrelated to the NightJack incident. The outing of NightJack slowly receded in time. And then the Leveson Inquiry was established in the summer of 2011. October to December 2011 – the Leveson questionnaire The team at the Leveson Inquiry sent out questionnaires to various senior figures in the mainstream media. Three of those asked to provide witness statements in response to these questionnaires were Harding, Simon Toms (recently appointed interim director of legal affairs at News International) and Tom Mockridge (Rebekah Wade’s replacement as chief executive officer of News International). Neither Toms nor Mockridge was in post in 2009, and so neither could know any more about the hack than what he was told for the purposes of replying to the Inquiry’s questionnaire. One question asked related to computer hacking. Because of the disciplinary proceedings against Foster, the NightJack hack could not be denied or ignored, and so somehow it had to be mentioned. Yet the witness statements -- all signed on 14 October 2011 -- seemed to play down the incident. Toms: Question Explain whether you, or the Times, the Sunday Times, the Sun or the News of the World (to the best of your knowledge) ever used or commissioned anyone who used “computer hacking” in order to source stories, or for any reason. Answer I am not aware that any NI title has ever used or commissioned anyone who used “computer hacking” in order to source stories. I have been made aware of one instance on the Times in 2009 which I understand may have involved a journalist attempting to access information in this way. However, I also understand that this was an act of the journalist and was not authorised by TNL. As such, I understand it resulted in the journalist concerned being disciplined. Harding: The Times has never used or commissioned anyone who used computer hacking to source stories. There was an incident where the newsroom was concerned that a reporter had gained unauthorised access to an email account. When it was brought to my attention, the journalist faced disciplinary action. The reporter believed he was seeking to gain information in the public interest but we took the view he had fallen short of what was expected of a Times journalist. He was issued with a formal written warning for professional misconduct. Mockridge: Neither I nor, to the best of my knowledge, the Sunday Times or the Sun has ever used or commissioned anyone who used “computer hacking” in order to source stories or for any other reason. In relation to the Times, I am aware of an incident in 2009 where there was a suspicion that a reporter on the Times might have gained unauthorised access to a computer, although the reporter in question denied it. I understand that that person was given a formal written warning as a result and that they were subsequently dismissed following an unrelated incident. Mockridge had initially been given incorrect information about the hack and this was corrected by his second witness statement of December 2011: At paragraph 20.2 of my first witness statement I referred to a reporter at the Times who might have gained unauthorised access to a computer in 2009. At the date of my first witness statement, it was my understanding that the reporter in question had denied gaining such access. Following further enquiries, I now understand that the reporter in fact admitted the conduct during disciplinary proceedings, although he claimed that he was acting in the public interest. The journalist was disciplined as a result; he was later dismissed from the business for an unrelated matter. These four statements were not immediately revealing. For example, from these statements alone, one would not know that the incident even related to a published story, let alone one where there had been related privacy litigation. Perhaps the hope was that no one would notice or investigate further. January 2012 – How the story began to emerge The four Leveson witness statements were published on the Leveson website on or after 10 January 2012 -- first the one by Toms, and then the others. The only mention in the media seemed to be a short report in the Press Gazette of 10 January 2012 that a Times journalist had been disciplined for computer hacking. I happened to see the Press Gazette story and because of the 2009 date of the incident, I immediately suspected it was about NightJack. I had blogged about the outing at the time and had long been concerned that the “dark arts” had somehow been engaged. When the other three witness statements were published, I pieced together what they did say over 16-17 January 2012 on the Jack of Kent blog. In essence, one could deduce from the witness statements the following apparent facts: the incident was in 2009; the reporter was male (“he”); the computer-hacking was in the form of unauthorised access to an email account; a disciplinary process was commenced after concerns from the newsroom (not entirely correct, as it turned out); the reporter admitted the unauthorised access during the disciplinary process (also not correct, as it was admitted before publication, let alone the disciplinary process); the incident was held to be “professional misconduct” and the reporter was disciplined; and the reporter was no longer with the business, having been dismissed on an unrelated matter. On 17 January 2012, Harding gave evidence to Leveson Inquiry, but he was not asked about the computer-hacking incident referred to in his witness statement. Meanwhile both Paul Waugh and I connected the incident with NightJack, and late on 17 January 2012 David Leigh at the Guardian confirmed that a Times journalist had indeed hacked into the NightJack account. The next day at the New Statesman I drew attention to the worrying possibility that the Times may have therefore misled the High Court. It was the first time the possibility had been raised that the High Court had been misled. Then, on 19 January 2012, the Times itself admitted the computer-hacking incident was in respect of NightJack. Harding sent a letter about NightJack to the Leveson Inquiry (which was not revealed until 25 January 2012): As you will be aware, in my witness statement to the Leveson Inquiry I raised concerns that I had about an incident of computer-hacking at the Times. I was not asked about it when questioned on Tuesday but I felt it was important to address the issue raised by the publication of my statement with our readers. So I draw your attention to an article on page 11 of this morning’s paper which seeks to give a more detailed account of what happened. In June 2009 we published a story in what we strongly believed was the public interest. When the reporter informed his managers that in the course of his investigation he had, on his own initiative, sought unauthorised access to an email account, he was told that if wanted to pursue the story, he had to use legitimate means to do so identifying the person at the heart of the story, using his own sources and information publicly available on the internet. On that basis, we made the case in the High Court that the newspaper should be allowed to publish in the public interest. After the judge ruled that we could publish in the public interest, we did. We also addressed the concern that had emerged about the reporter’s conduct, namely that he had used a highly intrusive method to seek information without prior approval. He was formally disciplined and the incident has also informed our thinking in putting in place an effective audit trail to ensure that, in the future, we have a system to keep account of how we make sensitive decisions in the newsgathering process. This was an isolated incident and I have no knowledge of anything else like it. If the inquiry has any further questions about it, I would, of course, be happy to answer them. In the meantime both Tom Watson MP and I called for Harding to be recalled to the Leveson Inquiry to answer questions about how the High Court seemed to have been misled. I also blogged that the Times owed Horton an apology. February to March 2012 -- the Leveson Inquiry questions Harding and Brett What had really happened about the NightJack hack now began to came out. Harding was recalled to the Leveson Inquiry and provided his account of what happened, which I have drawn on for the narrative above. He also apologised to Horton and this apology was mentioned on the front page of the newspaper. The same day, Horton was reported as launching legal action. The main thrust of Harding’s evidence at Leveson was to shift the blame on to Brett. But this did not seem entirely fair. In my opinion, once it became clear that what seemed to be a breach of the Computer Misuse Act had occurred, the editor of the Times could and should have found out more about what the court had been told. And, of course, it was Harding’s own decision to publish, even though he was aware that there had been a hack and had had an email from Brett explaining the hack’s legal significance. The Leveson Inquiry also summoned Brett. In an extraordinary and brutal examination, in which Lord Justice Leveson took a leading role, Brett’s conduct in the matter was placed under intense scrutiny: BRETT: [Foster] had to demonstrate to me and to certainly Horton and everybody else that he could do it legitimately from outside in, and that’s what he did. LORD JUSTICE LEVESON: But he couldn’t. How do you know he could? Because he’s choosing what facts he’s chasing up on. Of course it all looks beautiful in his statement, and I understand that, but because he knows what facts he’s looking for, he knows what bits he has to join together, he knows the attributes and characteristics of the person he has to search out, so he can search out for somebody with those corresponding characteristics. [. . .] BRETT: Mr Foster had by this stage done the exercise totally legitimately. LORD JUSTICE LEVESON: No, he hadn’t, with great respect. He’d used what he knew and found a way through to achieve the same result. Because he couldn’t put out of his mind that which he already knew. LORD JUSTICE LEVESON: With great respect, it’s smoke, isn’t? There wasn’t a confidential source here at all. There was a hacking into an email. He may very well have talked to all sorts of people, but to say “I won’t reveal information about confidential sources” suggests he has confidential information from a source which he’s not going to talk about, for understandable reasons, but in fact it’s just not true. Brett was asked about his assurance that the allegations about Foster were “baseless”: BRETT: I don’t think I should have used the word “baseless”, with hindsight. And Lord Justice Leveson delivered the final blows: LORD JUSTICE LEVESON: Let’s just cease to be subjective, shall we. Let’s look at Mr Foster’s statement . . . To put the context of the statement in, he’s talking about the blog and he says that he decided that one or two things had to be true and that it was in the public interest to reveal it, so there he is wanting to find out who is responsible for NightJack . . . Would you agree that the inference from this statement is that this is how he went about doing it? BRETT: Yes, it certainly does suggest -- LORD JUSTICE LEVESON: And then he starts at paragraph 12: “I began to systematically run the details of the articles in the series through Factiva, a database of newspaper articles collated from around the country. I could not find any real-life examples of the events featured in part one of the series.” That suggests that’s how he started and that’s how he’s gone about it, doesn’t it? BRETT: It certainly suggests he has done precisely that, yes. LORD JUSTICE LEVESON: And that’s how he’s gone about it? BRETT: Yes. LORD JUSTICE LEVESON: That’s not accurate, is it? [Pause] BRETT: It is not entirely accurate, no. LORD JUSTICE LEVESON: Paragraph 15. I’m sorry, Mr Jay, I’ve started now. Paragraph 15: “Because of the startling similarities between the blog post and the case detailed in the newspaper report, I began to work under the assumption” -- “I began to work under the assumption” -- “that if the author was, as claimed, a detective, they probably worked . . .” et cetera. Same question: that simply isn’t accurate, is it? BRETT: My Lord, we’re being fantastically precise. LORD JUSTICE LEVESON: Oh, I am being precise because this is a statement being submitted to a court, Mr Brett. BRETT: Yes. LORD JUSTICE LEVESON: Would you not want me to be precise? BRETT: No, of course I’d want you to be precise. It’s not the full story. LORD JUSTICE LEVESON: Paragraph 20. I repeat -- I’m not enjoying this: “At this stage I felt sure that the blog was written by a real police officer.” That is actually misleading, isn’t it? BRETT: It certainly doesn’t give the full story. LORD JUSTICE LEVESON: Well, there are two or three other examples, but I’ve had enough. That was it; there was little more that needed to be said. It was, as lawyers would say, as plain as a pikestaff that the High Court had, in effect, been misled by the Times, just as it was now clear that the Times had outed the NightJack blogger though senior managers were aware at the time that his identity had been established using an unlawful email hack and that this was a seeming breach of the Computer Misuse Act 1990. A person’s privacy had been invaded; a criminal offence appeared to have been committed; the High Court had been effectively misled; senior managers had pointed out the legal significance of all this in contemporaneous emails; and the person’s anonymity was to be irretrievably destroyed. But the editor of the Times published the story anyway. David Allen Green is legal correspondent of the New Statesman and author of Jack of Kent. David Allen Green is legal correspondent of the New Statesman and author of the Jack of Kent blog. His legal journalism has included popularising the Simon Singh libel case and discrediting the Julian Assange myths about his extradition case. His uncovering of the Nightjack email hack by the Times was described as "masterly analysis" by Lord Justice Leveson. David is also a solicitor and was successful in the "Twitterjoketrial" appeal at the High Court. The Brexit Beartraps, #2: Could dropping out of the open skies agreement cancel your holiday? So what is it this time, eh? Brexit is going to wipe out every banana planet on the entire planet? Brexit will get the Last Night of the Proms cancelled? Brexit will bring about World War Three? To be honest, I think we’re pretty well covered already on that last score, but no, this week it’s nothing so terrifying. It’s just that Brexit might get your holiday cancelled. What are you blithering about now? Well, only if you want to holiday in Europe, I suppose. If you’re going to Blackpool you’ll be fine. Or Pakistan, according to some people... You’re making this up. I’m honestly not, though we can’t entirely rule out the possibility somebody is. Last month Michael O’Leary, the Ryanair boss who attracts headlines the way certain other things attract flies, warned that, “There is a real prospect... that there are going to be no flights between the UK and Europe for a period of weeks, months beyond March 2019... We will be cancelling people’s holidays for summer of 2019.” He’s just trying to block Brexit, the bloody saboteur. Well, yes, he’s been quite explicit about that, and says we should just ignore the referendum result. Honestly, he’s so Remainiac he makes me look like Dan Hannan. But he’s not wrong that there are issues: please fasten your seatbelt, and brace yourself for some turbulence. Not so long ago, aviation was a very national sort of a business: many of the big airports were owned by nation states, and the airline industry was dominated by the state-backed national flag carriers (British Airways, Air France and so on). Since governments set airline regulations too, that meant those airlines were given all sorts of competitive advantages in their own country, and pretty much everyone faced barriers to entry in others. The EU changed all that. Since 1994, the European Single Aviation Market (ESAM) has allowed free movement of people and cargo; established common rules over safety, security, the environment and so on; and ensured fair competition between European airlines. It also means that an AOC – an Air Operator Certificate, the bit of paper an airline needs to fly – from any European country would be enough to operate in all of them. Do we really need all these acronyms? No, alas, we need more of them. There’s also ECAA, the European Common Aviation Area – that’s the area ESAM covers; basically, ESAM is the aviation bit of the single market, and ECAA the aviation bit of the European Economic Area, or EEA. Then there’s ESAA, the European Aviation Safety Agency, which regulates, well, you can probably guess what it regulates to be honest. All this may sound a bit dry- It is. -it is a bit dry, yes. But it’s also the thing that made it much easier to travel around Europe. It made the European aviation industry much more competitive, which is where the whole cheap flights thing came from. In a speech last December, Andrew Haines, the boss of Britain’s Civil Aviation Authority said that, since 2000, the number of destinations served from UK airports has doubled; since 1993, fares have dropped by a third. Which is brilliant. Brexit, though, means we’re probably going to have to pull out of these arrangements. Stop talking Britain down. Don’t tell me, tell Brexit secretary David Davis. To monitor and enforce all these international agreements, you need an international court system. That’s the European Court of Justice, which ministers have repeatedly made clear that we’re leaving. So: last March, when Davis was asked by a select committee whether the open skies system would persist, he replied: “One would presume that would not apply to us” – although he promised he’d fight for a successor, which is very reassuring. We can always holiday elsewhere. Perhaps you can – O’Leary also claimed (I’m still not making this up) that a senior Brexit minister had told him that lost European airline traffic could be made up for through a bilateral agreement with Pakistan. Which seems a bit optimistic to me, but what do I know. Intercontinental flights are still likely to be more difficult, though. Since 2007, flights between Europe and the US have operated under a separate open skies agreement, and leaving the EU means we’re we’re about to fall out of that, too. Surely we’ll just revert to whatever rules there were before. Apparently not. Airlines for America – a trade body for... well, you can probably guess that, too – has pointed out that, if we do, there are no historic rules to fall back on: there’s no aviation equivalent of the WTO. The claim that flights are going to just stop is definitely a worst case scenario: in practice, we can probably negotiate a bunch of new agreements. But we’re already negotiating a lot of other things, and we’re on a deadline, so we’re tight for time. In fact, we’re really tight for time. Airlines for America has also argued that – because so many tickets are sold a year or more in advance – airlines really need a new deal in place by March 2018, if they’re to have faith they can keep flying. So it’s asking for aviation to be prioritised in negotiations. The only problem is, we can’t negotiate anything else until the EU decides we’ve made enough progress on the divorce bill and the rights of EU nationals. And the clock’s ticking. This is just remoaning. Brexit will set us free. A little bit, maybe. CAA’s Haines has also said he believes “talk of significant retrenchment is very much over-stated, and Brexit offers potential opportunities in other areas”. Falling out of Europe means falling out of European ownership rules, so itcould bring foreign capital into the UK aviation industry (assuming anyone still wants to invest, of course). It would also mean more flexibility on “slot rules”, by which airports have to hand out landing times, and which are I gather a source of some contention at the moment. But Haines also pointed out that the UK has been one of the most influential contributors to European aviation regulations: leaving the European system will mean we lose that influence. And let’s not forget that it was European law that gave passengers the right to redress when things go wrong: if you’ve ever had a refund after long delays, you’ve got the EU to thank. So: the planes may not stop flying. But the UK will have less influence over the future of aviation; passengers might have fewer consumer rights; and while it’s not clear that Brexit will mean vastly fewer flights, it’s hard to see how it will mean more, so between that and the slide in sterling, prices are likely to rise, too. It’s not that Brexit is inevitably going to mean disaster. It’s just that it’ll take a lot of effort for very little obvious reward. Which is becoming something of a theme. Still, we’ll be free of those bureaucrats at the ECJ, won’t be? This’ll be a great comfort when we’re all holidaying in Grimsby. Jonn Elledge edits the New Statesman's sister site CityMetric, and writes for the NS about subjects including politics, history and Brexit. You can find him on Twitter or Facebook.

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96 F.2d 482 (1938) HENRY H. CROSS CO. v. SIMMONS. No. 10965. Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit. April 26, 1938. *483 Henry S. Yocum and Charles E. Wright, both of El Dorado, Ark. (Neill C. Marsh, Sr., Neill C. Marsh, Jr., and Joe K. Mahony, all of El Dorado, Ark., on the brief), for appellant. Tom W. Campbell, of Little Rock, Ark. (Frank Pace and Wallace Davis, both of Little Rock, Ark., Bert Steeper, of Kansas City, Mo., and S. E. Gilliam, of El Dorado, Ark., on the brief), for appellee. Before GARDNER, SANBORN, and THOMAS, Circuit Judges. GARDNER, Circuit Judge. This is an action at law brought by appellee, as administrator of the estate of Charles Austin Soars, deceased, to recover damages for the death of Charles Austin Soars, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of appellant. The parties will be referred to as they appeared below. The complaint alleges an invitation to the deceased "to come to the plant of the defendant at Smackover, Arkansas, for consultation and advice about certain refining operations and constructions," and that while there as such invitee he received injuries from which he subsequently died. Prior to 1933, the defendant had operated a skimming plant oil refinery at Smackover, Ark., in which crude petroleum was distilled and its products taken off with a minimum of heat and without any pressure. In the spring of 1933, an engineering company under contract with defendant built for defendant a cracking plant, in which heavy petroleum, mainly a residue from the skimming plant, was to be treated under greater heat and pressure to produce additional gasoline. Defendant operates one of two petroleum refineries at Smackover, Ark., the other being known in the record as the Simms refinery. Soars was a petroleum or refining engineer of experience, residing at Kansas City, Mo., who had been engaged in such work for a number of years. He had been called to Smackover to supervise a new installation in the Simms refinery. In company with R. C. Burns, who was superintendent of the Simms refinery, and C. L. Murphy, superintendent of defendant's refinery, Soars entered defendant's plant, and while he was there a caustic tank containing naphtha exploded, bursting the tank and throwing the naphtha which it contained to such distance as to bring it and its vapors in contact with fire and *484 flames, causing fire to spread throughout the refinery, enveloping the three men in flames and so severely burning them that they died as the result of their injuries. The administrator of the estate of R. C. Burns, deceased, recovered judgment for damages for his death, which was caused by the same alleged negligence as is here charged, and we affirmed the judgment for plaintiff in the case of Henry W. Cross Company v. Burns, 8 Cir., 81 F.2d 856. At the close of all the evidence in the instant case, the defendant moved for a directed verdict, which motion was denied, and the case was sent to the jury on instructions to which certain exceptions were saved. The jury returned a verdict for $51,000, upon which judgment was entered. Defendant seeks reversal on the grounds: (1) That the court erred in not directing a verdict for it; (2) that the court erred in refusing to instruct the jury that defendant did not willfully or wantonly injure the deceased; (3) the court erred in admitting and refusing to exclude certain evidence, which is sufficiently preserved in its specification of errors. The denial of defendant's motion for a directed verdict involves two questions: (1) Was there substantial evidence of negligence on the part of defendant which was the proximate cause of Soars' death; and (2) was there substantial evidence that Soars, at the time of receiving his injuries, was on defendant's premises at its invitation? In the action in which Burns' administrator recovered damages against defendant for wrongful death, we affirmed the judgment, holding that the evidence as to defendant's negligence and as to whether Burns was an invitee was of such substantial character as to entitle plaintiff to go to the jury on those questions. 8 Cir., 81 F.2d 856, 858. So far as the question of negligence is concerned, the record in the instant case is substantially the same as in the Burns Case. A recital of the testimony bearing upon that issue would seem therefore to be quite unnecessary. Here, as in that case, we think the evidence on this issue was of such substantial character as to entitle plaintiff to go to the jury on it. The evidence as to whether or not Soars was an invitee, however, differs very materially from the evidence with reference to the status of Burns. First, it should be noted that plaintiff alleges that Soars had been "invited to come to the plant of the defendant at Smackover, Arkansas, for consultation and advice about certain refining operations and constructions." This is the only allegation with reference to the invitation alleged to have been extended to Soars. The evidence bearing upon this question is substantially as follows: The firm of engineers of which Soars was a member was doing some construction work for the Simms refinery at Smackover. He had never been in defendant's refinery prior to his entry there about 2 o'clock in the afternoon of July 13, 1933, just before the explosion and fire. About 1:30 p. m. on that day, he followed Burns into the office of the Simms refinery just as a Mr. Williamson, an employee of the Simms refinery, was talking on the telephone to Murphy, the superintendent of defendant's refinery. Murphy told Williamson he wanted to speak to Burns, and, when told he was not there, said he wanted to get hold of Burns, that they were not getting along "so good." At this point in the conversation, Burns and Soars walked into the office. Williamson then handed Burns the telephone and Burns talked to Murphy over the telephone. Williamson heard Burns say, "We'll be right over." Following this conversation, Burns and Soars left the office of the Simms refinery together and went in the direction of the defendant's refinery. They appeared at the door of the office of the defendant at about 2 p. m., and stood there while Burns discussed with Cartwright, defendant's office manager, the matter of the delivery of some naphtha, and at the conclusion of that conversation, Murphy appeared. There was some conversation, the character of which is not disclosed, and then Murphy, Burns, and Soars walked away from the office toward defendant's refinery area. Lechtenburg, a witness on behalf of plaintiff, testified that Murphy, Burns, and Soars came through the boiler house where he was working, and passed out through the refinery area, and Murphy remarked, "We are going to look at the cracker," or, "see what is wrong with the cracker," or, as the witness summarized it, "something to that effect." A few moments later the explosion and resulting fire occurred. Soars was badly burned and was taken to a hospital in El Dorado. A nurse assigned to his care testified that she was in attendance on him from about *485 3 o'clock p. m. to 6:30 p. m. on the afternoon of July 13, 1933, when Soars died; that before his death, and while he was conscious of the fact that he was going to die, he attempted to talk, and inquired for Murphy, and then said: "Well, if it hadn't been for him calling, that he wouldn't have been in that condition," or, "If he hadn't called him, he wouldn't have been in this condition." This evidence was admitted under the provisions of an Arkansas statute, Acts Ark. 1935, No. 45, p. 90, Pope's Dig. Ark. § 5201, which provides as follows: "In all suits for the recovery of damages for fatal injury or death of any person, the dying declarations of the person for whose fatal injury or death such suit has been brought in respect to the facts or circumstances pertaining to such fatal injury or death of such person or the cause thereof may be proved and admitted in evidence in like manner as dying declarations are now allowed to be proved and admitted in evidence in homicide cases in this State." (Italics supplied.) There was also evidence introduced by the defendant that Mr. Grogan, the pipe line superintendent of the Simms refinery, had been asked about noon on the day of the accident by Burns to accompany Soars and Burns on a visit to defendant's refinery, but that he had declined to accompany them. This in substance is the evidence bearing upon the question of the invitation alleged in the complaint to have been extended to Soars. We are putting aside, for the present, the challenge of the defendant to the admissibility of the testimony relative to the conversation which Burns had over the telephone with Murphy. The statute under which the declaration of deceased was received specifically limits the character of the declarations which shall be received. In the first place, the declarations must be "in respect to the facts or circumstances pertaining to such fatal injury or death." Had the deceased survived, he could have testified to such facts and circumstances, but if he had survived he could not have testified that, "If it hadn't been for him (Murphy) calling, that he wouldn't have been in that condition." That had no bearing either upon the facts or circumstances pertaining to the fatal injury, nor did it have any bearing upon the cause of it. It was simply the conclusion or opinion of the declarant. Doubtless, it was introduced on the theory that it had a bearing upon whether or not Soars had been invited to defendant's plant, but we think the declaration could not include matters to which the declarant, had he survived, could not have testified. He may have been of the opinion that Murphy's invitation to Burns included him, but there is no basis in the record for such a conclusion. As said by the Supreme Court of Arkansas in Rhea v. State, 104 Ark. 162, 147 S.W. 463, 469: "It is equally well settled that the declarations of the deceased are admissible only as to those things about which he would have been competent to testify if sworn as a witness in the case. They must therefore relate to facts only, and not be mere matters of opinion or belief." Under the facts disclosed here, the declarant was at best giving expression to his conclusion, suspicion, or conjecture as to whether Murphy had included him in the invitation to Burns, and not to any known facts. To let the declaration in as evidence, or to give it probative force, the evidence must show that there was knowledge or the opportunity for knowledge as to the acts or facts that are declared. Wigmore, § 1445(2). We are therefore of the view that this testimony should have been excluded; but on analysis it is clear that it has no probative force, even if the error in admitting it should be disregarded. If any invitation came to Soars, it must have come to him from Murphy through Burns. All that is produced from that conversation is the statement of Burns, "We'll be right over." In Henry W. Cross Co. v. Burns, supra, we said: "An invitation to enter upon property of another may be either express or implied, and the rights of the invitee and the duties of the inviter are the same in either case. The oral testimony, when considered in connection with the surrounding facts and circumstances, tended to prove that Burns was not a trespasser; that he was more than a bare licensee. He entered the premises on the invitation of the person in charge on a mission supposed to be beneficial to the owner." But the relations existing between Burns and Murphy were very different *486 from those existing between Murphy and Soars. So far as appears from the testimony, Murphy had never met Soars, and while Williamson, produced as a witness for plaintiff, was present when Burns was talking with Murphy over the telephone, all of the conversation which he reproduces is included in the words. "We'll be right over." Had Burns said anything to Murphy about Soars, it would seem that Williamson should have heard it. But the statement is entirely consistent with the thought that Burns had in mind taking Williamson or Grogan over with him. It is, of course, not inconsistent with the theory that he had in mind taking Soars with him. To submit to a jury a choice of possibilities is but to permit the jury to conjecture or guess, and where the evidence presents no more than such choice it is not substantial, and where proven facts give equal support to each of two inconsistent inferences, neither of them can be said to be established by substantial evidence and judgment must go against the party upon whom rests the burden of sustaining one of the inferences as against the other. Pennsylvania R. Co. v. Chamberlain, 288 U.S. 333, 53 S.Ct. 391, 77 L. Ed. 819; Liggett & Meyers Tobacco Co. v. De Parcq, 8 Cir., 66 F.2d 678; Eggen v. United States, 8 Cir., 58 F.2d 616; Fidelity & Deposit Co. v. Grand National Bank, 8 Cir., 69 F.2d 177. The impossibility of proof of material facts, while a misfortune, does not change rules of evidence, but leaves the one having the burden of proof with a claim that is unenforceable. Burnet v. Houston, 283 U.S. 223, 51 S.Ct. 413, 75 L.Ed. 991. The jury would have to infer from the conversation between Burns and Murphy that Murphy asked Soars to come over. As against this there is absolutely no evidence that Murphy knew Soars, or knew that he was in Smackover at the time. Soars lived in Kansas City, Mo. Murphy was looking for and wanted Burns. There is some evidence introduced by the defendant that Soars wanted to see the defendant's refinery. The remarks of Murphy to Lechtenburg do not indicate that an invitation had been extended to Soars or that he was any more than a curious visitor for his own benefit and pleasure. If the jury might properly have considered the dying declaration, they might, by conjecture, have construed it to mean that Soars went over to defendant's plant because Murphy asked him over, but they might equally, and, we think, with more reason, have inferred that he went along with Burns without invitation, hoping to see the plant. One who accompanies an invitee to the premises of another for his own pleasure or for his own purpose is not an invitee. Rhode v. Duff, 8 Cir., 208 F. 115; Morse v. Sinclair Automobile Service Corp., 5 Cir., 86 F.2d 298. As has been observed, the only invitation alleged in the complaint is an invitation "for consultation and advice about certain refining operations and constructions." If he were there for any other purpose than that alleged in the complaint, that would not warrant a recovery in this action. But it is argued that, even if Soars were a bare licensee, there might still be a recovery because it is said defendant's negligence was "active." But the case was not tried on that theory below, and, hence, it cannot be urged here. Bovay v. Fuller, 8 Cir., 63 F.2d 280. The so-called active negligence was not pleaded, and the case was submitted to the jury in response to the issues made by the pleadings upon the theory that Soars was an invitee. In effect the jury was instructed that, if Soars were not an invitee, they should find for the defendant. As the case must be reversed and remanded for a new trial, we should perhaps say something more with reference to this contention made in this court but not urged below. The negligence here complained of is the closing of a valve while a pump was pumping naphtha into the tank which exploded. This valve, if it were closed at all, was closed an hour or two before Soars entered the plant. There was no act performed after he entered the plant which increased the hazard, except perhaps the failure of defendant to stop the pump, which we think would be an act of omission rather than an act of commission. On this phase of the case, we conclude that the court committed error in not granting defendant's motion for a directed verdict. It is next urged that the court erred in refusing to instruct the jury in effect that "the defendant did not wilfully *487 or wantonly injure the deceased." There was no evidence to sustain such a contention, but no such contention was made by the plaintiff, and, while we think the instruction might well have been given so that it would be clear that there could be no recovery if Soars were a mere licensee, the other instructions in substance told the jury that, unless he were an invitee, no recovery could be had, so that a refusal to give this requested instruction could not have been prejudicial. Complaint is made with reference to the ruling of the court in admitting evidence of the dying declaration of Soars. We have already adverted to this, and we think the objection to that testimony should have been sustained. It is also contended that the testimony of the witness Williamson, who heard Burns say to Murphy on the telephone, "We'll be right over," was inadmissible because hearsay. Both Burns and Murphy were dead. There was testimony by Williamson that Murphy had called for Burns over the telephone and had said in effect that they were having trouble with the plant, and it seems clear that he wished at least to talk with Burns about it. While Murphy was still on the line, Williamson advised him that Burns had come in, and he thereupon turned the receiver over to him. The fact that Burns was heard to say in his telephone conversation with Murphy, "We'll be right over," was in effect a statement made to Murphy, defendant's superintendent. The fact that he made it was material, and, we think, under the circumstances, competent. It was verbal conduct in which the defendant, through Murphy, participated. While we think it was not sufficient to show an invitation to Soars, it was properly admitted as a circumstance, which, had it been properly connected up, might have warranted such a finding by the jury. The other contentions of appellant with reference to the rulings of the court on the admissibility of evidence do not impress us as being of controlling importance, and, as the same questions may not arise on a retrial of the case, we pretermit any discussion of them. The judgment appealed from must therefore be reversed, and the cause is remanded to the lower court, with directions to grant the defendant a new trial.

Dr. Michael Darby of the UK’s Natural History Museum has named a newly discovered species of beetle after Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg as a testament to her persistence, the Museum revealed Friday. “I chose this name as I am immensely impressed with the work of this young campaigner and wanted to acknowledge her outstanding contribution in raising awareness of environmental issues,” Dr. Darby said in a press release. The tiny beetle, which measures less than 1mm long and has no eyes or wings, was found by Dr. Darby while he was studying in the Natural History Museum’s Spirit Collection, which contains over 22 million animal specimens. The Natural History Museum, the most visited natural history museum in Europe and the top science attraction in the UK, said that the beetle specimen originated in Nairobi, Kenya. It was collected in samples of soil and leaf litter by Dr. William C. Block in the 1960s. Dr. Block’s collection was later donated to the Museum in 1978. As of Friday, the official Latin name for the beetle, which belongs to the Ptiliidae family of insects, is Nelloptodes gretae, a rough translation of Greta’s name. The young climate activist rocketed to fame as a result of her protests outside the Swedish parliament, which in August 2018 when Greta was 15. Soon after she began “striking” from school on Fridays, calling on government to take stronger action against global warming. Museum officials suggest that the new Greta beetle is just one of many new species yet to be discovered. “There are likely hundreds of exciting new species still to be discovered around the world as well as in the vast collections of the Natural History Museum,” said Dr. Max Barclay, the Museum’s Senior Curator in Charge of Coleoptera — or beetles. “The name of this beetle is particularly poignant since it is likely that undiscovered species are being lost all the time, before scientists have even named them, because of biodiversity loss — so it is appropriate to name one of the newest discoveries after someone who has worked so hard to champion the natural world and protect vulnerable species,” Barclay said. The scientific description of the beetle has been published Friday in The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine. “I am delighted that we have published a species name that acknowledges all that Greta and her supporters have done,” said Andrew Wakeham-Dawson, editor of the magazine. According to its website, the Natural History Museum receives some five million visitors each year. Follow @tdwilliamsrome

cross-posted from the Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance blog I recently traveled to Spain to visit Mondragón, the world’s largest worker cooperative. The week-long seminar in Mondragón was organized by Praxis Peace Institute , a non-profit peace education organization based in California. I received a Massena Fellowship to attend the program. I also went to Madrid, where I visited FECOMA , the Federation of Madrid Cooperatives and Gredos San Diego , a network of 8 cooperative schools that are owned and controlled by teachers and staff. While visiting Mondragón, I was particularly interested in hearing about methods for building and maintaining member engagement in co-ops. This is partly because I do communications and outreach work for PACA, but more importantly, co-ops with active member participation are stronger, more resilient, and more democratic. In this article, I describe some practical ways that Mondragón and Madrid co-ops are engaging their members and I try to identity similar practices among our Philadelphia co-ops. What is Mondragón? Mondragón is the name of a town in the Basque Country in Northern Spain. This town is home to Mondragón Corporation, a network of 120 worker cooperatives. In this article, I am mostly going to focus on my personal reflections and analysis. If you want a quick, straight talk introduction to Mondragón, read this recent column in the Huffington post by Frank Islam and Ed Crego about worker ownership, Mondragón, and the labor movement. If you’d prefer a more in-depth introduction to Mondragón featuring many facts, figures, and dates, read their prizewinning entry for a Harvard Business Review/McKinsey management innovation competition. Member engagement and cooperative culture in Mondragón and Madrid co-ops Mondragón and the Madrid co-ops had some lessons to share about about how to create a culture of democratic participation. The cooperative model is built for democracy, but “one member, one vote” is only an invitation. Co-op members still need to show up to meetings, and they need to be informed about what they’re voting on. More participation means stronger co-ops that actually reflect the needs and goals of their members. The cooperative model is a structure, and we have to create culture within that skeleton. In an article titled Worker Co-ops: culture will trump structure , Michael Johnson of Grassroots Economic Organizing writes: “Here’s my basic take: there is an over-riding assumption that the right kind of democratic structure will produce a high level of high quality participation. I believe this is a faulty and unexamined belief. A lot of hope goes with it, but there is little factual support for it. My conviction: high degrees of high quality participation come from a solid democratic structure embedded in a strong democratic culture. Mondragón had some interesting strategies for maintaining member participation. For example, if a member doesn’t attend a general assembly meeting, they don’t get a vote at the next meeting. While this seems a bit harsh, proxy voting is allowed – one member can cast their own vote and up to two proxy votes. This policy incentivizes members to make sure their vote gets cast even if they can’t attend the meeting.” Another piece of this strategy is that at large co-ops, there are small group meetings called charlas (“chats” or “discussions”) leading up to General Assemblies. These meetings convene 30 people or so to have a deeper discussion of the agenda and issues of the General Assembly meeting. The actual full meeting can then spend more time making decisions and less time deliberating, although deliberation certainly takes place. The small group meetings give worker-members a chance to ask clarifying questions. The results of this strategy are impressive: at large co-ops, about 70% of members vote on a regular basis, but at small co-ops it’s more like 90-95% participation. How can we adjust and apply these strategies in our co-ops here in the United States? Making voting more accessible, such as by offering online voting, seems like an easy out – but only if the goal is limited to increasing the number of votes. Clicking a button on your laptop at home doesn’t do much to make you feel like part of a group or community. Engagement has to happen on an ongoing basis before the moment of a vote. In worker co-ops like Mondragón, there are ample opportunities to have discussions with other members and deepen relationships that build community and trust. Many food co-ops use working-member programs to invite members to get more involved in their co-op while also lowering costs. In addition to working member programs, some Philadelphia co-ops have gotten creative in engaging their members. Swarthmore Co-op and Weaver’s Way Co-op both established programs to engage young co-operators when they come into the store. At Weaver’s Way Co-op, the program is called the ABC Club . Children under 12 who are members of the club receive a free apple, banana, or carrot whenever they visit. Swarthmore Co-op’s program is called Co-op Sprouts. Sprout members receive a sticker book that they get stamped each time they visit, and they can then redeem them for prizes and healthy treats. These programs are a great example of how to create personal connections within a large membership body. At Mondragón, member engagement flows naturally from cooperative education. In their philosophy, education leads to increased participation and ultimately to social transformation. You are probably familiar with the 7 international cooperative principles . Mondragón has 10 with education placed at the core. You can explore what they call their “Corporate Management Model” more on their website . Education was certainly an essential part of Don José María Arizmendiarrieta’s beliefs. He wrote, “it has been said that cooperativism is an economic movement that uses education. We can alter that definition, affirming that it is an educational movement that uses economic action.” For an overview of the role of education in Mondragón, check out this blog post on the Adventures in Free Schooling blog. Philadelphia area co-ops are already offering great educational events to their members, but these events don’t tend to address the cooperative model. Credit unions offer budgeting and credit seminars, food co-ops host nutrition workshops, and healthcare co-ops give webinars on changes to Medicare. Some co-ops are building up their cooperative education programs. For example, I’m part of a book club at my food co-op, Mariposa Food Co-op, that looks at the role of cooperatives in building social justice. At Mondragón, cooperative education is framed as teaching people group process, for example, teaching members how to make decisions together. Cooperative education like that is not currently being offered on an easily accessible basis in the Philadelphia area. This is a need that PACA is hoping to meet. As a start, we have been working on a Co-ops 101 presentation to be used at co-ops of all sectors in the Philadelphia area. Beyond this preliminary offering, we can begin to develop education that improves peoples’ cooperation skills. I’m looking forward to arranging classes on meeting facilitation, reading financial statements, and group decision making. A presenter at Mondragón made an excellent point that we could declare our co-op to be totally transparent and leave the accounting books out for everyone to see, but it’s a fairly empty gesture if our members don’t know how to read financial statements. If you’re looking for resources on cooperative education, I highly recommend Toolbox for Education and Social Action, a co-op based out of Massachusetts. Check out their 7 steps to a more democratic co-op poster series . Co-ops telling their stories As I was leaving Spain, I noticed that I had amassed a pretty serious pile of brochures, magazines, books, and reports from both Mondragón and Madrid co-ops. Professional photographers from the marketing departments came to take pictures of our group’s visit in Mondragón and my visit to a cooperative school in Madrid. These photos would be used in their glossy, full-color magazines. I was impressed by the fact that these co-op organizations are constantly, beautifully articulating their story and their mission both to themselves and to outsiders. As someone who does a lot of communications and outreach work for PACA, I was inspired and also overwhelmed. I still haven’t finished reading all of the materials they gave me. Does a mountain of brochures guarantee that co-op members are engaged and invested? Nope. But having shared stories does create culture. I picked up a few copies of the glossy monthly Mondragón magazine, TUlankide, whose name itself is a statement of group identity. It blends Spanish and Basque, as many conversations and materials at Mondragón do. TU stands for Trabajo y Unión (Work and Union) and “lankide” is Basque for “coworker.” One of the copies I picked up has a great article on cooperative paradoxes which thoughtfully explores questions such as “can egalitarianism be unjust?” and perhaps too-familiar questions like “does trying to reach consensus sometimes paralyze us?” TUlankide feels like a blend between a corporate publication (there are no ads) and a special-interest magazine. The articles appear to be written by worker-members from various cooperatives. Because it serves a larger readership beyond one co-op, items like meeting minutes aren’t included, so it’s also accessible to someone who picks it up (like me) who is just interested in the sector in general. Gredos San Diego, the network of cooperative schools in Madrid, also has a beautiful magazine called Cuadernos GSD. Philadelphia co-ops are also producing their own media content. Weaver’s Way Co-op has a monthly newspaper called the Shuttle which is mailed to member households and is also available in co-op stores and other drop spots throughout the neighborhood. With its ads for local schools and businesses, the Shuttle feels like more of a community newspaper than TUlankide. Another example of co-op produced media is The Energy Co-op’s blog . Staff members of The Energy Co-op each contribute articles to the blog. Recent posts include a story about commuting to work by bike, profiles on a local food co-op and a local credit union, and a guide to winterizing your home to keep energy bills low. Through member engagement strategies like working member programs, education, and media, the co-ops in Philadelphia create culture at their co-operatives. Our task now is to unite these institutions in launching a regional cooperative culture and identity. PACA is leading this effort, and we are lucky to have such a diverse network of cooperatives that are excited about building this culture together. Mondragón’s example shows us that it’s possible to bring cooperation to the mainstream and challenges us to be persistent and creative in finding ways to get there. Mondragón, global capitalism, and implications for new worker co-op development Mondragón’s goal is to create employment in Basque country, and they certainly have accomplished that. About 33,000 people in Basque country are worker-owners in Mondragón cooperatives. Overall, Mondragón cooperatives and their subsidiaries provide 83,000 full time jobs all over the world. A disclaimer here: these are my views and not PACA’s. My basic observation is that within Basque country, Mondragón is a radical social institution and outside of Basque country, Mondragón is a pretty typical multinational corporation. Mondragón has implemented an aggressive “internationalization” strategy because they can’t keep jobs in Basque country without producing inputs abroad where labor is cheaper. Their competitors are doing it, so, to survive and compete, Mondragón has to do it, too. It seems hypocritical to me that Mondragón has 14,000 overseas workers who are not owners, but I also realize that Mondragón is operating in a system that only values profit maximization. A recent article by Gar Alperovitz and Thomas Hanna addresses the issue of Mondragón’s cooperativism colliding with global capitalism by discussing the recent bankruptcy of Fagor, one of Mondragón’s largest cooperatives: “Almost certainly many smaller-scale cooperatives can succeed, if carefully managed, in small markets. But moving to scale – as Fagor did in entering the global market for appliances – means that the fate of the institution also rests on the fate of the larger market, and on competition within that market, whether global, as in the case of Fagor, or domestic, as in the case of many other industries.” Another way to see this is to borrow from James Boggs’ criticism of unions in his prescient 1963 work The Next American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker’s Notebook : “It is due to the fact that all organizations that spring up in a capitalist society and do not take absolute power, but rather fight only on one tangential or essential aspect of that society are eventually incorporated into capitalist society. The fact, the key to the present situation, is that from the beginning the union did not take absolute control away from the capitalists.” Unlike the unions Boggs is criticizing, worker co-ops do take control of production, but their transformative power is only as strong as their willingness to use that control to break from the status quo. I observed above that democratic structures alone cannot create strong cooperatives. Similarly, a worker cooperative structure that adopts corporate priorities to better compete on a global stage is likely not fulfilling the radical possibilities of that structure. On a more practical note, Boggs also predicted the automation of industry which has eliminated the vast majority of factory jobs in the half-century since he wrote. Industrial worker co-ops, like the majority of those in Mondragón, have suffered with the rest of the industrial economy in that transition. It should be no surprise then that our two biggest worker cooperatives in Philadelphia are in the service sector: Home Care Associates provides in-home care and Childspace Management Group operates three childcare centers. These jobs are place-based and could not possibly be outsourced. Worker cooperatives can be high-road companies in these and other low-wage job sectors. Home care cooperatives, for example, can provide higher quality service than conventional companies because they have less turnover (see this University of Wisconsin report on home care cooperatives for more information). Thinking strategically about where co-ops have an advantage over conventional businesses can help focus our development efforts. Mondragón shows that industrial worker co-ops are still very much a possibility, but perhaps new manufacturing co-ops would be better off producing goods for local and regional consumption and not exporting to global markets where the bottom line rules. Mondragón is an inspiration but also a warning. Co-ops that try to compete in a global market designed and dominated by multinational corporations risk losing the powerful democratic culture that makes them vehicles for change. Go to the Scaling-Up the Cooperative Movement theme page

Q: Mysql Date Format convert I want to sub string date from [09/Jul/2014:16:12:58 +0530] and want to feed it to Date type Field. My complete query is like this insert into SquidLog (LocalIP,AccessDateTime,Url,HttpAccessCode,BytesAccessed,DestinationIP, SquidErrorCode,SquidTimeStamp,AccessDate,AccessTime) select LocalIP, AccessDateTime,Url,HttpAccessCode,BytesAccessed,DestinationIP, SquidErrorCode,SquidTimeStamp, DATE_FORMAT(replace(SUBSTR(AccessDateTime,2,11),"/","-"),'%Y-%b-%d'), SUBSTR(AccessDateTime,14,8) from SquidLogTemp; How it is possible. A: date_format(str_to_date(SUBSTR(AccessDateTime,2,11),'%d/%b/%Y'),'%Y-%b-%d') CREATE TABLE SquidLogTemp (`AccessDateTime` varchar(26)) ; INSERT INTO SquidLogTemp (`AccessDateTime`) VALUES ('09/Jul/2014:16:12:58 +0530') ; **Query 1**: select date_format(str_to_date(AccessDateTime,'%d/%b/%Y'),'%Y-%b-%d') , substring(AccessDateTime,13,8) , str_to_date(substring(AccessDateTime,13,8),'%H:%i:%s') from SquidLogTemp **[Results][2]**: | DATE_FORMAT(STR_TO_DATE(ACCESSDATETIME,'%D/%B/%Y'),'%Y-%B-%D') | SUBSTRING(ACCESSDATETIME,13,8) | STR_TO_DATE(SUBSTRING(ACCESSDATETIME,13,8),'%H:%I:%S') | |----------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------| | 2014-Jul-09 | 16:12:58 | January, 01 1970 16:12:58+0000 | http://sqlfiddle.com/#!9/a24ce/1

--- abstract: 'To communicate with new partners in new contexts, humans rapidly form new linguistic conventions. Recent language models trained with deep neural networks are able to comprehend and produce the existing conventions present in their training data, but are not able to flexibly and interactively adapt those conventions on the fly as humans do. We introduce a repeated reference task as a benchmark for models of adaptation in communication and propose a regularized continual learning framework that allows an artificial agent initialized with a generic language model to more accurately and efficiently communicate with a partner over time. We evaluate this framework through simulations on COCO and in real-time reference game experiments with human partners.' author: - | Robert D. Hawkins,[[^1^]{.nodecor}]{} Minae Kwon,[[^2^]{.nodecor}]{} Dorsa Sadigh,[[^2,3^]{.nodecor}]{} Noah D. Goodman[[^1,2^]{.nodecor}]{}\ Departments of [[^1^]{.nodecor}]{} Psychology, [[^2^]{.nodecor}]{}Computer Science, and [[^3^]{.nodecor}]{} Electrical Engineering\ Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 bibliography: - '../references.bib' title: Continual adaptation for efficient machine communication ---

Nigerian mum cries out over racist treatment of her son in Germany - A German based Nigerian lady has taken to social media to cry for help -According to her post, her little son is being discriminated against due to the fact that he is African - The boy is reportedly the only African in his school The issue of racism experienced by non-citizens in most western countries has been a long debated topic across the world. From people getting denied certain privileges to even loosing their lives to supremacists due to the colour of their skin, it appears the rot has eaten deep in the hearts of these prejudiced people. A Nigerian lady identified as Abiemwense Audrey Osa recently took to the social media platform to narrate the heartbreaking experience of her young son. According to her, the little boy who is the only African in the school is been treated badly by the teachers all because he is African. She further stated that a certain teacher in the German school instructed the other pupils not to talk to him after showing them a video of how Africans suffer. She wrote on her Instagram: "Pls help me, this is not the first time..I can’t keep calm anymore pls people should come to my son’s school, the racism here at Linden Grundschule in Staaken,Berlin, Germany is high..My son doesn’t want to go to school again, teacher told pupils not to talk to my son after playing the video showing them where Africans are suffering bcos my son is the only black in the class...nobody wants to play with my son even my son’s bestie..the Mrs Schulz of primary 5 is wicked "

A high-throughput template for optimizing Drosophila organ culture with response-surface methods. The Drosophila wing imaginal disc is a key model organ for molecular developmental genetics. Wing disc studies are generally restricted to end-point analyses of fixed tissues. Recently several studies have relied on limited data from discs cultured in uncharacterized conditions. Systematic efforts towards developing Drosophila organ culture techniques are becoming crucial for further progress. Here, we have designed a multi-tiered, high-throughput pipeline that employs design-of-experiment methods to design a culture medium for wing discs. The resulting formula sustains high levels of proliferation for more than 12 hours. This approach results in a statistical model of proliferation as a function of extrinsic growth supplements and identifies synergies that improve insulin-stimulated growth. A more dynamic view of organogenesis emerges from the optimized culture system that highlights important facets of growth: spatiotemporal clustering of cell divisions and cell junction rearrangements. The same approach could be used to improve culture conditions for other organ systems.

Intellectual Freedom: Fighting Censorship in Our Schools Jean E. Brown, Editor Urbana: NCTE, 1994 252 pp. Kathy Mosdal O'Brien Communication Arts MCC In her capacity as chair of NCTE's Commission on Intellectual Freedom, Jean E. Brown led a team of scholars that designed and produced a new collection of essays entitled Preserving Intellectual Freedom: Fighting Censorship in Our Schools. In this collection, intellectual freedom is subjected to a comprehensive and sometimes spirited exam. Brown, who is also professor of teacher education at Saginaw Valley State University, describes the goal of this collection: "to reflect issues, approaches, and sources of support for educators who encounter attempts to control and abridge the open flow of ideas." At least partly in response to its own mission "to examine and make recommendations concerning the effect of censorship efforts on English curriculum" and "to explore the adequacy of preparation given [preservice and inservice] teachers to deal with censorship issues and situations," the commission drew most of its able contributors from its own ranks (xiii, 247). While this collection comes 15 years after NCTE's Dealing with Censorship, edited by James E. Davis (who also wrote the afterword for this volume), Brown notes that the issues of concern in 1979 are every bit as relevant now as then. In her introduction, Brown explains that the five sections of this collection deal with 1) general areas of concern for intellectual freedom, 2) problems of censorship in the teaching of literature, 3) courses of action that can be taken as teachers confront censorship, 4) censorship experiences of individual teachers, and 5) the legal implications of issues concerning intellectual freedom (xiv-xv). This heart-and-hands approach to the topic wisely implies that activists should have a theory base and that theorists should actually practice what they preach. For example, Moshman's pivotal essay, "Academic Freedom: Student Rights and Faculty Responsibilities," defends a reconfiguration of academic freedom as the students' rights to learn. In a much larger sense, the First Amendment rights of our students supersede even our own, according to Moshman, and academic freedom enables us to ensure their rights. In his introduction, with this shift in focus, Moshman convincingly debunks the claim that academic freedom is constitutionally protected as "the right of faculty to teach as they see fit"(27) and further explains how much more defensible this student-centered stance becomes when defending classroom decisions against attacks from censors. Thus, we are responsible for providing for our students a wide range of materials and ideas for their scholarly exploration. We must facilitate ways for them to analyze, evaluate and eventually internalize those materials for themselves. Within the intellectual safety of the classroom, students may then consider all the facets of these various ideas, practicing and eventually mastering the critical thinking skills necessary for making informed decisions. As I read this landmark essay, and came to understand Moshman's revision of the concept of academic freedom, the others in the collection seemed to array themselves around it. For instance, in "What Do I Do Now? Where to Turn When You Face a Censor," Small and Weiss (151-63) give the challenged teacher a sampler of letters from censors and effective responses which they can make, as they protect the right of their students to learn. The essay also includes the names and addresses of a wide range of particular resources to which teachers may turn for assistance with specific types of censorship attacks. Challenging some long-held theories about teaching writing, Wilson's essay, "Censorship and the Teaching of Composition"(91-99), effectively dismisses the idea that grammar drills serve as writing instruction, and does so by identifying the implicit censorship which that atomistic approach entails. Wilson does acknowledge that this kind of censorship, which she defines as the "counterproductive removal of all intellectual content from the teaching of composition" is undoubtedly "difficult to recognize both because it is altruistically motivated and because it appears on the surface to be a logical response to the 'academic shortcomings' of today's student population"(91). She contends, however, that whether we identify it or not, it subverts the individual student's right to learn through writing because it "smothers youthful curiosity and enthusiasm in a mountain of 'preliminaries,' while abridging or totally usurping the amount of time available for genuine intellectual involvement" which actual writing provides (94). Even in this essay's subtitles, such as "Preparing to Write versus Writing" and "Studying Grammar versus Using Grammar," we see that effective writing instruction integrates the study of grammar, but does not deify it. Students--and we--learn to write by actually writing about challenging, scholarly material we've considered, and Wilson solidly defends that approach. Van Camp's essay, "Intellectual Freedom and the Student: Using Literature to Teach Differentiation of Propaganda and Persuasion,"(81-90) is also excellent and includes discussion questions and examples that assist students who are learning to differentiate between these two very different kinds of writing. Two other essays, O'Donnell's "Freedom and Restrictions in Language Use"(100-110) and Brinkley's "Intellectual Freedom and the Theological Dimensions of Whole Language"(111-122) also deal respectfully with theological concerns which the fundamentalist critic (or those working with them) may have about the selection and use of what may be deemed controversial classroom materials. Some of the essays in this collection deal with topics we might find it easy to dismiss as being inapplicable to higher education, or to the education of discerning minds, such as Hydrick's "Slugging It Out: Censorship Issues in the Third Grade," or Cerra's "Self-Censorship and the Elementary School Teacher," but we do so at our own peril. We actually need to work in concert with all our colleagues in this education business, so we all need to know what our colleagues are experiencing, no matter which group of student they serve. Some worry that while our long history of community-mandated textbook censorship at the elementary and secondary level may have resolved some of the local problems there, it has been at much too large a cost to those students who proceed to college and university classrooms. According to Delfattore (What Johnny Shouldn't Read: Textbook Censorship in America, 1992), "When student have spent twelve years reading books based more on market forces than on scholarly excellence, they may not come to college prepared to do college level-work." In the same analysis, she notes the AAUP's concern that "[S]tudents whose pre-college education was based primarily on 'official' textbooks are not likely to understand how to deal with shades of meaning or with controversial topics"(9). Here lies, then, higher education's real problem--the censorship of secondary and elementary textbooks and teaching materials. Our students are ill-prepared to deal with controversy (a.k.a. life), not so much because of poor teaching or pedagogy, but because of being overprotected by constraints laid down by communities afraid that their schools will taint their children by discussing thorny topics. Stepping across our college and university thresholds each fall, filled with the helium of false and ungrounded self-confidence, are students who are easily manipulated into inappropriate situations, groups, or belief systems that they could have withstood with a little experience in dealing with controversial topics. Brown and her colleagues assume that instructors who do succeed in creating an "open flow of ideas" in their classrooms will almost surely experience unwarranted censorship attempts from supervisors, special interest groups, or both. In light of that, these essays confront any and all individuals or groups who would challenge the classroom decisions of individual teachers. In most cases, unlike those mentioned in these essays, censorship conflicts can be resolved with minimum disruption to the classroom environment, but the thornier episodes of censorship usually involve one or both of the two cohesive dissenting groups who most effectively precipitate large-scale confrontations: the Fundamentalist Christian Right and what Nat Hentoff (Free Speech for Me--But Not for Thee, 1992) calls "the righteous left"(152). For remarkably similar reasons, both groups insist on limiting which materials can be used in the classroom environment. While both groups share such laudable goals as protecting students from inappropriate language and creating learning environments that foster positive attitudes, their attempt to do so with censorship creates incurably bland texts, and subsequently bland curricula. Without the occasional truly vile character in the cast even the heroes begin to look a bit tawdry absent the vital contrast between good and evil. At its worst, censorship makes it pretty hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys. Simplistically put, the fundamentalist right censor would have us believe that all evil is Satanic and must be expunged from all texts and put behind us, while the righteous left censor would have us believe that evil is simply linguistic in nature and that we can disempower it by saying things in a different way, thereby tolerating what we cannot eliminate. Some feel that these two are the only groups which can truly be labeled censors (What Johnny Shouldn't Read: Textbook Censorship in America, 1992), since each demands that its agendas supplant those of all other groups and become the norm. It should come as no surprise that parents from both the fundamental right and the righteous left figure prominently in both the censorship confrontations and the burgeoning home-school movement. We could say that the fundamentally right censors want to be alone in the room, doing their own thing, while the righteous left censors want everybody in the same room, doing the same thing . . . nicely. Although the collection does what it claims to do, the arrogant, even condescending tone of some of the essays often made me feel more like a preservice instructor than a 20+ year veteran educator. There may not be a way to avoid this when the intended audience for this collection is so inclusive, but it made me hurry through essays like "Who's Protecting Whom and From What?" (178-91), an account of selecting controversial poems to be printed in a student publication. As I read of Kapron and Paye embroiling themselves in what would be several years of conflict and eventual litigation, I found myself talking to the tv, as it were, muttering "No, don't do THAT!" or "No, not THAT way!" or "What were you THINKING?!" Their kind of idealism is sometimes hard to tell from careless foolishness when teachers charge ahead under the banner of intellectual freedom. We probably need to be protected somehow from our own private agendas, when they drive us into classroom decisions that create more logistical problems that they do learning experiences. Our ultimate responsibility is to design and provide classroom activities that create and nurture critical thinkers, not dutiful drones with picket line mentality who thrill at the thought of confronting authority figures. As concerned faculty, this may be the basis of our most important task undertaken in pursuit of our professional responsibilities. If we are to facilitate the intellectual development of scholars whose critical thinking skills are problem-solving techniques will enable them to succeed and excel, then preserving academic freedom for students and professors alike is where we must start.

VIENNA: Russia, the United States and other world powers tried to put their sharp differences over Ukraine to one side on Tuesday as they kicked off the latest nuclear talks with Iran in Vienna. The gathering is the second in a series of meetings aiming to transform by July a November interim deal into a lasting accord that resolves for good the decade-old standoff and removes the threat of war. So far, despite disagreements over the Syria conflict and other issues, the six powers have shown a united front over Iran, but events in Ukraine in recent weeks have precipitated the worst crisis in East-West relations since the Cold War. Following Sunday’s referendum in Crimea -- slammed as a sham by the White House and the European Union -- Brussels and Washington on Monday issued the first sanctions against a handful of Russian officials. Already downbeat about prospects for a deal with Iran, Mark Fitzpatrick, a former US State Department official now at the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, said the unfolding crisis made him “even more pessimistic”. “The Russians will ... be less likely to make sacrifices for the sake of unity over the Iran issues,” Fitzpatrick said. The Iranians, he said, “now have more reason to wait out the six powers”. A senior US administration official involved in the Iran talks said last week that diplomats “hoped that the incredibly difficult situation in Ukraine will not create issues for this negotiation”. Even before the Ukraine crisis erupted, Russian President Vladimir Putin was reported to be discussing a major deal with Tehran whereby Moscow would get Iranian oil in exchange for money, goods and help in building new nuclear reactors. This would undermine Washington’s efforts to cut off Iran’s main source of revenue -- a strategy which the US credits with forcing Tehran to the negotiating table in the first place. Mark Hibbs from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace said this “huge barter deal” is a “carrot Moscow can dangle constructively to wrestle more concessions from Iran.” “Or it can move forward unilaterally and damage the negotiation,” Hibbs said. “Up to Putin to choose.” Even without the spat over Ukraine, agreeing a lasting deal will be tough for Iran and the United States, China, Russia, Britain, France and Germany, known as the P5+1.AFP

// Copyright (C) 2016 Lukas Lalinsky // Distributed under the MIT license, see the LICENSE file for details. // This file was automatically generate using gen_bit_writer.py, do not edit. #ifndef CHROMAPRINT_UTILS_PACK_INT5_ARRAY_H_ #define CHROMAPRINT_UTILS_PACK_INT5_ARRAY_H_ #include <algorithm> namespace chromaprint { inline size_t GetPackedInt5ArraySize(size_t size) { return (size * 5 + 7) / 8; } template <typename InputIt, typename OutputIt> inline OutputIt PackInt5Array(const InputIt first, const InputIt last, OutputIt dest) { auto size = std::distance(first, last); auto src = first; while (size >= 8) { const unsigned char s0 = *src++; const unsigned char s1 = *src++; const unsigned char s2 = *src++; const unsigned char s3 = *src++; const unsigned char s4 = *src++; const unsigned char s5 = *src++; const unsigned char s6 = *src++; const unsigned char s7 = *src++; *dest++ = (unsigned char) ((s0 & 0x1f)) | ((s1 & 0x07) << 5); *dest++ = (unsigned char) ((s1 & 0x18) >> 3) | ((s2 & 0x1f) << 2) | ((s3 & 0x01) << 7); *dest++ = (unsigned char) ((s3 & 0x1e) >> 1) | ((s4 & 0x0f) << 4); *dest++ = (unsigned char) ((s4 & 0x10) >> 4) | ((s5 & 0x1f) << 1) | ((s6 & 0x03) << 6); *dest++ = (unsigned char) ((s6 & 0x1c) >> 2) | ((s7 & 0x1f) << 3); size -= 8; } if (size == 7) { const unsigned char s0 = *src++; const unsigned char s1 = *src++; const unsigned char s2 = *src++; const unsigned char s3 = *src++; const unsigned char s4 = *src++; const unsigned char s5 = *src++; const unsigned char s6 = *src++; *dest++ = (unsigned char) ((s0 & 0x1f)) | ((s1 & 0x07) << 5); *dest++ = (unsigned char) ((s1 & 0x18) >> 3) | ((s2 & 0x1f) << 2) | ((s3 & 0x01) << 7); *dest++ = (unsigned char) ((s3 & 0x1e) >> 1) | ((s4 & 0x0f) << 4); *dest++ = (unsigned char) ((s4 & 0x10) >> 4) | ((s5 & 0x1f) << 1) | ((s6 & 0x03) << 6); *dest++ = (unsigned char) ((s6 & 0x1c) >> 2); } else if (size == 6) { const unsigned char s0 = *src++; const unsigned char s1 = *src++; const unsigned char s2 = *src++; const unsigned char s3 = *src++; const unsigned char s4 = *src++; const unsigned char s5 = *src++; *dest++ = (unsigned char) ((s0 & 0x1f)) | ((s1 & 0x07) << 5); *dest++ = (unsigned char) ((s1 & 0x18) >> 3) | ((s2 & 0x1f) << 2) | ((s3 & 0x01) << 7); *dest++ = (unsigned char) ((s3 & 0x1e) >> 1) | ((s4 & 0x0f) << 4); *dest++ = (unsigned char) ((s4 & 0x10) >> 4) | ((s5 & 0x1f) << 1); } else if (size == 5) { const unsigned char s0 = *src++; const unsigned char s1 = *src++; const unsigned char s2 = *src++; const unsigned char s3 = *src++; const unsigned char s4 = *src++; *dest++ = (unsigned char) ((s0 & 0x1f)) | ((s1 & 0x07) << 5); *dest++ = (unsigned char) ((s1 & 0x18) >> 3) | ((s2 & 0x1f) << 2) | ((s3 & 0x01) << 7); *dest++ = (unsigned char) ((s3 & 0x1e) >> 1) | ((s4 & 0x0f) << 4); *dest++ = (unsigned char) ((s4 & 0x10) >> 4); } else if (size == 4) { const unsigned char s0 = *src++; const unsigned char s1 = *src++; const unsigned char s2 = *src++; const unsigned char s3 = *src++; *dest++ = (unsigned char) ((s0 & 0x1f)) | ((s1 & 0x07) << 5); *dest++ = (unsigned char) ((s1 & 0x18) >> 3) | ((s2 & 0x1f) << 2) | ((s3 & 0x01) << 7); *dest++ = (unsigned char) ((s3 & 0x1e) >> 1); } else if (size == 3) { const unsigned char s0 = *src++; const unsigned char s1 = *src++; const unsigned char s2 = *src++; *dest++ = (unsigned char) ((s0 & 0x1f)) | ((s1 & 0x07) << 5); *dest++ = (unsigned char) ((s1 & 0x18) >> 3) | ((s2 & 0x1f) << 2); } else if (size == 2) { const unsigned char s0 = *src++; const unsigned char s1 = *src++; *dest++ = (unsigned char) ((s0 & 0x1f)) | ((s1 & 0x07) << 5); *dest++ = (unsigned char) ((s1 & 0x18) >> 3); } else if (size == 1) { const unsigned char s0 = *src++; *dest++ = (unsigned char) ((s0 & 0x1f)); } return dest; } }; // namespace chromaprint #endif

Jasenica (Gradačac) Jasenica (Gradačac) (Cyrillic: Јасеница) is a village in the municipality of Gradačac, Bosnia and Herzegovina. References Category:Populated places in Gradačac

Oxidized phospholipids inhibit cyclooxygenase-2 in human macrophages via nuclear factor-kappaB/IkappaB- and ERK2-dependent mechanisms. Oxidized low-density lipoproteins (ox-LDL) or their components suppress macrophage inflammatory response by down-regulating cytokine synthesis, nitric oxide synthase and inducible cyclooxygenase (Cox-2). This event is crucial for the pathophysiological process leading to the formation of atherosclerotic plaque. Our present study focused on the mechanisms through which oxidized phospholipids inhibit LPS-induced Cox-2 expression in human macrophages. Macrophages were incubated with a mixture of oxidized fragmented phospholipids (ox-PAPC), present in modified LDL, and then exposed to LPS. Cox-2 was evaluated in terms of protein levels, mRNA and activity. Ox-PAPC dose-dependently inhibited Cox-2 protein, mRNA and activity by preventing NF-kappaB binding to DNA. This effect was consequent to alterations of the degradation pattern of IkappaBalpha. Moreover, ox-PAPC markedly prevented extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK2) activation, leading to Cox-2 expression, whereas activation of the transcription factor peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs) was not influenced. ox-PAPC down-regulates LPS-induced Cox-2 expression in human macrophages by targeting both NF-kappaB/IkappaB and ERK2 pathways. An altered inflammatory response by macrophages within atheromata may contribute to the progression of atherosclerosis.

British blockchain middleware platform, Omnitude, today announced it has opened a further international office in the US, following international offices in the UK, and South Africa. It will develop its blockchain software platform and centre its US sales and business operations out of Austin, Texas, a hub in the blockchain community. Austin is becoming one of the top startup hubs in the United States, drawing talent from San Francisco. Omnitude will benefit from becoming part of this thriving blockchain community and will provide value to Austin by helping bring blockchain closer to mainstream adoption. Martyn Brougham Omnitude’s COO of the Americas commented: “Today is an important landmark in our mission to make blockchain technology accessible to organisations, offering established multinationals and home grown business ecosystems the opportunity to disrupt their markets with improved efficiencies, innovation and trust. We have spent our time getting to know the Austin scene and we are excited to invest and grow from here.” The office will also be a centre of excellence and product development, overseen by Omnitude’s US-based CTO, James Worthington. Worthington remarked: “What we are doing, from a technology perspective, has never been done before, so this is the beginning of an exciting journey. We have hired three more developers this week, and we are looking to recruit more smart people to build our technology platform and serve our US partners. Our new US operation will be able to draw on our formidable global network, but there is still much that we can learn about blockchain from sharing knowledge and experience with the Austin community.” Omnitude makes it easier and faster for companies to exploit the benefits of blockchain technology and build it into the complex array of systems they use to serve their customers. Acting as a middleware layer between legacy and contemporary systems, the Omnitude technology platform helps businesses to innovate by adding additional layers of trust, security and efficiency into their applications with blockchain.

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Francine Sporenda interviews Huschke Mau for Nordic Model Now Huschke Mau is a survivor of Germany’s legalized prostitution system. In this article, Francine Sporenda interviews her, focusing on the recent changes in the prostitution law in Germany. F: How do you explain that Germany (according to a popular quote) has become the “brothel of Europe”? What led to this situation? HM: In my view, the reasons lie in the EU enlargement with the accession of Eastern European countries and the very high demand for prostitution in Germany. Every day about 1.2 million men visit a brothel here. Added to this are our laws. Fostering prostitution was legalized in 2002, and so it is no longer against the law to be a pimp or brothel keeper. Pimping is only criminalized if it is “exploitative,” which means if more than 50% of a prostitute’s earnings are taken from her. This does not, however, apply to rents for the rooms in brothels – these are very high. Rents of €100 to €180 per day are common. Those on the political Right often disapprove of prostitution while simultaneously retaining the clandestine male right [to buy those in prostitution] and despising the women for it – whereas the political Left and the Greens present us with a kind of trick package: idolizing prostitution as work, sometimes even as feminist or empowering. Instead of offering women alternatives or exit support, efforts go into making prostitution as cuddly as possible. That 89% of all women want to leave prostitution is completely disregarded. F: Can you tell us about the recently passed “Law for the protection of prostitution”? What does it entail? What are its negative and positive sides for prostituted women (if any)? HM: This law – “Prostituiertenschutzgesetz” i.e. “Prostitutes’ Protection Law” – lays down regulations for brothel operators and prostitutes. It came into effect this summer [2017]. Brothel keepers now need a permit or license and those with prior convictions for trafficking are banned from running brothels. Prostitutes have to register, and they have to attend individual health counselling. Moreover, condoms are now mandatory for the punters, which is the only good point about the law. Punters who insist on intercourse without condoms can now face high fines. These points aside, the political strategy as evidenced in this law is only about ironing out the very worst outcomes of prostitution in Germany, such as flat rate or gang bang offers, which have now been banned. The situation as such is not addressed at all. Except for mandatory condoms, there is no regulation that places responsibility on the johns, and there is still a huge lack of exiting support and no help for the women in finding alternatives. The law does not even stipulate a minimum age of 21 – because it was argued this would amount to the “prohibition of a profession.” As a result, very young girls from Europe’s poorest areas can still be exploited here in Germany. Forced prostitution is very hard to prove, although police estimates are that nine out of ten women are working for a man in the background. F: You say that municipal authorities are in charge of applying this law, and that this guarantees it won’t be fully implemented. Can you explain why? HM: Municipal authorities are supposed to implement the law, but hardly any funds have been allocated to the municipalities for this. Cities now have to create new jobs, for example in the offices where prostitutes are to register. We need interpreters. We need doctors to carry out the health counselling. But the state seems to be concerned only with finding out how it can profit as much as possible from prostitution, and it certainly doesn’t invest in real help for the women. There are not enough counselling centers, there is not enough exiting support, and there aren’t enough alternatives that women in prostitution can use or access. F: Can you explain how the legalization of prostitution automatically causes major corruption in the police, local authorities, and politics? HM: It is above all pimps, brothel keepers and johns who profit from legalization. Legal prostitution signals to punters that it is okay to buy a woman. Being a punter is not shameful in Germany. On the contrary, a man was recently in court for having choked a woman. The judge, a woman, suggested that if he enjoyed choking women he could simply have gone to a prostitute. Violence against a specific class of women is being normalized in this way. That is not solidarity. Many men in Germany are johns. Some studies suggest that as many as three out of four men have used prostitution at least once. When it is legitimised, they go ahead and just do it, just like that. At the same time, the prostitutes are not decriminalized. If they are found in violation of zoning regulations, they are punished. Or if they fail to pay taxes. This makes it possible for brothel keepers or johns to blackmail the women. Many politicians and policemen are johns, too. My first pimp was a policeman, and I had many policemen as johns. Even some who were investigating trafficking cases. They didn’t see any problem with that. And as johns, these policemen and these politicians make decisions that serve them as johns. And then brothels increase tax revenue, for example, big brothels like the Pascha in Cologne. No politician wants to spoil that for himself. F: Can you tell us about the mega brothels/brothel chains in Germany? How the abuses of prostituted women in these brothels are probably worse than in any other kind of prostitution (“all you can fuck” rates, gang bangs, surveillance systems etc.) Who owns these brothel chains? HM: We have big brothels here – two types. Those where punters and women meet and decide to go up to a room, and those where johns walk through the corridors and pick a woman sitting outside her room. The “Prostitutes Protection Law” from 2017 bans flat-rate offers or other fixed prices set by the brothels, and gang bangs. But what we are seeing already is big brothels remaining and smaller ones, or apartment brothels closing down. F: Legalization has turned pimps and traffickers into respectable businessmen. You mentioned before the case of the “prince” von Sachsen Anhalt, who has invested in brothels. These “businessmen” can now openly publish ads to recruit new prostitutes, advertisements for brothels can be seen everywhere. Can you tell us about this “normalization” of pimping and prostitution and the effect it has on German society and the situation of women? HM: Having brothel keepers sit on TV shows or running their own television series places the acceptance of purchasing women on a new level in our society. Running brothels, managing them or being a punter are no longer seen as indecent in Germany. This does not, however, lead to any widespread acceptance of prostituted women, they are still counted as scum. To offer sex is still seen as morally dubious while buying sex has become perfectly normal. Sympathies are clearly with the johns and brothel keepers and that is what legalization has brought us. And consequently, violence against women is being normalized. I have had to let myself be lectured by acquaintances who do not know that I was a prostituted woman that this is “a perfectly normal service.” At the same time the normalization of prostitution has far reaching effects on how society understands (or rather doesn’t understand) other forms of sexual violence against women. We now have a situation where women who want to report rape are being hounded with a charge for defamation if the perpetrator cannot be sentenced due to a lack of evidence. I do not see this as accidental. F: Can you tell us about the “sex worker unions” and the pro-prostitution lobby in Germany? Who are these people? How many real prostitutes are in these groups? Who finances them? HM: Here it’s the BSD, Berufsverband Sexueller Dienstleistungen, the “Professional Association of Sexual Services,” which is an association of brothel operators only and which is consulted by politicians on all prostitution matters in spite of being operators only. Then there is the BESD, the “Berufsverband erotische und sexuelle Dienstleistungen,” the “Professional Association of Erotic and Sexual Services,” which promotes itself as a kind of trade union for “sex workers,” but those who speak publicly tend to be dominatrixes or run studios for them, or they rent out rooms and thus they are among the operators, really. The association does not reveal how many members have joined it. Hydra, a counselling and advocacy center in Berlin, openly engages in facilitating and counselling for the entry into prostitution. F: You say that pro-“sex work” associations are not only totally useless for helping women exit, in fact they are trying to keep them in prostitution or even attract new recruits. Can you tell us about these associations? HM: Due to political pressure, these organizations have begun to say that they support exit services, because according to them not every woman is suited to this “job.” But they do not offer any. Instead of exit support, we have advocacy and counselling centers, but they are few and far between – there are entire Länder, or states, within Germany that do not have any at all – and most of these are pro-“sex work.” They advocate for prostituted women not being seen as an at-risk group in spite of the murders perpetrated against them, because considering them to at risk is said to be stigmatizing. Besides, I have heard of cases where prostituted women who wanted to exit were told that they could simply adjust their careers and work as a dominatrix instead of escort. That is no great help, of course. F: How can it be said that the German State is the biggest pimp (taxes etc.)? HM: Many of these advocacy centers receive public, or state, funding. If women are not supported in exiting, but rather in “getting along better in sex work,” many remain in prostitution even though this is not what they want. The state profits from this, because these women continue to pay their taxes. Some women pay up to €30 in taxes a day, the so called “Vergnuegungssteuer,” or “enjoyment tax,” which is cynical, because no woman I know personally has any pleasure in this job. The costs the women in prostitution face these days are huge: €100 to €180 per day for the room in the brothel (to be paid to the brothel owner), taxes (to be paid to the state), and more to the pimps. F: I saw that German brothels are rated like hotels now. Is that correct? HM: The BSD, a brothel keeper association, has introduced a “quality seal” which is awarded to brothels. In these brothels, all women are said to be working voluntarily and independently, and there is allegedly no crime there. The seal is of course completely useless. The brothel keepers’ club awards the quality seals to brothels. How is that is supposed to be unbiased or objective? The association has even admitted that this is a new marketing strategy to reach johns who no longer need to worry about coming across women who are forced into being there. In fact, most johns really don’t care about that at all. They may even enjoy forced prostitution, because they can more easily abuse the women, who are allowed fewer boundaries and may not refuse many sexual practices or demands on them etc. The seal is geared towards a specific group of johns, the “ethically correct” ones, who are now to be enabled to visit a brothel without qualms.

Distortions in two-dimensional visual space perception in strabismic observers. Amblyopic subjects were asked to memorize circles of different radii (2, 4 and 6 degrees), and then to reconstruct them monocularly with each eye, point by point (12 points per circle). The resulting two-dimensional maps of visual space showed considerable distortions, including expansion, shrinkage and torsion of specific regions of the visual field of the amblyopic eye, but not the normal eye. Based on the differences between the two eyes, we computed complex two-dimensional patterns (gratings, checkerboards, optotypes, written text, natural scenes) as "seen" monocularly with the amblyopic eye. These reconstructed patterns were then compared with drawings of the same patterns observed through the amblyopic eyes of the same subjects. The reconstructed patterns only partially reflected the actual perception for the amblyopic eyes. The compensation of complex, globally-extended scenes in comparison to the distortions obtained by local, punctate settings probably reflects cooperative interactions occurring at higher brain levels.

Introduction {#sec1} ============ Due to the wide applications of organic molecules to the electronics devices, the control of the interface between the molecule and the metal surface attracts attentions.^[@ref1]−[@ref4]^ Especially, the understanding of the film growth at the initial stage has fundamental importance over the final properties of the organic devices, which has been studied energetically in recent decades.^[@ref5],[@ref6]^ Among such studies, metallo-phthalocyanines (MPcs) and their derivatives are the most well-studied molecules due to not only their thermal stability but also tunable electronic properties and adsorption configurations with the change of the metal atom at the center. In addition, several double-decker Pc molecules possess an intriguing property of the single-molecule magnets (SMMs), which makes them good candidates for advanced quantum computing materials.^[@ref7]−[@ref10]^ Despite such importance, most of the works for the control of molecule--molecule and molecule--substrate interaction are restricted to the cases governed by their weak interactions including the van der Waals forces. In the control of such interactions, the property of the outer perimeter of the molecule (or the ligand) plays a critical role. In that sense, the modification of the perimeter of MPc family molecules might be able to tune the molecular interaction with the surroundings, while the molecule keeps the intriguing properties of the MPc. Stuzhin and their co-workers synthesized metallo-tetrakis(1,2,5-thiadiazole) porphyrazines (MTTDPz),^[@ref11],[@ref12]^ in which the benzene ring in the Pc ligand is replaced with the reactive moiety of 1,2,5-thiadiazoles, which has an S atom at the apex. This S atom interacts with the N atom of the neighbor molecule, which is bridging the thiadiazoles.^[@ref13],[@ref14]^ Our previous works on vanadyl tetrakis(thiadiazole) porphyrazine (VOTTDPz) show that the substituted ligands give a large effect on the stacking and the magnetic properties.^[@ref15]^ In this article, we report a low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope (LT-STM) study of cobalt TTDPz (CoTTDPz) molecule adsorbed on the Au(111) surface. The chemical structure of CoTTDPz is shown in [Figure [1](#fig1){ref-type="fig"}](#fig1){ref-type="fig"}a. We performed STM and scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS) experiments to characterize the bonding configuration and electronic properties of CoTTDPz. In addition, we examine the spin property of the molecule by detecting the Kondo resonance near the Fermi level, which is caused by the screening of the spin of the molecule by the conduction electrons. ![(a,b) STM image of film I; (a) occupied state image (10 × 10 nm^2^, −0.8 V, 100 pA) and (b) unoccupied state image(14 × 14 nm^2^, 0.5 V, 100 pA); white arrow refers to the \[11̅0\] direction of Au(111). **α** and **β** are unit vectors of the nonreconstructed Au(111). (c) Schematic model of the unit cell and molecule rotation. (d) Molecules adsorbed near the Au step edge; red arrows refer to raised lobes. (e) d*I*/d*V* on the isolated molecule. Red, green, and blue curves are obtained at the bare Au, the molecule center, and the ligand, respectively. Tip positions in corresponding colors are shown in the image. *I* = 0.4 nA, *V*~s~ = 0.2 V, *V*~rms~ = 20 mV for red and green, and *V*~rms~ = 10 mV for blue. (f) d*I/*d*V* on the molecule in film I. *I* = 0.1 nA, *V*~s~ = 0.5 V, and *V*~rms~ = 10 mV.](ao9b04453_0003){#fig1} Results and Discussion {#sec2} ====================== We start with the description of the first layer of the CoTTDPz film on Au(111), which we call as phase I hereafter. We show the topographic image of the phase I film in [Figure [1](#fig1){ref-type="fig"}](#fig1){ref-type="fig"}a,b obtained with the occupied and unoccupied states, respectively. As can be seen in the inner structure of the molecule in both images, the molecule shows a symmetric four-lobe shape, indicating flat-lying adsorption on Au(111). This configuration can also be seen in the first layer of MPc^[@ref16]−[@ref22]^ and VOTTDPz^[@ref15]^ films on Au(111). Herringbone of Au(111) under phase I can be clearly distinguished in a large-scale image (not shown here), indicating that molecules do not change the conventional 22 × √3 reconstruction of Au(111). The molecular lattice of phase I can be described using the unit cell shown as a green parallelogram in [Figure [1](#fig1){ref-type="fig"}](#fig1){ref-type="fig"}b. The unit cell can be constructed by two vectors **a**~**1**~ and **a**~**2**~. It contains two molecules that are not equivalent because the azimuthal angles of them are rotated by ∼60° relative to each other. Thus, we can define "row" of the molecules along which the molecules have an identical azimuthal rotation angle and the molecules in the next row are rotated by 60°. The unit cell can be expressed with the unit vectors **a**~**1**~ and **a**~**2**~, whose lengths are 1.30 and 2.60 nm, respectively, and are rotated by 60° relative to each other. They are commensurate with Au(111) and can be expressed by unit vectors of the nonreconstructed Au(111) surface (here called **α** and **β**) as follows The model is illustrated in [Figure [1](#fig1){ref-type="fig"}](#fig1){ref-type="fig"}c. The lattice shows a significant difference from the molecular lattice reported for the film of the MPc molecules formed on Au(111). When the coverage was close to the monolayer, they often show the quasi-square lattices that were reported for the CoPc,^[@ref16],[@ref17]^ VOPc,^[@ref18],[@ref19]^ FePc,^[@ref20],[@ref21]^ and H~2~Pc^[@ref22]^ molecules. The pseudo-square unit cell can be expressed as follows The reported nearest-neighbor distances (nnd) of the Pc molecules for these cases are close to 5 times of the nnd of the Au(111) surface, which corresponds to 1.44 nm. Thus, the nnd of 1.30 nm observed for the CoTTDPz molecule in this experiment is significantly shorter than those reported for MPc and H~2~Pc cases. It is intriguing to notice that the topographic image shows a large change when the polarity of the tunneling bias voltage is reversed. Although the molecule appears as the cross with almost equal heights at the center and the perimeters in the unoccupied state image of [Figure [1](#fig1){ref-type="fig"}](#fig1){ref-type="fig"}b, the central part of the molecule is much enhanced in the occupied state image in [Figure [1](#fig1){ref-type="fig"}](#fig1){ref-type="fig"}a. This phenomenon is attributed to the shift of Co d state on the surface. The singly occupied orbital in vacuum becomes fully occupied due to charge transfer and shows an enhanced signal when occupied states are imaged by negative bias.^[@ref23],[@ref24],[@ref30]^ The difference in the adsorption configuration of CoTTDPz from the MPc molecules can also be found in other features. [Figure [1](#fig1){ref-type="fig"}](#fig1){ref-type="fig"}d shows molecules adsorbed near the step edge. It has been discussed that the molecule adsorbed at the step edge tends to have a canted bonding configuration; that is, a part of the molecule is bonded on the upper terrace and the other is bonded on the lower terrace of a step edge. Zhao and co-workers showed that, for the CoPc molecule adsorbed on the Au(111) surface, more than 75% of CoPc molecules at the step edge have one or two lobes anchoring on the higher terrace.^[@ref25]^ However, for the current system of the CoTTDPz molecule on Au(111), only ∼30% of the molecules were confirmed to have the tilted configuration (the raised lobes are marked by red arrows in the figure). We speculate that a strong lateral thiadiazole--Au bonding is the underlying mechanism for the suppressed appearance of the tilted configuration. STS (d*I*/d*V*) spectra measured for the isolated molecule and the molecule in the phase I film are illustrated in [Figure [1](#fig1){ref-type="fig"}](#fig1){ref-type="fig"}e,f, respectively, and we show the spectra obtained both at the center and the ligand positions in both panels. The condition of the STM tip was checked by confirming the surface state of the bare part of the Au(111) surface before taking the molecular spectra, which is shown by the plot in red. For the spectrum of the isolated molecule shown in [Figure [1](#fig1){ref-type="fig"}](#fig1){ref-type="fig"}e, we identify the features at ∼−0.36 V (blue curve) and ∼−0.54 V (green curve) together with a common feature at ∼0.13 V. In addition, a weak feature can be identified at ∼+0.65 V on the ligand position. It is interesting to notice that we can find the corresponding features in the spectra obtained for an isolated CoPc adsorbed on Cu(100) if we ignore the shift of the bonding energy.^[@ref26]^ However, the STS obtained for the CoPc molecule adsorbed on Au(111) is much different and has no corresponding features. Moreover, there appeared a feature near the Fermi level for the former case,^[@ref26]^ which is missing for the latter. This feature is interpreted as the adsorption-induced states (AISs) formed by the hybridization of the electronic states of the substrate and the molecule.^[@ref26]^ It is well known that the Cu(100) substrate has a stronger bonding with the CoPc molecule than Au(111) does, which is supposed to be the origin of differences in the STS of the two. We can find the AIS at 0.13 V in the spectrum of [Figure [1](#fig1){ref-type="fig"}](#fig1){ref-type="fig"}e. Combined with the similarity in the STS features, we consider that the electronic structure of the CoTTDPz molecule on Au(111) is similar to that of CoPc on Cu(111) rather than that on Au(111), which is due to the strong bonding of the CoTTDPz molecule with the Au(111) substrate with the presence of reactive species of S and N atoms. The spectra shown in [Figure [1](#fig1){ref-type="fig"}](#fig1){ref-type="fig"}f are obtained for the molecule in the lattice of the phase I film. The green curve shows a similar shape to the corresponding one in [Figure [1](#fig1){ref-type="fig"}](#fig1){ref-type="fig"}e, but the peak position is shifted to −0.31 V in (f) from −0.56 V in (e). We also see another new peak at −0.53 V in (f). The differences are derived from the formation of the molecule--molecule interactions. After the completion of the first monolayer, the second layer was formed with subsequent deposition of the molecule of the CoTTDPz molecule, in which two types of adsorption configurations labeled phases II~a~ and II~b~ were observed. We first examine the bonding configuration of phase II~a~. [Figure [2](#fig2){ref-type="fig"}](#fig2){ref-type="fig"}a shows the topographic image of phase II~a~ of the second layer. Unlike the symmetric four-lobe feature observed in phase I, a single lobe out of four lobes is highlighted in an asymmetric manner. This is illustrated in the magnified image in the inset of [Figure [2](#fig2){ref-type="fig"}](#fig2){ref-type="fig"}a, where the enhanced lobes are marked by blue dots. To demonstrate that this was not caused by the tip effect, we show the area where both phases I and II~a~ are visible in [Figure [2](#fig2){ref-type="fig"}](#fig2){ref-type="fig"}b. In this image, while four lobes appear with an equivalent contrast in phase I, one particular lobe possesses a highlighted contrast in phase II~a~. {#fig2} When the polarity of the tunneling bias was reversed, this asymmetric height distribution among the ligand is enhanced. We show the change of the topographic image with the reversal of the bias-voltage polarity in [Figure [2](#fig2){ref-type="fig"}](#fig2){ref-type="fig"}c in which the upper half corresponds to the unoccupied state, while the lower corresponds to the occupied one. In the occupied state image of phase I shown in [Figure [1](#fig1){ref-type="fig"}](#fig1){ref-type="fig"}a, the central part of the molecule is highlighted. Similarly in the lower half of [Figure [2](#fig2){ref-type="fig"}](#fig2){ref-type="fig"}c, we see that the central parts of the molecules marked by red dots are bright. However, the bright spot is seen not only at the center but also at one of the lobes that are marked by blue dots. By comparing the unoccupied and occupied state images of the molecule, we can identify the relation between the molecule structure and the height distribution. The result is schematically shown by superimposing the skeleton of the molecule on the topographic image. The structure and contrast distribution can be summarized as follows: (1) the molecules in the neighboring rows have different azimuthal rotation angles as in phase I and (2) one of the four lobes is highlighted whose position appears in an alternative manner in the neighboring row. We show the temporal model for this film with a top view in [Figure [2](#fig2){ref-type="fig"}](#fig2){ref-type="fig"}d and with a cross-sectional view in [Figure [2](#fig2){ref-type="fig"}](#fig2){ref-type="fig"}e. We consider that the asymmetric height distribution among the four lobes is deduced from the canted bonding of the molecule, as indicated in [Figure [2](#fig2){ref-type="fig"}](#fig2){ref-type="fig"}e. The direction of the tilt is identical among the rows that are twisted if compared with the one of the neighboring rows. The stacking of the second layer on the first layer is depicted in the model of [Figure [2](#fig2){ref-type="fig"}](#fig2){ref-type="fig"}d. We found that the unit cell of phase II~a~ is skewed from that of phase I (the length from 1.30 × 2.60 to 1.22 × 2.77 nm^2^ and the angle from 60 to 64°). The structural change from phase I to II~a~ should be related to the relaxation of the film structure due to the decreased interaction with the substrate. The tilt angle of the molecule can be roughly estimated by considering the height difference of the two lobes along the canted direction, measured as 0.18 nm, and the size of the molecule of 1.30 nm. This yields arcsin(0.18/1.3) ≈ 8° for the estimated tilt angle from the flat-lying configuration. A similar tilted configuration was reported for MPc. For the CoPc molecule, they found a tilted stacking in the second layer in which the tilt angle has been estimated as 3°.^[@ref16]^ The authors claim that the canted configuration observed in the second and higher layers is due to the polymorphs of the crystal of the MPc molecules. We can find a case where a further canted bonding configuration in the second layer of the FePc molecule film grown on Au(111), in which the inclination has been claimed to be about 40°.^[@ref21]^ In the estimation of the angle, the authors observed an isolated FePc molecule in the second layer since the height difference between the lobes can be measured more precisely for the isolated molecule compared to the case for the one in the film. [Figure [2](#fig2){ref-type="fig"}](#fig2){ref-type="fig"}f illustrates d*I*/d*V* spectra measured on the lobe of the molecule of phase II~a~; two sharp features are observed at −1.0 and −0.7 V together with weak features at 0.77 and 1.1 V. The sharp peaks in the occupied state are obviously corresponding to the features of highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) and HOMO-1 observed in [Figure [1](#fig1){ref-type="fig"}](#fig1){ref-type="fig"}f, which are remarkably enhanced and the shift to the lower energy after partially decoupled from the Au substrate due to the presence of the first layer. We also see that the weak features in the unoccupied state in [Figure [1](#fig1){ref-type="fig"}](#fig1){ref-type="fig"}f shift to higher energy without a large change in their intensity. However, these features develop into a strong peak as lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) at 0.79 V in the spectrum obtained on the center of the molecule ([Figure [2](#fig2){ref-type="fig"}](#fig2){ref-type="fig"}g), while HOMO and HOMO-1 are depressed with a little change in energy position. We measured spectra on the nonhighlighted lobes of the molecule in the phase II~a~ film, which was similar to those obtained on the center of the molecule in the same film. Next, we discuss another phase of the second layer labeled II~b~. [Figure [3](#fig3){ref-type="fig"}](#fig3){ref-type="fig"}a displays the surface area where two phases of II~a~ and II~b~ coexist. These two types of the second layers were formed on different domains of the first layer of phase I and not found next to each other. The height difference between the layers of phase II~b~ and phase I is ∼230 pm, which was higher than that between II~a~ and I. {#fig3} The lattice and the azimuthal angle of the molecule can be observed in the magnified image of [Figure [3](#fig3){ref-type="fig"}](#fig3){ref-type="fig"}b. For an eye guide, the molecular model is superimposed on the topographic image by a simplified cross representing the two symmetry lines of the molecule. We should note that, unlike the cases of phases I and II~a~, the molecules are directing to a single direction and the alternative rotational angle between the neighboring molecules is no more observed. The unit cell is defined by **c**~1~ and **c**~2~, which have the sizes of 1.23 and 1.43 nm, respectively, with an angle of 63°, in which **c**~1~ is rotated ∼10° from the \[−110\] direction of the Au lattice. Thus, the unit vector of **c**~2~ is almost half in the length if compared with **a**~2~ due to the absence of the azimuthal rotation. Similar structures can be seen in the previous works for CoPc/Cu(111),^[@ref23]^ SnPc/NaCl,^[@ref27]^ and FePc/Ag(111).^[@ref28]^ If we assume a flat-lying bonding configuration with the lattice parameters and rotation angles given above, the molecule alignment is like the model illustrated in [Figure [3](#fig3){ref-type="fig"}](#fig3){ref-type="fig"}c. In this configuration, the overlap of the S atoms is expected at the site marked by the blue and white circles in [Figure [3](#fig3){ref-type="fig"}](#fig3){ref-type="fig"}b, which causes a large steric repulsion. One way to avoid this repulsion is to tilt the molecules, which increases the vertical gap between sulfur atoms, as illustrated in [Figure [3](#fig3){ref-type="fig"}](#fig3){ref-type="fig"}d. In [Figure [3](#fig3){ref-type="fig"}](#fig3){ref-type="fig"}b, only two lobes out of the four lobes can be clearly seen and the others are almost invisible, the former of which is marked by blue dots and the latter by white dots in [Figure [3](#fig3){ref-type="fig"}](#fig3){ref-type="fig"}b. The contrast variation indicates that the molecule is titled where the blue lobes are lifted and the white lobes are closer to the substrate. To estimate the tilt angle quantitatively, we like to observe an isolated molecule as discussed for the FePc molecule in the previous paragraph. For this purpose, we employ the third layer grown on the second layer of phase II~b~. We consider that the bright molecules observed in [Figure [3](#fig3){ref-type="fig"}](#fig3){ref-type="fig"}b are the isolated molecules of the initial stage of the third layer. The bright molecule is observed at the on-top site of phase II~b~, and the intramolecular structure looks similar to that of the second layer. However, there is an intriguing difference in the electronic states in the d*I*/d*V* spectra obtained at the lower molecule (second layer) and at the higher molecule (third layer), which are shown in [Figure [3](#fig3){ref-type="fig"}](#fig3){ref-type="fig"}e,f, respectively. The features corresponding to HOMO-1, HOMO, LUMO, and LUMO + 1 are observed at the energies of −1.30, −0.81, 0.71, and 1.1 V for the second layer molecule in [Figure [3](#fig3){ref-type="fig"}](#fig3){ref-type="fig"}e and at −1.23, −0.99, 0.41, and 0.79 V for the third layer in [Figure [3](#fig3){ref-type="fig"}](#fig3){ref-type="fig"}f, respectively. In the latter case, the energy separation between the occupied states becomes smaller and the intensive HOMO-1 peak is remarkably weakened, as shown on the left side of [Figure [3](#fig3){ref-type="fig"}](#fig3){ref-type="fig"}f. On the other hand, the energy gap between LUMO and LUMO + 1 has an almost constant value of ∼0.38 V for both the second and third layers but the peak position is shifted toward the Fermi level for the third-layer molecule. The evidence that the bright features in [Figure [3](#fig3){ref-type="fig"}](#fig3){ref-type="fig"}b correspond to the third-layer molecule can be obtained by comparing the STS spectrum obtained on each of them. As shown in [Figure [3](#fig3){ref-type="fig"}](#fig3){ref-type="fig"}h, STS on the third-layer molecule is almost identical to that of the bright molecules shown in [Figure [3](#fig3){ref-type="fig"}](#fig3){ref-type="fig"}f. In addition, the height of this film from the II~b~ phase is 0.23 nm, the same as that observed for the bright molecules from phase II~b~. These features support that the bright spots in [Figure [3](#fig3){ref-type="fig"}](#fig3){ref-type="fig"}b are the molecules in the third layer. The molecular lattice in [Figure [3](#fig3){ref-type="fig"}](#fig3){ref-type="fig"}g is identical to that of phase II~b~, except the appearance of pairing of the two rows of molecules and a gap between the pairs. Combined with the observation that the third-layer molecule is found at the on-top site on the film of phase II~b~, we consider that the molecules in phase II~b~ and in the third layer have a similar bonding configuration. Following the method shown for the FePc on Au(111),^[@ref21]^ we can calculate the most accurate tilt angle from the isolated molecule. Thus, we focus on the bright molecule in the image of [Figure [3](#fig3){ref-type="fig"}](#fig3){ref-type="fig"}b, which is the isolated molecule in the third layer. We can estimate the tilt angle from the height difference between the two lobes, which indicates a height difference of 250 pm and an angle of ∼11°. The tilt angle is large enough to make an enough space to avoid the steric repulsion between the blue and white parts of [Figure [3](#fig3){ref-type="fig"}](#fig3){ref-type="fig"}b. Now, we discuss the magnetic property of the CoTTDPz molecule on Au(111). The magnetic properties of the molecule in the bulk and thick film were reported by our group;^[@ref13],[@ref14]^ the results show a weak antiferromagnetic and paramagnetic ordering, respectively, and the spin is located on the Co atom at the center. We examine the STS spectrum near the Fermi level for the isolated CoTTDPz molecule on the Au(111) surface shown in [Figure [4](#fig4){ref-type="fig"}](#fig4){ref-type="fig"}a. Although we expect that the spins are at the center of the molecule, the obtained spectrum illustrated in [Figure [4](#fig4){ref-type="fig"}](#fig4){ref-type="fig"}b shows no Kondo resonance. The absence of the Kondo feature suggests that the molecule spin is quenched due to a molecule--substrate interaction. {#fig4} A similar case has been investigated for the CoPc molecule. The CoPc molecule has a spin of *S* = 1/2 in vacuum,^[@ref29]^ which is located in the d~z~^2^ orbital. Zhao et al. examined the Kondo state of CoPc adsorbed on Au(111). No Kondo feature is observed for the CoPc deposited on the Au(111) surface.^[@ref30]^ Nonmagnetic Co^2+^ for the nondistorted CoPc molecule adsorbed on Au(111) was confirmed by other experimental^[@ref24]^ and theoretical^[@ref31]^ studies. In these reports, the disappearance of the spin is explained by the filling of the d~z~^2^ state as a result of charge transfer from the substrate. For the molecule in the multilayer film, it is expected that the molecule--substrate interaction is weakened by the presence of the underlying film, which makes the spin return to the Co atom. Stepanow et al. examined X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) for the same system.^[@ref32]^ They showed that three-dimensional (3d) magnetic moment exists in the d*z*^2^ state for the multilayer film of CoPc. Chen and co-workers demonstrated the Kondo resonance for the CoPc molecule in the second layer.^[@ref33]^ Although we expected a similar behavior for the CoTTDPz molecule on Au(111), the d*I*/d*V* spectra near the Fermi level obtained at the molecules of phase II~a~, II~b~, and III did not show any feature of the Kondo resonance. The absence of the Kondo resonance indicates that the quenching of the Co spin by charge transfer is active on phase III. Nevertheless, we detected the Kondo resonance at the isolated molecules in the third layer on phase II~b~. We show the topographic image of such molecules in [Figure [4](#fig4){ref-type="fig"}](#fig4){ref-type="fig"}c together with the obtained Kondo peaks in [Figure [4](#fig4){ref-type="fig"}](#fig4){ref-type="fig"}d, where the colored circles in [Figure [4](#fig4){ref-type="fig"}](#fig4){ref-type="fig"}c indicate the positions where the spectra plotted with the same color in [Figure [4](#fig4){ref-type="fig"}](#fig4){ref-type="fig"}d were obtained. At the ligand position of the isolated molecule adsorbed at the edge of the film of phase II~b~ (dark-blue circle), we obtained a sharp Kondo peak, whose width is 7.6 mV. On the other hand, the lobe at the green position provides a wider peak with a width of 24 mV. In addition, we see a characteristic dip at the Fermi level. For the right-hand molecule, the lobe marked by the red circle shows a peak with a further wide peak width. Nagaoka et al. introduced a formula for the temperature dependence of the Kondo peak width, Γ(T)where Γ is the width of the Kondo peak, *k*~B~ is the Boltzmann constant, and *T*~K~ is the Kondo temperature. The fitting of the dark-blue plot of [Figure [4](#fig4){ref-type="fig"}](#fig4){ref-type="fig"}d yields *T*~k~ = 31 K, while the green curve gives *T*~k~ = 98 K for the Kondo part of the deconvoluted peak. It is well established that *T*~k~ is strongly affected by the distance between the spin and substrate; the stronger the interaction, the higher the Kondo temperature.^[@ref25],[@ref34],[@ref35]^ In our case, the dark-blue lobe of the left molecule in [Figure [4](#fig4){ref-type="fig"}](#fig4){ref-type="fig"}c was at the perimeter of II~b~ and fuzzy in the image. Since molecules in II~b~ were tilted, the target was most likely separated from the layer of phase II~b~ which induces a weak coupling with the substrate followed by the recovery of the spin to the Co atom. On the other hand, the green lobe is attached to the layer of phase II~b~, whose schematic model is shown in [Figure [4](#fig4){ref-type="fig"}](#fig4){ref-type="fig"}f. The higher *T*~K~ observed for the green curve reveals this difference. In addition, the green plot of [Figure [4](#fig4){ref-type="fig"}](#fig4){ref-type="fig"}e has a sharp dip at the Fermi level, a ladder-type change of the conductance at the symmetric positions around the Fermi level forming a diplike feature near the Fermi level. The dip feature in the d*I*/d*V* plot at the Fermi level was observed in the conductance plot for the atom/molecule on the insulating layer or in the multilayer film; examples of the former can be seen for the system of Mn atom on Al~2~O~3~/NiAl,^[@ref36]^ FePc molecule on the Cu(111)(2 × 1)--O surface,^[@ref37]^ and the ones for the latter are the organic radical molecule (C~28~H~25~O~2~N~4~) on Au(111),^[@ref38]^ the TbPc~2~ molecule of the multiple layer on Ag(111),^[@ref39]^ and CoPc on Pb.^[@ref33]^ For the former two cases, the conversion of the Kondo peak in the d*I*/d*V* spectrum to dips is a characteristic of the inelastic process. The origin of the dips is attributed to the inelastic spin-flip process in which the tunneling electron excites spin states appearing as inelastic components in the d*I*/d*V* spectrum. The experiment on the CoPc molecule was executed in its multiple-layer film (third to fifth layer) grown on the lead surface at the sample temperature at 0.4 K and with a magnetic field of 11 T. The inelastic feature appeared at ∼18 meV. The energy is much higher than that expected for the excitation of the 1/2 spin. Instead, it is considerably due to a collective spin excitation of the chain of −Co--N--Co--. This chain is formed in the surface-normal direction by the stacking of multiple CoPc layers where the Co atom is located at the on-top position of the N atom of the inner circle. The collective spin excitation of this antiferromagnetic chain forms the IE feature. We consider that the green curve is composed of the Kondo peak and the IETS dip. The dip has a width of ∼ 6 meV, which is much larger than that expected from the spin excitation of the 1/2 spin in the magnetic field of 3 T. Similar to the CoPc case mentioned above, we should consider the chain formation for the CoTTDPz molecule in the surface-normal direction, and larger energy is needed for the spin-flip due to the collective spin excitation. The d*I*/d*V* spectrum obtain at the red point of [Figure [4](#fig4){ref-type="fig"}](#fig4){ref-type="fig"}c shows a broad feature corresponding to *T*~K~ of ∼165 K, which suggests a stronger bonding with the substrate than that obtained at the edge of the islands. Summary {#sec3} ======= In summary, we investigated the structure and electronic/spin configuration of the film of the Co tetrakis(1,2,5-thiadiazole) porphyrazines (CoTTDPz) molecule adsorbed on the Au(111) surface. CoTTDPz has a similar structure to the Co phthalocyanine molecule except that its perimeter is terminated with S and N atoms instead of C--H. The active nature of the S and N atoms compared to that of the C--H species should form enhanced molecule--substrate and molecule--molecule interactions. We investigate their effect on the structural and electronic properties. In the first layer, we find an ordered molecular lattice with a threefold symmetry where a nearest-neighbor distance of 1.30 nm was measured, which is significantly shorter than that observed for the metal Pc molecule. The unit cell of the lattice contains two molecules that are rotated by 60° relative to each other. The azimuthal rotation is considerably due to the stronger interaction between the S atom at the apex of the ligand and the N atom in the inner ring. By this rotation, a compact lattice can be realized compared to MPc molecules on the Au(111) surface. In the second layer, we found two types of bonding configurations. The first one, phase II~a~, shows a similar structure to that of the first layer. However, the molecules are tilted from the flat-lying configuration and the tilting direction alternatively changes neighboring molecules. The other phase of the second layer, phase II~b~, shows the absence of the azimuthal rotation between neighboring molecules. Instead, they show a higher tilted angle to avoid steric repulsion. Apparent stronger interaction between the molecule and the substrate can be seen in the STS, including the finding of the adsorbate-induced state near the Fermi level that was observed previously for CoPc on the Cu(111) surface, in agreement for the weak interaction case on Au(111). In addition, the STS spectra observed in the second and third layers show a significant change, indicating that the effect of the substrate is not completely shielded in the second layer. In both phases II~a~ and II~b~, the Co d state arises a sharp peak as LUMO at around 0.8 V, but the HOMO peak from the molecule ligand is much stronger in II~b~; this result is reproducible, and the source of the enhancement remains a mystery. The HOMO features are weakened in the third layer (both protrusion and film), while a LUMO + 1 peak arises at the position that is 0.4 V higher than LUMO; this peak is more likely due to the vibrational mode on the molecule, as reported before.^[@ref27]^ The strong interaction between the molecule and the substrate also appears in the spin state examined by the detection of the Kondo state. Even though the existence of the spin was confirmed for the bulk and thick films of this molecule, no Kondo features are detected for the molecules in the first, second, and third layers except for the isolated molecule in the third layer. Experimental Section {#sec4} ==================== Experiments were carried out using a Unisoku LT-STM operated at ∼4.7 K with a base pressure of 10^--8^ Pa. The Au(111) substrate was prepared by repeated cycles of Ar^+^ sputtering and annealing in ultrahigh-vacuum (UHV) conditions. The CoTTDPz molecule was deposited onto the Au substrate held at room temperature by heating a Ta boat. The STS measurement was carried out using the lock-in amp technique in which modulation voltage, *Vrms*, was superimposed on the tunneling voltage. ^\#^ Technical University of Munich, James-Franck Strasse 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany. ^⊥^ Donostia International Physics Cente, Material Physics Center, UPV-EHU, Paseo de Manuel Lardizabal, 5, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain. ^∥^ Center for Quantum Nanoscience, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Seoul 03760, Republic of Korea. The authors declare no competing financial interest. This study was supported in part by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) (No. 19H05621) (Tadahiro Komeda). The authors acknowledge the financial support by the Center for Spintronics Research Network (CSRN).

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[unreadable] This application is based in large measure on the candidate's prior experience in treating children with asthma in a small developing island-nation where the incidence of asthma is rapidly increasing. This experience deeply motivated the candidate to obtain in-depth knowledge into both the epidemiology and pathophysiology of pedjatric asthma. The candidate's goal is to pursue independent investigation into the mechanisms responsible for this burgeoning pediatric illness. At the University of California, Irvine, the candidate selected as co-mentors two physician scientists whose research in: 1) air pollution and pediatric asthma; and 2) immune responses to exercise in children complemented one another. The rationale for this collaboration is that both air pollution and exercise exacerbate asthma in children, but the mechanisms that link these two phenomena are not clear. It is known that exercise even in healthy children leads to a robust activation of innate immunity with increases in neutrophils, neutrophil adhesion molecules, and neutrophit oxidative stress mechanisms that play a role in bronchoconstriction. Air pollution sensitizes neutrophils rendering them more prone to release these factors when environment factors, similar to exercise, stimulate innate immunity. Intriguingly, both exercise and pollution also affect lymphocyte TH1/TH2 polarization, now known to influence neutrophil function. Despite these compelling observations, little is known about neutrophil responses to exercise in the child with asthma, or the association to lymphocyte TH1/TH2 balance, and this is the focus of the proposed research. A major stumbling block in research in pediatric asthma has been the difficulty in truly characterizing disease severity. This study proposes to identify a cohort of children with persistent asthma whose clinical severity and air pollution exposure will be measured comprehensively under field conditions using nephelometry and spirometry to investigate new disease mechanisms using laboratory based, precisely controlled exercise challenges focused on neutrophil function and the association to lymphocyte TH1/TH2 balance. Neutrophil function will be assessed from the level of neutrophil genomic expression to systemic manifestations of neutrophil oxidative stress responses. The lymphocyte TH1/TH2 balance will be assessed by intracellular cytokine profiles. To complement the research project, the candidate has developed a robust didactic program including formal courses in statistics, molecular biology, and epidemiology; and ongoing postgraduate seminar series in exercise physiology and immunology. Finally, the candidate's career development will be overseen by the project co-mentors and a distinguished advisory committee consisting of immunologists, exercise physiologists, and biostatisticians. [unreadable] [unreadable]

The Nets held their third-annual “Practice in the Park” for season-ticket holders in Brooklyn Bridge Park on Saturday. Playing on the outdoor courts on Pier Two overlooking the Upper New York Bay, the Nets hope to establish a connection between the team and the borough since the organization moved to Brooklyn in the summer of 2012. Judging by the amount of fans who showed up, it certainly has become a highlight event of the preseason. “It’s amazing, man,” Garrett Temple said. “The environment. I’ve had a lot of fan engagement practices during training camp and preseason, this is easily the most impressive one. Being able to have Brooklyn on one side and Manhattan on the other of the East River. “Just being able to be here, outside, we’ve got a great day and a great crowd. Hopefully it’s foreshadowing for a great season.” Joe Harris, who has been with the Nets since they began the event, noticed it has gotten more popular and attracts more fans each year. And with the offseason additions of Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant — both of whom were in attendance — the line to get in roped down the pier. The team was able to interact with several fans around the outdoor court, and those attending had a chance to catch some merchandise thrown from the players. The Nets debuted their new jerseys to the public on Saturday as well. Eric Haze, the Brooklyn-based artist who crafted the jersey design, was in attendance and spoke to the crowd before the team came onto the court sporting the new gray uniform. He mentioned how he wants each player who dons the jersey to feel the pride of Brooklyn, and it was clear how well-received the new look was by the fans and the team. “I’m lovin’ them,” Temple said while admiring the graffiti-style letters across his chest. “When I saw them at the lockers this morning I was like, ‘Oh yeah, that’s dope.’ I love grays, black and white. I’m really feeling the new jerseys and I’m really feeling the new court, it’s a great vibe.” “For sure [I feel the pride],” Harris added. “The graffiti-type print is just symbolic of the borough itself and it’s got good vibe, good feel to it. It definitely kind of echoes the city to the team and vice versa.”

Q: max() issue in Oracle SQL I'm using Oracle SQL and i need some help with max() function. I have the following table: ID | Type | Price | Quantity 1 | A | 10 | 2 2 | B | 5 | 5 3 | C | 10 | 3 4 | A | 8 | 7 5 | A | 6 | 9 6 | A | 7 | 5 7 | B | 15 | 3 8 | A | 20 | 4 9 | A | 3 | 7 10 | B | 11 | 8 I need to aggregate the table by Type column. For each group of Type (A, B, C), i need to select the price and the quantity of max(id). I this case: ID | Type | Price | Quantity 9 | A | 3 | 7 10 | B | 11 | 8 3 | C | 10 | 3 Any Suggestion? A: max won't help you with this. You can use the row_number partitioning function. select id, type, price, quantity from ( select yourtable.*, row_number() over (partition by type order by id desc) rn from yourtable ) v where rn = 1

Q: Your system administrator does not allow the use of saved credentials to log on to the remote computer At our office, all of our Windows 7 Clients get this error message when we try and RDP to a remote Windows 2008 Server outside of the office: Your system administrator does not allow the user of saved credentials to log on to the remote computer XXX because its identity is not fully verified. Please enter new credentials A quick google search leads to some posts they all suggest I edit group policy, etc. I'm under the impression, that the common fix for this, is to follow those instructions on every Windows 7 machine. Is there any way that I can do something via the Active Directory which could update all Windows 7 clients in the office LAN? A: If you don't want to change local or server side GPOs: Go to Control Panel -> Credential Manager on the local computer you are trying to connect from. You will see three sections: Windows Credentials Certificate-Based Credentials Generic Credentials Remove the credentials from Windows Credentials and add it to Generic Credentials. A: Here is a link on how to accomplish this: http://netport.org/?p=255 Update 4 setting in the group policy editor in Windows 7. This security measure could frustrating when you connect and disconnect a lot to the same (or many) terminal server. To get rid of it and to be able to use saved credentials in this situation you need to configure the following: Go to Start -> type: gpedit.msc -> in the console configure the following: Enable the each shown policy and then click on the “Show” button to get to the server list and add “TERMSRV/* to the server. In my case it’s ‘*’ which indicates that cached credentials will be allowed to all servers. The last thing to do is refreshing policy. To do that just go to command line and type: gpupdate /force That’s it. Now you can connect to your terminal servers by just clicking on .rdp files.

Inside the Phillies with MLB.com beat writer Todd Zolecki Rollins Takes A Poke at New York (Again) A few thoughts about Game 2 of the World Series before I hit the sack for an early morning train ride back to Philly: A.J. Burnett pitched great last night. Sure, there were a few opportunities to score, but he mostly dominated. Pedro Martinez pitched good enough to win. He has allowed three runs in 13 innings this postseason. The Phillies have scored just two runs for him in those two starts. The Yankee Stadium crowd? I considered it a non-factor. I wasn’t alone. Jimmy Rollins was asked about the atmosphere at Yankee Stadium compared to other ballparks. “It’s really more of a different atmosphere at our ballpark compared to the others,” he said. “Our ballpark is so loud and rowdy. I was really expecting some of that here, but it was very tame and civilized actually.” In New York? “Yeah,” Rollins said. “You only heard one big cheer and that was on the home runs. Other than that … those expensive are running the loud fans out.” Rollins later was asked if this feels more like a World Series compared to last year’s series against the Tampa Bay Rays. Meta The following are trademarks or service marks of Major League Baseball entities and may be used only with permission of Major League Baseball Properties, Inc. or the relevant Major League Baseball entity: Major League, Major League Baseball, MLB, the silhouetted batter logo, World Series, National League, American League, Division Series, League Championship Series, All-Star Game, and the names, nicknames, logos, uniform designs, color combinations, and slogans designating the Major League Baseball clubs and entities, and their respective mascots, events and exhibitions.

Cougars open wrestling season Sunday EDWARDSVILLE — SIUE wrestling officially opens the 2014-15 season Sunday with a quadrangular at Illinois. The Cougars are scheduled to face host No. 13 Illinois at 2 p.m., Northern Illinois at 3:30 p.m., and Rider at 5 p.m. “I’m excited to see where we stand as a team,” SIUE Head Coach Jeremy Spates said. “We definitely know we are better than last year based on the work in the practice room and the Red and Black Intrasquad.” SIUE will send 14 wrestlers to the meet. Six of the 14 wrestlers will be competing in their first year of eligibility. “I want to get everybody who is going to wrestle at least one match,” said Spates. Four weight classes have two individuals, which allows Spates flexibility in his lineup.

AHMEDABAD: Information sought by Jashodaben , wife of prime minister Narendra Modi , on the security cover given to her through an RTI has been denied by the Mehsana police on the ground that her queries were related to local intelligence bureau (LIB) which is exempted under RTI Act."The information sought by her (Jashodaben) was related to the local intelligence bureau (LIB), therefore it could not have been given to her and we have sent a written communication about this development to her," Superintendent of Police J R Mothaliya of Mehsana district said.The reply given in writing to her also says the same thing."The information sought by you (Jashodaben Modi) was related with the LIB and as per the Gujarat Home Department's resolution number SB.1/1020018203/GOI/62 dated November 25, LIB has been exempted from RTI Act and therefore the asked information cannot be given to you," said the letter written by the public information officer and Mehsana Deputy Superintendent of Police Bhakti Thakar to her.In her RTI application filed before Mehsana Police on November 24, she had sought several documents related to the security cover given to her as per the protocol, including the certified copy of actual order passed by government about providing security.She also wanted to know the laws and related provisions in Indian Constitution about security cover given to a PM's wife.62-year-old Jashodaben had asked the government to explain the definition of protocol and sought details about what is included under it and what other benefits she is entitled for as per that protocol.She also expressed unhappiness about the current security set-up, where her guards travel in government vehicles like car, while she, despite being a PM's wife, has to travel in public transport.She also said that as former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was killed by her own security guards, she feel scared of her guards. She asked the government to make it compulsory for each guard to produce the copy of deployment order.Jashodaben, a retired school teacher, lives with her brother Ashok Modi at Unjha town of Mehsana district. After Narendra Modi was sworn-in as Prime Minister on May 26, she has been given security by Mehsana police.Mehsana police has deployed ten policemen, including armed guards, who work in two shifts.

Some 20,000 workers are already waiting in hotels, staging areas, and — for those employed locally — in their homes to be called into action once conditions are safe enough, said Neil Nissan, a spokesman for Duke Energy, which has 4 million customers in the Carolinas. And those are just the workers assigned to assist Duke, the largest power company in the Carolinas, said Brian Reil, a spokesman for Edison Electric Institute, an industry group that helps coordinate the mutual aid response. An additional 20,000 workers have been dispatched to other utilities in the area, he said. Computer modeling indicates that somewhere between one to three million of Duke Energy’s customers will lose power, some for brief periods and others for weeks because of coastal flooding, Mr. Nissan said. For those reasons, Mr. Nissan said, Duke has been telling its customers that the storm is “a potentially life-changing event.” Puerto Rico did not immediately invoke mutual aid after Hurricane Maria because the governor said the island did not have aid agreements in place and he believed that the island did not have enough money set aside for initial payments that might be owed to mainland utilities. That decision made the hurricane the only known case in recent history in which mutual aid was not invoked after a major power failure. But instead of working with Puerto Rico to invoke the aid and deal with any costs later, FEMA took the extraordinary step of asking the United States Army Corps of Engineers to take a leading part in the emergency restoration, a task it had never carried out before. Puerto Rico compounded the mistake by hiring a small contractor, Whitefish Energy, to carry out many of the tasks that thousands of mutual aid workers would have undertaken under normal circumstances. And the logistics of moving people, equipment and millions of parts to the island helped bog down the effort until it became a slow, frustrating and ultimately disastrous effort to restore power to desperate citizens. This time, FEMA officials say they are prepared, though they are striking more cautious tones than the president and emphasizing the destructive power of the hurricane.

Q: Why Can Prostitutes Come to Solomon? According to 1 Kings 3:16-28, two prostitutes came to Solomon for a judgment over their dispute concerning a child. Then two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him... Then the king answered and said, “Give the living child to the first woman, and by no means put him to death; she is his mother.” And all Israel heard of the judgment that the king had rendered, and they stood in awe of the king, because they perceived that the wisdom of God was in him to do justice. If prostitution was illegal (more specifically, if sex outside marriage is condemned by God), why were they willing (perhaps even comfortable) coming to the king and admitting to be prostitutes? One of our assumptions must be false. Which ones? So, what's the explanation? In fact, one of the highly voted answer in this site, claim that sex outside marriage is never prohibited at all. There is no evidence that pre-marital sex is an instance of porneia, nor is there any prohibition of responsible pre-marital sex stated in Scripture. What's is the case for premarital sex being an instance of πορνεία (porneia)? I need factual answers. For example, if some says that prostitution is illegal but by God's grace, prostitutes deserve justice and come to Solomon, then I would need to see more evidences. Perhaps, some historians could tell that prostitution is indeed illegal during 2500 ago in Israel with penalty of stoning or what, etc and somehow the Solomon didn't punish the prostitutes that come to him despite knowing full well what their jobs are. I wonder if it's likely? A: This question is predicated on completely faulty assumption - namely that criminals do not come to the palace to seek justice. At that time, the King was also the judge, and the judge was specifically ordered to give justice to all. The prophets are replete with invective against those hypocritical government officials who would only seek justice for those on top of society. As just one example, Amos goes out of his way to say that Israel is under the same condemnation as its neighbors. Leviticus demands one law for you and the alien in your midst - again, fairness for everyone. When the Scripture commands that the judge give justice to the poor as well as to the widow and the orphan, the clear indication is that justice shouldn't depend on your status in society. Indeed, for many at the time, the poor and the criminal would have occupied similar places in the mind. Thus, when two women of whatever station came to Solomon, asking for justice in regards to the one living child, Solomon, in the wisdom that God gave him, would necessarily give justice to anyone who came to seek it. What these women were outside of this case is 100% irrelevant in the face of a God who sees all in place of judgement, all who are unworthy. As Isaiah says, "All we like sheep have gone astray, each to our devices" and "all our righteousness is as filthy rags." As Judah says to Tamar - a woman who has played the prostitute and slept with her own father-in-law (him!) in order to get pregnant, "You are more righteous than I!" And, as Jesus, who modelled this radical love showed, justice belongs even to the prostitutes and even worse, the tax collectors. After all, those who are healthy do not need the Great Physician. But our God showed his love for us in this - while we were yet sinners he died for us. Note: convicted criminals use courts all the time. http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2011-09-08/local/35275281_1_strip-club-aids-funds-lawsuit http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/drug-dealer-suing-state-keeping-dying-mother-article-1.1444094 and in this instance an Iowa man called the cops when he was stiffed in a drug deal. Google "criminals do stupid things" for more results. Directly to the question, however: Prostitution was illegal under Jewish law, as per Deuteronomy 23:18 Prostitution was rather common however. This toleration of an otherwise illegal activity, merely supports what is written above - namely that prostitutes would have been legally culpable and socially marginalized, but that justice demanded that they be heard in spite of their status.

Wednesday, August 1, 2012 (update 2013/09/19 minor bug to deal with a staging table that had non-sequential IDs) I just posted this on the Cleartrace forums, but wanted a copy here. Basically, Cleartrace takes trace files, imports the code calls, and turns it into information. Here's the code that runs most often, here's the code that takes the longest to run, here's your I/O hog, etc. Everybody I ask about Profiler typically talks about running it then manually going through the results. While that's fine for small stuff, I'm more interested in aggregations and baselines. So were the people behind Cleartrace, fortunately. But I need it automated, and on several machines. Hence, this code. Once cleartrace is running and set up to use a server, run this code to add a config table, then set up some servers. I assume you're running with adequate permissions; if not, set up the folders put the files in a share and set that as your trace_folder. Set up a specific name for the trace. Once it's imported some, bring up Cleartrace (the real version) and choose an import group, then start looking at data. Slice and dice as necessary. Note that this does NOT keep the details - it's all aggregates, even in the CT DB. Which is why we save the trace files for posterity. This is not any big deal, it's a rough first pass, I'm sure I'll have to fix it later. But it works and it lets me check out servers for user requests. (I didn't use XE or EN for several reasons, not the least of which because XE doesn't have all the capabilities I need under 2008) USE Cleartrace go if object_id('Cleartrace..CT_AutoServerList') is not null DROP TABLE CT_AutoServerList CREATE TABLE CT_AutoServerList (id INT IDENTITY, server_name sysname, trace_folder VARCHAR(200), trace_name VARCHAR(50), is_active BIT, insert_datetime DATETIME DEFAULT(GETDATE()), update_datetime datetime ) SELECT * FROM CT_AutoServerList INSERT INTO CT_AutoServerList ( server_name , trace_folder, trace_name, is_active , insert_datetime ) VALUES ( 'yourservernamehere', -- server_name - sysname 'e:\foldertoholdtraces', 'tracenamegoeshere', 1 , -- is_active - bit '2012-07-31 10:02:00' ) ----------------------------- --Cleartrace automated load-- --mdb 2012/08/01 1.00 -- ----------------------------- CREATE PROCEDURE ReadTrace.usp_AutomateTraceLoad as /* --mdb 20120801 first version! Purpose: Pull trace files from a variety of servers and use Cleartracecmd (Cleartrace Command Line) to automatically load into tables for processing, using a particular trace name and saving to a folder on the "processing" server. Cleartrace can be found at www.scalesql.com/cleartrace/ and is written(?) & maintained by Bill Graziano. It's his tool and I take no credit for it. It's indispensable for reading traces. My code simply tries to automate it. Instructions: Download Cleartrace (full version, since we use Cleartracecmd.exe). Run Cleartrace and choose a server/database. It will create the DB and objects as needed. Import a file to make sure it's all created. Run this script in that database. Create a folder to hold the trace files Add rows to the CTAutoServerList table Set up traces on the servers you want to manage. Set a beginning/end time so that this has time to run at night and import.

Neuroblastoma with neuronal differentiation in the spinal cord in an Aberdeen Angus heifer calf. A 5-month-old, female, Aberdeen Angus heifer presented to the veterinary medical teaching hospital for evaluation of slowly progressive hindlimb ataxia. The calf was clinically normal until 4 months of age, following routine pregnancy and delivery. Neurologic examination revealed marked symmetric spastic hindlimb paraparesis. Thoracolumbar radiographs and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis were unremarkable. A presumptive diagnosis of T3-L3 myelopathy was made, and neurologic status remained static for 3 months with broad-spectrum antibiotic and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory therapy. Additional diagnostic tests were refused, and a necropsy was performed following euthanasia. A moderately well delineated, reddish-tan, soft mass 18 mm in diameter replaced 80% of the fourth lumbar spinal cord segment. Histologic examination revealed two distinct features: undifferentiated, primitive, polygonal-to-round cells with typical morphologic characteristics of primitive neuroectoderm; and interspersed areas containing myelinated axons and cells with neuronal differentiation. Immunohistochemical examination confirmed the presence of primitive neuroepithelium and cells with neuronal differentiation.

1. Introduction {#sec1-viruses-11-00523} =============== Adenoviruses (family *Adenoviridae*) are non-enveloped, icosahedral viruses about 70 to 90 nm in diameter. The linear double stranded DNA genome ranges in length from 26 to 48 kb and contains inverted terminal repeats of 36 to 371 bp \[[@B1-viruses-11-00523],[@B2-viruses-11-00523]\]. The genome of adenoviruses is organized in at least 16 clearly defined genus-common genes, including the polymerase, and in a set of more variable genes, genus-specific, mainly located near the ends the genome \[[@B3-viruses-11-00523]\]. Adenoviruses are classified into five genera by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV), namely *Atadenovirus*, *Aviadenovirus*, *Ichtadenovirus*, *Mastadenovirus*, and *Siadenovirus* \[[@B4-viruses-11-00523]\]. The genus, *Mastadenovirus*, includes adenoviruses that infect only mammals, including humans, causing ocular, respiratory, and gastrointestinal diseases \[[@B5-viruses-11-00523],[@B6-viruses-11-00523]\]. Adenoviruses tend to co-evolve with their host \[[@B7-viruses-11-00523]\]. The mechanisms driving their evolution include the accumulation of punctate mutations, homologous recombination, gene capture, and inter-species transmission \[[@B3-viruses-11-00523],[@B8-viruses-11-00523]\]. Evolutionary analysis of adenoviruses of African non-human primates has unveiled that human mastadenovirus B (HAdV-B) circulating in humans are of zoonotic origin, suggesting that multiple independent HAdV-B transmission events to humans occurred more than 100,000 years ago \[[@B9-viruses-11-00523]\]. Bats are potential or confirmed reservoirs of various zoonotic viruses worldwide \[[@B10-viruses-11-00523],[@B11-viruses-11-00523]\]. Several emerging and re-emerging viruses, including lyssaviruses, coronaviruses, henipaviruses, and astroviruses, are harbored by bats and occasionally spread to other mammalian species \[[@B12-viruses-11-00523],[@B13-viruses-11-00523],[@B14-viruses-11-00523],[@B15-viruses-11-00523],[@B16-viruses-11-00523]\]. Due to their marked differences in feeding, habits, and geographical distribution, the various species of bats interact in various ways and with different frequency with other mammals, either directly or indirectly \[[@B17-viruses-11-00523],[@B18-viruses-11-00523],[@B19-viruses-11-00523]\]. Adenoviruses have been discovered only recently in bats. In 2008, a bat adenovirus (BtAdV), strain FBV1 (BtAdV-1) was isolated from a Ryukyu flying fox (*Pteropus dasymallus yayeyamae*) in Japan \[[@B20-viruses-11-00523]\]. Since then, several bat adenoviruses have been identified \[[@B21-viruses-11-00523],[@B22-viruses-11-00523],[@B23-viruses-11-00523]\], including the BtAdV-2 strain PPV1 \[[@B24-viruses-11-00523]\] and BtAdV-3 strain TJM \[[@B25-viruses-11-00523]\]. Attempts to classify BAtdVs have been made, taking into account the apparent genetic heterogeneity, through the bat species of origin and the geographic location. Thus far, all BtAdVs have been included into the genus, *Mastadenovirus*, and seven species have been proposed by ICTV ([Table 1](#viruses-11-00523-t001){ref-type="table"}). Adenoviruses have long been considered as host specific viruses that co-evolve with their hosts \[[@B3-viruses-11-00523],[@B7-viruses-11-00523]\]. However, recently, some adenoviruses have been shown to emerge through cross-species transmission, thus highlighting the potential threat of animal-to-animal or animal-to-human circulation of adenoviruses \[[@B26-viruses-11-00523],[@B27-viruses-11-00523],[@B28-viruses-11-00523]\]. In this study, we investigated the circulation of BtAdVs in Italy. A BtAdV isolate was obtained from *Pipistrellus kuhlii* (Kuhl's pipistrelle) and the full-length genome was sequenced. 2. Materials and Methods {#sec2-viruses-11-00523} ======================== 2.1. Origin of Samples {#sec2dot1-viruses-11-00523} ---------------------- A total of 195 samples from 8 different bat species (*Pipistrellus kuhlii*, *Pipistrellus pipistrellus*, *Pipistrellus* spp., *Hypsugo savii*, *Plecotus auritus*, *Plecotus* spp., *Tadarida teniotis*, *Eptesicus serotinus*) were collected during 2016 to 2017 in the north of Italy by the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia ed Emilia Romagna (IZSLER) in the framework of a passive surveillance program aimed to detect viruses in bats. The survey study did not involve any direct manipulations of bats and relied entirely on the collection of carcasses of bats provided by rehabilitation centers. The samples consisted of pools of organs (encephalon, intestine, and viscera) (*n* = 171); a small portion of fecal pellet samples (*n* = 24) were also collected. All samples were stored at −80 °C until use. 2.2. DNA Extraction and PCR Amplification {#sec2dot2-viruses-11-00523} ----------------------------------------- All the samples were homogenized in Minimal Essential Medium (MEM, 1 g/10 mL) containing antibiotics and clarified by centrifugation at 3000 g for 15 min. Viral DNA was extracted from 200 μL of the supernatants using the QIAmp Cador Pathogen Mini Kit (Qiagen S.p.A., Milan, Italy), following the manufacturer's protocol. To assess the presence of adenoviral DNA, all samples were screened using a nested-PCR protocol for the amplification of a partial sequence (318--324 bp) of the DNA polymerase gene. For the first amplification, AccuPrime Taq DNA polymerase (Invitrogen, ThermoFisher Scientific, Carlsbad, CA, USA), polFouter forward primer (5'-TNMGNGGNGGNMGNTGYTAYCC-3'), and polRouter reverse primer (5'-GTDGCRAANSHNCCRTABARNGMRTT-3') were used \[[@B29-viruses-11-00523]\]. Cycling thermal conditions included initial activation of the polymerase at 94 °C for 2 min, 35 cycles at 94 °C for 30 s, 46 °C for 30 s, and 68 °C for 1 min, followed by final extension at 72 °C for 10 min. For the second amplification, 1 μL of product from the first PCR diluted 1:100 diethylpyrocarbonate (DEPC) treated water was used as the nucleic acid template and was amplified under the same conditions using polFinner forward primer (5'-GTNTWYGAYATHTGYGGHATGTAYGC-3') and polRinner reverse primer (5'-CCANCCBCDRTTRTGNARNGTRA-3') \[[@B29-viruses-11-00523]\]. PCR products were subjected to electrophoresis on a 1.5% agarose gel containing a fluorescent nucleic acid marker (GelRed; Bio-Rad Laboratories, Hercules, CA, USA) at 80 V for 45 min and visualized under fluorescent light on the Gel Doc EZ Imaging System with Image Laboratory Software (Bio-Rad Laboratories Hercules, CA, USA). The DNA concentration of the samples tested positive was quantified using the Fluorometric Qubit dsDNA High Sensitivity Assay Kit (ThermoFisher Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA). PCR products with satisfying DNA concentrations (\>10 ng/μL) were directly sequenced by Eurofins Genomics GmbH (Ebersberg, Germany). 2.3. Virus Isolation {#sec2dot3-viruses-11-00523} -------------------- For virus isolation, African green monkey kidney derived MARC-145 cells and African green monkey kidney epithelial Vero cells were used. The cells were grown in MEM supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS). Pooled tissues from adenovirus-positive samples were homogenized in MEM and then centrifuged at 3000× *g* for 15 min. Supernatants were treated with antibiotics for 30 min (penicillin 5000 IU/mL, streptomycin 2500 μg/mL, amphotericin B 10 μg/mL), inoculated on partially confluent MARC-145 and Vero cell cultures and incubated at 37 °C in a 5% CO~2~ incubator for 7 days to observe the development of the cytopathic effect (CPE). In the absence of CPE, the cryolysate were sub-cultured twice into fresh monolayers. In the presence of the CPE, the cryolysates were examined with negative staining electron microscopy (nsEM) by using the Airfuge (Beckman Instruments, Palo Alto, CA, USA) method \[[@B30-viruses-11-00523]\]. 2.4. Next-Generation Sequencing {#sec2dot4-viruses-11-00523} ------------------------------- DNA for next-generation sequencing (NGS) was extracted from viral stocks obtained from semi-purified virus particles, in order to sequence the full-length genome of the isolated virus. Briefly, MARC-145 cells were infected with isolate ITA/2018/251170-16. At 48 h post-infection, cell medium was collected and clarified by centrifugation at 1000× g for 10 min at 4 °C. Viral DNA was extracted using the BioSprint 96 One-For-All Vet Kit (Qiagen S.p.A., Milan, Italy) according to the manufacturer's instructions. A genomic DNA library was prepared using the Nextera DNA Flex Library Prep Kit (Illumina, San Diego, CA, USA) according to the manufacturer's protocol. Library samples were normalized as suggested by the manufacturer's instructions and sequencing was performed on the Illumina MiSeq instrument (Illumina, San Diego, CA, USA), using a MiSeq reagent kit v2. 2.5. Genome Annotation and Comparison {#sec2dot5-viruses-11-00523} ------------------------------------- The total paired reads obtained by the NGS sequencing were checked for quality using FastQC \[[@B31-viruses-11-00523]\]. Sequence trimming, assembly of NGS reads, and genome annotation were performed using Geneious software version 10.2.4 (Biomatters Ltd., Auckland, New Zealand) and the *Bat Mastadenovirus B* strain PPV1 (GenBank accession no. JN252129) as the reference sequence. The full-length genome of the strain ITA/2018/251170-16 was deposited in the GenBank database under the accession number MK625182. 2.6. Sequence and Phylogenetic Analysis {#sec2dot6-viruses-11-00523} --------------------------------------- Genome sequences of the polymerase coding region of adenovirus and of the full-length adenovirus genome were retrieved from GenBank. The alignment of the sequences was performed using the MAFFT multiple alignment program version 7.388 implemented in the Geneious software (v. 10.2.4). Sequence analysis was conducted using the Geneious v. 10.2.4 software (Biomatters Ltd., Auckland, New Zealand). Phylogenetic analysis was conducted with MEGA-X v. 10.0.5 software \[[@B32-viruses-11-00523]\]. Phylogenetic analysis for the full-length and partial-length adenovirus strains were performed using the maximum likelihood method, Jukes-Cantor genetic distance model, and bootstrapping up to 1000 replicates. 3. Results {#sec3-viruses-11-00523} ========== 3.1. Molecular Screening {#sec3dot1-viruses-11-00523} ------------------------ Overall, a total of 34/195 (17.4%) samples tested positive with panadenovirus PCR screening. In detail, from the 195 samples tested, information was available for 142 samples (72.8%) about age, for 130 (66.7%) about sex, and for 195 (100%) about the bat species. AdV DNA was found in 2/62 (3.2%) juvenile bats and 13/80 (16.3%) adult bats. AdV DNA was also found in 19/53 (35.9%) samples of unidentified age. When considering the prevalence based on sex, AdV DNA was detected in 5/54 (9.3%) male and 9/76 (11.8%) female individuals, whilst it was found in 20/65 (30.8%) samples of unidentified sex. Finally, when considering the prevalence of AdV DNA among the various bat species, 11 adenovirus-positive animals were found out of 59 (18.6%) for *Pipistrellus* spp., 8/50 (16.0%) for *Hypsugo savii*, 9/73 (12.3%) for *Pipistrellus kuhlii*, 4/5 (80.0%) for *Eptesicus serotinus*, 1/4 (25.0%) for *Pipistrellus pipistrellus*, 1/1 (100.0%) for *Tadarida teniotis*, 0/2 (0.0%) for *Plecotus auritus*, and 0/1 (0.0%) for *Plecotus* spp. 3.2. Virus Isolation {#sec3dot2-viruses-11-00523} -------------------- Virus isolation from the adenovirus-positive samples was successful with both MARC-145 and Vero cells only for the sample ITA/2018/251170-16, originating from the pool of organs of a *Pipistrellus kuhlii* found in Lumezzane (BS) with clinical signs of inappetence and sensory depression before death. A clear CPE was observed at the second passage in MARC-145 cells, showing a rounding of cells, increased granularity, and detachment from the monolayer ([Figure 1](#viruses-11-00523-f001){ref-type="fig"}a,b). In Vero cells, the CPE effect was less evident than in MARC-145. The presence of the virus was confirmed in the supernatant of the infected cells at the first passage, using nsEM. Non-enveloped icosahedral virus particles of 80 nm in size were observed that resembled the characteristic morphology of adenoviruses ([Figure 1](#viruses-11-00523-f001){ref-type="fig"}c) \[[@B24-viruses-11-00523]\]. 3.3. NGS Analysis and Genome Structure of the Adenovirus Strain ITA/2018/251170-16 {#sec3dot3-viruses-11-00523} ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NGS analysis provided the full-length genomic sequence of the adenovirus isolate ITA/2018/251170-16. A total of 82,641 out of 131,270 reads (62.95%), of an average length of 251 bp, were mapped to the reference sequence PPV1 (GenBank accession no. JN252129), with a mean coverage of 518.3 x. A consensus sequence of 31,629 bp was generated, covering the complete genome sequence of the strain PPV1 used as the reference. The sequences were 99.3% identical to each other at the nucleotide level. The full-length sequence of the adenovirus isolate displayed a genome organization similar to that of the reference PPV1 strain, with an average G + C content of 53.5%, an inverted terminal repeat (ITR) of 205 bp, and 31 predicted genes ([Figure 2](#viruses-11-00523-f002){ref-type="fig"}). The three E1 genes (E1A, E1B 19K, and E1B 55K) were present in the Italian isolate ([Figure 2](#viruses-11-00523-f002){ref-type="fig"}). The 16 genus-common core genes, located in the central part of the genome, were conserved \[[@B3-viruses-11-00523]\]. Intronic regions were identified in the IVa2, pTP, DNA polymerase, and 33K genes, as observed in the reference strain PPV1 and in other mastadenoviruses. The E3 region of BtAdV-2, BtAdV-3, and of canine adenoviruses consisted of the gene 12.5K, which is present in the majority of mastadenoviruses, and of the E3 gene, present only in BtAdV-2, BtAdV-3, and in canine adenoviruses. The U exon, located between the E3 and the fiber genes, was present in the Italian isolate, likewise in many other AdVs \[[@B33-viruses-11-00523],[@B34-viruses-11-00523]\]. In the genome sequence of strain ITA/2018/251170-16, there was a single fiber gene, like in all non-primate mastadenoviruses, in BtAdV-2 and BtAdV-3. The E4 region, adjacent to the fiber gene, is the second most variable region in terms of length and contents in mastadenovirus genomes \[[@B34-viruses-11-00523]\]. This region contains the spliced ORF6/7 gene and a single copy of the highly conserved 34K gene. The 34K gene spans the intronic region of the ORF6/7 gene. Next to the 34K gene, four novel putative genes (ORF-A to -D) were predicted, as for canine adenoviruses, BtAdV-2 and BtAdV-3, although the functions of the putative protein products are unknown \[[@B25-viruses-11-00523]\]. 3.4. Sequence and Phylogenetic Analysis {#sec3dot4-viruses-11-00523} --------------------------------------- Genomic analysis of the full-genome of the isolate ITA/2018/251170-16 revealed a 99.3% nucleotide (nt) identity to the reference strain PPV1. Upon phylogenetic analysis with 40 cognate full-genome sequences, the virus was tightly clustered with strain PPV1 (GenBank accession no. JN252129) and it was grouped with other bat strains, 250-A (GenBank accession no. KX871230) and TJM (GenBank accession no. GU226970), and with the canine adenoviruses ([Figure 3](#viruses-11-00523-f003){ref-type="fig"}). Among the samples testing positive for adenoviral DNA by diagnostic PCR, 16 samples generated sequences of a good quality. The sequences were compared with cognate sequences available in the databases using FASTA interrogation \[[@B35-viruses-11-00523]\] and the results are presented on [Table 2](#viruses-11-00523-t002){ref-type="table"}. Genome sequences of the polymerase-coding region from 62 representative adenovirus strains were retrieved from GenBank and phylogenetic analysis was performed after sequence alignment ([Figure 4](#viruses-11-00523-f004){ref-type="fig"}). In this analysis, a unique bat adenovirus strain (PA21/16 PS) rooted along with a novel South American fur seal (*Arctocephalus australis*) adenovirus (GenBank accession no. MF175113), with which it shared 72.9% nt identity. Both the bat strain PA21/16 PS and the fur seal adenovirus were clustered tightly with bird adenoviruses (genus *Aviadenovirus*), sharing 67.6% to 72.1% nt identity in the small polymerase region sequence. 4. Discussion {#sec4-viruses-11-00523} ============= In recent years, several novel viruses have been identified in bats \[[@B36-viruses-11-00523],[@B37-viruses-11-00523]\]. Due to their potential role as carriers of zoonotic viral agents, public health agencies have intensified research studies on the bat virome with both pilot studies and large structured epidemiological investigations. In this study, we report the detection and analysis of BtAdV species in Northern Italy. The phylogenetic relationships with known BtAdVs were assessed, based on a short diagnostic fragment of the highly-conserved DNA polymerase gene. A BtAdV isolate was obtained from the carcass of *Pipistrellus kuhlii* presented with symptoms of inappetence and sensory depression, found in the province of Bergamo, Italy and dead after hospitalization in a wildlife rescue center. Overall, we screened eight species of bats for the presence of adenoviral DNA, obtaining positive results in five species from three distinct bat genera. The overall adenovirus prevalence was 17.4% in the examined bats. A limit of our investigation was the heterogeneous composition of the sample collection, chiefly in terms of bat species, as the major part of the samples (186/195, 95.4%) derived from the genera *Pipistrellus* (136/195, 69.7%) and *Hypsugo* (50/195, 25.6%) and only 9/195 (4.6%) originated from the genera *Plecotus* (3/195, 1.5%), *Tadarida* (1/195, 0.5%), and *Eptesicus* (5/195, 2.6%). Nevertheless, the sample's metadata were informative enough to suggest a possible age-related pattern of the infection, suggesting that adult animals are more prone to infection (*p* \< 0.05, χ^2^ test). Phylogenetic investigation of 17 strains sequenced in this study revealed a high diversity for adenoviruses present in bats, similar to previous studies in Europe, Asia, and Africa \[[@B20-viruses-11-00523],[@B23-viruses-11-00523],[@B24-viruses-11-00523],[@B37-viruses-11-00523]\]. The impressive genetic variety of adenoviruses in bats poses a challenge for their nomenclature and classification. Upon phylogenetic analysis of the short diagnostic region spanning the DNA polymerase gene, the 17 strains were divided into at least 9 clusters/sub-clusters. Interestingly, bats from the genera, *Pipistrellus* and *Hypsugo*, appeared to share similar adenoviruses, suggesting inter-specific bat-to-bat circulation of adenoviruses. Three strains (PA151/17, PA155/17, and PA157/17) identified in *Hypsugo savii* and *Pipistrellus pipistrellus* displayed 98.5% to 99.5% nt identity to each other and shared \<72.6% nt identity with the BtAdV-2 strain PPV1 (GenBank accession no. JN252129), forming a separate cluster and suggesting a potential novel BtAdV species. More interestingly, a BtAdv strain (PA21/16 PS), detected in *Pipistrellus spp*., rooted tightly with a unique adenovirus found in South American fur seals (SAFS) pups (*Arctocephalus australis*) in Perù (GenBank accession number MF175113), and with avian adenoviruses (genus *Aviadenovirus*). The SAFS adenovirus was identified during a surveillance study for adenoviruses in breeding colonies of SAFS and Humboldt penguins (*Spheniscus humboldti*) in Southern America. In the Southern American study, four mastadenoviruses, four aviadenoviruses and a siadenovirus were detected in SAFSs, whilst three mastadenoviruses, two aviadenoviruses, and three siadenoviruses were identified in Humboldt penguins that shared the same reproductive area in the Peruvian coast \[[@B38-viruses-11-00523]\]. These findings are intriguing, as they indicate the possibility of inter-species transmission between avian and mammalian species and in our study this could have been accounted for by the fact that bats and birds may reach/occupy the same ecological niches (i.e., terminal branches of trees, rocks, or caves) due to their flying abilities. The possibility of a shift between avian and mammalian hosts for adenoviruses is not considered a common event, since adenoviruses are considered highly species-specific \[[@B3-viruses-11-00523],[@B7-viruses-11-00523]\]. Yet, members of the *Atadenovirus* genus have been identified in distantly related animal species, including ruminants, poultry, reptiles, and a marsupial \[[@B39-viruses-11-00523]\]. An additional hypothesis is that avian adenovirus DNA may contaminate bat food and that the detected virus was not replicating actively in the animal. Regardless, the resolution of the DNA polymerase region fragment targeted by the consensus PCR is likely not sufficient to discriminate firmly among the adenovirus genera and species and this preliminary piece of evidence should be confirmed by gathering larger, more informative sequences or, possibly, the full-length genome. An isolate, strain ITA/2018/251170-16, was obtained on simian cell lines and its full-length sequence was generated using deep sequencing technology. When reconstructing the sequence and genome organization, the virus appeared virtually identical to the prototype strain PPV1 (GenBank accession no. JN252129), sharing 99.3% nt identity. Such a high nt identity between those two viruses is intriguing, as the two viruses have been identified approximately a decade apart from each other and in different geographical European countries, respectively, Germany and Italy \[[@B24-viruses-11-00523]\]. Similar degrees of sequence conservation over time, geographical locations, and host species have been documented for canine adenoviruses type 1 and type 2. Both the canine viruses have long been recognized as canine pathogens and they are also able to infect several wild carnivores, with minimal genetic differences among the various isolates, suggesting a limited genetic diversification, likely due to optimal adaptation of those viruses to carnivores \[[@B27-viruses-11-00523],[@B40-viruses-11-00523]\]. In conclusion, by screening samples from bats in Northern Italy, we observed that adenoviruses are common agents of the bat virome. Also, an impressive genetic diversity was observed for bat adenoviruses, despite the relatively small population of bats included in our survey. The use of consensus, broadly reactive, primer sets for the *Adenoviridae* family allowed the detection of an avian-like virus, an apparent exception to the adenovirus literature, already observed elsewhere \[[@B38-viruses-11-00523]\] but still requiring confirmatory data. We thank Anna Maria Gibellini, Matteo Mauri of the wildlife recovery center "C.R.A.S. WWF Valpredina" for the precious assistance with sampling. A great thanks for sample and data collection also to Enrica Rosti and Piero Milani of the wildlife recovery centre "Il Pettirosso" of Modena and Aldo Imperiale of the Veterinary Service - AUSL of Modena (Italy). G.D., G.L. data analysis and writing of the manuscript; A.M. phylogenetic and molecular studies; C.C. next-generation sequencing and data analysis; E.S. virological analysis and data interpretation; A.P. necropsies and virological analysis; V.L., M.L. analysis of samples; N.D. study organization, writing, and revision of the manuscript; V.M. data analysis, writing, and revision of the manuscript; A.L. electron microscopy and study coordination; D.L. conception of the study and project coordination. All the authors have read and approved the final manuscript. This research was funded by the Italian Ministry of Health (WFR GR-2011-023505919). The authors declare no conflict of interest. {#viruses-11-00523-f001} {#viruses-11-00523-f002} {#viruses-11-00523-f003} {#viruses-11-00523-f004} viruses-11-00523-t001_Table 1 ###### Classification (2018) of bat mastadenovirus species proposed by ICTV. Strain Species GenBank Accession No. Reference -------------- --------------------------- ----------------------- ----------------------------- TJM *Bat mastadenovirus A* GU226970 \[[@B25-viruses-11-00523]\] PPV1 *Bat mastadenovirus B* JN252129 \[[@B24-viruses-11-00523]\] WIV9 *Bat mastadenovirus C* KT698853 \[[@B21-viruses-11-00523]\] WIV12 *Bat mastadenovirus D* KT698856 \[[@B2-viruses-11-00523]\] WIV13 *Bat mastadenovirus E* KT698852 \[[@B2-viruses-11-00523]\] WIV17 *Bat mastadenovirus F* KX961095 \[[@B2-viruses-11-00523]\] 250-A *Bat mastadenovirus G* KX871230 \[[@B22-viruses-11-00523]\] EhAdV 06-106 *Bat mastadenovirus H \** JX885602 \[[@B23-viruses-11-00523]\] \* Candidate novel species. viruses-11-00523-t002_Table 2 ###### BLAST investigation results for the 16 partial polymerase-coding region sequences generated. All the sequences were generated from samples consisted of pools of organs, except for strain PA16-350/15 PS that originated from a fecal sample. Gray shades indicate similarities among strains. The nt identity to the closest adenovirus strains is also indicated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Results of FASTA Interrogation Pairwise Identity among the Italian Viruses ---------------------------- ----------------------------- -------------------------------- --------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------ ---------------- -------------- ------------------------------------- Strain (Id lab) Bat species Identity/*p*-value GenBank accession no. Name/species Country Identity Strain PA2/16 HS\ *Hypsugo savii* 99.5%/1.7E-106 JX065122 Hsa_070703-2/*Hypsugo savii* Spain (2007) 99.5% PA42, PA46, PA16-350/15 (189/18-2) PA42/17 HS\ *Hypsugo savii* 100.0%/8.2E-106 JX065122 Hsa_070703-2/*Hypsugo savii* Spain (2007) 99.5--100.0% PA2, PA46, PA16-350/15 (189/18-42) PA46/17 PK\ *Pipistrellus kuhlii* 100.0%/7.1E-106 JX065122 Hsa_070703-2/*Hypsugo savii* Spain (2007) 99.5--100.0% PA2, PA42, PA16-350/15 (189/18-46) PA16-350/15 PS (350/15-16) *Pipistrellus* spp. 99.5%/1.5E-107 JX065122 Hsa_070703-2/*Hypsugo savii* Spain (2007) 99.5% PA2, PA42, PA46 PA15/16 PS\ *Pipistrellus* spp. 76.1%/1.1E-45 KM043095 140/07/*Pipistrellus nathusii* Germany (2007) 86.2--86.7% PA24, PA74 (189/18-15) PA24/16 PS\ *Pipistrellus* spp. 76.1%/1.1E-40 KM043095 140/07/*Pipistrellus nathusii* Germany (2007) 99.5% PA74 (189/18-24) PA74/16 PK\ *Pipistrellus kuhlii* 76.1%/5.1E-42 KM043095 140/07/*Pipistrellus nathusii* Germany (2007) 99.5% PA24 (189/18-74) PA21/16 PS\ *Pipistrellus* spp. 74.0%/4.2E-51 MF175113 AAU11020/*Arctocephalus australis* Peru (2009) 52.1--52.5% PA150, PA151 (189/18-21) PA22/16 PS\ *Pipistrellus* spp. 100.0%/4.7E-82 KM043100 09/09/*Pipistrellus kuhlii* Germany (2009) 100.0% PA119 (189/18-22) PA119/17 PK\ *Pipistrellus kuhlii* 100.0%/1.2E-81 KM043100 09/09/*Pipistrellus kuhlii* Germany (2009) 100.0% PA22 (189/18-119) PA90/17 PS\ *Pipistrellus* spp. 91.3%/1.3E-72 KM043095 140/07/*Pipistrellus nathusii* Germany (2007) 77.6% PA22, PA119 (189/18-90) PA134/17 TT\ *Tadarida teniotis* 77.6%/5.0E-47 KY009649 C052/*Myotis fimbriatus* China (2015) 70.3% PA150 (189/18-134) PA150/17 PK\ *Pipistrellus kuhlii* 99.1%/7.5E-102 KM043108 202/09/*Pipistrellus pipistrellus* Germany (2009) 72.1--72.6% PA2, PA42, PA46, PA151, PA16-350/15 (189/18-150) PA151/17 HS\ *Hypsugo savii* 76.0%/5.8E-54 KM043092 176/09/*Pipistrellus pygmaeus* Germany (2009) 98.6--99.1% PA155, PA157 (189/18-151) PA155/17 PP\ *Pipistrellus pipistrellus* 74.7%/5.0E-49 KM043092 176/09/*Pipistrellus pygmaeus* Germany (2009) 98.6--99.5% PA151, PA157 (189/18-155) PA157/17 HS\ *Hysugo savii* 75.1%/6.7E-50 KM043092 176/09/*Pipistrellus pygmaeus* Germany (2009) 99.1--99.5% PA151, PA155 (189/18-157) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

February 2015 Post-World War II, there was a determination that the horrors that had covered much of the planet from 1939-45, and which had substantially emanated from rivalries among the European powers, must never be witnessed again.

Are you getting this? For the first time in the history of EVER, I have a positive net worth. All it took was 2 months of self-flagellation... and abstaining from my most damaging hobby. I've also accrued $150 in ebay sales this month. That, along with the nearly $200 from last month's sales, and I'm practically rolling in it. Not really. I am, however, recouping some my expenditures over the past year, and because I never pay retail, I'm not selling at too much of a loss. AND I have a $5 Amazon gift card that I got from using SwagBucks, which I can toward my boyfriend's (er, fiance's) birthday present! Monday, August 17, 2009 My favorite jewelry designer, Temple St. Clair, has written a book. I bought said book, read it, and am now insane (keep reading). If I could distill my dreams, desires, and principles into a single, wearable object, it would look something like this, but with either (i) a round, faceted, vibrant blue-violet sapphire or tourmaline with bezel-set diamonds in place of the gold granulation, (ii) an east-west set oval cabochon - peridot or citrine, or (iii) a scrumtrulescent sugarloaf emerald (see book for example): And yes, such beasts do exist. If ever a time comes where it is appropriate for me to spend money in this fashion, I will forego all other jewelry except for my engagement ring and wear this treasure until it becomes a part of me, and some of me is part of it. (See what I mean?) Until that time comes, a girl can dream... and dream... (btw, all pictures taken from the book and the TSC website - they're not mine, and I so don't have permission to use them.) I've done so well this past month, and it feels great. I'm being tested, however, as today is Klondike Gold Rush day on QVC, and they have new designs in 14k gold on sale. Luckily, most of it looks cheap or doesn't speak to me, but the fact that I keep checking back is not good. Yesterday I was wrestling with whether or not to buy a refill of my favorite AHAVA hand cream. Winter will start nipping at my knuckles before I know it, so I want to be prepared (seriously, my hands get WRECKED during these New England winters. One day without gloves, and you're red and chapped for a week). BUT I do have an abundance of other, less expensive body lotions that will work almost as well, but somehow fall short. I decided to go in for a tube of my favorite stuff, and while I was there, I picked up some Serious Skin Care olive oil moisturizer. I used to use this stuff in college, and I liked it, so with a 30% off coupon, I decided to try it again. I dropped about $35 on stuff I could probably do without, but will probably use. All in all, I could've done worse. cc= Charged to credit card. The point being that I'm trying to keep my credit card bill under $600 a month, if at all possible, and these are the items I charge. Any amount left in my checking cushion at the end of the month will be divided and saved as I see fit. Same with any ebay sales. Although I imagine that the majority will go into the Future Fund, as I now have a wedding to plan... ... ... because I got engaged this past weekend!!! I have a note in my planner for today, "START FROM SCRATCH". I'm at a turning point right now. After I pay my credit card bill for the month, I'll have only about $100 (liquid) to my name. From there, I have the option of falling into consumer debt, or doing what I set out to do and fighting tooth and nail to overcome this. There are no other options.

The judge in the George Zimmerman case denied to recuse himself Wednesday, ruling that a defense motion asking him to step down was "legally insufficient." "The defendant's verified motion to disqualify judge is hereby denied as legally insufficient," Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester ruled. Zimmerman, the 28-year-old Florida man charged with second-degree murder in the killing of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, asked for a new judge in his case last month, accusing Lester of bias. Zimmerman alleged in the filing that Lester made "gratuitous" and "disparaging remarks" about him during a July 5 bond hearing and offered "a personal opinion" in the case. George Zimmerman's wife will not be at arraignment after not guilty plea "In doing so, the Court has created a reasonable fear in Mr. Zimmerman that this Court is biased against him and because of this prejudice he cannot receive a fair and impartial trial or hearing by this Court," the motion said. It is unclear whether Zimmerman will appeal the judge's decision. Reuters contributed to this report. More content from NBCNews.com: Follow US News from NBCNews.com on Twitter and Facebook

Q: How to know the cause of thrown exception in c++ I'm not that expert in debugging c++ applications using Visual Studio, but in c# usually whenever you have and exception, the application breaks at the exact location in your code that caused the exception. In c++ using Visual Studio 2017 the debugger breaks so deep like breaking until system.cpp file which is totally not helping me knowing what is line number in my code that caused this exception. As per the exception below, how do I know what is the line number in my code caused it? [Update] I managed to get what I want from the Call Stack as per the clipping below: A: You can use the Call Stack to see where in your code the program broke. To display the call stack window, from the menu: Debug-->Windows-->Call Stack Then double-click on the top line that corresponds to anything in your own code. This is where your own code made the program break. You can also move to any previous function in the call stack, examine the variables, etc. In release mode, C++ exceptions do not trace the call stack. You need to design and implement your own exception-handling mechanism.

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Menu Somebody Call The RSPCA After reading this post, some of you may never view me in the same light again. In my defence, I was only nine years old, don’t judge me too harshly! ☺ ************************************* I don’t like dogs. Scrap that, I HATE dogs. They scare the crap out of me and I just cannot understand how people live with them. It’s not just dogs, it’s animals in general but dogs and I have a history. When I was growing up my family owned three dogs. Two of them were what we called local dogs. Local or foreign, we didn’t get along. When I was in primary school, the driver would have to carry me to the car in the mornings because I was too scared to walk. Our dogs didn’t have cages, leashes or anything remotely fancy. They roamed the compound freely and ate eba. There were two in particular that scared the life out of me…Wazobia and Bingo. Bingo was young and very active but when I shooed him, he usually went away. Wazobia on the other hand was a tyrant. The dog just wouldn’t leave me alone. If I went out through the front door, she was there waiting for me. If I went out through the back, she was there. One day my mum asked me to take the bin out and as I opened the back door, she was there, tongue hanging out ready to apply moisture to my skin to make for easier biting. I had the bin in one hand and a kettle full of hot water in the other, to rinse out the bin with. “Shoo Wazobia , shoo!” She didn’t respond. “Take that bin out for goodness sake,” my mother shouted at me, “it stinks! You’ve lived with that dog for nine years now, what are you still afraid of?” “Shoo Wazobia , shoo!” As I shooed, I dared to step outside. One step, two steps, three steps. She stayed put. Convinced all as well, I walked more confidently. Four. Five. Six, Seven. Eight. Suddenly I heard a bark and saw Wazobia bounding towards me. “No Wazobia, no!” I flung the bin and started sprinting back to the house. “No run!” the maid screamed, “if you run, she go chase you!’ Na you sabi! I carried on running but saw that she was getting to close for my liking. I freaked out and before I could process what I was about to do, chucked the kettle full of hot water at Wazobia. I’ve never heard a dog howl so loud. ‘How can you pour hot water on a dog?!’ my mother screamed in horror. I received a good beating for my actions. Thankfully, animals in Nigeria do not have rights unlike their counterparts in the West so there was no RSPCA to convict me of my crime. That said, anyone with half a heart would know have felt for the poor dog…and I did. They did what they could for Wazobia but the damage was done, she had a large bald grey patch on her back. She became really timid after that and never bothered me again. I know I’m supposed to be politically correct but I can’t lie, I was happy when the dog stopped harassing me. I felt and still feel bad and wish they had just sold the damn dog while they could. Perhaps I ought to be reported to the RSPCA. All I ask is that you give me a heads up before you do so I can run back to Nigeria! Osayi… You cracked me up with ur first paragraph..’ The dog roamed around freely and ate eba’ how do U̶̲̥̅̊ combine ur words…(Still chuckling) that said, I was very sad at the plight of the Dog!!! Osayi!!!! That was unacceptable. A bald dog.. Never mind being its back… U̶̲̥̅̊ shoulda been flogged and denied food for three days… Now that’s what I call punishment( smirking) LOL, what nostalgia…reminds me of the 4 dogs and 1 cat we owned in Nigeria and how well we treated them after we had to unceremoniously “put down” our first dog, Oscar, after he went absolutely raving horny mad! You think balding your dog is so bad, wait till you hear this story…brings a tear to my eye just thinking about it! 😦 this reminds me of the first dog we had when I was child. For some we named him Bobby. I always cuddled him and treated him like a baby, until one day i dropped it and he dented his skull when he hit the edge of the table. Fast foward 9 years – Bobby lost his mind and got run over by a car. He’s probably in doggy heaven barking down at me

Stajan can't ignore infamous trade talk Latest News RANDY SPORTAK, QMI Agency Oct 14, 2011 , Last Updated: 9:30 PM ET TORONTO — It’s his hometown. So, of course, Matt Stajan has heard more than enough opinions about the infamous Dion Phaneuf trade in Toronto. You can bet Stajan knows full well how the deal which sent him, Niklas Hagman, Ian White and Jamal Mayers to the Calgary Flames for Phaneuf, Fredrik Sjostrom and Keith Aulie is being touted as a fleecing by the Toronto Maple Leafs. Such talk would be impossible to ignore. What remains to be seen is how Stajan reacts, especially in the long-term by getting his game back on track, but also in the short-term, as in Saturday night’s Hockey Night in Canada clash between the Flames and the Maple Leafs at the Air Canada Centre. Naturally, you have to wonder whether Stajan is fuelled by all the talk. “Sure,” he said after Friday’s practice. “Everybody’s going to have their own opinions. I think you can look at any trade and have an opinion on it. That’s not what I’m worried about. You look at things and pick out positives.” What anybody can be positive about is how the trade hasn’t worked out the way the Flames envisioned. Whether you want to believe Phaneuf was traded because he was a divisive force among the team or simply because the club needed to find more offence by spending the salary sent his way on more forwards, the Flames had to figure Stajan would be an impact centre and Hagman would provide 20 to 30 goals from the left wing. Neither has happened. Hagman’s game-winning goal in Thursday’s 4-1 victory over the Montreal Canadiens is just his 17th tally and 40th point in 101 games with the Flames. As for Stajan, who is in Season 2 of a four-year, US$14-million contract inked a few weeks after being traded to Calgary, the numbers are no better. Through 106 games for the Flames, he’s netted nine goals and 48 points. This is a player who arrived having potted 16 goals and 41 points in the 55 games he skated for the Leafs in the 2009-10 NHL season prior to the deal. Phaneuf hasn’t exactly set the world on fire offensively — with 11 goals and 43 points for the Maple Leafs in 94 games — but has become a leader for a Toronto team which had an identity crisis at the time. Combined with the fact the Leafs are high on Aulie, while the Flames dealt White for fourth-line winger Tom Kostopolous and third-pairing defenceman Anton Babchuk, it’s not hard to see why former Flames GM Darryl Sutter has been panned for the deal. “I don’t worry about that — I didn’t make the trade,” Hagman said. “I was part of it, but I’ll just concentrate on the part I can do better.” Starting with Saturday’s game, where he can prove to the hockey world — even if it’s just for one night — he can still be a contributor by exacting revenge. “I wouldn’t say revenge, but there’s a lot of guys I played with and the old coach, and obviously, I want to show them I can play,” Hagman said. “It’s boring to say, but it’s part of the game. Trades happen — you go to a new place and move on. I had a lot of fun here. I liked it here. “We don’t come here that often, so for sure, I want to play well.” In the two games last season against the Leafs, Hagman collected one goal and four points. Stajan netted a goal and an assist. For what it’s worth, Stajan and Hagman arrived in Toronto with upside in their game lately. Hagman, who was placed on waivers last season and had to earn a NHL spot this fall despite his contract, has forged his way onto the second powerplay unit. Stajan, who started the season on the fourth line — a dubious spot considering young centre Mikael Backlund is out due to a broken finger and veteran centre Brendan Morrison is still sidelined by off-season knee surgery — played his way one rung up the ladder. Stajan, Hagman and Rene Bourque now make up the team’s third line. Maybe Stajan has started to rebuild what everyone believes was a shattered confidence. “Everything’s related back to confidence,” said Flames head coach Brent Sutter. “But I just think the pace to his game (Thursday) night was much better. It started coming in the St. Louis game, and his details in his game have been good. Little things.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump gets real with Jimmy about how things have changed since becoming the Republican presidential nominee. Trump also talks about avoiding illness despite a grueling campaign schedule and why he prefers fast food on the road: Fallon asked if Trump has gotten sick on the campaign trail. "No I haven't," Trump said. "I've really been -- in fact, right after this I'm going up to New Hampshire, we're making a speech up in New Hampshire, I'll have a big crowd. I just got back from Ohio. We were in Pennsylvania and Florida. We're all over the place." "How do you not get sick from shaking all those hands?" Fallon inquired again. "I don't know. You know how? By not thinking about it," Trump said. "We've had a really grueling schedule. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump gets wistful discussing his childhood home in Queens before tackling a list of standard job interview questions to help Jimmy evaluate his qualifications for POTUS: Donald Trump clears up his relationship with Vladimir Putin and gets critical of the media for "gam[ing] the system" to slant debates against him: "[The media] do try to pin me into this and I'm saying to myself, 'I don't even know him.' All of the sudden they're making it like he's my best friend. I don't know him. What I want is what is right for the country, that's all that matters to me," Trump said to applause. On the debates, Trump said the "pressure" is on Lester Holt, the moderator of the first debate, to be "really tough on me." Trump accused the media of "trying to game the system," citing the criticism Matt Lauer received after he moderated the Commander-in-Chief Forum as a reason to be vigilant. Trump on Matt Lauer, debating Hillary Clinton standing up without a moderator, and Lester Holt. DONALD TRUMP: I really liked doing it, but I never debated professionally or from a political standpoint before but I enjoyed that process and I look forward to the next debate. And Lester [Holt] is the moderator. I think it's going to be very tough for Lester because, frankly, I thought Matt Lauer did a fantastic job. And they're trying to game the system by saying that Trump won the debate because Matt Lauer wasn't as tough on Trump as he was on Hillary Clinton. And that wasn't it. He was very tough on me, he was tough on her. But they're trying to make it so that Lester is going to come out and be really tough on me. I think it's unfair. I mean, they're trying to game the system. So I said let's not have a moderator. Remember the famous -- you would remember this, of course -- Abraham Lincoln-Douglas. Remember the Lincoln-Douglas debate? JIMMY FALLON: Are you kidding? I watch it all of the time on YouTube. DONALD TRUMP: No moderator. JIMMY FALLON: It has like 3 million hits on YouTube... But who would go first. Do you flip a coin? Do you know what a coin is by the way? DONALD TRUMP: Yeah... But the concept of having us both sitting on stage, or standing on stage. I like standing much better. But standing on stage and just debating. You know, they used to do debates that way. I think it would be fascinating for people. I think it would be far more fascinating. But I think there is a lot of outside pressure being placed on Lester that is unfair. But I think it's unfair to me, but that's okay. I think it's unfair to Lester. JIMMY FALLON: Yeah, because he's going to really just over-prepare on this. DONALD TRUMP: Well he's going to hammer me and I think that's not the right thing to do. But, Matt, I have to say that Matt Lauer did a fantastic job on that debate. I don't think he got treated fair. Fallon asks if he can tussle Donald Trump's famously controversial hair while the Republican presidential nominee is still a civilian:

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Off The Beaten Path Last weekend the Hampton Cycles boys joined me out on one my favorite local rides. It was great to get them off Beach Road and show them what else is out there. The ride was just over 100km but it's one of the hardest 100km you'll experience. If you want to do some solid Ardennes power intervals through some stunning back road terrain in our own backyard, this is the place to go. These cool, crisp autumn mornings with the low sunlight is the absolute best time of the year to ride. On the flip side, you guys in the Northern Hemisphere who are just coming into Spring shedding the layers – we’ll be very jealous of you in a month’s time. Hopefully these photos will inspire you to get out there this weekend and explore some roads you’ve never seen before. Enjoy! You can see the route we took below: As a side note, I’ve been recommended by a number of people to try out a new web service called Strava as a way of logging GPS files and measuring yourself against others. I’m still getting familiar with navigating the features but so far so good. The defining feature with Strava is that it automatically identifies and categorizes your climbs and shows you leaderboards to see how you compare. You can also see your climb side-by-side with any other rider’s effort on the same climb so you know where you lost or gained ground relative to him/her. It would be great to get more Aussie users on board so we can start comparing climbing times. If you’re interested in trying out Strava they’ve given me a bunch of free gift coupons valid for the rest of 2010 to give out. You can try your first 10 uploads out for free, but after that it’s normally a paid subscription service. Send me an email (cyclingtips at gmail dot com) if you want to continue with the service for 2010 for free. Sorry, Australians only this time around. WELCOME TO VELOCLUB INSIDER VeloClub Insider is an exclusive membership that gains you first access to our best stories, exclusive content curated just for you, as well as rides, events, training plans, pro-deals and more that will connect you with a likeminded community of cycling enthusiasts. HELP US CUSTOMISE YOUR EXPERIENCE CONTENT PREFERENCES: DO YOU KNOW ABOUT VELOCLUB INSIDER? VeloClub Insider is an exclusive membership that gains you first access to our best stories, exclusive content curated just for you, as well as rides, events, training plans, pro-deals and more that will connect you with a likeminded community of cycling enthusiasts.

###### **Appendix 1**: Supplementary methods ###### Click here for additional data file. ###### **Appendix 2**: Supplementary tables A-C ###### Click here for additional data file. ###### **Appendix 3**: Supplementary figures A and B ###### Click here for additional data file. Introduction ============ Law enforcement is a dangerous occupation. In 2011-12, the fatality rate among patrol officers in the United States was 15-16 per 100 000 full time workers, about 3-5 times the national average for private sector employees.[@ref1] [@ref2] Most of these on duty fatalities are traumatic.[@ref2] Statistics for deaths of police on duty that are attributable to cardiovascular disease events are not well documented but are estimated to account for 7% of fatalities.[@ref3] Cardiovascular events among police officers on duty are perceived with increasing concern by the law enforcement community and the general public.[@ref4] Though cardiovascular disease among police has received a high priority from the National Occupational Research Agenda of the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety,[@ref5] it has not been adequately studied. Some evidence suggests that cardiovascular morbidity is greater among police than the general population; and some jurisdictions provide benefits to police officers or their families after cardiovascular events.[@ref3] [@ref6] Studies of "triggering" in the general population show that acute exposure to physical or psychological stress is associated with a short term increase in the risk of acute cardiovascular events, including sudden cardiac death.[@ref7] [@ref8] [@ref9] Chronic exposure to established risk factors for cardiovascular disease (such as hypertension, dyslipidemia, obesity, and tobacco smoking) can lead to underlying coronary heart disease or cardiomegaly, providing the pathophysiologic substrate for acute sympathetic arousal and cardiovascular strain to precipitate acute cardiovascular events, including sudden cardiac death.[@ref10] It is thought that stress triggers the final steps in a pathophysiologic cascade, culminating in an acute cardiovascular event. Evidence indicates that the prevalence of traditional risk factors for cardiovascular disease among the police is high (often higher than the general population).[@ref3] Moreover, law enforcement work involves various acute physical and psychological stressors.[@ref6] [@ref11] [@ref12] [@ref13] It is therefore plausible that certain law enforcement tasks could serve as an occupational trigger in susceptible police officers, leading to an increased frequency of sudden cardiac death during stressful duties. This association is indirectly supported by epidemiologic studies of firefighters that have documented a markedly increased risk of acute death from heart disease (10-fold to over 100-fold) during fire suppression compared with non-emergency duties.[@ref14] [@ref15] [@ref16] [@ref17] On the basis of studies of triggering and surveys of police officers and chiefs regarding job stress,[@ref13] we hypothesized that stressful law enforcement duties are likely to be associated with increased risk of sudden cardiac death while on duty compared with routine/non-emergency duties. Methods ======= We conducted a case-distribution study[@ref18] by combining a case series of sudden cardiac death events among police officers with survey information on the proportion of time on duty that officers spend on different activities. We provide additional information on study design in appendix 1. Deaths among law enforcement officers ------------------------------------- The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund tracks US police deaths in the line of duty. It is the only major database to systematically consider fatalities arising from medical conditions, such as cardiovascular disease, and consistently documents a larger number of annual fatalities than other databases.[@ref2] This was the primary database we selected for the current study.[@ref19] Because it uses similar inclusion criteria, we also reviewed the Officer Down Memorial Page to identify additional cases of sudden cardiac death.[@ref20] Both databases define "law enforcement officers" as persons with arrest powers employed by a US law enforcement agency and "death in the line of duty" as a fatality occurring "as a direct and proximate result of a personal injury sustained in the line of duty."[@ref19] [@ref20] Regarding on duty deaths from "natural causes," both databases require the medical condition to have arisen out of physical exertion or a specific stressful activity while on duty. Cases deemed related to alcohol, drug, or other substance abuse or intoxication are not included in either database. Because our goal was to identify sudden cardiac deaths among US police occurring during law enforcement activities independent of their association with specific tasks, we obtained and reviewed an additional database from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund with all deaths related to cardiovascular disease among law enforcement officers during the study period that had been submitted for possible inclusion but were ultimately rejected by the fund's board. Ethical approval ---------------- The use of publicly available fatalities databases is exempt from institutional review board evaluation under US law ("deceased, non-living subjects").[@ref21] Ascertainment of on duty sudden cardiac death events ---------------------------------------------------- We selected for further evaluation all non-traumatic fatalities from the two databases and all deaths related to cardiovascular disease but rejected for inclusion in the memorial fund (fig 1[](#fig1){ref-type="fig"}). Cases were reviewed to determine eligibility and to extract data. A physician (VV) identified all deaths explicitly labeled as related to cardiovascular disease and selected additional cases consistent with on duty sudden cardiac death. Two additional reviewers (AF, MK) independently assessed the accuracy of the selected cases and re-examined the remaining non-traumatic fatalities for further case inclusions. A board certified occupational physician (SNK) resolved any discrepancies about classifications of cause of death. {#fig1} We extracted the following information for each fatality: age, sex, date of death, listed cause of death, and the narrative case summary. Case summaries provide a short description for each law enforcement officer fatality; these were reviewed for possible inclusion as sudden cardiac death cases following established procedures.[@ref15] [@ref22] [@ref23] We selected for analysis only those cases determined to be sudden cardiac deaths on duty. We defined sudden cardiac death as a fatality characterized by a sudden loss of consciousness (within one hour of the onset of acute symptoms, if present) in the absence of other compatible explanations (such as cerebrovascular event, pulmonary embolism, aortic aneurysm, etc).[@ref22] [@ref24] We excluded deaths that occurred more than 24 hours after the on duty event unless the law enforcement officer had sudden loss of consciousness while on duty and then never regained it before a later biologic death (for example, cardiac arrest followed by a period of maintenance on life support without the patient regaining consciousness). Police duties at the time of the death -------------------------------------- Based on each sudden cardiac death case summary, we classified deaths according to the specific duty being performed at onset of symptoms or immediately preceding death. Duties were categorized as routine/non-emergency or non-routine/stressful based on independent national surveys of police stress in relation to a wide spectrum of different law enforcement duties.[@ref13] "Routine/non-emergency duties" included the following activities: attending meetings; classroom activities; desk duty, office, and paperwork; escorting (such as funerals, dignitaries); firing range practice; investigation/inspection; issuing parking/traffic tickets; and patrol and roll call. "Non-routine duties" were defined as "disturbance" (domestic disturbance calls and disturbance of peace calls); medical and rescue operations; physical training (on duty exercise, physical training or drills related to employment, and law enforcement fitness tests); physical restraints/physical altercations (with suspects, prisoners, other detainees, or other uncooperative members of the public, etc); serving a warrant; suspect pursuits; testifying in court; and transporting/supervising prisoners.[@ref13] Time spent on specific duties ----------------------------- We estimated the proportion of time spent across different law enforcement duties from national surveys of frontline police officers and police chiefs.[@ref13] The first set of estimates was based on data from 951 frontline officers contacted through the International Union of Police Associations and the Fraternal Order of Police (response rate not available). The second set of estimates was based on data from 93 police chiefs (27% response rate) who completed the survey based on the experience of typical patrol officers in their respective departments. The two surveys provided similar patterns of the proportion of time on duty spent on different activities. We also obtained information on officer age, location of police department (rural, suburban, or urban), jurisdiction size (based on covered population), and size of police department (based on number of officers). Statistical analysis -------------------- If the duties performed were unrelated to the risk of sudden cardiac death, the number of deaths associated with each duty would be proportional to the time officers spend performing that duty. For example, if police officers spend 75% of their time on routine/non-emergency duties, we would expect 75% of sudden cardiac deaths to be associated with such duties. Thus, using survey results and the total number of sudden cardiac death events, we derived the expected number of sudden cardiac death events associated with each duty and calculated ratios of observed to expected (O:E) events. We then estimated duty specific relative risks for sudden cardiac death and corresponding 95% confidence intervals by fitting a Poisson regression model with the observed count of sudden cardiac deaths as the response and the logarithm of the proportion of time per duty as the offset. We conducted stability analyses using different exposure estimates of the proportional time spent across law enforcement duties. These included stratification of the officer and chief surveys based on jurisdiction size and use of only the survey responses of frontline law enforcement officers with a similar age distribution as the cases. We estimated the age specific incidence rate of sudden cardiac death per 100 000 person years at risk. Assuming an average of 2080 worked hours a year,[@ref25] we obtained person time estimates based on the number of law enforcement officers at risk according to the Current Population Survey (1989-2010)[@ref26] and the proportion of on duty time spent in each duty. Additionally, to evaluate robustness[@ref27] to potentially unreported cases of sudden cardiac death during routine/non-emergency duties, we repeated our analyses after hypothetically assuming a number of missing sudden cardiac deaths ranging from 0 (that is, equivalent to our main analysis) to 1000 (that is, more than twice the observed total number of events). We also repeated our analyses after hypothetically assuming that a proportion of time considered as routine/non-emergency activities ranging from 0% (that is, equivalent to our main analysis) to 20% (that is, a fifth of on duty time) should have been classified as a specific strenuous duty. We performed all statistical analyses using Stata 13.1/SE (StataCorp, College Station, TX). P\<0.05 was considered to indicate significance, and all tests were two sided. Results ======= The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund included records for 4553 on duty police fatalities between 1 January 1984 and 31 December 2010 of which we categorized 331 as sudden cardiac deaths. The Officer Down Memorial Page database included records on 4661 deaths during the same period, with 359 classified as sudden cardiac deaths. Overlap between the two databases was high (91% of all unique cases of sudden cardiac death were included in both databases). During the study period the memorial fund rejected 126 events related to cardiovascular disease, of which we categorized 78 as on duty sudden cardiac deaths after review. Thus, we identified at total of 441 unique sudden cardiac deaths (fig 1[](#fig1){ref-type="fig"}) or roughly 9-10% of all on duty police fatalities. The mean age at the time of death was 47 years (SD 9 years). Only nine of the cases (2%) were in women. We were able to identify the duty associated with the sudden cardiac death for 431 of the cases (98%). Sudden cardiac death was most commonly associated with restraints/physical altercations (25%), followed by routine/non-emergency activities (23%), physical training (20%), and pursuits (12%); 19% of events were associated with other duties (table 1[](#tbl1){ref-type="table"}). ###### Risk of sudden cardiac death among law enforcement officers engaged in emergency and strenuous duties compared with officers engaged in routine/non-emergency duties. Combined data from National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund and Officer Down Memorial Page (1984-2010)\* Duty Observed events (%) Frontline police officers survey Police chiefs survey --------------------------------------- --------------------- ---------------------------------- ------- ---------------------- --------------------- -- ------ ------- ------ --------------------- Routine/non-emergency 101 (23.4) 77.4 333.6 0.30 Reference 72.8 313.8 0.32 Reference Disturbance 20 (4.6) 9.6 41.4 0.48 1.60 (0.99 to 2.58) 8.8 37.9 0.53 1.64 (1.01 to 2.65) Testifying in court 3 (0.7) 1.4 6.0 0.50 1.64 (0.52 to 5.18) 1.3 5.6 0.54 1.66 (0.53 to 5.24) Serving warrant 6 (1.4) 1.6 6.9 0.87 2.87 (1.26 to 6.55) 2.4 10.3 0.58 1.80 (0.79 to 4.11) Transporting or supervising prisoners 18 (4.2) 2.2 9.5 1.90 6.27 (3.80 to 10.4) 4.1 17.7 1.02 3.16 (1.92 to 5.22) Medical and rescue operations 34 (7.9) 2.9 12.5 2.72 8.98 (6.09 to 13.3) 3.9 16.8 2.02 6.28 (4.26 to 9.27) Physical training 88 (20.4) 2.9 12.5 7.04 23.3 (17.5 to 30.9) 3.1 13.4 6.59 20.5 (15.4 to 27.2) Pursuit 53 (12.3) 0.8 3.5 15.4 50.8 (36.4 to 70.8) 1.2 5.2 10.2 31.8 (22.8 to 44.4) Restraint, physical altercation 108 (25.1) 1.2 5.2 20.9 69.0 (52.6 to 90.5) 2.3 9.9 10.9 33.8 (25.8 to 44.4) O/E=observed over expected number of events. \*Results ordered by magnitude of estimated relative risk based on frontline police officers survey. †Based on data from Korre et al^13^; see table A in appendix 2. Table 1[](#tbl1){ref-type="table"} shows the estimated proportion of time spent on each duty, expected events, and ratios of observed to expected events based on the frontline officer and chief surveys. It also summarizes the relative risk estimates for the association of specific duties with sudden cardiac death compared with routine/non-emergency activities. Higher risks of sudden cardiac death (relative risk \>10) were observed for restraints and physical altercations, suspect pursuits, and physical training. We also found evidence supporting an association between sudden cardiac death risk and transporting/supervising prisoners, medical and rescue operations, and less consistent evidence for associations with serving a warrant and responding to disturbances. Figure 2[](#fig2){ref-type="fig"} shows the incidence rates of sudden cardiac death among law enforcement officers by duty and age group. The total and duty specific risk of sudden cardiac death increased with age. {#fig2} Stability analyses conducted to explore the impact of jurisdiction size (population served; table 2[](#tbl2){ref-type="table"}) and age of the officer (table 3[](#tbl3){ref-type="table"} and table C in appendix 2) produced results that were qualitatively similar to the main analyses presented above. Sensitivity analyses showed that our main findings remained robust across hypothetical scenarios varying the number of missing sudden cardiac death reports and the magnitude of misclassification of strenuous duty times (figs A and B in appendix 3). During restraints/physical altercations, suspect pursuits, and physical training, the relative risk point estimates and the lower bound of the 95% confidence interval remained greater than 1.0, supporting a significantly increased risk of sudden cardiac death even under the most extreme hypothetical scenarios. ###### Analyses of risk of sudden cardiac death among law enforcement officers engaged in emergency and strenuous duties compared with officers engaged in routine/non-emergency duties, combined data from National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund and Officer Down Memorial Page (1984-2010), stratified by size of population served by officers' department. Figures are relative risk (95% confidence interval)\* Duty\* Population served --------------------------------- ----------------------- ----------------------- ---------------------- Routine /non-emergency 1.00 (reference) 1.00 (reference) 1.00 (reference) Physical training 7.80 (2.22 to 27.4) 28.9 (13.6 to 61.4) 18.3 (9.44 to 35.5) Pursuit 46.8 (22.3 to 98.3) 79.7 (33.0 to 192.3) 52.9 (26.5 to 105.6) Restraint, physical altercation 187.2 (93.7 to 373.8) 119.5 (59.5 to 240.3) 51.9 (27.4 to 98.3) \*Estimates based on survey responses from officers whose departments serve populations of indicated size. ###### Analyses of risk of sudden cardiac death among law enforcement officers engaged in emergency and strenuous duties compared with officers engaged in routine/non-emergency duties, using combined data from National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund and Officer Down Memorial Page (1984-2010). Sensitivity analyses restricted to survey responses from law enforcement officers with similar age distribution (individual matching based on 5 year age classes) as cases of sudden cardiac death Duty Relative risk (95% CI) ---------------------------------------- ------------------------ Routine/non-emergency 1.00 (reference) Disturbance 1.64 (1.00 to 2.68) Testifying in court 1.63 (0.52 to 5.13) Serving a warrant 2.17 (0.95 to 4.94) Transporting and supervising prisoners 3.79 (2.27 to 6.35) Medical and rescue operations 7.36 (4.97 to 10.9) Physical training 27.8 (20.9 to 37.1) Pursuit 25.8 (18.4 to 36.2) Restraint, physical altercation 40.6 (30.9 to 53.3) Discussion ========== Principal findings ------------------ Physically and psychologically stressful law enforcement duties are associated with large increases in the risk of sudden cardiac death compared with routine/non-emergency policing activities. To our knowledge our study is the first to show an association between specific law enforcement duties and risk of sudden cardiac death---a finding that supports the hypothesis that stressful work related activities can "trigger" sudden cardiac death and is consistent with our previous studies of on duty acute cardiac deaths among firefighters.[@ref14] [@ref15] [@ref16] In addition, our finding that up to 10% of all on duty deaths during law enforcement are sudden cardiac deaths represents the most accurate estimate to date of the proportionate mortality from sudden cardiac death in this population. While routine/non-emergency duties constituted about 75% of police work time, 77% of sudden cardiac deaths occurred during non-routine tasks. Physical restraints and altercations comprised about 1-2% of a police officer's annual professional time but accounted for 25% of on duty sudden cardiac deaths. Therefore, restraints and altercations were associated with a sudden cardiac death risk about 30-70 times higher than the risk during routine/non-emergency law enforcement duties. Similarly, pursuits of suspects also comprised less than 2% of on duty time but were associated with 12% of sudden cardiac deaths and risks 30-50 times higher than during routine/non-emergency duties. The most likely explanation for these findings is a sudden increase in cardiovascular demand because of a combination of physical exertion and psychological stress, consistent with "fight or flight" physiology.[@ref10] [@ref28] These results are also consistent with police chief and frontline officer ratings of altercations and pursuits as the most stressful duties,[@ref13] as well as prior investigations of heart rate monitoring among on duty police officers, documenting pronounced tachycardia during these confrontational situations.[@ref29] [@ref30] Although police do not perceive physical training as particularly stressful,[@ref13] we found that training activities were associated with about 20-25 times higher risk of sudden cardiac death when compared with routine/non-emergency law enforcement duties. These findings are compatible with evidence linking physical exertion to cardiovascular event triggering in the general population, particularly among physically inactive persons,[@ref7] [@ref8] [@ref31] as well as findings on the association of physical training with sudden cardiac death in the US fire service.[@ref15] Medical and rescue operations, supervising and transporting prisoners, and other potentially stressful interactions with the public (such as serving warrants and responding to various civil disturbances) were associated with an increased risk of sudden cardiac death. These findings are important because currently the law enforcement community does not usually consider these duties as strenuous.[@ref19] [@ref20] The considerable psychological stress of these activities and their potential to trigger cardiovascular events has implications for related workers' compensation, disability retirement, and death benefit claims. Applicability of research findings ---------------------------------- We believe that our findings are also applicable to law enforcement work outside the US. Law enforcement duties show substantial variation across jurisdictions in the US, rendering our findings more broadly representative. Furthermore, triggering of sudden cardiac death by acute exposure of susceptible individuals to physical or psychological stress is a pathophysiological mechanism shared by other occupations characterized by short bursts of stressful and physically demanding tasks.[@ref3] [@ref6] [@ref17] For many law enforcement officers, most on duty time is spent on relatively sedentary activities, punctuated by unpredictable short periods of stressful activities.[@ref28] In addition, officers have a relatively high prevalence of risk factors for cardiovascular disease, such as hypertension, obesity, dyslipidemia, and subclinical atherosclerosis.[@ref3] [@ref6] In the general population, bursts of physical exertion or emotional stress have been associated with myocardial infarction and sudden cardiac death, particularly among individuals with low physical fitness and underlying cardiovascular disease.[@ref7] [@ref8] [@ref9] [@ref31] [@ref32] It seems that similar mechanisms are operating during strenuous duties in susceptible officers with underlying disease. Study limitations ----------------- Our work has some limitations. First, there are no large scale studies of how US law enforcement officers in different locations spend their time. We used nationwide survey data from police chiefs and front line officers, and we were able to account for variation in officer rank, size of population served, and department location when estimating the proportion of time officers spent on various duties.[@ref13] Second, no single database catalogues all on duty law enforcement fatalities related to cardiovascular disease, and databases that do track such cases selectively include events that occur during stressful situations. We were, however, able to obtain all cases related to cardiovascular disease denied by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund after submission for consideration. There is good reason to believe that most cases of sudden cardiac death in police officers would be submitted for consideration based on the desire to honor the dead officers and to establish eligibility for financial benefits available to officers' families after on duty deaths from cardiovascular disease.[@ref3] [@ref6] This is supported by the fact that we had to exclude numerous submitted cases in which the cardiovascular event obviously occurred while off duty. Furthermore, sensitivity analyses showed that the association of most duties with sudden cardiac death would persist, unless the number of missing cases was implausibly large. Therefore, missing event reports are unlikely to account for our results. Third, to identify cases of sudden cardiac death and the associated duties, we relied on information abstracted from brief summaries without prior medical records and often lacked corroboration by autopsy results. Therefore, we used only those cases verified by multiple independent reviewers and limited our analyses to cases for which the cause of death could be ascertained with certainty. We have recently shown high agreement between identification of sudden cardiac death through brief case histories from public safety databases and comprehensive investigative reports conducted by health personnel contracted by the US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.[@ref33] Furthermore, with respect to time spent on different duties, sensitivity analyses showed that for most emergency duties, exposure misclassification would have to be extreme to explain away our findings. Fourth, we could not assess the contribution of risk factors for cardiovascular disease (such as obesity, hypertension, and diabetes) to the sudden cardiac death events because data were not available in the case summaries we reviewed. Existing evidence, however, supports that "triggering" occurs almost exclusively on a substrate of underlying disease.[@ref6] [@ref10] [@ref14] [@ref15] [@ref16] [@ref17] [@ref23] The case summaries also did not include information on the time of death; therefore, we could not assess the impact of work shift on risk of sudden cardiac death. Implications for future research and policy ------------------------------------------- The limitations of our study reflect the fact that, at present, the "best available data" are imperfect. Our results are best interpreted as indicative of the direction and relative magnitude of the associations between stressful police duties and sudden cardiac death, rather than an exact quantification of the magnitude of these associations. That said, the consistency of our results across stability and sensitivity analyses suggests that these associations are valid and merit further study. Future research could obtain officer level information on daily activities, use data from medical records and autopsies to identify cardiac deaths, and implement self controlled study designs to more accurately quantify the association between stressful policing activities and sudden cardiac death. Our findings have public health implications for prevention of cardiovascular disease among law enforcement officers and call for the implementation of prevention efforts for primary and secondary cardiovascular disease. Management of risk factors for cardiovascular disease---including interventions to increase physical activity, promote smoking cessation, maintain a healthy weight, and treat hypertension and dyslipidemia---could be used to protect police officers from the triggering effects of stressful duties and also reduce rates of long term cardiovascular disease. Our results support the US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health research agenda that prioritizes research on cardiovascular disease among law enforcement officers, similar to efforts in firefighters.[@ref5] Conclusions ----------- Using nationwide data on sudden cardiac death in law enforcement officers on duty and survey data on the proportion of time spent on specific duties, we found that stressful and physically demanding law enforcement activities were associated with large increases in the risk of sudden cardiac death, compared with routine/non-emergency policing activities. ### What is already known on this topic 1. Epidemiologic studies in fire fighters suggest that the risk of sudden cardiac death is increased during stressful duties compared with non-emergency duties 2. Data about the impact of specific on duty activities on cardiovascular deaths among police officers are not available ### What this study adds 1. Among US police officers, stressful duties were associated with large increases in the risk of sudden cardiac death compared with routine/non-emergency policing activities 2. Restraints and altercations were associated with about 30-70 times the risk of sudden cardiac death compared with routine/non-emergency law enforcement duties 3. Training activities were associated with about 20-25 times the risk of sudden cardiac death compared with routine/non-emergency law enforcement duties We thank the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund and Officer Down Memorial Page for providing information on police officer deaths. We thank William J Johnson (National Association of Police Organizations), Stephen Fender, George Sherrill, Kevin Summers (Fraternal Order of Police), Sam Cabral, and the International Union of Police Associations for supporting surveys of time spent on law enforcement duties. We also thank Byron Wallace (University of Texas at Austin) for providing help with data abstraction and coding. We express our deepest appreciation to the police chiefs, police departments, and frontline police officers for their collaboration with the surveys and their service to the public. Contributors: VV contributed to the design of the study, acquisition of data, interpretation of data, and drafting the manuscript. AF contributed to the analysis and interpretation of data. MK contributed to the analysis and interpretation of data, and drafting the manuscript. SS contributed to the design of the study and acquisition of data. IJD contributed to the design of the study, acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of data, and drafting the manuscript. SNK conceived the idea and the design of the study, contributed to obtaining funding, acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of data, and drafting the manuscript. All authors had full access to all of the data (including statistical reports and tables) in the study and can take responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. All authors revised the manuscript critically for important intellectual content. SNK is guarantor. Funding: Research support was provided by a pilot project grant awarded by the Harvard-NIOSH Education and Research Center Grant No 2 T42 OH008416-08 and the Monica Odening '06 Internship and Research Fund in Mathematics (Hamilton College). Competing interests: All authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form and declare that SNK served as paid expert witness, independent medical examiner, or both, in workers' compensation and disability cases, including cases involving law enforcement. Ethical approval: Not required. Data sharing: The data on police officer deaths and case histories are available online. Statistical code is available from the corresponding author. Transparency declaration: The corresponding author affirms that the manuscript is an honest, accurate, and transparent account of the study being reported; no important aspects of the study have been omitted; and any discrepancies from the study as planned have been explained. Cite this as: *BMJ* 2014;349:g6534

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Rollins College Reviews Check out reviews left by other students or leave your own review. You could win a free scholarship. Emily from Afghanistan 12/19/2009 Reviewer is A current student here. 17 out of 18 people found this review useful. 1 of 65 Categories Comments Great for these types of students Students who like small classes and a small campus; who want a relationship with their professors and faculty that will help with communication and future recommendation letters; who want to study abroad; in particular, business students. Tips for prospective students Apply early and apply for scholarships such as Dean and Cornell. Also, the financial advisors are incredibly nice and very willing to help so setting up an appointment with one of them would be in your best interest. They are looking for ways for you to save money, not ways for them to benefit. Bang for the buck Although Rollins is a private liberal arts college, it offers many scholarships and grants. I, in particular, received a free ride to Rollins with a little bit of help from outside scholarships. The benefits of paying more for an education at Rollins are outstanding: as mentioned previously, there is easier access to faculty; better relationships with teachers who will know the student individually; increased student involvement in the classes due to conversation-based curriculum; meal-plan that offers five different dining options that are a-la carte; dorm options that are both clean and modern while friendly and homy at the same time and on or very close to campus; and most importantly, an education that can not be found elsewhere. Am enjoying being here I had a great time at Rollins. Not only did I meet great friends, but I had the opportunity to already go abroad with Rollins before I even set foot on campus: I did a nine day field-study in Costa Rica on ecotourism. It was an amazing trip that changed my life and I met some of my best friends there. My dorm was incredibly clean and friendly, and I was placed with other students who come from different backgrounds yet have a lot in common with me. Also, there are many dining options which helped me not become sick of the food, and there was coffee always available for late night study sessions. The library offers a vast array of periodicals and other resources, along with quiet study rooms and technology assistance. I took full advantage of the gym and free yoga and pilates classes, along with the post office. Although Rollins is a small campus, this does offer many benefits. These include a close relationship with all professors who will be able to view you as an individual, not just another student; close proximity to classes which helps with tardiness and allows comprehensive understanding of the entire campus; and accessibility with faculty who are ready to help. Professors also do not lecture; instead, they do conversation-based classes that increase student involvement in the subject. Am learning a lot Due to being in the International Baccalaureate Program in high school, I found that some courses were rather simplistic at Rollins. For those who have taken many years of comprehensive Spanish, the foreign language department will be a breeze until the 300 level. At Rollins, every freshman must take a RCC (Rollins Conference Course) that helps the student adjust to his first year. The teacher of this course is the student's advisor, and there are many field trips or presentations that must be attended to bring the student closer to the Rollins community. While this may be a great idea, it is not greatly executed, and I did not learn any new material during the field trips. I did, however, learn a lot of new material in my Intro to Politics class and RCC Immigration and Poverty Course. Both these classes gave a lot of readings but offered in-depth discussion during class. I found these classes to be the only ones I studied for and consistently stayed up doing their homework. Overall, I believe that Rollins offers a lot of great courses taught by wonderful professors who do a great job ensuring that you learn the material--my personal problem was that I was placed in classes that were below the level I should have been placed in, such as Spanish 210. Sonia from Apo, AP 10/10/2010 Reviewer is A current student here. 5 out of 6 people found this review useful. 2 of 65 Categories Comments Great for these types of students The social setting is great for people that like to go out and, well, party. The location of Rollins is very close to clubs and bars, so that's where the majority of the students here can be found on Thursday and Saturday nights. Of course, there is a minority of students who don't take part in those activities. The school is great if you're looking for chances to study abroad and if you like to participate in community service activities. If you want to play football you're in tough luck because Rollins has no football team. Tips for prospective students I really advise prospective students to apply early because that will give them a better chance to receive scholarships from the school. Scholarships can range from $8000 to full tuition if you have the grades and SAT scores. Bang for the buck Rollins is a very expensive school, so if you don't receive the financial aid and scholarships to cover the costs I'd suggest that you find a different school. Am enjoying being here There's not a whole lot of diversity in the school, so it can be hard if you're used to seeing people from many different backgrounds. Am learning a lot The teachers at Rollins are really great and they're all so unique and wonderful in their own ways. If you do poorly on an assignment or a test, the teachers will encourage you to meet with them and help you find a way to study better and find ways to improve your writing to ensure you get a better grade the next time. The lectures are exciting and the classroom is really engaging, which I would have to give credit to the small classes, which are around 15 people at most. If you need extra help, there's free tutoring which I would really encourage people to take advantage of. The library is open 24/7, so you always have access to computers, books, and other research materials. All in all, it's just up to you as a student to make the most of your learning experiences and Rollins really gives students the chance to do that. Justin from Winter Park, FL On campus there are stations every 100 feet or so where you can call for help if you are in trouble, or even lost and cant find your way somewhere. Greek Life Rollins has 12 different fraternities and sororities on campus. 5 fraternities and 7 sororities. Clubs and Activities There are over 50 different clubs you can join so you will never get bored. There is a video game club, rock-climbing club, ultimate Frisbee club, and much much more. Great for these types of students Well the ratio of males to females is 40-60. So 60 percent are women and the other 40 percent are males. So guys are outnumbered and finding a girl should be pretty easy. Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus There is a day called fox day. For this one day in spring, all of the classes are canceled!! That's right there are no classes for the day, last year there were giant water slides around campus and free food!! Bang for the buck There is a gym offering a bunch of classes you can take such as yoga, ballroom dancing, zumba, and even work out boot camps. What to do for fun There are a bunch of different clubs you can join when you have free time, there are over 50 different clubs ranging from the rock climbing club to the cooking club. The school is 15 miles away from downtown Orlando if you wanted to go to clubs, bars, or malls. You cant forget that Disney world and universal studios is only a few minutes away from downtown Orlando. Food and Dining There is a two story building where they you can get your food. on the main floor there is a huge selection on what to eat and drink ranging from pizza, chicken, steak or ribs, even sushi. On the bottom floor you can get and stock up on food to bring to your dorm, like milk, eggs, chips, bread and boars head meat. Dorm Life I have a lot of friends who stay on campus, and it is always nice to go up there and visit. They are pretty nice and always people to meet and socialize with. Academic Rigor The classes are not to difficult in my opinion but even if they are a little challenging, you can always get a tutor. There is a tutoring center in the middle of campus and the best part about it, its FREE! Tips for prospective students This is a type of school where everyone seems to know everyone and you can easily make tons of friends. So the number one tip for me is to not be shy, not shy around your peers or your professors. In three sentences When i started attending this college it was so surreal, everything about his school was perfect. The campus was beautiful, the professors amazing and my peers pretty awesome. The classes are small and have been more focused on the individual students unlike state college. Apply early and see if you can get a Fast App. Teacher recommendations are a great bonus too. Definitely visit the school. It's amazing and you'll fall in love the minute you walk on. Bang for the buck It is pretty expensive to go here but Rollins is great about offering scholarships. I paying what I would've paid for at a regular institution and getting amazing resources. Everything here is well mantained and updated. Am enjoying being here The campus is absolutely gorgeous. I still can't believe I live here. Everyone is so nice. I feel like I know everyone on campus. The professors are great and willing to help with everything. I actually had an academic advisor I didn't know email me and ask how my first semester was going. It made me feel important. Am learning a lot Rollins is a liberal arts school so it exposes you to a lot of different subjects. I'm taking classes I wouldn't normally think to take and am now considering taking up a new minor. :) Luisa from Winter Garden, FL We have very good campus safety. Campus security is always on the look, and you can even get rides from them for no reason whatsoever. Greek Life 33%of school is greek. Those involved in greek life are usually not exclusive. Everyone knows everyone. Clubs and Activities Anything! Sports, laughing clubs, philanthropy clubs, multi-cultural clubs, activist clubs, etc. If there is something we do not have, you can always start it. The school is very supportive with new organizations as well. Great for these types of students For anyone basically, except for those who are looking for a large school where professors do not even know your name and getting to your next class takes you at least half an hour. Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus Fox day!!! --- It is a day in which all classes are cancelled and everyone goes to the beach. We have two pools and a lake (Lake Virginia) Bang for the buck The campus is gorgeous, the facilities can be used by all students, and there are a lot of opportunities and resources for free. We get a lot of free food and free t-shirts all the time. The faculty is extremely nice and helpful. What to do for fun Downtown Orlando is 10 minutes away. There are lots of on-campus activities all the time. We have a lake, canoes and sailing boats available to rent for free for students. Food and Dining We have amazing food in here and great variety. There is a sushi bar. There is food places open until two in the morning. Dorm Life The dorms can be a little expensive. First-year students are sometimes very loud and noisy. It can also be fun since everyone is living in the same place. Academic Rigor It depends on the classes you are taking, but overall it is very rigorous. First-year courses and general education requirements are not as hard as major courses. There are a lot of tools and resources available. Tips for prospective students Your professors are great if you need help, so look for them if necessary. Share your opinion in class. We have discussion-based classes (since we are a small school). Use your time wisely; there is time for both, fun and work. In three sentences Rollins is a multicultural school with lots of opportunities. Rollins has a gorgeous campus. Rollins has provided me with the support that I need to be successful. Anonymous 06/21/2012 Reviewer is A current student here. 2 out of 2 people found this review useful. 6 of 65 Categories Comments Campus Safety Our campus safety guys are great (well, most of them). There are a couple of crabby ones, and you won't like them when they give you a parking ticket (which they will, inevitably, sometime during your time here), but for the most part you can tell they genuinely are concerned about the safety of everyone here. If you are in the parking garage at like 11pm and you don't feel comfortable walking back to your dorm by yourself, they will come get you in their little golf cart or in a truck and drive you to your dorm. You can actually call them whenever you want if you need a ride to somewhere on campus. They are really nice for the most part. I even randomly called them a couple of weeks ago because I was creeped out and thought someone might have followed me back to campus, and I wanted to ask their advice on what I should do. They have our backs! Greek Life Eh, I'm not one for greek life, but I guess ours is as good as it gets. Clubs and Activities We have so many clubs I could not even tell you how many there are. One that most people find pretty interesting is the laughing club. They literally get together for like 15 minutes every week and just start laughing. People think they're crazy, but I think they might be on to something. Great for these types of students Hardworking, fun-loving, open-minded, people who want to make a difference, people who love to learn and ask questions, people who have great ideas that they need help executing Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus Okay, fine, you don't have to look Fox Day up - didn't see this box before. Fox Day happens every year in the spring, usually the first or second week of April. It's when the president picks a random day that is supposed to have beautiful weather, and doesn't tell anyone (literally), and at like 5:30am on that day, he goes out to the lawn and puts this big statue of a fox by the flagpole, and that means that class is canceled for the day! It has become such a huge deal, especially in the past few years. People play Fox Day Roulette weeks before it might happen, people place bets on when they think it will be, people won't do their homework/study for tests that are supposed to be on the day that they think Fox Day will be (which is stupid, btw), etc. And people legit camp out all night on the lawn if they think it's gonna be fox day, and when he finally does bring the fox out, people start running around like crazy at 6 in the morning screaming IT'S FOX DAYYY! and posting facebook statuses and calling their friends to wake them up and make sure they know, and then everyone goes and eats free breakfast in the cafeteria, and then goes and does whatever they want. Beach, Disney World, Universal (we sell discount tickets for all the theme parks), chill on campus by the pool, sleep, or Rollins always has some activities on campus for people who don't want to go anywhere, like slip and slides, giant inflatable twister, and so on. Then everyone comes back to campus by like 5:30 and there's more free food for the fox day barbecue! And then everyone goes and gets ready to come back to the real world for class the next day, cause Fox Day is ALWAYS in the middle of the week. Cruel, I know. But it's our own little holiday, and we get real excited about it. Bang for the buck Hmm, bang for the buck...let me tell you, it is definitely a lotttt of buck. Probably the most expensive school around here. But Rollins totally takes care of me. They're always giving us free stuff left and right, they feed us good food, we live by a lake, we have FOX DAY (look it up!), and you don't have to pay for your cap and gown when you graduate cause that's like pocket change for Rollins. So if you can get enough financial aid, it's a ton of bang for your buck! What to do for fun Well, as I have mentioned, most people just head 15 minutes away to downtown Orlando to go to all the clubs (mostly on Wednesday and Thursday). I personally don't really like going out. But there are about a gazillion other things to do here - we're like right next to Orlando, hello. Winter Park is beautiful in itself, especially Park Ave and the little side streets that intersect it. So adorable, great shopping and eating. Orlando pretty much has everything you would ever want to do. And Rollins is located on a lake, and we have a beachside pool. So there's always canoeing, paddleboarding, tanning, water skiing, etc. Also, the closest beach is like max 1.5 hours away, which is not bad at all! Food and Dining We legit have some of the best food around. Come visit and compare it to other college cafeterias. I had no idea how good we had it here until I went to go visit a friend at her college. Filet mignon, crab cakes, and risotto are common occurrences. And we have a made-to-order sushi bar, complete with really talented Asian sushi chefs. No joke. Not helping the country club stereotype, but I'm not complaining. Dorm Life The dorms are not the best, but they are pretty much what you would expect college dorms to be like, honestly. They're actually way nicer than any of the other college dorms that I've seen in Florida. They all have community style bathrooms, which is the biggest complaint for me. I just don't feel at home if I keep having to lug all my stuff to the bathroom all the time. BUT we have one apartment-style dorm, which I lived in this past year, and it was AWESOME. The apartments have 2 double rooms that each get their own bathroom, a huge living room, a balcony, a kitchen, a dining room, and the bigger bedroom has a walk-in closet. Plus, we lived on the end, so our balcony was over-looking the lake. Million-dollar view there, folks. Academic Rigor The gen eds are pretty easy, and you won't lose any sleep over them if you're an intelligent person. I think the academic rigor of the classes here differs depending on your major. There are a couple majors that are predominantly a joke, and most of the people in them are just in them because they want to maximize their party time. I am a psychology and music double major, and I have to work extremely hard to get A's in my classes. Plus, your education here (and anywhere else, for that matter) is what you make it. You can skate by and just take 12 credits a semester and party all the time, or you can load on the work and the extracurriculars and the jobs, etc. I always have a full class load, plus voice lessons, ensembles, and I just started an independent study for research in psychology that I'm going to be continuing until the end of my time here. Let me just tell you science people - you can't get research experience at other schools like you can here. At big universities, at best you can get a student research ASSISTANT position, which basically means you get to help the professor with research that they're doing - which is freaking awesome, don't get me wrong. But here, you can do whatever you want, and the professors are dying to help you make it happen. Grad schools are going to eat that up. Remember that. Tips for prospective students The only tip I guess I have for prospective students would be that Rollins is not simply a reflection of the stereotypes it has been given. If you're looking at Rollins at all, I am sure you have heard about our reputation: Rollins isn't a college, it's a country club; everyone is rich and snobby; it's just a party school, etc. You will come to learn in your college search that every school has good and bad stereotypes. Rollins is home to a lot of wealthy people, but it's also home to a lot of people who are not, and wouldn't be here without extensive financial aid (myself included). There are snobby people everywhere you go, just don't surround yourself with them - it's not that hard. And if you ask me, every school in America is a party school depending on who you hang out with. I know people who go out every night, and I know people who never go out. Rollins is super diverse - so my final word to any prospective student is just to come and visit, make your own judgments about it, talk to the students who actually work hard here. If you're looking to come here just for a good time and no work, you're coming to the wrong place. You'll have plenty of fun, but you won't last longer than a year without busting your butt in your classes. Just saying. PS, we are the best school around if you want to study abroad. Check it out. Lauren from Rome, GA 01/01/2014 Reviewer is A current student here. 2 out of 2 people found this review useful. 7 of 65 Categories Comments Campus Safety We might be a very small school, but campus security takes their job very seriously. I never feel unsafe while on campus and I know that if I don't want to walk across campus at night by myself back to my dorm, I can call campo and they'll escort me there. Greek Life While I'm not part of Greek life, I do know a bit about it. Rush isn't done until the spring semester and there's no hazing. You can still have a social life if you don't join a sorority or fraternity, and there's presence on campus isn't obnoxious like at some other schools I've visited. Clubs and Activities There's something for everyone. From serious academic clubs to athletic clubs to political organizations, there's just about everything. There's even Quidditch and, from what I hear, they're starting up the Laughing Club again (they meet at designated times and literally just laugh about nothing for a few minutes). Great for these types of students I'd like to think that Rollins is great for any time of student. If you want a large school with most classes in large lecture halls where professors will most likely never know you by name, then Rollins isn't for you. Otherwise, come on down for a visit and see for yourself! Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus Fox Day! During the spring semester, a day is chosen (the students won't know until the day arrives). On this day, a statue of a fox is rolled onto Mills Lawn at about 5 in the morning and classes are cancelled for the day. There's also a huge cookout and generally just a bunch of fun stuff. A great Rollins tradition! Bang for the buck Rollins has one of the highest tuition rates in the country, but the level of education, experiences provided and the generosity of the college with their scholarship money make it worth the price tag. What to do for fun It's fun to attend plays and other events on campus. When there's not much going on, however, there's plenty to do in the area. Because Winter Park is basically in Orlando's backyard, there are tons of places to go within a reasonable driving distance. Food and Dining I LOVE the food at Rollins. There's tons of options and I never feel like I have to resort to unhealthy options because there's nothing else I want to eat. Also, if you don't feel like dining on campus, there's Park Ave right off of campus with tons of great dining options. Dorm Life I like my dorm, but as with most schools, there's a few really obnoxious people that can take away from the experience. I also live on one of the nicest dorms on campus (Ward Hall). Academic Rigor At Rollins, I always feel challenged in the classroom but never pushed to the brink of my sanity. There's good balance in most everything. Tips for prospective students While Rollins is sometimes called the Harvard of the South, it doesn't mean we lack personality. My essay for Rollins was humorous and far from dry like the essays that so many of my friends were writing. Good grades and scores are important but are also not everything; I think they'd like to see long-term commitment to an extracurricular or two. If you visit the campus, ask good questions and be polite, but don't be one of those kids who thinks that sucking up to the tour guide will improve your chances of getting in if you haven't already. In three sentences I feel I made a great choice in picking Rollins College. I'm treated as a person, not a number, and amazing one-on-one interactions with professors. I'm proud to be a Tar (even though most people have to Google what a Tar is : ) Christian from Naples, FL Rich students, people who want a great education but don't want large classes or don't want to worry about the grade curve. Tips for prospective students Be rich or be intelligent, or at least be Floridian. Try not to be too stuck up please, we're really trying to work on it. Bang for the buck If you've been given good scholarships and ESPECIALLY if you are a Floridian you can get a VERY favorable deal that rivals or beats many of the public school counterparts. Am enjoying being here Nice weather, lots of shade trees so not too hot, and the accomodations are constantly in a state of improvement so most problems are mitigated over a year or two from what I've observed. Am learning a lot It's a great place for an education, great location, the students aren't always engaged but that can REALLY work to your advantage due to already minuscule class sizes taught by intelligent, thought-provoking instructors. Deszette 08/12/2011 Reviewer is A current student here. 1 out of 1 people found this review useful. 9 of 65 Categories Comments Great for these types of students Rollins is Great for Student who like learning at in close-nit setting. the school is small so class sizes are small enabling for more one-on-one attention. Student who enjoy sports such Basketball, Soccer, Tennis and Lacrosse but don't exactly want to play or go to a Division 1 school. Tips for prospective students Apply Early so that you are in the running for all the scholarships before funds run out. Keep track of all needed document and requirements so that your application is not delayed. When you get on campus, study abroad at least 1 semester so that you can see the world form a different perspective. enjoy you time in college. Bang for the buck I believe that the education that you get at Rollins is well worth the money, you are given so may opportunities to expand your horizons. And there is so much aid available to you so it is made affordable. Am enjoying being here If you want to enjoy an AMAZING view, small classes, and great Campus life, then Rollins is the place for you! your professors really care and try to help you succeed. they all keep office hours so that if you need help you can come see them. Rollins has Various events on campus from Volunteer activities to Halloween fairs to end of semester activities such as dayglo or pancakes in the campus center. Am learning a lot As A double major at Rollins I find It very engaging. In both my music and International Affairs courses I have learned including how my two completely different majors both affect the world. Caroline from Winter Park, FL 11/08/2011 Reviewer is A current student here. 1 out of 1 people found this review useful. 10 of 65 Categories Comments Great for these types of students Rollins is a great place for students who stay on top of their priorities, and plan on consistently going to class. Many professors take attendance, and make note of students who do not show up to class. Also, the professors know you by name, and if you ever need help, or just want to chat, most all of them have their door wide open to all students. Tips for prospective students Apply to all of the schools you have ever considered going to! Even if you aren't sure, just go for it! You will never know if you would have gotten accepted if you don't apply! Bang for the buck Coming here is a little expensive, but the Financial Aid Department works hard to find scholarships for students! We also have a pretty good meal plan, and things such as laundry are included already! Am enjoying being here I am best friends with my neighbors in my residence hall, and have made so many friends from my classes! Am learning a lot So many of my friends laugh at all of the fun random facts I have been learning in my Microbiology course. It goes to show that if students enjoy the learning, they are more prone to sharing it with their friends, who also become more informed! Student from Orlando, FL 05/19/2012 Reviewer is A current student here. 1 out of 1 people found this review useful. 11 of 65 Categories Comments Campus Safety The safety on the campus is relatively efficient. Recently we had a bunch of changes to the way our campus security is handled, but I like the fact that I had the oppurtunity to have a say in our protection. Clubs and Activities Rollins has so many types of activities and clubs. I honestly cannot put a number on it! The functions are mostly inclusive as well, even with frats and sororities, so it is truly one large community. Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus We have a few unusual locations, like our dock and our miniature beach. Strong Hall seems like a far way away from other dorms, as well as Sutton. We have our Mowbray Greenhouse Dorm and another one next to McKean Hall. We also have a childcare facility, which many people don't realize exists. As for traditions, we have a few good notable ones. At the beginning of the year, the freshman have a week-long orientation with comedians and even a hypnotist. We have alternative spring breaks to other places for volunteering or other fun places. And finally, we have Fox Day, which is a full day off of all classes, no matter what is scheduled. It goes from around 7a.m.-6p.m, and the reason it starts so early is because our president has to put out a statue of a fox. Only when that statue is out is when it is officially fox day. Some people play Fox Day Roulette, which they don't do their homework and hope for Fox Day in the morning. Sometimes it doesn't work, but that is what makes the event fun! Bang for the buck It's no rumor that this school is expensive. But it is also true that if they really want you, financial aid will work with you to get here. This school can be a life-changer, if its resources are used correctly. The teachers are connected to the world of any given major due to their experiences, and they are eager to share it with you. The campus is absolutely beautiful, and they have to maintain it. Overall, this campus is not something to take for granted, especially for the money it costs. If the opportunities are used right, it's definitely worth the price. What to do for fun I think that there are about 5 different things to do on campus daily. As a theater major, I love finding out about events within and outside of our department. With a short drive (from taxi or any transportation) there is a whole downtown area full of nightlife and concerts. There are beach trips, alternative spring breaks, and trips to volunteer in different cities, all mostly paid for. With Park Ave., downtown, and our theme parks and beaches, it is hard to become exceedingly bored. Food and Dining There are literally different cuisine choices every single day, and uniformity for those who who need it. From salad, to sushi, to soul food nights, the campus center holds variety, which I love. It will get pricey if you have no meal plan, but you also have the choice of finding off-campus food and bringing some from home. Also, there is a C-store right below the campus center, and a Grill that opens up at 8. It is a wonderful place for a midnight snack! Dorm Life To find the proper dorm, people have to find who they are most comfortable with. There are party dorms, quiet dorms, community dorms, and of course the fraternities/sororities. We even have an apartment complex (which is great with the right people). Of course, there are going to be times when the dorms are not going to be completely clean, but that's a part of the experience, really. I live off campus, so I probably cannot rate this properly. However, I have bunked with enough friends there to know that some dorms are not for me, while others are suited to my tastes. I may sound picky in my response, but picking dorms is really an independent experience. It's also really fun to stay over to the point where people ask if you live there. I think it's a sign that I really have joined a community. And for off campus students, it's not all about bumming around on someone's couch or spare bed. There is an off-campus lounge, and if it is maintained correctly, it becomes much more than just an extra room for particular students. Academic Rigor In my first days at Rollins, I found out that my RCC (a class every freshman has to take) was equivalent to a sophomore general physics class. I never took physics before that class, and I was sure I was going to fail. However, because of the friends I made and a new study ethic I crafted for myself, I managed to receive a B! These classes are really no joke, the teachers will make you take them seriously. But they are really worth it. I never knew there was so much to being a theater major, but I am enjoying every second. There are of course some fun and interesting classes to take the edge off (such as my class that studied the progression of comic books around the world, just in time for the movies in 2012). Things like yoga, running, tennis, swimming, and even scuba diving are offered for physical enjoyment, and I cannot wait to indulge in that. Rollins has made me even more organized as a person and determined to get things done effectively through their classes. Tips for prospective students Try everything (but not at once). There are clubs for anything, from theater to democrats to Quidditch. Every club/fraternity/major has little or big grains of oppurtunity to make it truly exciting. Also, be good to those who clean up your messes. Don't be ashamed to change your major. Don't count yourself out of things because you live off campus, I have had SO much fun in one year and I live 30 minutes away. And finally, never be afraid to explore. Being a Rollins student has so many advantages outside of school as well as inside. In three sentences The very first thing anyone (including me) notices about the campus is its classic beauty. If you know what major you want to invest in, there are so many experienced and well-connected people to help you through it. Finally, even with the smaller size, it is easy to feel truly included. Sophie from Clermont, FL 05/27/2012 Reviewer is A current student here. 1 out of 1 people found this review useful. 12 of 65 Categories Comments Clubs and Activities Rollins is never about exclusion. It's about collaboration and interaction. How can it not be, with over 140 student organizations and multicultural organizations? For every age, taste, genre, one never gets bored in this College! Where diversity means unity. Did you say International? Yes, you may have heard that Rollins students and teachers come from across the globe, but are you acquainted with the in-depth International Learning Program? Donâ??t hesitate to immerse yourself in these various programs, which allow you explore any part of the world for a semester: living, working in, and studying the culture from countries like China, or Costa Rica! Great for these types of students Regularly each year, various personalities grace the Halls: whether political activists, musicians of any genre from classical to jazz, poet laureates, Nobel writers, acclaimed playwrights, culture floods in with a capital C. Jean-Michel Cousteau? Check. Marilyn Horne? Check. Billy Collins? Check. And more. An additional morsel to whet your appetite: ever heard of Winter with the Writers? For all you literature fans out there, here'Â?s another impetus to go to Rollins! Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus Fox Day! In the Spring, that phrase is the magic word. The College'Â?s Open SesameÂ? if you will. Fox Day means unexpected cancelled classes for the entire day! After a while at Rollins, everyone knows the meaning of this, and the cute statue the President stows on the lawn for the occasion. Not to mention the ensuing picnics, barbecues, games, and free rides to Disney and Universal! What to do for fun How many colleges can boast of excellent studies and excellent views? With beautiful ochre colored walls, the various buildings in Rollins are nestled in a comfy, beautiful spot of Winter Park: complete with a lake, where various sports classes such as water-skiing and canoeing take place. A sneak tip: looking for calm and solace to study? Climb to the highest level of the college'Â?s library: and find a panoramic view of the lake, as well as the parasol and table adorned terrace and swimming pool nearby. Culture is far from mute here in this side of Winter Park. Not discounting the Tiffany Museum, the Albin Polasek Museum near the area, in Rollins itself, one can find culture aplenty: the Tiedtke Concert Hall, the Cornell Museum of Art, or the Annie Russell Theater, which will satisfy many arts aficionados! Food and Dining One is never at a lack of good food and beverages here at Rollins: with the Campus Center containing the C-Store on the first floor, and the Marketplace Grill on the 1st floor, with specials every day of the week, varying from week to week. In addition one can find delicious cakes and coffee/chocolate drinks at Dianne's Cafe! Dorm Life NA: I am an off-campus student. But from what I've seen, the rooms are small, and the security is not that good. Academic Rigor Worried about fading in class and reduced to simply taking notes? Never fear here at Rollins. The classes are small, but interactive, with dedicated, mind-stimulating teachers, and the lessons are more often than not discussions. Now here'Â?s a university where fun rhymes with learning! Where every student has a place, a voice, and an opinion. Tips for prospective students Be animated about what you want and the professors will help you! They will help you and guide you! Be curious and don't be afraid to ask questions, to debate. You have to know where to look and who to look for, for some information but if you persist, you get it. In three sentences Choose Rollins: where the liberal arts and business can be found in the same place. The sense of community is strong here at Rollins and a perfect complement to the studies done there. To be involved and use mature knowledgeable leadership skills to help the community: such as the upcoming SPARC Day of Community. Cass from Florida ALWAYS around and willing to give you escorts to wherever you are going whenever needed. Greek Life Greek life at Rollins is extremely inclusive, does NOT haze (do not believe everything you hear), and is very welcoming to the overall college community. They host a variety of events, parties, service events, and overall are very campus and service oriented. Clubs and Activities There are more than 140 student organizations on campus and each provide different wonderful services for students Great for these types of students Rollins is an extremely diverse campus with a multitude of student types and to fit everyone's different needs/desires/passions, there are over 140 student organizations that one can join as an undergraduate student :) Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus Fox Day - Spring Semester. Classes Cancelled. Day of Fun. Enough Said. Jumping/Being thrown in Lake Virginia on your birthday - at least once before you graduate (be prepared, it will happen to you at least once) Bang for the buck Rollins offers so many opportunities and things for the students it is definitely worth the money! What to do for fun There is so much for students to do on campus because different student organizations host events almost on a daily basis (usually notified through Facebook or the daily email). In addition, Park Avenue is wonderful to walk around and Winter Park Village is about a mile up the road (there is a complementary shuttle that runs on Friday evenings to and from the WPV). Also, there is something to do downtown if that is what excites you, Jay Gatsby and Mitch Buchannon are the wonderful Rollins (anonymous students) party planners. Food and Dining There is only one option for the meal plan so hopefully you like to eat. The main dining hall has interesting, different options each evening however, there are other eating locations on campus in addition to Dominos and Park Avenue Pizza delivering to campus using your meal plan money. Dorm Life Adjusting to sharing a living space with someone can be difficult but the summer before your freshman year begins, Rollins sends a housing packet for you to fill out with your individual lifestyle preferences. There is no grey areas with most of the questions so be sure to fill them out to the best of your abilities about which thing you prefer (studying at night or day, etc.). Once on campus, there will be amazing activities that your RA hosts, GO TO THEM. They're great community builders and a lot of fun usually with a lot of free things :). Be prepared for loud noises in the hallways, especially on Fox Day ;) Academic Rigor Since Rollins is a liberal arts college, as a student, you will take courses in all fields in order to obtain a well-rounded education while fulfilling your electives and general education requirements to graduate. Also, class sizes are small and most professors are very discussion oriented so be sure to stay on top of readings and assignments in order to actively participate and receive a good grade in the course. Tips for prospective students - Bring shower shoes because the showers are communal in most underclassmen dorms - Do not get overwhelmed by the social scene on the weekends and evenings there will be plenty of Jay Gatsby and Mitch Buchannon parties throughout your time here - Ask for help if you need it, Rollins offers a variety of free services for students in order that they succeed - Do NOT believe everything you read on Rollins Confessions/College Confessions, most of that is extremely untrue - Small class sizes = professors know if you didn't do the reading/assignment In three sentences - Rollins has a beautiful campus with multiple spots to relax and do homework or hang out with friends while also accessing wifi (even in the middle of the lawn). - The faculty and staff have a genuine care about your well-being and will go out of their way to make sure that their students are succeeding. - The variety of classes offered to undergraduate students include a variety of interests in order that students enjoy their classes while fulfilling the general education requirements. Mary from JACKSONVILLE, FL Keep track of who you are! This goes for any college, you don't want to loose yourself in the crowd, even if the crowd is less than 1,000 people Bang for the buck You get so much for what you pay for at Rollins. The food is great, the faculty student ratio is like 10 to 1, and the amenities and support are top notch! Am enjoying being here The social life is very big at Rollins. Though it is intimidating at first, there are ways to have the full college experience at Rollins without going out every night or spending tons of money. The community is loving and full of trust. Much like high school, you do start to really know every student. Am learning a lot I have learned a lot from my experiences at Rollins. While it is an expensive school, I have received so much more than the ticket price. I have become a better leader through the Office of Student Involvement and Leadership, Rollins Office of Residential Life, and through being a founding member of Delta Zeta's Pi Theta chapter. There are hundreds of volunteer opportunities, and the faculty and staff actually CARES about you, your experiences, and how to make them better in every way. College is about discovery, and I have certainly discovered who I really am. Tampa, FL Rollins is great for students who like to participate in class and do well in small institutions. Rollins is also great for athletes and those who are interested in greek life. Tips for prospective students Prospective students should visit campus and apply early. Bang for the buck Rollins can be very expensive without scholarships or Financial Aid, however; it is a ranked school and students receive a great education where the staff truly cares about their students' success. Am enjoying being here Rollins is a beautiful campus that feels like paradise. Its small enough so it is easy to get around but large enough so it's not crowded. Students make many friends. Because of the small class size, students get to know their classmates very well. The student population is about 1800 so everyone gets to know everyone pretty well. The dorms are for the most part nice and safe. The campus food is good too. There are many events on campus that are open to all students which are a great way to have fun with friends and to meet new people. Am learning a lot Rollins is a Liberal Arts school that offers a wide variety of classes that may spark a student's interest. There are many general education requirements which helps students to become well rounded and makes students knowledgeable about subjects beyond their major. Most classes are discussion based and are interactive rather than having long lectures where only the professor speaks. Professors are generally opened to all different opinions and enjoy class discussions and debates on a topic. Small class room sizes also help learning because you become close with your professors and other students in your classes. This encourages study groups and allows students to not be nervous to ask questions or speak in class. Professors are also very approachable outside of class for questions or help with projects. Louis from Kissimmee, FL Don't be afraid to come and make friends. If you have questions ask, and most of all be yourself. Bang for the buck A lot of times people only see the Arts and Sciences program which is no problem but people need to know about the Holt program as well. The Holt program is pretty much the Valencia of Rollins. Bang for the buck and yet you still get the same education as everyone else. Am enjoying being here Everyone is friendly! No Complains. Most definitely new experiences are being created everyday! Am learning a lot What Can I say these teachers love their job! I've learned so much more this semester than anything I've learned before. As a music major compassion for the art is more than enough here. Sarah from Oviedo, FL amazing, and everyone is helpful, even if you just need directions to a class. Clubs and Activities there is something for everyone. Great for these types of students academically strong, or arts inclined. Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus fox day! each year in spring the students get one free day off of any classes they may have. it's a different day every year, so we're always surprised! Bang for the buck i love my college. i've always had a dream of going here and it's certainly lived up to all i had imaged it would be. the professors, classmates, and environment is everything i would look for in a college. What to do for fun on campus you can go for walks, go to the library, visit the boat house or pool, or go to the gym. if you walk just outside of the campus, the entire winter park area is open to you, including park avenue which is perfect for shopping or a day in the park. Food and Dining at times it can be pricey, but the location of the cafeteria and any surrounding snack locations are perfect. food is just around the corner when you need something to snack on. Dorm Life i do not live on campus but i've seen the dorms and they are well furnished and look like they would be nice to live in. Academic Rigor this is a challenging college, pushing you to your best. the professors are there every step of the way. In three sentences the professors are knowledgeable and eager to help the students learn. the hamilton holt section of rollins college is spectacular and has been a joy to be a part of. classrooms are generally easy to find and the campus is beautiful. Student from Orlando, FL 02/20/2012 Reviewer is A current student here. 18 of 65 Categories Comments Bang for the buck rollins is the most expensive school in central florida, but yes, definitely worth every penny. rollins college on your resume makes a statement. it says that you worked hard, studied hard, and now you are ready for the work place. Food and Dining rollins has an excellent assortment of food in their dining hall. the prices are fair and the options are plentiful. the dining hours are convenient for the late night studiers! Dorm Life unfortunately, i do not have any experience with the dorm life. the other students that i have spoken with who live on campus really enjoy it and speak highly of the rollins dorms. Academic Rigor i have never experienced such a challenging school environment. the professors in the mba program expect much out of their students. they are demanding yet helpful at the same time. my professors have set me up to succeed while teaching more than just text book answers. i am getting book knowledge but also learning how teamwork, leadership skills, and managerial know-how. In three sentences rollins college is a stellar school, and i am proud to be a student there. the professors are outstanding. the education is far superior to any other school i have attended. Alicia from Orlando, FL campus security is always on call. there is rarely crime on campus, very safe! Greek Life many students participate in greek life! Clubs and Activities there is something for everyone. Great for these types of students focused students Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus fox day is the funnest tradition! Bang for the buck a bit pricey. What to do for fun go to the beach, wakeboard, ride your bike, visit orlando's nightlife. so much to do! Food and Dining the food is awesome! Dorm Life fun! Academic Rigor very intensive. Tips for prospective students study hard, and communicate with your teachers. In three sentences rollins is an intensive school that values small class sizes. students are able to develop a relationship with their professor, and gain hands on experience. many opportunities are available for students. Rosa from Lehigh Acres, FL 04/10/2012 Reviewer is A current student here. 20 of 65 Categories Comments Campus Safety Campo is on top of everything. They're always around, calling out hi and being friendly, knowing you by name and face, and are always there if you need a ride. There's very little crime which is surprising for an open campus, but not unexpected. I feel safe walking across campus alone at night, which is more than you can say for others. Greek Life There's a definite Greek life here, but its not overpowering. Greek and non-greek mesh well. Everyone comes to LipSync, where mostly Greek houses compete in a dance and lip syncing competition, which is great fun. Rush happens in the spring, to let you get a feel of campus and the fraternities and sororities before you pledge. Clubs and Activities They have a lot of different activities--Rock climbing club, horseback riding, outdoor club, anime club, poetry club, SGA, JUMP, Latin American Association, etc. You can find something for you. And you can create a club as well. The Rock Climbing Club was founded only 3 years ago and already has funding, activities, competitions, and has placed Rollins #3 of all the Florida schools for Rock Climbing. Great for these types of students Any type of students, really. There's such a variety. Sure, there are mostly rich tanned white kids here, but a lot of the population come here on scholarships, the people are insanely smart, and you can see on the ceiling of the cafeteria the flag of every student's nationality who has ever came to Rollins, from America to Japan to Belize to Australia. Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus Fox Day is one day in March or April when the President (P-Dunc) wakes up at 5 or 6 am, puts the statue of the Fox on Mills Lawn and all classes are cancelled for that day. Students go to the beach, to theme parks, and just relax, then come back to school for a huge bbq on the lawn. Bang for the buck It's a fantastic school, but sometimes seems a little expensive for what you're getting. Dorms are mulah, tuition is mulah, the required on-campus living and meal plan for the underclassmen can be more than some are willing to pay--but the Rollins Grant and financial aid help with that greatly. What to do for fun Park Avenue is your ritzy shopping/dining area, just off campus. There's always SGA activities going on, a Rollins Trolly to take you to Winter Park Square by the movie theatre, and Downtown Orlando is a few minutes away for the nightlife. Food and Dining Fantastic the first two weeks, then becomes good, but there's always variety. Dorm Life Each dorm has a reputation, but you'll always find friends because you live near the people you go to class with. Academic Rigor Work hard and you'll go far. Teachers are very helpful. Tips for prospective students Pick a school that you'd love to spend time in, with the programs you want to study. In three sentences Gorgeous campus, knowledgeable professors, small classrooms. We have top notch speakers, great programs, sunny weather. Barbara from Maitland, FL 05/06/2012 Reviewer is A current student here. 22 of 65 Categories Comments Campus Safety Campus security is pretty good, mostly if something happens like theft it's because of the student's own foolishness like leaving a door unlocked. If you need a ride somewhere (say from your class to the parking garage because it's dark out) they will come pick you up in their golf cart and drive you there. Winter Park is also really good with Rollins students and the surrounding area. Greek Life I'm not a part of greek life, but I do know some girls and guys that are a part of sorority and frat life and they are all nice, not the typical stereotype like i thought it would be. There is absolutely no hazing allowed for any greek life, sport team, or club. Clubs and Activities There are so many clubs and sports, it's just like any other big university. Most recently we have added a Quidditch team and a laughing club. The thing is, if we don't have it, you can create it. Great for these types of students There is just about every stereotype at this school. For example, the lax bros, the sorority and frat guys, the athletes, the valedictorian, the Einstein, the actress, the artist... There are many different types of student but as long as you are serious about your studies you will fit in with anyone. Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus Every year in the spring President Duncan places a statue of a fox in the courtyard and that means it's FOX DAY! Fox Day is the most anticipated holiday, and is a huge event. It has been going on for years and it is a day were all classes are cancelled and you have a day of fun! This year there were many fun things to do on campus but mostly everyone just goes to the beach. Bang for the buck Although expensive I definitely think it is worth it. Many students do get some sort of academic scholarship or sports scholarship. What to do for fun Rollins is right on Park Avenue which is a great place for shopping and eating. Also downtown Orlando is about a 10 minute drive and there is so much to do in downtown Orlando. See a Magic game, go clubbing, see a play at the Bob Carr, many restaurants, and the courthouse is right there if you want to see trials open to the public. Also in Orlando there is Disney, Universal, Sea World and so much more. If you want to stay on campus, Rollins is located on Lake Virginia and you can rent out a sail boat, paddle board, or canoe. Also there is a nice gym with just about everything you need with many intramural sports and Zumba or yoga classes. You can go see a play at the Annie Russel or Rollins Improv in the Fred Stone theater and often there are movie nights on Mills Lawn. Food and Dining The food in my opinion is excellent. They have just about everything you need; vegetarian/vegan, gluten free, salad bars, pizza, and much much more. And they also cook it right in front of you so you know it's fresh. You use a meal plan card called your R-card and that card acts as a key to your room, as a credit card, and multiple other uses. Dorm Life I personally live off campus, but I have been in a majority of the dorms. Most are nice. There are freshmen dorms and then upper classmen dorms and I think they are all presentable and livable. Academic Rigor I think the classes at Rollins are harder, more in depth, and more beneficial for real-world uses. Yes, the classes are challenging, but the good thing about Rollins is that the average classroom size is around 12 (mind you freshmen gen-eds usually have more that that, about 20) but the professors know your names and they talk to the students one on one. There are no TA's and they always have office hours. Tips for prospective students Go big or go home! Don't be afraid to apply to Rollins! Don't just focus on GPA, Rollins looks at everything, volunteering, extra curricular, and more. Don't be fooled by the rich kid stereotype, because I have seen just about every different type of person you could think of. There are athletes, academic geniuses, and of course there are some students that could actually afford to go to school without any financial aid. Just about everyone at Rollins can find some sort of financial aid if you need it. In three sentences I have lived in Florida my whole life and almost everyone I know either goes to FSU, UF, or UCF. I didn't want to go to a big school, I wanted a small school that could take care of my needs; Rollins does that. They have almost everything you will find at bigger universities, but here at Rollins the faculty and staff really care about you, and even know your name! Raquel from Fort Lauderdale, FL 05/18/2012 Reviewer is A current student here. 23 of 65 Categories Comments Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus Foxday - annual tradition in which the president presents a stone fox on tars plaza at 5 am. This means that class for the day is cancelled for day A & S students. No tests, quizzes, speeches, or anything it's all cancelled. It's a fun day of sun, tanning, sometimes the beach or Disney/Islands of Adventure, free food, fun on the lake and school and community bonding. Its been a tradition since 1929! I would suggest some key things: - ask questions! such a small classes allow for lots of discussion and debate which helps all the students learn so much more! -time management the time in between class is precious so use it wisely, so at night your not overwhelmed -use professor office hours! they are easily available and always willing to help so go to them and don't wait until its too late! -USE TJ's! its an awesome resource that helps students with homework, studying, and every step of a paper (planning, organization, drafts, and revision). -utilize the c store In three sentences Rollins is amazing small private institute of higher learning that stresses the importance of global citizenship, diversity, leadership, community service among many other values. Rollins also offers countless opportunities to study abroad, join the over 140 organizations, start your own organization, attend field studies, go to leadership conferences, etc.. Rollins prides itself on being committed to student success and happiness. They offer on campus jobs, a tutoring center with tutors and writing consultants, a 24 hour library, multiple food locations on campus, small classes (avg. 17) in order to maximize discussion and individualized attention, in addition to overall student, faculty and administrative collaboration. I love Rollins and this school is so amazing with so many opportunities and I would never go anywhere else. Michael from Umatilla, FL 05/21/2012 Reviewer is A current student here. 24 of 65 Categories Comments Campus Safety Campus safety is pretty lazy most of the time, and they are not very approachable. For the most part they help students, but they usually are grumbling the whole time. There was 1 incident this past year of a gunman on campus, and we were not notified until he had already been caught. This makes me question what they actually do with their time. Greek Life Greek life is very prominent on campus. There are 5 fraternities and 7 sororities. Personally I was not interested in Greek Life when I first got there, but after going through formal recruitment I found some of the best guys I could hope to meet. These organizations put on activities around campus very often. Many times the fraternities support the sororities in their activities and the same the other way around. Clubs and Activities There are at least a hundred clubs on campus as well as Fraternities and Sororities. These organizations have activities almost every day. One time I came back from my fraternity's formal to find a music festival going on in the middle of campus. The next day there was a choir concert in Tiedke hall. Great for these types of students Students here can be snobby, but there are many honest, down to earth people such as myself. I have only been on campus for one year, but I've already made life long friends with some people. Anybody can fit in here, they just need to know where to look. Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus On campus we have several pancake flips in which they fling pancakes in the air for people to catch on plates (or their faces). Every spring we enjoy Fox Day, a random day in which all classes are canceled and students are let out to take a break, enjoy the beach or campus activities, and generally not do class work. Those are just a few of our traditions. One thing I personally enjoy doing on campus is late at night I like to walk under the cypress trees outside of McKean hall. The orange light from the street lights casts the most amazing shadows through the canopy. Bang for the buck The campus is beautiful, the classes are amazing, the food isn't too bad, and the dorms are usually very nice. Still I have to say that $50,000 is quite a lot of money, especially for someone in my economic standing. It is difficult to handle, but I feel like this is my home now. What to do for fun Any given day there is some group of people doing something on Mill's Lawn. Maybe some of the guys are playing football or soccer. A few girls could be having a picnic. There is of course a high amount of night life downtown, but there are things to do at night on campus as well. On weekends students can rent out boats from the boathouse and go sailing or canoeing Food and Dining The food is probably my biggest complaint (besides the cost of tuition). They are usually very good during the week, but the weekends there is hardly anything to eat. The food in the campus store is way over priced. Still with the over priced food I cannot go through my entire meal plan either. When there is food it is very good though. There is definitely a variety, while keeping those safe foods like grilled chicken just in case. Dorm Life Most of my friends are from my dorm. They become your family and you wish every day over the summer that you were back. Keeping this in mind, as like all families they drive you up the wall at times. Academic Rigor The professors are going to make you work, but generally they are willing to work with you to make sure that you are understanding the material. Every professor that i have met just wants one student to be genuinely interested in their class. Tips for prospective students Get your work done before you do anything else. The social life is tempting but can really hurt your academics. There are many professionals on campus to help you in your academic goals. Utilize them to their fullest. In three sentences The very first feeling when stepping onto the campus is that of a Spanish villa, secluded from the rest of the world. The professors usually are very understanding; they just want their students to learn. Getting work done can be difficult with all of the social distractions at your fingertips. Student from PA Rollins College feels like a very safe campus. You can always find a campus security golf cart riding around. The surrounding area of Winter Park also has a strong police presence. Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus Fox Day is a yearly tradition where the president cancels classes in the wee hours of the morning. During the middle of spring semester, students spend their days wishing for Fox Day. It used to be that the were shuttles to take students to the beach, but unfortunately this has since changed. However, the administration has tried to offer just-as-fun alternatives, and it is still a great time. Bang for the buck Rollins does offer a good bit of financial aid/scholarships to those who qualify. There is also a good chance you can find a work-study or other position on campus. What to do for fun One of the best and most popular activities is going to the Rollins pool. You can grab a sandwich at the C-store, lay out in the sun, and relax. There are also tennis and volleyball courts which are fun. Park Ave is a great place to go for a walk, shop, and people watch. Food and Dining The best part of eating on campus is the fast, to-go options at Diane's, CSS, and the Bookmark Cafe. You can grab a coffee and a bagel when you only have 10 minutes before class starts. The only downsides are the random hours and the costly prices. Dave's Down Under is a great place to go late night to eat and see friends. The dining hall has some good meal options, but it can get boring after a while. Dorm Life Dorm life is one of the great parts about a freshman. Each freshman dorm houses an unique group of students, and it is fun to explore them all. Frat parties are fun, when they exist. Campus security keeps a pretty tight watch. Academic Rigor The academic rigor depends on the student's major. As a student, you will learn the classes that are a breeze and the ones that will challenge you. The science majors in particular are full of intelligent, hardworking students, but you can find these types in any major. In your four years, you'll find that college is what you make it. You can challenge yourself by taking harder classes or you can slide under the radar in the easier classes. Tips for prospective students Develop relationships with your professors! It will open a world of opportunities. In three sentences What makes Rollins a great academic experience is the dedication of the professors and the small class sizes. Even for a small school, there is a nice variety of classes you can choose to complete your liberal arts degree. It doesn't hurt that the weather, campus, and surrounding area are all beautiful. Precious from Smyrna, GA Reviewer is Accepted here and planning to attend soon. Reviewer has not been to campus. 0 out of 1 people found this review useful. 27 of 65 Categories Comments Bang for the buck I will find out when I get there this Fall Dorm Life I do not know about Dorm life because I have never lived on the campus Academic Rigor This is a prestigious college especially their M.B.A. Tips for prospective students Ask ALL THE QUESTIONS YOU CAN. Use ALL YOUR RESOURCES PROVIDED ON ANY COLLEGE CAMPUS. GET INVOLVED AND STAY INVOLVED In three sentences Rollins College is extremely helpful. Ms. Rebecca Cordray has to be one of the most pleasant people I have run into in the Customer Service field. She is always available to answer any question I had and made me feel as if I was the ONLY student calling for information about the college. Traci from Winter Garden, FL They provide phone and email notifications when anything needs to be communicated regarding safety. Additionally, there are call boxes throughout campus for students to use for emergencies. Greek Life Seems to be ample although I'm not really familiar. Clubs and Activities As far as I know, there are multiple things to be involved in. As a grad student, I haven't really had the chance to do these since I work full time. Great for these types of students All types - but particularly serious students. Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus Fox Day. The students get a free day off from campus classes one day in the Spring. They wait to find the small statue of a fox in the center of the main lawn to know when it's happening - then they usually all go to the beach. Bang for the buck I love this school and would suggest it to anyone. What to do for fun Attend any one of the daily events on campus (they put out a daily email to all students with campus events) as well as clubs, sports, and organizations. Food and Dining Very nice dining room with multiple choices as well as various snack bars located throughout campus for student convenience. Dorm Life I really don't know much about this but the areas I've seen are well kept and clean. Academic Rigor Most certainly a serious academic environment with lots of support. Tips for prospective students I am a Masters student but also a public school teacher. I have referred many of my students to Rollins for their undergrad work and always suggest that they realize that it is a serious venture. They need to remain competitive and take advantage of such a wonderful experience as they could have at Rollins. In three sentences Highly focused on increasing student knowledge. Phenomenal professors who are friendly and accomplished. Beautiful campus and wonderful resources available for academics. Tyler from Lake Mary, FL 07/14/2012 Reviewer is A current student here. 29 of 65 Categories Comments Campus Safety Campus Safety is always open to answer any questions, direct you to any building, and you can call any time to have them pick you up and escort you around campus - this is particularly useful for students on crutches. Clubs and Activities Student organizations like the Rotaract Club provide scholarship opportunities. There are ethnic clubs for just about every type of ethnicity. Student discounts are available when applying for associations through Rollins College. Net Impact is a great club that promotes supporting the environmental for businesses. Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus Student evaluations are taken into consideration when evaluating the professors at each semester's end. Bang for the buck Countless opportunities and support are available to ensure each student reaches the career of his or her dream. What to do for fun Park Avenue is filled with countless restaurants and shops, and it is just across the street in walking distance. Food and Dining The cafe by the Crummer building has a fantastic selection of quick-to-order, delicious food - particularly the egg sandwich with bacon and cheese. Dorm Life Dorm life is fun, and the dorms are great. Academic Rigor Rollins College provides rigorous challenges necessary to achieving the career of your dreams. Tips for prospective students Apply, Apply, Apply! Always ask for help - Every member of the Rollins College faculty and staff wants to ensure you take advantage of every opportunity within your area of interest to ensure you find the career of your dreams. In three sentences Rollins College truly cares about students and their education by providing an unparalleled educational program, along with an endless amount of opportunities and support. Rollins College only employs professors and staff that truly make a difference in the life of each and every student, as is reflected by the value placed on student evaluations and the genuine courtesy shown by all faculty and staff. I only hope that one day I will be able to reciprocate to Rollins College the many opportunities it has has bestowed upon me, leaving behind a footprint that will contribute to its continuous improvement. Kristen from Orlando, FL The campus safety is really good. They're not only efficient but they're also really friendly and respond to any situation in a matter of seconds. Greek Life The Greek Life here is pretty good. Even if you don't pledge to a fraternity or a sorority, they still hold a lot of activities that all Rollins students can join. Clubs and Activities The sheer amount of clubs they have at Rollins is staggering. The Office of Multicultural Affairs and The Rollins Improvosional Players are a few my favorites. Great for these types of students Rollins is a small school; it's great for those who want to take more discussion-based classes. The diversity and involvement with the Rollins community is good as well. The courses that are offered are perfect for anyone interested in any of the liberal arts. What to do for fun Rollins holds events like GloDay and Fox Day, the day in spring that all classes are cancelled and buses are accessible that go to Universal Studios and Disney. On the campus itself, you can rent boats and sail on the lake. Food and Dining The food in the Cornell Campus Center is really good; they even have vegetarian and vegan choices for those inclined. At times, the food does become repetitive. Dorm Life Even if you're an off campus student (like myself), there are still plenty of things to do between classes. Tips for prospective students If you're interested in attending this school, it'd be helpful to take a walk around campus to get the feel of Rollins. Asking questions about scholarships and financial aid help too; everyone here is friendly! In three sentences The professors here are very easy to talk to and to reach, even outside of office hours. Class subjects here are diverse and interesting to take-right now I'm taking sailing and canoeing as a physical education requirement! There are so many different groups and activities to do to keep students involved as well. Zachary from New York, NY Campus security officers take their jobs very seriously, the campus is constantly patrolled and all students feel extremely safe on campus as well as in the surrounding community. Greek Life Many kids are a part of greek life. It's a great way to get involved and meet more people. Clubs and Activities Plenty of clubs to choose from. Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus Fox day: One day the president of the school places a statue of a fox on the center lawn and classes are canceled for the entire day, there is a huge barbecue and students can go to disney, universal, or sea-world if they wish to. Bang for the buck Visit the campus and I can assure you that you will want to attend. What to do for fun There are plenty of parties as well as clubs in the downtown Orlando area(if that's your thing) Food and Dining Food is delicious from any of the dining services offered on campus. Dorm Life Dorm life is great, everyone is friendly and the rooms are quite nice. Academic Rigor Don't slack and show up to class. Attendance is of the utmost importance here at Rollins. Tips for prospective students Participate in as many clubs as you can, rush for a fraternity and go out and have fun. In three sentences Rollins College has an active, exciting and intellectual environment that is like no other. It is undoubtably one of the best places to learn how to strive in the world of adulthood. Nicole from Middlebury, CT I feel very safe here, and I'm paranoid! Lights on at night, kids around, security visible. Not just anyone can get in dorms. Greek Life Its here, but its your choice. Not overpowering, and different fraternities and sororities for different interests. Clubs and Activities PLENTY. We had a club fair at beginning of year. Sooo many choices. There is always something going on. literally not enough time in day, and they are all fun, clean, great activities you would want your kid involved in! Great for these types of students All types here. International kids, athletes, brainiacs. Everyone really nice to each other. Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus When the Fox appears on the lawn we have an surprise day off! Bang for the buck Beautiful here, its sunny, friendly, professors giving me a top quality education. Could not be happier. Worth it! What to do for fun Right on campus is an Olympic sized pool where kids can socialize! 85 and sunny every day here. Cute little town across street with shops, restauarnts, movies. Bus trips to Wet n Wild, Disney, Universal Studios. Still ahven't had time to expore everything. Food and Dining Great, and you can order out pizza on your meal plan! Dorm Life Dorms are better than avergae, not over crowded. Clean an new. You are grouped with similar kids so you feel confortable. Great deal of support from RA's, lots of dorm acitivites. Academic Rigor I have to study quite a bit. Dont be fooled, this school is NOT a cake walk, BUT you have all the help you need to succeed here. I came from a top prep school, and I am learning a great deal. My classes are small, tutors are available, and I have all the support I could need. You will not get lost here. Tips for prospective students In spite of what you hear, it is NOT a party school. Its a top rate school and there is no way you could party and survive here. Visit, attend classes and take in the atmosphere. Kids have a great time in the warm weather, but are well dressed, well mannered, and focused! The kids here are not jerks. In three sentences Rollins is a great small school with top quality professors in a great little college town. I could not be happier with my choice of schools. I am valued as an individual here; not to mention 85 degrees and sunny with a great pool! Sandy from Broomfield, CO 11/06/2012 Reviewer is A current student here. 35 of 65 Categories Comments Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus Fox Day is a tradition in the spring semester where the entire school gets the day off. The president places a fox statue in the main part of campus signifying classes are cancelled for the day and there are shuttles to Disney and Universal. At the end of the day, everyone returns to campus and there is a campus wide barbeque. What to do for fun Disney and Universal Studios is only about 20 minutes away and there is a shopping/dining street right across the road from campus that many students take advantage about. Food and Dining Food is excellent but can be expensive. On the weekends the options are cut down than during the week but there are still plenty of choices. Bagel bar on Sunday's is typically a hit with students. Dorm Life Can get noisy during the evening but overall good experience. Rooms are reasonably sized and halls/bathroom are typically clean. Academic Rigor Depends really on each class and background from high school. Some classes are more difficult than others, as expected, but none are unbearable. Tips for prospective students Apply early for best chances with scholarships. In three sentences Rollins has small class sizes which makes learning much easier. The professors are very accessible and are willing to help in any way they can. The campus is in a great location in Winter Park, Florida. Students who want to stand out and be leaders. Classes are pretty small, so blending in is hard! Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus Fox Day!! Every year between spring break and finals the college president puts a statue of a fox on the lawn and that means classes are canceled for the day and everyone goes to the beach :) Bang for the buck Rollins is expensive, but they offer lots of scholarship money and it's totally worth it. What to do for fun There's so much! Rollins is on a lake, so there's sailing, canoeing, swimming, water skiing, and other water activities. There's tons of clubs and organizations and fraternities and sororities. There is always something going on to participate in. Food and Dining Our food in infinitely better than other schools. Dorm Life There are several types of on campus housing for students. Academic Rigor Some classes are definitely easy, but upper level courses can get pretty challenging. Tips for prospective students Be prepared for lots of service and community involvement. Be yourself! In three sentences A lot of Rollins students definitely ascribe to a certain aesthetic and lifestyle, but if you are willing to look past that, there are so many diverse people here. The classes, professors and campus life are awesome. Marissa from Belle Isle, FL Campus safety is always a phone call away. If you do not feel safe walking home, just call camp o and they will be more than happy to give anyone a ride Bang for the buck Make sure to come with plenty of extra money. The education is worth every penny What to do for fun Park avenue, farmers markets were my favorite. There are always parties going on in houses on holt. Also, there are always themed parties planned downtown which is a 10 min taxi drive Food and Dining The food is delicious and high class if you compare it to any other schools. It gets old after a while Academic Rigor I have pulled many all-nighters studying but it is college. You can not expect anything less Tips for prospective students Make sure you want to be at a small school. One of my smallest classes had 8 in it. Also, if you are not rich or intelligent, or don't own the newest clothes or pair of Jack Rogers, do not worry about it. You will still fit in and there are many scholarships to apply for. In three sentences Rollins has been such an amazing experience for me! I have really enjoyed all my professors and classes. If you want a small school where you see everyone and make really close relationships, rollins is right for you. Teena from Winter Park, FL All types, unless you want a big college atmosphere. We only have around 2,000 students. Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus Fox Day is a day in Spring where the President of the college brings out a fox statue early in the morning, signifying that there will be no classes or homework that day. There are discounted tickets for Disney and Universal, as well as free buses to the parks and buses to the beach too. Bang for the buck As I said before, most students are on a scholarship, so I would definitely say it is worth it. What to do for fun Rollins is right on Park Avenue, a central shopping district for Winter Park. There is a wide range of food options down Park as well as several shops. At the end of Park there is the Morse Museum which houses the largest collection of Tiffany glass in the world. On Saturdays there is a farmers' market and there are often art fairs in the park. Rollins is also only about 10 minutes away from downtown Orlando and all it has to offer, as well as being only a half hour drive from Disney, Universal, Sea World and many outlet malls. Food and Dining I won't lie, the food is expensive, but it is definitely affordable with meal plan. We get delicious gourmet food for pretty much every meal in the campus center. For breakfast there is an omelet station. For lunch sometimes we have filet mignon! Plus for international education week there are themed lunches and dinners from different countries. If you don't want to eat in the campus center, downstairs is the C store and the grille which offer sandwiches and chicken tenders. There are also several cafes on campus if you don't feel like venturing away from classes just for a coffee. Dorm Life I have lived in the dorms throughout my stay here and I've loved every minute of it. You are provided many programs by your RAs that are fun and help you get to know the people you are living with. Each dorm has its own personality, as you will find. Academic Rigor Every class I have taken has required me to work at my full potential. The teachers push you, but they also help you through the class if you need it. Tips for prospective students Most people at Rollins are awarded some type of scholarship, so study hard and you will be rewarded. In three sentences Rollins College provides its students with exceptional learning facilities and opportunities for higher education. While being an excellent institution, it is also in a wonderful area providing plenty of options for off-campus fun. For me, Rollins was my second-choice college but now I can't imagine being anywhere else. Rollins has a prestigious feel to it. It is ranked #1 in the south by US News and World Report and its Graduate Business school is ranked #1 in Florida by Forbes. The oldest College in Florida. You will feel proud to attend such a pristine College. What to do for fun 4 words: Huge lake on Campus. Food and Dining Very good. Restaurant quality food. Nothing bad to say about it. Dorm Life I do not live in the dorms but from what I hear they are very nice and there is always something interesting going on. Academic Rigor Do not expect an easy ride. YOU WILL BE CHALLENGED! Tips for prospective students This school believes in working hard and playing hard. Please do both! In three sentences Rollins is a fantastic school which is highly rated (#1 in the South: US News and World Report). The campus is small but very beautiful. Every professor seem to go above and beyond to ensure each student's success. K Great bunch of guys! They offer you golf cart rides at night so you don't have to walk alone in the dark and are there for all of your safety concerns. (As well as helping you carry in groceries!) Greek Life Very great way to get involved, but doesn't rule the school! Clubs and Activities There's a club for everything! And if you can't find what you want, the administration is more than happy to help you start a club! Great for these types of students There's a 50/50 break between ambitious, motivated students who want to change the world and those that just want to party their parent's money away. Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus FOX DAY! During Spring before exams, the president of the school puts the beloved fox statue on the lawn and classes are cancelled for the day and the campus turns into one big party. (They even brought an elephant last year!) Also, when you're inducted into the school there is a secret candlewish ceremony in the old chapel. Bang for the buck VERY EXPENSIVE but you get what you pay for! Small classes, great professors and a diploma that carries a lot of weight. What to do for fun Downtown Park Avenue is literally across the street and there is a shuttle to Winter Park Village every friday night. Food and Dining Food is great and prepared right in front of you. Get ready to be spoiled! Dorm Life The dorms are REALLY nice! The roommate survey finds great matches. Academic Rigor Some majors are harder than others, which can be unfair when comparing GPAs. There is a FREE tutoring service (called TJs) available whenever you need help! Tips for prospective students Keep up your academics, but remember that a large part of the Rollins community is Community Service! Definitely include experience on your resume while applying. In three sentences Truly a school to go to if you love service and want to reach your fullest potential! Professors (as well as the rest of the administration staff) are there because they WANT to be there and will do anything to help. The atmosphere and academics are top of the line. Ariel from St Petersburg, FL 01/24/2013 Reviewer is A current student here. 43 of 65 Categories Comments Greek Life Greek life exists here too. However, they're not what you think. most of the campus is in Greek life but you don't have to join in order to have a social life on campus. the Greek society does not run the school, if anything unless they are wearing a house shirt or sweater, you won't know if they are in Greek society. There re also no rivalries among the houses, so no need to worry on that front. Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus FOX DAY!!!! One day each spring the Dean cancels all classes unannounced. No one knows when, not even professors. You wake up to the church bells and enjoy a day of activities, no class and friends. Bang for the buck It's expensive but you get so much, good food, lots of options, good professors, nice campus, lots of free t-shirts, campus activities, and new friends. The first semester is a hard transition sometimes but after you meet some people you find yourself talking about next year and what's going on this weekend and having a good time. What to do for fun There's a lot to do for fun. Swim in the pool, walk down Park Ave., go to the movies, get a group together and take a taxi to Orlando, Disney, Universal, waterparks, or night clubs. Hang out in Dave's Downunder playing pool or X-box. If you know someone with a car get a group together and head to the beach. Food and Dining the choices get a bit repetitive after a while but they are good and cheap since they give you so much money for food. There's fresh sushi pasta, pizza, fruit and a salad bar every day. Sometimes there is a BBQ bar, Thai inspire food, and a few others. But be prepared to eat a lot of rice and pasta, they're served with nearly everything. But you also have the grille, which is basically hamburgers and milkshakes, a healthier alternative to McDonald's. There's also the coffee shop serving Starbucks, and the C-store, which is the campus grocery store. All of which can be bought with your food credits. Dorm Life I live in one of the dorms yet to be renovated so by comparison to the others it is a bit run-down. However, the other dorms look like four to five star hotels. So i guess their could be considered three star. The hall is fairly clean from day to day. it gets a bit messy on the weekends since the janitorial crew are off. There's no real character so bring pictures but the people in the dorm are fun and you'll always find someone around. Either doing homework in the lobby or watching a movie in the pod, or maybe just talking. Academic Rigor Academically the classes aren't hard the professors really explain and discuss the material well, but be prepared to do the work. You have to read the assignments and you have to manage your time. Most professors like giving essay and short answer questions for finals and mid-terms. However, most are also really easy to talk to and are happy to see students after class. Tips for prospective students Talk to current students they'll give you the truth about living on campus and the class. A lot of schools like to amp up their school so talking to the students can be really helpful when looking at dorms, programs and professor as well as the nightlife. Don't be afraid to go up to them, most love to talk about the school and answer questions. In three sentences The Rollins campus is really relaxing and peaceful during the weekends, which is good if you're feeling a bit overwhelmed. The professors are very approachable and the students are open and friendly. You'll definitely find something to get involved in here on campus. Hannah from Orange Park, FL 02/06/2013 Reviewer is A current student here. 44 of 65 Categories Comments Greek Life I personally am not part of the Greek life, but many of my friends are and they absolutely love it. They become very close with their brothers/sisters, serve the community, and have many social gatherings. Clubs and Activities There are so many clubs and activities to participate in at Rollins. Some focus on community service, others on future careers, and some even just on fun activities. Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus Fox Day is an annual tradition in which a fox statue is placed on the lawn and class is cancelled for the day. Students take the opportunity to party, head to the beach, or just relax. Also, there are frequently Rollins events held at clubs downtown where the school rents the venue out for the night and only Rollins students can attend. They're a lot of fun. Bang for the buck Rollins is admittedly a pricey school, but they spoil us here. It's a beautiful campus where you can get nearly anything you could ask for. Plus, a degree from Rollins is one that future employers will find very impressive. What to do for fun There's a lot to do around Rollins. There are lots of shops and restaurants. More importantly, it's about a fifteen to twenty minute drive to downtown Orlando where there are multiple clubs and bars. Food and Dining The food at Rollins is delicious. We have gourmet chefs that prepare every meal in the cafeteria as well as various coffee shops and other restaurants. Also, the meal plan allows for you to eat a lot. Dorm Life The dorms are great. The walls in some are thin so you can occasionally hear what your neighbors are up to, but they're typically very considerate and it's not a big problem. Otherwise they're quiet and clean. Academic Rigor The classes are difficult, but they're not unmanageable. Classes are small, and the professors are personable and always willing to give extra help. Tips for prospective students Get involved! There are many great clubs and organizations to join. In three sentences I love Rollins. It's a very laid back campus. Also, since it's a small school, it's easy to meet people and make friends. Aroon from Winter Park, FL Very safe, the school is in a very nice location and campus security is always readily available. There are also emergency posts around campus so if you need help you can call for assistance. Greek Life Greek life is awesome and so involved with school life. There is not as large of a selection in frats and sororities because the school is so small, but there is a perfect one for every individual. Clubs and Activities There are hundreds of awesome clubs for everyone. Great for these types of students Anyone, some students spend all their time in the library and other like to go on the lake and wakeboard. People go out at night and during the day lay at the pool. Some kids spend their days in the theatre or studying for class. Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus Fox day is a day in the spring where all classes and test, exams anything planned that day is cancelled. Busses come to school and everyone grills or goes to the beach. What to do for fun Lay by the pool, shop on park ave. Wakeboard and ski on the lake, go to downtown orlando, or concerts, magic games. Plenty of clubs, intramural teams, etc. Food and Dining so many food options, very good food. A sushi bar that makes whatever sushi you want and a variety of things to eat for all meals. Park ave is also across the street which is filled with resturants. Dorm Life The dorms are awesome, and everyone has a blast living in them. They are cleaned daily and you get to know so many people. Academic Rigor Depending on the major, some majors are extremely time consuming other and not so much. Student to teacher ratio is awesome though and you can get a lot of one on one time if needed. Tips for prospective students Be well prepared for a lot of reading, the professors are very helpful though and are willing to help. In three sentences Rollins college is a 9 out of 10, the student to professor ratio is perfect. The location, staff and atmosphere of Rollins is very welcoming and friendly. Overall Rollins College is a great school, but slightly pricey. In the middle of Orlando there is a lot to do! Life on the lake is great for people who love the outdoors, and the campus is very lively with a lot of student organized events happening all the time! Dorm Life Loved living on campus! Academic Rigor I feel challenged academically. Tips for prospective students Ask whatever questions you need too! Everyone is willing to answer. In three sentences Rollins is a great learning environment giving students a great education in an awesome atmosphere. Rollins is challenging, stimulating, and diverse. Rollins provides immense opportunities for educational and personal development. Sophia from Lynn Haven, FL 03/29/2013 Reviewer is Researching this school. Reviewer has been to campus. 47 of 65 Categories Comments In three sentences The campus is lovely and in a nice little town not too far from Orlando. The classrooms are smaller and provide a more intimate learning experience. The students I met when I visited were cheerful, very friendly and seemed to love everything about the school. Patrick from Ocoee, FL Safety here is great. All of the officers here are super personable and truly care about the students. They are not here to get you into trouble, just to make sure everyone is safe. Greek Life Greek life here is good. I am personally not a part of greek life, however I do have many friends in various organizations who love it. They will put on big events for the whole campus and everyone has a good time. Clubs and Activities We have over 160 clubs and organizations such as the Rollins College Self Defense, laughing club, latin american student association, R.E.P (which they put on shows, sell half price tickets to universal, blue man group, Mardi Gras, etc), and so many more. Also, If we don't it, you can make it here and turn it into a club. Great for these types of students Hard workers, both social and moderately social, people of the LGBT community, quidditch players, vocalists, athletes, pretty much anyone can thrive here. Unless all you want to do is party, in which case, you will fail miserably Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus FOX DAY. One day between Midterms and Finals during the spring semester (normally when it is going to be a beautiful day outside), the president of th college will roll out a stone fox, declaring fox day. Fox day means that all of your classes are cancelled that day! If you had a paper due that day or a test for that day, it is postponed. It is a glorious day when we all get donuts in the morning, BBQ in the afternoon, and normally people will go to the parks like Universal and Disney, or to the beach. I went this year to the beach, then went paint-balling with a bunch of friends and even a professor. This is life at Rollins College Bang for the buck Yes, tuition is high, but the education and the experiences you get at Rollins are priceless. I don't see how anyone else could pick another college over Rollins. What to do for fun We are 15 minutes from downtown, so there is always that. Rollins just put on a whole 9 hour concert for the whole campus. We do movies on the lawn, club nights downtown, talent shows, open mic nights. SO MUCH to do here, you will only be bored if you lock yourself and be antisocial. Food and Dining The food here is gourmet. Everything is made fresh and there is a ton of variety. From vegan/gluten free to Filet Mignon, Fresh Salads to Just rolled sushi. You can't go wrong with the food here. Dorm Life Dorm life here is awesome! I love it. I was really nervous coming in as a freshman, and now, I don't want to leave. Academic Rigor This college can be very tough. My high school was no where near the rigor of this college. However, I am truly appreciative for it. Because without it, I wouldn't be able to say that I worked for everything that I have. This college will make you work, and employers know that. Saying you graduated from Rollins will open so many doors for you to potential employers that will set you up for life. Tips for prospective students If you are truly wanting to come here, then put yourself in the admissions office as much as possible. Make them know your name before you even get initiated as a student. Also, be prepared to work hard, and reap the benefits of having such a great education. In three sentences Rollins is an absolutely fantastic school! I cannot believe that I am so blessed to be able to come here. If you are looking for a solid education that will truly prepare you, Rollins is the place to come. Ariana from Naples, FL I have never feel threatened. Actually, many students leave their valuables just lying around and no one ever touches them. Clubs and Activities If it isn't there you can start it. It is a little too easy to become involved. Great for these types of students Great for the outgoing student and people who like a one-on-one environment where everyone knows everyone. Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus Fox day. It is an awesome tradition where classes are randomly cancelled sometime after spring break for a day and there is free food and activities all day long. One of the best days of the year. Bang for the buck It is expensive, but they give out great scholarships and you really do get your money's worth. What to do for fun You are in a small, old town with downtown Orlando just ten minutes away. There really isn't a shortage of things to do. Tips for prospective students Make sure you appear to be an individual that is very outgoing, along with strong academics. In three sentences Rollins is a great small school with very hands on teachers. The school highly values community service and students here often end up volunteering with out even noticing it. The classes are small and the teachers are accessible and truly enjoy teaching. Nikki 07/24/2013 Reviewer is A current student here. 51 of 65 Categories Comments What to do for fun The options are endless. You are minutes away from downtown Orlando so you can go to clubs, restaurants, anything you can think of is right around the corner. The school puts on some fun activities as well :]. Food and Dining They have pretty descent food, sushi, and some vegan options as well. Dorm Life I cannot rate this because I live off campus. This is not applicable to me Tips for prospective students If you are interested in studying science, theater, or business, this is the school for you. Always be prepared for class. Remember that school comes first not partying. Don't even go out the first month you're in school until you get used to your work load, nothing can prepare you for this work load. Not even AP Courses compare to your course work. So take your classes seriously, especially in regards to your elective courses. This is not High school I can tell you that. In three sentences Rollins College is beautifully laid out and the architecture is to die for. The Professors love their jobs and will go out of their way to help you. I would recommend this school to a lot of people. Ariana from Orlando, FL 07/24/2013 Reviewer is A current student here. 52 of 65 Categories Comments Campus Safety Yeah I have to get to class can I get a ride from Keene to Hauck? Guy rolls up in a golf cart to escort you. Occasional drunk kids always get taken care of too and if you ever feel unsafe they are all fantastic and wonderful. Everything is handled on a professional basis but you really become close to each of them and feel safer knowing that they're around 24/7 when you're walking from the library at 3 am to get to the other side and they say, 'hey you need a ride?'. Greek Life You'll just have to find out. Clubs and Activities See above, its a load and every single one is great. Great for these types of students Everyone finds their place here seriously. Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus FOX DAY. Unexpected day where school is canceled and everything gets awesome. Just have to experience everyone discussing rumors about the fox on the lawn and camping out at 2 in the morning and incessantly watching the FoxCam and then people pounding on dorm doors yelling that its Fox Day. Wake up! We're going to the beach no classes! Bang for the buck We get a lot of free t-shirts... What to do for fun LAKE LAKE LAKE LAKE. Tons of water recreational activities, indoor intramural sports, Park Ave, local night life for those interested, paddle boarding is now in effect. Wow just lots of stuff, certain clubs do their own thing. Food and Dining We laugh at Ramen Noodles, try a sushi bar and filet mignon. If that doesn't tickle your fancy,the C-Store will order whatever it is you want that isn't downstairs-and there's Pocky. Dorm Life Absolutely loved it and do not want to commute. Academic Rigor It all really depends on how you apply yourself, its a lot of work and a lot expected of you. Some clases were easier than others though. Tips for prospective students Take part of whatever it is you want to take part in. You are paying tons for an excellent school and should get your money's worth and speak your mind. You will not be chastised for your opinion or fought-and seriously just go out onto the lake over by Sutton Apartments when you need peace In three sentences A school that exhibits great care and concern for its students through and through. Professors go beyond the classroom, community goes beyond Winter Park, and the staff go above and beyond. Everyone is not only striving for it, but achieving excellence. Betsey Campus safety guys are super nice and I never feel uncomfortable or scared on campus. Greek Life I am not involved in Greek Life but I do know that they ran into quite a few issues last year and a few of them were kicked off of campus. Clubs and Activities There is a quidditch team, what could be better than that? Great for these types of students RIP is a great program for drama students! Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus Fox day! Fox day is an awesome day where our classes are cancelled for a day and students can do whatever they want! Bang for the buck Do not automatically buy all your books from the bookstore! If you really want to save money compare the prices at the bookstore, on Chegg, and on Amazon! You can save over 100 dollars! Also, if you want a Rollins t-shirt do not buy them from the bookstore! They always give out free ones throughout the year! What to do for fun The pool is great. You can go canoeing and sail-boating. There are always events going on around campus. Zumba with Nikki is my favorite gym class! Food and Dining The food is amazing. The people who work in the campus center are super friendly and nice. Dorm Life The dorm I stayed in my first year was awesome. I lived in Lyman Hall. It was a great living experience with great people. I can't say the same for some of the other dorms. Mckean Hall is not a hall I would ever want to live in. Rex Beach is a pretty nice hall and Ward is a great hall. Academic Rigor The teachers on campus always expect the most out of you for all of your assignments. They give you a lot of reading assignments and papers. Tips for prospective students Get involved Ask your teachers when you need help Go to TJ's! In three sentences Rollins is a great, small, and beautiful campus in Winter Park, Florida. The professors at Rollins are extremely nice and helpful. They are willing to help you with anything as long as you are willing to try which really helped me out in my first year of college. Fox Day! One early morning during Spring (you never know what day exactly), the president of the school will place a fox statue on the lawn, indicating that all classes are canceled for the day and students are free to have fun! Buses can take you to Disney and/or Universal, parties and music and food are present and it's a whole lot of fun! Also, there is the Pancake Flip Day, where students get free pancakes. What to do for fun Winter Park is full of fun stuff to do! Food and Dining At my last visit, they were finishing renovating the dining halls and locations and the tour guide mentioned that they are getting better food choices. Dorm Life I hear it's pretty good Tips for prospective students The tuition is pretty hefty so it is advisable for hopeful students to look for as many scholarships as you can. In three sentences Rollins is such a beautiful school with great academics and atmosphere. My older brother has attended here in the past and he loved it. I think it is a really great school for anyone. Claudia from Winter Garden, FL 10/23/2013 Reviewer is A current student here. 55 of 65 Categories Comments What to do for fun Located in Central florida, hence you have the advantages of the theme parks. Rollins has a discounted tickets program that one can buy of instead of paying ticket office prices. Downtown Orlando is great for those who enjoy the night life as well as athletics. The Amway arena caters to the Orlando Magic, Raptors and concert venues. Food and Dining The food here is great! Not the average cafeteria. 90 % of the food is cooked right in front of you which is great and there are various dishes everyday. However since the food is great is not the cheapest. There are some restaurant walking distance if one would like to explore other options Dorm Life The dorms are ok. They are average, however one would probably expect more especially coming from such a prestigious school. The RA's are very helpful though and are more than willing to help. Academic Rigor Rollins is very academically challenging. The best way to success at Rollins college is not to fall behind. Tips for prospective students Get involved with every club that you may be interested in. Do not fall behind, it only adds to your stress Keep in contact with teachers so you are aware of your grade at all times. In three sentences An amazing school that is geared towards developing a student from the academics as well as the social perspectives. Since it is a small school, it is able to cater to specific needs such as a personal advisor that will keep you on track with your academic studies. X from Orlando, FL 11/02/2013 Reviewer is A current student here. 56 of 65 Categories Comments Greek Life I definitely recommend. The Greek community at Rollins is inclusive and is all about empowering individual members to be themselves and find out who they are while they go through college and while giving back to their organization and to the Greek community as a whole. It is not about having money, looks, or social status, like movies make it seem. It doesn't matter which organization you end up at, we will all be brothers and sisters as members of the Greek community at Rollins. With that being said, I admit that Greek life is not for everyone but going through recruitment is definitely something I recommend. By going through recruitment, you will have a taste of what Greek life is like in real life, and particularly at Rollins, and going through recruitment does not mean you have to accept a bid. And, if you do accept a bid, it doesn't mean you have to get initiated. If anything, going through recruitment will make you meet a lot of people, even if you don't join any organization so I say definitely go for it! Clubs and Activities I would definitely recommend getting involved with JUMP as soon as you step into campus. It is a huge organization, and you are going to meet so many amazing people through helping the outside communities. Besides, helping others and knowing that you are making an impact in the community and in someone's life will give you a sense of satisfaction that is hard to describe. You can get involved with JUMP before you even get into campus in fact. As soon as you get admitted into Rollins, you can apply to be a part of the First year team of JUMP so that way you will be a part of the executive board from the start. What to do for fun That depends on what type of fun you like. If you are more of a night life kind of person, and is under 21, then downtown Orlando is the place to go. Of course, if you have a car, you can always come to Downtown Disney as well, which can be a very fun night away from campus with a group of friends. If you are over 21, then city walk has some amazing clubs, but they can be a bit expensive which might not be a problem for some Rollins kids. If you are a day time kind of person, Orlando has lots of entertainment options, and of course, the theme parks are the main ones. Rollins students qualify to pay annual passes as Florida residents, all you have to do is open an account at Bank of America with your Rollins address, and you are all set for the discounts. Florida Mall and the outlets are also great options for hanging out with friends. Food and Dining Food at Rollins is great in the sense that it is always tasty and students get to eat dishes from international expensive cuisine like Japanese food, french food, and steaks of different flavors. However, the problem is that there isn't as much diversity as in some other schools but I would say that all is all Rollins offer good food and dining services, considering that you can use money from your meal plan to eat at local restaurants and order from you local Domino's. Dorm Life As a Holt student, I am not allowed to live on campus so I can't really rate dorm life but I can say that the dorms I have steeped into look clean, comfortable, and the rooms look spacious enough when compared to the school I used to live in before I transferred to Rollins. Besides, I hear good things about dorm life, except for a few minor complaints here and there. Academic Rigor Classes at Rollins are challenging but professors are always willing to help, and students can make as many appointments as they need with tutors at the Learning center so help is always provided to students struggling to make the grade. Academics at Rollins is taken seriously. Besides classes being challenging, Rollins expects you to have both a semester and cumulative 2.5 GPA at all times, and to have a passing rate of 60% in all the classes you have register for since you had started attending Rollins. If you fail to do any of the above, you are placed on academic probation. But then again, helps is always given to students who need it and are humble enough to seek it. Tips for prospective students Just come here with an open mind and an open heart and you will have the best four years of your life. As cheesy as it sounds, it is true. Rollins kids are nice, well-rounded, and inclusive individuals that will help you make the transition from home to college life feel smooth and almost painless. Professors here pay real attention to their students in every aspect, academically and as human beings. Staff care about you. Everyone from the people who serve food, from the cleaning toilet staff will always treat you nice, with a smile on their faces, hear you, advize you, laugh with you, and soon Rollins will feel like your home away from home. In three sentences Rollins is a nice, inclusive, and open-minded community. It is easy to feel accepted and loved here and finding your own crowd shouldn't be too hard. The campus is breathtakingly gorgeous so it is the perfect setting for both studying and socializing. Alyssa from Seffner, FL 12/23/2013 Reviewer is A current student here. 58 of 65 Categories Comments Campus Safety Campus safety at Rollins College is unparallelled. They patrol campus regularly, and are available and on-call 24/7. They will escort you by golf cart anywhere on campus and they monitor every area of campus all day every day. If an incident occurs, students are notified by email in a detailed and timely manner. Greek Life I personally am not a member of a sorority, but many of my friends are. I don't know much in this area, but one thing I can say is that typical âÂ?Â?snobbyâÂ?Â? sorority/fraternity attitude does not exist at this school. Everyone involved in Greek life that I have met so far has been truly genuine and just like anyone else on campus. I really like how Rollins has students wait until the second semester of their freshman year to rush, in order to allow students the opportunity to see where they fit in before they rush into anything. Clubs and Activities Rollins College has a plethora of clubs and activities to participate in. There is a club or group for anyone with any interest, and if you can't find a club you like, you can form your own! Great for these types of students Rollins is the school for high-achieving, hard working, ambitious and motivated students who want a personalized college experience. Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus Rollins College's most well-known unique tradition is known as Fox Day. One day out of the year (typically in the Spring) President Duncan places a Fox statue in front of the flagpole at the center of campus, telling all students that classes are canceled for the day and there are all sorts of on- and off-campus activities to partake in. Also, during orientation week, all freshmen must participate in SPARC Day: a day of volunteer service to show incoming students how much Rollins is involved with the community and how important community service is to the Rollins community. Bang for the buck At a whopping $60,000 per year, Rollins definitely isn't your average-priced college. Although $60,000 may seem like a ridiculous amount to pay for an undergraduate education, but I think it is well worth it. The campus is beautiful, and commonly called âÂ?Â?The Country ClubâÂ?Â? by students. There is so much support from peers, professors, staff, peer mentors, and success coaches. The food is top-of-the-line and the professors and curriculum are top-notch. Rollins is everything you could ask for in a college and I definitely think you get the most bang for your buck. What to do for fun Aside from Rollins' prominent party scene, there are many other places to have fun around campus. Dave's Down-under offers pool, multiple large, flat-screen TVs, and lots of comfy couches for sitting around chatting with friends. All the dorms on campus have multiple âÂ?Â?podsâÂ?Â? or living areas that include flat-screen TVs and tables for studying. There is a huge temperature-controlled pool by the lake with a DJ on duty most of the time. Mills' Lawn offers a place to play soccer, quidditch, lacrosse, or even just to take a nap or have a picnic in the shade. There are multiple docks on the edge of the lake, where students like to relax and enjoy the view. If you want to get in the water, you can rent a canoe from the campus boathouse for just over $20. If you're looking for more threatrical experiences, there are RIP (Rollins Improv Players) shows at the Fred Stone Theatre, and various plays at the historic Annie Russell Theatre. Rollins also has two tennis courts and a soccer field on campus, as well as a bike rental program. Off campus, there is so much to do, but most popular is the well-known Park Avenue, which connects to campus and features many restaurants and shops for a day of relaxing wandering and exploring. No matter what your interests are, Rollins has something fun for everyone. Food and Dining Rollins College has plenty of dining options on campus. The marketplace (or cafeteria) is the main place students go to eat. They offer many options including sushi, pasta, make-your-own pizza, an assortment of breakfast foods, salads, ethnic options, and a bagel bar from Panera for breakfast on Sundays. Additionally, there are multiple cafes around campus, including coffeehouse-style options, and the Cornell patio which offers a Chipotle-style burrito experience. Along with restaurants, Rollins also has the C-Store, a campus grocery store with a sandwich bar comparable to Subway or Quizno's. For your late night hunger pangs, The Grille in Dave's Down-under offers anything from quesadillas to hot wings and fresh fruit to milkshakes. All options on campus are delicious and reasonably priced with a meal plan and the service is, from my experience, always wonderful. Dorm Life Don't be fooled by the negative reviews you read on college-rating websites. Take every comment and rating with a grain of salt. The dorms at Rollins are very nice. As with any college, some of the residence halls are nicer than others, but all of the dorms at Rollins are what you make of them. The Rollins Residential Life office works very hard to match incoming freshmen with a roommate whom they will get along with and live well with. Using a survey that asks questions about basic living situations (such as preferred room temperature, typical room cleanliness, etc.), the office of Residential Life places freshmen with their most compatible match for roommates and for R.A.s. The buildings themselves tend to have certain reputations attached to them by previous residents, but these aren't necessarily true. When it comes to dorm life, don't let other peoples' opinions hold you back. Try it out and form your own opinions. Academic Rigor The courses offered at Rollins College are exceptionally rigorous. The curriculum is challenging and the professors encourage participation in class and interaction with peers. The professors expect the most of their students and grade work accordingly. Feedback is provided and there is all kinds of support for students who are struggling or who just need some extra help. Tips for prospective students Tour the school and apply as early as possible. While Rollins is very good about helping students financially, they don't always cover everything, so apply for as many scholarships as you can. Be honest when filling out your roommate survey, so you can be matched with someone you can get along with. Don't get caught up in the party scene. It can be hard to recover for a 9AM class after a 5AM bedtime. Meet the people who live on your floor and those in your RCC. They can be the biggest supporters when you're having a bad day. Communicate with your professors almost as much as you communicate with your friends (make them like you, and it's smooth sailing). Remember that you are an adult. There's nobody there to hold your hand or tell you what to do anymore, but at the same time, your mistakes are your responsibility now, not mom and dad's. In three sentences This school is, in a word, perfect. The education and experiences you receive as a student at Rollins is unparallelled by any other school. Rollins College works hard to provide a supportive, family-like community, top-ranking professors who actually care about student success, networking opportunities, and an educational experience like no other. Natacia from Falls Church, VA There are Campus security officers that are on call and patrol the campus 24/7 Greek Life Greek Life at Rollins College is a very good opportunity but it does not dominate the campus. Clubs and Activities There are a lot of very unique and fun clubs at Rollins College Great for these types of students Accidentally focused and Socially active Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus Fox Day! It happens once a year and is the one day that all classes on campus are canceled. No one knows when fox day will be, so anticipation builds though out the semester. On fox day a statue of a fox is place in the center of campus. Then the president hosts a breakfast for the entire school. After that students can choose to go to the beach and or stay on campus. Bang for the buck A small private college that will give the tools you need to be successful in your career. What to do for fun Across the strew from the campus is Park Ave. It is lined with excellent shops and restaurants. The campus is also 15 min from downtown Orlando and 30 min from Disney World. Food and Dining The food is amazing and is cooked by very well trained chefs. Includes a gluten free station Dorm Life Every room is spacious with hardwood floors. As for the bathrooms there is a janitor that cleans each one every day. Also, the washers and dryers are free of charge. Academic Rigor Rollins College experts a high level of performance but the professors are are dedicated to seeing their students excel. Tips for prospective students If you are looks for a very nigh knit campus , then Rollins College is the right place for you In three sentences Rollins College is a place where you will have high academic standards and make lasting friendships. Once a Tar always a Tar. Lisa from Brandon, FL There are emergency call poles located all across campus. Campo is willing to pick up students in their golf cart should any students be worried about or have difficulty walking by themselves. Greek Life Many students are involved in Greek life. Clubs and Activities Lot of clubs, club sports, and activities. I.E. The Rollins College club sport Quidditch Team recently played at the World Cupâ?? the largest international tournament for the sport. This full-contact sport, played similarly to rugby and with components of various sports, is loved dearly by the team, who practices twice weekly on the campus green. Great for these types of students Students who are dedicated and like to be involved in student life Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus Fox Day is a randomly selected day sometime after spring break where all classes are cancelled and festivities are held on campus (free food, water slides, paddle boarding, etc.). Students only know it is fox day when the century-old fox statue is rolled onto the Campus green at 5 in the morning. The food here is delicious and would have gotten 5 stars if the weekend menu weren't the same for both days every week. Dorm Life The dorms are simple. Depending on what building it is, he dorms could either be very clean or not quite that clean. Most of this is the fault if students (Freshmen being the worst), as the stereotypical student here is from a wealthy family where they haven't had to do muchâ?? if anyâ?? cleaning or manual labor in their life. You will also discover that there are a great many students here who enjoy drinking and partying, so some nights can get pretty rowdy. Academic Rigor Classes are taken very seriously at Rollins. Students have to be willing to put forth some good effort if they are wanting to succeed here. Tips for prospective students Apply for scholarships! This is an expensive college, and even if you get one of the school's scholarships, you'll want more. Keep your grades up and try to score as high as you can on your SAT! In three sentences This is a wonderful college, and you get what you pay for. I am included in class discussions and find the material to often be very engaging. I love my professors and am able to talk with them whenever I have any questions or concerns regarding their classes. Morgen from Orange Park, FL 06/02/2014 Reviewer is A current student here. 61 of 65 Categories Comments Campus Safety I always think of it as our little fairy lights. The campus is surrounded by blue globes that have buttons with direct communication to campus safety. Help is never to far away. Crime is pretty much non-existent on this campus. It is a comfort to all to know that you will always be safe. Clubs and Activities We have an abundance of clubs and activities. From cultural clubs to sports clubs. We even have an introverts club for those who are afraid of clubs, if that is not awesome, I do not know what is! Great for these types of students The school is great for students who value a liberal arts education. Students who value global citizenship and the arts will fit in 100% at this school. Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus We have our own school Holiday called Fox Day. One day in the spring when you are about to go nuts before finals, the president of the school puts a statue of a fox out on the lawn and declares all classes cancelled for the day. There is a lot of fun activities to take part in and its fun to bond with the Rollins community outside of classes. It is also a blessing if you were suppose to have a test that day. Hands down, Fox day is the best holiday around! Bang for the buck Rollins is not a cheap school. It prides itself on offering a top notch education. Most of the teachers have Doctoral degrees in their field of study and the classroom sizes are pretty small so you will always have the option of one on one attention. The campus is beautiful and the opportunities you receive would normally cost a lot more than what you get them for on campus. It may be expensive, but its worth it. What to do for fun Rollins college is right outside of Orlando, so you can take advantage of the theme parks and night life that surround it. It is also about 30-45 minutes from any beach. If you cannot leave campus, its fine because the school is also right next to a lake where students can hang out. There is also a pool on campus for student use. Last but not least, the main street that runs into the school is Park Ave. This is basically the Rodeo Drive of Florida, filled with shops and fun things to see. Food and Dining Rollins dining services puts a real effort into supplying students with whatever their dietary needs require. No matter if you are vegan, vegetarian or even on a see food diet, the school will provide options that fit the students need. Dorm Life You will survive. The food is good and the rooms are usually clean. Just remember your mom is not here to clean up after you. Just take responsibility for the space your in and be respectful. Academic Rigor This may be Florida, but that doesn't mean its all fun and games. The students at Rollins may be known for having a good time but before any fun happens, there are many hours filled with study and academic training. Tips for prospective students Do not be afraid to try new things,explore your interests and try your best to succeed in all that you do. The work is hard, so don't let the sunshine fool you. Take advantage of every opportunity offered to you because it may only come around once in a lifetime. The school is filled with people who want to help you, but you have to take that first step and be proactive about your education. In three sentences Rollins College allows a student to achieve their full academic potential. It gives one the tools they need to succeed during and post graduation. The Rollins community is a small treasure because even though it is small in size, the faculty, staff and students are filled with compassion and excellence that cannot be challenged by any other. Kyle 06/09/2014 Reviewer is Accepted here and planning to attend soon. Reviewer has been to campus. 62 of 65 Categories Comments Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus Fox Day: the Dean decides on the nicest day of the year all classes are cancelled. To show that classes are cancelled the dean places a statue of a fox at the main flagpole on campus early in the morning. Students then take photos with the fox and enjoy the day. Tips for prospective students meet professors before making your final decision In three sentences The campus is beautiful and the people are awesome. The professors that I have met are amazing. Every Professor that I have met with has gone out of their way to meet with me and discuss my intended area of study. They are all very nice and passionate about teaching. Not only are they passionate but they also push you to learn. David from Sanford, FL Good for people 29 and under, everyone over should have their own hobbies by now. Bang for the buck It is QUITE expensive and can be done for a significantly lower amount, but that piece of paper with the word Rollins on it is a big deal... What to do for fun Hotties everywhere. Do them. Food and Dining starbucks? kthxbai. Academic Rigor 3 hours of homework two nights a week per class... Tips for prospective students Figure out your financial aide stuff before, either get scholarships ahead of time or make the rough decision to take out student loans. In three sentences Rollins has absolutely amazing instructors, hands on learning and phenomenal facilities. You'd be surprised at all the things that come with the (hefty) tuition. Don't expect much help from financial aide, have a plan before hand because the finaid counselors are useless. Nicole from Naples, FL Very safe, emergency phones everywhere. To get into a building, students need to scan school I.D which will only unlock their dorm building. Greek Life Rush is in the spring of Freshmen year, therefore you can move in sorority/fraternity house the following year. Great for these types of students International Business majors Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus Fox day- look it up, it's great! Bang for the buck Somewhat pricey; get as many scholarships as you can. Take advantage of the free kayaking, bicycle rentals, canoeing, pool and gym. Food and Dining Students need to purchase full meal plans as freshmen, but have lots of choices to choose from. Dorm Life Dorms are okay, not too big. There are single's available, but most freshmen dorms are doubles. Each floor is divided in two wings; each wing shares a common bathroom with showers. Free laundry available. Academic Rigor The classes are seminar-styled in which students and teacher (never a T.A.) sit in a round table and participate in a discussion. It is very obvious if you did not read or prepare. Tips for prospective students Apply early, visit and contact coaches if interested in sports. In three sentences Beautiful, tree-covered campus on Lake Virginia. It's located in Winter Park, a nice, lively town a little bit north of Tampa. The mascot is the Tar, an old word for sailor. Happy Student 12/26/2014 Reviewer is A current student here. 65 of 65 Categories Comments Campus Safety Rollins takes fantastic care of its students, and your safety is no exception. If at any time you feel uncomfortable or scared, you can contact campus safety and they will escort you to wherever you need to be. There's stations all around campus where you can easily call for someone to come get you. They ride around on golf carts all day and keep an eye on everyone, so you don't have to feel unsafe. If anything happens on campus or near it, students receive a timely e-mail alerting them of the event and offering some tips to keep themselves safe. Greek Life I am not personally a member of Greek life (yet), but I've heard that it's great and the people I've met who are involved have been really friendly. Students are not allowed to pledge until the spring of their freshman year, because the college wants students to get involved and not feel pressure or isolation by not being a part of Greek life immediately. There's also a strict no-hazing policy, so there's nothing to be afraid of. Although movies might give you the impression that Greek life is shallow and boring, it'Â?Â?s really anything but! The groups are dedicated and passionate, performing community service and adopting organizations (like Girl Scouts). Greek life isn't an overwhelming or unsavory presence at all and you won't feel shunned if you'Â?Â?re not a part of it. The people are open-minded and sweet (as with any other club) and they'Â?Â?ll be just as happy to befriend you as they are with their brothers and sisters. Clubs and Activities There's over 100 student organizations to get involved in, ranging from student government to ecoRollins to rock climbing! Rollins hosts an involvement fair where students can view the available organizations and get more information (and free stuff!). There'Â?Â?s plenty of clubs just for fun as well as clubs for governing, community engagement, and service. If you have a passion, chances are Rollins has a club for you. As far as activities go, there'Â?Â?s usually something going on at Rollins. In my first semester, I've seen a movie on the lawn, inflatable obstacle courses, free ice cream sundaes, pancake flips, a party by the pool, improv performances and plays, and more! Great for these types of students Those who are open-minded and willing to work hard are very much welcome in the Rollins community. While there'Â?Â?s admittedly some pretty cool parties that go on, it's a waste of your time and money to attend Rollins if you'Â?Â?re just going to party. You have to be smart and remember to use moderation with work and play if you want to make the most of your time here. Rollins will pull students out of their shells so if you'd rather be just a small fish in a large sea, a bigger university would be better for you. At Rollins, professors will know you by name, you will be expected to work in groups, and there aren'Â?Â?t lecture halls to escape in. That being said, there are plenty of introverted people here who have a great time, and you might be surprised at how quickly you become a part of the Rollins family. They'Â?Â?ll take good care of you and treat you like a very important individual, not like a number. Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus The most well-known tradition at Rollins has to be FOX DAY! On one random, early morning in the spring semester, the president of the college places a fox statue on the lawn and all classes are officially cancelled for the day. Students go out to the beach or amusement parks, or stay on campus and have fun with inflatable games. Everyone comes back to the campus and has a free barbecue afterwards. Nobody knows when this day will happen except for the president (not even the professors), so you may be saved from having to take a test that day! This event is so popular with the students that thereâÂ?Â?s actually a camera set up on the lawn so that people can watch out for the fox. Bang for the buck You definitely get your money'Â?Â?s worth at Rollins! And although Rollins is definitely pricey, most students are given some form of financial aid right away (usually with scholarships). What you get with this money is delicious food, a beautiful campus, amazing professors, interesting courses, lots of experiences, and more. For example, my business class paid for its students to attend an innovation lab and obtain a certification that normally costs thousands of dollars. Rollins prides itself on being open-minded and really pushes for its students to get international experience, so it offers tons of abroad programs (including semesters abroad and internships). Rollins ranks among the top ten institutions of its type in the percentage of students it sends abroad. On top of all that, Rollins is also fantastic at networking and has a large variety of resources for its students (including job searches and a big, four-floor library). What to do for fun Even if you'Â?Â?re not actively involved in any official clubs or activities, you can still go to Rollins events. Sometimes there's inflatable obstacle courses or movies on the lawn, sometimes there's free stuff being given out, and sometimes there's a speaker coming to campus (Paul McCartney, for example). There's also a pool and a lake, where you can swim or take walks or even enjoy a scenic boat tour. If nothing is going on at Rollins, you can also take a stroll down Park Ave to find something fun to do. There's lots of restaurants and places to get sweet treats, as well as fancy stores if you like to window shop. Park Ave and the campus are both beautiful, so an afternoon spent just walking around is not a bad idea at all if you'Â?Â?re feeling a little down. Food and Dining The food here is phenomenal! Ranging from filet mignon to heaping plates of pepper steak, rice, and steak fries large enough for two people, they really do spoil you at the dining hall. There'Â?Â?s several stations that serve different foods for each meal every day, so you get a lot of variety and you can sometimes watch the chefs make your food in front of you. They're open to your specifications and their dishes are fantastic. If the meals of the day and the soup/salad/dessert bar don't interest you, there'Â?Â?s a convenience store downstairs where you can purchase packaged/frozen foods or have a sub made in front of you. If THAT'S not what you're looking for either, there's a mock-Chipotle on campus and several places that sell miscellaneous snacks and beverages. If nothing on campus that day is appealing, you can walk directly across campus to Park Avenue and go to any number of restaurants, including Panera, Park Ave Pizza, and BurgerFi. There's lots of fantastic food options on campus and off, so you'Â?Â?ll never go hungry. Dorm Life I am an off-campus student so I can't speak from personal experience, but my friends seem to think the dorms are fine. There's some complaints (such as noisiness in the freshman dorms, namely McKean) and concern with roommates, but otherwise the dorms that I'Â?Â?ve seen are pretty comfortable and come with furniture like desks and closets. And although I haven'Â?Â?t been in any dorm rooms in Ward, the lobby is lovely. The freshman dorms seem to be the ones with the most difficulty, but dorms like Strong Hall get a lot of praise from students (and even looking at it from afar, it's gorgeous!). To keep off-campus students from feeling left out, Rollins has an awesome Off-Campus Lounge. It houses a large television, video game consoles, sofas, a bean bag chair, a computer, and more. Some students come here just to sleep, and others come to hang out (like for Friday night movies). Off-campus students are allowed to bring an on-campus friend with them, so everyone can get involved here. Academic Rigor Rollins has a wonderful balance of difficulty and interesting content. You will be expected to participate in group projects and you must be willing to work hard on your own individual assignments if you want to do well. It'Â?Â?s not easy, but for the most part it isn'Â?Â?t overwhelming if you pace yourself and stay on the ball with your work. Even better, the classes can be pretty fascinating (especially with the introduction of the new gen ed program)! You can investigate Jack the Ripper, analyze Lord of the Rings, work on 3D animations, and more. It can be hard to pick classes simply because there's too many that are interesting! Tips for prospective students Work hard and get involved. You have so many fantastic resources at your disposal here, so take advantage of them! Get to know your professors. They care about you both academically and personally, and are fantastic people overall. Utilize the office hours they provide for you and work on building a strong relationship with them. They're very open and friendly -- I've even heard of students who are so close with their professors that they babysit their kids! Be willing to come out of your shell, but that shouldn't be too hard. The people at Rollins are so sweet and friendly, you'Â?Â?d probably have to make a serious effort NOT to open up. In three sentences Rollins isn'Â?Â?t just a college, it'Â?Â?s a family! Not only does Rollins help you build an amazing resume and guide you towards a fantastic career, it also gives you a beautiful campus, tons of fun events, and a community of people who are honestly excited to help you succeed in life. You are an important individual, not a number, and (as long as you work and play in good moderation), you'll love just about every minute at Rollins. Cappex is the company behind CollegeGreenlight.com. 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Stability of the beta-adrenergic receptor/adenylyl cyclase pathway of pediatric myocardium after brain death. Our previous work in the adult porcine model shows that brain death results in a rapid decline in left ventricular systolic function as measured by the preload recruitable stroke work method to 8% of the baseline slope within 6 hours; this process is accompanied by functional uncoupling of the beta-adrenergic receptor at the level of the adenylyl cyclase moiety within 1 hour. In contrast, the pediatric porcine myocardium displays no change in left ventricular systolic function from baseline within 6 hours of brain death. This work investigates whether the beta-adrenergic receptor/adenylyl cyclase pathway remains intact after induction of brain death in the pediatric porcine model. Thirteen 1-month-old swine (7 to 10 kg) were anesthetized and underwent median sternotomy, and baseline transmural left ventricular biopsy specimens were obtained before ligation of head vessels to induce brain death in six piglets, with the remaining seven serving as controls. Baseline left ventricular biopsy specimens were obtained just before and 1 and 3 hours after brain death or at matched time points without brain death in the control group. Myocardial tissue was then analyzed for beta-adrenergic receptor density with the use of saturation [125I]-iodocyanopindolol binding in the absence and presence of propranolol 1 mumol/L. Coupling of the beta-adrenergic receptor to its signal transduction system (stimulation of adenylyl cyclase) was tested at three levels: beta-adrenergic receptor (isoproterenol 100 mumol/L), stimulatory G protein Gs (sodium fluoride 10 mmol/L), and the adenylyl cyclase moiety itself (forskolin 100 mumol/L).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

Q: How to describe a key sequence that starts with `C-u`? I am trying to use C-h k to describe the function to which a key is bound. But when I use it with a key chord like C-u C-e C-x it retrieves the documentation for C-u before I can finish typing the chord. What is the correct way to describe this type of chord? A: Prefix keys like C-u may be described in the function body. You should therefore ignore such prefix keys when using C-h k to describe a function.

For most people (if not everybody), didn't give Memnun and his players a chance. "We didn't actually scout UMMC at all during the regular season and we just watched them here and came up with a plan," explained the play-caller who has already collected the Turkish Cup and regular season TKBL title. "I thought we actually had a really good game plan prepared and for all of Thursday, I was trying my best to continue selling it to my players. "Now I realise that I have to thank them very much, because they definitely bought it! "Trying to even describe what kind of achievement it is to beat such a great team like UMMC on their home court in a game of this magnitude is impossible. "I still can't find words to describe it and I had been prepared to deliver a very different press conference speech." Not that Memnun didn't believe in his players - far from it. It was simply that even with the best game plan imaginable and huge belief, it would still take something seriously special to shoot down the holders. "Since the day I arrived at Galatasaray, we were taught every single second of how to fight for this club and to always believe. "I have coached with all of the different teams and it is always this same philosophy. "We knew it was a small chance that we had, but this is all we needed to continue this great season and I congratulate my players." "She might not be tall, but she is one who certainly has a huge heart" - Memnun on Isil Alben Typifying the spirit and especially during the semi-final against UMMC was playmaker, Isil Alben. The Turkish national team guard was superb and it was her five offensive rebounds which proved to be one of the main cornerstones of the success. "She might not be tall, but she is one who certainly has a huge heart," said Memnun. "I am proud to coach all of my players and Isil is such an important part of this team because she is one of our floor leaders." Now the coach is sweating on the fitness of FIBA Europe Women's Player of the Year, Sancho Lyttle and is not sure if he will be able to call upon the services of his star forward. "We don't know about the situation and maybe she has twisted her ankle a little, so I think we will just have to wait and see," he claimed. But having completed the job without her against UMMC, perhaps his team's chances won't hinge solely on whether the Spanish national team star makes it or not. So far at least, Memnun has done a fine job and and this sentiment was echoed loudly when he took the applause of the predominantly Russian media when he left the post-game conference after beating the defending champions.

2005 Burkinabé presidential election Presidential elections were held in Burkina Faso on 13 November 2005. Incumbent president Blaise Compaoré was re-elected with around 80% of the vote. Background Compaoré has been in power since October 1987, was first elected in 1991, and was re-elected in 1998. In August 2005 he announced his intention to run for a third term as President. Opposition politicians argued that Compaoré could not run in the election because a constitutional amendment passed in 2000 limited a president to two terms. The amendment also reduced the term length from seven to five years. Compaoré's supporters, however, argued that the amendment could not be applied retroactively. In October 2005, the Constitutional Council ruled that because Compaoré was President in 2000, the amendment would not apply until the end of his current term, thereby allowing his candidacy in the 2005 election. Campaign The most contentious political issues facing the nation's government were freedom of press, economic viability, and tension with neighboring Ivory Coast caused by alleged Burkinabé support for Ivorian insurgents and the migration of workers to the Ivory Coast and Ghana. Compaoré's campaign manager Salif Diallo expressed confidence in his candidate: "Our objective is not the victory of our candidate in the first round - that's already a sure thing, given the mobilisation of our supporters and the popularity of our candidate. Our goal is rather that the turnout and the lead be high." On 27 and 28 October 18 labour unions called a two-day strike for higher salaries and pensions, and lower taxes on basic necessities. While in Gaskinde, Bénéwendé Stanislas Sankara stated "The labour union strikes demonstrate that the citizens have had enough of this government." Several parties did not nominate their own candidates, but supported those of other parties; the Alliance for Democracy and Federation – African Democratic Rally and the Rally of Democrats for Faso supported Compaoré, the Sankarist Democratic Front supported Sankara, the Convergence for Social Democracy and the Union of Progressive Forces supported Philippe Ouédraogo, and Convergence of Hope backed Norbert Tiendrébéogo. Hermann Yaméogo of the National Union for the Defence of Democracy withdrew his candidacy in October, but due to the lateness of his withdrawal, he remained on the ballot paper. Prior to his withdrawal, he had been supported by the Citizens League of Builders, the Group of Patriotic Democrats, the Movement for Democracy and Rebirth, the National Convention of Progressive Democrats, the National Republican Party-Right Path, the Party of Independent Forces for Development, the Patriotic Front for Change, the Union of Democrats and Independent Progressives and the Union of Forces for Renewal. Opinion polls Results Aftermath Following Compaoré's victory, he was sworn in for another term on 20 December 2005 in Ouagadougou. References 2005 Category:2005 elections in Africa Election

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What does the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan have in common with the wars ravaging Africa? How is the ‘war on terror’ impacting on Africans both in Africa and in the west? A day-long conference on Saturday 13 October, 10am to 5pm, at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London is being organised by ALISC Network, SOAS students’ society Friends of Africa and the UK Stop the War Coalition. The conference is supported by Kilombo journal and the Centre for African Studies at the University of London. From Congo to Somalia, Darfur and Uganda, Africa’s proxy wars are orchestrated by western (and now Chinese) economic and military interests. The ensuing suffering and chaos eases direct multinational incursion into Africa. Although US and other western soldiers’ lives aren’t lost in Africa’s wars, unlike Iraq’s and Afghanistan’s, those who benefit from all these wars are the same – western banks and multinational corporations, including security companies with their vast private armies. Explo Nani Kofi, a StW national steering committee member and one of the organisers of the conference, said, “The majority who die in these wars are the ordinary people of Africa, Iraq, and Afghanistan, in their thousands. They’re also the ones who are disabled, raped if they’re women or children, who have to flee, have to cope.” The acknowledged African front line of the ‘war on terror’ is the Sahel region, the Sahara/tropical Africa borderlands. In the east it stretches into the Horn of Africa. Largely Muslim populations are accused of harbouring Al-Qaeda. That’s how the US justified funding Ethiopia’s invasion of Somalia this year, and dropping its own bombs on Somalis. Meanwhile Somalis in the UK have been accused of bombing innocent Britons. In the Sudan, Darfur’s genocide comes out of a poisonous mixture of the past and the present: competition between different types of farmers for shrinking fertile land and trade openings, centuries old enslavement and cultural colonisation of Africans by the Arab elite, arbitrary British colonial borders, and of course oil. The US now has a competitor in its greed for African oil: China. And African governments fall over themselves to host US military installations, take Chinese government ‘no strings’ loans. October is Black History Month, so 13 October will draw attention to another front line in the war on terror. African and African-descent communities in the UK still reap the bitter fruit of the European slave trade. Young black men are the majority of the ignored thousands who have died in police custody and mental institutions with no-one brought to book. Police use increased stop and search powers to terrorise black communities, many of which are Muslim. The official justification? The ‘war on terror’. The emphasis on 13 October will be on what is being done to solve these problems, especially in Africa. Speakers including Lindsey German, convenor of the Stop the War coalition, Deka Hassan of the Somali Forum for Peace and Democracy, Dr Mariam Suliman of the Darfur Union, and Congolese-born Luwezi Kinshasa of the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement, will all emphasise how organising can get results – for example, anti-war public opinion is now a major force that both US presidents and UK prime ministers have to reckon with. In Africa, peace and justice movements are grounded in the struggle for democracy, for majority control of government and of fabulously rich African resources. Trade unions and women’s organisations are on the front line of struggle. The onus, then, is on western supporters to recognise ordinary Africans’ (not elite) home-grown organisations and liberation strategies; and on Africans to join the movement against imperialist wars worldwide. The two Burundian battalions that will be deployed to Somalia at the behest of the African union completed their six-week training course on this 4 October 2007. More than a hundred trainers from the US army supervised this training on combat tactics. Ceremonies marking the end of this training took place in Camp Gakumbu yesterday. The chief of Staff of the National Defence Forces, General Major Samuel Gahiro, thanked the United States of America for this training and praised the determination of the Burundian army to help other countries to find peace. This training has resuscitated the military cooperation between Burundi and The United States of America which was suspended during the war that hit Burundi since 1993 after the democratically President was assassinated, sparking a wave of violence across the entire country. Theses two battalions composed of 1700 soldiers have also been trained by French soldiers. The date for their deployment has not yet been set since the necessary logistical means necessary have not yet been collected. The United States of America has promised to provide to these two battalions telecommunication materials while France has promised to provide transport support. The troops’ deployment was postponed early July of this year due to lack of transportation and telecommunication means. Ten officers of the Burundian army made a short mission to Somalia in August of this year and concluded that Burundian troops could be deployed to this country located in the horn of Africa and torn apart by internecine wars. The deployment of these two battalions will be the first large scale mission involving soldiers from Burundi. A few police and army officers are serving in Darfur under the African Union umbrella. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the statements of the Somali Minister of Information attacking the National Union of Somali Journalists and asking international organisations to work with local journalists only through his ministry. “We are very surprised by this move of the Information Minister,” said Gabriel Baglo, Director of the IFJ Africa office. “We condemn the clumsy statement of the Minister and call on the Somali government to let media organizations work directly with their partners free from government interference.” On 5 October, the IFJ as well as Somali organizations and media, received a scanned letter issued by the Somali Minister of Information Madobe Nunow Mohamed, dated on 3 October, 2007. The Minister wrote that to reach NGOs in Somalia the international media organisations should contact the Minister of Information. He added that “No NGO that [sic] can claim the responsibility of Somali Journalism [sic] other than the Somalia Information Ministry.” Last Thursday, during an interview on Shabelle Radio (which resumed operations after 15 days off air), Madobe Nunow Mohamed said that he does not recognise the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) and the union has no right to represent and organise journalists. The Ministry of information is intending “to establish a union for Somali journalists”, the Minister added. Mohamed ordered the media companies and organisations to register with his Ministry otherwise the unregistered media will not be able to work. NUSOJ officers told IFJ that their organisation paid 200 US Dollars on 22 July, 2007, for their registration after Mohamed said that the registrations issued by his predecessors were cancelled. “NUSOJ is motivated by the need to defend, protect and enhance the historical and current interests of journalists, and we can not be diverted from this line,” said Omar Faruk Osman, Secretary General of NUSOJ. “NUSOJ is a long time affiliate of the IFJ and we express our entire support to our NUSOJ colleagues,” said Gabriel Baglo. “The commitment of NUSOJ for journalists’ rights and duties is well known. We call on the Minister to reconsider his position and to resume peaceful collaboration with NUSOJ for the benefit of the Somali media community.” —- Somalia: Women Plagued By Rape As Crime Rules Collapsed State Catholic Information Service for Africa (Nairobi) 26 October 2007 Posted to the web 26 October 2007 Galkayo Sexual violence remains part of daily life for many women living in camps for internally displaced people. According to the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR, after years of war rape has become a threat to women in Somalia whenever they move along roads, due to the presence of militia at illegal roadblocks and in IDP settlements such as Galkayo, which hosts about 50,000 persons. One of them, 33-year-old Hibo, a widow, told UNHCR that security had improved slightly since a small police station was built nearby. “However, three women were still assaulted each night, she told UNHCR. “I don’t expect much help from the police. They cannot do anything and the culprit might take revenge if I dare complain,” she said. Farhia, an aid worker explained that there was not much she could do. “Rape remains a strong taboo in Somali society. A young woman who has been raped will not be able to find a husband, while a married woman is frequently thrown out by her husband,” she explained. A nurse said, “Women are raped almost daily on the isolated outskirts of the town. We systematically do a tetanus shot; since young Somali women are genitally mutilated and infibulated, rapists always use a knife to rip their vagina open. “We encourage them to talk because we want to make sure they won’t commit suicide. But sometimes we find out the truth only when it is too late. We also care for several pregnant women who look perfectly normal. Once they deliver, they kill their baby and this is how we understood that they had been raped.” Rape has been a Somali disease ever since the central government collapsed 17 years ago, she said. The nurse said perpetrators were rarely brought to justice; that cases were usually dealt with through traditional means, with the attacker having to pay compensation to the victim’s father or husband, but never to her. To ensure survivors of sexual violence receive support, a network of UN agencies ­ including UNHCR, UNFPA and UNICEF ­ has launched a Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) prevention and response plan. The plan will build upon local NGOs, where fully committed Somali men and women intend to put an end to sexual violence.

Vitaly Barvinenko Vitaly Dmitrievich Barvinenko is a People's Deputy of Ukraine. Biography Vitaly Barvinenko was born on June 3, 1981 in Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Odessa oblast. In 2003 he graduated from Odessa National University named after Mechnikov, International Economics department. In 2006-2007 he headed the BYuT fraction in Odessa Regional Council. In March 2006 Vitaliy Barvinenko became candidate for People's Deputy of Ukraine from Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT), No. 154 in the list. In 2007 he was elected into parliament as No. 154 of BYuT. In September 2010 Barvinenko was expelled from the faction of BYuT. In February 2011 he joined the faction of Party of Regions. In 2012 he was re-elected into parliament winning a single seat mandate for Party of Regions in Odessa oblast. In the 2014 parliamentary election he again won a constituency seat in Odessa oblast as a non-partisan candidate with 26.66% of the votes. In parliament he joined the parliamentary group Revival. In April 2015 Barvinko submitted a draft law was demanding full recognition of the Armenian Genocide. See also 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election List of Ukrainian Parliament Members 2007 Verkhovna Rada External links Vitaly Barvinenko' profile at Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine official web-site References Category:1981 births Category:Living people Category:People from Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Category:Batkivshchyna politicians Category:Sixth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada Category:Seventh convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada Category:Eighth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada Category:Party of Regions politicians

The police said the Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist was to distribute the cash to other terrorists for recruiting young people The police said the Hizbul terrorists planned to use the money to carry out strikes (File) Srinagar: Four Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists have been arrested in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district and Rs 10 lakh has been seized from them, the police said today. "Police received reliable information that a terrorist of Hizbul Mujahideen, Adil Ahmad Bhat, has handed over a huge amount to Rouf-ul-Islam Wani for distribution among other terrorists for carrying out terror activities in the area," a police spokesman said. He said a police complaint has been filed and Wani has been detained for questioning. The police said Wani got a large sum from Adil Ahmad Bhat to be distributed among Hizbul terrorists for raising a support structure and recruiting young people. "The accused disclosed that the cash was handed over to Mohd Maqbool Wani, Shakeel Ahmad Wani and Musaib Aziz Gojree," the spokesman said. "The investigation conducted so far reveals that the amount so recovered was intended to be used for terrorism. Further investigation is on," he added.

Stay on Top of Emerging Technology Trends Get updates impacting your industry from our GigaOm Research Community Most Android Wear smartwatches currently on the market are based around Qualcomm chips, but that could change soon if MediaTek has its way: The Taiwainese semiconductor company announced a new chip specially for smartwatches on Wednesday. The MediaTek MT2601 system-on-a-chip is based around a dual-core processor using ARM’s Cortex-A7 design. It uses an ARM Mali 400 design for its GPU, and MediaTek’s MT6630 modem for Bluetooth. [company]MediaTek[/company] says it works “with a whole host of external sensors” — so hardware makers can add modules for heart-rate monitoring and GPS. Except for the Motorola Moto 360, which uses a TI chip, all Android Wear smartwatches currently on sale use a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 SoC, which also powers a good deal of mid-range phones. The Snapdragon 400 wasn’t designed for wearable computers, and sometimes it shows. For instance, the Snapdragon 400 usually uses four Cortex-A7 cores, but it appears that manufacturers disable three of the cores to conserve battery life. Most Android Wear buyers aren’t looking for raw computing power, so they’d rather have a smartwatch with a better battery life. Hopefully, MediaTek’s new SoC with a small die size will bring improved battery life, and given MediaTek’s history of driving device prices down, possibly less expensive Android Wear smartwatches as well. The MT2601 is in mass production now, so conceivably it could be in commercial smartwatches before too long.

Epic Rights will develop two new programs for the John Lennon legacy: the John Lennon Classic brand for products featuring the artist's name, likeness and signature; and the Bag One Arts brand based on drawings by John Lennon from rare archival sketches. These drawings encompass the years 1964 through 1980 and celebrate human love and communication, including his iconic and instantly recognizable self-portrait. Epic Rights will introduce the new John Lennon programs to potential licensing partners at the June 2014 Licensing Expo in Las Vegas. As the worldwide merchandise and licensing agent for John Lennon Classic and Bag One Arts, Epic Rights will bring the two separate brands to licensees and retailers around the world. Both John Lennon Classic and Bag One Arts programs will offer licensees the opportunity to incorporate Lennon's photos and images as well as his sketches across a broad selection of product categories. All licensed products will have the personal approval of Yoko Ono. "Regardless of how we have experienced John Lennon — through his music, his art, his writings — he was defined by the message of love and peace, becoming an icon for generations worldwide," said Yoko Ono. "I regard the John Lennon Classic and Bag One Arts licensing programs as another way to honor John's legacy, and I am confident that by working closely with Dell and the Epic Rights team, we will achieve this goal." Furano says, "We are committed to developing a worldwide licensing program that respects Lennon's beliefs and contributions to humanity, and anticipate strong global consumer demand from existing and new fans who want to connect with John Lennon and his legacy." Lennon was actually a visual artist before he picked up his first guitar or wrote his first song. From 1957-60, he studied at the prestigious Liverpool Art Institute. Later he would not only author, but also illustrate three books: In His Own Write, A Spaniard In the Works and Skywriting by Word of Mouth. In 1969, as a wedding gift for Yoko, he began working on a series of drawings called Bag One, a chronicle of their wedding ceremony, honeymoon and plea for world peace referred to as The Bed-In. In the years that followed the break-up of The Beatles, Lennon expressed himself once again through drawing, this time reflecting love for his family. Since 1986, Bag One Arts has published a series of limited edition prints of his work, which have traveled throughout the world. The Bag One Portfolio is in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Epic Rights is a full service global branding, licensing and rights management company dedicated to building celebrities and entertainment brands via its broad global network of retailers, licensees and agents. Working with a roster of top clients and brands, Epic Rights' services includes licensing, branding, music merchandising, social media management, VIP ticketing and fan clubs. CEO Furano is the co-founder with Bill Graham of Winterland Productions, the leading merchandising and licensing company in the early days of the concert industry, acquired by CBS Records in 1985 and eventually sold to MCA/Universal in 1988. Furano was the founding CEO of Sony Signatures Network, expanding into artists' websites, social media, VIP Ticketing/Fan Club and e-commerce. The company was acquired by Live Nation in January 2008, overseeing the merchandise division until the end of 2012, when he formed Epic rights.

We can write ANY essay for you and make you proud with the result! Example essay writing, topic: A Midsummer Nights Dream 607 words The essay example you see on this page is a free essay, available to anyone. You are welcome to use this sample for your research! However, we strongly do not recommend using any direct quotes from this research paper for credit - you will most probably be caught for copying/pasting off the Internet. It is very easy to trace where the essay has been taken from by a plagiarism detection program. Buy essay or coursework written following your exact instructions if you want to be sure that your paper is 100% original and one of a kind. Scene 4. 1 of A Midsummer Night's Dream is full of things that are easily changed, such as love. Demetrius, upon awaking in the forest, has changed his mind about his love of Hermia, and chosen Helena—" My love to Hermia/ Melted as the snow, seems to me now/ As the remembrance of an idle gaud…' (4. 1. 162-164) It illustrates how quickly his love is gone and replaced. Demetrius' fickle love is also demonstrated by the following lines: "The object and the pleasure of mine eye/ Is Only Helena. To her, my lord, / Was I betrothed ere I saw Hermia.' (4. 1. 167-169) To paraphrase, he was engaged to Helena before he saw Hermia, upon which point his love changed. Yet an interesting point in Demetrius's peach is thus: "But like in sickness did I loathe this food; / But as in health come to my natural taste.' Demetrius makes the connection between food and love when speaking of both Hermia and Helena. We, as the outside reader, know that Helena and Demetrius are supposed to be together. When Demetrius refers to the love of Hermia as a sickness, he is describing the wrong love. In this play, the wrong love is symbolized by something horrible; Demetrius' wrong love is signified by a sickness, and earlier in the scene, we see the same thing with Queen Titania. "My Oberon, what visions have I seen! / Methought I was enamoured of an ass/… /How came these things to pass? / O, how mine eyes do loathe his visage now!' (4. 1. 72-75) Titania's wrong love is Bottom, translated into an ass. It almost seems like Titania expresses incredulity at the very thought that she could have fallen in love with an ass, one of nature's ugliest creatures, and obviously the wrong love for her. Hippolyta expresses her woe at the wrong love differently. Being the captured Amazon queen, unwilling to wed, she mourns for her old home and its way of life: "I was with Hercules and Cadmus once/ When in a wood of Crete they bayed the bear/ With hounds of Sparta. Never did I hear/ Such gallant chiding; for besides the groves, / The skies, the fountains, every region near/ Seemed all one mutual cry. I never heard/ So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.' (4. 1. 109-115) In my estimation, her mention of Hercules and Cadmus at the beginning shows a mourning of her old life; I also find it interesting how casual the drop of these famous names is. Perhaps a way to gain displeasure with Theseus, by mentioning the names of great heroes that he could never compare to. I think it is a surge of defiance— almost like ‘ well you may have caught me, but you are still not as good as my friends the heroes.' I think that Hippolyta's mourning of her old life is quite extreme, because of the line of how musical the discord of the barking dogs is. Musical discord is when different notes combined strike the ear harshly, yet, Hippolyta refers to it as "sweet thunder.' (4. 1. 115) In A Midsummer Night's Dream when two people are together that are either not supposed to be or are together against one person's will, the sense of the ‘ wrong love' is given to be horrible; it is either criticized or, as in the case of Hippolyta, good things are remembered in order to avoid thinking about the wrong love. In the end, the overall sense of the ‘ wrong love' is given to be something quite atrocious, and thankfully everything is put to amends. Essay for A Midsummer Night's Dream The character Lysander once said " the course of true love never did run smooth" and in Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream it didn't. Take for example Hermia she wasn't allowed to marry her true love, Lysander because her father, Egeus forbade her to. In... A Midsummer Night s Summary During the play A midsummer s Night Dream. We are introduced to many characters with many different and unique characteristics. The main characters in the play are Hermia, Lysander, Helena, and Demetrius. Hermia is the daughter of Egeus and the lover of Lysander. Lysande... Still cannot find the paper you need? Buy essay or research paper tailored exactly to your instructions and demands -- original, written from scratch for you!

I don't know who my SS was but if you see this, Thank You! I was mondo excited to get two packages in the mail- both from Etsy sellers. :-) The first one contained a flask with a quite dapper image of C3PO smoking in a top hat and tuxedo. SMOOVE. The second package was a chain necklace with a tiny vial of what's left of Alderaan. Whoever you are- good on you for taking the time to find fun prizes for me! Now....let's go fill that flask! EDIT: I got another gift yesterday and it rocked my socks!!! A screen printed trooper poster!!! He's beautiful!!!! EEeeeee! Can't wait to frame it. EDIT #2: A goddamned lightsaber showed up on my doorstep today. Holy fucking shit balls!! This is the most exciting thing, ever.

International Youth Day celebration JALALABAD, Aug 12, 2017: Fazal Hadi Muslim Yaar, head of Mashran Jarga, while speaking at a youth international meeting said that “the investigative department of Nangarhar become fails to prevent the targeted killing” and this inattentiveness is unbearable. PAJHWOK/Yousaf Zarifi

Q: Given $x,y\in G$ and $x\neq e$, $|y|=2$ and $yxy^{-1}=x^2$ then find $|x|$ Question: Let $x$, $y$ belong to a group $G$. Assume $x\neq e$, $|y|=2$ and $yxy^{-1}=x^2$ then find $|x|$ My attempt: I know that $|yxy^{-1}|=|x|$ so by given condition I have $|x|=|x^2|$. Further $(yxy^{-1})^k=yx^ky^{-1}$. Is $|x|$ infinite? Please Help. A: $y^2xy^{-2}=y(yxy^{-1})y^{-1}=yx^2y^{-1}=(yxy^{-1})^2=x^4$ Also, $y^2xy^{-2}=exe=x$ . Therefore $x^4=x$ and $x^3=e$. Since $x\ne e$ the order of $x$ is $3$.

Remove the tracks from 17th St. to prevent bike crashes – San Francisco Transportation Bicycle Advocacy 17th St. needs curb ramps at two critical points Location #1: Hartford & 17th. This is the area where the f-line terminates on 17th Street at Hartford Street. This three leg corner should be quiet as Hartford is a tiny two block long residential street and 17th dead ends at the Chevron Station. But it is very dangerous with cars whipping through in the most unpredictable ways. So neighbors lobbied for a long time and finally, just this past year their prayers were heard. Mayor Lee’s “Wonder Woman,” Sandra Zuniga and her team worked with the SFMTA sign shop folks to install a beautiful new thermoplastic “Abbey Road” style crosswalk which has helped. But this is a crumbling high curb that gets a lot of use and mobility challenged San Franciscans have requested a curb ramp for reasons that should be pretty obvious looking at it. Unfortunately we haven’t a clue what the current status of that request is or whether or not DPW has even approved this corner for a curb ramp. Location #2: Church & 17th The other location that needs immediate attention is the intersection of 17th and Church Street. This corner is an ADA nightmare. It features old style cuts considered illegal now. The slopes are too high and they have other design flaws. Worse yet is their orientation which is North-South. Pedestrians using the East-West crosswalks have no curb ramps at all. They have to remain in the street crossing both an ADA non-compliant grate (Huge slots!) and a train track with an open flange way to go around the corner to access the substandard single curb ramp. This puts wheelchairs in the bike path and in the operating zone of the f-line Muni streetcars. Google map shot of the spot for those unfamiliar with the intersection of Church St. & 17th Street. The good news about this corner (Church & 17th Streets) is that DPW is aware of the problem as well as the fact that several disabled people have requested curb ramps. The bad news is that it is still not fixed and neighbors don’t know what the current status is or who is the point person at DPW on this project. DPW sent folks to the spot to survey existing conditions last year. Nice people and we actually caught them on film and even looked over their shoulder to see the corner diagrams. Update: June 12, 2017: Took these pics this morning of the fine folks from Dept. of Public Works Infrastructure Design Construction team at 17th & Church St. this morning. They explained that they are doing the layout work for full curb ramps on all four corners. I thanked them on the spot for helping us in the struggle to make the corner as safe as we can and as accessible as can be. Good people. Digression: Who started this whole curb ramp mania anyway? Prior to the 1950’s mobility impaired people were pretty much screwed. Their options were limited everywhere and basically they did their best to get by. Friends helped and money didn’t hurt. But access wasn’t a right. What changed everything was a fairly large number of veterans coming out of World War II. Many of these men were wheelchair bound for life and they banded together to fight for the needs of combat wounded vets integrating into civilian life. “While these activists were taking their own measures to ensure the world they lived in was accessible to them, federal legislation increasingly recognized rights for disabled Americans. In 1968, the Architectural Barriers Act was passed in Congress, which required that federally funded facilities remove obstacles in the built environment. While limited in scope, this breakthrough in legislation reflected the work of disability activists and laid the groundwork for the 1990 passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The ADA prohibits discrimination and provides for equal opportunities for people with disabilities, laying out accessibility standards for buildings and public spaces throughout the U.S.” — Source: http://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/smashing-barriers-access-disability-activism-and-curb-cuts Today’s State of the Art Curb Ramps: A picture is worth many words. Here’s a couple of tech diagrams that San Francisco’s experts have developed through the city engineering departments. Then a couple of drawings from the folks at sfbetterstreets.org. This should sharpen your eye up a bit. A peek at The City curb cut map: Obviously our focus is local so I am showing the corners in question and points surrounding. But the resource is quite amazing. Streetcorners you never thought anyone noticed are all mapped out. Crosswalks that don’t exist but could are included as well. Beyond that you can click any dot and get all sorts of details about that exact curb ramp. Thorough is an understatement. So, with 46,498 potential locations for curb ramps how does The City decide who goes first? There has to be a framework for evaluation and there is. Not only that but as far as I can tell these projects should rate pretty high on the triage schedule. Let’s look at the chart the Mayor’s Office provides in the City & County ADA Transition Plan for Curb Ramps and Sidewalks from 2008.

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Share This MMA Review: #623: Ultimate Fighter XXVI Finale -This was the third straight season of TUF that I hadn’t really paid attention to, for a number of reasons really. Firstly I just can’t enjoy TUF any more – it’s become this stale mix of clichés and repetition; secondly I didn’t think the UFC needed another division introducing just yet even if Women’s Flyweight isn’t as thin as Women’s Featherweight, and thirdly I don’t think TUF ever works to truly find the best fighter in a division like that. Sadly too, there were no cool extra fights on the finale either like Gaethje/Johnson from the TUF 25 finale. It was just a throwaway card with a weird title fight to cap it off. This one at least had my interest as Welsh prospect Johns – AKA ‘The Pikey’ – had impressed in his two UFC outings thus far and was faced with an always-tough gatekeeper in the form of Soto here, in clearly the hardest fight of his career thus far. I was taking Johns as I felt he could be the real deal. Round One begins and they circle before Johns throws a combo. Single leg attempt from Soto but Johns rolls through RIGHT INTO A CALF SLICER AND SOTO TAPS IN AGONY!~! Holy shit. That was the best submission of 2017 point blank and probably one of the best in UFC history, too. The calf slicer is ULTRA rare and Johns caught Soto in it absolutely perfectly. Like, the whole thing took seconds to lock up and couldn’t have gone any better. Massive highlight reel win for Brett Johns and this dude is destined for big things for sure. Just awesome. These two ladies had competed on TUF; Bennett, the #4 ranked seed, had been eliminated in an upset by finalist Sijara Eubanks in the quarter-finals, while Hungarian fighter Fabian – the first Hungarian in UFC history to the best of my knowledge – had been eliminated in the opening round by the skilled Rachael Ostovich. No pick from me as I had no idea about either fighter. Fight begins and the crowd are totally dead for this one. I guess none of them watched TUF or something? Man, I remember when being on TUF guaranteed you’d be over with the crowds for at least a few years. It’s sad really. They circle to begin and Fabian tags Bennett with some early punches, forcing her to go for a clinch right away. She forces Fabian into the fence and looks for the takedown, landing knees to the body in the process, but she can’t get the Hungarian down. They continue to jockey for position with very little action, and finally after like an AGE of clinching, Big John McCarthy calls a clean break. Fabian presses forward with some strikes and Bennett doesn’t look comfortable at all. Nice right hand from Bennett sets up another takedown attempt, but she can’t get Fabian down and so she goes for a standing guillotine instead. Fabian breaks free though and then KNOCKS BENNETT SILLY WITH A HEAD KICK, but the buzzer goes to save Bennett. She can barely get up though and it’s a surprise that Big John lets it go. 10-8 round for Fabian as the fight would’ve been over with like five more seconds. Into the 2nd and somehow Bennett looks okay, but I can’t see how she could’ve recovered in that short time. Fabian comes out swinging, unsurprisingly, and she does land a few punches but nothing that has Bennett in trouble. Bennett goes for the takedown and drives her into the cage, dropping for a double leg, but Fabian defends well and we’ve got a TOTAL STALEMATE here. Again this goes on for what feels like forever, and when Bennett does almost get the takedown, Fabian grabs the fence. McCarthy calls time and decides to take a point from Fabian which is definitely a fair call. They restart in the same position but Bennett STILL can’t get her down. Good lord is this boring. Crowd are sick of it too. Two minutes to go in the round and McCarthy calls a clean break, but Bennett shoots from the restart and we’re BACK TO SQUARE ONE. This might be the worst fight of the year. Bennett still can’t get her down and so Big John calls another break, but you guessed it, she shoots from the restart and it’s the same old shit. Damn the MMA gods for not letting Fabian land the head kick ten seconds before she actually did! Fabian is actually the more active fighter here given she’s at least landing the odd strike. They separate to end the round with Fabian glancing on a high kick. 10-10 round but with the point deduction it’s 10-9 Bennett. Third and final round and they circle with Bennett actually throwing some strikes, but Fabian again gets the better of the exchanges, landing the cleaner punches. Kick from Fabian is caught though and Bennett uses it to drive her into the fence again. Boos are literally INSTANT. Naturally nothing happens until Big John breaks them again, and Fabian closes in with some strikes, but again Bennett shoots. Fabian continues to defend the takedown and this time she escapes without the help of Big John. She again lands the better strikes in the exchanges, wobbling Bennett with an elbow, but in the waning seconds Bennett lands a shot that drops Fabian and she ends the round on top. Close one to call but I think Bennett just stole the round in the last few seconds. 10-9 Bennett, 28-28 overall for me. Judges have it 29-27 Bennett, 28-28 and 28-28 for a majority draw. Well, at least two out of three judges got it right. The fight absolutely stunk though, as Bennett was outgunned on the feet, couldn’t get takedowns, but she was able to pin Fabian into the fence and unfortunately Fabian couldn’t do much about it. Probably the worst televised fight of 2017 I’d say in fact as clinching like that always sucks. Like a female Nik Lentz vs. Andre Winner or something. Both of these Middleweights were coming off losses, although given they’d both won the fight before that one it seemed like their UFC jobs were likely safe. Both men were known for submissions, too, but I was taking Spicely using some shady MMAth, as he’d tapped Thiago Santos in a big upset while Santos had beaten the hell out of Meerschaert when they fought. Round One begins and Meerschaert lands some early punches as Spicely presses forward. Spicely looks totally out of shape. Right hand connects for Spicely but he eats a hard body kick and a combination from Meerschaert. Series of shots have Spicely in trouble and he’s covering up along the fence, but he manages to fire back to slow Meerschaert down and then he uses an overhand right to set up a takedown. Meerschaert defends it, but another attempt sees Spicely get him down and take the back with both hooks. Spicely begins to land some punches to soften Meerschaert up, and he works for the choke but can’t quite get the arm under the chin. He’s got a body triangle now though to control Meerschaert. He attempts to use the old BJ Penn trick of trapping the right arm with his leg, but he can’t quite pull that off so he goes back to the body triangle. Meerschaert continues to defend the choke well though. One minute to go and it doesn’t look like Spicely’s going to be able to get the finish here. He switches to an armbar attempt instead, but it doesn’t work and Meerschaert frees himself and gets into Spicely’s guard. Spicely controls him with a high rubber guard from there and that’s the round. 10-9 Spicely. Round Two and Meerschaert opens with a body kick as Spicely pushes forward. Takedown attempt from Spicely and he drives Meerschaert back, but this time GM3 blocks it and escapes. Good left hand lands for Meerschaert. Spicely keeps on pushing forward, but he looks horribly stiff on his feet. Good body shot lands for Meerschaert. He’s got Spicely backing up with his punches now. Spicely goes for a single leg, but again Meerschaert blocks it and breaks off. He starts to land some more punches, forcing Spicely to cover up, and a hard body kick connects for him too. Another takedown attempt is closer for Spicely but he still can’t get Meerschaert down. Hard body kick again from Meerschaert. Punches have Spicely backpedalling some more. BRUTAL BODY KICK connects for Meerschaert and Spicely doubles over onto all fours, and Herb Dean has to save him there. That was a brutal body kick finish – one of the best in UFC history in fact, and it made a lot of sense as Spicely is visibly soft around the midsection to begin with. Really good performance from Meerschaert actually as he was clearly behind after a bad first round but then came through strong in the second. Can’t see him moving far up the ladder or anything but I’d have no problem seeing him on another televised card after that finish. Both of these women had been among the favourites to win the whole tournament coming into TUF, but they both ended up being upset by Nicco Montano who made the final. Murphy in fact wasn’t even supposed to fight on this card when her initial opponent had visa issues, but when Sijara Eubanks had to drop out of the final and was replaced by Roxanne Modafferi, she was re-booked into this fight with Honchak. I actually picked a winner here – Honchak, as she’d been the former Invicta champ at this weight and had won 9 in a row prior to TUF. Round One begins and Honchak is in tremendous shape for a girl pushing 40. They exchange punches from the off, with Honchak looking to work a jab and Murphy pressing forward more. Both women land with some decent shots and this is a super-close fight thus far. Nice right hand lands cleanly for Murphy, best shot of the fight thus far. Exchange continues and this is basically just a boxing match. Hard leg kick does connect for Honchak though. More jabs and counters get through for Honchak but she eats another clean right hook. Big exchange with a minute to go sees Honchak land the better punches. Round ends with them continuing to trade punches. Really close round but I think Murphy just about got the better of it. Round Two and they start exactly where they left off with more exchanges. Clean one-two lands for Honchak and it seems like she’s finding her range a little more now. Another one-two sends Murphy on the retreat and she’s clearly hurt, but Honchak doesn’t really follow it up hugely. Bit of an error from Honchak there I think. She’s definitely landing the better shots in this round so far, though. Murphy’s face is starting to look marked up. Pair of solid right hand counters land hard for Honchak. Clean right hand answers back for Murphy. Exchange continues and it doesn’t look like either one of them is going to look for a takedown. Honchak’s still getting the better of the exchanges, too. Finally Murphy does decide to go for a double leg and she gets it, but Honchak instantly reverses to her feet. Murphy takes her back standing and slaps one hook in, but Honchak seems calm and they go down with Honchak landing on top. Round ends there. 10-9 Honchak for me and I’d call it even going into the third. Round Three and if you’re going by visible damage then Honchak is way ahead as Murphy’s face is a mess, but it’s much closer than that of course. Again though Honchak gets the best of the early exchanges despite Murphy landing a clean right hook. Takedown from Murphy changes things up though and she lands inside Honchak’s guard. Murphy doesn’t do a lot from the top but she is controlling Honchak. Armbar attempt from Honchak and it suddenly looks pretty close. Murphy seems calm and manages to avoid it, but Honchak switches to a triangle and now that looks tight. Murphy’s definitely in a lot of trouble this time. Crowd go pretty crazy as Honchak switches back to the armbar ala Nogueira, but Murphy manages to step over her body as she goes belly-down to alleviate the pressure. Murphy does a tremendous job of freeing her arm, and now she takes Honchak’s back with both hooks. Less than a minute to go and now it’s Honchak in trouble, but Murphy doesn’t really come close with a choke attempt. Round ends with Murphy in the dominant position. Tricky one to score but I’d probably go 10-9 Honchak for the close submissions, giving her the fight 29-28. Judges have a split decision, 29-28 Murphy, 29-28 Honchak and 29-28 for Lauren Murphy. I would’ve gone the other way but I don’t think Honchak can have many complaints as it was such a close fight and really, every round could’ve gone either way. Great fight too as they showed a really high level of skill in all areas really and it never got boring for a second. Hopefully both women do well in the new division although at their age how long they can keep going I don’t know. This was O’Malley’s UFC debut proper after picking up a lot of hype coming off Dana White’s Tuesday Night Contender Series, and he was faced with Ware – who had lost in a close call against solid prospect Cody Stamman at UFC 213. Tough fight to call but I figured the UFC would want O’Malley to win so I figured he’d pull it out. Announcers are going CRAZY for O’Malley, plugging him and calling him the potential new Conor McGregor and all sorts. Whoever said the UFC don’t try to get guys over any more? Round One begins and O’Malley opens with a spin kick to the body. Head kick follows but Ware blocks it. Beautiful body kick from O’Malley and he seems to be moving at a far quicker speed than Ware. Spinning backfist into a head kick glances for O’Malley. Right hand from Ware and he wades into the clinch and forces O’Malley backwards. Ware can’t get him down though and O’Malley breaks off. Head kick glances for Ware. Trade sees Ware land but O’Malley escapes out of range and then fires back with some hooks and a question mark kick. Straight left connects cleanly and forces Ware backwards. O’Malley’s got some pretty weird movement going on and he picks at Ware with some more wild strikes. Trio of clean punches land for O’Malley as he easily dodges Ware’s more pedestrian movement. He’s looking excellent thus far. Ware manages to connect on some punches of his own though and he gets to the clinch, but O’Malley tosses him down with a foot sweep and then hits him with a left. Ware continues to push forward, but he just seems too slow to catch O’Malley. Nice right hand does land for Ware though. O’Malley fires back and then goes for a takedown, but Ware blocks it. Round ends there. 10-9 O’Malley. Round Two and Ware pushes forward, but walks right into a hard body kick. He’s just struggling to get a feel for the weird movement and speed of O’Malley. O’Malley continues to pop him from the outside, and then hits him with a big head kick. Clinch from Ware but O’Malley quickly separates. Big swings from Ware force O’Malley to get out or range, and now both men are landing with punches as O’Malley slows down a bit. Knees land for Ware from close range. O’Malley’s poor man’s Dominick Cruz impression from the earlier round is seemingly long gone. Ware continues to push forward as his coaches scream that he’s broken O’Malley, and both men continue to land shots in the exchanges. Big right hand from Ware sets up a flurry and O’Malley looks gassed. Head kick attempt sees O’Malley slip to the ground and Ware decides to follow him down, but O’Malley scrambles to his feet and glances with a spinning backfist. Ware continues to push forward with punches and both guys continue to trade off, and this is becoming a dirty brawl. Seconds to go and O’Malley fires back, and then attempts a flying triangle of all things, but he can’t get it and they roll around with Ware avoiding a leglock to land a right hand on the buzzer. 10-9 Ware, hell of a round though. Round Three and Ware pours on the pressure again, backing O’Malley up and landing the big right hand. Nice jabs from O’Malley snap Ware’s head back, and he glances on a spinning back kick and a front kick. Looks like O’Malley might be getting a second wind. Couple of big combinations land for O’Malley and now it’s Ware who appears to be slowing down. O’Malley’s really working his jab well in this round. Exchange turns into a pretty wild trade and they brawl again with both men landing blows. Two minutes to go and O’Malley seems to have Ware hurt for a second with a combo. Ware crowds him back into the fence but O’Malley is landing a lot more punches now. Spinning backfist into a wheel kick (!) pops the crowd and Ware shoots for the takedown, but O’Malley defends it. Ware looks to take the back standing before O’Malley switches it up and hits a takedown of his own. He lets Ware back up and lands a kick to the body and then the head, then hits a trip to guard. Downward elbow earns O’Malley a warning, and then he goes for a D’Arce, but slips and allows Ware to his feet. Ware takes the back again and they jockey for position on the fence, then break off ad both guys are just dead now, but they keep swinging until O’Malley hits another takedown on the buzzer. 10-9 O’Malley, 29-28 overall. Official scores are 29-28 all round for Sean O’Malley. Really fun fight although I must say, it was very sloppy at times and I’m not sure if it should’ve been a UFC co-main event in 2017, you know? That’s another conversation entirely, though. Ware did his job and pushed O’Malley to his limits and it did look like O’Malley was breaking in the second round, but he roared back in the third to take the round and ended up looking pretty good in the process. He’s way too raw to be up against contenders at this point but there’s enough warm bodies for him to face and test himself against in the 155lbs division anyway, so all is good. He’s definitely a guy to watch. So yeah, this was perhaps the weirdest title fight in UFC history given nobody had apparently been watching TUF and we had a late replacement in Modafferi taking the fight on one day’s notice following Sijara Eubanks missing weight and having to drop out. The late notice made Montano the favourite to me but I had no idea really due to never seeing Montano fight before. First round begins and they trade some early strikes with Montano largely getting the better of it. She clinches and forces Roxy back for a second, but Modafferi quickly separates. Lot of pressure from Montano early. Modafferi gets a couple of decent strikes off but she’s clearly getting the worse of these exchanges. They tie up and Modafferi looks for a takedown, but Montano remains on her feet. Glancing head kick from Montano. Takedown follows and Roxy immediately looks to roll for a potential armbar, then closes up the guard as Montano settles down. Couple of hammer fists get through for Montano but largely Roxy controls her from the bottom. Just under a minute to go and Montano lets Modafferi back up, and from there she clinches and hits a trip of her own down into side mount. Decent punches land for Modafferi as she looks to set up a mounted crucifix, but Montano manages to avoid and get to half-guard. Couple of elbows end the round for Modafferi. Close-ish round but I’d go 10-9 Montano. Second round and Roxy comes out swinging, but she walks into a couple of sharp counters and a body kick. Hard right hand from Modafferi has Montano hurt though and she chases her down and wades in with more punches. Clinch from Modafferi looks to set up a takedown, but she can’t get Montano off her feet. They break off and both women come up short on some strikes before Roxy wades into the clinch with a wild flurry. Montano shrugs it off though and they continue to exchange punches. Modafferi is pushing a pretty wild pace here considering she was only training for a three-rounder. Good left hand lands for Montano coming forward. Clean combination follows up for her. Roxy just looks too stiff on her feet even though she’s throwing straight combinations. Beautiful body kick from Montano as the crowd chant for her. Can’t fault the effort from these two, that’s for sure. Big takedown from Modafferi but she gets caught in a tight triangle attempt. She stands up to try to get rid of it, but Montano looks to have it locked down and she elbows the head for good measure. Roxy’s in trouble, but she manages to survive until the buzzer. 10-9 Montano again. Third round and again they trade punches with Modafferi wading in with shots that don’t really land cleanly. She just doesn’t seem sharp enough to really hurt Montano even when she’s landing. Takedown attempt from Montano and she forces Roxy back into the fence. Modafferi defends it pretty well, but eats a left on the way out. Decent combination lands for Modafferi. Montano comes back with a combo of her own and she has Roxy backing up some more now. Exchange continues at a high pace and it looks like Montano’s pretty marked up, particularly around the right eye. Montano lands with some pretty good counters as Modafferi keeps on swinging. Seconds to go now and Roxy connects on a really good right hand, but it doesn’t have much effect. Round ends with Montano landing some nice clean punches. 10-9 Montano and I’m thinking Modafferi needs a finish. Fourth round and Roxy gets stunned by some punches in an early exchange. Couple of heavy leg kicks land for Montano too. Roxy keeps on firing back but she’s clearly tired now and is pushing her punches more and more. Superman punch does land for her but Montano fires back with a big combination that forces Roxy into the fence. They clinch up and Montano gets a pretty wild takedown, then avoids a possible submission attempt and grabs a front facelock. Modafferi works to her feet, but Montano stays on her before they separate. Combo lands for Modafferi and they exchange pretty wildly with both women landing punches. Modafferi gets a plum clinch and tries to get a takedown from it (!) but can’t really get it and they end up clinched instead. Action slows down a little from the clinch before Montano separates. They continue to trade punches from there and Modafferi lands a trio of rights that have Montano hurt. Montano switches it up with a takedown to half-guard and works some elbows to the body, and the round ends with Montano working from top position before letting Roxy up. 10-9 Montano but she’s badly cut now. Fifth round and both women look badly busted up now. This has been a great fight to be fair. They trade off right away to begin the round with Montano absolutely tagging Modafferi with a right hand. Can’t fault either’s chin, that’s for sure! Big takedown from Montano and she lands in half-guard. Probably a smart idea as she’s miles ahead on points I would think. Full mount follows and she lands some elbows, but Roxy gets back to half-guard and so Montano stands. Takedown from Roxy now, but Montano hits a beautiful reversal and lands on top in half-guard. She works into side mount and then full mount, and drops a big elbow before Modafferi gives her back. She uses that to reverse to her feet, and they break with half the round remaining. Both of them look exhausted now for good reason. Nice body kick lands for Roxy to end a combo and she comes wading forward, landing a couple of knees too as Montano tries to hold on. What a gutsy showing this is for Roxy, wow. Montano ends up on top in another scramble and she avoids an armbar, and Modafferi gets closed guard and tries to hold on. Armbar attempt with seconds remaining for Roxy and it actually looks decent, but Montano manages to slip the arm free at the last second. Holy shit that was close. Round ends with Modafferi absolutely swinging for the fences. 10-9 Montano, 50-45 overall, but I’ve got so much respect for Roxy after that, wow. Judges have it 50-45, 49-46 and 49-46 to make Nicco Montano the first ever UFC Women’s Flyweight champion. Well, there was probably no doubt about the result but Modafferi put on a hell of a fight in the end and it literally just came down to the fact that she slowed down more (likely the late notice) and just isn’t a naturally great striker despite landing a lot of decent shots. Montano looked good too and this was a hell of a fight, but I just don’t see her holding onto the title that long I guess, not when the Invicta fighters (Jennifer Maia, etc) invariably move over and the likes of Valentina Shevchenko move down and stuff. Remember she didn’t pick up one finish during TUF, for instance. But shit, every division has to start somewhere – remember Dave Menne was the first UFC Middleweight champ! – and this was a great fight to kick this one off with even if the TUF season was largely under the radar. -Show ends with Montano leaving the cage with her newly won title. Final Thoughts…. For what was basically a throwaway show this was quite a lot of fun in the end. We got the likely sub of the year from Brett Johns, a nice finish from Gerald Meerschaert and then a trio of really excellent fights in Honchak/Murphy, O’Malley/Ware and Montano/Modafferi even if the latter two got sloppy at points. Bennett/Fabian stunk and really brought the whole show down, but outside of that this one’s definitely worth a look. Thumbs up mainly then.

Commercial advertising (“commercials”) create the revenues that sustain the content provider's operation. Commercials provide a host of special problems based on the nature of the media. Specifically, media such as television and radio sell specific time slots for playing of the advertisement. The content provider, e.g., the television station, sells a time slot in which a commercial will be played. This arrangement creates special considerations. The station is selling time. Once that time passes, the value of the service goes to zero. Similarly, after the commercial plays, there is no way of unplaying it. This compares with other sellers of commodities, who often have the option to repossess the chattel being sold. Because of these considerations, most stations require that payment for booking be entirely in advance, except for the best, i.e, the most creditworthy accounts. The most typical advertisement includes regular television commercials, typically thirty to sixty seconds in length, which are aired during breaks in commercial television programs. The so-called infomercial is also a television commercial advertising, but is typically much longer in length, e.g. between four minutes and one hour. With the exception of certain public service-oriented advertising, all commercials are paid for by a sponsor. The billing is done on a per-piece basis, based on the time and likely audience for the commercial. This pricing is a multi variable determination. For example, a one-minute commercial aired during the Super Bowl is considerably more expensive than a one-minute commercial aired at 2:00 A.M. Therefore, it is extremely important that the time when the commercial airs is the same time as what was paid for. However, it is not always a routine matter for the station to determine this. A nationwide television commercial is often received by the television station, e.g., via its satellite transponder hook-up. A “nationwide” television commercial is often included as part of the nationwide program. In this case, the central network provider provides both the television program and some of the commercials to be aired everywhere. However, other breaks within the commercial television program may be filled by “local” commercials, those that are aired only locally. These local commercials are typically produced locally, recorded and stored at the television station. Nationwide programming time schedules for the affiliates are sent to local television affiliates from the network. This includes a schedule describing open times for local advertisement station identification and other time slots that the station can sell locally. Each half hour slot generally has two programming slots of 12 minutes duration with commercial slots in between. The national schedules also often leave half hour time slots open for infomercials or public access programming. Television guides often show these slots as “paid programming”. Depending on various circumstances, the local television station may have the option to override the national commercial. At times, the local station overrides the national commercial even when such an override is not authorized. This provides a significant problem of tracking which commercials have been shown and when. The advertiser may pay in advance for a half hour to be aired at 7:30 P.M., but the commercial actually airs at 10:00 P.M. These times may have radically different prices. The price of a commercial aired at 9:02 P.M., which is after the show that aired in the 8:30 to 9 time slot can even be significantly different from the price of a commercial aired at 8:58 P.M., which is during that time slot. The advertisers are, therefore, extremely interested in knowing the precise time of airing. However, the varied nature of the advertising system, and especially the television system often makes it difficult to determine precisely when the commercial will be aired. Typically, the advertising agency acts as an intermediary between the actual advertisers and the television station. The advertiser wants their advertisement to air at certain times on certain channels and in certain events. For example, a toy company might want their advertisement to air during the Sunday morning cartoons. Airing the advertisement during Sunday football would not reach the desired audience. Special prices are often negotiated based on whether the advertisement is in prime time, off prime time, holidays, weekends, special events or the like. At some time before the actual airing of the broadcast, the station produces an actual program schedule which show the programming segments it will play or receive, as well as all commercials, infomercials and station identifications. Each of the latter are stored on tape which are pulled from the video library by a station engineer. Commercials and infomercials are usually manually played by the station engineer who initiates the proper tape based on a schedule in a specified time slot. The engineer keeps manual records of what has actually been done and the billing of commercial time is carried out based on these records. The actually-played commercials are often sampled by third party organizations who employ people to watch and keep track of television commercials which are played. These people, however, cannot watch every single television commercial, and therefore only act as a sampling mechanism to determine a percentage of correct reporting by the television station and advertising agency. One other means of commercial airing verification of digitizes one or several frames of the commercial. Then the physical airing is taped and compared to the frames. This still requires a television to receive the broadcast and a physical comparison of the frames. This method is inaccurate and again based on statistical sampling.

Eurovision 2019 🇮🇱 Tel Aviv Mayor offers help and mocks the chaos ISRAEL – According to Israeli officials involved in the Eurovision production, the alternative means hosting the competition in the second-place finisher, Cyprus, which will not be able to finance the event, and so Austria will likely get to host as the third-place finisher. Meanwhile, Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai has offered to help fund the Eurovision. “Once again, there is no responsible adult. Just like they chased (Argentine soccer star) Messi from Israel, now they’re chasing the Eurovision away,” Huldai lamented in a Facebook post. “The event, which is broadcast to billions around the world (and it doesn’t matter which city hosts it), will give exposure to the beautiful Israel many in the world don’t know. The Tel Aviv municipality is willing to contribute to the national effort by covering the costs for the venue—a main expense in organizing the event,” he went on to say. “Perhaps this would help those who are once again climbing trees instead of finding solutions.” This would not be the first time Israel renounces the right to host the Eurovision Song Content. In 1980, after Israel won the competition with the song “Hallelujah,” Israel could not host the competition due to financial issues the Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA) was experiencing at the time. Furthermore, the date set for the Eurovision fell on Israel’s Memorial Day for IDF soldiers, leading the government to decide not to participate in the competition at all.

ISSCR Pluripotency: From basic science to therapeutic applications Organized by The Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA) and the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR)22-24 March 2016, Kyoto, Japan

Q: How to create an interactive number line in .Net/HTML5 I'm attempting to create an interactive number line to aid in basic addition/subtraction learning for math students using HTML5 and .NET. I'm trying to figure out how to create an interactive number line, one which the user can drag a marker(s) on the line to different numbers and see the addition/subtraction result. From what I've researched so far, the slider bar in HTML5 may be the solution, but I'm not sure if it can handle ranges. Any starting points from the gurus out there? A: I don't think you want to include .net in this. HTML5 can handle this use-case completely client-side in javascript. I was in the middle of crafting one using the Canvas API but then I tripped across this question which basically gives you what you need to know to make the number lines, you only need to grab the click events and create a spot to display the addition result. That should be pretty easy unless you are a serious beginner with Canvas, if you are then let me know your specific issue and I'll see if I can expand this post. With relation to sblom's answer, JQuery would work beautifully on this too. But I would not involve .net technologies unless you really need some sort of server-side processing technology, which you don't here.

camping recipes and more Dandelion syrup DANDELION SYRUP Dandelion syrup can be used in many ways, on top of pancakes or plain yogurt, anywhere you use a sweetener, really, you name it. I started imagining dandelion cocktails come summer; homemade dandelion ice cream sweetened with dandelion syrup and speckled with dandelion petals; dandelion this and dandelion that. Dandelion everything.It is a basic herbal infusion made into a simple syrup. I felt like I didn’t want to boil the bejeezus out of the blossoms, so I just brought them to a simmer and let them soak overnight. The puzzle for me was what sweetener to use. Traditionally white sugar is used, but white sugar lands last on my list of happy sweeteners. So, I played around with some other alternatives as well, all with quite different results. • White sugar made a syrup with a faint taste of vanilla and very slightly nutty, it was really just mostly sweet and somewhat plain. • Sucanat, one of my favorite sweeteners, was, as I expected, too heavy in flavor to let the subtle dandelion taste shine through. That said, it was very interesting; like an herbaceous molasses. • Honey has that smooth edge that became more pronounced after simmering. I used a mild clover honey and the result was like a somewhat spicy and grassy honey. • Agave syrup worked beautifully because it is such a clean-tasting sweetener—the syrup made with agave was sweet and clean, with bright green undertones. So pick your dandelions, pick your sweetener and make some syrup. Many recipes call for lemon, which gives it a little kick of citrus. Suit yourself. Ingredients 100 dandelion flowers, or 1 and 1/2 cups petals 1 cup sweetener (see above) 3 cups water Juice of 1/2 lemon (optional) 1. Remove the petals from the sepal (the sepal consists of the small tight leaves that extend from the stem and grasp the flower). This takes a while to get the hang of, but gets much quicker as you go along. Be sure to not allow any green into the petals, it will add bitterness to the syrup. 2. Place the petals in a medium pot and cover with 3 cups water and bring to a simmer. Turn off the heat, cover and let sit overnight. 3. Strain dandelion water into a bowl, pressing on the flowers with the back of a spoon to extract all the liquid. 4. Return water to pot and add sweetener, and lemon juice if using, and simmer over low heat until thickened. 5. Allow to cool, and pour into a clean jar or bottle. Store covered in refrigerator. Makes about 2 cups

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is not happy – again. And neither are other Democratic elected officials who have mounted a full-scale attack against Attorney General William Barr for recommending a reasonable prison sentence for Roger Stone, rather than the draconian sentence Barr’s subordinates advocated for in a court filing. Schumer wants the Justice Department inspector general to investigate Barr because Schumer thinks Barr gave Stone a sweetheart deal at President Trump’s direction. Barr denies it. Whether the inspector general takes up the issue is anyone’s guess, but if his office does, its report will no doubt highlight the fact that all lawyers in the Justice Department work for the attorney general, and that every attorney general has the right to overrule (and even fire) his subordinates in any case. BARR UNDER FIRE AS DEMS VOW TO INVESTIGATE AG, CALL FOR IMPEACHMENT For his part, Barr told reporters that “the essential role of the attorney general is to keep law enforcement, the criminal process sacrosanct to make sure there is no political interference in it. And I have done that, and I will continue to do that.” Contrary to the claims against Barr of unfair “political interference” in the Roger Stone sentencing, his handling of the over-the-top recommendations by prosecutors demonstrates that he is doing exactly what attorneys general are supposed to do and that he is committed to restoring evenhanded enforcement of our nation’s laws. No one disputes that Stone was accused and convicted of several serious crimes – obstructing a congressional investigation, making false statements to Congress, and witness tampering. Setting aside questions that have arisen about the trial and conviction given the recent revelations that the jury foreperson, a former Democratic congressional candidate, exhibited an anti-Trump bias in numerous posts on social media (calling Trump a “#KlanPresident) and even tweeted specifically about Stone’s arrest, everyone agrees that Stone – once duly convicted – must be punished for his actions. But what is an appropriate punishment? And more importantly, who gets to decide? Those are the questions that came to the forefront when four career prosecutors recommended that Stone – a nonviolent, first-time offender – serve seven to nine years in prison, and even more so when Schumer requested the inspector general investigate the overriding of the prosecutors’ recommendation by higher officials within the Justice Department. Stone’s base offense level under the federal sentencing guidelines – which are only advisory in nature – called for him to serve only 15 to 21 months in prison. The prosecutors on the case, however, submitted a sentencing memorandum arguing that several other enhancements should apply that would raise the proposed sentence to seven to nine years. Prosecutors argued that the biggest of these enhancements should apply because Stone threatened “to cause physical injury to a person, or property damage, in order to obstruct the administration of justice.” Their basis for that claim is several statements made by Stone when he told a potential witness – radio talk show host Randy Credico – that Credico should “prepare to die” and that Stone would take his dog away from him. True, these sound bad on their face. But Credico told the judge he did not take these bombastic threats seriously and never felt physically threatened. In fact, Credico said that these “bellicose tirades” were just “Stone being Stone. All bark and no bite.” Thus, when taken in context, this recommended enhancement seems like a stretch – something that would be more appropriately applied in an organized crime or gang-related case. If this single enhancement were removed, Stone’s guideline range would drop significantly to 37 to 46 months in prison. Federal judges typically give great weight and serious consideration to the recommendations of the prosecutors on a given case. Here, the Justice Department filed an amended sentencing memorandum telling the judge that “the range of [approximately seven to nine years] presented as the applicable Guidelines range would not be appropriate or serve the interests of justice in this case.” The Justice Department noted that a sentence of approximately seven to nine years “more typically has been imposed for defendants who have higher criminal history categories or who obstructed justice as part of a violent criminal organization.” In protest of this revised sentencing memo, the four prosecutors who made the original recommendation resigned from the case. One even resigned from the Justice Department. Schumer and others claim that the recommended lower sentence is the result of undue political influence in the criminal justice process. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler of New York, Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts are among the other prominent Democrats criticizing Barr. Warren has even called for Barr’s impeachment, as have others on the left and in the media. Really? What choice did those at the Justice Department have – up to and including Attorney General Barr – but to step in and correct an unreasonable and unduly harsh sentencing recommendation? This is particularly the case in light of reports that the recommendation these prosecutors made was, in fact, far harsher than what they told senior leadership they were going to make to the court. This raises questions about whether the prosecutors misled the department’s leadership in the first place. It is the duty of the attorney general to lead the Justice Department by setting priorities and ensuring the fair administration of justice, devoid of political influence or pressure. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR OPINION NEWSLETTER Subordinates in the department, including all assistant U.S. attorneys and each of the 94 Senate-confirmed U.S. attorneys, work for the attorney general, not the other way around. If they don’t like the attorney general’s priorities, they can resign. This matter is complicated, of course, by President Trump’s tweets about the Stone sentencing recommendation. Yes, the president has a right to tweet. But when this, or any other president makes public statements about an ongoing federal criminal matter (as President Barack Obama did in 2009 about the appropriateness of the death penalty for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused of being a planner of the 9/11 attacks), it can complicate the case. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Here it appears that Barr’s decision to amend the government’s sentencing memo took place before Trump’s tweet blasting the original sentencing memorandum as “horrible and very unfair.” This undercuts Schumer’s claims of political interference. Barr says the president’s tweets had nothing to do with his decision. Barr’s actions were necessitated by the initial unfair (and seemingly unjustified) recommendation of up to nine years in prison for a nonviolent, first-time offender. His actions were an important step toward ensuring accountability in the Justice Department and fulfilled his promise to restore the impartial administration of justice for all of our nation’s citizens. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE BY HANS VON SPAKOVSKY Zack Smith is a legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation and former assistant U.S. attorney in the Northern District of Florida.

Creative tactics to keep owners in homes; ‘We can’t wait’ for the Feds Below: Latest market data Stock search Trenton, N.J.’s, mayor has asked pastors to preach at least one sermon on foreclosures. Church volunteers became walking billboards, wearing “Save Trenton Homes!” T-shirts, as the Rev. Donald Sullivan Medley did during his sermon. PHILADELPHIA — Just two months ago, Aaron Brokenbough had no clout and little say when lenders moved to foreclose on his home. His Philadelphia row house was scheduled for a sheriff’s sale, the end of the road for most homeowners who are behind in mortgage payments. That was before a Philadelphia court decided to step in with this unusual order: Sheriff’s sales cannot go forward without a last-ditch effort by the lender and homeowner to work out a deal. The court also gave Brokenbough some muscle, matching him with a volunteer attorney and housing counselor to take his side against his lender and their lawyers. Brokenbough feels a ray of hope. “I’m overwhelmed,” said the 36-year-old former mail processor, who fell behind on payments after he lost his job and his wife incurred medical bills from a surgery. “I’m hoping to save my home.” Philadelphia is just the latest in a growing number of cities — including Los Angeles, Baltimore, and Trenton, N.J. — that are taking matters into their own hands to help stop the nation’s housing crisis within their borders. With more than a half-million foreclosed homes on the market, and over 3 million borrowers behind on their mortgages, more cities are aggressively reaching out to residents and filing lawsuits against lenders. While politicians debate in Washington, many cities are on the front lines of the foreclosure crisis: fielding calls from desperate homeowners, and fighting vagrancy and crime around vacated properties. “We can’t wait on the federal government,” said Douglas Palmer, mayor of Trenton, N.J., and the president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. “We’re taking action.” Cities are under the gun to act: A report released by the U.S. Conference of Mayors last November projected economic losses of $166 billion this year for 361 metropolitan areas. These stem from lost tax revenue and jobs as well as slower consumer spending that come with home equity declines, and don’t even include the financial toll of increased crime, fires and building code violations. To try to recoup part of that money, some cities are suing lenders. But it’s not easy to go after federally regulated companies. In January, Cleveland took the public nuisance route and sued 21 major investment banks and lenders, charging that their subprime lending practices devastated neighborhoods and hurt property values and city tax collections. Baltimore sued Wells Fargo & Co., alleging a pattern of predatory lending practices in its poorest neighborhoods. Minneapolis and Buffalo, N.Y. are engaged in similar litigation. “Why would these mortgage lenders continue to enter deals with these people who they knew could not afford their loans?” said Robert Triozzi, Cleveland’s director of law. “To suggest (these financial institutions) didn’t know the consequences just defies logic.” He blamed Wall Street greed and said the players relied on a scheme that could only work if home prices continued to rise. “We’re going to hold them accountable for actions they have done here,” said Triozzi, who is seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages. Wells Fargo said the lawsuit has no merit. “The city seeks to use a single financial services company as a scapegoat for broad social problems that have plagued Baltimore for decades, including some caused by the city’s own actions,” Wells Fargo said in a statement. “The mortgage industry, however, says it is taking action to try to stop the rising tide of foreclosures.” Last fall, many lenders and servicers banded together to form a group called the Hope Now Alliance. The lenders try to work out repayment plans, and can modify the terms of the loan by lowering the interest rates or forgive part of the debt. Some cities are also trying to help homeowners catch up on their late payments. This week in Jacksonville, Fla., — where the foreclosure rate is three times the national average — officials are launching a campaign to promote the city’s interest-free loans. Distressed homeowners can get up to $5,000, which will be forgiven if they stay in their homes for at least five years, said Dayatra Coles, manager of housing services. Louisville, Ky., also is giving out up to $5,000 in loans. The loans will be forgiven if the homeowner stays put for a decade. The city has teamed up with the United Way to offer access to housing help in addition to the charity’s social services. In order to battle a foreclosure rate that is 2.5 times the national average, according to First American CoreLogic, Trenton’s mayor has asked pastors to preach at least one sermon in June on foreclosures and to distribute information about where to get help. Church volunteers became walking billboards, wearing “Save Trenton Homes!” T-shirts with hotline numbers on the back. Last Sunday, Rev. Donald Sullivan Medley of the Cadwalader-Asbury United Methodist Church in Trenton preached that there’s no shame in asking for help. “Matthew chapter 7 talks about the wise and the foolish building their homes on the sand or on a rock,” he told his congregation. The house on the rock withstood winds, rain and floods, not the house on the sand. “We have to prepare,” said Medley, whose trustees distributed foreclosure help information during service. Several people later came forward to get more information. Los Angeles, meanwhile, is adding foreclosure counselors in neighborhood centers for jobs and city services. The city also is tapping neighborhood councils to fight blight. L.A. is watching other cities’ plans to buy up foreclosed properties and possibly use them for affordable housing, but in an area where homes can easily cost over $500,000, the cost of such a plan is a huge obstacle, said Gil Duran, spokesman for Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Cities don’t have the financial or regulatory strength to stem the crisis, and need firmer backing from the federal government, said John Taylor, president of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition in Washington. The federal government has taken several steps to prop up the housing market, but critics say Bush administration-backed efforts to help borrowers avoid foreclosure are falling short. The government has expanded the authority of the Federal Housing Administration to allow more borrowers to refinance their loans, and to help home buyers purchase a foreclosed property. In May, House lawmakers passed a bill to send $15 billion to states to buy and fix up foreclosed property. Proponents say the measure, opposed by President Bush, will prevent blight in neighborhoods plagued by abandoned homes. Lawmakers are also considering housing tax credit of up to $7,500 for first-time home-buyers. Still, calls are growing for more government intervention, in the form of a plan for the government to guarantee as much as $300 billion in new loans to help borrowers refinance into cheaper, fixed-rate mortgages. But while the Congressional infighting drags on, cities have to deal with the housing “sinkhole” day in and day out, Taylor said. “They recognize the federal government really isn’t moving that will make a difference fast enough.”

Streaming service Netflix announced Tuesday that it would be raising prices across all of its plans by 13 to 18 percent. Netflix's most basic plan will now be $8.99 per month, up from $7.99, while its Standard plan with HD quality, the company's most popular offering, will increase from $10.99 to $12.99, the company says. Its Premium plan will rise to $15.99 from $13.99. "We change pricing from time to time as we continue investing in great entertainment and improving the overall Netflix experience for the benefit of our members," a Netflix spokesperson told CNBC Make It in an email. The new pricing structure will immediately roll out to new customers, while existing subscribers will see the changes implemented over the next three months, Netflix says. The company plans to notify existing members by email, as well as within the Netflix app, 30 days before the new prices are applied. With the pricing change, it may be worth evaluating the other options that are on the market. Here are 11 of the most popular streaming services, from the cheapest to the most expensive. CBS All Access "Limited commercial" monthly plan cost: $5.99 Commercial-free monthly plan cost: $9.99 Free trial period: 7 days If most of your favorite shows are on CBS, this subscription service could be for you. Users get access to original content, 10,000 episodes on demand and the ability to watch broadcast shows at your convenience. Hulu Monthly plan cost: $7.99 Commercial-free monthly plan cost: $11.99 Free trial period: 30 days As with Netflix, a subscription to Hulu grants you access to thousands of TV shows and movies for streaming. Hulu, a joint venture of Fox, NBCUniversal, and Disney, tends to have a larger collection of current-season TV shows compared to Netflix and a smaller pool of movies. Hulu's streaming service has ads if you go with the cheapest option. You can opt to go commercial-free, though, and you can also pay to add premium channels like HBO, Cinemax, Showtime and Starz. Amazon Prime Video Monthly plan cost: $8.99 Free trial period: 30 days There are two ways to get Amazon Prime Video: You can pay a monthly rate $8.99 to access Amazon Prime Video as a standalone membership, according to a company spokesperson, or you can sign up for Prime, which costs $12.99 a month or $119 a year. That gets you all the benefits of a Prime membership, including access to Prime Video. Amazon Prime Video lets subscribers stream popular movies and TV shows, including originals like "The Man In the High Castle," "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" and "Homecoming." Additionally, the platform has thousands of movies and TV shows available to watch anytime, and you can pay to add premium channels to your subscription. Starz Monthly plan cost: $8.99 Free trial period: 7 days This service allows you direct access to Starz without a cable or satellite package. Through the Starz app, you can watch original programs such as "Outlander" and "American Gods" on the same day that the episodes air live (and sometimes even have early access to them). Starz is also available as an add-on channel to Amazon Prime Video for the same cost. The service is running a special at the moment: New subscribers only pay $5 per month for the first three months. Showtime Monthly plan cost: $10.99 Free trial period: 7 days Similar to Starz, Showtime's streaming service gives users access to the channel's original programming, including shows like "Homeland," "Billions" and "Shameless," as well as access to curated movies and programs that change monthly. App users have the ability to download shows to watch when you're offline, as Netflix users do with certain content. HBO Now Monthly plan cost: $14.99 Free trial period: 7 days HBO Now is an option for those who don't have cable but want to watch new episodes of shows such as "Game of Thrones," "Big Little Lies," "Westworld" and "True Detective" in real time. In addition to letting you stream original HBO shows when they air, the subscription grants users access to HBO's back catalog of TV shows and a rotating line-up of popular movies. Sling TV Monthly plan cost: $25 Free trial period: 7 days A subscription to Sling gets you access to over 20 live TV channels, including ESPN, CNN, Disney Channel, Food Network and HGTV without signing up for cable. There's no additional back catalog of movies or TV shows, however. Hulu + Live TV Monthly plan cost: $39.99 Commercial-free monthly plan cost: $43.99 Free trial period: 7 days Hulu + Live TV is the company's answer to cable. With this subscription, you get access to Hulu's library of streaming content, as well as 60 live TV channels and on-demand channels, including news and sports. Plus, if you create an individualized profile, you'll get the option to save up to 50 hours of content on Hulu's Cloud DVR service. DirecTV Now Monthly plan cost: $40 Free trial period: 7 days Get DirecTV without the satellite. This subscription gives you access to 65 live channels, including sports. The options are pretty much your basic cable package, though, so no Starz or HBO. YouTube TV Monthly plan cost: $40 Free trial period: 5 days YouTube rolled out its cord-cutting option in 2017 and offers 60 live TV networks. A monthly subscription allows for six accounts per household, which you can customize so that you get notifications when your show is on. Plus, you get unlimited cloud storage for DVR. fuboTV Monthly plan cost: $44.99 Free trial period: 7 days This streaming service offers access to over 100 live TV channels, including various premium sports channels such as NFL Network, NBA TV, Big Ten Network and Fox Sports. The service offers other cable channels as well, including A&E, E!, FX, Cartoon Network and Hallmark Channel. Play Station Vue