Richard Cavendish wrote in
Man, Myth and Magic of the Druidic gathering which met at the site now
occupied by Oxford University: “It is said that in 1245 a gathering [of Druids]
was held with representatives from many parts and the objects of the Order were
agreed. A grove or group was founded, the Mount Haemus Grove which still
exists.” (p. 722)

The Cambridge Encyclopedia
states: "Oxford University The oldest university in Britain, having its origins
in informal groups of masters and students gathered in Oxford in the 12th-c...
The closure of the University of Paris to Englishmen in 1167 accelerated
Oxford's development into a universitas... University College 1249." (pp.
823-24)

A History of Pagan
Europe refers
to the Mount Haemas Grove order as the Ancient Order of Druids of Oxford: “In
1781...the Ancient Order of Druids was set up in London by Henry Hurle, as an
esoteric society patterned on Masonic lines. In 1833, a split between the
mystics and those who wanted a friendly society led to the majority forming the
United Ancient of Druids... The mystical side continued as the Albion Lodge of
the Ancient Order of Druids of Oxford, claiming descent from the Mount Haemus
Grove.” (Pennick & Jones, p. 211)

The Oxford Movement

Counter-Reformation in England

“Guided by and
receiving its impetus from Oxford University men, the movement also protested
state interference in the affairs of the church. On July 14, 1833, in response
to the English government's bill reducing bishoprics in Ireland, John Keble
preached the sermon ‘National Apostacy’ from the university pulpit. He accused
the government of infringing on ‘Christ's Church’ and of disavowing the
principle of apostolic succession of the bishops of the Church of England.
Insisting that salvation was possible only through the sacraments, Keble
defended the Church of England as a divine institution. During the same year
John Henry Newman began to publish Tracts for the Times, a series of pamphlets
by members of the University of Oxford that supported and propagated the beliefs
of the movement. They were widely circulated, and the term ‘Tractarianism’ has
often been used for the early stages of the Oxford Movement or, indeed, as a
synonym for the movement itself.

“It is ironic that
these tracts (which were supposed to argue ‘against Popery and Dissent’) would
lead some of the writers and readers into embracing the Roman Catholic Church.
These men found it increasingly impossible to adhere to church polity and
practice on Protestant terms. When Newman argued in Tract 90 (1841) that the
Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England were in harmony with genuine Roman
Catholicism, he was attacked with such furor that the series of tracts was
brought to an end. Early in 1845, realizing that they would never be allowed to
be Anglicans while holding Roman Catholic views, several Oxford reformers joined
the Roman Catholic Church. Newman defected later that year, and by 1864 nearly
one thousand ministers, theological leaders, and Anglican church members
followed his lead. In 1864 Newman's Apologia pro Vita Sua was published,
explaining his departure from the Church of England and defending his choice of
the Roman Church as the one true church. Newman was made a Roman Catholic
cardinal in 1879.

“After the
defections in 1845 the movement was no longer dominated by Oxford men and became
more fragmented in its emphases. Edward B Pusey, professor of Hebrew at Oxford
and a contributor to Tracts, emerged as the leader of the Anglo-Catholic party,
which continued to push for doctrinal modifications and a reunion between the
Anglican and Roman churches. Other groups sought to promote High Church ritual
within Anglicanism. Many of the sympathizers the Oxford Movement had gained at
its inception (before anti - Reformation tendencies were observed) continued to
uphold the primary goals and spiritual fervor of the movement. This has had a
great significance upon the theological development, polity, and religious life
of the Church of England for over a century. Anglican eucharistic worship was
transformed, spiritual discipline and monastic orders were revived, social
concern was fostered, and an ecumenical spirit has developed in the Church of
England.” [Source:
Believe]

The Rhodes Scholars

British diamond magnate
Cecil Rhodes created the Rhodes Scholarships to bind together the elite of the
English-speaking countries by bringing promising young men to Oxford University
to “imbibe the English imperial ethos. Successive U.S. administrations (not
least Bill Clinton's) have been stuffed with Rhodes’ Scholars.”

“Quoting from Professor
Carroll Quigley's monumental history, Tragedy and Hope, [Samuel]
Blumenfeld recounts the ‘sensational impact’ that socialist professor John
Ruskin had on the young Cecil Rhodes while a student at Oxford. Later, ‘with
support from Lord Rothschild and Alfred Beit, [Rhodes] was able to monopolize
the diamond mines of South Africa’ and put his enormous, ill-gotten fortune in
diamonds and gold to work in his plan for world empire.

“To accomplish this end,
Rhodes confided to his intimate friend and executor, William T. Stead, it was
necessary to (in Rhodes’ own words) create ‘a society…supported by the
accumulated wealth of those whose aspiration is to do something.’ And this
‘something" that Rhodes had in mind for them to ‘do’ with their wealth? Nothing
less, said Rhodes, than ‘a scheme to take the government of the whole world.’

“These and other revealing
statements are found in an important article on Cecil Rhodes in the New York
Times of April 9, 1902, which Blumenfeld has reprinted in The Rhodes Legacy.

STEALTHY RECRUITING

“The secret society of
which Rhodes spoke was launched, notes Blumenfeld, on February 5, 1891. Forming
the executive committee of this society were Rhodes, Stead, Lord Esher, and
Alfred Milner. Below them was a ‘Circle of Initiates’ comprised of Lord Balfour,
Sir Harry Johnson, Lord Rothschild, Lord Grey, and other scions of Britain's
financial and aristocratic elite. According to Professor Quigley, Bill Clinton's
mentor at Georgetown University, ‘The scholarships were merely a facade to
conceal the secret society, or more accurately, they were to be one of the
instruments by which the members of the secret society could carry out his
purpose.’ ‘The Rhodes Scholarships,’ Blumenfeld writes, ‘as outlined in Rhodes’
will, became the main instrument whereby the most promising young people
throughout the English-speaking world could be recruited to serve an idea that
Rhodes thought would take 200 years to fulfill. And, says Blumenfeld:

“‘Obviously, the way the
secret society would recruit its future leaders from among the Rhodes scholars
was to dangle before them the prospects of future advancement in whatever field
they chose to pursue, be it education, politics, government, foundation work,
finance, journalism, etc. Thus, if you understood the implicit message being
given to you by your sponsors you might one day become president of Harvard,
President of the United States, a Supreme Court Judge, a US senator, or
president of the Carnegie Foundation. The road to fame and fortune was open as
long as you played the game and obeyed the rules. The Association of American
Rhodes Scholars has an alumni membership of about 1,600. They have become
leading figures in the new ruling elite in America.’” [Source:
Reviewing the Rhodes Legacy]

For nearly
twenty years the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (OCMS) has been training a
new generation of Evangelical mission scholars and practitioners to become a key
resource to the church in mission in contemporary contexts of complexity and
diversity. It has drawn key people from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern
Europe to its research and post-graduate study programmes.

Through its
publications, including the journal ‘Transformation’ and the study
programmes, OCMS has been a major influence in shaping Evangelical mission
Theology and Strategy in the growing churches of the Two-Third World.

Its
importance has largely been due to the sense of ownership of OCMS by the
Evangelical leadership of the Two-Thirds World. These leaders shape its
agenda and send their younger colleagues for training. The Centre is now
seen as an important instrument in the institutional development of
post-graduate training institutions in the Two-Third Worlds.

?Professor
Andrew Walls––
Professor of Religious Studies , Aberdeen University; Honorary Professor, Edinburgh
University
and Curator of Collections at the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the
Non-Western World:

Names from OCMS listing above

Armerding
was for many years professor of Old Testament and principal
at Regent College
[see below],
Vancouver. In 1968-9 he held a postdoctoral fellowship in archaeology in
Jerusalem. He is currently director of the Schloss Mittersill Study Centre,
Austria, and he is senior academic adviser to the Oxford
Centre for Mission Studies.
In both capacities he works extensively with theological education in the
emerging democracies of eastern Europe. Armerding has published
commentaries, a volume on Old Testament criticism and work on ancient Israel's
charismatic leadership.

Controversy
between Evangelicals and Roman Catholics has been constant since the sixteenth
century. Controversy aims to refute, that is, to show that the positions opposed
are wrong, and ought not to exist in their present form, and that those who
support them need to change. This course is a venture not in controversy but
in
dialogue,
that is, in the kind of exposition and interchange that enables those on both
sides to map in depth the nature and range of their differences, and to see how
it is that both bodies of opinion believe themselves to be discerning and
obeying God’s truth revealed in Christ in those areas where they part company.

Topics for
exploration include: the church, faith & assurance, priesthood & ministry, the
sacramental system, the eucharist, the place of Mary & canonized saints,
purgatory, indulgences, and prayers for the departed and what
Evangelicals and Catholics may and should do together.[emphasis
added]

By virtually all accounts,
J.I. Packer is one of this century's greatest Evangelical statesmen. As he
reaches the golden years of his career we notice that he has begun to take a
serious interest in conservative Christian dialogue with the hopes of forming a
common agenda for the church' s unified witness in the modern world. His work in
"Evangelical ecumenics" (to coin a phrase) began most visibly in his dialogue
with Catholics in 1995 which led to his signing the document "Evangelicals and
Catholics Together." Although his interest in Orthodoxy began much earlier, it
was not until 1995 that it took concrete expression at a conservative ecumenical
gathering of Catholics, Orthodox and Evangelicals called the "Rose Hill"
conference. It was there that Dr. Packer and the present author worked as formal
dialogue partners. At Rose Hill, Packer delivered a paper titled, "On from Orr:
Cultural Crisis, Rational Realism and Incarnational Ontology," to which I
responded with "An Eastern Orthodox Response to J.I. Packer." The dialogue was
followed up in 1997 when Packer and the author
[Bradley
Nassif, Ph.D.]
team-taught a course at Regent College titled, "Eastern Orthodoxy and
Evangelicalism in Dialogue."

PROFESSORS:

J.I. Packer

Some of Dr.
Packer’s books are: Knowing God;Christianity: The True Humanism
(with Thomas Howard), Rediscovering Holiness, Concise Theology,
and A Passion For Faithfulness. Education: Oxford University. Packer is
Director of the Anglican Studies Program
of Regent College; a signer of the Evangelicals and Catholics Together Documents
I and II; co-author of “Resolutions for Roman Catholic and Evangelical
Dialogue”; a signer
of the
Evangelical Declaration on Care of Creation [Interfaith/Earth Summit];a
member of the Board of Reference of Renovaré, a mystical movement founded and
directed by Quaker psychologist, Richard Foster. See
exposes:
Dr. James I. Packer-Rediscovering Holiness;
J.I. Packer: General Teachings/Activities]

Dr. Howard
has written twelve books, including Christianity: The True Humanism,
Evangelical is Not Enough, and On Being
Catholic.

[Ed. Note:
Thomas Howard made the following statement after visiting an Episcopal church,
an experience which led to his being confirmed the Anglican Church and
eventually joining the Roman Catholic Church:
"That time I was pierced to the heart. I was enthralled by the candles and
vestments. I felt as though my heart would break. Something had been touched
inside me, and I could not rest until I attended to it." Source:
Miles J. Stanford]

Bradley Nassif, Ph.D.

Professor, Antiochian
House of Studies (USA), a graduate program of St. John of Damascus Seminary,
Balamand University (Lebanon); Director of academic programs at Fuller
Theological Seminary, Southern California Extension; founder of the Society for
the Study of Eastern Orthodoxy and Evangelicalism. [Dr. Nassif defends Orthodox
kissing of icons in
Christianity Today]

which is
Fuller Theological Seminary's Theological Education by Extension/TEE to the
Northwest. Gasque is credited as being the co-founder of Regent College,
Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Regent College is a partner with InterVarsity
Christian Fellowship/IVCF.

Dr. Peter
Kuzmic is the Eva B. and Paul E. Toms Distinguished Professor of World
Missions and European Studies at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
[Rockefeller-affiliated ATS member].
A native of Slovenia and a citizen of Croatia in former Yugoslavia, Dr. Kuzmic
is the foremost evangelical scholar in Eastern Europe and is considered an
authority on the subject of Christian response to Marxism and on Christian
ministry in post-Communist contexts.

Fluent in
several languages, Dr. Kuzmic completed all his studies summa cum laude. He is a
graduate of a German Bible College; received his B.A. from Southern California
College in Costa Mesa, CA [now
renamed Vangard University which is a partner with Oxford Centre for
Mission Studies];
M.A. from Wheaton Graduate School, Chicago, IL; and M.Th. and D.Th from the
University of Zagreb. In 1992 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity
degree by Asbury Theological Seminary
[Rockefeller-affiliated ATS member].

A former
pastor of two churches, he is a founder and currently the director of the
Evangelical Theological Seminary in Osijek, Croatia, the only evangelical
graduate theological institution in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. He is also
co-founder and chairman of the Council of the Evangelical Christians of (former)
Yugoslavia, and president of the Protestant Evangelical Council of Croatia. As
founding president of Agape and New Europe Vision (evangelical relief
ministries in Croatia and Bosnia), he takes an active role in ministering to the
physical and spiritual needs of his fellow citizens.

Dr. Kuzmic
is in great demand as a speaker. His global
platform has included plenary addresses at Lausanne II in Manila (1989), Urbana
(1990), the European Leadership Consultation (1992), the National Association of
Evangelicals Fiftieth Anniversary (1992),
as well as other international gatherings. He has ministered in more than 60
nations on every continent.

An
award-winning writer, Dr. Kuzmic has authored various articles and books
including a major study on the influence of Slavic Bible translations upon
Slavic literature, language and culture. He has also authored two textbooks, The
Gospel of John and Biblical Hermeneutics and has contributed to numerous
compendiums, handbooks and encyclopedias. A columnist for several religious and
secular newspapers, he also serves as editor of Izvori,a Christian monthly
journal in the Croatian language.

From 1986
to 1996, Dr. Kuzmic chaired the Theological Commission of the World Evangelical
Fellowship. He now chairs the Theology and Strategy Working Group of the
Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization.
He is one of the founding executives of the Council of Evangelical Christians of
Yugoslavia…

Dearborn was
educated at Fuller Theological Seminary and was a founder, with Ward
Gasque, of Fuller's Theological Education Extension program, Pacific
Association of Theological Education/PATE when it began in Seattle. At the
same time Dearborn was identified as director of World Vision's Institute for
Global Engagement, founded by then WV President Robert Seiple.

ESA
History Over the
past two decades-plus, Evangelicals for Social Action has become the primary
organizational leader for progressive evangelical voices and a primary
inspiration of renewed evangelical concern for the poor, equality for women and
minorities, and care for the environment.

ESA began
with a weekend meeting of forty prominent evangelical leaders in Chicago in
1973. Dick Ostling of Time said that weekend was the first time in the
twentieth century that a prominent group of evangelical leaders spent that much
time on social issues, and the Chicago Tribune called the meeting the most
important church-related event of 1973. The resulting document, The Chicago
Declaration of Evangelical Social Concern, was a ringing call for Christians
to challenge racial and economic injustice and work for the full dignity and
equality of women and minorities.

ESA and
ESA's founder Dr. Ronald J. Sider (Ph.D., Yale) have long been at the center of
renewed evangelical concern for the poor. Sider's book, Rich Christians in an
Age of Hunger, is now in its fourth edition with over 350,000 copies in
seven different languages. In its cover story on Sider, Christianity Today (evangelicalism's
most influential magazine)
highlighted Sider's and ESA's leadership on the question of economic justice and
listed the publication of Rich Christians along with President Jimmy Carter's
election and Pat Robertson's run for the Presidency as one of the eighteen
especially important events in the emergence of evangelical Christianity in the
last fifty years.

ESA has
played a central role in developing a new evangelical environmental movement in
the last ten years. ESA was the central leader in forming the Evangelical
Environmental Network (one of four partners along with the NCC, the U.S.
Catholic Conference, and the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life).[Note:
The EEN web site states that only World Vision and Evangelicals for Social
Action founded this organization.]

EEN, which
ESA continues to lead, now enjoys the active participation of 14 mainstream
evangelical organizations all of whom are strengthening their environmental
work. In early 1995, when a new conservative Congress sought to drastically
weaken the Endangered Species Act, ESA and EEN played a key role in defending
the environment. At a news conference in Washington widely reported on ABC
Evening News and dozens of major newspapers across the U.S., ESA called on
Congress to preserve a strong Endangered Species Act in order to care for God's
creation. A comment by a key environmental staffer at the Sierra Club is widely
accepted in the larger environmental community: "We won this battle because of
the evangelicals."

ESA is a
strong voice for the full equality of women in church and society. ESA has
encouraged the development of Christians for Biblical Equality, the primary
evangelical feminist network, and continues to work with its leaders.

In recent
years, ESA has played a key role in the founding and development of Call to
Renewal
(a progressive network of evangelicals, Catholics, mainline Protestants, and
historic black and Hispanic Christians
coordinated by Jim Wallis),
and continues to be a leader of the evangelical wing of the Call to Renewal.
[See: Constance Cumbey on
Jim Wallis: “Wallis’
group has clearly been mainstream New Age from way back.”]

After World
War II, several of the younger leaders of American Protestant evangelicals
became concerned over what they saw as a lack of commitment among evangelicals
to the proclamation and achievement of social justice. Partly this was a legacy
of the most publicized split between the "fundamentalists" and "liberals" in the
early years of the century which made many evangelicals suspicious of the
so-called social gospel. However, in the 1960's and 1970's some evangelical
preachers, theologians, and educators began to feel that they had gotten too far
away from the Biblical injunctions on helping the poor and oppressed. Some of
these men and women gathered together in Chicago in 1973 to prepare a statement
on the need for Christian social action. According to the letter of invitation
which went out, "At a recent conference at Calvin College, a planning
committee (John Alexander, Myron Augsburger, Paul Henry, Rufus Jones, David O.
Moberg, William Pannell, Richard Pierard, Ronald J. Sider, Lewis Smedes,
and Jim Wallis
[Sojourners and
Call to Renewal]
was formed to plan a Thanksgiving Workshop on Evangelicals and Social Concern.
It is a workshop, not a conference. It will be a time for discussing, praying,
and concrete planning, not a time for listening to papers." At this workshop, a
statement called "A Declaration of Evangelical Social Concern" (also known as
the Chicago Declaration) was signed by participants. In this statement they
admitted that they had individually and corporately participated in forms of
racism and exploitation and pledged themselves, according to a press release, to
"rethink their lifestyle and work for a more just distribution of the world's
resources." Out of this workshop grew the annual meetings of Evangelicals for
Social Actions which were concerned with ways for implementing their concern.
A
Christian feminist group, the Evangelical Women's Caucus, in part grew out of
the meetings of ESA.

Additional Sider Info…

In 1969
Sider served with Bruce Nicholls on the World Evangelical Fellowship/WEF'sTheological Commission and chaired a committee at the 7th WEF General
Assembly, Consultation on a Simple Life Style [one of six consultations]
sponsored jointly by The Theology and Education Group of the Lausanne
Committee for World Evangelization [John
Stott]
and the Unit on Ethics and Society of the Theological Commission of WEF
[Ronald Sider].

Sider is a
corresponding editor for Billy Graham's Christianity Today. His
organization Evangelicals for Social Action has been the recipient of
grants from Pew Charitable Trust and ESA has been involved at the
policy-setting level for faith-based welfare reform.

The ESA
web site links to three ministries which are outworkings of ESA…

[John D.
Perkins, who is a Mission
America
co-chair with Billy Graham and Bill Bright]

?World Relief––an
affiliate of the National
Assoc. of Evangelicals/NAE.

NAE is a
regional member and founder of the World
Evangelical Fellowship/WEF.

Network
9:35 is promoting the
NACSW Convention “Building Communities and Strengthening Families” One of
the keynote speakers for this conference is Marian Wright Edelman,
founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund/CDF.

EEN is a
unique evangelical ministry initiated
by World Vision and Evangelicals for Social Action
as part of a growing movement among Christians to respond faithfully to our
biblical mandate for caring stewardship of God's creation. EEN was formed
because we recognize many environmental problems are fundamentally spiritual
problems. EEN's flagship publication, Creation Care magazine[published by
ESA],
provides you with biblically informed and timely articles on topics ranging from
how to protect your loved ones against environmental threats to how you can more
fully praise the Creator for the wonder of His creation…

Evangelical Declaration on the Care of Creation

The
declaration is a carefully considered statement on earth stewardship. Since the
day we released it four years ago, hundreds of evangelical leaders in North
America have expressed their agreement with the principles of the declaration by
signing on.

TheEEN
brings together major evangelical ministries, such as InterVarsity Christian
Fellowship and World Vision, for fellowship and strategic planning to
integrate God's mandate for stewardship
into their efforts.

Last year we
reconnected with Evangelicals for Social Action (ESA), which for us has become a
marriage made in heaven. Since the late 70's ESA has been one of the most
respected inter-denominational evangelical voices encouraging the church to
create wholistic ministries that meet the profound needs of our world in Jesus
name (evangelism and social concern). ESA has
invited us to create a
specialized leadership development ministry to college students that allows
these students to rub shoulders with and work alongside some of the most
talented wholistic ministers in the world.
We call this ministry Koinonia Leadership Mission and our goal is to recruit and
train college students to become church related, wholistic ministry servant
leaders!

Both the
Fieldstead Institute [Howard Fieldstead Ahmanson] and the Ethics and
Public Policy Center [Elliot Abrams, CFR
and U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom/USCIRF] are
credited by Amy Sherman for the funding of her book Restorers of Hope:
…church-based ministries that work. The book was a promo for faith-based
welfare reform/charitable choice. The federal welfare legislation passed in
1996. Sherman was the change-agent sent by Manhattan Institute and Hudson
Institute to various states' church networks; advising them on compliance for
becoming FBOs [faith-based organizations].


Q:

How to set time zone according to location?

I have developed a website for which I want to set time according to location. I mean if my site is opened in India then time zone should be automatically set Asia/Calcutta as so on according to location.
Thanks in advance !!!

A:

You can pass timezone from your page with JavaScript:
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jstimezonedetect/1.0.4/jstz.min.js"></script>
<script>
    $(document).ready(function(){
        var tz = jstz.determine();
        var tzname = tz.name();
        $.post("timezone.php", {timezone: tzname});
    });
</script>

And then process it in PHP script timezone.php.


Dry Bones

Dry Bones may refer to:

The Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, in the Book of Ezekiel
"Dem Bones", a traditional song based on Ezekiel 37:14
"Dry Bones" (folk song)
 Dry Bones (comic strip), a political cartoon published in The Jerusalem Post, 1973-
"Dry Bones", a short story by William Sanders
 Dry Bones, the band that later changed their name to Everdown and signed to Solid State Records
Dry Bones (character), a recurring enemy character from the Super Mario series


Impulse response of nonlinear Schrödinger equation and its implications for pre-dispersed fiber-optic communication systems.
In the presence of pre-dispersion, an exact solution of nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE) is derived for impulse input. The phase factor of the exact solution is obtained in a closed form using the exponential integral. The nonlinear interaction among periodically placed impulses launched at the input is investigated, and the condition under which these pulses do not exchange energy is examined. It is found that if the complex weights of the impulses at the input have a secant-hyperbolic envelope and a proper chirp factor, they will propagate over long distances without exchanging energy. To describe their interaction, a discrete version of NLSE is derived. The derived equation is a form of discrete self-trapping (DST) equation, which is found to admit fundamental and higher order soliton solutions in the presence of high pre-dispersion. Nonlinear eigenmodes derived here may be useful for description of signal propagation and nonlinear interaction in highly pre-dispersion fiber-optic systems.


Background
==========

Panic disorder is one of the anxiety disorders. Anxiety is associated with locomotor activity as described in some assessment tools for anxiety, such as the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale \[[@B1]\] and the Hamilton Anxiety Scale (HAM-A) \[[@B2]\], which includes items related to \"restlessness\".

There has been only one group investigating locomotor activity that objectively assessed patients with panic disorder. Clark et al. \[[@B3]\] reported that mean daily activity was higher in patients without phobic avoidance than in controls. The device for recording locomotor activity used in this previous study was attached to the lateral thigh, measured 4 × 8 × 12 cm and weighed 0.5 kg, and recorded physical activity categorized to eight levels. Therefore, the device would not be able to detect subtle changes in locomotor activity such as restlessness.

In other psychiatric diseases, such as seasonal affective disorder, major depressive disorder and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, wrist-worn activity monitors have been used to investigate the locomotor activity pattern and have successfully detected changes in the locomotor activity pattern in these psychiatric diseases \[[@B4]-[@B6]\].

Therefore, the aim of the present study was to investigate for two weeks the relationship between panic disorder and locomotor activity pattern using a wrist-worn activity monitor. In addition, in order to avoid recall bias panic attacks were recorded in a watch-type computer momentarily instead of interviewing patients. Recording data such as symptoms and physical activity momentarily in natural settings have been developed as an ecological momentary assessment (EMA) technique \[[@B7]-[@B9]\]. We hypothesized that patients with more severe symptoms such as more frequent attacks and more anxiety had greater amplitude as well as mesor and that there may be some relationship between more severe symptoms and the acrophase of locomotor activity because there were some studies on change in the circadian rhythm of physiological markers or symptoms in panic disorder \[[@B10]-[@B12]\].

Methods
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All the procedures and materials were approved by the institutional review board of the University of Tokyo and of the Warakukai Incorporated Medical Institution, and written informed consent was obtained from all subjects before the study.

Subjects
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Sixteen patients with panic attacks were recruited for the study through advertisements placed on the website and in the medical office of the Research **C**enter of Panic Disorder (Akasaka Clinic) and on the website of our department. Patients who applied for participation were interviewed and screened by a well-trained physician (N.S.).

Inclusion criteria were as follows: diagnosis of panic disorder according to DSM-IV-TR criteria \[[@B13]\]; at least one panic attack during each of the last two weeks; and age ≥ 20 but ≤ 50 years. Exclusion criteria were: current other psychiatric disease assessed by the Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview for DSM-IV criteria \[[@B14]\]; personality disorder assessed by the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV criteria \[[@B15]\]; and severe physical illness. Patients were allowed to take medications, but not allowed to change medications during the recording period.

Measurements
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### Psychological variables

The overall severity of panic disorder was measured by the total score on the clinician-rated Panic Disorder Severity Scale (PDSS) \[[@B16],[@B17]\]. In addition, HAM-A \[[@B2]\] was used for assessment of general clinical severity. The two scales were performed **on**the first day of the present study.

### Frequency of panic attacks

To record momentary panic attack intensity, watch-type computers (Ruputer ECOLOG; 42 g, Seiko Instruments Inc., Tokyo, Japan) were used as electronic diaries \[[@B8],[@B9]\]. The computer was equipped with a screen measuring 20 × 30 mm. and a joystick and button as input devices. Subjects were fully instructed how to use the device and given manuals before the beginning of the study period. They also practised manipulating the device with one of the authors (N.S.) until they became accustomed to its use.

Subjects wore the watch-type computers for 14 consecutive days. Event-contingent recordings were defined as recordings that were initiated by the subjects themselves when a particular event occurred \[[@B7]\]. In this study, subjects were asked to make a recording every time they had a panic attack as an event-contingent recording.

In the electronic diaries, subjects were asked questions about subjective physical symptoms. The questions were 18 items arranged to evaluate 13 panic symptoms according to DSM-IV-TR criteria. The eighteen panic symptom items included \"palpitation\", \"sweating\", \"shaking\", \"feeling of choking\", \"sensations of smothering\", \"chest pain\", \"abdominal distress\", \"feeling dizzy\", \"feeling unsteady\", \"feeling faint\", \"feelings of unreality\", \"depersonalization\", \"fear of going crazy\", \"fear of dying\", \"numbness\", \"tingling sensations\", \"chills\", and \"hot flushes\". Subjective symptoms were rated on 21-point visual analogue scales (VAS) from 0 to 100 displayed on the screen. Each word for a subjective symptom was displayed with the VAS as a question, and the anchor words \'none\' and \'most intense\' were displayed at the respective ends of the scale. By manipulating a joystick, the subjects adjusted the length of the bar so that it corresponded to their subjective symptom intensity at that moment. Panic attacks were verified by confirming that the symptoms recorded satisfied the criteria of panic attacks according to DSN-IV-TR criteria.

Because the recording periods were different among patients due to battery problems or patient convenience, the frequency of panic attacks was calculated by dividing panic attacks by the recording period instead of simply using the number of panic attacks.

### Physical activity

Wrist activity monitors were built into the watch-type computers used for recording panic attacks and worked synchronously with the computers. They were worn all day and night on the non-dominant hand for 14 consecutive days. The instrument was removed for bathing, showering or any other activity likely to cause water damage. The time the instrument was taken off and put back on was recorded by selecting \'taking off\' or \'putting on\' from the menu. The activity monitors are uni-axial piezo-electronic accelerometers with a sensitivity of 0.01 g, and are analogous in performance to the Actigraph Mini-Motionlogger (Ambulatory Monitors Inc., Ardsley, NY, USA), which has frequently been used in studies of physical activity. Zero-crossing mode was used and acceleration counts were accumulated for every epoch of 1 min.

### Data analysis

Cosinor analysis was used to assess the timing and amplitude of **the**circadian rhythm of physical activity. Because the duration of the daytime activity period is greater than the nighttime quiescent period, traditional cosinor analysis is not suitable for analyzing physical activity data. Therefore, double cosinor analysis was used in the present study, in which the simultaneous fit of two cosine functions was performed, one with a period of 24 hours and the other with a 12-hour period \[[@B6],[@B18]\]. This model yields estimates of mesor (corrected mean) and the amplitude and acrophase (time of the peak of the fit rhythm) of the circadian rhythm and 12-hour harmonic component. According to previous studies \[[@B6],[@B18]\], activity counts at 5-min intervals were analyzed using double cosinor analysis.

### Statistical analysis

Pearson\'s correlation analysis was used to investigate the relationship between panic disorder symptoms (frequency of panic attacks, PDSS, HAM-A) and locomotor activity variables calculated from the double cosinor analysis.

Results
=======

Patient characteristics (Table [1](#T1){ref-type="table"})
----------------------------------------------------------

######

Demographic and medical characteristics of the subjects

  --------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
  sample size                             n = 16 (male: n = 2, female: n = 14)

  Age\* (years)                           32.8 ± 5.2

  Diagnosis                               PD with Agoraphobia: n = 16,\
                                          PD without Agoraphobia: n = 0

  Duration of panic disorder^†^(months)   61 (1 -- 267)

  PDSS\*                                  12.0 ± 3.6

  HAM-A\*                                 21.1 ± 8.4

  Recording periods^†^(days)              14 (11--18)

  Number of recorded panic attacks^†^     3.5 (1--10)
  --------------------------------------- --------------------------------------

\* Variables are shown as mean ± SD.

^†^Variables are shown as median (minimum -- maximum).

PD, panic disorder; PDSS, Panic Disorder Severity Scale; HAM-A, the Hamilton Anxiety Scale.

All patients met criteria for panic disorder with agoraphobia according to DSM-IV criteria. The patients consisted of two male and 14 female patients (32.8 ± 5.2 years). All the patients completed their recordings for at least 11 days (range, 11 to 18 days, median 14 days). All the patients recorded at least one panic attack during their recordings (range, 1 to 10 attacks, median 3.5 attacks). Three patients took no medication, four patients took a benzodiazepine, eight patients took a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) and a benzodiazepine, and one patient took a SSRI, a tricyclic antidepressant, and a benzodiazepine.

Correlations between panic disorder symptoms and locomotor activity variables from dual cosinor analysis (Table [2](#T2){ref-type="table"})
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######

Correlations between panic disorder symptoms and locomotor activity (n = 16)

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
                       PDSS    HAM-A   Frequency
  -------------------- ------- ------- ----------- ------ ------- ------
  Mesor                0.71    0.79    0.62        0.01   0.55    0.03

  Amplitude\           0.22    0.41    0.35        0.19   0.16    0.55
  (circadian)

  Amplitude\           0.00    1.00    0.42        0.10   0.46    0.08
  (12 hour harmonic)

  Acrophase\           0.13    0.62    0.22        0.42   0.36    0.18
  (circadian)

  Acrophase\           -0.27   0.31    -0.18       0.51   -0.18   0.49
  (12 hour harmonic)
  ----------------------------------------------------------------------

PDSS, Panic Disorder Severity Scale; HAM-A, the Hamilton Anxiety Scale; Frequency, number of panic attacks per day during the recording period.

Representative data for locomotor activity and a fitted line from double cosinor analysis are shown in Figure [1](#F1){ref-type="fig"}.

![**Representative data for locomotor activity and a fitted line from double cosinor analysis**. The shaggy black line graph shows physical activity counts per 5 minutes. The grey smooth line graph shows a fitted curve calculated from double cosinor analysis. The arrows show the times when panic attacks occurred.](1751-0759-2-23-1){#F1}

There were significant positive correlations between the frequency of panic attacks and mesor calculated from the double cosinor analysis of locomotor activity (r = 0.55, p = 0.03) and between HAM-A scores and mesor calculated from the double cosinor analysis of locomotor activity (r = 0.62, p = 0.01) (Figure [2](#F2){ref-type="fig"}). There were no significant correlations between any other variables and the frequency of panic attacks.

![**Scatter plots of mesor and frequency of panic attacks and HAM-A scores**. (a) A scatter plot of mesor and frequency of panic attacks per day. There was a significant positive correlation (r = 0.55, p = 0.03). (b) A scatter plot of mesor and HAM-A scores. There was a significant positive correlation (r = 0.62, p = 0.01).](1751-0759-2-23-2){#F2}

Discussion
==========

In the present study, significant positive correlations were found between the frequency of panic attacks and mesor calculated from the double cosinor analysis of locomotor activity and between Hamilton Anxiety Scale scores and mesor calculated from the double cosinor analysis of locomotor activity, which means that patients with more panic attacks and with more anxiety have greater mean locomotor activity levels.

The results of the present study are consistent with those of the previous study by Clark et al. \[[@B3]\], which showed that mean daily activity was higher in patients without phobic avoidance than in controls. However, the comorbidity of agoraphobia was different between the present study and the previous study. Therefore, it is difficult to compare the results between the two studies.

Previous studies showed that physical activity might be a trigger for panic attacks in patients with panic disorder \[[@B19],[@B20]\], which implies the possibility that higher locomotor activity might cause more panic attacks in the present study. However, Broman-Fulks et al. \[[@B21]\] recently reported that aerobic exercise reduced anxiety sensitivity. Therefore, further studies on the relationship between physical activity and anxiety are needed.

There was no significant correlation between amplitude and attack frequency or HAM-A or between acrophase, and attack frequency or HAM-A in the present study, contrary to our hypothesis, which suggests that more severe symptoms are not related to greater diurnal variation of locomotor activity or with the acrophase of locomotor activity. Therefore, the results in the present study suggest that patients with more severe symptoms had greater locomotor activity evenly throughout day and night without increased diurnal variation and without change in acrophase.

There are some limitations in the present study. First, the sample size was relatively small. Second, all patients took medications such as SSRI. Therefore, it is difficult to exclude the influence of medications on the relationship between panic attacks and locomotor activity, although the medications that the patients took did not change during the recording period. Third, all our patients had agoraphobia. Therefore, it is not clear if these results can be applied to patients without agoraphobia. Fourth, the temporal relationship between panic attacks and locomotor activity could not be investigated by cosinor analysis. Therefore, further studies on temporal relationship between panic attacks and locomotor activity are necessary to investigate the influence of panic attacks on locomotor activity. Finally, there were no healthy controls in the present study. Therefore, further studies are needed to investigate the difference in locomotor activity between panic disorder patients and healthy controls.

Conclusion
==========

Panic disorder patients with more panic attacks and more anxiety have greater objectively assessed locomotor activity, which may reflect the symptoms of anxiety disorders.

Competing interests
===================

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Authors\' contributions
=======================

NS designed the study, collected the data, interpreted the results, and drafted the manuscript. KY designed the study, analyzed the data, performed the statistical analysis, interpreted the results, and drafted the manuscript. YT designed the study, interpreted the results and drafted the manuscript. HK1 analyzed the data, performed the statistical analysis, interpreted the results, and drafted the manuscript. YY helped analyze the data, interpret the results, and draft the manuscript. HK2, HK3, and AA helped interpret the results, and draft the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.


Carpal tunnel syndrome incidence in a general population.
To determine the incidence of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) in a general population of a restricted area in the middle part of Italy. Prospective study to identify cases of CTS, newly diagnosed on the basis of clinical symptoms and delay in distal conduction velocity of the median nerve. In the 8-year period from 1991 to 1998, cases were identified by electromyographic services in the Siena area of Local Health District No. 7 of Tuscany (Italy). This area has a population of 120,000. In the 8-year period, 3,142 cases (79.7% women and 20.3% men; mean age, 55 years; range, 13 to 97 years) were identified. The mean annual crude incidence was 329 cases per 100,000 person-years, and the standardized incidence was 276. The sex-specific incidences were 139 for men and 506 for women. The mean annual incidence for men increased moderately but significantly during the study period, whereas that for women remained constant. The age-specific incidence for women increased gradually with age, reaching a peak between 50 and 59 years, after which it declined. In men, there was a bimodal distribution with peaks between 50 and 59 years and between 70 and 79 years. Rural and industrial areas had higher crude and age- and sex-specific incidences than did urban areas. The incidence in the Siena area is about threefold that reported in the Rochester area (Minnesota) and is similar to that of Marshfield (Wisconsin). The different results with respect to US reports may depend on case inclusion criteria and occupational activities of the population at risk.


The goal of our work is to understand the role of low-, mid-, and high- spatial frequency bands in face recognition. Using stimuli containing only partial spatial frequency information (e.g., low resolution images), our experiments seek to titrate out the contribution of the different bands by examining under what circumstances the loss of information causes a failure in recognition. It is believed that featural information is carried by the high spatial frequencies (sf) while configural information resides in the lower sf bands. This predicts that featural changes would be harder to detect than configural ones as the sf content in an image shifts towards the low frequencies. However, contrary to expectations, we find that the detectability of both configural and featural changes degrades at the same rate across this transformation. We additionally find that reaction times for recognition are higher for low-resolution images, and that observers' tolerance to image degradations is enhanced by familiarity with the individuals depicted in the images.

The pattern of results so far suggests that the human visual system might use an iterative process and prior experience with faces to compensate for missing information. This led us to implement a computational technique for information “fill-in” using a database of calibrated faces as “prior knowledge.” Relying on statistical dependencies between different parts of the image, the information missing in a given image due to, say, occlusion or blurring, can be reconstructed from the database patch-by-patch. This technique may serve as a model of cognitive processes underlying top-down influences on image analysis.


Rigo-Fede disease: case report.
Riga-Fede disease results when an infant's instinctive tongue thrusting and raking motion over recently erupted primary mandibular incisors causes a traumatic ulceration of the tongue and/or mouth floor. The symptoms and therapeutic approach to the condition are highlighted in this case report.


Q:

AJAX request takes too long to complete the request

I have a MySQL query which gets 17000 rows. If i execute that query directly in MySQL terminal using Putty, it takes 17 ~ 20 sec to get all rows. This is fine.
But when i tried to execute the query using PHP with an AJAX request, It takes 50 ~ 60 sec to complete the request, even this query was cached.
I am using CodeIgniter PHP framework for caching and its AJAX request.
I agree, the HTTP request and PHP execution might take time when compared to direct MySQL query execution in the terminal.
MySQL direct query execution : 20 sec
Using HTTP, php, Codeigniter and JSON format and it is cached : 60 sec.
The time difference too long i guess.
Model query that i am trying to execute:
mysql> explain SELECT col1, col2, col3, col4, IFNULL(col5,'N/A') AS 'col55', `col6`, col7, col8, col9 FROM table1 LEFT JOIN table1 ON table1.fkid_colid=`voyage id` AND table1.alias_type='voyage_display' WHERE column10='voyage';
+----+-------------+--------------+------+-------------------------------------+---------+---------+------------------------------------+-------+-------------+
| id | select_type | table        | type | possible_keys                       | key     | key_len | ref                                | rows  | Extra       |
+----+-------------+--------------+------+-------------------------------------+---------+---------+------------------------------------+-------+-------------+
|  1 | SIMPLE      | table1       | ALL  | NULL                                | NULL    | NULL    | NULL                               | 37770 | Using where |
|  1 | SIMPLE      | table1       | ref  | PRIMARY,fk_table1_colid_idx         | PRIMARY | 4       | database.table1.column ID |     1 | Using index |
+----+-------------+--------------+------+-------------------------------------+---------+---------+------------------------------------+-------+-------------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Have any idea for this longer loading time? it would be if you suggest any optimization techniques for this?

A:

Yes. I just found the issue by profiling the controller function.
So as per the Codeigniter profiling the result as below,
Controller Execution Time : 27.7074 seconds.
And after that i looked Chrome console for the time taken to complete the request, From that i came to know one issue.
Stalled : 17.32 s
DNS Lookup: 1.000 ms
Initial connection  :262.000 ms
Request/Response        TIME
Request sent    0
Waiting (TTFB)  1.03 s
Content Download    29.84 s
Total time: 48.46 s

From the report, the big issue is "Stalled" time. It took 17.32 seconds. It was happened due to my side proxy issue and It cannot be avoid and it won't happen in my customer side. So it is negligible.
So,
Direct query execution 17 ~ 20 seconds
Ajax request for content download in browser side: 29 ~ 30 seconds.
So the difference is 10 seconds for 3MB content download and my customer is accepted :)
Thank you for your responses.


Coincheck, the Japanese cryptocurrency exchange that saw major losses in a recent hack, is reportedly being hit by another lawsuit demanding refund of cryptocurrency assets.

According to Japanese media outlet Sankei, an additional 132 investors have joined a class action suit filed with the Tokyo District Court on Feb. 27 that seeks a refund of about 228 million yen (around $2.1 million) in cryptocurrency.

The new case again puts Coincheck in the spotlight once more, as the exchange has yet to disclose details of how it plans to compensate victims who saw some $530 million-worth of NEM tokens stolen from the exchange on Jan. 26.

As reported, following the heist, Coincheck said it would refund victims with its existing capital. Yet, the claim has drawn attention from Japan’s financial watchdog, which said it will conduct an on-site inspection to determine the firm’s capability of repaying such a large amount.

Seven Coincheck customers previously filed a class action – the first against the platform – on Feb. 15, according a Reuters report.

That case sought damages of $183,000 in cryptocurrency assets, and also demanded that Coincheck pay 5 percent annualized interest on the amount until a refund is possible.

Currently, Coincheck has only reinstated the withdrawal of Japanese yen on its platform, prompting an immediate outflow equivalent to $373 million on the first day of resumption on Feb. 14.

Meanwhile, the platform’s plan for cryptocurrency withdrawals and compensation are still unclear.

Japanese yen image via Shutterstock


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What is the a'th term of 1243247, 1243255, 1243265, 1243277?
a**2 + 5*a + 1243241
What is the t'th term of -159269551, -159269552, -159269553?
-t - 159269550
What is the m'th term of -171847, -172026, -172205, -172384?
-179*m - 171668
What is the q'th term of -20473, -40753, -61017, -81259, -101473, -121653?
q**3 + 2*q**2 - 20293*q - 183
What is the o'th term of 1042386549, 1042386550, 1042386551, 1042386552, 1042386553?
o + 1042386548
What is the h'th term of 94403, 188838, 283273, 377708, 472143, 566578?
94435*h - 32
What is the d'th term of 28, 100, 146, 94, -128, -592, -1370, -2534?
-12*d**3 + 59*d**2 - 21*d + 2
What is the g'th term of 33128, 131109, 294414, 523043, 816996, 1176273, 1600874?
32662*g**2 - 5*g + 471
What is the a'th term of 2602630, 2602682, 2602730, 2602774, 2602814, 2602850, 2602882?
-2*a**2 + 58*a + 2602574
What is the i'th term of -76121, -77293, -78453, -79595, -80713, -81801,


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				case NamedDirectory.MyMusic:         path = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.MyMusic); break;
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Tag: excerpt

The excellent folks at The Nation (who published my first-ever piece of labor journalism) have an excerpt from Necessary Trouble up, as the book continues to roll on.

The [Teaching Assistants’ Association] had already planned a rally for Valentine’s Day, in a preemptive strike against likely cuts to the university, and Hanna was deluged with emails asking her to come home. She was observing the popular revolution that had begun in Egypt in the winter of 2011, part of what came to be known as the Arab Spring. But the attacks on the union and the university were serious enough that she returned just in time for the February 14 action. The TAA led a crowd of marchers up State Street from the university campus to deliver a thousand valentines protesting Act 10 to Walker at the Capitol. It was an impressive showing, but marches were common enough in Madison that few expected this one to be different. Jenni Dye, a lawyer based in Madison, was downtown eating brunch and saw the protesters. “I thought, ‘Oh look, another Madison protest.’”

The wonderful folks at Moyers & Company have excerpted my chapter on one of my greatest obsessions, the Red Scare.

To Sawant, the victory showed that her message, and its appeal to the working class of a wealthy city, had resonance. “People don’t need some kind of detailed graduate-level economics lesson; they understand that the market is not working for them. The market is making them homeless. The market is making them cityless. And they’re fed up, and they’re angry.” Angry enough, it seemed, to take a leap of faith and support a candidate whose ideas had only recently been presumed to be unthinkable.

The wonderful people at Dame magazine (including Lisa Butterworth, who I go back to Bust days with) have run an excerpt from Necessary Trouble and I’m really pleased in particular that this chunk of the book made it online–it was a bunch of points that needed making, dots that needed connecting and I was happy with the way I did it. Check it out

The nuclear family that has been the focus of so much handwringing and moralizing in recent years was not a product of human nature but rather of a particular period in U.S capitalism. The family wage, designed to allow a male breadwinner to support a wife and children, was bargained for by the labor movement and accepted, though uneasily, by business leaders during the New Deal period. It allowed many working-class women, as well as their wealthier sisters, to stay home with their children; it built the middle class. The family wage—that is, material conditions—shaped our ideas of the male and female role in the workplace and in the home, in public and in private.

Another excerpt at another of my favorite outlets to write for: the folks at Truthout pulled from my chapter on OUR Walmart and chose yet another section about the intersectional working class. A theme, perhaps? Necessary Trouble is also a Progressive Pick there this week, meaning you can buy the book and make a donation to Truthout to support independent journalism (including my own) in the future.

The image conjured by the term “working class” in the United States has been one of mostly white men toiling in a factory, wearing hard hats and those oft-evoked blue collars. Our labor policy was shaped around those men and the assumption that workers get health insurance from their jobs, have a pension on which to retire, and make a “family wage” that allows them to support a wife, who stays home to take care of the kids and the cooking and cleaning.

The folks at Dissent, the lovely people who bring you Belabored, ran an excerpt from Necessary Trouble.

“I tried for many, many years to be ‘Mrs. All America.’” Nancy Daniel said, sitting in a coffee shop in a northern suburb of Atlanta, Georgia. “I married a guy in the military and divorced him. Had two kids. Tried to do everything right, or what I was being taught was right. And it didn’t work that way. It just didn’t.” She’d greeted me with an embrace, telling me, “I’m a hugger,” although we were there to talk about a sobering subject. Daniel, like millions of other Americans, had been struggling since 2009 to keep her home.


Debugging XEmacs

This page is trying to lower the entry level for anybody who wants
to debug problems with the installation or operation of
XEmacs.

While the diagnosis of a flat tire is fairly intuitive (you just
rotate all four tires around the car and observe whether the fault
moves with it), debugging problems with XEmacs can be frustrating
to beginners. This is because XEmacs is not just another editor,
it's better thought of as an operating environment or system.

Following are the most obvious resources to get started with the
debugging of XEmacs. Please report any problems you may have to
access these resources.

XEmacs now has an issue tracking system
issue tracking
system,
based on the Roundup issue tracker designed by Ka-Ping Yee and
implemented by Richard Jones.

Before reporting a new bug, please check the
issue
tracker for similar issues (which may be closed,
especially if you are using a version of XEmacs which is not
current).

You can create a new issue directly in your browser by
registering as a user on the issue tracker.
If you would prefer to report by email (which does not require
preregistration but may involve some delays), please install the latest net-utils
package (>=1.23) from http://ftp.xemacs.org/packages/
or a mirror and then use one of these options:

Help->Send Bug Report...

M-x report-xemacs-bug

This will tell us enough about your XEmacs installation so that we
should be able to help you.

On some operating systems, especially some current Linux distributions,
core files have been disabled by default. Typing
ulimit -c unlimited in the shell before starting XEmacs
from it may help you in getting a core file.

If XEmacs does not build or start up, or you don't have a working
net-utils package, then please send mail to xemacs-beta@xemacs.org
by other means as plain text (MIME attachments are OK, but please
don't send HTML mail).


Oscar Insurance Founders Bring a Techie Take to Obamacare (Interview)

The technology industry likes to think of itself as working on legitimately hard problems with the potential for massive positive impact on the world. Sometimes that’s true, other times … it’s hard to make the case.

But when startups bring tech smarts and design into large, hidebound industries, the good fight may actually be getting fought. The latest such effort is Oscar, a new healthcare startup. It offers its own health insurance.

Oscar is the only new commercial health insurance provider in New York State in the last 15 years.

The Oscar service includes three free physician visits, unlimited calls to a doctor at any time of the day or night, and unlimited generic drugs. Its least-expensive plan is priced near the bottom of the market — currently the third cheapest of 17 options on the new Obamacare health insurance exchange in New York.

To be clear, Oscar has not even begun to offer its service yet (January 1 is the kickoff). It’s getting a steady stream of press due in part to a famous co-founder, but that means little for its long-term prospects.

Add the uncharted territory of health insurance to the gazillions of reasons that technology startups could fail. And the Affordable Care Act is not exactly a beacon of stability.

But here’s the Oscar pitch, honed over the last two years — which has raised $40 million from investors including General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures and Founders Fund, and is exceedingly well-timed to the launch of Obamacare — straight from the mouths of co-founders Josh Kushner and Mario Schlosser via a recent phone interview.

Health insurance in the United States is traditionally sold to employers. That misaligns incentives around care for actual people, and creates data gaps between something happening, the availability of a provider and the billing process.

By bridging the healthcare process together, Oscar thinks it can be more effective and cheaper. And, not a pain in the ass for all involved.

“We actually can make an impact because we control the relationship,” said Kushner, a real estate scion who invested in Instagram via his VC firm Thrive Capital and already has his own Wikipedia page. He and Schlosser previously co-founded the Brazilian social gaming company Vostu. “We were fortunate enough to dig into this and learn as much as we could before everything went into action.”

“There’s just a lot of startups out there that are incremental,” Kushner adds. “There’s so big many problems to solve, so why would you do anything else?”

“Originally Oscar was not contingent on the ACA,” said Schlosser. “But along the way we realized, wow, we can do so much more than be a pretty user interface.”

The company spent two years getting certified in New York, which required something like 9,000 pages worth of filings, contracts and descriptions of how the business works, he said.

Further, the company needed so much capital because it had to set aside an ever-growing amount in reserve due to regulatory mandates ($1 in reserves for every $8 in premiums). Today, $29 million of the funding is held in reserve.

“If you look really closely you realize there’s a lot of data points to grab,” said Schlosser. “Normally, when you walk in to the doctor’s office, you will get a claim from that doctor probably four weeks later.” By contrast, Oscar registers the beginning of care in its system when the patient initiates a phone call or appointment.

Or another example: Telemedicine. With traditional health insurance relationships, if a patient gets a migraine at four in the morning on a Saturday, often the best available option for care is an emergency room. That’s overkill, and expensive and inefficient for everyone involved. Better to send the patient to a doctor via telephone who can pull up her medical history and send a report to her regular provider.

Those insights come from a team of 42 people composed of techies like Foursquare co-founder Naveen Selvadurai and healthcare experts like Aran Ron, a doctor and long-time health insurance executive who was chief medical officer at Emblem in New York.

“Whenever we do something, we do it in a sound actuarial way,” Schlosser said. “Our insurance premiums were not just cooked up by our own spreadsheets.”

So what happens if Obamacare gets sacrificed amid the ongoing political meltdown? Would that have an adverse impact on Oscar? Kushner’s answer isn’t the most convincing, but he claims he’s not worried.

“I don’t think we’re the best to speak to that, but I would say no; we’re already a business,” he said.

The challenge now is getting people to sign up for Oscar. That hasn’t been helped by the repeated downtime the New York exchange had in its first week.

Kushner and Schlosser said they plan to focus on the New York market for the foreseeable future. “There are about a million people in a 50-mile radius for whom it would be a good idea to sign up for this,” Schlosser said.

“We’re treating this like a political campaign, trying to get the word out,” Kushner said. “We’re on the streets. We have a ground game.”

AllThingsD by Writer

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Four men who pleaded guilty to various drug charges have had their convictions vacated because their cases were linked to three corrupt East Cleveland narcotics detectives.

CLEVELAND (AP) - Four men who pleaded guilty to various drug charges have had their convictions vacated because their cases were linked to three corrupt East Cleveland narcotics detectives.

The charges against Jeffrey Brown, Khalid Dervic, Richard Hodges and Theotis Miller were dropped after the men withdrew their guilty pleas on Thursday in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court.

Prosecutors have asked judges to overturn 40 convictions in cases investigated by Sgt. Torris Moore and detectives Antonio Malone and Eric Jones.

The officers each pleaded guilty to federal corruption-related crimes in 2015 after it was discovered that they filed bogus search warrants with false statements to steal money from suspected drug dealers.


TEEN SPIRIT Manga

Manga Summary:
From Eclipse Scans
Hwee Kang is in a band with all his friends and is recruited by a well known company called JBL because they all have the looks of stars. However, there are high expectations. During the audition, what surprise will they give everyone, and what will Hwee Kang do?


Batman: Arkham Knight

PC

PlayStation 4

Xbox One

Batman faces the ultimate threat against the city he is sworn to protect. The Scarecrow returns to unite an impressive roster of super villains, including Penguin, Two-Face and Harley Quinn, to destroy The Dark Knight forever. The game introduces Rocksteady's uniquely designed version of the Batmobile---drivable for the first time in the franchise. Batman: Arkham Knight offers gamers the ultimate and complete Batman experience as they tear through the streets and soar across the skyline of the entirety of Gotham City.


Bulk cryogenic storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) gas is a recent historical development in the beverage industry. Vacuum jacketed storage containers delivering 300 pounds to 750 pounds or more of liquified CO2 gas are widely used. These containers safely deliver gaseous CO2 at pressures above 90 pounds per square inch by converting the liquid CO2 to gas using a natural conversion process through a simple temperature increase effected by ambient temperatures at the location of use.
The gas delivered from such tanks is widely used in conjunction with beverage dispensing machines of the type commonly found in restaurants, convenience stores, theaters, amusement parks and the like. The carbon dioxide (CO2) is mixed with water to produce carbonated water under pressure. The carbonated water then is mixed with a syrup at the dispensing machine to produce the finished carbonated beverage.
CO2 in its gaseous state is a tasteless, colorless, odorless gas which naturally displaces oxygen. If this gas is accumulated in sufficient density in a closed space, such as a storage room, it is hazardous, if not lethal. In facilities which initially produce CO2 gas for ultimate delivery and consumption, multiple safety procedures are employed. Among these are detectors which sense when the CO2 gas level in a particular area exceeds a safe level, to produce a warning alarm.
Bulk storage tanks, however, frequently are located in a confined area adjacent a beverage dispensing machine, frequently, in a small room one wall of which backs onto the location of the machine, or in some other area which is frequented by employees of the establishment using the beverage dispensing machine. CO2 sensors or safety devices typically are not employed where bulk storage tanks are used to supply CO2 to a beverage dispensing machine. In such situations, both employees of the establishment and customers may be exposed to unsafe levels of CO2 gas without their knowledge.
If the syrup box or container used to deliver the flavored syrup to the beverage dispensing machine is empty while the CO2 dispensing line is connected to it, the drop in pressure will allow CO2 gas to pass outwardly into the surrounding area. Also, if a leak should occur in the gas line for delivering the gaseous CO2 to the carbonator or beverage box of a beverage dispensing machine, or if for any reason there is a failure to turn off the delivery of CO2 gas, a drop in pressure, sometimes sudden, takes place at the bulk storage tank.
A sudden drop in pressure of CO2 delivered from the tank causes the liquid CO2 in the bulk container to turn into “dry ice”. When this occurs, further delivery of gaseous CO2 from the tank is precluded. This necessitates some type of a service call, since when this occurs, further operation of the beverage dispensing machine ceases. Service calls of this type are unscheduled and are expensive, driving up the operating costs of the entire system.
It is desirable to provide a safety system for bulk cryogenic storage tanks which overcomes the disadvantages of the prior art.


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How to avoid getting ripped off on website development

Every so often, I’ll come across someone who had bright eyed
dreams about launching a website as part of their business plan, only to have
those dreams go down in flames because someone they trusted with their hard
earned money failed to deliver the desired website on time, if at all. The
average losses they suffered in terms of websites that were half done or poorly
done has been about $400-900. How could this happen?

The problem comes into play due in part to greed on behalf
of the website developer, and lack of knowledge on the part of the customer.
Usually, the potential customer asks friends for referrals to web developers or
they post on the various social media sites looking for someone. Without doing
much research, they pick a developer who sounds convincing and seems “technical.”
The developer charges anywhere from $250 to over $1,000+ to do the whole
website without providing a lot of details about what’s all involved. They
usually pressure customers to pay the entire amount up front. A few customers
try to negotiate a lower fee or pay half as a deposit, promising to pay the
other half when the site is complete.

Regardless of what price is negotiated, the outcome is often
the same: The developer starts on the site, putting up a web page or two,
adding some photos and text, and few social media links here and there, and
then poof! They vanish. The customer tries calling, but no answer or the number
is disconnected. Hundreds of their hard earned dollars gone and they’re ready
to sue.

But wait. Is there anything you could have done differently to avoid losing so much money?


Wallaces Corner, Virginia

Wallaces Corner is an unincorporated community in Stafford County, in the U.S. state of Virginia.

References

Category:Unincorporated communities in Virginia
Category:Unincorporated communities in Stafford County, Virginia


Monks of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

The Carmelite Monks or Monks of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel is a cloistered contemplative religious community of diocesan right dedicated to a humble life of prayer.  They are known for their loyalty to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church and to the ancient traditions of Carmel.  Their life includes strict separation from the world and the living of the cloistered Carmelite spirituality and way of life established by St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Jesus.  In accord with the Carmelite Rule, they engage in manual labor and the study of Carmelite spirituality in the solitude of the mountains, with the firm hope of attaining to Union with God.

Role of Cloistered Monks in Carmel
The Carmelite Monks are cloistered Carmelite men who dedicate their lives to prayer and the pursuit of virtue so as to be a hidden leaven of grace for the Church's mission in the world. Their priests are called choir monks since their entire hidden priesthood is devoted to the following: offering daily the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the chanting of the Divine Office in the choir and pursuing the heights of the mystical life through personal holiness and contemplative prayer. Though they are completely cloistered, they also share the fruits of their solitary lives by hearing confessions and giving spiritual direction to people who may come to the monastery.

As cloistered Carmelites, they are not active friars, but pray for their fellow Carmelites who have that mission. For this reason they do not belong to either the Ancient Observance or Discalced branches of the Carmelite Order.  All Carmelites originated as hermit monks, but the main branches of the order have been mendicant friars since the 13th century.

In one of the first works of the Carmelite Order, The Institutions of the First Monks, written near the beginning of the order, the charism of the Carmelites was laid out as a hidden life of contemplative prayer carried out in the solitary wilderness by a monk. The Carmelite monks follow this same solitary monastic Carmelite charism.

Cloistered Carmelite nuns also consider themselves to be cloistered monastic hermits. Their life and the life of the Carmelite Monks' are similar in that both are cloistered Carmelite contemplatives and follow many of the same customs.

Background of the Community
The Carmelite Monks were founded in 2003 by the authority of Bishop David Ricken, D.D., J.C.L. in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cheyenne, Wyoming, with Fr. Daniel Mary of Jesus Crucified, M. Carm. as the first and founding Prior of the community.

Fr. Daniel Mary was trained for eleven years in a hermitage of the Ancient Observance and through a close relationship with several houses of cloistered discalced Carmelite Nuns.  Fr. Daniel Mary was clothed as a Carmelite by members of the order and lived in vows in a house of the order for many years.

The Carmelite Monks use the suffix M.Carm. to designate membership in their order, which is the abbreviation of the Latin words Monachi Carmeli.  This means "Monks of Carmel" in English.

Charism
The Carmelite Monks' spirituality and life are based on four pillars that are essential to their identity. The first pillar is filial union with the Blessed Virgin; the second, the Rule of St. Albert; the third, the traditional Carmelite Liturgy, and the fourth, the Carmelite spirituality and monastic inspiration of the way of life of St. Teresa of Jesus and St. John of the Cross.

A young Carmelite Monk, Br. Simon Mary, described his community's charism in this way in a 2008 interview:
Carmelite monks are consecrated to God through the vows of obedience, chastity, and poverty. Our time is spent in prayer and penance for the salvation of souls, interceding for the Church and the world, as well as in the study of Scripture and the fathers and doctors of the Church . . . Our monks live strict constitutional enclosure -- we don't leave the monastery at all, . . . with[out] permission from the Bishop.

Traditional liturgy

The Carmelite Monks of Wyoming use the traditional Latin liturgy of the Carmelite Rite, which is similar to the Tridentine Mass. The Carmelite Rite, based on the Rite of the Holy Sepulchre, was used by the Ancient Observance branch of the Carmelite Order from the time of the first hermits on Mount Carmel in the Holy Land in the late 12th century, until Vatican II at which time the Carmelites began to celebrate the ordinary form of the Roman Rite Mass. The first Rule of Carmel was given to the Carmelites by Saint Albert of Jerusalem, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, who in that time was exiled in the city of Acre, Israel, from which place Mount Carmel was visible to the south.

New Mount Carmel

Separation from the world for contemplative prayer is essential to the life of the Carmelite Monks, their monasteries are founded in the mountains to ensure geographical enclosure. In modern times where noise abounds, the monks desire true silence and an atmosphere of natural solitude.  The monks explain how the mountains provide this: "In the mountains, often wild and remote, the soul can make a swift journey towards union with God; the beauty of the wilderness alone raises the mind and heart to the Eternal Father who created the things of this world.  In the mountains the Carmelite monks will at last be in a place conducive to their life and in keeping with their Holy Rule."

Thus Carmelite Monks have founded the New Mount Carmel, where the original Carmelite charism is being lived in the mountains of Wyoming. This reflects the continual effort of Carmelites throughout the centuries to return to the eremitical life of a hermit in the mountains in imitation of Elijah from the Book of Kings in the Old Testament.  The Carmelite Monks are nearing completion of their Gothic monastery in the Rocky Mountains.

Mystic Monk Coffee

The Carmelite Monks are known for roasting and selling gourmet coffee under the name Mystic Monk Coffee.  Their coffee has won awards from famous coffee reviewers and is known for its small batch quality and freshness.  The Carmelite Monks' Mystic Monk Coffee business was established to help support the Carmelite Monks' monastery in the mountains of Wyoming.

See also
 Carmelites
 Carmelite Rule of St. Albert
 Book of the First Monks
 Constitutions of the Carmelite Order
 Enclosed religious orders
 Hermit

References and notes

External links
Carmelite Monks Home Page | Carmel of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Carmelite Monks on the New Mount Carmel
Carmelite Monks - "Chants of Carmel"
The Carmelite Vocation

Most Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel, Monks of the
Category:Ecclesia Dei
Category:Carmelite spirituality
Most Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel, Monks of the


Is the typical Italian Country House. Made of bricks or stones, ancient, warm and full of charm. The heart of the house is the kitchen. It is always a big room with a wooden table. Here the family meets for Sunday lunch. On the table the most exquisite italian food … cheese and salami, bruschette and piadine, and the main course … la Fiorentina, a delicious and tender T-bone steak seasoned and flavoured with olive oil and salt. For dessert and for the joy of the kids… pastries and home made Gelato…. WELCOME TO OUR CASCINA, SOON IN NAIROBI!


UK detective on trial over phone hacking

2013-01-07 22:03

London - A senior British counter-terrorism detective
committed a "gross breach" of public trust by trying to sell
information to Rupert Murdoch's News of the World about the police
investigation into the tabloid's illegal phone hacking, a prosecutor told a
court on Monday.

Detective Chief Inspector April Casburn is charged with
misconduct for allegedly phoning the newspaper and offering to pass on
information about whether London's police force would reopen its stalled
hacking investigation.

Prosecutor Mark Bryant-Heron told a jury at Southwark
Crown Court that Casburn "sought to undermine a highly sensitive and high
profile investigation" when she phoned the tabloid's news desk in
September 2010 offering to pass on the information.

"It was a gross breach of the trust that the public
places in a police officer not to disclose information on a current investigation
in an unauthorised way, or to offer to do so in the future for payment,"
he said.

Prosecutors said the newspaper did not print a story
based on her call and no money changed hands.

Casburn, 53, who headed the Metropolitan Police terrorist
financing investigation unit, denies a charge of misconduct in public office.
She also faces a charge of breaching the Official Secrets Act which will be
dealt with separately.

The prosecutor said that in a police statement Casburn
admitted phoning the newspaper but denied asking for money.

Tim Wood, the News of the World news editor who took the
call, told the court that Casburn had expressed concern that counter-terrorism
resources were being diverted to the phone hacking investigation.

He said she also complained of interference from former
Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, a hacking victim and vocal Murdoch critic.

"The one thing that stands out in my mind is the
fact that she kept going on about Lord Prescott," Wood said. "Her
saying that he was pressing for them to put charges on the News of the World,
and she was saying that she felt it was wrong that he was interfering in the
scandal, so to speak, and she resented that."

Arrested for hacking

A News of the World reporter and a private investigator
were jailed in 2007 for hacking into the voicemails of royal aides. But the
newspaper denied there was a wider problem, and a police investigation did not
lead to further charges.

Police reopened the investigation in early 2011 amid new
evidence about the scale of the law-breaking.

Murdoch shut down the 168-year-old News of the World in
July 2011 after revelations that it had regularly eavesdropped on the telephone
voicemails of celebrities and crime victims in its search for scoops.

The scandal sparked a public inquiry and police
investigations into phone hacking, bribery and other illegal practices that
have seen dozens of people arrested.

Casburn is the first suspect to come to trial. Several
others have been charged and await trial, including former Murdoch executive
Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, an ex-communications chief to Prime Minister
David Cameron.


There are few things that can be frowned out in a season with a top five ranking and a 7-1 record but with so much left to go it seems time for the Sooner Hot 11 to take inventory of the season to date. There are several faces on this mid-season list that people could have predicted prior to the kick-off of the season opening victory over North Texas. However, there are few that no one could have picked. Take a look at this week's version of the Hot 11.

11. Demarco Murray, Running Back - Stats: 80 carries for 505 yards, and nine touchdowns (long of 92 yards). 10 catches for 43 yards. 8 returns for 234 yards and one touchdown (81 yards). Analysis: It's debatable that no freshman in the country has had a bigger single-game performance than Murray against the hated Longhorns. Considering several runs were called back on penalties it's hard to imagine what kind of yardage he could have put up.Marquee Game: Texas

10. Juaquin Iglesias, Wide Receiver - Stats: 43 catches for 651 yards and four touchdowns. Eight carries for 87 yards and one touchdown. 13 returns for 369 yards.Analysis: Iglesias had a costly game against Missouri, but many have forgotten that he was a big part in waking the Sooners up against Tulsa as well as keeping things moving against Texas.Marquee Game: Tulsa

9. Reggie Smith, Cornerback - Stats: 49 tackles (40 solo), four and a half tackles for loss (21 yards), one sack (eight yards), two interceptions (returned for 48 yards), seven pass break-ups, one fumble recovery (61-yard touchdown).Analysis: Smith is another player that has been somewhat mired in the memory of one poor game, but overall has made numerous big plays for the Sooners including perhaps the play of the year on a 61-yard fumble recovery.Marquee Game: Missouri

8. Phil Loadholt, Offensive Tackle - Stats: N/A. Analysis: While the offensive line has been somewhat belittled in the past few weeks that's not to suggest that things have been all bad and there is no denying that Loadholt has lived up to his recruiting hype, and then a lot. Loadholt came in as a somewhat unappreciated tackle and has become quite possibly the best lineman in the Big 12, surpassing even his own teammate, Duke Robinson. While some are talking about Loadholt leaving this year, the difference in waiting a year could be being a first day pick instead of a first round pick.Marquee Game: Miami

7. Nic Harris, Safety - Stats: 55 tackles (31 solo), six and a half tackles for loss (37 yards), two and a half tackles for loss (21 yards), two interceptions (21 return yards), five pass break-ups, and two forced fumbles. Analysis: I've said from day one that I felt Harris was Oklahoma's best defender, he has done little to make me doubt that assertion this season. While Oklahoma may have better run or pass defenders, no one plays as big a role in both as Harris.Marquee Game: Miami

6. Demarcus Granger, Defensive Tackle - Stats: 21 tackles (nine solo), eight tackles for loss (38 yards), three and a half sacks (27 yards), one pass break-up, four quarterback hurries. Analysis: Man, if Granger keeps up his pace since the Colorado game he stands a very good chance of pushing the top three on this list at the end of the season, Granger has been unblockable through Big 12 play and I see no signs of that stopping.Marquee Game: Iowa State

5. Jermaine Gresham, Tight End - Stats: 23 catches for 286 yards and six touchdowns. Analysis: Gresham being this high on the list may surprise some people but I think his emergence near the hashmark has had a big role in opening up passing lanes for Sam Bradford and his ability on swing plays is something that has to strike fear into every secondary player in the Big 12. If he continues at this pace it will be no time at all before he is being mentioned as the school's next tight end to head to the NFL after a lengthy hiatus.Marquee Game: Texas

4. Malcolm Kelly, Wide Receiver - Stats: 31 catches for 553 yards and eight touchdowns. Analysis: Kelly has had his ups and downs this season but there is no question that he has cemented his mark as one of the nation's top receivers and possibly the best to play the position in the crimson and cream. The Sooners statuesque receiver won't lead the Sooners in receptions this year and might not even lead them in yardage but his talent and production allows others to play a much bigger role in the offense than they would without him.Marquee Game: Miami

3. Auston English , Defensive End - Stats: 31 tackles (18 solo), 12 tackles for loss (74 yards), eight and a half sacks (55 yards), three pass break-ups, and four quarterback hurries. Analysis: There is no player on Oklahoma's roster who has had a bigger 'coming out' party than the sophomore from Canadian, Texas. English has dominated each and every comer that he has faced so far this season. Included among them are some of the Big 12's most talented pass blockers. Throw in that several of the Sooners early season opponents focus on short, controlled passes and his sack total that figures to climb to double digits is even more impressive.Marquee Game: Texas

2. Sam Bradford, Quarterback - Stats: 144-of-209 for 1,872 yards and 20 touchdowns, and a pass efficiency rating of 170.93. Analysis: OK, so maybe there is one player on this roster who has been a bigger surprise than English, and that's the quarterback he spent the spring and fall taking aim at. Bradford has been accurate and intelligent throughout his first year as the Sooner starter. Many have underestimated the talents of Oklahoma's native son and have been made to pay for it. Look for him to set the NCAA record for touchdown passes in a season before this year is done, in fact if he'd like to follow in Jason White's footsteps, he might make a run at it this weekend.Marquee Game: Texas

1. Curtis Lofton, Linebacker - Stats: 93 tackles (52 solo), three and a half tackles for loss (10 yards), one interceptions (45 yard touchdown return), two pass break-ups, two forced fumbles. Analysis: So we all know I don't mind patting myself on my back when the occasion calls for it, but I can't claim for a second that I saw Lofton becoming the player he has been. I've watched Dan Connor, I've watched James Laurinaitisp and there simply isn't any linebacker in the country that clearly exceeds the junior from Kingfisher, Okla. Lofton isn't the prototypical middle linebacker but may end his career as another Butkus winner for the Sooners.Marquee Game: Missouri