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From Cats to Cataclysms (Apr, 1952)
From Cats to Cataclysms
By Lester David
THE owner of a private zoo in England recently offered a huge cash reward to anyone who brought him the legendary Loch Ness monster, dead or alive. But he isn't worried about paying up if the elusive horror is ever hooked—he's insured.
Last year a golfer had to pay $37 for a round of drinks in the clubhouse after making a hole-in-one. But it actually didn't cost him a cent— he was insured.
Dozens of men in the U. S. who become the proud fathers of twins don't wring their hands at the prospect of the added expense—they're insured.
These strange policies were issued by under-writers for Lloyd's of London, the fabulous, centuries-old British institution which will insure anything from cats to cataclysms, from actress' bosoms to the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge (for a record-breaking $40,000,000). Lloyd's has issued policies on actors' beards, dancers' legs, models' backs, surgeons' hands and musicians' lips. It will protect you, for a premium, against almost any eventuality which might cause you to lose money— volcanoes, tidal waves, wars, foot-and-mouth disease, drought, snow, rain, insect plagues, sprinkler system leakage. You name it and they'll write you a policy at Lloyd's.
If you're rich and afraid kidnapers might snatch your child, Lloyd's will insure you for up to 90 per cent of any ransom money you might have to pay.
If you own a skiing resort and a mild winter keeps your slopes barren of snow, Lloyd's will make sure you don't lose money because of the adverse weather.
If you confidently expected your well-heeled maiden aunt to remember you generously in her will and you are struck suddenly by the horrible thought that she might marry and nudge you out of your inheritance, Lloyd's will insure you against that dire possibility.
If you own anything that floats, from an ocean liner to a skiff, Lloyd's will insure your vessel and its cargo.
The amazing Lloyd's does business in the heart of old London in an imposing edifice, a far cry from the coffee house where it all started back in 1689. This is how it operates:
About 300 men sit in small, box-like stalls in a vast chamber which is called simply The Room. These are the underwriters, beside whom betting folk like Nick the Greek pale into insignificance. Their job is to calculate risks and issue policies— they are, in effect, making huge wagers that something will not happen. The underwriters represent brokers and syndicates who put up the cash and do business under the name of Lloyd's. Lloyd's itself doesn't write any insurance—that's done by the underwriters on behalf of some 2,000 individuals tied loosely together and trading under the world-famed name.
This is what happens when you want to take out an insurance policy at Lloyd's:
Let's say you are an inventor and you want to insure your hands. They are your livelihood—if anything happened to them, your income would halt You get in touch with a Lloyd's correspondent—there are hundreds in American cities. He corresponds with one of the 2,000 Lloyd's brokers in London, who takes your request into The Room, joins the crowd around one of the underwriters, eventually gets his attention and presents your bid which he has written briefly on a sheet of stiff paper.
The underwriter must make a split-second decision—he has no time to weigh the matter thoroughly. He must be familiar with the hazards of inventors, as well as with the risk element involved in a dancer's legs, dust-bowl farming, salmon fishing or practically anything anywhere. If he decides to accept the risk, he writes on the slip the amount he is prepared to insure and initials it. Then the policy is made out in Lloyd's Policy Signing Room, where more than 100 girls turn them out at the rate of hundreds every hour.
The one point which governs the thinking of the underwriters is this: does the applicant have an insurable interest? That is, does he stand to lose something? Will his livelihood be affected if something happens?
Not long ago, for example, Lloyd's underwriters saw a definite insurable interest in a hole-in-one on the golf course. By custom, in this country and England, anyone who performs golfing's rarest feat must stand for a round of drinks in the clubhouse for all who happen to be on the premises. In England, the tradition calls for double whiskies, a not inconsiderable sum at the current price of $1.20 per.
Accordingly, underwriters decided that making a hole-in-one is a financial liability, hence insurable. The policy, which remained in force about two years, cost about $2.50 a year, and paid off at the rate of $40 maximum. One British golfer who bought the policy hit the jackpot twice in one season!
Lloyd's even found an insurable interest in the eyes of Janis Carter, a pretty Hollywood actress, and the bosom of Evelyn West, California showgirl and dancer.
Janis' studio claimed she possessed a pair of violet orbs which were the sexiest eyes in the world and asked Lloyd's to insure them for $500,000. The policy was issued.
Evelyn had her comely bosom insured for $50,000, paying an annual premium of $122.22. Her application was accompanied by a number of photographs and the policy specifically described just what changes Evelyn's figure must undergo as time goes by in order to qualify for a claim.
Paramount Pictures had an insurable interest in the famous movie cat, Rhubarb, Lloyd's underwriters decided. They wrote a policy, amount undisclosed, insuring it against death or injury. The rules: Rhubarb must fly only on scheduled airlines, stop only at the finest hotels and be accompanied at all times by a trained handler. Attached to the policy are a number of identifying characteristics— his front and side photographs, a print of a paw and a sound track of his meow.
Lloyd's has issued countless policies on legs over the years. The first to start the trend was Mistinguett, the French singer and dancer who still displays her gams in Parisian music halls, at an age variously estimated between 63 and 84. The shapely limbs of Mar-lene Dietrich are insured for $500,000, too. Gals aren't the only ones—Fred Astaire, for one, had his legs insured for $800,000.
Monte Wooley, the college professor who turned actor, had his beard insured at Lloyd's for $20,000 against destruction by fire, theft, hail or tornado. He paid a $25 premium.
Only recently, Lloyd's actually insured an entire contingent of troops going into battle. The Turkish government decided to send 4,500 officers and men to join the United Nations forces in Korea, but it was faced with a dilemma. The nation was not at war and if an accident occurred on the air trip to the fighting zone, according to Turkish law, the soldiers' families would not qualify for pensions.
Therefore, Turkey applied to Lloyd's for a policy covering the entire contingent—and got it.
Many persons ask for policies but are turned down on that insurable interest angle. When a trumpet player had his lips insured for $350,000, his girlfriend wanted to know if she could have her lips insured. Claimed if anything happened to them, her boyfriend would up and leave her. The plan was turned down.
Lloyd's once received a letter from a man who wanted to have his neck insured. Investigation produced the lamentable fact that said neck was about to be stretched—via the hangman's noose.
There are a few things that cannot be insured, despite the obvious insurable interest. You cannot insure yourself against divorce, poverty, the loss of your job or killing anyone. Lloyd's, moreover, will not insure Broadway producers against a flop play or newspaper publishers against dips in circulation. The underwriters do not issue life-insurance policies, but they do insure beneficiaries of such a policy against the possibility that the holder will commit suicide.
The amount of the premium you have to pay under a specific policy depends upon the circumstances of the particular case. Weather insurance comes high, usually between 15 and 20 per cent of the total sum involved, depending on the locality. Insurance against twins costs about four per cent, but may be higher if twins run in the family. You would have to pay about a three per cent premium for insurance against your child being born with a clubfoot or a harelip.
How about payoffs? Lloyd's underwriters have been hit, and often, for sums ranging from tiny to terrific. They paid $350 to a Salt Lake City man whose son was born with a harelip and wrote checks totalling $5,000,000 after storms devastated large areas in Texas in 1943. The loss of the ill-fated Titanic, which sank after ramming an iceberg on her maiden voyage in 1912, cost the underwriters $4,000,000. When the frigate Lutina went down off the coast of Holland, carrying $6,000,000 in gold bullion, Lloyd's paid off. Then there was the matter of a $5,000,000 insurance policy covering the cargo of the mer-chantship Egypt, which sank in 1922, its hold jammed with gold and silver.
Only recently, a surgeon in Kansas City stumbled and fell while cleaning a rifle. The gun went off and the bullet penetrated his foot, which had to be amputated. He collected $400,000.
When the famous racehorse Your Host was injured last year, suffering a shattered bone at Santa Anita during the running of the San Pasqual handicap, his owner got a Lloyd's check for $250,000.
A Detroit laundryman hit the jackpot with twins and was heartened by a check for $1,000 shortly after. A New Orleans saxophone player suffered facial paralysis after an automobile crash and collected $200,000.
In England, during the last general election, the Liberal Party insured itself against the loss of the deposits it had to put up for its candidates. The law says that if a candidate does not ring up a certain number of votes, the party sponsoring him loses the sum it has posted. Well, Winston Churchill's Conservatives washed out a lot of Liberals, but the party had one consolation—it didn't lose its deposits. Lloyd's paid.
Lloyd's was born in 1689, at the time when Britain's merchant ships were .beginning to make their world-famed reputation. In Tower St., a genial tavern-owner named Edward Lloyd played host to London town's more important traders and business men. As an accommodation for his customers, Mr. Lloyd began to gather news of ships reaching and leaving the Thames docks, news from abroad, wrecks and prices of commodities. Soon, the business men began to set up a form of insurance and the tavern was known as a center for marine insurance.
The tavern disappeared from the scene before long, but the merchants and their descendants remained together, moving from place to place, cementing their organization until the world knew that they were one of the most powerful factors in giving Britain's merchant fleet an international reputation for reliability and safety. From just ship insurance, the underwriters branched out to cover the vast variety of risks they do today.
That's the fabled Lloyd's of London, one of the world's unique institution. It's the only place which will peel off $2,000,000 for the loss of an airliner without blinking an eye—and the next minute solemnly consider the application of a male model who wants to insure himself against growing bald.
But how about the famous Lloyd's odds on war? Well, the last policy issued on such an eventuality covered last year. Since that time the War Risk Board of Lloyd's, which meets periodically to change the schedule of premiums as conditions deteriorate and improve, has issued no new schedules. So the same ones stand. Take 'em or leave 'em, the odds on war as quoted by the fabled Lloyd's of London are 50 to 1.


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Each sculpture has movement and rhythm, it is as if the artist Cha Jong Rye was conducting small pieces of wood into a magnificent symphony orchestra. His work is extraordinary!
Notes about the artist (published at Hada Contemporary):
Cha focuses on the dialectical relationship between wood and land, material and nature on the surface of her sculptures. There is a sense of poise and connectedness within the allotted spaces of these forms. Each component of the whole is masterfully carved to create part of a larger modular work reminiscent of an elaborate puzzle or topographical contour map. The relationship between each convoluted shape offers a poetic and strangely surreal vision of space and energy giving a conceptual clarity, which properly situates her within the context of environmentalism.
Photos and artwork © Cha Jong-Rye Link via Colossal, Hada Contemporary

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Is it possible to make Intelligent Machines?
Posted by Kim Graae Munch in Computers, Science, Thinking on May 4, 2009
Intelligent Machines
I have had some discussions with engineers who had Intelligent Machines as their religion, and interestingly it's the Atheists who dreams about thinking machines.
With background in the current computer technology I will analyze the feasibility of intelligent machines from three different scientific approaches: The Mathematical, the Physical, and the Biological.
It's interesting that the believers in Intelligent Machines ignores the evidence, especially the stringent Mathematical evidence, this is also the reason I call them believers as they ignore facts, dreaming of a future with god-like machines a lot wiser and knowledgeable than man.
Mathematical Evidence
Kurt Gödel made the Incompleteness Theorems:
It is possible to have a complete and consistent list of axioms that cannot be produced by a computer program (that is, the list is not Computably Enumerable).
The incompleteness theorems also implies that not all mathematical questions are computable.
It states simply that there are problems which man can solve and machines can't.
What he proves is that there are things in a system, like our physical world, that can't be done within the system itself, which can only be done from something outside that system, but man breaks this barrier where computers can't, and that means that man depend on something outside the physical world, like soul and spirit.
The BBC program `Dangerous Knowledge (part 9/9)' looks at this Mathematical Prof. As the video is destroyed at Youtube from time to time there is another source here: Human and computer knowledge.
Other documentation
Roger Penrose shows with examples why they cant think in: "The Large, the Small and the Human Mind".
In this Hard Talk interview about the recurring big bang Roger Penrose touches the problem.
Physical Limitations
When you look out into the room, you are sitting in, you have a picture or really a video of everything at once and constantly. It means that this view of your surroundings, and your thoughts about it, are in your Consciousness. Seen from a computational view it is really fantastic, and Computer Science today can only dream of something that seems to be Conscious! Even with future technologies as Quantum Computing is it a question if we can make Conscious Computers at all.
Computers are something called Von Neumann Machines, which again is defined through the theoretical Turing Machine, and Turing Machines can only work on one bit at a time, which is only a small part of the information necessary to make a single point on a computer or television screen.
The consequence is that Computers can only have a part of a point of a picture in what we can call their 'consciousness' at a time, and that is not enough to even contain the color information of a point. What they have calculated in one instance is forgotten in the next. It's only when we see the result on the screen or on paper that it becomes conscious through our consciousness, that is, we see the screen as a whole, extracts the relevant information in all its complexity, and understands it's implications.
A computer cannot be Intelligent however big and speedy it is.
Brain Science
Erich Harth in 'Windows on the Mind', 1982:
The brain presents two seemingly irreconcilable aspects: It is a material body, exhibiting all the physical properties of matter, and it possesses a set of faculties and attributes, collectively called mind, that are not found in any other physical system.
In his book "The Creative Loop,.." he elaborates further on how the physical mind functions, and why it's superior to any known devices.
The book by Erich Harth's "The Creative Loop, How the Brain Makes a Mind" gives an intelligent description of the physical working of our brain.
The book Stairways to the Mind by Alwyn Scott gives a broader overview of the area.
No Theory of a Conscious Machine yet
There have been talked about thinking machines for forty years, but there have not been a single theory for building one yet. There are a lot of programs running on super computers which can simulate some aspects of the mind, but the programs have nothing to do with real intelligence.
Computers are good at those things where we are bad, that is remembering and calculations, but they can't think.
With the knowledge we have to-day, if it had been possible to program consciousness into our current computers, we would have done it by now.
Future possibilities
It may be possible to make thinking computers if its build on Quantum Computing, as the numbers of bits in the computer's processing unit can be increased considerable above the one bit we have today, caused by entanglement, but I don't think that it's enough to create consciousness, but it is a requirement.
Hubert Dreyfus: What Computers Can't Do: The Limits of Artificial Intelligence.
Quantum Consciousness: A Discussion between Stuart Hameroff and Alwyn Scott.
Tarjei Straume on the Technological Singularity.


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This is part 2. If you want to read part 1 (and gawk over what I put in my computer case), you have to go over here. It looks like there will be a part 3 too, because computer building is so epic that the chronicles of it need to be turned into a trilogy.
When I left off last time, my computer parts had just come, and I gently laid them out under my Christmas tree for picture taking. Results of picture taking are in the last post, so I'll move onto the next step.
The Giant, Electric 3-D Puzzle
Like I said a bunch of times, putting together computer parts is the easiest part of the process. Short story short, it goes like this:
1- Plop in the PSU (I think that stands for Power Supply Unit. It's the box with wires)
2- Use a screwdriver.
3- Put the CPU (that's Central Processing Unit) on the motherboard.
4- Use a screwdriver.
5- Plug the CPU fan into the motherboard where it says "CPU FAN PLUG HERE!!!!!"
6- Stick the RAM sticks in the RAM holes.
7- Put the motherboard in the case.
8- Use a screwdriver.
9- Spend 10 minutes trying to figure out what an "extension card" is.
10- By process of elimination, decide that an "extension card" is your graphics card.
11- Stick the graphics card in the graphics card hole.
12- Use a screwdriver.
13- Plug the green wires into the green holes.
14- Plug the black wires into the black holes.
15- Plug the red wires into the red holes.
16- Wonder how colour blind people plug in their computer wires.
17- Plug the PSU wires in the holes marked "PSU WIRES HERE!!!"
I got to screw a lot of things and that made me happy.
After all that, you put the sides of your case on, turn on the power supply, plug the computer cord into the wall, press the "on" button and pray.
See? Easysauce!
Whenever I got stuck, I'd ask on Twitter. Twitter is a wonderful resource because it's full of people who know a lot about computers. But beware, like any kind of passionate person, they may give you more than what you ask for:
Me: Does the green wires go in green hole 1 or green hole 2?
Knowledgeable person: The green wires are essential components to front panel functioning and there are several sorts of green wires. Each will be connected to a different socket and will wrap around the motherboard in a predetermined fashion. Certain green wires will merge with yellow wires to ensure proper airflow within the case. The colour of the green wire was inspired by-
Me: GREEN HOLE 1 OR GREEN HOLE 2?
(I used a completely nonsensical example here because I really appreciate those who went out of their way to explain things to me. I just found it very humourous how I was receiving very complex and complete answers while I was being impatient as heck.)
You can also encounter the less, um, helpful types:
Me: *reads case manual*
Me: *scratches head*
Me: *reads motherboard manual*
Me: *sighs*
Me: *tries google*
Me: *frustration*
Me: *reads case manual again*
Me: *tears*
Me: *reads motherboard manual again*
Me: *verge of nervous breakdown*
Me: *gives up*
Me: Do I plug the green wire in hole 1 or hole 2?
Less helpful Twitter type: Did you look in the manual?
But for the most part, it was smooth, and whatever questions I had, I received answers to quickly.
Then there is the hands thing. A few friends warned me about how static ruins your parts and sometimes you don't even know you're staticky.
Not wanting to zap my parts, I made sure I touched a lot of metallic objects and I stopped myself whenever I caught my feet rubbing against the floor. I didn't have an anti-static mat, so I used the anti-static bags my parts came in. I took all the precautions I could….only to catch myself frequently touching things I shouldn't. If it looks fragile and easily broken, you can be sure I got my grimy fingers all over it.
But luckily and thankfully, when I hit that "on" button, the clouds parted, the angels smiled on me and everything powered up.
And that ends the easy part! Stay tuned for part 3, where you'll all become acquainted with the Neurotic Pally and the Evil Windows.


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Online guide to showcase Ohio's outdoor sculptures updated
Guide helps find out-of-the-way pieces of art
Hundreds of outdoor sculptures of all shapes, sizes, and subjects are waiting to be discovered across Ohio.
Some are in high-profile places featuring well-known subjects like the President William McKinley statue outside the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus and the one of baseball's Bob Feller next to Progressive Field in Cleveland.
Others are obscure and hidden in parks and neighborhoods.
A nonprofit organization in Cleveland that promotes the work of regional sculptors is hoping to bring more attention to the state's public sculptures and help preserve them.
Cleveland's Sculpture Center has revised a database that has photos and details about hundreds of works around Ohio. The site also allows people to update the conditions of sculptures and add missing ones.
Many public outdoor sculptures belong to governments that often don't spend money to maintain them, said Ann Craddock Albano, the center's director.
"Caring for your public sculpture should be equivalent to cleaning the streets," she told The Plain Dealer. "It raises the tone of the neighborhood."
Sculpture on public spaces often is a counterpoint to geometrically regular architecture, she said. "It often adds color. It becomes a visual focal point. It can be a place finder," she said
Benches created by Nancy Dwyer spell out "Meet Me Here" near Cleveland's downtown ballpark and arena.
Sculptures change with wind, ice, bird droppings, and vandals. Outside the Cleveland Museum of Art, Rodin's "Thinker" lost a chunk in 1970 to a pipe bomber.
And they don't always stay in the same spot.
Former Cleveland Mayor Michael R. White once criticized Billie Lawless' "The Politician: a Toy," a huge figure with a flapping jaw. The sculpture was later moved.
A sculpture honoring one of 11 Israeli athletes killed by terrorists at the 1972 Munich Olympics was restored and moved outside the Jewish Community Center in Beachwood, a Cleveland suburb
The memorial for David Berger, a weightlifter who was a native of suburban Shaker Heights and had Israeli citizenship, was made by David E. Davis, the Sculpture Center's founder.
Among the other sculptures dedicated to athletes in Ohio are the Jack Nicklaus Tribute Sculpture in Dublin and the Oscar Robertson Monument in Cincinnati.
Animals are popular subjects.
The Toledo Zoo has sculptures of a gorilla, elephant, bison, turtles and pandas that are popular photo spots. A family of four life-size woolly mammoths stands outside the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History.


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Rupert Everett has aimed his latest put-downs at Jennifer Aniston, reportedly calling her career "tasteless."
Everett, the voice of Prince Charming from the "Shrek" sequels who is infamous for insulting his Hollywood colleagues, complained in a recent interview with BBC Radio that Aniston belonged to a select group of industry-favored A-listers, according to Usmagazine.com and E! News.
"If you look and analyze the careers of many, many stars, you'll find that they're mostly sustained by the business," Everett said. "You'll find there's lots of women and lots of men in the business that the powers that be decide are right for their business, and they'll stand with them for quite a long time."
U.S. & World
Someone like Aniston, the star of such box office duds as "The Bounty Hunter" and "The Switch," will "have one too many total flops, but she's still a member of that club," Everett said.
"And she will still manage to…like a star forming in the universe, things will swirl around her and it will suddenly solidify into another vital tasteless romcom, you know, a little glitter next to the Crab Nebula," he added.
Aniston joins a long list of actors Everett has said have wrecked their careers.
USA Today points to an interview in the UK Independent from Dec. 2007 where Everett fingered Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Robert Redford and George Clooney -- all in one sitting.
"They're all just tragic parodies of themselves," he told the paper then. "Al Pacino looks like a mad old freak now. I say give it a rest, or go and do some serious stuff."
Everett reportedly told the BBC he also had a problem with Colin Firth.
"Colin Firth I don't think was at all good in 'Mamma Mia!' I would have thought it was almost a careericide," Everett said. "On the other hand, I think his performance in 'A Single Man' was the best performance of his life."
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Police arrest teen accused in theft of thumb drive with city worker data
Officers investigating violent crime discovered flash drive
A 17-year-old has been arrested for his part in the theft of a thumb drive, a laptop computer, and a computer bag that were stolen when a Dynacare Laboratories employee's car was stolen on Oct. 22.
The vehicle and laptop were recovered on Nov. 10.
VIDEO: Stolen flash driver recovered
Milwaukee police officers found the stolen thumb drive and computer bag in a home in the 4800 block of North 20th Street on Monday.
Officers discovered the flash drive while investigating a violent crime. Chief Ed Flynn had this to say when asked if the discovery involved a gang -- the Murda Mob.
"I'm not quite sure if this is the Murda Mob investigation or a separate one because there's a couple of different task forces working the same area right now," Flynn said.
Officers were looking for firearms in cooperation with federal agents.
"Some bad guys are sophisticated in some crimes and not sophisticated in others and at least from our preliminary investigation, it appears that this information wasn't shared, sold or otherwise accessed," Flynn said
The city said the information was encrypted, password protected, when it turned over the employee information, but was not encrypted when it was stolen.
"I think it is a cautionary tale, not just for the city of Milwaukee but for anyone who transfers encrypted data. How do you make sure that it remains encrypted?" Barrett said.
Milwaukee-based Dynacare oversees the employee wellness program.
"We're not pleased with how this thing played out to this point. We're extremely pleased with the Milwaukee Police Department and the work it did to recover this," Barrett said.
Police said the teen is a habitual auto thief and is facing charges of receiving stolen property and felony bail jumping.


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1. How much are entry tickets for the State Hermitage Museum?
800 RUB – entry ticket to the Main Museum Complex and the branches (the General Staff Building, Winter Palace of Peter the Great, Menshikov Palace, the Museum of the Imperial Porcelain Factory)
300 RUB – entry ticket to one of the Hermitage branches: the General Staff Building, Winter Palace of Peter the Great, Menshikov Palace, the Museum of the Imperial Porcelain Factory, and the Staraya Derevnya Restoration and Storage Centre (visiting of the Staraya Derevnya Restoration and Storage Centre is possible only as a part of a guided tour, booked in advance).
Children, schoolchildren and students (depending on citizenship), and pensioners of the Russian Federation get in free.
Admission and guided tours prices from January 1, 2017
2. Can you buy tickets online?
Yes. Obtaining tickets through the internet saves time, as there is no need to queue for tickets at the museum. However, discount tickets are not available online.
3. Can you buy tickets at the ticket terminals?
Full-price tickets can be bought at the ticket terminals in the Entrance Hall (through the Great Courtyard of the Winter Palace). Discount tickets are only available at the ticket offices, providing you bring the relevant documents.
4. Which documents do I need if I want to buy a benefit ticket?
Any documents that prove your eligibility. For adult benefits you will need a passport or driver's license. Pensioners should bring a pension certificate and students should bring a student card.
5. Can I take photographs in the museum?
Yes. Photographs can not be taken only in the Gold and Diamond Rooms of the Treasure Gallery and in the rooms where temporary exhibitions are placed.
6. How can I book a tour?
Tickets for general tours can be bought at the museum ticket offices upon arrival, or you can book in advance at the Hermitage Excursion Bureau or by telephone on (812) 571-84-46.
7. How can I visit the Treasure Gallery?
Tickets for a tour of the Gold and Diamond Rooms of the Treasure Galley can be bought at the ticket offices upon arrival, or you can book in advance at the Hermitage Excursion Bureau or by telephone on (812) 571-84-46.
8. Can I get an audio guide around the museum, and which languages are available?
Audio guides around the Hermitage are available in Russian, English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean. Please ask about audio guide hire at the hire point in the Main Gallery (just past security) and at the top of the Jordan Staircase (you will need to put down a deposit).
9. Do I need to wear protective footwear to prevent damaging the Hermitage's famous parquet floor?
The parquet in the Hermitage is protected by abrasion-resistant varnish, which is periodically renewed; therefore, you are allowed to walk around the Hermitage without protective footwear. It is not recommended to wear shoes which may damage the parquet, such as shoes with sharp heels, studs or a metal sole.
10. Can I visit the museum in the evening?
Yes, on Wednesdays and Fridays the museum is open from 10.30 until 21.00. The ticket offices close at 20.00.


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Beat the Streak Report: Sunday, June 29
Pick of the day
Michael Young, SS, Rangers
20-for-54 (.370 AVG) career vs. PHI LHP Jamie Moyer
Top 5 current leaders
1. spooky93, 43 games
2. dalmeetz048, 25 games
2. pacioccoj, 25 games
4. bfitzg01, 24 games
4. eugenethom, 24 games
Season leader: spooky93, 43 games
Yesterday's results
Spooky93 inched closer to $1 million, thanks to a 1-for-6 day by Tampa Bay's Carl Crawford. Spooky93 is now 14 days away from becoming a millionaire.
Yesterday's Top 5 most selected players
1. Ichiro Suzuki (SEA): 5.1%, 0-for-4
2. Derek Jeter (NYY): 4.0%, 0-for-4
3. Derrek Lee (CHC): 3.5%, 5-for-5
4. Adrian Gonzalez (SD): 3.4%, 0-for-4
5. Aramis Ramirez (CHC): 3.0%, 0-for-5
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Good luck, Spooky93 – 44 and counting!!!! Hope you make the million!
Fraz from Glasgow, Scotland.
Man. Jamie Moyer blows. Its like watching a grandpa throw underhand softball. His fastball is 82 and his change up is 77. What is the difference*%^&%&^. Even I can hack those pitches. I think Wakefield's knuckerball hits mid 70s. What a bummer.
I guess we just better hope that Barry Zito, Paul Maholm, Roy Oswalt, or Maddux throw a game of their life time.
I guess the obvious choice is to go with Derek Lee but my sense Spooky93 will go with Jason Bay just to taunt us all. I figured out his pattern. He first looks for worst pitching first then look for a hitter who will hit it. I don't think he will go with Atkins (against Maddux) and Derek Lee (against Zito). The pitchers there are capable of pitching like in their glory days. So my guss is either Jason Bay or Brandon Phillips.
All we can hope is that 14 people made greater than 40 last year and 3 went 45 or higher without winning.
hey btsplayer.its sounds like your a little upset that spooky is doing so well.whats so wrong with someone having a nice run.give the guy a break.you have a lot of time on your hands if your trying to figure who he's gonna pick next.GO GETT'M SPOOKY TAKE HOME THE MILLION.


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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 23 (HealthDay News) -- Chemotherapy can save the lives of people with cancer, but new research suggests it may have devastating effects on the brain.
Many cancer patients who receive chemotherapy report "chemobrain" -- a range of symptoms including a loss of memory and the ability to concentrate, and other problems such as difficulty thinking.
The stories of women who survived breast cancer but suffered from weakened brain power are told in a study published online Sept. 16 in the Journal of Cancer Survivorship.
Saskia Subramanian, from the Center for Culture and Health at the University of California -- Los Angeles, and colleagues interviewed 74 women who had completed cancer treatment at least a year earlier. The women described a variety of emotions, including fear, frustration and emotional exhaustion.
In some cases, women stated that they feared losing their independence because they wouldn't be able to take care of themselves like before. They sometimes devoted less time to work and to social activities, and felt that the medical community didn't pay enough attention to their symptoms of chemobrain, according to a news release about the study.
At the workplace, the side effects of chemotherapy robbed their ability to focus, potentially making it less likely that they'd be promoted, the study authors pointed out.
"These data underscore the very serious ways in which chemobrain can affect the life experiences of cancer survivors -- emotionally, psychologically and economically," the researchers concluded. "A clear understanding of the cognitive impairments experienced by survivors will aid researchers in developing targeted therapies and interventions aimed at improving or mitigating these post-treatment side effects."
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The East Muskingum school district has agreed to remove a painting of Jesus from the office of John Glenn High School in New Concord, despite comments from about 30 people that it should stay.
The East Muskingum school district has agreed to remove a painting of Jesus from the office of John Glenn High School in New Concord, despite comments from about 30 people that it should stay.
Allison Whaley, an 18-year-old senior at the school, about 70 miles east of Columbus, had said she was frustrated by a perceived lack of tolerance following the school�s removal of an art-class t-shirt project that included one that read �Gay is Okay.�
In response, Whaley requested that the �Good Shepherd� painting in the school office be removed. The American Civil Liberties Union threatened a federal lawsuit. The school board voted yesterday to move the painting.
East Muskingum school district Superintendent Jill Johnson said the painting depicting Jesus in a field with lambs was donated in honor of a Latin teacher who died in front of her class in 1971 after serving the district for more than 50 years. The painting could not be seen by students or visitors from the front counter.
Johnson argued that the painting does not endorse Christianity, but is a memorial to �the life of an individual spent educating students.�
About 500 people attended the meeting, said Steve Brooks, school principal.
�I do completely understand that given how they�re deciding these kinds of cases, that as a district we would have devoted a lot of taxpayer dollars and still would have had to remove the picture.�
The painting will be moved to Rix Mill Presbyterian Church. The frame will remain at John Glenn High School as a memory.
Other districts have had similar controversies.
The Jackson school district in southern Ohio agreed to remove a copy of the �Head of Christ� painting that had been displayed in a school there since 1947 after being sued in February by the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio and the Freedom From Religion Foundation of Madison, Wis.


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Hello, my name is Micah. I am currently a second-year law student at Suffolk University Law School in Boston. My primary focus has been on the law surrounding copyrights, patents, and trademarks as well as software licensing. At the same time, I am also a returning undergraduate studying Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Boston.
In my life before law school, I was a graduate student at University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee, in my hometown, where I studied Political Science. Prior to that, I completed my BA in Political Science and Philosophy at Purdue University in Indiana. I have always been fascinated by the intersection of technology and society and in law school that interest naturally culminated in a focus on software law and the use of software in the practice of law.
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Fire up your engines, pull on your aviator sunglasses and grab your volleyball partner, because "Top Gun 2" is a very real possibility. And that's coming from the one guy who can make it happen by sheer force of will alone -- Tom Cruise.
While promoting the upcoming "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol" in Dubai, Maverick himself said that he is pow-wowing with original "Top Gun" director and producer Tony Scott and Jerry Bruckheimer to figure out a way to check back in on his iconic '80s flyboy.
"I said to Tony, I want to make another movie with him," Cruise told MTV News. "He and I haven't made a film since 'Days of Thunder.' Tony and I and Jerry, we never thought we would do it again. Then they started to come to us with these ideas of where [the 'Top Gun' characters are] now. I thought, 'Wow, that would be...what we could do now."
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"If we can find a story that we all want to do, we all want to make a film that is in the same kind of tone as the other one and shoot it in the same way as we shot 'Top Gun,'" says Cruise.
Cruise and McQuarrie are currently teaming up on the thriller "One Shot," which McQuarrie is directing.
The original "Top Gun" was released in 1986 and instantly launched Cruise into the stratosphere. The original sequel rumor was that Cruise's hotshot fighter pilot Maverick would return as an instructor for a new class of Top Gun recruits. For a while, Taylor Lautner's name was floated for a key role, but if things are going back to the drawing board and Lautner continues to prove that he flounders in roles beyond "shirtless werewolf," we imagine he won't be involved.
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Speaking of strange conditions, yes I'm still here, trying to be there. Things are improving all the time. Just having to get back on the horse again.
I get many promo types of e-mails containing videos, tracks etc. To be honest many are just not my type of tunes or groups. I say " thank you" and hit delete. This one is from a group that I've never been exposed to and I liked the videos animation and thought the tune was a little catchy.
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With a Vanda & Young songwriting award nomination, recent shows abroad with Fall Out Boy and global LiveNation band competition win under their belt, Australia's EMPRA are stepping up to the next level with 'Strange Condition' and a national tour.
Not many bands have been banned from their home country. A tirade of swearing on stage, resulting in a riot shutting down a music festival is enough to do it in Singapore and for EMPRA's Sanny Veloo, it was an interesting introduction to the music industry with his first band Boredphucks.
Banished from performing with them in his home country and heading to Melbourne (because it was the home of AC/DC of course), the scene for EMPRA's creation was set. Veloo's early years in the Australian scene were equally eventful, with the death of a best friend and bandmate, the embezzlement of his life savings by an unscrupulous studio owner, the shattering of his elbow after a fall off a Marshall stack and a number of false starts with various lineups, before EMPRA was born in 2010.
Obviously taking the easy way out with learning names, Veloo found three guys on an internet forum all called Matt (bandmates Matt Agius, Mat Gault, and Matt Cattanach) and EMPRA was born.
Their first self-titled LP turned heads, with its single "Doesn't Make Much Sense" getting spins on radio across the country and resulting in showcases in the US. In April, it was announced that the band were the global winners of band competition hosted by global promoters LiveNation, pocketing some cash and international representation.
The band headed quickly into the studio with Haydn Ing (Calling All Cars), laying down what would become the new EP Strange Condition. With the band's songs showing a new depth, while retaining the hooks and accessibility of their previous work, the EP is a new beginning for a band breaking free of the shackles of their influences and creating a sound based on great songs and the experience of relentless touring around Australia and beyond.
Strange Condition has already made waves, even before its release, with EMPRA shortlisted as a finalist for the prestigious Vanda & Young Songwriting Competition. The video for the track has been created by Oh Yeah Wow (Gotye, British India) and is an immediate head-turner.
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A WebAPI for match history is now available on Dota 2. Web developers can now retrieve the match history and match details in JSON or XML format for use in their own applications.
First off get a dev key from here, http://steamcommunity.com/dev/apikey and login with your Steam account and you will get unique key. Please do not share this key as it identifies you when you make WebAPI requests.
There are two API calls for Dota 2's match history:
Retrieving match history:
Replace "<key>" with your personal WebAPI key. That call will return the latest 25 public matches in JSON format. You can request it in XML formatCode:
A maximum of 25 matches are returned. To request the next 25, use the param "start_at_match_id" with one less than the last match number you received:Code:
To retrieve the specific details of a match, use this API:Code:
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player_name=<name> # Search matches with a player name, exact match only
hero_id=<id> # Search for matches with a specific hero being played, hero id's are in dota/scripts/npc/npc_heroes.txt in your Dota install directory
skill=<skill> # 0 for any, 1 for normal, 2 for high, 3 for very high skill
date_min=<date> # date in UTC seconds since Jan 1, 1970 (unix time format)
date_max=<date> # date in UTC seconds since Jan 1, 1970 (unix time format)
account_id=<id> # Steam account id (this is not SteamID, its only the account number portion)
league_id=<id> # matches for a particular league
start_at_match_id=<id> # Start the search at the indicated match id, descending
matches_requested=<n> # Defaults is 25 matches, this can limit to less
Please explore this functionality. We can't wait to see what people come up with using this information.Code:
Please do be nice and not slam the WebAPI's too heavily, however! Thanks!
Frequently asked questions about the WebAPI:
How do I get the replay from the information in GetMatchDetails?
Replays are formed from the following URL:
The cluster, match_id and replay_salt are available from the fields in GetMatchDetails. For the curious, cluster is the server data center the game was played at.Code:
Are match history and details going to be available for private matches?
These are not available at this time. We'll are looking at a possible OATUH based authentication system that will allow players to retrieve their match history securely and allow third party sites to get that information they grant access to. We hope to have more details soon.
How do I find out what hero_id and item values translate into?
These values can be found in files that are in your Dota 2 install directory.
For heroes:
Steam/steamapps/common/dota 2 beta/gamedota/scripts/npc/npc_heroes.txt
For items:
Steam/steamapps/common/dota 2 beta/gamedota/scripts/npc/items.txt
Is there a WebAPI for current games in progress?
Not yet! But this is a excellent suggestion.
Are there limits on how many API calls?
Not presently, but you may get a 503 Error if the matchmaking server is busy or you exceed limits. Please wait 30 seconds and try again. A good rule of thumb is limit your requests to about one per second.
Update From the Dota 2 Development Team
As some of you have noticed, the WebAPI is currently inaccessible. What happened was that we were seeing such an overwhelming demand from people for this information that our servers were getting completely bogged down servicing all of these requests. None of the behavior we saw was malicious, there was just way too much demand and unfortunately it really started impacting the experience of general DOTA players and therefore we had to disable it for now. This is of course super interesting information and we want to make it as available to as many people as we possibly can and we are working on a couple of solutions to help greatly improve the situation so we can handle more requests, but can't give any definitive time frame for when these will be brought online. We will keep you posted as things develop, but hopefully our solutions will let us have our cake and eat it too (after all not all cakes are a lie).
As a side note though, if people are developing against this API, make sure to implement rate limiting within your systems. We don't have any numbers at this point, but we of course need to prevent individual accounts from submitting thousands of requests in a small window so that we can make sure that we can handle a reasonable number of users. Also if people have specific queries that they are running in large quantities that don't naturally fit into the existing API let us know so that if it is a common request people have that the system can efficiently handle those requests.


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Overall: 2 out of 5
Packaging: 5 out of 5
Price: 2 out of 5
Ok, ok, before I am put onto the stake, let me plea my case. I had high hopes for the brush sets, and high hopes as in this-is-my-first-MAC-brush-set-it's-gonna-be-the-bomb brush set. But unfortunately, I was actually very disappointed with it. Despite the adorable tweed clutch that encases the brushes, I was shocked how cheaply made these brushes were! It was A LOT lighter than I thought (the handle and overall feel), the 129 brush (the big powder brush) was scratchy on my face, and seriously it felt like the bristles of cheap brushes you would buy at Kmart. No joke. It's also made in China (not that everything made in China is cheap), but comparative to the full sized brushes which are made in Japan.
Like my sis Stephie mentioned in her video comparison of the brush sets and the full-sized brushes, the way they are made is completely different to the full-sized ones, and I could not agree more. I own several full-sized MAC brushes along with other brushes (Sonia Kushuk, EoB, Sephora), and even the Target brushes I got were a lot better to me than the brush sets.
Now keep in mind that I am only speaking for the BASIC brush set that I bought, the eye and face sets may be different, and I know to each his own, but me PERSONALLY, I did not enjoy these brushes as much as I wish I could have. The angled brush (# 266) was hard! It was so rough on my eye I felt I was applying my eyeshadow with sandpaper! So for price, I think if you are willing to already pay $48, might as well get a GOOD brush.
So along with reader Alma, I too will perhaps sadly return my brush set and save my money and use it for the Stylistics brush set that is coming out next month, and see if that fares better. (I really hope it does!), the clutch on that is gorgeous as well, a sleek black clutch veiled with black and white pearls.
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Monday, October 29, 2007
Product Review: MAC Basic Brush Set
Overall: 2 out of 5
11 comments
- mary said...
I had bought the same set last year...and I thought it was good. the eyeshadow shader was a little rough, but overall i liked it. I was n't to happy about the clutch though...it looked cheaply made...so i didn't get it...overall i might not get anything from the collection...!!
- October 29, 2007 at 4:58 PM
- nilla cookie said...
Oh bummer, that sucks to hear! I also bought the Basic Brush Set and am still waiting for it to come in the mail. Let's see if my set is as bad as yours and Alma's.. Keep you posted! :)
Have a great day!
- October 29, 2007 at 5:09 PM
- Anonymous said...
Great review !!!! Totally agree!!!
Mine are going back TOMORROW!!! No need for them to gather dust or have my reciept expire right?
- October 29, 2007 at 5:24 PM
- Sandy said...
i got the brush set from novel twist. i didn't like the powder brush. it would leave hair on my skin so i don't use it. i was planning to get them brushes but after reading it, i don't think i will. brushes are oh so expensive in sydney. i'm thinking to tell mum to get them for me from singapore airport :) it's way cheaper than sydney. thanks for the input :)
- October 29, 2007 at 8:16 PM
- Anonymous said...
the brush set from the Stylistic collection will be the same since they will be mass produce and not hand made.
- October 29, 2007 at 9:28 PM
- Anonymous said...
I actually bought the eye and the basic ones but had nothing of the full sized ones...so i can't compare and I haven't even used the brush set yet but after reading ur review, the basic will be sure to go bye bye
- October 29, 2007 at 10:13 PM
- Anonymous said...
hi vanessa,
i also bought the eyes and the basic brush set. To me, the 129 is ok but the 217 brush is kinda hard.
I am looking for alt...do you know what's a good alt to the 224,217,219,252
- October 30, 2007 at 10:52 AM
- Vanessa said...
Liz, alternatives as in brushes that are NOT MAC? Also let me know yoyr email so I can reply to you.
- October 30, 2007 at 11:07 AM
- Anonymous said...
hi vanessa
i sent you an email at your
nessasarymakeup at gmail dot com
- October 30, 2007 at 12:11 PM
- Stephie said...
awww my poor ate... i hope your face is alright from the harsh bristles :P i thought it was only my brushes being bad because most other people rave about them. i can't wait for the next collections, might as well use your mullah on those :D! <3 you!
- October 30, 2007 at 12:58 PM
- Unknown said...
Nessa, I have to disagree with you on the 266SE. I'd gotten it as a gift before I'd ever seen the full-sized 266 and when I tried to apply fluidline with it as all the MUA and specktra fluidline fanatics recommended, it was horrible! But now it's become a daily essential brush for me..it's like a coarse version of the 266, and is perfect for eyebrow defining and lining the eyes with eyeshadow (i like to do that sometimes when i'm too lazy to apply gel liner). Do give it a try sometime and see how that works out for you! On a sidenote, I will have to agree with most of what u said abt the other brushes...particularly the blush brush which is obviously very cheap and practically came apart the first time i washed it. :(
- October 31, 2007 at 12:01 AM


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For all the adorable images of cats that play the piano, flush the toilet, mew melodiously and find their way back home over hundreds of miles, scientists have identified a shocking new truth: Cats are far deadlier than anyone realized.
In a report that expanded results from local surveys and pilot studies, scientists from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and the Fish and Wildlife Service estimated that U.S. domestic cats - both the pet Fluffies that spend part of the day outdoors and the unnamed strays and ferals that never leave it - kill a median of 2.4 billion birds and 12.3 billion mammals a year, most of them native animals like shrews, chipmunks and voles rather than introduced pests like the Norway rat.
The estimated kill rates are two to four times as high as those previously bandied about, and they position the domestic cat as one of the single greatest human-linked threats to wildlife. More birds and mammals die at the mouths of cats, the report said, than from automobile strikes, pesticides and poisons, collisions with skyscrapers and windmills, or other similar causes.
Peter Marra of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, an author of the report, said the mortality figures that emerge from the new model "are shockingly high."
"When we ran the model, we didn't know what to expect," said Marra, who performed the analysis with his colleague, Scott R. Loss, and Tom Will of the Fish and Wildlife Service. "We were absolutely stunned by the results."
The study appeared Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications.
The findings are the first serious estimate of just how much wildlife the country's vast population of free-roaming domestic cats manages to kill each year.
"We've been discussing this problem of cats and wildlife for years and years, and now we finally have some good science to start nailing down the numbers," said George H. Fenwick, the president and chief executive of the American Bird Conservancy. "This is a great leap forward over the quality of research we had before."
In devising their mathematical model, the researchers systematically sifted through the existing scientific literature on cat-wildlife interactions, eliminated studies in which the sample size was too small or the results too extreme, and then extracted and standardized the findings from the 21 most rigorous studies. The results admittedly come with wide ranges and uncertainties.
Nevertheless, the new report is likely to fuel the sometimes vitriolic debate between environmentalists who see free-roaming domestic cats as an invasive species - super-predators whose numbers are growing globally even as the songbirds and many other animals the cats prey on are in decline - and animal welfare advocates who are appalled by the millions of unwanted cats (and dogs) that are euthanized in animal shelters each year.
Most concur that pet cats should not be allowed to prowl around the neighbourhood at will, any more than should a pet dog, horse or potbellied pig, and that cat owners who insist their felines "deserve" a bit of freedom are being irresponsible and ultimately not very cat friendly. Through recent projects like Kitty Cams at the University of Georgia, in which cameras are attached to the collars of indoor-outdoor pet cats to track their activities, cats have not only been filmed preying on cardinals, frogs and field mice, they have also been shown lapping up antifreeze and sewer sludge, dodging under moving cars and sparring violently with big dogs.
"We've put a lot of effort into trying to educate people that they should not let their cats outside, that it's bad for the cats and can shorten the cats' lives," said Danielle Bays, the manager of the community cat programs at the Washington Humane Society.
Yet the new study estimates that free-roaming pets account for only about 29 per cent of the birds and 11 per cent of the mammals killed by domestic cats each year. The larger problem is how to manage the 80 million or so stray and feral cats that commit the bulk of the wildlife slaughter.
The Washington Humane Society and many other animal welfare organizations support the use of increasingly popular trap-neuter-return programs, in which unowned cats are caught, vaccinated, spayed and, if no home can be found for them, returned to the outdoor colony from which they came. Proponents see this approach as a humane alternative to large-scale euthanasia, and they say a colony of neutered cats can't reproduce and thus will eventually disappear.
Conservationists say that, far from diminishing the population of unowned cats, trap and release programs may be making it worse, by encouraging people to abandon their pets to outdoor colonies that volunteers often keep lovingly fed.
"The number of free roaming cats is definitively growing," Fenwick of the bird conservancy said. "It's estimated that there are now more than 500 TNR colonies in Austin alone."
They are colonies of subsidized predators, he said, able to survive in far greater concentrations than do wild carnivores by dint of their people-pleasing appeal.
"They're not like coyotes, having to make their way in the world," he said.
Yet even fed cats are profoundly tuned to the hunt, and when they see something flutter, they can't help but move in for the kill. Fenwick argues that far more effort should be put into animal adoption.
"For the great majority of healthy cats," he said, "homes can be found."
Any outdoor colonies that remain should be enclosed, he said.
"Cats don't need to wander hundreds of miles to be happy," he said.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) – UC officials said Friday that the number of students applying to UC's nine undergraduate campuses rose 8.6 percent to 174,767. That includes freshman and transfer applicants applying for fall 2013.
The increase was partly driven by a surge of applications from outside California.
The number of freshman applications from domestic non-residents rose 14.9 percent to 21,970, while the number of international applicants jumped 34.5 percent to 18,659.
The number of California students who applied for freshman admission rose 6.2 percent to 99,129.
For the first time, Latinos are the largest group of California students applying for freshman admission, rising to 32.1 percent of that pool.
The number of transfer applicants from California community colleges fell slightly.
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