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\section{Introduction}
Nucleation of quantized vortices and their dynamics are closely associated with supeflow decay and turbulence in quantum fluids and atomic Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) \cite{FetterReview2001}.
In early experiments, a simple-connected geometry of the trap was used to measure onset of dissipationless flow in BEC. A  laser beam was moved through the condensate, and the dissipation was detected as heating of the condensate \cite{PhysRevLett.83.2502,PhysRevLett.84.806,PhysRevLett.85.2228,PhysRevLett.87.210402,PhysRevLett.104.160401}. The problem of the vortex excitation by a moving barrier was also extensively investigated theoretically \cite{PhysRevLett.80.3903,PhysRevA.61.051603,PhysRevA.62.061601,PhysRevX.1.021003}.

Recent experimental progress in creating atomic gases in a toroidal geometry has opened novel prospects for the studies of the fundamental properties of the superfluid state \cite{PhysRevA.88.053615}.
Ring-shaped BEC has become the topic of a large body of experimental and theoretical research
\cite{PhysRevA.66.053606,Benakli1999,Brand01,PhysRevA.74.061601,Das2012, PhysRevA.64.063602,Dalfovo06}
including  persistent currents \cite{PhysRevLett.99.260401,PhysRevLett.110.025301,PRA2013R}, weak links \cite{PhysRevLett.106.130401,PhysRevLett.110.025302,PhysRevA.80.021601,Piazza2013}, solitary waves \cite{Brand01,Berloff09}, and decay of the persistent current via phase slips \cite{PhysRevA.86.013629}. A persistent flow in a toroidal trap can be created  by transferring a quantized angular
momentum from optical fields \cite{PhysRevLett.99.260401,PhysRevLett.110.025302} or by stirring with rotating blue-detuned laser beam \cite{PhysRevLett.110.025302,Wright2013}. The quantized circulation in a ring
corresponds to a $m$-charged vortex line pinned at the center of the ring-shaped condensate, where the vortex energy has a local
minimum.
Since the vortex core is bounded by the potential barrier, even the multicharged ($m>1$)
metastable vortex states can be very robust in a ring-shaped condensate \cite{PhysRevA.86.013629}.

Very recently \cite{Wright2013}, vortices in a toroidal trap were excited using a  \emph{small} (diameter less than the width of the annulus) variable-height potential barrier (a 'stirrer') with an angular velocity ranging from zero up to the speed of sound in the condensate. A wide range of the experimental parameters used in Ref. \cite{Wright2013} opens an intriguing possibility for theoretical investigation of excitation of the persistent current in a stirred ring-shaped BEC at different regimes. A simple 1D model used in Ref. \cite{Wright2013} shows a reasonable agreement with the experimental measurements of the threshold for vortex excitation. However, the microscopic origin of the superflow generation, as well as complex vortex dynamics, are beyond the scope of the 1D treatment, which is based on the analysis of the average speed of sound. In this work, we consider a 2D reduction of the full 3D mean-field model justified by the trapping geometry. Performing numerical modeling for various combinations of potential barrier height and angular velocity, we determine the conditions for creation of vortices and compare it with the experimental findings.

\section{Model}\label{model}
Here we formulate the dissipative mean-field model used in our work.
In modeling nonequilibrium behavior, such as nucleation
of vortices, dissipative effects are of crucial importance
since they provide the mechanism for damping of elementary
excitations in the process of relaxation to an equilibrium state.
It is the dissipation that either causes the vortex line to drift
to the outer edge of the condensate (where vortices decay) or leads
to the pinning of the vortex in the central hole of the ring-shaped condensate. The relaxation of the vortex core position to the
local minimum of the energy leads to formation of the metastable persistent current.
Dissipative effects appear in a
trapped condensate due to interaction with thermal cloud
and can be captured phenomenologically by the dissipative Gross-Pitaevskii  equation (GPE) \cite{Pitaevskii59,Choi98,Tsubota13}.
For a system of weakly interacting degenerate atoms close to
thermodynamic equilibrium and subject to weak dissipation,
the dissipative GPE for the macroscopic wavefunction can be written in the form
\begin{equation}\label{GPE}
(i-\gamma) \hbar \frac{\partial \tilde\Psi(\textbf{r},t)}{\partial t} = \left[\hat H + U_0 |\tilde\Psi(\textbf{r},t)|^2 -\mu\right]\tilde\Psi(\textbf{r},t),
\end{equation}
where $\gamma\ll 1$ is the phenomenological dissipative parameter, $\hat H=-\frac{\hbar^2}{2M} \Delta + V(\textbf{r})$,  $\Delta$
is a Laplacian operator, $U_0 = \frac{4 \pi \hbar^2 a_s}{M}$ is interaction strength, $M$ is the mass of the $^{23}$Na atom, $a_s=2.75$nm is the $s$-wave scattering length. The chemical potential $\mu(t)$ of the equilibrium state in our dynamical simulations was adjusted at each time step so that the number of condensed particles slowly decays with time: $N(t)=N(0)e^{-t/t_0}$, where $t_0 = 10$ s corresponds to the $1/e$ lifetime of the BEC reported in Ref. \cite{PhysRevLett.110.025301}.

The trapping potential
$$V(\textbf{r})=V_{\textrm{tr}}(r,z)+V_{\textrm{b}}(x,y,t),$$
consists of an axially-symmetric toroidal trap:
$$V_{\textrm{tr}}(r,z)=\frac12 M\omega_z^2 z^2+\frac12 M\omega_r^2(r-R)^2,$$
where $r=\sqrt{x^2+y^2}$,
and the repulsive potential of optical blue-detuned stirring beam:
$$V_{\textrm{b}}(x,y,t)=f(t)e^{-\frac{1}{2 d^2}\left\{[x-x_0(t)]^2+[y-y_0(t)]^2\right\}},$$
 where $\left\{x_0,y_0\right\}=\left\{R\cos(\Omega t),R\sin(\Omega t)\right\}$ is the coordinate of the barrier center, moving counter-clockwise with a constant angular velocity $\Omega$ through the maximum of condensate density [see Fig. \ref{GroundState} (a)]. The effective width of the beam $d$ is significantly less than the width of the annulus $\Delta R$, but is ten times greater than the healing length $\xi$ ($d=3.82\mu$m, $\Delta R> d\gg\xi=1/\sqrt{8\pi n_0 a_s}\approx 0.32\mu$m, where $n_0\approx 1.4\cdot 10^{14}$ cm$^{-3}$ is condensate peak density).  The function $f(t)$ describes the temporal  changes in the barrier height: $f(t)$ linearly ramps up  in the first $0.1$ s of evolution from zero to $U_b$ and remains unchanged for $0.8$ s, then in the last $0.1$ s it ramps down to zero again.
The radius of the ring trap is equal to $R = 22.6\mu$m.
The experimentally measured trapping frequencies are $\omega_r=2\pi\times 134$ Hz,
  $\omega_z=2\pi\times 550$Hz, which corresponds to the oscillator lengths $l_r=\sqrt{\hbar/(M\omega_r)}= 1.81\mu$m and $l_z=\sqrt{\hbar/(M\omega_z)}= 0.90\mu$m.

The harmonic potential creates a tight binding confinement in $z$ direction, so that the BEC cloud is 'disk-shaped'.
Consequently, we assume that the longitudinal motion of condensate is frozen, and the wavefunction can be factorized as follows $\Psi_j(\mathbf{r},t)=\tilde\Psi_j(x,y,t)\Upsilon(z,t),$ where
$\Upsilon(z,t)=(l_{z}\sqrt{\pi})^{-1/2}\exp(-\frac{i}{2}\omega_zt-\frac12z^2/l_{z}^2)$. The norm of the condensate wave  function $\tilde\Psi(x,y)$ is equivalent to the number of atoms:
$
N=\int|\tilde\Psi|^2dx dy.
$
After integrating out the longitudinal coordinates in the 3D GPE (\ref{GPE}),  we obtain a dissipative GPE in 2D:
\begin{equation}\label{GPE_dissipative1}
(i-\gamma)\frac{\partial \psi}{\partial t} = \left[-\frac{1}{2} \Delta_\perp + V(x,y,t)+  g|\psi|^2 -\mu\right]\psi,
\end{equation}
where $V(x,y,t)=\frac12(r-R)^2+V_\textrm{b}(x,y,t)$ and  $R=12.47$ are the dimensionless potential and the radius of the trap,
$g=\sqrt{8\pi}a_s/l_z=1.54\times 10^{-2}$ is the dimensionless 2D interaction constant, $\psi\rightarrow l_r \psi$ is dimensionless wave-function.
Here we use  harmonic oscillator units: $t\to \omega_r t$, $(x,y)\to (x/l_r,y/l_r)$, $V_\textrm{b}\to V_\textrm{b}/(\hbar\omega_r)$, $\mu\to \mu/(\hbar\omega_r)$.

 \section{Ground state: stationary solutions and excitation spectrum}\label{SecGroundState}
The radially-symmetric steady-states  in toroidal BEC, corresponding to vortices with a topological charge $m$ were found numerically integrating a conservative stationary GPE
$$\mu\psi_m(r)=-\frac12\Delta_r^{(m)}\psi_m(r)+\frac12(r-R)^2\psi_m(r)+g\psi_m^3(r),$$ where
$$\Delta_r^{(m)}=\frac{d^2}{d r^2}+\frac{1}{r}\frac{d}{dr}-\frac{m^2}{r^2}.$$ A ground state with $m=0$ corresponds to boundary conditions $\psi'(0)=0$, $\psi(\infty)=0$. The numerical results for stationary ground states are given in Fig. \ref{GroundState}. Using the Thomas-Fermi (TF) approximation, it is straightforward to obtain the approximate expression for the number of atoms:
$N=\frac{4R}{3a_s}\left(\pi\mu^3\omega_r/\omega_z\right)^{1/2},$ width of the BEC annulus: $\Delta R= 2\sqrt{2\mu}$, and the peak density max$|\psi|^2=\mu/g$. These simple estimates are found to be in excellent agreement with numerical results (see Fig. \ref{GroundState}). As can be seen, the radial profiles gradually expand when chemical potential grows and for $\mu>60$ the central hole is filled by the atoms, so that the topology of the condensate becomes single-connected.

 \begin{figure}[h]
  \includegraphics[width=3.4in]{Fig1.eps}
  \caption{(Color online) (a) Scheme of the 2D BEC
  in a ring trap  of radius $R$. A blue-detuned optical stirrer (blue filled circle) excites vortices when it circles   counter-clockwise with angular velocity $\Omega$ through the maximum of condensate density (black dashed line). Stationary ground states: (b) Number of atoms vs chemical potential. Inset shows the radial trapping potential $V(r)$ (black dotted line) and examples of numerically found radial profiles $\psi(r)$ for three values of $\mu$. A: $\mu=2$, B: $\mu=10.62$, and C: $\mu=50$. (c) Solid red lines shows  relative Thomas-Fermi width $\Delta R/R$ of the ring  as a function of chemical potential. Circles represent numerical results for the relative width $\Delta R/R$ of the condensate with density above $10^{-3}$ of the peak density. (d) Peak density max$|\psi|^2$ vs $\mu$. Solid red line presents the results of TF approximation, open circles correspond to the numerical stationary solutions.}
  \label{GroundState}
\end{figure}

Let us discuss the choice of parameters of our theoretical model. As pointed out above, the BEC cloud is highly anisotropic in the experimental setup, thus the 2D model properly describes the main features of the vortex dynamics. However, it is easy to verify that, if one uses the  harmonic oscillator ground state in $z$-direction,
 then  the peak density $n_0$ in $z=0$ plane becomes overestimated compared to the actual experimental value for the same value of total number of atoms. Obviously, in the inhomogeneous condensate, excitation and evolution of the vortices are sensitive rather to the condensate density structure than to the total number of atoms. Parameters of our 2D model are matched to the experimental value of the peak density and geometry of the experimental setup.
Corresponding dimensionless value for the chemical potential is $\mu=10.62$. The stationary solution for the parameters of the model used in our simulations is shown in the insight in Fig. \ref{GroundState} (a) and in Fig. \ref{GroundState} (b)-(d) by the green circle. Note that, for the parameters under consideration, the central hole of the ring-shaped condensate is well pronounced, and the width of the annulus $\Delta R=9.22$ is much greater then the effective width of the barrier $d=2.1$

The analysis of the elementary excitations of the ground state provides an insight into stability properties of the stirred condensate. In the toroidal geometry the radial degrees of freedom lead to specific features of the excitations, such as inner and outer edge surface modes, which cannot be explained in terms of the average speed of sound \cite{PhysRevA.86.011604,PhysRevA.86.011602}.
As noted in Ref. \cite{stuartthesis}, if the geometry of the toroidal trap is fixed, then the nature of the excitation is determined by the number of atoms in the condensate. For a large condensate an outer edge surface mode is dominating, while  for a weak condensate the instability changes to a phonon mode, located in the condensate bulk. To verify which type  of the excitations dominates in our setup, and to obtain the quantitative characteristics of the corresponding eigenfrequencies, we have performed the analysis of Bogoliubov azimuthal spectrum for parameters of the condensate matched to the experimental conditions \cite{Wright2013}.
Expanding the nonstationary solution in the vicinity of a $m$-charged steady state $\psi(x,y,t)=\left[\psi_m(r)+\delta\psi(r,\varphi,t)\right]e^{-i m\varphi}$, where $\delta\psi=u(r)e^{i\omega t + iL\varphi}+v^*(r)e^{-i\omega^* t- iL\varphi}$  and $L$ is the integer azimuthal mode number, and linearizing the dynamical Eq. (\ref{GPE_dissipative1}) without dissipation ($\gamma=0$ and $\mu=$const) we obtain the eigenvalue problem for $\omega$ of the form:
 \begin{equation}
 \label{eq:EigenProblem}
  \begin{pmatrix}
    \hat Q_{m+L} & -g\psi_m^2 \\
g\psi_m^{*2}     & -\hat Q_{m-L}
  \end{pmatrix}
\vec{\varepsilon}=\omega\vec{\varepsilon},
 \end{equation}
where $\vec\varepsilon=(u,v)$,
$$\hat Q_{m\pm L}=\mu+
\frac12\Delta_r^{(m\pm L)}-\frac12(r-R)^2-2g|\psi_m(r)|^2.$$  The unperturbed radial profile $\psi_m(r)$ can be considered as a
real function without loss of generality. Here we follow the descritization procedure described in Ref.\cite{stuartthesis} in order to reduce the differential eigenvalue problem (\ref{eq:EigenProblem}) to the linear algebraic one. Figure \ref{Spectrum} presents the results our calculations of the Bogoliubov spectrum that are similar to the ones reported in Refs. \cite{PhysRevA.86.011604,PhysRevA.86.011602}. Note that all frequencies are real-valued.

 \begin{figure}[h]
  \includegraphics[width=3.4in]{Fig2.eps}
  \caption{(Color online) Excitation spectrum $\omega(L)$ of the ground state ($m=0$) of toroidal condensate. Dashed straight line corresponds to $\omega=L\Omega_c$, where the critical angular velocity $\Omega_c$ is obtained in the frame of the surface model. Note that the critical angular velocity $\Omega_c=$ min $\left\{\omega(L)/L\right\}$ obtained from the Bogoliubov spectrum predicts the same value: $\Omega_c\approx 2\pi\times 16.1$Hz. Inset shows the fragment of the annulus with perturbed atomic density for the critical outer edge surface mode ($L=30$, size of the image is $20\times 20$ in units of $l_r$). The amplitude of the perturbation is normalized to be 2$\%$ of the peak density of the unperturbed condensate.}
  \label{Spectrum}
\end{figure}

It appears that the linear eigen-modes corresponding to the critical angular frequency $\Omega_c=\textrm{min}\left\{\omega(L)/L\right\}$, obtained by analogy with the Landau criterion (see, e.g., Ref. \cite{DalfovoStringari2000}), are localized at the external surface of the annulus. The corresponding perturbed density distribution is shown in the inset of the Fig. \ref{Spectrum}, where perturbation $\delta n=2\textrm{Re}\left[\psi_m^*\delta\psi\right]$ is normalized so that $\delta n/n_0\le 2\cdot 10^{-2}$, where $n_0$ is the condensate peak density. It is remarkable that the critical frequency $\Omega_c/\omega_r=\sqrt{2}\mu^{1/6}/(R+\Delta R/2)$ obtained in the frame of the simple surface model (see, e.g., \cite{PhysRevA.86.011602}), where the curvature of the external surface is neglected, gives practically the same value $\Omega_c=2\pi\times 16.1$Hz.

Since the stirring by the laser beam is accompanied by the condensate distortion and shape deformation, one could expect that a sufficiently rapid barrier (with $\Omega>\Omega_c$)  produces an excited state corresponding to a surface wave with the energy $\hbar\omega(L)$ and angular momentum $\hbar L$ along $z$. Once these surface waves are excited, they break up and nucleate vortices, which come into the condensate bulk from the outer boundary of the annulus. For a slow barrier (with $\Omega<\Omega_c$) the outer edge surface mode is not excited and the dominating mechanism for the vortex nucleation is expected to be the formation of vortex pairs in the condensate bulk. The direct numerical simulations of the dissipative dynamics of the stirred condensate support these predictions of the linear stability analysis.

\section{Dissipative dynamics of stirred toroidal condensate}
Here we present the results of our numerical simulations of the dissipative GPE (\ref{GPE_dissipative1})
with the split-step Fourier transform method.  In line with the experimental procedure in our calculations, initially nonrotating condensate is stirred for one second with a repulsive potential moving azimuthally at a fixed angular velocity.  In the following, we neglect possible position and temperature dependence of
$\gamma$ and set $\gamma = 1.5\cdot 10^{-3}$. We note that our main results do not depend
qualitatively on the chosen value of $\gamma\ll 1$. The dissipative parameter $\gamma$ determines the relaxation time of the vortices: the greater $\gamma$ is, the less time it takes for a vortex to drift from the high-density condensate annulus to the low-density periphery. With $\gamma = 1.5\cdot 10^{-3}$, we found the bulk of the condensate annulus to be cleansed from the vortices after three seconds, which is consistent with the experimentally measured lifetime of the annular vortices \cite{Wright2013}. Typical examples of the dissipative dynamics are given  in Fig. \ref{Dynamics3Hz} for slow and in Fig. \ref{Dynamics20Hz} for fast rotation of the barrier.
More examples of evolution of the density and phase of the toroidal condensate for different angular velocities and heights
of the stirring beam are given in the Supplemental Material.

We observed two regimes of the vortex excitation in a toroidal BEC.  For a {\em low angular velocity} of the stirrer vortex-antivortex pair are nucleated near the center of the barrier (see Fig. \ref{Dynamics3Hz}). Then the pair undergoes a breakdown and the antivortex moves spirally to the external surface of the condensate and finally decays into elementary excitations, while the vortex becomes pinned in the central hole of the annulus adding  one unit to the topological charge of the persistent current. The progressive drift of the vortices toward the external condensate boundary is the result of dissipation, which leads to the vortex energy decay.

It is interesting to note a considerable  phase gradient traveling in front of the rotating barrier even for  a low barrier amplitude and slow rotation,  long before the vortex pair appears (see the animations from Supplemental Material). The phase gradient corresponds to the velocity field, which means that a  forward superfluid flow appears in the stirred condensate even well below the threshold rotation rate. This specific feature of the multiply-connected superfluid has been conclusively established experimentally in Ref. \cite{arxiv1406_1095} and can be easily explained as follows: a low-density wake appearing directly behind the stirrer initiates two counter-propagating superflows. First flow is directed against the rotation of the barrier. This atomic flow tends to fill the low-density wake behind the barrier. Because the condensate wave-function must be single valued, the velocity circulation around any closed path must be a multiple of $2\pi m$, thus the total velocity circulation vanishes for the state with zero winding number ($m=0$). The second atomic flow cancels the phase gradient corresponding to the velocity field of the atoms moving through the barrier. That is why, in a ring-shaped BEC, a  superflow, which is co-directional with the stirrer, appears  even for low rotation rates.

It turns out that, if the barrier intensity $U_b$ is just above the threshold value, then the angular momentum transfers to the condensate only by nucleation of the vortex-antivortex pair in the bulk of the annulus. However, if $U_b$ is much greater than the threshold value, then a weak link (a localized region of rarefied superfluid density) develops in a ring and breaks the potential barrier for the external vortices. As a result, a vortex from the outside of the ring can enter though the rotating weak link. This mechanism is similar to stirring with a wide barrier observed in Ref. \cite{PhysRevLett.110.025302}.

 \begin{figure}[h]
  \includegraphics[width=3.4in]{Fig3.eps}
  \caption{(Color online) Excitation of a vortex-antivortex pair by the stirring laser beam with  $\Omega =2\pi\times 3$ Hz and $U_b/h=1300$ Hz. The core of the vortex is indicated by a cross; antivortex is marked by a circle.}
  \label{Dynamics3Hz}
\end{figure}
 \begin{figure}[h]
  \includegraphics[width=3.4in]{Fig4.eps}
  \caption{(Color online) Temporal evolution of the toroidal condensate with fast stirrer ($\Omega =2\pi\times 20$ Hz, $U_b/h=300$ Hz): (a) The angular momentum per atom $L_z/N$ (blue curve), number of annular vortices $\nu_v$ (black dots), and  antivortices $\nu_a$ (red dots). (a), (b) Snapshots of the density and phase distribution in $(x,y)$ plane for different moments of time (the size of each image is $40\times 40$ in units of $l_r$).  }
  \label{Dynamics20Hz}
\end{figure}

For {\em higher angular velocities} of the stirrer (with $\Omega>\Omega_c$, where $\Omega_c$ is found to be close to the one predicted by Bogoliubov analysis) the dominating source of vortices is the instability of the external surface modes.  First, ripples appear at the external surface  (see Fig. \ref{Dynamics20Hz}), and then several vortices nucleate simultaneously. Also, as often happens for a higher barrier intensity $U_b$, vortex lines come into the bulk of the condensate through the rotating weak link. Further complex dynamics of the vortices is governed not only by the condensate inhomogeneity and dissipation effects, but also by the interplay between
condensate flows corresponding to other vortices.
Vortex-antivortex annihilation produces sound waves, which also interact with other vortices. Moreover, the sound pulses can also break into vortex-antivortex pairs. As the barrier circles in the annulus, it periodically travels through its own low-density wake, creating new vortices and interacting with the existing ones. The number of vortices increases dramatically in our simulations with increasing barrier amplitude $U_b$, so that dynamics of the vortices becomes quite irregular. Note that in the central hole and far from the external surface of the condensate, where the condensate density vanishes, the phase strongly fluctuates and one can see infinitely many vortices and antivortices. To avoid the influence of these ``ghost vortices'', we discard the contribution  to $\nu_v$ and $\nu_a$ of the vortices and antivortices which are located beyond the TF surface.  Since a host of vortices is located at the periphery of the condensate, the number of annular vortices $\nu_v$ and antivortices $\nu_v$ fluctuates when they cross the boundary of the TF surface [see Fig. \ref{Dynamics20Hz} (a)]. To illustrate the relaxation process and formation of a persistent current in Fig. \ref{Dynamics20Hz}, the time-frame of the numerical modeling was substantially extended in comparison with the experiment.

 \begin{figure}[h]
  \includegraphics[width=3.4in]{Fig5.eps}
  \caption{(Color online) Angular momentum, number of annular vortices and antivortices for the final stage of the stirring process ($t=1$ s) are represented by the color code as a function of angular speed $\Omega$ and the height of the stirring potential $U_b$: (a) Angular momentum per atom $L_z/N$. White isolines correspond to $L_z/N=1$ (dashed curve) and $L_z/N=0.02$ (dotted curves). (b) Number of annular vortices $\nu_v$. (c) Number of annular antivortices $\nu_a$.}
  \label{UbOmega}
\end{figure}

Vortex excitations experience dissipation all the time, which sends them in search of  an equilibrium position in accordance with  the local minima of the vorticity energy.
In the inhomogeneous ring-shaped condensate, the two options are either relaxation to the persistent current, when vortex line is pinned in the giant central hole, or to the outer boundary, where vortices decay into elementary excitations.
As is well known (see, e.g. \cite{Tsubota13}), small-scale forcing may generate large-scale flows in effectively 2D turbulent classical and quantum fluids. This feature is in a sharp contrast to hydrodynamic turbulence in 3D fluids. Recently \cite{PhysRevLett.111.235301} it was demonstrated, both experimentally and numerically, for an oblate Bose-Einstein condensate confined in an annular trapping potential, that inverse energy cascades are inherent for 2D quantum turbulence.
 In this context formation of large-scale persistent current  observed in our simulations is naturally determined by the development of the 2D turbulence. The energy of small-scale forcing transits first to irregular vortex distributions and then relaxes to a large-scale flow in the form of a circulating superflow. For example, as is seen from Fig. \ref{UbOmega} (a), the number of vortices and antivortices rapidly increases when the stirring beam ramps up ($0<t<0.1$ s), and decays to zero when the stirring beam is switched off ($t>1$ s), while the angular momentum per atom saturates to an integer number $m=4$ corresponding to the $m$-charged persistent current.

We have performed an extensive series of numerical simulations of a full one second operating cycle for different values of barrier intensity $U_b$ and angular velocity $\Omega$. To summarize our findings and compare results of the numerical modeling with the experiment, we present  the angular momentum per atom $L_z/N$ [see Fig. \ref{UbOmega} (a)], the number of  vortices $\nu_v$ [see Fig. \ref{UbOmega} (b)], and number of antivortices $\nu_a$ [see Fig. \ref{UbOmega} (c)] inside of the condensate annulus at the end of the cycle when the barrier is ramped down to zero. The relaxation time from the nonequilibrium turbulent state to a metastable state with the persistent current takes a considerable time (comparable with the three-second life-time of the annular vortices). During one second of the experimental cycle such a transition usually is not completed and the number of annular vortices fluctuates substantially when vortices move towards the condensate edge. To minimize the contribution from these random fluctuations, we have calculated $\nu_v$ [shown in Fig. \ref{UbOmega} (b)] and $\nu_a$ [shown in Fig. \ref{UbOmega} (c)]  by averaging the number of annular vortices and antivortices over the period of $10$ ms before the end  and $10$ ms after the end of the stirring process. It is interesting to note that the number of detected annular vortices and antivortices {\em decays} for very high values of $U_b$. This is because, as mentioned above, a high-amplitude stirring beam creates a weak link and therefore breaks the potential barrier for the external vortices. As a result, a vortex from the outside of the ring readily enters the central hole without crossing the condensate annulus.

The white dashed curve in Fig. \ref{UbOmega} (a) presents  an extrapolated isoline corresponding to unitary value of the angular momentum per particle $L_z/N=1$. The dotted white line gives the isoline with $L_z/N=0.02$, corresponding to the threshold for annular vortex excitation, when a vortex line is placed at the external TF boundary of the annulus. We note that our results are in a good agreement with the experimentally measured \cite{Wright2013} threshold for vortex excitation especially for $\Omega>\Omega_c\approx 16$ Hz. For the lower angular velocities the experimentally measured threshold value of the barrier height $U_b$ is well below the predictions of our 2D model, as well as of the 1D model suggested in Ref. \cite{Wright2013}.  However, as we observed in our numerical simulations, even relatively small deviation $\delta R$ of the stirring beam center trajectory ($\delta R\approx 2\mu$m, which is of order of the precision of stable beam axis positioning reported in Ref. \cite{PhysRevLett.84.806}) from the ideal circle of radius $R=22.6 \mu$m  can significantly decrease the threshold barrier height $U_b$ for a slowly rotating stirrer.

The problem of the persistent current formation in a stirred toroidal condensate deserves a further theoretical and experimental investigation. It is intstructive to generalize our 2D theoretical model to a realistic 3D geometry and to account for the stochastic thermal fluctuations. Also, it is of interest to investigate, both experimentally and theoretically, the relaxation process to the metastable persistent current when the condensate is cleansed from the annular vortices depending on the position of the stirring beam.

\section{Conclusions}
We have investigated a condensate stirred by a small, tunable, penetrable barrier moving azimuthally at a fixed angular velocity. Our theoretical analysis reveals the microscopic mechanism of the large-scale persistent current generation and demonstrate a small-scale complex vortex dynamics.
For a slow motion of the narrow stirring beam vortex-antivortex pairs appear near the center of the stirrer in the bulk of the condensate. The antivortex moves spirally to the external surface of the condensate and finally decays into elementary excitations, while the vortex becomes pinned in the central hole of the annulus, adding  one unit to the topological charge of the persistent current. An outer edge  surface mode develops and breaks into the vortices entering the condensate annulus when the barrier angular velocity is above some critical angular velocity, in accordance with results of Bogoliubov analysis and the predictions of the surface model. Performing numerical modeling for various combinations of potential barrier height and angular velocity, we determine the conditions for creation of vortices which appear to be in good agreement with the experimental results.

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The polls (the real ones, anyway) say Deval can and should win. All you have to do is make it happen.
Baker lacks empathy and isn't interested in rolling up his sleeves and solving the major problems that normal families, who can't claim any CEOs in the household, have to deal with. That's why he hasn't been able to move the polls an inch in this election. People don't trust him, while Patrick's been a steady hand for years now.
p>Think people are worried about taxes? How about the guy who raised insurance premiums by 150% in just a few, short years? That's the biggest tax increase — and probably biggest expense after the mortgage — that Baker's costumers faced.
p>People know this is a difficult time which requires serious people who bring real solutions. All Baker has is anger and gimmicks. Patrick's the leader we need, and that's why he's going to earn his comfortable victory margin come November 2nd.
Let's try to be generous and find some good here for Brown.
Some stared blankly. Others looked puzzled.
Was he a cook? An architect? Or a painter, perhaps?
The ray of good news for Baker is the high number of voters who expect Patrick to win. Democrats need to insure that this kind of reporting itself does not have an effect on voting behavior by reducing the incentive for Democrats to vote.
Rasmussen has a poll today moving in the wrong direction.


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National Campaign Posts Business Voices of Concern for Election Security
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From: Business 4 Protecting The Election (www.protectelection.us)
Subject: National Campaign Posts Business Voices of Concern for Election Security
Contact: Frank Knapp, 803-252-5733 (o), 803-600-6874 (c), ProtectElection@gmail.com
Columbia, SC—A new platform has been launched for entrepreneurs, business organizations and other parties to add their voices to the concern about foreign and domestic interference in our nation's elections.
Business 4 Protecting The Election, formed in August of 2019 to provide a comprehensive website for information on past and ongoing Russian and other foreign interference in the U.S. election, is now providing a forum for business interests to weigh in on the need for election security to protect the democratic process.
The first two opinion blogs were contributed by a state business leader and the executive vice president of a national business organization: Russia's Entrepreneurship Oppression and "Rule of Law" Lessons from Nazi Germany.
"The opinion blogs add the business voice advocating for Congress to pass legislation to insure our elections are not subject to foreign or domestic interference," said Frank Knapp Jr., campaign coordinator of Business 4 Protecting The Election. "Our entrepreneurial economy depends on a healthy democracy unfettered by the efforts of our enemies to use misinformation and physical interference in our electoral process to undercut our government of, by and for the people."
Submissions of 600-800 words that make the business case for protecting our elections are welcome and can be sent to protectelection@gmail.com.

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Retailers have faced a wave of demand letters and lawsuits recently alleging that their websites are inaccessible in violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 (the "ADA"), despite the fact that the ADA and its implementing regulations do not expressly address websites. This is the second in a three-part series addressing ADA access claims. In a December 1st post we addressed how to reduce potential liability for premises issues, and this post focuses on website accessibility.
Title III of the ADA prohibits discrimination against individuals "on the basis of disability in the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages or accommodations of any place of public accommodation," 42 U.S.C. § 12182(a), which includes brick and mortar retail stores.
The Department of Justice ("DOJ") is the government agency that enforces the ADA and issues regulations concerning its implementation. The DOJ is in the process of developing regulations for website accessibility, but is not expected to finalize these regulations until 2018 at the earliest.
While government regulations are being developed, the demand letters and lawsuits typically demand compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 level AA guidelines created by an industry group, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Despite its stalled regulations, the DOJ has made clear its position that the ADA applies to websites, and that WCAG 2.0 level AA provides an appropriate standard for website accessibility.
A final rule was announced recently under Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, which applies to the federal government, requiring the websites and electronic content of federal agencies to conform to WCAG 2.0 level AA within one year. The federal government's adoption of WCAG 2.0 level AA for its own websites makes it even more likely that the DOJ will adopt the same standards for websites of public accommodations.
Are Retailer Websites Subject to the ADA?
Courts disagree as to whether a website that operates solely in cyberspace constitutes a place of public accommodation under Title III of the ADA. They generally agree, however, that where there is a nexus between the goods and services provided on the website and an actual physical location, the website must be accessible to those with disabilities.
This is likely to apply to most retailers, and was the holding in National Federation of the Blind v. Target Corp., in which a California district court allowed a class action to proceed based on the allegation that Target's website was inaccessible to blind users in violation of the ADA. Target later settled the case for $6 million, and paid the plaintiff another $3.7 million in attorneys' fees.
And this past year, a California state court in Davis v. Colorado Bag'n & Baggage granted summary judgment for the first time ever in a website accessibility case to a visually-impaired plaintiff who alleged that he could not access the luggage retailer's website using a screen reader. The plaintiff was awarded the minimum statutory penalty of $4,000 under California's Unruh Act, which is often asserted in ADA cases, and was also entitled to recovery of his attorneys' fees.
What Does it Mean for a Website to be Accessible?
In light of the uncertain state of the law and the likelihood that the DOJ will eventually issue regulations adopting WCAG 2.0 level AA guidelines, many retailers are taking steps to implement those standards, even though not legally required.
WCAG 2.0 has three levels of compliance: A, AA, and AAA. Most of the demand letters reference the middle level, AA. WCAG 2.0 is based on four principles: Websites should be (1) perceivable, (2) operable, (3) understandable, and (4) robust. What does that mean as a practical matter?
(1) Perceivable: Disabled users should be able to perceive website content using their available senses. In order to ensure websites are accessible using a screen reader, there should be text alternatives for non-text content, such as pictures, icons, graphics and links. Videos and audio content should have close captioning to make them accessible to hearing-impaired users.
There should be sufficient color contrast between background and foreground, and color should not be used as the only way of conveying information. Type size should be resizable up to 200 percent.
Web forms asking users to provide information, for instance to log in or check out, should have a clear label for each field.
(2) Operable: Websites should be operable using a variety of assistive technologies or adaptive strategies. They should be navigable using only a keyboard, without a mouse. Users should be able to tab through elements and remain clear where they are on the page. They should be able to pause or stop time-based media or scrolling content.
If there is a timed session and it times out, users should be able to log bag in within a short time period without losing data or their place on the page. Websites should not use flashing lights that may cause seizures in some epileptic users.
(3) Understandable: Users should be able to easily understand not only the content, but how to operate the website. Websites should have a site map with headings and be organized in a way that the content makes sense when being navigated with a screen reader.
Websites should operate in predictable ways; elements that appear on multiple pages should appear in the same place on each page, and operate in the same way.
(4) Robust: Websites should be accessible using a variety of assistive technologies, and continue to be compatible as technology improves. Websites should assist users in avoiding and correcting mistakes, for example by providing suggestions for correcting an error. Finally, retailers may want to provide assistance in the form of a contact number or help line for users who encounter difficulty.
Retailers can conduct an initial analysis of their website's accessibility by using the WAVE web accessibility evaluation tool. This is the same program relied upon by many plaintiff's attorneys in sending their demand letters. Users enter in their website address, and get a summary of "errors" and "alerts" that may make the website difficult for a disabled person to use. An "outline" will demonstrate the heading structure as encountered by a screen reader and using the keyboard to navigate the website.
For more information concerning website accessibility claims, or to schedule a webinar or presentation for your company, contact Merrit Jones at Merrit.Jones@bryancave.com or 415-675-3435.


Alexander Armstrong is a well-known British comedian who has also established a career for himself as a TV presenter and film and television actor; probably best known for his work with fellow comedian Ben Miller. The Armstrong and Miller Show , the comedy series that shot Armstrong and Miller to the height of their fame, first aired in 1997 but took a break whilst the comedian's pursued other aspects of their careers for a six year period in 2001. The show's second reincarnation on the BBC started off with a bang, garnering a BAFTA and has remained incredibly popular ever since.
Outside his work as a stand-up comedian and comedy sketch artist Alexander Armstrong is known as the TV presenter for the general knowledge quiz show Pointless , he joined cult TV series spin off The Sarah Jane Chronicles where he voiced the alien supercomputer Mr. Smith and has appeared as an actor in two films by the cult film director Woody Allen.
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About Live Cinema
ABOUT LIVE CINEMA UK
WHAT IS LIVE CINEMA?
Live Cinema III: Festival of Research and Innovation 2020
Building on the successes of the Live Cinema Conference held at King's College London in 2016 and the Live Cinema Summit at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2018, the Live Cinema Festival of Research and Innovation 2020 will address artistic and technological advances in the field of live cinema: film screenings augmented through live or immersive elements, including site-specific locations, technological intervention and digital participation. This festival will profile the growing prominence of live cinema phenomena within the global film experience economy and will highlight contemporary artistic and technological innovation as well as situating these current phenomena within their appropriate historical contexts.
The festival will take place over 4 days in the week commencing 18th May and will feature cutting edge academic research, master classes, workshops, a programme of screenings, Q&A sessions and world premieres of exclusive live events.
Drawing on the format established in the innovative and highly successful Live Cinema Talent Pool 2017 – 2018 we will also be recruiting new artist associates to participate in a series of development activities and workshops starting in February 2020. The talent pool process will challenge the increasingly popular notion that the future of film spectatorship will be dominated by digitally enabled home viewing and streaming, and will instead explore the possibilities provided by the cutting-edge innovations in Live Cinema Production and Exhibition that respond to audiences' increasing desire for live and collective cinematic experiences. These Festival Artist Associates will then pitch for funding to take a project forward for development and showcase at the festival itself in May.
Live Cinema III: Festival of Research and Innovation is a collaboration between Live Cinema UK, King's College London and the University of Nottingham. For further information contact Professor Helen W. Kennedy, Department of Cultural, Media and Visual Studies at the University of Nottingham. Helen.Kennedy@Nottingham.ac.uk.
Look out for further details in our call for participation for the Festival and the talent pool in early January.
Want To Partner With Us?
We're always looking for new partners and projects and are happy to talk about anything and everything live cinema related.
Email us: info@livecinema.org.uk
BFI Musicals: Cabaret National Tour
XR Stories supports 'Surround Stories: Immersive Screens for Cultural Exhibition'
A Machine for Viewing world premiere announced in competition at IDFA DocLab
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The Latest Healthcare Fraud Enforcement Tool: The Travel Act
Federal law enforcement has traditionally prosecuted individuals utilizing healthcare fraud and abuse laws such as the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute, the False Claims Act, the Physician Self-Referral Law also known as the Stark Law as well as other administrative tools including exclusions and civil monetary penalties. In addition to these laws, federal law enforcement also has at their disposal other fraudulent act statutes such as mail and wire fraud. The facts of a case, however, may not provide for federal standing. For example, when individuals take out federal government payors out of the picture or from an arrangement as a way of avoiding federal jurisdiction. The new solution to this issue…a law enacted in 1961, the Travel Act.
Fraud History
The Travel Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1952, was enacted in 1961 originally to combat organized crime and racketeering activity for crimes such as illegal gambling, bribery of government officials, prostitution, and the illegal production and distribution of liquor and narcotics. At the start of the Kennedy Administration, the focus of the Justice Department was on organized crime and racketeering. Essentially, this law allows federal prosecutors to bring charges for criminal violations of state law in interstate commerce. In other words, it creates federal jurisdiction when there is criminal activity that violates state law, rather than federal law, and the criminal acts are directed across state lines.
Recently, the Travel Act was used in the prosecution of several Florida individuals. In June 2018, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida announced numerous indictments as a part of a national fraud takedown. In case number 2018-80111 filed in the Southern District of Florida (i.e. United States v. Eric Snyder, et al.), multiple sober home and substance treatment facility owners including patient brokers were charged with not only health care fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud and money laundering but also for violating the Travel Act. The alleged scheme included illegally recruiting patients, paying kickbacks, and defrauding healthcare benefit programs.
The Travel Act appears to be the newest tool in the ever-growing arsenal available to a federal prosecutor. With expected challenges from defendants in the future arguing its use is inappropriate, many will be watching to see if the Travel Act gains judicial support and signals a new expansion of federal jurisdiction in the fight against healthcare fraud.
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It is extremely dangerous to be a Dalit in India. In the early hours of 20 May 2018, Mukesh Vaniya was flogged to death. His crime? Revealing his Dalit identity and then refusing to clean and collect scraps as ordered to by complete strangers. The act was captured on video and widely circulated. Mukesh was tied to a gate and beaten repeatedly by multiple men. His wife was also allegedly assaulted and harassed.
On 10 June, in the Jalgaon district of Maharashtra, three Dalit adolescents were harassed for playing in a pool that is 'reserved' for the upper castes. They were stripped naked, beaten brutally and paraded around the village as a reminder that even children must adhere to the rules of the caste system.
Why did Mukesh Vaniya and those three young boys pay such a harsh price? Perhaps because they were born as Dalits in a country where caste rules reign supreme. The historic marginalization faced by Dalits in India often gives rise to incidents such as these, which chillingly embody the nature and elements of what constitutes a hate crime.
The term 'hate crime' is generally applied to criminal acts against people based on their real or perceived membership of a particular group, such as caste, religion or ethnicity.
The National Crime Records Bureau of India does not record hate crimes as a separate offence. While crimes perpetrated against Dalits and Adivasisidentity are recorded under progressive legislation like The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, a vast majority of hate crimes are neither recognised nor recorded. Recently, he National Crime Records Bureau reported that it will publish data on mob lynchings in its 'Crime in India 2017' report. However, no provision has been made to record underlying discriminatory motives in cases of mob lynching. A metric to adequately measure crimes targeting a person's identity or their real or perceived membership of a particular group is currently non-existent.
There are instances where individual incidents of hate crimes receive substantial media attention, cause public outrage and force the government to take action. However, most incidents of hate crimes, spread over multiple states and time periods, are simply forgotten or routinely ignored. The news of a Dalit being beaten for breaking a caste norm or mob lynching of a Muslim based on rumours of cow-slaughter, more often than not, fails to capture the attention of both the public and the government. These are treated as isolated incidents, and deemed unconnected to the systemic marginalization that prevails in society.
It is important that we recognise that all such crimes are a cause and consequence of systemic oppression, marginalization and inequality. However, since incidents of hate crimes in India are not systematically recorded by the government, there is an obvious data void on the prevalence of such crimes. . 'Halt the Hate' website of Amnesty International India is attempting to rectify this lack of data. By compiling and analyzing reports in Hindi and English media, over the course of the first six months of 2018, Amnesty International India has been able to record 100 alleged cases of hate crimes.
Of all the incidents of alleged hate crimes recorded this year, the highest number of crimes were committed against Dalits (67), second against Muslims (22), and followed by those against Christians, transgender people, Adivasis and others.
Discriminatory motives behind the alleged hate crimes recorded this year were based on caste (67), religion (28), and gender (34). 10 recorded incidents were related to cow vigilantism.
While the data on the website captures only a fraction of the crimes committed across the country, it highlights the glaringly obvious patterns of discrimination prevalent in this country. What is certain is that hate crimes and the demonization they represent are a gross violation of human rights, especially the right to equality.
The first step to preventing the occurrence of hate crimes is recognising and recording them as a separate offence. Recording hate crimes separately is essential for effective investigation, obtaining redress, and devising better policies to prevent hate crimes. The next step is ensuring justice and accountability of all in cases of hate crimes.
However, at present there exists a serious lack of accountability for hate crimes perpetrated against marginalized communities. Therefore, until the state records hate crimes as a separate offence and makes the protection of marginalized communities a priority, hate crimes will remain a grave problem in India.
Amnesty International India's 'Halt The Hate' website records hate crimes as reported by English and Hindi language media. This article was written by K.C. Sachin, who had previously interned with our Individuals At Risk team.


How can we leverage the strengths of baby boomers in the workforce? What impact do aging baby boomers have on our younger employees?
In 1967, the Beatles – a favorite boy band among the baby-boomer recorded a song titled 'Will you still love me when I'm sixty-four'. Turns out that question is quite outdated. According to AARP, 10,000 baby boomers turn 65 every day. That means 7 baby boomers a minute are turning 65.
According to CNBC, 10,000 baby boomers are retiring every day. What does this mean? This means that organizations are losing access to that valuable institutional knowledge at an alarming rate.
The window of opportunity is closing. You might think that baby boomers in the workforce are staying as long as they can. We don't consider 65 that old anymore. Baby boomers are living longer. They are more active. They are healthy and also, financially they want to continue to contribute to their retirement account. 65 percent of baby boomers plan on working past the age of 65! However, the way baby boomers work has changed.
We always call baby boomers 'the generation that lives to work'. But now, baby boomers have flipped the tables and they really are the generation that is working to live! They're working part-time. Work-life balance has become a priority and they also are focusing more on their hobbies. Focusing so much on their hobbies that those hobbies have now become their new career pursuits.
I recently interviewed a baby boomer who retired from human resources. She now works in a gardening shop, because gardening was always her passion that she pursued over the weekends. But now, she has retired and she works in a gardening shop and that is her new calling.
It is vital that we tap into the baby boomers knowledge before they take their skill sets and move onto different pastures.
What can older workers teach our younger workers?
One of the most important skills set that baby boomers can pass along is how to manage your work.
I know that when I first began my career, I struggled with how to manage my time. It took a long time to do simple things because I didn't really know how to prioritize well.
Baby boomers have learned how to prioritize. Younger people have a lot on their plate. They're balancing their careers along with their children. Sometimes they are also coordinating with the spouse's chaotic schedule. They may have a difficult boss or challenging clients. They're also trying to move up the ladder.
Baby boomers have learned to prioritize and how to delegate. The fine art of pushing back when presented with unreasonable demands. They can help younger employees prioritize when it comes to finances.
In one of my earlier segments, I discussed how Millennials are the most financially concerned of all generations. Well, baby boomers are a great generation to tap into about wise decisions when it comes to finances.
sooner! What better opportunity for millennial to learn how to save and how to prioritize their spending.
What Can Millennials Teach Baby Boomers?
Well, they can teach them how to build their network!
After we turned 50, we stop building our circle of contacts or friends. Our children are grown, so we don't have that connection with other young parents.
We've maybe retired, but we're pursuing other activities and we tend to let our circle sort of stay the same. Young people, they're in that mode of building their circle and their connections. And what a wonderful opportunity to learn how to build your circle!
As we age, it becomes more and more important that we really bring in diversity into our lives.


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This is my latest creative hobby. I make wonky little dolls, decorate them with jewelry from my defunct Etsy shop and foist them off on friends. This little lady went to live in Miami. Her backstory is that she's from Cuba. She actually turned out pretty well. Many of them have birth defects.
Like the chick below. She was my first attempt. Her feet look like frog feet. Her back story? Her mother was beautiful princess given to wandering the woods and kissing frogs. One day the frog she kissed transformed into a handsome prince. They married and this baby was the product of that union. Clearly, frog DNA was still in Dad's system. I sent her to a friend in Pennsylvania.


"Here's the Hermon, that's the Hula Valley and from hear you can see the entire Golan Heights," Yair, our charismatic host at Pina Bahar, points out the seemingly endless expanse. The entire north, alive, blossoming, joyous, is seen from the terrace of one of the luxurious B&B vacation rentals in the site. "Can you believe a that view?" asks Yair. "No!" replies this Hapisga critic, and she wasn't just being polite. The blue-green landscape, glowing in its colorful richness to the far horizon, just wraps these two enchanting wood cabins in warmth and softness. Extraordinary.


Dr. Krane majored in chemistry at the University of Oregon. After a short period working in a clinical laboratory in Hawaii, he started medical school at Oregon Health Sciences University. He extended his education by one year in order to learn spanish and work in a health clinic in rural Guatemala.
After medical school, Dr. Krane attended the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in order to complete a one-year internship in internal medicine. He received his neurology training at Rush University in Chicago, Illinois, followed by an additional year of training in neurodiagnostics as a fellow at the University of Chicago. He currently lives in Seattle, Washington.
Dr. Krane is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN). He is a member of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), the American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine (AANEM).


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Q: git - Make autostash reapply index, just like git stash's --index option I have rebase.autostash=true set in my global config, and it's great to be able to rebase a dirty working tree, but there doesn't seem to be a --index option to make the autopop restage my previously staged changes, like you can do when manually stashing and popping via git apply/pop --index <StashID>. Instead, after rebasing and autopopping, all changes are now unstaged.
Is there a way to add --index to autostashing?

A: No. The code hardcodes the apply command in the current rebase implementation:
argv_array_pushl(&stash_apply.args,
     "stash", "apply", autostash.buf, NULL);

Attempting to use the pre-rebase and post-rewrite hooks to manually do autostash fails for two reasons:

*

*If autostash is disabled and there are uncommitted changes, rebase will abort early and the pre-rebase hook never gets called

*If autostash is enabled, the pre-rebase hook runs after the local changes have already been reset, so there is nothing left to stash

Unfortunately the autostash mechanism internally uses git stash create to create an unrecorded stash commit and only stores it to the regular stash list when the apply fails (using git stash store <hash>). So there is no automatic way to find the autostash commit to reapply with git stash apply --index within the post-rewrite hook either.
The shorthash of the autostash is however printed to the console. With that it can be reapplied manually with these steps:

*

*Clean the state again using git reset --hard

*Reapply the autostash commit with git stash apply --index <shorthash>
The process can be made a bit more pleasant by wrapping it within a git alias that takes the autostash hash as an argument:
git config --global alias.reapply '![ ! -z "$1" ] && git stash && git stash apply --index "$1^0" && git stash drop || echo "usage: git reapply <autostash-hash>"'

This makes the command git reapply <autostash-hash> available. It uses a sequence of git stash, apply autostash, git stash drop instead of git reset --hard to make accidental runs easier to recover. It also uses the trick of adding ^0 to the hash which avoids it being interpreted as a stash number, like the autostash code does for its apply call.

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A traveling South African art exhibit will be hosted on the Taylor University campus beginning next week. Between the Shadow & the Light, will be displayed in the Metcalf Gallery of the Modelle Metcalf Art Building on the Taylor campus from November 1-December 8.
To bring a group, or to arrange a guided tour, contact the Art Office: 765-998-5322, or visualarts@taylor.edu.
The Metcalf Gallery hours are: 8:00 am-5:00 pm, Monday-Friday.


All the stars aligned for us to have the most epic day at Sahoro Resort with WhiteRoom, whereby we skied fresh powder all day long and didn't have to pull the skins out once or walk more than about 50 metres!
Firstly, Puki the Yuki goddess was blessing Sahoro with some powdery goodness so the snow was as fresh as it gets. Secondly, nearly all the guests staying at Club Med and the Sahoro Resort Hotel stayed on-piste, just like we'd asked them to, so the powder in the trees was all ours for the taking! And of course, the tree skiing in the off-piste and side-country zones at Sahoro is a lot of fun.
And last but not least, we had Ross as a guide who took us to so many fabulous stashes. He's an old hand at guiding in Hokkaido and managing snow safety, and it showed in his knowledge of the ski area and ability to sniff out the powder along with his approach to safety. Ross is also a very affable guy; the sort of guy you could banter with for hours and hours, which just added to the experience of the great day.
We also did a few runs with another very competent guide GB (G-Banger) and his group who were on a Central Hokkaido Explorer multi-resort tour.
Thanks WhiteRoom for a fantastic day of powder skiing.
We had a sidecountry day at Furano followed by a daytrip to Asahidake with Whiteroom Tours lead by Sam. The tour was very professionally managed and every effort was made to maintain high standards of safety as well as finding good terrain and snow. The guides arrived on time and we felt we got the most out of the day. Highly recommended.
We had an incredible experience with Whiteroom. We were a bit hesitant to book at first because they don't do mixed groups and it was quite expensive for just 2 people to split a guide, but very glad we spent the money. Our original plan was to head to Asahidake for some touring, but the morning of, our guide Dave convinced us that the high winds could shut down the cable car and we may have better luck on the other side of the valley at Tokachidake (we actually ended up skiing Furanodake). So we hopped in the beautiful new transport van and headed out. This was a very good decision - we got a rare clear day with the sun out and tons of fresh snow, it was absolutely perfect conditions. The area was very busy with ski tourers, but since we were a small group and got an early start we were able to break away from the main pack, and Dave's knowledge of the area kept us ahead of everyone all day. The way the mountains were laid out there, the uptracks were fairly easy going up the ridges, and the runs down are long and steep, so you couldn't ask for better touring. Dave was super chill and a great guide, and helped us achieve a huge day; if we would have gone out on our own, we would have been following big groups around all day and just skiing the most obvious, skied out lines. My only advice would be try to find a few people to go with to split the cost with (was 60k yen for the day). Great experience!
Great two day guided trip out of Furano with Whiteroom Tours. Unfortunately there hadn't been the usual Hokkaido dumps for the previous few days so we weren't expecting epic days but Graeme (our guide) made sure he found out what we were after (fresh...) and managed to seek out some awesome runs at firstly Tomamu then Asahidake. Had a bit of hiking to achieve the freshies at Tomamu (side country through the trees) but well worth the effort. Asahidake was great but had to work again for fresh tracks. Went for a walk up to fumaroles etc as wasn't the best day snow wise.
Overall Graeme showed us a great experience incl tours of Tomamu buildings (!!) and onsen after Asahidake.


The 1987-88 school year at Bronxville High School was characterized by chaotic energy. Typical of any school reform effort, there were fits and starts. "Judy's" teachers were aligned in interdisciplinary teams (English/Social Studies/Art) and scheduled with back-to-back classes, allowing for "blocks" of teaching time. We also had "planning" periods scheduled at the same time, to better organize our interdisciplinary units. This was all well and good, but it essentially meant we were operating as a "school-within-a-school," hoping (vainly?) that our model of collegiality and curriculum/assessment development would enlist others to jump on the Coalition reform bandwagon. Few did. I became interested in the fledgling Student-Faculty Legislature (the student government) and pitched Judy and Sherry an idea about developing "advisories" that were tied to the SFL. They liked it and told me to come back with a fleshed-out plan. Before my plan was finalized for submission, we were all hit with some shocking news: Judy was leaving Bronxville to take a job at Pasadena High School in California. Needless to say, there was a mixed reaction to this from the staff --- the Coalition advocates were "concerned", and Judy's opponents were cheering! The reform group hoped (against hope) that Sherry King would be promoted to Principal, but she was too closely associated with Judy's sturm und drang --- the Board of Ed looked for a candidate who was not "in-house." The 1987-1988 school year concluded with not an "up in the air " feeling as well as a "when's that other shoe going to drop" sense of dread.
I distracted myself from all of the end-of-year drama by getting Bronxville to pay for a summer course in creative writing at NYU, focusing on playwriting. I was, by far, the oldest "student" in the class and it was energizing and insightful to work with people who were older than my students but (far) younger than I. It offered perspective on who my students might become in a few years --- and their critiquing of my writing was excellent --- focused, constructive, apropos. I spent the summer reading plays and books about playwriting, only focusing on teaching/learning as August dwindled, not knowing what the coming academic year might bring.
The School Board, in its infinite wisdom, consciously picked a Principal they clearly believed would not "make waves." To my mind the new (male) Principal was Casper Milquetoast incarnate and I worried for our staggering school reform efforts. Sherry, trouper that she was, remained as Assistant Principal (hoping, I'm sure, to protect and advance our Coalition goals) but it was clear that she'd be gone by the end of the 1988-1989 year. We started the Academic Year in transition.
My proposal to develop an "Advisory" system was moving through the bureaucracy and looked as if it would see the light of day by the following Fall. My idea was that "Advisories," facilitated by classroom teachers, would replace "Homerooms" (which only served an attendance-taking purpose) and not only meet with their teachers every morning and afternoon (for 5 to 10 minutes) but also have one or two full periods per week, where they would be used as: a) plenary groups for the Student-Faculty Legislature (each Advisory would send a Representative to the weekly SFL meetings) and b) be a place where students discuss Common Principle issues like "tone of decency," "student-as-worker/teacher-as-coach," "less-is-more," and "exhibitions of mastery." The idea was to make the students integral to the school's operation and philosophical tenets. The faculty generally supported the concept --- with one condition: they wanted to be given a curriculum to implement. No one wanted an additional "course" requiring lesson plans, etc. I was more than happy to oblige and, with the staff behind it and the administration re-designing our schedules, it was a "Go" for 1989-1990. Baby steps toward school reform?
Our 9th and 10th grade Interdisciplinary teams were intact throughout 1988-89 and we were starting to develop some very effective "student-as-worker" projects, as well as pretty "cool" (we thought) performance assessments. Sherry King was instrumental in all of that work. I can't give her enough credit for accelerating my personal growth not only as a classroom practitioner but also as a thinker, regarding reform issues. Even though Judy's departure had staggered us, we seemed to be up off the canvas for the next round. We were even regaining a little spring in our step.
The 1989-1990 school year proved pivotal in my development as a school reformer. My Advisory Program was initiated in close coordination with the Student-Faculty Legislature and looked as if it might actually work. I had gone to some "professional development" workshops facilitated by Grant Wiggins and was developing a much clearer sense of "how to" implement project-based learning and performance-based assessment. Despite having only tacit Administrative support (Judy and Sherry were now both gone) the bright side of that coin was that I was pretty much allowed to do and try whatever I wanted --- and there was still a solid core of teachers (from our original "band," plus some new recruits) who were excited about working on new ideas.
In early November 1989 I had driven to Newport, Rhode Island, for the second Coalition of Essential Schools Fall Forum --- a gathering of "like-minded" education professionals interested in implementing thoughtful, systemic school reform. Once again, I got to work with Grant Wiggins on curriculum and assessment but the real highlight of that Fall Forum, for me, was meeting Ted and Nancy Sizer. I had gotten on an elevator with Judy Codding at the Viking Hotel (we were "catching up" on her year in Pasadena) when Ted and Nancy stepped on. Judy introduced me and Ted indicated that my "reputation preceded" me. I assumed that was a good thing (it was!) and I had a chance, later in the weekend, to talk with Ted and Nancy (you can't mention one without the other) about what was going on in Bronxville --- and get some thoughtful advice about how I might proceed to be a more effective "change agent." Ted also told me to keep my "eyes open" for "professional opportunities" that may be emerging in the Coalition in the coming months.
4. Right Place, Right Time (AGAIN) & Opportunity Knocks!
An important element in my professional growth during this period was the Coalition's newsletter Horace (link: http://essentialschools.org/volume/vol23-issue3/). It published about every two months and was generally a 4-page broadside that focused on one aspect of Essential School philosophy (Essential Questions, Assessment, Scheduling, etc.). In the early years of the Coalition Grant Wiggins was the Editor-in-Chief but, after his departure (his need for a "solo" career reminded me of the classic rock'n'roll band breakups of the late Sixties), that task fell into the able hands of Kathleen Cushman, a longtime Sizer comrade and an excellent writer (who would later play a crucial role in my school reform career). At this point, I was consuming everything I could read about "alternative" assessment, "block" scheduling, "project-based" learning and so on. What Horace did, that proved invaluable, was provide examples of practitioners from around the country who were actively working at implementing Coalition Principles in their schools. We were not alone!
One such effort, to which Citibank will devote $3 million over three years, is based on the ideas of Theodore Sizer, chairman of the department of education at Brown University. The Sizer philosophy envisions students not as vessels into which teachers pour information but as active participants in deciding what and how they are to learn. It recasts teachers from authority figures to coaches. . . . The coalition's budget is about $3 million this year, coming mostly from private sources, Dr. Sizer said. The Citibank grant, which will increase that sum by $1 million a year over the next three years, is to be used for training large groups of teachers at a summer school at Brown.
This was the "opportunity" Ted had told me to "look for" at the Fall Forum! Before the NY Times article even appeared, Coalition Schools across the country (there were between 50 to 100 at this point) had received a "Request for Applications" in late April, announcing the plan to develop a cohort of 15 "Citibank Teachers" starting in the summer of 1990 and increasing the numbers over the following two years.
No one else at Bronxville seemed interested in applying (it required a 6-week summer commitment and most of my colleagues had families, etc.). I leapt at the opportunity and gleefully received my acceptance into the program by early June 1990. It was still unclear as to what, exactly, this "Citibank Teacher" Program would entail but I was definitely ready for whatever it was --- and it meant a summer (with pay!) in Providence, Rhode Island --- a city I had only been to once, as a freshman football player at Yale (our first game of the season --- I had three interceptions --- a place I always thought fondly of after that). I started packing my bags right away, eager to become a willing pioneer in a new school reform effort.
Next: Providence, Citibank, and "the Territory Ahead"


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Stories from the December 5, 2005 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
"What's the deal with …" the GW Hippo?
It's that season – the season where you can look for that character with a belly that shakes like a bowl full of jelly. That's right, it's basketball season and it's prime time for GW's unofficial mascot, the hippo. But some students might be wondering why GW's most lovable mascot is missing in action at […]
GW Expat: Coming home
By Geoff Bendeck December 4, 2005
Junior Geoff Bendeck, an international affairs major, is finishing his semester studying abroad in Cairo. Twice a month, he has shared his experiences and observations from the Middle East as one of GW's many expats. Next semester, he will return to GW, as the Office of Study Abroad did not approve his request to study […]
GW professor researching effects of gay adoption
By Leah Carliner December 4, 2005
With the help of four GW students, psychology professor Stephen Forssell has taken the first steps toward a research project that will compare and assess gay, lesbian and heterosexual couples who have adopted and are raising children. Though issues such as a gay adoption have at times become politically divisive and shrouded in rhetoric, Forssell […]
Former GW lecturer helps lead House GOP in troubled times
By Michael Barnett December 4, 2005
Tom Cole may be a newcomer to the House of Representatives, but that doesn't mean he can't school some of his more veteran colleagues. Cole, a Republican congressman from Oklahoma, headed up a political consulting firm and had a brief teaching stint at GW before being elected to the House in 2002. His experiences, he […]
Staff editorial: Maintain University Counseling Center patient-counselor confidentiality
OUR VIEW: A policy allowing counselors to share information from confidential sessions with University administrators undermines the ability of the counseling center to effectively service students. The University Counseling Center's efforts to overcome a tumultuous two years – marked by multiple suicides and a perceived lack of efficacy in addressing student mental health issues – […]
Will Dempster: Complete game needed vs. Terps
By Will Dempster December 4, 2005
Monday's matchup against area rival Maryland is arguably the most important game of the season for the Colonials. Saddled with what many observers classify as a soft schedule, GW has a perfect opportunity in this year's revised BB&T Classic to add a signature win toward obtaining an at-large NCAA Tournament birth in March. Given the […]
Colonials tame Terriers for fourth win
By Jake Sherman December 4, 2005
Don't ever ask GW men's basketball coach Karl Hobbs if he is satisfied. Because when it comes to the play of his team, he almost never is. When asked if he was happy with the No. 19/22 Colonials' (AP/USA Today) defensive performance that forced 19 turnovers in a 75-62 win over Boston University Friday night, […]
Women to face No. 1 Tennessee at home
By Joanna Shapes December 4, 2005
After shooting 8-of-11 from the floor and scoring a career-high 20 points in the Colonials' 68-60 victory at Villanova on Dec. 1, sophomore Kim Beck is prepared for what comes next: taking on the No. 1-ranked Tennessee Lady Volunteers Wednesday night at 7 p.m. in the Smith Center. "It's going to be really important to […]
Georgetown Waterfront to get facelift
By Josey Bartlett December 4, 2005
During the next few years Georgetown's waterfront will be under construction – but the completed product is sure to be "the final jewel" of the area, project planners said. The National Park Service has been planning a $15 million park on the Georgetown waterfront next to Washington Harbour between 31st and 34th streets for almost […]
WEB EXTRA: GW men face important task against Maryland
When the buzzer sounded at the end of last year's contest with Maryland, the scoreboard showed 101-92 as the GW men's basketball team topped the then-No. 12 Terps. The Colonials were an unranked squad that upset then-ranked. No. 9 Michigan State the day before. The implications of the tournament were astronomical, as the wins propelled […]


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Q: Telephone Bill Project: C++ Alright, I have edited some of the code, so now the question is how it calculates the right final total? I am working on the regular service, and I want it to subtract the 50 free minutes first, then add the extra minutes the user has overused, then multiply the extra minutes by $0.20 and make that into the finaltotal.
And if I have any more mistakes please tell me. I know I have made a lot of mistakes, sorry!
I have a project to do, and here is the requested functionalities list:

*

*Prompts the user to enter an account number, a service code, and the number of minutes the service was used.

*

*Regular: Values are "R" and "r":

*

*$10.00/month

*First 50 min. are free

*Charges for over 50 min. are $0.20 per min.

*Premium: Values are "P" and "p":
$25.00/month plus:

*

*Calls between 6 - 18 first 75 min are free, after that they're $0.10 per min

*Calls between 18 - 6 first 100 min are free, after that they're $0.05 per min

*If any other character is used then display an error message

*Calculate the total and print the bill (display it out)

This is my code:
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;
int main()
{
// VARIABLES //
int accnum, minnum, minnumm;
double total, finaltotal, grandtotal, finaltotall;
char scode;

cout << "Hello, thank you for paying your phone bill." << ends;
cout << endl;
cout << endl;

cout << "Please enter your account number: ";
cin >> accnum ; //Enter some number

cout << "Please enter your service code (r as regular service or p for premium service): ";
cin >> scode ;  //Enter R or r for regular service and P or p for premium service

        ////////////// THIS IS FOR REGULAR SERVICE //////////////

if (scode == 'R' || scode == 'r') {     // Values for Regular service
    cout << "This service provides 50 minutes for phone calls for 50 minutes for free for $10.00 a month, and charge $0.20 every minute over 50 minutes." << endl;
    cout << "How many minutes have you used up?: ";
    cin >> minnum;
    if (minnum > 50) {
        total = minnum * .20;
        finaltotal = total + 10;
        cout << "You have made phone calls over 50 minutes, your total will be " << finaltotal << "." << endl;
        cout << "Your account number is " << accnum << " , with a Regular service. You have used " << minnum << "/50 minutes. Your total is $" << finaltotal << " . Thank you for your time." << endl;    //Displays the acc. #, type of service, # of min the phone service used, and amount due from user
        cout << endl;
    } else {
        cout << "You have not made phone calls over 50 minutes, your total will be $" << finaltotal << "." << endl;
        cout << "Your account number is " << accnum << " , with a Regular service. You have used " << minnum << "/50 minutes. Your total is $" << finaltotal << " . Thank you for your time." << endl; //Displays the acc. #, type of service, # of min the phone service used, and amount due from user
    }

       ////////////// THIS IS FOR PREMIUM SERVICE //////////////

} else if (scode == 'P' || scode == 'p') {  //Values for Premium service
    cout << "This service provides your first 75 minutes phone calls from 6:00 - 18:00, and charge $0.10 for every minute over. Your first 100 minutes for phone calls from 18:00 - 6:00 are free, and charge $0.05 for every minute over." << endl;
    cout << "How many minutes have you used up between 6:00 - 18:00? ";    //Time between 6am - 6pm
    cin >> minnumm;
        if (minnumm > 75) {                  //If # of minutes is over 75
            total = minnumm * .10;           //Then it multiplies total * $.10
            finaltotall = total + 25;   //Then adds the $10/month
            cout << "You have made phone calls over 75 minutes, your total will be $" << finaltotall << "." << endl;
        } else {
            cout << "How many minutes have you used up between 18:00 - 6:00? ";  }   //Time between 6pm - 6am
            cin >> minnum;
        if (minnum > 100) {                 //If # of minutes is over 100
            total = minnum * .05;           //Then it multiplies total * $.05
            finaltotal = total + 25;
            //Then adds the $25/month
            cout << "You have made phone calls over 100 minutes, your total will be $" << finaltotal << "." << endl;

            grandtotal = finaltotall + finaltotal;  //Calculates both the 6am-6pm and 6pm-6am totals together
            cout << "Your account number is " << accnum << " , with a Premium service. You have used " << minnumm << "/75 minutes from 6:00-18:00. You have used" << minnum << "/100 from 18:00-6:00. Your total is $" << grandtotal << " . Thank you for your time." << endl; //Displays the acc. #, type of service, # of min the phone service used, and amount due from user
        } else {
            cout << "You have not made phone calls over 100 minutes, your total will be $" << finaltotal << "." << endl;
            cout << "Your account number is " << accnum << " , with a Premium service. You have used " << minnumm << "/75 minutes from 6:00-18:00. You have used " << minnum << "/100 from 18:00-6:00. Your total is " << grandtotal << " . Thank you for your time." << endl;
            cout << endl;
            cout << endl; } //Displays the acc. #, type of service, # of min the phone service used, and amount due from user

        ////////////// THIS IS IF THEY TYPED IN ANY LETTER OTHER THAN R, r, P, p //////////////

} else {        //If user doesn't type P or R, then this is error message
    cout << "Sorry, that service does not exist. Please try again." << endl;
    cout << endl; }

system("pause");
return 0;

}

A: As far as I can see (and people in follow-up answers might find more errors), the glaring issue is that you have used the AND operator instead of the OR operator.
This statement:
if (scode == 'R' && scode == 'r') {     // Values for Regular service

Should be:
if (scode == 'R' || scode == 'r') {     // Values for Regular service

Similarly, this statement:
if (scode == 'P' && scode == 'p') {  //Values for Premium service

Should be:
if (scode == 'P' || scode == 'p') {  //Values for Premium service

A variable can't match two different values at the same time, so the if blocks will never be entered when using && instead of ||.


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Dee rose. Half there. Half not. They couldn't tell if he was all drunk or if he spit up on himself some other way. The stuff coming from his mouth was blue, but the bottle was still in his hand. Conscious? They supposed so. Fuck it. It was going to happen anyway. Dean was there, the guy from the paper, or was it the magazine. He lisped around and talked about how he too ran with the angels. The Hells Angels. Right. Let him write. Dee sat back down and took off his pants. His dick was limp and there were bitemarks on it. He looked up at everybody and remembered. There. There. There she was finally, at his command, and then she bit and he figured, oh well, fuck it. Lucky she didn't bite it off. She screamed something about how he held her head too tight or something. Dean was on his haunches. His camera was down and for this he was grateful, although it didn't really fucking matter anymore. Stanhope gave him the drug and he didn't ask. It wasn't heroin, but something else. Fuck it. Who cares. It was going to happen anyway, this blue stuff, this stuff that would be blue at some point in his life, like death, it was, and that was what it was for, wasn't it?
In ten minutes he remembered and he looked up and saw the anxiety on several people's faces. They knew better, but they were talking to him, and he knew, he remembered, and he stood up and he let them take him and finally, he made it to the stage, pushed out there, by Renee, physically, who hated his fucking goddamned guts even though he paid her to be his slave. The rebellion was complete with that shove and she knew she wasn't going to get fired because he knew there was nobody else in the world who would dare shove him like that, like he was an asshole, which he was, a fact he was fully cognizant of even while letting the blue foam take over the sides of his mouth and the stage lights sock him in the eye like a hater. Renee. He reminded himself to fire her, because it was the first time that he thought a shove is a shove is a shove and fuck all that.
In an hour and a half he was on his back speaking into the microphone about the world as a thermonuclear blanket laying itself over everybody, and nobody was exempt. He talked about the shit in his ass. He talked about the girl, Cynthia, who he fucked the night before and whose boyfriend sat by, with a thousand dollars in his hand and a dead relationship to boot. Another test. Another reason to be considered an asshole. So be it.
William Welkins of Southampton was dead to his family by this time. His mother forgot about him. When she saw his picture in a magazine she told the ladies beside her that he should have been aborted. She hated him that much by the time he was piling it into his veins in the name of love and art and swag and culture and making motherfucking ends meet. But success is funny in certain games and the blue foam which had a pink tinge under the light was a byproduct of that success. Had he really signed on for such a ride? He didn't think so, but it was there. It was easy too. All the frustrations in his life to be screamed out at other madheads like himself. They pay me for this, he thought once, and laughed. It was actually while talking to Dean, the scrawny wannabe who can only write and nothing more. No fucking. No partying. Nothing for Dean, but that goddamned notebook, tape recorder and look of understanding interest in his eye. The fact that Dean at least smoked pot with the crew was his salvation from total nerdhood, that and the look in his eyes, the slit eyes that had something killer and I don't give a fuck about them. Dean, who went to journalism school, never fucked his life up for want of some ethereal something else that ultimately could be had just through destruction. Destruction of the vessel. Just like in Bible school. The vessel. And that's how he thought of it out there as he lay there and went into the fact that his shit was better than everybody else's. That he could fuck a hamster and do it right and fuck all you people who find that fucked. Fuck You! And Dean would sit there and scribble. He would get his book out of it. Shit, megaplatinum without selling out like the shits. Time would end. Time would end. This was for sure. Time would end. And the blue would leave and the new drugs would come and the ending, the pleading in other people's eyes would go away. Some people wanted him to be a square, man, a square, but he knew it was not possible because of the screaming in his head that had to come out. Was he insane? He fully believed that to be the case when he pierced his wrist with a large safety pin. He was going to pierce his eyeball, but Mary stopped him. She was the makeup lady. Dee and the make up lady in life threatening situations. About par for the fucking course and Dean scribbles and scribbles and where is mom in all this? With her letter, her ostracization, the disgust. And dead dad? What would dead dad think? And Leila of love and time gone by and hope lost. What would she say now, sitting in the town square with her brood and her good man and never straying into the memory of the filth that he actually was. Nothing. She told him to die. Good enough. The record company is good with it too. Eveybody on board? Everybody want to play the game? Shit. Here goes and there is blue foam as friend and the lights go down and when the ambulance comes it is sorry, but there really is nothing that it can do and the job was done and the show was complete and never had there been a greater performance with such an ending that more people secretly wanted than they let on. In the paper he was turned into a monkey and years later he'd entered the realm of a god. But he'd always known what he was. He was filth. Pure and simple. Filth – and people loved him for it.
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