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DRF Breeding Weekend Wrap: Close Hatches, Doinghardtimeagain shine in 3-year-old filly division
Belmont's Grade 1 Mother Goose Stakes brought the 3-year-old filly division back to center stage last weekend, and Close Hatches' dominant 7 1/4-length win over heavily favored Dreaming of Julia ensured that the overall pecking order in the upper rungs of the division would remain unsettled heading into the midsummer racing schedule.
The dark bay or brown filly from the first crop of promising young Juddmonte stallion First Defence took over the lead early in the turn and was not challenged thereafter. She covered 1 1/16 miles in 1:41.36 and earned a 101 Beyer Speed Figure.
Close Hatches did not race as a juvenile but won her first three starts earlier this year in Florida and New York, the last of that string in the Grade 2 Gazelle at Aqueduct. She finished a disappointing seventh in the Kentucky Oaks and second in the one-mile Acorn at Belmont to Midnight Lucky on Memorial Day but fired her best race yet in the Mother Goose for Bill Mott. Close Hatches would likely make her next start in the Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks at Saratoga on July 20.
Bred by Millsec Ltd., Close Hatches is out of the winning Storm Cat mare Rising Tornado. The broodmare is a full sister to European champion and sire Xaar and a half-sister to Group 3 winners Masterclass and Diese and to stakes winner Ile de Jinsky. Other close relatives include Grade 1 winner Senure, Group 1 winner Cityscape, Grade 2 winner Didina, and Group 2 winner Bated Breath.
Close Hatches became the first Grade 1 winner for First Defence, a 9-year-old son of Unbridled's Song who won the Grade 1 Forego and two other stakes races. He stands at Juddmonte's Lexington, Ky., division.
Shifting focus to the West Coast, Tommy Town Thoroughbreds' Doinghardtimeagain scored a breakthrough graded stakes win in Saturday's Grade 2 Hollywood Oaks. The Jerry Hollendorfer-trained filly, a daughter of Tommy Town stallion Ministers Wild Cat, entered the 1 1/16-mile race off of two consecutive listed stakes victories and held all challengers at bay in a front-running 2 1/2-length win over Hollywood's synthetic Cushion Track. She finished up in 1:43.27 and earned a 95 speed figure.
Doinghardtimeagain has won five of nine starts with three seconds and is undefeated in four starts at Hollywood. She is out of the winning Conquistador Cielo mare Silver Hawk Lady and is from the family of multiple California stakes winner and graded stakes-placed Formidable Lady.
Weekend notes: Two-year-old fillies stepped under the lights in the feature race on the penultimate Saturday of the Churchill Downs' spring meet, and Texas-bred invader Fiftyshadesofgold made short work of her opposition in the six-furlong Debutante Stakes, stalking through the turn before powering clear to win by a widening eight lengths. The My Golden Song filly displayed an impressive amount of professionalism in her second career start following a 10-length debut score at Lone Star. She covered the distance in 1:10.63 and earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 82.
Owned and bred by Clarence Scharbauer, whose wife Dorothy and daughter Pam owned the great Alysheba in the late 1980s, Fiftyshadesofgold is the third foal to race out of the winning Hadif mare Hadif Cat, following 4-year-old gelding Sword Trick and 3-year-old filly Tastefullyxcessive. Both half-siblings are by Early Flyer and are also stakes winners.
Fiftyshadesofgold is the sixth stakes winner for Grade 3-placed My Golden Song, who was Texas' leading freshman sire in 2011. The 10-year-old son of Unbridled's Song stands at the Scharbauers' Valor Farm in Pilot Point, just north of Dallas.
At Colonial Downs, London Lane rallied four-wide to post a 50.30-to-1 upset in the Grade 2 Colonial Turf Cup over a solid field that included last year's Virginia Derby winner Air Support. The veteran Maryland-bred 6-year-old gelding picked up his the first stakes win of his career in the 1 3/16-mile turf event, covering the distance in 1:55.94 and earning a 95 Beyer. He is by Canadian champion and Lane's End stallion Langfuhr, one of the better sons of Danzig at stud. Langfuhr's progeny include champions Lawyer Ron, Wando, Mobil, and Kimchi.
London Lane's dam, Travelling, by Miswaki, was unraced. She is a half-sister to five stakes winners, led by Foufa's Warrior, who set a course record for 1 1/8 miles on the Delaware Park turf in winning the Grade 3 Kent Breeders' Cup. Travelling has produced three other winners in addition to London Lane, including stakes-placed El Viaje.
Last Saturday concluded a five-day run of elite group stakes competition at the tradition-rich Royal Ascot meeting in England. U.S.-based sires fared well during the meeting, with Claiborne Farm stallion War Front picking up two group stakes winners on Royal Ascot's opening Tuesday—Declaration of War in the Group 1 Queen Anne and War Command in the Group 2 Coventry—and No Nay Never, a juvenile colt by Ashford Stud's Scat Daddy, taking the Group 2 Norfolk Stakes on Thursday. No Nay Never, who is out of the winning Elusive Quality mare Cat's Eye Witness, established a course record of :58.80 for a juvenile going five furlongs at Ascot.
No Nay Never became the latest runner from trainer Wesley Ward to successfully make the trip to Royal Ascot following Strike the Tiger and Jealous Again. Scat Daddy will be profiled as Hot Sire this week in DRF Breeding.


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Ana Castillo's 1993 novel, So Far From God, explores the relationship between family members and their community in a traditional Hispanic community, making this community more accessible to non-Hispanic cultures. While critics like bell hooks and Theresa Delgadillo have argued that the home in this novel is a place where spirituality and selfhood get reworked and re-organized, the idea that Sofi rebels against the traditions of daughter, wife, and mother have generally been under-examined and have not been explored in the context of Sofi's "failed" yet successful rebellion.
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First knife fight I was in is a classic example. I have a mate. His sole martial arts training consists of one karate class about 10 years ago. One night we were out about, saw some lads on the corner, didn't think much. Next thing we know they're demanding money off us and waving knives in our faces. The one that's on my mate is holding a knife to the back of his neck and searching his pockets when my mate makes a small step and plants a hook on his jaw. The dude hits the floor, totally out of it.
Where was the all powerful knife? In his unconcious hand, totally safe and harmless. Did the knife stop the hook? Did the knife render it's owner mystical powers of invincibilty? There is no mystical power to the knife ....
I'm glad that you have survived these encounters -- the one described above and the one listed in the other message --- but I never said the knife had mystical power. The knife's power is that unlike an impact weapon, you don't have to wind up in order to do serious damage.
There's a video I've scene comprised of videos of cops who have SURVIVED knife attacks. Yes, these guys have guns and clubs and some empty hand technique and go for strength in numbers, and they still get disfigured or killed by people weilding knives. It is not something to make light of. This is why my Kali instructor and his Serak instructor absolutely FORBID training with real knives, even if they are sheathed.
Simple experiement, give a tanto to someone in the dojo, take them by the wrist holding the tanto and tell them to stab you. While they're doing this imagine how many times you could have punched them in the throat, or choaked them. Who do you think would have died first?
If the person someohow manages to wiggle around and slash the arteries in my wrist, I am in trouble.
Here's another experiment:
Give a
tanto to someone in the dojo and have him or her rest it on the side of your throat with your blade next to your carotid artery. Think of how many things you can do before they pull their arm back, only maybe the length of the knife, inflicting a life-threatening injury if it's a real knife. Now who's in trouble?
I'm glad you've survived, but you've learned the wrong lessons from your experiences.
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Symposiums and Workshops organized by or in cooperation with the ICIE
ICIL 2016 7th International Conference on Information Law and Ethics: Broadening the Horizons of Information Law and Ethics - A Time for Inclusion, University of Pretoria, South Africa, February 22-23, 2016.
Workshop on Business ethics, Innovation and Mind-body Unification in Japan and East Asia What is making Innovation Possible Based on Ethics and Cultural Tradition in Japan and East Asia? Organized bythe Doctoral Program in International Advanced Japanese Studies (Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences), University of Tsukuba, Japan, JAEthics Research group on business ethics and cultural technological innovation in Japan and Asia. Supported by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, October 31, 2015.
Joint Symposium: Robo-Ethics and "Mind-Body-Schema" of Human and Robot - Challenges for a Better Quality of Life Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation and University of Tsukuba (Japan), January 23, 2015.
Africa Network for Information Ethics (ANIE) Fourth International Conference on Information Ethics in Africa "Cross-cutting themes for managing your digital life", Kampala (Uganda), July 2-4, 2014.
Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Joint-Workshop on Privacy and Publicness in East and West "Life, Culture and Society in the Information Era" organized by ReGIS (Research Group on the Information Society, University of Tsukuba, Japan), Doctoral Program in International Advanced Japanese Studies (Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan) and the International Center for Information Ethics (ICIE), University of Tsukuba, October 4-5, 2012.
Africa Network for Information Ethics (ANIE) 3rd International Conference: The Cheetah Generation's Fast Track towards Social Media and Information Ethics in Africa, Kievits Kroon Conference Centre, Pretoria, South Africa, September 3-7, 2012.
ANIE Information Ethics Workshop in cooperation with SCECSAL XX Conference on Information for sustainable development in a digital environment. Nairobi (Kenya), 2.-3. Juni 2012.
The Chinese International Conference on Information Ethics, Renmin University of China (RUC), School of Philosophy, Beijing (China), Oktober 28-29, 2010. (Co-organized by the ICIE.)
Second Africa Conference on Information Ethics: Teaching information ethics in Africa current status, opportunities and challenges, University of Botswana, Gaborone (Botswana), September 6-7, 2010. - The Conference is organized by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (USA), the International Center for Information Ethics, the University of Zululand, the University of Botswana and the University of Pretoria.
Netz.Ökologien: Zur Ethik des Abfalls im Zeitalter digitaler Medialisierung, zugleich: deutschsprachiges ICIE-Symposium 2010,Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar (Handwerkergasse Völklingen), Völkingen (Germany), July 2-3, 2010.
Changes of the Internet - Changing Information Ethics? Special Panel Discussion on occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the foundation of the International Center for Information Ethics @ CEPE 09 (June 27, 2009) - With: Rafael Capurro, Johannes Britz, and Makoto Nakada (Chair: Michael Nagenborg). - Charles Ess will not be able to take part in the discussion, but contributed a position paper to the discussion.
UNESCO Workshop on Information Ethics and e-Government in sub-Sahara Africa, co-sponsored by the Government of South Africa, in cooperation with the International Center for Information Ethics, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Pretoria, February 23-26, 2009.
Wandel des Internets Wandel der Informationsethik?: Deutschsprachiges Symposium des ICIE, Karlsruhe, Germany, April 3-4, 2008.
African Information Ethics Conference: Ethical Challenges in the Information Age. Organized by the University of Pretoria, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA, and the International Center for Information Ethics. Pretoria, South Africa, February 5-7, 2007.
INTERNATIONAL ICIE SYMPOSIUM 2004: Localizing the Internet: Ethical Issues in Intercultural Perspective, October 4-6, 2004, Sponsored by VolkswagenStiftung. Venue: Center for Art and Media (ZKM), Karlsruhe, Germany.
Proceedings: International Review of Information Ethics (IRIE), 2/2004
Localizing the Internet. Ethical Issues in Intercultural Perspective by Rafael Capurro, Johannes Frühbauer, Thomas Hausmanninger (Eds.), Schriftenreihe des ICIE, Bd. 4, Munich 2007.
Review (in German) of the ICIE symposium by Michael Nagenborg and Karsten Weber: Wer und wo bist Du, wenn Du über das Internet sprichst? (Where and who are you when you speak about the internet?). In: Information. Wissenschaft & Praxis (IWP) 55 (2004)8, 469-470.
II. ICIE-Symposium: The Digital Divide from an Ethical Viewpoint, October 3-5, 2002, Augsburg, Germany.
Proceedings: Vernetzt gespalten. Der Digital Divide in ethischer Perspective by Rupert M. Scheule, Rafael Capurro and Thomas Hausmanninger (Eds.) Schriftenreihe des ICIE, Band 3, Munich 2004
Videos (RealPlayer) in German:
I. ICIE-Symposium: Conceptions of Information Ethics, February 28 - March 2, 2001, Augsburg, Germany.
Proceedings: Netzethik. Grundlegungsfragen der Internetethik by Thomas Hausmanninger and Rafael Capurro (Eds.) Schriftenreihe des ICIE, Band 1, Munich 2002
ICIE at ZKM: Forum: Internet - Ende der Aufklärung? (The Internet - End of the Enlightenment?). A podium with Wolfgang Coy (Humboldt University Berlin), Petra Grimm (Hochschule der Medien, Stuttgart),Thomas Hausmanninger(Augsburg University), Rafael Capurro (Hochschule der Medien, Stuttgart) and Christoph Pingel (ZKM, Karlsruhe), January 18, 2002, 8pm (in German). See also the ZKM-exhibition: CTRL [SPACE]. Rhetorik der Überwachung von Bentham bis Big Brother (Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother) by Thomas Y. Levin (Princeton University, USA).
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For a comprehensive list see: CCSR Conference Calendar
Leading Meetings in Information Ethics
CAP: Computing and Philosophy
CATaC: International Conference on Cultural Attitudes Towards Technology and Communication
CEPE: Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry
ETHICOMP: Ethics and Computing
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Forthcoming Meetings
Joint Symposium: Robo-Ethics and "Mind-Body-Schema" of Human and Robot - Challenges for a Better Quality of Life Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation and University of Tsukuba (Japan), January 23, 2015.
13th International Conference e-Society 2015 Madeira - Portugal, March 14-16, 2015.
III International Conference on Media Ethics School of Communication, University of Seville (Spain), March 24-26, 2015
Information Ethics Roundtable 2015 University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 9-10, 2015.
SEC 2014 30th IFIP International Conference on ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection, Hamburg, Germany, May 26-28, 2015.
13th conference Culture and Computer Science 2015 Cross Media Berlin, Bode Museum, May 28-29, 2015.
International Society for Information Studies: "The information society at the crossroads response and responsibility of the sciences of information" Vienna, June 3-7, 2015.
CEPE-IACAP 2015 University of Delaware, USA, June 22-25, 2015.
2015 International Tübingen Conference on Ethics: The Value of [In-]Security Universität Tübingen, July 28-30, 2015.
AMCIS 2015 - ICTs in Global Development (SIGGlobDev) Track Blue Ocean Research, Puerto Rico, August 13-15, 2015.
ETHICOMP 2015 De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, September 7-9, 2015
ULEPICC 2015 VIII Encuentro Internacional de Investigadores y Estudiosos de la Información y la Comunicación (ICOM 2015) y IX Congreso Internacional Unión Latina de la Economía Política de la Información, la Comunicación y la Cultura La Habana, Cuba, December 7 - 11, 2015.
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A. Establishment and Use of University Grading Systems
- There are two distinct grading systems on each campus of the University, A-B-C-D-F (with pluses and minuses as permitted by this policy) and S-N. The S-N system is a self-contained alternative to the A-F system and the two may not be combined for a particular student in a particular course. Students may receive grades or symbols only from the grading system under which they have registered for a course. This policy does not require any instructor to use pluses and minuses.
- There are, in addition, registration symbols identified and described in this policy that carry neither grade nor credit.
- No campus, college, or program is required to offer a course on the S-N grading system.
- Any unit may choose to limit grades in a particular course to the A-F or the S-N system.
- When both grading systems are available to a student, the student must declare a choice of system as part of the initial registration for the course. The choice may not be changed after the end of the second week of classes (the first week in summer sessions).
- Except as provided in this policy in Sections A (7) and F (12), no college may use any grading systems other than the ones established by this policy.
- The Law School and the Medical School are exempt from the provisions of this policy, but will report their grading systems, and any changes therein, to the Faculty Senate. Any other units that believe that the national norms of their profession require a different grading system may make application to the Senate Committee on Educational Policy for an exemption from this policy. The Faculty Senate must approve all such exemptions.
- The No Grade (NG) grading basis is used for certain graduate-level registrations as determined by the Graduate School.
B. Permanent Grades for Academic Work for Credit
- The list below identifies the possible permanent grades that can be given for any course for which credit is to be awarded. These grades will be entered on a student's official transcript and, for an A, B, C, or D with permitted pluses and minuses, carry the indicated grade points. (Except for the Law School, the University does not award A+ grades, nor are D- grades permitted). The S grade will not carry grade points but the credits will count toward the student's degree program if allowed by the college, campus, or program.
A 4.000 - Represents achievement that is outstanding relative to the level necessary to meet course requirements A- 3.667 B+ 3.333 B 3.000 - Represents achievement that is significantly above the level necessary to meet course requirements B- 2.667 C+ 2.333 C 2.000 - Represents achievement that meets the course requirements in every respect C- 1.667 D+ 1.333 D 1.000 - Represents achievement that is worthy of credit even though it fails to meet fully the course requirements S Represents achievement that is satisfactory, which is equivalent to a C- or better.
- These definitions apply to grades awarded to students who are not enrolled in graduate, post-baccalaureate, and professional programs, but the grade points are the same no matter the level or course of enrollment.
- Instructors are permitted to hold graduate and undergraduate students who are in the same class to different standards of academic performance and accomplishment. The syllabus must make clear what the different standards will be for the different groups of students who may be enrolled in the class.
- These are the general University standards. In connection with all symbols of achievement instructors will define for a class, at one of its earliest meetings and as explicitly as possible, the performance that will be necessary to earn each.
C. Permanent Grades for Academic Work for which No Credit is Given
- There are two permanent grades given for a course for which no credit is to be awarded. These grades will be entered on a student's official transcript.
F "0" Represents failure and signifies that the work was either (1) completed but at a level of achievement that is not worthy of credit or (2) was not completed and there was no agreement between the instructor and the student that the student would be awarded an I (see Section D). The F carries 0 grade points and the credits for the course do not count toward any academic degree program. The credit hours for the course will count in the grade point average. N Represents no credit and signifies that the work was either (1) completed but at a level of achievement that is not worthy of credit or (2) was not completed and there was no agreement between the instructor and the student that the student would be awarded an I (see Section C). The N carries no grade points and the credits for the course do not count toward any academic degree program. The credit hours for the course do not count in the grade point average.
- Scholastic dishonesty. Scholastic dishonesty in any portion of the academic work for a course will be grounds for awarding a grade of F or N for the entire course, at the discretion of the instructor. This provision allows instructors to award an F or an N to a student when scholastic dishonesty is discovered; it does not require an instructor to do so. Students who enroll for a course on the A-F grading system will receive an F if such grade is warranted; students who enroll for a course on the S-N system will receive an N if such grade is warranted. (See Board of Regents Policy: Student Conduct Code for a definition of scholastic dishonesty.)
- If the instructor determines that a grade of F or N for the course should be awarded to a student because of scholastic dishonesty, the student cannot withdraw to avoid the F or N. If the student withdrew from the course before the scholastic dishonesty was discovered or before the instructor concluded that there was scholastic dishonesty, and the instructor (or the appropriate hearing body if the student requests a hearing) determines that the student should receive the F or the N, the student will be re-registered for the course and the F and N grade will be entered on the transcripts.
D. Incompletes
- There will be a symbol I (incomplete) awarded to indicate that the work of the course has not been completed. The I will be assigned at the discretion of the instructor when, due to extraordinary circumstances (as determined by the instructor), the student who has successfully completed a substantial portion of the course's work with a passing grade was prevented from completing the work of the course on time.
- The assignment of an I requires a written agreement between the instructor and student specifying the time and manner in which the student will complete the course requirements. In no event may any such written agreement allow a period of longer than one year to complete the course requirements (except as provided in section D (8).
- Work to make up an I must be submitted within one year of the last day of final examinations of the term in which the I was given for all students except graduate and professional students. If not submitted by that time, the I will automatically change to an F (if the student was registered on the A-F system) or an N (if the student was registered on the S-N system) for the course. If an I changes automatically to an F or an N, the instructor has the discretion to reinstate the I for one additional year only.
- For graduate and professional students, an I remains on the transcript until changed by the instructor or department.
- When an I is changed to another symbol, the I is removed from the record. Once an I has become an F or an N, under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, it may subsequently be converted to any other grade, upon petition by the instructor (or the department if the instructor is unavailable) to the college.
- A student does not need to be registered at the University in order to complete the work necessary to convert an I to a grade with credit in the time and manner previously agreed upon between the student and the instructor. The instructor is expected to turn in the new grade within four weeks of the date the work was submitted by the student. (Depending on the timing of when the work is turned in and the ability of the instructor to award a grade, an F or an N may appear temporarily on the transcript.) Students who have received an I in a course are not allowed to sit in on the class again (that is, without registering for it) to complete the grade
- If a student graduates with an I on the transcript, the I will remain permanently an I. A student may petition the college, within a year of graduation, to complete the work in the course and receive a grade. The degree GPA is frozen upon graduation but the cumulative GPA will reflect the change in GPA if a student chooses to complete the work and change the I to a grade within a year of graduation.
- When students are called to active military duty, and reach agreement with their instructor(s) to take an incomplete, they will have up to one calendar year following their discharge from active duty to complete their incomplete(s).
- Receipt of an I in a course does not create an entitlement for a student to take the course a second time.
E. Other Transcript Symbols
- Auditing a course.
- There will be a symbol V, visitor, indicating registration as an auditor or visitor, which will carry no credit and no grade.
- Students auditing a course are required to pay full tuition but do not take exams and are not required to do homework. An auditor is entered on the class roster (grade report), is counted as filling a seat in a controlled entry course, and is counted in an instructor's student contact hours.
- Students may not sit in on a course without registering for it.
- A student will be allowed to take a previously audited class for a grade.
- Withdrawing from a course.
- There will be a symbol W, withdrawal, entered upon a student's record when the student officially withdraws from a course in accordance with procedures established by the student's college or campus. The W will be entered on the transcript irrespective of the student's academic standing in that course if the student withdraws from the course during the third through eighth week of class (Crookston) or the third through tenth week of class (Morris, Rochester, Twin Cities) or during the second or third weeks of summer sessions.
- If a student officially withdraws from a course during the first two weeks of classes, there will be no record of that course registration entered on the student's transcript.
- One-time late withdrawal: Each student may, once during an undergraduate enrollment, withdraw from a course without college approval, and receive the transcript symbol W, after the deadline for withdrawal and at any time up to and including the last day of instruction for that course. A student may not withdraw after completing the final examination or equivalent for a course.
- Except as provided in the preceding section, withdrawal after the deadlines will require approval of the college and may not be granted solely because a student is failing the course; there must be extenuating non-academic circumstances justifying late withdrawal.
- Continuation course. There will be a symbol X, indicating a student may continue in a continuation course in which a grade cannot be determined until the full sequence of courses is completed. The instructor will submit a grade for each X when the student has completed the sequence.
- Course in progress. There will be a symbol K, assigned by an instructor to indicate the course is still in progress and that a grade cannot be assigned at the present time.
- No grade reported. There will be a symbol NR, administratively assigned to indicate that a grade was not reported for the course. The NR does not carry any GPA points.
F. Other Provisions
- Zero-credit courses. Courses that carry zero credits do not count in either term or cumulative grade point averages. Such courses carry normal tuition and fee charges.
- All grades for academic work are based on the quality of the work submitted, not on hours of effort. Instructors have the responsibility and authority to determine how final grades are assigned, including, in classes where they use numeric scores, the method that will be used to translate numeric scores into letter grades. (Examples: the instructor may decide that 90% equals an A, 80% a B, and so on, or the instructor may decide that the top 10% of the scores will receive an A, the next 20% a B, and so on.)
- Counting credits toward a University degree.
- A course that carries University credit toward a degree in one department or college must carry University credit in all other departments and colleges.
- A department or college has discretion to decide whether a course completed in another unit will count towards the specific college or department/program/major requirements.
- When a student graduates, no further changes to the student's transcript will be made (to that portion of the transcript related to the program from which the student graduated) except as expressly allowed under the provisions of this policy.
- Releasing transcripts. The University's official transcript, the chronological record of the student's enrollment and academic performance, will be released by the University only at the request of the student or in accord with state or federal statutes.
- Repeating courses.
- An undergraduate student may repeat a course only once (except as noted in section 6(c)). The college offering the course may grant an exception to this provision. [Morris only] Students who receive a grade of S or C or higher may repeat a course only if space permits.
- When a student repeats a course before receiving the degree, (a) both grades for the course will appear on the official transcript, (b) the course credits may not be counted more than once toward degree and program requirements, and (c) only the last enrollment for the course will count in the student's grade point average.
- Provisions 6 (a) and (b) of this policy will not apply to courses (1) using the same number but where students study different content each term of enrollment and (2) to courses designated as "repetition allowed."
- If an undergraduate student repeats a course after the degree has been awarded, the original course grade will not be excluded from the degree GPA nor will the new grade be included in the degree GPA.
- Bracketing is the practice of not including a course in the calculation of a student's GPA and not counting the course as satisfying any degree requirements, including electives, because a student has repeated a course. When a student repeats a course, all prior attempts are bracketed and only the most recent attempt counts (except as provided in 6 (c)). No department or college may bracket the courses of another department or college for any reason other than course repetition. An F may not be bracketed with an N. A University course may not be bracketed with a course taken at another institution. The Graduate School does not bracket courses.
- When a student enrolled in the Graduate School repeats a course, provisions 6(a) and (b) apply, but all grades for the course will be counted in the student's grade point average.
- Grade point average. Every student will have calculated, both at the end of each grading period (quarter or semester) and cumulatively, a grade point average, which will be the ratio of grade points earned divided by the number of credits attempted with grades of A-F (including pluses and minuses). Both the term and cumulative grade point average will appear on each student's record.
- Final grade due date. Final grades will be submitted to the Registrar no later than three business days after the last day of the final examination period.
- This policy may be modified from time to time but existing transcripts will not be modified when there are changes in policy. Changes to the grading and transcript policy will be reflected on the legend on the back of the official transcript.10.
- Compiling and reporting grading data.
- Data on the mean grade point average by designator and course level, on the percentage of As awarded by course level, and on overall collegiate grade point averages will be prepared for grades awarded each Fall Semester. Data should be reported for all undergraduate students. Cells in the tables with fewer than 10 grades should be suppressed, in order to protect the privacy of students, but the numbers should be included in the totals.
- The Office of Institutional Research will produce the required tables and provide them to the chair of the Senate Committee on Educational Policy and to the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost.
- The data tables and graphs required in 10 (a) and (b) will be reported annually to the Faculty Senate. These data should also be provided to all deans and department heads and made available to faculty and students.
- All colleges and campuses will publish each term a dean's list, consisting of students who achieved a 3.666 GPA or higher and who completed a minimum of 12 credits on the A-F grading system. There will be a transcript notation for each term that a student achieves the dean's list. Students who have chosen to suppress all their public information (which includes academic awards and honors) will not be included on the published dean's list.
- Alternative grading systems.
- Only the Senate Committee on Educational Policy will have the authority to grant to individual colleges or campuses permission to use alternative grading methods outside the provisions of this official University system, for a specified period (but no longer than five years), and only for the purpose of experimenting with a new grading system for possible system-wide adoption. Such permission may be granted if the proposal does not interfere significantly with the registration options of students from other colleges, campuses, and programs. Such alternative systems will be reported for information to the University Senate as soon as permitted and, after the specified period, will be re-evaluated, either to be discontinued, or with University Senate approval on recommendation from the Senate Committee on Educational policy, made part of the system-wide policy. Except for the provisions of this section 6, no college or program may use any grading system except for the one contained in this policy.
- Because alternative grading systems, once used, must be maintained by the University forever afterward (to preserve the integrity of the transcripts), the Senate Committee on Educational Policy will rarely grant permission for alternative grading systems. It will consider doing so only when (1) those who propose it can make a persuasive case that the alternative is a more accurate and effective way to measure and record student academic performance, and (2) there is strong reason to believe that the proposal will be useful to all colleges and campuses of the University (except the Law School and Medical School).
This policy is not applicable to the Duluth campus.
A standard grading system establishes a common understanding of the meaning of grades and promotes uniformity in assigning them. Defining grades and their associated meaning (grade points and assessment of achievement) allows for comparison and for computation of the term and cumulative grade point average.
|Primary Contact(s)
|Sue Van Voorhis
|Twin Cities Campus
|Stacey Tidball
|Crookston Campus
|Ken Myers
|Morris Campus
|Judy Korn
|Rochester Campus
|Diane Douglas
- Major/program requirements
- Program requirements include those determined as the requirements to complete a major or minor in a department. Program requirements must be completed in addition to the other requirements for a degree (e.g. liberal education requirements).
- Scholastic Dishonesty
- Plagiarizing; cheating on assignments or examinations; engaging in unauthorized collaboration on academic work; taking, acquiring, or using test materials without faculty permission; submitting false or incomplete records of academic achievement; acting alone or in cooperation with another to falsify records or to obtain dishonestly grades, honors, awards, or professional endorsement; altering, forging, or misusing a University academic record; or fabricating or falsifying data, research procedures, or data analysis.
- Office of the Registrar
- Maintain the transcript
- Instructor
- Submit final grades within three working days of the last day of final exams.
- Board of Regents Policy: Conflict Resolution Process for Student Academic Complaints
- Board of Regents Policy: Student Conduct Code
- Administrative Policy: Credit and Grade Point Requirements for an Undergraduate (Baccalaureate) Degree: Twin Cities, Morris, Rochester
- Office for Community Standards
- Request for Official Transcript
- Amended:
- May 2014 - Major Revision. Moves the drop course date from the eighth week of the class to the tenth week of the class for Morris, Rochester, and the Twin Cities, which allows the student to make a more informed decision about the drop.
- Amended:
- April 2013 - Minor revision: 2 appendices added - Scholastic Committee Guidelines: Petition guidelines for undergraduate students enrolling in a course a third time and Student Guidelines: Petition guidelines for undergraduate students enrolling in a course a third time
- Amended:
- April 2010 - Scholastic Dishonesty: Aligns practices across campuses and eliminates a way for students to avoid consequences for cheating by withdrawing from course; Final Grade due date - makes language consistent with related policy and with current practice.
- Amended:
- December 2009 - Policy now applies to Crookston.
- Amended:
- September 2009 - Added question 2 to FAQ.
- Amended:
- April 2009
- Effective:
- April 2009
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Catherine graduated with a BA and LLB from the University of Auckland in 2005. She also holds a Graduate Diploma of Business Studies (dispute resolution), a Postgraduate Diploma of Business Administration (dispute resolution), and is an Associate of the Arbitrators' and Mediators' Institute of New Zealand. She was awarded a Senior Prize in Law by the University of Auckland and the DRSL Top Student in Mediation Prize by Massey University.
She was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand in 2006. In 2012 she was granted admission as an Attorney-at-Law in the Cayman Islands.
Prior to starting her dispute resolution practice, Catherine gained a wide range of experience in commercial litigation matters both onshore and offshore, including four years in the litigation team at Russell McVeagh (Auckland), two years in the dispute resolution team at Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP (London), and four years in the litigation team at Mourant Ozannes (Cayman Islands).
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The gadget of the year is clearly the Apple iPad, and content creators are in a rush to make sure their video looks sharp on it. That shouldn't be too difficult, as many online video platforms and video production tools have been quick to announce support. If you want to make sure your videos can be seen on the iPad (and don't show up as an icon marking unsupported Flash content), read on.
To get the inside info on creating video for the iPad, we spoke with Eric Quanstrom, Sorenson Media's vice president of marketing. Like many online video platforms, Sorenson 360 has been providing support for the iPad since the tablet came out.
The iPad can play H.264 video with an extension of M4V, MP4, and MOV. Those are two variants of MPEG4, Quanstrom says, as well as Apple's proprietary MOV format. Your video can have a maximum resolution of 720p. The iPad's screen itself measures 1024 by 768 pixels which is the standard 4:3 television ratio. If you want to present 16:9 widescreen video, the iPad will automatically letterbox it, adding black bars above and below the image.
The most popular resolution for those serving video to the iPad is 960 x 720, which is the 4:3 ratio size. If you want to present widescreen video as large as possible, choose 1280 x 720.
You video can be 30 frames per second. The audio codec used needs to be AAC, which can be up to 160Kbps.
The videos you serve can be smaller; these are just the maximum allowed sizes. If you're presenting videos within your website, you'll need to decide if you want your viewers to get a full-screen experience or if you'd prefer they view content within your pages. Quanstrom recommends that you don't encode your video higher than 1.5Mbps. If you want your work to play over a 3G connection, drop that down to 1.1 or 1.2Mbps.
"I've seen people use their iPads in places where a laptop wouldn't go," says Quanstrom, noting that the iPad provides a "lean-back experience." Its giant screen shows video quite nicely, he says.
Your Own Private App
iPad content is largely about apps, which can be downloaded for a fee or for free from the iTunes Store. Some companies go for the glamour and experience-customization available by creating their own video-streaming apps.
If this is the road for you, check out OnlineVideo.net's story on Sorenson's partnership with ProKarma offering custom iPhone/iPad app creation.
To decide your way, think about what your goals are and whom you're trying to reach. Organizations that choose to create their own apps tend to be larger enterprises with a brand message, says Quanstrom. They're interested in raising awareness around a product.
Choosing a Platform
Self-hosting video is a lot of work, cautions Quanstrom, as you'd need to create your own player, decide how to manage and store your assets, and encode for a variety of platforms. Even then, he says, you'd have no control over scalability in case of traffic spikes.
Hosting with YouTube isn't the only want to serve video inexpensively. Sorenson 360's base level service goes for $99 per month and includes iPad-compatible streaming. In fact, most online video platforms now offer iPad support. For more on other inexpensive hosting options, check back tomorrow for our story on bargain-priced hosting.


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Moldavia should become part of the Ukraine and not Romania. This is because of the fact that the Ukraine is the better nation. Romania has a less valid government than the Ukraine. The Ukraine also has historical rights to the area, in which Romania does not have historcal rights to it.
Yes, the Moldovan citizens should become part of The Ukraine. Historically, Moldavia was part of Romania before the Soviet Union fell apart in the 1990's. As a result, Moldavia separated from Romania. There is only a small segment of Moldovans who want to reunite with Romania. So the free will of the people in Moldavia should outweigh historical ties to Romania.
The idea that Moldovia cannot sustain itself is interesting considering the two options for their alliance are either the Ukraine or Romania. The Romanian economy is strong, even if it is built upon less than practical means. Moldovia may upset this trend by being absorbed as a significantly low producer in comparison. The Ukraine already has economic issues at about the same level as Moldovia. I think this alliance would prove more fruitful for both parties as they share the struggle.
Moldova should be part of Romania because for one, Moldovans speak Romanian, their flag is similar to Romania 's flag (identical or the same if the Moldovan coat of arms wasn't in the flag, they are both predominantly eastern orthodox, they both share the same history with Romania, and they both have been under communist regimes.
First off I'm pretty sure that the majority of Moldavians( I think that's what you call them) speak Romanian and have ethnic origins there too. From the posts I read above it seems that there economy isn't doing to well which would make it sensible for them to join Romania, which I think has a better economy than Ukraine( Please correct me if I'm wrong). Not to mention Ukraine is having quite a bit of trouble right now with Russia pounding on its back door and an uprising by Separatists hurting it's country pretty badly as a whole. In conclusion I believe that it would be best if Moldavia were to join up with Romania or at least the EU to gain some extra support for its struggling economy. May God bless Eastern Europe.
The nowadays Moldova was formed after the treaty between Hitler and Stalin (Ribbentrop-Molotov pact, 1940), when USSR annexed half of the Romanian province of Moldova, namely the area between Prut and Nistru (Dniestr). Stalin added the Russian speaking area of Transdniestr, sent hundreds of thousands of locals to Siberia, brought Russians to replace them and forced the Romanian speakers to use a Cyrillic alphabet.
Current Moldova was part of the historical Principality of Moldova who united with Wallachia in 1959 to form nowadays Romania. The other half of Moldova is part of Romania since 1859.
Romanians and Moldovans have the same language, a Latin based language not Slavic like Ukrainian, share the same culture, history. Both countries consider Mihai Eminescu their greatest poet and Stefan cel Mare their greatest ruler.
Ukraine has NO historical rights, Ukraine never existed as an independent state before the collapse of Communism and share nothing in terms of language, history or culture with Romania or Moldova.
Look at Moldova: They speak Romanian. They are culturally Romanian and they do not belong to a Slavic country like Ukraine, not in any offence. They should go to Romania because they are Romanians that have been separated from most of Romania due to imperialism by Russians, Austro-Hungarians, and Turks
The majority of Moldovans consider themselves Romanian by ethnicity; a smaller minority feels closer to Ukraine. The official language is a dialect of Romanian, although Russian is also widely spoken, this is mainly from the Soviet influence on the country. Both the people of Moldova and of Romania feel that Moldova's ties to Romania are significant. Yes, both countries struggle financially, but Moldova is Romania!! These people are Romanians!!
Moldavia should become part of The Ukraine rather than Romania. Although both countries have had many financial worries over the past 20 years, Romania has much deeper poverty issues with homelessness, theift, and other crimes. The Ukraine also has more tourism that keeps it financially viable. Taking on another piece of land to support should only be done when the financial aspects can be taken care of.
Moldovia should not become a part of the Ukraine, because it has more in common with the people of Romania. There is an ethnic divide in the area of Moldovia, but more people identify with the Romanian people than with the Ukranian. Romania is happy to take in the people of Moldavia as there own, which means there would be peace in the area.


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Sammy J: Potentially
Laughing Stock Productions
11 April 2013
Fairfax Studio, Arts Centre Melbourne
to 21 April
I nearly forget that I saw Sammy J's Potentially! What's wrong with me? It's a night of musical comedy stand up that's as close to perfect as it can be – and it had a story about a possum! I love stories about possums.
I've said it before and expect that I'll be saying it for a long time to come: Sammy J is one of the best around who never fails to be fucking hilarious. If you haven't seen him, get yourself a ticket NOW.
He knows how to craft a surprising story, opens up enough to share his most embarrassing moments, sings a fine song and I've joined his fuck crusade. It's a plan to remove the ridiculous fear of the word "fuck" out of our lives. It's fucking brilliant word, but I'm keeping moist in my vocab, if only to describe a good cake.


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Trip to St. Simon's Island
A lot of people, including clients and students, have been asking about the background story of Becky Harmon and Transformations. Who is Becky and why should I be listening to her? What preceded the birth and expansion of one of the top 10 home staging and redesign training centers in the USA?
Looking back now, as a 4th generation entrepreneur, I never quite fit into a traditional job. I tried bookkeeping and administrative work before taking 10 years off to get married, have kids and get them into school.
In 1980, a friend and I pioneered one of Florida's first balloon bouquet delivery businesses in Tallahassee, Florida. Everyone thought I was crazy because we were in the middle of a recession and gas crises. ALERT: When your neighbors and friends think you're crazy, that's a good sign you are on the right track.
Students at the Clubhouse
Working from home, we delivered bouquets of helium balloons and gift baskets for birthdays and special occasions dressed in various costumes. I was Chiquita, the Banana Lady and my partner was Magic Wanda, the Good Fairy, until we could afford to hire employees. Darth Vader, Miss Piggy and Zorro joined us later. We threw confetti on our recipients and kazooed a song. Our "I've Been Ballooned" bumper stickers went viral. By the way, I am the shy person in my family. What happened to me!
I had to get outside my comfort zone to be successful. Costumes, confetti and clowns, oh my!
We added party planning in the later years and became a well-known legislative event decorating source. Yes, we "ballooned" many famous people, including the governor, Bob Graham and many celebrities, such as Barry Gibb and Elton John. We eventually sold business opportunities in other cities. With almost no overhead costs, our 1st year, we grossed quadruple an average full-time salary, just selling balloons part-time.
The home-based business bug had bit me and started changing my desk job mindset.
In 1990, after selling the business, we moved to South Carolina and for 3 years, I managed a small retail design center. It proved to be the hardest job for me, a right-brain dizzy blonde, but it covered every aspect of running a business and I grew to love it. It was an important stepping stone and my introduction to design.
Lunch with Stager Friends
When we moved to Jacksonville, I worked as an interior designer on a team with 12 talented people for 11 years. I earned my ASID design affiliation during that time. It was a great experience. This, I thought for many years, was my dream job. It was another stepping stone.
My AHA moment came when I could not get off work to attend a family reunion event that was important to me. As I started evaluating my real priorities, I realized I wanted 2 things more than anything... control and freedom.
The Whole Family at Christmas, I'm in green on the left.
I began to hear about 2 new industries... home staging and redesign.
I spent quite a long time researching and talking to existing stagers and re-designers around the country. In 2003, there wasn't much information online or anywhere, no HGTV shows and no one was talking about any of this.
The Leap of Faith: One day, I asked God for a sign whether or not I should leave my safe, predictable and profitable job to strike out on my own. The next day, early morning, I was walking a familiar route on the golf course cart path where I lived.
This particular day, I noticed some unusual new flowers blooming right around the ladies tee on hole #17. As I approached, I saw something I must have walked past 100 times before but never saw. The cart path was across the fairway. A large engraved stone had been placed on the ground in memory of a lady golfer who had died of breast cancer. It said, "Don't lay up. Go for it!" In golfer's language, that means take the riskier shot. She was always encouraging other lady golfers to swing for the green and don't worry about possibly losing your ball in the massive lake/marsh.
Dinner with Good Friends
I felt like I had been sprinkled all over with fairy dust by my fairy godmother. It was my sign! I cried! In 2004, I left my favorite boss and the coolest designer friends to begin Transformations Staging & Redesign. I guess you must let go of something first to embrace the more important reality... Time for family and friends, hobbies and travel. I still miss those days.
The school was born in the summer of 2006, exactly 10 years ago, with a full class of eager students who were mostly local. Now they come from literally every state in the US and beyond. The online class has now gone viral.
Three of the Grand Kids
I love staging and redesign but I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE teaching the class. And I have to say, my fairy godmother shows up by the last day of each class and I witness tears and euphoria every time. I can't take credit for it. It's the beautiful new industries of staging and redesign creating hope for a better life and making dreams come true for women (and men) from every conceivable background. I haven't looked back.
And so for you, what is your dream job? Write it on a goal list or vision board, put it on the fridge and ask for a sign. Habakkuk 2:2 has become one of my favorite scriptures. "Write the vision and engrave it plainly upon tablets (or a stone) so that everyone who passes by may be able to read it easily and quickly as he hastens by."
I ask that you feel hopeful today, that your dream job is within reach and that fairy dust is falling all over you right now. My wish for you today as we celebrate our 10 year anniversary is, "Don't Lay Up. Go For It!"
If you need an incentive to leap into that desire to work for yourself and decorate for profit, I am once again offering the online class at a reduced rate. 33% off for a short time. $500. Most other online certification classes are over $900.
One of my online students from 2014 has recently been named one of the top 5 stagers in the country by the Home Staging and Redesign Association. She has 3 employees now and is currently doing the styling and decorating for an HGTV special. Kristy, I am so proud of you!
Remember, it is always Money-Back Guaranteed. Why not now! Why not you! It's time to push through the fear and leap.
~A little inspiration for anyone interested in Home Staging, Interior Redesign and Personal Motivation~ www.stagehappy.com website
Friday, May 6, 2016
Celebrating 10 Years + the Transformations Story
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Victory Heights Primary School and The Wonder years nursery will have its "2015 Spring Fair" on March 19, 2015 at the Els Club in Victory Heights. Fine & Country Real Estate, the school's preferred real estate partner, will be participating on this event.
You may contact our Victory Heights specialist Tanja at +97150 4127168 for your property requirements and enquiry.


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Are children who are brought here illegally responsible for their actions? Or is the decision their parents made for them when they were young beyond their control? That has been a debate in the realm of immigration, and people tend to stand on one side of the issue.
Some feel that being here illegally is a black and white situation, and regardless of ones age, they are responsible for breaking the law. Others argue that many children are brought here without a say.
On Friday, Obama made a policy change to reflect those concerns. Under his new policy, people younger than 30 who entered the United States under the age of 16 can receive a two-year deferral from deportation. In order to qualify, these individuals have to pose no security or criminal threat and either have to be enrolled in school, a graduate or in the military. Those who qualify can also apply for work permits.
In his announcement, Obama said, "This is not amnesty. This is not immunity. This is not a path to citizenship. It's not a permanent fix. This is a temporary stopgap measure."
According to CNN, this policy change is expected to affect approximately 800,000 people. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told CNN, "I've been dealing with immigration enforcement for 20 years and the plain fact of the matter is that the law that we're working under doesn't match the economic needs of the country today and the law enforcement needs of the country today."
Obama has received many complaints, including a tweet from Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who called the decision "a classic Barack Obama move of choosing politics over leadership."
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith released a statement that said, "Many illegal immigrants will falsely claim they came here as children and the federal government has no way to check whether their claims are true." Other complaints the CNN article shared included that now more illegal immigrants will be taking jobs from Americans in an already tough economy.
Others are in praise of the policy change. Democratic Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois said the new policy "will give these young immigrants their chance to come out of the shadows and be part of the only country they've ever called home." In a response to claims that this was to earn more votes, he rejected the idea and said that this move will cost Obama votes as well, making this a leadership decision not a political gain decision.
Clarissa Martinez del Casto, director of immigration and national campaigns for the National Council of La Raza, stated, "There is overwhelming support for the protection of these children, as there is in the rest of the country. I think this could have an energizing effect on Latino voters," she added, according to an NPR story.
Presumed Republican Nominee Mitt Romney shared that he believes a more permanent conclusion needs to be found. "I believe the status of young people who come here through no fault of their own is an important matter to be considered and should be solved on a long-term basis so they know what their future would be in this country," said Romney, according to an article on Examiner.
How do you weigh in? Do you think this was the right move, or do you oppose the new policy change?


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RISKY BUSINESS: Crossing the barricades on the Silk Road proved far easier than Philip Smucker had expected. Hundreds of Pashtun villagers had gathered behind several large boulders. There wasn't a gun in sight. "A small, hunchbacked man, smiling gleefully, asked if I'd like to meet the pro-Taliban rebels. He led my translator through a terraced gorge at dusk. As we approached the village, a cable car whipped past overhead. It looked more like Switzerland than Pakistan," says Phil.
Farther up into the mountains, and then down into a clearing surrounded by pine trees, Phil and his translator were treated to a nightly ritual, which began when militants seized their own portion of the Silk Road. "As a welcome to us, the rebels filled the drizzling sky in several directions with machine-gun fire. Several tracer bullets arched out in the darkness in the direction of the last Pakistani police post some five miles away," says Phil.
Abedu Rehman, the spiritual leader of some 40 rebels gathered in Shingliballa, offered his own political insight amid the staccato machine-gun fire: "President Musharraf is supporting America's terrorist war on Afghanistan. We don't respect his policies, and we won't bargain with his lackeys."
Mr. Rehman insisted that each of his fighters shake hands with their first outside guest. None of them suspected that the stranger is an American. Phil's interpreter, for his safety, told the rebels that Phil was a Bosnian Muslim reporter from Sarajevo. Aside from the ethical problems of lying, the ruse was risky, and almost backfired. Later, one of the fighters started quizzing Phil about life in Sarajevo, and key passages in the Koran that any good Muslim would know. "I pretended that I was more familiar with the passages in Serbo-Croatian, and was confused by the translation. It was a tense few moments."
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T-SQL's ability to handle errors in SQL Server 2000 and earlier editions is limited and cumbersome. Error-handling code isn't structured and many errors aren't trappable. SQL Server 2005 introduces new T-SQL error-handling capabilities that let you handle errors elegantly and efficiently. Let's review the main problems you face today when you need to write error-handling code, then I'll introduce SQL Server 2005's new error-handling construct and describe how it addresses the problems you face in earlier versions.
Error Handling Before SQL Server 2005
When you write error-handling code in T-SQL now, you face three main problems. First, there's no structured construct for identifying errors and handling them. All you have is the @@error() function, which returns an integer representing the way the previous statement finished. A zero means the statement was successful; any other value means an error occurred. You have to copy the value that @@error() returns for the statement into your own variable immediately after the statement that results in errors. Issuing another statement after the suspect one will cause the previous error ID that @@error() returns to be overridden and lost. So you usually end up with error-handling code after every suspect statement or with a nonstructured GOTO command that redirects your code to a label that marks the error-handling section that makes your code cumbersome.
Your second, and more significant, problem is that not all errors are trappable, which means that for some errors your error-handling code doesn't run. For example, most constraint violations are trappable, but conversion errors, deadlocks, and other errors terminate your batch. If the batch is terminated, then the errors aren't trappable. If a batch is terminated, the error-handling code doesn't run, so you have to handle errors in the client application instead of using T-SQL at the server level. Here's an example to illustrate what I mean. Run Listing 1 in SQL Server 2000 to create tables T1 and T2 in tempdb and populate each with one row that has a 1 value in col1, then run the following code to demonstrate errors that you can trap with T-SQL.
DECLARE @err AS int; INSERT INTO T1 VALUES(1); SET @err = @@error; PRINT 'After INSERT. Error number: ' + CAST(@err AS varchar(10)) + '.';
The code inserts a row that should cause a primary key violation error. You get an output that says, After INSERT. Error number: 2627, which means that the batch continued to run after SQL Server generates the error. Similarly, if you try to run the same code, substituting a 0 for the 1, you get a check constraint violation and the batch won't terminate. However, if you run the same code with the value a instead of 1, you get a conversion error, the batch terminates, and SQL Server doesn't invoke the PRINT statement at all. The PRINT statement here is for debug purposes. Typically, you have error-handling code instead of the debug PRINT statement, but when SQL Server generates a conversion error-or any other error that terminates your batch-your error handling code doesn't run. A third example of an error that you typically want to handle with T-SQL is a deadlock error. Some deadlocks are the result of poor programming or a lack of indexes, but others are intentional. You might design a deadlock to prevent consistency problems, such as lost updates. You'll usually want to handle intentional deadlocks by retrying the transaction. However, because a deadlock is an error that terminates the batch, the retry code never has a chance to run. To demonstrate that a deadlock terminates your batch, run the following code in one connection (call it Connection 1):
BEGIN TRAN UPDATE T1 SET col1 = col1 + 1;
Then run the following code in another connection (call it Connection 2):
BEGIN TRAN UPDATE T2 SET col1 = col1 + 1;
Now, go to Connection 1 and run the following query:
DECLARE @err AS int; SELECT * FROM T2; SET @err = @@error; PRINT 'After SELECT. Error number: ' + CAST(@err AS varchar(10)) + '.'; COMMIT TRAN
Then go to connection 2 and run this query:
DECLARE @err AS int; SELECT * FROM T1; SET @err = @@error; PRINT 'After SELECT. Error number: ' + CAST(@err AS varchar(10)) + '.'; COMMIT TRAN
SQL Server chooses one of the transactions (connections) as the deadlock victim and terminates it. When I run this code, SQL Server terminates the second transaction and generates the following output:
Msg 1205, Level 13, State 51, Line 2 Transaction (Process ID 51) was deadlocked on lock resources with another process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim. Rerun the transaction. Msg 0, Level 11, State 0, Line 0 A severe error occurred on the current command. The results, if any, should be discarded.
Notice that SQL Server didn't invoke the PRINT statement, but instead terminated the batch. If you have retry logic in your code, it never runs. Now let's see how SQL Server 2005 solves these three problems.
Error Handling in SQL Server 2005
SQL Server 2005 introduces a new TRY/CATCH T-SQL construct for error handling. You write the code that might generate errors within a BEGIN TRY/END TRY block and write the error-handling code in a BEGIN CATCH/END CATCH block that immediately follows the TRY block. When SQL Server generates an error within a TRY block, SQL Server passes control to the corresponding CATCH block. If SQL Server generates an unhandled error (not within a TRY block), SQL Server passes control to the CATCH block associated with the nearest TRY block up the calling stack of routines (e.g., in a calling stored procedure or trigger). If no TRY block is found up the calling stack, SQL Server sends the error to the client application.
SQL Server 2005 lets you trap most errors that terminate a batch in SQL Server 2000, in addition to errors that terminate the connection (typically errors with severity-level 20 or higher, such as hardware errors).
Within the CATCH block, you can invoke the following functions to get information about the error SQL Server generates: ERROR_NUMBER(), ERROR_MESSAGE(), ERROR_SEVERITY(), and ERROR_STATE(). The self-explanatory functions give you the four pieces of information related to an error: number, message text, severity, and state. Like @@error(), ERROR_NUMBER() gives you the error number. However, unlike @@error(), the value ERROR_NUMBER() returns-as well as the values the other three functions return-remains the same throughout the CATCH block. You can invoke all four functions anywhere in the CATCH block without being concerned that their values will change. You can still use the @@error() function for backward compatibility, but because of its volatile nature, you should use ERROR_NUMBER() instead.
Another function that you can invoke within the CATCH block is called XACT_STATE(), which returns the state of the transaction as an integer value: 0 means no transaction is active, 1 means a transaction is open and can be either committed or rolled back, and 2 means a transaction is open but can't be committed (failed state). Open locks aren't released because the transaction is still active, even though the transaction can't be committed (as opposed to no open transaction where all locks are released. You can only read data and must roll the transaction back before you can modify data. You can cause all transactions to enter a failed state upon error by turning on the session option XACT_ABORT. Remember that we're using beta software, so the values that the functions return that represent the different transaction states might change in the final release.
Now, let's look at more code examples. First, run Listing 1 in SQL Server 2005 to create the T1 and T2 tables in tempdb and populate each with one row that a 1 value in col1. Then, run Listing 2, which issues an INSERT statement within a TRY block. Listing 2's INSERT statement completes successfully. The output shows No error, and the CATCH block is completely skipped. If you run Listing 2 again, you get the following output, which indicates a primary key violation because the primary key value 10 already exists in the table:
In CATCH block. Error number: 2627 Error message: Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint 'PK_T1'. Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'T1'. Error severity: 14 Error state: 1 XACT_STATE: 0
Because Listing 2 generates a primary key violation error, SQL Server passed control to the CATCH block, which printed all the debug information. In production code, instead of the debug print commands, you'd place your error-handling code where you inspect the error and determine a course of action. If you run Listing 2 again, replacing the value 10 with 0, you generate a check constraint violation. Then replace the value with a, which generates a conversion error. As you see, all errors are trappable in SQL Server 2005.
As a more detailed example, the code in Listing 3 handles a deadlock error. The code has retry logic that attempts to rerun the transaction three times if it generates deadlocks. The code keeps track of the attempt number in the @retry variable and loops when @retry is between 1 and 3. Upon a successful termination of the transaction, the code sets the @retry value to 0, preventing the loop from iterating again. When SQL Server detects a deadlock, the CATCH block prints some debug information, increments the @retry value by 1, and enters a delay of 3 seconds so the other process will have time to release the locks before the next attempt to issue the transaction. After more than three retries, the CATCH block prints a message indicating three failed attempts. Typically, you'd raise an error here that returns to the calling routine (or the client application). Now run Listing 3's code first with no other conflicting activity submitted from other sessions. The output shows the contents of T2 (which the SELECT statement returns) and a print message that says Transaction finished successfully. Because SQL Server didn't generate an error, SQL Server skips the catch block. To create the deadlock, copy the code from Listing 3 to a second connection and swap the table names in the UPDATE and SELECT statements of the second connection (UPDATE T2 and SELECT * FROM T1). Execute the code in the first connection and before 10 seconds pass, run the code in the second connection. I introduced a delay of 10 seconds between the UPDATE and SELECT statements to accommodate the delay between the time you invoke the code in the first and the second connections. SQL Server generates a deadlock error because we introduced a nonresolvable conflict. SQL Server terminates the second transaction, releasing its locks, and lets the first transaction finish successfully. The second connection enters a delay of 3 seconds, then tries again to issue the transaction. Because the first transaction has finished and released the locks, the second connection's second attempt completes successfully. The output that the first connection generates includes T2's contents and a print message that says the transaction completed successfully. The second connection generates the output that Figure 1 shows. As you can see, our error-handling code traps and handles the deadlock error.
Robust T-SQL Error Handling
SQL Server 2005 tackles the main problems you encounter when writing error-handling code in previous versions. The TRY/CATCH construct lets you write structured, elegant error-handling code and trap errors that you couldn't before. You can investigate error information within the CATCH block by invoking new functions that show you the error ID, error message text, error severity, error state, and the transaction state. The values those functions return don't change during the CATCH block, so you don't need to copy them aside to a variable like you do when using the @@error() function. SQL Server 2005 gives you robust means to handle errors by using T-SQL, so you aren't forced to deal with errors in the client application where it's not appropriate.


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In Sea Powerful II Special Maritime Enterprises (ENE) v Bank of China Limited [2016], the Hong Kong Court of Appeal (CA) has highlighted the need for parties to act promptly when applying for an injunction to restrain foreign court proceedings in favour of arbitration. "Deliberate, inordinate and culpable" delay in seeking the injunction, coupled with considerations of comity, had entitled the Court of First Instance (CFI) to refuse the injunction, even where there was a valid arbitration clause.
In particular, the CA condemned the plaintiff for deliberately delaying its anti-suit application until the relevant limitation period had expired, in order to deprive the other party of its contractual right to arbitrate.
The defendant bank commenced proceedings in a mainland Chinese court (Mainland Proceedings), claiming wrongful discharge of cargo consigned to a vessel owned by the plaintiff. The dispute was subject to a Hong Kong arbitration clause and a contractual limitation period of twelve months, incorporated in the charter party. As a result of the plaintiff's alleged attempts to evade service, that claim was only served on the plaintiff after the limitation period had expired. The plaintiff objected to the jurisdiction of the PRC court on 5 June 2015, but did not apply for an anti-suit injunction in the Hong Kong court until 25 September 2015, more than a month after the challenge was rejected and an appeal had been lodged with a higher court in the PRC. That appeal was also rejected on 6 November 2015.
The defendant argued that the anti-suit application should be dismissed on the ground of serious prejudice to the defendant because the limitation period had expired. The CFI rejected this argument, because the defendant had taken no steps to obtain a copy of the charterparty, and had therefore been unaware of the arbitration clause. The first instance judge found that the defendant had not acted reasonably in failing to preserve its right to sue in the contractually agreed forum.
The court's analysis
The CA had to decide whether delay and comity considerations constitute sufficient freestanding justification for declining an anti-suit injunction in support of arbitral proceedings.
The anti-suit injunction was sought under section 21L of the High Court Ordinance (Cap 4). This provision confers power on the court to grant the relief, if it finds that it is "just and convenient to do so". Given the coercive nature of an injunction, the jurisdiction is discretionary, and is not exercised as a matter of course.
Following the reasoning in English cases The Angelic Grace [1995] 1 Lloyd's Rep 87, Ecobank Transnational Incorporated v Tanoh [2015] EWCA Civ 1309, and Essar Shipping Ltd v Bank of China Ltd [2015] EWHC (Comm) (the facts of which bear a striking similarity to the facts in this case) (see our previous blog post), the CA considered the exercise of its discretion to be bound by the principle that a party's obligation to proceed in the agreed forum should be enforced, absent any strong or good reasons to the contrary. The CA did not give a definitive view on whether the grant of the anti-suit injunction should be refused on grounds of delay alone. Instead, the CA held that delay and comity are related, and both are relevant to the exercise of its discretion. The CA distinguished between anti-suit injunctions to enforce an arbitration agreement, and anti-suit injunctions in support of a forum non conveniens argument. It held that comity considerations are not to be disregarded in the former, despite their reduced role when compared to forum non conveniens cases.
The plaintiff had delayed its application for an anti-suit injunction until the limitation period had expired, with the sole motive of leaving the defendant without a remedy in any available forum. Coupled with the implication that granting an anti-suit injunction would mean overturning the two jurisdictional decisions already taken in the Mainland Proceedings, and that this would likely be regarded by the Chinese courts an intrusion or obstruction of their judicial sovereignty, the CA considered that delay and comity are related factors, and upheld the dismissal of the application. The first instance judge had not erred in law, ignored a relevant factor or taken into account an irrelevant factor, nor reached a conclusion he could not reasonably or sensibly have reached. The appeal must therefore be dismissed.
The CA left open whether the plaintiff could have mitigated its delay by giving an undertaking not to take issue with the expiry of the limitation period if anti-suit relief were granted and arbitration proceedings brought.
Sea Powerful is a reminder that, despite the existence of a clear agreement to arbitrate, a party's right to resolve a dispute in the contractually agreed forum can be lost if it does not seek an anti-suit injunction promptly. The court will consider the delay in the context of all relevant factors. In this case, the relevant factors included i) how far advanced were the foreign proceedings; ii) the contractual limitation period for bringing a claim in the agreed forum; and iii) whether there was any tactical reason for the delay, for instance, to deprive the opposing party of a remedy.
This decision should not be seen as a deviation from the pro-arbitration stance of the Hong Kong courts, which is firmly established. However, each case will be decided on its facts, and Sea Powerful clearly warns that there is a limit to the availability of such relief. In particular, the courts will not tolerate inordinate and culpable delay, especially where such delay would interfere with a jurisdictional ruling by a foreign court.


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