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Becoming really is that good. Here's a lengthy excerpt from the beginning.
There's a lot I still don't know about America, about life, about what the future might bring. But I do know myself. My father, Fraser, taught me to work hard, laugh often, and keep my word. My mother, Marian, showed me how to think for myself and to use my voice. Together, in our cramped apartment on the South Side of Chicago, they helped me see the value in our story, in my story, in the larger story of our country. Even when it's not pretty or perfect. Even when it's more real than you want it to be. Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
For eight years, I lived in the White House, a place with more stairs than I can count—plus elevators, a bowling alley, and an in-house florist. … Our meals were cooked by a team of world-class chefs and delivered by professionals more highly trained than those at any five-star restaurant or hotel. Secret service agents, with their earpieces and guns and deliberately flat expressions, stood outside our doors, doing their best to stay out of our family's private life. We got used to it, eventually, sort of—the strange grandeur of our new home and also the constant, quiet presence of others.
The White House is where our two girls played ball in the hallways and climbed trees on the South Lawn. It's where Barack sat up late at night, poring over briefings and drafts of speeches in the Treaty Room, and where Sunny, one of our dogs, sometimes pooped on the rug. … There were days when I felt suffocated by the fact that our windows had to be kept shut for security, that I couldn't get some fresh air without causing a fuss. There were other times when I'd be awestruck by the white magnolias blooming outside, the everyday bustle of government business, the majesty of a military welcome. There were days, weeks, and months when I hated politics. And there were moments when the beauty of this country and its people so overwhelmed me that I couldn't speak.
Then it was over. … And when it ends, when you walk out the door that last time from the world's most famous address, you're left in many ways to find yourself again.
So let me start here, with a small thing that happened not long ago. I was at home in the redbrick house that my family recently moved into. Our new house was about two miles from our old house, in a quiet neighborhood street. We're still settling in. In the family room, our furniture is arranged the same way it was in the White House. We've got mementos around the house that remind us it was all real—photos of our family time at Camp David, handmade pots given to me by Native American students, a book signed by Nelson Mandela. What was strange about this night was that everyone was gone. Barack was traveling. Sasha was out with friends. Malia's been living and working in New York, finishing out her gap year before college. It was just me, our two dogs, and a silent, empty house like I haven't known in eight years.
And I was hungry. I walked down the stairs from our bedroom with the dogs following on my heels. In the kitchen, I opened the fridge. I found a loaf of bread, took out two pieces, and laid them in the toaster oven. I opened a cabinet and got out a plate. I know it's a weird thing to say, but to take a plate from a shelf in the kitchen without anyone first insisting that they get it for me, to stand by myself watching bread turn brown in the toaster, feels as close to a return to my old life as I've come. Or maybe it's my new life just beginning to announce itself.
In the end, I didn't just make toast. I made cheese toast, moving my slices of bread to the microwave and melting a fat mess of gooey cheddar between them. I then carried my plate outside to the backyard. I didn't have to tell anyone I was going. I just went. I was in bare feet, wearing a pair of shorts. … I sat on the steps of our veranda, feeling the warmth of the day's sun still caught in the slate beneath my feet. A dog started barking in the distance, and my own dogs paused to listen, seeming momentarily confused. It occurred to me that it was a jarring sound for then, given that we didn't have neighbors, let along neighbor dogs, at the White House. For them, all this was new. As the dogs loped off to explore the perimeter of the yard, I ate my toast in the dark, feeling alone in the best possible way. My mind wasn't on the group of guards with guns sitting less than a hundred yards away at the custom-built command post inside our garage, or the fact that I still can't walk down a street without a security detail. I wasn't thinking about the new president or for that matter the old president, either.
I was thinking about how in a few minutes I would go back inside my house, wash my plate in the sink, and head up to bed, maybe opening a window so I could feel the spring air—how glorious that would be. I was thinking, too, that the stillness was affording me the first real opportunity to reflect. As First Lady, I'd get to the end of a busy week and need to be reminded of how it started. But time is beginning to feel different. My girls, who arrived at the White House with their Polly Pockets, with a blanket named Blankie, and a stuffed tiger named Tiger, are now teenagers, young women with plans and voices of their own. My husband is making his own adjustments to life after the White House, catching his own breath. And here I am, in this new place, with a lot I want to say. (pp. x–xiii)
There she is, and she does. This is Michelle's story (I will use first names to distinguish the Obamas), as the cover without the word "by" on it implies by omission: Becoming Michelle Obama. Barack, without whom this book would not exist, is mostly off-stage, observed, loved, but shown at a certain distance. She thinks he's the bee's knees, and also sometimes exasperating. As she writes later on, "All [Barack's] inborn confidence was admirable, of course, but honestly, try living with it." (p. 131)
The preface sets the stage for Michelle to sit down and tell the reader her story. It's a friendly invitation, just finishing some cheese toast and sitting down on a spring evening, alone with the reader (or listener; I am told that the audio version that she narrates herself is terrific), ready to talk for a good long while about who she is, where she came from, how she came to be where she just was. None of this is accidental; Michelle will say numerous times later in the book that she is a planner, a detail person. Becoming is a finely honed work from a graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law who has learned how to marshal considerable resources to communicate what she wants to get across, and to do that on several levels at once. Like Barack did with Dreams From My Father, Michelle has thought long and clearly about why people want to read her first book. Compared with her husband's first effort at book-length writing, she brings nearly twenty years more of life experience, as well as time in the White House crafting messages, to the task, and it shows. (Charmingly, Dreams From My Father was written in part to impress Michelle; Becoming was not written to impress Barack, but it is by far the more polished of the two books.)
She divides the book into three parts: Becoming Me, Becoming Us, and Becoming More. She leaves the ending open; to paraphrase the father of one of her childhood friends, life is not finished with her yet. "I'm an ordinary person who found herself on an extraordinary journey. In sharing my story, I hope to create space for other stories and other voices, to widen the pathway for who belongs and why. … For every door that's been opened to me, I've tried to open my door to others. And here is what I have to say, finally: Let's invite one another in." (pp. 420–21) She invites readers into her life to show how ordinary it was, how easily she might have tripped over obstacles she barely even knew were there, and how someone from a modest South Side upbringing has handled being catapulted onto the world stage, and indelibly into history.
She also lets readers know that she and her family had been part of history all along, just not at the rarefied level of the White House. She grew up on the South Side of Chicago amid an extended family on both sides, with parents who had grown up in the city themselves but a grandparents' generation that had come up from the South as part of the Great Migration. The South Side did not stand still either; as she writes in the caption accompanying two photographs, "When I began kindergarten in 1969, my neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago was made up of a racially diverse mix of middle-class families. But as many better-off families moved to the suburbs—a phenomenon commonly known as "white flight"—the demographics changed fast. By fifth grade, the diversity was gone." (color photos after p. 240) She describes a visit to friends who had moved out to the suburbs, a very light-skinned African-American family. While Michelle, her brother, and her parents were inside the friends' house visiting and having dinner, someone keyed a panel of the Buick that was her father's pride and joy. Nobody in the family said much about the incident, and her father had it repaired within the week, but they did not visit again and never considered moving out of the city.
Every phase that she chooses to describe is a rich tapestry. There's a beloved grandfather with his record collection who introduces her to jazz. There's her mother's forthright action that saved her from a terrible second-grade teacher and set her on an academic path that led to Princeton and Harvard. There's her big brother, always looking after her, and later providing a path to the scarily exciting world of boys. There's her friendship with Santita Jackson, daughter of Rev. Jesse. There's the fearsome aunt who taught her piano and also unintentionally gave her lessons in standing up for herself. All of these and more that were interesting, touching, enlightening, and all from before her graduation from high school. She did well enough to earn a place at Princeton, a college that she found thrilling, sometimes intimidating, and sometimes confining. She also found it very, very white.
I imagine that the administrators at Princeton didn't love the fact that students of color largely stuck together. The hope was that all of us would mingle in heterogeneous harmony, deepening the quality of student life across the board. It's a worthy goal. … But even today, with white students continuing to outnumber students of color on college campuses, the burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students. In my experience, it's a lot to ask. (p. 74)
Princeton also introduced her to friends who would be important to her long after graduation, such as Suzanne Alele, whom she had met during a pre-first-year program. They were more complementary than identical, as they discovered when they started sharing a room as sophomores. "Our shared room resembled an ideological battlefield, with Suzanne presiding over a wrecked landscape of tossed clothing and strewn papers on the floor on her side and me perched on my bed, surrounded by fastidious order. … I see now that she provoked me in a good way, introducing me to the idea that not everyone needs to have their file folders labeled and alphabetized, or even to have files at all. Years later, I'd fall in love with a guy who, like Suzanne, stored his belonging in heaps and felt no compunction, really ever, to fold his clothes. But I was able to coexist with it, thanks to Suzanne. I am still coexisting with that guy to this day. This is what a control freak learns inside the compressed otherworld of college, maybe above all else: There are simply other ways of being." (pp. 80–81) Princeton shaped her—there are more Suzannes than I can mention here—and it gets the better part of two chapters.
She dispenses with Harvard Law in about two paragraphs, mostly in a discussion about how she had grown up checking off boxes and seeking approval that leads to both awe and chagrin at having made it by her mid-20s. "You used to pass by [the office building where you now work as a lawyer] as a South Side kid riding the bus to high school, peering mutely out the window at the people who strode like titans to their jobs. Now you're one of them. You've worked yourself out of that bus and across the plaza and onto an upward-moving elevator so silent it seems to glide. You've joined the tribe. At the age of twenty-five, you have an assistant. You make more money than your parents ever have. … You wear an Armani suit and sign up for a subscription wine service. You make monthly payments on your law school loans and go to step aerobics after work. Because you can, you buy yourself a Saab." (p. 92)
She's well aware of how fortunate she is, and how many people supported along the way. She's not aware—how could she be—of what's about to happen.
Is there anything to question? It doesn't seem that way. You're a lawyer now. You've taken everything ever given to you—the love of your parents, the faith of your teachers, the music from Southside [a grandfather's nickname] and Robbie, the meals from Aunt Sis, the vocabulary words drilled into you by Dandy—and converted it to this. You've climbed the mountain. And part of your job, aside from parsing abstract intellectual property issues for big corporations, is to help cultivate the next set of young lawyers being courted by the firm. A senior partner asks if you'll mentor an incoming summer associate, and the answer is easy. Of course you will. You have yet to understand the altering force of a simple yes. You don't know that when a memo arrives to confirm the assignment, some deep and unseen fault line in your life has begun to tremble, that some hold is already starting to slip. Next to your name is another name, that of some hotshot law student who's busy climbing his own ladder. Like you, he's black and from Harvard. Other than that, you know nothing—just the name, and it's an odd one. (pp. 92–93)
Their acquaintance with one another begins, "Barack Obama was late on day one." (p. 94) She's a high-powered lawyer, but she doesn't much like the isolation that young associates faced grinding out billable hours. She forged relationships with some people in the firm, and "I fortified myself with daily check-ins with my mom and dad. I'd hugged them that very morning, in fact before dashing out the door and driving through a heavy rainstorm to get to work. To get to work, I might add, on time.
"I looked at my watch.
"'Any sign of this guy?' I called to Lorraine [her assistant].
"Her sigh was audible. 'Girl, no' she called back. She was amused, I could tell. She knew how tardiness drove me nuts—how I saw it as nothing but hubris." (p. 96)
She's doubtful about the new guy arriving with a hot-shot reputation. "Word had spread that one of his professors at Harvard—the daughter of a managing partner—claimed he was the most gifted law student she'd ever encountered. … I was skeptical of all of it. In my experience, you put a suit on any half-intelligent black man and white people tended to go bonkers." (p. 96) When he does show up, "He grinned sheepishly and apologized for his lateness as he shook my hand. He had a wide smile and was taller and thinner than I'd imagined he'd be—a man who was clearly not much of an eater, who also looked fully unaccustomed to wearing business clothes. If he knew he was arriving with a whiz-kid reputation, it didn't show." (p. 97)
Later that day, she takes him out to lunch, as part of making summer associates happy and willing to commit to working for the firm after graduation. "What struck me was how assured he seemed of his own direction in life. He was oddly free from doubt, though at first glance it was hard to understand why. Compared with my own lockstep march toward success, the direct arrow shot of my trajectory from Princeton to Harvard to my desk on the forty-seventh floor, Barack's path was an improvisational zigzag through disparate worlds. … Barack was serious without being self-serious. He was breezy in his manner but powerful in his mind. It was a strange, stirring combination." (pp. 97–98)
His background included not just Harvard and Columbia, not just Hawaii and Indonesia, but Chicago too. "Barack was the first person I'd met at [the law firm] who had spent time in the barbershops, barbecue joints, and Bible-thumping black parishes of the Far South Side. Before going to law school, he'd worked in Chicago for three years as a community organizer … As he described it, it had been two parts frustration to one part reward … He was in law school, he explained, because grassroots organizing had shown him that meaningful societal change required not just the work of the people on the ground but stronger policies and governmental action as well." Michelle continues, "Despite my resistance to the hype that had preceded him, I found myself admiring Barack for both his self-assuredness and his earnest demeanor. He was refreshing, unconventional, and weirdly elegant. Not once, though, did I think about him as someone I'd want to date." (p. 98)
As his mentor, she also introduces him to some of the social sides of being an up-and-coming lawyer in Chicago. The story of how he didn't get invited to a second cocktail party is a hoot and includes the sentences, "But he was a grown man. I let him rescue himself." (p. 101) … Michelle draws some conclusions, "Barack was cerebral, probably too cerebral for most people to put up with. … He wasn't a happy-hour guy, and maybe I should have realized that sooner. My world was filled with hopeful, hardworking people who were obsessed with their own upward mobility. … Barack was more content to spend an evening alone, reading up on urban housing policy. As an organizer, he'd spent weeks and months listening to poor people describe their challenges. His insistence on hope and the potential for mobility, I was coming to see, came from an entirely different and not easily accessible place." (p. 101)
Her life is about to take what she would describe as a giant swerve, and although I have quoted so much from what she writes about her early years, I have left out so much that is so good. Her father has multiple sclerosis, yet never misses a day of work even as his mobility becomes impaired. Her mother's firm, no-nonsense, resolutely non-helicoptery approach to parenting. The rich variety of relations who provide so many lively contrasts. Her storytelling connects the indelible individuality of her life with the larger streams of American life, both as how they manifest in Chicago and how they shape the wider contexts of her experience.
It's all immensely readable, enjoyable, enlightening. As I have written this commentary and selected bits to quote, I found myself drawn back in, happily re-reading page after page. It's just as good the second time around, and probably will the third and fourth times too. What happens next with Michelle and Barack is both known and unknown, and I hope to write more about it soon.
American History, Autobiography, Doug, Fabulous Ones, Feminism, History, History Has Its Eyes On You, Michelle Obama, Politics, Race
Doug Merrill
Writer, editor, translator, project manager, reformed bookseller. Currently based in Berlin, following stints in Moscow, Tbilisi, Munich, Washington, Warsaw, Budapest and Atlanta. Also blogs at A Fistful of Euros, though less frequently than here these days.
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The Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) of the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, and the West Bengal Forest Department rescued the birds during two raids on Galiff Street in central Kolkata, West Bengal, on April 7.
The traffickers had captured the animals, which included newly born chicks, and hoped to illegally sell them on as pets.
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Agni Mitra, regional deputy director of the WCCB, confirmed following the first raid the teams received information sellers had changed location and were operating again.
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Over the past years, West Bengal has emerged as a major market for illegal traders who deal in both live and dead animals.
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In 1991, an amendment to the 1972 Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act made it illegal for any Indian bird, except the house crow, to be hunted, trapped, caged or traded.
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Book Review: Be Prepared Reminisces on the Trials of Sleepaway Camp and Adolescence
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Some spoilers.
I think it speaks very well of Vera Brosgol's autobiographical graphic novel Be Prepared that I stayed up late to finish this ARC the same night that I brought it home from the store. I think it speaks even more highly of it that more than three months later (how did I leave it for so long?) in reminding myself of the plot for this review, I ended up pretty much rereading the whole of the text without it feeling tired, even though I knew its twists and turns.
The novel plunged me into a perspective to which I really hadn't given much thought, that of the immigrant Russian American—though the plight of the immigrant is something I think about often—especially just now. I know only a very little about any of Russian history—and what I have learnt has been more from British and Australian period dramas and Disney's Anastasia than from classes where truth outweighed drama. Most of what I've learnt has been from the point too of view of the exiled aristocracy than the average Russian citizen.
But some things are universal: the desire to fit in with peers, the desire to have the best birthday party, the drama of adolescence and the struggle of adolescent friendships, particularly as teens begin to experience romantic attraction, the fear of and longing for stay-away summer camp….
Vera is the odd one out among her more affluent peers in Albany, an immigrant to America, having been born in Russia but immigrated before she turned five. Her mother's peers are primarily Russian immigrants, fellow parishioners of their Russian Orthodox Church. Vera tries to throw a birthday party to match her classmates', but her mother relies on gifts and help from the Church, leaving Vera with a party that is more Russian than she'd like. Her classmates leave in the night before the sleepover ends. All of her classmates head to camp during the summer, but Vera has never been allowed to go, the cost being too great. Upon discovering a Russian camp in Connecticut, a place where she won't be the odd one out, she convinces her mother to accept the Church's help to get Vera and her younger brother there.
But Vera still feels like the odd one out among the other campers. She is divided from her brother, put with the older of the camp groups in a cabin with two girls, five years her seniors, who have not only been going to the camp for twelve years but have shared a cabin for the whole of that time. The camp requires them to speak Russian as much as is possible, which isn't a problem for Vera, but she does not read the language well, and she doesn't know the camp customs.
After two weeks, the only friends that Vera feels that she has made are the chipmunks that she's fed despite the rules—and even one of them has betrayed her by biting her.
But a chance encounter with a runaway guinea pig wins her a friend at last in Kira, a younger girl from another group. They admire one another, help one another to grow, and encourage one another. Together the two of them set out to conquer camp, to best the boys at last in the weekly capture-the-flag game.
This is a novel about being comfortable in your own skin and in the connections that you make, and about not judging on first impressions. From Vera's belief in the true friendship of her classmates who abandon her, to her initial exile of Kira because she is younger and always crying over her missing guinea pig, to her belief that her brother is enjoying camp, initial impressions prove wrong again and again.
I enjoyed the pacing of this novel. I think Brosgol used some great tricks to keep the story going through periods of stagnation. At one point, a couple weeks of camp activities are expressed in a letter to her mother below the text of which the panels more honestly express Vera's experiences at the camp. Moments of quiet contemplation are overlaid once by the action of swinging on a play set to give the panel some action. At others her thoughts are related to moments in Russian history, which were informative as well as informing the character.
The graphic novel is such a popular genre right now for middle grade readers, and I think readers will find this at once a relatable and unique perspective on feelings we've all had and experiences many of us might have shared.
Brosgol, Vera. Be Prepared. Color by Alec Longstreth. New York: First Second-Roaring Brook-MacMillan-Holtzbrinck, 2018.
This review is not endorsed by Vera Brosgol, Alec Longstreth, First Second, Roaring Brook Press, MacMillan Publishers, or Holtzbrinck Publishing Holding Limited Partnership. It is an independent, honest review by a reader.
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Q: Using ebay Feed API with R I am trying to call the ebay Feed API using R but don't understand the syntax to be used, seems like I am missing the headers in the call to the API:
> res <- GET(paste0("https://api.ebay.com/buy/feed/v1_beta/item?feed_scope=ALL_ACTIVE&category_id=625&date=20191216"))
> res
Response [https://api.ebay.com/buy/feed/v1_beta/item?feed_scope=ALL_ACTIVE&category_id=625&date=20191216]
  Date: 2019-12-21 08:39
  Status: 400
  Content-Type: application/json
  Size: 228 B
{
  "errors" : [ {
    "errorId" : 1002,
    "domain" : "OAuth",
    "category" : "REQUEST",
    "message" : "Missing access token",
    "longMessage" : "Access token is missing in the Authorization HTTP request header."
  }

Where should be the headers?
I have seen something like this, adding parameters, would that be going on the right path? payload being a list of different authentication elements:
res_bis <- GET("https://api.ebay.com/buy/feed/v1_beta/item?feed_scope=ALL_ACTIVE&category_id=625&date=20191216", authenticate() = payload, encode = "form", verbose())

Help much appreciated!
EDIT1:
I saw an information about HTTP headers:

HTTP request headers:   Content-Type – Must be set
  to:application/x-www-form-urlencoded   Authorization – The word "Basic
  " followed by your Base64-encoded OAuth credentials(client_id:client_secret).

I then tried the following but still got same error:
 GET("https://api.ebay.com/buy/feed/v1_beta/item?feed_scope=ALL_ACTIVE&category_id=625&date=20191216", add_headers("Basic client_id:client_secret"))

EDIT2: Updating my code following Andrea's help:
> GET("https://api.ebay.com/buy/feed/v1_beta/item?feed_scope=ALL_ACTIVE&category_id=625&date=20191216",
+     add_headers(client_id = paste0("Basic", " ",your_token)), content_type("application/x-www-form-urlencoded")  )

Response [https://api.ebay.com/buy/feed/v1_beta/item?feed_scope=ALL_ACTIVE&category_id=625&date=20191216]
  Date: 2019-12-21 12:17
  Status: 400
  Content-Type: application/json
  Size: 228 B
{
  "errors" : [ {
    "errorId" : 1002,
    "domain" : "OAuth",
    "category" : "REQUEST",
    "message" : "Missing access token",
    "longMessage" : "Access token is missing in the Authorization HTTP request header."
  } ]
>

EDIT3:
Thanks to Andrea I managed to get my access token:

But I still get the same error when I do:
your_token= "XXXXXXXXX"
GET("https://api.ebay.com/buy/feed/v1_beta/item?feed_scope=ALL_ACTIVE&category_id=625&date=20191216", add_headers(client_id = paste0("Basic", " ",your_token)), content_type("application/x-www-form-urlencoded")  )

Response [https://api.ebay.com/buy/feed/v1_beta/item?feed_scope=ALL_ACTIVE&category_id=625&date=20191216]
  Date: 2019-12-22 17:56
  Status: 400
  Content-Type: application/json
  Size: 228 B
{
  "errors" : [ {
    "errorId" : 1002,
    "domain" : "OAuth",
    "category" : "REQUEST",
    "message" : "Missing access token",
    "longMessage" : "Access token is missing in the Authorization HTTP request header."
  } ]

A: Based on our exchange above, the main issue was a lack of understanding of how ebay feed api auth flows.
First, it is necessary to acquire an Authorization token to authenthicate future api requests.
library(httr)
library(jsonify)

api_token <- "your_token_string"

# Get authorization token
auth_token_res <- GET("https://api.sandbox.ebay.com/identity/v1/oauth2/token",
                      add_headers(client_id = paste0("Basic", " ",api_token)),
                      content_type("application/x-www-form-urlencoded")) %>%
  fromJSON()

access_token <- auth_token_res[["access_token"]]  # parse it from JSON resp

That token will be then passed in future calls with add_headers() just like before:
# Make request
feed_res <- GET("https://api.ebay.com/buy/feed/v1_beta/item?feed_scope=ALL_ACTIVE&category_id=625&date=20191216",
                add_headers(Authorization = paste0("Bearer", " ",access_token)))

# ... parse fields as needed from JSON  response

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The Leibniz Research Alliance has initiated a strategy process. Representatives of the member institutions participated in a two day workshop from 11 – 12 June in Hamburg to develop some impulses for the future of the research alliance. Goal of this process is to create a new strategy for the alliance and to adapt its focus to current developments in the context of Open Science and Science 2.0.
The program for the Impact School is online now. In the three-day program, up and coming researchers will learn more on how to expand their research impact on Media & Society, Business, and Politics. The participants will discuss these aspects in different formats with our invited experts Benedikt Fecher, Nataliia Sokolovska, Juliane Meißner, Arne Meyer-Haake, Sascha Friesieke, Mohammed Rezazadeh, Christian Kobsda, Paul Wouters, and Marcel Hebig.
Extended Deadline for the Impact School: 10 August!
Helping researchers to make use of the open science changes and getting involved in shaping the future of new open science systems and tools is the goal of Generation R. Its editor, Simon Worthington, gives some insights into the new platform's themes and services in this Blogpost in ZBW MediaTalk.
The conference (Link only available in German) will take place from 12-14 September at the University Duisburg Essen. It will present current developments in the use of digital media in university teaching. This year's focus is on the design options of university development in times of digitization. In particular, it deals with issues of educational justice, participation in education, and the opening up of higher education. Contributions are presented in various event formats.
Generation R (R=Researchers) is the new online platform for Open Science discourse by the Leibniz Research Alliance Science 2.0. In this section, we will keep you updated on its activities.
Be an author for GenR: The next theme on Generation R will be "decentralized web". We will look at how researchers can get involved in using what is on offer from decentralized systems while keeping their data and time invested in adopting or trialing these technologies somehow safe. If you want to contribute an article on this topic please contact our editor Simon Worthington.
Lambert Heller is summing up the German debate on predatory publishing and gives some tips how to avoid being a victim of predatory publishers in this Blogpost.
GenR is providing a How to Guide for researchers that want to cite the software they used through Github and Zenodo. The article is part of a whole Open Science MOOC Module on Open Research Software.
Sebastian Nordhoff is giving some insights into sustainable replication models for a small scholarly press. His work is part of the OpenAIRE project 'Full disclosure'.
Daina Bouquin and Arfon Smith are reporting how astronomy is adopting the Force 11 Software Citation Principles of software creators in this Blogpost.
During its 49th meeting, the German Data Forum (RatSWD) discussed the effects of the new EU data protection regulation (GDPR) on the access to sensitive data in research data centres (RDCs), saying it yielded positive results. Impact assessment of research data infrastructures and the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) were also on the agenda. Read more about it in their press release.
The Galaxy Europe project aims to remedy training for Big Data Analysis with interactive, community-based, and freely-available online tutorials on data analysis in the life sciences. The open source platform can be accessed by scientists via an Internet browser. It requires no programming skills and all settings can be made using a graphic interface.
With this report Surf, the collaborative ICT organisation for Dutch education and research, aims to build and share expertise on the implementation of FAIR data policy in the Netherlands. Six use cases describe how people from different scientific domains are implementing FAIR in their policies and practice, or how they plan to do so in the future.
In the current episode of "the Road to Open Science", a podcast by Utrecht Young Academy, Christopher Jackson and Jean-Sébastien Caux are sharing their experience on open access. They both started open access publishing platforms and advocate that academics should be more in charge of the publishing system than they currently are. Publishing is too important for academia to be left at the discretion of the commercial players.
Open peer review (OPR), as with other elements of open science and open research, is on the rise. It aims to bring greater transparency and participation to formal and informal peer review processes. The authors of this article, Birgit Schmidt, Tony Ross-Hellauer, Xenia van Edig, and Elizabeth C Moylan, propose ten considerations for OPR. These were developed through discussions with authors, reviewers, editors, publishers, and librarians and provide a pragmatic, hands-on introduction to these issues.


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This repo was recently wiped clean as I prepare to rewrite all code from scratch.

A few basics: I run signal processing code on a Teensy and robot operation code on an Arduino. There may end up being an app for user control, but that might get its own repo :)


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Q: jQuery - jeditable on href click Im using jeditable on a project of mine to edit text on a final overview page.
I also have a href to the side of it that says edit, I would like to be able to click on the href to edit the field as well as clicking the text itself.
The code i have to run the plugin normally is as follows
<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(function() {
    jQuery('.editable').editable('/step-five/edit_value',{
        style  : "inherit",
    });
});
</script>

this works perfect for clicking on the actual text, but im unsure how i would edit by clicking a href.
Any help would be great.
Cheeers,

A: You could set click handler on your edit button to trigger a click on another element if the plugin API doesn't offer a solution.
Assume edit button is end of a table row and element you want to target is in previous td
$('.edit_btn').click(function(){
    $(this).parent().prev().find('.editable').click();
    return false;
});


Whit Camp is held in the grounds of Ratcliffe College, Ratcliffe on the Wreake, Leicestershire. We are in the same field as last year. The school has superb facilities and grounds and is just off the A46 approximately 20 minutes from the M1.


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Three dimensional coupled model approaches to terrestrial methane cycling during Paleogene greenhouse climates
Badger, M. P.; Singarayer, J.; Valdes, P. J.; Inglis, G. N. and Pancost, R. D. (2013). Three dimensional coupled model approaches to terrestrial methane cycling during Paleogene greenhouse climates. In: AGU Fall Meeting, 9-13 Dec 2013, San Francisco, CA, USA.
URL: http://abstractsearch.agu.org/meetings/2013/FM/A23...
The biogeochemical cycling of methane presents a major challenge for paleoclimate scientists, as although this critical greenhouse gas (GHG) has the forcing potential to drive significant changes in the Earth System, there are no proxy methods for reconstructing it's ancient atmospheric concentration. This is especially important as biogenic methane emissions are controlled by environmental conditions such as temperature and precipitation, and so methane has significant power as a positive or negative feedback on global climate change. Understanding how methane emissions and cycling acted in the high pCO2 greenhouse worlds of the Paleogene potentially bridges the gap between our understanding of other, better (although arguably still poorly-) constrained GHGs and global temperature. The recent application of advanced three dimensional global modelling strategies to the problem of Eocene trace GHG concentrations has begun to show how important these may be in high-CO2 worlds (Valdes et al, 2005; Singarayer et al, 2011; Beerling et al, 2011), suggesting that as much as 2.7 °C of global warming may be contributed. This approach couples the unified Hadley Centre climate model (HadCM3L) with Sheffield Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (SDGVM; Beerling et al, 1997) to simulate trace gas emissions, and the atmospheric chemistry model STOCHEM to simulate the concentration of methane and ozone in the troposphere Here we present early results of a project to extend and develop the results of these earlier works, with revised and improved biogeochemistry and vegetation models, and broader consideration of boundary and initial conditions. These new results will be compared to indirect proxy methods to determine Paleogene methane emissions using lipid biomarker carbon isotopes in Eocene wetland settings (preserved as lignites) to probe past methanogenic and methanotrophic populations and constrain ancient methane emissions in high-CO2 worlds.
Earth system modeling; greenhouse gases
Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Environment, Earth and Ecosystem Sciences
http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2013/(Other)
Marcus Badger


Vegan fried green tomato BLT's give a Southern spin to that summer classic. The fried green tomatoes can be cooked in the air fryer or in a skillet on the stove.
Summer is the season for BLT's. I crave them for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
My BLT affection stretches back to childhood when my parents would grow tomatoes in their garden.
My dad and I would stand outside, eating warm tomatoes right off the vine. Occasionally we'd add a sprinkle of salt or slathering of mayo.
If it was around lunchtime, the tomatoes would get sliced and placed on squishy white bread with mayo and nothing else. And of course, if it was really going to be a red letter affair, BLT's were on the menu.
I wasn't vegan back then. But luckily, these days it's easy to make a vegan BLT with the wealth of vegan bacon options available.
There's old school tempeh bacon. You could make plant-based bacon with eggplant, mushrooms, or tofu.
But personally, I'm all about seitan bacon. It gets a great crispiness and chew around the edges. Of course, it has that smoky flavor I crave. And you can get it as crunchy as you like, depending on how long you cook it.
I like my seitan bacon with just a little crunch around the edges. David likes his bacon completely firm like a cracker. So I start his seitan bacon cooking before anything else.
There are loads of seitan bacon options out there. My favorite is Herbivorous Butcher (shown here). Coming in at #2, Upton's Naturals.
Why do vegans eat things that taste like meat? <– Find out here.
So after a summer of vegan BLT's aplenty, when I was at the farmers market in the Quad Cities recently, I decided to mix things up with something special.
Amongst all of the bright, ripe red summer tomatoes at the market, there were a few green tomatoes on one table.
I made sure to ask that they weren't just heirloom tomatoes.
Some heirloom varieties, like zebra tomatoes, are also green. Those aren't the tomatoes you want for fried green tomatoes. You want under ripe tomatoes, that would become red if they had the chance.
Last summer around this time, I enjoyed making vegan fried green tomatoes in the air fryer. After giving them a sheer coating of vegan mayo, I dredged them in two different ways.
Some tomatoes were dredged in panko bread crumbs and spices. Others were dredged in potato chip crumbs and spices. Then they were air fried until toasty brown and crisp.
I recently added stovetop instructions to my vegan fried green tomato recipe as well. So if you don't have an air fryer, you can still make fried green tomatoes in a skillet instead, as is the typical fashion.
Fried green tomatoes in a BLT offer a bit of crunch in the sandwich from the breading, and a dash of salt that wakes things up. The tomato flavor has the subtle sweetness of a cooked tomato.
It takes the classic vegan BLT, and gives it a Southern spin.
After toasting the bread, I went with eggless mayo for my sandwich spread. However, I bet that some secret sauce from my vegan Big Mac sliders recipe would also be really good here.
What sides should you serve with a vegan fried green tomato BLT? They would be heavenly alongside smoky sweet vegan collard greens, vegan potato salad, or crispy cabbage.
If you've got some green tomatoes on the vine, run outside and grab one. And if not, get yourself to the farmers market. Fried green tomato BLT's are only an option for a short while, and that time is now.
Vegan BLT's are a beloved classic for a reason. Give that quintessential summer sandwich a Southern spin with fried green tomatoes. The tomatoes can be prepared in the air fryer or skillet. Then top them with crisp seitan bacon, lettuce, and a slathering of eggless mayo on toasted bread. Makes 2 sandwiches.
1 teaspoon organic canola oil Or other neutral-flavored, high heat oil.
Toast 4 slices of bread in the toaster, until the bread is nutty brown. Remove from toaster and set aside.
Bring a non-stick skillet to a medium heat with oil. Put 4 to 6 slices of seitan bacon in an even layer in the skillet. (You may have to work in batches, if you don't have a large enough skillet.) Some slices of seitan bacon are larger than others. So use the amount of vegan bacon that suits your preferences. For Herbivorous Butcher seitan bacon, 4 slices would be enough for 2 sandwiches. For Upton's Naturals seitan bacon, 6 slices would be a good amount for 2 sandwiches.
Brown the seitan bacon for a few minutes on each side, until the bacon is starting to get brown and a little crispy around the edges. Remove from heat and set aside.
Now it's time to add toppings to the sandwiches. Slather vegan mayonnaise onto each slice of bread. Top two of the toasts with green leaf lettuce, 2 to 3 slices of seitan bacon, and 2 or 3 fried green tomato slices. Then top each sandwich with a remaining slice of toast.
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Hooray! I was following your shopping quest for seitan bacon on Twitter, and I'm so happy that you found some! That sandwich looks so amazing!
Thanks, Becky! It was a real nail biter! I couldn't believe I'd finally gotten some green tomatoes this year, and then seitan bacon was nowhere to be found. Thankfully, it reappeared in my grocery store before the tomatoes were completely red.
I think you were way ahead of your peers with your affinity for tomatoes. I didn't start liking them until my 30s! The air fryer makes every better and I'm sure this is no exception! Looks yummy!
Oh, wow, I had no idea that you didn't like tomatoes until you were in your thirties. My grandpa used to grow cherry tomatoes in his garden. They were always ripe by the end of July. So my birthday present from him every year was a container of cherry tomatoes. I loved them!


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Hedge Funds Rushed Into MTS Systems Corporation (MTSC) Prematurely
Published on December 10, 2019 at 3:43 pm by Abigail Fisher in Hedge Funds,News
Is MTS Systems Corporation (NASDAQ:MTSC) a good place to invest some of your money right now? We can gain invaluable insight to help us answer that question by studying the investment trends of top investors, who employ world-class Ivy League graduates, who are given immense resources and industry contacts to put their financial expertise to work. The top picks of these firms have historically outperformed the market when we account for known risk factors, making them very valuable investment ideas.
MTS Systems Corporation (NASDAQ:MTSC) investors should be aware of an increase in enthusiasm from smart money lately. Our calculations also showed that MTSC isn't among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds (click for Q3 rankings and see the video below for Q2 rankings).
In the eyes of most market participants, hedge funds are perceived as underperforming, outdated financial tools of yesteryear. While there are more than 8000 funds with their doors open at the moment, Our researchers choose to focus on the crème de la crème of this group, about 750 funds. These investment experts command most of the hedge fund industry's total capital, and by tailing their unrivaled stock picks, Insider Monkey has come up with many investment strategies that have historically defeated Mr. Market. Insider Monkey's flagship short hedge fund strategy outpaced the S&P 500 short ETFs by around 20 percentage points per year since its inception in May 2014. Our portfolio of short stocks lost 27.8% since February 2017 (through November 21st) even though the market was up more than 39% during the same period. We just shared a list of 7 short targets in our latest quarterly update .
Joel Greenblatt of Gotham Asset Management
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What does smart money think about MTS Systems Corporation (NASDAQ:MTSC)?
At the end of the third quarter, a total of 18 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were long this stock, a change of 50% from the second quarter of 2019. Below, you can check out the change in hedge fund sentiment towards MTSC over the last 17 quarters. So, let's see which hedge funds were among the top holders of the stock and which hedge funds were making big moves.
More specifically, Ariel Investments was the largest shareholder of MTS Systems Corporation (NASDAQ:MTSC), with a stake worth $82 million reported as of the end of September. Trailing Ariel Investments was Renaissance Technologies, which amassed a stake valued at $13.3 million. Citadel Investment Group, D E Shaw, and Arrowstreet Capital were also very fond of the stock, becoming one of the largest hedge fund holders of the company. In terms of the portfolio weights assigned to each position Ariel Investments allocated the biggest weight to MTS Systems Corporation (NASDAQ:MTSC), around 1.09% of its 13F portfolio. Tudor Investment Corp is also relatively very bullish on the stock, dishing out 0.04 percent of its 13F equity portfolio to MTSC.
As industrywide interest jumped, key hedge funds have been driving this bullishness. Arrowstreet Capital, managed by Peter Rathjens, Bruce Clarke and John Campbell, created the most outsized position in MTS Systems Corporation (NASDAQ:MTSC). Arrowstreet Capital had $3.1 million invested in the company at the end of the quarter. David Harding's Winton Capital Management also made a $2.4 million investment in the stock during the quarter. The other funds with new positions in the stock are Donald Sussman's Paloma Partners, Cliff Asness's AQR Capital Management, and Joel Greenblatt's Gotham Asset Management.
Let's also examine hedge fund activity in other stocks – not necessarily in the same industry as MTS Systems Corporation (NASDAQ:MTSC) but similarly valued. These stocks are Innoviva, Inc. (NASDAQ:INVA), CTS Corporation (NYSE:CTS), National Bank Holdings Corp (NYSE:NBHC), and K12 Inc. (NYSE:LRN). All of these stocks' market caps match MTSC's market cap.
INVA 24 224572 1
CTS 10 86136 1
NBHC 11 78989 1
LRN 17 133604 -5
Average 15.5 130825 -0.5
As you can see these stocks had an average of 15.5 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $131 million. That figure was $121 million in MTSC's case. Innoviva, Inc. (NASDAQ:INVA) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand CTS Corporation (NYSE:CTS) is the least popular one with only 10 bullish hedge fund positions. MTS Systems Corporation (NASDAQ:MTSC) is not the most popular stock in this group but hedge fund interest is still above average. This is a slightly positive signal but we'd rather spend our time researching stocks that hedge funds are piling on. Our calculations showed that top 20 most popular stocks among hedge funds returned 37.4% in 2019 through the end of November and outperformed the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) by 9.9 percentage points. Unfortunately MTSC wasn't nearly as popular as these 20 stocks and hedge funds that were betting on MTSC were disappointed as the stock returned -17.8% during the fourth quarter (through the end of November) and underperformed the market. If you are interested in investing in large cap stocks with huge upside potential, you should check out the top 20 most popular stocks among hedge funds as many of these stocks already outperformed the market so far this year.
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Your dreams may be about to come true because an edible glitter martini is coming to Sydney and we've never been so excited about a cocktail in our lives. Yes, you read that right. A martini covered in glitter that you can actually sip on (or eat!) is making an appearance at The Woollahra Hotel for one weekend only for American Express Card Members.
ICYMI we've teamed up with our friends at American Express to celebrate Shop Small 2017 by bringing you the best weekend of your life (Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 November), otherwise known as The Urban List's first ever Urban Weekender, presented by Shop Small.
There will be all sorts of eats, drinks and deals around town, like the must-drink edible glitter martini at The Woollahra, frozen espresso martini cones at Bistro Moncur, must-eat bottomless rosè lunch at Bondi Hardware and an amazing $20 margarita and ceviche deal at Neighbourhood.
Milky Lane will be dishing up glorious Golden Gaytime waffle sticks, covered in Belgian chocolate and Gaytime crumbs (with salted caramel thickshake dipping sauce!) and there'll be $2 oysters and $10 Aperol Spritzes at Drake Eatery. You seriously need to clear your calendar, stat. Did we mention Darlo Country Club will be putting on a special banquet that includes a free cocktail?
Where: You can find the edible glitter martini at The Woollahra Hotel and the frozen espresso martini cones at Bistro Moncur, but there will be a whole heap of things going on for American Express Card Members around Sydney, so be sure to support your local small businesses and see what's on.


Special guests Anne E. Delaney, Board Chair, and Diana L. Taylor, Board Member of The NYWF were featured speakers as well as Ana Oliveira, President & CEO of The New York Women's Foundation. Guests in attendance included Co-Chair Grainne McNamara (The New York Women's Foundation 26th Anniversary Celebration), Carolina Herrera (fashion designer), and Valerie Steele (Director and Chief Curator of The Museum at FIT); The New York Women's Foundation 27th Celebrating Women Breakfast (2014) Co-Chairs Jennifer Giacobbe, Kwanza Butler, Taina Bien-Aime, and Karen Reynolds Sharkey; proud supporter of The NYWF Joyce Cowin; Jen Groover (empowerment expert & author), Rebecca Woodland (defense attorney and FOX News contributor), Debra Halpert (Publisher, Hamptons Magazine); Chele Chiavacci (Managing Director, Mistral Capital International) and Bonnie Comley (Vice President, Stellar Productions International); socialites Ann Rapp and Lucia Hwong Gordon.
Ms. Lee then begun the conversation with featured guests, Anne E. Delaney, Board Chair and Diana L. Taylor, Board Member of NYWF, who shared their experience working for the Foundation and offered invaluable advice. "It is very important to find your passion." said Ms. Taylor. "I found mine within NYWF, the idea of women helping women and improving lives of women and children." Ms. Taylor spoke of her experience working for for-profit and non-profit organizations. She also spoke of the Foundation's various initiatives and its work with organizations that have similar goals to create alliances across diverse groups. Ms. Delaney, who has experience serving as a board member for many organizations, found a compelling sense of mission serving the Foundation. Ms. Delaney spoke about how being the board chair gives her a better understanding of the resources and capacity of the Foundation. She addressed the importance of communities stepping up at crucial moments when people are the most in need of support and leadership. For instance, NYWF launched RISE-NYC! Initiative in response to the economic recession, and the 2012 Hurricane Sandy Response and Recovery Fund Initiative.
Following the conversation, Ms. Lee introduced Jean Shafiroff, board member and host of the luncheon. Ms. Shafiroff thanked all attendees for taking the time to join her and the NYWF at the luncheon. "The greatest gift is to be able to give," said Ms. Shafiroff, who officially joined the board a year ago and has dedicated substantial time and efforts to support the Foundation and its mission of helping women and children. Ms. Shafiroff also expressed thanks to special guest Carolina Herrera, who will be honored at The New York Women's Foundation 26th Anniversary Celebration this November, for joining the luncheon and supporting the NYWF. Ms. Herrera's fellow honorees this year are Morgan Stanley, with the award being accepted by Ruth Porat, Morgan Stanley's Chief Financial Officer, and the Ford Foundation, with the award being accepted by Darren Walker, the Ford Foundation's President.
ABOUT NYWF: The New York Women's Foundation® is a cross-cultural alliance of women, serving as a voice for women and a force for change. The Foundation identifies innovative organizations that are effecting change in the communities they serve for women. NYWF strategically funds organizations and programs that move women, girls and families toward long-term economic security through individual transformation and systemic change, mobilizing leaders and community partners as philanthropists and change agents. NYWF funds programs that promote economic security and justice, anti-violence and safety; and health, sexual rights and reproductive justice for women and girls in New York City.
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Open Source Spotlight - Yabi: Bringing drag-and-drop to supercomputers
Yabi offers scientists an easy way to manage workflows in an HPC environment
Rohan Pearce (Techworld Australia) 27 April, 2012 09:50
Supercomputers are powerful tools for scientists. They are also very expensive, so wasted time can mean a lot of wasted resources. But making the most efficient use of them is not the easiest proposition in the world; it's not just a case of clicking a button to analyse a protein. However, fitting out the world of supercomputers with a user-friendly, web-based interface is the focus of an open source project based at Western Australia's Murdoch University.
Last year Murdoch publicly launched Yabi, a tool equipped with a web interface to make using supercomputers simpler.
The computational physics community, as an example, may be very proficient in the intricacies of shell scripts and working with a command line, says Professor Matthew Bellgard, Director of Murdoch's Centre for Comparative Genomics. "They've had a lot of experience in the past running their Fortran code using 4000 cores or 10,000 cores," he says. However, "there are other domains where scientists don't necessarily have that skill running command line code or porting their code from one supercomputer to another."
Learning at least a smattering of Perl or some other scripting language is often the norm for life scientists, but it can require a significant investment of time to get up to speed and make a supercomputer do what a scientist wants.
"When we started down this particular path of building Yabi, we wanted to simplify access to supercomputing infrastructure for end users. And the end users typically are non-IT-proficient; consider life science researchers or geoscientists," Professor Bellgard says. "While some of them have the ability to write scripts and use programming languages a lot would prefer to be able to just drag and drop and have access to tools that you could access via the command line, but in a web-based environment. "So I guess our first remit was, 'Can we simplify access to high performance computing (HPC) infrastructure?'"
Yabi has already been used to make life easier for scientists studying metagenomics (genomics is the study of the DNA of living organisms, metagenomics looks at the profile of organisms in a particular sample, for example a soil or sedimentary sample). "Metagenomics is a relatively new area and the tools are just being developed. The tools for data analysis of DNA sequences are readily available, but metagenomics is relatively new."
Professor Bellgard says that there have been marked improvements in productivity thanks to Yabi. "We are able to use the Yabi environment to make available tools in a very accessible way for life science researchers."
The team has made resources available for other research communities, for example scientists studying cattle tick genome. "We've created a bioinformatics resource which behind the scenes uses the Yabi environment," Professor Bellgard says.
Although Yabi comes out of a life science environment, the tool can be used across scientific disciplines. One of its strengths, according to Professor Bellgard, is its flexibility.
"Pretty much any tool that can be run on a command line can actually be incorporated into the Yabi environment. So any command line tool whether it's a statistical tool, whether it's a genomics or a bioinformatics tool, whether it be a remote sensing tool, whether it be an astronomy tool can be incorporated."
And although its focus is on HPC, Yabi utilises standard tools and protocols so it can be deployed in non-supercomputing environments. The developers are now targeting the cloud; "we are getting Yabi ready for a cloud based deployment which demonstrates that it is a very scalable system," Professor Bellgard says.
"Imagine a workflow, for example, of 10 different tools that a user might pull together to conduct analysis on some data. The first tool is selecting a file from a computer that is connected to a remote sensor somewhere in outback Australia, then the next tool is running a file format process that may end up being computationally intensive. The third item is a tool that is on a supercomputer local to the researcher.
"The next tool is remotely accessing another supercomputer, then the fourth or fifth tool is actually utilising the cloud resources and the results are stored in the cloud somewhere. There is no lock in so you get to pick and choose where you run the tools or the administrator does that for the users. You do not have to log in to Yabi in order to get access to your dat,a, so you can choose where the results are stored."
Part of the philosophy driving Yabi is not just simplifying workflow management for end users, but for system administrators too. "You can imagine one scientist comes and says 'please install 10 tools for me into this Yabi environment' but then if 50 scientists come and they all have different tools the last thing you want is the bottle neck to be at the system administration level. We can abstract away the complexities for the user but we also want to abstract away the complexities for the sysadmin."
Yabi was open sourced in July last year. "We were mindful not to open source it too early, because there is a level of support that is required for the international community and we were making sure that the system was in a state that would be able to supported by our group," Professor Bellgard says. It has already been deployed at QFAB the Queensland Facility for Advanced Bioinformatics; and the Murdoch team is "in conversation" with scientists at UTS in Sydney as well as at other universities and CSIRO.
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Ни́на Анто́новна Ольше́вская (,  — , ) — советская театральная .

Мать актёров Алексея Баталова и Бориса Ардова и писателя Михаила Ардова.

Биография
Отец — ветеринар Антон Александрович Ольшевский (в период культа личности был арестован, умер во владимирской тюрьме), мать — зубной врач Нина Васильевна, в девичестве — Нарбекова (отсидела 10 лет как ЧСИР). Родители отца — выходцы из Польши, сбежавшие в Россию, чтобы обвенчаться, девушка была урожденной графиней Понятовской, её родители были против брака с юношей из, хотя и дворянской, но небогатой семьи. В России молодые люди поселились в городе Владимир. Там у них родился сын Антон, а 31 июля (13 августа) 1908 года — дочь Нина.

Родители Нины, поженившись, никогда не закрывали дверь своего дома, стоявшего в центре Владимира, чтобы в любое время к ним могли обратиться за врачебной помощью (отец, несмотря на диплом ветеринара, занимался и врачеванием людей, начинал учиться именно на врача). Восприемником при крещении Нины стал Михаил Фрунзе, друг её матери, известный в будущем революционер, общественный деятель и военачальник.

У Нины Ольшевской довольно рано пробудился интерес к театральному искусству. Её приятель, Павел Геннадьевич Козлов, вспоминал, как совсем юная Нина Ольшевская занималась мелодекламацией, а он ей аккомпанировал на фортепиано.

В возрасте 17 лет она приехала в Москву и поступила в студию при Художественном театре. А педагогом, который стал руководить их курсом, был сам Станиславский.

Примерно через год после появления в Москве Нина Ольшевская вышла замуж за актёра Художественного театра Владимира Петровича Баталова. В 1928 году у неё родился первенец Алексей.

После окончания студии её приняли в труппу, что, безусловно, могло считаться огромной удачей. Проработав в Художественном театре несколько лет, ушла оттуда, поскольку там ролей ей не давали и задействовали её лишь в массовых сценах и, в исключительных случаях, крайне редко ей доставались эпизодические роли. Она участвовала в гастрольной поездке вместе с другими молодыми артистами и там познакомилась со своим вторым мужем Виктором Ардовым. Через несколько лет ей надоело «прозябание» в труппе Художественного, и она перешла в только что созданный Театр Красной Армии, но связь со МХАТом сохранила нa всю последующую жизнь. В Театре Красной Армии «дела её пошли несколько лучше, какие-то роли ей давали, но в премьерши она так и не выбилась».

Во время Великой Отечественной войны эвакуировалась вместе с детьми, работала в Бугульминском русском театре.

Большим горем для актрисы стала смерть её маленького сына Жени, прожившего на свете всего несколько недель.

После войны вернулась в Театр Красной Армии, но дела там у неё шли не особенно успешно, хотя она была довольно способным режиссёром и в особенности педагогом. Обладая несомненным, как отмечает Михаил Ардов, даром декламации, она практически никогда публично не выступала, но зато она обучала этому искусству других. Нина Ольшевская входила в ближайшее окружение А. А. Ахматовой. В квартире Ардовых на Большой Ордынке Ахматова жила во время приездов в Москву и считала её своим «московским домом». Анна Андреевна надписала Ольшевской свой сборник «Бег времени»:

Нина Ольшевская скончалась на 83 году жизни 25 марта 1991 года, похоронена в Москве, на Преображенском кладбище.

Фильмография
  — Человек остался один — Маруся Старостина
  — Я вернусь — Биби-гюль
  — Бесприданница — сестра Ларисы (нет в титрах)

Режиссёрские работы
 1959 — Серёжка с Малой Бронной (в соавторстве, соавтором выступил Леонид Черток); Театр Красной Армии

Источники

Примечания

Ссылки
 Михаил Ардов Вокруг Ордынки ч.1 ч.2 ч.3
 Михаил Ардов. Вокруг Ордынки. Портреты

Актёры и актрисы Центрального академического театра Российской армии
Баталовы — Ардовы
Персоналии:Центральный театр Российской армии
Театральные режиссёры
Театральные режиссёры XX века
Похороненные на Преображенском кладбище

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Ökotárs welcomes the decision of the tax authority
Ökotárs Foundation welcomes the decision of the National Tax and Customs Administration to close the year-long investigation in the absence of crime related to the EEA/Norwegian NGO Programme against the foundation and 17 of supported associations and foundations by it.
It has been proven that Ökotárs and the supported organizations were continuosly documenting their activities, they strove comply with the laws, monitored all possible changes and met their reporting obligations as well. The unlawful investigation of this case was therefore entirely unfounded.
Despite the undeserved series of attacks, Ökotárs Foundation and its partners did everything to help the NGOs continue their work for the benefit of society. Although the moves of the government did endanger the supporting mechanism, Ökotárs and it' partners stood their ground with success. In the last two years the EEA/Norwegian NGO Programme supported the launch and implementation of more than 430 civil projects through an open mechanism in very diverse areas: from the protection of human rights through the promotion of young people's active citizenship and environmental protection to strengthening of vulnerable groups.
The decision to close the investigation doesn't mean that the governmental harrasment has ended: the decision about the tax numbers of Ökotárs and it's partners - Autonómia, Demnet and Kárpátok foundations - it is still in the hands of the court . But we are still ready to use every available forum of legal remedies to prove and defend our position in this case or in any other - now we got one step closer to that.
In the future, we will continue our work as we did during the last years. Ökotárs and it's partners remain to be a guarantee of lawful, independent and user friendly supporting mechanisms of civil society.
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Women's Basketball Remains Top of Conference
By Tyler Marshall '21
The women's basketball team just completed a four-game home stand after defeating Williams on Jan. 22 on Jan. 17, Amherst defeated the Bates Bobcats in Lefrak Gymnasium. Less than 24 hours later, the team faced the Tufts Jumbos in a matchup of foes. Both teams are undefeated in conference play.
Amherst started off strong with a 43-37 victory over Bates. It was a low scoring affair which Amherst fans have grown accustomed to seeing under Coach G.P. Gromacki whose teams have always been known for their tenacious defense. Amherst held Bates to 25.9 percent shooting from the field and 10 percent from the three while forcing 17 turnovers. The Bobcats were unable to handle the pressure defense from Amherst and could not get in a rhythm all night.
However, Bates played exceptional defense as well forcing 25 Amherst turnovers in the game. Despite the offensive struggles, Madeline Eck '20 was able to lead the Mammoths to victory behind a 19-point effort. She was the lone Mammoth to score in double figures in the game. While it was enough to get a victory, the Amherst women knew they would need to play better offensively to win again on Saturday.
When facing Tufts — the number one team in the country — Amherst came out ready to play on Saturday afternoon, closing out the first quarter at 16-10. Unfortunately, this was the only quarter where the Mammoths were able to outscore the Jumbos.
Yet, the game lived up to expectations as 40 minutes was not enough time to determine a winner. The teams went to overtime tied at 40, but Tufts squeaked out a 48-46 victory in Lefrak. It was another defensive battle as both teams shot under 35 percent from the field.
Eck and Hannah Fox '20 scored in the double figures with 16 and 10, respectively. Fans have grown accustomed to seeing this duo perform well in key games; however, their effort was not enough to defeat the number one team in the nation on Saturday.
Amherst concluded the four-game home stand hosting Williams on Wednesday night, Jan. 22. After defeating the Ephs on the road earlier in the season, the Mammoths came out looking for a season sweep of their Little Three rival. After one quarter of play, Amherst led 19-7 with all five starters scoring in the quarter. A dominant third quarter where Amherst outscored Williams 22-4 put the game out of reach.
Ultimately, Amherst cruised to a 63-40 victory in front of the home crowd. Four Mammoths reached double figures, with Fox leading the way scoring 15 points. Eck scored 13, Maggie Shipley '23 scored 12 and Cam Hendricks '20 scored 11. It was an impressive offensive performance for the Mammoths after they struggled to score the previous two games. Amherst shot 47.1 percent from the field and 41.6 percent from three, which were both above season averages.
Amherst will be back in action on Saturday, taking on the Hamilton Continentals in Clinton, New York. The game will tip off at 3 p.m.


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