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Ravell's Arkade Release "Get Away" Is A Powerful House Instrumental
November 5, 2016 By RaverRafting Staff
The genre of house has been there the longest, out of hundreds of electronic music genres that are now present; two of the most popular forms being tech house and deep house.
Which makes it even more outstanding that a Ravell has found a way to not only bring the two genres together but to bring the two scenes together complimenting them both via great arrangement, hypnotic melody, and on-point instrumentals within the production.
Ravell may be an artist that makes music by himself, but he's certainly not alone, Kaskade has released the song and has had Ravell on tour with him – proving that thousands have supported and loved on this young DJ/producer many times over.
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Some of you may remember oaDOI, a tool that searches for an Open Access (OA) version of an article when provided with a digital object identifier (DOI). Impactstory, the team behind oaDOI, has just announced the upcoming release of a new tool based on the oaDOI API called Unpaywall and it looks to be very useful indeed.
Unpaywall operates on the same principle as oaDOI: it hooks onto an article's DOI and searches a number of sources for an OA version of that article. The main difference here is that, while oaDOI requires you to enter a DOI into a search box, Unpaywall is a Google Chrome extension and performs that search in the background automatically when you visit the landing page for an article. An unobtrusive tab will pop up on the page, as can be seen in the example to the right, which will be green if an OA link is found and gray if not. Users can then click the tab to be taken to an OA version of the article (if one was found). Finding a DOI and entering into a search isn't exactly an onerous task, but users are often unwilling to take those few extra steps; the streamlining that Unpaywall provides means that it's far more likely for researchers to bring into their usual workflow.
As I pointed out when talking about oaDOI, not all articles hosted online have DOIs and most that do will not be available on an OA platform; a more detailed discussion of these issues can be found here. Another important point, one that I failed to notice last time, is that neither oaDOI nor Unpaywall provide information on what version of the article users will be linked to. Many OA versions of published articles are either pre-prints (i.e. the authors' original manuscript before any revisions suggested by reviewers) or post-prints (i.e. the final accepted version of the manuscript, but often not reflecting final typesetting or copyediting done by the publisher). As you might expect, these versions can differ from the final published version of an article, sometimes substantially.
Most researchers understand this and are familiar with institutional repositories and pre-print servers. Those that aren't, though, may not know that the version of the article they arrive at through Unpaywall might differ from the published version in some substantive way. If I have one complaint about Unpaywall, it's that I'd like to see them implement some system for letting users know up front where the article they are being linked to is coming from. This would make it a bit easier for users to follow up on sources and check to see if they are indeed getting a pre- or post-print; their only option currently is to play around with the URL provided to try and arrive at an info page for the article or repository. Justin Priem, one of the founders of Impactstory, has assured me that this is on their radar, though, and that they plan to implement this in future versions of Unpaywall.
Regardless, this is a minor complaint about an overall great product, and I'm very excited to try and get users here at Wayne to start using the extension. This is two great tools in a row from Impactstory, as well, so I'm looking forward to see what they do next.
Over the winter break, the New York Times ran an article titled A Peek Inside the Strange World of Fake Academia in which the author, Kevin Carey, discusses a number of topics likely familiar to many working in and around institutes of higher learning. The first (and most egregious) example of "fake academia" called out by Carey is the OMICS group, which you may remember from a blog post I wrote back in September. I'm not sure why exactly this article is surfacing now since the FTC filing was months ago; I assume it has something to do with the prevalence of reports on "fake news" sources. Carey's description essentially mirrors what I wrote there, that OMICS accepts articles with little to no screening, charges exorbitant fees, and lies about who is serving as editors or speakers for their journals and conferences. A fairly amusing example of this article screening process (or lack thereof) comes from Christoph Bartneck, a professor in New Zealand, who used the autocomplete feature on Apple's iOS to write a paper on Atomic Physics. This paper was accepted only three hours later by the International Conference on Atomic and Nuclear Physics, an OMICS-run conference.
A slightly more interesting point comes later in the article, though. Carey brings up the World Conference on Special Needs Education (WCSNE), which seems to occupy a sort of limbo between legitimate and predatory. The fees for WCSNE attendance are quite high, even for presenters, ranging from $380 to $650. It also indicates that submitted research papers must be between 4 and 6 pages (including tables and figures), with a $30-$50 per-page fee for articles with longer page counts. It also operated similarly to OMICS conferences, claiming several high-profile speakers who, when contacted, said they were in no way involved with the WCSNE. Still, Carey discovered something interesting when asking around about the WCSNE: many defended it as a legitimate academic conference.
One of the founders, Richard Cooper, is the director of disability services at Harcum College in Pennsylvania, who claimed that the conference is worthwhile to the (primarily International) attendees. Barba Patton, a professor at the University of Houston-Victoria in Texas, also defended the WCSNE. She has attended the conference year after year, and has no complaints. Indeed, even Carey admits that the papers presented at the WCSNE are "well within the bounds of what gets published in many scholarly journals that, while not prestigious, have never been called a fraud." This is, I feel, more than anything else an example of how the publish-or-perish mentality has affected scholars, especially those working outside of the hard sciences. Scholars need outlets for their work, they need to be published and to attend conferences in order to retain their positions. Article or conference attendance fees seem like a small price to pay when compared to the prospect of losing one's job.
There is, as a result, some grey area here. This also underlines one of the major issues with Beall's List, the list of so-called "predatory" open access publishers maintained by Jeffrey Beall. The list is that and nothing else: no context, no real explanations, nothing but the names of publishers which fit Beall's posted guidelines. Unfortunately, for many scholars, their need to publish does not provide them the luxury of being so black-and-white in how they view publishers.
Impact Factor (and journal metrics in general) have never received total acceptance from the scientific community (with good reason), but the reaction to CiteScore has been a bit more hostile than may be expected. The openness and transparency of their methods has generally been praised, as has the fact that it is provided at no charge. Many criticize item number 3 above, the fact that CiteScore pulls citation data from any and all available documents. This can be a problem because many prestigious journals include non-citable items, like editorials, letters from researchers, or subject-specific news, which increase the number of items appearing in the journal without providing any additional citations.
Since CiteScore is calculated on a monthly basis, Eslevier hopes, perhaps, that it can provide a bit more currency in subject areas where this is important. I'm not convinced, though, that this is necessary. Monthly updates seems to be more than could be considered useful. Perhaps if a journal produces one or two very impactful articles, or if a journal adjusts is publication schedule or practices, CiteScore will reflect this a bit sooner than Impact Factor would. Aside from situations like that, most metrics change only gradually, and as many journals publish four or fewer issues a year this is to be expected.
In the end, the greatest strength of CiteScore is that it is free. Journal Citation Reports, the service that provides Impact Factor data, is an expensive subscription service that is out of reach of many. CiteScore provides an alternative that is accessible by all, and is (I think) to be commended for that if nothing else. For further discussion, see posts on the NFAIS blog and on the Scholarly Kitchen.
I've written before about the Center for Open Science (COS), and they've been busy since first opening up submissions for SocArXiv back in August. In addition to the social sciences,they've also launched PsyArXiv (for the psychological sciences) and engrXiv (for engineering), along with the broader implementation of the Open Science Framework (OSF). The OSF allows interested parties to develop their own preprint archives.
Possibly more interesting, though, is the search functionality built into OSF|Preprints, the platform that brings together SocArXiv, PsyArXiv, and engrXiv. It uses SHARE to aggregate search results from a wide array of open preprint servers, not just those built on OSF. Popular archives searchable through OSF|Preprints include arXiv, bioRXiv, PeerJ, and CogPrints. The OSF|Preprints search platform is very attractively-designed, and allows users to filter results by subject area and provider (i.e. source repository). It is still early on in its implementation, though, and it shows. There is no advanced search function, and the number of results shown next to each provider isn't updated when a search is performed.
Still, like oaDOI, it is a powerful tool that brings together open content in a wide range of subject areas. It certainly appears that the COS has been making great strides in ensuring the discoverability of OA preprints, and I expect that they'll continue to do so in the future.
On August 25, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a complaint against three related academic publishers, OMICS Group, iMedPub, and Conference Series, along with their president and director, Srinubabu Gedela. The complaint provides a laundry list of extremely concerning behaviors on the part of the publishers, most of which involve lying to submitting authors. After investigating these complaints, I'll take a brief look at what this filing means for the world of scholarly publication.
The FTC filing claims that Gedela participated in deceptive business practices in order to solicit academic articles from authors. These publishers claimed that their journals had academic experts on editorial boards and serving as peer reviews, had high impact factors, and were indexed in reputable databases such as PubMed Central. Authors whose work was accepted by these journals, operating under the impression that they had submitted to legitimate academic publishers, would then be informed of previously undisclosed fees that needed to be paid before publication. These fees would range from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars, and authors attempting to withdraw their manuscripts from publication would not be allowed to do so. Once an article has been accepted for publication, it is against academic practice to submit that article elsewhere, meaning that articles submitted to these journals were essentially stuck.
The claims made by the publishers were, in this case, false. Academics listed as editors or peer reviewers had no affiliation with journal, the impact factors provided by the publishers were not calculated by Thompson Reuters, and the journals did not show up in PubMed Central or other reputable databases. The publishers were, in essence, luring academics in under false pretenses and trapping their articles in limbo until exorbitant fees were paid.
This behavior was not limited to publications, however. The FTC filing also alleges that Gedela would organize conferences and claim that certain leading academics would be in attendance or participating in some way. Unsuspecting academics would register for these conferences, often paying large registration fees, only to discover that none of these experts had ever agreed to participate.
So what does this mean in the larger world of scholarly publishing? First and foremost it indicates that the FTC is growing more willing to pursue legal action against so-called "predatory publishers," publishing companies that claim to adhere to usual academic standards but do not, in fact, do so. Though this problem is not a new one, but the FTC's reaction is new. As Ioana Rusu, a staff attorney for the FTC, stated in an interview, this filing serves as a sort of announcement that the commission will be paying closer attention to the field of scholarly publishing. Though it does not have the resources to pursue action against all unscrupulous publishers in operation, the FTC does plan to target key offenders in order to set a precedent.
Though OMICS, iMedPub, and Conference Series were ostensibly Open Access (OA) publishers, it should be kept in mind Gedela and his ilk are not representative of OA as a whole. Many OA publishers are indexed in reputable and well-known databases and many do have impact factors. Smaller OA publications that are not indexed in large databases or do not have impact factors can nonetheless implement thorough peer review. This FTC action should, in fact, allow authors to feel more secure submitting to OA publications, as those publishers operating under false pretenses may no longer feel that it's worth running their scam under the threat of federal legal action.
I'll end here for now, but look for another post soon that will provide some simple actions that can help authors avoid falling prey to publishers like OMICS.
Elsevier: Patent Troll as well as Publisher?
This patent is concerning for a few reasons. First and foremost, I am reminded of the case of Soverain Software in the mid-2000s to early-2010s. Soverain was (and perhaps still is) a "patent troll," a company whose entire business model relies on the filing of patents in order to extract money from other entities who are using technologies covered by these patents. In the case of Soverain, the company owned a patent on the online shopping cart, a near-ubiquitous bit of online shopping technology. Soverain would make its money by suing any company whose online store used an online shopping cart, including such giants as Amazon. In the end, Soverain bit off more than they could chew when pursuing legal action against online retailer NewEgg, whose lawyers essentially showed that some of the key patents behind the suit were invalid. You see, a patent is only valid if the technology being patented is new; if someone came up with it before you (which is known as the existence of "prior art") then you can't legally patent it. NewEgg showed that another entity had come up with the idea of an online shopping cart before Sovrain's patent was filed, thereby invalidating it.
What does this have to do with Elsevier's patent? Well, as you may suspect, many in the scholarly publishing community have reacted to the patent with claims that prior art for online peer review exists. Martin Paul Eve (Professor of Literature, Technology, and Publishing, Birkbeck, University of London) scoffed at the notion that no prior art exists, and David Crotty (Editorial Director, Journals Policy, Oxford University Press) replied to Eve's tweet by pointing out that much of what is claimed to be innovative in Elsevier's patent is covered by the system developed by the Neuroscience Peer Review Consortium. And, though Eve indicated that he thinks the patent may be legally unenforceable, he is also concerned that other entities may not have the resources to legally challenge Elsevier's claims.
Therein lies the problem. Even if the patent isn't legally enforceable, Elsevier is a very large academic publisher who is not afraid to use its lawyers when it feels that such action is necessary. Much of the innovation happening in peer review workflows is a result of smaller entities, entities that do not have the resources to fight a legal battle against Elsevier even if it was likely that they would win. The difference between this case and the Soverain case above is that the scholarly publishing world does not have a NewEgg to push back against Elsevier's claims. Elsevier can essentially run roughshod over any other scholarly publishing entity who wishes to implement online peer review. Whether it does remains to be seen but, as I mentioned above, Elsevier's track record is cause for concern.
There is another, possibly more concerning issue, though, one which Brandon Butler (Director of Information Policy, University of Virginia Library) called out on Twitter and one that has been a recurring theme in this blog as of late. Elsevier has begun to hedge its bets in the event that Open Access (OA) publishing becomes standard practice for academics. Since a movement towards OA will presumably make control over the end result of the publishing process less profitable, Elsevier is seeking to profit off of the rest of the scholarly publishing pipeline. Several months ago, Elsevier acquired the OA repository SSRN; the depositing of pre- and post-prints into SSRN has been an essential step in the publishing process for authors in a wide range of subject areas. Now Elsevier hopes to profit off of the peer review process as well. And, as was the case with their acquisition of SSRN, this latest move by Elsevier has me worried as to what they might do next.
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SSRN has begun taking down full-text postprint or published versions of articles if they were not provided with explicit proof of permission from the copyright holder. This is being done more or less without warning to the authors. When attorney and academic Andrew Selbst asked about the policy, SSRN stated that they had not previously (i.e., pre-Elsevier) been enforcing their copyright policy correctly. This is in stark contrast to how almost all other academic repositories function, relying on submitting authors to do their due diligence in determining which version of their article they may archive, if any.
This isn't exactly surprising coming from Elsevier, though. It famously served Academia.edu with thousands of takedown notices and adjusted the sharing policies of its journals to specifically prevent authors from posting the published versions of their articles to sites like Academia.edu and ResearchGate. Those social/academic sites have their own issues, of course, which I've talked about on this blog before, but it still establishes a pattern of behavior on the part of Elsevier: it does not seem to trust academics to be responsible for their own work. Everything they have done, in fact, indicates that it does not seem to think that academics should be responsible for their own work.
In the case of SSRN, we see the ideology of Elsevier (a commercial entity and chiefly concerned with its profit) clashing with the ideology of an OA repository (which exists to serve the needs of authors and of scholarship as a whole). Securing copyright permissions for all of the articles on SSRN is so essential in the eyes of Elsevier because it is a commercial concern: if there is no copyright agreement for an article, then the article's publisher may not be getting its money's worth for that article as a result. This is so important in their eyes that, without any warning, they have opted to remove the full-text version of any article for which no agreement was provided. Even if the authors provide a copyright agreement in the future, any download counts for those articles will have been eliminated, a fact which is of genuine concern for faculty (especially non-tenured faculty) members working in subject areas which view SSRN as a primary space for tracking scholarly output.
Perhaps this is just a bump in the road, so to speak, and the relationship between SSRN, Elsevier, and scholars will smooth as time goes on. It has only been a few months, after all. Some scholars are not so patient, however, and (perhaps prophetically) it was announced two weeks ago that SocArXiv, a new open platform for social science research, is in development and will soon be providing the kind of author-focused service that scholars had seen in SSRN before the Elsevier takeover.


Let me just say, coming to JMU was the worst mistake I've ever made. The only good thing about JMU is the opportunity to build resume in the city of Harrisonburg because there was no competition at all. Thanks to that, I am now attending one of the top graduate programs for my field of study - so maybe it was meant to be.
Before I go on about why JMU was a terrible choice for me, let me say the good things: people are usually nice, campus is pretty safe, beautiful & clean campus, and cheap tuition.
I can't speak for students in the other departments, but I am embarrassed that I am a graduate of this dept. Majority of my classes were worthless and I couldn't believe I had to pay to take such basic and high-school level courses. Quality of students in my major classes were poor and I really worried about them. I couldn't have a decent conversation with most of the students. It blew my mind how many of them lacked basic knowledge. Quality of my professors were pretty disappointing (boring cv's, poor connections, lack professionalism, questionable teaching…etc). Also their expectations from students are pretty low (no surprise). BUT there are few quality professors that are simply just amazing and made me wonder why they teach at JMU.
Nothing at JMU was interesting, and I did complain. People at JMU are very proud of themselves and believe that JMU is the best university in the world. By complaining, I made lots of enemies. I didn't care. My expectations for JMU helping me with my future was zero.
If you are a bright student, and want to surround yourself with people who are academically driven and care about their future - I don't recommend this school. I learned that school names and rankings matter - they exist for a reason, my friend.
Also, if you are all about diversity, don't come here. The international population is slowly growing, but the majority ignores them. I personally grew up in a pretty diverse community, and have pretty diverse group of friends; but I've never been around people who were that racist and closed minded.
In conclusion, if you bs-ed high school and want to bs college, JMU is a great choice! Go Dukes!
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Let me ask a honest question and answer it honestly.
If you cooked up 8 fillets 4 being potatoe chip sunnies and 4 being 19inch walleyes which would go first?
I'll bet the sunnies are gone before they hit the table!
Honestly it has been a very long time since I have kept a panfish. Its probably been 10 years. But I don't discount their tasty factor.
also in response to the blue lake issue...I too have fished that lake a bunch of times and that game warden is a little misinformed himself....that lake gets so much fishing pressure that the fish as a whole don't live long enough to reach maximum size.
Another good example of that is little elk lake nearby....we used to catch quality crappies out of there and with the pressure you are lucky to scrape up a very skinny 7 incher these days.
I think this is really a the question everyone has to ask themselves. This will quickly effect every lake in MN.
I would go with the slots for those particular lakes...a little selective harvest from anglers would help bunches....I've watched whole families go down to elk lake and take home limits of 5 to 6 inch crappies....a darn shame!
It always seems like there is to many factors with this conversation.
If that family can only get out 2-3 times a summer it seems fair for them to keep a meal? Guys like you and I that can fish every weekend it seems like nonesense to keep them. Slots seem fine but I think they have to work together with lower limits to see if we can get protection for population and size.
But in the end can humans really have an effect on mother nature?
So I'll throw another scenario in for you.
My last trip up there we fished several different lakes. On a couple of them we must have caught, and I am not kidding, 100-150 crappies each trip that were all 5-6 inches. We probably caught 10 total in a week of fishing that were over 7 inches, and none were bigger than 10 inches. All the lakes we fished had produced slabs in the past.
We didn't keep any, but it made us wonder, is there enough food in a particular lake to support the population or will that year's class get stunted b/c there were so many fish? We were not the only ones catching fish either, on one of the lakes there were two other boats within 150 yards of us and we could see they were catching the same size fish, and lots of them.
It made us think that it seemed like we would have done the fish a favor if we had kept a few of the 5-6 inchers, even if the fillets were small, just to cull the population and ginve a few fish the chance to grow. Maybe a slot with a trophy exception is the way to go for some fish? I read the same article that Nofish is referring to about how the large 'gills are the breeders and taking them out of the population means that only the smaller fish will reproduce, which means that only smaller fish will be born and then reproduce, and it makes you wonder if it creates a cycle of smaller fish.
I have mixed feelings about this. First, I release everything I catch, so I'm not someone who is out seeking mounts. But, on the other hand, that muskie is the fish of a lifetime for many people. It's a legal fish, and that's the choice of the angler.
For me, the memory of bringing that fish to the boat would be more than enough. For others, there will probably never be another chance to catch something that size.
Personally, I wish that muskies were 100% catch and release in Minnesota. I'd support a law like that in a minute. But, that's not the law, so I can't really complain when someone wants their once in a lifetime catch mounted on their wall.
I've not caught one that large. I probably will, eventually. But, I'm still excited about a 24" northern, and I catch them all the time.
With all the people out there breaking laws regarding fishing, I can't complain when someone keeps a legal catch.


Bleeding in early pregnancy may signal a miscarriage. If you experience bleeding and/or suspect there is a problem with your pregnancy you should contact your GP and discuss the matter. You may be asked to come to the surgery and will be referred as appropriate - probably to an early pregnancy assessment unit.
The first sign of a miscarriage is usually a bleed which can vary in quantity. Bleeding does not necessarily indicate a miscarriage, however, it should be checked out with your doctor. Period-type pain is common, but if it is severe and in particular, one-sided, you should seek advice in case you have an ectopic pregnancy. An ectopic pregnancy is one that has settled in the Fallopian tube rather than the uterus.
The loss of a baby through miscarriage can be deeply upsetting. Couples can experience a variety of emotions. Anger, guilt and blame together with a sense of failure, can all be part of the process of bereavement. Feelings can be very different depending on the individual. It should be remembered that a miscarriage is very common and probably has no bearing on your ability to have a successful pregnancy. It is estimated that at least 1:10 pregnancies ends in a miscarriage and that this is often nature's way of ending an unsuccessful conception.
Following a miscarriage it can seem as if the world is full of pregnant mothers and babies. Significantly difficult times are the date the baby was due and the anniversary of the miscarriage.
Some women may wish to become pregnant again straight away, others may take longer to decide. A further pregnancy is not necessarily a wish to replace the baby lost and does not necessarily lessen the sense of grief at losing the first pregnancy.
Friends and relatives often worry how to provide the best help and support. Listening is one of the most important things you can do to help. Do not avoid contact for fear of upsetting the parents further. It can sometimes take months to come to terms with a loss or learn how to deal with it. This will come with time.


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The British Society of Dental Hygiene and Therapy (BSDHT) is delighted to announce that Anna Seymour has won the National Student of the Year Award 2019, which was sponsored by Optident.
Anna was awarded the BSDHT Student prize for her outstanding undergraduate project, which has high clinical relevance to the role of modern dental hygienists and dental therapists. Her hard work was also recognised in editing down her 5,000-word project in order to submit it for publication in the 2019 BSDHT Annual Clinical Journal and disseminate her research findings to the wider profession. In addition, Anna submitted this project for the Annual Poster Competition at the Oral Health Conference (OHC) 2018.
All in all, the development of one of her final year assessments demonstrates Anna's passion for motivating other dental care professionals to contribute to the research arena. Being so early on in her career, it is inspiring that she is already giving back to the profession in such a way.


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'The city that tamed the car'
Alighting at Groningen Railway Station one afternoon in sunny June, the first thing I saw was bicycles. In fact layers upon layers of bicycles, racked up in an innovative multi-level cycle storage system. This profusion of bicycle related phenomena extended out into the city, I saw children running barefoot along cycle paths, swathes of silent cyclists floating past quiet suburban houses, and students maneuvering furniture home on Ikea cargo bikes. This University city, with its post-war housing around a medieval centre, is eerily similar in some ways to areas of the U.K, but instead of cars roaring past the station, it is waves and waves of bicycles, and the difference is startling.
Groningen, the city that tamed the car, shows how vehicles can be gradually removed from a city centre and the dominance of the car chipped away at until bicycles rule the streets. An incremental process, this has been achieved through a series of planning decisions that have worked with the growth of the city to gradually confine cars to areas outside the centre. In 1977, this central region of Groningen was divided into four quadrants with a central border impassable by cars, making it impossible to drive through the centre of the city. This decision was made in recognition that the heart of the city, it's medieval centre and pedestrianised surrounds, actually functioned as a 'living room', and thus should be protected under a policy of 'filtered permeability'. As illustrated by my study of Houten, this paradigm of transport planning favours human-powered transport over motor vehicles by selectively reducing the number of city centre streets that are accessible to cars. Journeys that are relatively easy by bike therefore, become arduous and convoluted to undertake by car. The result is a city which has the highest rate of cycling in the world: Nearly 60% of all journeys are made by bicycle, and the crosstown traffic consists entirely of bicycles. 1
But this wasn't achieved without opposition, and without facing the necessary doubts from the community. The idea of removing cars from the city provoked a strong antagonism from local businesses, who considered that their economic survival depended on the ability of people to park close to their front door. As Dutch politician Van den berg writes, "Many people who lived in the old neighbourhoods were enthusiastic about our ideas. They saw we were changing things on a great scale. But there was also fierce opposition, especially from businessmen and shopkeepers who were convinced it would mean the end of their business if cars could no longer cross the centre. We tried to explain that we wanted to create a pleasant urban environment that eventually would attract more people to the centre and to their shops. But they were convinced they would go bankrupt if customers would not be able reach their shop by car" 2. The overcoming of this opposition, and the discrediting of the underlying idea, makes Groningen a positive example of 'bikenomics'; a demonstration of the profitability of urban cycling.
Groningen station, before redevelopment / Image from shareable.net
Shopkeepers actually found that the new cycle routes allowed for a greater number of people to pass in close proximity to their premises, and that these people were also far more likely to stop and spend, especially as they were burning more calories. As a minimum of 20 cyclists can fit into a regular parking space, 4 car visitors became 20 potential cyclist arrivals. This freeing up of space also had the consequence of liberating car-parking areas and allowing them to regain their historical function; parking spaces became market places, roads became vibrant streets, and the city centre was transformed from a 'corridor' to a 'living room'.
This case study illustrates how it is possible to gradually over time tip the balance of power in favour of the bicycle across a city, through considering networks of transport across a city as an integrated whole. As to some extent bicycles and cars are capable of performing the same function, cycling cannot be fully encouraged as a daily, reliable mode of transport, without to some extent discouraging the use of the car. There is room only for one main mode of transportation. This doesn't mean eliminating car use entirely, but restricting it, and ensuring that cars are primarily used for the longer, out-of-centre journeys to which they are more suited. Such an approach has meant that levels of cycling still continue to rise in Groningen. With an average of 1.4 bicycles per person3 there are far more bicycles than people in Groningen, and innovative solutions have arisen to cater for the storage of these bikes at main transport hubs. The multi-level system at Groningen can store 6500, which is about one for every 30 residents of the city. This includes a portion of guarded parking, for scooters and more expensive cycles. A system for equivalent numbers of cars would require vast amounts of space.
Groningen station, after redevelopment / Image from basmeelker.nl
This in turn has positive effects for the rest of the city, and we see that the compact form of the bicycle, as a small transport unit, allows the form of the city to shape itself for the benefit of its citizens, rather than the car. An example of this is at Groningen train station, which is nestled between a river and the busy urban centre. Given the space restrictions which this creates, the compactness afforded by bicycles as the dominant mode of transport allows for a tighter integration of the station with the urban fabric. Passengers do not arrive onto a sea of cars, as is the case at so many UK railway stations, but are able to immediately orientate themselves visually in the city on arrival. This shows how the presence of the bicycle, rather than the car, has a domino effect that helps the city to become more liveable generally, even for those who don't cycle.
As viewed beneath / image from eltis.nl
1. Hembrow, David. 2009. A view from the cycle path [Accessed 10/07/16]
2. Berg, Van der. (2015). How Groningen invented a cycling template for cities all over the world [Accessed 10/07/16]
3. Daggers, Ton. (2015). Groningen. The World's Cycling City [Accessed 10/07/16]

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The Finest in Film Scoring: Q&A with Bradley Farmer
In celebration of BFI London Film Festival, what better time to chat with the multi-talented Bradley Farmer. Bradley is a talented music and score editor who has an incredible portfolio of film work; including the award-winning Baby Driver, American Assassin and David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet. Joining us today, Bradley gives us an exclusive sneak peek into the world of film composition and exploring his life as a co-founder and composer for 2nd Foundation Music!
What British film soundtracks have been a great source of musical inspiration for you? What is it about these soundtracks in particular that has made them stand out?
28 Days Later is a favourite of mine. Mainly because of the way familiar popular instruments (guitars and drums) are used to create such a creepy, uneasy but understatedly epic score – it's such a great balance in such a dystopia. In the current situation, it also feels relevant, so it seems to be rather timeless!
Music plays a key role in storytelling. How do you capture the essence of emotion or enhance a particular scene? Do you draw upon any particular methods to help you through this process?
From the music editing perspective, I've spent a lot of time just trying out different techniques. Both the choice and editing of the music can either reinforce a narrative, or turn a scene on its head and suggest a different angle, giving the audience even more information – or foresight – than the picture alone. Music editing can also pull you into the inner world of a character and shape how you feel about them. Things as simple as hitting elements of the score to screen, like a person's gesture or a flick of their eyes, can help you empathise with characters differently. It was exciting to use this technique on Baby Driver, which helped convey how much the character experiences life through music.
The production of a recording and the ensemble size also has a profound effect. A small, intimate ensemble can make you lean in close, but sometimes a larger sound is needed for more epic moments. Even at the dub, altering the mix in sometimes very subtle ways – making a sound further away or 'blurred out of reality', for instance – can guide the audience down the path the director wants them to take.
When you start working on a film project, do you prefer to have a detailed outline or the broad brushstrokes? Which do you feel is better for the overall compositional (and editorial) process?
I've always thought that details are best. It's useful to know from the start how the director wants to portray the characters, how they tie in with objects and key moments in the film, and which emotional beats they want to hit with music. The more detail you have, the more focussed you can be. Opinion is divided on this, but I've actually found that temp scores can be helpful. As long as, the right information is gleaned from them, such as the focus of the scene and how the music makes people feel, rather than getting too attached to the music itself.
It's no secret that COVID has had a huge impact on the film and music industry. Has this changed the dynamic of how you create music or think of music production?
It has definitely changed things. In the editorial phase of the film, it's so helpful just to pop down the corridor and listen to the sound effects in a sequence, or to visit the editor and see which areas of the film are changing. Now we can't do that physically, remote communication is more important than ever.
Recording has changed a lot since COVID, with limited numbers of musicians in a room – so we have to get creative with writing and production for a large orchestral sound. Even attendance of the sessions has been made more difficult, with producers dialling in on remote. Over the years we've done this a lot at 2nd Foundation Music, so luckily it fell into place quite quickly.
Alongside working on film projects, you've also developed a label with Daryl Griffith called 2nd Foundation Music. Congratulations on celebrating almost six years! How has the label evolved since you first started working on that very first album together?
Thank you very much! It continues to be such a pleasure. 2FM has come a long way in many respects. Since our first handful of albums, we've not been afraid to branch out from a more classical sound into a range of genres and styles. The catalogue now features Rock, Blues, Soul, Latin, Jazz, Indian Fusion, Folk and Americana, as well as the sweeping orchestras, intimate ensembles and classic TV sounds upon which we've built our reputation. As the catalogue has grown, we've also revisited some earlier tracks and created new alternative versions to make them even more useful. These include the Promo Mixes album series and, of course, the ubiquitous orchestral Christmas albums.
Some things don't change though: we continue to stand by our ethos of keeping music live, and still record to the highest possible standard to give albums longevity and quality. Orchestral samples have come along in leaps and bounds, but there's still no substitute for live recordings with real musicians. It's such a privilege to bring tracks to life with talented orchestras and ensembles. Although expensive, it's a worthwhile cost – we are proud of our end product, and know that our audiences and clients appreciate the difference too!
What upcoming albums and projects can we look forward to seeing with 2FM?
Provided we can still keep recording in the current situation, we have plenty of new string albums lined up for the new year, including a large-scale emotional orchestral epic, determined strings and a charmingly positive quintet album. We've also got an Acoustic Americana-style album on the go, and percussion a-plenty.
Now, this really is the ultimate question … if 2FM was a musical note, what would it be and why?
We try to use all the notes, though Daryl I'm sure would attest to my penchant for trying to use them all at once! There is a very shrieky piccolo top A on my track "Foreboding Volcano" (2FM020 Landscapes & Vistas) which has been burnt into our ears since that session. It probably holds the record for the highest note on a 2FM album, and the rest of the team won't let me hear the end of it, so to speak…
To hear our Editor's Picks from 2nd Foundation Music, please click here.
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The winners of the Bristol Health and Care Awards 2017
The city's heroes of healthcare were recognised at a sparkling event hosted by the Bristol Post on Wednesday 25 October 2017. This year's Bristol Health and Care Awards winners are just a small handful of the 30,000 people working tirelessly every day in the city's GP surgeries, hospitals, community centres and research labs.
And while we can't thank them all individually, it's clear that Bristolians are grateful for the care and kindness these doctors, nurses, volunteers and researchers offer.
The award ceremony, which took place at the Bristol Harbour Hotel, was compered by GP and comedian Dr Phil Hammond. It welcomed a wide range of health professionals whose achievements have helped change the city for the better. Many of the winners are part of one of the Bristol Health Partners Health Integration Teams (HITs) or one of the partner organisations.
GP Practice of the Year went to Greenway Community Practice. The surgery, on Greystoke Avenue, was recently revealed as the top surgery in Bristol according to patient satisfaction. It serves around 7,000 people in the BS9 and BS10 area, but its large patient list doesn't detract from its quality care.
All families Greenway serves have a named GP, facilitating strong GP-patient relationships and continuity of care. Doctors also use each other's special interests and skills to give patients the best treatments 'in-house'.
Healthcare Professional of the Year went to Dr Dominique Thompson, who is director of the Student's Health Service at the University of Bristol.
Nominated by a former student who credits Dr Thompson with saving his life, the good doctor is known as a tireless campaigner for the promotion of young people's health, the promotion of mental health, student healthcare funding and eating disorders. She is part of the Eating Disorders HIT and the Improving Care in Self-Harm HIT, also known as STITCH.
She said:
"I was shaking when I went up on stage but it's wonderful to feel appreciated. And it's such a great night – a lovely setting with fantastic people. Thank you so much to Gareth, who nominated me."
Gareth Griffith, who nominated Dr Thompson, said:
"Personally I would not be here were it not for her. Over the past six years she has helped me navigate through my own diagnosis of depression, to the point where I currently am, about to finish a PhD."
The Healthy Lifestyle award went to Active Choices Exercise Referral Scheme, which has been helping Bristolians of all ages, shapes and sizes lead a healthier life.
The scheme is an introduction to physical activity and tailored around participants' health conditions – and so anyone can get involved without the worry that they will become overwhelmed. It then helps its clients achieve whatever goal they have set, be it reducing weight, improving mental health or one of many other conditions.
Volunteer Team of the Year went to Bluebell Care – a small team of women helping to destigmatise mental health issues in new parents. Bluebell Place, in the heart of Bristol city centre, is a drop-in centre run by a close-knit team all with experiences in post-natal depression.
The centre started supporting families in September 2016 after heavy campaigning and fundraising from Bluebell CEO Ruth Jackson. Since opening, the centre has had hundreds of parents through the doors. These parents may otherwise have gone unsupported, felt very isolated and may well have gone on to become extremely unwell.
Ruth and the Bluebell Care team are part of the Improving Perinatal Mental Health HIT.
Healthcare Team of the Year was awarded to Bristol Children's Emergency Department, part of University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust (UHBristol). The team at the emergency department are a remarkable bunch – 24 hours a day, every day of the year they are there to look after sick and injured children from Bristol and the whole of the South West.
Owing to the large and densely populated area that it services, it is one of the busiest A&E departments in the UK. Despite this, all its team members have a deep commitment to working together to look after children, as well as each other.
The Best Innovation award was given to Open Bionics. Founded in 2014, Open Bionics creates advanced bionic hands for amputees using 3D scanning and 3D printing technology. It is based inside the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, the largest robotics research centre in Europe, and a collaboration between the Universities of the West of England and Bristol.
Of its many success stories, one that has excelled its reach to worldwide acclaim is its partnership with Disney. In 2015, it announced a royalty-free licensing deal with the iconic brand to create official Iron Man, Star Wars, and Disney Frozen bionic hands for young amputees.
The Research Impact award went to the University of Bristol for its study into heart attack tissue damageits study into heart attack tissue damage.
The study, which took place at the Bristol Heart Institute looks at stem cells and how these cells, extracted from the heart and veins, can alleviate the suffering of patients. It may have important implications for the treatment of heart attacks and also for cancer.
The final award of the night, the Outstanding Achievement award, was given to Tony Hall. After Tony's wife was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, he found there was a gap in support offered to dementia patients and their partners. Since then, he has campaigned tirelessly to make Bristol a more dementia-friendly city. Tony is involved in the Dementia Health Integration Team.
Dementia HIT Eating Disorders (EDHIT) Improving Care in Self-Harm (STITCH) HIT Improving Perinatal Mental Health (IMPROVE) HIT University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust University of Bristol University of the West of England (UWE Bristol)


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Sports Scholarships Programme 2019/20
Student sport
Brunel University launch a new Rugby Sports Scholarship partnership with Ealing Trailfinders
The partnership means Ealing Trailfinders – who play professionally in the Greene King IPA Championship, the second tier of English rugby – will oversee the male and female performance rugby programmes at Brunel, with the ambition of becoming a BUCS super league side in the near future, a move the university hopes will help its teams push towards the BUCS Super Rugby League.
Learn more about the Ealing Trailfinders Rugby Sports Scholarship here.
Brunel's sporting history
Our sporting history famously started at Borough Road where the late Jim Biddle was instrumental in developing the college's strong sports development foundation dating back to the 19th century. There's a long and distinguished history of international honours won by students and staff over the years, which include:
Alan Pascoe MBE (1971 graduate) European and Commonwealth Gold medalist and Olympic finalist, 400 metres hurdles
Kathy Smallwood-Cook (1981) 13 medals at the Olympics, World, European and Commonwealth Games in athletics
Richard Hill MBE (1995) British Lions and 2003 Rugby World Cup winner
Iwan Thomas (1995) double Silver medalist in 1996 Olympics and 1997 World Championships, 400m
James Cracknell (MSc Sport Science 1999), Olympic gold medalist, Rowing
Kate Richardson-Walsh OBE (2003) 2016 Olympic Gold medalist
Perri Shakes Drayton (2011) European U23 Championships 2012 Gold medalist 400m Hurdles
Tom Aggar (MSc Sport Sciences 2011) Paralympic Rowing, Olympic 2008 and World Rowing Gold medalist 2007/9/10/11 Men's Single Sculls
James Fox (BSc Sport Sciences 2011) Olympic Gold
Ashley Bryant (Sport Sciences 2013) Decathlon, Silver medalist 2014 Commonwealth Games.
What we include within the scholarship award 2019/20
Cash award up to £3000 per academic year*
Support Package benefits/products worth over £500
Athlete-friendly accommodation on campus next to sports facilities**
Sport Psychology support
Free use of world-class sports facilities including Indoor Athletics Centre and Strength & Conditioning area
Free weekly physio sessions
Free spa access
Sport scholarship kit
* Cash awards vary annually depending upon sport, funding and support
** The programme does not cover accommodation costs or tuition fees
Who can apply for a Brunel University Sport Scholarship?
Anyone can apply for an award as long as they have met the academic requirements for a course and subsequently been given a conditional or unconditional place at Brunel University London.
As main criteria, all applicants must be able to demonstrate sporting achievement at junior international level or equivalent in one of the priority sports listed below and/or evidence a top 10 age ranking within their choosen sport.
Please note, that competition for scholarships can be very high and you must be able to show evidence of your sporting achievements and supporting information from your National Governing Body Performance Director/National Coach. Meeting these criteria is not a guarantee for a Scholarship award.
What we offer for 2019/20
Our Sport Scholarship Programme award will contain exclusive benefits that focus on access to great training facilities as well as support facilities all available on campus. We have a wide range of talented students at Brunel University London, therefore the programme is designed to benefit those students from a world-class performance level competing at an international level through to English Schools Champions.
We offer the following Sport Scholarships tiers for team sports:
Gold Sport Scholarship Award - participating at major international competitions at a Senior level
Silver Sport Scholarship Award - participating at junior international competitions or equivalent
Bronze Bursary Award - participating at a national level/national ranking competition.
Students that compete in one of the Universitie's priority sports, see list below, will be given priority for funding, however all other sports will be considered.
Our priority/performance sports are Athletics, Netball, Rugby, Basketball & Futsal.
Other sports include Archery, Badminton, Canoeing/Rowing, Cycling, Women's Football, Golf, Hockey, Judo, Squash, Swimming, Table tennis, Tennis, Triathlon, Olympic wrestling and Olympic weightlifting.
Individuals Sports Scholarship Awards
For those that compete in individual sport, such as Athletics, you will receive an initial Sports Scholarship award of £200. There will be financial rewards linked to performances at the BUCS Championships thorughout the year. Kindly note that there will be no other cash awards available through the course of the academic year – the bulk of your scholarship is attached to successful performances at the BUCS championships as detailed below.
Individual events
Gold Medal - £1000
Silver Medal - £750
Bronze Medal - £500
Please note that there is a financial reward cap of £3,000 for all BUCS performances in one academic year. Further terms and conditions apply.
How can I apply for a Brunel University Sport Scholarship and need more information
Applications for 2019/20 are now open. Please download an application form here.
The first deadline for applications is the 31 July to ensure accommodation places are met if you have opted for athlete friendly accommodation.
The second deadline will be 31 August , but will not guarantee athlete friendly accommodation.
Late applications may be considered after these dates (through Clearing) but will be subject to the scholarship committees decision.
Please contact richard.ashe@brunel.ac.uk if you have any questions.
About our Scholarships
3 Sport Scholars discuss our programme and how it benefits them studying at Brunel University London.
The scholarship system has provided me with weekly massage therapy which has been an incredible help. Along with this, free access to both IAC and spa enables me to train full time at my doorstep and start my recovery process as soon as I leave the track.
Thomas Chandler, Decathlete, May 2017
Free sports club memberships
Sports Performance Programme
Study Sport Science at Brunel


I'd like to congratulate Luis Rubiales on his election as president of the Spanish Football Federation.
It's the start of a new era in which we must all work together to ensure the organisation of our sport is ever more modern, efficient, professional and transparent.
As Real Madrid president I wish him every success, which I'm certain he will have, and I'd like to reaffirm our commitment and collaboration in ensuring the present and future of our sport continue to improve.


These were really good and super easy to make. This was my first ever flax recipe and I am pleasantly surprised. They kind of reminded me of french toast. I will definitely make these often!
Beat all ingredients together well to make pancake batter.
Spread mixture thinly in a non-stick frying pan and cook on both sides.
Drizzle HCW Xylitol Syrup or Agave Syrup over pancakes for a decadent treat.