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by pianoman » Mon Aug 12, 2019 9:43 pm
Peng-Peng Gong is a Chinese piano and composition prodigy, born in Nanjing in 1992. He has been studying in the US since being accepted to Julliard's pre-college division at the age of ten. Yo-Yo Ma and former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton assisted in obtaining his visa. Now 28 years old, he has already written ten symphonies, multiple piano concertos and other symphonic works, as well as numerous chamber works. He lives in New York now.
Gong's influences are easily ascertained: Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninoff for piano; Beethoven, Mahler, Rachmaninoff for orchestration. This music is derivative, but of a high quality. This is essentially student work, which makes sense considering aspiring composers today who are older but have produced less music are considered "young." Gong is like a human AI algorithm. If you needed any more proof that computational power is not the limiting factor in the creation of new music, this is it.
The music establishment, especially the Chinese music establishment that is perhaps overly eager to crown national champions, has thrown a lot of weight behind Gong. There is probably no harm in this. But in the big picture we have yet to hear a true "opus 1" from Gong--a work that gets past the assimilative stage and expresses something in a new voice that is uniquely his.
Gong has a YouTube channel. Highlights:
Piano Sonata No. 1 "King Lear" (2011):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOF6DsxcJcI
They say nobody writes fugues anymore . . .
Piano Concerto No. 3 (2011):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPnA9ahj3Xk
Rachmaninoff Concerto No. 5?
Viola Concerto "Catcher in the Rye" (2017):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NcTobXyE08
Jazzy middle movement. 19th century texture to the rest.
http://www.timeoutshanghai.com/features ... ivity.html
Peng Peng Gong: 'As a young composer I was drowning in creative activity'
On his transition from rising superstar performer to bankable composer
By Nancy Pellegrini
Posted: Thursday May 11 2017
Boy genius. Asia's Mozart. The next Lang Lang. Now age 25, Peng Peng Gong has shed these labels in exchange for the one he wanted all along - successful and respected composer. Blessed (or cursed) with that rare talent that saw him excel in both performance and composition, Gong was perfectly identifying pitches at two, studying piano at five and composing at seven. He was a six-time winner of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers National Award, and at 16, was the youngest composer to be signed with Lauren Keiser Music Publishing.
Still, balancing the demands of schoolwork and an international concert schedule that included two performances for US Congress, with the driven, irregular hours that composers know all too well took its toll on his professional personal lives. His parents, colleagues, and friends were mystified that he would eschew the celebrity route for the uncertain career of a contemporary composer, but in a rare case of true talent winning out, he became resident artist of the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra. The latest in a series of portrait concerts (rare for any composer), 'Catcher in the Rye' features pieces that capture the turmoil of adolescence, of which Gong writes from experience. Here's Gong in his own words.
About his Viola Concerto
'Catcher in the Rye was the only book from school that I not only kept till this day but read it more times than I read Harry Potter. Coincidentally, I was just as bad at school as Holden Caulfield was, [with the same] colossal empathy, hatred for phoniness and being boundlessly protective of the young, to name just a few characteristics. This prompted me to write the Viola Concerto, not just because the instrument's tone fits the character, but because musically I wanted to compose a sentimental 19th-century romantic-style viola concerto, of which there are arguably none and I think that's too bad.'
About Eastern teenagers struggling with Western study
'The pain for foreign students in the West is that what they're taught in school is directly at war with what they're taught at home -the Western glorification of individual personality versus the Eastern requirement of loyalty and selflessness toward family and country. So people will hear that war very literally in the music, as the [two forces go] back and forth until finally they crumble and explode, leaving the protagonist in the midst of confusion and [agony].'
About his sixth symphony
'As many of my friends and audience members know, my giving up my performance career in pursuit of composition caused horrible trauma for my family. Unlike Western families, Asian families often sacrifice everything in order to support their children so they can pursue a musical career in the West. But even though I came so close to the "superstar" stage, I secretly had deep problems with both performance and realistic time-scheduling, because as a young composer I was drowning in creative activity.
'This nearly destroyed my family - first and foremost was the fact that I gave up up my only source of income. If I had not received spiritual help from my alma mater Juilliard, which welcomed me into the composition department and purchased all my published works for its library, I would not know where I would be today. So here I am living my dream in Shanghai, with the Shanghai Philharmonic performing virtually anything I write. I am fully reconciled with my parents, and am preparing to marry the woman of my heart. I see a bright future ahead.
'However, I cannot help but notice my own students going through the exact same phase of deep angst that I did, and that some of their closed-minded parents are hurting their souls in the name of love. So I wanted to address this concert both as a musical letter to my own parents, and also to parents all over the world. I want them to "hear" what was it like to be a teenager, especially one who had the talent but not necessarily the passion to be exactly what they had hoped for from the beginning.'
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Rumbidzai Dube
ISLA Panel of Experts
Rumbidzai Dube is a pan-African feminist lawyer, born and raised in Zimbabwe. She has over a decade of professional experience in the fields of gender and women's rights, democracy and governance, and human rights.
Rumbidzai holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) Degree (LLB) from the University of Zimbabwe, a Master of Laws Degree (LLM) in International Law specialising in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa from the University of Pretoria, and a Master of Philosophy Degree (MPhil) (with distinction) in African Studies from the University of Cambridge. She is currently studying for a PhD in Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge.
Rumbidzai's women's rights work began as a law undergraduate in Zimbabwe, where she volunteered for research projects at the Southern and Eastern African Regional Centre for Women's Law (SEARWCL) and provided legal assistance to underserved women at the Zimbabwe Women Lawyers Association (ZWLA). She later joined the Research and Advocacy Unit (RAU) as a Researcher supporting women's political participation, documenting cases of politically motivated violence against women human rights defenders, activists and politicians, developing dossiers for criminal prosecution of perpetrators and steering advocacy efforts for redress. She personally engaged the Office of the President and Cabinet in Zimbabwe to strengthen anti-trafficking initiatives including the promulgation of anti-trafficking legislation. After leaving RAU she served as a UN Women Senior Advisor and as the National Advisor for GIZ, support key Zimbabwean institutions such as the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission, the Zimbabwe Gender Commission, the Parliament of Zimbabwe, the Ministry of Women Affairs, the Ministry of Justice and CSOs to strengthen women's human rights and anti-GBV preventative and responsive structures.
Her Pan-African work includes human rights research and advocacy for the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies(CIHRS) at the height of the Arab Spring and Legal Expert work at the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights(ACHPR) where she drafted legal decisions, opinions and briefs building the ACHPR's human rights jurisprudence. As a Senior Programmes Officer at the African Child Policy Forum(ACPF) she supported the work of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) through developing general comments to provide guidance to African States on implementing their obligations under the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, and supported the East African Community (EAC)'s efforts to harmonise national child laws with regional and international instruments on children's rights.
Rumbidzai has supported ISLA's work since 2016, serving as faculty for ISLA's Litigation Institutes, training lawyers from across the continent on litigating women's rights using regional human rights mechanisms such as the ACHPR, and lending her legal expertise.
Rumbidzai loves travelling, trying out different cuisine and absorbing different cultures. When she is not travelling she enjoys gardening, interior design, reading novels, listening to music and watching films from across the globe, K-dramas being her most recent favourite.

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The research team from the Brookhaven National Laboratory (one of 16 US Department of Energy laboratories) has developed an innovative technology to produce hydrogen. The new method, which uses catalysts based on nickel and molybdenum, can generate «Hydrogenium» with significantly lower cost than was possible with preexisting technology. With this invention, according to US researchers in the near future it will be possible to speak about the mass use of hydrogen as an automotive fuel.
Hydrogen — the element, which accounts for over 90% of all atoms in the universe. However, current methods of its production unprofitable. The cost resulting from their gas via (meaning the electrolytic technology) is more than $ 6 per kilogram (equivalent to a gallon of gasoline, which costs at the gas station does not exceed 3.5 dollars.). Nevertheless, the prospects for the use of hydrogen energy is very attractive, and the main criterion in this respect — environmentally friendly (the combustion of hydrogen does not pollute the atmosphere — it runs on gas engine emits only water vapor). Therefore, nickel-molybdenum-nitride electrocatalyst, developed by scientists from Brookhaven Lab, might be a sensational discovery, allowing mankind to take a giant step forward towards sparing (with respect to the nature and its resources) existence.


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Review: Honda Civic Type R – the best hot hatch in the world
Sat,11 Jan 2020 02:22:22 PM
British Asia Network - Shahzad Sheikh
London 11 January 2020 - This is the Honda Civic Type-R - that is the FK8 edition for hard-core Honda fans - the 5th generation Civic Type-R based on the 10th generation Civic. There will be a very slightly facelifted mid-life update arriving this Summer, but for now this is the Type R, and the impending arrival of a new version, just means you should be able to negotiate a better deal on any existing stock.
It remains a fair question to ask if this Honda Civic Type R is the best hot hatch in the world right now. It has the credentials thanks to that fabled Type R badge alone. A badged that once sat on one of the handiest hot saloons around – the 1998 Accord Type R – and on a car once widely acclaimed as the best-handling front-wheel drive ever, that was the mid-90s Integra Type R.
Unlike those two though, the Civic Type R has been a constant since 1997 and has benefited from its evolution and, in the latest iteration, a distinct change of personality. The Civic Type R was typically a slightly sportier looking version of the regular Civic with a screaming high-revving VTEC engine that had to live on the limiter to live it up, with a rock-hard ride that forced some to defect to more refined and comfortable fast hatches like, of course, the Golf GTI.
So here then is potentially a Civic Type R that's learned from its past errant ways but relinquished none of its inherent delinquency. It's a grown-up version of the lineage, although apart from a newfound appreciation and embracing of some level of comfort and practicality, it hasn't really grown up at all.
Lift up the large tailgate and there is a massively usable and useful amount of load space and that's before you put the seats down. And as for that back row, there's so much room in there – even for tall lanky body types like mine – that you can justify it as very spacious family car. Up front it's Honda-level beautifully-finished and logically laid out, with the only wrinkle being that maybe the digital infotainment interface could be better, oh and the speakers could do with an upgrade.
And yet despite all this agreeableness, under the bonnet is a mental 2.0-litre VTEC Turbocharged four-cylinder engine producing about 320bhp and 400Nm or 295lb ft of torque - that'll give it a 0-62-mph time of 5.8 seconds on paper (it subjectively feels a lot quicker) and it has an outrageous 170mph top speed, managing to stay pinned to terra firma at speed thanks to the aerodynamics corralled by that vast rear wing and the rest of that outlandish bodywork.
Ah yes, unlike its predecessors, this Civic Type R, sitting proud on its delicate 20-inch alloys, makes no excuses for its road-racer status. Its looks shout louder than its engine does this time, and the heavily accentuated and appendaged design can be polarising. There are even triple exhausts popping out the back!
It's aggressive and in your face, but at the same time arresting, unmistakable from its lesser siblings (plus its 8cm wider), and impossible to ignore. Spend time with it, understand it, notice how the various design elements work together and you realise that it's actually far more masterful in its functional and compelling aesthetics than the previous version with its pudgy rear flanks. Though I maintain the 3rd generation European market FN2 version from 2007 is the pettiest design of all.
Sitting in those perfectly sculpted red bucket racing seats, the traditional aluminium shift knob, a natural hand-drop from the steering wheel (word of advice keep some gloves in the car for when it's too cold, and too hot) with carbon fibre and red accented trim on the dashboard, there's instantly a growing sense of anticipation. Particularly when you notice the switch that selects Comfort mode, and +R mode – the car actually starts in Sports mode as a default!
The differences in the modes are minor – in comfort the suspension is the most compliant and if you're carrying passengers around town, I'd recommend switching down into that. There's not much loss in performance – there's a pretty relentless surge of pull from 2500rpm, but there's not much to be gained from sending the revs soaring past 4500rpm.
Just change up at that point, you've got six speeds to play with – use them. In fact Honda makes some of the finest manual transmissions out there, and this slick shifter is better than ever, snapping in and out of ratios with ease. You can heel-and-toe on down shifts, with reasonably well placed pedals.
320bhp may sound like a lot of power to put through the front wheels, and if you're brutal it will fight to put it down efficiently and you can provoke torque steer. Yet somehow the front just digs in and pulls you through a corner anyway, even if you keep your foot in, which is just uncanny.
Brakes are good and the steering varies assistance as you speed up. Somehow it feels perfectly weighted for whatever conditions you're driving it in. In comfort around town it's light, in Sports and +R it gets meaty. It's always responsive though and accurate. Very reassuring.
That's a key characteristic of this car. Despite it's highly technical nature and extremely clever engineering and set-up, there is still a mechanical and visceral quality to the interaction with this machine, bringing back some of that old-skool joy in driving it hard.
Criticisms then? I have to get very picky, but I would say that given the visually outlandish presence of this car, and the three exhaust outlets, I would like more aural extravagance. The old Type R motors were screaming engines, this one is more boomy, but Honda could make more of the noise, and how about a menacing bark on start up? Interestingly one of the changes for the facelift is said to be improved engine noise in the cabin. Oh and I wish it had a manual handbrake.
At £31,000 or £33,000 for this GT spec with the dual-zone climate control, sat nav, better stereo and other bits and pieces which you'll all want, it makes an incredible value argument. Is it the world's best hot hatch. Right now, yep! And dammit I think want one.
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Posted on March 27, 2015 by Joshua
Endorsements Matter
Over the last several years, I have debated the importance of political endorsements with various activists. Some people argue that endorsements don't really matter, that they are a mere formality that are doled out without much thought or value. I disagree.
Endorsements, in my mind, are a strong signal of support, giving a stamp of a approval to a candidate or politician, more or less telling voters and like-minded activists that if you support me you should also support this person that I am endorsing. Do endorsements make or break campaigns? Typically not. But they do say as much about the candidate as they do about the person or group offering the endorsement.
Let me offer some examples. After Senator John McCain bested Representative Ron Paul in the 2008 Republican presidential primary, did Paul endorse McCain in the general election? No. The simple reason for it was that Paul and McCain espoused radically different principles. While Paul supported the ideas of reducing the size and scope of the federal government and a non-interventionist foreign policy, McCain did not. The fact that they were both members of the Republican Party was irrelevant. In fact, Ron Paul went on to endorse Chuck Baldwin, the Constitution Party candidate in that election. This scenario repeated in 2012 when Dr. Paul declined to endorse Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney for the same reason. Now, would those of us in the liberty movement have thought considerably less of Dr. Paul if he had endorsed McCain and Romney? I would think so, because he would be sending a signal that at the end of the day party unity trumps political principles.
Although I obviously wasn't going to support him given that I was running for the same office, I thought it was impressive that Democratic candidate Alleyn Harned received the endorsement of both Senator Mark Warner and Senator Tim Kaine. If I supported the positions of either of these senators, this news certainly would have made an impact on my decisions.
Conversely, endorsements can be negative too. As one example, when Barbara Comstock ran for the Republican nod in the 10th congressional district, some of her listed endorsers, such as John Bolton, Mitt Romney, and Eric Cantor caused considerable concern. After all, if she was promoted by the nonconservative establishment, chances are she wouldn't be a particularly conservative legislator when she arrived in Washington D.C. Unfortunately, her time in Congress thus far have proven these fears to be correct.
And then there is the curious issue of Senator Mark Obenshain. Although I endorsed and strongly supported his run for attorney general in 2013 and he bills himself as a pro-liberty conservative, I was shocked and profoundly disappointed when he urged his supporters to rally behind "local conservatives" by endorsing the establishment Republican candidates for Harrisonburg City Council in the 2014 elections as opposed to actual conservatives who didn't bear the Republican label. Unfortunately, in a reverse situation of Paul, principles took a back seat to party loyalty.
Anyway, the reason I wrote this piece in the first place concerns the presidential candidacy of Rand Paul in 2016. Unlike his father, the younger Dr. Paul did endorse Mitt Romney in 2012. Two years later, he endorsed Mitch McConnell over his conservative challenger. Now, that's not to say that Rand Paul hasn't endorsed good, principled candidates as well, but, along with other matters, such as his support of Senator Cotton's letter to Iran, it certainly should give liberty-minded activists cause for considerable concern.
Endorsements are not like Halloween candy to be given out freely to every person who shows up at your doorstep, but rather a carefully crafted decision to be rationed out only to those who you believe closely mirror your own values. That is why I have publicly endorsed only one candidate, Nick Freitas, in the 2015 election cycle so far.
Although endorsements certainly aren't the end all be all, and, given enough time everyone is prone to make an error from time to time, they are important as a helpful guide for both the endorser and endorsee to show who might be worth a closer look, who will be a constant advocate for liberty, or who might be selling out his or her principles for political gain.
The bottom line is that endorsements matter.
CategoriesPolitical Musings TagsAlleyn Harned, Barbara Comstock, Mark Obenshain, Nick Freitas, Rand Paul, Ron Paul
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Ron Hedlund says:
How many endorsements did Fred Gruber have before he took down Linwood Cobb? Cobb had EVERY endorsement imaginable in the 7th District. For that matter, who endorsed Dave Brat? Anyone you remember? ANYONE?
Who is Eric Cantor endorsing? Who is Linwood Cobb endorsing?
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Metro joined local elected officials today [Wednesday] for a groundbreaking ceremony to officially mark the beginning of construction on a new state-of-the-art transit facility that will revamp and expand the current El Monte Station.
The upgrade to the current facility, which first opened in 1973, is part of the Congestion Reduction Demonstration Program known as ExpressLanes and is funded by a $210 million federal grant by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Metro and Caltrans District 7, along with Foothill Transit, Gardena Transit, the Los Angeles Department of Transportation, MetroLink and Torrance Transit are partnering in a one-year demonstration project during which existing carpool lanes on the I-10 El Monte Busway (between Alameda Street and I-605) and the I-110 Harbor Transitway (between Adams Boulevard and the Artesia Transit Center) will be converted to High-Occupancy Toll (HOT) lanes called ExpressLanes.
The upgrading of the El Monte Bus Station is an essential part of the success of the ExpressLane project in an effort to provide commuters, regardless of income level, with new and better travel options along two of LA County's most congested corridors. ExpressLanes are scheduled to open in 2012.
"Today marks the beginning of a new era in the San Gabriel Valley as we expand the busiest transit center west of Chicago into a modern, state-of-the-art facility that will increase passenger capacity and increase the number of buses the station can accommodate that will enhance transit services for thousands of daily commuters," said Metro Board Chair and LA County Supervisor Don Knabe.
The $45 million El Monte Station construction project will consist of a new two story building that will house a public bus and terminal station with limited retail space, a customer service center and surface parking. Final construction is anticipated to be completed in May 2012.
Once completed, the facility will be twice its current size and include modern amenities including variable message signs, intercoms, closed circuit television, solar panels, wayfinding equipment and information displays, new elevators and escalators, a transit store, bike stations and lockers. Public art by renowned artist Donald Lipski also will be incorporated in the station as part of Metro's public art program.
Project highlights of the new facility include an increase in daily passenger capacity by 82 percent (from 22,000 to 40,000), increase in bus bays by 87 percent (from 16 to 30), installation of 30 bike lockers/storage units, better accommodations for both 40-foot and 60-foot buses and enhanced law enforcement presence. The station also will support additional bus service on the I-10 El Monte Busway to enhance the performance of the I-10 ExpressLanes Demonstration Project.
The new facility will use energy efficient and sustainable building methods and will be built to Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEEDS) Gold standards. Construction of the new facility will generate more than 350 construction-related jobs.
The construction work at the El Monte Station is being done by KPRS Construction Services based in Brea under contact to Metro.
In August, Metro completed construction of a temporary bus station in an adjacent lot to accommodate passengers using the station during construction. Parking for El Monte Station patrons will be available to the north and south of the temporary bus terminal, including a recently added parking lot.
Metro will make every effort to minimize impacts to patrons during the construction period. Signs guiding both vehicles and pedestrians around the transit center will be posted and pedestrians will be redirected to safe areas outside the construction zone.
For construction updates and information, the public can call Metro's Community Relations Construction Impact Hotline at 213-922-7900 or visit metro.net/elmonte.
So there isn't any LAX FlyAway serive at El Monte Bus station? LA Metro has been claiming this for months and in multiple publications!
It looks like there's been an error in the materials for El Monte Station listing FlyAway as one of the lines serving the station. It's not – nor are there currently any plans for it to serve the new station. I've alerted the project team and they're removing the references to the FlyAway on all El Monte materials. Thanks for catching that, apologies for any confusion it caused.
The new station looks great so far,cant wait till its open!
How much you wanna bet NOT ONE RIDER GETS CONSULTED (or even CONSIDERED!) in how this $45 MILLION transit terminal is gonna LOOK!
It would be a great ideal that the Flyway do serve the El Monte station. There are so many people live in surrounding San Gabrial Valley that travel to or work in LAX. All you have to do is extend every other or third bus that start in Union Station to start in El Monte instead, utilize the existing El Monet busway to Union Station and resume the regular route to LAX.


"A respectable dealer will deal only in objects where he or she can demonstrate licit origins. "They can't touch you for it-legitimacy" is no legitimacy at all. So I invite readers to examine Dealer Dave's atavistic "award winning website" to see what they think that award was for if not for the presentation of collecting histories."
This is an overt demand for proof of licit origin, with a declaration that any artifact for which documented proof of licit origin is not available is to be presumed to be illicit.
Let's be clear about this: If Mr. Barford's ideas are accepted, even more stringent burdens of proof would fall upon collectors than this new German law dares to impose upon German collectors.
By this overt and utterly unreasonable demand, Mr. Barford has clearly exposed himself as being the deadly enemy of every antiquities collector and ancient coin collector worldwide, and every "shopkeeper" such as myself in the trade that serves them.
There has never been any understanding at all of the realities of collecting, or of the trade, in Mr. Barford's thinking, which I have confronted and (after an initial inclination toward friendly sympathy with his viewpoint) realized that I absolutely must oppose, for the past decade. It is "archaeology vs. collecting" with no room at all for the survival of collecting.
Why, I ask, should any rational person accept this onslaught of snarky and utterly offensive archaeology-centric criticism from someone who does not have genuinely respectable credentials as an archaeologist?
Mr. Barford has not so far as I can discern, ever done anything in the way of fieldwork that would qualify him as a real archaeologist. He does not have a doctorate in that discipline. His pretenses to the title of "archaeologist" rest solely upon writing about the subject. In that capacity I will admit that he has produced some work of genuine interest. It is however an exceedingly slender and insubstantial foundation upon which to erect the edifice of "hate speech" against collecting that his blog has evolved into.
Mr. Barford, presently an English teacher in Warsaw, really writes his blog as an obsession. In this observer's opinion, he did at one time intensely desire to become a respected archaeologist. For reasons which have never been disclosed, that did not work out. He then decided to emigrate to Poland and serve its Communist government in appointments harmonious with views ultimately presented in The Early Slavs, his "magnum opus" -- and an overview of genuine merit appreciable to patient souls such as myself who are willing to wade through his dense literary style. He also prepared a good writeup of some important local archaeology in East Anglia. He is a writer of some merit.
He has however immoderately and offensively attacked others who are writers of equal or far superior merit, with credentials more impressive than his own, asserting an overtly inflexible "archaeologie ueber alles" perspective in a confrontational and adversarial manner that has never indicated any willingness to allow common sense and practicality to affect his thinking.
It's all rather odd, really, and very hard indeed to explain, unless one ventures to speculate upon the possibility that Mr Barford is psychologically actuated by a compulsion to do something to establish himself as someone important to archaeology. "Captain Archaeology" perhaps? An academic "caped crusader" selflessly rushing to the defense of "holy archaeology" which failed to recognize his stainless purity and devotion? Taking that theme further, and admittedly perhaps beyond the bounds of propriety, a similarity to the tragic case of Rudolf Hess perhaps suggests itself. Or there could be a much less odious explanation to consider, if it were possible to examine Mr. Barford's real and verifiable background, which he has taken extraordinary pains to conceal, in a manner which very obviously suggests that he has something to conceal.
All this is speculation, admittedly. Barford has never "come clean" by disclosing the actual details of his past and what really happened regarding his very unusual hegira to Communist Poland. That, in my view, makes it both reasonable and respectable to speculate about what really motivates this almost indecipherable man who apparently wishes to become an "Archaeological Eichmann" who ferociously exterminates collectors.
One thing is certain: the British archaeological establishment, whose cause he asserts as sacred to his being, in reality regards him as an offensive and distracting nuisance. That became very clear in meetings between representatives of the pro-collecting advocacy and representatives of the British archaeological establishment.
In this speculation, it seems to me that the term "archaeomaniac" could very reasonably and rationally be applied to Mr. Barford, until he provides the collecting community, and the world, with verifiable, factual evidence of something better.
Here's something that may strike you as odd: I hope he can.
Hmmm...."his dense literary style..." raises the question, was it his dense literary style? Judging from his recent scribblings on his blog he seems to have a lot in common with Guido Fawkes in that they both lost the Plot.


There have been two things that have been publicly put to scrutiny regarding Resident Evil 6: 1) The game will supposedly return to its horror roots. 2.) The game seems to be aiming for the Call of Duty crowd. Well, you can scratch the first one off the list because it's been confirmed that the game uses regenerating health. Horror-survival my foot.
Anyone watching the footage from E3 as well as the hands-on demos probably took note that the health bar was never a focus of the action. The E3 demo was chock-full of John McClane-style action with Leon Kennedy doing some typical run, gun and high-explosive action.
Trying to assuage ourselves into thinking that there was still hope, we abated the use of our pitchforks and took our torches home, but us core gamers knew that deep down something wasn't right. The tingle in our gonads left us uneasy and not without good reason.
GameRevolution has impressions from the hands-on demo and they confirm that the game sports regenerating health, Call of Duty style. The cover system is used strategically so you can go take a bathroom break or eat some Doritos while you wait for your health to recharge.
I imagine that there will probably be breaks in your health so that you need to gather supplies to increase your total health, but your bar will automatically recharge to a degree in combat.
This shouldn't come as too much of a surprise considering that it wasn't too long ago that Resident Evil producer Masachika Kawata said that the company wanted Resident Evil as a series to attract the Call of Duty casuals, why? Because they estimate for Resident Evil 6 to sell at least 7 million copies. Everyone and their uncle, cousin, mamma and hairy rat pet up in the executive branch of the gaming industry want Call of Duty numbers.
You can kiss the horror or survival aspects of Resident Evil 6 goodbye with a regenerating health meter. I really did notice that the health bar was obfuscated during the gameplay but I thought maybe it only appeared when you were hurt. But now we know why the health meter was obscured.
In the end, a lot of gamers at least know that if they want a true horror-survival experience there is Amnesia: The Dark Descent, ZombiU and DayZ.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Anthony Estreet, a professor and former chair of the Master of Social Work Program at Morgan State University and chief executive officer of a behavioral health company in Baltimore, will be the new chief executive officer of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) beginning February 6.
Estreet, PhD, MBA, LCSW-C, succeeds former CEO Angelo McClain, PhD, LICSW, who retired on December 31. Janlee Wong, MSW, who retired as executive director of the NASW California Chapter in 2020, will serve as interim CEO of NASW until Estreet takes the helm.
"We are delighted to have Anthony Estreet as our next CEO at NASW after doing an extensive search," said NASW President Mildred "Mit" Joyner, DPS, MSW, LCSW. "He has a wealth of experience in managing successful mental health services companies and is a respected thought leader in the social work profession. We are confident he will build on the successes of Angelo McClain and lead NASW's accomplished staff to take our association to greater heights."
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Estreet earned a bachelor's in science in psychology from Bowie State University, an MSW in social work at Virginia Commonwealth University, a doctorate in social work at Morgan State University, and an MBA at the University Maryland-College Park. He is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, the oldest intercollegiate African American fraternity.
He has been a professor and chair of the Master of Social Work Program at Morgan State University since 2013. Estreet is also the founder and chief executive officer of Next Step Treatment Center in Baltimore, which provides substance use treatment and mental health services.
He was vice president of the NASW Board of Directors but stepped down from that role after being considered a candidate in the search process. Estreet also served as president of the NASW Maryland Chapter and is an active member of the Council on Social Work Education and the National Association of Black Social Workers.
While at Morgan, Estreet was awarded more than $6 million in extramural grant funding for social work workforce development, research, and training. He also led the development and expansion of the first MSW program in the United States, and at a historically Black college or university, to have an area of specialized practice focused on addressing substance use disorders.
During his career, Estreet has also been tapped to turn around and expand an underperforming clinical program and speed up public health action to address HIV health disparities among men in Baltimore and Jackson, MS. Estreet has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, is a prolific national conference presenter and keynote speaker, and has two published books.
In his new role as CEO of NASW, Estreet says he plans among other things to increase membership, especially among student members; keep the association focused on addressing social justice issues, including racial equity and reproductive rights; and work to strengthen the social work workforce by expanding efforts to increase compensation for social workers.
"I am honored and humbled to be the next CEO of NASW," Estreet said. "I have been a member of this great organization since 2007. As a former member of the NASW Board, I know NASW is committed to supporting social workers and the communities they serve. This organization has done phenomenal work, especially in the past three years, including supporting social workers in the delivery of mental health services during the pandemic and addressing systemic racism. However, we have much more work to do, and I stand ready to work collaboratively to support our great profession."
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FullBlackHabit is the fifth studio album by 16volt, released on June 19, 2007 by Metropolis Records. The album's title was directly inspired by the 1987 film FullMetalJacket. Early versions of the song "Suffering You" previously debuted on the soundtrack to the 2003 PlayStation 2 video game Primal and later appeared the band's greatest hits album in 2005.

Reception
Fabryka awarded the FullBlackHabit four out of four stars and said "Eric Powell reconned up with his music fascinations and ideas, to find a golden mean what finally led him to create an album with a variety of songs, modern and fresh but still recognized as a 16volt's venture." Kristofer Upjohn of Raves gave the album four our of five stars and said "the textures and rhythms are catchy and the melodic input is finely performed as well."

Track listing

Personnel
Adapted from the FullBlackHabit liner notes.

16volt
 Eric Powell – lead vocals, guitar, programming, keyboards, production, engineering, recording, mixing, cover art

Addition performers
 Jason Bazinet – additional percussion (1-3, 5-11, 13)
 Paul Raven – bass guitar (1, 2, 8, 10, 11)
 Scott Robison – additional arrangements (12)
 Bill Sarver (as Billdeaux) – additional programming (12)
 Kraig Tyler – bass guitar (4, 13), additional guitar (6, 12), guitars (4), additional bass guitar (12)
 Steve White (as Steve Pig) – additional guitars (1, 2, 9-11, 13)

Production and design
 Ryan Foster – mastering

Release history

References

External links

 FullBlackHabit at Bandcamp

2007 albums
16volt albums
Metropolis Records albums

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I was given a chance to read and review Alyson Schafer's latest book Ain't Misbehavin', and I was lucky enough to be one of three� bloggers to interview her for her Mom Central Canada blog tour. I talked to her over the phone about some of the questions I had about her book and some of the parenting dilemmas we face every day. I must say she was very personable, funny and easy to talk to, it was a pleasure to interview her.
Question 1: Most of your book seems to be about how to change the focus of your parenting from doing things for your child to letting them do things for themselves. Why is this so hard for us as parents?
Alyson said that it is mainly because we don't want to be out of a job. We like being needed, it is kind of a part of our Mom or Dad identity. What are we if we don't need to be doing everything for our children? It may also be an active expression of our love. There is also the fact that we are busy people and it may seem easier just to take over and get things done a certain way. Unfortunately that is short sighted, and the short term pain will have a long term gain.
Question 2: Your chapter on allowance is very timely for us. Our son just turned 6 and we have been discussing an allowance for Aidan to begin to learn to save. We think we have figured out an amount of 6$ per week, but if Aidan saves for the toy he wants, a Lego Hogwart's Express, it will take him about 6 months to save for it. Do you have any suggestions on how to handle just beginning an allowance and saving? Should we steer him towards something more easily attainable so he has some success with saving and spending?
Alyson is part of the BMO Smart Steps panel to help kids and parents alike in the realm of money and saving. She suggested working with Aidan to have a budget. Maybe have part of the allowance to save for smaller things that we buy him now and part to save for the big toy. This way he gets to have some early success with saving and paying for things on his own. She also suggested trying to find creative ways of helping him save for the big toy, maybe selling some of his older toys at a garage sale, or a you save half and we pay for half situation.
I really like the idea of teaching Aidan to work with a small budget. Money will become less of an abstract concept and more of a real idea if he makes some of his own budgeted purchases.
Question 3: I have a lot of mom friends who have kids between 2 and 3, mostly boys who are having issues with toilet training. Why is toilet training so difficult? There is so much pressure to have your child trained, and voices from the past saying that kids were trained earlier when we were young, and I wonder what people's definition of toilet training is? What is normal? Is there any way to make it easier?
Here it is, the skinny on toilet training: most people have differing views on what toilet trained is. For Alyson it is having the feeling of needing to, going to the toilet, cleaning up afterwards, washing hands and going back about their business. For most parents it is not having to many accidents when they remind their child to go every couple of hours, the parent wiping and cleaning the child up.
When it comes to toilet training less is more effective. Don't put pressure on the child, while the may be physically ready, they may not be emotionally ready. If you are not micro managing your child's bodily habits there is less resistance from the child to work with it. The problem with schools/preschools is that there is so much pressure on the parent and child to be trained, even though they are supposed to be open to special needs. Unfortunately late toileting isn't something that schools seem to be ready to deal with.
Most children aren't trained until well into the end of their 3rd year, and 4 or 5 isn't unusual. Doctors don't get concerned until after 7. Maybe if toilet training wasn't such a badge of honour and bragging rights, we would feel more comfortable with however long it takes.
Question 4: My eldest son is in Kindergarten and he is having issues that are getting him into trouble. He is very social and easily distracted and has a hard time going straight to activities without talking to all his friends along the way. I understand that he may be bored and not looking forward to some of the activities, but I need to help him get into less trouble at school. Is there anything I can do that can help him with this behaviour?
The short answer Alyson gave me was no, there is not a lot that I as a parent can do to help him. Its really the teacher who is with the children who is in the position to make a difference and create a teachable moment. The teacher can use community time to help all the kids work out ways to help every one in the classroom. This may be discussing at circle time how to be helpful in the classroom and not hinder others. Helping the kids to be a team player, and even if they don't like an activity and want to socialize with their friends, their friends may not want to be distracted and want to get on with their work.
Question 5: Recently Aidan has had a problem with a child in his class. It really started to worry us when Aidan didn't want to go on a field trip because he was worried about being in a group with this child. Even though I knew that the other child would not be part of his group, I was worried enough to talk to his teacher about it. We had one small solution and then she went on about Aidan's distraction problems as if they were more important. Neither my husband and I were happy with the out come, and now we are having problems with school drop off. Aidan has been clingy and crying about going into school and this is really not like him, he was waving me off the second day of preschool two and a half years ago. Since it is obvious that the script �I am sorry for [blank] I will not do [blank] again, do you accept my apology? Do you want to be friends?� is not working, how do I give my son strategies for dealing with the other child?
Alyson was frank that it is not ok to be in fear. Children should not be expected to work and learn in a place of fear. There needs to be an action plan in place from the teacher. It needs to be taken seriously. Since you are the parent you are the advocate for your child, if things don't improve, it may be drastic, but you can ask to switch classes. This is something you can control.
She also emphasized that we need to help Aidan know that he isn't doing anything wrong. He shouldn't be internalizing that something is wrong with him when the other boys hits him.
Question 5: What is your best piece of advice to parents dealing with kids?
Lighten up! Lighten up with yourself, the kids. We are all so intense about things that we have a do or die attitude when it comes to parenting. We punish ourselves for not being perfect parents, for not getting everything right with our kids. Take a deep breath because we are all fumbling imperfect people trying to get through life.


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Q: Assigning grade and adding that as new column I want to grade the students on the basis of score . My data frame
Students Subject1 Subject2 subject3  Total
S1      20       10       15         45
S2      10       10       12         32
S3      5        10       10         25
S4      8        10       15         33
S5      6        5        5          16
S6      10      -5       -5          0

I want to check if the Total is >30 then assign P , if <30 then A, else 0
Output
student Subject1 Subject2 subject3  Total   Grade
    S1      20       10       15       45      P
    S2      10       10       12       32      P
    S3      5        10       10       25      F
    S4      8        10       15       33      P
    S5      6        5        5        16      F
    S6      10      -5       -5        0       0

i tried this code
df$Grade <- ifelse(df$Total==0, '0',
                                    ifelse(df$Total < 30, 'A',ifelse(df$Total >30,'P')))

But i think its not a correct way.
Error in ifelse(df$Total == 0, "0", ifelse(df$Total <  :
  error in evaluating the argument 'no' in selecting a method for function 'ifelse': Error in ifelse(df$Total < 30, "A", ifelse(df$Total >  :
  error in evaluating the argument 'no' in selecting a method for function 'ifelse': Error in ifelse(df$Total > 30, "P") :
  argument "no" is missing, with no default

A: You can consider the cut function:
cut(mydf$Total, c(-Inf, 0, 30, Inf), labels = c(0, "F", "P"))
## [1] P P F P F
## Levels: 0 F P

The above basically says to categorize scores from -Inf to 0 as "0", scores between 0 and 30 as "F", and scores between 30 and Inf as "P". Thus, if your vector of scores were c(0, 12, 30, 31, 12, 0, 40), you would get:
cut(c(0, 12, 30, 31, 12, 0, 40), c(-Inf, 0, 30, Inf), labels = c(0, "F", "P"))
## [1] 0 F F P F 0 P
## Levels: 0 F P

A: Another possible solution using data.table package:
library(data.table)
setDT(df)
df[,grade:=ifelse(Total==0,"0",ifelse(Total>=30,"P",ifelse(Total %in% 1:30,"A","N")))]

You didn't stated what the expected grade should be in case Total==30, hence I coded it as P, you may want to correct it as needed.

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Family-B G-protein-coupled receptors
Genome Biol. 2001;2(12):REVIEWS3013. doi: 10.1186/gb-2001-2-12-reviews3013. Epub 2001 Nov 23.
A J Harmar 1
1 Department of Neuroscience, University of Edinburgh, 1 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK. Tony.Harmar@ed.ac.uk
PMCID: PMC138994
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2001-2-12-reviews3013
All G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) share a common molecular architecture (with seven putative transmembrane segments) and a common signaling mechanism, in that they interact with G proteins (heterotrimeric GTPases) to regulate the synthesis of intracellular second messengers such as cyclic AMP, inositol phosphates, diacylglycerol and calcium ions. Historically, GPCRs have been classified into six families, which were thought to be unrelated; three of these are found in vertebrates. Recent work has identified several new GCPR families and suggested the possibility of a common evolutionary origin for all of them. Family B (the secretin-receptor family or 'family 2') of the GPCRs is a small but structurally and functionally diverse group of proteins that includes receptors for polypeptide hormones, molecules thought to mediate intercellular interactions at the plasma membrane and a group of Drosophila proteins that regulate stress responses and longevity. Family-B GPCRs have been found in all animal species investigated, including mammals, Caenorhabditis elegans and Drosophila melanogaster, but not in plants, fungi or prokaryotes. In this article, I describe the structures and functions of family-B GPCRs and propose a simplified nomenclature for these proteins.
Evolution, Molecular
Heterotrimeric GTP-Binding Proteins / metabolism
Protein Structure, Tertiary
Receptors, Cell Surface / chemistry
Receptors, Cell Surface / classification*
Receptors, Cell Surface / genetics*
Receptors, Cell Surface / physiology
Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled
Receptors, Gastrointestinal Hormone / chemistry
Receptors, Gastrointestinal Hormone / classification
Receptors, Gastrointestinal Hormone / genetics
Terminology as Topic
Receptors, Cell Surface
Receptors, Gastrointestinal Hormone
secretin receptor
Heterotrimeric GTP-Binding Proteins


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The greatest blessing and yet also the most terrifying curse of living a nomadic lifestyle is the freedom. It's the liberty of choosing your next step more often than most have an opportunity to do; the rejuvenation of change; the joy of seeing new places, things, and people.
It's also, for me at least, like having an existential crisis every week.
The panic attacks started sometime this past summer. It had been a blissful six months — I'd gotten past the initial culture shock of living in Vietnam and settled into the routine of my new job (teaching English). I'd met some incredible friends and fallen in love. Perhaps most importantly, I'd finally got the hang of ordering food in Vietnamese and could finally feed myself properly, feeling like a normal human again.
I have a family history of anxiety and depression. But for the most part, I had always managed to avoid that burden and lived my life as a blissful optimist. I was the lucky one, the happy one. I am the eldest daughter who lives with adventure and no fear. Until one day, someone decided to fill my head with buzzing bees. There were rocks in my shoes, a weight on my neck; everything was heavy.
Some of this was situational. In the summer, many of my friends moved away from Ho Chi Minh City onto their next adventures. I found myself wanting to do the same for the first time since living there. Additionally, there was a literal construction site next to my bedroom window and I felt that I had no personal space. I also developed some health problems due to my asthma and the air pollution in Vietnam. Anxiety spiralled from there, quickly, in a form that I can only describe as existentialism.
Have you ever felt so deeply overwhelmed by all of the possible paths your life could take that you just want to curl up into a ball and ask your mother to make decisions for you? This was me... for months. See, I went to university right out of high school. I got a job right out of university. I then left it to teach English. I followed the steps I wanted to follow and always felt confident in my decisions. I had never felt so deeply lost before.
It's now 2018, and I look back on this year as one of the absolute best and at the same time, the most intensely challenging time of my life. It's been a year of: Adventure. Love. Growth. Learning. Exhilaration. Confusion. Panic. Questions. Searching. Finding.
My dad told me recently that we can only know the greatness of joy if we experience the lowest of lows. I agree with him.
This week I read Rupi Kaur's newest book of poetry the sun and her flowers. Below is a poem that resonated with my year. Reading it gives me strength for 2018.
Page 193 of the sun and her flowers by Rupi Kaur.
Isn't that beautiful and heartbreaking at once? It's okay if you cried. I did!
As I write this reflection in my family home in Canada (where I am for the holidays), I am calm. New Years resolutions are welling up organically. Coming to terms with a rough patch in life, and specifically being able to name mental health struggles for what they are/were, has been the best kind of therapy. I haven't worked out all of my path for 2018, but I'm working on it. The year's going to begin with some extended travel plans; I think that's a good start.


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Q: Writing a for loop in Python checking for divisibility I am trying to write a program in Python with turtle graphics to create a game. The game is built on blocks hovering in the air, where there is space between some of these blocks. The goal is to move a ball from the left side to the right without falling through the gaps.
I am experiencing some trouble with writing a for loop, that's counting from 0-20 (the amount of blocks) and if the number in the loop is divisible by 2 or 5 it will draw a block. (If not there will be a gap between the previous and next block)
Here is my code for the for loop:
def draw_blocks():
    for x in range(0, 21):
        if x % 5 == 0 or x % 2 == 0:
            draw_square(0, 0)     #starting index
            draw_square(square_size, 0)
            draw_square(square_size * 2, 0)
            draw_square(square_size * 3, 0)
            draw_square(square_size * 4, 0)
            draw_square(square_size * 5, 0)
            draw_square(square_size * 6, 0)
            draw_square(square_size * 7, 0)
            draw_square(square_size * 8, 0)
            draw_square(square_size * 9, 0)
            draw_square(square_size * 10, 0)
            draw_square(square_size * 11, 0)
            draw_square(square_size * 12, 0)
            draw_square(square_size * 13, 0)
            draw_square(square_size * 14, 0)
            draw_square(square_size * 15, 0)
            draw_square(square_size * 16, 0)
            draw_square(square_size * 17, 0)
            draw_square(square_size * 18, 0)
            draw_square(square_size * 19, 0)
            draw_square(square_size * 20, 0)

The draw_square function is defined as below:
def draw_square(x, y):
    turtle.tracer(0)
    turtle.speed(0)
    turtle.hideturtle()
    turtle.fillcolor("pink")
    turtle.penup()
    turtle.goto(x, y)
    turtle.pendown()
    turtle.begin_fill()
    turtle.goto(x+square_size, y)
    turtle.goto(x+square_size, y-square_size)
    turtle.goto(x, y-square_size)
    turtle.goto(x, y)
    turtle.end_fill()

(Where square_size is a global variable with the value = 40.)
I'm thinking there is some issue with not defining each of draw_square statements in the for loop? Because right now I am only getting 20 blocks next to each other without any gaps.
Thankful for any help :)

A: It looks like you created draw_blocks incorrectly for what you are trying to do.
If you want it to only draw blocks when x is divisible by 2 or 5, you need to draw the block at the position of x times square_size. I've modified your draw_blocks function below, which fixes the issue:
def draw_blocks():
    for x in range(0, 21):
        if x % 5 == 0 or x % 2 == 0:
            draw_square(square_size*x, 0)


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Scientists solve mystery of why comets emit X-rays
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The mystery of how comets are able to emit X-rays has been solved by a team led by the University of Oxford.
The research published in Nature Physics considers the longstanding scientific question of how comets are able to radiate X-rays. A conundrum that is particularly puzzling, given that such emission is normally associated with very hot objects like the Sun, and comets are among the coldest objects in the Solar System.
When comets travel through the Solar System they interact with Solar radiation, the Solar wind and the Solar magnetic field. This produces a visible atmosphere or 'coma' as well as the observed cometary tail, and in some cases, X-rays. These are generated on the Sun-ward side of the comet where the Solar wind impacts the cometary atmosphere, forming a bow shock.
To investigate how the X-rays are generated, a team of scientists from 15 institutes, including the Universities of Arizona, Belfast, Copenhagen, Chicago, Lisbon, London, Osaka, Oxford, Paris, Strathclyde, Taiwan, as well as AWE Aldermaston, ETH Zurich, RAL Chilton, , performed experiments at the LULI laser facility in Paris, where they replicated the interaction of the Solar wind with a comet.
The Oxford team was led by Professor Gianluca Gregori, Professor Subir Sarkar and Professor Tony Bell, all at the Department of Physics.
Alexandra Rigby, an Oxford University student who is doing her doctoral work on the project and led the experiment said: "The laser beams are fired onto a plastic foil which explodes, causing a stream of electrons and ions to be expelled forming a high speed flow of ionised gas (plasma) like the Solar wind".
The research revealed that when this plasma flow impacts onto a solid sphere, the laboratory 'comet' (placed about a centimetre away from the plastic foil), it resembles what happens when a real comet passes through the Solar system. It was found that electrons are heated to about a million degrees in the up-stream region by plasma turbulence.
These hot electrons are responsible for emitting X-rays in the presence of a magnetic field.
'These experimental results provide direct laboratory evidence that objects moving through magnetized plasmas can be sites of electron heating," said Professor Gregori. "This process is common in astrophysics and can take place not only in comets, but also in planetary magnetospheres (as of our own Earth), or even in supernova remnants where the ejected material sends a shock wave into the interstellar gas'.
Electron acceleration in laboratory bow shock Image credit: F. Cruz and L. O. Silva, IST Lisbon, Portugal
Laboratory bow shock generated in magnetised plasma-obstacle interaction excites plasma waves, leading to electron acceleration.
This work also sheds light on another cosmic mystery, how high energy particles are generated in Nature. This latest experiment clearly demonstrates that plasma turbulence can provide the initial source of fast particles in, supernova shock waves, for example.
Professor Sarkar said: 'As a theorist I find it amazing that it is possible to sensibly replicate astrophysical phenomena in the laboratory, to test our physical understanding of how cosmic particle accelerators may work'.
This project was carried out under the auspices of the European Research Council (ERC) and the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The numerical simulations were done on the MareNostrum supercomputer at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, the IST cluster at Lisbon, and the Asterix cluster of the Flash Center for Computational Science at the University of Chicago.


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Freshers' Varsity Success!
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It was a crisp, clear autumn morning, ideal ra cing conditions for the time of year. And it wasn't just the weather that delivered for us; our athletes turned out in force to record a team performance to remember. The men and women were dominant, both winning by 112-77, neither of which was far off the highest score ever recorded in the Fresher's Varsity Match – indeed it was the greatest winning margin by an Oxford team since 1975 on the men's side, and since 1988 for the women. With such strong results, team spirit is running high and momentum is building for a 4-0 clean sweep at the Varsity Match in Summer.
These convincing shoe-ings were the result of impressive depth and a close-knit team spirit. Both the men and the women recorded 'one-twos' in five of the eight field events, and we won three of the four relays. An impressive 17 Oxford athletes won individual events, compared with Cambridge's 7. However you choose . ……………………………………………………………………………… to look at it, it was a convincing win.
Of course, there were some outstanding individual and relay performances on the day, and these are detailed below:
Top honours go to the men's 4×400 team of Josh Ingham, Harrison Steel, Nathan Inkester and Cameron Bain that broke a 22 year old record by over 2 seconds, in a race run under darkness and cold, and without a Tab in sight. The women's 4×400 team of Anna Sharp, Hatty Wigginton, Kathy Peters, and Aileen Kearney also put in a dominant performance over the Tabs, winning by over 13 seconds, with Kearney running a blistering anchor leg that left her competitor in the dust. It was an electric final event that captured the team spirit on show, with most of the squad staying back to cheer their lungs out. As one athlete remarked – it's hard not to run your heart out when your entire team is cheering you at the sidelines! In a show of sportsmanship, the team also joined Cambridge in cheering their defeated athletes over the finish line. That's the kind of team spirit and class that we all love to see.
Harrison Steel and Teele Palumaa took the top individual honours with Achilles Athlete of the Match performances. Harrison, the man who doesn't know what lactic is, won the sprint double in rapid times of 11.4 in the 100 and 23.3 in the 200, both quicker than the Half Blue time. These were the fastest performances by a fresher at Iffley in a decade. He also split the Half Blue time in the record-breaking 4×400 team and aided an impressive come-back in the 4×100 after a mishap at the first change. Particularly impressive was his ability to back up in quick succession – the 200, 4×100 and 4×400 all fell within an hour of each other.
Teele, the high jump phenomenon who finished second in the Estonian indoor national championships last year, picked up four individual victories in the High Jump, Long Jump, Triple Jump, and Discus Throw (and had to be dissuaded from also throwing Hammer). Her winning High Jump height of 1.65 m exceeded the Full Blue standard, placed her sixth on the OUAC all-time list, and was just one cm shy of the match record. She achieved a Half Blue standard in the Triple Jump, where her jump of 11.31 m (just 4 cm short of a Full Blue) placed her fourth on the all-time list. Finally, she achieved a Half Blue in the Discus, and was just 7 cm short of the Half Blue in the Long Jump.
There were countless other impressive performances in both men's and women's teams. Standouts in the men's included a Full Blue performance by Chase Jensen in the Pole Vault, and Half Blue performances by Archie McNeillis in the Pole Vault, Cameron Bain in the 400, Daniel Smith in the Long Jump, Jacob Taylor in the Long Jump, Josh Ingham in the 400 and Parker Hibbett in the High Jump. And a special mention to Stephen Walsh for his 'catch of the match', for catching the relay baton in a nerve-wracking moment in the 4×100, which both kept Oxford in the race and prevented us from being disqualified for an early changeover. Genius.
There was a similarly impressive list of Half Blue performances by the women. Eight women recorded Half Blue performances, including Aileen Kearney in the 400, Eleanor Duck in the 100, Imogen Brown in the Javelin, Kate Kennedy in the 400 Hurdles, Melissa Lowe in the Pole Vault, Sophie Hubbard in the High Jump and Sydney Sopher in the Shot Put and Discus. Beyond the impressive standards and PBs, several women went above and beyond to help the team by entering additional events last-minute to cover injured team-mates: most notably Kathy Peters in the 400 and Tilly Woods in the 3000.
It's hard to imagine a better start to the year. Of course, the hard work is only just beginning. Buoyed by the weekend's results, we're going to train hard, live smart and continue to support each other as a team. These results show us that the future of OUAC looks bright, but we're not going to lose sight of the present. A Varsity sweep is on the cards for each team – let's get to work and make it happen!
By Hugo Fleming on November 16, 2016 / Club News / Comments Off on Freshers' Varsity Success!


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Bonavista area fishers meet DFO
Jonathan Parsons (jonathan.parsons@thepacket.ca)
Published: Jan 23, 2018 at 1:47 p.m.
Updated: Jan 23, 2018 at 7:42 p.m.
DFO public meeting facilitators, from left to right: Kelly O'Brien, David Small, Ron Burton and Jason Simms. - Jonathan Parsons
Turbot, cod, buddy-up systems form part of discussion
BONAVISTA, N.L. — Dennis Miller of Burgoyne's Cove is a typical inshore fisherman.
Fishing up to 50 miles from shore in a 39-ft 11-inch boat, he makes his living from groundfish, capelin, herring, mackerel, lobster and snow crab.
For the past several years, crab has been the mainstay for most fishing enterprises.
However, these days Miller thinks a lot about the future of groundfish, particularly cod and turbot, and how it will affect his enterprise.
He wonders if the Department of Fisheries and Oceans will give smaller boats, like his, access to turbot by opening up fishing zones closer to shore.
"I have fished (turbot in) that (inshore) zone before in that same boat, but they only had it open for four or five years and then they closed it," said Miller.
The current fishing zones for turbot are "too far for me to go in that boat now," he said.
He also wonders if he'll be allowed a turbot bycatch, and how much, when he's fishing other species.
Currently, fishers are allowed a maximum of five percent turbot bycatch while fishing cod, for instance. If the bycatch exceeds that level, both fisheries can be closed.
And he wonders if when he's fishing turbot, whether he'll be allowed cod bycatch.
He brought those questions to a meeting with DFO in Bonavista on Monday, Jan. 22.
He was one of about 30 fishers who showed up for the meeting.
The event at the local Lions Club, was the fifth in a series of outreach meetings which included St. Anthony, Baie Verte, Twillingate and Hare Bay.
Other meetings are scheduled for Fogo Island, Shearstown, the Southern Shore and the south coast of Labrador.
Led by DFO area director Ron Burton, the meeting also included other resource management personnel from the department to answer questions from fishers, and note their concerns and comments.
Burton told The Packet he was pleased with the results of the meetings so far, saying they've been productive.
He added the topic of "buddy up" was also a common one among the meetings they've held so far.
Currently enterprises are permitted to buddy up in the crab fishery. Many fishers feel the same system should be permitted in other fisheries.
Burton says many fishers say this system is more economical; helping reduce expenses when two enterprises "buddy up" to fish two individual quotas using one boat.
However representatives from FFAW warn the buddy-up system, if allowed in the cod fishery for instance, could lead to a decrease in the weekly catch limit for cod for each enterprise.
"The bottom line is, the more people that gets into it, the smaller the weekly limits are going to be … and it's going to affect someone's bottom line," said John Boland, staff representative for the FFAW.
"If anyone thinks they're going to get the same amount of fish with more participation — there's cause and effect," he warned.
As for Miller, he says he's encouraged that DFO will look at the issue regarding fishing zones, and says he'll continue to raise his concerns with the department.
"They're looking at it, which is a (good) sign … And I'll bring it up at the next meeting and the next one."
On the topic of turbot, other fishers in the room asked if that fishery could be opened earlier.
Burton says some suggested early June or July, and DFO is also considering setting an opening date and leaving it open for harvesters to fill their quotas.
Many of the fishers at Bonavista also had questions about the future of the cod fishery, saying bigger quotas are needed to make it commercially feasible. One suggestion was to move to a monthly quota instead of weekly limits.
Many of the fishermen complained that fish plants cannot meet the demand when they offload and longer, more spread out quotas could help alleviate this.
"That's a very unfortunate situation," said Burton. "The industry is growing and the capacity of the harvesting is growing faster than the capacity of the processing and that's not an easy thing to solve.
"We've got to convince people to invest in the processing sector to keep up with the harvesting."
Other topics raised at the Bonavista meeting included: designating a hook-and-line zone free of gillnets, the small size of capelin, possibly bringing a fall crab test fishery to the Bonavista Bay area, and opening the flounder fishery.
FFAW takes shots at FISH-NL at DFO meeting
BONAVISTA, NL — With FISH-NL and the Fish, Food and Allied Workers (FFAW) in the same room, there was bound to be an argument.
The two groups have been trading barbs for more than a year now, as FISH-NL continues to challenge the leadership of the FFAW and try to form a break-away union solely for fishers.
At Bonavista on Monday, Jan. 22, for a meeting of fishers with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), the two sides squared off again.
The exchange grew heated when the discussion shifted to encouraging new entrants into the fishery.
Fishers are unable to earn more than 25 per cent of their income outside the fishery during the season. Some argued this discourages young people or others who work in other areas to supplement their income and make a future in the fishery more attractive.
The FFAW say changing that rule is a slippery slope, because it was put in place to professionalize the industry so that not everyone could step into the fishery, dilute the market and quotas.
"If (it's changed and) anyone who wants to fish can go into DFO and pay $30 to go at it, if that's what people want — the enterprise you have that's worth thousands of dollars, you want that made useless?" said John Boland, staff representative for the FFAW.
Ryan Cleary of FISH-NL tried to weigh in on the topic, speaking about how there are very few young faces in the room and they need to do something to change that.
He questioned whether the relationship between the Professional Fish Harvesters Certification Board and the FFAW, which jointly own the same building, have rules that work against people who want to enter the fishery.
Dwan Street, project coordinator for the FFAW, then took a verbal shot at Cleary, saying, divisiveness and conspiracy theories will not do anything to address the problems that need to be discussed and solved.
She says what Cleary doesn't know about the fishery, "could fill a library."
"Every man in this room has been trying to fix this and we've been trying to fix this. There is no easy answer. You can't suck and blow at the same time," Street yelled at Cleary.
"It's like when we sit down and look crab going down and cod going up and it doesn't meet in the middle. How do we f--king fix it? And Open Line is not going to fix it and Facebook is not going to fix it … Do you know what's not going to build (the industry)? People like you walking in and figuring you can be the salvation and figure out how to fix it! Buddy, if this industry was as easy as you think it is, we'd all be coasting along best kind!" she shouted.
The heated exchange prompted Ron Burton to step in to break up the tension, saying, in order for DFO to listen to the views and opinions of the people in attendance everyone needs to be respectful of one another and their opinions or comments.
Jonathan.parsons@thepacket.ca
Twitter: @jejparsons
This article was updated with further information after initial publication.
It was also corrected to more accurately reflect a statement made at the meeting.
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A Moment with Hers
Hilary Coles wants you to be well.
The do-gooder grew up with a strong sense of responsibility to those around her—in her family and the greater Canadian community. After college, she worked in the non-profit sector, helping to support unwell veterans, before earning an MBA at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.
It was there that she found what felt like her true calling: She was introduced to Andrew Dudum—founder of men's health-care concept, Hims—and was quickly pulled into the fold, named VP of product and co-founder of Hers (Him's female-focused counterpart, still evolving at the time).
Since 2018, she's been running the show at Hers, a site that strives to bring change to health-care through access to medications, doctors, reproductive/sexual health aids and even skincare products—all in one spot.
Here, Coles discusses the importance of changing the landscape of women's health-care and, on a personal level, of self-acceptance in the process:
Live The Process: Can you share a bit about your background? Have you always been interested in healthcare, wellness and entrepreneurship?
Hilary Coles: I grew up in Canada, in a single-parent home with my mom and two younger sisters. When we were growing up, there were times when my mom was working three jobs at once to make sure there was food on the table. She taught me how to be a strong woman and, for that, I am forever grateful. Living in an all female household, women's health was always an open conversation and my mother encouraged all three of us to speak out if we had questions or concerns.
After I earned my undergraduate degree, I began working at a non-profit that took ill and injured soldiers and veterans—together with business and community leaders from across Canada—on life-changing global expeditions. These expeditions allowed the soldiers to both recover and pay it forward by raising money for others injured in combat. Through this job, and the people I met while there, I grew interested in business and decided to apply to get my master's. I ended up attending the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Because Canada provides universal health care, I never realized how broken the US health-care system was until I got here. I truly couldn't understand how unnecessarily complicated and restrictive the US system was! It made me realize that I took universal health care for granted. I grew passionate about finding a better way to get people access to the care they need.
Ultimately, I was introduced to Andrew Dudum, who connected me to Atomic, where we co-founded Hims and Hers.
LTP: How did you come to work with Hims and Hers? What is the vibe there?
HC: I met Hims and Hers founder and CEO, Andrew Dudum, through a friend; and we hit it off over a long discussion about the various brands that we admired. After getting to know each other, Andrew introduced me to Atomic, the VC firm where he founded Hims and helped create my role as VP of product and co-founder of Hers.
Working at Hims and Hers is extremely motivating. Our team is made up of incredible individuals who are passionate about helping those who want and need access to proper care. I am excited about the future of this company as we continue to expand the health states we address and drive greater access to the health-care system for men and women everywhere.
LTP: When did Hims launch and how was it received?
HC: We launched Hims in November of 2017. We saw a huge gap in the men's health and wellness industry and realized that men lacked a more efficient and informed process for obtaining medical care. Because of their limited options, men were ignoring their health and not having conversations about exceptionally normal conditions like hair loss or erectile dysfunction. In launching Hims, we sought to address and normalize the narrative around men taking care of themselves.
We've seen an incredibly enthusiastic response since launch and remain committed to expanding into categories where men's needs are still not being met. The ongoing evolution of the telehealth landscape will continue to drive greater access to quality care, and we look forward to playing a part in providing our customers with the tools, access and treatment they need to live their best lives.
LTP: Now you've launched Hers. What's the concept behind the company?
HC: We launched Hers in November of 2018, a year to the day after we launched Hims. We created Hers because we saw a giant gap in the women's health and wellness space. Unlike men, women have been overwhelmed and underserved by the beauty and health industries for years. We realized that there was no reliable place for them to readily find concrete answers to their questions and concerns when they wanted and needed to, so we created one!
Stats surrounding women's health and wellness are jarring. Approximately 19 million women in the US lack access to at least one public clinic within their county, where contraceptive methods are usually accessible. And per the American Hospital Association, approximately 3.5 million patients go without care because they cannot access transportation to their providers. This is simply not acceptable.
The Hers platform gives women access to our network of doctors who can provide guidance and medical-grade treatments for various conditions and daily needs like birth control, acne, hair loss, melasma and, coming soon, emergency contraception. I personally cannot live without my Hers skincare regimen; it truly saved me.
In creating Hers, we're providing women with trusted resources to help them better understand their options when it comes to preventative care.
LTP: What does happiness look like to you?
HC: Happiness can feel like this pressure-filled thing to attain: "Are you happy? 10 ways to get happier!" It's a process, and it doesn't come easily every single day.
My definition of happiness is accepting yourself and prioritizing what makes you feel good: For me, that's quality time with my loved ones; that's working; that's spending some time outdoors walking by myself every day.
But it changes! And I think that checking in with or auditing yourself is really important. Are you putting out toxic energy? Are you drained? Has a friendship become unhealthy because you don't like yourself in that dynamic?
Turning 30 was wild because it felt really different. It felt like some of my past patterns didn't work for me anymore. I was more aware of my impact on others. I wanted to be better.
LTP: What does it mean to you to "Live The Process" and how can we all do that more each day?
HC: "Live The Process," to me, means doing everything you can to be happy, accomplish your dreams and chase your passions. I think self-acceptance plays a vital role in reaching the ultimate level of centeredness, but it's not an instant thing. It takes work. You need to be gentle and understanding with yourself and those around you. Some days are better than others, but the beauty and the purpose of your process is in your journey, your exploration and your effort.
Cover image Julia Morozova, Barnaby Hutchins. All other images courtesy of Hers.


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