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Monday, June 10th – 7:00pm
Ranjit Bolt
Lydia Garcia
Playwright, Much Ado About Nothing
Ranjit Bolt was educated at The Perse School, Cambridge,...
Ranjit Bolt was educated at The Perse School, Cambridge, and at Balliol College, University of Oxford. He workedas an investment analyst and adviser for eight years, before concentrating on theatre translation from the end of 1990. His acclaimed translations for the theatre include works by Molière, Seneca, Sophocles, Corneille, Beaumarchais, Brecht, Goldoni, and Zorilla. He was awarded an OBE for his services to literature in 2003.
Dramaturg, Much Ado About Nothing
Lydia Garcia is a dramaturg, educator, and facilitator. She has served as...
Lydia Garcia is a dramaturg, educator, and facilitator. She has served as the Literary Manager and Resident Dramaturg at Marin Theatre Company as well as the Resident Dramaturg at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where she served as the production dramaturg for All's Well that Ends Well, Sense and Sensibility, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, The Yeomen of the Guard, Vietgone, The Count of Monte Cristo, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Fingersmith, The Happiest Song Plays Last, Water by the Spoonful, Richard III, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cymbeline, Romeo and Juliet, Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella, The Imaginary Invalid, August: Osage County, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, She Loves Me, The Music Man, Dead Man's Cell Phone, The Servant of Two Masters, Much Ado about Nothing, and Quixote. In addition to her dramaturgical work, Lydia was a resident lecturer and teacher at OSF, as well as a trained staff facilitator for issues of diversity, inclusion, and equity. She holds a BA in English and American Literature and Language from Harvard University and an MFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from the Yale School of Drama, and is a member of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA). Gender pronouns: she/her/hers
Week of June 9, 2019
2:00pm - Merchant of Venice
Merchant of Venice
Translation by Elise Thoron
7:00pm - Much Ado About Nothing
Translation by Ranjit Bolt
7:00pm - King Henry IV, Part 1
King Henry IV, Part 1
Translation by Yvette Nolan
2:00pm - Merry Wives of Windsor
Translation by Dipika Guha
7:00pm - King Henry V
King Henry V
Translation by Lloyd Suh
2:00pm - As You Like It
Translation by David Ivers
7:00pm - Julius Caesar
Translation by Shishir Kurup


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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. "Wacke, Hennekin. 1325" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1900 - 1999. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/721331a0-f249-0130-c14f-58d385a7b928
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Every April, more than 160 college and university students meet to decide the future of the European Union (EU). Playing the roles of prime ministers and presidents, ambassadors and commissioners, ministers and diplomats,they spend three days debating policy, resolving disputes, building compromises, and charting the course of European integration. The Midwest Model European Union (MMEU) is one of only a half dozen events of its kind in the United States.
The 2019 MMEU will take place on March 28th-30th.
Created in 1993, the MMEU is the second oldest intercollegiate simulation of the EU in North America. Originally hosted by Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), the Midwest Model European Union moved to the Indiana University Bloomington (IUB) campus in the spring of 2014.
Colleges send delegations of 7 members each, representing the 28 EU member states. Over a period of 48 hours, they meet in formal and informal sessions as the European Council, the European Commission, and several different councils of ministers.
From Thursday afternoon through Saturday afternoon, students introduce, discuss, and reach decisions on EU policy. National leaders provide overall direction, ministers huddle to work out the details of policy, commissioners and their directors-general try to give new direction to foreign and security policy, the single market, eastward enlargement, and the development of the euro, and emergency joint meetings are held to break impasses.
Organization for EU-Midwest begins in January each year, when invitations are emailed to faculty advisers, and students begin forming delegations. There is a small participation fee ($150 per team in 2017), and the event is held at the Indiana University Memorial Union (IMU), with accommodation available at the IMU Biddle Hotel. Delegations take care of their own travel and food costs.
The Model EU is really the high point of my various classes dealing with European politics, both for my students and for me.


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Current literature and example cases are used to illustrate MEG contribution to clinical decision making, specifically whether a patient with pharmacoresistant epilepsy can move forward to epilepsy surgery. The main conclusion is that the largest role of MEG, as presently performed in the clinical environment, is to increase the number of patients who can go on to surgery, while it should not be used to deny surgery to any patient. MX69 research buy (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved."
"Background: In patients with malaria mixed species infections are common and under reported. In PCR studies conducted in Asia mixed infection rates often exceed 20%. In South-East Asia, approximately one third
of patients treated for falciparum malaria experience a subsequent Plasmodium vivax infection with a time interval suggesting relapse. It is uncertain whether the two infections are acquired simultaneously or separately. To determine whether mixed species infections in humans are derived from mainly from simultaneous or separate mosquito inoculations the literature on malaria species infection in wild captured anopheline
mosquitoes was reviewed.
Methods: The biomedical literature was searched for studies of malaria infection and species identification in trapped wild mosquitoes and artificially infected mosquitoes. The study location and year, collection methods, mosquito species, number of specimens, parasite stage examined (oocysts or sporozoites), Pevonedistat order and the methods of parasite detection and speciation were tabulated. The entomological results in South East Asia were compared with mixed infection rates documented in patients in clinical studies.
Results: In total 63 studies were identified. Individual anopheline mosquitoes were examined for different malaria species in 28 of these. There were 14 studies from Africa; four with species evaluations in individual captured mosquitoes (SEICM). One study, from Ghana, identified a single mixed infection. No mixed selleck compound infections were identified in Central and South America (seven studies, two SEICM). 42 studies
were conducted in Asia and Oceania (11 from Thailand; 27 SEICM). The proportion of anophelines infected with Plasmodium falciparum parasites only was 0.51% (95% CI: 0.44 to 0.57%), for P. vivax only was 0.26% (95% CI: 0.21 to 0.30%), and for mixed P. falciparum and P. vivax infections was 0.036% (95% CI: 0.016 to 0.056%). The proportion of mixed infections in mosquitoes was significantly higher than expected by chance (P < 0.001), but was one fifth of that sufficient to explain the high rates of clinical mixed infections by simultaneous inoculation.
Conclusions: There are relatively few data on mixed infection rates in mosquitoes from Africa. Mixed species malaria infections may be acquired by simultaneous inoculation of sporozoites from multiply infected anopheline mosquitoes but this is relatively unusual. In South East Asia, where P.


A Republican congressman on Thursday introduced a bill that would allow any House member from a concealed-carry state to be allowed to use it in the District of Columbia.
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., brought up the measure as lawmakers consider ways to increase their security after Wednesday's shooting rampage that left House Majority Whip Steve Scalise critically injured.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., have been discussing "protocol and resources for members' safety" even before the shooting, which left the gunman dead wounded three others, a Ryan spokeswoman said.
Pelosi said she favors increased funding for Capitol Police. She said the funds would help the agency enhance its presence when members of Congress, staff and others congregate away from the Capitol.
"It's security for other people who are there, too," she said. "If somebody is coming after a member of Congress, you don't want to be anywhere nearby."
Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., was also pushing to carry a firearm.
"We aren't any more special than anybody else, but we're targets," Loudermilk said in an interview on "Your World with Neil Cavuto." "This is exactly why there's a lot of fear of doing town halls at this point."
Weapons are prohibited in the Capitol and the District of Columbia, which has some of the toughest gun laws in the nation. Carrying a firearm is generally prohibited.


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Economism and the politics of social partnership
Joe Craig
The debate between Maeve Connaughton and myself over my book Prisoners of Social Partnership has become subject to the law of diminishing returns. It is marred also by caricature and an apparent unwillingness to accept that context is important when quoting an argument What I want to do in this contribution is to allow readers to come to a view on what I think is the underlying nature of our differences of approach.
To appreciate the first remark let's recall what the argument of the book is. I argued that social partnership was a political assault on the working class that demanded a political resistance. I pointed to the limited gains that some particularly well-placed workers had been able to make despite the restrictions of social partnership deals, and had pointed out that these were not significant for the wider working class or ultimately for the workers involved themselves. I pointed to the role of the trade union bureaucracy in ensuring that resistance to the partnership deals failed, and tried to explain that their role was not the result of personal qualities of the leaders themselves but of their material interest as a separate and relatively privileged social layer. They thus constituted a decisive obstacle to workers' resistance and a central target of an alternative. I set out my understanding of what a political alternative could look like.
What does Maeve have to say about the specifically political character of the offensive, or my outline of the political programme that should guide resistance? Well, nothing much, it would appear. Instead she repeats again that piecemeal economic gains by workers are significant -without attempting in any way to answer all the ways in which I say they are not. There is no need to repeat them here, except to say that what is decisive for evaluation is the political significance of struggle, not the size of any economic gain. She now admits that the fact that such gains must be limited under capitalism is obvious, but not so obvious that she pointed this out in her review, or drew any lessons from it. Previous literature on social partnership has avoided the question of the limits set to Irish workers' living standards by an economy dominated by foreign multinationals, and for the vast majority of Irish workers the limits set by capitalism are certainly not obvious, if even relevant
It should be axiomatic to a Marxist that reforms are ultimately not significant; otherwise why is there a necessity for revolution? The relationship between the fight for reform and revolution is a theme running through the book, but on this relationship Maeve still has nothing to say beyond stating that one can lead to another.
Maeve's unwillingness or inability to take the debate forward by engaging with the arguments can be seen in her insistent defence of free collective bargaining. Her continued approach of poking fun at my formulations is all very entertaining but beside the point, and the point is this: Free collective bargaining is not primarily about "re-establishing the formal independence of the trade union movement" (that really does require a political programme) but about each group of workers as organised by trade unions fighting or not fighting as the case may be, on its own behalf for its own sectional interests. This is the policy that proved so ineffective in the 1980s, allowing the imposition of social partnership. To the extent that workers unite in a collective and combined resistance, they depart from free collective bargaining and embark on a political strategy, such as the book advocates. "Now, there's solidarity for you!"
It is, however, Maeve's analysis of the trade union bureaucracy that is both the most indefensible and lamentable. First, it is necessary again to explain to Maeve what my argument is not. It is not that I reject the idea that union bureaucrats can be pressurised into "radical talk and even the very occasional deed" (to use my own words) and therefore that "If the argument for rank-and-file control was premised on Joe's principle that the leaders can't be pressurised, then the argument would fall with a thud" (as Maeve puts it). The argument is that socialists cannot base a strategy of resistance on pressurising a bureaucracy that has fundamental interests opposed to the working class, and that has, through a long history and in every single country, shown itself to be its bitter enemy. Pointing to individual trade union leaders as good socialists, without examining their actual politics, is not an argument against this view. Even if these people were revolutionaries, this would no more prove that the bureaucracy is not irredeemably reactionary than the figure of Frederick Engels shows that the bourgeoisie is not also irredeemably reactionary. Maeve responds to my argument that the bureaucracy opposes socialism because they would not exist under it with the observation that dole office workers would also not exist under socialism and presumably we do not rule out their support. If Maeve cannot see the difference between a whole social layer which would lose its privileges and power under a workers' state, in fact ceasing to exist, and workers of a particular occupation who would find more fulfilling employment as members of the new society's ruling class with immeasurably more power and control over their lives, then one despairs of the power of rational argument
The specific tactics that flow from such an analysis do not mean that socialists denounce union bureaucrats as "running-dogs of the bourgeoisie" even when they place themselves at the head of opposition to a rotten deal. It does mean their strategy must be one of rank and file control, removal of the bureaucracy and not reliance on pressurising it or simply trying to get 'socialists' into bureaucratic positions. All sorts of intermediate steps will occur along this road, including pressure and attempts to split the bureaucracy, but it always helps a journey if you know where you have to go. We have had over fifteen years of militant noises from many trade union leaders, and fifteen years of social partnership to show for it.
This brings us finally to the notion of a vanguard. Maeve is of course right that socialists only constitute a vanguard to the extent that they have an army behind them. But this can only happen if workers find something useful in what socialists say, and this will only occur if they have something more to say than praise for what workers are already doing and tales of a great socialist society in the future, which in some unspecified way will come from their own economic struggles. Unfortunately Maeve continually denigrates the role that socialists have to play in educating workers —"socialists will also have a lot to learn from them". Very true, but if social partnership is all about politics then, putting all false modesty aside, socialists have an awful lot more to explain to the average worker than that worker has to explain to the socialist. Otherwise, why waste our time reading and writing articles in Red Banner etc? As I pointed out, to denigrate the socialist programme in the name of learning from today's workers is to fail to learn from the workers of yesterday who taught us a lot (but not by any means everything) of what is in the socialist programme.
Maeve finishes her response by saying that "we don't make the journey any easier by starting from the wrong place". I will hazard a guess and say that for Maeve the correct place to start is the workers' own struggles, but this is insufficient. Without the Marxist programme it is impossible to assess and propose development of these struggles. This does not preclude learning from workers: indeed, only the existence of a programme gives a reason to learn from their struggles. After all, if we are not going to try to apply the lessons through a programme, why learn them?
Maeve's failure to address the politics of social partnership, her inflation of the significance of day-to-day economic struggles, her uncritical endorsement of free collective bargaining and ambivalent approach to the workers' current leaders are of a piece with what has been given the label Economism. This is not a Marxist swear word or term of abuse, but a description of a form of politics that is prevalent on the Irish left. The most penetrating criticism of Economism has come from Lenin, but he is very much out of fashion. It should be appreciated that if we want to criticise Lenin we should go beyond him, not to the conceptions that preceded him. Somewhere along the line, we have thrown a baby out with the bathwater.


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Columbia Basin Trust Secures $2 Million for LiDAR Mapping Project
The Columbia Basin Trust brought partners together to secure a $2-million project that will collect LiDAR and orthophoto imagery of major water bodies near populated areas across a majority of the southern part of the Columbia Basin.
The state-of-the-art data that will help several Columbia Basin communities work toward reducing the risks and impacts associated with flooding.
"The data obtained through this project gives many Columbia Basin communities foundational information they need to understand and adapt to increasing flood risks in our changing climate," said Tim Hicks, senior manager, delivery of benefits at Columbia Basin Trust. "This creative collaboration between multiple organizations, industry, and all levels of government will make useful information available that would otherwise be costly for individual communities to acquire."
LiDAR stands for "light detection and ranging." Like sonar and radar, it detects objects by using lasers to send out almost a million pulses of light per second. It then tracks how long it takes each pulse to return. This allows users to map areas in three dimensions.
In the Columbia Basin, these maps will be compared to past photos taken from airplanes and satellites to see how landscapes have changed over time. They'll be used to identify previous flood areas, pinpoint which areas are currently prone to flooding, and determine where new flood-prone areas are likely to emerge. Communities will be able to access this data for free, enabling them to prepare for floods and minimize their effects.
With climate change, "we know we're going to see more frequent and higher-amplitude flooding events in the Basin," said Tom Dool, research analyst at the Regional District of Central Kootenay, which is one of the project partners. "LiDAR allows communities to see exactly which locations are at greatest risk of flooding and what's needed to respond effectively."
Dool was instrumental in getting this project off the ground, alongside the Trust's Climate Action Program, which helps Basin communities reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change impacts. Other partners include the provincial government ($997,991) through Emergency Management BC.. and GeoBC, Public Safety Canada ($790,000), the Regional District of Central Kootenay, ʔaq̓am, Teck ($150,000), and ATCO Wood Products ($352,716).
"This data collection project has built an essential climate change and flood resilience tool for local governments, First Nation communities, and other organizations in our region," said Meredith Hamstead, program coordinator of the Climate Action Program. "The data can also support many other co-benefits beyond flood resilience, for example, management and enhancement of wetland and riparian areas on those same water bodies that may pose flood hazards."
"The acquisition of this LiDAR data will immediately support the ʔaq̓am community's Climate Adaptation Project, which includes a Wildfire and Floodplain Mitigation Study and associated mapping," said Michelle Shortridge, director of operations and community services for ʔaq̓am. "We are also excited to work with the data and regional professionals to understand the many applications of LiDAR for land and resource management."
Those wishing to access the LiDAR data can contact geobcinfo@gov.bc.ca with the subject line "Lidar Data Request – Columbia Basin." The province is currently working on making the data open sourced and a Data Use Agreement will be required in the interim.
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Who Deserves an Oscar?
So far no one has asked me to join The Academy in voting on who should win the Oscars. Nevertheless, I have my opinions, and I'd like to hear yours too. So here are my thoughts on some of the big categories:
Best Actor in a Leading Role: Jesse Eisenberg played the brilliant, self-absorbed father of Facebook perfectly in The Social Network, and Jeff Bridges is stellar as the grizzled U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn in True Grit. Still and all, Colin Firth is triumphant in The King's Speech, and his entire body of work should be rewarded this year.
Best Actress in a Leading Role: Many experienced actresses have been nominated in this category, and I suspect the award will go to one of them. However, young newcomer Jennifer Lawrence was wonderful in Winter's Bone. She masterfully exhibited grit, fear, desperation, and determination as a teenage girl searching for the deadbeat father who put the family home up as bond, then disappeared.
Best Actor in a Supporting Role: I might have cast a vote toward Bill Murray or Bill Cobbs for their scene-stealing work in Get Low, but they weren't nominated. So my choice in this category is John Hawkes, who plays young Ree's uncle Teardrop in Winter's Bone. His performance is nuanced, managing to be both sinister and sympathetic as just one player in the darkly patriarchal, meth-centered lives of these characters.
Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Again I'm gunning for the young newcomer. Hailee Stanfeld was spectacular as the precocious young teen who hires Marshall Rooster Cogburn to find the man who killed her father. She is tough and smart, and still maintains an innocence that informs the darker motives and histories of the men who populate the lawless land of the Old West.
Animated Feature Film: How to Train Your Dragonwas lots of fun, but there's no denying that Pixar is one studio to rule them all. Toy Story 3 takes my vote.
Directing:The award for best director will likely go to David Fincher for The Social Network, but I'd opt for Tom Hooper's direction of The King's Speech. He turns a story of a stuttering royal into a humorous, heartfelt, even suspenseful film about a man we can all relate to—someone who faces a job he neither wants nor feels capable of accomplishing.
Best Picture:Another award that will probably go to The Social Network. But I soldier on in favor of The King's Speech.
So there you have it, the wishes of a non-Academy movie watcher. What movies will you root for on the big night?


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Mental health workers plan strike at Kaiser clinics
Posted 3:29 PM, June 3, 2019, by Meghan Roos, Updated at 05:56PM, June 3, 2019
LOS ANGELES — Mental health workers with Kaiser Permanente said Monday they will launch a strike on June 11 in protest of the wait times patients face in scheduling mental health appointments.
An estimated 4,000 Kaiser healthcare professionals will participate in the strike, National Union of Healthcare Workers said. The strike will be "open-ended" and is expected to impact more than 100 clinics and facilities throughout California, according to the union.
After officially starting on June 11, the strike will convene at the State Capitol Building in Sacramento for a Mental Health Parity rally. From there, strikers will gather outside Kaiser clinics throughout the state.
Participants — including psychologists, therapists, social workers, psychiatric nurses and other medical specialists — expect the strike to continue until doctors' concerns over wait times are addressed.
According to NUHW, many mental health patients must wait three months or longer in order to schedule appointments — and a survey NUHW released in April said more than 60 percent of Kaiser clinicians lack availability to make a visit within a month's time possible for their patients.
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"We can't wait any longer to fix this problem" a Kaiser therapist, Alicia Cruz, said in a press release from NUHW. "I work with young people who are suicidal and self-harming, and our group sessions are so crowded that children and their parents have to sit on the floor. We just don't have the resources at our clinic to provide the services these people need, and Kaiser isn't doing anything about it."
John Nelson, vice president of communications at Kaiser Permanente, called the move "disappointing and disheartening" on Monday. "We have been in active bargaining with the union for nearly a year, and in the last few weeks have jointly made great progress toward an agreement," Nelson said in an official statement. "We've heard their concerns regarding the dramatic increase in mental health care demand, the implications on their workload, and the implications for our patients."
According to Nelson, both sides were making progress toward an agreement until last week, when bargaining reached an impasse. Nelson said of the union's decision to strike, "It is deeply disturbing that the union leadership would be willing to sacrifice the needs of patients, especially when we are so aligned with our therapists on a path forward to address their concerns."
Nelson closed the statement by reiterating Kaiser's proposal to the union and asking its mental health clinicians to reconsider participating in the strike.
The scheduled strike comes six months after NUHW launched the largest mental health worker strike in U.S. history, which also concerned wait times patients faced in scheduling mental health appointments.
Editor's note: The updated version of this story provides official statements on the scheduled strike from Kaiser Permanente.
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As of January 2009, the Earth's population is estimated to be 6.7 billion people It took all of human history to reach the first billion in the 1800s, but approximately 200 years to hit six billion.
As the Earth gets more and more crowded, studying population issues such as the distribution of our natural resources and our collective impact on the environment will be crucial.
Demography, the study of human populations, is also increasingly important in both the business and political sectors. Everything from urban planning to the marketing of a new products uses population information.
This month we explore the field of demography.


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Genfrequentie of allelfrequentie is een getal om aan te geven hoe vaak een bepaald allel binnen een populatie voorkomt. Als een bepaald allel vaker voorkomt in een populatie, dan zal de genfrequentie voor dit allel vanzelfsprekend ook hoger zijn. De kans dat een bepaald allel door wordt gegeven aan de volgende generatie is af te lezen aan de genfrequentie. Dit geldt echter alleen maar als de dieren binnen een bepaalde populatie zich volledig willekeurig voortplanten.

De wet van Hardy-Weinberg bespreekt het verschijnsel dat genfrequenties gelijk blijven in grote populaties.

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Stevie Nicks Benefit concerts and performances
Stevie performed with Fleetwood Mac at the America West Arena in Phoenix to benefit the Arizona Heart Foundation. Read fan reviews of the show.
Stevie performed at the benefit concert Stormy Weather 2002, at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on November 13th to benefit the Walden Woods project and the Thoreau Institute At Walden Pond. Stevie performed "Landslide," and the Etta James' song "Sunday Kind of Love." Read Stormy Weather reviews.
Stevie performed at The 9th Annual Race to Erase MS in Los Angeles.
Stevie performed at a small private benefit for the Robin Hood Foundation at the Jacob Javitz Center in New York.
Stevie joined Sheryl Crow on March 6th at the Manhattan Center in New York for the National Breast Cancer Coalition Fund's Annual New York Dinner. Read fan reviews of the show.
Stevie performed at The Forum in Inglewood, CA to benefit The Recording Artists Coalition.
Read fan reviews of the concert.
Read articles about the show.
Stevie performed on December 9 at the Masonic Auditorium in San Francisco for KFOG's Concert For Kids. Read the KFOG Concert fan reviews.
Stevie performed in Phoenix on December 6th with special guests Natalie Maines, Mick Fleetwood, Lindsey Buckingham, Sheryl Crow and Don Henley to benefit the Arizona Heart Institute Foundation. Read the fan reviews of the event.
Stevie performed at the Jingle Ball on December 7th at the SDSU Cox Arena in San Diego, California. Read the Jingle Ball fan reviews.
December 14, 2000: A Very Special Christmas 2000 to benefit Special Olympics. Stevie performed with other artists at the White House in front of the President and other guests. Stevie sang Silent Night accompanied by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. The show was broadcast on TNT. Read the articles about the concert.
September 23, 2000: Stevie Nicks and Friends Arizona Heart Institute Benefit concert in Phoenix, Arizona. Stevie performed with friends Sheryl Crow, Don Henley, Chris Isaak, and Lindsey Buckingham. Read the fan reviews of the concert.
September 14, 1999: Stevie joined Sheryl Crow for a free concert in Central Park in New York. Sheryl Crow was the host for the event. The concert benefited Pediatric AIDS and included artists Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Sarah McLachlan, Chrissie Hynde, the Dixie Chicks and others. It was broadcast live on TV, radio and the Internet. Stevie sang "Gold Dust Woman" with Sheryl and Sheryl's band backing her. Read the reviews of the concert.
November 4, 1998: Stevie performed at the City of Hope's benefit, The Spirit of Life Award Dinner. The event took place at the Barker Hangar at Santa Monica Airport in California. Bill Murray hosted this "One Night of Wonders", which included artists performing their favorite "One Hit Wonders." Stevie sang Black Velvet solo, and also sang It Takes Two as a duet with Don Henley. The event raised $2.5 million. Read the articles.
September 26, 1998: Stevie performed at a benefit at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, NV. The benefit was hosted by Andre Agassi and benefitted the Andre Agassi Foundation, an organization for underprivileged children. Stevie opened the event accompanied by an orchestra and sang "At Last." She also performed "Dreams," "Rhiannon," and "Stand Back." Other performers were Mick Fleetwood, Sheila E. and Lionel Richie. Read the fan reviews. Read the press release.
July 23, 1998: Benefit concert at America West Arena in Phoenix, AZ for the Arizona Heart Institute; Enchanted tour concert set list; Don Henley and Mick Fleetwood joined Stevie on stage as special guests. Don and Stevie performed "Leather and Lace." Read the fan reviews.
July 4, 1998: Stevie's Enchanted concert at the Coral Sky Pavillion in West Palm Beach, FL helped raise money for the Red Cross to benefit the Florida Fire victims. Stevie performed the Enchanted concert set list. Read the article in the Palm Beach Post. Read the fan reviews.
April 16, 1998: Stevie performed at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles, CA for the Stormy Weather benefit. It was a benefit for Don Henley's Walden Woods project and the Thoreau Institute at Walden Pond. The organization has been working since 1990 to preserve the land around Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts where Henry David Thoreau lived and wrote. The singers at Stormy Weather included Sandra Bernhard, Bjork, Natalie Cole, Paula Cole, Shawn Colvin, Sheryl Crow, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Nicks, Gwen Stefani and Trisha Yearwood. Stevie performed two songs; "When Sunny Gets Blue", and the Etta James classic "At Last". She was accompanied by the El Nino Orchestra. Read the reviews.
December 19, 1997: Stevie played the part of The Ghost of Christmas Past in the annual KTAR radio (Phoenix, AZ) broadcast of "A Christmas Carol." The play was performed at Herberger Theatre in Phoenix, AZ. The play benefits the Salvation Army. Stevie has participated in this play for three years now . Read details about the performance.
March 9, 1997: Stevie performed at the Union Hall in Phoenix, AZ in a concert to benefit the Southwest Center for Biological Diversity. Don Henley was the host for this event. Stevie performed four songs. Don Henley joined her for Leather and Lace. Also performing were Roger McGuinn, Bruce Hornsby and Timothy B. Schmit. There was a short review of the concert in the March 10 Arizona Republic. Read the reviews from the fans who attended and see the Photos.
August 24, 1996: Stevie performed a benefit concert at Polaris Amphitheatre in Columbus Ohio. WNCI (97.9) radio station in Columbus, OH hosted this event. The concert celebrated the 35th anniversary of the radio station. The proceeds went to Kids in Camp, which is a foundation for children with cancer. Read reviews of the show.
April 22, 1996: Stevie performed at the 25 year anniversary/benefit for the Arizona Heart Institute. The event was held at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Edward Dietrich in Scottsdale, AZ. Dr. Dietrich is the founder of the Institute and Jess Nicks (Stevie's father) is the chairman. Dinner was provided by Chef Vincent Guerithault. This was a very intimate setting on the patio of Dr. Dietrich's home on a beautiful Sunday evening. This event was invitation only, and most of the 200 guests were involved with the Heart Institute. Stevie's father introduced her before she sang a eleven song set. Read the fan reviews.
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Pass the Rock
by Glenn Dixon June 2nd, 2000 August 29th, 2020
One night last year, a friend and I traded confessions of pop-star crushes. I owned up to several fixations from my college days, some merely puzzling (Laurie Anderson), some regrettable (Natalie Merchant), some downright shaming (Suzanne Vega—yikes!). Perhaps trying to buck me up after tempting me into consideration of my lost years, Virginia asked about a singer she knew I currently carried a torch for—how about Corin Tucker? "I don't want to date Corin Tucker," I explained. "I want to be Corin Tucker."
The late '90s were a bad time for big rock vocalists. Between the sinus-gargling Vedder clones, the Zoom-boxed Reznorites, and the faux-anguished gut-spillers gumming Alanis' jagged little pill to a pulp, it seemed as if all post-Kurt singers were writing checks their larynxes couldn't cash. Sure, there were plenty of mouthpieces who didn't aspire to pouring on the passion like so much butter pecan at the IHOP, but most of them barely bothered to part their lips, much less follow a tune.
From their midst emerged the lead singer of Sleater-Kinney. Tucker's siren song was part sailor's seduction, part air-raid warning. If Cobain could howl in tune, she could shriek on pitch—and she was louder, hotter, sharper. It was an unearthly sound, wrenching and exhilarating. It could hurl you from yourself, make you wish to be annihilated so long as you could hear it on your way out. If 1996's Call the Doctor, the band's sophomore album, had been released by a major, rather than by Portland indie Chainsaw, it would've shown up in
traffic-fatality stats. The follow-up, Dig Me Out, on Kill Rock Stars, made Sleater-Kinney a band it was impossible to be reasonable about. I still picture myself listening to those records as some sort of ridiculous anime transfiguration scene, my eyes rolled all the way back to white, an endless column of light blasting up out of my cranium.
A Third Reich dictum held that if a lie is repeated a thousand times, it becomes the truth. The opposite holds in rock. No matter how heartfelt a song is, no matter how invested its performance, you sing it enough times the same way and it'll start to ring false. Although honesty and rawness aren't absolute rock virtues, they are absolute for some bands. Rather than pay them lip service, mocking them in rote recapitulation, Sleater-Kinney left them behind, becoming a different band in the process.
Rawness went first. With last year's The Hot Rock, the trio switched producers from Washington state stalwart John Goodmanson, who had handled the board on the two previous albums, to Roger Moutenot, known for Yo La Tengo's I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One. Moutenot encouraged tendencies, latent on Dig Me Out, to resist the force of Tucker's voice. Her vocal lines, more modulated and restrained than before, were alternated more often with those of co-frontwoman Carrie Brownstein, frequently overlapping. Husker Du had often been mentioned as a precedent, but now it was as though no one had to choose between the Grant Hart songs and the Bob Mould songs, because they were both playing at the same time. The guitars of Tucker and Brownstein switched from chattering like telegraphs to grinding like gears slightly out of true. Janet Weiss' drumming, which had efficiently channeled the band's energies on Dig, opened up and became more coloristic, less driving. Strings were added.
The Hot Rock's title conceit of the authentic vs. the counterfeit, which Brownstein borrowed from an early-'70s heist flick, was rendered in photos (perhaps with a nod to Help!) as a large-stoned ring that shifted from one finger to the next. This year, honesty's up for grabs. The gemstone thimblerig continues on the back of All Hands on the Bad One. Each band member casually hides a hand. You've got to guess where the ring has gone.
It's something the band itself is puzzling over. Onstage, the post-riot grrrl group, though still electrifying, has reinvented itself as a big, polished pop act. Tucker has new confidence and eye-rolling sass, and Brownstein, a dead shot with her SG, prowls the stage with a high-kicking strut and a battery of rock-star gestures. Steady as ever on the traps, karaoke fan Weiss is now no stranger to the smooth harmony vocal. They're having the time of their lives, and they're bringing as many people along as they can fit on board. As new material, fan faves, and a cover of "Fortunate Son" rang from the stage of the 9:30 Club before a full house Thursday night, I got the feeling that the band could work a stadium; I'm just glad it won't mess with that racket. But a larger club and a better PA helps. At the Black Cat, S-K always sounded smaller than life. No more.
On disc, everything's running smoothly; despite the trademark dissonances, everything hums. Goodmanson is back, but you'll never confuse All Hands with Doctor. A peek at the lyric sheet, however, reveals the transition to gleeful inauthenticity to be more fraught than the live show would have you believe. The single "You're No Rock n' Roll Fun" may be all singsong, smart-ass finger-wagging, but when it and roughly half of the remaining songs on the record either indulge in some degree of muso navel-gazing or wring hands over the band's self-imposed exile to a music-biz middleground, something's amiss.
At this point, Tucker, Brownstein, and Weiss have enough songs about being (and/or consorting with) musicians that their next record could be a live road opera in the tradition of Running on Empty, and they wouldn't even have to come up with any new tunes. It might not be a bad idea. But, in the past, it was music's function as an arena in which to work out and ultimately stake a claim to one's own identity that made it a fresh, genuine subject for women grappling with those very issues. And when on The Hot Rock's "End of You," a song in the incandescent style of earlier albums that received a rousing treatment last week, Tucker, in the guise of Odysseus, no less, turns the spotlight back on the crowd, singing, "I am not the captain/I am just another fan/Sailing off the edge of truth/Into the end of you," she gets away clean, because the music and the performance back up every word. Not so on All Hands' "The Professional," which refuses to accept that the band has long since relinquished its amateur status, or on "Male Model," which acts as if the trio hadn't rendered the whole women-in-rock line passe several years ago. Sleater-Kinney now stoops to battles it used to transcend.
Weary though I am of the pissing-contest tradition of the battle rap, I've got to give the form credit. "Keeping it real" may find wealthy hiphoppers refusing to cede their nostalgia for the street crime that raised them (poignant, that), but the flip side of the credibility 12-inch at least has them spinning an ode to quality. It's a matter of pride to be better than the next guy. Across the pop pond in Indieland, however, keeping it real consists largely of not upstaging your pals. There's something to be said for community spirit when your band is and ever shall be just as crappy as your neighbor's, but indie ethics may actually be quashing Sleater-Kinney's spirit.
I'm fine with the band's staying on Kill Rock Stars, which doubtless gets a boost from Tucker, Brownstein, and Weiss even if the label won't find itself transformed to the degree Epitaph did when the Offspring came out and played. And I like the emphasis on all-ages shows; S-K is exactly the sort of thing you'd want to turn your teenage niece on to, so why shouldn't she be able to catch it live? But when a singer who not long ago was regularly referred to as a force of nature and a band that not only outclassed all competition but trumped rock itself are reinvented, in the name of bonhomie, as the snappiest power-pop outfit in the Pacific Northwest, can we help but feel a trifle disappointed? Some things are bigger than rock 'n' roll fun. CP


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\section{Introduction \label{sec:1-intro}}

The nature of particle physics beyond the Standard Model (SM) remains unknown. However,
we have two key hints about the nature of new physics: it must account for the non-luminous dark matter (DM), and it must account for neutrino masses. Interestingly, DM direct-detection experiments are sufficiently sensitive to be leading players in searching for novel neutrino interactions that may potentially help solve the mystery of neutrino masses.

This context makes the recent excess of electron recoil events at XENON1T~\cite{Aprile:2020tmw} all the more intriguing.
Neutrino magnetic moments were originally studied by the XENON1T collaboration as potential explanations to the excess (axions, dark photons, and other DM proposals were also discussed in ~\cite{Takahashi:2020bpq,Kannike:2020agf,Alonso-Alvarez:2020cdv,Amaral:2020tga,Fornal:2020npv,Boehm:2020ltd,Harigaya:2020ckz,Bally:2020yid,Su:2020zny,Du:2020ybt,DiLuzio:2020jjp,Bell:2020bes,Chen:2020gcl,Dey:2020sai,Choi:2020udy,AristizabalSierra:2020edu,Buch:2020mrg,Paz:2020pbc,Lee:2020wmh,Cao:2020bwd,Robinson:2020gfu,Khan:2020vaf,Primulando:2020rdk,Nakayama:2020ikz,Jho:2020sku,Bramante:2020zos,Baryakhtar:2020rwy,An:2020bxd,Zu:2020idx,Gao:2020wer,Budnik:2020nwz,Lindner:2020kko,Bloch:2020uzh,DeRocco:2020xdt,Dent:2020jhf,Zioutas:2020cul,McKeen:2020vpf,Coloma:2020voz,An:2020tcg,DelleRose:2020pbh,Ge:2020jfn,Bhattacherjee:2020qmv,Dessert:2020vxy,Chao:2020yro,Cacciapaglia:2020kbf,Ko:2020gdg,Gao:2020wfr,Alhazmi:2020fju,Baek:2020owl,Li:2020naa,Chigusa:2020bgq,Miranda:2020kwy,Benakli:2020vng,Okada:2020evk}). However, the couplings found tend to exceed the bounds from various astrophysical systems. In this paper, we highlight a neutrino dipole-portal interaction that can account for the signal, while evading astrophysical bounds (though still could be subject to cosmological bounds). This results from the introduction of a new mass scale to the neutrino interaction.

\begin{figure}[b!]
\includegraphics[angle=0,width=.45\textwidth]{fig1Xe.pdf}
\caption{Dipole portal best fit signal spectrum at XENON1T with $m_{4} = 640$ keV and $d = 2.2 \times 10^{-9}~\mu_{B}$. The background is shown in dashed black, the signal is solid red, and the signal plus background is shown in solid blue. Included in these event rates are the energy-dependent signal efficiency.}
\label{fig:fluxes}
\end{figure}

The most commonly studied models accounting for neutrino masses introduce right-handed sterile neutrinos, $N$, via the interaction $\mathcal{L} \supset HNL$. However, it is important to stress that such singlet states need not dominantly interact with the SM through this particular operator. Viable scenarios exist in which the dominant interaction comes from an active-to-sterile dipole moment, sometimes referred to as the ``neutrino dipole portal,''
\begin{equation}
\mathcal{L}  \supset d \left(\bar{\nu}_{L}  \sigma_{\mu \nu} F^{\mu \nu} N \right) + h.c.,
\label{eq:Lagr}
\end{equation}
where $F_{\mu \nu}$ is the electromagnetic field strength, $\sigma_{\rho\sigma}=\frac{i}{2}[\gamma_\rho,\gamma_\sigma]$, $\nu_{L}$ is the SM neutrino, and the coefficient $d$ with units of $(\rm{mass})^{-1}$ controls the strength of the interaction. This transition dipole moment has been studied in the context of MiniBooNE~\cite{Gninenko:2009ks,Gninenko:2010pr,McKeen:2010rx,Masip:2011qb,Gninenko:2012rw,Masip:2012ke,Magill:2018jla,Bertuzzo:2018itn}, and future projected bounds have been studied for IceCube~\cite{Coloma:2017ppo}, SHiP~\cite{Magill:2018jla}, and direct-detection experiments~\cite{Shoemaker:2018vii}.

\begin{figure}[t!]
\includegraphics[angle=0,width=.49\textwidth]{fitplot.pdf}
\caption{We display the best-fit contours (1,2,3)$\sigma$ in the dipole coupling-mass plane. Each region originates from the labeled solar neutrino fluxes.}
\label{fig:fit}
\end{figure}

Note that this operator can be induced through loop processes with the ordinary HNL operator, and in most cases, mixing between $N$ and SM neutrinos would also be induced.
We focus our attention on the operator in Eq.~(\ref{eq:Lagr}) as a simplified consideration. We also introduce a Dirac mass for $N$, denoted $m_{4}$, and avoid the Majorana mass-term for complications discussed in \cite{Magill:2018jla}.
In addition, a small mixing angle would not affect our result, and the constraints are dependent on the size of the mixing.
The tau mixing is not strongly constrained for a $\sim$ 100 keV sterile neutrino ~\cite{Helo:2011yg,Bryman:2019bjg,Dib:2019tuj,Kim:2019xqj,Bryman:2019ssi}. We leave a more complete consideration including the mixing and the potential complications of introducing a Majorana mass term for a future work \cite{precite}.

We will show that up-scattering from $\nu$ to a heavy sterile neutrino $N$ (with a Dirac mass $m_{4}$) within the XENON1T detector can plausibly explain the excess while simultaneously evading astrophysical and other terrestrial bounds. We find that $\rm pp$, CNO, and $^{8}\rm B$ solar neutrino fluxes lead to three separate best-fit regions. While the pp region is known from the XENON1T analysis~\cite{Aprile:2020tmw}, we show that this extends to masses of 100 keV.
Furthermore, CNO and $^{8}\rm B$ neutrino fluxes respectively allow novel $\sim$ 260 keV and $\sim$ 600 keV sterile mass solutions assuming this minimal dipole operator. We note that the first direct experimental evidence for neutrinos from the CNO cycle was just reported by Borexino~\cite{Agostini:2020lci}.

The remainder of this paper is organized as follows. In Sec.~\ref{sec:calc} we introduce the main framework for computing event rates at XENON1T. In Sec.~\ref{sec:results} we discuss the results of our fit to the XENON1T data under a neutrino dipole interpretation. In Sec.~\ref{sec:constraints} we review existing constraints on the model focusing on direct detection, stellar energy loss, supernovae, and BBN. Finally we conclude the paper in Sec.~\ref{sec:concl} and discuss future probes of the model.
\newline

\section{Energy Deposition via Neutrino Dipole Portal}
\label{sec:calc}

As studied in~\cite{Shoemaker:2018vii}, incoming solar neutrinos can upscatter to the heavy sterile state $N$ in the detector volume of a direct-detection experiment. They will inevitably decay as well through $N\rightarrow \nu + \gamma$, but in the cases of interest for the present, the decay length is much longer than the detector dimensions.

To estimate the event rate, we consider the up-scattering cross section:
\begin{widetext}
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{eq:magneticmomentcrosssection}
\frac{d\sigma_{\nu e \rightarrow Ne}}{dE_R} &=& d^2\alpha  \Bigg[\frac{1}{E_R}-\frac{m_{4}^2}{2E_{\nu}E_{R}m_e}\Bigg(1-\frac{E_{R}}{2E_\nu}+\frac{m_e}{2E_\nu}\Bigg)-\frac{1}{E_\nu}+\frac{m_{4}^4(E_{R}-m_e)}{8E_\nu^2E_{R}^2m_e^2}\Bigg].
\end{eqnarray}
\end{widetext}
Here, $d$ is the coupling constant defined in Eq. \ref{eq:Lagr}, $\alpha$ is the fine structure constant, $m_e$ is the electron mass, $m_{4}$ is the mass of the heavy sterile neutrino,  $E_\nu$ is the incoming neutrino energy, and $E_{R}$ is the electron-recoil energy.

The electron-recoil spectrum of the up-scattering events can be determined as
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:magneticmomentrate}
\frac{dR^i}{dE_R} = {\rm MT} \times\int_{E_{\nu}^{min}}\frac{d\Phi_{\nu}^{i}}{dE_{\nu}}\frac{d\sigma_{\nu e\rightarrow Ne}^i }{dE_R}(E_{\nu},E_{R}\big)dE_{\nu},
\end{equation}
where $i$=$\tau$ for the tau neutrino flavor only (unlike the case in \cite{Shoemaker:2018vii}).
In addition, $\Phi_\nu$ is the solar neutrino flux and $\rm MT$ is the exposure.
The minimum energy of the incoming neutrino to up-scatter to the $m_{4}$-mass state, yielding electron recoil with an energy $E_{R}$, is
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:minimumenergy}
E_\nu^{{\rm min}}(E_{R})=\frac{m_{4}^2+2m_eE_R}{2\Big[\sqrt[]{E_R(E_R+2m_e)}-E_R \Big]}.
\end{equation}

We also include the energy-dependent efficiency given in Fig. 2 of Ref.~\cite{Aprile:2020tmw}, and include their background estimations in our fits.

\section{Results}
\label{sec:results}

We display our main results in Fig.~\ref{fig:fit} assuming only a $\nu_{\tau}$ coupling for the dipole interaction in Eq.~\ref{eq:Lagr}. We follow the method of \cite{Billard:2013qya} and utilize a Log-Likelihood Profile method to quantify a discovery significance. The likelihood of the XENON1T results being produced by background only is compared to the likelihood from the background plus hypothesized signal, and the resulting test statistic is used to generate a discovery significance for each point in the $m_{4}$, $d$ parameter space. Because of the additional degree of freedom provided by the new mass scale, the asymptotic form of the test statistic follows a $\chi^2$ distribution with two degrees of freedom as described in \cite{cowan_asymptotic_2011}. The discovery significance may be lower than we have stated because of the look-elsewhere effect (due to our selective sampling of data in the XENON1T low energy bins only), but we leave a more detailed statistical analysis for further research. Along with the XENON1T contours we display the SN1987A~\cite{Magill:2018jla} and previous XENON1T bounds based on nuclear recoil data~\cite{Shoemaker:2018vii}. At larger couplings, the dipole is constrained by LEP~\cite{Magill:2018jla} and DONUT~\cite{Schwienhorst:2001sj,Coloma:2017ppo}.

The equivalent plot for $\mu$-flavor coupling includes strong bounds from CHARM-II at the $3\times 10^{-9}~\mu_{B}$ level. Moreover, Borexino probes up to $m_{4}\simeq 230$ keV~\cite{Coloma:2017ppo} at the $2.8 \times 10^{-11}~\mu_{B}$ level for all flavors~\cite{Borexino:2017fbd}. Thus the CNO and boron-8 region will survive in the muon-coupling case as well.

Next, let us understand the origin of the separate islands in Fig.~\ref{fig:fit}. Given that the ordinary neutrino magnetic moment can explain the XENON1T event rate via pp neutrinos, we can normalize our expectation for the dipole portal coupling via CNO as:
\begin{equation}
\Phi_{pp}~ \mu_{\nu}^{2} =\Phi_{N,O} ~ d^{2}
\end{equation}
where $\mu_{\nu} \simeq 2 \times 10^{-11}~\mu_{B}$ is the active neutrino magnetic moment needed for the XENON1T excess, while $d$ is the new active-sterile magnetic moment (see Eq.~\ref{eq:Lagr}), and $\Phi_{pp}$ and $\Phi_{N,O}$ are the pp and N,O solar neutrino fluxes. Thus given that $\Phi_{pp} /\Phi_{N,O} \simeq 10^{2}$, we expect $d\simeq \mu_{\nu}~ \sqrt{\Phi_{pp}/\Phi_{N,O}}  \simeq 10^{-10}~\mu_{B}$.

Further, the maximum sterile mass probed can be found from
\begin{equation}
m_{4,max}^{2} = 2\left[E_{\nu}\sqrt{E_{R}(E_{R}+2m_{e})}-E_{R}(E_{\nu}+m_{e})\right].
\end{equation}
For the MeV-scale CNO neutrinos, the largest mass probed for the 2-3 keV recoil energies of interest is $m_{4,max}^{\rm CNO} \simeq 290$ keV, in good agreement with the fit in Fig.~\ref{fig:fit}. The same logic can be applied to the $^{8}\rm B$ flux, from which we estimate $m_{4,max}^{^{8}\rm B} \simeq 920$ keV and $d\simeq 3 \times 10^{-9}\mu_{B}$.

\section{Constraints}
\label{sec:constraints}
\begin{figure}[t!]
\includegraphics[angle=0,width=.5\textwidth]{BBNtemp.pdf}
\caption{Comparison of the thermalization rates (inverse decay and 2$\rightarrow$ 2 upscattering/synthesis (see text for descriptions), based on the thermal-averaged cross-sections and number density to the temperature-dependent Hubble rate, for the near best-fit benchmark parameter point from Fig.~\ref{fig:fit}, $m_{4} = 600$ keV and $d=10^{-9}~\mu_{B}$.}
\label{fig:BBN}
\end{figure}

\subsection{Xenon 1T NR constraint}

Previous work utilized XENON1T's nuclear recoil search for DM~\cite{Aprile:2018dbl} to place conservative constraints on the neutrino dipole portal interaction~\cite{Shoemaker:2018vii}. In that case, the low-energy solar neutrinos scatter coherently such that there is a $\sim Z^{2}$ enhancement in the cross-section. This analysis~\cite{Shoemaker:2018vii} specifically vetoed events if the produced heavy sterile decayed inside the detector volume since this would produce an altered ionization/scintillation signal. Despite this reduction in event rate, the bounds derived from the XENON1T nuclear recoil data~\cite{Aprile:2018dbl} were stronger than existing bounds on the tau-flavored dipole portal coupling for sterile masses less than 10 MeV.

\subsection{Stellar Energy Loss}

The heavy sterile neutrino $N$ we consider can carry energy when thermally produced in the stellar systems, affecting the energy loss, thermal conductivity, and eventually time evolution of well known stellar populations (see, e.g.,  \cite{Raffelt:1994ry,Arceo-Diaz:2015pva,daz2019constraint}).
When $m_{4}>T_{\rm star}$ ($T_{\rm star}$ is the temperature of the star) the thermal-averaged energy loss is proportional to $\exp(-m_{4}/T_{\rm star})$ \cite{Pospelov:2017kep}.
Taking the powerful production of $N$ in the red-giants into account, our parameter space of interest of a heavy sterile neutrino $N$ below $\sim$ 250 keV would be constrained, as indicated by the red dashed vertical line in Fig. \ref{fig:cons}.

\subsection{Supernova 1987A}

The constraints from Supernova 1987A (SN1987A) on a dipole portal heavy sterile neutrino is conducted in \cite{Magill:2018jla}.
The constraint in our parameter space of interest is enclosed by an upper limit and a lower limit.
The lower limit is set by the minimal emission of sterile neutrino $N$ that would carry out enough energy to affect the standard supernovae cooling through neutrinos from the core. The relevant production processes include neutrino upscattering to $N$ with electrons/positrons/protons, $e^+ e^-$ annihilating into $N \bar{\nu}$, and neutrino-photon inverse decay.
The higher limit of the bound is set by the "trapping" of the sterile neutrino $N$, meaning that the energy carried by $N$ can be recycled and re-emitted within the "neutrinosphere" (an isotherm-sphere within which the neutrino is diffusive rather than free-streaming) \cite{Chang:2016ntp}, and the constraint from supernova cooling can be avoided with large enough coupling. The relevant processes for this "trapping" consideration are $N$ downscattering to neutrinos with electrons/positrons/protons, $N-\bar{\nu}$ annihilation to electron pairs, $N$ decay, and gravitational trapping (which kick in at above $\sim$ 300 MeV). The constrained regime is shown in Fig. \ref{fig:cons}.

Notice that the SN1987A bound is subject to large uncertainties in both the supernovae property, the SN1987A measurement, and also the cooling model \cite{Bar:2019ifz}.
Improvements of the SN1987A bound consideration is possible, both for sub-MeV and above-MeV regimes. One thing that can be taken into account is the complicated flavor composition and energy spectra of neutrinos during supernovae processes (see, e.g., \cite{Fischer_2010}). Given that our sterile neutrino is only tau coupled, such consideration may affect the supernovae bound. Further analysis can be performed with a more detailed study \cite{precite}.

\subsection{BBN}

Dark-sector particles of mass around or below a MeV that couple to the SM sector could be subject to strong big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) constraints {\cite{Berezhiani:2012ru,Boehm:2013jpa,Krnjaic:2019dzc}}. Previous work~\cite{Magill:2018jla} found that BBN constraints on the heavy sterile neutrino with a dipole portal are sensitive to the reheating temperature for a broad range of sterile masses. If $N$ is thermally populated in the early universe, it could have various effects on BBN. In particular, it could contribute to $N_{\rm eff}$ as a semi-relativistic particle during BBN, and it could decay to photons and neutrinos, affecting their temperatures (also affecting $N_{\rm eff}$) as well as light-element production \cite{Berezhiani:2012ru,Boehm:2013jpa}.

The major thermalization processes of $N$ are the
 $2 \rightarrow 2$ processes $e^{+} + e^{-} \rightarrow N+ \bar{\nu}$ (synthesis) and  $e^{-} + \nu \rightarrow e^{-} + N$ (up-scattering), and neutrino-photon inverse decay, $\nu+\gamma \rightarrow N$. Since the 2 to 2 processes scale as $\Gamma_{ 2\rightarrow 2}\;\undertilde{\propto}\;d^{2} T^{3}$, $N$ will inevitably be thermalized when the SM temperature $T$ is much higher than the energy scale $d^{-1}$. Under the assumption of high reheating temperature ($T_{\rm RH}$ much larger than $d^{-1}$), the sub-MeV region of interest would be strongly constrained.

\begin{figure}[t!]
\includegraphics[angle=0,width=.5\textwidth]{newfigXE1t.pdf}
\caption{
Along with the XENON1T best-fit contours, we display the SN1987A~\cite{Magill:2018jla}, stellar energy loss, and XENON1T nuclear recoil bounds~\cite{Shoemaker:2018vii}.
We also use dashed/dotted gray curves to indicate the parameter space in which thermalization (thermal processes exceeding the Hubble rate) could happen at a temperature below 2 MeV (region above the upper dashed-gray) and 5 MeV (region above the lower dotted-gray), see texts for detail.
}
\label{fig:cons}
\end{figure}

However, one can consider cosmological scenarios with a very low reheating temperature \cite{Moroi:1999zb,Hannestad:2004px,Kohri:2005wn,Pradler:2006hh,deSalas:2015glj,Berlin:2018bsc}, around 2 to 5 MeV, and determine if $N$ will be thermalized below such temperatures. In the parameter space that $N$ is not thermalized, the strong BBN bound can be alleviated.
In Fig.~\ref{fig:BBN}, we show the ratio of the major thermalization processes to the Hubble rate, for a benchmark point in the best fit region for $^{8}\rm B$.
These rates are calculated through proper thermal-averaging (briefly described in \cite{Magill:2018jla}). We also checked that the numerically calculated thermal-averaged cross-section and the analytical cross-sections taking into account boost-factors from the temperature match quantitatively.
As one can see, the neutrino-photon inverse decay can play a major role in thermalization with a low-reheating temperature, as it has a resonance region at around $T \sim m_{4}/2.$ In Fig.~\ref{fig:BBN}, one can see the behavior of $\Gamma/H$ in different SM temperatures.
Note that $\Gamma/H\sim 1$ is just an estimation of thermalization. Detailed consideration should be conducted to determine the actual thermalization conditions.

In Fig. \ref{fig:cons}, we display the calculated thermalization curves for the parameter space of interest.
Above the upper (lower) dashed gray curves is the parameter space in which the $N$ thermalization rate exceeds the Hubble rate below 2 MeV (5 MeV) temperatures.
The BBN constraints may be alleviated below these curves.
Note that the $N$ thermalization processes mentioned above also provide new channels for electron/photon and neutrino sectors to thermalize (even if the $N$ itself is not being fully thermally populated).
However, the parameter space below the "thermalization curves" in Fig. \ref{fig:cons} still indicate that these interaction rates never exceed the Hubble rate under the low reheating temperatures we have considered (2 and 5 MeV), and that these rates may not be strong enough to directly affect neutrino decoupling or BBN.
We find some of the best-fit regions for $^{8}\rm B$ flux are covered by 2 MeV or 5 MeV thermalization curves, and the small island of CNO flux-favored region can avoid thermalization.
Given the borderline case for the $^{8}\rm B$ region, we believe that a detailed analysis should be conducted to determine the full effects of this portal on neutrino decoupling and BBN. We leave this consideration for a future work \cite{precite}.

\section{Conclusions}
\label{sec:concl}

We have shown that the neutrino dipole portal can successfully reconcile a solar neutrino origin with astrophysical and terrestrial bounds with the introduction of a new mass scale sterile neutrino. Future probes of the model include: scintillation-only LXe data~\cite{Aprile:2019xxb}, SHiP~\cite{Magill:2018jla}, DUNE, and a detailed BBN analysis. We further note that direct atmospheric production of sterile neutrinos via the dipole operator may lead to additional constraints~\cite{Bueno:2013mfa}. Although such models may induce mass mixing with the active neutrinos, these bounds are weak~\cite{Helo:2011yg,Bryman:2019bjg,Dib:2019tuj,Kim:2019xqj,Bryman:2019ssi} for the tau-flavor couplings we focus on.

\section*{Acknowledgements}

We thank Nikita Blinov, Pilar Coloma, Gordan Krnjaic, Maxim Pospelov, Evan Shockley, and Luca Vecchi for useful discussions.
The work of IMS is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy
under the award number DE-SC0020250.
This document was prepared by Y-DT using the resources of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), a U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, HEP User Facility. Fermilab is managed by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (FRA), acting under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359.

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The History of Kimonos
With our newest line of printed kimonos just hitting our boutique, we are excited to jump into the history of kimonos and share the interesting past and unique story of these chic wardrobe pieces that have become a close staple in today's fashion.
We'll start at the very beginning, with the origin of kimonos. Many know that these beautiful pieces originated in Japan, being first created over a thousands years ago. In fact the word "kimono" literally translates to "the thing worn". However, did you know the inspiration behind kimonos comes from China? The Han Chinese clothing consisted of silk robes and these were what directly influenced the kimonos of Japan. These particular garments were worn during the Qing Dynasty in the mid 1600s. However, as the country's rulers changed, so did the country's dressings, causing the details of the kimono to continuously change slightly. This being said, the original shape and style of the kimono always remained untouched and true to it's origin.
Those who primarily would wear kimonos were the samurai, which were the ruling military class in Japan. But within time and because of the kimono's luxe and beautiful make, the garment became very popular amongst the artisan and upper class. They soon became a status symbol. The kimono developed into a highly expressive means of personal display and an important indicator of a person's rising affluence and aesthetic sensibility.
Let's talk about the basic structure and key pattern of a kimono. Each traditional kimono consisted of four strips of cloth, with the smaller and thiner strips forming the neckline and front panel. It was also traditional that a kimono be made of satin weaves or silk and the amount of pieces differed from a men's kimono and women's kimono. Men's traditional kimonos were composed of no more than five pieces, while the women's kimono consisted of no less than twelve pieces. However, it was the colors and patterns that most prominently separated the men's and women's kimonos.
Men's kimonos that were casual and commonly neutral and only sometimes consisted of a subtle matte pattern. The formal kimonos of men were usually plain and black. Women's kimonos have always been styled with more complexity and intricacy. In fact, throughout the history of kimonos, because of their complexity it usually required several women to assist in a Japanese women putting on her kimono. There are even certified kimono dressers.
However, as time passed so did the commonality and accessibility of kimonos. This was greatly do to their practical and comfortable structure. The kimono was a comfortable garment for people to wear who sit on a straw mat which was common in Japanese homes, as tea and meals were eaten together by sitting on the ground. So even as some style details changed over time like the length of the kimono or specific sash it was tied with or even the the amount of layers depending on the climate, the basic structure of the kimono remained fairly unchanged because it was what made the garment such a versatile piece.
So how did these once very traditional Asian garments turn into a more widely styled fashion piece across the world? Toward the end of the 19th century, the Western culture began to influence Japanese life and popular clothing options began to more closely resemble European and American fashion. However, just as the Japanese were influenced by Western fashion, so had Western cultural begun to incorporate the traditional aspects of Japanese art, culture and style-which included the kimono.
Today, top designers and fashion houses like Opening Ceremony and Alice and Olivia have given kimonos a place in every woman's closet, by embracing their versatility and unique details and creating more modern designs that fit any women's personal style. This was a leading factor in artTECA's reason to add kimonos to it's wearable art collection. Each one of the four kimonos in the artTECA collection have been curated and designed with every woman in mind. Regardless of lifestyle, these casual and chic kimonos were made to fit into every woman's life and embrace and effortless sense of style.
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A couple vids to make you think of better days.
From last fall, I'm fat guy he's following.
I'm pretty sure I would eat a tree or 5 if I attempted that.
Nice. That looks like a beautiful area to ride. Doesn't look like the trails get much use.
the 4 wheeler and side x side trails get beat to hell, but luckily the single track gets very little use.
Holy cow! That is a lot of trails. Thanks for the map file.
It looks like a very high percentage are dead end trails. Are they all multi-use; i.e. hiking, mtn bike, dirt bike, etc? I've been to or through the area a couple of times but never with a dirt bike or dual sport bike. I might need to make this a destination at some point.
most of the dead ends are forest service roads. the trails on the map are the "legal" trails. there are a lot of illegal trails as well.... If you want to do off road I believe there are almost 4,000mi. of everything from gravel to single track. I'm not very fast, or in very good shape but 70 Miles of singletrack is about all I can do in a day.
Great trail system. I know that's more difficult than it looks in the video.
the video never captures the reality, it always looks so easy.
On the list for my 790 training tour.
Oh Heeeeeeeeck no. Not that stuff. Some other easier stuff. I would like to try to keep up on the 790 doing stuff you do on the 1290. It would still probably result in a miserable fail but man would it be fun. Preferably not in the rain...and cold... and slime.
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A 14-month-old baby boy has died after a fall in his Wexford home. Baby Shea Joyce from Castleboro was found unresponsive at the foot of the staircase in the family home around lunchtime on Tuesday.
Keith Flint , vocalist with the Prodigy , has died at the age of 49. He was found at his home in Essex on Monday. Firestarter' s black and white video, featuring a headbanging, gurning Flint , was banned by the BBC after it was screened on Top of the Pops, with parents complaining that it frightened children.
The Prodigy ' s singer Keith Flint , best known for the song 'Firestarter', has been found dead at his home in England. The band has announced that The singer from Dunmow, Essex, was discovered by police, Monday morning, after an ambulance responded to reports of an man who was unconscious.
The Prodigy has paid tribute to their security man Con who has died just one month after the band's main singer Keith Flint committed suicide.
The electronic music band posted various pictures of Con referring to him as "superman" and "the greatest loyal friend" in their emotional post on Twitter.
The band's tribute said: "You always had our backs and looked after us for years , you got us out of many sticky situations on tour , you were a truly great man , in fact you were actually Superman – the people that knew you will understand what I'm sayin….
Actress Sandy Ratcliff, who played much-loved character Sue Osman in EastEnders, was discovered dead in her north London home aged 70. She had suffered from drug addiction in her life.
LONDON — Keith Flint , a high-octane founding member of the British dance act the Prodigy , who sang lead vocals on the hits "Firestarter" and "Breathe," was found dead on Monday in Essex, England. He was 49. His death was announced on the band ' s Instagram account.
The circumstances of Con's death are currently not known.
Keith Flint was the stage persona of The Prodigy , whose 1990 s hits included "Firestarter.". USA TODAY.
A one-year-old girl who fell from the window of a third floor flat has died in hospital. Police Scotland said inquiries into the incident were ongoing but there were no suspicious circumstances. The child fell from the tenement window on Dumbarton Road, Clydebank, on Wednesday at about 2.10pm. She was taken by ambulance to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow, where police said she later died. Detective Inspector Steve Martin said: "The little girl's family have been left devastated by the loss of their child and we are investigating the circumstances surrounding what happened.
Bradley Welsh, 42, (pictured) was gunned down in the affluent West End area of the city at around 8pm on Wednesday and was pronounced dead shortly afterwards. The area was put on lockdown after the shooting and police are appealing for help with tracing the gunman. © Provided by Associated Newspapers Limited Welsh Welsh was made famous after playing a gangland boss in Trainspotting 2 who owns several seedy saunas around Edinburgh.
Keith Charles Flint (17 September 1969 – 4 March 2019) was an English vocalist, dancer and motorcycle racer. He was a founding member of the electronic dance act The Prodigy .
Social media users have left their own tributes following the tragic news, Dawn Doyle wrote: "Another loss for The Prodigy.
Taoiseach has no plans to beef up security for ministers after protests at their homes.
Leo Varadkar says he has not added any extra security after protests at his home.
Prodigy minder Con dead: Security guard and 'loyal friend' dies weeks after Keith Flint.


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Monash University, like every other Group of Eight University in Australia, has transitioned from an MBBS degree to an MD degree. It is important to note however, that the term MD (Doctor of Medicine), can refer to many different types of degrees both in Australia and Overseas.
The current Bachelor of Medical Science/Doctor of Medicine (BMedSc/MD) degree offered by Monash University is classified as a Masters (Extended) degree.
The Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) recognises three different types of Masters degree: Masters (Research), Masters (Coursework) and Masters (Extended). "The purpose of a Masters (Extended) degree is to qualify individuals who apply an advanced body of knowledge in a range of contexts for professional practice and as a pathway for further learning"; it is not a research degree.
Monash University, like other Universities in Australia, has also offered prior MD Degrees, that are classified as research degrees either at, or above, the level of a PhD. A list of each of the MD degrees currently and previously offered by Monash University is provided in the Table below.
If you previously graduated from one of the previous Monash University MD degrees that was at an AQF10 (PhD or Higher Doctorate level), you could choose to amend your post-nominal title as - MD (by research), which would clearly distinguish your degree as a higher degree. We note, that many previous MD graduates of other Australian Universities have also added the MD (by research) nomenclature to their post-nominal titles. Alternatively, if you would like formal certification from the University to clarify the difference between your research MD and the new Monash MD degree, please fill in the form.
The degree of Doctor of Medicine (MD), taught in English, signifies that the holder has completed extensive, independent research under the supervision of one or more expert academics. When completed, this research must make a significant contribution to the current body of knowledge in the chosen research area. This course normally takes between three and four years of full-time study or six and eight years of part-time study.
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The thesis is examined by two examiners, both of whom are external to Monash University and are recognised experts in the field of research.
The degree of Doctor of Medicine (MD), taught in English, signifies that the holder has completed extensive, independent research. When completed, this research must make a significant contribution to the current body of knowledge in the chosen research area. This course has no attendance or supervision requirements. Awardees of the MD will have fulfilled the requirements for research at the University, including a thesis of up to 100,000 words which demonstrates an ability to carry out independent research and to analyse and synthesise concepts. The thesis is examined by two examiners, both of whom are external to Monash University and are recognised experts in the field of research.


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From Elections To Introspections — Canadians And Americans Are Very Different
The recent US election serves to underscore both the obvious and the distinct differences in our two countries. For instance, US election campaigns can go on for years while Canadians take just three months to listen to our candidates' policies, do some serious soul searching as to which one is best suited for the job and then vote for the one we dislike the least.
Witnessing the Republican and Democratic camps go at each other in the US was like watching two WWF wrestlers break chairs over each others' heads. Here Liberals and Conservatives are much more civil because we have a referee called the NDP which keeps both sides from spitting on each other.
Anticipating a change in federal government, Canadians stock up on toilet paper and alcohol. At the thought of the Democrats winning the White House, Americans bought more guns.
The November 3rd federal contest was the nastiest election in the history of the United States, much of it due to deep-seated racism, disbelief in facts and science and a litany of loony conspiracy theories. The most bitter election in Canadian history occurred in 1917 and it was fought over the military service obligation known as 'conscription'. We like to keep things simple.
Screaming, drum beating and waving flags, Americans treat their elections like the Super Bowl. For Canadians an election is a solemn event, like going to the dentist… dreaded but still necessary.
After this past American election had been decided, half of the US electorate believed that they got ripped off. After a Canadian election has been settled, we look at the government we have created and most of us feel we've been ripped off.
American candidates kept national health care low key because it was too contentious an issue. When anybody starts to mess with our universal healthcare system, Canadians threaten to put them in the hospital.
Whereas Americans distrust their government and look upon it as a necessary evil, Canadians generally consider government as a good thing and tend not to shoot their leaders.
Americans believe our two countries are pretty much the same while Canadians believe that if our border with the United States never opened again, it might not be such a bad idea.
So far Canada has not voted a deranged psychopath to power but somehow Maxime Bernier managed to get his name on a national leadership ballot.
So far Canada has not elected a Prime Minister who told almost three thousand lies in one four-year term but remember, back in the 1980s and 1990s Brian Mulroney was unable to tweet.
Likewise Canada has never been confronted by a 'stable genius' but Justin Trudeau as Aladdin in blackface threw a lot of Liberals for a loop.
Canadians are obsessed with Americans and in particular whether they like us or not. Americans would adore Canadians if they thought about us at all.
Americans identify more with their state governments than the federal system controlled in Washington. Canadians relate more to a common, coast-to-coast governance except in the two provinces which have their own distinct languages — Quebec and Newfoundland.
Canadians brag about how cold it is while Americans complain about the cold… coming down from Canada.
Canadians honour their flag, the bright red maple leaf billowing from the sea to shining sea while Americans love their flag so much, they plant a sea of them on their front lawns.
Canadians travel the world with curiosity and backpacks boasting the red maple leaf, while Americans visit foreign land with suspicion and wearing camouflage in order to invade them.
America's Star-Spangled Banner highlights "rocket's red glare; the bombs bursting in air" while Canada's most treasured anthem involves the words "We The North" and a photo of Kyle Lowry hugging the NBA Championship Trophy. (Sorry. I couldn't resist.)
It used to be that talking politics in America could get a Canadian visitor shot. Lately here in Canada, if we were not talking American politics, we'd have nothing to say at all.
While Americans are fiercely proud of their Wild West roots, the word 'Canada' comes from an Iroquoian word for 'village'. They championed John Wayne; we stole Jane Jacobs away from them.
Americans love the violence of football, the field strewn with injured bodies. Canadians prefer delicate, no contact hockey… as played by the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Sometimes we can see the same thing but look at it very differently. For instance, while Canadians awarded media mogul, Conrad Black The Order of Canada, Americans presented him with the title of Federal Bureau of Prison's #18330-424.
Americans love their grits and Canadians crave poutine. No blood drawn there, we both have an appetite for disgusting food.
Perhaps the difference between them and us was best described in an anecdote offered up by Dave Broadfoot, a founding father of Canadian humour.
A Canadian and an American are driving side-by-side down the road when the Canadian accidentally cuts the American off, forcing him up and over the curb. When they meet at the next stoplight, the American rolls down his window and yells: "You asshole!"
Same scenario, two guys driving along when the American suddenly cuts the Canadian driver off, sending him up and over the curb. When they meet at the next light the Canadian rolls down the window and yells: "What are you, an asshole?"
You see the point is, we always give Americans the benefit of the doubt.
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