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The Nosferatu Adventures s14 p2
Nosferatu stood in the kitchen of the little townhouse, the kettle boiling in a hard whistle as she looked through the steam at Loki. She couldn't believe the last few hours but, there he was in living proof that they had happened.
5 hours earlier...
"So talk. Tell me how we can defeat the covens and Edmund?" our heroine said to the god Mercury as they stood in the middle of Astrid's kitchen in 1976. The god tilted his head and smiled.
"Oh you can't. He's still going to be brought over to this reality by his devotees, and Grandpa Van Helsing is still going to find his coffin and hide it in his house and you lot are still going to end up battling him forty years from now. I just told you what you wanted to hear so you'd let me in the house without much bloodshed." the sandy-blonde haired god replied licking his lips. He tilted his chin slightly as he looked over at the banshee before halfway turning towards the window. "Seems like we've got more uninvited guests." he commented just as Bacchus made his way towards the house. Grabbing our heroine, Mercury shimmered the two of them off into thin air. When they appeared again, they were in the middle of nowhere, a large rock formation just to the left of them which seemed to stretch out for miles. "There, that's a little more private."
"What the shack!" our heroine ripped her arm out from his grasp. "What the hell is going on then? Where are we?"
"What's going on is that the universe is sort of out of balance right now. It's out of balance because Loki isn't around. You, sweetheart, might not realize it but, he was more than just the trickster god of shapeshifters." he gestured with his left hand out palm upward, bending at the knees slightly. "In fact, there is so much you haven't clued into yet. For instance, did you know you were supposed to have been Rolf's mate." Mercury nodded his eyes wide. "Oh yes. You were supposed to have been claimed by Rolf, in fact, you were supposed to have been sired by him. But, Bacchus knew that if that happened, you'd never have come into your vampiric side. So he did what he does and poof!" he clapped his hands together creating a thunderous sound. "Suddenly Dagan gets the urge to snap your back like a twig and swap bodily fluids with you. Boom instant soulmate. And you know as well as I do that good old Ripper was nothing but your soulmate. Bacchus knew it, was counting on you two getting super close super quick. Because he knew about the big bad Frankenstein family curse. Only two children a generation. Knew that if you were sired by Dagan, knew that if you were Frankenstein by bloodline, you really wouldn't be much good to Loki in the grande scheme of things given Loki needed you to be the mother goddess for his Lycanthropes." he took a step to her right turning to look out over the large rock formation before levitating a few feet above the ground. He looked down at her then, the brim of his page-boy cap casting shadows across his face. Mercury landing silently on his feet as he continued to walk around Nosferatu in tight circles making her dizzy. "Bacchus didn't kill Loki by the way. I know you think he did, but he didn't. As much as Bacchus might be pissed off at Loki for getting to you first, he loves him too much to do anything that drastic." his British accent heavy with the last sentence, his grey-blue eyes sparkling.
"Then who did?" our heroine was standing still now, her head down as she forced herself to stop watching the god as he danced around her making her feel lightheaded. His dark trenchcoat floating around him like it had a life of it's own.
"What kill him? No one. You'd have felt it if he were dead. The covens have him. Tucked away somewhere." he gestured again to the large rock formation as it seemed like it was rising out of the ground some more. "Now, there are some more blah blah blahs we can rehash, but I don't have the time or patience to do that so let's get to the point. With Loki gone, I need you to step up to the plate." he raised his right hand palm facing her, head down in honesty. "You can feel that can't you? The rushing of electric jolts in your veins as of late." he waggled a finger at her before grabbing her arm and tracing the veins in her wrist. "It's what you were designed to do. To be! A god. It's why you were created by both them. Now, you have a choice, you can either take Loki's place. Answering people's prayers, rituals and summons or..." he trailed off dropping her arm roughly. "Or you can help me rescue him." Mercury leaned in slightly towards her, his hands now clasped behind his back. "But, if you decide to take his place, you need to be able to shift. And you know the only way a shapeshifter can shift is to have their soul. So you'd need to take your soul back from the safety deposit box that is Rolf; which would leave him vulnerable to Odin. Not too mention you'd be all claimable again. And wouldn't that be a bit of a pickle given you technically have two mates in two different realities in Edric and Reuben." he licked his lips again as he stared at her chest. "So...what do you say? You wanna be a full on god...I mean you're going to be downline anyways...this would just speed it up by about a thousand years or...do you want to play knight in shinning armor?"
An hour ago...
They fell through the portal landing hard in the middle of the street. Our heroine breathing heavy gasping for air, covered in dried blood from having fought both the amazon guards and the few coven members who had been holding Loki captive. Mercury was nowhere to be found. She felt something crack as she realized the full weight of Loki's unconscious body was laying across her leg. She didn't think she'd ever get the image out of her mind. Loki had been chained to the cave wall, half his body a skeleton. He reminded her of the character Two Face from the Batman movies, his jaw exposed, his one eye half out of the socket, his right shoulder nothing more than bones. His left side wasn't much better, only he'd begun at some point to shift. His left ear pointed like a wolf's but more gristle than flesh, his fangs exposed, his muzzle half formed like a stub, his left arm nothing but a paw to the elbow and scales like a reptile from the elbow to shoulder. Our heroine felt her bones re-align when the weight was lifted off her. Mercury had appeared and grabbed Loki as if he were nothing, hauling him over his shoulder and nodded in the direction of the townhouse. It took Nosferatu another long pause to be able to stand when she realized from the look of the neighbourhood cars, that they were in the 1950's. It seemed, she still could only time travel in reverse.
Loki lay on the sofa his body no longer a mismatched mess. He thought he'd been hallucinating again when he'd first seen her there in the cave. Something the god had done for how long? He wasn't even sure at this point, a decade or a month or a century? This time when he'd seen our heroine's face, felt her touch, heard her voice she did something different. She told him "I've got you." In the past whenever the hallucination had recused him, she'd had some quick witted remark about video tapes and old slasher movies. But, when Loki heard her this time, he knew deep down in his core that she was real. And with the last tendril of fading powers he could gather, he read her mind enough to remember how she viewed him. Saw himself through her eyes and shapeshifted to her ideal of him. Or at lest he thought he had.
Nosferatu stared at the god from the edge of the kitchen as she poured the tea. The pain he must have been in she thought? Depending on what reality you were in, Loki had been gone anywhere from a few months to a few centuries. She shivered as she thought about how much damage the guards had done to him. How he'd been locked up behind those bars of magick like being in a prison cell no bigger than a cardboard box. It brought back memories of her own captivity in the well. Walking across the length of the house, she placed the tea on the small table by the corner of the sofa; her slim pale hand hovering just above Loki's face. She desperately wanted to move his hair out of his eyes, to pluck the leaves that were still clinging to it's tangled dark knots. When the god shapeshifted into what he thought was his old self, he accidentally created a hairdo that was shoulder length and half filled with leaves. His brown eyes fluttered open halfway as he reached for her hand taking it. "I always knew it would be you." The words were never formed by the god's lips, but still managed to pass between them telepathically. Our heroine didn't scream, didn't pull away when Loki's fangs bit deep into the soft flesh of her palm. Just like when he'd rescued her from the well and allowed her to drink his blood, the time had come to complete the circuit.
"Uhmm." Mercury cleared his throat causing our heroine to jump. She blushed as she realized their very intimate moment had been witnessed. "I need to talk to you over here." he gestured for her to move away from the edge of the sofa, from Loki. "There's something I don't think you're aware of. You don't need your soul to be claimed by...a god. So before you go any farther with this blood exchange..."
"Too late." Loki said as he stood on very shaky legs. Mercury glanced at the other god sideways, his eyebrows knitted together in puzzlement. "She's been mine for a very long time. I've just never needed to announce it before now." Loki nodded towards her, his hair suddenly clean of the leaves as he ran his hand through it combing it back from his face. Mercury shook his head slightly in disbelief as he brought his hand up to Nosferatu's. He swore as he pulled his burnt fingertips away from the female.
Tune in again for another installment of the Nosferatu Adventures starring your heroine...me (straight up story. When things are left unsaid, there is nothing but chaos)


Does higher supplement intake mean better health for cancer survivors?
Cancer survivors tend to consume more dietary supplements than cancer-free individuals, but more studies are needed to determine how beneficial they are to their long-term health, according to Korean researchers.
Researchers at Seoul National University assessed the amount of supplement-derived nutrients, as well as their contribution to total nutrient intake from supplements, among both cancer survivors and cancer-free individuals.
They examined 400 cancer survivors and 10,387 cancer-free participants — all aged 19 and above — from the fifth Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES), conducted between 2010 and 2011.
They then calculated the amount of nutrients participants consumed from both food and supplements, and the percentage contribution of supplement-derived nutrients to total nutrient intake. At the same time, they took note of factors related to supplement use in cancer survivors.
More supplements…but still not enough?
Subsequently, the researchers observed that 33.3% of cancer survivors and 22.1% of cancer-free individuals consumed dietary supplements.
Cancer survivors tended to consume more folate, iron and riboflavin from food, and more calcium and vitamin C from food and supplements than cancer-free individuals.
Percentage contributions to overall nutrient intake followed a similar pattern.
However, when it came to thiamine and niacin, the nutrient intake of a higher number of cancer survivors was found to fall short of the recommended estimated average requirements (EARs).
They also observed that male cancer survivors who took dietary supplements tended to reside in urban areas, and to avoid alcohol consumption and high energy intake.
Female cancer survivors typically had education beyond elementary school, engaged in moderate physical activity, ate fewer vegetables, and had high circulating vitamin D levels.


Daylight Follows is a standalone new adult romance.
Direction and a sense of purpose for her life evaded Daniella Archer. She was in college, but her classes didn't hold her interest. She had a boyfriend, but never got butterflies when he was near. Her two best friends were her lifelines, the ones who always stood by her. Then tragedy shattered her world and she sunk into a deep depression. She watched helplessly as the rainy sky mimicked her tears and the dark clouds, her mood.
Garrett Ramsey secretly loved Daniella throughout their high school years. When he moved away, he finally put those feelings behind him and moved on with his life, or so he thought. Just seeing Dani again brought all of the feelings he thought were long dead, straight to the surface again. She never saw him as more than a friend, so he didn't tell her how he truly felt.
Two people, two paths, both missing something significant. Storms swirled all around and the blackness of night seemed to last forever. They dared to hope daylight would follow.


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Taming the Giant – Towards a Sustainable Financial System
How to create a financial system that helps, not destroys, the real economy? Seven years on from the financial crisis that heralded the great recession, this question remains unresolved. The 7th edition of the Green European Journal addresses the issue, highlights some Green ideas and shines a spotlight on the lobbying might that is working to prevent change.
Europe is still reeling from the financial crisis that began in 2007. Many economies remain heavily indebted, unemployment is unacceptably high and public services are continuing to be cut back. All the while, many in the financial sector wish to return to business-as-usual, accepting no responsibility for what happened.
Articles in this edition
Let's Tame the Giant!
By Benoît Lechat
The lessons of the last crisis always seem to be forgotten, and the financial world continues to grow and pose a risk to economy and planet. We Greens must marshal all our energy and ideas to reign it in.
Towards a Green Economic and Financial System
By David Kemp
The topic of greening the economic and financial system is broad and daunting. However breaking it down into a few key questions can highlight the steps that we as Greens must urgently take to reign in the financial industry.
The Carbon Bubble: The Real Threat to the Financial System
By Carl Schlyter
Over the past decades, markets have invested in damaging industries such as fossil fuels and financial speculation. This has contributed to unsustainable development, and may well be creating an enormous 'carbon bubble'. However, there are steps we can take to stop this bubble turning into another subprime-style crisis.
The Financial Crisis Heralds the Need for a Deep Ecological Transition
By Theodota Nantsou
In the dismal reality of the deepening financial crisis in the European Union, exploiting the natural environment is seen by troubled member states as a quick-fix solution for rapid economic recovery. Following decades of massive spending on an unsustainable economic and development model, the EU's policy response is essentially a recipe for a much deeper and longer-term environmental crisis.
Debt, The Whole History
By David Graeber
An interview with David Graeber, who was in Brussels last October at the invitation of the Committee for the Cancellation of Third World Debt to present the translation of his latest book: Debt, The First 5,000 Years.
Life and Debt
By Tim Jones
The ongoing crisis, caused by excessive global debt, saw only financial institutions being protected. For life to come before debt we need to build an alternative to this out-of-control financial system.
Positive Money: How to Fix the Creation of Money?
By Ben Dyson
In Autumn 2013 the Green Party of England and Wales voted to adopt a motion that would remove the power of banks to create money, and return that power to a democratically accountable part of the state. But what is money?
Debt and Financialisation: The Portuguese Example
By Nuno Serra
The idea that the peripheral countries were the authors of their own destruction continues to exist at European level. However a closer examination of the facts shows this is not the case, and an urgent reprioritisation of EU policies is needed.
Financing a Green Industrial Transformation
By Reinhard Bütikofer
If we want to put finance on a leash with smart regulation, Greens must take the wind out of their opponent's sails by having policies that simultaneously unleash finance and restore lending into the real economy and, above all, into a green industrial transformation.
Tax Havens Jeopardise the Stability of the Financial Markets
By Michaela Schmidt
The analysis and publication by journalists of previously confidential data from known tax havens – widely known as "Offshore Leaks" – has excited media interest around the world.
EU Financial Reforms: An Unfinished Business
By Gaspard Denis
While progress towards a more resilient financial system has undoubtedly been achieved at EU level, it remains nonetheless much too incomplete. The challenge is all the more significant as our system, more than ever, remains dominated by banks that are too big or too interconnected to fail and therefore too dangerous to exist.
Green Struggles and Victories Against the Mainstream Orthodoxy
By Philippe Lamberts
An interview with Philippe Lamberts, Green MEP and member of the Committee for Economic and Monetary Affairs, who along with his colleague Sven Giegold, is one of the main actors in the struggle against mainstream financial orthodoxy.
ENFRPL
The Wrong Pheonix Rising
By Jasper Blom
It is no secret that the lobbying might of financial institutions has shaped regulatory rules at national, European and global level. But did the disaster of the 2007 financial crisis change this? The honest answer is that the old institutions are still up to their old tricks, and a change in how we make policy is needed if we are to avoid a repeat of the crisis.

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I've been mulling over the idea of finding a way to help people with student loans since I discovered that my now husband, who served in the Navy and even had GI Bill assistance, carried tens of thousands in student loans. Barraged with news of the crises related to student loans and personal conversations with friends, it suddenly became clear that this was a bigger problem than just affecting us and a few others. I tried to find assistance for us but could only find new startups to consolidate our loans.
My husband and I carry tens of thousands in student loan debt. It's one of the main reasons that we delayed buying a home and starting a family into our thirties, and I know we're not alone. Student loans are a national crisis.


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Why do so few people live in Wyoming?
April 18, 2016 6:47 PM Subscribe
WY do so few people live in the state north of Colorado? It is the least populous state in the nation and almost all its neighbors have twice the population. What accounts for such a large difference?
posted by Monochrome to Society & Culture (25 answers total) 15 users marked this as a favorite
I wondered the same thing when I moved to Colorado. Wyoming is barren and windy. Being a bit higher than Colorado, on average, makes a lot of difference.
posted by lukemeister at 6:54 PM on April 18, 2016 [1 favorite]
My guesses (somewhat confirmed by doing some googling):
- harsh climate
- large sections owned by the U.S. Government or energy companies
- water is pretty scarce
Admittedly some of the surrounding states share some of those traits and have populations that look a lot larger, but the numbers are so small that you could double the population and still not have much. For example, N & S Dakota each have about 250-300,000 more people than Wyoming, which has about 500,000 people. But to put that in perspective, the population of the Birmingham, AL metro area (that is, including the suburbs) is about as much as any 2 of those states put together.
posted by randomkeystrike at 6:57 PM on April 18, 2016 [3 favorites]
Ever been? There are exception areas, of course, but it's gorram dry, windy, and desolate.
It's exactly the type of place someone like Dick Cheney would be from.
posted by notsnot at 6:58 PM on April 18, 2016 [26 favorites]
Are you asking why no where lives there now? Or why no one settled there to build it out in the past?
Now: Well, there's nothing there. That's not snarky. There just really isn't. I routinely had people drive HOURS to Billings, MT from all over Wyoming just to go to the mall.
Past: As to why there's nothing there you'd have to do more digging than my rudimentary understanding. But I'm from Montana, which became populated due to mining and agriculture in the past, or of course Native American populations. Now people are moving more to Billings because of the low cost of living and it's a growing city.
But since Wyoming - as far as I know - doesn't have much of an industry that would drive people there. A good portion of the state is also covered in mountains - which you can't settle, farm on, on or make roads on easily.
I'm sure there are people with much more knowledge than me but really, there's just nothing there and not much of a reason for people to want to build it up when there are better locations with more structure to start with in nearby areas.
posted by Crystalinne at 6:59 PM on April 18, 2016 [7 favorites]
BTW, if you're interested in Wyoming, as well as maybe getting some fictionalized ideas of the challenges of living there, this show may be of interest on Netflix.
1. No major cities. Populous states usually have major population centers. For example New York City in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco in California, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, Chicago in Illinois, etc. Even looking at Wyoming's region of the country, neighboring states with significantly larger populations have major population centers like Salt Lake City and Denver.
2. Population centers in other states are relatively close to the Wyoming border. This could potentially create a bit of a population vacuum in (southern?) Wyoming, since there would be little reason for people to flock to any particular place in Wyoming when there are two major US cities relatively nearby.
3. History. Wyoming was one of the last of the lower 48 states to get statehood, and the inland Northwest was one of the last regions of the US to be settled by white Americans. It also doesn't have a very long history of colonization by immigrant settlers, like most of more populous parts of the US do. It's also worth noting that Wyoming wasn't organized as a territory until 1865, and the railroad didn't arrive until 1867. Which makes barely 150 years that American settlers could even reach Wyoming easily. (For certain values of "easily".) Also, IIRC the pattern of settlement by whites in the 19th century moved inland from the coasts, and was spurred by people looking for good farmland. Which leads to:
4. Geography. A lot of Wyoming is mountainous, and thus not desirable by the types of Americans who were settling that part of the world around the time Wyoming opened up to American settlement.
5. Economics: the biggest sector of the Wyoming economy today is tourism, fueled by the national parks. Which couldn't exist if Wyoming were densely settled. In other words, there isn't a real impetus for people to move to Wyoming, even nowadays when the economy in general is no longer agrarian. There's no reason there *couldn't* be a major tech or media fueled city, built with modern development techniques, that was the envy of the region, but with nothing to inspire or fund such a place, it continues to not exist.
Along with the History/Geography/Economics aspects of this, I'm also wondering if settlement in the region wasn't tied to specific railroad lines. The Union Pacific Railroad would have connected Cheyenne, Denver, and Salt Lake City, which could either have been a vector for people to arrive in or depart from Wyoming depending on what other cities in the area had to offer. A rail line limited to the southern part of the state might have made settling in the northern parts of the state less attractive than settling in Utah, Idaho, or Colorado. But this is all speculative, since I'm no expert on railroads in Mountain West and Great Plains states.
posted by Sara C. at 7:16 PM on April 18, 2016 [7 favorites]
48.2% of the state belongs to the Federal Government. And it's mostly the best parts, like the area around Yellowstone.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 7:22 PM on April 18, 2016 [9 favorites]
Here's a PDF showing where all the federal land is in the state.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 7:25 PM on April 18, 2016 [1 favorite]
5th or 4th generation (depending on how one counts it) Wyoming native here.
This is actually a very complicated question with many reasons but I can touch on a few. The number one reason is lack of water; the second reason is the wax and wane of state population from energy boom and busts.
The big basins that make up the majority of the livable portions of the state - Bighorn/Wind, Powder, Hanna-Shirley, Green River, and Platte - are extremely dry: some places less than 12 inches of precip/year, which makes it difficult to raise crops except along the rivers. As a result, most of the agriculture in the past was characterized by cattle and sheep, which need more land. A LOT more land. Attempts to bring in smaller ag in those basins also created a great deal of tension, which resulted in power conflicts like the Johnson County War. Less small ag=less people. But more than that - to build a community you need reliable - and that's a key word - sources of water.
Fossil fuels and other mineral mining such as uranium, benonite, and trona tend to create mad energy booms that raise the population levels and then deplete them again once they bust - population centers like Casper (in the middle of the state) and Gillette have been created that way and have grown large enough to sustain themselves.
Now, of course, there is also a great deal of government land - more than 50% due to state and federal land - which creates one of its biggest industries - tourism and "retirement" communities (i.e. retirees moving into places like the Jackson, Cody, and Sheridan areas). Unfortunately a tourism/retiree based economy does not lend itself to opportunity as it's mostly service based. There's a more complicated story in land ownership concerning mines and railroads which I won't go into, but that's part of it.
If you would like to read more about the economics of Wyoming's past and the modern history which have contributed to its population, I highly recommend the very short book, Pushed Off the Mountain, Sold Down the River, by Sam Western, and Lawson's History of Wyoming. Western's book in particular goes into how the agrarian attitudes have forced a push against some of the more industrial/entrepreneurial/higher ed opportunities which could create more economic opportunities.
FWIW, I did not consider Wyoming a crappy place to live. I would move back there in a heartbeat if I could find a job there, which has more to do with contemporary attitudes than anything else. I love the barren plains, the wind, and the full views. It has a stark beauty in which I find much solace and joy.
(PS Dick Cheney was born in Nebraska before he moved to WY. And characterizing an entire state by one person is not really cool.)
posted by barchan at 7:30 PM on April 18, 2016 [138 favorites]
The big basins that make up the majority of the livable portions of the state - Bighorn/Wind, Powder, Hanna-Shirley, Green River, and Platte - are extremely dry: some places less than 12 inches of precip/year, which makes it difficult to raise crops except along the rivers.
To support this: take a look at a precipitation map of the Western U.S. Wyoming is noticeably drier than any of its neighboring states, with the possible exception of Utah.
posted by Johnny Assay at 7:30 PM on April 18, 2016 [5 favorites]
Wyoming was one of the last of the lower 48 states to get statehood, and the inland Northwest was one of the last regions of the US to be settled by white Americans. It also doesn't have a very long history of colonization by immigrant settlers, like most of more populous parts of the US do. It's also worth noting that Wyoming wasn't organized as a territory until 1865, and the railroad didn't arrive until 1867. Which makes barely 150 years that American settlers could even reach Wyoming easily.
Well, yes and no. The Oregon Trail runs right across Wyoming and was primarily active from the 1830s until the transcontinental railroad was completed, but apparently very few people thought Wyoming was nice enough to stop in. It's west of the 100th meridian, which is fairly significant for agriculture.
As far as government land ownership, I'd be pretty surprised if quite a bit of that land wasn't up for grabs under the Homestead Act or something similar, but nobody wanted it.
posted by LionIndex at 7:33 PM on April 18, 2016 [4 favorites]
I forgot to mention that even in places with water, in many places much of the water is alkaline, which can cause lots of problems for people and stock. That's why you have an entire county named Sweetwater, to celebrate some spot within it that had good water.
posted by barchan at 7:39 PM on April 18, 2016 [5 favorites]
Water rights are a big deal in that part of the country. You can't just park yourself next to the Platte River and start pumping water out of it, because the water already belongs to people downstream from you. Doing that during the wild-and-wooly years could get you killed. These days it'll land you in court.
Not to mention what the EPA will do to you. And the Fish and Wildlife Service.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 7:40 PM on April 18, 2016
Wyoming has basically no topsoil anywhere ... It's all bedrock right at the surface. Fantastic for geologists, shitty for farmers, which is a problem when you're a rural state.
I too suspect railroad patterns had something to do with it, although I expect the railroads weren't there because the settlers weren't there because the soil wasn't there.
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 9:17 PM on April 18, 2016 [6 favorites]
There's often an assumption that all of the lower 48 is "filled in" because there are no gaps in the map, when that's not really the case. In a way, the question ought to be "why do so many people live in Wyoming?", and barchan has answered that well: energy booms that create settlements that endure beyond the boom, and tourism/retirement service economies built out of the state's remoteness that have both a floor and a ceiling.
posted by holgate at 10:22 PM on April 18, 2016
No one has explicitly mentioned this, so: Wyoming produces a lot of coal. The deposits there are immense and they're close enough to the surface to strip mine. The Black Thunder Coal Mine alone produces 70-80 million metric tonnes of coal per year.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 11:31 PM on April 18, 2016
I think also the West is quite thinly settled in general, and some accidents of line-drawing make Wyoming look like more of an outlier than it really is. Nevada is another dry-as-hell state that's largely owned by the government but it's got 2.9m residents, which seems like quite a lot more than Wyoming, but roughly 2m of them live in the Las Vegas area, and that's essentially a giant insane Federal experiment to temporarily make that patch of desert inhabitable. Utah has around 3 million people, but 80% of them live in the little 120-mile-long, five-mile-wide stretch that drains the water out of the mountains (so 80% of the population is crammed into 600 of Utah's 85,000 square miles). The other states are certainly more populous, but one way to look at it is that the West is thinly peopled almost everywhere, and there are a handful of tiny patches of population density, and none of those places happened to fall in Wyoming.
The West, in general, is not suitable for permanent human settlement without mind-bogglingly massive civil engineering projects. The native people that lived here before the whites either (1) moved with the seasons or (2) died out because of water problems. So the Dry West basically has patches where enormous amounts of energy were expended by some combination of the Federal government or the Mormons to make the desert "survivable" for some period of time. Utah was first, thanks to Mormon settlement. Tons of money was spent to make Southern California livable, because of the influence of powerful landowners, mainly.
The whole American mythology of homesteaders and smallholders scratching out a living on 160 acre farms and knitting together the institutions of small towns doesn't really work west of the 100th Meridian, save for the coastal Northwest. it's too dry. I personally think this is kind of funny given that the people who live in the rural West are generally the most extreme, conservative, "fuck everyone, I'm a wild independent cowboy making my way out here on my own!" and their lifestyle is 100% totally dependent on massive amounts of Federal spending that is not remotely close to recouped by the taxation on the economic output of their states. Cowboys, ranchers, all those guys are welfare princes.
I think, generally, it might make more sense not to ask "why do so few people live in Wyoming?" but "how in hell do so many people manage to survive in Utah, the Dakotas, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, California, New Mexico, Idaho, Montana, and the east-of-the mountains stretches of Washington and Oregon?" The short answer is "dams". Everything in the West comes back to water.
posted by jeb at 11:43 PM on April 18, 2016 [63 favorites]
I grew up in Wyoming. It's a terrible shithole. Winters are long, bitterly cold, and windy. The landscape is for the most part extremely barren and difficult to traverse in the winter. There's nothing to do, not much in the way of culture, few job opportunities outside of government work especially for college educated people, it's 95% blue-collar backwards white people who are afraid of people different from them, etc etc. It's a shithole.
posted by a strong female character at 3:44 AM on April 19, 2016 [4 favorites]
FWIW....Wyoming is the the 3rd driest state in the USA. Nevada is #1 and Utah is #2.
posted by Seymour Zamboni at 3:57 AM on April 19, 2016 [1 favorite]
Just on a density basis, look how little populated Western Colorado is. Hell for Eastern Colorado, if you factor out the Denver, Boulder, Fort Collins, and Colorado Springs you'll see it is pretty empty as well. It is no surprise that all of these cities are right along the foothills of the Rockies where there is a good water supply. If you've ever landed at Denver's airport which is a ways Northeast of city you'll find that it is in a flat, barren wasteland. Imagine hundreds and thousands of square miles of that.
posted by mmascolino at 6:36 AM on April 19, 2016 [2 favorites]
I lived in Wyoming for exactly 372 days. It was all I could take. I lived in Laramie, which is 45 minutes north of Fort Collins, CO...and a universe away.
1. The winter I spent in Wyoming was the harshest I have ever experienced. I am not a winter wimp, I grew up in Minnesota. But this was unlike any winter I'd ever dealt with before: the wind never stopped blowing. A constant 30 mph wind, and the snowflakes were not light fluffy snowflakes, they were razor sharp shards of ice. Razor sharp shards of ice being flung at my face at 30 mph.
2. It's beautiful in a desolate sort of way. But after a while I became used to it and it was more of an "eh" than an "ah!". Deserts are beautiful but they're so far away from everything else.
3. The people I met were initially friendly but after a while I realized that, if I lived in Wyoming for the rest of my life, I would always be from "back east". This was a tight-knit community and I would always be an outsider.
4. I was one of 4,625 people in the entire state of Wyoming to vote for Nader in the 2000 election. I'm pretty sure I knew all of those people within 2 degrees of separation. Wyoming, even in a college town like Laramie, is a verrrrry verrrrry conservative place. I had a shotgun pulled on me by my friends neighbor when I made a disparaging comment about GWBush. I don't think it was a joke.
Then one day I realized that I could move 45 minutes south and live in Fort Collins. A lush, liberal little haven just over the border. I said "why the fuck not" and schlepped myself to the land of Milk and Honey. When I needed a Desolation Vacation I could just drive up 287 through Owl Canyon and boom, Wyoming.
One nice thing about Wyoming: there didn't seem to be enough people in any particular counter-culture to maintain a circle of their own, so all of the goths, hippies, anarchists, pagans, gearheads and greasers, ravers, GLBT folks, people of color, emo kids, etc all kind of hung out together. That was unusual and kind of novel and I've never experienced that anywhere else, even when living in smaller towns in other states.
posted by Elly Vortex at 6:44 AM on April 19, 2016 [18 favorites]
Hey Chocolate Pickle, the mines bring in a lot of jobs and are responsible for people living in the Powder River and Green - Hanna basins, so they are a reason why people live there, not the other way around.
I also remembered this as I went to bed - unlike other western states like Colorado, Nevada, and Montana, although Wyoming flirted with it around South Pass City, it never had the big true booms with metals like gold, silver, and copper like what happened in the mineral belt in Colorado or Virginia City, MT - and of course the Black Hills rush happened in South Dakota. For example, though sparsely populated now, at one time Leadville, CO, was big enough to warrant consideration for the state capital; a lot of Leadville silver went into helping create Denver.
posted by barchan at 7:09 AM on April 19, 2016
I asked someone from Wyoming, and they said, "Well, they call it God's country because no one else wants it."
Also the winters are INTENSE. I do not enjoy, nor do I know many people who do, having snow blown so hard at your face that it feels like you are being sandblasted.
posted by ananci at 2:30 PM on April 19, 2016 [3 favorites]
Thanks everyone for your responses! I was familiar with the dry, empty West. I wanted to know what made Wyoming more so.
posted by Monochrome at 5:48 PM on April 19, 2016
Southern CO native here. Whole nuclear family lives in the Red Desert of Wyoming. I lasted about a year and a half.
I'll tell you why I left, and it's pretty much the same reasons as Elly Vortex. Once you get north of the Laramie grasslands, Southern/central WY is just incredibly harsh and pretty visually unappealing. Windy as hell, all year round, dry as hell, looks like the damn moon. People tried to settle there, over and over again, and there are abandoned farmsteads and encampments desiccating away out in the bush as testaments to their failure. Things just die there. In 20 years I have never gone on a summer hike in WY without finding multiple cattle corpses. This is a climate where ELK die of exposure.
I have grown to appreciate my yearly trips out there in the early fall. There is beauty here, if a little stark. It's amazing to be able to drive 5 miles out of a town that's actually on the interstate and be smack dab in the middle of territory few living people in town have ever seen. And there are actually still resource extraction jobs, so if you're willing to deal with the weather you can make a decent living.
But most people just can't deal. The permanent population of my family's town, which has jobs and is connected to both the interstate and major train lines, hasn't changed by more than a couple thousand people in 20 years.
posted by aspersioncast at 1:19 PM on April 20, 2016 [1 favorite]
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Welcome to the forums. Lots of good stuff here. You've got an intriguing intro there and I'll take the bait.
'll be providing a lot of statistics to back up claims made.
Stats vary by source so be prepared.
I also have quite an interesting backstory, so feel free to ask questions about me!
Soooo… What's your back story?
Welcome! What is on your wish list?
I define a gun nut not nessacarily as someone who owns firearms, but has an intrest in them, so I'm not an expert by ANY means.
Also you are right when you say that statistics vary by sources, so I try to use statistics by the same or similar sources.
As for my backstory, you'll have to PM me for that.
I don't know yet. The very first firearm I'm aiming for (and yes I know this one is a bit fancy for a first gun) would be a Five-seveN made by Fabrique Nationale (FN Herstal) The reasons why: high capacity (20 rounds in each magazine, comes with 2 spare magazines and one in the chamber, so 61 rounds of 5.7mm ready to be carried) extremely low recoil (about 30% less than a 9mm) and flat trajectory out to 110 yards (100 meters). This makes for a really good gun to practice with due to the low recoil and extreme precision. The only downside I can think of is the cost and scarcity of ammunition.
It looks like you have done your research. I don't have any experience with that round but if that is what you want and can afford it and find the ammo I say go for it.
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El girotrón (forma abreviada de Gyromonotron) es una fuente de radiación de microondas de alta frecuencia y alta potencia. Se considera el primer dispositivo generador de rayos de microondas de alta frecuencia de la historia, perteneciente a la familia de los tubos de vacío.

Introducción
De acuerdo con el electromagnetismo, se sabe que las cargas eléctricas y las corrientes variables con el tiempo son fuentes de campos y ondas electromagnéticas. Las ondas electromagnéticas transportan potencia electromagnética y se propagan en el medio circundante -este no hace falta que sea un medio material, puede ser el espacio vacío- a la velocidad de la luz.

Las microondas, son un tipo particular de ondas electromagnéticas caracterizadas por propagarse en un rango de frecuencias determinado. Particularmente este rango se considera comprendido entre los 300 MHz y los 300 GHz -de ahí su nombre, ya que sus longitudes de onda son del orden de milímetros-. Para la generación de microondas, generalmente, se consideran dos tipos de fuentes: los dispositivos de estado sólido -semiconductores- y los dispositivos basados en tubos de vacío o tubos de electrones. A este último grupo pertenece el girotrón, como también otro tipo de dispositivos como el magnetrón, el klistrón o mismo horno de microondas.

Historia
Los primeros dispositivos basados en tubos de vacío para la utilización con microondas se remontan a principios del siglo XX cuando, en 1906, Lee de Forest inventó el triodo. No obstante, intentar emplear en microondas un tubo de vacío convencional basado en un triodo es una operación muy limitada, ya que éste no soporta frecuencias excesivamente altas.

Con posterioridad, fueron inventados otros dispositivos basados en tubos de vacío, como el magnetrón en 1924, cuya utilización práctica tuvo mucha repercusión en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. El magnetrón pertenecía a la familia de los tubos de vacío de campo transversal, donde la energía potencial de los electrones se transformaba en energía electromagnética.

Otros dispositivos como el oscilador Heil (1935) o el amplificador Klystron (hermanos Varian, 1939) estaban basados en tubos de haz lineal (linear-beam), donde lo que se transformaba en energía electromagnética era la energía cinética de los electrones.

Más adelante, como evolución de los tubos de haz lineal, R. Kompfner inventó en 1944 el tubo de onda viajera (Travelling Wave Tube, TWT). A comienzos de 1950 la potencia de salida de los tubos de haz lineal superó finalmente a la potencia de dispositivos como el magnetrón.

En un tubo de haz lineal un campo magnético interacciona con el haz de electrones emitidos por un emisor. Además, los electrones reciben energía potencial por medio de una diferencia de potencial (voltaje) y esta energía es convertida en energía cinética. La diferencia de potencial aplicada es cambiante, así que los electrones son acelerados o desacelerados, lo que produce aglomeraciones de electrones. Estos cúmulos de electrones viajan posteriormente por el tubo y finalmente inducen una corriente en la estructura de salida.

Los amplificadores basados en TWT pueden llegar a proporcionar picos de salida con una potencia de 30 MW con un haz de voltaje del orden de 100 kV a una frecuencia de 10 GHz.

Los orígenes del girotrón apuntan a la década de los años setenta y se considera una invención soviética. Es un dispositivo perteneciente a las familia de los TWT, concretamente a los tubos de onda rápida. La Rusia soviética desempeñó en los años sesenta y setenta del siglo pasado un papel de liderazgo en investigación de fusión nuclear –calentamiento de plasma-, así como de microondas –dispositivos de telecomunicaciones-, donde la técnica del girotrón fue desarrollada por su importancia militar en estos campos.

En la década de 1960, con el éxito y proliferación de los dispositivos de estado sólido (semiconductores) se predijo que los tubos de vacío serían desplazados por aquellos. No obstante, esto solo ha ocurrido en los sistemas de baja potencia como son los receptores y generadores (osciladores) para circuitos de microondas, pero para altas potencias de salida, aún se siguen utilizando dispositivos basados en los tubos de vacío.

Principio de funcionamiento.
El girotrón tiene alta potencia en longitudes de onda milimétricas (decenas de MW, dependiendo de la frecuencia) porque, a diferencia de los anteriores tubos de vacío convencionales, las dimensiones del tubo en este caso pueden ser mucho mayores que la longitud de onda y no se depende de las propiedades de los materiales que conforman el tubo.

Como se ha comentado anteriormente, en los tubos de haz lineal, se aceleraban y desaceleraban los electrones dentro de un campo magnético porque se pretendía conseguir una aglomeración o concentración de éstos para, posteriormente, inducir una corriente a la salida del tubo. En el caso del girotrón ocurre algo parecido, solo que se pretende potenciar una microonda electromagnética a la salida. En este caso, el haz de electrones entra en la cavidad hueca de resonancia del tubo, que se encuentra en un campo magnético axial y la agrupación de electrones depende de un efecto relativista llamado Cyclotron Resonance Maser Instability. Esto quiere decir que la velocidad del haz de electrones en un girotrón es ligeramente relativista (comparable a, pero no igual a la velocidad de la luz).

A su vez, máser es un acrónimo de Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation (amplificador de microondas por la emisión estimulada de radiación). El máser es un fenómeno de amplificación similar al láser, pero que opera en la región de frecuencia a la que pertenecen las microondas. Cuando una molécula o un átomo se hallan en un estado energético adecuado y pasa cerca de una onda electromagnética, ésta puede inducirles a emitir energía en forma de otra radiación electromagnética con la misma longitud de onda que refuerza la onda de paso y desencadena una cascada de fenómenos que llevan a aumentar mucho la intensidad de la onda electromagnética original.

Potencia obtenida y rango de frecuencias de operación para diferentes tubos de vacío, comúnmente empleados en el rango de las microondas.

Construcción y partes de un girotrón
El cuerpo del girotrón consiste en su mayoría en una alargada cavidad de espacio vacío. El girotrón se encuentra en un electroimán. La parte inferior es eléctricamente aislada y contiene un filamento. Para transmitir los electrones del filamento a la cavidad, es necesario un "cañón" que genere el haz de electrones. Ésta es la parte del cátodo, donde se aplica un alto voltaje de energía eléctrica (voltaje negativo, claro) que se suele situar aproximadamente entre 80 y 100 kV.

Los electrones se mueven en forma de espiral por la fuerza de Lorentz del campo magnético. La frecuencia de rotación de los electrones es directamente proporcional a la fuerza del campo magnético, e inversamente proporcional a la masa del electrón. Por lo tanto, para una mayor frecuencia se debe aplicar un campo magnético mayor. Debido a que los electrones tienen un efecto relativista (su masa es debido a su alta velocidad, véase relatividad) se realiza un intercambio entre la energía cinética de los electrones y el campo de la señal de microonda, por lo tanto parte de la energía del haz de electrones se transforma en energía electromagnética en la región de microondas, que es recogida por el colector.

Fabricación
El número de empresas que construye girotrones es muy baja. Algunas empresas que en la actualidad trabajan o fabrican dispositivos basados en el girotrón son: CPI y Gyrotron Technology, Inc (U.S.A.), Gycom (Rusia), Thales Group (Francia) y Toshiba (Japón).

Aplicaciones
Procesos para el tratamiento térmico industrial, debido a la alta densidad de potencia de las ondas electromagnéticas y a la capacidad de calentar un rayo con criterio selectivo y de manera muy rápida. Así, es un tipo de dispositivo utilizado en la fabricación de vidrios, plásticos, cerámicas, adhesivos, semiconductores, células solares, etc.

 Aplicaciones industriales:
 Fabricación de vidrios, plásticos, cerámicas, adhesivos, semiconductores, células solares, etc
 Unión de cristal, cerámica, plásticos y otros materiales, soldándolos con puntos de fusión muy altos.
 Recubrimientos basados en materiales como la cerámica, pastas, lacas, o termoplásticos, bajo temperaturas más altas de las que algunos sustratos permiten normalmente.

 Aplicaciones en electrónica y telecomunicaciones:
 Fabricación de osciladores y amplificadores de circuitos de microondas.
 Templadura rápida de obleas de semiconductores, así como en la fabricación del recubrimiento de semiconductores a alta temperatura y sobre sustratos sensibles.

 Aplicaciones nucleares:
 De alta potencia gyrotrons prueba se aplica a muchos de investigación de la fusión. Gyrotrons con capacidades de hasta 2 megavatios y una frecuencia de 170 GHz, son esenciales para construir el nuevo reactor de fusión nuclear

Véase también
 Para aspectos más generales, véase radiación electromagnética.
 Para más aspectos teóricos, véase onda electromagnética.
 Para aspectos más concretos relacionados con el término, véase microondas y válvula termoiónica.

Referencias

Bibliografía
 David M. Pozar, "Microwave Engineering", Third Edition, John Wiley & Sons Inc.; ISBN 0-471-44878
 David K. Cheng, "Electromagnetismo para ingeniería", Pearson, Addison Wesley Longman; ISBN 968 444 327 7

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Bodo Janssen: that's how personnel development 4.0 works
"Happy cows give more milk: that's manipulation."
Bodo Janssen's management task at the Upstalsboom hotel chain is to strengthen people. He conquers Kilimanjaro with apprentices, lets a student run a hotel and offers employees ways to find themselves. This and much more he told at the panel discussion Personnel Development 4.0 on April 11, 2019 which was organized by the WU Institute for Personnel Management together with the WU Executive Academy.
Bodo Janssen explains why he consciously takes a different path as a manager.
Bodo Janssen has had an eventful life. A model, sonny boy and entrepreneurial son, he was kidnapped and lived through days of terror. As a young successor to his late father, he focused on efficiency and strategic management - until his employees gave him a devastating assessment as CEO in a survey on employee satisfaction. Bodo Janssen then went to the monastery. In the workshops on "Spiritual Leadership" led by Father Anselm Grün, he recognized what is essential for him, namely: to strengthen people.
Bodo Janssen
CEO Upstalsboom
Spirituality for us means that people can live in their lives what is really important to them as human beings. No more, no less. Then they are enthusiastic and with themselves. This has nothing to do with religiousness.
Value creation through appreciation
Together with Father Anselm Grün, he has been conducting workshops for his co-workers ever since. He climbs the Kilimanjaro with his trainees or crosses the Arctic Circle with them under extreme conditions. His guiding principle is "Value creation through appreciation". In the course of the event "Personnel Development 4.0 – Personnel Development as a Core Process in Companies", he answered questions by three interviewers.
The interviewers: Helga Pattart-Drexler, Head of Executive Education at the WU Executive Academy, Wolfgang Mayrhofer, Head of the Interdisciplinary Institute of Management and Organisational Behaviour, and Jürgen Weibler, Professor at the Fernuniversität in Hagen, gave impulses from science. Michael Müller-Camen, Head of the Institute of Human Resource Management at WU Vienna, who had brought Bodo Janssen to Vienna for the event, moderated this evening.
Wolfgang Mayrhofer: If you say that a company needs the whole person it gives me the chills. In my working life, I don't want to be completely taken over by an organization. I'd rather be a subject who decides for himself who has me completely - almost nobody.
We don't want the whole person. We invite people to get involved as a whole - if they want to. I'm thinking of a penguin trying to climb a tree. We often experience people who, because of their education and because it has always been so, take on tasks that do not correspond to their personality. They're trying to play a part. We help people go through the school of self-knowledge and ask questions: What is essential to me? What am I getting up for? What are my talents? This curriculum is not about the company at all. Only when people have become aware of themselves do we look for tasks in the company that they can perform according to their personality. Some completely reorient themselves within the company. This is a management task: to show people the mirror. The principle is to go from being supposed to do something to wanting to do it. It's always about the meaning. We notice more and more that meaningful tasks are part of our remuneration. In 2010, 75 percent of employees said they felt badly paid. We didn't change the salaries, but we changed the leadership. In 2015 it was only 45 percent. The proportion of meaningful tasks must have increased. Preventive medicine is also part of our remuneration. We are currently creating an organizational health care system for our employees that goes far beyond the public health insurance system.
left to right: Helga Pattart-Drexler, Bodo Janssen, Prof. Jürgen Weibler, Prof. Michael Müller-Camen, Prof. Wolfgang Mayrhofer
Wolfgang Mayrhofer: Another topic I stumbled across was corporate happiness at Upstalsboom. I always say in my lectures: Corporate Happiness is ugly. The human being should not be taken in by corporate.
I agree completely. However, we have always understood corporate happiness in the sense of positive psychology. We come from a system that thrives on standardization. We are born unique, but many of us die as copies. The human being and his or her personality are lost in this system. For me, "corporate" addresses the old world: we are objects, no longer subjects. In the old world of capitalist economy, man is always the means to the end for the company.
If I influence you to make the company more successful, according to the motto "Happy cows give more milk", then that is manipulation. If I influence you so much that it makes you successful as a human being, then that is leadership. The question is: Is the human being a means to an end for the company or is the company a means to an end for humans? We invite employees to become aware of themselves, their abilities, their values and their sense of purpose. When they do what is personally important to them, that is self-transcendence. In the hierarchy of the old system, you always had to be better than the other to get to the top. But the economic logic today is the network: it's not about the question, what do I gain from others being there? It's about the question: what do others gain from me being there? What benefits do I give my fellow men? When I create a great benefit, people come to me and I grow into a true leader.
Question from the audience: Mr. Janssen, you spoke of "from being supposed to do something to wanting to do it ". What happens if nobody wants to make the beds in your hotel anymore?
Of course, there are working processes that perhaps do not correspond to the longing of every human being. But if the employee feels that his or her work is contributing to something meaningful, or if he or she has options to do something meaningful for himself or herself beyond work - like the chambermaid who flies to Africa with 20 colleagues for three weeks to inaugurate schools that were built because of their commitment, then that is something different. It could be a children's hospice. People always regard something as meaningful when they carry a value within them that they can experience elsewhere. Then it is an indirect aspect. It has nothing to do with the work directly, but it is possible through the work in this company. It's about the personal meaning. To tell the maid that she burns calories while cleaning would be manipulation. This year, the entire company will be transferred to a charitable foundation. The entire profits generated by the employees flow into the projects for which they have decided. Every handshake they do is done in the awareness that they are not only earning money for their existence, but that they are working for something meaningful.
Our idea of meaning and purpose at Upstalsboom is: Economy is only the basis of our existence, but not the meaning of our actions.
Helga Pattart-Drexler asked her questions to Bodo Janssen.
Helga Pattart-Drexler: What is personnel development for you and what does it look like at Upstalsboom?
For me, the task of personnel development is to enable people to contribute their skills and personalities to the company as subjects. We don't use the term "personnel" at all, I associate it with the old world. In our company, human development means that people get in touch with themselves again. A young person of about 20 has heard about 10,000 times what he cannot do. He'll believe it someday. The neuronal networks have developed, the self-esteem decreases, and he can be manipulated. He lacks the inner attitude. We want to support people in finding this inner attitude again. However, the brain does not like exertion and prefers to remain in its habits. To interrupt this, we need impact. Strong emotional impressions can redevelop neural networks to a certain extent. That is why we offer trips to Kilimanjaro and the Arctic. There the young people learn that they can do much more than they thought they could.
Helga Pattart-Drexler: You can't go to Kilimanjaro or the Arctic every week. How could this impact still be brought to companies?
Every year, our employees have several days off to get involved socially - to grow through encounters with other people. We had a cook who treated the trainees like the meat mallet treats the Wiener Schnitzel. This cook volunteered for an association that organizes a wonderful day for neglected children. We organized this day, children learned how to cook, and there was a chef's hat painting competition. Then a little girl came to the grim cook and gave him a chef's hat. Suddenly the cook had tears in his eyes. Many tears. I came over and asked what was going on. The child had written on the chef's hat: Thank you, that was the best day of my life. Two years later, the IHK president congratulated me that this chef's trainee had achieved the best result in the final examination for 20 years. We have to touch people to move them. The emotional touch changes the neural networks. This does not take place at the desk, but in many other places.
Helga Pattart-Drexler: In the application process: How do you know when someone suits you?
The worst decisions for applicants were the ones I made over the heads of my employees. We do not have a standardized corporate application process. 50 percent of our new hires are career changers. It's very much about whether someone fits in with us. We bring applicants into contact with the employees and then ask them whether it is a good fit. That's what we learn through cooperation. We opened a hotel last year, a pool of people applied to us for various jobs. We had four applicants who wanted to be in charge. We entrusted them all for a week with the management of the hotel and other hotels to find out how the work was going. Then they should decide who should be in charge. They chose an applicant who had applied as a receptionist. Or: three years ago the trainees selected a candidate as director. It is important that employees get along with managers.
Helga Pattart-Drexler: On average, HR managers and recruiters look at an application for 30 seconds. What do you say to that?
30 seconds? It's hard for me because we don't care about applications and references. We have many applicants who want to do a sabbatical with us or want to take a look at our company. We invite them to drop by. I don't look at applications. Much is also possible through recommendations in the hotels. But we also have hotels with classic job ads. We tell trainees not to send us their certificates. Because the certificates are only an expression of the ability to adapt. We had people in the company who would have fallen through the usual grid. After two or three months they became our trainees of the month because they had applied themselves in such a wonderful way.
Helga Pattart-Drexler: What HR tools do you use? How do you analyze strengths, how do you deal with feedback?
We had an executive who had worked in an agency for 15 years. He approached us and said he was dying to work here. What happened: He was used to these rigid structures, we opened the prison door and released him to join us in the jungle. But he hadn't learned how to deal with it. We'll give this person two, three months to see: How's he getting along? Some rally and find their way around. Many who fall back on the egocentric path and want to prove something to themselves drop out. The man in question fell flat on his face. When this happens, we take a step back and consider suitable tasks in a more rigid structure. He became data protection officer - but with the aim to adapt data protection to our culture. He has done something wonderful: He has given up his office and now goes to the employees in the hotels to pass on his knowledge. He gave a benefit, and suddenly he was in demand. He was such a strong role model for me that I also gave up my office last year. On Friday evenings I ask my staff who has room for me next week.
Helga Pattart-Drexler: Have you ever thought about failure?
Yes, at the very beginning of the process. I brought in high expectations back then. At the moment we have the payment issue. In some areas, employees have determined their own salaries and those of their superiors. We are currently extending this to the entire company and, with 800 employees, are talking about meaning and preventive medicine as part of the remuneration. We talk about the principle of performance and the principle of need: we talk about whether a single mother with two children should get two euros more per hour. I realize it's a complex subject. The development of our employees leads to a good dialogue. But where it all ends, I have no idea.
Audience question: How do you manage to prevent chaos from breaking out?
The chaos is here. We have already noticed that if the degree of freedom is too large, the satisfaction sinks again. We need a certain framework that depends on the development of the people. People with a highly developed personality can deal with more freedom than others. We have 50 hotels and resorts. They work from autocratic to fully holistic. We have a hotel without executives: the respective employee asks her team for advice and then makes the decision. This holistic company is run by a student who did a vacation job and wrote a bachelor's thesis with us. I asked her if she wanted to open a hotel as a vacation job. She has done so with great success. She introduced the holistic principle, which originates from the Benedictine monastery. Other areas are not yet ready. Or the subject of determining salary: There was a team that was already very far and determined its own salary, completely free, without restrictions. However, this is only possible if one does not make one's value as a person dependent on the paycheck. Another team broke up after the salary discussion, people had started to fight. Certain conditions have to be created for so much autonomy.
Audience question: I see Upstalsboom as an island in capitalism. Do you see companies that also want to go this way?
I see more and more people who want to experience something meaningful. The interest can often be found in the foundation up to the middle management. In the top positions I tend to experience a great deal of uncertainty. But there are exceptions: I work together with the owner of the Otto Group, who transfers this spirit into the organization. Then I experience the Easter fire strategy of individuals from the foundation who do something useful for companies and find fellows, such as with T-Systems and Deutsche Telekom. Lufthansa has developed a new management culture for 40,000 employees and works inter-hierarchically. We also experience a high demand for our courses. We open them for others as well, and we are fully booked until 2020.
Helga Pattart-Drexler: I believe that we as managers should show our weaknesses. What would be your weakness?
My weakness is the right measure. It embarrasses me sometimes. This leads to the fact that I overtax the organization and the employees have to pay for it. I think showing weakness is part of leadership. By showing weakness, I take a lot of pressure from the staff to be perfect. When I communicate my weaknesses as a manager, the employees also dare to admit mistakes. It's not about glaring. It's about shining. You gotta dig your way through a lot of dirt.
Jürgen Weibel: The basis for leadership at Upstaalsboom is dialogue. What are the consequences if things don't go well economically?
I would like to come back to the example of the student who runs the Seehotel. I failed with my leadership claim at the time. I had appointed a naval officer as hotel manager, I tried to lead him with chair circles. That didn't work. I had to learn that there are different personalities. The hotel got into financial difficulties, I had to close it to avert further damage to the community. Employees were laid off. Then the student came from Munich and I asked her if she could run the hotel. We've changed the system according to her personality. She introduced the holistic system, so she no longer runs the hotel herself. For five years it has been one of our most successful hotels. Another example: We closed an unsuccessful hotel for six months, but in consultation with the employees. The result is a new hotel brand: the hotel on the edge of the world. If it doesn't work economically, you have to take the consequences. But the employees are willing to take responsibility if they get a perspective. We think about how we can develop something together so that it will last in the future. Creating this perspective makes living through difficult times more bearable for many. But dialogue has nothing to do with harmony. If I strive for harmony out of fear of not being loved and recognized and thus swallow many things, then it doesn't work well. I'm gonna have to throw up all this stuff sometime. It is about encouraging people to express themselves against the desire to be recognized and loved. That only comes from a strong personality.
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Bodo Janssen is CEO of Upstalsboom. On the occasion of the devastating results of an employee survey, he went to a monastery where he got to know the principles of "spiritual leadership". Since then, as a manager, he has consciously chosen other paths.
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I have heared some good things about the cheap DanElectro DE-1 echo pedal.
Never listened to one and I can see there are less control knobs.
Users of the classic RE-101 and RE-201 Space Echos might be interested in these two unit's direct ancestors, the RE-100 and RE-200.
i have a roland sde 330, does anyone know how to control this via midi, or has a midi chart for it?
Your favorite settings for the Roland RE-201?
hi.. I was wondering, what are your favorite settings for the Roland RE-201?
Thanks, Interruptor. I was planning to try cutting my own. Thought maybe someone had a source for them though.
Hello, I am very much interested in the Sound On Sound on RE-301 and 501 (and SRE-555) and trying to buy one of those.
yeah right, on the 201, the immediate echo is what i dont really want.
I figured you might be able to help me with a problem that I have with my RE-201.
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roland 201 and 301: same spring?
Question: is the spring reverb in the 201 the same as in the 301?
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Roland re-150: separate outs for dry & wet signal?
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A new lung cancer study led by Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center investigators found that various non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cells grow at different rates, which may explain why some tumors become resistant to anti-cancer drugs faster than others.
Based on the differential growth rates, the study suggests that a change in the timing and dosages of certain therapies for NSCLC patients may be effective in delaying the onset of resistance to therapy.
The study was published in the July 6 issue of Science Translational Medicine. The first author on the paper is Juliann Chmielecki, Ph.D., who served as a graduate student (in absentia) in the research laboratory of William Pao, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of Medicine, Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology and director of Personalized Cancer Medicine at VICC.
Non-small cell lung cancers with mutations in the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) gene respond to the tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) drugs gefitinib (Iressa) and erlotinib (Tarceva).
Unfortunately, every patient with metastatic NSCLC treated with these drugs eventually develops resistance to therapy and the cancer starts growing again.
Some patients start responding to the drugs again after a break in therapy, but there has been no way to predict who will respond.
Since gefitinib and erlotinib were designed to target wild-type EGFR, the researchers hypothesized that current drug dosing schedules may not work for patients whose tumors have mutant EGFR.
To investigate this theory the researchers developed genetically matched pairs of cell lines that were TKI sensitive or TKI resistant to model acquired drug resistance.
"We were surprised to discover that the drug-resistant cells grew more slowly than the drug-sensitive cells," said Pao, who is an Ingram Associate Professor of Cancer Research.
Having established the clinical relevance of the findings, the researchers incorporated the new data on cell growth and death into mathematical models of tumor cell populations to design optimal dosing strategies for EGFR-mutant NSCLC. They incorporated data from human clinical trials of the drug erlotinib to ensure that the proposed drug doses were safe in humans.
"Based on the growth and death rates of the various cells, the models predicted that using high-dose pulses of erlotinib or an even more potent EGFR TKI in conjunction with a continuous low-dose schedule could delay the establishment of large drug-resistant cell populations," said Pao.
These findings suggest that a similar strategy may be applied toward the optimization of dosing strategies of other targeted therapies for oncogene-driven cancers.
The authors note that these findings must be verified in clinical trials.
The investigators include Jasmine Foo, Ph.D., and Franziska Michor, Ph.D., Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard School of Public Health, Boston; Geoffrey Oxnard, M.D., Mark Kris, M.D., Vincent Miller, M.D., Romel Somwar, Ph.D., Lu Wang, M.D., Ph.D., Maria Arcila, M.D., Marc Ladanyi, M.D., Nicholas Socci, Ph.D., Agnes Viale, Ph.D., Alisa de Stanchina, Ph.D., and Michelle Ginsberg, M.D., Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City.; Katherine Hutchinson, B.S., Kadoaki Ohashi, M.D., Ph.D., and Katherine Amato, B.S., VICC; Martin Sos, M.D., and Roman Thomas, M.D., Max Planck Institute and University of Cologne, Germany; and Akira Inoue, M.D., Tohoku University Hospital, Sendai, Japan.
The study was supported by grant funding from the National Cancer Institute.


DRINK UP Astronauts drink water made from recycled urine and other wastewater aboard the International Space Station. A new system would turn pee into drinking water and produce energy, a step toward long-term space travel.
Every day, you flush a liter or two of urine down the toilet. Unless you live in one of the dry places considering toilet-to-tap systems, you probably never consider drinking it.
But if humans are ever going to get to Mars, we're going to get there drinking our own pee. Now scientists have built a recycling system that can turn astronauts' urine into both clean drinking water and energy. That combination could be an important step in making long-distance space travel viable.
Before the space station, space travelers really didn't take advantage of pee. The Russian Mir craft had a recycling system that accepted urine, but it was notoriously glitchy and didn't produce much drinkable water. The space shuttles jettisoned urine, creating lovely "shooting stars" of liquid waste visible from Earth (but they stored solid waste, which would have made for a really frightening form of space junk).
The new system also generates electricity, scientists from NASA and the University of Puerto Rico report March 12 in Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. It's a clever setup, chemically speaking. To pull pure water out of urine, the system uses forward osmosis, which, as the name implies, works in the opposite direction of the reverse osmosis systems found at many kitchen sinks. Forward osmosis uses a concentrated salt or sugar solution to draw the water out of urine. Next, enzymes in a bioreactor convert the leftover urea into ammonia, which feeds into an electrochemical cell that uses the ammonia to generate electricity.
There's no shortage of raw materials. You urinate about 50 percent more than you drink each day, says Sherwin Gormly of Desert Toad Water Technology Research in Carson City, Nev., who helped design the urine recycling system for the International Space Station. That's crazy, you're thinking: How could you pee out more than you take in? Well, for one thing, your body turns some of your food into water. When you burn carbohydrates, your body makes energy with a side order of carbon dioxide and water.
All that pee ends up being one of the biggest obstacles to sending humans to Mars, or any other long-term space travel. Without urine recycling, water could make up 80 to 90 percent of the mass on a spaceship to get humans to Mars, Gormly says. And at a cost of up to $10,000 per pound launched into orbit, shooting tons and tons of water into space would quickly become ridiculously expensive.
Any recycling system that people will rely on for months or years of space travel has to be extremely efficient. The one aboard the ISS now can reclaim 93 percent of the water on board, a level that Gormly says is crucial. The new system is still just a prototype, but it also recovers more than 90 percent of the total water that goes into it.
But it's only generating a tiny trickle of electricity so far. In the laboratory, filtering one liter of urine in eight hours produced a few microcoulombs of electric charge. That's about as much as the static electricity from rubbing a balloon on your hair. "Still," says Nicolau, "our system is a proof of concept, and we are still working to increase the overall efficiency." Eventually the system should at least generate enough power to run itself, he says.
A tradeoff remains, though: The system requires small amounts of oxygen to make electricity. And oxygen, of course, is something else you're going to want in space. "We are using some breathable oxygen from the cabin," Nicolau says, so the system would require backup oxygen generation. That could mean making oxygen from water via electrolysis, or using other chemical processes to make it. And that means another life-support system that can break. Ultimately, "we have to find a way not to use oxygen at all," Nicolau says.
The new method does produce drinkable water, Nicolau says, though he hasn't sampled any because it hasn't yet been tested for bacteria and other pathogens. He promises a photo, though, once he and his team are able to gather around the bioreactor and toast with glasses of recycled urine.
We could even get energy-producing urine recyclers right here on Earth. "You could deploy this in developing countries where water is scarce," Nicolau says, or the military could use it in remote desert locations.
If a future in which you drink water made from urine doesn't sound like a future to look forward to, think of it this way: The water you drink now comes partly from the entire planet's pee, just recycled a lot more slowly.


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LaBan Changes Course of Philly Foodscape with Scathing Review of Le Bec-Fin
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Le Bec-Fin and Georges Perrier in their heyday. No longer.
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Not to say "we told you so," but we did: Philadelphia Inquirer critic Craig LaBan revealed his new list of 4-Bell restaurants, which included: Zahav, Bibou, and Talula's Table. He praised all of them for their hard work and keeping a committment to the food culture that in earlier reviews showed promise but needed a little polish. We guessed wrong on one of Chip Roman's places getting a bump, and were disappointed that Osteria didn't get that fourth bell, as well.
We guessed right (sadly) on most of our bloodbath predictions of who would lose a bell, as Lacroix and Le Bec-Fin went down in score, but LaBan kept The Fountain at four bells, which we guessed would be the most safe to retain the lofty rating.
While the rest of the industry is whining about the new four-bell class, though, what should be focused on is how Le Bec-Fin's drop from four bells to (barely) two is the equivalent of a catastrophic earthquake for the old guard, and what the future holds for aspiring restaurateurs. It's a new world out there.
"I can only imagine the surprise on my editors' faces when, at the end of their meals (having visited after my reports), they watched the cheese-cart lid go up and release a fruit fly, giddy from feasting on shriveled grapes."
That's the quote from LaBan's review that's getting all of the attention, but in reality, this is the one you should care about:
"But the formidable challenge of evolving an institution rooted in the precision and lavish details of haute French gastronomy has proven, in this case, impossible. No empty threats of closure, no gourmet burgers or renovation of the downstairs bar can save it."
It's over. Le Bec-Fin is dead. After 40 years of ruling the fine dining scene on the East Coast (yes, Perrier and Le Bec-Fin influenced more famous frog NYC chefs than anyone), LaBan just tossed a dynamite stick on the dog-pile that's been there for the last few years. This is the equivalent of Daniel Boulud getting a two-star New York Times review. This isn't about four bells, it's about the death of a culinary legend and landmark.
While it won't affect Georges too much financially, we feel for all the cooks who work the line and all of the servers who were beaming with pride to have Le Bec on their service resume. It is now no more than a smudge, since LaBan hasn't been there for years since his last review. More than anyone, we feel for executive chef Nick Elmi, who while LaBan praised his nouveau-chic talents, said the guy couldn't put together a simple crab cake. By the way, Elmi is a partner in the restaurant, not just the chef. There's no parachute for Perrier or chef Elmi in this lose-lose proposition.
While we applaud LaBan's guts to bump some "controversial" spots that didn't fall into the old category of a four-bell experience, this review of Le Bec-Fin is arguably the most significant piece of criticism in the history of Philly's food scene, no matter where you fall in the love him/hate him camp. Without exaggeration, it's that important.
Restaurateurs: No longer is there a Le Bec-Fin checklist that assures your success. We will be chatting up Craig LaBan later this week on the fallout of his New World Order. Stay tuned.
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Zahav
237 Saint James Place, , PA 19106 (215) 625-8800 Visit Website
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1009 South 8th Street, , PA 19147 (215) 965-8290 Visit Website
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1523 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA
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Dr. Schivel Streaks Into Santa Anita Sprint
The streaking Dr. Schivel (Violence) will take a four-race winning streak into Saturday's 'Win and You're In' GII Santa Anita Sprint Championship S. Last term's GI Runhappy Del Mar Futurity winner is perfect in two attempts since joining Mark Glatt's barn this year, most recently delivering a neck victory in Del Mar's GI Bing Crosby S. July 31. The 2-1 morning-line favorite is drawn on the rail in this six-horse field. The one-two-three finishers across the line of this race last year--C Z Rocket (City Zip), Flagstaff (Speightstown) and Collusion...
Starship Jubilee Named Florida HOTY
Starship Jubilee (Indy Wind), a three-time Sovereign Award winner and Canada's Horse of the Year in 2019, was named Florida-bred Horse of the Year by the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders' and Owners' Association. She also took home honors ad the Florida-bred champion older female and champion turf female for the third time in four years. Owned by Adam Corndorf and Bonnie Baskin's Blue Heaven Farm and trained by Kevin Attard, Starship Jubilee won her first four starts as a 7-year-old, taking the GIII Suwannee River S., the GII Hillsborough S. and...
Many Chances in Deep Bing
Handicappers will have a tough time tossing many horses from their tickets as a competitive nine-horse field lines up for Saturday's six-furlong GI Bing Crosby S. at Del Mar, a "Win and You're In" qualifier for the GI Breeders' Cup Sprint. Given a slight nod on the morning line at 5-2 is C Z Rocket (City Zip). Claimed for $40,000 last spring at Oaklawn by Peter Miller, the gelding has been a new horse since, winning seven of nine races while finishing second in the other two. That streak includes...
Collusion Illusion Tops Competitive Renewal of SA Sprint Championship
Collusion Illusion (Twirling Candy) is unbeaten going one-turn and will try to continue that run in Sunday's GII Santa Anita Sprint Championship S., a "Win and You're In" event for the GI Breeders' Cup Sprint S. Kicking off this term with a track-and-trip optional claimer score May 17, the sophomore triumphed in the GIII Lazaro Barrera S. June 20 and took the GI Bing Crosby S. by a nose last time at Del Mar Aug. 1. C Z Rocket (City Zip) looks to secure his fifth straight win Sunday. Capturing...
Twirling Candy's Collusion Illusion Bests Elders in Bing Crosby
Collusion Illusion (Twirling Candy) got the better of his elders and earned a spot in the gate for the GI Breeders' Cup Sprint, holding off a late rally from Lexitonian (Speightstown) to take Del Mar's GI Bing Crosby S. Settling near the back of the pack, the 9-5 chalk ran off the fence with only Lexitonian, who trailed the field by several lengths, beat as the remaining five scrambled for control through a sharp first quarter in :21.58. Wildman Jack (Goldencents) gained a very narrow advantage as the half went...
Collusion Illusion Takes on Elders in Bing Crosby
The lightly raced sophomore Collusion Illusion (Twirling Candy) will try to give his elders a run for their money Saturday in Del Mar's GI Bing Crosby S., a "Win and You're In" event for the GI Breeders' Cup Sprint S. Opening his account with a pair of wins, including the GII Best Pal S. last summer, he was pulled up when trying two turns in the GI American Pharoah S. in September. Returning May 17, he scored a decisive victory in a six-panel optional claimer at Santa Anita and repeated...
Collusion Illusion Headlines Short Field in Lazaro Barrera
Collusion Illusion (Twirling Candy) tops a five-horse renewal of the GIII Lazaro Barrera S. Saturday at Santa Anita. Opening his account with a pair of wins last summer at Del Mar, including the GII Best Pal S., the bay was pulled up and walked off in the GI American Pharoah S. when trying two turns at Santa Anita Sept. 27. Cut back to six panels for his sophomore bow in Arcadia May 17, he scored a decisive three-length victory. Ragtime Blues (Union Rags) represents the powerhouse barn of Bob Baffert....
Twirling Candy Colt Impresses in Santa Anita Seasonal Return
6th-Santa Anita, $59,088, Alw (NW2$X)/Opt. Clm ($62,500), 5-17, 3yo/up, 6f, 1:10.03, ft COLLUSION ILLUSION (c, 3, Twirling Candy--Natalie Grace, by First Dude) bested a hard-knocking field of older rivals to assert himself as a sophomore to watch in the right season to get off to a belated start. A debut winner at Del Mar last July, the :10 flat OBSAPR breezer added a 7-1 score in the GII Best Pal S. there three weeks later, but came up empty early when stretching out for the GI American Pharoah S. Sept....
Sunday's Insights: Graded Winners Making Sophomore Debuts
Sponsored by Alex Nichols Agency 10th-CD, $84K, Alw, 5 1/2fT, 5:44 p.m. ET Breeze Easy's unbeaten Four Wheel Drive (American Pharoah) leads a stakes-quality field of sophomores while making his first start of 2020. The $525,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga grad and $825,000 Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream buyback debuted a convincing stakes winner at Colonial Aug. 31 before adding Belmont's GIII Futurity S. Oct. 6 and running to favoritism in the GII Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint Nov. 1. Second that day was Chimney Rock (Artie Schiller), who came back to romp in the...
Seven Line Up for Best Pal
Four of the seven runners slated to contest Saturday's GII Best Pal S. graduated at first asking, including morning-line choice Schrodinger (Justin Phllip), trained by Simon Callaghan and owned by Kaleem Shah. Heavy favorite in his Los Alamitos debut June 30, he came from just off the pace to score by 1 1/4 lengths under Flavian Prat. The French-born rider gets back aboard this time. Also likely to garner plenty of support at the windows, Fore Left (Twirling Candy) just got up for a narrow score subsequent GIII Bashford Manor...


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