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Labour MEPs: EU Energy Union proposals must put consumers centre stage
Labour MEPs have successfully amended a parliamentary report on the Energy Union, the roadmap for upcoming legislation on the EU energy framework, to ensure consumers are put centre stage.
The European Parliament industry, research and energy committee voted today to refocus the Energy Union from centring on fossil fuel to focusing on consumers. The report also highlights the crucial role of energy efficiency and renewable energy and the need for intelligent infrastructure.
The final report now goes to a vote of all MEPs in the December plenary session, and the vice president for Energy Union, Maroš Šefčovič, will present the first annual State of the Energy Union next week.
The State of the Energy Union will take into account the European Commission's analysis of the situation of each EU country with regard to the Energy Union objectives and will contain policy conclusions.
Theresa Griffin MEP, Labour's European spokesperson on energy, said:
"Labour MEPs amended the initial conservative report in order to turn it from fossil-fuel-centric proposal to a more balanced one, putting consumers centre stage and highlighting the crucial role of energy efficiency, renewable energy and the need for smart infrastructure to make the energy transition.
"Labour MEPs pushed for urgent action on energy poverty, inviting the European Commission to present a communication on energy poverty in Europe, accompanied by an action plan to fight against it.
"Nonetheless, it is hugely disappointing that Tory MEPs have once again aligned with UKIP MEPs to vote down a proposal on binding targets for energy efficiency and renewables when the UK is not on course to meet its renewable energy targets.
"In only a few weeks, world leaders will gather in Paris for the crucial summit on climate change, to come up with policies to create a better future - it is crucial Europe shows leadership on this, with a sustainable and workable Energy Union."


"Cicero, while we are quoting the ancients, once defined freedom as participation in power [bold added]. I think it is the best definition of freedom that I have heard. Freedom is participating in power such as a deliberative democracy, such as government, such as corporations, such as trade unions. People have to participate in those areas of power that affect their lives so intimately."
It sets a high-bar and makes me ask how the open systems I'm engaged in live up to it. I'm also not sure yet how to integrate meritocracy into this, which I think is important, especially for open source. Any ideas?
Power means having a voice. I believe there is some matter that each of us knows better than anyone else. In areas concerning that matter, it is important that we can speak for ourselves and be heard by all interested in that matter without being silenced.
With power there is responsibility. That responsibility includes holding interest in the things that matter most for the benefit of all.
I think where all of these definitions of freedom hit problems is when you consider them in extremes.
For example, if I take freedom of association as an absolute, then your freedom to participate in my association (be it company, lobby group, etc) becomes a limitation on my freedom of association, since I nor my group no longer have the freedom to choose who participates.
If I take freedom as a negative right, the libertarian conception of non-initiation of force, the right to be left alone, to do as a please as long as I don't initiate force against anyone else, then Nader's definition of freedom implies, ultimately, a measure of force against others.
Of course, the reason why we don't live in purely libertarian, anarchist, or communist societies, is because there are system-level meta-effects, where independent actors, applying force to no one, can create global externalities which end up affecting others.
Thus, we compromise and allow large groups of individuals working together to violate negative rights principles, when externalities become too large a burden.
A typical example I like to use is having children. Ideally, I'd have no say in how other people have kids or raise their children. However, there is an externality from additional mouths to feed, from additional under educated children, from additional crime, etc that does impact me in many ways. Thus, even as a libertarian, I'd choose to build schools instead of prisons, because I'd rather live in a world where I am "taxed" to educate and maintain civilizaton, rather than "taxed" to build prison fortresses to prevent my property being stolen.
For me, the key is where the line is drawn. We see both bad and good effects from different types of participation, and each much be evaluated non-dogmatically and from a non-partisan perspective, IMHO.


The rules go as, you can have any clone weapon, outfit and can kill as many Imps as possible, ofcourse there's the mission breifing, trying to survive artillery attacks while in a gunship, and pressing against the enemy. Since these clones are free thinkers, they also chose normal humans to help them fight against the Empire, so create your profile, and the breifing shall begin.
Clone of course!Like 38 from Republic commando!
Okay, let's start. Fox: Okay men, gather round. Fox said in hangar bay 1. The Imperials hav captured a fort in Kashyyk, we'll need good marksmen, and heavy artilery. For heavy artillery we will use the AT-TEs, we have our tank commander, LT.Johns, who'll be the marksman?
Sgt.Maverick took the opportunity."Sir,my squad has been trained in professional sniping training.We are more than qualified to be your marksman team.Also,we can be the leading attack squad.It's your call sir."Sgt.Maverick was bred and trained in Kamino like all the other troopers,but had a difference.His template was originally made for standard Clone trooper.In his training,Training Sgt.Vau noticed that his skils were superior to that of an ordinary clone trooper.At once he requested his transfer to the Delta Squad Training Program.After passing the training,Maverick was found even more superior to the standard commando,and Vau decided to make him squad Leader.Now Maverick was an active Commando Sgt. with more than 20 succesful missions under the command of Delta Squad.The promotion to a Captain was not far,although when they told him that he said"If I manage to live that is".
"Yes sir,right away!"said Sgt.Maverick."Delta squad,lock n' load!We're after fresh meat!"
I think it's TW now.
"I'll be ready for anything they thow at me, sir." said Sgt Clay. Clay had known Sgt Maverick since his first time fighting the Empire. From the experiences Clay had encountered in his lifetime, gave him the fighting skills of a clone, and the mind of a true warrior. His Marksman skills were to come of handy in this particullar mission, that is why he was in his division in the first place. Sgt Clay stood next to Sgt Vau mirrored. I cant wait to get my hands on a AT-RT, he thought awaiting orders. "We're ready to roll Sgt Maverick."
"Okay men we'll set up camp here, Clay and Maverick will give us a signal, then we start the attack, got it?" All the soldiers replied "yes, sir!"
Sgt.Maverick was checking his DC-17 blaster rifle."This new 13-FE Aratech scope will do the job"he said to himself."Delta Squad,assemble!"The 3 other members of the Delta gathered near him."Are you ready men?" he asked."Ready for death or victory!"they said with one mouth."Ok,if I die,Sgt.Clay will be your C.O for the rest of the mission"Maverick said quickly.His team noded.They knew the dangers of a battle,but Sgt.Clay shouted from his already-taken seat in the Gunship:"I heard that!Boys don't listen to him,he says the same everytime from when I knew him!"The Deltas(new members)chuckled."Okay,men board the Gunship,load your weapons check your visors.We go to war!Go,go,go!"The Deltas boarded the gunship.Maverick sat next to Clay"Another mission together!I will never forget Fondor 3!"he said.He then took out his communicator"Commander Fox,our E.T.A is 5 minutes to drop point.How are you going sir?"
"We're going fine, we're just getting the AT-TEs and AT-RTs setup. Send me a holo-message when you clear the guards out of the fort, got that?"
Sgt Clay boarded the gunship along with Sgt Maverick. He need not to check his artilery, he knew his weapons were all in check. The Gunship took off in a hurry as the deltas stood holding the handles of the gunships holding bay. They stood totaly still, all very nervous of their first mission. "Be ready for the drop off troopers! who knows, they could be there waiting for us." Sgt Clay called to the troopers. The gunship quickly hovered over a large bushel of trees. The gunships drop-off point was almost in view. "We're almost at our E.T.A. Be ready troopers!" Sgt Maverick looked back at the other troopers. The gunship finally arrived at its dropoff point. As it lowered, the troopers got ready, the two Sgts were as ready as ever as they swiftly ran off of the docking bay.
"Okay men, now find the highest tree." said Fox 10 miles away from the Imperial fort.
A laser shot splinters wood near Fox's head.
Cody stood, his sabretooth cat skin flapping in the breeze.
why dont you just add yourself to the team?
P.S: OHHHH!! now I know why your name is SabreMandalore!
Cody hopped on to his speederbike and puts it on turbo.
Cody, uses his agility and strength to swing through the trees toward Fox's team.
Im sorry, but the drop off point is 10 MILES AWAY!
But ultimatly, its up to the head of the topic, Jungle Clone Trooper?
"Cody! get back here now!" Fox said to Cody on the radio.


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By: Ms MTLer March 4, 2021 August 19, 2021
AIWTRO Chapter Twenty-Seven
Paula: "You only read romance and horror novels, don't you? One time, you were so scared that you couldn't work the night shift."
Emily looked slightly offended at the insinuation that she couldn't possibly own a book that the lady would want to read.
'No, of course it's true.'
Truthfully, Emily's bookshelf was full of interesting novels.
Emily: "You used to say that if you caught me reading these books again, you'd confiscate it, right? But you enjoyed reading it, too."
Paula: "What?"
Emily became more confident when she saw the embarrassed look on Paula's face. It was the lady herself who asked Emily to recommend more books, and the one who said she enjoyed reading them.
Paula: "That's impossible…"
Emily: "If you don't believe me, you can go to milady's room to see for yourself. I think my book is in there."
Seeing Emily speak up with such confidence made it hard for Paula to dismiss her claim. She tried to imagine their lady reading a romance novel. It really didn't fit…
A war novel sounded more likely.
Emily: "So, are you going to reprimand me for reading something that's not academic?"
If she did that, then that meant their lady was also reading something unacademic.
Emily raised her chin triumphantly and received a light chop from Paula.
Paula: "I was mistaken, then. I'm relieved that milady has been kind to you. But be careful not to do anything out of line."
Emily: "Yes, ma'am."
Paula: "The same goes for you two! Got it?"
"I'll be careful."
Paula: "Okay. Let's get back to work."
The maids scattered as soon as Paula dismissed them. She looked anxiously at their backs and was lost in thought.
'Milady borrowed the romance novel? Not confiscate it?'
She still couldn't believe it. If it was a horror novel, she would have understood it a little bit. But 'girly' and 'milady' were two words she'd never thought to say together in a sentence.
'Something's weird…'
She should check with Rose.
A day later, it was Friday. When Keira came up to her room after dinner, a letter was waiting for her.
It was a letter from Marchioness Francais.
'Who was that again?'
After a moment, she remembered. Marchioness Francais was the person whose invitation Keira had accepted.
The Marchioness must have thanked her for accepting the invitation, but Keira was too preoccupied to read the letter properly.
She was worried about something else.
The book she had borrowed from Emily used the expression 'wallflower,' an insult used to call people standing alone in the corner of a ballroom. Loners, so to speak.
'What if I look like that?'
What if she attended the ball, but came home after sipping drinks by herself? Nothing would be more embarrassing and depressing than that.
Her expression became somber. She felt like a student worried about the low grades she got at practical class.
"Why are you crying?" Rose asked.
Keira hesitated for a moment and replied.
Keira: "I'm worried about becoming a wallflower at Marchioness Francais' ball."
Rose: "Oh, my. You were worrying about that? A wallflower!"
Rose laughed as if she had heard a joke.
Keira: "Don't laugh. I'm serious. If I come back from the ball just standing alone… I'd be really sad."
Rose: "Don't worry, milady. There will be plenty of people who will want to talk to you. And you're not even going alone, so why are you worried?"
Keira: "What are you talking about? I'm going alone."
Rose's face fell when she heard Keira's answer.
Rose: "…You're going alone?"
Keira: "Yes, by myself."
Rose: "You're not bringing a partner?"
Keira froze.
Why hadn't she thought of that? Keira wanted to grab her head in frustration.
It was absurd for a noble lady who had recently become an adult would attend a dance without a partner… unless she wanted to become the center of attention, of course.
Whenever Keira had to attend a banquet, she was always accompanied by her father. This time, however, it was impossible.
'…What should I do? I'm not close to anyone enough to ask them.'
She agonized with her head on the desk.
'Zeke's not an adult yet, so he can't attend social events outside the house.'
The knights came to mind, but…
'We're not close enough for me to ask any of them to be my partner.'
They have just gone past the stage of misunderstanding each other. Except for Arthur, she hasn't had a meaningful conversation with any of the knights since the last drinking party.
And even with Sir Arthur, she wouldn't consider them close either.
Rose: "You didn't think of that?"
Keira: "…I completely forgot."
Rose: "What about going with His Grace as usual?"
Keira: "No way! And do you think His Grace will actually change his schedule for me?"
Rose: "Oh, that's true. Then, why don't you ask one of the knights?"
Keira hesitated.
Keira: "We're not close enough to ask each other favors."
Rose: "I can think of a person who will be disheartened if he heard you…"
Before Keira could ask, there was a knock on the door.
Emily stuck out her head and said.
Emily: "Milady, I heard you had an appointment for dinner? I was surprised that you didn't answer even after calling you for a long time. I was worried something might have happened…"
Keira: "Oh, is it that time already?"
Looking at the clock, it was almost 7. She had planned to take the carriage and leave at 7:30.
Emily handed over a butterfly mask.
Emily: "Here's the mask you asked for. By the way, where are you going to even need a mask?"
Emily tried to be nonchalant about asking. Rose, who has taken care of Keira since she was young, was listening, too.
Keira couldn't bear to say that she was going to the casino.
Keira: "Yes, um, just outside. People might recognize me."
She knew she couldn't avoid getting scolded, but she was like a child who was hiding their mistake.
Keira: "It won't be dangerous because I'll be going with the knights. It's a Friday night, so I'm taking a rest."
Emily: "Hmm… I won't ask you any more questions, so have fun."
Keira walked down the stairs, leaving the two pouting maids behind.
'I'm really… going to a gambling house.'
Her heart was pounding, but she couldn't back out now.
Keira looked around like a thief, worried that she'd get found out. Fortunately, it was time for dinner, so the people were busy–
Zeke: "Where are you going, noonim?"
Keira squeaked and turned around.
Keira: "Z-Zeke."
Zeke approached his sister who was rooted on the spot.
Zeke: "What are you holding? Oh, a mask? Where are you going at this hour with a mask?"
Keira: "Huh? So, um, uhh…"
She thought of saying she's about to take a walk, but she knew it wouldn't work. She was also dressed up to go outside, and she didn't need a mask to take a walk around the mansion.
She broke out in a cold sweat. Keira, the big sister who should set an example for Zeke, would be seen by him as a sinful sister.
'N-no! I'm not doing anything bad! I'm just trying to experience the outside world!'
Besides, it would be okay as long as she didn't participate in gambling itself.
"I'm going out with the knights tonight."
AIWTRO Chapter Twenty-Six
AIWTRO Chapter Twenty-Eight
3 replies to AIWTRO Chapter Twenty-Seven
Victor Ballona says:
Hello, thank you for translating this beautiful novel
Ayomi Chan says:
I really hope that there will be more of Zeke, I don't know but since the first time he appeared my heart decided to crush on him out of the blue
Glen B says:
To be Honest, I would prefer more screentime with Zeke over Arthur or Joseph. Arthur does not feel very much like a character and more like a plot device. I still have no idea why Keira is asking him for socialization advise and not Rose. Whilst we have not really had much Zeke, just Keira's thoughts about him make him feel like a much more realized character.

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You are in: Home > Places > J Bramley, Notts monumental brasses, Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 17 (1913)
Notts monumental brasses
By Mr Joseph Bramley
THE chief object in collecting rubbings of monumental brasses is to record the history, use, and development of armour, dress, and ecclesiastical vestments, as well as to learn something about the persons the brasses commemorate.
The metal used in making brasses was "latten" or "latton;" it is sometimes called "Cullen metal" when "Flemish," as such came chiefly from Cologne. It was usually composed of an alloy of the following metals in these proportions :—
Copper 64.0%
Zinc 29.5%
Lead 3.5%
Tin 3.0%
and was exported to England in slabs and engraved here. The earlier brasses usually had some decoration in coloured enamel.
The best period in brasses coincides with the best period in Gothic architecture, and, speaking generally, the later the brass the worse the workmanship. The earliest brass known in England dates from 1277.
Nottinghamshire is not noted for the large number of brasses it contains. It is not probable that it ever contained so many as the eastern counties, and may possibly have been more unfortunate than some counties in losing those it did contain. Kent, Essex, Norfolk, and Suffolk possess the largest number of brasses. They are less numerous in the north and west of England, and there are less than thirty in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland.
From St. Martin's Church, Leicester, 9cwt. of brass was sold in 1547, representing about seventy brasses. Lincoln Minster contained 207.
Most of our English brasses were destroyed at the time of the Reformation, during the Civil War, and during the Commonwealth.
There are now in this county, so far as I can trace, fourteen figure brasses in ten different churches, making nineteen separate figures, ranging from 1363 A.D. to 1626 A.D. A brass from Annesley Old Church is now in Annesley Hall. One was destroyed when Kirkby-inAshfield Church was burnt down in January, 1907. Matrices are to be found in various churches of brasses which formerly existed.
I need scarcely express the hope that the greatest care will be taken to preserve all existing brasses, especially where they are on the floor and liable to be trodden on.
I would also like to express my hearty thanks to those Rectors and Vicars who so kindly allowed me to take rubbings of the brasses in their churches.
I have also to acknowledge my indebtedness to the Rev. Eardley Field and Mr. J. Potter Briscoe for the excellent description of certain brasses in the county contained in their Monumental Brasses of Nottinghamshire, part I.
It may be interesting to consider shortly the chief periods (the dates allotted to which are only approximate) in brass designing in England, although these periods cannot be adequately illustrated from our very small collection of Nottinghamshire brasses.
The first period extends from 1272 to 1327, and covers the reigns of the first and second Edwards.
Figures are usually of life size. The plates are very thick and deeply engraved. The artists usually draw boldly and their designs are generally unconventional, and the effect they desired is produced without shading.
Brasses are few in number and military only, though ladies are represented with their husbands.
We have no brasses in the county of this period.
The second period extends over the reigns of Edward III. and Richard II., from 1327 to 1399.
The brasses which we now find are of great magnificence and of great variety. The figures are usually a little smaller, but they represent knights, ladies, ecclesiastics, civilians, and, in fact, all classes of people.
The only brass we have in Notts. of this period is the unique Flemish brass of Alan Fleming at Newark-on-Trent, which dates from 1363.
The third period extends from 1399 to 1461, during which time the House of Lancaster reigned.
Brasses of this period are usually very good, and the figures smaller but carefully drawn. Children are frequently depicted on these brasses.
The Notts. brasses of this period are those at Stanford-on-Soar (1400) and East Markham (1419).
The fourth period coincides with the reign of the House of York, from 1461 to 1485.
Brasses are usually smaller during this period, and though many are still of excellent workmanship, they shew signs of deterioration as a whole. In the case of ladies, the need of properly displaying the head-dresses then in vogue necessitates the faces being drawn in profile. Shading is now general.
To this period belong the brasses at Strelley (1458 and 1487), Wollaton (1467 and 1471), and that of Sir Gervase Clifton (1471).
The fifth period covers the reigns of Henry VII. and Henry VIII., and extends from 1485 to 1547.
Brasses now deteriorate rapidly in quality. The figures are often clumsy and frequently badly drawn. The use of shading is almost universal.
English is usual on the inscriptions, except on brasses to ecclesiastics.
The Notts. brasses of this period are Hickling (1521), Darlton (circa 1510), Newark, civilian unknown, (circa 1540), Ossington (1551), and Clifton, Sir Robert Clifton (1491).
The sixth period extends from 1558 to 1626, and covers the reigns of Elizabeth and James I.
The art is now degraded, shading is universal, and portraits on brass are attempted but not accomplished.
Rectangular brasses are frequent, such as that at Radcliffe-on-Trent.
During the early years of this period, we find many Palimpsest brasses, or those which have been engraved, laid down, and then taken up and re-engraved on the other side to commemorate some other person.
The Ossington brass has been described as a Palimpsest, but my examination revealed that it is not one.
The brasses in Notts. which date from this period are those at Radcliffe-on-Trent (1626), Clifton, George Clifton and wife (1587), and Newark, Phyllypot (1557)
The seventh and final period extends from 1626 up to the present time.
This period produces few examples, and none in this county. Such as exist elsewhere are exceedingly poor examples of the engraver's art, when we compare them with the noble specimens we find during the first few hundred years of brass engraving.
I will now call your attention to our Nottinghamshire brasses, and will endeavour to group them somewhat, though they are not numerous enough to do so very successfully.
Copyright: A P Nicholson | Created: 11-Nov-2007


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Oh boo... no one took me up on my challenge of quilling a king or queen using the new U.S. love stamps as inspiration. But that's okay, I promise we'll do another blog candy contest at some point in the future. I heard from some lovely readers who wanted to give it a go, but just didn't have the time right now - perfectly understandable with spring and fall activities at this busy time of year.
And to prove I don't harbor any ill will, have a cookie, won't you? :-) Isn't it pretty? Delicious too, no doubt! Take a peek at the delightful Better Bit of Butter site where there are scads of beautiful cookie designs. I'm pretty positive your artistic mojo will be inspired in no time.
Quilling the king and queen in that stamp? Gasp! That sounds so difficult.
Hi - thanks for commenting. Well ermmm, the design could have been a very loose interpretation - I really wasn't looking for replicas. People of all skill levels visit here, so they could have made it as complicated or not, as they wished. But I hear what you are saying... next time I'll go with something less intimidating.


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Justin Gage
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Justin "Sexy" Gage (born January 25, 1981 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American football wide receiver for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League. He was originally drafted by the Chicago Bears in the fifth round of the 2003 NFL Draft. He played college football at Missouri.
College career
Gage attended the University of Missouri where he played both football and basketball. He was known as more of a scrappy player in basketball, once fouling out in the first half. In football, he was a star wide receiver.
Gage spent four years with the Chicago Bears, but signed with the Titans as a free agent following the 2006 season. In 2007 Gage tied for the Tennessee Titans lead with 55 receptions and led the team with 750 receiving yards.
Justin Gage holds the following records for football at the University of Missouri:
Most Passes Caught:
*Game: 16, Justin Gage at Bowling Green, 9/14/02
*Season: 82, Justin Gage, 2002
*Career: 200, Justin Gage, 1999-2002
Most Yards Gained:
*Game: 236, Justin Gage vs. Baylor, 11/10/01
*Career: 2,704, Justin Gage, 1999-2002
Most Consecutive Games With A Pass Reception:
*34, Justin Gage, 2000-02
Other Achievements
Gage attended the American Legion of Missouri Boys State in 1998.
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These could involve fictitious transactions where for example loans or remortgages are obtained at inflated values by non-existent buyers connected to the vendors. In other cases a company's property portfolio may be over- valued so as to defraud investors or the identity of the true owner of a property disguised via complex corporate architecture.
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The Business of Biotech
Between the lab and the boardroom, biotech companies seek success in a future of dizzying possibilities
Science-Biomedicine
New Year's Eve 1999 gave revelers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for celebration - the exhilarating thrill of ringing in a year that's always had an aura of science fiction mystery. When the champagne corks popped at midnight, however, most merrymakers probably did not realize that they were also heralding the start of National Biotechnology Month, as January 2000 had been designated by the U.S. Senate.
For biotech, in fact, the party had begun months earlier, when hundreds of millions of dollars had poured into promising companies that seemed closer than ever to delivering on expectations. With the sequencing of the human genome running ahead of schedule (see sidebar), the American Stock Exchange's "BTK" biotech index registered an annual increase of 232 percent in February, prompting exuberant headlines ("Move Over, Dot-Coms: Biotech Is Back") and hopeful talk of cures for cancer and AIDS.
Those working in the biotech trenches, however, point out that the real work has only just begun. Dr. Robert Tepper, chief scientific officer for Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., put it this way in a Business Week interview: "Having just the sequence of the human genome is akin to [having] a dictionary that lists all the words in the English language but doesn't include their meanings." How those words are defined remains to be seen, but most analysts agree that if the 1990s belonged to the Internet, the new decade marks the advent of another dramatic revolution - the coming of age of biotechnology.
The prospect is exhilarating, but the road to this brave new biotech world has more than a few bumps. With an average time line of ten years required to bring a drug to market - and the potential for failure looming every step of the way - the business of biotech is one of managing uncertainty over time. HBS professor Gary P. Pisano, a longtime observer of the industry, points to two key elements common to successful biotech firms: development capabilities and strong senior management. "Once you attract bright, young scientists," he says, "you need to get them to realize this is not a postdoc lab, this is a business. It's not enough just to do the experiment; somebody's got to take the ball and run with it."
Lately, competition in the biotech industry has become more heated than ever, as a steadily increasing number of companies enter a market that, despite its risky nature, has the potential for enormous rewards in the future. "It may be that the time to profitability isn't that much longer for a biotech company than an Internet start-up," remarks Pisano. "In biotech, one big drug will make you very profitable for a long time, but the percentage of drugs that make it to market is so low that it remains a risky proposition." Profitable firms such as Genentech, Genzyme, and Biogen already have products on the market, as does Amgen, where Gordon M. Binder (MBA '62) served as CEO until his retirement last month (he will continue to serve as chairman through December). Amgen's Epogen (a treatment for anemia in kidney dialysis patients) and Neupogen (which restores white blood cells in cancer patients) generated more than $2 billion in sales last year.
As the ability to analyze a patient's genetic material is developed, however, many believe that drug "blockbusters" will disappear. Recent developments suggest that doctors will eventually be able to treat patients more effectively with medicine tailored to their genetic makeup, including, in some cases, gene replacement therapies. "The drug market may become much more fragmented," Pisano comments. "The $1 and $2 billion drugs will give way to $200 to $300 million drugs. That will be a very different world for big drug companies, with different cost structures and resource-allocation processes."
And the drug industry won't be the only field affected, according to Alan L. Crane (MBA '92), VP of business and commercial development at Millennium Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "It will revolutionize how medicine is practiced," he states simply. "Right now the doctor listens to your heart with a stethoscope and maybe draws a blood sample, but that's a very crude way of understanding the physiological state of the human body. A much better method is to get information about the DNA, RNA, and proteins. Understanding that information will help us detect a disease before it becomes symptomatic."
"It's a way of thinking about disease that wasn't open to us a decade ago," says Gail J. Maderis (MBA '85), president of Genzyme Molecular Oncology, also based in Cambridge. "Right now, we think of cancer as breast cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer. Eventually we'll be able to diagnose and treat on the molecular - rather than the anatomical - basis of the disease." Genzyme, which currently has drugs in clinical trials for mela-noma and breast cancer, hopes to have its first products on the market as early as 2004. "I think we're going to see more people in the next decade who are living with cancer and thinking of it as a chronic condition like cardiovascular disease, rather than as an acute, fatal disease," Maderis concludes.
Hitting the Target
When human lives are at stake, the urgency involved in turning such predictions into reality goes beyond the wish to reap financial rewards from years of investment. Steve Williams (MBA '84), senior director at Genentech, Inc., in South San Francisco, remembers watching a television program about the biotech industry in late 1987 with his father, who was fighting meta-static colon cancer. "My dad looked at me and said, 'Why don't you think about doing that?' I have found that many people who come into this industry do so for a combination of professional and personal factors," Williams says, adding that he left his job at a technology consulting firm and joined a biotech start-up soon after that conversation.
Time - a precious asset in any industry - has special value in biotech, particularly since the multiphase FDA approval process can add years to a drug's development. "My biggest source of frustration is the inability to move candidates into products more quickly," re-marks Mara Aspinall (MBA '87), president of Genzyme Emerging Technologies at Genzyme Corporation. "But I think in the post-genome era, the process will become much more efficient. With the data we're collecting now, we'll have virtual clinical trials that will bypass actual humans. The number one challenge is going to be utilizing these vast quantities of data to create products faster."
"If we can understand every molecule in the body with which a drug is interacting, we can predict the basis for toxicity as well as efficacy," says Alan Crane of Millennium. "With the whole genome known, the process of drug discovery in the future will involve comprehensively identifying all molecular interactions for a drug."
If the current environment is any indicator, biotech companies - and the large pharmaceutical firms many of them are affiliated with - won't be the only sector of the economy trying to capitalize on the new pool of genetic information. In a recent Harvard Business Review article, Juan C. Enriquez (MBA '86) and Ray A. Goldberg, the School's George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Emeritus, suggest that traditional boundaries between businesses will continue to dissolve, resulting in "the largest industry in the world: the life-sciences industry." Seeds, the authors note, have gone from being "little-noticed commodities to hot products" due to their ability to sprout disease-resistant crops with higher nutritional values. The next step? "Agriceuticals," or crops that have been engineered to have higher medicinal value. An "apple a day," in other words, would do more than keep the doctor away - it could replace the painful prick of a vaccination needle. And as "delivery vehicles" for medicines proliferate, new distribution channels, such as supermarkets and health clubs, could offer products alongside the more established sources like HMOs and pharmacies.
A Healthy Controversy
All this "cross-pollination"- whether between industries or between species - tends to make people nervous. Several days before the Biotechnology Industry Organization's (BIO) annual conference convened this past March in Boston, opponents held their own forum of seminars and talks under the banner of BioDevastation 2000. Obviously, advances in biotechnology are not viewed with confidence by all. Although much of the debate focuses on the possible health hazards posed by genetically engineered crops, as well as their potential for causing environmental harm, some observers have also expressed ethical concerns regarding the medical sector of the industry.
Privacy is an issue for those who worry that complete knowledge of an individual's genetic makeup could have negative effects. If employers know an individual has a predisposition for cancer, will that person still be hired - and receive health insurance? Some would counter that such personal information is, in a sense, already available, pointing to the fact that many companies require physicals for their employees as part of the hiring process. And if medical advancements keep pace with the growing availability of information, they argue, it follows that our potential to develop a particular disease will matter less and less to insurers. The general consensus, however, is that new legislation will be required in the meantime for this and a host of other issues, much of it relating to the regulation and labeling of bioengineered foods.
Another source of controversy and confusion is the patenting of genes and access to data from the human genome. "As a company, we believe that genetic information should be available to anyone for research purposes, and it is," says Genentech's Steve Williams. "But in order to determine that genetic information has a therapeutic use, we have to make a substantial investment - $350 to $500 million - in doing the clinical trial work. From a business standpoint, we need to protect our investment."
"High, upstream knowledge should not be owned by one company," notes Gary Pisano. "You don't want patents to preempt innovation, you want them to stimulate innovation, and the way to stimulate innovation is to give lots of people access to the pool of information." He believes the public's wariness will diminish when some kind of payback from biotechnology is realized. Pisano puts it in the context of another current topic of debate: "People worry about privacy issues concerning the Internet, but we all use it because there are benefits."
Whatever influence biotechnology hopes to have on the future of human life, all agree that one of the industry's biggest tests - in addition to maintaining its focus and delivering on expectations - will be communicating with the public it would like to benefit. "The key is education and public dialogue," says Gail Maderis. "People tend to be afraid of the unknown. We spend a lot of time at Genzyme meeting with groups that work to educate legislators, as well as the general public." Representatives from Genzyme and hundreds of firms at the Bio2000 conference in Boston were confronted with a crowd of 2,500 protesters marching through Copley Square - many of them costumed as ghoulish vegetables or three-headed beasts. The scene was hardly the ideal forum for discussion. But as knowledge of life sciences develops alongside even swifter advances in technology, it seems inevitable that biotechnology's influence will be felt to a profound degree well before we ring in many more New Years. And if companies meet the numerous challenges that lie ahead, we all could have good reason to celebrate.
Sidebar Article: Managing the Map: The Public and Private Life of the Human Genome
The Race Against Resistance
Re: Anna Triola (MBA 2000); Eric Kimble (MBA 1994)
Inside the Nonprofit Aiming to Disrupt Big Pharma, One Case Study at a Time
Re: Richard Horgan (MBA 2018)
Vertex Appoints First Female CEO
Re: Reshmak Kewalramani (GMP 18)


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Rumford turns to Shane Warne for help
By Tony Webeck PGA Contributor
Brett Rumford will seek the advice of legendary leg-spinner Shane Warne as he seeks a solution to the wrist injury that threatens to end his career.
Speaking prior to last week's HSBC Champions World Golf Championship event in China, Rumford revealed in a raw column for pga.org.au that being unable to compete had left him feeling detached from the players around him.
After an encouraging opening round of 73 Rumford again struggled at Sheshan International Golf Club in Shanghai, posting rounds of 80-78-78 to finish the week in 75th position at 21-over par.
The West Australian will now take three weeks to try and alleviate the pain in his wrist enough so that he can play in the Australian Open and Australian PGA Championship, during which time he will speak with Warne about how he managed his famous right wrist during his extraordinary cricket career.
The pair spoke briefly when Warne partnered Ryan Fox at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland earlier this month and Rumford will again seek him out when he returns from China.
"I had a chat with Shane Warne at the Dunhill Links and with the wrist issues that he's had and the surgeon that he saw in Melbourne," Rumford explained.
"I'm going to go down that recommendation over the next three weeks, get in touch with Shane and see if I can make this appointment.
"I've had the MRI so I've just got to try and give it a bit of a rest and try some alternative medicines for three weeks.
"I'm going to try and play out until the end of the summer, play the Aussie events as best I can and if I can try and subside this wrist in any way over the next three weeks I'll be doing my best to do that."
Rumford's right wrist issues stretch back five years to when he first injured it while hitting balls off a mat and twice this year he has had to miss tournaments in order to receive cortisone injections into the affected area.
There is 1.6 centimetres of thickened tendon and scar tissue along with some calcification just on the bone that needs to be removed for Rumford to be able to play pain free.
"If surgery is my only option then it's going to be four months out, I know that," said the 41-year-old.
"There's blood spinning and shock therapy but there have been quite a number of these types of surgeries on the European Tour of late.
"Graeme Storm had it done, Bernd Weisberger has just come back after four months out, Joost Luiten just played his first event after five months out with the same wrist surgery. The doctors on the European Tour are specialists in this area and they're part of the process of analysing all these golfers' ailments.
"Obviously the wrist is a high problematic area that they've studied over time so they're very experienced in the areas of surgery and the issues that golfers face.
"I sat down with them two weeks ago at the British Masters and between the three of them they suggested what I needed.
"Going by their advice if I want to be pain free I need to go down that road. It's a reasonably simple operation but once it's all cleaned up it's the healing process that is a drag. You lose a little bit of mobility but nothing that's going to affect the golf swing.
"It's just a slow process of building up the strength and mobility in the wrist. It might take another six or seven weeks before that starts to build up again and then you can start hitting golf balls again."
A six-time European Tour winner, Rumford's finishing position of 142 in the 2018 Race to Dubai leaves him without status and contemplating a change of direction post-surgery.
"I need to get the surgery done not just for my golf but for my general day-to-day living," explained Rumford, who won the 2017 ISPS HANDA World Super 6 Perth tournament.
"Outside of swinging a golf club it's very painful, you can catch it just reaching for your seatbelt in the car, luggage, getting up off the ground.
"Next year I've got to focus on getting this wrist right. I'd rather not have a tour card and be fit and healthy and be able to practice and get my game and my psychology back to a level of competing than anything else.
"Where I compete is another thing. Maybe Japan might be the tour going forward.
"I've got full exemption on the Australasian Tour so I might be able to play some smaller events moving forward. I've got that as a back-up which is nice, whether I apply for one of my years as a medical exemption might be an option.
"I'll just have to see where I'm at. With my situation and my girls in school I think maybe Japan might be a good option for the latter stages of my career.
"It's something that I'll think about over Christmas. I certainly don't want to stop playing competitively but where I play might change."


If you live in New York or if you're interested in why this icon of public transportation and civic infrastructure is now in a state of emergency (literally), then this video is genuinely informative. It's also really bewildering. Its tone is so informal, so whimsical and, occasionally, so irreverent that I'm kind of shocked that it comes from The New York Times. Watch it and you'll see playfully abrupt edits, humorous captions, vintage film footage, animated cutouts and even a busker who was hired to sing tongue-in-cheek verses about the subway system. It's not particularly "Timesian," as they say at the Gray Lady.
It's actually all pretty entertaining but its style is also pretty patronizing, if you ask me. The Times has never been afraid of explaining things clearly, but at its best its journalism never underestimates its audience. And there are parts of this video where any reasonably intelligent viewer would feel like they're being talked down to. Skip to the 3:03 timestamp at which point a toy train set (really) is used to illustrate a key historical decision. At first the track is turned to the left towards one possible decision, and then it's repositioned to turn to the right towards another. Get it?
What nags at me though is not so much this execution as the question of whether this is what journalism needs to look like in this day and age to succeed? Is this video an example of the style—of the attitude—that reporting needs to adopt in order to resonate with online audiences?
The thing is, I don't even mean to condemn this approach, because it has its merits. A more Timesian video would have been sober to a fault, and probably much less interesting. This, at the very least, is not that. I also recognize that the Times has to find younger audiences in order to thrive, and that the process of learning how to do that will inevitably strike traditionalists as confounding if not appalling. And maybe that's all this is: one iteration in a process of finding a balance between the organization's traditional values and the vastly different landscape. That's fair; I can't fault them for trying something different. I just kind of hated myself for watching it—which come to think of it is the way the rest of the Internet makes me feel, so I guess they're on to something.


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Q: Symfony2 abstract structure I can't seem to figure out how to get this working with Symfony2 forms.
My database structure looks like this :
(i'm using the hasOne, hasMany notation for simplification and understanding)
Object (this is the class name)
    hasOne ObjectType
    hasMany ObjectValues
    response

ObjectType
    hasMany ObjectTypeFields
    name

ObjectTypeField
    name
    datatype

ObjectValue
    hasOne Object
    hasOne ObjectTypeField
    value

From the above defined structure, I have an ObjectType called "Appointment" let's say. This ObjectType has two related fields (in ObjectTypeField) : let's say, "date" and "time".
So if I do $objectType->getFields(), I get two objects named "date" and "time" respectively.
I have a form class for my Object Class (ObjectType.php in Bundle/Form/Type). When I create a new Object, I want the form to have all the properties present in the Object class but also the ObjectTypeField properties which are related through the ObjectType class. So, my goal if I create a new "Appointment" object, is to have a form that has fields for "response" which is part of the Object object but also "date" and "time" which are related fields through the ObjectType of my "Appointment" object. Obviously, the values of these 2 fields can't be saved to the Object object because those properties don't exist there. They should be saved as ObjectValues related to the Object and the ObjectTypeField...
I don't understand how to do this with embedded forms because of the variable properties and where they have to be saved.
Anybody have an idea? I'm on Symfony 2.3.6 with Doctrine.
Thanks!

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You were and are absolutely wonderful. I hope that we will continue to listen to you even after your passing.
Cheesy notes to the author aside, I want you to take this one in and run with it, because it's the truth, and it is so incredibly important. The next time you feel like you're about to scream at a customer service representative, ask yourself this: "How will this make them feel?" Yes, you may be annoyed. Yes, they may be rude. But you don't know their story, just like they don't know yours. Take a deep breath, relax, and consider someone else's feelings other than your own.


Love Ranger Jonesy is a Soldier Hero in Save the World.
Increases Shockwave Radius by 37.5%.
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Love Ranger Jonesy was available from the "Bear Force One" quest during the Spring It On! event.


As enthusiasts we have a lot to thank Cooler Master for. OK that may sound quite a bold statement, especially right at the start of the review, but unless you're sitting reading this review with your high-end PC sitting inside a beige plastic and steel box, it's true. Over the past ten years Cooler Master have been responsible for some of the biggest innovations in PC enclosure design and probably one of the best (for me at least) was the release of their ATCS range of aluminium cases. With models such as the ATCS-201, Black Widow and ATCS-4000, the ATCS name was about much more than an Advanced Thermal Cooling Solution, it was about understated styling, high quality materials and a total disregard for the budget.
However looks can only get you so far, and while the ATCS name certainly also suggested high-performance in the cooling department, many of the original ATCS cases featured little more than a few 80mm fans. With times changing and many manufacturers moving on to designs based around 120mm or larger fans, Cooler Master retired the ATCS brand and introduced a new beast to the market - the STC-T01 (or Stacker). Standing 21" tall with 11 fully vented drive bays and more space for fans than Wembely Stadium, the Stacker still to this day inspires the design of many cases by other manufacturers.
ATCS 840 constitutes a classic all-aluminum design that builds on the legacy of the original ATCS design. The aluminum construction not only allows for a lighter weight but complements the thermal design seamlessly with three 230mm fans, dedicated air duct for graphics card cooling and HDD cooling module for superb cooling.
Extra attention to make sure this elegantly design chassis is easy to install and maintain, which includes: slide-out motherboard tray along with easy CPU cooler-remove slot, tool-free HDD casing, patented finger pressing 5.25" drive to dust filter.
Lastly, it gives users the freedom to choose any components they desire, as it supports the latest standards such as E-ATX and dual PSUs.
Been waiting for this review.
Absolutely gorgeous case though, easily able to hold it's own against a Lian Li or Silverstone. I also like how they took all the good bits from the Cosmos S aswell, the tool-less drive bays and radiator-compatible roof particularly.
Even though I've butchered it a lot, my old Praetorian (last rev. ATC-201 in black ano) still makes me go wow at the engineering involved, if you took out the fans, switches, LED's and the front IO thing you wouldnt be able to find a piece of plastic in the whole case.
The ATCS 840 is lovely but I don't have one on my christmas list. If anyone from CM can read this (yeah right ) come out with a beautiful mid tower (think ATC-110), and I'll buy one, maybe even two!
On a side note, didn't CM fire the ATCS engineers years ago and they went to work for silverstone?


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The World Blackjack Tour is an original GSN program that premiered September 4, 2006. Broadcast from the Las Vegas Hilton, five players representing five different nations play 21 hands of blackjack for a first prize of $10,000. The show is hosted by John Fugelsang and Ben Mezrich. In the course of the debut broadcast the hosts announced plans to take the World Blackjack Tour to casinos around the globe.

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«Динамо» — український радянський футбольний клуб із Кременчука. В 1930-1940-х роках команда брала участь у розіграшах Всеукраїнської першості спортивного товариства «Динамо», Чемпіонату та Кубка Полтавської області, вигравши перший в історії його фінал у кременчуцького «Спартака» з рахунком 3:2.

Стадіон

Команда «Динамо» грала на Міському стадіоні, який перед початком Німецько-радянської війни отримав назву «Динамо», а на початку 1950-х років був перейменований на «Спартак» (пізніші назви: «Дніпро», «Кредмаш»).

Досягнення

Кубок Полтавської області
 Володар (1): 1939
 Фіналіст (1): 1940

Примітки

Посилання

 «Динамо» (Кременчук) на сайті FootballFacts

Футбольні клуби Кременчука
Неіснуючі футбольні клуби України


There are 4 styles used in swimming competitions. The most popular one is freestyle followed by backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly stroke, the latter being lesser known by the general population. Let's see the differences between these styles and how to perform them correctly.
This is also known as front crawl because it describes the action quite well. The swimmer uses alternating arm movements to advance while the legs do a flutter kick. It's the easiest and the first stroke you learn if you take swimming lessons. It's also the fastest one, being preferred by top Olympic swimmers. Triathlons use this stroke in their swimming parts precisely because of its speed and efficiency.
This might be easier to learn than freestyle. The legs do a flutter kick just like in front crawl while the arms make an alternating circular movement to advance with your face always above the water. You could call it a back crawl if you like, because that's basically what you're doing. This stroke is the 3rd in terms of speed and is actually recommended for people with back problems because it gives an excellent workout. Women tend to prefer backstroke because it's less physically demanding than let's say, butterfly or front crawl.
Some teachers prefer to teach beginners this stroke first as opposed to freestyle. In fact, casual swimmers are actually swimming it without knowing how it's called. The advantage for beginners is that they can keep their head above water, even though in pro breaststroke swimming, you keep your head below the water as much as possible because you waste precious time going above it to breathe.
Breaststroke is the slowest of the competitive styles. You are doing short synchronous half-circular movement underwater with your arms and a whip kick with your legs. Some argue that breaststroke is quite similar to how a frog swims.
This is the most physically demanding style, thus being preferred by men. If you lack training, you won't be able to swim more than 15m like this. Instead of moving your arms alternatively, you move them both at once while making a dolphin kick with your legs and a wave-like body ondulation. It's quite difficult to master and even more difficult to be fast when swimming it, which is why it's usually the last stroke learned.
If you have the strength and stamina, butterfly is the second fastest stroke after freestyle in spite of leaving you exhausted. Body undulation matters a lot to gaining speed and so does the number of arm movements you make before taking your head out of the water for recovery. Michael Phelps illustrates this perfectly in the Olympics when he wins the gold medal several times.


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Q: The Giraud-Benabou construction for splitting fibrations I'm currently reading "Revisiting the categorical interpretation
of dependent type theory" and they give a very terse description of the Giraud-Benabou construction:
For a fibration $p : \mathbb E \to \mathbb B $, the fibration $Rp : R\mathbb E \to \mathbb B$
 is defined by

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*Obj $R\mathbb E$ is the set of pairs $(X,\phi)$ where $X \in \mathbb B$ and $\phi : \mathrm{dom}_X \to p$ is a morphism of fibrations from the restriction of the domain fibration to the slice categories $\mathrm{dom}_X: \mathbb B / X \to \mathbb B$. $Rp$ is the first projection.

*$\mathrm{Hom}((X, \phi),(Y, \psi))$ consists of pairs $(t,\mu)$ where $t : X \to Y$ and $\mu : \phi \to \psi \circ \mathrm{dom}_t$ over $\mathbb B$.

They then prove that this is a split fibration in a single line ("for $t:X \to Y$, set $\phi [t] = \phi \circ \mathrm{dom}_X$, ie. $\phi[t](s) = \phi(t \circ s)$ for all $s:Z \to X$, and $t_\phi = (t,id)$. Moreover, $Rp$ is split by the associativity of composition in $\mathbb B$"), and it isn't clear to me exactly what the relation between $Rp$ and $p$ is.
Questions:

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*Is there a slightly less terse reference for this that isn't buried somewhere in an almost 500 page book on non-abelian cohomology written in French?

*What exactly is the relation between $Rp$ and $p$?

*What's the intuition behind this construction? If I were trying to create a split fibration from a fibration, why might I think to do this?

*What does this do to the codomain fibration over Set? Does this have a simple description?

A: Section 2.2 of The local universes model gives a possible answer to (2) and (3): $R$ (or $(-)_*$ in their notation) is a right adjoint to the forgetful functor from split fibrations to non-split fibrations.  Their description is no less terse, but perhaps beta-reduced a bit more:

An object of $T_*$ over $\Gamma\in C$ consists of an object $A$ of $T(Γ)$, together with for each $f : \Gamma'\to \Gamma$ some cartesian lifting $\bar{f} : A_f \to A$, such that $A_{1_\Gamma} = A$, $\bar{1_\Gamma} = 1_A$.

In the case of the codomain fibration, this means that an object of $T_*$ is a morphism equipped with a chosen pullback square along every morphism into its codomain, such that the chosen pullback along the identity is the identity square.


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Q: Unable to delete Azure Resource Group I'm trying to delete Ra esource Group or the resources in that group.

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*Databricks got deleted half-way is now in a failed state and can't be removed

*A storage account can't be deleted because of an other resource requiring exclusive access

*The Private Endpoint on the Storage Account can't be deleted, because there is no changes possible on the Storage Account - I'm owner on Subscription level

*The AKS namespace returns an 'internal server error'

*The Log Analytics workspace I can't delete because a SQL solution can be deleted 'ajaxExtended call failed'

Tried using CLI, PowerShell, checked for Locks, re-registered providers, tried moving resources ....


Temperatures are back to winter again, and we did pick up about 2" of new snow to put a nice surface back on the snow after the Thursday/Friday thaw. Cold through Tuesday, then warming a bit with some chance of rain, but cooler again by next weekend. Clearly no meltdown in sight, so keep on skiing.
 After two days of high temperatures, the weather has cooled down. We picked up a dusting to 1" overnight, but should get another inch or so by Sunday morning. After that, temperatures only in the upper 20s through Tuesday, but then again warming up later in the week with a chance of rain as well.
Unbridged brook crossings will be a challenge even after the waters go down because any brook that "went out" will be flowing in a deep trench. Of particular concern would be the crossing of Marcy Brook at Indian Falls on the Marcy trail. The other questionable crossing will be the Opalescent River in Flowed Lands, but there at least one can stay on the hiking trail to get to Lake Colden.
 Most areas still have a good base. Skiing today won't be that good, but should be much better Sunday to Tuesday at least. As noted in the previous report, it is now "spring conditions" so until the snow melts a lot more the controlling factor will be temperature. There will be some isolated bare spots on southern slopes and in open areas where earlier winds earlier blew much of the snow away, but these shouldn't require too much walking to cross.
Remarks - no reports yet on any section that has bare spots, but they should be small given how much snow we started with.
Good cover on all backcountry trails in the High Peaks and most other popular routes. Surface conditions will vary from fast downhills where it had been packed out to a more forgiving crust on unbroken areas.
Johns Brook trail from the Garden was skiable with care, but no longer recommended after the thaw.
Road to Lower Ausable Lake still had snowmobile traffic until this thaw, but is still very skiable with just the inch or so of snow on the old tracks.
Boreas parking area again plowed with good cover. No report on how much new snow there or in Newcomb.
SKIS OR SNOWSHOES ARE STILL REQUIRED ON ALL TRAILS IN THE HIGH PEAKS AND ABSOLUTELY SHOULD BE WORN ELSEWHERE - BOTH FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY AND TO PRESERVE GOOD CONDITIONS FOR ALL OTHERS.
Remarks - Lake Placid Loppet on Saturday will close part of the area. All open on Sunday.
Remarks: Snowshoes recommended today. Good skiing Sunday with another 2" expected.
The forecasts remain consistent that today, Thursday, and again on Friday will see temperatures in the 50s. This won't be an extended thaw, however, and even these two very warm days won't diminish the snow depth very much in most areas. South-facing slopes at lower elevations will likely become bare, but the Jackrabbit Trail, backcountry trails, and the groomed centers will retain plenty of snow for the coming weekend. While its a bit early to tell just how much, we will get some new snow as it cools down on Friday night and into Saturday. This will mitigate what otherwise would be hard, frozen granular surface conditions. Then highs only in the 20s Sunday and Monday before it again warms up to the upper 30s on Wednesday.
So, it looks like we have enough base (5' at Lake Colden and 6-7' at higher elevations) for an extended season of spring skiing. As always, conditions can vary widely from hour to hour as the day warms up and softens any surface that froze up overnight, and this report won't try to keep up with these changes. Watching the weather for predicted temperatures will be the best way to know what any skiing will be like.
Update again on Saturday when we know how much snow actually fell overnight.
Sorry about no update on the promised Thursday, but there really wasn't anything that had changed since the previous report. Still nice powder surfaces, jackrabbit Trail fully skiable, 60+ inches of snow at Lake Colden, and all X-C centers in full operation. The only change to report now is that it now appears that Sunday's threatened rain will be all snow. Not the nice light powder we've been enjoying for the past two weeks or so, but hey, wet snow is better than wet rain any day. Continued cold through mid week, but then significant warming trend on Thursday and Friday. Friday may see temperatures topping 50, but cooler on Saturday, so no final meltdown of this nice base we've managed to accumulate. That's it for now.
Not really much to update since last week. Temperatures have remained below freezing, we've picked up a few more inches of snow, and all popular ski routes have been broken out and have great conditions. The popular routes broken out include the seven mile ski to Boreas Ponds, and the parking area is again plowed. Don't miss this opportunity to see that view when one can additionally ski out onto the ponds for a wider view.
Mid-week will see true mid-winter cold with temperatures Wednesday and Thursday only reaching to low teens after a below zero start. Friday is upper 20s, and Saturday will actually be close to 30. Unfortunately, the warming trend continues into Sunday with the dreaded "R" word again in the forecast. Sunday, however, is a long way off, and we will monitor the forecasts and provide an update - probably on Thursday, 3/7.
 The rain on Sunday didn't reduce the base by very much because it immediately turned around and snowed 3-4" on Monday. Very high winds on Monday caused drifting while also blowing some areas clean, so not every area has been "restored" after Sunday's brief thaw. So far, not much evidence of downed trees - maybe earlier high winds brought down anything likely to come down. Nevertheless, be careful on any downhill if you don't know that it is fully clear. And we always appreciate those who pause to toss errant branches aside.
Continued cold on Wednesday with highs only in the low teens. Warmer on Thursday, then 30s on Friday and Saturday with a chance of some light snow. 20s on Sunday, then highs just barely reaching 20 on Monday and Tuesday. Winter is still in full force in the Adirondacks even as the World Nordic Championships in Austria are are going on with temperatures in the 50s.
Remarks - Given the winds on Monday and Tuesday, some areas could have been blown down to the frozen granular, and in any event all hills will be quite fast. Otherwise, good, solid cover on the entire trail.
Snow depth at Lake Colden: 55"
Good cover on all backcountry trails. Surface conditions will vary from fast downhills where it has been packed out to breakable crust on unbroken areas. As noted above, the wind may have blown some of the new snow off in places, leaving nothing but frozen granular surfaces. Likewise, trail breaking may encounter some deep drifts.
Johns Brook trail from the Garden was skiable with care, but Keene Valley only received an inch or so of new snow on Monday. Thus it is "dust on crust" with a few rocks still showing.
Road to Lower Ausable Lake still has snowmobile traffic, but is otherwise very skiable with just the inch or roof snow.
SKIS OR SNOWSHOES ARE REQUIRED ON ALL TRAILS IN THE HIGH PEAKS AND ABSOLUTELY SHOULD BE WORN ELSEWHERE - BOTH FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY AND TO PRESERVE GOOD CONDITIONS FOR ALL OTHERS.
Off track snow depth - 16"
Saturday was a beautiful day. Lots of skiers out on the trials, hope you were one of them. As predicted, Sunday has become quite windy with temperatures in the 40s. No significant loss of snow expected, and now 3-5" of new snow on Monday to restore the surfaces. On the other hand, these winds will likely bring down some trees and branches, and it could be a few days before this new blowdown has been cleared, so be cautious before "letting it rip" on the downhills unless you have already been up the same trail.
Following Monday's snow, the temperatures will plunge with highs not reaching 20 on Tuesday and Wednesday. A little warmer on Thursday through Saturday, creeping above freezing on Friday. A more complete report on Tuesday when we may know of the extent of storm damage and what the groomed centers have been able to do with this latest weather cycle.
We continue on our temperature "roller-coaster", but fortunately nothing that will diminish to any great extent out existing snow cover. Temperatures in the low 30s on Friday, a bit warmer on Saturday, and then 40s briefly on Sunday with chance of some brief rain. Then cooling off, with highs during the middle of the week only in the low 20s.
Surface conditions currently are quite fast "ball-bearing fast" in some spots, and with a slight breakable crust outside of the packed areas. Conditions will slow a bit as temperatures warm during the weekend, but should never become all that slow. No significant new snow in the forecast.
Remarks - Longer sections, Old Mt. Road and McKenzie Pass, broken. Good cover on all sections. Still quite fast on the downhills, but not as fast as a few days ago thanks to a bit of new snow.
Johns Brook trail from the Garden now skiable with care as there are still a few rocks showing.
Inches New Snow - 1"


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Includes new images and illustrations, for a total of 430 high-quality, multi-modality examples throughout the text.
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This composition for Piano, Vocal & Guitar includes 6 page(s). It is performed by Whitney Houston. The style of the score is 'Pop'. Catalog SKU number of the notation is 13689. This score was originally published in the key of A. Authors/composers of this song: anon.. This score was first released on Wednesday 13th September, 2000 and was last updated on Thursday 8th November, 2018. The arrangement code for the composition is PVGRHM. Minimum required purchase quantity for these notes is 1. Please check if transposition is possible before your complete your purchase.
* Where transpose of 'I Will Always Love You' available (not all our notes can be transposed) & prior to print.


Riviera Toscana® - The comprehensive guide for holidays in tuscany with hotels, campsites, farmhouses, various accomodations, events, monuments, museums, itineraries, trips, restaurants, sport, shopping, useful information.
In addition to the wealth of artistic beauty, Tuscany is well known for its wonderful food and excellent wines.
In our area, where the hills and mountains meet the sea and thanks to an exceptionally mild climate vegetation is lush and fertile, the art of cooking is enhanced by the infinite variety of fish, meat and vegetable produce.
Tordelli (local ravioli), testaroli (a type of flat bread served with pesto sauce and local cheese), panigacci (a dish made with flour and cooked in terra-cotta pots over coal), sgabei (deep-fried pancakes) and chestnut cakes lure gourmets to the many typical restaurants on the coast as well as inland..
Mushrooms grow in abundance on the hills and, during the mushroom season, numerous local fairs take place.
Blueberry, cranberry and raspberry picking is the favourite past-time of people looking for a cool place in the mountains during the hot summer days.
Fishermen crowd the small harbours dotted along the coast and the blue fish and shellfish from their catch can be savoured fresh in most restaurants all year round. Fresh and cured cod form the basis of many traditional recipes in Massa.
Lard, seasoned in marble vessels in the small village of Colonnata, situated above Carrara, is now world famous.
The most well-known local wines are Candia, whose vineyards cover the hills between Massa e Carrara, and Vermentino from Luni.


Air quality is acceptable; however, for some pollutants there may be a moderate health concern for a very small number of people. For example, people who are unusually sensitive to ozone may experience respiratory symptoms.
This would trigger a health alert signifying that everyone may experience more serious health effects.
This would trigger a health warnings of emergency conditions. The entire population is more likely to be affected.
Pm0.1 (Altra Fine Particles), PM2.5 (Fine Particles) and PM10 (Course Particles) are the 3 main sizes of particles.
PM2.5 which incudes all sizes up to 2.5 is the most dangerous because it cause more damage to the lung than larger particules. When you cough or swallow your body is trying to get rid of particulate matter that has been trapped in your lung by mucous that was produced for that job. Tiny hairs move the mucous and particles out of the lungs to the back of the throat where you then will cough it out. Smaller particles however, cannot be moved out of the lungs but become trapped by special cells that keep them there. If these toxic particles do become trapped in the lungs, they can cause lung disease, lung cancer, emphysema, etc. Though the smaller particles may cause the most damage to the lungs, both PM2.5 and PM10 can cause a series of respiratory health problems (occurring within the lungs and airway). Due to the fact that PM2.5 is smaller and often much more toxic (metals and cancerous material) than PM10 it causes more damage to the lungs because it travels deeper.
These examples of PM2.5 are made by burning fossil fuels, fires, and smelting and processing metals.
Definition: Ground level ozone is ozone present as a secondary pollutant in the lower atmosphere, where its formation can be enhanced by other pollutants. It is highly toxic at levels above 0.1 parts per million (p.p.m.).
Stratosphere Ozone: This is Ozone located 6-30 miles up in the air in the stratosphere. This layer blocks harmful UV rays from reaching the earths surface. See UV radiation Page This is also known as "good Ozone"
(0-50) No health impacts are expected when air quality is in this range.
(51-100) Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting prolonged outdoor exertion.
(301-500) Health warnings of emergency conditions. The entire population is more likely to be affected.


Mid winter and the rest of the US is freezing and digging out from under feet of snow. Here in South Florida we just have to deal with the winter wind. Its so RUDE! I KNOW! But wind is what we have here because we don't have hills (or snow 🙂 ). I know we all say we hate the wind, but we have to get over it.
Handling the wind is mostly a mental game; the sooner we stop saying we hate the wind (which is a veiled admission of defeat), the sooner we can learn to use it as a a great training tool. Let go of the need for speed, and embrace the need for maintaining a high but comfy cadence, desired training heart rate (different for different training rides), and related RPE, and we can ride strong in the wind. It is a great mental training tool, in that we can focus on form and feel, and be disciplined about not trying to hold a certain pace, and still have a great workout. Don't let your focus on keeping a unattainable pace into the wind ruin the workout. Take control of the ride- make sure your goals fit the conditions, and then adjust what you focus on so that every workout is a good one.


adaptive pathway A series of small adaptive steps, rather than a single large one, which leads from one adaptive zone across an environmental and adaptive threshold into another adaptive zone. In effect, small changes accumulate so that the organism is virtually pre-adapted (see pre-adaptation) to enter the new zone.
"adaptive pathway." A Dictionary of Ecology. . Encyclopedia.com. 22 Apr. 2019 <https://www.encyclopedia.com>.
"adaptive pathway." A Dictionary of Zoology. . Encyclopedia.com. 22 Apr. 2019 <https://www.encyclopedia.com>.
adaptive pathway A series of small adaptive steps, rather than a single large one, which leads from one adaptive zone across an environmental and adaptive threshold into another adaptive zone. In effect, small changes accumulate so that the organism is virtually pre-adapted to enter the new zone.
"adaptive pathway." A Dictionary of Plant Sciences. . Encyclopedia.com. 22 Apr. 2019 <https://www.encyclopedia.com>.


This category includes all my research projects.
I have successfully presented my dissertation work and am currently finishing up the revisions for the final submission to the University of Texas at Arlington for the PhD degree. I expect the final dissertation to be available from the university library by July 2015.
Dr. Esther Betran was the chair of my committee (UTA).
Here is the slide presentation and the notes which are numbered to correspond to the slides. I have included some of the corrections that came out of the discussion with my committee and otherwise have noted where there are other problems which I am addressing in the revision.
This entry was posted in Ant Assemblages, Colony Spatial Pattern, Meetings and Presentations, Miscellaneous, Nestmate Discrimination, Research and tagged animal behavior, ant assemblage, ants, Arlington, community ecology, ecology, Ecosystem engineer, Fort Worth, nestmate discrimination, North Central Texas, Ordination, Pogonomyrmex, Pogonomyrmex comanche, RDA, Ripley's K Function, Spatial ecology, Texas, University of Texas at Arlington on May 10, 2015 by .
Comanche Harvester Ants are Pansies!
As part of investigating nestmate discrimination, I decided to test if Comanche can distinguish other ant species. So I ran behavioral trials between the Comanche harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex comanche) and the Barbatus harvester ant (or harvester ants or big red ants, Pogonomyrmex barbatus) and: !
Comanche are pansies — mostly they did nothing, either in arenas with P. barbatus or when P. barbatus was introduced to their nest mound near the entrance. In fact, P. barbatus sometimes entered the nest seemingly without harm since they also returned to the external nest.
Out of 19 arena encounters, there were 4 with any aggression and only one of these had an extended grabbing encounter. Barbatus was always the aggressor.
Out of 14 on the nest encounters, 2 showed some aggression by Comanche, mostly a kind of harassment. Mostly, Barbatus just left the mound though twice barbatus entered the nest. Once Barbatus showed great difficulty maneuvering over the sandy mound.
All trials were recorded with a camcorder so I am still analyzing them.
This entry was posted in Field Notes and Observations, Miscellaneous, Nestmate Discrimination on October 17, 2014 by .
I sampled ants using pitfall traps in 17 sites in the Fort Worth Nature Center monthly in June, July, and August 2012.
I used CANOCO to run redundancy analyses (RDA) on ant presence with abiotic and biotic environmental variables and on ant presence and abundance with soil type to look for ant preference for soil. I used forward selection of variables and Monte Carlo significance tests to select the variables for the final RDA models.
24% of species presence is explained by the environmental variables with percent litter cover and drainage being the significant variables. Sampling sites by date clumped together indicating a lack of seasonality — which seems a bit unusual since late July and August become quite hot and ant activity seems reduced at this time.
12% of species presence was explained by soil type with the Aquilla soil being the only significant soil. This soil is the only soil type where the Comanche harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex comanche) is found. All other species are more generalist with respect to soil type.
7.4% of species abundance was explained by soil type again with the Aquilla soil being the only significant soil. This result further supports the result with species presence: only the Comanche harvester ant has such narrow soil preference.
Though the eigenvalues are low this is not unusual for ecological data. The low level of explanatory value of these variables is likely due to the generalist nature of these species (and more temperate species in general) and the below-ground nesting of most ant species.
The Comanche harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex comanche) was the only species to show strict preference for soil type. Exactly what this species' preference or requirement is remains unresolved.
This entry was posted in Ant Assemblages, Miscellaneous, Research and tagged ant ecology, ant soil preference, ants, Comanche harvester ant, Fort Worth Nature Center, harvester ants, RDA, Texas on May 2, 2014 by .
Here are the preliminary results of the first redundancy analysis (RDA) for all the sites sampled over the summer of 2012. I performed a PCA with only environmental variables and one with only species data to look for an underlying pattern — which was confirmed. Then I ran an RDA with the full set of environmental variables and species data to determine the most significant quantitative environmental variables. Here are the results of the final RDA for this set of data which includes samples from 21 sites sampled monthly over the summer.
This entry was posted in Ant Assemblages, Research and tagged ant assemblage, Fort Worth Nature Center, RDA on April 16, 2014 by .
This past summer, August 12-14, 2013, the National Wildlife Federation and Kansas State University teamed up to have the 2nd America's Grassland Conference in Manhattan, Kansas. I attended this conference and presented some preliminary work on some ant assemblages in the Fort Worth Nature Center, Fort Worth, Texas. I am completing that project this spring as part of my dissertation.
The proceedings from the conference, America's Grasslands: The Future of Grasslands in a Changing Landscape, is now available. A summary of my preliminary work is found on page 41.
This entry was posted in Ant Assemblages, Meetings and Presentations, Research on March 15, 2014 by .
This entry was posted in Ant Assemblages, Research on March 11, 2014 by .
I am completing the ant identifications for the prairie and forest in the Southwest Nature Preserve in Arlington, Texas and the additional prairies, Statford and Tandy Hills, in Fort Worth, Texas. I believe I have found another Temnothorax species which I have not been able to identify and another Pheidole species. This is quite exciting. No Pogonomyrmex ants are found in the Stratford or Tandy Hills Prairies.
This entry was posted in Ant Assemblages, Miscellaneous, Research and tagged ant identification, Fort Worth, Pheidole, Stratford Prairie, Tandy Hills Prairie, Temnothorax on February 4, 2014 by .


Baked with love to share!
I love chocolate. And I love to bake…not to mention enjoying warm homemade cookies straight out of the oven! The combination of chocolate, pecans and honey make this recipe my favorite. The butter and honey cream together quickly so they're easy to make. And the simple ingredients are things I try to keep on hand-because these are the first cookies I go for when chocolate cravings hit!
I adapted the Honey Pecan Chocolate Chip cookie recipe to a printable combining vintage line art with typography and watercolor cookie illustrations. And since baking is for sharing, I formatted the recipe art to gift tags and labels too.
A cookie jar filled with homemade cookies makes a great gift and the recipe labels can be printed on self adhesive sheets. The recipe label allows the recipient to see the ingredient list and check for possible food allergies too.
The cookies freeze well so I always keep some on hand for eating and gifting. The gift tag sheet can be printed on card stock and tied onto a bag of cookies for a personalized treat!
Click, save and print the recipe gift tags and label printables at the end of this post, and if you like the 8×10 frameable print shown below it's available as a free printable in the Sweets and Treats freebies section.
Share the joy of Honey Pecan Chocolate Chip cookies!
The printables are for personal use only. Print quality will depend on your printer and laser printers will produce the best results in color and detail. Laser printers are available at FedEx Office centers, and your local copy centers and office supply stores.


An insight arrived the other day, in a way that often happens for me, during one of my day dreams. My body and 'doing life' mind were occupied with a simple task, and the insight bubbled up from a deeper intuitive place. What came has to do with our current time here on earth. I've heard many people recently saying they or people they know, are experiencing waves of strong feelings about being here on earth, or specifically- leaving, wanting to end their time here. Some speak of it as a sort of pull or voice, either their own, a part of themselves, or one perceived as more external….


An evening of dinner, dancing, drinks, music and great company!
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