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The people who make it happen (part three)
Your new-look Engineering & Technology first went to press a year ago and, to celebrate the anniversary, the editors here publish a list of who we believe to be 25 of the most influential figures in the world of engineering and technology today. Continued - part three.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Inventor of the World Wide Web
Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, didn't patent the key technology, and has since been a staunch defender of the open standards that ensure this most important of communications mechanisms is not Balkanised by commercial interests.
For his trouble, he has been showered with personal and professional recognition, awards and honorary degrees, including being named one of Time magazine's 100 most important people of the 20th Century alongside Einstein, Fleming and the Wright brothers.
Perhaps it was in his genes. His parents met while working on the Ferranti Mark 1, the world's first commercial computer, and he spent his childhood building pretend computers out of cardboard boxes. When he got to Queen's College, Oxford, from which he graduated in 1976, he built his first real computer, using TTL gates, an early Motorola microprocessor and an old television.
After graduation Berners-Lee began working in IT and communications jobs, first at Plessey Telecommunications, developing distributed transaction systems, message relays, and barcode technology, and later at DG Nash, where he wrote typesetting software and a multitasking operating system.
During a consultancy at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, in 1980, Berners-Lee wrote a program called Enquire (named after a Victorian encyclopaedia called 'Enquire Within Upon Everything'), which linked fragments of information together.
Berners-Lee returned to CERN in 1984 as a fellow, working on distributed real-time systems for scientific data acquisition and system control. In 1989 he decided he wanted a better way to share knowledge with colleagues within CERN and beyond. Reviving ideas from his Enquire program and drawing on the existing concepts of hypertext, he proposed a global hypertext system, to be known as the World Wide Web.
Berners-Lee wrote the first Web server, and the first client software, which was a combined hypertext browser and editor. The server program was released within CERN in December 1990 and offered to the outside world in summer 1991, launching the public Web.
Berners-Lee spent the next few years refining the underlying mechanisms of the Web, such as HTTP and HTML, with feedback from users. In 1994, he founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the Laboratory for Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to coordinate global Web development.
He now has senior academic appointments at MIT and the University of Southampton, and is co-director of the Web Science Research Initiative, an effort to create a scientific discipline to understand the Web and ensure its social benefit.
Berners-Lee has been widely recognised for the impact of his work and the importance of his decision to make the World Wide Web freely available to all.
His website lists awards and honours going back to 1995, when the significance of the Web began to be widely recognised. They include at least nine honorary degrees; many Fellowships (including of the IET); prizes honouring Babbage, Columbus, Kilby, Lovelace, Maxwell, and Mountbatten; as well as an OBE, knighthood and the Order of Merit from HM the Queen.
In 1995, Eric Schmidt, then chief technical officer of Sun Microsystems and now CEO of Google, told the New York Times: "If this were a traditional science, Berners-Lee would win a Nobel Prize. What he's done is that significant."
Andrew Viterbi
The man behind wireless communication
If you've used a 3G phone, digital TV or Wi-Fi connection recently, then you've got Professor Viterbi to thank for the signal getting through.
Viterbi invented the eponymous signal-processing algorithm in 1967 as a way to correct errors in noisy digital communication links. Error-correction circuits give designers the leeway to transmit signals at lower power than uncorrected signals, making battery-powered, high-bandwidth mobile communications more practical.
The Viterbi algorithm has since been applied to second and third-generation (3G) mobile networks, dial-up modems, satellite and deep-space communications, and the WiFi standard. It is also used to extract hidden meaning from data being processed by speech recognition, computational linguistics, and bio-informatics systems.
As if creating the theoretical underpinnings of modern wireless communications wasn't enough, Viterbi has also directly shaped the industry. In 1985, he co-founded Qualcomm, which developed key technologies used in the 3G WCDMA standard. The company now licences these technologies to the rest of the mobile industry.
Viterbi also created his own venture capital fund, Viterbi Group, to advise and invest in start-up companies, mainly in wireless communications and network infrastructure.
Having become wealthy from his inventions, Viterbi paid back the University of Southern California, where he was granted his PhD in 1962, by giving its engineering school $52 million. It is now named after him.
Viterbi is a Fellow of the IEEE, and was inducted as a member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 1978 and of the US National Academy of Sciences in 1996. In 2007 he was awarded America's National Medal of Science for developing the Viterbi algorithm, and for his contributions to CDMA technology.
Richard Stallman
Software developer and software freedom activist
As an industry influencer, Stallman both promulgates and provokes acute reactions. To some he is a tireless crusader against the clutches of vendor-led computing, the 'Father of Free Software, the 'high-priest of hi-tech'; to others Richard Stallman is a stubborn, obsessive, unrealistic iconoclast who leverages his public notoriety as a software activist to draw attention to his politicised hobby horses.
Best known for his GNU operating system project, the Stallman-founded Free Software Foundation gave succour to Linus Torvalds' early work, so can take some credit for turning the 'open source' Linux operating system into a market force; Stallman, however, eschews the term 'open source', preferring 'free software'.
Stallman's stance on the inter-relationships between proprietary software and national interests broadens the debate around technological choices beyond purely technological issues. As a lobbyist on the world stage, Stallman trumpets the positive contribution that free software could make toward the economies of developing nations.
In Venezuela, Stallman has promoted the adoption of free software in state oil company PDVSA, municipal government, and the nation's military. In August 2006 at meetings with the government of the Indian State of Kerala, he reportedly persuaded officials to discard proprietary software at state schools, resulting in the decision to migrate computers in 12,500 high schools from Microsoft Windows to a free-software operating system.
His work has been acknowledged with a string of honorary doctorates and professorships. Notoriously averse to manifestations of high-tech (he refuses to own a mobile phone), Stallman rubbished the voguey concept of cloud computing in a September 2008 interview with the UK's Guardian newspaper, describing it as stupid, and "a marketing hype campaign" - although it remains to be seen if his views will affect cloud computing adoption trends.
Stallman is no armchair activist. As biographer Thomas Bradley reports, he has participated in protests against software patents and digital rights management (DRM).
Gordon Conway
Delivering technology solutions to feed the hungry
Sir Gordon Conway is probably best known for his ground-breaking book 'The Doubly Green Revolution: Food for All in the 21st Century', in which he proposes the application of technology as the key to resolving global food security. An ideas man who has devoted his career to solving the problems of hungry and excluded people, Conway was voted in 2005 by readers of Prospect magazine as one of the top 100 global 'public intellectuals'.
Conway started off as an agricultural ecologist with an academic career spanning three continents. By the 1980s he was ensconced in Imperial College as the Professor of Environmental Technology. He went on to direct the sustainable agriculture programme of the International Institute for Environment and Development in London before becoming Representative of the Ford Foundation in New Delhi from 1988 to 1992. He was vice chancellor of the University of Sussex and chair of the Institute for Development Studies. In 2005 he became chief scientific adviser to DFID - a division of the UK government that manages Britain's aid to poor countries and works to get rid of extreme poverty.
Conway is optimistic that there is a technological solution to the world's most pressing social issues: "It is now time to change the approach and to get a greater number of research technologies into use by making them available to millions of farmers." But this is only half of the problem. Conway accepts that while it may be possible to put the technology in the hands of the hungry, getting them to adopt it may be a different matter. Conway is currently president of the Royal Geographical Society.
Nick Winser
Great responsibility with power
Nick Winser joined the board of National Grid in April 2003 as group director responsible for UK and US transmission operations, having previously held the role of chief operating officer of US transmission.
He entered the power industry back in 1983 with the Central Electricity Generation Board, where he held a variety of technical engineering roles before moving to PowerGen eight years later and national Grid in 1993.
Winser combines the logic and numeracy of an engineer with a shrewd strategic mind. He operates in the front line, dealing with UK Government and regulators, in forecasting UK total energy demand and security of supply.
Winser has seen plenty of changes throughout his 25 years in the industry, but is clear that one thing remains constant. "The political, legal and commercial backdrops have changed, but the engineering continues to shine through," he says. "The challenge of keeping the lights on and building infrastructure to do so has many of the same engineering challenges that we had back then. It is about the second-by-second control of the system frequencies, it's about building bigger projects for connecting up low-carbon sources of generation. These challenges are similar to past demands such as when we had the dash for gas with a lot of new gas-fired power stations being built."
One unique challenge that Winser faced was the Y2K project, where he was tasked with ensuring that there was no interruption to supply caused by the Millennium Bug. "I spent the clock change rollover in the viewing gallery at our control centre watching nothing happen while everyone else was out having a good time."
Winser believes that his background as an electrical engineer has provided him with an ideal platform to be successful at board level. "At the heart of engineering there is a very logical thought process," he explains. "I have spent five years on the board at National Grid and have had to get pretty good at looking at things such as corporate finance, and I often think that the skills that a career in engineering has given me have equipped me for this."
There are plenty of challenges ahead. "This is the most exciting time of my career," he adds. "I know people tend to say this, but it is true, this is an astonishing time. When you look at the two principal challenges ahead of us, they are moving to a low-carbon economy and securing our gas supply.
"We need to connect all the new sources of the low-carbon generation; massive wind power, a new nuclear programme, connecting up carbon capture and storage and potentially an interconnected Europe.
"I also get the fun of dealing with another huge change which is on the gas side where the UK moves from being pretty much self sufficient in gas as a nation in 2003, but where by 2016 we will be importing 80 per cent of our gas. So how to connect up all those new sources of gas from Norway, from mainland Europe and from new LNG terminals, one of which we are building ourselves. Those two challenges are just magnificent in an engineering sense."


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Whimsical environments, fine furnishings and learning tools for the young at heart
After graduating from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1975 with a BFA degree in studio art, I settled easily into a career as a furniture designer and builder. This came about after giving some friends a wedding gift of a coffee table I had designed as a sculpture project. For the next seven years friends and acquaintances ordered custom hardwood pieces of furniture and I was greatly honored that nearly everyone gave me the basic parameters of size and function but left the overall design to me.
My love of interacting with kids became apparent while working out of my small shop in the town of Berthoud, Colorado. Several neighborhood kids, a few living in apartments just above my shop, came to visit regularly. I found I enjoyed showing them how tools are used and helped several of them to build some simple projects.
After my own kids were born, in 1980 and 1982, I realized my methodical approach to building furniture was not supporting us. My wife suggested going into teaching as she could see my enthusiasm brighten whenever any kid was around to play with!
From 1985 through 1993 I taught classrooms of middle school students, second and fifth graders in Saguache and Steamboat Springs - Colorado mountain towns.
Finding a natural connection with the most creative students, I left Steamboat in 1993 and entered a master's degree program in Gifted Education at the University of Northern Colorado. After graduating, for the next seven years, I taught at the Summer Enrichment Program at UNC, working with gifted middle and high school students in a residential program. I taught 'home-bound' students (unable to attend school for either medical or discipline reasons) in the town of Fort Collins for two years before deciding to finally make use of my newly won graduate degree and take a job at the Logan School for 'Gifted' students in Denver. A year later I moved to Colorado Springs and took a position at The Colorado Springs School teaching math and science to fifth graders. My greatest joy - and the students as well - at CSS was the 'chain reaction project' in which groups of students built simple mechinical devices that spanned the room, each triggering the next into motion.
During this and similar projects I began imagining the concepts and drawing the first designs for this grand Kinder Realm endeavor. I retired from teaching in 2007 and began building the first prototype of what I now call a 'Gateway Cottage.' Over the next two years, I completed the first full set of a break-apart cottage with a simple forest scene for the loft railings, and the interior furniture pieces. I moved into our current location just west of downtown Colorado Springs in 2009.
I now live in Manitou Springs and maintain the shop near downtown Colorado Springs. I've shown my work at two American Craft Council shows in San Francisco (2015) and St Paul (2016 - awarded best booth design) and I was also selected to exhibit at the Smithsonian Craft Show in April, 2016 in Washington, DC.
I have built four complete sets of cottages, each with a different theme, and furniture pieces for both inside the cottage and for more standard uses.
I have also branched out and have begun designing science apparatuses (spinning tables, giant balance scales, a tilting platform and a grand collection of spinning tops) intended to inspire young learners to experiment and play creatively with the basic natural forces. I am stretching once again and designing both science equipment and furniture pieces intended for outdoor use. Work is underway on an outdoor cottage structure, as well.
Today, Kinder Realm presses onward…new furniture pieces and new science based equipment are being designed and modified continuously. A realm of possibility, of creativity and wonder for the young at heart of all ages has no bounds. I'll keep exploring, experimenting and teasing new concepts into form.

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Monopoly Bring The House Down is powered by Barcrest and has 5 reels, 4 rows and 40 paylines – it can be played from 10p to £500 a spin across desktop, mobile and tablet devices. Based on the iconic board game brand, it comes with 5 bonuses features including Hot Zones.
Visually, Monopoly Bring The House Down looks great – with the Monopoly board in the background, the plain black reels include low value playing cards (A, K, Q, J and 10) as well as tokens from the board game. You have the car, dog, ship and cat. The green house is the wild symbol which rewards you with 20 times your stake for 5 across a payline.
On each spin, Hot Zone Wild patterns spin additionally to the reels – look out for any Hot Zone Symbol (the Green House or Red Hotel) landing on any Hot Zone Wild spaces as they will become wild symbols. There are Green House symbols on the reels but randomly may be upgraded to a Red Hotel.
This then triggers the Hotel Upgrade feature which adds a random multiplier, up to 5x, to all Hot Zone symbols. If the Hot Zone House or Hot Zone Hotel symbol land on a Monopoly symbol, the 2 symbols are combined!
There is also a Free Spins feature which is played when you get 3 Monopoly symbols on reels 1, 3 and 5 simultaneously on the same spin – the feature is then triggered with the Monopoly symbol removed from the reels. You are also awarded a random number of free spins. Look out for Green House or Red Hotel wild symbols that land on the reels as these become locked and remain in place for the remainder of the feature.
In the base game, Monopoly Bring Down The House comes with 3 randomly triggered bonus features – they are as follows:
Chance Card feature – you get to choose 1 of the 3 chance cards to reveal a Hot Zone pattern. It's then dropped into a random position. If you land Green House and Red Hotel symbols, they become wild for the next spin.
Bonus Selector feature – a Hot Zone Pattern is randomly dropped on the reels and you have 3 seconds to keep the pattern or pass on it. You may be offered another Hot Zone pattern. If you collect it, you will play with the Hot Zone pattern in place.
Bonus Drop feature – if a Hot Zone patterns falls above and outside the reel window, it may randomly trigger. The Hot Zone patterns then drops onto the reels to give you the chance to get wilds.
As Monopoly Bring Down The House is a Barcrest title, there's a Big Bet feature where you get a series of 5 linked spins for a price. At £20, you get 1 pick from the community chest cards – at £30, you get 2, At £40, you get 3 with 4 picks playing at £50. These community chest cards can give you cash prizes, guaranteed winning spins, extra spin, hotel upgrades with a multiplier up to 5x, and wild that is locked and lower value symbol eliminations. Remember that your Return to Player % to 98% if you play this feature.
Monopoly Bring The House Down may sound a little complex but it's quite simple in reality – it's a medium variance game with the bigger wins coming from the Free Spins feature with the locked wilds and the Hotel Upgrade feature where you can get a multiplier up to 5x. I recommend you try Epic Monopoly II which offers a Colossal Reels engine and Monopoly Once Around Deluxe where you go around the board collecting prizes – both are by sister company WMS Gaming.


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Clement becomes a pioneer
DEL MAR, Calif. - Okay, that's it. Pack up the history books and tuck those memories away for good. Flashy names like Viking Spirit, Kissin' George, Crazy Kid, and Kona Gold, dripping with sprinter's speed, have been tossed on the dinosaur bone pile, then buried in what used to be called racetrack dirt. Save those tales for bonfires at the beach.
With a gritty bob of his dark brown nose, the turf sprinter In Summation and Corey Nakatani officially christened the new Polytrack era of main-track racing at Del Mar by defeating a brave Greg's Gold in the Grade 1 Bing Crosby Handicap last Sunday.
This is news. Wake the town and tell the Europeans. The anecdotal hype about grass horses taking to synthetic tracks like ducks to oranges just might be true.
The filly Nashoba's Key offered a clue during the Hollywood meet, where she won a small stakes on grass and then two large ones on Cushion Track. But she is a homegirl, California raised and trained, so her achievements have been held as purely local phenomena.
Then Sun Boat came along, bearing modest form on both turf and dirt, East and West, to rise from a claim and nearly win the Californian on Cushion Track and dominate the San Diego Handicap on Poly. But those were middle-distance races, and two turns is a whole different game than the one played by such Crosby veterans as Greg's Gold, Bordonaro, and Battle Won.
Christophe Clement, who trains In Summation, noted that his colt actually was not meant to be a grass horse. In fact, he was a brilliantly precocious 2-year-old over the Calder sand, winning his first five and just missing a sixth while trained by Frank Gomez. Clement got In Summation in the spring of 2006.
"There was a question mark about his feet," Clement said from his Saratoga stable Monday morning. Traveling assistant Jane Turner did the honors at Del Mar. "He was very sore. That's the reason why I switched him to the turf."
Before the Crosby, it had been almost 16 months since In Summation tried a main track and nearly two years since he won on anything other than grass, which means he might as well have been straight off the gallops at Chantilly when held up to the list of classic dirt horses who have contested the six-furlong Crosby.
After a number of valiant near-misses, In Summation finally won a stakes for Clement in June at Monmouth Park. The colt had run well before out West, most notably his close second in the 2006 Hollywood Turf Express, so at least the geography of the Crosby was not an outrageous idea. As for the terrain, owners Tom and Judy Moore, both Manhattan trial lawyers, very much liked the idea.
"Christophe has done a wonderful job with this horse, but he's conservative, and he's a little wary," Tom Moore said. "I said we should go to Del Mar. I thought this would be the surface for him."
Clement, 41, worked for trainers Alec Head, Luca Cumani, and Shug McGaughey before hanging his own shingle in 1991. Since then, he has become one of New York's most respected trainers, winning major races with the likes of Forbidden Apple, Voodoo Dancer, Flag Down, Honor Glide, Relaxed Gesture, and Vacare. Hard to believe, but the Crosby was Clement's first victory in a Grade 1 sprint.
"Well, I don't think I've had that many Grade 1 sprinters to begin with," Clement said with a laugh. "But that's okay. We'll take it. Life is good."
Life will be very good if Del Mar can start attracting Eastern talent for its main-track events over the new surface. The Del Mar Oaks and Del Mar Derby on the grass usually enjoy broad appeal, and the Pacific Classic has drawn well from other regions, primarily because of the million-dollar purse. Someone had to be first to climb the mountain, though, so credit goes to Clement and the Moores.
"The data was not good enough to really understand it, other than that it seemed to be fair," Clement said of Polytrack. "Horses won on the lead, horses won stalking, and horses won from out of it. I knew my horse had speed and would be stalking. The only thing I told Nakatani when I talked to him yesterday morning was to save something for the last quarter."
Nakatani saved just enough to hold off Greg's Gold, winner of the 2005 Crosby on conventional ground.
"Polytrack gives us so much more options with a turf horse, and it's about time," Clement said. "But I don't like to call In Summation only a turf horse. He's a very versatile horse. At the end of the day, if a horse is a really nice horse, then he will do well no matter where you take him."
In Summation will now take his Grade 1 status on the road and be pointed for either East Coast grass sprints or another Polytrack outing at Arlington Park. Then, as the 2008 season unfolds, there will be even more options on the calendar, including the first Breeders' Cup Sprint on a synthetic surface at Santa Anita Park.
"Don't worry," Clement said. "We won't forget that one."


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I had a major back surgery it was an anterior/posterior fusion... have screws, rods, & cages, on L4 & L5, plus degenerative disc disease, I only have one lung, due to cancer, another major surgery, back was "99", lung was "04", had a few other surgeries, but those two were the big ones... I had a stomach hernia that came back 3x, I also have fibro. The lung I have left, has pulmonary fibrosis ( it turns your lung to stone), emphysema, and ofcourse there are nodules there as well, but I am used to that now. My esophagus is allmessed up, they had to stretch it 6x now, I can eat only soft foods, have not had, steak, burgers, hot dogs, nothing like that all summer, also have cancer in my lymphnoid's, the esophagus is real bad, just had a major test done last week, at Hershey Med. Center, have to get the surgery done there as well, I won 't have alot of visitor's, since they will only do it in Hershey, people don't have time to run up there to visit... So as you can tell, I am in major pain from head to toe, each and every day, I started out with tyl 3 w/ codine, b4 my back surgery, that stopped working , so they went to Vicodin, down the ladder you know, next, perc.. MFG. going up & down, etc. then after the lung surgery, ( oh my goodness, it was AWFUL), they started me out on morphine in the hosp. ( a pump), so skip forward to present day... btwn. my stomach, depression, the fibro., the back surgery, that did NOTHING, still have the exact same pain as b4 the surgery, he told me... there is a 25 % chance it will not help. Had to sign a paper, blah, blah... So I listed my pain meds up there, with all of the other scripts I have for stomach, esophagus, back, cancer, etc. etc. My scripts total 33 different scripts, everyday... I deff. take alot of Morphine, I have been taking it since 2005, ofcourse at first, it was very small doses, but after 8 years, they deff. had to keep bumping it up... You see, I take the 15 mg IR, 2 every 4 hours, Then one, 100 mg. & one 60 mg. so that 160 mg. every 6-8 hours, do the math and figure that out. My friends are like, how can u even function,,, I don't really know I take them, I wake up about 4 am every day, if I sleep at all, so a normal day with me taking as directed, I take 700 mg. a day, some days a little more, maybe a little less on other's, so on the average, 700 mg. a day... what r your thoughts, is that way too much, I think it is making some of the things wrong with me, worse... FEEDBACK PLEASE////
Hello all, I have a question about Morphine, I get 200/15 mg IR, 90/60 mg. ER, & 90/ 100mg ER?
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Tolerance is something that happens when you have to take opioids. At this point, the pain meds are to make the pain tolerable, you will likely never be pain free, so you should take only what you need to be tolerable. Dont listen to what other people say. They have no clue. You are on a moderate to high dose but you have several painful conditions that are ongoing so you ave a reason to take meds like this. Yes, if the average person would take what you take, they couldnt function, or it could kill them, but you have been on it a while and have built up a tolerance. I dont tell too many people I know how much medication I take.
It is really none of most people's business and they just dont need to know (I take a little bit less than you but not by much-I take MS ER 60mg in the am, 100mg at noon and 100mg at bedtime with oxycodone 30mg up to 4 times a day and this is after 10 years in pain). Most people have no understanding of pain management beyond the hype that the media feeds them. If the TV says so, it must be right! The media never mentions the functional people, like many of us on this site, who can continue to be productive in our jobs and families because of our meds. It goes against all the hype saying that everyone who takes opioids is a slavering addict who cant function and what bad terrible drugs opioids are and they should be avoided at all costs because as soon as you touch them you cant control yourself and will become a heroin shooting addict and this portrayal is beyond ridiculous but it is what people think because that is the way they report it on TV. You do what you need to do. Your medicine is between you and your Dr and everyone else doesnt need to know! As long and you are functioning and feel you have a decent enough quality of life that you can, at this point in your life, then that is all that matters. Dose is an individual thing. You may be a very rapid metabolizer and this is why you need more than some others do. You cannot help that and there is nothing you can do about it. It is what it is. Dont be concerned with what other people think. This is your life and your existence and no one else can tell you how to live.
Thank -you so very much, your answer helped me feel a little better, like you said other's do not understand, pain is an illness, it just does not show, like if u were burnt in a fire, had a car accident, had surgery, etc. My pain some days is so bad. I do have days that I end up on the sofa all day.I also get sick in my stomach alot, but I already know that is from the cancer, I forgot to put it in Question, also have stage 1 in my liver... The pulmonary Fibrosis, blew me out of the water, I went for my monthly cat-scan, and they found the Pulmonary Fibrosis, my Dr. didn't even want to tell me, she felt awful. It has nothing at all to do with the cancer, I just cannot believe that I have one lung left, and in that one lung, I have pulmonary Fibrosis, Emphysema, and now more cancer nodules on that lung. Unreal, they want to operate on my esophagus, but I am not sure I will let that happen. We will see. I want to say I am very glad this site is here, never saw it until tonight I am thinking it will be helpful to me. Thanks for your response..
It sounds like you'd be a great candidate for the fentanyl patch. You're very adjusted to your Morphine (hence the high doses) and it doesn't sound like it's helping you the way it should. A change in medication might be very beneficial. The patch would replace the extended release medication, you would still take your immediate release. Ask your doctor :-) and hope you find some relief soon, you've certainly been through some hell on earth!
I have seen 300 mg of morphine IV an HOUR. That was a person who had been fighting cancer for 11 yrs. We build up tolerance to morphine pretty fast, and people who need it don't feel it like if you were abusing it. After all those years I would be surprised if you couldn't function on it. I'm sure the constipation can be a problem. Also morphine is used in respiratory patients, because they can breathe better when they have it. Its hard to breathe if your chest is in extreme pain. If its helping you, and you are awake and breathing, its not too much. At least Hershey is a good place for you to go for treatment.
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Written by Mark Suster, at Both Sides of the Table
Today it has been announced that I'm leading a $15 million funding round in Tact, a new generation of Enterprise Software company along with other investors including Microsoft Ventures and previous investors Accel and Redpoint
Rather than just waxing lyrically about how great the company is I thought I'd provide some context about why I invested and also about a fundamental change I see in the coming years in the way enterprise software is used.
Why Invest? (Part I, Team)
Tact was founded by Chuck Ganapathi, who was formerly the SVP of Products at Salesforce.com having led initiatives like their chat product, CRM and mobile. For six years before that he was at Siebel who was the market leader in CRM before Salesforce, and he has both a masters in product design from Stanford and an MBA. But more importantly I worked with Chuck 10 years ago when I was at Salesforce.com and have kept a relationship over the past decade.
Put simply Chuck is amongst the smartest and most knowledgeable leaders in the CRM industry and in the components I consider the future of enterprise software — voice driving input/output, chat-based computing and mobile-first design.
And while my relationship with Chuck was critical to my investment, so too was the leadership of Trevor Templar, the Chief Revenue Officer. He spent nearly five years at each of Salesforce.com and Oracle and was an Area VP at Salesforce leading sales efforts at some of the largest clients that Salesforce.com has. In all my time investing I have never seen such a senior revenue officer join a company at this stage. In my referencing with very senior executives at both Salesforce & Oracle people called Trevor "the smartest sales executive I've ever worked with — he literally rewrote the rules of how we worked here."
It was a high bar but even then I must admit that my experience in working with Trevor has exceeded these expectations. To watch a young company win 1,000+ seat deals at Global 100 companies at this stage of development has been simply stunning.
I am often quoted as saying "70% of my investment decision is the people and 30% is the market" and there is a reason. The most common theme of being a startup in today's world is that the computing environment and platforms change so rapidly that only the best equipped teams survive the transitions (think Facebook's shift to mobile or Snapchat's embrace of augmented reality).
The other reason for great teams is that the biggest competitors in the tech industry are so adept at changing to market conditions that even substantial innovations by startups can be usurped by the nimblest of big tech competitors.
So riffing off the famous Andy Grove statement that "only the paranoid survive" and believing that "only the most exceptionally talented startup teams survive" — most get washed out by the constant cycle of change and competition.
Why Invest? (Part II, Market)
The Enterprise Software market feels ripe for a massive shift and Tact has made big innovations at the forefront of the most important changes. Consumer product companies have to be "user centric" to survive and yet most enterprise software companies fall short on this front.
The reason is simple. If you're a consumer software company your buyer is your user. If you're an enterprise software company often the buyer isn't the user and the buyer has a checklist of features they want and often performs a feature bake-off without knowing what will really drive usage or benefits to the end-users.
Tact stated with a user-centric approach from Day 1. Here's how they did it …
Mobile First — It is now well understood that "mobile first" dominated the consumer Internet and we take this for granted. Facebook was largely a web-based company and none of its revenues were generated on mobile, where many analysts were predicting it would be too hard to replicate the revenue potential of the larger real estate on desktop computers. Boy, were these analysts wrong.
The key to Facebook's success has been building an app that is completely embedded in the way we use our mobile devices and almost invisible to the end-user, which is what makes it so powerful. The fact that when you upload photos to your camera roll Facebook knows, when you're in a specific location Facebook knows, when you upload a photo to share Facebook has image recognition, Facebook knows not only your friend graph but whom you share with the most. The best designed mobile apps use the accelerometer, the camera, map integration, location, contact book integration, QR codes and so on.
Think about Snapchat. As users are typing messages to you, a popup notification appears as they're typing — it's kind of magical. They have taken advantage of augmented reality, voice-changing, image-based communications, private messaging and so forth.
Uber has built its entire service around the map metaphor and real-time knowledge of driver locations. It has built a single-click app that assumes I want to be picked up where I am now and lists the most likely location that I will want to go based on past history. It is a single-click experience that exceeds nearly every other mobile app in its seamlessness.
Swarm App now uses location in the background to gather large volumes of data about month-over-month retail visits so this 3rd-party data is invaluable and other than a little battery juice is frictionless to the user. They make it seamless to check into a venue but also help you figure out when you have friends nearby.
The point is that in the past five years we have taken for granted how great the best consumer Internet companies have gotten in mobile-first computing and in incorporating the full value of the mobile experience in order to drive up daily user adoption. Companies that didn't properly embrace mobile have largely faded.
By this standard Enterprise Software companies are largely in the caveman era. Most large enterprise companies were either built in the pre-Internet era or rose on the prominence of Internet 1.0, making the experience "as easy as buying a book on Amazon."
This is the area where Tact has crushed it. When I did my customer reference calls with some of the largest corporate buyers in the country who have adopted Tact I heard the same narrative repeatedly
"We use CRM tools but our mobile workforce always struggled with adoption. Maybe 25% of the users would log in weekly. Often they waited until they were in the office but then the value of the information we got was limited. With Tact we have been able to drive weekly usage about 75% because they are using it regularly on their mobile devices."
I am not over-selling. The heads of sales operations were emphatic in ways I have seldom experienced. Tact had mastered the art of data replication, map integration, calendar integration & notification prompts, camera i/o (for business cards), voice-based inputs, SMS-like inputs and so forth. Tact rose by building a mobile-first enterprise software company — but then they took it to the next level.
Voice I/O — I have been saying for years to anybody who would listen that keyboards and mice have a limited shelf life because they don't work how humans work. In the era of Siri, Alexa and Cortana this is starting to become obvious yet we are still just in the nascency of how this gets rolled out in consumer and enterprise applications.
Chuck as a software visionary understood this. V1 of Tact has been a mobile-first CRM (which by the way will soon exceed a $50 billion market, making it the largest category for enterprise applications) but the team was very early in embracing enterprise applications for voice i/o (input, output). This is critical when you're working with mobile workforces both because they're often in the car but they're also in coffee shops and airport lounges where capturing or receiving information is critical but pulling out one's laptop is often impractical (or even tapping a mobile phone can be a huge safety hazard). Tact has now won several awards for its Amazon Echo integration and use cases.
Chat-based Communications. Another area that gets much press coverage but hasn't yet permeated the enterprise world is chat-based communications and the one company who has truly owned this space and frankly had the largest impact on enterprise computing in this area is Slack. The trailblazer in the category of course was Twitter and David Sacks quickly spotted the use case for enterprise and launched Yammer, which was purchased by Microsoft for more than $1 billion. Around that time Salesforce launched "Chatter," which was led by Chuck — so it's a space he knows well.
We believe that chat-based communications will be another i/o for all enterprise applications. The idea that your i/o must be a computer log-in screen or even a mobile app is antiquated in a world in which we increasingly like to message either 1–1 or in groups. Tact is a pioneer in using chat-based communications as a computing metaphor.
AI / Bots — Neither voice nor chat-based communications would truly work as seamlessly without a level of artificial intelligence that powers the communications.
For example, on voice you can either stick to a defined set of commands for asking questions and thus the users must have heavy training, or you can learn from past queries and intelligently adapt the system to look up information and deliver results. You might want to ask, "What is the Q3 sales forecast for the central region?" or "Who is the budget holder on our Dupont sales campaign?" or "Please list all of my teammates who have had communications with Verizon in the past 90 days."
On chat — the key for enterprise is getting teams of people to collaborate and to do so you can't rely on everybody logging into a system. You need to pull them in on their mobile devices with notifications if you want timely responses. But the chat needs a "bot" that can offer intelligent support. So a text query that says, "What is Karthick Sharma's title" or "How much did we close with Verizon last year?" can receive instant, accurate response without requiring human intervention — critical for teams in the field.
Voice and chat are both very powerful computing metaphors but only if the underlying technologies and interactions become as seamless as mobile integrations have become in the consumer worlds. This is why we believe that AI will be a critical part of the future of enterprise computing.
I'm thrilled to be able to work with my old friend Chuck Ganapathi as well as Trevor Templar and the whole team at Tact. As leaders they have been truly inspiring and I believe a benchmark for the industry.
I have enjoyed having a third deal between Upfront & Accel (along with Osmo and Invoca) and strengthening that relationship. The lead partner is Kevin Efrusy who amongst other things helped source Facebook for Accel.
I also have really enjoyed working with Satish Dharmaraj at Redpoint who like me was an enterprise software CEO (he was the founder & CEO of Zimbra — so he's a perfect board partner for Tact).
I would be remiss if I didn't point out that our other investor is Subrah Iyer, the founder of WebEx. To say that the board, investor base and management team of Tact is stacked would be an understatement.
And of course we welcome Microsoft Ventures. It's great to see Microsoft understand the importance of venture capital under the leadership of Satya Nadella and at Tact working with Rashmi Gopinath.


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Resources for getting started if your'e a beginner, and for deepening your practice, if you're experienced. The other day, someone asked me if I had to choose the single most powerful tool for health and well-being, what would it be. The answer was easy: meditation. I've come to appreciate, from both bearing witness to […]
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As a life-long New Yorker, this piece is inspired by what feels like for so many of us, the speediness of life. Life feels full and busy, and before we know it, saplings have become full grown trees, children have become adults, parents have become grandparents, and people known to us have passed on. And […]
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Hi Everyone, Just a few thoughts on our entrance into 2016. Hoping these can be interesting and helpful to you. As I've been reflecting on the eve of the New Year, I'm taking pause to be a little gentler, a little softer, a little easier on myself. And I offer you the suggestion to do […]
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The Flower Cutting Patch
Not all flowers that grow in your garden are suitable for cutting. The ideal cutting flower needs to have a strong stem and one that will last for several days in a vase. In our garden we already had established many shrubs and perennials such as Peonies, Roses, Phlox, Hydrangea, Lilac, Hypericum, Forsythia, Iris, Alstromeria and Honeysuckle. We have also recently planted Alchemilla Mollis, Astilbe and Anemone. Space in our garden has always been a problem and we were just not able to grow the variety and quantity of flowers to have a regular supply of flowers for cutting and arranging so it was decided to establish a flower cutting patch separately from our garden.
With the plan to grow my own flowers, in autumn 2013 we planted more daffodils and tulip bulbs in the last remaining spaces in our garden to add to the bulbs planted and added to over the years. Throughout March and April we were able to have freshly cut daffodils and tulips arranged in the house and simultaneously we began to plan the flower cutting patch. We cleared, weeded, raked and composted the new flower patch in March and we also planted Sweet Pea seeds into grow pots towards the end of March.
At the beginning of April we started planting seeds in drills in the flower cutting patch. We planted Larkspur-Giant Imperial mixed colours; Cornflowers-Blueball; Stocks-ten week mixed colours; Nigella (Love in a Mist)-Persian Jewels and two varieties of Poppies-Red Field Poppies and Shirley single mixed colours. Poppies have a very short vase life but are such prolific flowerers that they can be replaced daily if necessary and they look quite stunning in arrangements so definitely worth the extra effort. As the weather was still quite cold we covered all the newly planted seeds with cloches. Within ten days the cornflowers and poppies had started to germinate followed by the Larkspur and Nigella a week later. The stocks did not germinate at all, a bit of a mystery. With the nights still very variable in temperature we kept the seedlings covered with the cloches. This also protected the seedlings from being devoured by the rabbits.
We planted Dahlia seeds into a seed tray and placed it inside our porch which acts as an overflow for the cold frame. Sunflower seeds were planted into individual little grow pots and placed in the cold frame. Germination of the Dahlias was not very good but the Sunflowers did really well and by the end of April were ready to be planted out into the flower cutting patch covered with a netting cloche to protect them from the rabbits.
By the end of April the Sweet Peas were already several inches tall and ready to be planted out in the flower patch. We planted the Sweet Pea seedlings all along a chicken wire fence with little chicken wire fences around them to protect them from getting eaten and also made a wigwam of hazel canes for Sweet Pea seedlings to grow up.
By mid-May the cornflower and poppy seedlings in the flower patch were ready to be thinned out. I have read in many gardening books that thinning out seedlings encourage healthy plant growth, prevent overcrowding and also mildew later on when plants are mature. I grew up in a country where nothing is wasted and very little discarded and so do not find it easy to dig up and discard perfectly healthy little seedlings. Instead I very carefully dug up the seedlings in small clumps and replanted them in another section of my flower patch followed by the Larkspur and Nigella seedlings at the end of May.
In mid -May we also planted seeds to grow biennials for flowering in 2015. We planted Sweet William – Single mixed; Wallflowers – Monarch Fair Lady; Delphinium – Pacific Giant Mixed; Aquilegia – Nora Barlow Mixed and Scabious – Border Mixed into seed trays. The Sweet William and Wallflower seeds germinated well, the Delphinium seeds produced eighteen seedlings. Unfortunately the Aquilegia and Scabious did not germinate at all.
We also had Lilac, Iris and my all-time favourite Peonies flowering in the garden in May and by June the garden was in full flower with an abundance of Roses, Hydrangea, Ox Eye Daisies, Hypericum, Lillies, Lupins and Sisyrinchium. Throughout June the cornflower, poppies, larkspur and nigella seedlings in the cutting patch all grew into strong healthy plants, so tall that we had to build a fence out of hazel canes and twine to support them and on the first day of July our first Poppies and Cornflowers appeared.
By the end of June the biennial seedlings were ready to be pricked out and replanted into module seed trays or individual little pots. We had so many that there was not enough room in our cold frame and some had to be put under the cold frame!
At the beginning of August we planted all the seedlings in the flower cutting patch where they soon thrived.
By July we also had the Phlox and Cosmos in full flower in the garden along with the newly planted perennials and everything in the garden and the flower cutting patch was a riot of colour, we were spoilt for choice as to what to cut and bring into the house. Throughout the whole of July and August we were cutting and arranging flowers on a regular basis, sometimes daily. It was a truely magical time. The house was full of beautiful flowers and their heady scent. Full of enthusiasm from our summer of success, in September I was given a second piece of the veggie patch to turn into a flower cutting patch! In mid -September we planted hardy annual seeds, for flowering the following year, in drills in the second patch, these included Cornflower-Black Ball; Ammi Majus; Feverfew; Corncockles; Calendula – Indian Prince and Bupleurum. The weather was warm and humid and so we left them uncovered. Within five days all but the Bupleurum had germinated and the germination was really good. We also planted Stock seedlings, purchased from the garden centre in the first cutting patch. October was very mild and the new seedlings were big enough to attract the rabbit population by mid -October and so we covered all the new seedlings with netting cloches. Luckily I kept half the packet of Bupleurum seed to grow in seed trays next Spring.


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Principal Investigators
Sarah J Tabrizi
As Professor of Clinical Neurology at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square London, Sarah Tabrizi leads the HD clinic and the HD research team. She has a wide range of research interests in HD, from clinical and translational research to basic science. She is the global Principal Investigator of the TRACK-HD study as well as leading all our UCL HD research projects (see the list on the left). Sarah's work was recently featured in The Lancet click here to read more.
Edward Wild
Team members
Ralph Andre
Ralph is a Senior Research Fellow at the UCL Institute of Neurology, he is a cell and molecular biologist studying the processes in cells that lead to HD. Ralph graduated with a degree in Biology at the University of Manchester in 2001, followed by a PhD in 2004 in which he worked on inflammation and cerebral ischaemia. In 2006, he joined the Department of Neurodegenerative Disease at UCL Institute of Neurology to study the cell biology of prion diseases, subsequently joining the HD team in 2010. His current work focuses on neural-immune interactions in HD and the development of new stem cell models to better understand the disease.
Lauren Byrne
Lauren is a research assistant to Dr Ed Wild for the HD-CSF study. She studied Biology at Imperial College London, graduating in 2014 and recently completed her masters in Translational Neurology at UCL Institute of Neurology. During her masters she carried out a research project with the HD imaging team measuring microstructural brain changes occurring after a brain training pilot study in HD patients. She is interested in the mutant huntingtin protein and hopes to complete a PhD in HD research.
Caroline Casey
Caroline is a Wellcome Trust PhD student at UCL Institute of Neurology. She graduated with a degree in Neuroscience with Industrial Experience from The University of Manchester in 2015, during which time she also completed a year of research experience at The Mayo Clinic, Florida. Her interests lie in the field of neurodegeneration as a result of her previous projects which focused on Alzheimer's Disease. Having also conducted studies on stem cells, Caroline joined the Tabrizi lab to undertake a PhD project that combined her two specialities. For her PhD, Caroline is using iPSC-derived neurons to recapitulate the cortico-striatal pathway which is disrupted in HD. The aim of the project is to gain a better understanding of cortico-striatal dysfunction in HD; Caroline hopes her findings will contribute towards developing novel therapies for the disease.
Lucianne Dobson
Lucianne is a PhD student at UCL Institute of Neurology. She studied Neuroscience at UCL and graduated in 2011 after completing two projects on the modulation of microglial responses by neurotransmitters and neuropeptides during neuroinflammation. For her PhD Lucianne is now investigating the interactions between neurons and myeloid cells in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases, with a particular focus on HD. It is hoped that this will lead to the development of cellular models to test modifying therapies.
Michael Flower
Michael is a Clinical Research Fellow at the UCL Institute of Neurology and an Honorary Specialist Registrar in Neurology at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. He graduated from Cambridge University in 2009 and worked in clinical medicine and neurology. He joined the HD research team in 2015 and studies the genetics and cell biology of Huntington's disease, as well as working on clinical trials.
Stefanie Gosling
Stefanie is a Clinical Research Nurse at UCL Institute of Neurology. After completing her Diploma in Adult Nursing Stefanie has worked in Accident and Emergency for one year and the Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit at St. Georges for three and a half years. Stefanie joined the HD research Group in May 2013 to work on the Multiple Tissue Molecular Signatures in HD study and future clinical trials.
Sarah Gregory
Sarah is a Research Fellow at UCL Institute of Neurology. She gained a first degree in Psychology and completed her PhD in forensic neuroscience at King's College London examining morphology, connectivity and function in Antisocial Personality Disorder and Psychopathy using MRI. She joined the TrackOn-HD project in 2012 and is currently investigating compensation and network connectivity using resting-state fMRI and DTI.
Davina Hensman
Davina is a Clinical Research Fellow at UCL Institute of Neurology and an Honorary Specialist Registrar in Neurology at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. She graduated with a Biological Sciences degree from the University of Oxford in 2002 before studying Medicine at St George's, University of London from where she graduated in 2007. She joined the team in November 2011 as the London-based clinician in the TrackOn-HD team.
Eileanoir Johnson
Eileanoir is a Research Assistant at UCL Institute of Neurology. She joined the Track-HD team in September 2012 to conduct analyses on the structural brain scans. Eileanoir has an undergraduate degree in Psychology and a Masters degree in Cognitive Neuroscience. She is interested in both the psychological and the neuroimaging aspects of Huntington's Disease.
Carolin Koriath
Carolin is a Leonard Wolfson clinical fellow at UCL Institute of Neurology and an Honorary Specialist Registrar in Neurology at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. She studied Medicine at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and worked as a Neurology registrar at the University Hospital of Munich with a focus on vertigo and oculomotor disorders. Carolin joined the team in 2015 and has a special interest in the genetics of dementia and Huntington's Disease phenocopy syndromes, carrying out research with next-generation sequencing techniques in collaboration with Prof Simon Mead.
Monica Lewis
Monica is a senior clinical trials coordinator at UCL Institute of Neurology. She graduated in Edinburgh with a Neuroscience degree and has a Masters degree in Psychology. Monica has worked on clinical trials at UCL since 2007 and joined the Huntington's Disease Research Group in September 2011 to coordinate the REGISTRY study and clinical trials .
Peter McColgan
Peter is a Wellcome Trust Clinical Fellow at the UCL Institute of Neurology and an Honorary Specialist Registrar in Neurology at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. He graduated with a degree in engineering from UCL and an MSc. in Physiology from Trinity College Dublin before studying Medicine at Queen's University Belfast. Peter is the lead neurologist on the A8241021 Amaryllis study and carries out research in HD using advanced neuroimaging techniques.
Grace O'Regan
Grace is an MRC-funded PhD student at the UCL Institute of Neurology. She studied Neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 2015, having completed a number of research projects. Specifically she undertook research into the gene regulatory interactions that underlie the early development of the cerebral cortex, investigations into the relationship between the blood brain barrier and the immune system, as well as analysis of the efficacy of intranasal application of drugs for social anxiety.
For her PhD Grace is now investigating the role of huntingtin in innate immune cells as a modifier of HD. It is hoped that this work will improve our understanding of the innate immune system in HD pathogenesis and identify possible therapeutic opportunities.
Gail Owen
Gail has been involved in clinical research since 1995, and before joining the UCL Institute of Neurology worked both in industry and with the military. She graduated in psychology and has a PhD in biomedical sciences. She joined the HD research team in 2009, and is clinical trial manager for Dr Wild's HDClarity study.
Marina Papoutsi
Marina is a Research Fellow at UCL Institute of Neurology. She has a BA(Hons) degree in Linguistics (University of Athens, GR) followed by MSc degrees in Cognitive Science and Neuroinformatics (University of Edinburgh). For her PhD (University of Edinburgh in collaboration with NIDCD/NIH) she examined the role of the LIFG (aka Broca's area) in articulation using fMRI. As a post-doc at the University of Cambridge she examined functional brain re-organization in speech comprehension following acquired brain damage (e.g. stroke) and in healthy ageing. She joined the Track-HD team in December 2011 and is interested in cortical re-organization as a biomarker for HD in premanifest patients.
Rachael Scahill
Rachael is a Senior Research Fellow at UCL Institute of Neurology. After a first degree in Zoology and an MSc in Computing, she completed a PhD at UCL examining early changes in patients with Alzheimer's disease using structural MRI. She joined the TRACK-HD project in 2008 where she leads the imaging team. Her research focus is the development of imaging techniques to identify the earliest structural changes in HD and to track disease progression with the aim of investigating MRI as a potential biomarker.


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Lon Akers - St. Louis, Ironton, Missouri
Looking for any information on a Lon or possibly Alonzo Akers who is my great grandfather and who was most likely born between 1898 and 1904. He married Bertha Rencehausen and they had a daughter named Ruby (my grandmother). They were married only briefly and Ruby eventually took her stepfather's name becoming Ruby Kiehl. Bertha was from Ironton originally, but I believe she met and married Lon in St. Louis. According to Bertha, Lon was of American Indian descent. Not sure whether Lon remarried or had other children. I have found reference to an Alonzo Akers who died in 1964 in St. Louis after a mining accident. Not sure if this is the man I'm looking for though his obituary states that he was the son of William and Laticia Akers and was born in Bonne Terre, Missouri on November 12, 1901.
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The Calgary Flames play round one of the Battle of Alberta tonight, playing host to the Edmonton Oilers for the first time this season (7:30 pm, Sportsnet West and Sportsnet 960). While the Flames have struggled in getting off to a 1-3 start, the Oilers have kicked their season off with a bang, thanks in large part to their last two number one overall picks. With how things have gone lately for Calgary, a loss at home to their provincial rivals could have many inching much closer to that panic button.
The Oilers will play the second of a back-to-back set, having beaten Nashville 3-1 at Rexall Place on Monday night. Calgary hasn't played since Saturday when they finished off a three game road trip with a 3-2 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs. Tonight's affair starts a suddenly very important stretch for the Flames, as they kick off a six game homestand that carries them through the start of next month. Looking up at most of the Western Conference pack, this has to be viewed as an opportunity to make some real headway.
The Lineup
Finally some good news on the Calgary injury front, as it looks like Brendan Morrison returns to the lineup tonight after missing all of training camp and the first four games of the regular season recovering from offseason knee surgery. While in his words he's not 100% at this point, Morrison feels it's time to get back on the ice, because he's ready to go out and contribute. How quickly he finds his timing and adjusts his pace will be what many will watch early, but I like where he slots in.
Morrison looks to centre the third line tonight between Niklas Hagman and Rene Bourque, which is the ideal spot for him this season. Eventually I believe Lee Stempniak will replace Hagman on this line, but having a Morrison-Bourque duo on a third line playing similar depth on the other side has the potential to be very good for the Flames. He's not the only change we'll see in the lines and pairings.
Alex Tanguay-David Moss-Jarome Iginla
Curtis Glencross-Olli Jokinen-Lee Stempniak
Niklas Hagman-Brendan Morrison-Rene Bourque
Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond-Matt Stajan-Tim Jackman
Jay Bouwmeester-Chris Butler
Mark Giordano-Scott Hannan
Cory Sarich-Derek Smith
It's game one for Letourneau-Leblond, as he plays his first game as a member of the Flames. He'll enter the lineup in the place of Tom Kostopoulos. I'm not sure what PL3 brings to this lineup other than the obvious, but we'll see exactly what his hockey acumen is this evening. Smith re-enters the lineup in place of Anton Babchuk, perhaps in an effort to match some of Edmonton's speed up front.
Miikka Kiprusoff gets the start in net, his third consecutive game in net.
The Opponent
A 2-1-1 start for Edmonton has many in the provincial capital excited, and while it pains us all to say it, you can't help but enjoy watching the Oilers play. With five points in his first four NHL games, first overall pick Ryan Nugent-Hopkins seems to have settled the whole "will he or won't he" debate when it comes to him sticking with the NHL club. The Red Deer Rebels product has been a lot of fun to watch playing on a line with Taylor Hall and Jordan Eberle.
Now, to bring things back to reality a little bit, let's not forget that Head Coach Tom Renney has done a fairly decent job giving his "kid line" the high ground, with the trio having the three highest offensive zone starts among forwards on the team. That's not overly surprising, but it's meant a lot of defensive zone work through four games for the line centred by Shawn Horcoff.
Taylor Hall-Ryan Nugent-Hopkins-Jordan Eberle
Ryan Smyth-Shawn Horcoff-Ryan Jones
Magnus Paajarvi-Eric Belanger-Linus Omark
Ben Eager-Anton Lander-Lennart Petrell
Ladislav Smid-Tom Gilbert
Ryan Whitney-Cam Barker
Andy Sutton-Corey Potter
Those defensive pairings aren't iron clad as the Oilers didn't skate this morning after playing last night, but Whitney will return to the lineup after recovering from ankle surgery. With Smid and Gilbert set to stay together, putting Whitney with Barker seems to be the most logical choice. Sam Gagner seems close to returning but won't play tonight.
After Nikolai Khabibulin took the win at home to Nashville last night, Devan Dubnyk gets the start in net tonight.
The Story
Can the Flames do the job against the high flying Oilers? I believe they can, but they can't get into a game where they start trading chances. That's Edmonton's game, the same way it was Toronto's game on Saturday night. However, if Calgary plays the way they did for the majority against Montreal, they likely win this hockey game.


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Fall 2017
The Trustee communicates issues affecting libraries and library services. Once a library and systems join LTA, all their trustees automatically receive this quarterly publication published by LTA. To learn more about membership in LTA, Click Here.
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- Trustees in the Know: LTA Regional Workshop on Long Island
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Designing a Policy Development Template
Fall 2017 issue of TrusteePolicy development is a hard enough task to begin with, so simplify your starting point. Design a standard policy format and process - a "policy development template." This will not only improve policy organization and make it easier to seek out policies, reference and update them - it will also make it easier for library staff and patrons to understand them. Additionally, it will ease the pathway for those who write the policies.
Example "Policy Development Template":
First, answer the following questions...
Step 1:Why do you need to create a policy?
Step 2: Do you already have a similar policy which just needs to be updated or modified?
Step 3: Do you have a specific person (such as a "Policy Chair") designated to draft a policy, to do policy research (such as looking through LTA's Policy Database), and to check state/federal laws?
Once the previous steps have been completed, it should be easier to move on to the actual writing of the policy. Written below, is a commonly used template to help organize thoughts, and to help compose a strong, coherent policy:
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- Language used should be concise, simple and consistent (e.g. If a collection development policy refers to "weeding," it shouldn't be called "de-selection" in a different policy).
- Each policy should look similar in appearance (including font, font size, heading sizes, etc.)
- Policies should be organized by a table of contents in a hierarchy and grouped with policies in the same general category.
- Use policy numbers to help show relationships (e.g. A personnel policy might be titled "3.1 Duties of a Library Director," while the next might be titled "3.2 Evaluation of a Library Director").
- All policies should be able to stand on their own and each policy should start on separate page to help aid understanding, enforcement, retrieval and updating.
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POLICY: (The text of the policy.)
RESPONSIBILITY: (Who will be responsible for ensuring policy compliance? Who will be responsible for drafting necessary procedures to ensure that the policy is properly and successfully implemented? )
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