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Finally some conflict
Well I finally got some Action. The fellas from eXceed ( down the way from me a bit) were looking for some fun, I joined their gang and we took it to Atlas. We proceeded along a path that had others join onto our fleet. We had the following: Hurricane (fit for tanking) Crow (tackling) Stiletto (tackling) Falcon (Jammer) Ishtar, Rapier, Ares. Yes a little light on firepower but none the less we headed into NRT4 to see what we oculd find.
We found the following: Dominix, Wolf, Harbinger hugging the station. The Hurricane ( brave guy drew aggro) as soon as he drew aggro we all warped in on Domi. Domi was primary, then the Abaddon, then the wolf.
Falcon jammed all down hard. I leapt in and let missles fly looking for drones…none that I could see so I began a tactic, full MWD and bounce the Dominix from within the docking ring. Took a couple minutes as he was heavily tanked but in the end he went poof.
Next up was the Harbinger. We lost the ishtar but the Harbinger was killed. Then , in short order the Wolf.
All in all I say well fought gents in eXceed! And Boo to Atlas for station hugging. By the way a Rapier and a Vagabond briefly thought about enagaing then docked up, had they come out we might have lost it all.
I will be on a work trip till Thursday so no updates for now.


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This photo was sent to me by the alumnus who has the distinction of being the holder of the very first laundry number issued by the schools – #100 SJCBS. This story line has been covered in an earlier blog, but I couldn't resist sharing the evidence of the first laundry number. The photo was taken in 1965 on the Grand Portage trip.
Aside from the number on the paddle, there are some outdoor relics in this photo; the sou'wester hat, the keyhole life jacket, the old canvass duffle bags (times two) – all standard equipment back in the day.
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7/31/18: New Editor
We are delighted to announce that Professor Mark Brewer has been chosen as the new Co-Editor, beginning January 1, 2019, replacing Stijn Vansteelandt whose term ends at the end of 2018. Professor Brewer obtained a BSc (Hons) in Probability and Statistics at the University of Sheffield in 1989, and a PhD in Statistics at the University of Edinburgh in 1994. After five years as Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Statistics and Operational Research at the University of Exeter, he joined Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland in 2001 and became Principal Statistician in Ecology and Environmental Science in 2006. In April of 2018, Professor Brewer became Director of BioSS. With research interests covering Bayesian statistics, species distribution modelling, compositional analyses and structural equation modelling, he has worked on projects in ecology, hydrology, soil science, analytical chemistry, product authenticity, socio-economics and forensic science. Professor Brewer's national and international collaborations include work with Scottish Natural Heritage and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee, on topics such as herbivore grazing and marine protected areas, and on statistical methodology with both the University of Valencia and the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He also recently worked with New Zealand's Ministry for Primary Industries on a project to create a scientific definition for Manuka honey. Professor Brewer published peer-reviewed journal articles in: methodological journals, such as Biometrics, JABES, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Environmetrics and Statistics and Computing; and a diverse set of applied journals, such as: Ecology Letters, the Journal of Applied Ecology, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, the Journal of Hydrology, Annals of Epidemiology, New Phytologist, the Journal of Applied Microbiology and the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. He also did contract work with many Scottish and UK government agencies and involvement in a number of European Union FP7 projects. He was a member of the IBS Executive Board (2017-2020 and Treasurer of the IBS British and Irish Region (2012-2017). We welcome Professor Brewer and look forward to working with him.
7/31/18: Accepted Articles
Manuscripts accepted to the Biometric Methodology and
Biometric Practice sections will now be deposited to 'Accepted Articles.' This
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8/1/17: New Executive Editor
We are excited to report that Dr. Geert Molenberghs has been chosen to serve as Executive Editor for the term January 1, 2018-December 31, 2020. Dr. Molenberghs is Professor of Biostatistics at the Universities of Hasselt and Leuven in Belgium, Europe. He received the B.S. degree in mathematics (1988) and a Ph.D. in biostatistics (1993) from the University of Antwerp (Belgium). Dr. Molenberghs published methodological work, including books, on surrogate markers in clinical trials, categorical data, longitudinal data analysis, and on the analysis of non-response in clinical and epidemiological studies. He served as Joint Editor of Applied Statistics, Co-editor of Biometrics, Co-editor of Biostatistics, Series Editor of Wiley Probability & Statistics, and Wiley StatsRef. He was President of the International Biometric Society. He was elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association, and elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He received the Guy Medal in Bronze from the Royal Statistical Society. He has held visiting positions at the Harvard School of Public Health (Boston, MA). He is founding director of the Center for Statistics at Hasselt University and currently the director of the Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics, I-BioStat, a joint initiative of the Hasselt and Leuven universities. We welcome Dr. Molenberghs and look forward to working with him.
8/1/17: New Editor
We are delighted to announce that Dr. Debashis Ghosh has been chosen to serve as the new Co-Editor, beginning January 1, 2018, replacing Michael Daniels whose term ends at the end of 2017. Dr. Ghosh is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics and Informatics at the Colorado School of Public Health at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, USA. He previously was an Assistant and Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan and an Associate and Full Professor in the Department of Statistics at Penn State University. Dr. Ghosh has spent the last seventeen years working on several research areas: (a) survival and longitudinal data analysis; (b) statistical methods for bioinformatics and genomics, primarily focusing on genomics data integration; (c) machine learning and multiple comparisons; (d) causal inference. He has served on numerous review panels and until recently was chair of the Biostatistical Methods and Research Design (BMRD) study section at the US National Institutes of Health. He has also been active in editorial service, serving as Associate Editor for Biometrics and Statistica Sinica. He previously served as an associate editor for several journals, including JASA - Theory and Methods, Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology and BMC Bioinformatics. We welcome Dr. Ghosh and look forward to working with him.
8/1/17: Cover image
Incoming IBS President Louise Ryan has spearheaded an exciting initiative for the journal. Starting with the September 2017 issue, the slightly re-vamped cover of Biometrics will feature a rotating image related to an article appearing in the issue; the image might be a photo, a graphic, or other depiction and will change with each issue. A short description of the cover image will appear with the table of contents.
Biometrics was founded in 1945 as Biometrics Bulletin, and became Biometrics in 1947, the year the IBS was founded as the Biometric Society. The first International Biometric Conference (IBC) was held in September of that year at the Marine Biological Labs at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA; accordingly, 2017 is the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Society. The inaugural cover image (September 2017) thus features a special 70th anniversary logo, and the cover image is a photograph of delegates to the conference.
8/31/16: New Editor
We are pleased to announce that Professor Malka Gorfine has been appointed co-editor of Biometrics with a 3-year term beginning 1 January 2017, replacing Yi-Hau Chen, whose term ends at the end of 2016. Malka Gorfine is Associate Professor of Statistics at the Department of Statistics and Operations Research at Tel-Aviv University Israel. She obtained her Master (1995) and PhD (1999) degrees in Statistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. She spent two years (1999-2001) at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre, Seattle USA, as a staff scientist (advanced postdoctoral position), and returned to Israel toward the end of 2001. She spent four years at the Mathematics department of Bar-Ilan University, nine years at the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, and since 2014 she joined Tel-Aviv University. During the 2011-2012 academic year she was a visiting faculty member at the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology of Harvard School of Public Health, USA. Since 2003-present she is an affiliate faculty at the Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre, Seattle, USA. She served as AE for Biometrics since 2009 and for Lifetime Data Analysis since 2011. Her research interests are in disease risk estimation and prediction using candidate genes and environmental risk factors from both family and case-control survival data; statistical genetics; measurement errors; survival analysis; and tests of independence. We welcome Professor Gorfine as Co-Editor and we look forward to working with her.
9/30/15: Move to ScholarOne Manuscripts
Biometrics will begin using the ScholarOne (SO) Manuscript submission system for
its editorial processes. All NEW MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS as of 1 October should
be made through the journal's SO site at
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/biom. Authors and referees for papers
submitted on or after 1 October will use the SO system to submit papers and
associated materials, upload invited revisions, retrieve papers and associated
materials for review, and submit referee reports. Prior to this date, all
manuscript submissions to Biometrics (new and revised) will be by email to
email@example.com, as has been
longstanding practice. The editorial process for papers submitted before 1
October will be completed by email and WILL NOT involve the SO system. Thus:
- If you have a submitted paper currently under review with Biometrics or submit one prior to 1 October, you will continue to communicate with the Editorial Office and to submit invited revisions by email until the review process for your paper is concluded.
- If you are currently serving as a referee for a Biometrics submission, you will send your referee report directly to the Associate Editor by email. You will receive any revisions/responses to reviews directly from the Associate Editor by email and continue to submit future reports to him/her by email until the review process for the paper is completed. This move will streamline production of the journal and allow authors to check the status of their manuscripts under review directly in the system. This system is used by many other journals, and use of the system by authors and reviewers is fairly self-explanatory.
As of 1 October, if you encounter challenges or have questions about using the SO system as an author or referee, please contact the Biometrics Editorial Office at email@example.com.
8/7/15: New Book Review Editor
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Donna Ankerst has been appointed as Book Review Editor with a 3-year term beginning 1 January 2016. Dr. Ankerst completed her undergraduate degree in Mathematics at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas, and her Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She spent the next four years completing a National Science Foundation Mathematics Postdoctoral Fellowship studying Biostatistics at the Harvard University School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts. One of these years was spent as visiting lecturer in Statistics at University College London, London, England and another was spent working directly with the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where her interest in biomarkers for early cancer detection, specifically CA125 for ovarian cancer and prostate-specific antigen for prostate cancer, blossomed. From Boston she moved on to Seattle, Washington, to further pursue biomarker studies as faculty at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington. There she served on the Cancer Control Committee of the Southwest Oncology Group, and through its Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial, began a decade-old and growing collaboration with Dr. Ian Thompson. Dr. Ankerst later relocated to Munich, Germany to become Professor of Mathematics at the Technical University and assumed a part-time Associate Research Professor appointment in the Department of Urology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in order to maintain her active research in biomarkers for prostate cancer. We welcome Dr. Ankerst and look forward to working with her.
8/7/15: New Editor
We are pleased to announce that Professor Stijn Vansteelandt has been appointed co-editor of Biometrics with a 3-year term beginning 1 January 2016, replacing Jeanine Houwing-Duistermaat whose term ends at the end of 2015. Stijn Vansteelandt is Professor of Statistics in the Department of Applied Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics at Ghent University, Belgium, and Honorary Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health at the London School of Public Health, U.K. He obtained his master degree in mathematics in 1998 and a PhD in 2002 from Ghent University, and did part of his postdoctoral research at the Department of Biostatistics of the Harvard School of Public Health, U.S.A. His research interests are in the analysis of longitudinal and clustered data, methods for missing data and causal inference, semi-parametric inference, family-based genetic association studies, analysis of outcome-dependent samples and phylogenetic inference. He has served as Associate Editor for Biometrics from 2006 to 2012, and currently serves as Associate Editor for the journals Biostatistics (since 2010), Epidemiology (since 2013), Epidemiologic Methods (since 2011) and the Journal of Causal Inference (since 2011). He has served as a board member of the Quetelet Society (Belgian Region of the IBS), as coordinator and steering member of the Channel Network, as a member of the Editorial Advisory Committee, and currently, as a Representative Council member of IBS. We welcome Professor Vansteelandt as Co-Editor and we look forward to working with him.
8/12/14: New Editor
9/26/13: New Editor
We are delighted to report that Professor Yi-Hau Chen has been chosen to serve as the new Co-Editor, beginning January 1, 2014, replacing Russell Millar who steps down at the end of 2013. Professor Chen is Research Fellow of the Institute of Statistical Science at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. He obtained his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University in 1991, and a master's degree in Statistics from National Chengchi University in 1993. He received his PhD in biostatistics from National Taiwan University in 1997 on the topic of two-stage epidemiological studies and incomplete covariate data. After receipt of his PhD, he had a two years mandatory army service, and then became an assistant professor at National Taiwan Normal University from 1999 to 2000 in the Mathematics department. He joined the Institute of Statistical Science at Academia Sinica in 2000. He has received several prestigious research grants and awards in Taiwan. His research interests are in missing data, measurement errors, survival analysis, longitudinal data analysis, statistical genetics, and bioinformatics. He has been on the Editorial Board of Statistica Sinica (since 2006), Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (since 2009), and the Indian Journal of Statistics (Sankhya) Series B (since 2012). He has been an Associate Editor of Biometrics since 2006. We welcome Professor Chen as Co-Editor and look forward to working with him.
6/27/13: New Features and Resources from Wiley-Blackwell
Our publisher, Wiley-Blackwell, has put in place several exciting new features and resources. Wiley-Blackwell is a strong supporter of the ongoing International Year of Statistics (www.statistics2013.org). This year's issues of Biometrics have the International Year on the front cover. In addition, in celebration of the International Year, a "virtual issue" of 15 "classic" papers from Biometrics put together by the Co-Editors is featured on the Biometrics Wiley Online Library website http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/subject/code/000113/homepage/biometrics_virtual_issue.htm). Wiley-Blackwell has also created a new "information hub" for statistics, StatisticsViews.com (www.statisticsviews.com), which aims to bring statistics together with free access to exclusive feature articles, news items, details of forthcoming events, society details and much more. Throughout 2013, StatisticsViews.com will be updated with news related to the International Year of Statistics. In fact, an interview with incoming IBS president and current vice president John Hinde is featured (http://www.statisticsviews.com/details/feature/4253081/Lets-get-back-to-science-and-make-our-governance-work-Prof_-John-Hinde-on-becomi.html). Wiley is also highlighting the International Year on a dedicated page (www.wiley.com/go/iys).
4/12/13: Color Figures
Ordinarily, the journal does not print in color, however,
authors desiring color figures to appear in the print version of the journal can
now pay a charge to cover the additional cost of paper and binding associated
with including color figures. Up to four journal pages of an article may
include color, at a charge of $350 per page.
8/28/12: New Editor
We are pleased to announce that Professor Jeanine Houwing-Duistermaat has been chosen to serve as the new Co-Editor, beginning January 1, 2013, replacing Geert Verbeke who steps down at the end of 2012. Jeanine Houwing-Duistermaat is Professor of Statistical Genetics at the Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands. She obtained her master degree in mathematics from Utrecht University in 1992, and a PhD in 1997 from Leiden University on the topic of the statistical analysis of family data. After her PhD, she had a six years appointment on research in statistical methods for genetic data at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. She returned to Leiden in 2003 and became a faculty member at the department of Medical Statistics and Bioinformatics. She has received several prestigious grants for funding her research in statistical methods. She has strong collaborations with biologists and clinicians on advanced statistical analyses. Her research interests are in multilevel random effects models, joint modeling, statistical models for family data, integrative methods for multiple -omics data, bioinformatics and modeling of human longevity. She has been Associate Editor of Biometrics since 2006. We welcome Professor Houwing-Duistermaat as Co-Editor and look forward to working with her.
11/28/11: Supplementary Materials
10/6/11: Executive Editor
We are delighted to report that Professor Marie Davidian has been approved by Council to serve a three year term as Executive Editor of Biometrics. This will be Professor Davidian's third term as Executive Editor, serving in this capacity since January 1, 2006, and we are extremely grateful for her dedication to the journal, and look forward to her continued contribution.
As a reminder, the responsibilities of the Executive Editor are administrative and include assigning new manuscripts to the three co-editors based on the co-editors' research backgrounds (but not to handle manuscripts thereafter), coordinating activities among the editors, coordinating editorial board activities, preparing reports, and communicating with the co-editors, central office, publisher and IBS Office.
10/6/11: Addressing the Backlog
The September and December 2011 issues of Biometrics are considerably longer than the usual issue, which is generally around 340-345 pages (including the front and back matter that appears in the print version). Because our publishing agreement with Wiley-Blackwell limits the number of pages per volume (so for the four issues in a calendar year) to 1376, or roughly 344 per issue, and because we receive so many high quality submissions, the backlog, or time from article acceptance to appearance in the print version, has been greater than 12 months for the last several years. Articles accepted for publication appear online within eight weeks of acceptance (provided the authors return copyright forms and page proofs in a timely fashion) and are citable by digital object identifier (doi) number. However, an article is not citable by volume, issue, and page numbers, nor can citations to it be counted in the journal's Impact Factor, until it is published in the print version (and the corresponding electronic version) of the issue in which it appears.
Upon review of this situation, the IBS Executive Committee made a special purchase from the publisher of an additional 344 pages (one issue's worth), half of which was added to the September 2011 issue and the remainder to the December 2011 issue. The additional pages have allowed inclusion of many articles that have been waiting in the publication queue and has reduced the backlog by three to four months.
8/19/11: New Editor
We are delighted to announce that Jeremy Taylor, Professor of Biostatistics and Professor of Radiation Oncology at the University of Michigan, will serve as Co-Editor beginning January 1, 2012, replacing Thomas A. Louis whose term ends December 31, 2011. Professor Taylor obtained his Bachelor's degree in mathematics from Cambridge University in 1978, a Diploma in Statistics in 1979 from Cambridge University and a PhD in statistics from UC Berkeley in 1983. He was on the faculty at UCLA from 1983 to 1998 in the Biostatistics and Radiation Oncology departments. He has held visiting positions at the MRC Biostatistics Unit in Cambridge, at the University of Adelaide and at INSERM, Bordeaux. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, a winner of the Mortimer Spiegelman Award from the American Public Health Association and the Michael Fry Award from the Radiation Research Society. He is a former President of the Biometrics Section of the American Statistical Association. He has been an Associate Editor of Biometrics since 2000. His research interests are in Box-Cox transformations, missing data, cure models, joint longitudinal-survival models, clinical trial design, surrogate endpoints and statistical methodology for biomarkers. He has published extensively in the AIDS and cancer literature. We welcome Professor Taylor as Co-Editor and look forward to working with him.
8/10/10: New Editor
We are delighted to report that Professor Russell Millar has been chosen to serve as the new Co-Editor, beginning January 1, 2011, replacing Professor David Zucker whose term will end December 31, 2010. Russell Millar is Associate Professor in Statistics at the University of Auckland. He graduated BSc Hons (1st class) in Mathematics (1981), and MSc (with Distinction) in Mathematics (1982) from the University of Auckland. Professor Millar received a PhD (Statistics) in 1989 from the University of Washington, Seattle, on the topic of the estimation of mixing and mixture distributions. The PhD topic was motivated by the mixing of regional salmon populations on the high seas, and his research has maintained a strong marine element ever since. After his PhD, Professor Millar had a 3-year appointment as a fisheries research scientist with the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans in St John's, Newfoundland. He returned to New Zealand in 1992, spending four years at the University of Otago, before moving to the University of Auckland in 1996. He has published extensively with an emphasis on developing relevant and pragmatic statistical methodology. His research is usually motivated by marine and ecological applications, but the resulting methodology is often relevant far more widely. His research covers a broad range, including the development of fishing gears to minimize discards, modeling polyspermic fertilization, nonlinear canonical analysis of principle co-ordinates, local sensitivity of Bayesian models to prior and model specification, and the behaviour of DIC in hierarchical models. In 2009, Professor Millar was a National Research Council Senior Research Fellow with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, developing integrated structural models of salmon population dynamics. He has been on the Editorial Board of the New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research (2001-2005) and the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science (2002-2006). He was a co-Editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics from 2001 to 2005, and has been an Associate Editor of Biometrics since 2006.
1/1/10: New Editor
We are pleased to announce that Professor Geert Verbeke begins his duties as the new Co-Editor, beginning January 1, 2010, replacing Geert Molenberghs whose term ended at the end of 2009. Geert Verbeke is Professor of Biostatistics at the Biostatistical Centre of the Katholieke Universiteit (K.U) Leuven in Belgium. He received the B.Sc. degree in mathematics (1989) from K.U. Leuven, the M.Sc. in biostatistics (1992) from the Limburgs Universitair Centrum, and the Ph.D. in biostatistics from K.U. Leuven in 1995. He has published extensively on longitudinal data analysis, and is internationally recognized for his books on linear mixed effects models and modeling of discrete longitudinal data. Geert is Past President of the Belgian Region of the IBS, was the International Program Chair for the International Biometric Conference in Montreal in 2006, and is a Board member of the American Statistical Association. He is past Joint Editor of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (2005-8) and is currently Director of the Leuven Center for Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics (L-BioStat) and vice-Director of the Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics (I-BioStat), a joint initiative of the Hasselt and K.U. Leuven universities. We welcome Professor Verbeke as Co-Editor and look forward to working with him.
3/10/09: Translations of Abstracts
As of the March 2009 issue, translations of the abstracts will be available under the Paper Information link.
11/6/08: New Editor
We are delighted to announce that Professor Thomas A. Louis of the Department of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, has been selected to serve as Co-Editor of Biometrics for a three-year term beginning January 1, 2009. Professor Louis will succeed current Co-Editor Naisyin Wang of the Department of Statistics at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, USA. Professor Louis has served the IBS in many roles, most recently as President in 2006-2007 and Vice President in 2005 and 2008. He also has a wealth of editorial experience, including service as Coordinating Editor and Editor of the Application and Case Studies section of the Journal of the American Statistical Association. Professor Louis is co-author of the best-selling book "Bayes and Empirical Bayes Methods for Data Analysis," now in its third edition, and has expertise in a broad range of methodological and application areas, including Bayesian design and analysis, multi-level models, longitudinal and other correlated data models, risk assessment, and research synthesis. We welcome Professor Louis as Co-Editor and look forward to working with him.
9/4/08: Biometrics Now Archiving Articles Subject to the US NIH Public Access Policy
Our publisher, Wiley-Blackwell, will now archive articles subject to the US National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy accepted after September 8, 2008, to PubMed Central (see the Information for Authors link for details).
4/3/08: US NIH Public Access Policy
Biometrics authors whose work is supported by funds from the US National Institutes of Health are subject to the NIH Public Access Policy as of April 7, 2008. Please visit the "Information for Authors" link and click on "Information for Authors Subject to the US NIH Public Access Policy" for details.
10/29/07: Descriptions of Reader Reaction and Letters to the Editors sections Updated
The descriptions for the Reader Reaction and Letters to the Editors section have been updated. Visit the "Information for Authors" link and click on "Types of Submissions Accepted" for details.
8/28/07: New Editor
We are delighted to announce that Professor David M. Zucker has been chosen to serve as the new Co-Editor, beginning January 1, 2008. Professor Zucker will replace Laurence Freedman whose term concludes December 31st. David Zucker is Associate Professor of Statistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He served as Associate Editor for Controlled Clinical Trials during the period 1998-1999, and has been serving as Associate Editor of Biometrics since 2003. He is currently president of the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) of the IBS. Professor Zucker has done both methodological and applied work. On the methodological side, his main interests are survival analysis, repeated measures analysis (continuous and discrete), clinical trial design, and nonlinear regression models with covariate error. On the applications side, his main interests are clinical trials and epidemiology. We are pleased to welcome Professor Zucker as Co-Editor.
8/28/07: New Sections in Biometrics
In response to feedback from members of the International Biometric Society and readers of and authors in Biometrics, the sections of the journal have been reformulated, effective with the March 2008 issue! The following sections of Biometrics were approved by the IBS Council: The Regular Communications section will be renamed Biometric Methodology. The Consultant's Forum section will be reformulated as Biometric Practice, with somewhat different criteria and scope. The Reader Reaction and Letters to the Editors sections will remain the same. Updated descriptions of these sections are available under the Information for Authors link under TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED.
4/19/07: New LaTeX Document Class
We are pleased to announce that a new LaTeX document class for Biometrics is now ready for use by authors. The entire distribution has been posted under the "Information for Authors" link, and includes a User Guide, sample LaTeX source documents, and a source document that may be used as a template by authors. A bibliography style file for use with BibTeX will be added shortly.
10/27/2006: New Editor
We are pleased to announce that Professor Geert Molenberghs has been chosen to serve as the new Co-Editor, beginning January 1, 2007, replacing Mike Kenward who steps down at the end of 2006. Professor Molenberghs is Professor in the Center for Statistics, Hasselt University, and Director of Censtat. He has had a long history of service to the IBS, serving in several elective offices, including as IBS President in 2004-2005. He was also a Biometrics Associate Editor from 1997-2001, and was Joint Editor of Applied Statistics (Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C) 2001-2004. He is an expert on longitudinal, clustered, and incomplete data and has published several best-selling books on these topics. We are very pleased to have Professor Molenberghs on the editorial board.
3/31/2006: Biometrics Now Accepting Submission of Supplementary Materials!
In light of increasing pressure on journal space, Biometrics is now using the Journal's website at http://www.biometrics.tibs.org to post supplementary material for published papers. Examples of supplementary materials are appendices containing detailed mathematical derivations too extensive for inclusion in the main paper, results of extensive simulation studies, and additional tables and figures. These materials should be included at the time of submission of the main paper and will be subject to peer review.
Supplementary materials may also result from a request by the Co-Editor during the review process to reformulate portions of the main paper as supplementary material.
For full details on the Biometrics policy on supplementary materials and for instructions for submission, visit the "Information for Authors" link (click on "Instructions for Submitting a Paper") at http://www.biometrics.tibs.org.
1/19/2006: Paid Advertisements in Biometrics
Many scientific journals sponsored by professional societies accept paid advertisements as a way of bringing information of interest to the attention of members and enhancing society revenues. In early 2005, the IBS Council approved a formal policy regarding paid advertisements in Biometrics. The policy allows no more than 5% of the total pages of any single issue to contain paid advertisements that are "consistent with the scientific standards and mission of the journal, the mission statement of the Society, and the interests of members of the Society."
As a result, beginning with the June 2006 issue, paid advertisements will appear in the back matter of Biometrics. As per the policy, advertisements submitted for publication will be subject to approval by the Executive Editor based on the standards noted above. Accepted advertisements will appear in the earliest upcoming issue in which space is available.
Parties interested in submitting advertisements should contact Ben Harkinson, Advertising Sales Coordinator, Blackwell Publishing, at +1 781-388-8532 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
11/11/2005: Executive Editor
We are delighted to report that Professor Marie Davidian of the Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, will begin the new post of Executive Editor of Biometrics on January 1, 2006. Professor Davidian has been selected by the search committee to act as the first Executive Editor of Biometrics. The responsibilities of the Executive Editor are administrative and will include assigning new manuscripts to the three co-editors based on the co-editors' research backgrounds (but not to handle manuscripts thereafter), coordinating activities among the editors, coordinating editorial board activities, preparing reports, and communicating with the co-editors, central office, publisher and IBS Office. Professor Davidian is uniquely qualified for this job, as she has been a co-editor of Biometrics in the recent past, and has since stayed actively involved with the journal's operations through chairing the IBS Editorial Advisory Committee. We are looking forward to her joining the editorial team and expect that we will all benefit from her involvement.
11/11/2005: New Editor
We are pleased to announce that Professor Naisyin Wang will serve as the new Co-Editor, beginning January 1, 2006, replacing Xihong Lin who steps down at the end of 2005. Professor Wang is a professor in the Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University. She has served on the editorial board for Biometrics for many years, and we are very pleased to have Professor Wang on the editorial board.
2/14/2005: Change of Email and Website
The Biometrics email address has changed. The new e-mail address is email@example.com. We encourage authors to now use the new email address. If you send a message to the old address, the message will be forwarded to the new e-mail address.
The Biometrics website has also changed. The new location is http//www.biometrics.tibs.org. The old website location will now automatically reroute users to the new location.
1/4/2005: Online Early
We are pleased to announce that in January 2005, Biometrics will launch a new online early process for accepted papers, which allows an accepted paper to be published shortly after its acceptance at the Biometrics website of Blackwell Synergy http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/, much earlier than the following printed version in the Journal. This online initiative will help increase citation and impact of accepted Biometrics papers. This process will begin with papers scheduled for publication in the June 2005 issue. To coordinate the online early process, authors are required to return pageproofs to Blackwell within 48 hours after receiving them. Please make appropriate arrangements. French abstract translations will not be placed at the end of each article but will placed together at the end of each issue, indexed in the table of contents. We will provide detailed information on how to cite electronically published papers on the Biometrics website soon.
11/16/2004: New Editor
We are pleased to announce that Professor Larry Freedman will serve as the new Co-Editor, beginning January 1, 2005, replacing Brian Cullis who steps down at the end of 2004. Professor Freedman is a professor in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Bar Ilan University, Israel, and Director, Biostatistics Unit, Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, Tel Hashomer, Israel. He has served on the editorial board for Biometrics and was a co-editor of Statistics in Medicine between 1981 and 1993. You can find more information about Professor Freedman at http://www.math.biu.ac.il/~freedml. We are very pleased to have Professor Freedman on the editorial board.
11/16/2004: Voluntary Page Charge
To help defray the rising costs of publication and to support online initiatives of the journal, such as online early of accepted manuscripts, we would like to ask authors to pay a voluntary page charge for the publication of manuscripts of $55 per printed journal page. The page charge is fully voluntary, and reflects only a portion of the actual cost involved in publishing a paper and these online initiatives. This support will enhance a further success of the journal. The form will be provided when authors receive their pageproofs. If an author elects to pay the voluntary charge, 100 free offprints will be provided.
9/14/04: The past five year issues (1999-2004) of Biometrics are now online at Blackwell Synergy.


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So many of us try to be eco-friendly for much of the year, sorting our recyclables, making sustainable choices and going green whenever possible.
Then comes the holiday season, and all of that goes out the window in favor of colorfully wrapped packages topped with foil bows, elaborately adorned greeting cards and fancy gift bags.
Simply put, it's not the most wonderful time of the year for the environment, as millions embrace non-recyclable wrapping paper and other products that leave sizable footprints on the planet Earth. In fact, Americans produce an additional 7 million pounds of waste between Thanksgiving and New Year's day — for a total of 25 million tons of garbage during those five weeks –according to the Peninsula Sanitary Service and Stanford Recycling Center.
That's why there's often a tinge of guilt that comes from opening gifts, as one looks at all the colorful waste left lying on the floor.
Yet, there are some ways to make the gift-giving experience more eco-friendly. And many of them have to do with the way we package and present that new tie/toaster/TV to our loved ones.
Here's a look at some eco-friendly solutions to this seasonal dilemma:
Recyclable wrapping paper
Wrapping paper isn't typically recyclable, due to the heavy amounts of dye, laminate, glitter and other additives used in its creation.
That literally translates to hundreds of thousands of miles worth of wrapping paper being thrown away each holiday season.
Yet, there are some eco-friendly alternatives, one of which comes courtesy of Wrappily.
"The burden of the waste of gift wrap is what drove me to found my business and kind of innovate this greener model for wrapping paper," said Sarah Smith, founder of the Hawaii-based company.
Straying from industry norm, Wrappily shuns additives and uses newsprint for its wrapping paper. Its products are actually produced at the same presses that print newspapers. And the wrapping paper can be recycled in the same way as newspapers as well.
"The benefit is that it is 100 percent recyclable," she says. "Newspapers are recycled everywhere. They are the most widely accepted recyclable material."
Thus, you leave a much smaller footprint when you choose this kind of wrapping paper.
"The humble newsprint (is) like a rock star when it comes to wrapping paper, because the fiber can actually be broken down and recycled up to seven times," Smith says.
For more information about Wrappily products, visit wrappily.com.
Eco-friendly cards
The same rules for picking eco-friendly wrapping paper apply to the cards that go along with the packages.
"The tip I can give to your readers is that, when they are selecting greeting cards, to avoid cards with glitter or foil embellishment," says Mackenzie Jeans. "Anything that has that kind of material on it makes it not recyclable. Sticking to just your regular card stock is the best way to go if you are trying to be eco-friendly."
Jeans is the president of Allport Editions, a Portland-based publisher of eco-friendly greeting cards. The company, which got its start in San Francisco, works to reduce scrap (by using entire paper sheets) and recycles all of its waste material. It also prints its cards with veggie-based inks and uses sustainable-harvest pulp for its paper.
Jeans recommends searching out cards that contain recycled content.
"Recycled content is a really great thing, and it's not standard," she says. "If you see anything that says it contains recycled content then you know that company went out of its way to make sure its papers included recycled content."
For more information on Allport Editions, visit www.allport.com.
It's a simple concept. But it can make a big difference.
Instead of buying something new, use something you already have to package your gifts this holiday season.
"I'm a big fan of repurposing," Smith says. "That's always my go-to when I'm wrapping — to look at what I have around and get creative with ways to gussy it up a little bit."
These items don't have to be fancy to be candidates for repurposing. They might just be ordinary things lying around in your closet.
"You can take an old shoe box and then make it into a gift box," says Smith. "Then you don't have to go buy a gift box."
Other examples of repurposing for the holiday season include using previously read newspapers as wrapping paper, old twine in place of new ribbon and turning wrapping paper scraps/trimmings into bows and other decorations.
"That way you're not actually using any new materials," Smith says. "You're up-cycling, I guess."
Nature's beauty
There's also a groovy alternative to bows, ribbons and other adornments. And it's right outside your door.
"Got out into nature, wherever you are, and take a sprig of a plant or an evergreen or an interesting seed pod," Smith says. "I like to use those as gift toppers, rather than the acrylic bows or big plastic hay ribbons."
The latter two, of course, are single-use items that are not bio-degradable.
"I like to use greenery and things from nature," Smith says. "Even a stick could be interesting — you could paint it. Succulent clippings are super easy and always look great. So, that's literally a green tip!
"It just looks really lovely, and the aesthetic is really nice and festive."
And there's an added bonus when using succulents.
"In the case of succulents, the cool thing is that people can just stick it in some dirt or water, and it will propagate itself," Smith says. "So, there you go, you've got a whole 'nother plant out of that."
Biodegradable ribbons
Ribbons sure look nice on packages. But they can also be tough on the environment.
"Most ribbon is, first of all, sourced in Asia," says Eric Crawford, owner of Cream City Ribbon. "There are a few that are made in the States, but none like ours. The others would be made out of plastic or acetate.
"There aren't so many environmentally friendly options."
That's where Cream City comes in.
The Milwaukee company's unwoven fabric ribbons are made from U.S. grown cotton yarn, and they are biodegradable. You can simply toss them into the compost bin when you're done with them. But they also can be re-used for other things, like tying up plants in the garden.
For more information about Cream City Ribbon, visit creamcityribbon.com.
Shape the future
The choices you make today have a big impact on tomorrow. Consumers vote with their dollars, which in turn tells companies what products to manufacture in the years to come.
So consider that cause-and-effect principle the next time you purchase wrapping paper. It's not just about being green in 2017 — it's also about expanding the marketplace for eco-friendly packaging in the future.
"If people keep buying wrapping paper with tons of foil in it. then that's what is going to be created every year," Jeans says. "The best thing that you can possibly do is buy wrapping paper that doesn't have foil in it, doesn't have glitter and is recyclable. And then that's what is going to be created next year and the year after that and the year after that.
"That will have a bigger impact down the road."
And, of course, this applies to more than just gift wrapping during the holiday season.
"If you are buying a lot of plastic holiday decorations that you plan to throw away, then more and more plastic holiday decorations are going to get made next year," Jeans says. "And those aren't recyclable. They are throw-away items. Anything you buy that you consider to be a throw-away item is not great for the environment."


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Last week I wrote about the dramatic decision by Pepsico and Tropicana to scrap their new package design in a post entitled "The Future of Orange Juice?" and the subject has continued to be all the rage on the Internet. In a February 28, 2009 article in Brand Week entitled "Top of Mind: Tropicana Scrapped A Terrific Redesign" by Todd Wasserman. Mr. Wasserman's article presents an interesting theory on the Tropicana redesign and the strategy, which it evolved from, here is an excerpt. Let's face it, the most obvious thing about PepsiCo's $35 million redesign of its Tropicana orange juice brand in January was that it made the venerable orange juice look like a private label-brand—granted, a really nice looking one, but a private-label brand nonetheless. This was a brilliant strategy. The whole idea behind the repackaging was to reinforce the idea of value, and there was no better way to do that than by making Tropicana pretend to be a half-gallon of Safeway's O Organic brand.
Consumers recognize such brands for value, of course, but consumer packaged goods manufacturers are realizing that some shoppers actually prefer store brands because generic is . . . cool, these days.
Only recently have most retailers begun to take their private-label brands seriously, which means that they were able to jump on the most modern design trends—if only by default. It's the branding equivalent of the old story about what happened to East Germany after the Berlin Wall came down: The once-divided city soon boasted the most advanced telecom system in the world because it could start from scratch in 1989 rather than trying to update relays built in 1910. This is why most good private-label brands look a lot hipper on their shelves (and yours, for that matter) than the ones that the CPG giants developed in 1950, tweaked in 1977 and are afraid to mess with further in 2009. For evidence, I submit the Whole Foods 365 design for egg carton, which is a thing of beauty better suited for the Museum of Modern Art gift shop than the diary aisle. So it's plain to see why private labels have the upper hand, marketing-wise. Let's not forget that business-wise, retailers would much prefer that you buy their brands and that, in a recession, they're only going to push those brands all the harder. Witness Wal-Mart's stated recommitment to its Great Value brand, which will get new packaging and more marketing dollars from Bentonville's coffers. For CPGs, it doesn't make sense to keep swimming against the tide. So many of those brands are based on the model of the 1950s, when Leo Burnett (the man and the agency) created icons like Tony the Tiger and the Jolly Green Giant in order to sell packaged foods. It made sense back then, when TV was the only form of mass media that really counted and moms weren't yet hip to the fact that good ol' Tony was feeding their kids three teaspoons of sugar with each bowl.
But in 2009, it's a losing strategy. That's why Tropicana was on the right track when it dumped the old packaging and ushered in something new and different. It was bold, but then Pepsi showed how risk-averse it really is when it turned tail a month later. Will others learn from Pepsi's "mistake?" I'm afraid they will. Brand managers will look at what happened with Tropicana and hold off any bold initiatives. But they shouldn't. Because just as the recession is likely to change the economic geography of this country, it will change the landscape of supermarket aisles as well.


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Congratulations on being selected as EPN entrepreneur of the month. We would like to help our readers understand how you got started in the business and how you came up with the idea to create BeyondComics.TV .
Graig Weich: Thank you. It's an honor to have been selected. The following series of events all led up to this moment... I started teaching my own art classes at age 15. A couple years later, I began college at SVA, I thought everyone would be supportive like I am with others, but I soon learned that everyone there was very hateful and jealous. The better you drew and more outgoing you were, the more they disliked you. That was very discouraging.
I also saw that everyone could draw better than me, I then realized I had a choice to make, either be depressed about it or do something about it, so after school every night I begin redrawing every single page from scratch out of every single art book I could get my hands on, once I mastered that, I then realized I needed to try and create new art that no one else has done before in order to stand out from the rest.
By the following year, I became one of the world's youngest artists to break into drawing comic books at age 19, and I was hired to draw for the number one selling comic book series of all time, Image Comics' Spawn, issue number 30, as their featured poster artist. I was so excited,I actually jumped for joy to get my first job in comics.
I did my first autograph signing at Madison Square Garden for that issue, fans of the comic came up to me there and told me that they saw my artwork featured on TV, I was so surprised to learn that they featured my artwork on the Fox TV show A Current Affair with host Maury Povich, that show was like Extra or E.T.
After creating a lot more art, many bigger companies began stealing my work and removing my name from it, unpaid. That is when I realized if I create my own original characters, then they could not do this anymore or so I thought... then I learned about copyrighting and trademarking and lots of the ins and outs of the trade, then I learned that even that's not enough, that you must have your work known as well, hence my mission to discover the importance of promotion... I did all different types of jobs, including writing stories/scripts, creating latex molded casted costumes, like the Batman suit, as well as storyboards, comic book art, web design, special effects, music, video editing and directing. When you have no budget to start with, you have to teach yourself everything. I realized it was time to umbrella all of this under one company with different divisions, and that is when I created www.BeyondComics.TV .
It was truly a dream come true to be able to start casting celebrities as characters in my comic books, the same way they do for movies, and recently appearing on the Howard Stern Show, 20/20 ABC News, AMC's Comic Book Men and E! Entertainment Television's Ice Loves Coco, starring Ice-T and his model wife Coco, was the best feeling! I cast them as characters in my comic book along with Adrianne Curry, the winner of America's Next Top Model, Donald Faison from NBC's SCRUBS, Grammy Winning Rapper Coolio and David Prowse, Darth Vader from StarWars. The live action short film I directed with them was the first in history to win any film festival, it won the New York International Independent Film & Video Festival and my recent film I directed just screened at the HBO and AMC theaters in Time Square. Here is a clip of my work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scfQrotlwbk&sns=em
EPN: What did it take to get to where you are today?
GW: Turning myself into a human machine, working up to 72 hours without any sleep in order to accomplish what I needed to do, I realized that people work from 9 to 5 but if I could work twice that each day, then I can create the work twice as fast and get it out even quicker in order to stay matched with the competition. My body on the other hand disagreed with this approach and I ended up in the hospital for about 9 hours after doing that. I made a compromise with my body and decided to end my work day after 36 hours of work straight, then sleep a few hours and do it all over again, that has worked pretty well for me, though I am exhausted. What I hadn't planned for was turning myself into a businessman, I work about 60 percent business and 40 percent art now, it's kind of frustrating because I learned that in order to have your work get out there, you need to have the business side running like a well oiled machine, that requires constant networking and promotion, it is the only way that people will know your work exists.
EPN: Do you have a history of business and entrepreneurship in your family?
GW: My great great grandfather invented suspenders and the unicycle and used to be an artist who painted the side of carriages/Taxi cabs by hourse and buggy I heard. My father was the first in his family to graduate college and on my mother Pat's side of the family, her parents Jacque Finke & Gladys Gallant were both writers for CBS television and her mother's book Living Image was published by Double Day. My father is one of the most amazing painters I've ever seen, but he only did it as a hobby, and my mother is a writer for Chicken Soup for the Soul. I guess when you mix that all together, you got me.
EPN: So what keeps you motivated?
GW: Seeing my parents' faces smile when I show them my work or accomplishments, that makes it all worthwhile. Also looking at amazing creative works of art by some of my favorite artists and writers. The novelist Philip Roth is a friend of the family and based many of his characters on my father, Martin, who he grew up with in school.
Staying motivated is probably one of the hardest things to do overall though, fighting through the struggles of everyday life, and trying to stay afloat through all the obstacles and problems is very difficult, to keep your head together is keys. Because this type of work is a long process and there is no finishing of work in a day, projects can take upwards of a couple of years, so it is important to keep looking at what you have done in order to show yourself that you are near finishing the project and can keep going...
One of the biggest wonderful things that this work has allowed me to do is to donate much of the art I've created from the TV shows for charity events in order to help them raise money, including Rosie O'Donnell's charity for children, Beth and Howard Stern's rescue animals charity, the children with AIDS foundation, and the Leukemia blood cancer charity. It's an amazing feeling that fictional characters I've created can actually help people in the real world by raising money for good causes. In a way, it makes my superheroes real.
EPN: What do you love most about your job/business?
GW: I really enjoy being able to distract people from their problems and give them hope through some of the story ideas that I try to bring out for them as a writer and artist, but my favorite is meeting my fans at Comic Con, it is so exciting when they ask me which character would win in a battle and seeing their excitement and enthusiasm from work I created... one girl came up to me in a wheelchair and actually thanked me for creating superheroes that made her smile, it was incredible to see that they had such an impact on her and I thanked her for for being an inspirational hero in real life.
EPN: What are the plans for www.BeyondComics.TV in the next five years? Ten years?
GW: I'm working on a lot of new projects, and hope one day to have live action movies, animated cartoons, action figures and video games based on my creations come to life. Keep an eye out in the near future for Gekido, Code Name: Justice, Ravedactyl: Life Beyond Death, & Humanibotics: Rise of the Cybornauts. I love coming up with these names. (With thanks to written co-creator of Gekido: Brandon Wilson.)
EPN: When you first started, what were some of the obstacles you encountered? how did you overcome those obstacles then lead BeyondComics.TV to where it is now?
GW: Never giving up is the name of the game. Never accepting No. Always pushing forward. Not being scared no matter how scared you really are inside.
The older I get the harder it is to stay focused on these things, because real life hits and one's sense of purpose gets altered by the knowledge that life teaches us, but it is that feeling that you need to quench that drives us to fulfill our destiny. I believe the closer you get to success the more problems and obstacles come your way in order to stop you for whatever reason, its as if we're being tested to see how much crap we can put up with and how many times we can get up after we fall or are knocked down... but as long as we keep getting up, we cannot be stopped!
BIO:Graig Weich is artist/writer/director of: http://www.BeyondComics.TV where you can order the signed comic issue #1 of Gekido staring Ice-T's Wife Coco as Cleo, Adrianne Curry as Tricity and Howard Stern's Gary "Bababooey" Dell'Abate as a ninja, as seen on TV's Ice Loves Coco & The Howard Stern Show..Graig broke into comics at age 19 drawing for Spawn (Image Comics by Todd Mcfarlane) and went on to appear on TV's 20/20 ABC News, Fox, E! Entertainment Television, AMC, VH1 and MTV just to name a few, with over 700,000 views on his channel, follow him for updates at:YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/GraigWeichTwitter: http://www.Twitter.com/BeyondComicsInstagram: http://www.Instagram.com/GraigWeichFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Graig.Weich


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Last Minus tide of the cycle at 11:03 PM of -0.7 feet.
It's very grey and drippy. At one point this morning, before dawn, the rain woke me, thundering down on the solarium roof. Right now it's mostly what's shaking down off the trees, but Tempus had to run the wipers. The bay is ruffled up with tiny whitecaps and the ocean was almost invisible through the mist. 58F, gusts into the upper 20's and the clouds are at 400 feet. We've gotten almost a 1/4 inch of rain but this is supposed to be slacking off to nothing by suppertime.
Here's the full write-up of our Sisters trip. I'm still hunting a few things and have to re-take some pix, but it's published. http://wp.me/P2xgQ8-5kA
Yesterday started late, of course, and was very busy. Tempus had some errands to run. We had to sort some financial stuff. The book order came in and that needed to be dealt with, plus the weekend's mail…and the unpacking and doing laundry, etc. He's bringing large quantities from the house, now, and they're *all* over! I got the page about our trip put together during the
afternoon and then sorted and put away. I completely ran out of spoons at around 10pm, so I sat and read, waiting.
I've been up and in the garden and my leaky shoes have soaked my socks, drattit. I had a few raspberries and harvested a little mint before Tempus got up to the car and got a lot of pictures. We have to finish getting the stuff out of the shop walkway and then I have more work to do in back and Tempus is heading for storage as I type.
A photo by Ken Gagne from yesterday (10/19/16) of a Great Blue Heron.
A picture that our son Arthur took on 10/19/15 of the San Diego sunset. Wow!
Today's plant is the cobra lily, Darlingtonia Californica, a carnivorous bog plant, native to California and Oregon. These plants are trippy…. they eat bugs, because they thrive in such awful soil that they need a different way to get the nutrients that most plants get out of the ground! No, they don't have any magickal uses that I know of. A good article about Darlingtonia: http://coastexplorermagazine.com/features/carnivorous-rare-and-wild-cobra-lilies The wiki article is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darlingtonia_(plant) and one about the wayside in Florence is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darlingtonia_Botanical_Wayside The wayside is worth a drive. There are good walkways just above the ground level so that you don't hurt the plants. We used to roll Grandma's wheelchair through there every summer at least once, because she was fascinated, too.
In 1947 on this date the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) was formed. Often called "the McCarthy era", most liberals saw it as a witch-hunt. More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Un-American_Activities_Committee
The shop opens at 11am! Fall hours are 11am-6pm Thursday through Monday, but closing time will continue to follow sunset over the next couple of months. Need something off hours? Give us a call at 541-563-7154 or Facebook or email at email@example.com If we're supposed to be closed, but it looks like we're there, try the door. If it's open, the shop's open! In case of bad weather, check here at the blog for updates, on our Facebook as Ancient Light, or call the shop.
Love & Light,
Today's Astro & Calendar
Waning Moon Magick – From the Full Moon to the New is a time for study, meditation, and magic designed to banish harmful energies and habits, for ridding oneself of addictions, illness or negativity. Remember: what goes up must come down. Phase ends at the Tide Change on 10/30 at 10:38am. Waning Gibbous Moon – Best time for draining the energy behind illness, habits or addictions. Magicks of this sort, started now, should be ended before the phase change to the New Moon. – Associated God/dess: Hera/Hero, Cybele, Zeus the Conqueror, Mars/Martius, Anansi, Prometheus. Phase ends at the Quarter on 10/22 at 12:14pm.
After dark, spot the W of Cassiopeia standing on end high in the northeast. The third segment of the W, counting from the top, points almost straight down. Extend it twice as far down and you're at the Double Cluster in Perseus. This pair of star-swarms is dimly apparent to the unaided eye in a dark sky, and it's visible from almost anywhere in binoculars or a small, wide-field telescope at low power.
Saturn (magnitude +0.5) shines low in the southwest as twilight fades. It's 18° upper left of Venus on October 14th, and only 10° from Venus by the 21st. Look for Antares (magnitude +1.0) twinkling 7° below Saturn.
Goddess Month of Hathor runs from 10/3 – 10/30
Celtic Tree Month Gort/Ivy Sep 30 – Oct 27 – (Hedera helix L.)
Runic half-month of Wunjo/Wyn – October 13-28 – Wyn represents joy, the rune being the shape of a weather vane. The month represents the creation of harmony within the given conditions of the present.
Sun in Libra
Moon in Gemini enters Cancer at 8:28am
Neptune (11/19) Chiron (12/1), Ceres (12/9) and Uranus (12/29) Retrograde
Color: Turquoise
Planting 10/20-22
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Gort – Ivy Sep 30 – Oct 27 – Gort – (GORT), ivy – Ivy (Hedera helix L.) is also a vine, growing to 30 m (100 feet) long in beech woods and around human habitations, where it is widely planted as a ground cover. Ivy produces greenish flowers before Samhain on short, vertical shrubby branches. The leaves of these flowering branches lack the characteristic lobes of the leaves of the rest of the plant. Like holly, ivy is evergreen, its dark green leaves striking in the bare forests of midwinter. Ivy is widely cultivated in North America. It is a member of the Ginseng family (Araliaceae).
Gort – Ivy Ogam letter correspondences
Month: September
Color: Sky Blue
Class: Chieftain
Letter: G
Meaning: Take time to soul search or you will make a wrong decision.
to study this month Uilleand – Honeysuckle Ogam letter correspondences
Month: None
Color: Yellow-white
Class: Peasant
Letter: P, PE, UI
Meaning: Proceed with caution.
Tides for Alsea Bay
Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time % Moon
~ /Low Time Feet Sunset Visible
Th 20 High 4:35 AM 7.1 7:39 AM Set 12:43 PM 81
~ 20 Low 10:09 AM 2.4 6:23 PM Rise 10:34 PM
~ 20 High 4:03 PM 8.3
~ 20 Low 11:03 PM -0.7
Affirmation/Thought for the Day – Translate fear into excited anticipation.
Journal Prompt – Personal Interests and Experiences – Based on what you now know about yourself, make five predictions about your future.
~ A bold, vigorous assault has won many a faltering cause. – Ira Eaker
~ Nothing is more powerful for your future than being a gatherer of good ideas and information. That's called doing your homework. – Jim Rohn
~ A traveler am I, and a navigator, and every day I discover a new region within my soul. – Kahlil Gibran
~ Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him. – Scottish Proverb
A hill, a farm,
A forest, and a valley.
Half a hill plowed, half woods.
A forest valley and a valley field.
Sun passes over;
Two solstices a year
Cow in the pasture
Sometimes deer
A farmhouse built of wood.
A forest built on bones.
The high field, hawks
The low field, crows
Wren in the brambles
Frogs in the creek
Hot in summer
Cold in snow
The woods fade and pass.
The farm goes on.
The farm quits and fails
The woods creep down
Stocks fall you can't sell corn
Big frost and tree-mice starve
Who wins who cares?
The woods have time.
The farmer has heirs. – Gary Snyder, from Left Out in the Rain. © Shoemaker & Hoard. Reprinted with permission.
Spirited Cheese Stuffed Apples – From: http://thecupwa.blogspot.com/2010/10/samhain-celebration-recipes.html (site now inactive)
- 3oz package softened cream cheese
- 4 medium apples
- 1 1/3oz Apple Cheddar Cheese
- 1 tablespoon dry white wine
Beat together both cheeses and the wine, with an electric or rotary mixer, until smooth. Core the apples and hollow out, leaving apple shells about 1/2 inch thick. Fill the apples with the cheese mixture and refrigerate for 2-3 hours.
Cut apples into 8 wedges.
Or (Anja's recipe) use 1 oz of shredded cheddar cheese and about ¼ cup of the apple bits and 1 tbsp of dark rum
Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
Ingredients & Preparation:
11/2 Cups Pumpkin Seeds (Cleaned & Rinsed)
2 Teaspoon Melted Butter
- Saturate pumpkin seeds with the melted butter in a medium bowl and salt to desired flavoring.
- You can also add other seasonings you like such as black pepper, cajun seasonings or garlic salt-This part is up to you.
- When your seeds are fully seasoned, spread them on a baking sheet so they are one layer thick.
- Bake in preheated 300 degree F oven until golden brown (about 45 minutes), re-arranging occasionally so all seeds are evenly roasted.
Cheese Stuffed Mushrooms– Arcamax – serves 6-8
16 – 20 large fresh mushrooms, cleaned and stems removed
8 oz. cream cheese, softened
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/4 cup green onion, chopped
1/4 cup fresh parsley, chopped
1/2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
Salt and pepper to taste
1 cup Parmesan Cheese, grated
- Combine cream cheese, garlic, green onion, parsley, Worcestershire sauce and salt and pepper and mix well.
- Fill each mushroom and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.
- Bake at 350 degrees for about 20 minutes.
- Serve warm.
The Skinny: Use low fat cream cheese.
WITCHES FLYING MIX For Kids Of All Ages!!!
This fun mix takes only five minutes to prepare, looks great on the table, and taste terrific. Witches' flying mix was especially designed for working moms or guardians whose schedules are jammed and who can't make something for the school party, or for the mother who, at 10:00 P.M., learns from her third-grader that she's expected to provide a snack for tomorrow's Halloween party.
1 cup popcorn (or Cracker Jack's)
1/2 cup candy corn
1/2 cup small marshmallows
1/2 cup black jelly beans
Mix all ingredients together in a colorful bowl. Makes 8 servings. From Landa at OccultCrafts


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My first Balisong was a low-quality IceTek blade, but THIS Bench Mark© Butterfly knife is awesome!
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