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|2012-07-03, 15:55
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Speed does entail Mobility, Relfexes (is a Reaction within a span of Time so including it twice would be redundant so it would have to be either/or), Agility. We'd also have to make the note that this does NOT include spells that do instant transmission/teleportation.
Jellal's Meteor spell would fall under a speed class since it ENHANCES his speed and reaction and also gives him flight.
In Gildartz case of the prosthetic limbs, I don't think it affects his speed enough to matter. By all accounts, he's most likely using his magic to facilitate the movement of those limbs so they move just as his normal limbs would do. And he was already in good physical condition but it's his sheer magical power that what makes him so devastating. Of course, being in his physical condition, it doesn't hurt him any, especially since he's also a physical brawler type himself.
Most of the mages have already trained their bodies to utilize their respective magic as they need it. The more physically involved one's magic is, it only makes sense that the user is in good enough physical condition to use it effectively. The Vanish Bros were correct in assuming that most mages neglect to condition their body since they almost specialize in their magical ability.
Let's compare Natsu's physique to Gray's and Lucy's to Erza's , (who's arguably the most physically fit female we've seen in the series, despite the lack of definition her body shows). Natsu hits people with his fist a lot more than most other mages so his physical condition is extremely toned and muscular. Gray does not have to hit his opponent to utilize his magic but thanks to regular brawls against Natsu, his body has also becomed toned and muscular as well, not to Natsu's extent but it is close. It is demonstrated when Gray lost most of his ability to channel his magic against Lyon back on the Garuna Island and he resorted to just beating the crap out of him. This is one of the rarer instances where one's physical condition played a decisive part in a fight - and it works since the two were utilizing the same type of magic and thus had a much more balanced playing field. But physical condition comes into play as a sub-attribute to Durability and not to Speed or Offense. I guess another instance would be when Gray fought Juvia. Her scalding water had to remind him of Natsu's flame. If he didn't take Natsu's flame as much as he had in the past, he most likely would have lost against Juvia's very effective attack. Again, this works as a sub-attribute to Durablity.
For the Lucy/Erza comparision, it really falls flat because showing muscled females is NOT Mashima's style at all... In Rave Master's case, the strongest female was also a Dragon who was shape-shifted to a human form but still retained much of her dragonic strength. It doesn't help that she looks like a lingerie model while being that strong as well... While Erza is NOT a Dragon in human form, she is often compared to having a monster's strength. This is partly due to her habit of carrying around so much luggage and also her drive to become a powerful mage as well. She handles a variety of weapons: from swords to spears, to clubs, to axes and all of them are of various sizes and weight. I assume that when she is in her general default armor and using her weapons, that they are normal weapons of appropiate weight and density. With all of her 'weight training', using heavy polearms and swords should not be a problem for her. When she uses her armors, the weapons that she uses along with them might become lighter since it is attached to the armor and the magic within them. I'm slightly tenative on this point since it's obvious that while she is in Purgetory Armor, that huge sword definitely weighs a lot but she is able to jump and manuver so deftly, it doesn't really have a drawback other than being marginally slower on the attack speed. It makes sense that Erza is heavy for a girl her size due to all the muscle she has as well as just being solidly built (bone density, I'm using bone density to explain her weight ).
As for Lucy, in appearance, she is close to Erza but unlike Titania, Lucy does not nearly have 1/5th of Titania's physical constitution. Even so, Lucy has taken enormous amounts of physical punishment over the time she's been with Fairy Tail so while she won't be tanking hits, she does have a surprising amount of magical power at her disposal. This is evident in the simple fact that she is a summoner-class mage. Lucy is very battle-hardened for a summoner and able to use physical weapons as well (her whip). Lucy may very well be the most physically fit summoner-class mage in the series so far. But again, her physical fitness plays a much larger role in her overall durability than to her overall stamina (magical capacity).
Another girl to consider is Mirajane, who is much closer to Erza's lvl and also Ultear as well. The both of them are obviously physically strong, moreso in Ultear's case than Mirajane's. Ultear was out-techniqueing Gray in a stand-up physical fight, using manuvers that only someone that had trained their body long and hard could pull off. Mirajane's strength comes out when she uses her Take Over magic in that she gets extremely physical while in Satan Soul and all their variants.
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|2012-07-03, 18:57
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You just won the internet with that post.
On topic: I'm inclined to agree with most of the points that you've made. Reactions & Reflexes are pretty much one & the same. We'll just stick with Reflexes. Also, I agree that Physical Conditioning plays more of a role in a character's Durability than their Offense/Speed.
However, I'm not sure about the teleportation part. IMO, character's with teleportation abilities should be given a higher Speed score.
Son Goku (from DBZ) for example, was able to utilize his teleportation technique to its full advantage in battle:
-Convenient escape mechanism: running away without being detected or putting oneself at risk of being tracked/chased down, especially, by a superior opposition. [Goku vs. Fat Buu]
-Sneaking up to/or behind an opponent almost instantaneously and hitting them with full power. [Goku vs. Cell / Goku vs. Pikkon]
As such, wouldn't teleportation be a huge advantage to someone in a fight?
Doranbolt/Mest's Speed score should reflect his teleportation abilities, IMO.
Slightly tweaked the definitions in the opening post based on the discussion so far.
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|2012-07-03, 20:01
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If any of the others can come up with validations for putting teleportation with speed, I'll accept it
EDIT: In the case of Mest...even though he had that 'teleportation-like' ability, it really didn't help him in a battle against Gray...lol. The way he used it, yeah, I would add it on as a 'speed'-class magic but it's the 'magic vs ability' thing that does it for me. But, if I allow Meteor for Jelly, I guess I have to allow this manuver for Mest.
I guess I'm not fully clear yet as to if we are measuring their base attributes without any self-buffs or whether we are allowing for their magic to be active when we take the measure of their attributes.
For instance, are we taking Natsu's basic haymaker punch or his Kayruu no Tekken or even one of his Metsuryuu Ougi as a factor to his physical strength in Offense? If we split up Offense between Physical Str and Magical Str, then we'd have to do the same for Defense, which would result in Durability being moved to underneath Defense for the physical side and Magical Defense being created to balance it out.
Of course, this means that we could also do smaller ability lists for many of their moves, as to how strong Natsu's fire-enhanced attacks are in constrast to basic attacks or even to him being in Dragon Force Mode, but that might be too much work...
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|2012-07-04, 09:40
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As to how to measure the attributes, one way of doing it would be as follows: (I'll take Offense as an example):
-Magical Power/Magical Enchanced Strength: X points
-Physical Strength: Y Points
-Versatility/Attack Range: Z Points
-Maximum damage via single attack ability: W Points
Total: X+Y+Z+W <-- total score used as a basis to come for an overall / accurate score for Offense, i.e, Offense would reflect the sum of the parts.
But, everyone will have the freedom to interpret the definitions the way they see fit, and come up with a respective score. After all, this is a fan based collaboration.
Durability & Defense are inherently different, since Defense covers any magical or physical ability that shield a character from taking damage, whereas, Durability tries to quantify how much damage one is able to withstand, etc.
Physical forms of Defense could be armor, shields, or large frying pans (Vanish brothers)
Magical forms of Defense could be energy waves that are able to nullify Magic, etc (example: Yuka Suzuki)
And then there are Physical forms of Defense that are Magically Enhanced (Erza Ultimate Defense Armor for example).
In the case of Defense, the better overall ability/form could be taken into consideration, or be given more weigh, as in:
Defense = better of (PHY DEF or MAG DEF). But the freedom to interpret how an overall score should derived is totally up to the voter.
Anyway, I was thinking that if everyone is cool with the current tentative attributes and their definitions, we should push ahead with the voting process.
Tentative timeline:
Now: ~14:30 Wednesday (GMT) - Time in Greenwich Mean Time
Voting Begins: ~06:00 Friday (GMT) - Time in Greenwich Mean Time
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|2012-07-04, 11:58
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Unsurprisingly, according to the GMG Report, Juvia's defense scores 5/5, i.e. it is pretty impervious, but not perfect. Yuka Suzuki defense's (more imprevious) scores 6/5 (COOL label), for example. I think no defense is absolutely perfect.
Her durability is questionable though (ability to withstand damage).
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|2012-07-04, 13:58
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Juvia's defense is pretty much 'all-or-nothing'. Either you swing and you do no damage completely, or you swing and you hit. Thing is, you'd have to hit with a non-physical attack or another element. Depending on how high the elemental mastery is of the other person and how much magical power they have, they can overwhelm her:
Natsu can pretty much turn her to steam...
Jura can squish her between rocks or bury in dirt over and over again...
Gray can freeze her...
Laxus can electrocute her...
Wendy could blow her so far apart that her magic can't hold the water together...
Corba could probably posion the water, and therefore, Juvia herself...
With the elemental counters, it's pretty much 'rock-paper-scissors'.
But even with the case of Meldy, someone who was thrashing her in the first half of the fight, when Juvia got her 2nd wind, she was curb-stomping Meldy so bad, it was unbelievable.
I'll still give Juvia a 5/5 DEF since it takes a special/specific attack to even do damage to her but when it does, it usually is a knockout if they hit hard enough.
|2012-07-06, 22:50
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Great analysis. I think since she's so used to relying on her defense, and hence, not being used to actually being hit/taking damage, her durability is pretty low.
As always, opinions may vary, that's why a poll will be created
Realized that I have to be somewhere tonight, as such, I'll open up the character polls a bit ahead of schedule (by ~2 hours). Since a new chapter is expected to come out tomorrow, the turn-out should be satisfactory.
Vote Here -- or check the opening/first post.
Be sure to have fun and remember to vote as objectively as possible
|2012-07-07, 11:32
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You can always refrain from voting if you don't know / don't have sufficient information / or just don't feel like it.
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|2012-07-07, 12:20
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Today was a most intrepid day. I had Bowen lady followed by a neurology appointment.
Ten came with me, because, you know, traveling. The first half of the day was easy enough, but by the time we'd done it all I needed serious supervision to get home.
I'd wondered what he was going to do for the hour I was having the Bowen treatment, but I needn't have worried, he'd already hooked himself up for a hang out. Turns out he has a friend who runs an arty bookshop just round the corner. We were a bit early so I got to meet her. She was very nice and advised me about selling my signed Damien Hirst book, which might be worth a bob or two.
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SymptomsAddison's disease symptoms usually develop slowly, often over several months, and may include: Extreme fatigue Weight loss and decreased appetite Darkening of your skin (hyperpigmentation) Low blood pressure, even fainting Salt craving Low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) Nausea, diarrhea or vomiting Abdominal pain Muscle or joint pains Irritability Depression Body hair loss or sexual dysfunction in women Acute adrenal failure (addisonian crisis)Sometimes, however, the signs and symptoms of Addison's disease may appear suddenly. In acute adrenal failure (addisonian crisis), the signs and symptoms may also include: Pain in your lower back, abdomen or legs Severe vomiting and diarrhea, leading to dehydration Low blood pressure Loss of consciousness High potassium (hyperkalemia) and low sodium (hyponatremia) When to see a doctorSee your doctor if you have signs and symptoms that commonly occur in people with Addison's disease, such as: Darkening areas of skin (hyperpigmentation) Severe fatigue Unintentional weight loss Gastrointestinal problems, such as nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain Lightheadedness or fainting Salt cravings Muscle or joint pains Your doctor can help determine whether Addison's disease or some other medical condition may be causing these problems. Request an Appointment at Mayo Clinic Causes Adrenal glandsAdrenal glandsPerched on top of each of your kidneys, your adrenal glands produce hormones that help regulate your metabolism, immune system, blood pressure and other essential functions. Although small, these glands dictate much of what happens in your body. Addison's disease results when your adrenal glands are damaged, producing insufficient amounts of the hormone cortisol and often aldosterone as well. These glands are located just above your kidneys. As part of your endocrine system, they produce hormones that give instructions to virtually every organ and tissue in your body. Your adrenal glands are composed of two sections. The interior (medulla) produces adrenaline-like hormones. The outer layer (cortex) produces a group of hormones called corticosteroids, which include glucocorticoids, mineralocorticoids and male sex hormones (androgens). Some of the hormones the cortex produces are essential for life — the glucocorticoids and the mineralocorticoids. Glucocorticoids. These hormones, which include cortisol, influence your body's ability to convert food fuels into energy, play a role in your immune system's inflammatory response and help your body respond to stress. Mineralocorticoids. These hormones, which include aldosterone, maintain your body's balance of sodium and potassium to keep your blood pressure normal. Androgens. These male sex hormones are produced in small amounts by the adrenal glands in both men and women. They cause sexual development in men, and influence muscle mass, libido and a sense of well-being in both men and women. Primary adrenal insufficiencyAddison's disease occurs when the cortex is damaged and doesn't produce its hormones in adequate quantities. Doctors refer to the condition involving damage to the adrenal glands as primary adrenal insufficiency. The failure of your adrenal glands to produce adrenocortical hormones is most commonly the result of the body attacking itself (autoimmune disease). For unknown reasons, your immune system views the adrenal cortex as foreign, something to attack and destroy. Other causes of adrenal gland failure may include: Tuberculosis Other infections of the adrenal glands Spread of cancer to the adrenal glands Bleeding into the adrenal glands, which may present as adrenal crisis without any preceding symptoms. Secondary adrenal insufficiencyAdrenal insufficiency can also occur if your pituitary gland is diseased. The pituitary gland makes a hormone called adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), which stimulates the adrenal cortex to produce its hormones. Inadequate production of ACTH can lead to insufficient production of hormones normally produced by your adrenal glands, even though your adrenal glands aren't damaged. Doctors call this condition secondary adrenal insufficiency. Another more common cause of secondary adrenal insufficiency occurs when people who take corticosteroids for treatment of chronic conditions, such as asthma or arthritis, abruptly stop taking the corticosteroids. Addisonian crisisIf you have untreated Addison's disease, an addisonian crisis may be provoked by physical stress, such as an injury, infection or illness. By Mayo Clinic Staff Request an Appointment at Mayo Clinic Diagnosis & treatment Aug. 04, 2017 Print Share on: FacebookTwitter References Addison disease. Merck Manual Professional Version. http://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/endocrine-and-metabolic-disorders/adrenal-disorders/addison-disease. Accessed Oct. 12, 2015. Adrenal insufficiency and Addison's disease. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Health and Kidney Disease. http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-topics/endocrine/adrenal-insufficiency-addisons-disease/Pages/fact-sheet.aspx. Accessed Oct. 12, 2015. Hay WW, et al. Endocrine disorders. In: Current Diagnosis & Treatment: Pediatrics. 22nd ed. New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Education; 2014. http://www.accessmedicine.com. Accessed Oct. 12, 2015. Nieman LK. Clinical manifestations of adrenal insufficiency in adults. http://www.uptodate.com. Accessed Oct. 12, 2015. Adrenal diseases — Addison's disease. National Adrenal Diseases Foundation. http://www.nadf.us/adrenal-diseases/addisons-disease/. Accessed Oct. 12, 2015. Nieman LK. Treatment of adrenal insufficiency in adults. http://www.uptodate.com. Accessed Oct. 12, 2015. Nieman LK. Causes of primary adrenal insufficiency (Addison's disease). http://www.uptodate.com. Accessed Oct. 12, 2015. RelatedSalt craving: A symptom of Addison's disease?Adrenal fatigue: What causes it?High potassium (hyperkalemia)Unexplained weight lossJoint painFatigueDiarrheaNausea and vomitingAbdominal painMuscle painLeg painBack pain Addison's diseaseSymptoms & causesDiagnosis & treatmentDoctors & departments Advertisement Mayo Clinic does not endorse companies or products. Advertising revenue supports our not-for-profit mission. Advertising & Sponsorship Policy Opportunities Ad Choices Mayo Clinic Marketplace Check out these best-sellers and special offers on books and newsletters from Mayo Clinic. The Mayo Clinic Diet Book4 Simple Steps to a Joy-Filled Life5 Steps to Controlling High Blood PressureStop Osteoporosis in its TracksFREE TRIAL – Mayo Clinic Health Letter CON-20154557 Patient Care & Health Information Diseases & Conditions Addison's disease


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U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, in his speech this week, intimated that quantitative easing through the purchase of Treasury instruments would come to an end possibly as soon as the end of the year. That statement sent global markets reeling and U.S. interest rates climbing. The resulting selloff in equities, Treasuries and global currencies as well as commodities was disconcerting to the marketplace. The only beneficiary of the "meltdown" was the U.S. dollar, where higher U.S. rates attract dollar investment. The margin calls generated by the declines in commodities and equities prompted the liquidation of many positions to meet those calls and the selloff "fed on itself." The "house of cards" I suggested in my weekly market letters has come to fruition and the loss in values will take some time to mitigate. My suggestion to clients in the past has always been to not meet margin calls with money, but with liquidation. A margin call is an indication that you are on "the wrong side of the market," and liquidation offers the opportunity to "get out and take another look." Now for some actual information to hopefully guide my readers through the maze of analyses...
September U.S. 30-year Treasury bonds closed at 134 21/32nds, down 1 15/32nds losing nearly 5 points since last week on expectations of the U.S. Federal Reserve announced scaling back of its bond purchase program later this year. The yield on the 30-year bond rose to 3.585% sending prices sharply lower and negatively impacting the long call positions we have for clients. We expect the markets to stabilize and the damage that could be done at these rates to the housing and mortgage markets would be severe, so we expect bond yields to recede over the coming days. On Friday, the St. Louis Federal Reserve Chief James Bullard issued a statement calling the Fed's plan to outline its pullback of asset purchases "badly timed." He stated that the Central bank should have awaited more "tangible signs" of the economic recovery before considering such a move. We agree since we do not see a sustainable "economic recovery" that those with "rose colored glasses" see. Once again the "concept" of a jobless recovery is a fallacy in our opinion. Hold current call positions but do not add just yet.
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The Dow Jones industrials closed Friday at 14,799.40, up 41.08 but after the over 330 point loss on Friday posted a weekly loss of 1.8%. The S&P 500 closed at 1,592.43, up 4.24 points but for the week lost 2.10%. The tech heavy Nasdaq closed at 3,357.25, down 0.22% and for the week lost 1.94%. Concern that the U.S. Fed would phase out its bond purchase program by the end of the year thereby prompting an increase in rates was the main reason for the Thursday selloff. Investors suffered the resulting margin calls and were forced to either put up more money or liquidate marginal positions thereby extending the Thursday loss. While our "crystal ball" offered no warning about the Fed action, our overall opinion, as my readers know, is for a sharp equity market selloff based on our thesis that there is no such thing as a "jobless recovery." We also indicated that the markets had gotten ahead of the basic economic evidence and was due for a major correction. We do not feel the "correction" is over and once again warn investors that the prudent avenue to preserve capital would be the implementation of strategic hedging programs.


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text: Introduction to Procurement Services Understanding the services offered by Procurement Services and the purchasing policies of Drexel University can be a challenge. One way of meeting this challenge is by offering this website with clearly written and easy-to-find policies and procedures, lists of vendors, and electronic and printable forms. This website also serves as a ready reference for those who are directly responsible for making purchases for their office or department. Please contact us with any questions or if you need assistance making purchases. We welcome your feedback and look forward to the continued improvement of our department's services and meeting your needs. Policy Statement It is the policy of Drexel University to obtain competitive bids and price quotations, whenever practical, on all purchased items. This is accomplished by negotiated pricing agreements, soliciting requests for proposals, and formal bidding procedures. Requests to vendors are conducted in a manner that provides, to the greatest extent possible, open and free competition. All vendor bids and quotations are evaluated on the basis of product quality, technical compliance with specifications, total cost, and the vendor's acceptance of the University's terms and conditions. A vendor award will be made in the best interest of the University based on these criteria. Any and all bids and quotations may be rejected when it is in the University's best interest to do so. Prices secured on bids and quotations are considered confidential and should not be discussed with vendors by University personnel. Drexel University Board of Trustees Reaffirmation of Procurement Policy As a charitable institution exempt from taxation, Drexel University is required to conduct its affairs in complete accordance with the law. As an institution of higher learning, Drexel University is additionally committed to conducting its affairs in complete accordance with applicable professional and ethical standards. The University and its Trustees, officers, agents and representatives are obligated to avoid conflicts of interest, and perceived conflicts of interest, in the procurement of goods and services for the University. It is the policy of Drexel University to enter into contracts for the purchase of goods and services solely on the merits of each transaction. In doing so, the University will consider several factors, including the experience, reputation and credentials of the seller; the suitability and "fit" of the good or service to the specific need and requirements of the University; and the commercial reasonableness of the terms. Among those suppliers who meet these objective criteria, it is also the policy of Drexel University to do business, whenever possible, with those who have established themselves as supportive of the University and its mission.


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The flailing Cleveland Cavaliers have fired general manager Chris Grant.
With the Cavs sliding further toward the bottom in another disappointing season, owner Dan Gilbert decided to make the move a day after Cleveland was beaten Wednesday night by an injury-ravaged Los Angeles Lakers team that finished the game with just five players.
Grant's tenure will be known for not being able to rebuild the Cavs fast enough despite having a slew of first-round draft picks, including two No. 1 overall selections.
Vice president of basketball operations David Griffin is the acting general manager.
Gilbert promised the Cavs would not return to the NBA lottery and would make the playoffs after a three-year absence, but Cleveland is 16-33 and has dropped six in a row — matching its longest losing streak of the season. The Cavs are 5½ games out of the final playoff spot in the weak Eastern Conference and their only win in the last nine games came over Milwaukee, which has the league's worst record.


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An efficient log analysis engine designed for large networks and clusters. LoGS features a programming language for configuration and extensions, and dynamic rule sets. It can trigger actions after checking more than one message.
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In today's evolving material handling industry, operational performance enhancements are key to growing a thriving business. And, the predictability of your productivity can be the main differentiator separating you from your competition. Plug Power's GenDrive hydrogen fuel cell systems elevate lift and distribution operations. Your sit-down counterbalanced trucks will more pallets faster, as time spent dealing with depleted batteries is no eliminated.
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One explanation for the gap between strong revenues, high profits, and the low estimation of real value is the dead weight of uncertainty imposed by larger structural trends buffeting the industry. These include the patent cliff, lagging R&D productivity, more crowded therapeutic categories, phase-in of US health reform, and slower uptake of new products due to reimbursement pressures. Equally evident is that industry efforts to build a better value proposition—through consolidation and aggressive cost-cutting—is not a sustainable strategy for the long term. Hence the gnawing question: What will it take to put more "jig" in the jigsaw for puzzled investors?
This year's Audit is a study in continuity. Once again, one of our "stealth pharma" companies (see Pharm Exec's June 2009 issue, for a full profile of this group) takes the top honor, with Gilead repeating its win from last year with a tightly focused therapeutic franchise and formidable cost controls, reinforced by a strong Profit to Sales ratio. As it happens, the Audit's findings are reinforced by Pharm Exec's cover story in this issue on Gilead (in this isuue), its strategy, and line management.
A key lesson from this year's Audit is that staying lean makes you a mean competitor. Clearly, the smaller companies among the 24 carry an advantage in the rankings due to their ability to target and fill discrete market segments with niche products that carry a price premium, with fewer of the fixed overhead obligations (including a large sales force) required to prevail under the blockbuster model. While the Big Pharma giants, led by Pfizer and Merck, did score solid improvement in metrics that measure efficient management of costs and assets, our stealth pharma competitors as a whole did better—perhaps because smaller ships can steer faster through a turbulent business current and are quicker to recognize when ballast turns to bloat. But don't count the big players out. Size and a large cash hoard can provide cover for a raft of product failures, operational inefficiencies and strategic false starts while providing the resources to compete in a high-risk business where success requires global scale and reach. — William Looney, Editor-in-Chief
This year's Audit analyzes the calendar year 2009 performance of 24 publicly traded companies that file 10-K or 20-F reports on an annual basis with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. As in past years, the Audit includes a wider array of performance metrics than found in the standard financial and accounting statements. Drawing on this larger set of sources allows for a more meaningful picture of performance, analyzing such key metrics as Enterprise Value in Proportion to Sales—a critical portent of future prospects that focuses on profitability growth through product and process innovation.
In addition to the 10-K and 20-F reports, the Audit relies on proprietary and non-proprietary databases, as well as a broad array of secondary sources ranging from the business press to investor reports. Every effort is made to apply these sources uniformly to each company surveyed; this year, however, data on Novo Nordisk was derived exclusively from http://Dailyfinance.com/ and market capitalization rather than citing Enterprise Value due to the company not supplying its figures to Yahoo Finance as the Audit was being completed.
The key difference in this year's Audit is a reduction in the number of companies examined from 27 to 24, due to three significant M&A transactions: the acquisition of Wyeth by Pfizer, and Schering-Plough by Merck, as well as the transition to full ownership of Genentech by Roche. It should be acknowledged that consolidation has enhanced the weight of the 10 stealth pharma companies included in the Audit roster.
The Pharma Industry Audit is also uniquely positioned to demonstrate whether a company's business strategy is actually enhancing shareholder value. If there is one metric that's equivalent to food and water on a desert island, it's Enterprise Value. In the case of management, the measurement of success is simple: Do you create shareholder value or destroy it? For this reason, the Audit gives highest priority to just two metrics: Change in Enterprise Value and Enterprise Value to Sales. These numbers reflect a firm's market capitalization plus liabilities minus cash, or about what it would take to buy the firm on the open market. The Return on Assets metric is another worthy exemplar of a commitment to long-term profitability, and thus is given significant weight in the Audit.
The rating formula covering the eight metrics reflects the fact that some aspects of company performance are more important than others. Three of the metrics, covering value recognition and asset performance, are weighted at three; while the remaining five metrics are weighted at two. Two other metrics are not weighted; these are basic macro indicators covering scale and size that allows for viewing company performance in the context of overall industry trends.
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A PARACHUTIST has been taken to hospital after his parachute clipped a tree.
At 3pm on Friday the Capricorn Helicopter Rescue Service (Rescue 300) was tasked by Queensland Health to attend the Old Raglan Station Airstrip where the 35-year-old man had come to grief.
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Dave Wood's Book Report, Jan. 28, 2009
"Your Heart Belongs to Me," is not a sappy Tin Pan Alley lyric, but the title of a new thriller by Dean Koontz (Bantam, $27).
In this outing Koontz creates Ryan Perry, an Internet entrepreneur who suddenly is diagnosed with incurable cardiomyopathy, putting his business, his love life and life itself at risk.
He puts himself on a donor list, gets himself someone else's heart and all seems well until he begins getting gifts, Valentines and, finally, a heart surgery video that sends the message "Your Heart Belongs to Me."
And they're all coming from a woman, the spitting image of a 26-year-old donor of the heart that beats in Ryan's chest.
She wants it back.
A few years back my wife's former teaching colleague Jane Juska wrote a rather shocking sexual autobiography. It was called "A Round-Heeled Woman" and Jane told her story of advancing old age, boredom and her attempt to rejuvenate her life.
What she did was this: She put an ad in a national magazine advertising for sex. For sex with her. Yes, that's right. It came as a surprise to those of us from Minneapolis who knew her from years before she moved to California. We knew her as lots of fun and an excellent English teacher in a suburban school.
So Jane told of her had and described the men who answered it and the adventures she explored with them.
I expected a real brouhaha, but not a lot happened. My review in this column, a story in Time magazine. A rather puritanical review in the Minneapolis Star Tribune by a reviewer who should have known better. And then it was all over. I sent my review to Jane, who never answered and so we forgot about it all.
But Jane is back with a chapter of her own in "Behind the Bedroom Door," edited by Paula Derrow (Delacorte Press, $25).
In it she looks back at her life since childhood and traces the roots of her attitudes toward herself, her body and how she perceives men, including her former husband. It's not a very pretty picture, but I was glad to read at chapter's end that Jane, now in her seventies, has a boyfriend and she hopes everything will work out.
And speaking of sex, there's a new, erotic novel by National Book Award finalist Marie Arana ("Cellophane"), called "Lima Nights" (The Dial Press, $25), which tells the story of Carlos Bluhm, a Lima, Peru, big shot who lives the good life with his elegant wife.
And then, in a sleazy neighborhood he's out drinking and meets Maria Fernandez, a tango dancer, a dark-skinned beauty who sexually captivates Carlos, ruins his marriage, the works.
Curiously, this goes on for 20 years until Maria asks Carlos to take her to the altar. Then all manner of long-suppressed emotions boil to the top in this very exotic novel from the former editor of the Washington Post Book World.
Minneapolis's Carol Rhoda Books has recently published British author John Brindley's "The Rule of Claw ($18.95)." It's a big book, Brindley's first in the U.S. and its for readers from grades 7-12, though I got a bang out of reading it and I'm somewhat older. It concerns a group of teenagers, the only humans left on Earth. They've grown up alone, without parents, in the safety of their camp.
But beyond that camp, there's death and danger, led by fearsome raptors who kidnaps the teenage hero, Ash, who becomes a pawn in a race to save the human race.
Dave Wood is a past vice president of the National Book Critics Circle and former book review editor of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Phone him at 715-426-9554.


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"My Oh My, a Butterfly" is the topic of an educational class for youngsters at the Harvey County Home and Garden Show this Saturday at 11 a.m. at the Armory in Newton. Kids can learn how to attract butterflies to the garden. This class reminds me of a great site I saw at my house for the first time.
"My Oh My, a Butterfly" is the topic of an educational class for youngsters at the Harvey County Home and Garden Show this Saturday at 11 a.m. at the Armory in Newton. Kids can learn how to attract butterflies to the garden. This class reminds me of a great site I saw at my house for the first time.
One evening I came home to work and was surprised by the number of butterflies and even hummingbirds I saw around an aster I had planted the year before! A beautiful plant attracting beautiful creatures adds so much to a landscape. Planning a butterfly garden is fun and exciting and can be very rewarding. Determine which species of butterflies you want to attract to your garden, then, decide where you will plant your garden. Butterflies like sunny areas, and your site should have full sun for at least half the day. Flat rocks for sunning and some shady spots for resting in the heat of the day will help butterflies regulate their temperature. Butterflies also prefer sites that are protected from the wind, both for feeding and for laying eggs. Plant some shrubs if your site doesn't have a natural windbreak.
In general, there are two categories of plants that butterflies require: nectar sources for food for the adults, and larval host plants for the butterflies to lay their eggs on as well as a food source for the caterpillars. Since butterflies feed on nectar, good sources of nectar will attract them to your garden. Include flowers that bloom at different times so that your garden provides nectar from spring through autumn. Clump plants by color. As butterflies search for food, they will see large splashes of color more easily than individual plants. Butterflies are particularly attracted to red, orange, yellow, and purple flowers. Good nectar sources include butterfly bush, viburnums, zinnias, verbena, asters, butterfly weed, purple coneflower, and phlox. Don't be disappointed if butterflies ignore some highly recommended plants. Watch the butterflies, record their preferences, and plant more of the popular plants next year.
Butterflies require very specific plants as host plants, and females will lay their eggs only on these plants. For example, you will only get monarch larvae if your garden contains milkweed. Please remember that the purpose of these plants is to serve as a food source for the caterpillars; therefore, leaves that have been eaten are a good sign.
As you maintain your garden, do not use any pesticides or insecticides on or near your garden. Pesticides and insecticides kill butterflies too! Avoiding insecticides also allows the populations of natural predators to increase which help to reduce unwanted pests. Enjoy your garden. Attracting butterflies can be very rewarding and relaxing!
For the adults who attend the Harvey County Home and Garden Show and want to learn more about butterflies be sure to check out "Attracting Bees and Butterflies" at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, presented by Kay Neff of Neff Family Farm.
A few more highlights of the show are presentation on landscaping for wildlife, hummingbirds, fragrant shrubs, a class on using the Master Gardener Cookbook, "Garden To Table" will highlight recipes from the book and have samples to try called "Soup It Up" at noon on Saturday.
There will be many more classes and great vendors and door prizes as well, not to mention the gourd birdhouse painting for kids at 2 p.m. each day.
— Scott Eckert is a Kansas State Research and Extension agent for Harvey County. Horticulture is his specialty.


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From Dalí to Rembrandt, 9 Artists Whose Mothers Became Their Muses
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Without watermark, a very good later impression of New Hollstein's third state (of three), small margins, platemark 150 x 170 mm. (5 7/8 x 6 3/4 in), sheet 162 x 184 mm. (6 3/8 x 7 1/4 in), unframed.
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A prolific painter, draftsman, and etcher, Rembrandt van Rijn is considered the greatest artist of Holland's Golden Age. He worked from direct observation, and despite the evolution of his style over the course of his career, Rembrandt's compelling descriptions of light, space, atmosphere, modeling, texture, and human affect are the result of intense perceptual study. A prominent portraitist, Rembrandt is most famous for The Night Watch (1642), a monumental painting of militia guards that features Rembrandt's distinctive use of chiaroscuro.
Dutch, 1606-1669, Leiden, Netherlands, based in Amsterdam and Leiden, Holland
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Teen steals from ex-employer
A TEENAGER angry over being fired from Cherrabah Homestead Resort took revenge by breaking into the homestead and stealing property.
Tyrone James Pascoe, 17, worked as a trail guide at the Warwick homestead for five months and lived on site.
His employment was terminated two weeks before the break-in.
Prosecutor Sergeant Karen Kroon said Pascoe had a falling out with staff at 1.30pm on December 6.
He went to a shed, broke a locked door and stole barbed wire and a tool box.
Pascoe then entered a second shed and stole a jackhammer and more barbed wire.
A friend of Pascoe drove him from the homestead to Pascoe's parents' home in Toowoomba.
The Toowoomba Magistrates Court heard Pascoe owned a saddle and a utility at the homestead which he wanted to retrieve.
However, after arguing with staff he told police he intended to break into sheds and steal anything he could find.
He had no use for barbed wire or the other items he stole.
Pascoe admitted the "stupidity" of his actions.
He told police later that evening he had been involved in a break-in at the homestead.
He appeared in the Toowoomba Magistrates Court today and pleaded guilty to stealing and break and enter.
Magistrate Bruce Schemioneck placed Pascoe on probation for 12 months.
The convictions were not recorded.


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Director's Corner
14 May 2009
Progress on ILC machine-detector interfaces through the detector LOI process
The TILC09 workshop in Japan from17 to 21 April was particularly notable as it featured the first presentations of the ILC detector Letters of Intent (LOI). Although this process precedes the solicitation of ILC detector proposals or formation of ILC collaborations, it is a very important step in understanding and defining the enabling R&D, understanding interfaces with the machine and assessing the capabilities of ILC detectors. Three LOIs were submitted at the end of March and IDAG, the International Detector Advisory Group reporting to the ILC Research Director, Sakue Yamada, has now begun to assess them towards a validation for the next step, a technical design. This process will be very valuable in guiding the development of a realistic plan and scope for the experimental programme on the same time scale as the accelerator technical design report (TDR) we are preparing, meaning a technical design by the end of 2012.
|A view of the 4th Detector Concept featuring dual solenoids and end wall current coils
|A concept for two detectors to share a single beamline by a push-pull system.
|SiD concept for a push-pull system
|ILD inner detector support concept
Of immediate interest to the Global Design Effort are the aspects of the detectors that interface with the accelerator. Compared to most accelerators, the ILC will have a much more intimate and complex set of interfaces between the machine and the detectors (MDI). The concept is to make a single beam line that will be shared by two complementary detectors in a "push-pull" system, where one of the detectors will be in the beam at any given time and that it will be possible to alternate between detectors in less than a week. This concept was proposed and studied during the development of our ILC reference design, and the LOIs will enable us to take the next step in assessing this scheme. I am not part of the evaluation of the LOIs being done for the Research Director by the IDAG committee, so my comments below are only informational and illustrative of the MDI issues being addressed. They in no way indicate a preference for one detector over another.
Each LOI will give us different insights into important aspects of the machine-detector interfaces, and representatives of the three groups and the accelerator have already written an agreed document, "Functional Requirements on the Design of the Detectors and the Interaction Region of an e+e- Linear Collider with a Push-Pull Arrangement of Detectors". It addresses the functional requirements of push-pull interaction regions with particular attention to the machine-detector interface issues, involving the magnets in the interaction region and their cryogenics and alignment systems, the beamline shielding, the detector design and the overall integration. The intent was to write one set of guidelines for all detectors.
The so-called "4th Detector" is based on dual solenoids and end wall current coils. From the point of view of integration into the interaction region, it incorporates the final focus optics within the detector and is lightweight by having an open geometry with unshielded detectors. The detector itself features a pixel vertex detector; a cluster-timing low-mass drift chamber; dual readout calorimetry for both electromagnetic and hadronic particles; and a dual-solenoid to return the magnetic flux without iron. IDAG will be evaluating these technical concepts and their suitability and potential for the ILC.
The LOI for the SiD detector is based on a silicon-pixel vertex detector, silicon tracking, silicon-tungsten electromagnetic calorimetry, and highly segmented stainless/RPC hadronic calorimetry. It has a high field solenoid with an iron flux return yoke and a muon identification system. Energy resolution is achieved through using the particle flow technique. SiD has studied many aspects of the machine detector interfaces, including the magnetic environment, push-pull locomotion, supports, radiation and a cryogenics design for a push-pull system and assembly scenarios.
The third LOI is for a detector called ILD and has been developed from the original GLD and LDC concepts from studies for the reference design. Particle tracking in ILD is based on a Time Projection Chamber, supplemented by silicon tracking detectors. Like SiD, the energy measurements are based on particle-flow calorimetry, which requires reconstruction of charged particles in the tracker and a highly granular calorimetry, enabling measuring photons in the electromagnetic calorimeter and neutral hadrons in both the electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters.
At the TILC09 meeting, the three LOI groups showed considerable progress on MDI-related questions, including the detectors' push-pull schemes, radiation environment simulations, IP beam pipe designs, and instrumentation. There is still much to be done but this is a very encouraging start as a result of the LOI process. Next, we all await the assessments from the IDAG group to Sakue Yamada, which are promised by the time of the detector and accelerator groups reconvene for their next major ILC workshop, ALCPG 09, to be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico from 29 September to 3 October.
-- Barry Barish


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Best Photos from Obama's Inauguration
President Barack Obama's second inauguration in pictures.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Latinos descended on the nation's capital from all over the country on Monday to see for themselves the country's first-ever African American president get a chance to lead the country for a second term.
Lily Griego, from Colorado, received a call from inauguration organizers last week, asking her to accompany President Barack Obama to his second inauguration. She had to just about pinch herself to make sure it was really happening and she wasn't dreaming.
"I think it will sink in when we leave. The whole thing is just such a huge honor that it's truly overwhelming," she said, getting teary-eyed.
Griego is one of eight "citizen" co-chairs of the inauguration— each representing a core value or an accomplishment of Obama's first term, according to organizers.
Griego said the citizen co-chairs will then be tasked with serving as Obama surrogate roles back in their communities.
"This is bigger than us eight. This is about what he wants to see as we move forward," she said.
Griego said that she became involved with the Obama campaign last year when a friend invited her to participate in a Latina-to-Latina phone bank in Colorado.
She met Obama in October when he visited Denver for a campaign rally. She was chosen to introduce him and tell her story – a single mom, working two jobs, who got through college on financial aid.
Norma Marti, one of a group of four women who came from North Carolina and Chicago, arrived in the capital to celebrate their efforts to help Obama get reelected.
She and her friend, Jessica Gourdes, volunteered at the Kids Inaugural, a concert for the youth that was held on Saturday.
"We were part of that Civil Rights generation and we wanted to help him get elected," Gourdes said."Last time it was more about being a part of history and saying that we were there. This time, we worked the doors, we made, phone calls, we were at the polls with lines of people, because we really believed in what the President was trying to do for the country."
The President has a vision that reflects the diversity of all Americans.
"I am here because of the potential that he has to spur change," Marti said. "His vision. His commitment to making a difference for poor people."
And though times are a lot tougher now than when Obama was first elected, she said he still instills hope and optimism in people.
"We're struggling, but we're not suffering. I think that is what I hear in the President's message. That is why I am here." Marti said.
Following a busy campaign season, Olma Echeverri made the drive from Charlotte, North Carolina, with her husband, German De Castro, on Saturday morning, to take it all in. She also wanted to be part of the pre-inaugural festivities.
"I missed attending the inauguration in 2009, but this time I think it's even more important because of the fact that the first African American President was re-elected, and the fact that Hispanics made it happen – and we did – I just couldn't miss it," she said.
She was pleased to see the "Latino flavor" throughout the inaugural activities, she said.
Echeverri, a native of Colombia, is chairwoman of the Hispanic American Democrats of North Carolina and in July she was elected as a member of the Democratic National Committee, representing North Carolina Hispanics.
She was happy to take in all the pomp and circumstance surrounding the inauguration – but she remained focused on the future.
"We have a small window of opportunity after this inauguration to make sure that promises like immigration reform are not forgotten," she said.
A caravan of 60 farm workers left 18 days ago and traveled more than 1,000 miles to attend the inauguration.
Their stop in Georgia so inspired Tomas Martinez that he decided to hop on board and travel with the group.
Martinez is a member of the Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights, which hosted the caravan's stop in the state.
"We talked a lot about Martin Luther King today," said Martinez. "We are being subjected to much of the same treatment as the African American community during the Civil Rights movement. The end of the fight will come when everyone of coffee skin is treated the same as everyone else."
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The big bang should have created equal amounts of matter and antimatter in the early universe. But today, everything we see from the smallest life forms on Earth to the largest stellar objects is made almost entirely of matter. Comparatively, there is not much antimatter to be found. Something must have happened to tip the balance. One of the greatest challenges in physics is to figure out what happened to the antimatter, or why we see matter/antimatter asymmetry.
Antimatter particles share the same mass as their matter counterparts, but qualities such as electric charge are opposite. The positively charged positron, for example, is the anti-particle to the negatively charged electron. Matter and antimatter particles are always produced as a pair and, if they come in contact, annihilate one another, leaving behind pure energy. During the first fractions of a second of the big bang, the hot and dense universe was buzzing with particle-antiparticle pairs popping in and out of existence.
If matter and antimatter are created and destroyed together, it seems the universe should contain nothing but leftover energy. Nevertheless, a tiny portion of matter – about one particle per billion – managed to survive. This is what we see today. In the preceding few decades, scientists have learned from particle physics experiments that the laws of nature do not apply equally to matter and antimatter. They are keen to discover the reasons why.
Researchers have observed particles spontaneously transforming, or oscillating, into their antiparticles at a rate of millions of times per second before decaying. Some unknown entity intervening in this process in the early universe could have caused oscillating particles to decay as matter more often than they decayed as antimatter.
Consider a coin spinning on a table. A spinning coin has the potential to land on heads or tails, but it cannot be defined as one or the other until it stops spinning and falls definitively to one side. A coin has a 50-50 chance of landing on heads or tails, so if enough coins are spun in exactly the same way, half should land on heads and the other half on tails. In the same way, half of the oscillating particles in the early universe should have decayed as matter and the other half as antimatter.
However, if a special kind of marble rolled across the table of spinning coins and caused every coin it hit to land on heads, it would disrupt the whole system. There would be more heads than tails. In the same way, scientists think some unknown mechanism interfered with the oscillating particles to cause a slight majority of them to decay as matter.
Scientists could find hints as to what this process might be by studying the subtle differences in the behaviour of matter and antimatter particles created in high-energy proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. Studying this imbalance could help scientists paint a clearer picture of why our universe is matter-filled.