Gluck studied violin and cello in Prague as a young man and continued his musical education in Vienna. In 1741, he produced his first opera, Artaserses, in Milan. In 1745, he travelled to England and produced two operas in London which were not very successful, due to the public's preference for Handel. He then returned to Germany and married into a wealthy family. He wrote numerous operas such as Artamene (1746), Semiramide Riconosciuta (1748), Orfeo et Eurydice (1762), Alceste (1767) and Paride et Elena (1770), before embarking on works for the Paris Opera. From 1772 to 1779 he produced Iphigenie en Aulide (1774), Orfeo - french version (1774) and Iphigenie en Tauride (1779) which were all well-received in France.


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Birthdate: 7. July 1907
Date of death: 8. May 1988
Other names: Robert Heinlein, Роберт Энсон Хайнлайн
Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction writer. Often called the "dean of science fiction writers", his sometimes controversial works continue to have an influential effect on the genre, and on modern culture more generally.
Heinlein became one of the first American science fiction writers to break into mainstream magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post in the late 1940s. He was one of the best-selling science fiction novelists for many decades, and he, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke are often considered the "Big Three" of English-language science fiction authors. Among his most notable works are Stranger in a Strange Land, Starship Troopers, which helped create the space marine and mecha archetypes, and the libertarian novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
A writer also of numerous science fiction short stories, Heinlein was one of a group of writers who came to prominence under the editorship of John W. Campbell at his Astounding Science Fiction magazine; however, Heinlein denied that Campbell influenced his writing to any great degree.
Within the framework of his science fiction stories, Heinlein repeatedly addressed certain social themes: the importance of individual liberty and self-reliance, the obligation individuals owe to their societies, the influence of organized religion on culture and government, and the tendency of society to repress nonconformist thought. He also speculated on the influence of space travel on human cultural practices.
Heinlein was named the first Science Fiction Writers Grand Master in 1974. He won Hugo Awards for four of his novels; in addition, fifty years after publication, five of his works were awarded "Retro Hugos"—awards given retrospectively for works that were published before the Hugo Awards came into existence. In his fiction, Heinlein coined terms that have become part of the English language, including "grok", "waldo", and "speculative fiction", as well as popularizing existing terms like "TANSTAAFL", "pay it forward", and "space marine". He also anticipated mechanical computer aided design with "Drafting Dan" and described a modern version of a waterbed in his novel The Door into Summer, though he never patented or built one. In the first chapter of the novel Space Cadet he anticipated the cell-phone, 35 years before Motorola invented the technology. Several of Heinlein's works have been adapted for film and television.
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"Television leaves no external scars."
— Robert A. Heinlein, Have Space Suit—Will Travel
Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 3
"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
— Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
Time Enough for Love (1973)
Women, Men, Dogs, Cats
"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."
"Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever."
— Robert A. Heinlein
"Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other language."
— Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
"The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive."
"Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
Stranger in a Strange Land (1961; 1991), "Jubal Harshaw" in the first edition (1961); the later 1991 "Uncut" edition didn't have this line, because it was one Heinlein had added when he went through and trimmed the originally submitted manuscript on which the "Uncut" edition is based. Heinlein also later used a variant of this in The Cat Who Walks Through Walls where he has Xia quote Harshaw: "Dr. Harshaw says that 'the word "love" designates a subjective condition in which the welfare and happiness of another person are essential to one's own happiness.'"
Love, Personality
"Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more."
— Robert A. Heinlein, book Starship Troopers
"Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig."
Singing, Time
"I will accept the rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."
— Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966)
"A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws."
Law, Nature, Thinking, Personality
"Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy."
"You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once."
Peace, Freedom
"You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity."
— Robert A. Heinlein, book The Green Hills of Earth
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967), Logic of Empire (p. 335); this is one of the earliest known variants of an idea which has become known as Hanlon's razor.
"Never try to outstubborn a cat."
"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him."
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Information published on 26 January 2016 in the UIC electronic newsletter "UIC eNews" Nr 482.
Survey on Global Talent Management: how to engage and retain talented and experienced rail professionals within the rail industry
Findings of the issues mid-career professionals face in their rail careers
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In October 2015, a survey was developed to identify the concerns that mid-career professionals face in their rail careers. The survey, also supported by UIC, sought to understand the views of individuals in informing the retention of specialised knowledge and skills in the rail industry, how the industry can maximise the potential of talented people, and how the industry can benefit from an engaged staff.
More than 350 professionals from thirty countries responded. While the survey was targeted at mid-career professionals, estimated initially to be from 45 – 55 years of age, there was strong interest from people in age groups ranging from under 30 years through to above 60 years. The participants included those from various rail companies, private and state owned, and came from various educational backgrounds including those with school certificates, graduate and post graduates, engineers and PhDs.
The report identifies findings related to three major concerns of work/life balance (31%), career advancement (30%) and the management of talent (15%). While work/life balance was rated the highest issue rail professionals face in their careers (largest age group 46 – 50), most respondents revealed that managing work and life is an assumed part of their professional roles.
The most surprising finding, however, was that two particular age groups reported facing the other two concerns strongly – mainly career advancement (41 – 45 age group) and talent management (60 years and above).
Even though the survey was not aimed at rail professionals under 45 years of age, there were significant numbers of responses to consider this groups' views as a major impact on innovation, skills retention and engagement by new talent with the global rail industry. Younger age groups want to advance their careers, be provided opportunities to develop their skills in various roles and situations including international exchanges, job and role shadowing and exchange, and opportunities to act in higher level roles.
In the age groups 45 – 60 years and above, mid-career and later career rail professionals, identified issues of unfairness related to age and gender bias (even though there was no question about participants' gender). The two themes of experience, talent and professional expertise being overlooked; and limited opportunities provided by companies for professional development and networking that would enhance specialist expertise were also mentioned frequently.
Analysis shows that more than half of the participants have for various reasons accepted their situation. A much higher percentage of participants (60%) prefer to plan their own career instead of talking to their manager (17%). In many accounts, and across all age groups, considering the mental health of employees and the softer side of people's aspirations was noted as highly important for managers, yet apparently not undertaken adequately in many companies.
The findings of this survey are insightful for companies in managing intergenerational workforces effectively to enable the potential of all professional rail employees to contribute to stronger, innovative and more effective organisations.
For further information please contact Nathalie Amirault, Head of Unit Expertise Development: amirault@uic.org
5th UIC Global Rail Freight Conference, 22 – 24 June 2016 in Rotterdam A dynamic international action learning programme for future oriented railway professionals 10th UIC Noise Workshop to be held on 15 March 2016 at Paris UIC Headquarters United States: Advanced-technology trains power sustainability efforts at Amtrak United States: AAR President and CEO lays out rail industry's 2016 priorities France: SNCF Logistics merges rail freight forwarding activities into a single entity named FORWARDIS Belgium: The first modernised four-car AM75-79 electric multiple unit departs Turnhout on 11 January 2016 Croatia/Germany: Regular railway traffic established between Croatia and Germany as of 18 December Norway: The Norwegian National Rail Administration and Società Italiana per Condotte d'Acqua S.p.A (Condotte) sign the EPC contract for the Follo Line subproject Oslo Central Station Poland: PKL launches mobile laboratories to monitor the country's most important railway investments
e-News articles with keyword Expertise Development
Second plenary meeting of the Talent & Expertise Development Platform held as a webinar on 10 December (11 December 2020) Plenary Meeting of the Talent & Expertise Development Platform (13 November 2020) Update on the young TALENT group (12 May 2020) Latest news about Talent & Expertise Development Platform's (TEDP) activities (14 January 2020) UIC organised the 5th edition of the World Congress on Rail Training in Rabat, Morocco, held under the slogan: "Unite, Inspire, Connect" (15 October 2019)


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The European Commission said that it had completed on March 25 its preparations for a "no-deal" Brexit on April 12, saying that it was "increasingly likely" that the United Kingdom would leave the EU without a deal on that date.
At the same time, the European Commission was continuing to support administrations in their own preparations "and urges all EU citizens and businesses to continue informing themselves about the consequences of a possible 'no-deal' scenario and to complete their no-deal preparedness".
This follows the European Council (Article 50) conclusions last week calling for work to be continued on preparedness and contingency.
"While a 'no-deal' scenario is not desirable, the EU is prepared for it," the European Commission said.
Following a request by Prime Minister Theresa May, the European Council (Article 50) agreed on March 21 to extend the UK's departure date to May 22 2019, provided the Withdrawal Agreement is approved by the House of Commons by March 29 at the latest.
If the Withdrawal Agreement is not approved by the House of Commons by then, the European Council has agreed to an extension until April 12 2019. In that scenario, the United Kingdom would be expected to indicate a way forward before this date.
In a "no-deal" scenario, the UK will become a third country without any transitionary arrangements.
All EU primary and secondary law will cease to apply to the UK from that moment onwards. There will be no transition period, as provided for in the Withdrawal Agreement. "This will obviously cause significant disruption for citizens and businesses," the European Commission said.
In such a scenario, the UK's relations with the EU would be governed by general international public law, including rules of the World Trade Organisation.
The EU will be required to immediately apply its rules and tariffs at its borders with the UK.
This includes checks and controls for customs, sanitary and phytosanitary standards and verification of compliance with EU norms.
Similarly, UK citizens will no longer be citizens of the European Union. They will be subject to additional checks when crossing borders into the European Union.
Since December 2017, the European Commission has been preparing for a "no-deal" scenario. It has published 90 preparedness notices, three Commission Communications, and has made 19 legislative proposals.
The Commission has held extensive technical discussions with the EU27 member states both on general issues of preparedness and contingency work and on specific sectorial, legal and administrative preparedness issues, it said.
The Commission has now also completed its tour of the capitals of the 27 EU member states. The aim of these visits was to provide any necessary clarifications on the Commission's preparedness and contingency action and to discuss national preparations and contingency plans.
"The visits showed a high degree of preparation by member states for all scenarios," the Commission said.
The European Commission posted on March 25 a number of factsheets on Q and A regarding a no-deal scenario. They may be found at this link.


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A little bit of this and a little bit of that as we point toward Week 12 in the SEC:
Auburn quarterback Cam Newton is 197 yards away from breaking the NCAA single season record for most rushing yards by a quarterback. Air Force's Beau Morgan ran for 1,494 yards in 1996. Newton, with three games remaining, has 1,297 yards. However, Morgan probably won't have the record for much longer. Michigan's Denard Robinson has 1,417 yards with three games remaining.
Newton and Robinson are tied for the FBS lead this season with 43 carries of 10 yards or longer.
Arkansas and Auburn are both among the FBS leaders when it comes to the percentage of plays of 20 yards or longer. Boise State leads the way with 9.7 percent of its plays going for 20-plus yards. Hawaii is right behind at 9.6 percent, Auburn at 9.3 percent and Arkansas at 9.2 percent.
Going back to the beginning of the 2009 season, Arkansas quarterback Ryan Mallett leads all FBS players with 56 completions of 30 yards or longer. The second-place guy, San Diego State's Ryan Lindley, is 10 completions back with 46. Virginia Tech's Tyrod Taylor and Boise State's Kellen Moore are tied for third with 40 completions of 30 yards or longer.
Arkansas has been money in the red zone this season. The Hogs have scored on 37 of 40 possessions inside the 20, which leads the SEC and is tied for fourth in the nation. In the past two seasons, the Hogs are 84 of 89 in the red zone.
Since starting the season 1-2, Mississippi State is averaging eight tackles for loss per game and has 16 takeaways.
Auburn leads the SEC in scoring, averaging 42.8 points per game. At that current pace, the Tigers would finish the season tied for eighth in SEC history for scoring average. At that pace, Auburn would score 599 points in 14 games, which would be second in SEC history -- trailing only Florida's 611 points in 2008.
With a win Saturday against Ole Miss, LSU can secure its fourth 10-win season in six years under Les Miles.
LSU's defense is ranked in the top 10 nationally in scoring (6th -- 14.6 PPG), passing (4th -- 148.6 YPG) and total defense (5th – 273.6 YPG).
Alabama, which routed Georgia State 63-7 on Thursday night, has given up just 14 touchdowns in 11 games, which is the second lowest total in the nation. West Virginia is the only team that's given up fewer with 11, but the Mountaineers have also played just nine games.
Ole Miss' Markeith Summers is second in the nation in yards per reception (20.64). Summers has 22 catches for 454 yards. The Georgia duo of Tavarres King (3rd / 20.48) and Kris Durham (4th / 20.08) and Tennessee's Denarius Moore (T6th / 19.88) are also in the nation's top 10 in yards per reception.
Tennessee running back Tauren Poole has six 100-yard rushing games this season, which ties Auburn's Newton for the most in the SEC. Travis Stephens set the Tennessee school record in 2001 with seven 100-yard rushing games. Despite Poole's big season, the Vols rank last in the SEC and 97th nationally in rushing offense, averaging just 118.9 yards per game.
Tennessee has won 32 of the past 34 meetings with Vanderbilt. The Vols had their 22-game winning streak in the series snapped in 2005 when the Commodores won 28-24 in Knoxville. Vanderbilt hasn't beaten Tennessee in Nashville since 1982 when the Commodores won 28-21.
A win by South Carolina over Troy on Saturday would give the Gamecocks their 10th eight-win season in school history and their fourth since the 2000 season.


West Ham advanced to the fourth round of the FA Cup after avoiding a banana skin against Championship outfit Birmingham City, winning 2-0 at the London Stadium.
Marko Arnautovic opened the scoring after just a few minutes and Andy Carroll put the game beyond any doubt by tucking home in stoppage time in the second half – although it was still not enough to save him from criticism.
The 30-year-old has struggled with injury problems regularly during the past few seasons and has been limited to just a handful of appearances this season, appearing just seven times in the Premier League under Manuel Pellegrini.
A return to the goals will have provided a confidence boost to the former Liverpool and Newcastle United man but it seems some fans believe the ship has already set sail for the experienced striker, as they called for him to depart in the January transfer window.
Carroll does not fit Pellegrini's style at all. Surely he's gone in Jan or Summer.


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Едісон () — селище () в США, в окрузі Міддлсекс штату Нью-Джерсі. Населення —  осіб (2010).

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Згідно з переписом 2010 року, у селищі мешкало  осіб у  домогосподарствах у складі  родин. Було 36302 помешкання

Расовий склад населення:

До двох чи більше рас належало 2,7 %. Частка іспаномовних становила 8,1 % від усіх жителів.

За віковим діапазоном населення розподілялося таким чином: 22,7 % — особи молодші 18 років, 64,7 % — особи у віці 18—64 років, 12,6 % — особи у віці 65 років та старші. Медіана віку мешканця становила 38,1 року. На 100 осіб жіночої статі у селищі припадало 95,8 чоловіків;  на 100 жінок у віці від 18 років та старших — 93,8 чоловіків також старших 18 років.

Середній дохід на одне домашнє господарство  становив  долари США (медіана — ), а середній дохід на одну сім'ю —  доларів (медіана — ). Медіана доходів становила  долари для чоловіків та  доларів для жінок. За межею бідності перебувало 5,1 % осіб, у тому числі 5,7 % дітей у віці до 18 років та 4,9 % осіб у віці 65 років та старших.

Цивільне працевлаштоване населення становило  особи. Основні галузі зайнятості: освіта, охорона здоров'я та соціальна допомога — 22,3 %, науковці, спеціалісти, менеджери — 18,6 %, фінанси, страхування та нерухомість — 11,6 %, роздрібна торгівля — 10,8 %.

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В поселенні народився:
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Staff Picks - The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
The Children's Book is A.S. Byatt's latest ambitious literary novel. The story is set between 1895 and 1919 during a time of great change and upheaval in England. The story involves three interconnected families, the Wellwoods, the Cains and the Fludds. It begins with a very satisfying rags to (upper middle class) riches orphan story. Philip Warren escapes his life of poverty and hides in the basement of the Victoria and Albert museum with hopes of preparing himself to work as a potter. He is absorbed into the numerous Wellwood family and then onto the home of Benedict Fludd, a brilliant and perhaps mad potter. It is set in a time of great change in England. "Sempiternal" Queen Victoria has died and the Edwardian Age has begun. The families involved are somewhat eccentric and bohemian. Marital bonds are loose and family relationships are blurry. For the first time we see electricity and telephones. At the centre of the story is Olive Wellwood, an author who writes a book for each of her seven children. Edith Nesbitt,Kenneth Grahame and J.M. Barrie come to mind.
The Children's Book is a long dense read, that is meant to be read slowly. No skimming here. Every word is important. Byatt's style is lyrical and elegant; a slow leisurely read. It is obviously well researched and displays a depth of knowledge about this period of time in England's history and the intellectuals who helped to shape thought. Fabianism and women's suffrage are important themes, but we also see the darker side. The suffrage movement degenerates into anarchy. Women are imprisoned and suffer the indignities of forced feeding. A bohemian marriage could be a liberating relationship, but it could also have a devastating effect upon the children as they are forced to question their very identity. And then there was the war. The reader has watched the boys grow up over twenty years and are not spared the atrocities.
This was fascinating time in England's history which has been well documented in fiction and in fact. The Perfect Summer: Dancing Into Shadow: England in 1911 by Juliet Nicolson deals with one pivotal summer through the eyes of a number of individuals of varying classes, genders and occupations. The social, political and economic issues are also key themes of Tracy Chevalier's Falling Angels. An unlikely friendship is struck between two young girls following Queen Victoria's death. Another very long and dense read is Augustus John: The New Biography by Michael Holroyd. This British artist embraced a truly bohemian life, again with some mixed results on family life.
Novelist has a terrific Author Read-Alike article about A.S. Byatt. They suggest Iain Pears, Robertson Davies, John Hersey, Steven Millhauser and Ursula K. Le Guin as possible similar authors. Take a look at the article to see what drew them to these conclusions.
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As Weed and his teammates came closer to the lizardmen's stronghold, the number of monsters falling in their way increased rapidly.
Irene and Romune spoke in turn. But Weed only smiled.
"Yes, Master Weed. They herd together more than orcs," Irene said.
"That's right. They also protect their own territory jealously. What if someone steps over it?" Weed asked.
"They fight back without exception!" Surka said.
Weed and his teammates were going through a valley. They often rested in the middle to recharge mana, and wasted no energy.
At this point, he gave away the riddle.
Because of Weed's revelation, they realized where his confidence was coming from.
"What do you mean by that--oh, I got it!" Surka said.
"Darius is really helping us out!" Romune said.
The stronghold of the lizardmen.
Now they should have been fighting viciously against the punitive force who had invaded their territory.
In other words, the base camp would be nearly abandoned, only guarded by a handful of lizardman warriors.
At the some time, Weed guessed that treasures that the lizardmen had plundered from nearby villages were stacked over there.
He was climbing the western valley in order to accomplish Ghandilva's quest, but his real agenda was hidden.
"We will face a more difficult enemy from this point on. How about baiting them now?" Weed asked.
"We should be careful. We can't allow many lizardmen to take on us at once," Weed said.
Surka did a great job baiting lizardmen one by one. Her outstanding dexterity helped her lure the enemy separately.
The furious lizardmen chased after Surka.
Weed and Pale quickly loaded arrows on their bows, targeted the lizardmen and shot them.
While Weed shot one arrow at a time, Pale shot multiple arrows so fast that his hands were almost invisible.
Their skill levels in archery made an fair difference, not to mention the effects of Pale's other skills.
Weed's archery had advanced beyond his overall level as he had sniped at the goblins, yet he could not possibly rival Pale whose hands had never left his bow.
For Pale, even before an arrow hit a target, the next arrow was already loaded and launched.
Since level five, when he converted to the ranger class, he had been upgrading the Chain Shot and Penetration skills, which rendered his arrows more powerful.
Weed shot arrows until the lizardmen got too close to him. The damage was low, yet his expertise rating in archery improved nonetheless.
No, the bottom line was that his temperament didn't allow him to sit back and wait for his enemy.
Why should I wait for EXPs, no, the enemy to come?
Weed loved to fight, never got tired of it. He was unstoppable now.
Out of his mouth, another battle cry burst forth.
Irene and Romune giggled. They had once mentioned this to Weed, who had to admit he could not help it.
For him, it was a roar of triumph that came out only when he was overly excited.
Fortunately, there had never yet been a time when monsters had heard him and rushed to get his party, though he was constantly embarrassed by his involuntary habit when he was fighting shoulder to shoulder with other users.
Weed is always composed, but he sometimes goes out of control and becomes childish, Irene thought.
They encountered six lizardmen in a ludicrous battle.
The moment the battle began, two of the lizardmen were slaughtered by Weed's sword, and there were four more to go.
He left those four monsters alone because if he had taken down all of them, Romune, Pale and Surka would be denied precious EXPs.
Worse still, Weed's mana would run out while Irene's mana remained in excess, which would compel the entire party to take a break in order for him to refill his mana. They would waste valuable time, falling behind the deadline of the quest.
Two lizardmen went after Surka, but the other two in a fury charged at Weed to exact revenge for the loss of their comrades.
Weed's sword was in need of repair, below ten in durability. Given that a powerful sword technique gives an excessive burden to the weapon in use, further lowering the weapon's durability, he had been engaged fiercely without a rest.
Weed returned his sword to the inventory and clenched his fists.
Weed's fists lashed out at the enemy incessantly.
He had called out the skill name, not that the skill was actually activated. He had not learned it in the first place, let alone used it.
Instead, he imitated the way Surka had used her fists to the best of his knowledge, and beat the lizardmen.
Wanting to hitting monsters with his own hands, he had learned martial arts for a year, waiting for that moment.
Needless to say, his punches were terrific.
Weed's hands moved at an invisible speed.
In clubbing the lizardmen mercilessly, his intermediate handicraft skill added an extra fifty percent to attack power by fist.
Weed closed on his enemy, punching at every opening. The lizardmen swung their blades in retaliation.
The bottom line was, the lizardmen and Weed were both obsessed with looking to finish off the other before being finished themselves.
Weed's footsteps were light. Any time his body rocked, a punch thrust into a lizardman. His ankles and waist moved at his will and drew strength for the fists, which in turn struck the lizardmen's stomach and chests.
The lizardmen wailed in pain.
Irene was busy healing the frontline leaders from behind.
Her expertise in healing was acknowledged. Whenever her teammate's life went down below seventy percent, her Healing Hand touched the needy. Risk-free and effective.
Weed was enjoying the firsthand sense of punching the enemy. He preferred hand-to-hand combat to sword fighting, for he could feel it, and it felt more real.
The lizardmen and Weed were pummeling each other, but it wasn't the same. The lizardmen's faces were filled with pain, but a smile hovered on his.
He was whirling his mighty fists, crying out with excitement.
Meanwhile, Romune and Pale were casting magic spells and shooting arrows, respectively, to get rid of the other two lizardmen that had fastened on to Surka.
Without a hope in sight, those two lizardmen facing Weed were having the hell beaten out of them, yet were still alive.
The endurance stat is mostly generated by warriors in the first rounds of their adventure.
When it is developed, it reduces physical damage inflicted by the enemy, and even increases the user's life by a small amount.
You can invest some stat bonus points from a level up in the endurance stat, but the majority choose to let it develop of itself by receiving melee attacks.
After the endurance stat had been newly added to his stats, Weed's movement became more tactical. He checked how much mana Irene had, and intentionally let the lizardmen strike him with their blades.
The stat grows as it is hit.
This is truly power you can gain only through pain and suffering.
Weed was a human that gladly accepted the lizardmen's attacks as long as they were acceptable within Irene's mana.
In Royal Road, you actually feel hurt when you are hurt. Weed even enjoyed the pain.
One of the lizardmen finally perished with a death cry.
Weed achieved a stirring feat by punching a lizardman to death in the battle.
The other three lizardmen were sandwiched by Romune, Pale and Surka and killed.
Weed had killed three of them alone, but it would not have been easy even with the iron sword unless Irene constantly regenerated his life. The victory required all five of them in the party.
Surka went fishing in a group of lizardmen in the distance when there were two or more groups of lizardmen nearby.
If it had not been the case, Pale would simply shoot an arrow at them, or more often than not, Weed would be the first man to move.
Weed would run right into the ranks of lizardmen and swing his sword freely. His teammates would run after him and help finish the monsters off. Then they would walk away victorious.
This was what Weed liked about his teammates most.
They were usually chatty and noisy on the march, but when it came to a battle, they would fall silent and get serious.
They had been thoroughly tamed by Weed.
Since they had hunted foxes in front of the Citadel, they had learned how to hunt monsters rapidly and economically.
When they entered the lizardmen's stronghold after neutralizing a handful of lizardman guards, they found a bunch of straw huts scattered in the forlorn valley.
The captives are over there, Weed thought.
The parents of the children were confined in a cage made of woven branches.
Weed studied the situation for a while.
There were ten men and women locked in the wooden cage, and he located eight lizardmen mounting guard over them.
With little consideration for mana, Weed could finish two, or three at most, in a blitz, but in that case, his teammates would have to deal with the other five remaining guards.
He was certain that they would prevail in the end, but Irene and Romune, who were low in life and weak in defense, could end up dead. Mages and priestesses could be endangered by only a few wild strikes from a lizardman.
Surka knew it was time for action, and moved.
When Surka approached the lizardmen, five of them began to chase after her. Instead of pursuing her, the other three lizardmen stayed behind to keep an eye on the captives.
They're not as foolish as I thought.
Weed made eye contact with Surka on the run. They nodded.
- Master Weed, I will race in a circle along where we came from, and come back here.
- Thank you, Lady Surka. That will be enough.
Weed and Surka struck a quick deal through whispers.
Assured that she and her pursuers were out of sight, Weed and Pale appeared in front of the remaining lizardmen.
The three lizardmen stammered in surprise.
The guards survived barely a second against the human intruders.
Weed and Pale downed them in a split second and opened the gate of the wooden cage. The parents stayed inside, though, scared out of their wits.
Weed could sympathize with how terrified they were, having been captured by the lizardmen and waiting for death any second.
"We are here by the request from Ghandilva, the elder of Baran Village," Weed said to the villagers.
Weed went into the wooden cage and gave first aid to the wounded with herbs and bandages.
That measure alone restored their health greatly.
"Master Weed, Lady Surka's back," Pale said.
Surka, who had been leading the lizardmen away from the cage, was coming back.
"Stay in the cage for a minute. Get ready to leave now. You want to see your children again, don't you?" Weed said tenderly to the villagers.
Some would have counted the villagers as a liability, and, as a matter of fact, they were right in a sense because his party was responsible for rescuing the captives from the lizardmen and guaranteeing their safety to Baran Village.
But Weed thought one step further.
What Weed was carrying out was a rescue mission.
For each head saved, he would receive extra EXP points as a reward when the mission was completed. He had given up fame and EXPs from the punitive force quest to exterminate the lizardmen, but this one was still a good bargain.
Weed and his teammates finished off the five lizardmen that returned on Surka's heels. They quickly hid the villagers in a safe shelter, and then searched for more captives, who were eventually found and rescued as well.
Their disappointment, though, lay in what the lizardmen had looted and stacked.
Orcs and goblins collect gold and gems. In stark contrast with those crow-like creatures, lizardmen in the class Reptilia hardly gathered anything valuable when they plagued human civilization.
So all that Weed's party found were a mountain of shields, armor and weapons made of iron.
Weed and his teammates swept the armaments together without leaving anything behind. The maximum weight that a user can carry depends on his strength and stamina.
Even Irene and Romune were stumbling toward the village with heavy loads on their backs.
Of course, it wasn't only his party that carried arms.
"We saved you," Weed said to the rescued.
Their faces showed some uneasiness at his words.
Reassured, the villagers looked less anxious than before.
The villagers' faces underwent another sudden change.
They were extremely weary due to malnutrition. The last thing they wanted to do was anything that might compromise their return to home.
At a mere mention of orcs, the villagers shuddered in terror. They had barely survived the lizardmen, and if orcs were the next calamity to deal with, they knew it was going to be a hopeless case.
Persuaded by Weed, the villagers ended up carrying as heavy loads as they could possibly manage and walking down the valley.
Meanwhile, the lizardmen in Baran Village had been wiped out by Darius and his troops.
The village was devastated, but the rescued villagers wept in delight for their return anyway.
The moment Weed finished his speech, the villagers put down the heavy arms and scattered, looking for their sons and daughters.
Ghandilva was waiting with children in a clearing near the gate.
It was a touching reunion between children and parents.
"Yes, sir," Weed said humbly.
The dispersed families in Baran Village were reuinited by the brave heroes who were willing to see justice done.
The village was destroyed by the lizardmen's raid, but the crowing of roosters and the barking of dogs will be heard soon.
The children are relieved to see their parents again. Till the day their eyes fill with tears from their parents' scoldings, the children will have gratitude for the brave heroes.
The fame and EXPs were distributed equally to everyone in the party, but the seed was given directly to Weed who was the party leader.
There are many factors involved in receiving a quest.
NPCs beg anyone who runs across them if they want a quest to be done urgently, but most of them will wait for their favorite user, if any, to appear to solve their problems instead of trusting a total stranger.
Weed had won considerable trust from Ghandilva the elder. The villagers who had been rescued by Weed's party would feel indebted to their saviors, and it would work to their advantage for shopping and other services there.
If Darius assumed that he had nothing much to gain from Baran Village, he would not be worried. But he would have to pay for his mistake if he had planned to expand his power over the Southern province based on his status as the commander of the punitive force.
Obviously, this subtle friendship rather than material reward was more likely to turn into the biggest asset in the future.
Darius would not have rejected the quest under normal circumstances, but he had been the commander of the punitive force.
It would have been a tough decision to abandon his mission to lead his troops to defeat the lizardmen for a major credit, and instead, to rescue a handful of villagers from their stronghold.
For that reason, Weed understood Darius, but pitied him at the same time.
Opportunities don't present themselves often. Like an unforeseen accident from nowhere, they come and go.
Ghandilva suddenly clasped Weed's hands.
"No, sir," Weed said calmly.
Freya was a goddess who was most widely worshipped in Rosenheim. She was known to govern fertility and beauty.
Freya, the goddess of beauty and fertility is the patron goddess in Baran Village. The statue of Goddess Freya stood in the central square, but it was destroyed by a pine tree when a flood knocked the tree down. Though the lizardmen are defeated, the villagers will not live in peace until the statue of Freya is restored.
Build a statue of Freya in the village and bring peace back.
Requirement: Only available to Sculptors.
It was a class quest reserved to sculptors.
The difficulty level and rewards for the quest were undecided because they depended strictly on the outcome.
The rewards for most quests were settled by the same rule.
Except for definite missions such as messengers or couriers of certain objects, the rewards varied to a great degree on the outcomes.
When Weed said so, his teammates, who had been listening to the conversation vacantly, grinned and congratulated him.
"Congratulations, Master Weed! Good luck," Surka said.
"I thought we made a mistake when we ditched the punitive force quest, but I am proud now," Romune said, smiling.
Weed sought consent from his teammates, and Pale was eager to give it.
Pale lifted the burden off Weed's shoulder. The truth was, his teammates were a little uneasy at teaming up with someone whose level was way above theirs.
As Weed played the role of the main leader and damage dealer in most battles, they felt like accessories to his adventure. For true teammates, everyone had to be put on equal terms, and the party could not work together as long as others were conscious that they were indebted to one person in particular.
"Thank you, Master Weed. Please get ready and build it as soon as possible," Ghandilva said.
When Weed and his teammates left the village, Becker and Hosram approached them along with their subordinates.
"Nice to see you again, Commander," Becker said.
"Where are the others?" Weed asked.
"They are chasing after lizardmen on the run," Hosram said.
Weed thought that the other soldiers were pursuing the remnants of the lizardmen that had been driven out of the village by the troops.
"What about you?" Weed asked.
"Sir Darius ordered all the soldiers from the Rosenheim Army to stay behind," Becker said.
Weed suspected that Darius had assigned the Rosenheim soldiers to defend the village, so he could keep all the credit to himself.
Only the Rosenheim soldiers were left behind on sentry duty in the village.
Weed led his party to a secluded place. The seed was in his hand.
When Weed told them about the book he had received from Volk, even the usually calm Pale could not help but be shocked.
Every adventurer on the Versian continent has a dream.
A fantasy continent. A land of living legends and mysteries. To leave footprints of his own on an undiscovered territory where no pioneer preceding him has ever been.
To explore in an unknown dungeon and shed light upon secrets.
A man who discovers a new horizon earns many opportunities besides enormous fame. The opportunity to grow, and the opportunity to die.
"The City of Heaven--are you serious there is such a place? I heard of the City Under Earth…" Pale said.
"The City Under Earth?" Weed asked.
They were headaches to Weed having chosen a sculptor's path.
For a human user to learn the handicraft skill, he needs to select a primary class related to craft skills.
A sculptor can learn the handicraft skill in the stage of basic sculpture mastery.
In Weed's case, he had obtained it even before he chose the class, for he had finished the unique serial quest about Zahab's successor. But not everyone is half as lucky as he was.
Be assured that almost none receives such a windfall.
Cooks and blacksmiths have to advance their skills to at least the intermediate stage to learn the handicraft skill. A tailor can learn it when he raises his skill level to eight in basic tailoring skill.
Unless you choose a craft class, you cannot reach the intermediate stage of any craft skill. So if you want to learn the handicraft skill, the tailoring skill is a must-have.
But dwarves are born with the handicraft skill right after the activation of a new account.
With boundless stamina and imposing strength by nature, dwarves even have superb handicraft!
Weed could not relax his vigilance against the race.
Instead, dwarves are short in height, and penalized in spell casting, horse riding and expert combat skills.
Weed wanted to visit the City Under Earth someday.
"If I get the chance, I'd love to go there," Weed said.
"It won't be easy. I heard they are very hostile to humans. Only good artisans are respected there. Unless you win a certain degree of recognition from them, you'll be denied entry to the city," Pale said.
Sculpture masters such as Zahab and Geihar Von Arpen could have entered the City Under Earth.
I have a hunch that there's probably something related to the sculptural art's mystery down there.
That intuition aside, Weed took out the unidentified seed that he had received from Ghandilva.
"Alright. Let's go for it. If I am wrong, we wasted our time for nothing," Weed said.
Irene and Romune cheered Weed up.
"Identify this item," Weed said.
Burdened by his teammates' expectations, Weed used the identification skill carefully.
Effect: Guides to the City of Heaven.
Requirement: You must sow it near Baran Village.
Once Weed read through the description window, he closed his eyes for a moment, then opened them again.
His teammates were impatiently waiting for him to deliver the good news.
Once Weed gave the confirmation, the rest of the party members cheered. However, there were still matters to discuss.
Weed was going to take his teammates there, but introducing it to Darius and his minions, or even other members in the punitive force, hardly appealed to him.
Or you could call him self-centered if you wish.
Still, it was Pale, Surka, Irene and Romune that had been through the unofficial mission along with Weed to get hold of the seed.
"I agree with you. If there is a City of Heaven, it will be eventually discovered by someone and become available to everyone, but it doesn't need to be us to do that," Pale said, seconding Weed's suggestion.
It wasn't a case of monopolizing the information. It was more that those in the know deserved to be able to use that knowledge.
If everyone learned of the existence of the City of Heaven, the merits of their discovery would be diminished, and what Weed had done so far would not bear any fruit.
Living by kind and righteous morals was a foolish thing to do.
Imagine if they went public with the City of Heaven, who would unveil his own secrets, or share his own quest to who appreciation of their naïveté?
"I think so. It's too early to tell anyone else about this," Irene said.
"Let's go there alone," Surka said.
They soon came to a common agreement on the matter.
Yet leaving for the City of Heaven was put off for the time being.
Weed had to finish his Statue of Goddess quest, and the punitive force quest for the other teammates was still underway.
They decided to head for the City of Heaven once they were all done with the quests.
They were half excited, yet half worried about exploring a new region. If it turned out to be too tough for them, they would possibly end up enjoying the scenery in the sky and coming back in vain. An exploration always held such hazardous possibilities.
Weed cooked up a good excuse for Darius and his troops, who had been reported to be returning. He was afraid that they might question why his party failed to show up in the battles.
When they returned to Baran Village, however, the battered troops numbered less than a hundred, and they were quarreling with one another intensely.
While winning back Baran Village, and cleaning up the remnants of the lizardmen, the troops suffered heavy casualties.
To begin with, the group of total strangers was incapable of executing organized tactics, so they ended up losing many clueless users in the middle of dogfights.
As a consequence, them was no love lost between Darius and the ranks in the punitive force.
"Few casualties? Are you calling the death of Collonya inevitable casualties? You don't give crap about it? It's all because of your bad leadership!" the angry user who had lost his friend shouted.
The quarrel between Darius and his ranks got worse.
With such heavy casualties, nobody cared if Weed and his teammates had run off during the mission.
Weed studied Darius and his minions. None of them looked hurt, all alive and well.
In a mid-size battle, it was up to the army leader how to fight, possibly changing the whole outcome of the battle.
Weed later learned that the lizardmen, hidden in a forest, had sent some of them out to bait the hook.
A forest is where they fight best.
A large army is rather immobile in a forest area where defenders are better placed than offenders.
Darius and his minions had engaged with the bait, and the main force had been ordered to penetrate through the forest.
While they were toying with the bait lizardmen, the main force had been trapped in the jaws of death.
When the main force eventually exhausted and wounded most of the lizardmen, Darius and his minions, who had finished off the bait, suddenly appeared, slaughtering them!
To sum it up, Darius and his minions had collected the most fame and EXPs.
"I did my best. I killed the most lizardmen, and my friends rescued you. Show us some respect," Darius said calmly.
When the users in the punitive force began to denounce their commander so loudly, Darius and his minions finally revealed their teeth.
Weed looked at Darius and the other users in the punitive force cynically.
Darius had spread a bad reputation about himself among general users in exchange for a handful of fame and public service points.
He had missed a bigger fish to catch a small one right in front of his eyes.
You have to pick up small ones without making a noise, and catch the big ones boldly. Then, you look around to see if there is something else you missed. That is the right path.
Still, the other users in the punitive force could not be forgiven for their collective folly.
What had they seen in Darius to obey him unquestionably? If they had stopped to throw a little doubt on his intentions, they would not have played to his will.
It was their fault in trusting a stranger too much. Had they been more cautious, their friends would have still been alive.
That was so fast. My god, I love you guys. *Crying tears of joy* I was *sniffle* expecting it *sniffle* at least to *sniffle* take a *sniffle* week *cough* at the fastest. *blows nose* Thank you so much.
And I'm interested in illustrating MLS, so I'll check the forums.
I don't think everyone understands that this chapter and the next have already been translated along time ago. The Odd Squad translation will start from chapter 14.
I'm pretty sure these guys commented first before reading.
Is there any news on a Korean translator?
Yeah, well don't expect people to read about it, cuz I'm sure they don't look it up thoroughly?
As a consequence, there (them) was no love lost between Darius and the ranks in the punitive force.
You have to pick small ones without making a noise, and catch the big ones boldly. Then, you look around to see if there (them) is something else you missed. That is the right path.
I found this quite strange: first came the pop-up message about fighting spirit, and then things about endurance are being explained. I somehow understand that they must be the same thing, but it's confusing. Can anyone enlighten me on this, or possibly change the text to make it more understandable? Thanks.
fighting spirit prevents you from being scared when facing stronger monsters. Usually, when fighting stronger monsters, you become 'terrified', and get penalties such as def,dex stats 10% down for 15mins, and so on. However, if your fighting spirit stat is high, you can overcome the fear and avoid the penalties.
Endurance lowers the receiving damage, but it's different from def because you cannot use stat points to raise endurance. Jobs which are beaten(?) more, such as warrior, monk have higher endurance compared to other jobs.
p.s. I'm Korean and I'm not good at english. So please understand if there are some errors.
Being that Fighting Spirit already showed up as a new stat in chapter 2, I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be New Stat: Endurance.
The truth was, his teammates were a little uneasy at learning up with someone whose level was way above theirs.
Should learning up should be teaming up?
Could someone explain to me too? I reread the 2nd chappie again and it looks like the "fighting spirit" stat was already made when Weed was in training hall. So what is this "fighting spirit" stat again?
Maybe its supposed to be Endurance... but the official person made a typo ?
I too think it should be "New Stat: Endurance" instead of Fighting Spirit by context, in that square bubble.
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Les championnats du monde de ski alpin 1950 ont eu lieu à Aspen aux États-Unis du 13 au 18 février 1950. Ils se déroulaient pour la première fois hors d'Europe et comportaient pour la première fois une épreuve de slalom géant.

Chez les hommes, ils ont été dominés par l'Italien Zeno Colò, médaillé dans les trois épreuves, tandis que chez les femmes trois Autrichiennes se partageaient toutes les médailles d'or et d'argent. Trude Beiser-Jochum, qui venait d'avoir un enfant, remportait notamment la médaille d'or de descente.

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Ascertainment of Indonesian families with schizophrenia for affected sib-pair analysis
There are 31 mental state hospitals in Indonesia serving a population of 217 million. Having a large number of patients, these hospitals offer an ideal source for recruitment of families for genetic studies in schizophrenia. Beside the common difficulties in ascertainment such as low compliance, we experience specific problems like incomplete medical records, multiple language dialects, high missing rate of patients, and biased information because of stigma and unawareness of genetic problems. Another difficulty is the location of these hospitals, which are scattered all over Indonesia (about 1,919,440 square km). We have recruited more than 80 families with schizophrenia for affected sib-pair linkage analysis from 10 mental state hospitals in Java and Bali. Recruiting is currently being extended to other hospitals in major islands of Indonesia. About 70% of the families have both parents available. In 30%, one parent is missing, but additional unaffected siblings allow reconstruction of the missing genotype. Thus, genetic analysis can be done strictly as identity by descent. For clinical assignment we use all relevant data and Diagnostic Interview for Psychoses (DIP), a semi-structured interview for patients. Other instruments include Personal Psychiatric History Schedule (PPHS) and Family Interview for Genetics Studies (FIGS). We also use OPCRIT computer algorithm program to make diagnosis according to DSMIII-R and ICD-10. Genotyping and genetic analysis of markers in candidate region of chromosome 4q, 5q, 6p, 6q, 8p, 10p, 13q are currently being done in collaboration with the Bonn group.
Irmansyah., Handoko, H. Y., Heriani., Kusumawardhani, A., Amir, N., Wiwie, N. M., . . . Wildenauer, D. B. (2000). Ascertainment of Indonesian families with schizophrenia for affected sib-pair analysis. American Journal of Medical Genetics - Neuropsychiatric Genetics, 96(4), 504.


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Industry Perspective
Grid Edge Q&A: 'We're in Transition From Market Economics to Real-Time Grid Operations'
Paul De Martini, the big thinker from SoCal Edison and Cisco, calls for a new industry paradigm.
Jeff St. John October 10, 2013
Jeff St. John
Reporter covering the green technology space, with a particular focus on smart grid, demand response, energy storage, renewable energy and technology to integrate distributed, intermittent green energy into the grid.
Who are the deep thinkers on the cutting edge of the grid? Here at Greentech Media, we'd like to think they're the members of our new Grid Edge Executive Council -- the group of energy and technology business and policy leaders we've asked to help guide our new research and editorial focus on the future of the electric grid.
Paul De Martini is one of those leaders, one who has built his grid knowledge from the ground up. A 30-plus-year utility industry veteran of investor-owned utilities, as well as competitive wholesale and retail energy services, De Martini has worked on all sides of the energy enterprise, from electric systems operations and project engineering, to marketing and business development.
As vice president of advanced technology for Southern California Edison, he led R&D, strategic planning and policy development for some of the country's most influential smart grid deployments. He left SCE in 2010 to become CTO and vice president of strategy for Cisco Systems' connected energy networks business, where he helped guide the networking giant's entry into the smart grid market.
In 2012, he left Cisco and founded Newport Consulting Group, where he advises utilities, policymakers, and large and emerging technology companies including GRIDiant, GridX, Power Assure, Space-Time Insight and Varentec. He's a board member of Bit Stew and an industry advisory board member at VC firm Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital.
De Martini's recent work includes papers on leveraging flexible distributed energy resources and related business models (PDF), grid control technology architectures (PDF), and policies to enable distributed and renewable energy resource integration (PDF). This week, I got on the phone to ask him some questions about the opportunities and challenges facing the industry as it seeks to apply technological and business innovation on the edges of the grid. Here are his answers.
Can you describe the challenges facing utilities and the modern energy complex, out on the edges of the traditional electricity distribution network?
Classically, the system was managed from a centralized perspective, with controllable supply and load, in aggregate, that was highly deterministic. The edge of the grid, from a supply-demand balance perspective, was at a substation level, because that's where the real-time measurements were done on short time cycles -- four seconds or less -- to support automatic generation control.
The "edge" has been expanding over time, [moving] closer to the customer. In some places it's already there. In demonstration, and even in practice in a few places, that edge has moved, in terms of supply-demand balance, to the customers' device that might be providing a wholesale market service, or being controlled to help with a grid operation. There's a wide range of distributed energy resources being brought into the mix, whether it be a distributed generator, responsive demand, energy storage or power electronics.
Even with distribution operations, which has more to do with reliability and power quality than supply-demand balance, there's a set of operational services that has increasingly been provided by customers. We're seeing customer resources being enlisted to manage real-time grid operations and distribution asset utilization. In these instances may be a customer's energy management system or reached a little farther, to the end device itself, perhaps a smart thermostat or appliance. From an operation control systems standpoint, it's very interesting to see how the boundaries have extended, in directions that I don't think most people realize are in process and happening. The old paradigm of the meter as the boundary for billing and service is blurring, and yet in many cases, regulation does not yet fully recognize the change.
So, part of what we need to do is to align the related policies to get to where we're at already and [where we'll be] heading this decade. We need a new paradigm to understand the roles, rules to integrate customers' devices to allow them to scale. If we're to have hundreds of thousands, even millions of customer devices engaged in providing dynamic and continuous operational services, we need to have policies that scale as much as we need control systems and technologies to scale.
What are some state-of-the-art, real-world deployments on these fronts, both on the technology side and on the policy side?
On the policy side, we haven't seen the state of the art yet -- it's more of a work in progress. You've got several places, like California and Maryland with its Utility 2.0 proposal, that are actively looking at these questions. But, there are a growing number of venues around the country asking how policy and regulatory models need to evolve to increase customer participation and services to the grid in a way that scales economically for all stakeholders.
One area that is often overlooked is that we're in transition from market economics to real-time grid operations, both in transmission and distribution. That introduces a different dimension than just market efficiency related to supply costs and transmission congestion. The transition from market efficiency, to include optimization of real-time operations using distributed resources, requires resources to be very firm -- they need to be able to respond for the specific service they need to perform. This means we need to evolve from "best efforts" discrete type of traditional demand response programs to fast and continuous response resources. NERC [the North American Electrical Reliability Corp.], in its long-term resource adequacy report, speaks to the need to firm up distributed energy resources so they can provide services to bulk power system operations. The same question is going on in distribution.
Fortunately, there are a number of technology firms that have come on the scene in the last five years or so that are addressing this need to integrate these distributed resources into real-time operational control systems. There is a growing recognition that it is essential to marry economic optimization with grid control systems. Economics and power flows cannot be treated separately at the scale that distributed energy resources [DER] are envisioned in existing policy in many places in the U.S. and globally.
What gaps remain to be addressed? How are cutting-edge developments working on these challenges?
One main challenge is that for critical operating systems, like the power system, there is a natural tradeoff between economic efficiency and reliability. Those are two different axes, and there is a specific tradeoff between the two. We have to look more carefully at this tradeoff as we rely on increasingly greater amounts of distribution connected DER. I don't know how many people know that distribution systems are loosely coupled to transmission systems from a control system standpoint since the power flowed one way to customers. In contrast, transmission systems and market operations are more closely coupled. But even here, there are a number of operational activities done in real-time grid operations that are not priced or executed through market constructs. As we increasingly couple wholesale markets, real-time transmission and distribution operations with dispatchable customer resources we need to look at the economic efficiency and reliability tradeoff in a different ways. Part of the challenge is that economic optimization is a fundamentally different mathematical problem type than is power flow optimization, and the shorter the time cycle that is required for solving the mathematics, the less that operators can use approximations and rules of thumb.
We need to bring this issue into the policy discussion or we may find that the existing policies won't scale operationally. DOE and university research, like that at Caltech, is working on the engineering solutions, and utilities and tech firms are creating new technologies like GRIDiant's modeling tools, Space-Time Insight's situational intelligence, or AutoGrid's solution that start to address trade-off optimizations from planning through real-time operations. California's recently announced proceeding to consider the next generation of flexible DER could be a very good venue to discuss these issues.
What about bringing customers into this new paradigm?
Customers are the heart of this distributed shift. But the industry has struggled to [develop] an effective economic value proposition for customers, one that broadly incents them to participate at a level that matches policy goals. We should shift the discussion from 'We will build it and they will come' toward understanding customer motivation more deeply and the market/product designs that will be more likely effective. This requires the use of "design thinking" -- not central-planner thinking. There's been some very good work from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab to identify the particular value streams that people should consider. Also, we need to look to simplify and reduce the cost of participation, in terms of the customer acquisition costs, the cost of equipment, and measurement and settlement. This is a place where we may have been too narrow in thinking about the roles of all stakeholders.
Also, there are related utility business model questions. In many ways, we're still using 1990s [era of energy market deregulation] thinking about business opportunities. That is a focus on a linear value chain, the generator-to-consumer model. It gets us into narrow thinking, and the problem is it's a zero-sum game -- there's a winner and a loser in that proposition. If we look at the industries that have evolved over the past fifteen years, coming out of the internet, people don't look at a linear value chain any longer. They look at a value network. The ability to develop an ecosystem to create network economics (that's a buzzword, but still) in terms of a way to leverage values so that everyone benefits -- those models have been extremely effective. In the modern economy, it's very hard not to have that kind of value network to be effective. But that hasn't yet happened in the utility industry. This is an area where policy leaders and other stakeholders ought to step back and say, 'Are we digging ourselves deeper into an old paradigm that doesn't work in this modern economy? Do we need to get out of the hole, look around at other industries and see how we can create greater customer value, and how all stakeholders can participate?'
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Visualizing Antigen-Specific and Infected Cells in Situ Predicts Outcomes in Early Viral Infection
Qingsheng Li1,
Pamela J. Skinner2,
Sang-Jun Ha3,
Lijie Duan1,
Teresa L. Mattila2,
Aaron Hage2,
Cara White2,
Daniel L. Barber4,
Leigh O'Mara3,
Peter J. Southern1,
Cavan S. Reilly5,
John V. Carlis6,
Christopher J. Miller7,
Rafi Ahmed3,
Ashley T. Haase1,*
1 Department of Microbiology, Medical School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
2 Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN55108, USA.
3 Emory Vaccine Center, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
4 Immunobiology Section, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
5 Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
6 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Institute of Technology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
7 Center for Comparative Medicine, California National Primate Research Center, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
↵* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: haase001{at}umn.edu
Qingsheng Li
Pamela J. Skinner
Sang-Jun Ha
Lijie Duan
Teresa L. Mattila
Aaron Hage
Cara White
Daniel L. Barber
Leigh O'Mara
Peter J. Southern
Cavan S. Reilly
John V. Carlis
Christopher J. Miller
Rafi Ahmed
Ashley T. Haase
In the early stages of viral infection, outcomes depend on a race between expansion of infection and the immune response generated to contain it. We combined in situ tetramer staining with in situ hybridization to visualize, map, and quantify relationships between immune effector cells and their targets in tissues. In simian immunodeficiency virus infections in macaques and lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus infections in mice, the magnitude and timing of the establishment of an excess of effector cells versus targets were found to correlate with the extent of control and the infection outcome (i.e., control and clearance versus partial or poor control and persistent infection). This method highlights the importance of the location, timing, and magnitude of the immune response needed for a vaccine to be effective against agents of persistent infection, such as HIV-1.
The outcome of viral infections in the acute stage of infection can be thought of as a numbers game and race, with the magnitude and speed of mounting host defenses competing against virus propagation and spread (1). Generally, in self-limited and fully controlled infections, the host wins by quickly generating large numbers of virus-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) that terminate infection by clearing infected cells. However, a virus can win, and can establish a persistent infection, when the cellular immune response is delayed and is of insufficient magnitude to clear infection. The outcome then depends on the extent to which the CTL response can control infection and prevent progression to disease.
We studied correlates of these different outcomes of infection in simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) and lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) infections. SIV (and HIV-1) cause persistent infections in which the CTL response in the early stages of infection (2, 3) is too little and too late (4–7) to prevent systemic infection and massive depletion of CD4+ T cells in the gut (8–10), but is usually sufficient to partially control virus production (2, 3). LCMV strains cause infections in which the outcome may be clearance or persistence, depending on the strain: Infection with LCMV-Armstrong is cleared from adult C57B1/6 mice by 8 days post-inoculation (dpi), whereas animals infected with LCMV–clone 13 remain persistently viremic for months (11, 12).
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To identify correlates of clearance and the extent of control in persistent infections, we investigated the relationship between increasing numbers of infected cells and virus-specific CTLs in the early stages of SIV and LCMV infections. We hypothesized that the outcomes of infection would be determined by the timing, ratio, and spatial colocalization of virus-specific CTLs to infected cells. We tested this hypothesis with a method (13) called ISTH, as it combines in situ tetramer (IST) staining (14) and in situ hybridization (ISH) to locate and enumerate virus-specific tetramer+ T cells and viral RNA+ cells in tissues, using these as measures, respectively, of virus-specific CTLs and infected cells.
After intravaginal inoculation of SIV into adult female rhesus macaques, virus replicates in the first week in cervical vaginal tissues and then spreads throughout the lymphatic tissues to reach a peak in numbers of infected cells at 10 to 14 dpi (8, 15). The peak in viral replication precedes the cellular immune response to immunodominant epitopes in SIV Gag and Tat that together constitute 70% of the cellular immune response in acute infection (16). This response is not detected until 14 dpi (7), which is too late to prevent a robust systemic infection. However, numbers of SIV RNA+ cells do decline between 14 and 28 dpi, at a time coinciding with the detection of increasing numbers of Gag- and Tat-tetramer+ cells by fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) analysis and IST staining (7).
This decline in SIV RNA+ cells was greater in cervical vaginal tissues than in lymphatic tissues (15), consistent with the hypothesis that the extent of control in each tissue compartment was related to the spatial proximity and numbers of tetramer+ cells relative to the numbers of SIV RNA+ cells. We used ISTH to test this hypothesis by visualizing, in the same section, effector (E) tetramer+ cells and target (T) SIV RNA+ cells, and then determining E:T cell ratios and the spatial proximity of tetramer+ cells to their targets in cervical vaginal and lymphatic tissues (13).
We indeed found that the decline in numbers of infected cells in the cervix between the peak and 21 dpi (fig. S1, A and B) was correlated with detection by ISTH (Fig. 1A) of Gag-tetramer+ cell–SIV RNA+ cell conjugates. The decline in SIV RNA+ cells in lymphatic tissues was also correlated with increasing numbers of tetramer+ cells in close proximity to infected cells, illustrated for a lymph node at 21 dpi in Fig. 1B. We captured the spatial relationships between tetramer+ and SIV RNA+ cells in this lymph node by independently plotting their positions on a two-dimensional plane (13). In the montage of the whole lymph node section shown in Fig. 1B, arrows in the enlarged inset from the encircled area of the montage point to a red Gag-tetramer+ cell and a blue SIV RNA+ cell. The positions of these Gag-tetramer+ cells are outlined against a gray-white mask of the section in Fig. 2A, and the positions of the Gag-tetramer+ cell centers (centroids) are plotted in the upper panel of Fig. 2B. The positions of SIV RNA+ cells in this section are plotted in the middle panel of Fig. 2B. The lower panel shows, in the superimposition of the upper and middle panels, Gag-tetramer+ cells and SIV RNA+ cells in close spatial proximity to one another throughout the lymph node. We thus conclude that effectors and targets are in close spatial proximity in these two tissue compartments.
ISTH analysis. (A) Cervical tissues, 21 dpi. The image of a whole section of cervix was reconstructed as a montage in Photoshop from separate confocal images, using the red channel for the Gag-tetramer+ cells and green for the SIV RNA+ cells. The blue arrow from the region enclosed by the blue rectangle points to a red Gag-tetramer+ cell–green SIV RNA+ cell conjugate in the enlarged inset. The excess of Gag-tetramer+ cells is shown in the inset in a region enclosed by the red rectangle. (B) Lymphatic tissues, 21 dpi. Montage of a whole lymph node section reconstructed in Photoshop from separate images, using the red channel for the Gag-tetramer+ cells, blue for the SIV RNA+ cells, and green for CD8+ T cells. The red arrow in the enlarged inset (upper left) points to a red Gag-tetramer+ cell; the light blue arrow points to a blue SIV RNA+ cell. The two lightened separate images with an encircled distinctive V-shaped constellation of Gag-tetramer+ cells provide a frame of reference for Fig. 2. Scale bars for whole sections, 50 μm; insets, 10 μm.
Spatial relationships between SIV-tetramer+ and SIV RNA+ cells in the lymph node shown in Fig. 1B, and relationship between E:T ratios and reduction in viral replication. (A) Gag-tetramer+ cells are shown against a gray-white mask of the section, with the V-shaped encircled constellation shown in Fig. 1B. Scale bar, 50 μm. (B) SIV RNA+ and tetramer+ cells were mapped by plotting the x and y coordinates of their centers (centroids) onto a two-dimensional grid measured from a fixed starting position (0,0). Upper panel, Gag-tetramer+ cells; middle panel, SIV RNA+ cells; lower panel, superimposition of upper and middle panels revealing the close spatial proximity of the virus-specific tetramer+ cells with SIV RNA+ throughout the lymph node. The white crosses and encircled areas in the panels are included as points of reference. (C) E:T ratio correlates with reduction in viral load in cervical vaginal and lymphatic tissues. Natural log–transformed viral load fold reductions are plotted against E:T ratios for Gag- and Tat-tetramer+ cells in cervical (CX) and vaginal (Vag) tissues and lymph nodes (LN) from five animals at 20 to 28 dpi. E:T ratios were determined by ISH as described (13).
By using ISTH to determine E:T ratios, we could further show that these ratios correlated with the extent of virus control in each tissue compartment. Defining extent of control as the reduction from peak numbers of copies of SIV RNA per microgram of tissue RNA to copy numbers at 20, 21, and 28 dpi, when the animals had mounted a tetramer response and viral load data were available from previously reported studies (15), we found a statistically significant relationship between the E:T ratio and relative reduction (P = 0.001). Reductions in viral loads by a factor of 80 to 160 were correlated with E:T ratios of ≤100. These ratios, with one exception, were achieved only in the female reproductive tract tissues where initial exposure and virus replication had elicited the most robust response.
We next investigated the relationship between the timing and magnitude of the effector response to infection outcome in LCMV-Armstrong and LCMV–clone 13 infections. LCMV-Armstrong infections are rapidly cleared by the second week of infection, whereas LCMV–clone 13 infections continue at high levels for months, with debilitating effects on virus-specific CTL proliferation and function mediated by programmed cell death–1 (PD-1) and its ligands (11, 12, 15, 17). Because the two amino acid differences between LCMV-Armstrong and LCMV–clone 13 do not alter dominant or subdominant epitopes (18, 19), it is not yet clear why the initial CD8 T cell response should result in such divergent outcomes.
We determined by ISTH that strain LCMV-Armstrong is cleared because the number of immune effectors rapidly exceeds the number of infected cells. LCMV–clone 13, on the other hand, immediately infects larger numbers of macrophages (18) and fibroreticular cells (FRCs) (20) than does LCMV-Armstrong, thereby exceeding the capacity of the initial immune response to reduce the basic reproductive rate below 1 and thereby contain infection.
The divergent outcome and larger number of cells infected by LCMV–clone 13 in the spleen are illustrated in Fig. 3, which tracks LCMV RNA+ cells and LCMV-antigen+ FRCs (13) in the spleen from 1 to 8 dpi for the respective strains. As previously described, both strains of LCMV infect splenic marginal zone macrophages and FRCs in the white pulp, but LCMV–clone 13 infects larger numbers of both cell types (18, 20). This difference, particularly the infection of FRCs, is already evident at 1 dpi, as judged by the diffuse ISH signal emanating from LCMV RNA+ cells in the white pulp. LCMV–clone 13 infection of both cell types is sustained at high levels at 3, 5, and 8 dpi, whereas the numbers of LCMV-Armstrong–infected cells are barely detectable by 8 dpi.
Time course comparison of cells infected by LCMV-Armstrong or LCMV–clone 13. Outer columns: LCMV RNA+ cells detected by ISH with LCMV-specific probes have a greenish appearance in developed radioautographs viewed in reflected light. Spleen white pulp is counterstained dark blue. Inner columns: LCMV-antigen+ cells are stained red with polyclonal antibody to LCMV; FRCs in white pulp are stained green with the FRC marker ER-TR7. Both viral strains at 1 dpi (d1) infect macrophages in the marginal zone and FRCs in the white pulp, but LCMV–clone 13 infects larger numbers of both cell types. LCMV–clone 13 continues to infect large numbers of both cell types over the 8-day time course of the experiment, whereas the numbers of infected cells rapidly decline in LCMV-Armstrong infections. Scale bars (bottom row), 10 μm.
The different infection outcomes produced by these two strains of LCMV cannot be explained by differences in the immune response seen in FACS analysis, but can be explained by ISTH, which provides the critical relevant measure of relative rates of increase in effectors and targets. By FACS analysis, the rapidly expanding populations of virus-specific tetramer+ T cells were comparable for both strains from 3 to 8 dpi (Fig. 4A). However, E:T ratios determined by ISH reflect the increase of infected cells (relative to LCMV-GP and NP-tetramer+ cells) in LCMV–clone 13 infection versus LCMV-Armstrong infection (Fig. 4B). Because of the faster increase of infected cells relative to LCMV-tetramer+ cells, the E:T ratio for LCMV–clone 13 never approached 1. By contrast, the E:T ratio for LCMV-Armstrong was already ∼4 at 3 dpi, higher than the ratio for LCMV–clone 13 at 3 dpi by a factor of 20.
(A) FACS analysis of the immunodominant epitope response to acute LCMV-Armstrong and LCMV–clone 13 infections in spleen. Flow cytometric quantification is presented as proportions and numbers of stained tetramer+ cells from disaggregated spleens from groups of three mice per time point after LCMV-Armstrong or LCMV–clone 13 infection. Representative plots gated on CD8+ T cells are shown by MHC class I tetramer (y axis) for each immunodominant epitope (GP33-41, GP276-286, and NP396-404) and CD44 (x axis). (B) E:T ratios in acute LCMV-Armstrong and LCMV–clone 13 infections in spleen. E:T ratios at the times shown were determined by ISTH as described (13).
Together, the ISTH analyses of SIV and LCMV infection tell us that location, timing, and numbers of effectors and targets all count in determining outcome. We have speculated elsewhere (5) that if the "too little, too late" response to SIV infection (7) had occurred earlier, when there were only small founder populations of infected cells confined to the portal of entry, vaginal transmission and systemic infection might be prevented with relatively few effector cells. Thus, in SIV (and, by extension, HIV-1) infections, a vaccine that elicited an immune response at the portal of entry "enough and soon enough" could prevent vaginal transmission.
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