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Taylor Duryea – Deck of DT 2016
In Crutt's final Deck of DT, he profiles dog park buddy Doc Duryea.
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Name: Taylor Duryea
Club: Hawthorn
AFL Fantasy: $436,000
AFL Dream Team: $456,700
Bye Round: Round 15
2015 Average: 78.8
2015 Games Played: 18
Predicted Average: 85 (+!)
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For my final instalment of the 2016 Deck of Dream Team, I actually couldn't decide who to write about; Grant Birchall or Taylor Duryea. In fact, I completed my article on Grant Birchall before changing my mind, and writing about Taylor Duryea. Side note: I like Taylor Duryea. He goes to the same dog park that my dad takes his dogs. He's a good dude. Relevant? No. Interesting? Not really. Let's move on.
Why should I pick him?
So, I was genuinely torn between writing about Taylor (Doc) Duryea and Birch, but let's face it – you know what you'll get with Birch. An average between 80 and 85 (since 2011, he has averaged 89.6, 88.6, 80.5, 81.8 and 82.1 points per game.), a couple of 100's, but also a couple of stinkers (2015 Scores of 48, 55, 58, 61 and 62 are not what we want from our "premium" players).
Taylor Duryea, Is actually nearly 25 years old. He was drafted in 2009, but only made his debut in 2013. Doc was forced to earn his stripes at Box Hill, but make no mistake, is now firmly entrenched in the best 22 at the hawks. He has similar traits to Brent Guerra and Matt Suckling, who obviously are both no longer at the club.
Doc played 18 games in his 'debut' season of 2013, however no finals. He averaged a respectable 57 DT points, with a high of 82. Not much more to report here… Doc played in 20 games in 2014, averaged 62 points, with a high score of 87. Still finding his stripes.
Now, we all love the old "3rd year breakout". Taylor Duryea played 18 games in 2015, averaged 78.8, which included some monster scores of 122, 118, 111 and 109 (not to mention the 110 against Freo in the prelim when he was probably best on ground – and that goal in the last quarter… fair to say I was off the couch at that stage). His (nearly) 79 average included 3 sub vests (2 red, 1 green) and 12 of 18 scores greater than 70.
But what makes me really quite bullish is Doc's coming of age in the 2015 finals series. Following a low of 30 in the qualifying final against the eagles (where he donned the green vest), his next 3 finals were outstanding. 22 touches and 92 points in the semi against the crows, 26 touches and 110 points in the prelim against the dockers and 26 touches and 98 point against the eagles in the grand final. But it's not only his possessions and his scoring that impressed. He exerted himself on the contest. He was tough, uncompromising and polished. All traits which Clarko lauds. That is why I'm certain he is now entrenched in the best 22 at the hawks.
Doc had a kick to handball ratio of 2.5:1 in 2015. I'm not sure he knows how to handball. He loves an uncontested mark. He took 127 marks in 2015, at an average of just over 7 a game, including 5 games where he took more than 10 (with a high of 14). Cheap +6's everywhere in the hawks backline.
Whilst he is a typical back pocket/half back flanker, he can push up the ground onto the wing to provide a target for the short kicking, uncontested brand of footy the hawks are renowned for. Lot's of juicy +6's there as well.
With such a relatively small dataset, it's hard to find the statistical reasons why you should pick him. The biggest reason why I think you should pick him? I have a hunch. A feeling in my waters.
Why shouldn't I pick him?
It's probably a bit of a risky selection. While we can crunch the numbers, look at his trends, visit him up the dog park to see how he's tracking this offseason – he's not a proven, consistent fantasy performer.
He's awkwardly priced. Priced around other defenders like Brodie Smith, Matt Suckling, Grant Birchall, Tom Langdon, Mark Baguley etc. If you are like me, and might ignore the top priced defenders to begin 2016, then he's not a bad pick. But if you are selecting guys like Boyd, McVeigh, Shaw, Bartel, then it's hard to squeeze a guy like Duryea in.
He's still a relatively young player, at least experience wise. A couple of subpar scores might be on the cards. His low, un-vest affected scores in 2015 were a 38, 57 and 59.
And finally, his role. Whilst I don't doubt that he will fill the Matt Suckling void, generally playing as a link up player between forward and defence, Clarko loves to add a string to the bow of all players on the list. Potential tagger, ala Shiels in 2012/2013? I'm not sure he has the fitness or nous to play that role, but he is a scrappy kid. He may also be used to play on the dangerous small forwards from time to time, the Eddie Betts, Chad Wingard, even Mark LeCras types.
Deck of DT Rating.
QUEEN – The difference in productivity between Doc and Birch could be minimal – but it's the trend that has me excited about Doc. I think his best is just around the corner, while Birch has probably peaked, at least from an AFL Fantasy perspective. There is still a bit more growth for Taylor Duryea, and I expect that come to the fore in 2016.
Will Doc Duryea make your round one team?
Yes! I will stalk him at dog parks too!
Like him, but waiting on NAB to see role.
Pass - not buying the hype.
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Now that "Suckers" has left, there is some real upside to him. He's in.
FantasyFan
If Duryea takes Sucklings spot, will Whitecross get a game?
Then Whitecross takes Duryea's place haha. I don't think he'll take Sucker's spot due to being smaller and not being so famously precise with his disposal (If anything I see them trying to get it in Birchall's hands more), I'm more hopeful of him getting more of Burgoyne's mid time as the Hawk's midfield gets older.
King Fisha
Its a yes from me.
Kirk Mackintosh
I was looking at one of Rampe, Taylor or Williams at the moment i think Williams has the spot
Jackwatt$
I love a good breakout just as much as the next bloke, so I'd like to pick him, but there just seems to be something on the nose about seeing him in my team.
To be fair his name doesn't help, or the fact he plays for the poo and wee team.
Albert_Lloyd
I like him a lot but he is risky and Yeo is a better option at his price IMO.
No for RDT, maybe in AF
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La Bete Humaine
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Wacky World of Rubber: The men behind the Sparks-Thomas Award
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William J. Sparks (left) and Robert M. Thomas are the scientists for whom the ACS Rubber Division award is named.
This edition of the Wacky World of Rubber blog isn't so much wacky as it is educational. It is the story of William J. Sparks and Robert M. Thomas, the ExxonMobil scientists for whom the ACS Rubber Division gives out an award each year during the Science & Technology Awards luncheon at its spring technical meeting.
The purpose the Sparks-Thomas Award is to perpetuate the memory of the two chemists who developed butyl rubber. Established in 1986 and supported by ExxonMobil Chemical, it is aimed at "recognizing and encouraging outstanding scientific contributions and innovations in the field of elastomers by younger scientists, technologists and engineers."
It occurred to me that I had reported on these award winners annually without knowing the full story behind the two men for whom the award was named. Many of you undoubtedly may know the story, but for those who don't, the next time you read about the winners of this honor, now you will know the back story.
Sparks and Thomas were relatively early in their careers when in 1937 they co-invented poly-isobutylene-coisoprene, which is commonly known as butyl rubber. They were conducting research at Standard Oil Co.'s (later re-named ExxonMobil) laboratory in Linden, N.J., on another company product, Vistanex. They mixed it in a reactor and added a small amount of butadiene to create the first batch of butyl rubber.
For the invention, they were granted U.S. Patent No. 2,356,128.
According to ExxonMobil, the new product created a nearly impermeable barrier, was flexible while retaining its shape and dampened vibration. Those characteristics made butyl rubber particularly useful for tires, which needed to hold air, flex when rolling over bumps and be able to isolate road vibrations.
The invention took off during World War II, when Standard Oil built and operated the first commercial butyl rubber factory in cooperation with the U.S. government as part of the Synthetic Rubber Program to accelerate the development and production of SR to support the war effort.
ExxonMobil said the invention of Sparks and Thomas has enabled it to be the global leader in butyl rubber for the last eight decades. Besides its use in tires, butyl rubber also has applications for motor mounts, adhesives and sealants, tank and pond liners, protective gloves, bladders for sports balls and even a food-safe version for chewing gum.
Thomas received his bachelor's in chemistry from Virginia Tech and joined Standard Oil in 1929, retiring in 1965 after a 46-year career. He earned 75 patents, directed the work of several notable polymer scientists and received the ACS Rubber Division's Charles Goodyear Medal in 1969, the highest honor given by the technical association. He died in 1984 at age 76.
Sparks received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Indiana University and his doctorate from the University of Illinois. He became ExxonMobil's chief scientist and earned 145 patents before retiring in 1967. He served as president of the American Chemical Society in 1966 and, among other honors, was awarded the Charles Goodyear Medal in 1963. His grandson Robert Sparks also was a doctoral student in biochemistry at the University of Illinois. Robert Sparks said his grandfather was very concerned about the environment, and that his favorite quote was "Science without purpose is an art without responsibility," according to a bio on the University of Illinois website.
Some of his other patents included new fuels, gasoline additives, propellants, encapsulated oxidants, asphalt additives and food-wrapping films. He died in 1976 at age 71.
Thomas and Sparks were inducted posthumously into the Inventors Hall of Fame in 2016.
As for the Sparks-Thomas award given in their honor, this year's recipient was Megan Robertson from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Houston.
At the Rubber Division's 2019 Spring Technical Meeting, the next honoree will be Pamela Martin, who works in advanced materials and product development at the Tun Abdul Razak Research Centre.
It also is interesting to note that Endurica L.L.C., the company formed by 2007 Sparks-Thomas Award recipient William Mars, now sponsors another of the Rubber Division's Science & Technology Awards, the Fernley H. Banbury Award.
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Saint-Ulphace és un municipi francès situat al departament del Sarthe i a la regió de . L'any 2007 tenia 216 habitants.

Demografia

Població
El 2007 la població de fet de Saint-Ulphace era de 216 persones. Hi havia 92 famílies de les quals 24 eren unipersonals (24 homes vivint sols), 40 parelles sense fills i 28 parelles amb fills.

La població ha evolucionat segons el següent gràfic:

Habitants censats

Habitatges
El 2007 hi havia 179 habitatges, 93 eren l'habitatge principal de la família, 70 eren segones residències i 16 estaven desocupats. 172 eren cases i 4 eren apartaments. Dels 93 habitatges principals, 75 estaven ocupats pels seus propietaris, 17 estaven llogats i ocupats pels llogaters i 1 estava cedit a títol gratuït; 1 tenia una cambra, 6 en tenien dues, 22 en tenien tres, 24 en tenien quatre i 39 en tenien cinc o més. 66 habitatges disposaven pel capbaix d'una plaça de pàrquing. A 54 habitatges hi havia un automòbil i a 33 n'hi havia dos o més.

Piràmide de població
La piràmide de població per edats i sexe el 2009 era:

Economia
El 2007 la població en edat de treballar era de 136 persones, 93 eren actives i 43 eren inactives. De les 93 persones actives 88 estaven ocupades (46 homes i 42 dones) i 5 estaven aturades (2 homes i 3 dones). De les 43 persones inactives 17 estaven jubilades, 15 estaven estudiant i 11 estaven classificades com a «altres inactius».

Ingressos
El 2009 a Saint-Ulphace hi havia 99 unitats fiscals que integraven 226 persones, la mediana anual d'ingressos fiscals per persona era de 16.110 €.

Activitats econòmiques
Dels 13 establiments que hi havia el 2007, 3 eren d'empreses de fabricació d'altres productes industrials, 4 d'empreses de construcció, 2 d'empreses de comerç i reparació d'automòbils, 2 d'empreses d'hostatgeria i restauració i 2 d'empreses immobiliàries.

Dels 6 establiments de servei als particulars que hi havia el 2009, 1 era un guixaire pintor, 1 fusteria, 1 lampisteria, 1 empresa de construcció i 2 restaurants.

L'únic establiment comercial que hi havia el 2009 era una floristeria.

L'any 2000 a Saint-Ulphace hi havia 24 explotacions agrícoles que ocupaven un total de 1.513 hectàrees.

Poblacions més properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.

Referències

 Résumé statistique Fitxa resum de dades estadístiques de Saint-Ulphace a l'INSEE.
 Évolution et structure de la population Fitxa amb el detall de dades de Saint-Ulphace a l'INSEE
 France par commune Dades detallades de tots els municipis de França accessibles a partir del mapa.

Municipis del Sarthe

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Having served Kingston for more than 10 years I have been lucky enough to see the Rose Theatre open its doors, after decades of hard work and sacrifice.
When Charter Quay opened it was one of the premiere riverside developments of recent years, and the Rose Theatre was the icing on the cake. Then the money was needed.
It would have been wrong at the time to sacrifice what so many had spent years working toward, and economically things were looking good.
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I'm 27 years old and around 15st.
I took a break from the weights for around six months and lost a lot of mass, I have since started bulking and have added around 2st in weight.
I am stronger than I have ever been last week I squeezed out personal bests for squat and bench press. I'm eating around 300g of protein a day and have gained 2" on my legs and around 1" on my arms.
I am using creatine and am loving the increased mass and strength that I've picked up.
The problem is my bodyfat has increased - my waist ballooned from 33" to 40" - I am a rugby player so I'm used to being fit and athletic. I have kept up the cardio (bike and elliptical) but my ankle injury has prevented from doing any running.
I have a sedentary office job which means calories expended during the day are minimal.
I want to cut bodyfat but I don't want to lose strength - I have cut before and strength loss has always been a problem.
Assuming I want to do things naturally, how can I keep my strength gains and lose fat?
"Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit"
Well a good structured and well thought out diet plan for a start, have you given this some consideration. What's a typical daily diet for you at the moment?
I haven't really kept a close eye on the macros as I've been gaining but it seems a good deal of that is fat - strength loss is a real issue for me so any advice is appreciated.
So are you looking to put a cutting diet together then? Diet looks ok really, but no fruit or veg?? Also myself personally, I wouldn't be eating the bread at 10pm. Some will disagree of course.
Do you have any idea what your maintenance calories are and how many calories are in your daily diet at the mo?
As for cardio - how much are you doing at the moment?
If you train more for strength (low reps, heavy weights) then you'll strength wont be effected by dieting. A lot of what strength is about is getting the most amount of motor units in the muscle to fire.
try a 5 x5 routine, i was on it for a while and saw substancial strength increase, and although you do gain muscle mass it isn't a large amount thus why im switching to hst routine.
My maintanence is around 3,000kcals give or take.
Like I said I haven't counted cals for this diet (probably a mistake) but I would guess I'm a few hundred in excess of the above.
For the last 2 months I have done a 2x a week fullbody routine using 5x5 methods, my 1RM for bench and squat has increased by 10kg+ and 20kg+ respectivley.
I've recently switched to Joey De Franco's Westside for Skinny Bastards program which is working well for me.
I have cut successfully before but loss of strength and size has always been a problem for me.
Like I said any advice or constructive criticism is welcomed.
From my own experience, being lean means a loss in strength and size overall. You lose fat you lose size.
Make a choice and stick with what youre happy with, being pudgy but being strong or being lean and slightly weaker.
^^^^^^^ ditto to what TIO said. I've recently cut from 95kg to 85kg and strength has plumetted.
One the flipside people have said I actually look bigger and much better, I asume due to more prominent muscle definition.... Up untill now I've always focused on size & strength, but I'd now say, for me taking a drop in overall size and strength has been well worth it.
Just a thought for you mate!


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Pearson paces Bobcats past Rice
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Nijal Pearson feels like Wednesday's stats lied.
Sure, the junior guard scored 25 points to help lead Texas State (6-1) to a 74-60 win over Rice (3-5), but Pearson believes the Bobcats could've played better.
"That's crazy, we shot 50 percent from the field, but we didn't, I don't feel like we executed as well as we could've," Pearson said. "We made some shots, shooting 48 percent but we've got to execute better. We know what we need to do better. When we're playing as best as we can, we're going to roll."
Texas State got off to a strong start during Wednesday's game against Rice in front of 1,897 fans at Strahan Arena.
The Bobcats jumped out to 6-0 lead early in the first half. The Owls evened the contest at 9-9 but that would be the final time they tied the score.
A 3-pointer from senior forward Alex Peacock followed by a jumper from senior guard Isaiah Gurley gave Texas State a 14-9 lead.
The Bobcats held a healthy lead throughout the first half and had a 36-26 advantage at halftime.
Texas State maintained a double-digit lead in the second half and secured their sixth win of the season. The Bobcats' 6-1 start to the year is the best since the 1980-81 campaign.
"I thought it was an overall good performance," head coach Danny Kaspar said. "We got a little stale there defensively at the end. Actually, got onto a couple of guys for taking bad shot there at the end after the game. We want to try to win this game as much as possible."
Pearson led the Bobcats with his 25 point performance. He is off to a good start this season. The Beaumont native is averaging 21 points per game, which is up from last season's 15.2. But Pearson isn't satisfied and Kaspar recognizes that.
"I would tell you that (Pearson's) offensive performance was very good," Kaspar said. "I think he'll tell you that he could rebound a little bit better and he could probably do a few more things. But if he keeps playing like that, I'll take it any day. Is there room for improvement? Yes."
Alongside Pearson's 25 points, junior forward Eric Terry amassed 11 points and three rebounds. Senior guard Tre Nottingham tallied 10 points and six rebounds. Peacock added nine points and seven rebounds.
Texas State outrebounded Rice, 40-30, which Terry credits to the Bobcats' effort.
"It's really just effort," Terry said. "Even though we didn't show it really on the court. The stats show it but I feel like we could do better. So, even though we outrebounded them, I feel like we didn't do a good job enough to outrebound them."
Texas State travels to take on I-35 rival UTSA on Saturday at 3 p.m. inside the Roadrunners' Convocation Center. Although UTSA won last season's contest, the Bobcats aren't dwelling on the past as they prepare for the Roadrunners.
"I'm not really worried about what happened last year," Pearson said. "I'm worried about this Saturday. So, UTSA, they can celebrate last year's win. They can bring up last year's win if they want to. But come Saturday, it's going to be a 40 minute fight and that's the only 40 minutes that matter."
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Focus on Valerie Schneider—Diving Deep into Information Engineering
Posted by NLM in Focus / April 30, 2019
Valerie Schneider, PhD, dives deep—whether it's into the ocean or her work.
Ironically, if it weren't for a fish, this developmental biologist and deep-sea diver might not have rediscovered her love of genetics and landed a career as a staff scientist at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
Whether she's 100 feet below the ocean's surface or in her fourth-floor office at NIH, Schneider stays focused on what's important for NCBI's Information Engineering Branch.
Here she talks about her career, how diving makes a difference in her life, and why juggling everything doesn't work.
Valerie Schneider, PhD
Always biology
A love of genetics and biology presented themselves early. Schneider recalled as a child enjoying seeing cicada wings under a microscope, studying Gregor Mendel, and creating Punnett squares. Naturally, she would major in biology.
At Cornell University, Schneider had access to an array of biology classes. When she was introduced to the field of developmental biology and specifically embryology, it was "the coolest thing."
For Schneider, "Development is a natural read-out for understanding genes: perturb a gene or gene interactions and you can often see the impact on the macromolecular level."
Upon graduating in 1994, Schneider had options.
"At Cornell, there were three basic paths for biology majors if you were going to stay in the field: med school, vet school, and…the research path," she explained.
Research won out, primarily because she realized that she wanted to learn even more about biology.
She applied to universities everywhere from Seattle to Boston and ultimately decided upon the PhD program at Harvard Medical School. "When you look at Harvard from the outside, you have this notion of what it must be like, and it was completely not like that," said Schneider. "There was amazing research going on, and the people were down to earth and super friendly."
She fit right in.
She studied Xenopus laevis, also known as the African clawed frog, which had embryos that were perfect for studying early development. The large size and minimal culture needs of frog embryos made it possible to perform all types of experiments that altered the typical developmental program. By using microinjections to perturb gene expression and an eyelash knife to do embryonic surgeries, she could learn how different parts of the embryo interacted to give rise to a head or heart.
Fate and a fish
She might have kept studying Xenopus laevis as a postdoc, but fate and a fish intervened.
In 2001, her husband accepted a position in the Philadelphia area, and the University of Pennsylvania had an opening in a lab that was using the zebrafish as a model system.
Looking back she said, "It was fortuitous because in the late '90s, zebrafish as a model organism took off when Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, who had won the Nobel Prize for her work in fruit flies, decided to develop zebrafish as a model system for developmental biology.
"Working with zebrafish brought me back to that first love I had of genetics, because, while frogs were amazing for doing development work, as a model organism for genetics, they have complexities with their chromosomes that make doing genetics really hard."
She was doing both developmental biology and genetics.
"It was the best of both worlds."
Her work also aligned with what was going on in the greater scientific world.
"The Human Genome Project had released their draft version about 2001 when I got started," she said. "As I was cloning this gene in zebrafish, there wasn't a complete zebrafish genome yet, but there was a zebrafish genome project."
But what was next?
When her postdoc was over in 2007, Schneider had to wonder, "What's next?"
She could become a principal investigator. She could take a position in industry. She could teach. Or she could leave the field entirely.
She went on "the faculty market" and was offered a tenure track faculty position.
Unsure of what to do on the day of the faculty interview, she drove to the dive shop.
When she's not working, Valerie Schneider is a certified scuba diving instructor and loves to explore "the other three-quarters of the planet."
As a certified scuba diving instructor, she had developed friendships with people who shared her passion for being underwater. They were electricians, plumbers, accountants, and paralegals, but they were not biologists. They were people who reminded her that there was more to life than biology.
The trip to the dive shop helped Schneider see her situation more clearly. She should look at other options.
Coincidentally at that time, NCBI was hiring more scientists.
She explained, "By 2007, the Human Genome Project was moving into a new phase, and NCBI, which had been playing a role in a lot of the data management for the Genome Project, had joined this consortium to continue improving the reference. Just as I was finishing up my postdoc, there was a call for people to come curate the genome."
She was intrigued.
But her post-doc professor wasn't sure. He told her, "You're going to really miss the lab."
And yet some things she wouldn't miss. "I didn't want to spend my time writing for grants and stressing if I didn't get funding. This had a huge appeal to me," she said. And working at NCBI would mean that she'd be able to find the time to dive while still pursuing her interest in genetics.
Still, she wavered.
The leap from academia to government felt huge. "Stepping away from the bench into a bioinformatics environment would be quite a shift. I didn't doubt I could do it—but did I want it?"
She did.
Diving in at NCBI
"I loved the lab—and still do—but what was more important to me was the scientific question and the process of getting an answer regardless of the specific topic, as long as it was good science and an interesting topic. It was sort of an alignment of the stars or whatever that NCBI was looking for genome curators and a favorite part of my post-doc work was the genome."
When she arrived on campus 10 years ago, NCBI was focused on curating the human genome.
"This meant working a lot with the developers to figure out what kind of software tools we needed to manage the genome and what kind of database structures we would need," said Schneider.
It helped that she had a mentor.
A mentor makes a difference
"I had an absolutely fantastic mentor when I started here. Deanna Church pushed me in lots of areas," said Schneider. "After I'd been here a couple of years, she encouraged me to take the lead on a complete overhaul of NCBI's Clone database."
She was up for it.
Then in 2013, Church left NCBI—and Schneider inherited a broad range of genome-associated tools and displays.
She called her mentor.
Advice to remember
"I remember saying, 'Oh my gosh, there's so much going on and I have so many balls in the air,'" said Schneider. "I never forgot Deanna's advice. She said, 'You know what you learn in this job is not to be a perfect juggler; it's knowing which balls you can let bounce. It's prioritizing and understanding priorities and the dependencies between things.'"
Today as the program head for the Sequence Tools and Displays section (SeqView) in the Information Engineering Branch, Schneider still relies on that advice.
Only now, instead of focusing on each and every development task, she's constantly monitoring organizational-level priorities and dependencies for the businesses in her program, which include BLAST, sequence display and analysis tools, and public facing interfaces for many of NCBI's sequence databases.
"One of the things I love about this position is that I get a more holistic view of what's happening at NCBI and being able to develop relationships and build collaborations," she said.
Valerie Schneider discusses her research at a recent poster session.
And the challenging part?
"I think the challenging part is that we have a finite number of people and an infinite number of great ideas," she said. "Some things need to wait, and that's hard."
For example, she says, "Sometimes what's the highest value to the customer might clash with what's most scientifically interesting or technologically challenging. We've been doing some amazing engineering."
Communication and being a female scientist
"NCBI works well because we have this mix of backgrounds, but sometimes communication can be challenging," acknowledged Schneider. "It's not that we speak different languages; we think a little differently. What one group might perceive as easy, the other may know is not so straightforward."
In terms of gender, she said, "My perception of NCBI is that it's pretty balanced, but when you dig into specifics, you find that more of the biologists are women and more of the developers are men, which means that as a biologist working with the development team I might be the only woman in the room even though there a lot of women in NCBI."
No matter whom she's meeting with, Schneider said, "I know I need to bring my A-game to the table." For her, this means being prepared and being fully present. It also means not hesitating to ask questions. "I think it's far worse to not ask the question and come out of a meeting or an interaction with someone completely lost," she explained.
She also advises speaking with confidence. "Someone else once told me that with large groups of people, speak as if you're the most confident person in the room," she said. "Don't be hesitant in the way that you present your opinion. And I found that to be good advice. Be strong and be open."
Diving deep—on land and sea
Part of the reason Schneider loves to dive is that "it's amazing to see the other three-quarters of the planet."
Part of the reason she enjoys being a scientific leader at NCBI is the opportunity to "really appreciate the breadth of knowledge that's here."
Whether she's submerging herself in work or water, this scientific adventurer keeps investigating.
By Kathryn McKay, NLM in Focus editor
April 30, 2019 in People. Tags: Women scientists
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Ray Harryhausen should have received top billing in this film, since his superb stop-action animation is the real star here. None of this nonsense about wise and benevolent aliens a la "The Day the Earth Stood Still"! Here, the aliens are nasty and mean business. The mass saucer attack on Washington is a classic scene; swiped by everything from "Independence Day" to a TV commercial for a nationwide chain of fast-food restaurants. Although the saucer's "magnetic propulsion" is scientific balderdash (Earth's magnetic field is just about strong enough to swing a compass needle.); still it's thrilling to see the military and the scientists racing around D.C. in 1-and-a-half ton trucks with diesel generators and "magnetic disruptor's" mounted on the truck beds. (They look a bit like an out-sized Maxim machine gun.) When these are fired at an alien ship, it starts to wobble wildly until it falls and crashes. At one point, a saucer lands on the White House lawn in an attempt to kill or capture the President (Eisenhower) (gasp!) The aliens step out clad in silver spacesuits that act as powered exoskeletons that enable them to walk while under Earth's gravity. Fortunately, these are magnetically powered like their ships and Hugh Marlowe (who played Patricia Neal's lunkhead boyfriend in "The Day the Earth Stood Still") arrives on the scene with one of those disruptor's and drives them off.
There is an interesting scene earlier in the film where an alien is subdued and the helmet wrenched off of his suit. Before crumbling to dust in our atmosphere, you can see out-sized black eyes, no nose, and a slit-like mouth set in a light-bulb shaped head. I didn't think this idea of an alien occurred to anybody until the 1970's.
Despite perfunctory acting and scientific howlers, this movie is still endearing, not only for the fine special effects (CGI is a bit too slick for me.), but also for an innocence that would soon be lost. For the following year after this film was made, the Soviet Union would shock America by launching the first artificial satellite (Sputnik I) into Earth orbit using the first ICBM. This meant that the Soviets could launch a nuclear warhead at the United States. From then until the Cuban Missile Crisis persuaded both sides to back down from hair-trigger postures, fears of nuclear war would put possible interplanetary war very much in the shade


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