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Coordinator Rod Marinelli has always professed his adoration for the position of defensive tackle – or "under tackle" in Marinelli parlance. In the Cover 2, pressure from the front four is crucial, thus allowing linebackers to stay back and man their zones.
When the team has a quality under tackle that can put pressure on the quarterback up the middle, things start to open up on the edges. Julius Peppers was able to perform at a Pro-Bowl level with essentially no interior pass rush. Imagine what he could do if he had a teammate that could consistently get pressure up the gut.
Tommie Harris used to be that player, but his stay with Chicago is over. Anthony Adams is a solid run stopper, as is Matt Toeaina, but neither can disrupt passing plays all that often. Chicago needs a pure 3-technique tackle that can get in the quarterback's face on a regular basis.
The Bears are hoping Henry Melton continues his progression from last season, when he scored 2.5 sacks in limited duty as a 3rd down rusher. As of now he's the best pass-rushing tackle on the team, and if he continues to progress, he'll make a solid member of the rotation. He could be one of the key players for the defense next season.
Marcus Harrison will be given another shot at playing time in training camp, but he lacks effort at times, something Marinelli will not abide by for long. It seems as if Chicago's needs at defensive tackle will only be met by bringing in a fresh face from the draft or free agency.
The draft is loaded with quality defensive tackles – we'll touch on that next week. Unfortunately, the D-tackle free agent class is devoid of many playmakers. The two biggest names, Haloti Ngata and Paul Soliali, were franchised by the Ravens and Dolphins respectively. Free agency may not be the best place for the Bears to find the next big-play defensive tackle. But if they choose to go that route, here are three players considered to be at the top of the class.
DT Brandon Mebane
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Brandon Mebane, 26, Seattle Seahawks
The Seahawks have made it clear they want Mebane back, but the two sides have been unable to reach a contract agreement up to this point. Mebane will attract plenty of attention on the open market, so it's likely he'll test the free agent waters.
The 6-1, 311-pounder's best asset is his quickness. He's not overly powerful, although he's very good at holding his ground in the run game. But he makes up for it with his feet and his ability to read blocking schemes. He has great initial quickness and a good first step. He only had 2.5 sacks the last two seasons combined but that could be more due to the team he played with. In 2008, he had 5.5 sacks.
Mebane is about as solid as they come and would fit in perfectly with the Bears' 4-3. Of all the defensive tackles available, he's the player Chicago should pursue. He won't come cheap, but if the under tackle is as important as Marinelli says it is, then it would be money well spent.
Barry Cofield, 27, New York Giants
Cofield is a very big man. At 6-4, 306-pounds, he's a space eater who is solid against the run. He's not always great in pursuit but if you try to run right at him, more often than not, you will fail.
Signing Cofield would only make sense if Anthony Adams chooses not to come back. The two play a very similar style of football. Yet Cofield is four years younger. If Adams' agent tries to force Chicago to overpay for his services, the backup plan should include taking a run at Cofield.
Cullen Jenkins, 30, Green Bay Packers
Now here is an interesting option. Jenkins has said he's 99 percent sure he'll not be in a Packers uniform next year. He played defensive end in the Packers 3-4, but he has the first step quickness and size (6-2, 305-pounds) to play the under tackle.
He is great against the run and can be a very good rusher at times. Last season, he had 7 sacks in only 11 games. He could be a disruptive force in the middle for Chicago.
Yet there is two reasons Jenkins is a risky pickup. First off, his production last season was tied to the play of Clay Matthews, who was fourth in the NFL with 13.5 sacks. Secondly, Jenkins has never had more than 4.5 sacks in any season except for the two in which he was playing for a new contract. If he's the Adrian Beltre of football, then the Bears might be wise to let him, and the big contract he's pursuing, go elsewhere.
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From a rooftop terrace you can see the Castello della Bellaguardia, also known as Castello di Giulietta, and the Castello della Villa, also known as Castello di Romeo, squaring up to each other across the hilltop town of Montecchio Maggiore (although the link with Shakespeare's bad-luck lovers and warring clans is tenuous). But below it is a dull stretch of flat farmland, light-industrial sheds and the busy autostrade from Venice, an hour's drive to the east, and Milan, two hours in the opposite direction.
Bottega Veneta's new atelier, Montebello Vicentino, in the middle of this plain, is a rare beauty. A restored 19th-century villa with an agricultural annex, it has been converted and extended to create a clinically clean new home for its 100 or so in-house craftsmen and craftswomen, and 200 support staff. More cool hi-tech campus than dark, satanic workshop, it is a modern-day restatement of the beautifully-made-in-Italy artisanal promise, in glass and bleached FSC-certified pine topped with 12,900 sq ft of solar panels. The company calls it "an incredible vitrine for the craftsmanship, creativity and of course identity of Bottega Veneta". And although this is an atelier, not a production site proper (only prototypes and samples are crafted here), you can see the new facility, set in 590,000 sq ft of spruced-up historical parkland, as the anti-sweatshop, with whiter-than-white-collar working conditions for cutters, weavers and stitch-up artists.
Opened last September, after almost seven years of planning and consultation with Bottega Veneta employees, the new atelier is designed to sit lightly on the land with environmental credentials far beyond the call of duty, even in the age of good corporate citizenship. Automatic dimmer switches react to natural daylight levels, saving on energy consumption, and an underwater reservoir cuts water usage by 40 per cent. Construction was local and sustainable. More than 75 per cent of the original building was restored, and recycled materials were used in the additions. All the woods used came from sustainably managed forests, and local suppliers and contractors were employed whenever possible.
Bottega is fully expecting the new complex to be given Platinum LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification this April. If it happens, the atelier will be the first building in the fashion and luxury sector to be awarded architecture's most-wanted seal of approval.
The atelier houses a 6,000 sq ft cafeteria offering free lunches. And every one of the atelier's employees received a €1,000 pay rise after the move, to compensate for any increase in their travel time. It also includes a home for the Scuola della Pelletteria, established in 2006. Here Bottega Veneta hopes to train the next generation of craftsmen, who complete three-year courses in the classroom before they are let anywhere near the atelier proper. For an operation that was facing extinction 12 years ago, Bottega Veneta displays remarkable rude health, ambition and a very proper and particular way of doing things in Montebello Vicentino.
Bottega Veneta was established in Vicenza in 1966. The area was already known for its leatherwork, and the company employed local craftsmen. It concentrated on bags and accessories, and its trademark was a new criss-cross weaving technique called intrecciato. The company was also an early champion of designer discretion and stealth wealth. Its motto, when your own initials are enough, is a clear swipe at competitors promising status by borrowed monogram.
Bottega was a brand to be reckoned with in the 1970s and 80s. Jackie Onassis shopped at the Madison Avenue store, and Andy Warhol directed a promotional video. By the end of the century, though, it was in trouble. Discretion was proving a tough sell, and in 1998 they recruited the young British designer Giles Deacon and the stylist Katie Grand to liven things up. This they did, introducing leather hoodies, lizard-skin headphones and short skirts appliquéd with pornographic imagery, earning a lot of press attention in the process. It did little to boost sales, though, and in February 2001, a matter of months away from bankruptcy, the company was bought for $156 million by what was then PPR and is now the Kering luxury group. In June that year the German designer Tomas Maier, who had built a reputation working freelance for companies such as Hermès and launched his own label in 1999, got a call asking him to take creative control at Bottega Veneta. Maier accepted the challenge but insisted that his control be total. He would oversee not only product design but also store design and advertising imagery. (Maier maintains this total authorial control; even though 50-odd architecture firms were involved in the design of the atelier, Maier, whose father was an architect, has the final credit – there is no space for a Zaha- or Rem-sized ego here.)
Sharply reversing Deacon's high-vis strategy, Maier also insisted that the brand would do no advertising during his first year and that he would do no interviews. When the brand did start advertising, Maier looked outside fashion's usual pool of photographic talent. Each year a different photographer has shot the brand's campaign, and the list of the favoured includes Sam Taylor-Johnson, Stephen Shore, Tina Barney, Nan Goldin and this year, the South African photographer Pieter Hugo.
Discretion was very much back on the agenda, and one of Maier's first moves was to create the Cabat, essentially a logo-free woven leather tote bag that has become the brand's totem product. The bag is entirely handmade, and it takes a skilled leather worker two days to produce each one – which goes some way to explaining its limited availability and small-car price tag. (The "archive" rooms at Montebello Vicentino, a mini private museum, have long tables artfully crammed with special edition Cabats, produced in all manner of leathers and with extra layers of artisanal trickery. Another room includes a selection of the small and fussier Knot bag.)
Since Maier's arrival, Bottega Veneta has added fragrances, fine jewellery, watches, furniture and home accessories to its range. It has all worked a treat. Sales have increased from €35 million when Maier signed up to almost €1 billion. And the good times keep rolling. Third-quarter results for 2013 showed sales up 18 per cent on the previous year. Maier's strategy has been to stretch the company's artisanal skill-set. He has said that when he arrived, "the artisans, Bottega Veneta's more valuable resource, were under-utilised and bored". Not any more. The product, and the craftsmanship behind it, rather than marketing or press-friendly showstoppers, is now right at the heart of the company's appeal.
Bottega's success is based on luxurious materials and what the artisans can do with them. The atelier has racks of the finest leathers, from Italy, Spain and France. And kept under lock and key there are precious €500-1,000 skins such as ostrich, python and crocodile. They have all been given the seal of approval by CITES, the international convention that proscribes the trade in animal skins, among other things.
The design process requires constant back-and-forth conversations between the sample makers in the atelier, and Maier and his team in New York. New material treatments are devised, new shapes conceived. The sample makers, working in teams of two, a junior and a senior, keep going until they get the design to work to Maier's satisfaction. The aim is an elegance and honesty of construction. Maier has the minimalist's obsession with fine details of precisely engineered and finished simplicity. He demands a world without creases and seams and unsightly joins. This is what the craftsmen at the atelier give him, however long it takes. The fully worked out designs then go on to computer before being sent out to the many and various workshops dotted around the area, which make what gets into Bottega's stores and stockists across the world. About 70 per cent of Bottega's production is in the Veneto, the rest in Tuscany and Naples. (Some product categories are produced in collaboration with other companies if Bottega does not have the required expertise. It works with Poltrona Frau on furniture, Girard-Perregaux on watches, Victor Mayer on fine jewellery and Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur on porcelain.) Twenty-five quality controllers based at the atelier patrol these local workshops, checking that things are done properly, and all products come back to the atelier before being shipped out.
Over the past two years Bottega has also become increasingly "vertical". Almost 40 per cent of production is now internalised, turned out by makers that Bottega owns or part owns. And it is these makers who are charged with producing the most difficult designs. Bottega is also planning to buy tanneries, to ensure quality and exclusivity. It recently helped to set up a women workers' co-op, training and equipping a group of local textile workers cut loose after the financial crisis. It began with 18 workers, now there are more than 70, all working exclusively for Bottega. As the luxury goods market gets ever more concerned with material, finish and craftsmanship, even in newer markets such as China, a brand like Bottega has to protect its assets.
If the atelier is where Bottega's blessed elves make magical things, then Via Sant'Andrea 15, prime real estate in Milan's glitzy little island of excess, is its new enchanted castle. Opened last September, just as the atelier became fully operational, the new "maison" is housed in what was the late Gianfranco Ferré's flagship store. Bottega's entire product range is showcased across 11,400 sq ft on two floors, often in custom-built vitrines, but there isn't much of it. It feels that way, anyway. Designed, of course, by Maier, there is Venetian terrazzo marble and Wilton wool carpets, suede walls and large windows at the rear opening on to a courtyard and fountain. This is an imposing 18th-century home, re-imagined as a grand 21st-century home, comfortable armchairs and all. Later this year another maison, of similar scale and intent, is opening in New York. Here it is all airy elegance, but just round the corner at Via Montenapoleone 5, a small, dark and handsome Bottega store looks relatively bustling and a little tired. If the maison is the new flagship, this is part of the 230-strong fleet of stores that now chugs away in its wake.
While the maison and the atelier bear Maier's creative signature, it is Marco Bizzarri, Bottega Veneta's CEO since 2009, who signs the cheques to pay for them. Based in Bottega's HQ in a part of the city never troubled by tourists or Chinese super-shoppers, Bizzarri, 51, is tall, tanned, bald and affable. And with Bottega sales rising 150 per cent since his arrival, he is seen as one the sharpest operators in the luxury goods world. For Bizzarri the logic of the investment in the new atelier was clear. "The values of Bottega start with the product," he says. "It is not a marketing-driven company; the product is the centre of everything. And who creates the product? Of course there is the creative vision of Tomas Maier, but then there is the collaboration with the artisans. Your real asset is your team of people."
Bizzarri understands that the new building is a good story. But that story, of a commitment to craftsmanship, is one that many luxury brands now want to tell and sell. "Before the crisis of 2008, luxury was very much logo-driven, show-off driven. We were really the only ones pushing artisanship and craftsmanship," Bizzarri says. "Bottega was very niche. And then after the crisis, everyone became a craftsman. It went from being all about celebrity to being all about artisanship. This is nothing new. In 1932, after the Wall Street crash, Coco Chanel was saying exactly the same thing as we are saying today. As soon as you have a crisis, the customer buys less but buys better. The angle shifts completely."
For Bizzarri, though, the atelier is mostly about a particular place and its people. "The Made in Italy promise is empty if not for the people," he says. "It's not just a label, it's about the transmission of knowledge from person to person – you go back to the idea of the master and the student. I think that there are other artisans who are as good as the ones in Bottega but they are the only ones who are able to make Bottega things properly."


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Mark "Buzz" Kramer is gainfully employed as a stunt pilot when a fire nearly destroys the circus where he performs. Because of his prior military service, Kramer is soon offered a job in Afghanistan by his old friend, Harry Whitecliff.
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Meanwhile, psychopathic killer, Colonel Von Schroeden, holds Kimberly and several others hostage at an old mission. With Harry at his side, Buzz must now devise a plan to attack and defeat more than five-hundred Shadow Men with only "The Bee," one old steamroller, some inner-tubes, and two shotguns—all of them manned mostly by young girls.
"It's not often that a writer can deliver a work of fiction that is saturated throughout with historical facts," said Kathie McGuire, director of Brighton Publishing LLC. "Mr. Krewson pens a masterful plot, with toe-curling twists that will absolutely get your blood pumping."
Martin Krewson's long and varied career includes everything from sculpting life-size wax figures, to working as a barker for the Royal American Carnival. Mr. Krewson has worked as a pilot, photographer for the Defense Department, a historical consultant, gun wrangler, and certified pyro-technician for several movies. Always the adventurer, Mr. Krewson has prospected for gold, searched for lost treasure, and was chief executive of a gold mining operation. He now spends his time as owner of Odin Arms, Ltd., a nationally known gunsmithing operation.
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Lawmakers also allocated $26.9 million for automating the retirement recordkeeping system.Transportation DepartmentDOT's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will receive $25 million for its commercial vehicle information systems and networks deployment program, $5 million for a performance and registration information system management program, and $8 million for commercial driver's license information modernization program.
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The Chelsea chop stems from the famous flower show: any plants that hadn't made the grade would get a hard haircut, prompting a new flush of growth and, with luck, flowers. Thus something that was spent became sellable. It's a good trick and can be employed for all sorts of perennials. It's easy to remember, too: once Chelsea is over, start the chop.
There are a number of benefits to chopping back. Spring-flowering perennials can be persuaded to have another go – pulmonarias and Siberian bugloss (Brunnera macrophylla) are good examples. As long as the plant hasn't set seed (and this is key), it will flush with new leaves and try to flower again. Bergenias that have just finished flowering can be given a similar haircut. Have a go with wallflowers (both the normal biennials and the perennial 'Bowles's Mauve'). Be hard but kind: follow with a good soak and a little feed or mulch.
Chop back now to limit overall height and manipulate plants into a compact, bushier shape that is less likely to flop at the end of summer. Choose late-flowering perennials for this method. If you were to attack something that wants to flower in June, it's likely to sulk, and though it would recover, you'd miss out on flowers altogether. However, plants that flower in August and September have plenty of time to reboot. In fact, for these plants a light chop now is no different from being munched by a herbivore.
Plants that respond best to such treatments tend to be prairie or meadow plants that have evolved to be eaten at some point. Heleniums, asters, eupatorium, rudbeckias, echinacea, sedums and the milky bellflower (Campanula lactiflora) are ideal.
Chop back by a third, though take the tallest back to half. The harder you chop, the smaller the flowers, though you often get more flowers as a result. It does involve some experimentation – soil, aspect and rainfall will all affect regrowth.
You can't go wrong with sedums, either ice plants (Sedum spectabile) or orpine (S. telelphium). Pinch both back by half and the result is a sturdier plant that won't flop to show its unsightly middle. Likewise Phlox paniculata responds well to being cut back by a third.
Be pretty brutal about it and use shears if you've got large spaces to tackle, or carefully snip through: the results tend to look identical. Or get fancy and try a layered look, cutting the front of the clump lower than the back, effectively making the plant stake itself.


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The fundamental difference between OSGi versioning and Ivy (or Maven) versioning is that OSGi uses package-versioning: Import-Package: org.apache.log4j; version="[1.2.15,1.3)" whereas Ivy uses artifact-versioning: <dependency org="org.apache.log4j" name="com.springsource.org.apache.log4j" rev="1.2.15" /> (OSGi also supports bundle-versioning, but it is not generally considered good practice to use it: Import-Bundle: com.springsource.org.apache.log4j; version="[1.2.15,1.2.15]") This typically means that you have to specify your dependencies twice: - first at build-time, using artifact versions - again at run-time using package versions (in the bundle manifest) The Apache Felix Sigil project ( http://felix.apache.org/site/apache-felix-sigil.html) provides an Ivy integration with OBR repositories. (It also provides Eclipse IDE integration, but the Ivy integration can be used separately). Sigil provides a custom Ivy parser and Ivy resolver which transparently augment the artifact dependencies in ivy.xml by resolving OSGi Import-Package dependencies against OBR repositories. This means that typically you don't need to explicitly list any artifact dependencies in ivy.xml, as they are automatically determined by Sigil from the Import-Package dependencies. Sigil also includes an Ant "bundle" task, which builds the actual OSGi bundles, using bndlib. -- Derek On 20 July 2010 18:53, Shawn Castrianni <email@example.com>wrote: > Has anybody researched the relationship between OSGI and IVY? I have a > large build system running on IVY and is working great. However, > development wants to move towards an OSGI runtime framework which impacts > how the modules are built. I am trying to figure out how I can merge in > OSGI bundle creation with my IVY based build system. > > I am finding that the dependency mechanism and publish mechanism in OSGI is > fighting with the same concepts in IVY. Therefore, I am not making any > progress on this OSGI project. > > Has anybody spent any time researching OSGI and have any thoughts on it in > relation to IVY? > > --- > Shawn Castrianni > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and > privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any > review, use, distribution, or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. > If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information > for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and > delete all copies of this message. >
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The DOE Funding Recipients
I am so far behind on the things that I have been intending to write. It is hard to believe that it has already been over a week since the most recent US DOE biorefinery grants were announced. I have been meaning to list them and comment, but I have finally decided just to list them without too much comment. Let's just say that some of these names have been around for a while and have issued a lot of press releases, but they haven't produced any biofuel.
The reason for keeping my comments to a minimum is that I have potential conflicts of one sort or another with several of these companies or projects. Sometimes it is just that I know some of the people involved; in other cases it is more complicated than that. But I don't want to be accused of possible conflicts of interest by getting into some of the names/technologies that I am surprised to see listed. I know that there were also a number of high profile companies (i.e., they issue a lot of press releases) who did not make the cut.
It is probably worth a future post to check into the six prospective cellulosic ethanol plants funded by the DOE in February 2007 (see the list at the bottom of my post here). As far as I know only one – Broin/POET – has completed a project from those funds that is producing cellulosic ethanol.
Below is the list of recent award recipients, from A(lgenol) to Z(eachem), as compiled by Biofuels Digest (the list/description is verbatim from the DOE announcement, but the original DOE link is offline right now). I embedded links to all of the companies. There were nineteen projects awarded, for a grant total of up to $564 million.
And if you ever wondered how the DOE determines the winners and losers, the New York Times did an interesting story on that a few days ago:
How DOE Dealt With a 'Tsunami' of Clean-Tech Applicants
The outpouring of grants — and the preponderance of unsuccessful applicants — has stirred curiosity and some complaints over the DOE rating process.
The review involved a series of screening steps that included technology capability, job creation, likelihood of success, and ability to generate matching funds, DOE says.
Rogers was asked whether DOE would make public the winners' applications and the review teams' analysis, to shed more light on the decision-making.
"Our plan is not to make that public. First off, all of the [private-sector] reviewers are doing this as a matter of public service, and we don't need to draw them into getting interviewed about every application."
The Winners
Bluefire Ethanol
DOE Grant: $81,134,686
Non-fed funding: $223,227,314
Fulton, MS: This project will construct a facility that produces ethanol fuel from woody biomass, mill residue, and sorted municipal solid waste. The facility will have the capacity to produce 19 million gallons of ethanol per year.
Demonstration Scale
BioEnergy International
DOE Grant: $50,000,000
Non-fed funding: $89,589,188
Lake Providence, LA: This project will biologically produce succinic acid from sorghum. The process being developed displaces petroleum based feedstocks and uses less energy per ton of succinic acid produced than its petroleum counterpart.
DOE Grant: $50,000,000
Non-fed funding: $90,470,217
Pontotoc, MS: This project will be sited at an existing landfill and use feedstocks such as woody biomass and biomass removed from municipal solid waste to produce ethanol and other green chemicals through gasification and catalytic processes.
INEOS New Planet BioEnergy
DOE Grant: $50,000,000
Non-fed funding: $50,000,000
Vero Beach, FL: This project will produce ethanol and electricity from wood and vegetative residues and construction and demolition materials. The facility will combine biomass gasification and fermentation, and will have the capacity to produce 8 million gallons of ethanol and 2 megawatts of electricity per year by the end of 2011.
Sapphire Energy
DOE Grant: $50,000,000
Non-fed funding: $85,064,206
Columbus, NM: This project will cultivate algae in ponds that will ultimately be converted into green fuels, such as jet fuel and diesel, using the Dynamic Fuels refining process.
Pilot and Demonstration Scale FOA – Pilot Scale
Algenol Biofuels
DOE grant: $25,000,000
Other funding: $33,915,478
Freeport, TX: This project will make ethanol directly from carbon dioxide and seawater using algae. The facility will have the capacity to produce 100,000 gallons of fuel grade ethanol per year.
American Process
DOE grant: $17,944,902
Other funding: $10,148,508
Alpena, MI: This project will produce fuel and potassium acetate, a compound with many industrial applications, using processed wood generated by Decorative Panels International, an existing hardboard manufacturing facility in Alpena. The pilot plant will have the capacity to produce up to 890,000 gallons of ethanol and 690,000 gallons of potassium acetate per year starting in 2011.
Amyris Biotechnologies
DOE grant: $25,000,000
Other funding: $10,489,763
Emeryville, CA: This project will produce a diesel substitute through the fermentation of sweet sorghum. The pilot plant will also have the capacity to co-produce lubricants, polymers, and other petro-chemical substitutes.
Archer Daniels Midland
DOE funding: $24,834,592
Other funding: $10,946,609
Decatur, IL: This project will use acid to break down biomass which can be converted to liquid fuels or energy. The ADM facility will produce ethanol and ethyl acrylate, a compound used to make a variety of materials, and will also recover minerals and salts from the biomass that can then be returned to the soil.
Clearfuels Technology
DOE funding: $23,000,000
Other funding: $13,433,926
Commerce City, CO: This project will produce renewable diesel and jet fuel from woody biomass by integrating ClearFuels' and Rentech's conversion technologies. The facility will also evaluate the conversion of bagasse and biomass mixtures to fuels.
Elevance Renewable Sciences
DOE funding: $2,500,000
Non-Fed funding: $625,000
Newton IA: This project was selected to complete preliminary engineering design for a future facility producing jet fuel, renewable diesel substitutes, and high value chemicals from plant oils and poultry fat.
Gas Technology Institute
DOE funding: $2,500,000
Non-Fed funding: $625,000
Des Plaines, IL. This project was selected to complete preliminary engineering design for a novel process to produce green gasoline and diesel from woody biomass, agricultural residues, and algae.
Haldor Topsoe
DOE funding: $25,000,000
Non-Fed funding: $9,701,468
Des Plaines, IL. This project will convert wood to green gasoline by fully integrating and optimizing a multi?step gasification process. The pilot plant will have the capacity to process 21 metric tons of feedstock per day.
DOE funding: $25,000,000
Non-Fed funding: $6,268,136
St. Joseph, MO. This project will modify an existing corn ethanol facility to produce cellulosic ethanol from switchgrass and energy sorghum using biochemical conversion processes.
Logos Technologies
DOE funding: $20,445,849
Non-Fed funding: $5,113,962
Visalia, CA. This project will convert switchgrass and woody biomass into ethanol using a biochemical conversion processes.
Renewable Energy Institute International
DOE funding: $19,980,930
Non-Fed funding: $5,116,072
Toledo, OH. This project will produce high quality green diesel from agriculture and forest residues using advanced pyrolysis and steam reforming. The pilot plant will have the capacity to process 25 dry tons of feedstock per day.
DOE funding: $21,765,738
Non-Fed funding: $3,857,111
Riverside PA. This project will validate the projected economics of a commercial scale biorefinery producing multiple advanced biofuels. This project will produce algae oil that can be converted to oil based fuels.
Honeywell's UOP
DOE funding: $25,000,000
Non-Fed funding: $6,685,340
Kapolei, HI. This project will integrate existing technology from Ensyn and UOP to produce green gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel from agricultural residue, woody biomass, dedicated energy crops, and algae.
DOE funding: $25,000,000
Non-Fed funding: $625,000
Boardman, OR: This project will use purpose grown hybrid poplar trees to produce fuel-grade ethanol using hybrid technology. Additional feedstocks such as agricultural residues and energy crops will also be evaluated in the pilot plant.
Slides from the Pacific Rim Summit
I am hopping on a plane again today, this time bound for the Orlando Energy Conference. The topic I will present is An Overview of Global Energy Issues. Good thing they asked for something easy and non-controversial. 🙂
This is the last trip I have scheduled for this year, and I am hoping not to have to travel again for a while. Following Orlando, I will spend a few days at the family farm in Oklahoma, where Internet access has yet to make an appearance. Therefore, I will be slow to return e-mails and respond to comments. If all goes according to plan I will be back in Hawaii on November 21st (after having missed my wife's birthday for the 4th consecutive year).
I quite enjoyed the presentations at the Pacific Rim Summit. I got to talk to a lot of people about what they were doing, and I got to hear the latest from the algae and cellulosic ethanol camps. With the exception of the guys doing algae fermentations, the mood wasn't great as the challenges of turning cellulose into ethanol and algae into fuel start to manifest themselves. Like I have said before, we have been trying to commercially make ethanol from cellulose for 100 years. There were multiple panels going on simultaneously, though, and I didn't get to see all of them. Maybe the news in some of the other panels was better.
Then there is Joule Biotechnologies. They gave one of the talks at lunch one day. To say people are skeptical is an understatement. I don't really know what to make of them. I can't find enough information yet to give them a really thorough critique, but I am not a big fan of issuing press releases following lab tests. Note that they haven't yet advanced to pilot scale (that comment came out during the talk – that they were moving toward piloting), and they are already making pretty bold claims about yield, cost, and solving the energy crisis. Personally, I think I would wait to see how these things scale. As one cellulosic ethanol executive commented this past week, "These things don't scale like you think they should." That's right, they don't. That's why most technologies don't make it out of the lab. Always better to make conservative claims and then deliver beyond expectations than to make wild claims and fall short.
Anyway, here are the slides I presented at the Pacific Rim Summit. There is some overlap with what I presented at the First Nations' Futures Program at Stanford University on September 27th, but there are a number of new slides there.
At some point I will probably write some posts around the theme of these slides, throwing in my notes pages to put the slides in context. To put these slides in some sort of context, here were three of the slides and the notes I had jotted down for them. From the Outline slide:
We have talked a lot about sustainability this week. I must have heard that word a few dozen times the past couple of days. So who in here lives sustainably? We don't, and our parents didn't. Some of our grandparents may have, but for the most part they didn't either. As a society, it has been a very long time since we lived sustainably.
So, why is it important then? I once had a friend say "There really is no need to worry too much about sustainability. Mother Nature will ultimately resolve the problem." The problem with that statement is that I might not like how Mother Nature solves the problem. Hence, it is important to move toward sustainability voluntarily.
From the Coming to Grips slide:
I am presently reading Big Coal by Jeff Goodell. Jeff opens with a comment that I think captures the nature of the problem we face. When we go to the gas station or turn on a light switch, we don't have to face the consequences of our dependence – the externalities. The consequences are there nonetheless, as Pat Gruber of Gevo noted yesterday when he said "There's mercury in our fish, and I don't like that."
Our actions have consequences. Who said that? My oldest son can tell you. He hears that all the time, because he doesn't always connect the fact that when he takes certain actions, sometimes there are bad consequences. The difference between him and the person filling up with gas is he does get to face them immediately.
I also don't know who said that last one – Deal with reality or reality will deal with you – but again it's like something I tell my kids. The future is coming whether you plan for it or not. If you plan for it, you tilt the odds in your favor.
From the slide My Paradigm:
We all view the world through a set of lenses. These are my lenses, and they shape my opinions. I know where we are, but I want to know where we are going to be in 3 , 5, 20 years from now. I believe that we will end up paying a lot more for oil than we do now. I often point out to people that consumers in Europe pay the equivalent of $250/bbl for oil. Thus, I believe the technologies will need to compete against a higher future oil price.
We are burning fossil fuels at an unsustainable rate, and we have gotten away with it for a century. We won't get away with it for another century.
As competition for biomass heats up, low-cost biomass is going to vanish. If your business model is based on tipping fees, then I don't believe that's a sustainable model. Jim Imbler from Zeachem commented yesterday that Macdonald's in San Francisco used to pay to have their waste grease hauled off. A lot of people starting making their own biodiesel, and now not only does MacDonald's charge for the grease, but the mob is stealing it. That's my long-term view of biomass, and that theme has been repeated all week. You better lock in your feedstock. You don't have the same luxury as an oil company to switch to a supplier halfway around the world. The energy density of biomass makes that proposition problematic.
Finally, those "renewable" solutions that are heavily dependent upon fossil fuels won't compete. More on that later.
Anyway, off to the airport now. Probably no new posts from me for a week.
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Less Than Human, finale
Reid waited for death, no longer afraid but now merely curious of his future. Would he enter into God's Kingdom and see Mama, her arms spread wide and her face split in her sunny grin? Would he see St. Peter, standing by the gates and waving folks in through the pearly gates? Or would it be like Mr. Landers said, where there wasn't a thing but darkness and where no one could even sense a thing?
If I'm in Heaven, I hope God lets Helena in, too,he thought.
The deafening staccato of gunfire drowned his senses, and when he opened his eyes, he was surprise to see the soldiers falling back, firing recklessly. They were bellowing at one another, and Reid sensed fear in their words.
Suddenly, one was hoisted into the air and tossed aside, shrieking horribly as he slammed into the fuselage of the crippled plane.
The battered patrol car plummeted out of the air, landing on top of a trio of fleeing men, crushing them before they had a chance to acknowledge their own doom.
Other soldiers fell to their knees, roaring and screeching, clutching the sides of their heads. One by one they went slack and collapsed.
Reid looked up.
Magnus stood, arms stretched wide am muscles tensed. His battered face was wrenched into darkness, his glowing eyes wide with brutal hatred.
The remining squad of soldiers cried out, horribly aware of their impending demise. Reid watched with sickened fascination. Their deaths came fast, but not lacking in pain.
Once the howls of the dying subsided, Reid struggled to sit upright. Excruciating pain stabbed all along his body. Exit wounds to half a dozen gunshots decorated his side, smudging his shirt in stupefying coloration of mud brown and deep crimson. He let out a shuddering breath.
"You are beyond help, subhuman," Magnus remarked. Reid expected the Celestial to smile at this proclamation, but he looked displeased.
"Helena…" Reid managed.
"Dead, I can sense it." Magnus spat. "She was innocent. Innocent like all of my brethren, save me." He looked in the direction of the destroyed Celestial craft, smoldering dark smoke across the horizon. "She wanted Tiberius to let me stay. She wanted me to go home, too. I could sense that Tiberius would have agreed to it, if not for his precious honor."
Reid coughed, and stared at the bloody phlegm on his hand. "I am sorry. I shouldn't have waved at the car." He tried to adjust his position and was seized by a fresh bolt of pain. In the distance, he thought he heard singing. "If I hadn't waved…"
"Peace, Reid," Magnus replied. "It wasn't you that drew these men here. That communicator set off a signal they could track. I warned them. They almost made it."
The singing seemed clearer, but Reid focused on Magnus. "I wish they hadn't done that, killing all the Celestials." He realized he was weeping, but not from the hurt. Sorrow was consuming him. "Mama told me that hate was for weak people. She said you gotta be strong to love people that's different from you. Was I strong, then?"
Magnus faced him, and Reid witnessed a smile cross the stoic Celestial's features. "Yes, Reid. Helena saw it. We all saw it."
Reid smiled. "I'm glad for that." He looked past the last hangar and saw Mama and Helena. They were laughing like old friends, and smiling so brightly with flowers in their hair. "Hey, there's Mama! And Helena! Ain't that something!"
Magnus nodded, blinking rapidly. "Yes, it is. Go to them, Reid."
Reid said nothing. His smile fell from his face.
Magnus was alone.
"You were always the strongest, Reid," Magnus said, his voice thick.
"The weak will get what's coming to them."


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The awakening and commensurate changes may have encountered some initial internal resistance, but that battle has been won: last year the firm was awarded Welsh newspaper the Western Mail's 'Small to Medium-Sized Law Firm of the Year Award', beating 23 other finalists. An advertising campaign tackling divorce head-on – with controversial titles such as 'Poison' and 'Escape' – also saw it nominated at The Law Society Gazette Centenary Awards for 'Best Marketing Campaign'. Turnover was £4.7m in 2002 and has almost doubled in two years.
But radical surgery was required for the firm to make such strides. As Hopkins says: "The first thing we had to sort out was morale. Career progression had stagnated. So we reappraised salary partner and associate promotions and last year made our first equity partner appointments for a long time. Motivation levels improved significantly."
Next up was communication. "We adopted a much more open approach," says Hopkins. "We went through a business planning exercise about 18 months ago. Brainstorming sessions included everyone to see how we could move forward." At the same time, the firm made what Hopkins sees as its most fundamental change: the appointment of three non-legal board members.
As Hopkins puts it: "We previously had support managers, but like a lot of law firms, the partners perhaps thought they could look after marketing, people management, IT and all the rest of it themselves. But the penny dropped that we needed to bring in experts in these areas – not to do the partners' work, but to provide expert, objective advice. This led to three support directors being appointed, in finance, human resources and marketing."
Hopkins is a convert to the idea of the 21st century law firm, epitomised both by his support directors and by his own undertaking of an MBA on a part-time basis. Indeed, the arrival of the support directors came just as he was completing his MBA. "Suddenly the firm had bags of energy, enthusiasm and management expertise at its disposal, with a strong team that can drive change," he says. "You can't change things on your own, but if you have a band of people with complementary skills, then change follows."
A PR campaign was also launched. "We see the 'LAC brand' as modern, professional, approachable," says Hopkins. "Every quarter the marketing director does a presentation to show what's been achieved."
Ongoing recruitment is underway, with prospective employees having to meet more than merely legal criteria. "Legal skills get you to the starting line, but you need good business skills as well," says Hopkins. The aim for the firm is to consolidate its position as a leading South Wales practice with plenty of work from the West Country. Hopkins says: "Lawyers are by nature quite reserved people, and we've had to overcome this. Change hasn't happened overnight, but we're on the way."
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This is the first biography of Stanley Spencer to be written with the full co-operation of Spencer's family, and access to his letters and diaries. Kenneth Pople's method is to advance biographically by examining the pictures in detail. His analysis demonstrates that there never was an artist for whom life and art were so much of a piece, and that without understanding Spencer's doings and circumstances, we have no hope of understanding the paintings. He reveals for the first time, for example, the complexity of Spencer's thinking behind his divorce of his first wife and life-long inspiration, Hilda, his marriage to his lesbian second wife, and his desperate attempts therafter to establish a menage a trois. Spencer was, as is well-known, born, brought up, and for the whole of his life rooted in the tiny community of Cookham on the Thames. The sense of place which is everywhere prevalent in Spencer's paintings is examined in this biography. This work integrates biography, analysis of paintings and extracts from Spencer's own writing.
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Stanley Spencer (1891-1959) has recently been recognized by a wide general public, as well as by art historians, as probably the greatest English painter of the twentieth century. His strange and thrilling settings of biblical and semi-biblical scenes, his grippingly realist portraits, his intense English landscapes, hang in pride of place in our national collections and fetch ever-escalating prices at auction. Although there have been many books about Spencer, Pople's biography is the first to give a thoroughly convincing and coherent account of the life and psyche of the man who produced these extraordinary pictures. Pople has not only had the co-operation of Spencer's daughters and remaining friends' he has had unrestricted access to the artist's letters, diaries and other writings, and has spent ten years unravelling the familiar but so often impenetrable mysteries we see on the canvas. His analysis demonstrates that there never was as artist for whom life and art were so much of a piece, and that without understanding Spencer's doings and circumstances, we have no hope of understanding his paintings.
"A thorough, well-researched study, essential reading for any admirer of Spencer's work. It is unlikely to be replaced for years to come."
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"Kenneth Pople's biography sets out to celebrate the scale and grandeur of Spencer's achievement…It is a fine appreciation and celebration of an English painter."
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"Stanley Spencer stands head and shoulders above his contemporaries, in the ambitiousness of his ideas, the originality of his imagery and the compositional wizardry with which he organised complex scenes…Pople's excellence lies in his close attention to and sympathy with, Spencer's ideas. He traces their evolution and shows how consistently they unfold in Spencer's art and unify his 'oeuvre'…This biography is a rich and absorbing read. In its understanding of Spencer's thought and character it is unlikely to be surpassed."
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"Kenneth Pople's admirable biography tells the story of Spencer's life through the pictures…By linking the narratives to the work, Pople is able to tie the details of marriages and love affairs to what justifies our interest – the paintings and drawings Spencer's imagination made from them."
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Maria: ShyMature
Whatever went through my mother's head was likely questionable, but then again I'm not sure I wanted to know. "Stop hiding inside! Go out and do something and get some fresh air. It's not healthy for someone to say inside forever..." And it sort of went on like that. I couldn't blame her actually since I've become rather unfriendly with people, or at least I think I have.
I walked slowly back from the party, a party I regretted telling my family about which lead me into going. To a party. With people I don't know. Did I ever tell my mother I'm shy?
Lynetta, who I think is a friend of my friend or something like that, invited me. This entire thing said "Bad idea, Maria." Why I never listen to myself will never be answered, but I went anyway only to leave as quickly as I came. There were too many people for my liking though it's not like I'm a loner. People say I'm very social...once I get to know someone, of course. What can I say? I'm shy around strangers; the type of shy that puts a mouse to shame. And that's why I hate going to parties, mainly Lynetta's parties.
Sighing, I caught sight of the beach on my way home and it was rather breathe taking at the moment. "Well, I guess I should hang around there until whenever," I muttered to one but myself.
As I changed my direction towards the beach, I noticed there were some people still around even though there was a party going on, but it wasn't until after a while of scanning the place did I realize that there was a girl coming out of a cab who I knew.
Annabel? Or was it just Anna? Oh yeah, her name was Beatrice but people called her Anna, strangely enough. I thought I heard Lynetta say something about inviting the girl to her party, but I didn't think she would show and yet she did. But she didn't stay long; not a party person I guess. Oh well, at least I could go talk to her.
And make decent conversation to person I barely know. Great, I'm anxious...but I need to meet people, right? That or stay locked up in the house forever.
"Hi..." I said even though my head was screaming: "Let the shyness start!"


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Berlin and Warsaw are locked in a political row over plans to appoint a German conservative MP accused of playing down Nazi war crimes to run a new museum dedicated to the plight of Germans forced out of eastern Europe after the Second World War.
The dispute, which threatens to jeopardise recently improved relations between the neighbours, centres on the figure of Erika Steinbach, a leading MP in Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling Christian Democratic Party and head of her country's Association of Expellee Germans. Mrs Steinbach has come to be regarded as a hate figure in Poland because of her support for the plight of 12.5 million of her countrymen who were kicked out of eastern Europe after 1945. She has been accused of playing down Nazi war crimes and of trying to portray German expellees as mere victims.
The 65-year-old blonde, Teutonic-looking politician has been ridiculed for her stance in the Polish press, with one leading magazine depicting her on its front cover in jackboots and a black Nazi SS uniform with Swastika armband.
Despite vociferous Polish protests, Mrs Steinbach has insisted on being given a senior post on the board of a new Berlin museum that will record the plight of German and other European expellees. She has the full backing of Germany's two million-strong expellees' association.
Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, Poland's special envoy on German affairs and a former foreign minister, summed up Warsaw's objections to Mrs Steinbach's planned appointment. "It is as if the Vatican had decided to give the Holocaust-denying Bishop [Richard] Williamson the task of overseeing its relations with Israel," he said.
Mrs Steinbach, who has in the past objected to Poland's EU membership and voted against recognition of its present-day border with Germany, was digging in her heels yesterday, accusing Poland of taking an "aggressive stand" against her nomination.
The row has become an embarrassment for Ms Merkel. Her government has gone out of its way to improve relations with Warsaw after enduring a disastrously acrimonious period which ended when the centre-right leader Donald Tusk became Prime Minister in late 2007.
Mr Tusk has told Ms Merkel that his government has reservations about the expellees museum and Mrs Steinbach, but looks at it from a "distanced but friendly" standpoint. The issue represents a tricky balancing act for Mrs Merkel.
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Hey guys,
Got a question that I know have been asked before because I have searched, but I think my problem is a little unique considering I have two Playstation 3's (mine and my fiancee's).
Her Playstation (Slim, 120GB) is upstairs, through concret walls, and a good, I don't know, 50 feet from the router. Mine (Phat, 80GB) is downstairs, in the same room, about 5 feet from my router, both are wireless connected.
I was going to download MLB11 The Show. After 3 hours and 3%, I gave up. Then, on Thursday the Map Pack for the worse game of the year came out, Black Ops. It took me from 6PM to 1AM to download them. It took hers 20 minutes. It took all of my friends 10~20 minutes as well, except one who lives out in the nolands and took him 6 hours.
There is my speed test. Although whenever I do a test on the PS3, it is far less than that, I never done a test on my fiancee's, but considering her downloads are faster, I imagine hers is higher, but I can go up and look if required.
So yeah, basically just wondering what I can do to fix this issue.
On more thing, I just turned on Netflix for my neice to watch some cartoons. It took about 2 minutes for a 18MB update and took about 4 minutes to get past the Netflix loading screen.
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Seems I didn't properly insert my speed data. Anyway it was
Down - 14.54 MB
Up - 2.44 MB
Ping - 42ms
The test was done on a wireless internet computer.
One more thing, whenever I am host for a game on Black Ops, just about everybody I play with, even across the country, has a good connection (I'm in Pennsylvania)


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Very cute ring! I was going to get this for my daughter at Christmas but decided it wasn't right for her. However, I kept thinking how much I liked it and it was back in stock, so now I have one. It has a nice weight, doesn't feel flimsy or cheap like some bands. For the price, I am very satisfied.
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Gregory Alan Bolcer stashed this in Google!
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Though their project glass is a new direction. I don't think they got their inside maps UI right.
And what's this about Apple and Microsoft making an open version of Google Maps?
In the meantime, here's my reaction to Larry's 3459 words.
Given that a) I can't find local schools or landmarks with it and need to use the Google maps app instead, b) Nicaragua invaded Costa Rica just for the hell of it, c) the data sets don't line up at all, I'm going to have to guess no.
Inside maps, however, are pretty cool, but having to translate between 3d work to a 2d representation isn't a natural skill at all. I remember the photographs and tribes story in Africa, the tribes didn't have any idea what they were looking at when looking at the flat picture of their village and villagers.
Given that, Apple Maps will probably be good in a year and awesome in 2 years.


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