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These adorable photos show a tiny lamb which has to wear sheep SUNGLASSES to protect its eyes. Three-week-old Flash suffers from uveitis, a painful condition which makes his right eye sore, red and ultra-sensitive to bright light.Since being diagnosed at three days old, the little lamb has undergone a course of antibiotics and eye drops to reduce the inflammation.

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SPARTA, Ky. (AP) � Matt Kenseth�s fuel-only pit stop gamble helped him beat Jimmie Johnson late and win Sunday�s rescheduled 400-mile NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Kentucky Speedway.
A race that was Johnson�s to lose ultimately became Kenseth�s series-high fourth victory of the season after crew chief Jason Ratcliff passed on putting new tires on the No. 20 Toyota following the race�s ninth caution.
�I thought he was slightly crazy when that happened,� said Kenseth , who widened his lead when the field went four-wide after the restart on lap 246 and saw Johnson�s No. 48 Chevy spin from second place on a dominant day he led three times for 182 of 267 laps.
�I didn�t think there was any way that we were going to hold on for that win. He made the right call at the right time and those guys got it done.�
Kenseth led twice for 38 laps, including the final 23. Johnson, the five-time champion and current series points leader, finished ninth and leads Carl Edwards by 38.
The restart bothered Johnson, who accused Kenseth of breaking the pace car speed. But he took solace in salvaging his 11th top-10 despite between sandwiched in the logjam that could have been worse.
�We were kind of in an awkward situation in that restart there,� he said. �We were like three- and four-wide going in the corner, then something happened with the air and just kind of turned me around. Unfortunate, but at least we rallied back for a good finish.�
Second was Jamie McMurray in a Chevy, followed by Clint Bowyer (Toyota), Joey Logano (Ford) and Kyle Busch (Toyota).
Rain on Saturday forced NASCAR officials to postpone the race to a daytime start.
The event was red-flagged for 18 minutes following a seven-car wreck involving defending race and Sprint Cup winner Brad Keselowski , who returned to finish 33rd. It was the biggest incident of 10 cautions for 42 laps, but things were clean after Johnson brought out the final yellow flag.
The checkered flag crowned Kentucky�s third different champion in as many events though Kenseth , like Johnson, was due for a breakthrough on the 1.5-mile oval.
He finished seventh here last year and sixth in the 2011 inaugural race. However, victory didn�t seem likely for the 2003 Cup champion after qualifying 16th and running outside the top 20 during the first quarter of the event.
�I thought our first run, we were all right and I guess probably after the second run, we were able to move forward pretty good,� Kenseth said. �I felt pretty good about what we had. I thought we need to get it better.�
From then on, the first-year Joe Gibbs Racing driver was a perennial top-five contender. Trouble was , he and other hopefuls seemed to need Johnson to suffer misfortune to have any shot of catching him. The way he was running, that appeared unlikely.
Turns out, Kenseth needed to rely on the left-side tires Ratcliff ordered the previous stop. Taking fuel only the final time allowed him to gain the lead coming off pit road, and the rubber held up on the rough, bumpy track, both on the restart and through the final laps.
Ratcliff was shocked that more teams didn�t follow suit with that strategy.
�I felt like more guys would make that call, and so I thought it was worth a shot to get out there,� the crew chief said. �When we rolled off pit road and saw what everybody did, I looked to the guy beside me and I�m like, �I can�t believe we are the only ones that did that.��
The decision led to a surprising late turn of events, and the tense finish in which McMurray and Bowyer took turns trying to chase down Kenseth provided a nice makeup after Saturday night�s washout.
In a season of struggles, McMurray was just happy with his first top-five.
�Every week it�s been something,� he said. �So it�s nice to have some good luck.�
Bowyer remained third in points and gave Michael Waltrip Racing its second straight top-two run following teammate Martin Truex Jr.�s road win last week in Sonoma, Calif.
Kenseth�s victory meanwhile typified a weekend where a number of drivers were projected to win at Kentucky.
Friday�s pole qualifying generated enough excitement for the series� third visit, with eight drivers breaking Johnson�s year-old track record of 181.818 mph. The group included the five-time champion, who shattered his own mark at 183.144 mph before Hendrick Motorsports teammate Dale Earnhardt Jr.�s 183.636 mph speed in the No. 88 Chevy snatched the record and the pole, leaving Johnson to settle for the third spot.
Earnhardt�s objective was ending a 37-race drought and improving his seventh-place points standing coming in. Earnhardt succeeded with the latter, finishing 12th to gain a spot with nine races remaining in NASCAR�s regular season.
Johnson eventually picked up where he left off in practice and qualifying, becoming the story on Sunday with the best car after several early lead changes.
Edwards quickly got past Earnhardt after the green flag and led the first 32 laps, although a competition caution allowed Earnhardt to reclaim the lead with a two-tire stop, a strategy followed by the top 10. Denny Hamlin was one of those and restarted sixth on lap 36, but he quickly had to return to the pits when his right front tire went down.
Hamlin�s misfortune quickly created concern for Earnhardt and Johnson when the rubber slid off the tire rim during his exit and flew back on to the track. Earnhardt ran over it, bending his splitter�s right side, before the tire flew off and bounced off Johnson�s hood to bring out the race�s second caution on lap 39.
A hard wreck later sent Hamlin to the infield care center and left him 35th.
�I had to take a moment when I got out of the car to kind of gather my thoughts because obviously I didn�t feel that great,� Hamlin said.
The biggest incident came on lap 49 when Kurt Busch spun out Keselowski near turn 1, triggering an accident that red-flagged the race. Greg Biffle slammed into Keselowski , lifting his car off the asphalt and leaving both Fords mangled.
Somehow, both returned to finish 33rd and 34th respectively.
But at the time of the wreck Johnson had already taken his first lead of the race and appeared headed to a walkover victory before Ratcliff�s risk resulted in Kenseth�s reward.


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Colleges Pay to Protect Students from Toxic Google Results
Most college students understand that it's probably a good idea to remove online photos of themselves drinking beer or mooning the camera as they plot their entry into the professional world.
But few realize they should spend just as much time highlighting the good news about themselves on the web.
Now some college career-services centers are providing tools to help their students influence the results a recruiter might see when typing their names into a search engine.
Schools, ever more conscious of their job-placement figures, are moving a step beyond simply warning students to clean up their profiles. They are encouraging students to put forward information that can help them land jobs – and investing in services to help them do so.
Syracuse University and Johns Hopkins University, among others, have engaged the premium services of BrandYourself.com, an online-reputation tool that helps students scrub and shine their Google results.
The program, built by three former Syracuse students, uses search-engine optimization techniques to influence what links appear at the top of a search.
Such tools are ever more useful. In a survey conducted earlier this year, CareerBuilder found that some hiring managers use social media and Web searches to look for reasons not to hire someone. But the main reason managers research candidates online is to see whether a potential hire presents himself or herself professionally or appears to be a good fit for the company.
"We wanted students to focus on positive content, not just think about hiding the negative information they don't want anyone to see," said Mark Presnell, head of career services at Johns Hopkins. The school began offering the tool this fall. Presnell said he is not sure yet how many students are using it and also declined to say how much the school is paying for the service.
BrandYourself.com was created by the three students after one of them, Pete Kistler, determined that he was being rejected for jobs based on some online information about a person with the same name. The founders said they wanted to provide an option for people who can't afford the several thousand dollars that some reputation-management services charge. BrandYourself.com offers a free service that allows users to add three links that will be optimized in search results, and a premium one for $10 a month, which allows users to submit unlimited links in order to help move positive information to the top of a search.
At Syracuse, career-services director Mike Cahill recommends that students increase their positive online content by crafting comprehensive LinkedIn profiles or even starting a blog devoted to their professional interests. BrandYourself's software would then help that content appear higher in search results. "It's eye-opening to see all the different ways they can improve their positioning on an Internet search," said Cahill, who provided feedback to BrandYourself.com's founders as they were developing the product while at Syracuse. "This is a great way for us to emphasize to students that they'll be evaluated in a lot of ways that are outside their control," he added.


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AbeBooks is a purely digital business, so it's a pleasure to be invited to see a collection belonging to one of our customers. Let's call him Mr C as his collection has significant value.
Mr C collects the Classics Illustrated series of comic books but does it in a unique way. In case you are unfamiliar with Classics Illustrated, it was a series that ran from 1941 to 1971 that took famous books and converted the storyline into a comic book format for younger readers.
The yellow masthead and the cover scenes of dashing drama – often a fight – are familiar to several generations of readers who grew up as Baby Boomers. The first to be published was The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas in 1941.
Mr C owns 1,500 copies of Classic Illustrated publications, including many regional variations such as Spanish and Greek editions. His collecting odyssey began in 1991 although he had read Classics Illustrated as a child.
"I went to Comic-Con in San Diego and met some people there who collected Classics Illustrated," Mr C said. "The first ones I picked up were a bundle of them for $20 or $30."
Two bibliographic publications have been essential to building his collection – The Complete Guide to Classics Collectibles and The Complete Guide to Classics Illustrated, both by Dan Malan.
Mr C's desire for Classics Illustrated took him to the world's greatest comic shops from Sweden to Italy and North America. He recalled travelling to Sweden and finding three copies of The Knight and the Witch by Zach Topelius for about $6 each – these were particularly sweet finds as he knew a fellow collector had paid $1,000 for a similar copy and until then only three copies were known to exist. After 2000, he mainly scoured the digital world for his beloved comics.
"A collection is never complete," he said, standing in his home office that contains his collection. "There is always something of interest that can be added, something else to find. You can never be completely knowledgeable on the subject."
As his collection grew, Mr C decided to change direction in 2005. He began 'twinning' his comics with as desirable book editions of the title as possible. A Jack London comic was twinned with a first edition of the book and so on. He displays the pairs in custom designed boxes with glass fronts and the visual effect of a comic and a book side by side is very impressive. One of his favorite book finds was a first edition, first printing of King Solomon's Mines for $1,500 – prices on AbeBooks stretch to more than $13,000. He has also twinned first editions that became famous movies with the original videos.
Mr C may have started as a comic collector but his book collection is not to be sniffed at, and he is resourceful. In some cases, he has picked up first editions of famous books that lack a dust jacket but then added a facsimile copy of the wrapper to the book. In other cases, he has acquired first editions that have been priced clipped. A couple of times, he has bought a reproduction, such as with Tom Sawyer, where any sort of first edition is out of his price range or impossible to find. Signed books have no appeal.
"At first, I was looking for books between $200 and $300, but now I will spend $500 to $800 on the right book," he said. "$2,400 is the most I've ever spent on a book, and I've bought six or seven at around that price. I have a first American edition of Casino Royale that cost $200 and I simply added a new dust jacket for $20. That works fine for me. The twinning seems to bring the books alive. AbeBooks has been a tremendous help for me and I have also made some wonderful contacts with very understanding booksellers over the years."
Mr. C has carefully catalogued his entire collection. Date of acquisition, the price, the key details and the source are all logged. He estimates there are around 30 similarly minded collectors of Classics Illustrated in North America and they make a mini community dedicated to the series.
"These books and comics are my passion," he said. "I'd rather invest in them than a pension as I can see them every day and I don't think they will fall in value."
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This article is a small sample of DISCOVER's special issue Extreme Earth.
Wurman in Battle Pass, Wyoming, in November. Behind him is the Doppler on Wheels, the mobile radar truck he invented.
photographs by Beth Wald
By early June of 2009, Joshua Wurman was exhausted and discouraged. For weeks, the nomadic teams of VORTEX2 (the second Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment) had crisscrossed the Midwest in pursuit of the violent thunderstorms that can generate tornadoes. Yet all that he and the other meteorologists had encountered so far were a few rain showers. With more than 100 participants, 11 radar trucks, 13 instrument-laden vehicles, an unmanned plane, and millions of dollars from the National Science Foundation in play, the most ambitious tornado field study ever was at risk of failing. The weather was just too nice.
But when the scientists finally intercepted their first
tornado of the season in Goshen County, Wyoming, it offered an amazing coup. For the first time, they were able to capture detailed data on the entire life cycle of a
tornado, from gestation to birth to demise. Analysis of information from this storm and dozens of lesser intercepts in 2009 and 2010, combined with new insights from computer simulations, may finally answer the researchers'
biggest question: What triggers a tornado? Zeroing in on how tornadoes get going could lengthen warning times from the current, dangerously short average of 13 minutes and also lower the rate of false alarms. DISCOVER recently
spoke with Wurman, who has probably collected data on more tornadoes than any other scientist, about his theory of how tornadoes form, the twisters that claimed 548 lives in 2011, and a recent storm that flat-out awed him.
What makes tornadoes so unpredictable?
We know the fundamentals of how supercell thunderstorms—the ones that produce tornadoes—form. We know that there need to be certain conditions of temperature, relative humidity, and wind speeds at different altitudes. What we don't really understand very well is why only 25 percent of the supercells make tornadoes and when in their life cycle they do it: Why did that particular supercell make a tornado now, not 15
minutes ago, or 15 minutes from now? The reason we drive 15,000 miles a year to catch 10 tornadoes is because we don't know which supercells are going to make them or when.
Why is it so difficult to collect data on a tornado?
It's a pretty foggy, blurry view—we're looking through a distorted window with cracks in it. We do fairly well at seeing the winds throughout the storm. Radar is great at doing that. We should probably get a B+. Where we get an F, maybe an F+, is in measuring the temperatures and relative humidities, what we call the thermodynamics,
inside the storms. We know that something is causing the winds to move up and down in the supercell, and we believe that the temperatures and relative humidity are critical to that process.
Yet we have almost no direct way of obtaining those numbers. We tried with unmanned aerial vehicles but didn't get many measurements.
Why was capturing an hour's worth of data on the Goshen tornado such a big deal?
We observed the tornado from well before its genesis through its dissipation, using different radars and instrumented vehicles. So we were able to capture its whole life cycle. It's the best data set ever. We think we have at least a smoking gun, if not the smoking gun, for why this particular storm made a tornado when it did, and we think there's a good argument for the case that a secondary surge was causing it.
Joshua Wurman [right] confers with technician Justin Walker, another
member of the VORTEX2 team, inside the Doppler on Wheels.
What does that tell us about how thunderstorms make tornadoes?
We've known for decades that all supercell thunderstorms have a gust front, which is the boundary between the moist, warm air that is flowing into the storm and the generally cooler air coming down out of the storm. But what we noticed in several cases recently is that thunderstorms that are making, or are about to make, tornadoes, have a secondary front, which is like a second wave of air rushing down from aloft. A strong downdraft has an important function: It brings the rotation to the ground. But for a tornado to form, you still need to tilt the rotation into the vertical, and this requires a nearby updraft. The intensity of the downdrafts and updrafts is vital, because in the end there needs to be a lot of stretching, which is when you take that existing rotation and turn it into something really violent like a tornado. It's like a figure skater pulling in her arms and spinning faster and faster.
In the Goshen County tornado, we have a strong suspicion that the development of this secondary surge or front sparked the genesis of the tornado. We need to test this. If, after looking at more cases, we can demonstrate a causal link, then perhaps in the future a forecaster observing the development of a secondary surge will have an increased ability to forecast tornadogenesis.
The data analysis emerging from VORTEX2 also identifies another possible trigger, a "descending reflectivity core." What is that, and how does it work?
Some supercell thunderstorms have a descending core of intense rain and hail wrapping around the west side of the storm. That's what we call a descending reflectivity core, or DRC. This DRC drags rotating air downward from maybe four or five kilometers up and might cool the air in various places. As you drag the air downward, you create rotation and antirotation in different parts of the storm, and that seems to occur around the time of tornadogenesis. Right now these two features, the DRC and the secondary surge, hold the most hope for explaining why some supercells are able to generate rotation near the ground and why the low-level rotation is turning into a tornado when it does.
Why was 2011 the deadliest tornado season we've seen in 75 years? Were the storms stronger than usual last year?
In recent years, we've become very used to tornadoes causing a relatively small number of deaths. A few dozen is
typical. Unfortunately, while some of that may be due to better forecasts, some of it is also due to luck. Last year, the tornadoes hit larger places. They hit Tuscaloosa, they hit Joplin. The total number of tornadoes may have reached 1,800, which is exceptional, but the big spike in deaths was really based on a few individual points. Just one tornado in Joplin killed almost three times the yearly average of the last few decades. The Joplin tornado was rated EF5, but there wasn't some added degree of destruction. The difference between Greensburg, Kansas [where an EF5 tornado killed 11 people in 2007], and Joplin was how many people got hit, not the strength of the tornado.
You were busy sifting through data from VORTEX2 in 2011. Was it frustrating to sit out such a volatile tornado season?
We did go out a couple of times. One day we got some fascinating data in a strong tornado in Oklahoma that had winds of about 200 miles per hour. We observed this tornado as it crossed a lake, and in the radar we saw this very clear central eye and a very strange wind, because it was lifting up a huge amount of water. We saw for the first time ever, I think, a tornado surge, like a hurricane surge. Then, as the tornado made landfall—and that's a term we usually use with hurricanes—it just started shredding the forest. The eye suddenly filled up with a big ball of debris. From a scientific perspective, it's very interesting because one of the great limitations we have in meteorology is that we're not a laboratory science. But in this case, we had a tornado that was experiencing pure, simple conditions: lake for a few minutes and then pretty simply, woods. The structure of the tornado changes dramatically right when it crosses from the lake to the forest.
You have warned that the risk of a tornado-caused catastrophe in this
country is underestimated, or even overlooked altogether.
My colleagues and I wrote a paper in 2007 (pdf) that asked, what if one of those large tornadoes that we've observed with the Doppler on Wheels went through the suburbs of Chicago or St. Louis? This is a worst-case scenario, but I'd say it was a plausible worst-case scenario. Tens of thousands, even 100,000 homes could be destroyed. I think we should have at least some degree of preparation.
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B is for Birth and Baptism
For this week's alphabet challenge I am taking a moment to reflect on the pitfalls that any new genealogist runs into when researching birth dates. It took me a while to realise that I would have a better chance of finding a birth record if I started at the other end of life and was armed with information from death, marriage and census records first. I also made a few mistaken assumptions about birth years from reading baptismal records. I have since learned that having three children baptised on the same day did not necessarily mean triplets. Several of my ancestors waited a couple of years before they wandered over the hills to the church and baptised their children. Another little challenge which some of my family presented me with was the question of where to look for baptismal records as they were non-conformists. I have one set of Cracket ancestors whose childrens' baptisms are spread over traditional baptism in the local parish church, dissenter records, Presbyterian and Methodist. This year I have also come across another interesting challenge in interpreting birth and baptism dates. This is the dual dating system which operated at the time of the official change from Julian to Gregorian calendar. I wrote about this in my Double dating post on 24 April 2012.
B is for Bainbridge
In my pedigree B is for Bainbridge starting with great great granny Eleanor Bainbridge born about 1828 or 1829 at Walker in Northumberland.
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In the first objection to the revised NFL concussion settlement, seven retired players claim the proposed agreement is riddled with "fatal defects" that "render it anything but fair."
Filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia, the 47-page objection targets, in part, the settlement's limits on chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) compensation and the 75% reduction in monetary awards to players who suffered a stroke or traumatic brain injury unrelated to football.
The objection also says the proposed settlement notice is "false and misleading" because it doesn't indicate that players diagnosed with CTE after the settlement's preliminary approval aren't eligible for compensation.
"It is a lousy deal for the retired players," the objection said.
After U.S. District Judge Anita Brody rejected the proposed $765-million settlement in January, the NFL and plaintiffs' lawyers submitted a revised version last month. To address Brody's concerns about the settlement's adequacy, the NFL removed its cap on payouts to retired players diagnosed with a qualifying neurocognitive condition. In exchange, there isn't any limit to the number of payouts the league can appeal.
Both the NFL and co-lead counsel for the plaintiffs contend in the revised settlement that the original compensation fund of $675 million is sufficient.
The objection criticizes the mechanics buried in the settlement, including that players who don't register with the claims administrator within 180 days of notice are ineligible for any benefits and that appealing an award decision costs $1,000 to players (the amount is refunded if they win) while the NFL pays nothing. Additionally, NFL Europe players aren't credited for seasons in the league (award amounts are adjusted depending on a player's experience) though they are bound by the settlement.
The seven players involved in the objection -- Roderick Cartwright, Sean Considine, Alan Faneca, Ben Hamilton, Sean Morey, Jeff Rohrer, Robert Royal -- expressed similar concerns in a separate motion to intervene in the litigation in May.
The proposed settlement covers all retired players, regardless of whether they sued the NFL, who don't opt out.
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TallGrass Aveda Salon and Spa is expanding its seventh annual Soldier Box Project with plans to ship at least 100 care packages to troops in Afghanistan this holiday season, said TallGrass owner Gail Ridings.
Sandi Ashley and her 9-year-old son, Logan, were in a heated battle at Canyonfest at Kittredge Community Park on Saturday.
They were playing a game that involved using straws to move tiny sailboats along tracks created from two long pieces of gutter filled with water. Logan won.
"That was a good workout," Sandi said after their last round. She didn't mention that some of her huffs and puffs went to help Logan move his sailboat.
A local portrait photographer wants Evergreen women to meet one another in a unique way.
Katy Moses has begun what she calls the Evergreen Women Project. During the Open Door Studios tour last weekend, she began photographing Evergreen women and collecting information so she can tell their stories on her website, EvergreenWomen.com.
She is asking the women what brought them to Evergreen and about their lives.
In the mid-1800s, quilting bees were an important social event, with women chatting and laughing as their sewing needles worked in the fabric.
Fast-forward to 2015, and the Mount Evans Home Health Care & Hospice angel-making workshops also are important social events, with women chatting and laughing as they spread glue, cut cardboard and prepare handcrafted angels.
In addition, angel-making helps Mount Evans continue to provide services to area residents.
Evergreen residents Larry and Jane Voorhees were sharpening their pickleball skills after a fast-paced game at Wulf Rec Center last Wednesday morning. The couple are among a growing number of enthusiasts flocking to courts to grab paddles and play the low-impact sport.
In the last two to three years, requests for court time to play pickleball have doubled for the Evergreen Park and Recreation District, said Jeff Sweet, EPRD recreation supervisor. More than 60 court hours now are scheduled each week for pickleball, he said.
Health & Safety Day, put on by Evergreen Fire/Rescue on Saturday, was a big hit with kids and their parents.
Attendees could ride on a fire truck, survey the surroundings from the Evergreen Fire/Rescue aerial bucket, work a real-live fire hose to knock down a wooden "fire" decoy, and eat pancakes — lots and lots of them.
In the 1960s, John Ellis and Hank Alderfer were playing football at Evergreen High School while classmate Larry Olde was lettering in golf. The three Evergreen natives, who are well-known in the community, were among 48 alumni of the Evergreen High class of 1965 who gathered for their 50th reunion this past weekend.
Former classmates came from near and far to swap stories and remember good times during their high school years in Evergreen.
"We had more fun," Ellis said.
The aroma of fragrant chili wafted through the air as people sampled recipes and voted for their favorites at the Big Chili Cook-off on Saturday at Buchanan Park.
"I really like this one," Zoe Shockites of Evergreen said while tasting Pam's Game Day Red.
Some 4,500 attendees could taste more than 100 varieties of red, green and vegetarian chili recipes, including those with eye-catching names like Ma-Mama's Hillbilly Hand Grenade and Zydeco Zombie Green.
Peter Dohr is a bicycle honcho.
The eighth-grader at Montessori School of Evergreen has collected at least 42 bikes so far to send to people in Africa who have no way to get around.
Dohr is working with the nonprofit group Bicycles for Humanity Colorado, which sends bicycles in shipping containers to rural locations in Africa. The Denver chapter is one of several chapters across the United States and Canada (b4hcolorado.org).
It wasn't by chance that at least three people who suffered heart attacks were saved by AEDs in the last two years in the Evergreen area.
Evergreen resident David Montesi started the nonprofit Evergreen Public Access Defibrillation 13 years ago, and it has installed 59 automated external defibrillators, or AEDs, for free in public areas.
Since being crowned at the Evergreen Rodeo this past June, Queen Lauren Hladik and Princess Alexis Lundahl have been riding in area rodeos. Lauren and Alexis also make appearances at community events, and are planning to present awards at this year's annual Big Chili Cook-off in Evergreen on Sept. 12.
"I love the family aspect of rodeo," says Lauren, who moved up from princess to queen this year. "It's like a giant family. It's so great to work together."
The Evergreen Nature Center at Evergreen Lake operates on a limited budget provided by revenue from the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District and fund-raising efforts of Evergreen Audubon, its managing organization, said Vanessa Hayes, director of the center.
"The majority of our income is through donations," she said.
The annual Bootstraps Inc. Winefest had a special twist this year: a wheel that attendees whirled around while trying their luck at winning a bottle of wine.
The event giveaway booth at the fund-raising event on Saturday also offered participants a chance to win a trip to Italy to tour wine country.
Festival-goer Jessi Moots was into the spirit of the event while sporting "wine-glasses," a creative version of eyewear featuring wine-glass shapes on the frames.
Teachers at Evergreen Middle School have put a creative spin on the new school year.
On Monday, they decorated cars and drove them parade-style to Evergreen's elementary schools and Evergreen High School to start the new school year on a high note. School starts on Aug. 17.
Robert Marlin — a man called a "living legend among the emergency medical services community" in Clear Creek County — died on Saturday, Aug. 1.
He was 63.
An Evergreen family learned two valuable lessons when they hosted a lemonade stand on a recent warm summer morning: While Evergreen residents like lemonade, Jeffco sheriff's deputies like it even more.
"A rainfall of ducks! So beautiful," exclaimed Evergreen resident Judith Hill on Saturday afternoon.
Hill was in a crowd gathered at the base of the Evergreen Lake dam watching about 4,000 plastic ducks cascade in massive splendor into the water. The dramatic release of the little yellow fellows from the top of the dam marked the start of the sixth annual Dam Ducky Derby sponsored by the Evergreen Downtown Business Association.
Sounds of sweet jazz and boisterous blues livened up Evergreen this past weekend.
A variety of musical groups played at the 14th annual Evergreen Jazz Festival for audiences who listened with delight and danced to swing tunes.
"I think it's the best collection of jazz musicians that we've ever danced to in one place," said Todd Addleson of Genesee, who came to the festival with his wife, Dawn Addleson.
The genteel game of croquet was the highlight of the evening on Saturday at the second annual Victorian lawn party at the Humphrey History Park and Museum.
Participants — some dressed in white, reminiscent of lawn parties of old — played rounds of croquet in a friendly tournament to determine a champion. The players were supportive and helped each other out in the game, which can be cutthroat.
Evergreen High School graduates have ventured into diverse careers ranging from graphic design and writing to social work. One graduate is teaching dance in Tanzania, and another creates jewelry at her studio in Arizona.
Here is a glimpse into the lives of five alumni.
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Also At The Supreme Court This Week: The Case Of The Sidewalk Snafu
For a case that is about show-me-your-papers, it was more than a little odd that the Supreme Court police — for the first time anyone could recall — asked reporters on the Supreme Court plaza Wednesday to show their IDs to get into a roped-off area where TV cameras routinely set up.
It was even stranger when police then refused to allow lawyers and principals involved in the case to come over to the microphones. Even Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer was barred from the press gaggle. Finally, after a near insurrection from the press corps, the court cops relented.
Truth be told, I led that insurrection, but I had plenty of help from colleagues. Afterward, I asked the Supreme Court's press officer, Kathy Arberg, to find out what went wrong. Arberg, I should note, was responsible for undoing the police orders so that Gov. Brewer and others could actually come to the microphones.
She got back to me Thursday with the results of her investigation. As with all such things, the snafu was even weirder than you could have imagined.
It seems that when Gov. Brewer's staff met with the Supreme Court police in advance of the court argument on Arizona's immigration law, Brewer's staff said that the governor wanted to hold a press conference afterward — and that she wanted to hold it on the sidewalk.
Now, for some reason not known to mankind, the mention of the words "press conference" did not trigger the court cops into calling the court's press officer. And for reasons that nobody can divine even now, the police on the plaza thought the sidewalk press conference meant that not only Brewer was going to the sidewalk, but so were the lawyers from the many organizations who had filed briefs in the case. Therefore, nobody could go to the usual gaggle place where the cameras were set up on the nearby plaza.
Now comes the really silly part. Protesters are not allowed on the plaza. They are permitted to be on the sidewalk. So the sidewalk was mobbed with demonstrators for and against the Arizona law. It was not a safe place to be for an obviously nervous Gov. Brewer.
Meanwhile, I, along with colleagues, was having a conniption fit. Fortunately, Arberg, the press officer, had sent one of her assistants out to the plaza. I grabbed him and in less than fully polite terms, told him to call Arberg, which he did. She promptly called Tim Dolan, the deputy Supreme Court police chief, and within minutes, the previous orders were reversed.
A rather rattled Gov. Brewer, apparently relieved to be out of the melee on the sidewalk, came to the relative safety of the press stakeout, followed by members of Congress, the leaders of interest groups, and the like.
I am pleased to report that at the stakeout on the Supreme Court plaza, the only screaming was from cameramen yelling, "Get outta my shot."


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This morning, I finished playing a three-deck solitaire game on VASSAL that I'd been working on for about a month, and while I played the game using the un-nerfed version, I feel that I got through the "what the hell do I do next" learning curve (especially wrt how to manage the AI) and feel like I have enough of a sense of the game to evaluate it as a solitaire game. Note that I still haven't really played the two-player game enough to have a good sense of how well it works, although I do feel I have enough of a sense as to how to play both sides so that I would enjoy a two-player game rather than just feel like I was slogging through the systems, either side.
The solo game has a decent enough AI, but after playing it's clear that in a board game version (as opposed to a PC AI, which can be much more complex and nuanced) that the player needs to be nerfed in some way so as to give the Jihadist AI a fighting chance and create a stimulating game. In the case of Labyrinth, the system does this in several ways - ignoring US events it plays out of hand, giving OPs *and* events for Unassociated events, and using a "Radicalization" process when there are leftover OPs for the AI. You can also ratchet up the difficulty by adding in up to four more nerfs, at least one of which is used in the extensive (and excellent) example of play that comes with the game. In my game, I played with no extra nerfs, which I think is the way to go.
The solitaire game is an excellent way to learn how the systems work, and I recommend that anyone interested in the game who has the time and space to play it solo do so before diving into a two-player game. The reason for this is that while there really aren't that many options in terms of specific actions that you can take for either side, at the same time the two sides play *very* differently, with different actions and different things to be concerned with, and many of those actions have their own nuances that you have to deal with. For example, knowing when to leave a Cadre behind when the last cell leaves a space and when not to, or getting used to what spaces on the board are legitimate for a given action. Even more importantly, you need to understand how the various actions work together to get you where you need to be to win. It's not a simple game by any stretch, even though the rules have lots of graphics and only really span around 8 pages once you get past the discussion of the components.
One drawback of starting with the solitaire game is that the player has the additional burden of needing to understand the subtleties of the flowchart that drives the Jihadist AI. For that reason, I strongly recommend you play a 3-Deck game for a few reasons. First, you will need the time to learn how to react to the Jihadist play and discover why the flowchart is set out as it is. Second, you need to learn how to *run* the AI. The flowchart is a marvel of compactness and conciseness once you understand just how much is involved once you take into the special cases for various event cards. Happily, it's pretty much all there. I used the US Operations card for the flowchart so that I could refer to the Jihadist Operations card, with very few rules lookups. This may be one of the best packaged play-aids I've ever seen in a wargame, it's extremely complete and gets the information to you in a very quick and effective way.
The good news is that by playing the three-deck game, by the time you get into the second pass you have internalized a lot of the concepts behind the AI so that while you will still refer to the flowchart, you will do so less and less and the game moves along very quickly (as it was intended to do). You will also know how to set up a complex sequence of events so as to get to where you need to be. Perhaps most importantly, you will also get to know the deck! A big part of mastering any CDG requires you to get to know the deck, and with games that divide the deck into parts that learning curve is relatively gentle. With this game, however, it's one deck of 110 cards. Fortunately, you will see all of them playing solitaire each time around, plus the deck will thin out to some extent as cards tend to be removed as the game progresses. By the third time around, you will know exactly what card you want to draw from the discards if you get the Oil Spike card.
Incidentally, I used v1.01 of the VASSAL module. There are some really nice touches to this module, including a specific module for solitaire play that has a discard pile for 3-OPs Jihadist event cards (very useful if the Jihadists draw Oil Spike). There are a few bugs, such as components not always going where you thought they would, specifically Cells going Offboard instead of to the Funding Track when using the pop-up menus. Fortunately, there are ways to get these things back if you don't notice them and Undo right away, and you learn what *not* to use. For the most part, however, it works quite well, especially if you have a two-screen setup on your desktop (one for the map, one for the draw piles). I set my second monitor up so that it had the card decks available - US hand on the top showing all cards (my screen allowed a large enough zoom so I could read text of 8 cards), Jihadist shrunk down so that it showed the two "current" cards in play, the deck management window with the draw pile (which shows the number of cards remaining, a very nice touch), discards, and Removed cards, and another window for the Jihadist 3OPs discards. There are also windows to show where the troops and cells are, as well as tracking for the various status markers such as Good/Fair, Poor/Islamist, and Soft/Hard countries. You can double-check these levels very quickly using these windows, and they are particularly welcome in this module. For this early of a module, it's very complete and well thought out.
So how did my three-deck, no extra nerfs, first time through game turn out? I used the standard scenario, which begins with the 9/11 attacks and an Islamist regime in Afghanistan. I went straight to Regime Change in Afghanistan, as I suspect many do, and stayed there through almost the entire game, as I suspect many do (as, in fact, the US *continues* to do). I had a scare during the second deck when the Sudan became Islamist (if there's one thing you want to avoid, it's Islamist countries - they make everything much harder when they are active), but got a fortuitous card draw that allowed me to get rid of it. Iraq and Somalia also came very close to going Islamist, but lucky die rolls prevented that from happening during Major Jihads. I should note here that one of the decision points for the AI is whether or not you can have a *successful* Major Jihad. Since a success requires *two* successful rolls, a 1 card cannot generate an attempt unless it's in a Besieged Regime.
Things started going right when I improved Turkey's governance to Good, although it is isolated enough that it's difficult to use it to improve your chances on the War of Ideas table. It was funny that Yemen ended up being the first Gulf State to give me a toehold in a practical region of the board. From there, first Saudi, then Jordan moved to Good Governance. Central Asia was Good for a short time, which gave me some hope for Afghanistan, but it didn't last long and it eventually became a target to return to Poor. I went back and forth with Afghanistan, but as long as it was the only Besieged Regime on the map it was a target for cells and as such you have to knock them back down before making WoI attempts. I did eventually get it to Good governance on the penultimate turn, but it required both Sistani and Mass Turnout on the same turn (achieved through a fortuitous Oil Spike card on the same turn) to switch it over in a single action phase. And then it went right back to Fair and stayed there, although travel drew the remaining cell out of the area.
Things were looking good toward the end of the third deck (and the end of the game). I was gaining some traction in Iraq and the Gulf States, there were hardly any cells in the game, Funding was low, and my Prestige had dug itself out of it's hole. I was *very* lucky that every US Election that came up resulted in the US staying Hard, which was also the prevailing state of a large majority of non-Muslim countries for most of the game. My GWOT penalty never went below 0 the entire game, giving me the chance to regain Prestige most turns while Funding was a constant issue for the Jihadists. In fact, I would say that getting Funding down to 1 in the solitaire game should be a primary focus. There will be plots you can't deal with that will drop your Prestige and raise Funding, and so the lower you can keep it, the easier a time you will have.
As it should in all fun solitaire games, the decision came in the final turn. Things were looking really good for the US - we were up to Fair in Iraq, the Gulf States, and Afghanistan, and I had seven points of resources in Good Countries. All I needed to do was to keep the love light shining in Iraq and the Gulf States and get those good WoI rolls. Having Good countries nearby is a huge statistical advantage, and another major strategy for the US in the game, and should be a secondary goal after keeping Funding down. It even counters a poor Prestige drm. I was a *little* nervous as I'd had a terrible hand in the penultimate turn, almost all ones but at least with no playable events for the Jihadists. I think there were three total turns that I didn't dump off a Jihadist card rather than take the OPs, almost all in the late game. With that much advantage on my side, I was able to get the necessary rolls by the second action phase, and hit 13 Good Resources to win the game. Which was good, because I never got close to the required numbers at the end of play with the first and second decks!
Clearly, a few things went my way in this game, especially at the end of the game. Having the Sudan suddenly rethink Islamism due to an event was H-U-G-E. Having two other Major Jihad's fail was also huge. Travel, surprisingly, derailed more threats than anything else, especially as they don't leave Cadres. That said, there are so many events that place cells that I found Funding was mostly useful for giving the Jihadist fewer card plays. I also had terrible card draws early, getting mostly Jihadist events that I had to play, while the Jihadist got the US events. There is no option to "level out" the event mix in the VASSAL module, but for those who feel they want a more even distribution this is probably a good choice if you are playing on the physical board. I'm happy to see this option and will probably use it when playing two-player. For the solitaire game, I felt it was not necessary, but YMMV.
I'll be honest - in the first deck I found managing the AI to be a huge chore when combined with trying to understand the subtleties of the game. Fortunately, I had gone through the two excellent examples of play first, so I had a fairly good grasp of the core rules going in. By the end of the first deck, though, I was wondering if this was going to be a game I'd enjoy solitaire, even using VASSAL. By the middle of the second deck everything was clicking and I spent *less* time playing the second and third decks combined than I did the first deck. I could average around six or seven hands per hour near the end, making this extremely playable in an evening, if not for a full 3 deck game.
While it's clear that there are only passing resemblances to Twilight Struggle (mostly concerning the complexity level and the forced use of playing your opponent's cards), I will say that I think this game is far superior to TS on almost every level. The game is not nearly as prone to wacky card plays (although they can, and did, happen to me in my game, to my benefit), and there is no scoring card mechanism, which I hold is the main issue with TS and my willingness to play and enjoy it. I really enjoyed Labyrinth once I got through the initial double learning-curve period, and I'm looking forward to giving it another try now that I feel I have the system down. I'm looking even more to playing it face-to-face or via a VASSAL pbem game (less interesting, mostly because it will take time and I tend to have a schedule where I'm busy in the evenings when most of my friends are free). The game is about as well-developed as I've seen, which I expect from the designer and now from the developer, Joel Toppen, who is now stuck with having to do this good a job on everything he develops from here on out!
The game still has the burden of being modeled on history that has not yet been written completely, history that has created incredible divisiveness in the US and abroad (my initial analysis even exposed some of that divisiveness in some of the initial responses). In fact, the solitaire game was developed because it was felt (correctly, I suspect) that there would be a sizable number of gamers that would refuse to play the Jihadist side, despite the fact that a very large number of the people shooting at us in both Iraq and Afghanistan were not, in fact, involved in Jihadist activities. I can understand that for many, especially the people who served in the military in those countries and others, this conflict is just too personal. That's unfortunate, because it's really a very good game and worth learning just to get another perspective on the history we are living through as I type.
For the solitaire version at least, I highly recommend this game.


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CHICAGO – Duncan Keith won't deny saying "wakey, wakey" to David Backes when the St. Louis Blues captain was trying to regain his faculties after being hit in the head by Brent Seabrook.
Keith wouldn't admit it either, but his non-denial spoke volumes.
"There's lots of things that get said out on the ice in the course of a hockey game, especially in playoffs," said Keith, the Blackhawks defenceman, after the morning skate in anticipation of Monday's clash. "I'm an emotional guy. It's an emotional game. I don't remember everything that gets said out there.
"I didn't even see the hit, to be honest with you. I'm playing the puck and I shot the puck around, and the next thing I know, I see Seebs getting in a fracas so I jump in there. I don't know what was going on."
And he was asked again directly whether he said it.
"I don't know how many times you want me to say the same thing. Skating around, didn't see the play, come in there to help support Seebs. Like I said, there's lots of things that get said over the course of a hockey game. I don't remember everything that gets said."
Seabrook was given a three-game suspension.
What remains to be seen is whether the bad blood will continue to flow if things tone down.
The Blackhawks play host to a Blues team that's holding a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven opening-round playoff series.
But the Blues weren't happy their captain, who is not likely to play tonight and was obviously injured on the hit, was taunted in such a manner.
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The Blackhawks have to circle the wagons somewhat over the incident.
"Some things were said in the heat of the moment," Hawks captain Jonathan Toews said. "Most of that stuff goes unheard on the part of the fans and media. It's not easy to not regret some of the things that might have been said, whether it's on that play or any other play. Sometimes that happens."
Toews was also talking to Backes when the Blues centre was on his feet, but said he never made any comments until after Backes spoke to him.
"I think he was pretty fired up. He asked me to fight. That's the only reason I started talking to him," Toews said. "I don't remember what my words were. I think maybe some of their players thought we were trash talking them after the big hit, but I think we were just trying to clear everything and make sure we could move on from that play."
Either way, expect a few changes.
The Blackhawks will have Sheldon Brookbank in the lineup to replace Seabrook.
The Blues do receive a boost with centre Patrik Berglund returning after missing the first two games of the series. Derek Roy appears to be coming out of the lineup in favour of Brenden Morrow, who didn't play Game 2.
Here are lines based on the morning skate at the United Center, or in the case of the Blackhawks defence pairings, a best guess.
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Denver women's soccer coach Jeff Hooker and his Pioneers on Friday face No. 9-ranked Maryland in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. They have eight NCAA tournament bids in the past 12 years.
It's another bullet point on Hooker's long resume at DU. He's helped build a successful program at DU over 21 years there as coach.
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Sienna Miller, 30, wore a chic and slimming Boss Black dress with modest slits up to her knees on Feb. 14 to The Event Changing Face of Beauty event for W magazine.
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Pewee Flomoku is one of the few Liberians who can boast of having visited all 15 counties in a country that, although small, is difficult to travel around.
Finding his way into remote areas is important to his work as senior project coordinator of the access to justice program run by The Carter Center here.
Small villages are often far from police stations. Problems among locals can flare into violence. His job, Mr. Flomoku says, is to encourage people "to seek help rather than take matters into their own hands."
His team also trains police and traditional village chiefs in how to deal with complaints and how to mediate.
The importance of the work can't be overestimated. A fragile peace has prevailed since a brutal 14-year civil war ended in 2003. About 8,000 United Nations peacekeeping troops remain in the country.
"One reason war erupted was the lack of dialogue, which led to harbored grievances," Flomoku says. "That is why our work is important."
He knows the horrors of violence. Like all Liberians, he lost relatives and friends to the conflict. Two of his cousins remain in a refugee camp in nearby Ghana.
Flomoku got a close look at the war through his work as a photographer for the Associated Press. He took pictures of fighting, as well as of the war's hidden aspects: people fleeing their homes, starving women and children, and child soldiers.
Several times his life was in danger.
"Once, we came across people selling rather than handing out emergency aid. They damaged my camera and injured me," he recalls.
While many Liberians fled during the war, Flomoku was led to stay by a need to tell the truth. "I couldn't leave," he says. "I needed to tell the world what we were going through."
Alphonso Toweh, a Reuters correspondent in Liberia, says Flomoku's work had a huge impact, helping to bring international attention to the conflict in a region often overlooked by the world press.
"Pewee's photographs brought sympathy for us and helped to mobilize the international community to help," Mr. Toweh says.
Flomoku was at the US Embassy in Monrovia in 2003 when buildings were attacked during a rebel attempt to capture the capital. He was there later as Liberians lined up dead bodies in front of the embassy to protest the United States not sending in troops to help.
The Press Union of Liberia later awarded Flomoku a prize for his work.
Born in Lofa County in the north, Flomoku grew up passionate about photography. He took pictures at weddings to make money to put himself through school and university in Monrovia.
After the fighting ended, Flomoku wanted to help the communities he had captured on film.
"During the war, people would accuse me of making money by photographing them, which made me feel bad. This is a way of giving back," he says.
For two years after the war he worked for UNMIL, the UN mission in Liberia, as part of the disarmament program. More than 101,000 combatants were disarmed.
"It was hard to tell combatants they had to give up their arms," he says. But the process succeeded and led to more stability, allowing institutions such as The Carter Center, the nonprofit group founded by former US President Jimmy Carter, to focus on other issues, such as access to justice.
"I get happiness from engaging people and giving them the tools to access services," Flomoku says.
He's also been inspired by his mother, who died last year: "She told me to do what I believe, and that has stayed with me."
Flomoku's work has been recognized outside Liberia as well. In 2008, he was selected as a summer fellow at Stanford University, studying democracy, development, and the rule of law, along with others from around the globe.
The fellowship resulted in a lasting network. "Making contact with people from other countries is a great help," he says. "We stay in contact and exchange ideas."
These ideas will help him as The Carter Center takes on a role in monitoring elections next fall, when Liberians will elect a president and half of the seats in their Senate and House of Representatives.
These will be only the second set of national elections since the end of the war and the first to be run by the Liberian government itself. They pose a challenge in a region where election results are frequently disputed and spark violence.
Aware of the unsettled results of the recent presidential election in neighboring Ivory Coast, Flomoku and his colleagues are educating Liberians in how to register and take part in the elections. They will monitor the election process as well.
The elections represent an important milestone. But many more challenges face Liberia, including high unemployment and the need for investment in basic infrastructure, such as roads and bridges.
Nonetheless, Flomoku says he remains positive about the future.
"There is more space than ever to talk about our disagreements – which we do have," he says. "I don't believe anyone wants to go back to war again."
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With legacy built-for-purpose silos that often don't align, firms are spending millions of dollars on reference data from multiple sources in disparate formats, which requires continuous cleansing and reconciliation. Despite significant effort and billions in expense across the industry, these problems have not been resolved, and in many ways seem to be getting worse. To better understand this problem, we undertook a study of 133 buy- and sell-side professionals globally.
What were some of the most significant findings of the survey?
Ten challenges emerged across four key themes:
Quality – despite significant investments in time and money, quality issues continue to plague the industry.
Costs – shrinking margins require increasingly creative approaches to managing costs.
Control – regulatory requirements are driving ever-increasing burdens for proving effective control processes.
Change – firms continually struggle with balancing streamlining business operations while responding to continual industry change.
Can you talk more about costs—what did survey respondents have to say about it as it relates to data management?
Study participants highlighted three categories of costs that were of concern:
Internal costs: Control over internal costs is ranked as one of the top three issues, yet 36 percent expect operating costs and 37 percent expect IT costs to rise over the next 12 months, versus 14 percent and 15 percent expecting decreases, respectively.
External costs: External data licensing (vendors and exchanges) makes up 33 percent of the overall reference data spend, totaling over $2 billion across the industry. Almost half of the respondents expect that number to increase as data demands rise and providers become stricter with their licensing.
Infrastructure and platform costs: While not as urgent as other cost areas, firms still face cost reduction pressures. Thirty-four percent of respondents are managing multiple infrastructure platforms for reference data and 38 percent see their costs continuing to rise.
What are some solutions to bring the potential for cost savings, improved data quality and shared best practices?
Market utilities are gaining interest in the marketplace as a primary cost savings function driven by the realization that reference data is non-proprietary and non-differentiating in terms of product or service delivery. In fact, our survey results show that only 11 percent of respondents are actively considering implementing a utility, indicating that the challenges are more deeply ingrained within their organizations.
To date, most reference data solutions have been reactionary in nature, driven by regulatory change or business need and constrained by the desire for real- or near-time results to satisfy quarterly financial goals.
Alternatives need to be considered across the entire cost spectrum and over a longer-term time horizon.
What can professionals do now to solve the reference data disconnect?
For starters, professionals can define the data vision, establishing a strategic vision for what data is required to support the company strategy, how data will be managed by the business and how it will be enabled by technology. They can establish data policy and governance, deliver data fixes and a delivery program and establish data services for the business.


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I always worry when we have a history section, because we run the risk of leaving things out. Jeff Heflin would be right to complain as SHOE predates both DAML and OIL (and, in fact, RDF) and Dieter and his crew might want to see Ontobroker mentioned, as it also predates OWL. I'd suggest amending Peter's history to add these important forbears (SHOE was the first ontology language on the web and ontobroker was the first to use DL concepts in the web context that I know of. I'd suggest we either drop the history section, or use what Peter sent ammended as below to make the time line clear and to acknolwedge the earlier work. In addition, we might want to mention the MCF note that was submitted to the W3C and was a forbear to RDF. -Jim H. > >Suggested new text: > > >
 >The Resource Description >Framework (RDF) was the first language specified by the W3C for >representing semantic information about arbitrary resources. >RDF Schema (RDFS) >is a W3C candidate recommendation for an extension to RDF to describe RDF >vocabularies. >RDFS can be used to create ontologies, but it is purposefully very >lightweight so little can be said about the consituents of ontologies in >RDFS. >Further, RDF and RDFS had only an informal specification of the meaning of >their constructs. >
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 >Like OWL, RDFS includes classes and properties, as well as >range and domain constraints on properties. It provides >inheritance hierarchies for both classes and properties. Upon its >release users began requesting additional features, including data >types, enumerations and the ability to define properties more >rigorously. >

 Other efforts in the research community were already examining exactly these sorts of features. As early as 1995, the  Simple HTML Ontology Extensions <SHOE> project  had been exploring the adding of more ontological content to web documents, and soon after the  Ontobroker project  started, with a focus on annotating sets of web pages related to Knowledge Acquisition. These projects provided a testbed for exploring ideas including the use of URIs for embedding ontologies on the web, mechanisms for linking and extending ontologies, the first explorations of rule-languages for the web, and the first attempts at formalizing knowledge representation on the web. SHOE and Ontobroker each resulted in a corpus of marked-up web pages, and in papers describing the dos (and don'ts) of using ontologies on the web. >
 Based on the earlier Ontobroker work, in 1999 <words deleted> >a group of European researchers, funded through the >On-To-Knowledge project of the >E.U., defined an ontology language called >OIL >(Ontology Inference Layer). >OIL was based on ideas from >description logics, >frames, >and the W3C XML and RDF (including RDFS) languages. >OIL was much more powerful than RDFS, but tried to retain some >compatability with RDF and RDFS. >The basic syntax for OIL was a frame-like syntax, but there was also an >RDFS syntax for OIL. >OIL was equipped with a full model-theoretic semantics, providing a formal >meaning for the language. >
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 At about the same time that OIL was being developed, in an attempt to extend the expressive power of RDFS, >a group of U.S. researchers, funded through the >DAML (DARPA Agent Markup >Language) program initiated by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects >Agency, defined a language called >DAML-ONT. >This language was also an ontology language, somewhat similar to OIL, but >based much more directly on RDFS. >The basic syntax for DAML-ONT was the RDF syntax. >A  >partial axiomatization in KIF was provided form DAML-ONT. >
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 >Instead of continuing with separate ontology languages for the Semantic >Web, a group of researchers, including many of the main participants in >both the OIL and DAML-ONT efforts, got together in the >Joint US/EU ad hoc Agent Markup >Language Committee to create a new web ontology language. >This language >DAML+OIL >builds on both OIL and DAML-ONT, and was >href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2001Dec/0144.html">submitted >to the W3C as a proposed >basis for OWL and was subsequently selected as the starting point for OWL. >
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- Assessing the Costs of Failure. Authored by Mr. Lawrence R. Velte, Prof. Shibley Telhami. Edited by Dr. Stephen C. Pelletiere.
- The two papers presented here are particularly timely, as the authors examine the likely effects of breakdown, or breakthrough, on America's broader regional interests, extending in particular to the Persian Gulf. As U.S. policies with respect to the Gulf and the Arab-Israeli peace process come under increasing stress, these authors elaborate linkages between them. They also make clear that the outcomes will have profound implications for U.S. security commitments and, potentially, future missions and deployments.


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I'm Bored by Michael Ian Black, illustrated by Debbie Ridpath Ohi (Simon & Schuster, 2012). From the promotional copy:
There is nothing boring about being a kid, but one little girl is going to have to prove it in this anything-but-boring picture book from comedian Michael Ian Black.
Just when a little girl thinks she couldn't possibly be more bored, she stumbles upon a potato who turns the tables on her by declaring that children are boring.
But this girl isn't going to let a vegetable tell her what's what, so she sets out to show the unimpressed potato all the amazing things kids can do. Too bad the potato is anything but interested….
This tongue-in-cheek twist on a familiar topic is sure to entertain anyone who's ever been bored—or had to hear about someone else being bored—and is filled with comedian Michael Ian Black's trademark dry wit, accompanied by charismatic illustrations from newcomer Debbie Ridpath Ohi.
Was there one writing workshop or conference that led to an "ah-ha!" moment in your craft? What happened, and how did it help you?
|Photo by Jeff Ridpath
Happily, rejection turned out to be a good thing. At that time, you could enter either the manuscript critique or the Portfolio Showcase, but not both.
An illustrator friend of mine, Beckett Gladney, suggested that I enter the Showcase and also helped me put my first portfolio together.
To my shock, I ended winning one of two Honor (runner-up) Awards for the overall showcase as well as being selected for the Mentorship Program, in which six industry experts each selected an artist whose portfolio showed promise.
The SCBWI Illustration Mentor who chose me was Cecilia Yung, who is Art Director at Penguin USA. I met with her as well as the five other Mentors (David Diaz, Rubin Pfeffer, Priscilla Burris, Pat Cummings, Bridget Strevens-Marzo). When we all met the following morning, we new Mentees were each asked to introduce ourselves and say what art training we had received.
When it was my turn, I had to confess that I had majored in Computer Science at the University Of Toronto and that I used to be a computer programmer/analyst.
Instead of looking down on me for my lack of art schooling, however, I've had tremendous support and encouragement from my Mentors as well as the other Mentees and have learned so much from all of them. I continue to be in touch with the other Mentees, and we launched our own website at KidLitArtists.com.
The conference was also significant because that's where Justin Chanda found me. Justin is the publisher at Simon &Schuster in charge of three imprints: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, Atheneum & Margaret K. McElderry Books. During the conference, Justin told me about Michael Ian Black's book, and that he thought I'd be the perfect illustrator.
|At Simon & Schuster: Debbie, Laurent Linn (art director), Justin Chanda (editor/publisher); photo by Dani Young
|Debbie tapes sketches and drawings to her ceiling so she can see them better.
I include the details above to help show how I came to certain realizations. They were particular to my situation, yes, but I list some of them below in case they help others out there:
- Don't let rejections keep you down. Give yourself a day to feel sorry for yourself but then move on. If you let yourself get sucked into defeatist/negativity mode, then you may miss out on other opportunities.
- Seek out and appreciate those who inspire and encourage you. I will always be grateful to my friend Beckett for nudging (okay, pushing) me to overcome my insecurities and try something completely new.
- Don't give up. Keep working on your craft. Get out and meet other creative people.
As for getting my novels published, I haven't given up. Last year, I submitted a YA novel-in-progress for the SCBWI conference manuscript critique, was hugely encouraged by Jen Rofé's feedback, and my manuscript was nominated for the Sue Alexander "Most Promising Work" Award. It didn't win, but it was a sign to me that I should keep working on my novel projects in addition to picture books.
As an author-illustrator, you come to children's books with a double barrel of talent. Could you describe your apprenticeship in each area, and how well (or not) your inner writer and artist play together? What advice do you have for others interested in succeeding on this front?
I've been writing and drawing forever. I wrote my first chapter book when I was in second grade (see photo above). I recall being so excited about using a new word I had discovered in the dictionary: "horrendous." Sadly, I managed to misspell it in my story, and it got red-lined by my teacher.
Although I've had a number of short pieces published in print and online venues as well as a book, my only published writing credit for young people so far is the illustrated short story I did for Tomo: Friendship Through Fiction: An Anthology of Japan Teen Stories, a teen anthology edited by Holly Thompson and published by Stone Bridge Press.
My first writing mentor was Lee Wardlaw, a West Coast writer, and I learned a great deal from her critiquing. Nowadays, my main writing critique group is MiGWriters.
|By Ruth Ohi (Annick Press)
The biggest piece of advice I can give those who write and illustrate: let your inner artist and writer out to play regularly, together as well as separately.
I do some web comics purely for the fun of it, plus I try to do a daily sketch. Some I post online, some I don't.
I think it's especially important for illustrators to do regular aimless doodling. Some people knit or do other needlework while they watch a movie or listen to music at home. I doodle. You never know what your subconscious is going to do or how it's going to express itself, and who knows? You may come up with a character idea or story fragment that could spark a project down the road.
|Sample notes for one of the spreads
|Final version.
My approach to promotion mainly focuses on connections I've made in the past as well as new connections. I'm hoping that some of the people who have been following me via my blogs or social media feeds or past projects will be intrigued enough to buy the book or help me promote it via word-of-mouth. I've never been a big fan of the hard sell, though I know it does work for some people.
To clarify: my approach won't work for everyone. I'm also not saying that this is the best approach -- for the book to sell really well, it needs to sell to total strangers who have no idea who I am. For me, though, the more personal approach feels the most natural and suits my personality.
I'm lucky in that I have publicists and a marketing team at Simon & Schuster in the U.S. and Canada who are going to be helping promote I'm Bored, but I know there's a ton I can do on my own as well.
My advice for authors and illustrators who have a debut book:
- Discover what works for you. Don't force it. You don't have to be on Twitter or Facebook or have a blog, if that type of venue makes you super-uncomfortable or you find them too much of a challenge. There are so many other ways to promote your book. Focus on your strengths and interests.
- Also, think about what prompts you to buy a book. Make a list. Then go over the list and figure out which factors you can influence and which you can't.
- I'm giving a presentation at the SCBWI Niagara Canada East conference in 2013 about Networking and Promotion For Introverts, for anyone interested.
As for whether I'm enjoying the process of promoting I'm Bored, the basic answer is: yes. I do admit that I enjoy some types of promotion more than others. I'm not as comfortable with live interviews as I am with written, for example, and still get nervous when I have to do any public speaking in front of large groups.
But I'm super-excited about I'm Bored and very happy with how it turned out, and that makes promotion so much more fun. Here are just a few of the ways I'm promoting I'm Bored:
- Book launch! Scheduled for 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sept.18 at Type Books on Queen Street in Toronto. More details to be posted on the I'm Bored Facebook Page.
- A song loosely based on the book, co-written with my friend Errol Elumir, and made into a music video (see below!).
- Showing how I'm Bored was created in a process blog, with sketches and photos.
- Comics about how I'm Bored was created:
- Including content on the I'm Bored Bonus Page that encourages linking and shares, like my tips and activities for young writers and young illustrators.
- Partnering with the Ontario Potato Board for fun activity sheets.
- Speaking gigs, guest posts and online interviews.
|Dani Young (Editorial Assistant), Laurent Linn (Art Director), Justin Chanda (Editor & Publisher), Debbie
Photo credit: Navah Wolfe
Cynsational Notes
Don't miss the I'm Bored Bonus Pages, including teacher's guide and ready-to-print activity pages!
Greg Leitich Smith cheers I'm Bored: "With expressive illustrations and a hilarious point-counterpoint, a little girl demonstrates that children are less boring than potatoes. And there are waterfowl, too. Really."
Cynsations Canada reporter Lena Coakley was born in Milford, Connecticut and grew up on Long Island. In high school, creative writing was the only class she ever failed (nothing was ever good enough to hand in!), but, undeterred, she went on to study writing at Sarah Lawrence College.
She became interested in young adult literature when she moved to Toronto, Canada, and began working for CANSCAIP, the Canadian Society of Children's Authors, Illustrators and Performers, where she eventually became the Administrative Director.
Witchlanders, her first novel, was called "a stunning teen debut" by Kirkus Reviews and was the winner of the SCBWI Crystal Kite Award for the Americas region. She is now a full-time writer living in Toronto.
I'm Bored Music Video (inspired by the new picture book from Simon & Schuster BFYR) from debsanderrol on Vimeo.
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Enter to win a copy of I'm Bored by Michael Ian Black, illustrated by Debbie Ridpath Ohi (Simon & Schuster, 2012). Illustrator sponsored. Eligibility: international.
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