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Learning from an Industrial Chemical Perspective
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HELPER- Our loving father, grandfather, brother, and friend, Fred James Scarcelli, age 75, passed away Oct. 9, 2007 in Price.
He was born Feb. 26, 1932 in Standardville, Utah to James and Mary Toson Scarcelli.
Married Patsy Jane Tamllos Feb. 18, 1956 in Las Vegas Nev. She died Jan. 29, 2006.
Jim was a life long resident of Helper and a graduate of Carbon High School. He honorably served his country in the United States Marine Corps during the Korean War.
Jim was inducted into the Utah Sports Hall of Fame Foundation and the Utah High School Activities Association in 2006. He will be dearly missed by all who knew and loved him.
Survived by his daughters, Jalene (Greg) Dipietro, Salt Lake City; Susan (Rusty) Atwood, Hotchkiss, Colo.; brother, Bob (Patti) Scarcelli, Salt Lake City; six grandchildren; four great-grandchildren.
Preceded in death by his parents; wife, Patsy; three brothers, Johnny, Albert, and Ernie Cook.
At Jim's request there will be no services. Arrangements entrusted to Mitchell Funeral Home.
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Hospital and Clinics Named as "Leader in LGBT Healthcare Equality"
The Nebraska Medical Center and UNMC Physicians recently received recognition from the Human Rights Campaign, America's largest civil rights organization working to achieve equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Americans. The announcement was made after all four criteria for LGBT patient-centered care, as defined by the Healthcare Equality Index (HEI) were met. The process included an online survey administered by the Human Rights Campaign to ensure that participating healthcare organizations are meeting legal, CMS and Joint Commission requirements for LGBT patient-centered care.
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Dr. Jean Amoura and Dr. Susan Swindells, medical director of the HIV clinic, led the initiative to become "Leaders in LGBT Healthcare Equality". A record number of 121 Veterans Health Administration (VA) medical centers across the country, including the Omaha VA, also participated.
The HEI survey reviews non-discrimination policies for LGBT patients and employees and provides participating healthcare organizations with a needs assessment that includes access to free expert training.
A diverse group of employees in key work areas received training on best practices for meeting the needs of LGBT patients and employees. As part of the process of receiving leadership status, leadership representatives from The Nebraska Medical Center and UNMC Physicians were also asked to participate in a training webinar.
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The title kind of says it all on this CD-ification of The Milkshakes 1984 vinyl release. The sleeve note's claim that these recordings were made by The Milkshakes' fathers in the early 60s, before they all died in a plane crash in Rochester, may be treated with a certain scepticism but one listen and you could well believe it. Whichever band it was, it is pure unadorned rock & roll, not the kind of ponced up, long haired waIly variety that attempts to pass itself off as such, in endless mindless videos that the 'music industry' shoves at us daily. This is real rock & roll for real men and women - no sexism here - played with a bite that would put the fear of Elvis' sham-burgers into most of these jumped up up-starts. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!


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Germantown - A federal lawsuit alleges that former Village President Thomas Kempinski and the Village Board discriminated against a former village employee when they retaliated against her complaints of sexual harassment by firing her from a job as assistant to the administrator in December 2008.
The former employee, Ann Kaczmarek, alleges that Kempinski repeatedly made sexually suggestive comments and inappropriately touched her after he became village president in April 2007. Though she complained of the alleged harassment to other village officials, they did not intervene to end the conduct, according to the lawsuit filed this week in U.S. District Court in Milwaukee.
Kempinski did not seek re-election to a second term this year. In a telephone interview Thursday, he denied the allegations of sexual harassment.
Kempinski also said he was not involved in the decision to end Kaczmarek's employment with the village.
In addition to allegations of specific incidents of sexual harassment in 2007 and 2008, Kaczmarek, of Slinger, says in the lawsuit that Kempinski called her during non-work hours to discuss his personal matters and expected her to accompany him on his personal errands away from Village Hall.
On a bus trip in July 2007, Kempinski sat behind her and made a suggestive comment, and then asked her if his conduct constituted sexual harassment, according to the lawsuit. Though Kaczmarek said she told Kempinski that she considered his actions to be sexual harassment, he continued to make sexual innuendoes and comments, the suit says.
Kaczmarek also alleges in the lawsuit that Village Administrator David Schornack laughed at Kempinski's comments during the bus trip and did not attempt to stop those actions. Schornack also witnessed similar incidents throughout the summer of 2007 and did not intervene, according to Kaczmarek.
When she complained to Schornack of Kempinski's continuing harassment in 2008, the administrator did not act to stop the behavior, the lawsuit says.
Schornack is not named as a defendant in the lawsuit.
In August 2008, the lawsuit alleges, Kempinski repeatedly asked Kaczmarek to work for him on personal, not village, tasks on her own time. A month later, Kempinski asked her to help him prepare his résumé so that he could apply for jobs, according to the lawsuit.
A job termination notice in December 2008 claimed that she disclosed confidential village information and made unauthorized purchases for the village, though she had never been accused of such conduct prior to her firing, the lawsuit says.
Kaczmarek in her lawsuit asks the federal court to order Germantown to reinstate her in the job and reimburse her for back pay and other compensatory damages, as well as legal fees and other expenses. She asks the court to order Kempinski to pay unspecified punitive damages.
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I'm seeing this constantly now on forums everywhere after the recent announcement (relatively speaking) of SWTOR's "payment model change". What I found most interesting about the subject at hand isn't that SWTOR is making the move to F2P, but the fact that people are now viewing "F2P" as a move for failing MMOs to make in order to avoid closure.
This means that the overall outlook towards "F2P" has either downshifted from "Where the market is going" to a more broadly understand realization that "F2P" isn't what consumers want out of their payment model for an MMO regardless of what big companies are telling us. (Looking @ you EA / SOE).
The move from P2P -> F2P is seen as a failing move, but games built from the ground up with F2P in mind are still becoming popular. However, on a personal note I've never once encountered a product that was built from the ground up with F2P in mind that was worth a single hour of my time invested into it. All of the current "F2P" titles on the market currently that people point to as "How you should do F2P" were box & subscription based payment models for the longest time, and only recently have made the move to F2P in order to keep their products more open to audiences they may not have touched yet so they can keep their doors open longer on aging products.
Do you consider either of these views plausable, or do you have your own idea of what "F2P" means for the market after SWTOR's announcement? Afterall, SWTOR was pushed by the general big-corp market as being the "Title to watch" to see where the market should go for the next 10years.
The Theory of Conservative Conservation of Ignorant Stupidity:
Having a different opinion must mean you're a troll.
i dont think its a fail move
i think its an adaptive move - to make the game a freemium mmo w better earnings
until I see EA allowing ftp for DAOC and Warhammer,
I'm not convinced EA has embraced ftp
Ok , I've said this a few times , and will re write it again. Let's say for example your creating a MMO which costs money , and you notice that to get back your money and start making profit out of it , you'll need 8,000 to sub at 10$ a month for 3 years. Which is pretty reasonable. But Devs only care about the $$$ , they want to be billionaires within the first 2 months of release , so they put the game F2P with a cash shop and catter millions. By doing this , they just killed the soul of the MMO and it's community. If CCP only cared about $$$ , EVE-Online would of been free YEARS Ago , but they are making enough millions to upgrade their servers yearly and releasing free expansions , last time I checked, WoW's expansions weren't free.
So yeah , pretty much every Dev team sucks now a days , besides a FEW. SWTOR could of been something GREAT. But it's just another WoW / GW2 or whatever type of game with chewbaccas and light sabres.
It was a failure from the start. Typical big company hired a bunch of people without a clue how to keep MMO players engaged in a game. Making a technically superior game with lots of voice overs does not get it. Too much hand holding quickly leads to boring gameplay.
I love Star Wars, but did not even attempt to purchase this game, beta testing showed what a loser it was. It was far inferior when it comes to gameplay than what was already on the market.
Any company working with Lucas Arts has a huge handicap, they don't even know what a MMO is. They think that it is just an extension of their single player games. That is why I don't have great hopes that a Star Wars universe MMO will ever be successful unless LA gets new leadership.
I think EA sees it that way.
Lets face it, TOR is not the success it could have been but MMOs live longer than other games and can change, Eve started out with 25K players and are doing fine.
But just making the game F2P wont change anything, Bioware need to update the game so it becomes better long term and keep its players. I am not sure that is what they have in mind since that cost more money, maybe they let it sink like WAR.
But failure to reach EAs guesses does not make the game a failure, that is something we cant judge short term. If they close it down next year it surely was a failure, but they might fix it up and turn things around, anything is possible.
My bet however is that EA will try to milk out as much money they can from it while putting in so little they can and in that case it will indeed go down as failure in MMO hoistory. But then have my opinion of EA never been high since what they did to Westwood, so I might be too pessimistic.
I hope they turn it around though, the IP deserves better than what MMOs made out of it.
No. "Free to play" does not mean a game is a failure. The only business model that conclusively says a game is a failure is pulling the plug, and even then, only if it comes not that long after launch.
I do, on the other hand, believe that SWTOR is a failure for not selling better after being so expensive to build. Exactly the same sales numbers on a $20 million budget would be a success.
Originally posted by Kopogero
SWTOR is a failure because it didn't copy the SWG-Pre CU model. Themeparks in generals been failure over the last 5 years with the exception of WOW.
Try the last 8 years. There hasn't been a single successful themepark. Rift came the closest but even they were merging servers almost right away.
Originally posted by Loke666
My bet however is that EA will try to milk out as much money they can from it while putting in so little they can and in that case it will indeed go down as failure in MMO hoistory. But then have my opinion of EA never been high since what they did to Westwood, so I might be too pessimistic.
i hope you are wrong but i have not forgotten what happened to Sims Online
later renamed to EA Land and made ftp -- then 5 months later shut down
To me F2P == flexibility. That is, if I decide not to play much if at all for 6 months I can stop paying. The ability to jump on once a month and play for 2 hours or just take care of "business" (guild duties, bank, broker, etc) is VERY appealing to me. I refuse to pay any amount per month just to "maintain" my account. Ive seen a lot of moves to f2p from ddo to eq2 and beyond those margins and well between. To me its a smart move to give the customer options and its anything but a failing move. Rather its a competitive move. You have features the others do not. At the end of the day regardless of how you implement that f2p it will come down to two things in my opinion. Marketing and game quality/availability.
Its sad that marketing plays such a heavy role as Ive seen numerous games that from a quality and availability perspective squelch anything out there and yet they die a slow and painful death of player base lacking.
Overall, F2P inclusion is a smart move and beneficial to both parties.
-It makes it easier to try out.
-It makes it easier for the customer to "take a break but still participate".
-Most content up front was a "loss in cost" regardless anyhow so why not use it as an advertising unit.
-Even if people remain F2P they bring community to the game which is one of the primary driving forces in online gaming if not THE driving factor.
-Charging for content allows you to offset marketing costs to the consumer and they educate you without surveys etc and yet even with investment in content to do so you still gain said content and the tech behind it.
--Could continue but why... we all know the truth of it.
The logic of a f2p conversion being a failure because it was not part of the original design is directly equivalent to saying if they change the way a skill works in a game after some period of time and other changes then the original skill was a failure. Sorry, that is wrong. Things have to adapt. If there was any failure it would be in the original consideration of the designers to have f2p part of it not the fact they went f2p later.
When a company spends the kind of money they did on a game, and to have it bleed subs like it did, I believe it is a sign of failure yes.
I promise you this: EA/Bioware probably knew they would eventually go F2P, but I don't think any of them expected to have to pull the trigger nearly as fast as they had to.
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Swtor was a failure unfortantly long before the F2P came along.. sad, I enjoyed the time I had there..
There are quite a few F2P success, so maybe this might breath some life back in to it.
Closing down = failure.
F2P = Change of business model.
The game was already a failure a few months past launch.
The F2P announcement itself was just salt in the wound.
To me, this particular f2p announcement, like most (but not necessarily all), was indeed a sign of failure. I think monetizing the subscription revenue stream was EA's goal all along. They had never mentioned anything about f2p, and there were reports early on about how many subscribers they would need to break even, to make profit, and so on. The whole time, it was -always- about 'subscribers'.
I didn't consider the free trial to be a bad move at all. I think -most- games should have a free, limited trial up to level 20 or so. But going too much past that, especially starting from a full-revenue subscription, is a sign that the company's plans have gone catastrophically wrong. Now, I haven't played SWTOR so I won't try to guess why or how it 'failed' or argue the merits of that particular word. I'm only talking about my perception of the announcement. I think 'Freemium' is, at present, a terrible concept but has room to be made into a good one; a lot lies in the presentation. I think the 'cash shop only' 'f2p' model is downright broken and will remain so by definition.
Swtor was a failure way before. Singing praises about p2p by EA-BW and then going f2p few months after just PROVES it.
They try to save their investment. It won't help much long-term though. It will help alot initially by getting alot of players, but Swtor will start hemoraging players fast becaue it is bad game and not build for long-term attraction. Well EA-BW wanted and meaned it to be long-term success, but that does not mean final product is actually made that way.
Games going F2P is not necessarily signs of failure, LOTRO went F2P to move in line with the payment model of DDO, and was getting many annual awards and still is. DCUO went F2P because SOE changed their focus to F2P, and all their games are now going F2P, even their new ones like Planetside 2.
However, SWTOR going F2P is a failure for SWTOR, as the game had 2 million sales and now about 500K subs or less, and that is a loss of over 70% in about 6 months. If the game was a success it would still have at least 1 million subs or even more - people just do not buy MMOs with the intention of quitting within a few months. It is going F2P because the game needs 500k subs to break even, but that is not happening now. MMOs are games that keep you playing for years. EA also claimed that the game would last ten years. I doubt that will happen now.
If SWTOR had about 500k subs from the start, then it would not be a failure, because it managed to keep people playing.
SWTOR failed right off the bat, at the 3 month period we all knew with bleeding populations that the game had a massive failure.
Free to play is not failure, it is a symtom of the game failing in the first place. It is what I term a long shot to keep the game alive. EA/Bioware looked at other companies that made the cut and are still alive.
The real question is will free to play pull the rabit out of the hat and save SWTOR.
This seems like a couple of different things confused together.
1) SWTOR is a "failure" because of the game itself
2) A F2P model is not an indication of failure, but just another business model
3) SWTOR going F2P this early is in indication that because of the "failure", they had to change business models
I played in closed beta, for free, and quit. I like living worlds to play in, and SWTOR was a dead world.
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Like the title says what is, in your opinion the best/coolest moment in the series.
Like the title says what is, in your opinion the best/coolest moment in the series.
During Arlong Park, when Nami is crying & looks up at Luffy & says "Luffy, help me." And Luffy puts his hat on her head, and just walks off. Then you see all four of them walking down the road like badasses... all Reservoir Dogs style. That part gives me goosebumps every time.
The best/coolest moment for me was when Luffy used gomu gomu storm and sent Crocodile flying.
when luffy ring the bell in the skypiea arc, there are so many emotions, hope, happiness, signifying the end of hundred years of war, etc3,
another one would be when coby declared the new word, wuuu~, pretty nice one,
One would be when Luffy breaks out of that barrel XD
signifys the beginning of a great adventure
During the Water 7 arc, where Luffy, Sanji, Chopper and Zoro find Usopp lying on the ground all beaten by the Franky Family, Luffy promises to avenge him, and then the four of them stroll nonchalantly into the Franky House and proceed to absolutely demolish it.
That was good stuff right there.
1. When Sir Crocodile got kicked in the face during the last battle of Alabasta. That was sweet vengeance.
2. When Robin snapped Spanda(m)'s spine. It was quite relieving.
3. When Aokiji owned Luffy, Zoro and Sanji. It was a refreshing moment, giving the audiences a demonstration of the fact that the Straw Hats are far from the top.
4. Pell's sacrifice. It hit me pretty hard, except for the part where he returned.
5. Eneru's infamous pose and the part where he got kicked in the stomach. Those moments were classic.
- Everytime Luffy was almost died and revived by his relationship with his nakamas and fought so great the strongest villain of the saga (Arlong, Enel, Lucci...).
- The first apparition of Ao Kiji.
- Strawhat's meeting with Laboon.
1) Bonclay's speech at the end of the alabasta arc, where he sacrifices himself for the sake of the straw hats in episode 129.
"My friends and I are masters of disguise,
As well as.....
... Straw chans friends!
One may stray from the path of a man,
One may stray from the path of a woman,
But there is no straying from the path of a HUMAN!
All friends must scatter into the sky of truth, and blossom!
-by Bon Clay"
followed by Bonclay staring straight at the Marines and saying:
right before the scene ends, you hear Bon clay say:
"Scatter upon the waters surface, and grow where you may,
My Fellow blossoms"
With the music and all, it was one of the greatest moments ever.
2) Kokoro's little speech after Luffy beats Blueno, "once this battle is over, that Straw hats brats name will roar throughout the world!". Love that part.
3) When Luffy smashes Bellamy with one puch, priceless
"do i know how to throw a punch"
*cracks knuckles*
4) When Blackbeard yells out that "a mans dreams never die"
5) When they leave Alabasta, and can't say goodbye to Vivi, so they all raise their hands in the air, and show the sign X
6) When Luffy pounds Lucci with the Jet Gattling, pouring everything he has into it, falling down, saying it should be enough, and that huge smile.
7) After the fight of Luffy and Ussop, the part when luffy cried and said "It's Heavy"
8) In Arlong park, when Arlong has his sword around Luffy's neck, and tells him what the room is about, then Luffy gets all serious, and says he now knows what to do to help her (Nami), he destroys the room and everything in it.
9) Hawkeyes saying he will wait for Zoro for however long it takes in his strongest form.
10) Ringing the golden bell in the skypea arc
There are so many more, and I could prolly go on and on, but damn do I love One Piece


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Established in 1915, Timber Creek is not the 'run of the mill' golf course. With gentle rolling fairways, it was designed to give the golfer ample room off the tee while giving the player a challenge of a lie that may be slightly uphill or downhill. The closer you get to our bent grass greens, you will find sand traps placed by the architect in places that add to the overall character of the course. With new sand, you will find it as accommodating as one could. Our greens at Timber Creek were designed for game improvement and the scratch golfer alike.
The original nine holes date back to 1913, offering beautiful views of the Rock River. The design is a 2700 yard, par 34 with lots of trees and small greens. The back nine, built in the late 60's, is a 3200 yard track par 36, with large greens and sand traps. Adding to the challenge is the Holland creek running through it, coming into play on seven of the nine holes.
CITY:Rock Falls
Welcome to Lake Carroll Golf Course, your number one option for a round of golf in Lanark, Illinois. We are truly one of the Midwest's great hidden golf gems, as well as the finest ocourse in Northwestern Illinois. We are located a peaceful and scenic drive away from Cedar Rapids, Rockford, and the Chicagoland area. You will love the high quality of great golf you find here at Lake Carroll Golf Course!
The Edward F. Vassallo Land and Water Reserve
The Edward F.Vassallo Land and Water Reserve is a privately owned reserve located adjacent to White Pines State Forest. It was designated in 2014 as a state Land & Water Reserve by the Illinois Nature Preserves Commission and includes 130 acres of native wildflowers, plants, grasses, creek bottom, habitat for native wildlife, birds and insects and forest areas. Spring Creek, a tributary of Pine Creek, flows through the reserve. Today and forever, this land will remain in its natural condition as part of the Illinois Nature Preserve System and is a gift to present and future generations as a place where native plants and animals can thrive under wise stewardship and protection from harm. No motorized vehicles allowed. Nature lovers are welcome and walking paths can be accessed by calling contact number.
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Full-service training facility. We welcome visitors to our farm to see beautiful Arabian horses, take lessons, or just visit. Call or go to our website for more information and check us out on Facebook.
Established in 1957 - public hunting, plus memberships for pheasant, quail, wild turkey, doves and deer in season. Hunter Safety Course for ages 16 & under - held the second weekend in October.
68 full hookup sites, of which 32 are pull-thru. All are 20 & 30 amp. Hookup (50 amp available), pay phones, full laundry.
CITY:Rock Falls
Franklin Creek State Natural Area
Developed by local volunteers, it offers scenic trails, horseback riding, fishing, and limited hunting. The site contains the historic Franklin Creek Grist Mill and a 180-acre dedicated nature preserve.
CITY:Franklin Grove
Prophetstown State Recreation Area
Boat ramp, shower facilities, picnic grounds and RV dump station. Playground equipment.
Rock River Valley Skydivers, Inc.
Student training. Tandem & sport/fun jumping. Demonstration jumping for events. USPA group member drop zone. Two Cessna C182 jump planes, visitors welcomed. Located at the Whiteside County Airport.
CITY:Rock Falls
For those with an urge to explore a genuine Illinois prairie, this ride takes you past one of the largest pieces of preserved prairie in the state. The Rock River Cruise is 34.7-miles of moderate difficulty, with a few small climbs along the way. Stop off and visit some of the many attractions along the way, including the John Deere Historic Site and the charming town of Oregon.
CITY:Franklin Grove
Nachusa Grasslands, The Nature Conservancy
Private natural area owned by the Nature Conservancy. Highlights are 1500 acres of prairie, wetlands, and savanna woodlands. Grassland flowers, birds and butterflies to observe.
CITY:Franklin Grove
Boat ramps into Lake Sinnissippi area of Rock River. Picnic tables, scenic river view, adjacent to Hennepin Canal State Park.
CITY:Rock Falls
This beautiful 18-hole course with large, smooth greens and rolling hills is open to the public, and offers a pro shop and restaurant.
Located west of Sterling & Rock Falls on Rt. 30 & 2.
Green River State Wildlife Area
Green River is the best remaining example of the wetland-prairie mosaic that once covered the area's nearly 1 million acres of lowlands. This multiple-use site provides hunting, hiking, and birding opportunities.
Emerald Hill Golf Course is a pleasure for golfers of any skill level. The course will challenge you while providing a relaxing, picturesque backdrop. Test your accuracy with our fairways, water hazards and sand traps; we have everything you need to challenge you and improve your game. Our goal is to provide you with a quality experience that includes exceptional service and a comfortable atmosphere.
Located just 10 miles south of Rock Falls, Deer Valley is a challenging 18-hole championship golf course.
CITY:Deer Grove
Surrounded by a ridge covered with thousands of pine trees, Sandy Pine has some of the largest and top-ranked elk bulls in the Midwest. Take a tour through the pasture and snap some photos.
CITY:Deer Grove
Green River Oaks Camping Resort
Camping resort with two pools, basketball courts, fishing in lake and river, rental trailers, 225 sites with hookups.
More than a campground, hit a ball, take a lesson, catch a fish or hayrack ride, swim, dance, hike row/paddle a boat, play basketball, horseshoes, video games and pool or kickback with a campfire. We have 130 acres to do it all.
Rock River Valley Self Help Enterprises Happy Trails
Five acres of walking paths, water gardens, a green house, swings, and gardens were all designed and maintained by the developmentally disabled clients of the Rock River Valley Self Help Enterprises.
Timbered, 1150-acre state park with 77-acre lake stocked with a variety of fish. Class A, 92-site campground with shower building and all sites with electricity. Separate equestrian campground.
Featuring 240 acres, Nature Center, parking, boat launches and Rock River access, fishing, hiking, nature preserve, cross-country skiing, shelters, grills, playground equipment, and more. Ronald Reagan saved 77 lives here as a lifeguard during his boyhood years.


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Teddy Roosevelt Bird Walk
Paul Smith's College VIC 8023 State Route 30, Paul Smiths, New York 12970
During the spring of 2013, Adirondack Birding Center Director Brian McAllister is leading a series of bird walks at the Paul Smiths VIC. Participants are challenged to see and hear many of the bird species identified by a young Teddy Roosevelt in his research while visiting Paul Smiths in the 1870s. Birders meet at the VIC building at 9:00 AM on selected Wednesdays and Saturdays in May and June. $10/person. For more information, call the Paul Smith's College VIC at (518) 327-6241. Bird walks are scheduled for the following dates:
Saturday, 4 May
Wednesday 8 May
Saturday, 18 May
Wednesday, 22 May
Saturday, 8 June
Saturday, 15 June
Saturday, 29 June
Designated an Important Bird Area by the American Bird Conservancy, the 3,000-acre Paul Smith's College VIC property contains every habitat type found in the Adirondack Park with the exception of alpine vegetation. Included on the property is a 60-acre marsh, five ponds, several brooks and swamps, bogs, fens, and varied forest types, most notably northern boreal forest. The 14-mile trail system traverses a variety of habitats with extensive boardwalks through wetland ecosystems. Common sightings at the Paul Smiths VIC include: Wood Duck, American Black Duck, Great Blue Heron, American Bittern, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher and Black-backed Woodpecker. Warblers include (Yellow) Palm Warbler, Northern Parula, Blackburnian Warbler, Black-throated Blue Warbler, Black-throated Green Warbler, and Nashville Warbler. Other sightings may include Gray Jay, Boreal Chickadee, and Wilson's Snipe, Broad-winged Hawk, Hooded Merganser, and Ring-necked Duck.
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Edun Meteor Straight Leg – Phantom, $150
EDUN was founded by Ali Hewson and Bono. EDUN is a for-profit business ??" founded on the premise of trade as a means of building sustainable communities in developing countries to help foster economic growth rather than provide charity.
Bulgari Sterling Silver Ring, $290
Bulgari has created two special rings for their 125th year anniversary, of which $60 will go to Save the Children's "Rewrite the Future" campaign. Made of sterling silver, the rings pay tribute to Sotirio Bulgari, the company's founder who began as a silversmith in the 1800s, and feature Save the Children's logo engraved on the inside. Buy It!
Lilly Pulitzer Brooke Printed Caftan, $268
Designed by Brooke Shields for Lilly Pulitzer, the 'Brooke Printed Caftan' epitomizes casual glamour for the "mommy and me" look. Part of the limited-edition Colorful Cause collection in celebration of Lilly Pulitzer's 50th jubilee. Great on the beach, lounging around the house or over a pair of skinny jeans on it's own or with a low slung belt.
Nanette Lepore linen Helio dress, $350
A fresh bohemian tunic dress great by itself or over a pair of jeans or leggings. Twenty percent of the proceeds go to Global Green, which combats climate change.
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Surfers remember announcer Mike Morgan
SEAL BEACH – Mike Morgan had a way of bring people together.
Even seven years after his passing, the contest announcer known for his sense of humor and endless surf stoke was remembered for those qualities during a paddle-out fundraiser held in his name Saturday. Morgan died in 2005 at age 44.
Friends of Morgan – some of whom happen to be the best surfers from our area – get together each year to remember, a gathering of surfers from Seal Beach and Huntington Beach and beyond to share stories about their friend. The paddle-out also marks the kick off to a surf contest held in his name, the Morgan's Wave of the Day Expression Session Fundraiser, which has a waiting period through March 15. Surfline.com makes a call on which day the contest will run during now and that period.
"He's a very special man. Morgan had a way of bringing people together, and I want to continue that," said organizer and longtime friend Chris Sardelis.
The invite-only contest brings together 18 surfers known for being able to take on the heavy, barreling break on the south side of the pier. The list is impressive and is made up of some of the area's best surfers, like World Tour surfer Brett Simpson, Chris Waring, Teddy Navarro and more.
Like the "Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau" event held in Hawaii, the contest will only run if the waves are in the above average-to-excellent range, Sardelis said.
So far, about $4,000 has been raised to benefit the Wounded Warriors and the Seal Beach Junior Lifeguards, with the fundraising efforts continuing until the surf contest is held.
Simpson, of Huntington Beach, showed up for the tribute to pay respect to Morgan, who he remembers commentating back when Simpson was doing the National Scholastic Surfing Association circuit as a kid.
"He was super influential to us. He was a commentator, but he was also a good friend who I surfed with every day," Simpson said. "It's just cool that everyone comes and shows respect. It's been a while, but he'll always be remembered."
Looking back, Simpson can now understand all the lessons that Morgan was teaching the younger generation.
"He taught us respect in the water. He's taught me a lot," Simpson said. "You want to take what he taught you, and teach the younger kids as well. He was just a good human."
Morgan grew up in the Long Beach and Seal Beach area, getting his first surf gig at Harbour Surfboards. In the 1980s, he was a nationally-ranked surfer for the National Scholastic Surfing Association national team. He then became a coach and in the 1990s took to the mic to start announcing events. He was often called the Chick Hearn of surfing.
Brad Nadell, owner of surf shop Foam-EZ, said Morgan was a father figure with a funny, charismatic personality.
"When I first started surfing, he took me under his wing. He taught me how to surf contests," said Nadell, a Seal Beach surfer. "We were really tight, and he used to take me around surfing. He taught me the reigns of the whole surf things. I just have great memories of him here."
Former longboard world champ Joey Hawkins said Morgan's love and enthusiasm for the sport was infectious. The two carpooled to surf contests together, spending hours and days on the road.
"He was such a pillar of surf stoke. More than anything, he just resonated and radiated surfing stoke," Hawkins said.
The tribute started with the surfers gathering around Huntington Beach pastor Sumo Sato for a prayer.
"I think he'd be stoked of all our relationships. Water binds us all. He loved to surf, he loved the water," Sato said to the crowd. "What holds people together is the relationships we have with one another."
After the prayer, about 20 surfers headed into the sparkling, chilly waters to form a circle, splashing water to the sky. Just as they finished up, a set brought wave after wave, the surfers scattering to catch a few fun ones.
"Morgan came through for us today, hooked us up with beautiful weather and some little barrels for us," said pro surfer Chris Waring, of Huntington Beach. "Morgan was definitely watching over us today."
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In this interview, Micheal Lang and Brooke Stevenson discuss linkages between data interoperability and enterprise architecture, and how Semantic Web standards are helping the US Department of Defense create a single view of the architectures in place.
Interview conducted by Alan Morrison and Bo Parker
Michael Lang is co-founder and chairman of Revelytix. Brooke Stevenson is president of Spry Enterprises. In this interview, Lang and Stevenson discuss the linkages between data interoperability and enterprise architecture, and how Semantic Web standards are helping the US Department of Defense create a single view of the architectures in place.
PwC: How did Revelytix get started?
ML: About eight or nine years ago, I founded a company named MetaMatrix. It's since been sold to Red Hat. MetaMatrix was an early attempt to provide a modeldriven solution for data integration issues. In building MetaMatrix, we built a pretty sophisticated modeling framework based on the OMG [Open Management Group] MetaObject Facility specification.
Our largest customer base became the US government, totally by accident. Our backgrounds were in the financial services industry, and we built the product thinking that we'd solve problems for the financial services industry. But the NSA [US National Security Agency] became our first customer, and then DoD [US Department of Defense] bought a bunch of the software. We wound up selling quite a bit to financial services, but quite a bit more to the government.
With that product, I think we had a fair amount of success building models of domains to facilitate the installation of disparate data sources. We would build models of data sources and models of domains, wire them together, and let you query the domain model to get information from independent data sources. And in that exercise, well, in building that company and working with our customers, it became clear that the MetaObject Facility was not a rich enough language to model everything we wanted to model. So the NSA pointed us in the direction of OWL, the Web Ontology Language.
We founded Revelytix four years ago to build a collaborative ontology editor based on the W3C [Worldwide Web Consortium] standard to OWL and the Resource Description Framework [RDF], and it's been hosted on the Web as a free tool for the last three years, Knoodl.com [http://knoodl.com]. We have applied semantic modeling to a bunch of different problems.
Brooke started using it for a project at the US Army about a year ago, and in January 2009, the Army funded a pilot project that combined OWL modeling techniques with business process modeling techniques using the Business Process Modeling Notation [BPMN] to facilitate a kind of enterprise architecture analysis that they were incapable of doing at the time. That project has since been funded for a production version. So we built them a pilot in January, and we are now building a full production version.
The Business Transformation Agency [BTA] funded this production version. The Business Transformation Agency is an agency within DoD that sits above the services [Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Navy] and reports at the OSD, the Office of the Secretary of Defense. The Business Transformation Agency's mission is to transform the way DoD does IT.
PwC: Is this a way for the DoD to get all of its various systems on the same page, regardless of which agency or which branch of the service?
BS: Yes. The senior-level sponsor for our project right now is Dennis Wisnosky, who is the CTO and chief architect for DoD. He has a bit more of a business visionary focus, but he works for the deputy chief management officer in OSD. He wrote one of the only really thorough books on DoDAF [Department of Defense Architecture Framework], and he helped create an information model for managing the data that you would put into DoDAF, which has traditionally just been views of data.
To advance the strategy with DoDAF, to help get better systems interoperability, and to make sure we describe things using a more common methodology, Dennis is having his team publish some guidance documents for DoDAF. DoDAF traditionally has been the opposite of prescriptive. It's been a very open framework that just generally guides what descriptions you should provide in the requirements definition and acquisition life cycle or in systems development.
But now that we need to deal with this cross-program interoperability problem, they've realized that they need to be more prescriptive to get some common modeling techniques and patterns used across all the systems.
PwC: That's the same point at which TOGAF [The Open Group Architecture Framework] has found itself at release 9.0. It is getting more prescriptive as it gets more mature. It's basically gone from telling you that you should produce to moving more in the direction of telling you how to produce it.
BS: That's exactly where they are going with DoDAF. Our approach provides a strategy for putting into production a set of tools and technologies and an architecture team to help facilitate, and the governance processes to help oversee that transition.
PwC: So how are organizations like DoD approaching transformation nowadays? What modeling techniques are they using, and what problems are they confronting, including the semantics problems?
ML: We look at the fundamental problem that you're describing as one of description. The reason that enterprises can't achieve the goals that DoD is trying to achieve—and it's basically the same one you are articulating—is that access and capabilities and other sorts of things are not described in a way that's useful to achieve the mission. I'd say there are three legs to the mission: first is interoperability, and part of interoperability is discoverability; another is integration; and the third would be analysis.
What we have provided for DoD is a road map showing that if you describe things with enough precision and in a language that's executable, you can achieve all three goals—interoperation, integration, and a different class of analysis—with one technique. The power of that technique derives from the ability to describe things with a different sort of precision than is used today. And, really, that's our entire solution about how to describe things.
PwC: And that extends from the more granular EAI [enterprise application integration] kinds of concerns up to organizational design and capability integration?
ML: Yes. It's the most granular description of the most arcane message format that your enterprise has up to the governance model that the board of directors insists be used to operate the company at the high level.
PwC: Implicit in what you are saying, then, is that there's a missing aspect of corporate or government performance?
ML: Look around any large enterprise. Governments are not at all unique in this. You'll find that they spend lots of time and money describing things. Those descriptions are in UDDI [Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration] repositories, they're in specialized metadata repositories, they're in data models, they're in Word documents, and they're in spreadsheets. Those descriptions are all over the place, and hardly any of them are useful at runtime.
Three years ago, we got started in DoD by putting forth a best practice that we call community-based vocabulary development, so that a domain (say, human resources, acquisition, or any domain within an enterprise) would have a community that could build a vocabulary that described their domain to any degree of abstraction or precision that it wished, using a single technique—the Web Ontology Language.
For the last three years, we went from fighting furious wars with the XML [Extensible Markup Language] schema people … [laughter] … I'm glad you got a kick out of that, because it wasn't funny at the time. I would say that today we have a complete and total victory. All of the domain modeling at DoD now is being done in OWL.
PwC: So you have brought the whole DoD along, is that what you're saying?
ML: I believe that's the case, yes.
PwC: That's quite an accomplishment.
ML: Now the next step is to make those artifacts useful. You have some of these domain categories available now, so how do you use them to drive analysis? Brooke figured out how to apply that technique in the domain of architecture, and it's one of the places that DoD wants to apply this technique aggressively.
BS: The senior leadership in DoD—the three stars and the four stars—are driven to transform the way that they do business. Consider acquisitions, for example. Instead of thinking about the acquisition of these big monolithic systems, they plan to think about the acquisition of capabilities expressed as services, and the way that they build out those capabilities once they're headed down the acquisition path.
The problem is the big bureaucracy underneath that senior leadership level. To make that transition happen, the first thing they need to figure out is how to adjust the way they define requirements and the way they run the acquisition process to realize those requirements. If they can transform that part of DoD, then the rest will follow naturally.
PwC: It seems like the acquisition aspect is the critical piece, then. Each agency and branch has its own habit of acquisition that it's developed over the decades. You're suggesting that the transformation would be to get acquisition to occur in a fashion that incorporates the learning that you're imparting and that the highest levels of the DoD are on board with.
BS: That's exactly true. But you can't change everything about the way they do business, because there are huge organizations and massive policies in place. What you can change for the acquisition people, or the people who do portfolio management and analysis, is the way that they analyze what they're going to invest in and how they're going to meet requirements. And so that's where the world of enterprise architecture comes in.
Enterprise architecture, if it's functioning properly, should not just describe a system, but should describe all of the data that you need to do analysis. If you formally capture those descriptions, refocus the way you do enterprise architecture work, and collect that data that they are using for investment analysis and capability gap analysis, then you're transforming the whole way that they establish requirements and do analysis to make the appropriate investments.
PwC: Does this net out to using OWL to discipline the description process so that the semantics—the wobbliness of the semantics that have allowed the same description to be interpreted multiple ways—is ratcheted down and people strive to a common understanding of what the services are supposed to do?
BS: That's exactly right. The only addition I'll make there is that OWL is the underlying description framework that we use for everything. To help solve the description requirements challenge in a way that is natural to the business analyst or the mission analyst community—the users—we also use business process modeling. We've started with the BPMN standard from the OMG, but we use OWL to capture all the data in those BPMN models as well so that we can relate it to all of the other information artifacts that are relevant.
That is another key standard for us, because getting collaborative consensus and a formal way of describing requirements brings a lot of different parties together. The Business Process Modeling Notation gives you a nice set of semantics to do that.
PwC: We are also trying to understand how enterprise transformation and enterprise architecture frameworks contribute to value creation. We're looking at complex adaptive systems and evolution models to try to understand how that aspect of value also needs to be taken into account when you're considering a transformation, because you may inadvertently destroy value if you are not aware of the emergent value creation aspects of your organization. Have you looked at that?
ML: Well, we thought about it. We coined the term "emergent analytics" about a year ago. I think it's not exactly what you're talking about, but it's a concept that can be realized from using RDF and OWL. We haven't actually put this into operation anywhere, so it's still conceptual at this point.
Several years ago, the primary driver for us to move to RDF as an information model was extensibility. All of the information models presently used are extensible only if you'll accept brittleness. If you want to extend them beyond some point, everything built on them, then you have to rebuild the models around the new extended version of what you did. RDF and OWL have a unique property. You can extend the information model arbitrarily—and I mean the word "arbitrarily"—without breaking anything.
We hope to put the capability in place at DoD soon so that people who know nothing about each other, and practically nothing about the information model they are interacting with, can make assertions. These assertions can be facts or concepts for other sorts of things, but principally facts and concepts. Essentially, they will be able to just dump these assertions into this extensible graph of information. And if you do that on a large enough scale, information that you didn't anticipate emerges from the graph.
If you are familiar with complexity theory and things like that, this is all part of what you would expect from this sort of an information model. Now, as I've said, we have not put this approach into play, but we've done enough work with these technologies to believe that there isn't a reason in the world why it wouldn't work. So it's able to let any community of any arbitrary size make any assertions they want to make, and allow new information and new types of analysis to emerge from the graph.
PwC: There is a long history of requirements, analysis, and transferring requirements into code. What are the big differences here relative to more traditional approaches?
ML: The biggest difference is the number of people that participate in the descriptive activity. If any organization thinks it will be able to describe things to the degree of precision that we are talking to you about today, with all groups of engineers, that organization will not transform itself, ever.
To be transformative with this, you have to involve a very large number of people who know very specific things about parts of their domain. They might be the only people who know those things. The odds of an engineer getting that kind of description about something are zero. There is no possibility he is going to get it.
If you don't involve very large communities in describing things, you can never transform the way you do business. DoD has latched onto this, and they know this is the case. The trick was that we convinced them to use OWL. After they came to that conclusion—OWL is the only technology available to achieve that goal—then it became easy.
PwC: I think we agree with you on that. OWL has distinct advantages that other techniques don't seem to have, but there are, of course, lots of critics. I'm sure you've confronted a lot of them who would say that OWL is overly complicated and that the people in the organization who need to do the description are never going to get their arms around it.
ML: In my view, this is where there is an enormous disconnect between the Semantic Web crowd and us. We don't have any requirement whatsoever in what we described to you for inference and reasoning. The thing that makes OWL complicated is the inferencing and reasoning requirement.
Basically, all we are using is RDF schema. Don't tell me that any person at any skill level in an organization can't make a simple assertion, an assertion like this is a part of that, or one that says this has this color, or this has that function. That's all we are asking these people to say.
They are saying those things right now in Excel spreadsheets, they are saying them in Word documents, they are saying them in e-mail messages, and they are making those same statements in 19 different technologies. We give them a user interface that lets them make these simple assertions. But when I say assertion, I mean a simple sentence with a subject, predicate, and object. They make a simple assertion about something they know about.
PwC: And the wiki that you just showed us is their point of entry for that, correct?
ML: Yes.
BS: The other aspect of the picture we're describing is that there are now a whole bunch of communities working on this ontology development. They have ontologists who are engineering the OWL file, and they have subject matter experts who are stating facts or making assertions that fit into the ontology. The two important tricks are governing the collaborations between those two kinds of people (engineers and subject matter experts) and defining your use case for that ontology up front.
In one example, we are using the ontology to do service discovery and portfolio management. So our ontology architecture is totally driven by those two things.
If you think for some reason up front that you have to do inferencing but you don't really know what you are going to do, then that does make the ontology development a lot more complex. And most of the time that's overkill.
PwC: So in essence you are saying start small, develop this initial capability, and just use the more ambitious inferencing when you really need it and don't do the overkill.
BS: Right. That's the great thing about the OWL and RDF standards being inherently extensible. You can add that all in later, but still do a lot of really valuable things early on with a more simple use case.


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Hugo Chapman, Exhibition Curator
I'm writing on Thursday evening at the end of the first day of the public viewing of the exhibition. I was unusually nervous and keyed-up all day. I now realise my feelings were a bit like those I experience in that half hour before a party begins. The food and drink is all ready, but I can't shake off a bat squeak of panic in my head that there's been collective form of amnesia among my friends, or I told them the wrong date. Such nerves are quickly dispelled by the first ring of the doorbell. Would the Reading Room have only the warders in attendance on the opening day?
With these dark thoughts in mind it was heartening to step into the Reading Room around 11am to see it thronged with people. It was fantastic to witness the hushed concentration of the visitors as they looked intently at the drawings and at the explanatory films.
The scene made me think back to how panic-struck I had been three years ago when I was told that my proposed show was to be in the Reading Room. How could such a vast space be given the intimacy that drawings need? In the event the BM exhibition designer, Jon Ould, came up with a brilliant plan that gave the works space to be viewed without having a sense of the great void above.
One of the thrills of the show was to see the transformation of the empty Reading Room platform to the exhibition space that Jon had designed. The discussions with Jon and other colleagues as to how the drawings should be structured and displayed mirrored many others that shaped the show's formation. For me the collective, collaborative nature of creating an exhibition is the perfect antidote to the essentially lonely business of writing the book that preceded it.
I'll definitely keep on returning to the show to savour the reaction of the viewer and to admire the drawings. Someone at the opening told me wistfully that they hoped that the Icelandic volcano would keep on erupting to allow the Uffizi drawings to remain. Volcanic ash or not the exhibition will, however, certainly close on 25 July so the clock is ticking…
Image caption: Inside the exhibition
Filed under: Exhibitions, Italian Renaissance drawings, behind the scenes, Drawings, Exhibition, exhibition design, Reading Room, Renaissance


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Tuesday of the 10th Week
The Gospel according to Luke 17:26-37; 18:8
The Lord said, "As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of man. They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. Likewise as it was in the days of Lot -- they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built, but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom fire and sulphur rained from heaven and destroyed them all -- so will it be on the day when the Son of man is revealed. On that day, let him who is on the housetop, with his goods in the house, not come down to take them away; and likewise let him who is in the field not turn back. Remember Lot's wife. Whoever seeks to gain his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it. I tell you, in that night there will be two in one bed; one will be taken and the other left. There will be two women grinding together; one will be taken and the other left." And they said to him, "Where, Lord?" He said to them, "Where the body is, there the eagles will be gathered together. Nevertheless, when the Son of man comes, will he find faith on earth?"
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