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By Bethany Venable
The Ridges Master Plan Committee has announced the selection of Schooley Caldwell Associates (SCA), a Columbus-based architectural and engineering firm, to aid the team of Ohio University employees and Athens-area community members in crafting an updated master plan for The Ridges.
Members of The Ridges Master Plan Committee heard presentations from four firms, and selected SCA based on the experience and expertise the team provides in historic preservation, land use planning and project development, said Director of University Planning and Space Management Shawna Bolin. Bolin serves as one of the co-chairs of the Master Plan Committee, along with Vice President for Research and Creative Activity and Dean of the Graduate College Joseph Shields.
"Members of our consultant selection team were very impressed with SCA and the team they put together for our project. After several months of analysis, research and prep, our Ridges Master Plan Committee is thrilled to be able to get on with the most critical elements of The Ridges planning process," Bolin said.
About Schooley Caldwell Associates
SCA, which has been in business for 70 years, has become nationally recognized for historic preservation and renovation through such projects as the state capitol renovations in Utah and Minnesota. SCA has ties to OHIO, having participated in a number of projects on the Athens Campus, including:
Their work around the state of Ohio includes the historic preservation of the Ohio Statehouse, the Ohio Judicial Center, the Lazarus Building and the Franklin Park Conservatory. For The Ridges Master Plan Update, Schooley Caldwell Associates will work closely with MKSK, a Columbus-based landscape architecture and planning firm that has developed more than 100 campus master plans.
"Our firms are really optimistic about the potential that The Ridges holds and we are eager to get started," said SCA President and CEO Bob Loversidge. "We're also excited that Ohio University is interested in public involvement and input. Both Schooley Caldwell and MKSK frequently work on visible, public projects, so our firms will co-facilitate the public involvement process. We're very much looking forward to constructive dialogue. We know the University and the community want to see something positive happen at The Ridges, and we're up to the challenge of coming up with innovative ideas about what that could be."
Ridges Master Plan Committee member and Athens County Planner Lori Burchett said she was enthusiastic about the choice of SCA.
"While their extensive resume is impressive, particularly with historic preservation projects, I was most interested in their approach for implementation, public participation and financing strategies for public institutions," said Burchett. "They have assembled a talented team of professionals that will address all aspects of this planning effort with a specific focus on preserving the historic integrity of The Ridges. Many of these professionals have broad experience with historic preservation efforts, university planning and urban design projects around the state and I am looking forward to seeing what ideas and strategies they will bring to Ohio University."
The Ridges Master Plan Update process explained
The site of the former Athens Lunatic Asylum has been the focus of much work and conversation since Ohio University President Roderick McDavis charged a Ridges Advisory Committee in July with the task of providing advice and guidance to the then newly-created Ridges Master Plan Committee.
The Master Plan Committee, which is made up of several University administrators, members of the academic community, and city and county planners, is working to create The Ridges Master Plan Update - 2014 document. This document, building on the work of prior planning efforts, is intended to propose new ideas and strategies by which the University can utilize the asset of The Ridges and associated lands to further the University's mission. The Ridges Master Plan Update – 2014 work will also be integrated into the Comprehensive Master Plan effort for the Athens Campus that will be initiated later this summer.
The Advisory Committee first met in December and is holding quarterly meetings throughout the length of the master plan update process to provide guidance and feedback along the way.
The process is meant to be inclusive of the community, explained Bolin. SCA will facilitate open forums to field input on targeted aspects throughout the plan development process, as well as use online tools to gather feedback.
The public involvement process will begin with a "Meet and Greet" event scheduled for early June. "We want to introduce ourselves to the community and start to hear from them," Loversidge explained. "At this point we're still in the early research stage of the project, so we won't have a lot of ideas to share just yet. But we still want to meet people, tell them about our backgrounds, listen to what they may have to say, and hopefully assure them that the planning for The Ridges is in good hands."
The timeline to update the Master Plan document is expected to conclude with a final report ready in spring of 2015. Currently, the Master Plan Committee is meeting monthly. The Master Plan Committee is doing a considerable amount of prep work for the consultants, explained Bolin, by pulling together data and information, reviewing the progress and providing guidance on the work of three subcommittees: Land Use/Development, Existing Building Strategy and Academic Uses, and reviewing past planning efforts. The Master Plan Committee will use information gathered to help guide the consultants' focus in their work moving forward.
SCA has proposed their portion of the project be considered in five phases:
Phase 1 – Project Initiation, which will consist of meeting with the Master Plan Committee and collecting information and data about the project. An overall schedule will be refined at this point, including workshops and meetings which invite public participation.
Phase 2 – Goals, Strategy, Visioning, Ideation, which allows the consultants to work with members of the subcommittees to discuss possibilities for each aspect of the Master Plan. The goal of this phase is to develop a strategic vision, new uses and a new identity for The Ridges.
Phase 3 – Exploration and Testing, which allows for the narrowing of ideas generated in Phase 2. Key concepts and financial feasibility will be tested in this phase to allow the consultants to establish a direction for the project.
Phase 4 – Refinements and Conclusions, which includes preparing diagrams, plans, renderings and photos to illustrate proposed recommendations with regard to building renovations, additions and new buildings. The Master Plan drafted during this phase may also be presented to subcommittee members and the public.
Phase 5 – Final Plan and Presentations, which will produce the final Master Plan report, which the Master Plan Committee will then present to the Advisory Committee for feedback.
Bolin explains both The Ridges Master Plan Update -2014 document and any additional or separate recommendations from the Advisory Committee will be sent to President McDavis for consideration.
The Ridges Advisory Committee members, charged to provide guidance, feedback and recommendations on the master plan that will developed by The Ridges Master Plan Committee, include:
Stephen Golding (chair), vice president for Finance and Administration and president's Designee
Charlie Adkins, Athens County commissioner
Jim Sands, Athens City Council president
Marjorie Stone, Athens resident
Paul Logue, Athens city planner and Mayor's Designee
Pam Callahan, Athens resident
The Ridges Master Plan Committee members are charged with updating the master plan for The Ridges. They include:
Shawna Bolin, co-chair, director of University Planning and Space Management
Joseph Shields, co-chair, Academic Uses subcommittee chair, vice president for Research and Creative Activity and dean of the Graduate College
Donna Goss, Land Use/Development subcommittee chair, director of Engagement and Real Estate Management
Ben Stuart, Existing Buildings subcommittee chair, executive director of the Institute for Sustainable Energy and the Environment
Cliff Hamilton, environmental engineer
Dick Planisek, director of Facilities Programming
John Day, associate dean of Academic Affairs
Joe Adams, associate vice president of Safety and Risk Management
Paul Logue, Athens City planner
Lori Burchett, Athens County planner
Annie Laurie Cadmus, director of Sustainability
Adam Riehl, interim executive director Facilities Program, Design and Construction


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I have batted around the idea of doing a series of succinct posts about the basics of Islam for a long time. Now, in the wake of protests and evolutions in North Africa and the Middle East and a slew of misinformation and fear-mongering in the US media, such a series seems sorely needed.
A few caveats before I outline the first few post ideas. I am not a Muslim. I am not a religious studies scholar. I have not read all the hadiths. I have, however, read the Qur'an in its entirety. I don't presume to be perfect, and I have from the beginning intended this blog to be both a place for me to express myself and my ideas and for people to engage in discussion. Post comments, questions, or suggestions. If there's a topic I haven't discussed that you're curious about, let me know. If I can speak to any degree about it I will. If I can't, I will try my best to acquire some information to foster discussion.
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Wetlands satellite mapping scheme yielding first results
Earth's wetlands are havens for wildlife and vital to the water cycle, but they are also under threat. An ESA-led initiative aims to develop a global wetland information service based on Earth Observation for conservation efforts. The Globwetland project has now entered a new phase, with prototype products being developed based on sites across four continents.
Abundant water makes wetlands the most biologically diverse ecosystems on Earth, more productive even than tropical rainforests. Unlike rainforests, they are scattered across the world, providing regional flood and erosion prevention, water purification and nutrient recycling.
For much of the 20th Century, wetlands were drained or otherwise degraded. However growing understanding of the vital importance of wetlands led to the signing in 1971 of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands. Today more than 1424 wetlands have been designated as Wetlands of International Importance, a total area of 129 million hectares. The Convention's 145 national signatories commit to maintaining the ecological character and are obliged to reporting on the state of listed wetlands they have designated.
Taking place as part of ESA's Earth Observation Data User Element, the aim of Globwetland is to utilise satellite imagery to provide detailed wide-area views of individual wetlands and their surrounding catchment areas, and how they are changing. This will assist with Ramsar reporting, and also aid national and local conservation efforts – the success of which ultimately comes down to individual wetland managers.
For this reason Globwetland is user-oriented, developing and demonstrating a space-based information service based on the specific requests of local and national users across 50 sites in 21 countries worldwide.
"Our aim is to provide what the wetland managers think is useful," explained Kevin Jones of Vexcel Canada, the company managing Globwetland. "So the first phase was carrying out a detailed survey of user requirements, to know what sites should be acquired, in what style.
"We also need to ensure that products that can be employed locally are also standardised to be of use nationally and internationally.
"Now comes the stage of prototyping products, with specific products being developed based on user requirements. In turn, wetland managers are helping us with ground truthing our products – verifying that what is shown in an image is really there."
Based on the user requirements, Globwetland core products include base maps, land use-land cover (LULC) maps and change detection maps – with historical satellite images being compared with current acquisitions to see what changes have occurred during the last ten years or more. Water cycle regime monitoring maps are also being created using Envisat and Radarsat radar data to show flood and retreat patterns.
Specialised products available if requested include digital elevation models (DEMs) and biophysical data acquired from multispectral satellite sensors, showing vegetation health based on chlorophyll levels or the sediment contents of wetland water bodies.
Cooperation in Canada
Canada's Creston Valley Wildlife Management Area is a Ramsar site in British Columbia, whose management team is working with Globwetland on the developing of prototype products.
Its area manager is Brian Stushnoff, who explains: "The Wildlife Area covers 7 000 hectares. It is a pretty wild area, and there are some difficult and waterlogged parts. What we need is an effective, economic means of knowing how the entire area responds to changing water levels.
"Globwetland has presented our team with a collective opportunity to learn more about satellites, what they can and cannot do. Before the project began, we never realised there were so many different types of data available."
Managing a wetland such as the one in Creston Valley is a complex task. To ensure continued high biodiversity, the water levels of its marshes must be periodically drawn down. Such cycles of wet and dryness mimic nature's droughts, providing oxygen to decompose dead plant material and release nutrients.
In addition, this practice helps stop invasive plant species, such as cattails or reed canary grass, filling open water and pushing out other plants.
"We try to keep up an early stage of succession, and a high level of wetland vegetation can tend to reduce diversity," Stushnoff explained. "We have to rehabilitate areas that get choked with vegetation, drying them up and then ploughing up the ground to get rid of the seed bank that develops over time.
"What satellite multispectral or radar images can do is allow us to map vegetation species, and see where there are concentrations of invasive plants to give us problems. Reed canary grass can stand two to three metres high, so shows up well in a radar image. Radar also shows up the extent of flooded areas well, so we can see how water levels are changing.
"Historical satellite images are useful to see patterns over time – a lot can happen in 30 years, or just a decade. Annual satellite updates will help us into the future."
Classifying wetlands from space
Another advantage of the project is that it should increase our ability to recognise different types of wetlands using Earth Observation, and by extension more accurately classify them within land cover maps.
"Wetlands have been very difficult to identify from space," explained Doug Taylor of Wetlands International, a non-governmental organisation that maintains the Ramsar Sites Database and is a Globwetland partner. "The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment remote sensing group identified this ecosystem as the least well recognised from space.
"Although sensors detecting water are useful, most wetlands are also associated with vegetation, so characteristic wetland surfaces may be anything from forested or floating plants to rice paddies or wet grassland. Building up a catalogue of characteristic signatures for all latitudes has only just started, so the Globwetland project, by virtue of its wide geographical and temporal reach, is a very useful platform."
Globwetland should mean that, for the first time, wetlands should be capable of being recognised solely through Earth Observation imagery.
In preparation, Wetlands International has worked with the European Environment Agency to develop an extension to their Corine Land Cover classification system, developed for the 300-metre-resolution Corine European land cover map derived from satellites. This extension is based on the globally authoritative 'Ramsar Classification for Wetland Type' system, covering all known wetland types.
Kampala COP 9 will present progress
The Ninth Meeting of the Conference to the Parties (COP 9) of the Ramsar Convention is due to take place in Kampala, Uganda from 8 November 2005. The meeting will include a presentation from the Globwetland team on the project's progress so far.
Globwetland involves sites across four continents: North and South America, Europe (including European Russia) and Africa, the countries involved here being Algeria, Egypt, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Niger, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and South Africa.
"This will be an important opportunity to demonstrate the innovative work of the Globwetland project, showing how Earth Observation can be used fruitfully to support wetland managers on the ground in their management planning for Ramsar sites" says Nick Davidson, the Ramsar Convention's Deputy Secretary General. "Many of us recognise the huge potential for satellite-derived information to help,but for the non-expert it's much harder to find out just what Earth Observation tools and sources can help us for each site-specific management issue.
"The experience of the Earth Observation analysts and site managers at these 50 Ramsar sites, many of them in Africa, will help all of us involved in the conservation and wise use of wetlands, wherever we are."
Globwetland partners
Vexcel Canada Inc is leading the Globwetland consortium for ESA's DUE, with subcontractors Remote Sensing Solutions GmbH of Germany and Synoptics Remote Sensing and GIS Applications of the Netherlands. The Netherlands-based Wetlands International organisation is also taking part, both as a sub-contractor and also as a link to the global wetland science community.


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In 1990, a TV miniseries based on Stephen King's It aired on television, and since then, I've been uncomfortable around clowns. That's a mark of just how unnervingly creepy Tim Curry's portrayal of the red-haired, sharp toothed clown-monster was. ("Oh yes... They float, Georgie. They float. And when you're down here with me, you float too!") I was a bit too young to be reading King at that point, but I've since faced my fear of Pennywise and found that It is a pretty fantastic read, and well worth picking up if you can stomach the creepier scenes. So it is with cautious optimism that I share the news that the feature adaptation of King's novel now has a director and a writer.
King's It follows a group of adult friends who reunite in their hometown of Derry, Maine when they learn that the child-murdering evil monster that haunted their lives for a summer during their youth is back and killing once again. The story jumps between the present and the past, revisiting the days when they first found each other, and faced the clown (and the demon beneath). It's a scary story, but beyond the horror is a tale of friendship, fear, bravery and loss of innocence. If you're looking to lose yourself in a book this summer, add It to this list.
The Hollywood Reporter posted the news tonight, stating that Cary Fukunaga is set to direct Warner Bros.' feature adaptation of It. He's also going to be co-writing the script along with Chase Palmer. Among his directing credits is the 2011 adaptation of Jane Eyre. He's also listed as a director for the upcoming HBO series True Detective. Producing the film are Roy Lee and Dan Lin, as well as KatzSmith Production's Seth Grahame-Smith and David Katzenberg.
On the subject of readapting the novel, I'm actually a fan of the miniseries version of It, which in addition to Curry, also starred Annette O'Toole, Tim Reid, John Ritter, Seth Green and Richard Thomas. Even after I read It and found that there was a lot of story and character development that got trimmed for the miniseries, I still like the original adaptation enough to say that it doesn't really need to be re-adapted, especially as I can't picture anyone other than Curry playing Pennywise. With that said, as mentioned, there were things that didn't make it into the TV movie, and from what THR is reporting, they're aiming to make the big screen version of It into two movies. That may be the biggest source of my optimism here. With two movies, they might be able to dig a bit deeper into the story, perhaps exploring the history of the "It" and the town of Derry, as well as other bits of character development built into the story.
It's definitely going to be interesting to hear further developments on this project, including who is cast in the lead roles. I'm thinking it may be time for an It reread.
"They ALL float down here. When you're down here with us, you'll float too!"


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I am trying to learn BOUML/UML on Fedora 20, where BOUML v4.21 is in official repository. After 6 hours playing with BOUML, creating various blocks, FSMs and other stuff I had saved project and fall asleep.
Next day I tried to open project but following error does not allow me to continue:
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I found out that the project directory is missing the file "128130" and it only contains "128130.diagram" file (and other files with different names).
Can anybody help me please to reopen the project? I would appreciate it a lot.


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Hollywood actor Mel Gibson had a heated encounter with police officers in Malibu, Calif., last weekend after his car was stopped close to the scene of his infamous 2006 arrest.
The "Braveheart" star was driving along the Pacific Coast Highway with a female passenger on Saturday when police officers stopped the car at a checkpoint.
Cops were satisfied Gibson had not been drinking, but asked to see his driving license and the actor allegedly became angry after telling the officers he did not have the correct paperwork with him, according to TMZ.com.
The website reports Gibson allegedly raised his voice to the cops, who calmed the tensions before letting the star off with a warning.
Gibson was arrested on the same stretch of road back in 2006 on a driving under the influence charge. The anti-Semitic comments he made during the arrest hit headlines and haunted him for years afterwards.