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Minutes 12/13/11
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Meeting Minutes
13 Dec 2011
Present: Mack, Aaron C., Kyle W., Ian C., Mike B., Tom L., Tony M., Dan M., Matt A., John S., Kathryn N., Mike K., Lance V., Dave C. (Hangout), David P. (Hangout), Dan L., John B. C., Mike S., Dave W. 8:10P - Meeting called to order - State of the Treasury - Current $1235.76 (this morning) - 37 members, $1450/mo. - 8 new members - Soldering class last month, basically broke even. Waiting on invoice from Dave Casey - Reimbusements for move: Fire Extinguisher, lights, supplies for open house night, RFID system. Total $765 for the month - Rent: $631 (including sales tax) - We're in the new space? Saved ~$500 in rent by moving quickly. Thanks everyone! - Liability: $351 down payment, monthly $88 - Major donations - Grizzly Mill, Table Saw, Monolith (reference surface) - Donated by Rick Kolosky - Decking - Dave Woods - Dock stair supplies - Ian - New PCs, Casters - Chris - Xmas tree - Ted - New Members - Dan Mapes, David Pflug, JB Zurn, Harvey Mower, John Bent Cope, Tripflex (?), Michael Bakula, Corq (?), Kathryn Neel, Dave Woods - Ratify: Classroom is classroom, where classroom is dedicated "clean" space, scheduleable, etc. - Vote: We all agree - Ratify: Admin room is admin room - Justification: Certain amount of "stuff" that floats around at member's houses. Documents, inventory, etc. Need space to work. - Vote: Passes - Accept donated/leased equipment_ - Leasing: Need to discuss further before accepting, unless there's a wiki page for it - Accepted: Ian's 3d printer, see wiki page: http://familab.org/wiki/index.php?title=Pledged_Equipment#3D_Printer. We'll accept it - Ian's welding gear, needs some training, we'll tentatively accept that. - Ian wood working gear: here temporarily. - Aaron: 1963 coca-cola vending machine. would be leased permanently, until the lab dissolved. Group project to digitize it w/Aaron's approval. 26"W, 24"D, power concerns. Vote: Accepted - Tom's Screen Printing equipment. Leased permanently, wants it back if we desolve. Needs electrical circuit, wet/dry areas, darkroom, exhaust. Vote: Tentatively accept. - Tony: cross slide vise, drill press. Permanent lease. - Donated items: - Kiln: Lab can have it. - Matt's Powercoating equipment: will donate the gun, need to buy an oven, build a booth. - Mill/lathe: accepted. Training needed. - Aaron: IKEA loveset. Vote: accepted. - Dave Woods: full size CNC machine available for sale nearby - $5k - 1995 vintage - no tooling included - 3 phase - After discussion: Sounds like we're not ready. - Personal work carts - Lockers don't scale - Provides: work surface - Vote: No objections. - Moar lockers? - Revisit at successive meetings - Mike: Audio equipment - Can fund it with a subset of members - Approved - Discussion: Minors - Dan: agrees with ted's comments on the wiki page - Kyle: Would like to engage them, thinks parental approval necessary - Mike: No under 18 members, only with parents present. Only one incident - Jessica: Concurs with Mike - Ted: Thouhts on the wiki. Posted on the wiki that there should be a probationary period. After discussion, agrees with Mike - Ian: Active in boy scouts. They have required training. Agrees with Mike, needs a parent/guardian. - John: Young Makers exists for a reason. This is an adult organization. - Matt: Agree we need more outreach. Supervised class. Limited. - Dan: Done something like this with Winter Park High School at UCF. Specified times. Structured. Came with their instructor. It was awesome. - Lance: Specific events. Not keyed access. Come with parents. - JBC: Same as above. - Dave Casey: Sarasota fab lab has a form, 12-17 requires their parent/guardian. - Mike Bakula: Parent/guardian present. (Young Eagles, expirimental aircraft association) - Tom Long: Against under 18+ members. - Aaron: Agrees. - Expenses - Ian doesnt want to be tracked down to buy TP - Idea: if you arent prepared to eat the cost and not be reimbursed, don't buy it. - Use Wiki to define roles - Logo contest - Table for now - Define contest rules, terms, etc., - Post on the wall - Classes - Tom creating content for a Unity class, teaching at full sail the second week of January - Tom, 3d modelling, screen printing - Ian: Put up a block on the classes page, with date TBD, get mindshare early - Classroom should be ready by January - Dave: How do we block out times for classes? - Matt: Anything that doesn't need parts ordered shouldnt be controversial, just plan it - Wiki page: suggested steps to do a class - Another wiki page: sign up to do a class - Classes vs. workshop - classes = formal, you will leave with these skills; workshop = less formal. - Membership levels - Current levels define "thinker" vs. "maker" - Now that we're in a new space, we have the ability to segment the space into coworking vs. real shop space - YMCA model - Probationary period - Comes back to a poorly defined mission statement - For now, everyone has access to everything (except admin office) - There is more than money invested, time/work investment - Flat rate membership, make exceptions on a case basis - Initial class needed: "intro to the lab" for all new members 11:44PM - Meeting adjourned


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When longtime Sunrise Beach resident Max Bartley entered his wife into the Publisher's Clearinghouse Sweepstakes recently, he didn't really expect to win. He just entered for Maxine.
When longtime Sunrise Beach resident Max Bartley entered his wife into the Publisher's Clearinghouse Sweepstakes recently, he didn't really expect to win. He just entered for Maxine.
A man introducing himself as John Brady called Maxine Tuesday, April 30. With trouble talking after having a stroke, Maxine handed the phone off to Max. It is supposed to be giveaway day for Publisher's Clearinghouse.
Brady tells the Bartleys that they have won $700,000 and a new Chevy car in the sweepstakes, and that officials with the giveaway and a TV station are just minutes away.
Because it is the designated giveaway day, Max thought well maybe it's possible — even though the man was asking for a relatively small amount of money, $200, to register for the big prize.
Max had daughter Terry Schertz drive him to Walmart to pick up the Green Dot MoneyPak — a reloadable debit card — as required by the man calling himself Brady. In addition to the money card, the supposed sweepstakes official ask for two forms of identification along with a driver's license.
Schertz is suspicious — but again, it is giveaway day. When they get back home, she calls the number back, 1-876-291-0978, and speaks to "Brady" who gives them another phone number, 1-876-582-5623, to call to verify that they had won.
Schertz calls Brady and then a supposed manager named Peter White. Schertz says he is obviously the same person who was previously calling himself Brady.
Schertz calls the Camden County Sheriff's Office and Publisher's Clearinghouse. They verify that it is a scam, and she officially reports the incident.
Though she eventually confronts the man as a scammer, he continues to call back with the prizes getting more fabulous over time. The supposed prize gets as high as $2.5 million and a Mercedes Benz filled with gas and insurance paid for a year.
At one point, he told Schertz that she wasn't following orders and didn't understand what was going on, she says.The phone calls were very high pressure, she says, and persistent.
By late morning May 2, there had been 11 phone calls in total. In addition to Brady and White, Schertz has spoken to what she believes is the same man under the guise of John Swady and Mr. Johnson.
At the last call Thursday morning, "Brady" said he would call back after Gary Bartley — the son of Max and Maxine and Schertz's brother — answered the phone. They expect he will continue calling for the next few days, but hope the calls will stop soon.
The whole thing, says Max, has been "ricidulous."
The family contacted the newspaper to warn others of the scam they so narrowly avoided.
According to scambusters.org, "Green Dot scams" are one of the newest weapons for scammers. They also warn of callers offering a grant award or government loans.
The Green Dot MoneyPaks are used to top up the existing Green Dot debit cards of the scammers after the victim gives them the card information — a money transfer that bypasses traditional cash-wiring companies and that offers even greater anonymity for the scammers.
In addition to not requiring a deposit to receive the prize, Publisher's Clearinghouse also warns that all promotional offers from the sweepstakes come with a SweepsFacts insert which covers its extensive official rules.
The area code 876 that was used by the scammer in this instance is the local telephone area code of Jamaica. The area code has become commonly associated with various types of telephone scams. It is not a toll-free number and calls are normally billed at international long distance rates.

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MOSCOW (AP) — Mikhail Gorbachev says he's feeling the effects of old age, but aims to stay active as long as he can.
Speaking Tuesday at a presentation of his new book, the 81-year-old former Soviet leader said: "In the last few years I've begun to ail, and seriously. In the last five years I've had four operations."
"But I really will continue to work as long as I have the strength," he said, according to the Interfax news agency.
The book, titled "Alone With Myself," chronicles Gorbachev's life from his childhood to the 1991 demise of the Soviet Union. The book, dedicated to his late wife Raisa, is full of previously undisclosed personal details, including the story of their romance.
Raisa Gorbachev died in 1999 of leukemia.


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The Tulane Law School Sports Law program provides students with the background necessary to understand and handle problems unique to the sports industry.
"Notional" Letter of Intent: College Football Offers More Than It Can Deliver, Part 3
Written By: Justin N. Fielkow
This is the third of a three-part series analyzing the National Letter of Intent system and the concept of oversigning in major college football. In Part One, I provided a general introduction to the history and rules governing the National Letter of Intent and the doctrine of oversigning in college football. Part Two analyzed the legal implications of and potential remedies for oversigning, including a promissory estoppel cause of action and breach of contract claim. Finally, this post will scrutinze the ethics and morality of oversigning as it relates to the current world of big-money college football and the impact the practice has on student-athletes.Ethics of Oversigning
Big-money college football is a broken system. The application of the rules and regulations passed by the NCAA are rife with hypocrisy. Institutions and their coaches clearly operate under different standards than those expected of the student-athletes who fuel the behemoth that is college football. In 2010, the NCAA suspended University of Georgia receiver A.J. Green four games for selling his jersey.1 While Georgia's athletic department is allowed to sell that same jersey to profit the athletic department, Green was ruled ineligible. Meanwhile, 25 different players were arrested and subsequently punished to varying degrees in the short time that Urban Meyer was head coach at the University of Florida.2 In many circumstances, an institution would deem their program wildly out of control, with the blame falling directly on the man in charge, the head coach. However, with Meyer winning multiple championships during his tenure, neither the university nor the NCAA stepped in and issued so much as a public reprimand.
Further evidence of this dual standard is the ability of coaches and players to switch schools. While coaches can move about with relative ease, players are largely immobile once they sign an NLI. Clearly, players and institutions, along with their head coaches, operate under different standards. The NCAA's "paper tiger" regulations regarding oversigning in college football reflect that imbalance.
Said Ole Miss coach Houston Nutt in 2009, "[t]here's no rule that says we can't sign 80 [recruits]. All I know is we have to have 25 ready to go in August."3 While Nutt obviously meant his statement as a joke, he is not too far off point. Schools often sign more players than they have available roster spots under the assumption that not all of the signees will qualify for the financial aid award.4 While in some instances this ends up being the case, often schools are left with a numbers crunch when more than 25 of the up to 28 NLI-signees qualify.5 Thus, lesser regarded signees are told there is no room for them, regardless of when they verbally committed or signed their National Letter of Intent (NLI). For example, Cameron Fordham turned down other scholarship offers, verbally committing to play for Les Miles at LSU.6 The summer before enrolling, Cameron was informed there would not be a scholarship available to him. Lacking other opportunities on such short notice, he was forced to accept an offer to walk-on at LSU and pay his own way through school.7 This situation is not always an option for many prospective student-athletes, yet coaches and universities continuously gamble with the lives of these young men by playing a recruiting guessing game.Continue reading here...
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Fergie: We are stronger than in 1999
Sir Alex Ferguson has claimed that his current Manchester United side are a stronger squad than the one which picked up the Treble in 1999.
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Ferguson's side are twelve points clear in the Premier League title race, have an away goal going into the second leg of their last-16 Champions League tied at 1-1 with Real Madrid and face Reading in the FA Cup Fifth Round on Monday night.
As such, United are still on course to repeat that historic feat and the Scottish boss believes he has more options at his disposal than he did 14 years ago.
"We have a stronger squad now,'' Ferguson said during Friday's press conference. "When we went to the (Champions League) final, Keane and Scholes were suspended but Henning Berg was the only injury.
"I still had to pull in a player (Jonathan Greening) who had only played once or twice in the first-team. He got a medal for being on the bench. That gives you an idea of the strength of the squad.''
The momentum for that magnificent achievement came from an unbeaten run that began following a defeat against Middlesbrough on December 19, which eventually reached 33 games.
It is now 15 matches since United were beaten on home soil by Romanian champions CFR Cluj in a dead Champions League game at the end of December. And with QPR and Norwich to follow the meeting with Reading, there is no sign of that record ending soon.
"It is nice to look back on these things and think how it was done at that particular time,'' said Ferguson. "But the reality is that we should not get carried away, particularly in the FA Cup when anything can happen. You don't want to be a shock.
"In many people's eyes Monday would be, 'yes, it's Reading, we have just been to Madrid, it was a great night, Monday will take care of itself'. Monday can't take care of itself. We have to take care of that.
"We must get a performance off the players that respects our opponents and also the fact the FA Cup can produce shocks.''
It has been repeated fairly frequently that of Ferguson's present squad, only Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes and Darren Fletcher, who will miss the remainder of the season, have won the FA Cup with United.
However, Ferguson spoke of the value of being patient with young players after the likes of Danny Welbeck, Phil Jones and David De Gea shone in Madrid in midweek.
"We're always patient with young players," he added. "We're patient with Tom Cleverley. We sent him out on loan on four different occasions and he's matured. Now he's an important member of the squad. You have to show patience. If you think they have the ability then you have to be prepared to wait for that.
"Maturity helps [goalkeepers too]. There are very few goalkeepers who are the finished article at 20 years of age. There are some examples, like Gianluigi Buffon and Petr Cech. That's not always the case.
"Peter Schmeichel didn't join us until he was 27 and then gave us eight great years. Normally for goalkeepers it's the mid-20s until you get the finished article.
"A good performance helps everyone. It gives them confidence, there's no doubt about that. It won't change him. He [De Gea] is a down-to-earth boy."
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OPM: "Metro Last Light is one of the more orignal and ecovative shooters on PS3 and a hair's breadth from being a grimmer infinite."
I enjoyed the first one it's good to see this one getting great reviews so far.
This is such great news. I'm looking forward to diving into this. Prordered on PC.
All support it especially on ps3 so they make ps4 games too. They deserve it :)
I'm currently replaying Metro 2033. I loved it when I first played it.
Playing it a second time, you do spot it's flaws. But they don't ruin the game :)


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Last weekend, my AV program just started showing that it found virus win32.ramnit.N and deleted it. Then I did the complete scan of the system and almost for every file it is giving the same message.
Besides this MS word started opening several instances automatically with message that 'Normal.dot' is changed.
I'm using Mcaffe AV as provided by my ISP and my machine is win XP SP3.
Any idea how to clean my system.


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Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President Jeffrey Lacker said he opposes additional purchases of securities by the central bank because they will complicate an eventual exit from record stimulus and risk a surge in inflation.
"We cannot continually buy more securities and create more bank reserves without jeopardizing our inflation goal," Lacker said in the text of a speech today in Charleston, West Virginia. "In my view, the balance of considerations suggests that we should be standing pat now rather than easing policy further."
The Richmond Fed chief was the only policy maker to cast a dissenting vote at the Federal Open Market Committee's Oct. 23- 24 meeting, at which officials maintained $40 billion in monthly purchases of mortgage-backed securities and repeated that interest rates will probably stay near zero at least through mid-2015. He has dissented from every FOMC decision this year.
A number of Fed officials said the central bank may need to expand its monthly purchases of bonds next year after the expiration of Operation Twist, according to minutes of their last meeting released yesterday.
"The larger our balance sheet when the time comes to withdraw monetary stimulus, the more difficult and risky that process will be," Lacker said at the West Virginia Economic Outlook Conference. While the Fed has tools to unwind stimulus and avoid inflation, "we are in unchartered territory," making getting the timing right difficult, he said.
Bullard, Option
The central bank each month is also swapping $45 billion in short-term Treasuries for longer-term debt. The program is likely to end on schedule in December, though purchasing Treasuries outright "is definitely an option on the table," St. Louis Fed President James Bullard said last week.
Growth is likely to continue at an annual rate of at least 2 percent and may accelerate toward the end of 2013, Lacker said. European recession and "fiscal challenges" in the U.S. pose risks to the outlook, he said.
Inflation is likely to average around 2 percent, in line with the Fed's target, he said.
"Monetary policy is primarily about inflation," he said. "While U.S. inflation is the responsibility of the Federal Reserve, real economic growth and labor market conditions are affected by a wide range of factors outside the Fed's control."
Monetary Stimulus
"It's unfortunate, but the effects of monetary stimulus on real output and employment are less than is widely thought," Lacker said.
Some Fed district bank presidents disagree with Lacker on the benefits of more easing. Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren said on Nov. 1 the central bank should buy mortgage bonds until the jobless rate falls from 7.9 percent to 7.25 percent and hold the target interest rate near zero until hitting 6.5 percent unemployment.
San Francisco Fed President John Williams, who votes on policy this year, said on Nov. 5 the central bank should press on with $40 billion in bond buying each month until it purchases a total of at least $600 billion.
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All of these wonderful dogs are currently being cared for by loving EBBRR rescue volunteers. Our rescues are always kept in foster homes, not kennels. This makes them used to a home/family environment, which makes the adjustment from foster to adoptive home much easier on everyone. All dogs are spayed, up to date on vaccines, crate trained, house broken and have started basic obedience.
We currently have four dogs who DESPERATELY need furever homes or foster homes! If interested in one of the dogs or would like information on how to foster for Ethical Bully Breed Rescue, please PM me!
Noel: One year old, American Pit Bull Terrier. Possible mix.
This is easily one of my favorite dogs! She's a lover! This girl will spend hours lounging in your lap but don't be fooled, she's got plenty of spunk. Noel was rescued from the same breeder/hoarder as Trinity and Peanut. Noel is a purebred pit bull terrier (supposedly), but was born with a deformed upper & lower jaw, causing an overbite and a slight crossbite. This does not seem to affect her in any way, she can eat, smell, breathe, etc...normally. The only restriction she has is in collar option. Noel must wear a harness because any pressure on her throat causes her to cough. She's a very happy, playful girl with a sweet soul. She has beautiful blue/grey eyes and some cute fawn patches too! Noel is crate trained and has started working on basic obedience manners. She will need an active home that is familiar with the pit bull breed.
Trinity: One year old, American Pit Bull Terrier. Pure bred.
Trinity is a beautiful little girl who is about a year old as of 5/4/2010. She was rescued along with her sister Ebony from a breeder/hoarder. She's extremely sweet, but is a bit more reserved than her sister. She's a total sweetie pie, and loves to cuddle and give kisses. She's good in the kennel and housebroken! Trinity is VERY tolerant of other dogs, but does play rough with cats. We would suggest a foster/adoptive home without cats unless the home was VERY bully breed savvy, then we would consider it.
Since we've gotten this question a bit about her coat...Trinity is considered a black tricolor, this is a coat variation of the American Pit Bull Terrier. Since her breeder gave her up to the rescue, the litter was never registered, but she IS a purebred APBT. She will probably top out around 50 lbs as an adult. We all think she is just stunning, and can't believe she's been waiting for an adoptive home since mid-Nov! So, if you've been looking for a beautiful, breed standard, female American Pit Bull Terrier with one of the most gorgeous coat colorations, we've got her! Why buy from a breeder when you can save a life and still get a dog from a 'breeder'?
Lexie: One year old, American Pit Bull Terrier
Lexie was rescued from the kill list at a shelter in Orlando. She's a wonderful, sweet, happy beautiful white girl. She's smart, good with everyone she meets. She would do best in a home without cats, but good with kids and other dogs. Lexie is an energetic girl, so an active home would suit her best! She's ready to be your new best friend. Won't you give her a chance at the life she's missed out on so far?
Side note: Although Lexie is mostly white, she is NOT deaf.
Peanut: Four year old, Am. Bully
Peanut is an amazing soul. She was rescued from a hoarder/back yard breeder, after lord only knows how many litters she's pumped out. Her ears have been completely cut off in one of the worst battle crops I have ever seen. Peanut is fantastic with dogs, cats and people of all ages. She's an amazing girl and deserves only the absolute best home. Peanut is a blue brindle and weighs approximately 80 lbs.
If interested in fostering or adopting one of these deserving babies, please PM me and we can go from there!
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They are all so precious! I looovvve Peanut! I would love to help! But am in MI
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Is Peanut good with other dogs? specifically males who aren't necessarily dominant.
We're semi looking for a sister to hang with this meathead.
We're semi looking for a sister to hang with this meathead.
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I Trinity. Maybe if I sell enough goats (sounds strange, but it directly affects my workload), she can be mine. What's the adoption fee in general?
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Architecture Forum Agenda - Amsterdam 2014
Overview of Next Version of TOGAF
May 12, 2014 Monday 1400-1530
Leader: Dave Hornford
- Review of next version of TOGAF genesis, goals & strategy
- Review of next version of TOGAF structure of the standard
- Reivew of next version of TOGAF project
- Reminder on how to engage & participate
- Review of the next version of TOGAF activity at the conference
Next Version of TOGAF Leader's Guide Work Stream
May 13, 2014 Tuesday 1130-1300
Leader: Dave Hornford
- Update on TOGAF 9.1 findings relative to State of the Art
- Identification of current starting-point work
- Proposed scope
- Proposed outline of contents & direction
- Proposed work plan for completion
TOGAF Framework and ArchiMate Harmonization Project
May 13, 2014 Tuesday 1130-1330
Leader: Bill Estrem
Agenda: TBA
EA Capability Improvement Project
May 13, 2014 Tuesday 1400-1630
Leader: Paul Homan
- Introductions & Welcome
- Review of work produced/provided in last Quarter (including EA Capability Map and Value Chain Model)
- Input to/from EACI conference workshop session (End User needs & interventions discussion)
- Development of a Plan of Action for way forward around Capability Map & Value Chain
- Summary of Action Points, Review & Close
Technology Work Stream
May 13, 2014 Tuesday 1400-1630 (Break 1500-1600)
Leader: Judith Jones
- Technology Scenarios
- Indepth ADM Steps and associated guidance
- Technology Content Meta-model and sub domain areas
Information Data Architecture Work Stream/Knowledge Architecture Project
May 13, 2014 Tuesday 1400-1630
Leader: Robert Weisman
- Review of Last Meeting Minutes - 1400-1415 hrs
- Review of comments on Part 2 Draft - Information/Data Stream - 1415-1530 hrs
- Scope of Work for Knowledge Architecture Project - 1530-1615 hrs
- What is too advanced for inclusion into the next version of TOGAF
- How to engage adademic community; refereed series of Wite Papers?
- Any IP contributions for Open Group Members
- Deliverables for Knowledge Architecture Project
- Meeting Schedule
- Boston Way Ahead and New Business - 1615-1630 hrs
Localization Standing Committee
May 14, 2014 Wednesday 0800-0845
Leader: Serge Thorn
- Introductions
- Status review of TOGAF Translations initiatives by language:
- Chinese (simplified)
- Chinese traditional
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- French
- German
- Hungarian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Polish
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Russian
- Slovak
- Latin Spanish
- Castilian Spanish
- Croatian
- Norwegian
- Swedish
- Turkish
- Vietnamese
- Status review of ArchiMate® Translation initiatives by language
- Matters to put to the Forum
- Other Business
Options for Next version of TOGAF
May 14, 2014 Wednesday 0900-1230
Leader: Dave Hornford
- Review of TOGAF ecosystem
- Review of goals of next version of TOGAF
- Facilitated conversation regarding publication of next version of TOGAF
- TOGAF as a Standard
- Next version of TOGAF as a basis for People Certification
- Next version of TOGAF as a bases for Tools Certification
- TOGAF's role in ecosystem economy
- Next steps & action items
- Report for Forum
Foundations (Part One) Workshop
May 14, 2014 Wednesday 1400-1530 & 1600-1730
Leader: Kirk Hansen
- Introduction
- Roadmap
- Terms & Concepts
- Domains and Crosscuts
- 42010 Alignment
- Architecture Capability Metamodel
- Building Blocks and modeling
- Common Activities
- Part 1/2 alingment, useing security as an example
Architecture Forum General Member Meeting
May 15, 2014 Thursday 0900-1230
Chair: Peter Haviland
- Agenda Overview
- Welcome: new members & Introductions
- Capability Based Planning - statement of intent to increase awareness of project and solicit involvement
- Discussion about modeling business capabilities and services - intent TBD
- TOGAF Project discussion to find ways to align and speed up project --- Deferred to TOGAF Project workgroup
- TOGAF Project discussion to identify more practical and business orientedways to deliver TOGAF --Deferred to TOGAF Project workgroup
Break (30 Mins)
- Discussion on how EA can show measurable value to the enterprise
- Discussion about EA beyond TOGAF - intent to solicit feedback and provide call to action for interested parties to get together and progress various related items
- Reminder: Architecture Forum Governance and Reporting Meeting: June 5, 2014 WebEx with a follow on WebEx meeting June 12, 2014
- Project Quarterly reports are due May 23, 2014
- Each Active project will be present status of accomplishments, status, goals that will be achieved by July 2014 (next Open Group Conference)
- Review actions and consent items
- Close of meeting
Architecture Forum & Security Forum Session
( Enterprise Risk Mgmt, Cross Cutting Domains, Security, & ADM )
May 15, 2014 Thursday 1400-1700
Leader: Kevin Sevigny & Geoff Besko
- Introductions and Expected outcome for meeting (5mins) - Kevin
- Dicussion of how TNSP work integrates into the next version of TOGAF (45mins) - Pascal
- Outcomes:
- Consensus or Path to Consensus on the landing ground for this work in the next version of TOGAF
- Is it a collection of anchorpoints? What does the security landing ground look like in the Part 1 smooth draft? Is that the way to go?
- Consensus or Path to Consensus on the landing ground for this work in the next version of TOGAF
- Outcomes:
- Cross Cutting Domains - a review using Security as an example (45mins)-Kirk Hansen
- Outcomes:
- Common definition for cross cutting domain - using Security as an exmaple
- Outcomes:
- Break (15mins)
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- Common definition and understanding of risk management vs information risk management vs architecture project risk management vs etc...
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Every week, Inside Africa takes its viewers on a journey across Africa, exploring the true diversity and depth of different cultures, countries and regions. Follow host Errol Barnett on Twitter and Facebook.
Cape Town, South Africa (CNN) -- Off track, Tasneem Howa is a rather introverted young woman who works as a photographer in Cape Town. On track, however, she pulls on black tights and slips into roller skates to transform into "TazMEANian Devil" -- a hard-hitting, sharp-moving diva on wheels.
"When I put on skates, it's a rush," she says. "You get that, it's like freedom. You're skating and feeling the air; it's awesome."
"TazMEANian Devil" is a proud member of the Rev'ettes, one of the three roller derby teams that take part in the women-only Cape Town Rollergirls league. Just like many of her teammates, she took up the sport after seeing the 2009 film "Whip It," starring and directed by Drew Barrymore.
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"I watched the movie 'Whip It' -- I thought it was chicks bashing each other, getting all bloody, but it's a bit calmer than that," says "TazMEANian Devil."
Quirky outfits
Fast-paced and full-contact, roller derby involves endurance, teamwork and crashes -- all on wheels. As much a bump-and-bruise sport as a lifestyle, derby's alternative edge is on full-on display on the rink.
Roller girls typically don colorful skates, protective pads and quirky outfits as they race on a flat oval track, body checking each other to impede opponents from earning points for their team.
"You can be dainty but need to be slightly aggressive at the same time," says Ming-Cheau Lin, a.k.a "Wolverming," who plays for Cape Town's Storm Riders.
In line with the hard-hitting sport's tradition, players also adopt certain monikers chosen to reflect their on-track alter ego.
"One of the most important things about roller derby is your derby name," explains Shawn Graaff, who founded Cape Town Rollergirls in 2010.
"I know it seems kitsch and silly but it's something people get excited about and historically people had derby names because they didn't want to participate in such an aggressive spectacle sport and compromise their professional career."
What is roller derby?
Roller derby is a sport that requires strategy, team spirit and lots of body checking.
A derby match, called a bout, is played by two teams consisting of jammers, who are the point scorers, and blockers, the team's line of defense. The goal is for the jammers to get past the other team's blockers and then lap them. Once the jammer has done so, the team gets a point for every skater she passes.
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Along the way, the action is rough and rowdy.
"It's not Miami beach skating!" says Nadine Brits, or "Doll Vuis," who is a jammer for the Rev'ettes. "Full impact -- we're tough; we've got our team's points on the line so we're fighting for that."
Roller derby first took off as a competitive sport in the United States in the 1930s but later evolved into a TV spectacle sport, much like WWE. Its popularity decreased in the 1980s but an all-women league in Texas helped re-invent the sport in the early 2000s, this time with a bigger emphasis on athleticism.
Drew Barrymore's "Whip It" gave the sport attention around the world, including in South Africa, where its popularity has been growing steadily.
The Cape Town Rollergirls league is made up of three teams -- the Rev'ettes, the Storm Riders and the Iron Meisies -- boasting a variety of female players, from working mothers and students to locals and ex-pats. Men are only involved in a coaching or refereeing capacity.
Graaff says the sport is helping break stereotypes, crashing any notions that women can't be both tough and feminine.
"Roller derby is one of the most multifaceted and dynamic organizations to be a part of," she says.
"It's kind a do-it-yourself culture; it's gender empowerment because we praise the finer points of our gender without compromising femininity, but at the same time we are embracing strong independent women."
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Elisabeth Hansen Dreyer, or "Betty Blizzard," a working mom of two, agrees. She encourages other mothers to join the roller derby fun.
"It will save your sanity," says the Storm Riders blocker. "After a day and the kids are screaming and you're just tired of chores and you get to go and bump girls. It's awesome!"
Looking ahead, the Cape Town league is gearing up to host an officiating director from the international governing body of women's roller derby. This will be the first time the organization visits Africa and the Cape Town Rollergirls are excited about the possibilities.
It's a nod to how seriously these players view their sport and will hopefully push them to grow into a bigger brand.
And of course, there will be more bruises along the way.


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Daniel Zihlmann is an international photographer based in Switzerland. He started his career in 1986 during elementary school, when he got his first assignments from local newspapers. Later, during his studies at law school he pursued his passion for photography and worked as a photo assistant in studios in Zurich. After finishing his studies and receiving his degree as a lawyer he worked as a photo editor at a national newspaper and as a video journalist. In 2007 Daniel got self-employed as a photographer and focuses now on portrait photography and documentary photography, including wedding photography.
Since I first saw the Fujifilm X100 I knew that this camera would be a game changer. A digital camera with an analog "user interface". Wow. Not just a cool looking "retro style" camera, but a design that really made sense in the hands of a professional. Combined with a sharp and fast lens and a very silent leaf shutter this was a dream come true since I sold my Leica M6 a couple of years ago. Having upgraded later to the X100S and now to the X100T it only became better and better. With the wide and tele lens converters the X100T gives you more versatility though still retaining the same fast and sharp lens quality. And this comes at practically no weight (compared to a DSLR system), which makes travelling internationally as a photographer a joy again.
Last but not least: You can't beat the electronic shutter of a X100T if you need to work unintrusive. It makes capturing pictures now literally dead silent. This surprises high-profile clients that had me use sound blimps on my cameras before to capture their events.


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TOKYO (Reuters) - Panasonic Corp may sell its Sanyo digital camera business to Japanese private equity fund Advantage Partners by the end of March, a source familiar with the plan said.
A final decision on the sale will be made by the end of the year, the source said on condition he was not identified.
Advantage Partners will pay several hundreds of millions of yen for the business, which makes digital cameras for other companies, including Olympus Corp, the Nikkei business daily reported earlier.
Panasonic declined to comment saying it had not announced the plan.
The Japanese company aims to sell 110 billion yen ($1.34 billion) of assets, including buildings and land by the end of March to boost free cashflow to 200 billion yen for the business year. The company expects an annual net loss of close to $10 billion as it writes off billions in deferred tax assets and goodwill.
Panasonic acquired rival Sanyo, a leading maker of lithium ion batteries and solar panels, in 2010. Sales of compact digital cameras are under pressure from increasingly powerful smartphones.
Panasonic's shares gained as much as 4 percent in early trading in Tokyo, compared with a 0.5 percent rise in the benchmark Nikkei 225 index. ($1 = 82.3900 Japanese yen)
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February 05, 2013 19:30 ET
NILES, IL--(Marketwire - Feb 5, 2013) - MFRI, Inc. (NASDAQ: MFRI) announced today that its Perma-Pipe Saudi Arabia subsidiary has received new orders exceeding $27 million for the first phase of the district cooling system expansion project at King Abdul-Aziz International ("KAIA") airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. These orders are in addition to the $23 million announced in the Company's press release of November 23, 2012 bringing the total of major project work in Saudi Arabia to nearly $50 million.
The King Abdul-Aziz International Airport is one of the largest projects in the recent history of the Saudi Arabia Kingdom. The passenger terminal complex comprises an area over 6.7 million square feet (622,000 square meters) with 46 gates, 96 boarding bridges including double deck access for the A380 Airbus. The total facilities span over 25,000 acres (100 square kilometers) including the chilled water distribution system, utility plants, utility tunnel, plant nursery, and transportation center with integrated rail station.
Fati Elgendy, President of Perma-Pipe, said: "This order represents a further validation of our strategy to expand our footprint to the rapidly developing Saudi market. Delivery is expected to start in the first fiscal quarter of 2013 and be completed in the fourth quarter. We plan to produce the insulated pipe, spools and fittings at our new factory in Dammam, Saudi Arabia with important support from our United Arab Emirates ("U.A.E.") factory. Our team has been working for over one year pursuing this very prestigious order. The KAIA project coupled with work on expansion of the Holy Haram Mosque in Mecca positions us very well for a strong 2013 in the Middle East."
"We have spent two years investing in direct in-country capacity in Saudi Arabia. The Jeddah Airport is the largest single project we have received since we started our business activities in the Middle East some 7 years ago. Perma-Pipe has already successfully completed the supply of insulated piping systems to several other major airports in the U.A.E., Qatar, and Oman. Our best in class products, engineering skills and support services have proven to be a successful formula in establishing Perma-Pipe as the market leader in the region," said Bradley Mautner, CEO of MFRI.
MFRI, Inc. is a multi-line company engaged in the following businesses: pre-insulated specialty piping systems for oil and gas gathering, district heating and cooling and other applications; custom designed industrial filtration products to remove particulates from dry gas streams; industrial process cooling equipment to remove heat from molding, printing and other industrial processes; and installation of heating, ventilation and air conditioning for large buildings.
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This announcement may also contain certain non-GAAP financial information that management believes is helpful in understanding our business. This financial information should not be considered as an alternative to net (loss) income or any other GAAP measurement of performance.
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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Police are investigating after finding eight bodies unattended after a mortuary service was told to move out of its building in Fort Worth, Texas.
Police Sgt. Raymond Bush says the property owner a couple of weeks ago told Johnson Family Mortuary to vacate the building. He says the owner returned Tuesday morning to find eight bodies in the building but no workers. Bush says the bodies were in various stages of decomposition and ranged from infants to adults.
No charges have been filed. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office has taken custody of the bodies.
Texas Funeral Service Commission attorney Kyle Smith says the mortuary's state license expires this month and it's the focus of five commission investigations.
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Arkansas ranks No. 5 in Education Week rankings
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. —
Arkansas' public schools are fifth in the country in Education Week's annual rankings.
The publication released its 2013 "Quality Counts" rankings Thursday. Arkansas' overall grade was a B minus.
Arkansas received an A grade for its standards, assessments and accountability. It also got an A for transitions and alignment, which tracks state policy efforts to coordinate kindergarten through 12th grade education with early learning, post-secondary education and the workforce.
But the publication gave Arkansas a D grade for kindergarten through 12th grade achievement.
Maryland received the highest score in the survey, followed by Massachusetts, New York and Virginia.


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Paper Mill Playhouse will launch its 75th Anniversary Season with the world-premiere, Broadway-bound musical Honeymoon in Vegas, based on the Castle Rock Entertainment motion picture of the same title. Honeymoon in Vegas features music and lyrics by Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown(The Last Five Years, Parade, 13) and book by Andrew Bergman (director and screenwriter of the film). Gary Griffin (The Color Purple) will direct with original choreography by Denis Jones.
The cast and creative team gave a special performance preview yesterday and you can check out a sneak peek below!
Honeymoon in Vegas will star television, screen and stage icon Tony Danza (Who's the Boss?, Taxi, The Producers, A View From The Bridge, The Iceman Cometh) as Tommy Korman, a widowed and unscrupulous gambler looking for another shot at love. Leading the company are Tony nominee Rob McClure (Chaplin) as Jack Singer, Brynn O'Malley (Annie) as Betsy Nolan, Tony nominee Nancy Opel(Memphis, Urinetown) as Bea Singer, Matthew Saldivar (Peter and the Starcatcher) as Johnny Sandwich and David Josefsberg (Wedding Singer) as Tony Rocky/Roy Bacon.
Honeymoon in Vegas will be performed eight times a week, Wednesday through Sunday (altered first week schedule). Performance Schedule: Wednesday at 7:30pm, Thursday at 1:30pm and 7:30pm, Friday at 8:00pm, Saturday at 1:30pm and 8:00pm and Sunday at 1:30pm and 7:00pm. Tickets are on sale now and range from $27 to $98. Tickets may be purchased by calling 973.376.4343, at the Paper Mill Playhouse Box Office at 22 Brookside Drive in Millburn, or online at www.papermill.org. Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express accepted. Groups of ten or more can receive up to a 40% discount on tickets and should call 973.315.1680.


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A student's asthma management plan is developed by the student, parent, or guardian, and health care provider. Depending on the student's needs, the plan may be a brief information card or a more extensive individualized health plan (IHP). A copy of the plan should be on file in the school office or health services office, with additional copies for the student's teachers and coaches. The plan -- as well as the student's asthma medications -- should be easily available for all on- and off-site activities before, during, and after school.
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"Marriage should not flutter in and out like cellphone service. When it comes to federal programs, even if states are discriminating, the federal government should not." — Evan Wolfson of Freedom to Marry after the U.S. Supreme Court extended federal recognition of same-sex marriages.
"This is not a loss. This is a win. You know where I'm going. I'm going home to be with Jesus. Keep the faith. I love you all." — Kimberly McCarthy, the 500th inmate executed in Texas since it resumed carrying out capital punishment in 1982.
"I truly believe the second yell for help was a yelp. It was excruciating. I really felt it was a boy's voice." — Jayne Surdyka, a neighbor of murder suspect George Zimmerman, testifying about the struggle she said she saw between Zimmerman and 17-year-old victim Trayvon Martin.


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A full gourmet breakfast is served every day from 8:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. (with prior arrangements breakfast can be served earlier for those eager to hit the trails early).
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Early spring cold fronts continue to move through Southeast Texas, and that has made the business of catching big trout on Sabine Lake more than a little tough. But there is good news in that a few big trout are being fooled by lures. The best I've seen within the past couple of days came from the north shoreline of East Galveston Bay. She weighed an impressive 9 pounds.
While we harbor no disrespect for the Wall Street Journal who called us "that scrappy little paper from Southeast Texas," we prefer to think of ourselves as simple seekers of the truth. We're of the opinion that headlines and sound bites never tell the whole story. Our readers demand all the facts, facets and flavors of every story or event. And, they expect to be informed, educated and stirred to action.
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Even before 8 a.m., people started arriving on the East Gadsden High School campus. By 8:45 a.m., the gymnasium, the venue for graduation was full and people were directed to go to the overflow room in the cafeteria. That, too, was filling up quickly.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I would ask you to make alittle more room. We have people still standing outside waiting to come in; some have come quite a distance so please let's try to accommodate," said Gadsden County School Superintendent Reginald James.
Graduation ceremonies can be loud, but after the EGHS principal asked for the noise to be kept to a minimum so names of all graduates could be heard, things quieted down.
Valedictorian Tiara Stroman said she and many of her classmates have had struggles in their young lives.
"I lost my father when I was 7 years old. It must have been tough on a single parent, and I know that some of you have been through more than I have but we go into the world to determine our future. I challenge you to remember the things you have learned here at East Gadsden," she said.
She thanked the parents, faculty and staff and said "our success is your success."
Jy'Shawn O'Neal, salutatorian, echoed Stroman's words and added a few more. He said while the school and students have had negative comments from others, he is proud to be a member of the first class from EGHS to graduate from the school with a "C" letter grade.
"High school is what you make it, and we have made our last year a great year. Ten years from now when we have our reunion, I expect nothing less than success," he said.
Valedictorian Stroman and Cierra Mathis also earned their associate's degrees from Tallahassee Community College and will enter college as juniors.
In his charge to the graduates, James told them they are out of high school but they will not be "grown" until they can provide housing, clothing, food and transportation for themselves and just because high school is over, they should think twice about proclaiming they are adults.
Brianna Gordon was chosen class president; Rajia Christian, vice president; and Ja'Lyn McMillan, secretary.
The class motto is: "Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams."
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I'd imagine the regular two person ones are on the lower pay scale (like Anakin and Obi Wan).
Maybe not...The little sign at Toy Fair says that the Obi-Anakin set here will cost $280. Yeah, at nearly $300 with shipping and such, I'm definitely out.
Yikes. This thing is nice, but not $280 nice.
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Written by Penny Fattig, Gothenburg Wednesday, 08 September 2010 20:10
Here I go again. I had to respond to Neil Davis's latest letter. He seems very discontented with our governing system. He doesn't like the Democrats in charge but says that if we change politicians, they will only become part of a corrupt system.
I disagree with his assertion that we have a corrupt system. I have heard people say that the Democrats are advocating Marxism or socialism. Excuse me, but I believe we still have private ownership of property and everyone still has the right to vote. We still have the right to express our opinions (which Neil and I do quite frequently).
We are still a two-party system with a checks and balance system which is designed to detect and expose corruption…real corruption as opposed to alleged corruption by politicians or parties trying to discredit the other one. Although I believe we are exposed to entirely too much propaganda via those forwards which are designed to inflame the emotions but are not necessarily credible information, it is not illegal.
I believe we are blessed to live in a country where we can vote, own property and express our opinions. I feel blessed to have a form of government which cares enough about its people to take care of our elderly, disabled and veterans, educate our young people, defend us and feed us. These amenities don't come from an evil form of government and don't come without a price.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are lower in midday trading on Wall Street, pulling the Standard & Poor's 500 index down from a five-year high it reached Friday.
Nine of the 10 industry groups in the S&P 500 were lower. Only health care stocks rose.
At midday Monday, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 61 points at 13,374.
The S&P 500 was down six at 1,460. The Nasdaq composite was off seven points at 3,095.
Lowe's fell 68 cents to $34.90 after Canaccord cuts its rating on the stock to "sell" from "hold," saying that the home improvement company's efforts to improve its stores and sales aren't working.
Fourth-quarter corporate earnings reports start to roll in late Tuesday when aluminum maker and Dow component Alcoa releases its results.


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BLACKSBURG, Va. (Feb. 6, 2010) - Heading into this season the whole key for the ETSU women's tennis team's success this spring would be the Lady Bucs ability to win the doubles point early in a match. Unfortunately, for ETSU its one-day trip to regional rival Virginia Tech Saturday played out this key in a negative fashion after the 54th-ranked Hokies picked up the doubles point and a 5-2 win inside the Burrows-Burleson Tennis Center.
"In order for us to beat a ranked team and then become ranked ourselves we have to come out and win the doubles point," said head coach Steve Brooks. "This afternoon we came out blazing early, but against great teams like Virginia Tech you have to close out every match in order to win. Early we took leads at all three positions, but it's not always how you start that's important. Once you take a lead you have to maintain that confidence. That being said, I have to give credit to Virginia Tech freshman Emily Lauten who helped them comeback during doubles. She was the key for them being able to really hit some shots and start their response."
After the Hokies took the early lead after winning two-out-of-three doubles matches, Virginia Tech extended its advantage to 2-0 as Shannon Betts dropped sophomore Karina Kedzo (Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela) in straight sets at No. 4 6-1, 6-1.
Senior Yevgenyia Stupak (Kyiv, Ukraine) pulled the Lady Bucs within a point of the Hokies after she cruised past 96th-ranked Martha Blakey 6-0, 6-0. With her ranked win, Stupak matched sophomore teammate Paula Jaime (Madrid, Spain) - who also won in singles Saturday - as the second ETSU student-athlete to defeat a ranked ITA player this spring.
"I thought Yevgenyia played one of her best matches of her career," said Brooks. "This is the second time she's played this girl since the fall and in this match Stupak rolled past her while dropping only a couple of points all day."
After junior Kelly Holtzhausen (Johannesburg, South Africa) lost her match to Christin Newman, Virginia Tech's Lauten closed out the win with a 6-4, 6-4 victory over junior Andra Voinea (Brasov, Romania).
One a positive note Jaime did pick up the Lady Bucs second point of the day with a 1-6, 6-2, 6-4 comeback win over Yasmin Hamza at No. 3. With her victory Jamie now sits with a perfect 3-0 record this spring.
"Overall, I think the girls have to become tougher when they get into playing deuce points and in the longer sets," said Brooks. "Today we had some chances that we just didn't capitalize on. It's early in the season so hopefully we can learn from this and come back tomorrow and play better."
ETSU will now have a short break before returning to action with a 11 a.m. contest Sunday against 57th-ranked Georgia State inside the Bristol Racquet Club and Fitness Center.
Attached above is a link to final results of today's match between ETSU and Virginia Tech.
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Kate Haggerty, playing Maggie, left, and Cash Tilton in the role of Simon, right, enact a courtroom scene as other actors in the IRT lawyer-training course observe.
Courtroom drama unfolds with lessons for lawyers
By Albert Amateau
Maggie Polisi, a lawyer who is suing her former law firm and a partner in the firm, charging them with sexual discrimination after she broke off an affair with the partner, went through some intense witness preparation and questioning by lawyers one weekend last month.
At the same time, Simon Clark, a law partner in Parker & Gould and Polisis former lover, was being prepared as a witness on the defendants side of the sexual discrimination suit that played out at New York Law School in Tribeca.
For anyone new to the action, it could have been confusing. There were actually 11 Maggie Polisis and 11 Simon Clarks, all actors with IRT (Interborough Repertory Theater), a theater company based in the Village, which has been providing Maggies and Simons for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy for the past 12 years. The actors were taking part in the Nov. 18-20 N.I.T.A. course at New York Law School, training lawyers mostly recent graduates in taking depositions from plaintiffs and defendants in a civil case.
For many of the actors, it was like performing in a long-running play.
Ive been playing Maggie for 10 years, said Kate Haggerty, an actress who has been in Off-Broadway, regional theater and national tours and who last year became director of the IRT PowerPlays, a training program for professional lawyers.
Weve been Simons and Maggies for N.I.T.A. courses at law offices like Sullivan & Cromwell and Kaye Scholer in Manhattan and at the New Jersey Attorney Generals Office in Trenton, said Haggerty, who joined IRT as an actress in 1995.
I love the character of Simon, said Paul Kawecki, whose career has included television soap opera, Off-Broadway and regional theater roles and has been playing Simon Clark for six years.
Instead of a play script, the actors learn their roles from casebooks, one for Simon and another for Maggie, which have all the facts and documents, pertaining to the lawsuit, and some personal information about the character. Maggie, for example, is a single mother and Simon has had other affairs with law firm associates. Their casebooks include things like e-mails, letters and copies of the law firms evaluation report.
All the facts were invented by two Temple University Law School professors, Anthony J. Bocchino and David A. Sonenshein, 13 years ago for the N.I.T.A. course.
Once you get the case under your belt, its fun, said Michael Lewis, another actor who was playing Simon at the November New York Law School course. The casebook for Simon is 17 pages long and the casebook for Maggie has nearly 30 pages.
The actors must also improvise details of Simons and Maggies personal experience because they dont know exactly what questions the lawyers taking the course will ask. I use my own personal experience, said Jonathan Fluck, a co-founder of IRT who was one of the Simons at the November weekend course. Its more efficient than making something up.
When N.I.T.A. gave the course for the first couple of years, the lawyers who were taking the course took turns playing Maggie and Simon. But the instructors felt that the learn by doing program needed more realism.
A Hofstra law professor, Richard Neuman, one of the N.I.T.A. instructors, was also a member of our IRT board of directors at the time and he suggested that we could find actors to play Maggies and Simons, Fluck recalled. Weve been doing it ever since, he added.
The theater company, based in the The Archive building at 153 Christopher St., was founded by Fluck and Luane Davis 18 years ago. In addition to the professional training program, IRT produces standard plays performed in American Sign Language by deaf performers for deaf audiences, as well as childrens theater and touring shows.
The actors are indispensable to a good program, said Philip Schatz, one of the law instructors in the N.I.T.A. course. They allow people taking the course to concentrate on what theyre supposed to be doing. When we had students acting as plaintiffs and defendants, it was much less effective, Schatz said.
The course at New York Law involved giving lawyers a realistic experience of preparing their clients for depositions and taking depositions from the other side. Depositions, a record of sworn testimony used as evidence during a civil trial, are often more difficult to learn than trial work, Schatz said.
Among the 80 students taking the course at New York Law School last month were lawyers with only a few years experience, like Eric Whitaker, a practicing lawyer for three years from New Orleans, whose law firm had recently returned to the city after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. He was in New York to hone his skills as a plaintiffs lawyer in preparing his client (Maggie) for a deposition.
Some of the students were lawyers with more experience, like Polly Gruenberg, a lawyer for 12 years, mostly in criminal practice, which usually does not involve depositions.
The course instructors direct the actors playing Maggie and Simon. Sometimes were under control but there are times when Maggie can get pretty emotional, said Haggerty.
There is an outside chance that Maggie, Simon and their lawyers will take their case before the public at large. I was talking to David Sonenshein, one of the creators, and he mentioned that Bocchino said he was thinking of turning it into a film or television script, Haggerty said.
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LODI - The chief executive officer of the Lodi Boys & Girls Club served as a financial consultant for Stockton medical marijuana dispensary owner Matthew Davies, who is under federal indictment for drug trafficking violations.
LODI - The chief executive officer of the Lodi Boys & Girls Club served as a financial consultant for Stockton medical marijuana dispensary owner Matthew Davies, who is under federal indictment for drug trafficking violations.
The role Paul Bonell, 51, had in the medical marijuana dispensary is not under any legal scrutiny; however it comes as a surprise to the Boys & Girls Club board of directors. His link to the dispensary was not listed on the former Premier Credit Union president's r�sum�, according to three club directors, including Chairman Marc Bregman.
"I didn't know any of (Bonell's) history with this operation, and it was not on his r�sum�," Bregman said. He also issued a written statement that the club does not view Bonell's involvement with Davies to have been illegal or immoral. Still, the board of directors will meet to discuss the matter further, he said.
Bonell's involvement with Davies came to light in a Monday New York Times article that outlined the plight of Davies, who faces 15 years in prison for his large-scale medical marijuana operation. Davies opened his Stockton dispensary in 2011 and grew hundreds of marijuana plants under the guidelines of state law. Davies has been on record saying he was clear and up front about his intentions to be above board and "do it right." He sought advice from Bonell as a longtime banker, along with other lawyers and other consultants to ensure he was meeting state laws.
Federal agents raided the business, Central Valley Caregivers Cooperative, in October 2011, the same month Bonell was hired with the Boys & Girls Club. The U.S. Attorney's Office said Davies is not a licensed caregiver or patient and was solely in the business for profit.
The case is of interest nationally because of how federal laws involving marijuana conflict with state laws in places such as California, which allows medical marijuana use, and Washington and Colorado, which both recently allowed recreational use of marijuana.
"I was involved mostly in compliance issues and cash-handling," Bonell said, adding that he didn't mind advising a medical marijuana dispensary because he's seen how much relief the drug can provide for patients who need it, and it was legal in California. "I was shocked by the indictments."
Bonell refused to comment further, and later referred all questions to the board.
He told the New York Times: "I had some reservations going in. But the industry was exploding. Matt wanted to have internal controls in place. And we thought: This was a legitimate business. If the state of California deems it legitimate, we want to be the best at it."
Bonell was hired by the Boys & Girls Club to replace longtime President Richard Jones, who retired. Bonell inherited a club in financial straits and had to endure temporary closures and last-minute fundraising campaigns to stay afloat.
"When we interviewed him, he had a certain skill set that we believed necessary and the financial background that we thought was going to be very helpful to the Lodi Boys & Girls Club," said Lodi police Capt. J.P. Badel, who was chairman at the time of Bonell's hire.
Bregman said the New York Times article - which indicated that Bonell held a long-term, full-time position with the dispensary - was overstating the truth. He said from what he understands, Bonell consulted with Davies for "a couple months" to ensure the company was above board.
"The indictment isn't over the company's finances. The books were fine," Bregman said. "What concerns us is that it was not on his r�sum�."
Bregman said the board will decide if Bonell's role in the dispensary was large enough that he should have put it on his r�sum� and to determine if his involvement would have changed the board's thinking in hiring him.
How the community views the issue is unclear. The City Council has banned marijuana dispensaries in city limits and has recently asked the City Attorney's Office to write an ordinance to oversee cultivation by licensed patients in their homes.
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A Benton County man has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for trying to entice underage girls into performing sexual activities via webcam.
Santosh Ram, 32, was charged after Homeland Security Investigations in January 2013 received information that a man using the online profile name "Peter Na" was masquerading as a 15-year-old and soliciting sex acts from girls he met on social-media websites, U.S. Attorney Conner Eldridge said in a statement.
A federal search warrant at Ram's home resulted in the confiscation of several computers and digital storage devices; Ram later admitted to creating the "Peter Na" profile to entice girls to perform sexual activity live via webcam, Eldridge said. One of the girls he contacted was just 11 years old, prosecutors told the court.
U.S. District Judge Jimm Larry Hendren sentenced Ram in Fayetteville on Tuesday to 11 years and three months' imprisonment without the possibility of parole; a $10,000 fine; and five years of supervised release.
"As this case exemplifies, online security and safety for minors is of the utmost importance," Eldridge said in the statement. "Victimizing innocent children is horrendous and inexcusable. This Defendant was brought to justice, and we will work even more aggressively to prosecute these types of cases to the fullest extent of the law for the sake of these innocent children."


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Supreme Court oral argument as a solo sport.
Justice Antonin Scalia is my favorite character on the Supreme Court in part because there is just no hiding the ball with him. Scalia doesn't come into oral argument all secretive and sphinxlike, feigning indecision on the nuances of the case before him. He comes in like a medieval knight, girded for battle. He knows what the law is. He knows what the opinion should say. And he uses the hour allocated for argument to bludgeon his brethren into agreement. Usually this is sort of fun and charming. But it's starting to affect the other justices.
Nevada Department of Human Resources v. Hibbspromised to be one of the most important federalism cases in the Big Bang that is the Rehnquist Court federalism revolution, but oral argument this morning proves kind of deathly. Perhaps it's because, after 10 years of almost indistinguishable 5-4 state sovereign immunity decisions, everyone on this court has said everything there is to say. Perhaps it's because, having resolved the really big federalism issues in those prior cases, today's case comes down to the narrow question of whether Congress drafted the Family and Medical Leave Act with enough anti-discrimination language to save it from this court. Or perhaps it's because some of the other justices are getting tetchy about Justice Scalia's tendency to treat oral argument as a solo event. Not sure. I can only say that if you went to court expecting cutting-edge civil rights analysis, you had a disappointing morning. Even the attorneys look depressed.
William Hibbs was a social worker for Nevada's Human Resources Department. After his wife was injured in a car accident, Hibbs sought time off under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993. Hibbs exhausted the 12 weeks to which he was entitled under FMLA and asked for more time off under Nevada's "catastrophic leave" policy. The state denied him more leave, told him to get back to work, and fired him when he didn't. Hibbs sued Nevada under FMLA, but the federal district court granted summary judgment for the state, finding that Nevada was immune from suit under the 11th Amendment of the Constitution. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals—stubbornly taking issue with eight other circuit courts who've all decided this issue for the states—found for Hibbs, holding that in drafting FMLA, Congress overrode state sovereign immunity because the act seeks to correct for gender discrimination.
The key to comprehending this Clash of the Constitutional Titans is to imagine the 11th Amendment as the Loch Ness Monster and the 14th Amendment as the Abominable Snowman. Over the last 10 years, the Rehnquist Court has insisted that states are immune from suit under federal laws, even when those federal laws seek to correct for national civil rights abuses. The Loch Ness Monster won every fight. Thus, state workers were denied the right to sue for age discrimination in the 2000 case of Kimel v. Florida Board of Regents, and state suits under the Americans With Disabilities Act were likewise deemed toothless against the 11th Amendment in the 2001 case of University of Alabama v. Garrett. There is one way the Loch Ness Monster could be stopped. The Supreme Court says that where Congress is acting under an explicitly constitutional grant of power, it can abrogate state immunity from suit. In other words, if Congress, in enacting FMLA, were acting under its 14th Amendment power to remedy gender inequities, it might raise up an Abominable Snowman capable of finally taking Nessie out. The question in Hibbs is whether FMLA was enacted to combat gender inequity in the workplace, or whether it's a piece of gender-neutral labor legislation. If the latter is true, the Loch Ness monster would ride again.
(There is a better-than-even chance that this metaphor will not make it into the court's opinion in Hibbs.)
Oral argument opens with Paul Taggart, a deputy attorney general from Nevada, attempting to explain to a dubious Chief Justice Rehnquist and an even more dubious Justice Sandra Day O'Connor how the text of FMLA, which explicitly references the "14th Amendment," the "Equal Protection Clause," and gender bias, could be anything but a gender-discrimination statute. Scalia doesn't let Taggart answer, insisting that Congress was only attempting to be "consistent" with the 14th Amendment by using that language; its "purpose" was not to remedy discrimination.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg stops him. "The first rule of statutory construction," she purrs, "is to read on. And if you read on ..." She quotes the anti-discrimination language. Taggart starts to answer that no, this isn't a gender statute, it's no different from the minimum-wage statute, but Scalia stops him to tell Ginsburg that the statute makes no reference to the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. Ginsburg replies: "The statute says 'pursuant to the Equal Protection Clause.' " This is where someone would break the bottle over the chair if this were a Western.
Justices Stephen Breyer and David Souter try to break up the fracas with gentle questions about the purpose of FMLA. Says Souter: "We know, historically, that when burdens of family responsibility are allocated, they are allocated to women, not men." He says that a statute correcting for this sounds like a pretty genuine gender-discrimination statute. Taggart says Congress never proved that women were being penalized in the workplace for taking more family leave. Ginsburg asks whether Title VII is also not applicable against the state. Taggart starts to answer but Scalia interrupts to help out: "She's asking you to distinguish Title VII. What about the fact that Title VII goes to sex discrimination in general?" Taggart accepts that answer. Moments later, Breyer asks Taggart to answer whether or not Congress has "lots of leeway" to correct for gender discrimination. Taggart replies, "I don't want to agree with you 100 percent."
Scalia again stops him: "According to your brief you agree 0 percent," he says. There is no longer any doubt that Coach Scalia would like to bench Taggart and sub in Scalia.
Then Souter asks Taggart a question and, while Taggart is still responding, he asks a follow up. Seemingly shocked by his own rudeness, Souter apologizes: "I'm sorry. I was trying to get another question in before Justice Scalia."
Cornelia Pillard, who has 15 minutes to argue for Hibbs, starts off by rattling out statistics revealing that women are offered vastly more time off than men, which makes women less attractive employees. Scalia stops her to say that there's a difference between "allowing mothers who gave birth to recuperate" and allowing fathers to care for babies. Pillard says parenting leave is not the same as "maternity disability" leave; that Pennsylvania, for example, gives women up to six months maternity leave with no provision at all for men to care for infants. Here Ginsburg pulls what sportswriters could only call a double-Scalia by giving a little speech about a father who isn't excused from jury duty because the court insists "you don't take care of children." Pillard, somewhat stunned by Ginsburg's random assist, agrees that it does illustrate the problem.
Scalia (Ginsburg and he are dear friends, by the way) starts beating on Pillard about the mandatory 12-week leave requirement in FMLA. "How can Congress impose 12 weeks on a state?" he asks. Later, Pillard says that "until a generation ago" states overtly restricted the employment of women for these reasons, and Scalia jumps in to ask (and now he just appears ornery), "How many years is a generation?"
Finally, Viet Dinh gets 15 minutes to argue for the Justice Department, taking the position that the states are not immune from FMLA under the 11th Amendment. Again, Scalia doesn't let his colleagues get a word in edgewise. Again, Ginsburg offers an uncharacteristic speech as opposed to a question, and Justice John Paul Stevens prefaces his own question with: "Justice Scalia should probably ask this question but ..." Scalia interrupts him to say, "Pass it to me."
While I don't always agree with Justice Scalia, I am always awed and moved by his brilliance. But someone needs to remind him that there's a difference between hiding the ball, which is pretty aggravating at oral argument, and hogging it, which is worse.