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When we look at a natal chart and before we know any of the details about a case, we have the potential future of an individual; the nature aspect. Whether they be a victim or a perpetrator, they all started out with a stellar pattern in the heavens; a unique plan all their own.
In this case as most, we are not privy to a birth time of the individual and so we generate the birth chart at noon giving us a mid-range Moon placement. I rarely include such a natal chart within an enquiry, however on this occasion we do, if only to reveal that all the planets are located in one hemisphere of the chart; a fan or as it is sometimes called, a bucket without a handle.
Note: Please ignore angles and house placements in this first chart.
Similar to a stellium, a pattern such as this tells us that the engine lacks a starter motor. There is no natural motivator to get the energy working; this person would need external motivation such as a transiting planet or another person to get them going.
Once the motor was turning over, they would be fine with a moral compass to guide them; plus, similarly to a stellium, they would likely roll with whatever opportunities crossed their path – career, romance etc.
This is the natal chart of a missing person who has since been declared dead by family; in order for his estate to be settled I would expect. He was born Raymond Frank Gricar in Cleveland, Ohio on 9th October 1945.
Ray Gricar disappeared on 15th April 2005 at the age of 59. He lived and worked in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. As the local District Attorney there would have been a list of felons he had put-away; a queue who would have liked to see him disappear, I'm sure.
Did someone 'disappear' him or did he choose to disappear himself? This is the question; the basis for this forensic astrology enquiry.
Astrology is a pseudo science; not accepted in a court of law. We can make suggestions and question possible results as we interpret planetary positions in the space-time continuum.
- We note a peregrine Pluto in the zodiac of Leo in the natal chart. Does this man handle power in a benign way, or is he a bit of a tyrant? Strong at work and weak at home? Pluto can swing either or both ways in the trenches; boundaries are needed.
- Both Mars and Uranus are quindecile the Lunar South Node – introducing a karmic element of compulsive hyper-excitability to the mix; Aspergers syndrome perhaps. Was he clumsy in social situations? Explosive?
- Uranus is also square natal Venus (pink) plus
- Sun is square Mars – the ego is involved. What's going on here, switcheroo…
These last two aspects will reveal their part in the story as we go along, I'm sure.
With the last communication from Ray Gricar at 11:30am with a phone call to his live-in lady friend, Patty Fornicola in relation to his whereabouts, we can generate a bi-wheel from the event time (method).
The inner chart is a snapshot of the heavens at 11:30am in Bellefonte and the outer chart is the natal chart (as above). We view the interaction between the two energies. The heavens aren't offside in this bi-wheel.
We are told that the conversation took place while Gricar was driving through Brush Valley en route Lewisburg, PA – northeast on Highway #192. We make a note of that; as it will need to be checked against the charts.
Our first interpretation of the 11:30am bi-wheel does reveal that communication did take place as Mercury is in the mix, both in the heavens and in the natal chart. One tick on the board; check.
Our priorities for interpretation are to consider the angles before midpoints; then the aspects. The fan is pretty much on the left-hand side of the chart; this man is likely assertive rather than defensive.
- Natal Mars conjunct ascendant – plans being put into action – impulsively. The chain of events unfolds.
- Transiting Saturn creates the midpoint that determines his demise – Saturn=Mars/Saturn – we can suggest that this individual met with the grim reaper (Saturn) as a result of action he took on this day. He likely thought he was in control of the situation (Mars-Saturn).
- Transiting Moon (blue) in the inner wheel represents the height of emotions/mental activity.
If this man indeed was a sufferer of Aspergers syndrome, then he would likely have been experiencing a manic episode over some days and during this period in time. There are no indications to suggest obsessive-compulsive behaviour; more likely an impulsive verbal explosion. Not a good time to be negotiating, I wouldn't think.
- Natal Saturn is also squared by transiting Sun (date on the calendar) and the Lunar nodal axis – indicating trauma in a public place – a prearranged appointment perhaps. Under the town-hall clock may have been wise choice, rather than a carpark under these circumstances.
- Transiting Sun (date on the calendar) is opposite natal Mercury – confirming a prearranged appointment.
- Natal lunar nodal axis is also generating a square with transiting Mercury (yellow) in the 10th house. This suggests that the phone call at 11:30am was considerably more than just a social call. It created a sense of trauma for Ray Gricar in his mind (12th house).
The conversation was in relation to his work/career (10th house), which leads us to the overall interpretation of this bi-wheel – that his live-in lady friend; Patty Fornicola is aware of whom the appointment was with.
Before we go further, an astrology aspect is drawing my attention. As Pluto is peregrine in this man's natal chart, I would expect it to loom large at the time of his death – the ultimate powerless indicator; guardian to the entrance of the underworld.
Pluto is also peregrine in the bi-wheel at this point in time. We will definitely need an angle in the mix and so we generate two charts located at Bellefonte rather than Lewisburg, as we have not yet determined that Gricar did in fact go to Lewisburg. (The ascendant would change slightly for the two locations)
The first bi-wheel is generated at noon, a likely appointment time and secondly when Pluto crosses the ascendant, a possible time of death. The first chart has Saturn at the ascendant at the time of midday (date with the grim reaper) and Pluto crosses the ascendant at 1:30pm; all on the day in question,15th April 2005.
- Note the native's concentrated activity in the 3rd house of the second chart. He is likely endeavouring to negotiate his release at the suggested time of his death.
We must comment that none of the charts indicate that Ray Gricar was starting a new life. That would require the major action of planets at the IC, rather than the ascendant.
Our next step is as we would expect with a crime scene; start with the immediate players. Patricia E. Fornicola was born on 15th June 1963. She was 41 years-old; co-habiting with Ray Gricar in the house she grew up in.
The 11:30am phone call was between Ray Gricar and Patty Fornicola. This is born out by both charts, however as to the content of the conversation, we remain objective.
We would expect that the recipient of the call was at the office and he, likely in his car. That he is in his car, en route Lewisburg is not confirmed at this point of our enquiry.
Before we even start to interpret the aspects in this chart, I can confidently suggest that this is not the chart of a woman who is having a conversation with her boyfriend about letting the dog out, or having a chat about a visit to Lewisburg looking for antique furniture.
The emotive response by Patty Fornicola is much more sinister than that, according to the charts. There is no indication of suspicion of another woman. In fact there is no mention of a female in any charts; nor money.
- Transiting Saturn (red) exact conjunct natal Lunar Nodal axis in the 1st house – this is a primary indicator of a POI or victim. It also give us a locator angle.
- Transiting Moon (blue) square natal Jupiter – inflated mind control of emotions.
- Transiting Pluto (another primary forensic indicator) opposite natal Sun (orange) in 12th house – death is on the mind.
- Transiting Uranus opposite natal Pluto in 3rd house of communication – this individual is empowered by the interaction.
- Transiting Mercury (yellow) indicating that Patty is likely at work at 11:30 is conjunct natal Moon – personal driving needs are communicated.
Note: I have since viewed video footage of Patty being interviewed. I suggest that on at least two occasions her cognitive responses were 'constructed' rather than 'recalled'. The questions were nothing out-of-the-blue.
Why did Patty Fornicola need to construct an answer in relation to her relationship with Ray Gricar? Was it complicated? And why lie about the conversation on the phone? People's egos are so fragile – drives me to distraction…
When we start working with cartography, rules need to be followed (method). We generate a map and draw a connecting line from the Gricar/Fornicola residential address in Bellefonte to where Gricar's car was located in Lewisburg. This gives us a locator angle.
We then use Patty's bi-wheel at the time of the phone call and superimpose it over the map. This reveals a close proximity, however not precise. Close enough to confirm that yes, Ray Gricar was on his way to Lewisburg but the time is not quite on the money…
We can then wind the clock to fit the map and we find it slots into place at noon (Lewisburg location). We therefore suggest that Patty Fornicola definitely knew that there was a meeting at noon in Lewisburg. Her chart confirms this.
The seriousness of the situation in astrology terms, is in the bi-wheel and what lies on that red line – transiting Saturn conjunct the natal Lunar nodal axis.
Patty Fornicola knew, even if it were sub-consciously, that Ray Gricar was going to meet with the grim reaper at that time and in Lewisburg.
We now change our focus to Lewisburg and use that location for our remaining charts. We are aware that SAR dogs were on the case, revealing that Ray Gricar likely left his vehicle and joined someone else in theirs in the Lewisburg carpark. Not that he went antique shopping; went off on foot to toss his computer off a bridge, or commit suicide; the scent started and ended in the carpark.
We use fresh charts for Lewisburg at noon and the natal chart of Ray Gricar. This is only slightly different from the charts we have already interpreted. We need to generate them in order to get an angle of some significance.
Immediately we note the invisible man at the IC – natal Neptune (turquoise). Unfortunately this generally means that the case will in all likelihood, not be solved.
Natal Saturn is exact at the ascendant. It is now just a matter of time. The most we can do is generate a locator angle and transpose same onto a map.
We follow our usual cartography method and use this bi-wheel centred over the location of where Ray Gricar's locked car (containing his cell phone) was located. The angle is not quite north-south.
If we were to suggest a direction, it would be to follow Ray's voice (Mercury in the outer chart) and go north – transiting Lunar nodal axis intersects with natal Mercury.
Hopefully this will ring bells for someone who knows more about this case that we do.
Whether Ray Gricar had a liaison with someone (other than a female) or was meeting a male person in relation to his work / off-the-record we may never know, but Patty Fornicola carries the answer; it's now her karma.


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New York in November.
My cousin, Becka, and I went to the Big Apple for five days around Thanksgiving last November. And look how we lucked out with our 2 bed, 2 bath, Airbnb apartment. It couldn't have been in a better location or have a better view and was cheaper than a small hotel room we would have had to share!
The end of November is such a great time of the year to visit as nowhere and noone does Christmas better than New York. As soon as Thanksgiving is over, all the decorations go up and the city turns into a wonderful winter wonderland - whatever the weather!
Saks Fifth Avenue put on a show to end all shows, Central Park & Rockefeller Plaza were just magical at night & we also squeezed in a meal at Grand Central Station, regular $10 neck & shoulder massages and enjoyed coming across the odd little sights you find around every corner in Manhattan. Just look at those giant pumpkins left over from Halloween!
We've both visited NYC before but on this trip we managed to find two new awesome adventures that you really should experience if you haven't already! The first one was the High Line, a fabulous 1.45 mile long nature walk which has been designed along a disused rail road. An absolute must for nature lovers who want great views of NYC along the way!
And the other great walk we did on a beautiful blue sky day was the Brooklyn Bridge Walk..... a bit breezy, but boy oh boy the views of the city's skyline made it worth every step.
I think I need another trip to NYC just to re-discover Brooklyn, 'cause it's huge!
Get an Airbnb apartment rather than a hotel. You will pay the same for a 2 bedroom apartment as you would for a pokey twin room in a hotel.
Take lots of layers with you. It can be very warm one day & freezing cold the next, in Spring or Autumn. One day we were in light jackets, the next raincoats, and the next we were in very warm fun furs, hats & gloves! (more packing tips here)
Wear really comfy walking shoes, you will walk for miles and miles and miles, and that's without shopping.
At the time of writing, shopping is no longer a bargain in NYC because of the $ to Sterling exchange rate. But if you try and plan your trip around Black Friday, straight after Thanksgiving, then you can't avoid picking up a bargain. Everything I needed was slashed by 30% including a Mophie charger for my i-phone and a travel bag from Fred Perry that I couldn't get in Brighton!
Go to trendy areas like SoHo, NoHo & Tribeca to see what the fashionistas are buying in the little independent boutiques. Search out flea markets & vintage shops to try and replicate the wonderful look of the Advanced Style Fashionistas. I managed to hook up with one of them, Tziporah Salaman, while I was there. You can see us having an impromptu fashion shoot here!
If you go to one shop, out of sale time, make it Sephora for make up & other beauty essentials that you just can't get in the UK and other countries. We couldn't walk past one without shopping till we dropped!
Other good buys for me were vintage spectacle frames from Fabulous Fanny's - yes you read that right! They have a huge collection of retro frames for glasses or sunnies in every colour under the sun. I was in my element & you can see me wearing them on my regular Instagram & Facebook posts.
Those are my personal top tips, apart from building in plenty of time for just mooching around this great city, stopping wherever you feel like it, watching the world go by, eating in a deli or drinking coffee, sipping cocktails at sunset, or just sitting in a park in the sunshine. It's a great place for mooching! Have fun.

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This program is crucial to the lives of people with medical issues and disabilities in Quito. Volunteers undertaking this project will contribute their time and energy to taking care of the animals participating on the program, providing quality care and attention to ensuring the animals are well fed and cared for. They will also work directly with patients participating in the program. Hippotherapy (horses) and canotherapy (dogs) are recognized worldwide as an effective method for physical, mental and emotional rehabilitation. The goal-oriented program develops the patient's balance, coordination, orientation and rhythm, while giving them a sense of achievement and an emotional connection with the animal they are working with. Volunteers help care for the horses, as well as working with patients during therapy sessions. Without volunteers the sustainability of the program would be in question, with volunteers providing essential free labor to ensure the therapy sessions can continue to aid those who need it most.
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The self-taught son of a furniture dealer, Maurice Champion opened his own art gallery in 1930 on Boulevard du Montparnasse in Paris. He showed paintings, sculptures and his own creations in furniture. Modern, functional and devoid of decoration, characterized by their simplicity and balance.
At the 1937 Exposition des Arts et Techniques he presented a dining room inbleached oak with white leather-trimmed dark blue upholstery and a living room also in oak.
In response to requests from his clients, Champion turned to luxurious fabrication after World War II and his furniture evokes the earlier Art Deco period.
He participated regularly in the Salones des Artistés Décorateurs, Nationale de Beaux-Arts, Indépendentants, and Salons d'Automne. His work included commissions for minstries, administrations, private mansions, and the French government.


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I have very dark jeans that continually bleed. I wash them alone in hot water to try to release some color. I've done this 5 times already and nothing is working. I don't want to keep the original very dark color; I want them to fade and stop releasing color. Is there something I can add to the wash cycle to break this down and stop my problem?
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I wash dark colors together, dark jeans with blacks. If dark blue bleeds onto black, it's no big deal.
If you want to fade your jeans, here is a link to an old ThriftyFun thread. Rit made a product called Fast Fade, but apparently they've discontinued it. The thread offers some alternate ideas:
I don't know if this will help, but to "set" the color of clothing before you wear them, wash them with 1 cup of salt.
There's a lot of info on this site about setting colors. So I was thinking that maybe that's what you need to do to stop the bleeding.
Actually I think you're lucky!
Also, have you tried washing your jeans with other clothes using cold water only? Sometimes that helps bleeding.
Good luck. Hope the salt trick works.
If you want them to fade faster, wash them with some bleach.
I was just going to say exactly what "metroplex" had said. Salt will do the trick. Good answer metroplex.
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Like every year, we finished off this year with our Christmas party. 25 of us met at the Organic Garden – the main course was "Slovak cabbage soup", supplemented with open faced party sandwiches, Christmas cookies and sweets, etc… from various sources. Tables were full with, and "warped" under the weight of, all of the food and drinks.
After dinner, Martin briefly summarized the past year and introduced plans for next year. Then we carried on with talking, drinking, and mingling.
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In the last two years, the number of job applicants failing employer required drug screen urine tests has increased by 5.7 percent. While this represents an increase in apparent drug use, it must be put into perspective. In the first six months of 2012, approximately 3.4 million urine drug screening tests were submitted to labs for analysis, of which only around 2 percent of them resulted in positive results for the use of marijuana. The results for all other drugs tested for was even lower.
The drug that registered second in occurrence among job seekers was amphetamines. Approximately 0.86 of all job applicants tested positive for its use during the same time period. These statistics were released by the medical laboratory research company Quest.
These test results were released at a time when there is increasing public dialogue about drug use and especially about the use of marijuana. With a clear majority of U.S. residents now supporting marijuana legalization, two states, Washington and Colorado, have already legalized marijuana use for recreational purposes, while still restricting its use.
Quest said that the figures it had developed following its 25 years of involvement in the drug testing industry showed no relationship between the amount of drug use and decriminalization or legalization measures. This contradicts the position of the U.S Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), which strenuously argues that legalization would be accompanied by greatly expanded drug use.
Many employers still insist on a drug free workforce despite marijuana legalization efforts and the large number of state that have legalized medical marijuana. Last fall, a Michigan appeals court upheld the right of Walmart as an employer to fire an employee who was legally prescribed medical marijuana to alleviate the painful impact of his inoperable brain tumor. Marijuana is still considered an illegal drug under federal law, regardless of the details of state law.


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Ghassan Zaqtan
Translated from Arabic by Fady Joudah
- The key's clang
- the sun I called from the windowsill
- the brief time of fondness
- none of it were mine
- This cramped morning
- sprinkled over the neighbor's garden
- from the edge of the pillow
- isn't mine
- It wasn't mine
- that laugh of the girl who gleamed behind the vase
- in air
- There had to be a hand picking jasmine nearby
- If only our neighbor would turn off the radio
- I could hear
- how water breaks over her hands as she washes . . .
- I would have opened the window
- I would have turned off the lights
GHASSAN ZAQTAN is a Palestinian writer living in Ramallah. He is the author of ten collections of poetry and two novellas, and has twice been nominated for the Neustadt Prize. The Silence That Remains (Copper Canyon Press) is his most recent book to appear in English.
FADY JOUDAH is a Palestinian-American poet and physician. He is the 2007 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition for his collection The Earth in the Attic. His translation of Ghassan Zaqtan's Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me won the Griffin International Poetry Prize in 2013. Joudah lives with his family in Houston, where he works as a physician of internal medicine.


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- President of the Bar Association of the Canal Zone in 1932.
- Delegate of the Republic of Panama at the 1944 Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation.
- Member of the National Foreign Relations Council of the Republic of Panama from 1955 to 1968.


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Save the Date for our first ever Comedy Night! Saturday, January 26th, 2019!
To Download our Flyer and Ticket Form Click HERE!
The New Jersey Foundation for Dance and Theatre Arts and Artistic Director, Nancy C. King present their 24th performance of "The Nutrcracker".
Tickets are on sale NOW for the 2018 performance of The Nutcracker! CLICK HERE to purchase tickets.
Here are some highlights from our 2015 Nutcracker!
Tickets for our June Recital "Cinderella's Adventures" go on sale 4/16 at 7pm! Click the link below to purchase your tickets to our recital which takes place June 9th & 10th!
Join us on Saturday, January 27th for the Bella Notte Dinner & Tricky Tray Fundraiser! The event will be held at Cupsaw Clubhouse from 7:00pm-11:00pm in Ringwood, NJ!
We invite you to bring friends and family to join us! We have secured many great prizes and are working on more.
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On Saturday, December 16th at our Mahwah Studio we had our Annual AYDC Holiday Party! This year we also had an AYDC Parents Bring Your Own Eggnog & Cookie Party. Both events were so much fun! The dancers exchanged gifts with their dance "families" and "Big Sister/Little Sisters" then they each made an ornament that they could take home with them. After the activities were over, the dancers put on a holiday show for the parents with dances they had been working on all week in class! We love celebrating the Holidays together as one big KC Family!
Check out this sneak peak of GREASE from dress rehearsal last night at Lakeland High School! Online ticket sales end tonight at MIDNIGHT and you can still purchase tickets at the door tomorrow before the shows at 2pm & 7pm. Break a Leg to our Cast & Crew!
Click this Link to purchase your tickets: https://tickets.shovation.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=394
On Saturday, October 28th we held our annual Trunk or Treat event in the Wanaque studio parking lot. The event was a ton of fun! Several of our KC families went all out decorating their trunks in different themes. The dancers had a blast going from trunk to trunk and gathering candy. What a fun day for KC dancers, parents and teachers!
Looking for something fun to do this weekend?! Join us for our annual Trunk or Treat event. This year we are inviting all KC dancers, parents and families! In order to participate please dress up in your Halloween costume and bring a bag of peanut free candy!
The event will be held this Saturday, October 28th from 4pm-6pm in our Mahwah Studio Parking Lot. We are looking forward to seeing you there!
The New Jersey Foundation for Dance & Theatre Arts is so excited to announce their performance of Grease! The show is directed and choreographed by Nancy C. King and the musical director is Donald Westcott. The show will be performed at Lakeland High School on Saturday, November 18th at 2pm & 7pm. Tickets are $20 each.
On Saturday, September 23rd we held our annual Big Sister, Little Sister Breakfast. The dancers enjoyed bagels, fruit and muffins and learned who their big sister, little sister and families were for the 2017-2018 dance season. After breakfast, the dancers sat with their families and filled out personal goal sheets for the year. Then each family worked together to build their family crest that will represent them throughout the season. It was a great day of team building, mentor-ship and fun!


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Brad biddle Curriculum vitae
Academic Appointments Books & Chapters Articles Regulatory Filings & Litigation Presentations Projects & Workshops Education Professional Positions
Academic Appointments
Faculty Fellow, Center for Law, Science & Innovation, Arizona State University College of Law, 2016-present (Research Fellow, 2007-2016).
Research focus areas: technology standards; patent remedies for complex products.
Visiting Scholar, Lewis and Clark Law School, 2014 – present.
Research focus areas: a taxonomy of strategic approaches to interoperability standards taken by different firms; patent disclosure rules in standards setting organizations; open hardware licensing models; the relationship between open source and open standards.
Adjunct Professor, Arizona State University College of Law, 2010, 2002.
Taught Technology Standards Seminar (2010) and Internet Law (2002).
Non-Residential Fellow, Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School, 2007- 2008.
Research focus areas: economics of copyright law and the impact on innovation.
Adjunct Professor, California Western School of Law, 1999.
Taught Internet Law.
Books & Book Chapters
Patent Remedies and Complex Products: Toward a Global Consensus (Co-Editor). Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming, 2018.
No Standard for Standards: Understanding the ICT Standards-Development Ecosystem (book chapter). The Cambridge Handbook of Technical Standardization Law (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3023650
The Disclosure of Patents and Licensing Terms in Standards Development (Co-author, book chapter). The Cambridge Handbook of Technical Standardization Law (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Short History of Digital and Electronic Signature Legislation, in Simson Garfinkel, Web Security, Privacy and Commerce (2nd Edition, O'Reilly, 2001).
Public Key Infrastructures and Digital Signature Legislation: 10 Public Policy Questions, in Simson Garfinkel and Eugene Spafford, Web Security And Commerce (O'Reilly, 1997).
Five Reasons Why Patent Disclosure in Standards-Setting Organizations Doesn't Work (And What to Do Instead) (2015) Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2669893
Presented at the Tilburg University (Netherlands) Conference on Competition, Standardization and Innovation, Dec. 2015 (highly competitive selection process)
Presented at IEEE-SIIT 2015, the 9th International Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology, Oct. 2015.
Presented at Pacific IP Scholars III works-in-progress conference, Dec. 2015.
Study Proposal: Commercial Patent Licensing Data (March 28, 2016). University of Utah College of Law Research Paper No. 164. With Jorge Contreras, Colleen Chien and Thomas Cotter. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2755706
The Expanding Role and Importance of Standards in the Information Technology Industry, Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology, 52 Jurimetrics J. 177–208 (2012). With Frank X. Curci, Timothy Haslach, Gary Marchant, Andrew Askland, & Lyn Gaudet.
How Many Standards in a Laptop? (And Other Empirical Questions). 2010 Int'l Telecomm. Union Sec. Telecomm. Standardization Kaleidoscope Acad. Conf. Proc. 123. With Andrew White and Sean Woods. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1619440
Presented at the ITU-T "Beyond the Internet? – Innovations for future networks and services" Kaleidoscope Conference, Pune, India, Dec. 2010.
Legislating Market Winners: Digital Signature Laws and the Electronic Commerce Marketplace, 34 San Diego Law Review 1225 (1997). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3022170
Legislating Market Winners, 2:3 World Wide Web Journal 231 (1997).
Misplaced Priorities: The Utah Digital Signature Act and Liability Allocation in a Public Key Infrastructure, San Diego Law Review 1143 (1996).
Public Key Infrastructures and Digital Signature Legislation: 10 Public Policy Questions, 2:2 Cyberspace Lawyer 10 (April, 1997)
Ins and Outs of Distributing Software on the 'Net, San Diego Business Journal 21 (February 10, 1997) (co-authored with Tom Coll).
Consumer Rights vs. Encryption, MP3.com (February, 1999) (discussion of digital rights management and the First Sale Doctrine).
How Free is Free Music? MP3.com (December, 1998) (discussion of default copyright rules applicable to MP3 files).
Some Criticisms of the RIAA/DiMA Compromise, MP3.com (August, 1998) (criticisms of the webcasting provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act).
Report: The Role of Certification Authorities in Consumer Transactions: A Report of the ILPF [Internet Law and Policy Forum] Working Group on Certification Authority Practices (co-authored with Eric Goldman and Terry Maher) (1996).
Regulatory Filings & Litigation
USPTO/USCO May 2007 Roundtable on the WIPO Broadcast Treaty. Primary author of the "Statement ... By Certain Information Technology, Consumer Electronics And Telecommunications Industry Representatives, Public Interest Organizations, and Creative Community Representatives."
E.U. Council of Ministers March 2007 Hearing on the WIPO Broadcast Treaty. Co-author of the "Comments of Ad-Hoc Working Association of Private Sector Interests and Civil Society NGOs"
WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights, January 2007. Co-author of the "Joint Statement of Certain Civil Society, Private Sector and Rightsholders Representatives for the First Special Session of the SCCR."
WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights, September 2006. Co-author of the "Joint Statement of Certain Civil Society, Industry and Rightsholders Representatives Regarding the Draft Basic Proposal for SCCR 15."
USPTO/USCO September 2006 Roundtable on the WIPO Broadcast Treaty. Primary author of the "Statement ... By Certain Information Technology, Consumer Electronics and Telecommunications Industry Representatives, Public Interest Organizations, And Creative Community Representatives."
U.K. Gowers Review of Intellectual Property, 2005 Primary author of Intel Corp. submission
MGM v. Grokster (2005)Contributed to Intel Corp. amicus brief
Eldred v. Ashcroft (2003) Contributed to Intel Corp. amicus brief.
Select Presentations
Tilburg University Conference on Competition, Standardization and Innovation, Amsterdam, Dec. 2015. Presented '5 Reasons' paper.
Law Seminars International - FRAND Obligations and Essential Patent Licensing. Seattle, WA, Nov. 2015. "Practical issues in FRAND licensing and resolving FRAND disputes."
IEEE-SIIT 2015. Sunnyvale, CA. Oct. 2015. Presented. '5 Reasons' paper. Pacific Intellectual Property Scholars (PIPS) III Conference. Seattle, WA. Feb. 2015. Discussed patent disclosure research.
National Bureau of Economic Research, Standards, Patents & Innovation Conference. Tucson, AZ, Jan. 2012. Discussed empirical research in technology standards.
American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) roundtable "IPR and Global Standards Ecosystem: Discussion with Government Agencies." Washington, DC, Oct. 2011. Presented "How Many Standards" paper.
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Subcommittee on Standard and Conformance's Project Advisory Group on Education and the American National Standards Institute's Committee on Education joint workshop "Opportunities and Challenges for Education on Standardization in Universities." Washington, DC, Feb. 2011. Discussed ASU Law Technology Standards Seminar course.
ITU-T Kaleidoscope Conference, Pune, India, Dec. 2010. Presented "How Many Standards" paper at peer-reviewed global academic conference.
Standards and Consortia Roundtable, Tempe, AZ, Jan. 2010. Chaired organizing committee and led panel discussion at academic conference hosted by ASU Law's Center for Law, Science and Innovation.
Ignite Phoenix, Tempe, AZ, Feb. 2009. 5-minute/20 slide Ignite-format presentation: "How Open-Source Biofuels Will Change Phoenix and the World."
Computers, Freedom and Privacy '08, New Haven CT, copyright filtering panel. May '08. U.N. Internet Governance Forum, A2K Dynamic Coalition session, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Presentation, "Balanced IP Promotes Tech Innovation." November 2007.
Harvard Law School, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Interoperability and eInnovation. Invited workshop participant. June 2007.
Yale University School of Law, A2K2 Conference, New Haven CT. Panelist, "Mobilizing Industry." April 2007.
Arizona State University School of Law, Tempe AZ, Panelist: "Analyzing Grokster." October 2005.
South By Southwest 2001., Austin, TX. Lecture: "Peer to Peer: The Opportunity, the Threat and the Law." March 2001.
Glasser Legalworks E-Commerce Law School 2000, Palo Alto, CA. Panel: "Protecting and Exploiting Intellectual Property Online." June 2000.
Thunderbird/American Graduate School of International Management, Global Management in a Digital World Executive Education Seminar, Phoenix, AZ. Presentation: "The Nuts and Bolts of E-Business: Managing Key Relationships." May 2000.
Internet Music Summit, Spring 1999 Internet World, San Jose, CA. Lecture "Navigating the Licensing Minefield" addressed issues related to distributing music on the Internet. April 1999.
Glasser Legalworks Cyberspace Law School 1998, Palo Alto, CA. Lecture "Making Electronic Commerce Secure" addressed cryptography and authentication issues. Dec. 1998.
TechLaw Group, Pittsburgh, PA. Presentation on e-commerce security issues for international consortium of technology law firms. September, 1998.
NetWorld+InterOp 98 (SoftBank, Ziff-Davis), Las Vegas, NV. Panel presentation on copyright issues raised by Web caching technology and techniques. May, 1998.
American Bar Association, San Diego, CA. Panel presentation at Section of Tort and Insurance Practice Section Spring Meeting "What Every Lawyer Should Know About Copyright Law." May 1998.
Internet Law and Policy Forum (ILPF), Seattle, WA. Presented Report of the ILPF Working Group on Certification Authority Practices. January, 1998.
LEXIS Counsel Connect. Panelist on Fifth Annual Law of the Electronic Road Seminar. August, 1997.
American Bar Association, Boston, MA. Panelist for discussion of "Developments in Cyberspace Law" at Section of Business Law Spring Meeting. March, 1997.
1997 Computers Freedom and Privacy Conference, San Francisco, CA. Presented 10 Public Policy Questions paper. March, 1997.
Electronic Payments Forum, San Diego, CA. Presentation on digital signature legislation. January, 1997.
The Common Solutions Group, Berkeley, CA. Presentation on digital signature legislation. December, 1996.
Projects & Workshops
Co-organizer, International Patent Remedies for Complex Products (INPRECOMP) Project.
Involved two workshops, the first in London hosted by Kings College London on October 27-28, 2016, and the second at Arizona State University in Phoenix, Arizona on March 23-24, 2017. The Cambridge University Press book is the output of these workshops.
Founder and coordinator, Open Bike Initiative, 2013-2014 (and ongoing in modified form).
Collaborative project involving Portland State, Intel, Nike and others, focused on performing and publishing research and developing an open source technology and methodology for bike sharing.
Initiator and Coordinator, Zero Emission Fabs project, 2011.
Collaborative research project involving Arizona State and Intel, focused on performing carbon capture of factory emissions using algae and converting that algae to biofuel.
Co-organizer, ASU Center for Law, Science and Innovation Standards and Consortia Roundtables, 2010 and 2011.
Participants from academia, government, industry, and law firms collaboratively discussed and evaluated issues associated with forming and operating technology standards development organizations and similar technology consortia. The 'Expanding Role and Importance of Standards' article resulted from the 2011 workshop.
J.D. (cum laude), University of San Diego School of Law, 1997. Order of the Coif; Associate Editor, San Diego Law Review.
B.A, University of California, San Diego, 1994.
Bar Admissions
California, 1997 – present
Oregon, 2015 - present
Professional Positions
Principal, Biddle Law PC, 2015 – present
Independent legal and consulting practice focused on facilitating interoperability in technology ecosystems. Outside general counsel for the several leading global standards setting organizations. Academic liaison for a Fortune 50 information technology company.
Director and Treasurer, Joint Development Foundation, 2015 – present.
JDF is a non-profit that incubates nascent interoperability standards and source code collaboration projects projects by providing a turnkey legal and operational infrastructure.
Founder and President, Open Bike, Inc., 2014 – present (hibernating).
Open Bike Inc. is a social benefit ("B") corporation focused on advancing the vision of the Open Bike Initiative project, which launched in 2013. OBI aims to transform bike sharing with an approach based on open hardware, open software and open standards.
Standards Counsel (and other roles), Intel Corporation, 2000-2015.
From 2008 to 2015, served as Standards Counsel. Led the SIGs and Standards Practice Group (the Intel legal team focused on standards development efforts and other related industry initiatives worldwide). Engaged with hundreds of different standards and open source efforts. From 2003-2008 served as lead counsel for the Systems Technology Lab, leading Intel's involvement with WIPO and coordinating various copyright policy and open source projects. From 2000-2003 was the lead attorney for Intel's supplier-focused e-business group.
Founder, Policy Director, Desert Biofuels Initiative, 2007 – 2011.
Desert Biofuels Initiative, Inc. was a Phoenix, Arizona-based non-profit that performed research and promoted the development of a sustainable biofuels infrastructure.
General Counsel, VP of Business Development, MP3.com Inc., 1999.
Part of early stage founding team of Internet music pioneer. Closely involved in Sequoia Capital-led venture financing round and in key music copyright controversies.
Associate, Cooley Godward LLP, 1997 – 1999
Associate attorney in the Information Technology Group of leading Silicon Valley-based technology law firm.


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Understanding Your Ink Jet
Why did screen-printers move to ink jet technology for making film positives (and negatives) and away from traditional photographic devices such as Image setters and thermal devices?
Lower Cost: The industry looked to ink jet printers for making film for the most part because the devices cost much less to purchase and operate.
Quality Results: Screen-printers were achieving the sharpness and d-max on films they needed to burn screens using ink jets.
The Negatives of Alternative Solutions: Laser printers can manage the postscript data and are fast but they use "heat" to fuse toner to paper and weren't designed to use a clear film. Clear film aids you during screen making but would shrink in the printer because of the heating process and subsequently create registration issues. The use of vellum helps that, but it's cloudy and requires more time to expose screens and negatively affects the ability to capture detail. Finally, laser printers are not available for 17-inch or wider output. Image setters have a much higher purchase cost than ink jet devices, take up a lot of floor space and have special requirements.
Thermal devices are also costly devices. The cost of film is high. They suffer from registration and head burnout issues.
Direct-to-screen devices are costly and slow. They are true "one-off" devices. Each time you washout your screen you destroy the stencil and therefore you must directly print your separation to a new screen each time it is needed.
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Fair Trade Market
On Sunday, December 3, 2017, Bethany Presbyterian Church will host our 30th annual Fair Trade Market. The market will be at Bethany from 12:00pm – 3:00pm.
Vendors sell goods made by artisans around the world and right here in Tacoma, all of whom receive fair living-wage compensation. Bethany doesn't make any money from this event. All proceeds go to our vendors.
So, mark Sunday, December 3, 2017 on your calendar and we'll see you at the Fair Trade Market!
For more information, please contact the Bethany main office.
The following is a list of vendors who have participated in the market in the past. Join us this year for these vendors and others like them!
The Rose International Fund for Children
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Corazon Scarves
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FISH Food Banks
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The locally based Stavna Dance Academy is displaying a ballet based on the classic Alice in Wonderland story written by Lewis Carroll.
The event will be held on Saturday, February 20th and Sunday, 21st at the Glen Allen Cultural Arts center. The showtimes on Saturday are 2 and 6PM, and on Sunday, the ballet will begin at 2 PM. "We are using some of the classic characters and bringing them to life in a fresh way," said Mrs. Shannon McConville, the artistic director. "My goal is to make ballet more accessible to today's younger audiences," McConville went on to say
Stavna began working on the production in August of 2015, and the company has been working very hard to perfect the ballet. The production process required a casting call for the young people starring in the production.
The Stavna Dance Academy has been around since August of 2012 and has choreographed various productions in the last four years. The dance academy will be hosting an annual showcase on May 28th and 29th at the Modlin Center at the University of Richmond.


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Voting Rights
The United States has a long history of limiting the right to vote of women and people of color through property ownership, taxes, registration and residency laws, and tests. The readings and lessons here will empower students to think critically about recent events and continue the fight to ensure voting rights for all Americans.
Voting Rights Act History Quiz
We've all seen the iconic image of President Lyndon Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965. But what do we know of the history that led to the signing of the legislation? This quiz can challenge assumptions, deepen understanding, and inspire further learning about the voting rights struggle.
The Selma Voting Rights Struggle: 15 Key Points from Bottom-Up History and Why It Matters Today
By Emilye Crosby
Key points in the history of the Selma voting rights struggle that formed the basis for the popular article, "Ten Things to Know About Selma Before You See the Film."
Brief History of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
By Jenice L. View
SNCC is credited with many of the most innovative and effective fronts of the Civil Rights Movement. Here is a brief outline of SNCC's history.
'Is This America?': 50 Years Ago Sharecroppers Challenged Mississippi Apartheid, LBJ, and the Nation
By Julian Hipkins and Deborah Menkart
The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party arrived at the 1965 Democratic Party Convention in Atlantic City on a bus with more than 60 sharecroppers, farmers, housewives, teachers, maids, deacons, ministers, factory workers, and small-business owners.Students can learn from the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party about how to take on the Goliaths in politics.
Literacy and Liberation
By Septima P. Clark
The role of freedom schools and the Highlander Center in breaking down barriers and building leadership in the African American community.
Sheyann Webb: A Story for First Grade
By Maggie Donovan
An elementary-appropriate reading about Sheyann Webb, who was eight years old and a third-grader when she put on her "marching shoes."
Stepping into Selma: Voting Rights History and Legacy Today
By Deborah Menkart
This lesson invites students to step into the long history of the freedom struggle in Selma, introducing them to people, turning points, and issues. Each student takes on the identity of someone involved in one way or another in the Selma freedom movement. If used in advance of viewing the film Selma, it can help students recognize more of the people and issues that are referenced.
Picturing Selma: Socratic Seminar
By Lynda Tredway
In a media driven age, visual images often provide access to important events and political struggles that may be more immediately accessible to students than written texts. This lesson includes two sets of images from the Selma voting rights struggle that promote critical thinking. The steps include observation (reading the text), forming a hypothesis, and dialogue—much like an inquiry model of teaching.
Sharecroppers Challenge U.S. Apartheid: The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
By Jenice L. View, Julian Hipkins, et al
This lesson explores one of the most important events in the fight for true democracy in the U.S., when a coalition of grassroots activists challenged the Mississippi political system, the federal government and the national Democratic Party to abide by the U.S. Constitution. Working within the political "rules," the activists formed the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP or FDP) in 1964 and mounted a legitimate challenge to the existing system of race-based exclusion.
History Detectives: Voting Rights in Mississippi, 1964
By Deborah Menkart and Jenice L. View
This lesson introduces students to the history, strategies, and challenges facing by people in Mississippi in their struggle for voting rights in the early 1960s.
Murder Mystery: Shining a Light on the Story that the Newspapers Left Out
By Deborah Menkart and Jenice L. View
The murder of Mississippi voting rights activist Herbert Lee (Sept. 25, 1961), and subsequent murder of witness Louis Allen (Jan. 31, 1964), were key events in the history of the modern Civil Rights Movement. However, they were barely mentioned in the local press at the time and the story is missing from textbooks and public memory today. We hope that this lesson for high school students and adults can begin to fill that gap.
Freedom Song: Tactics for Transformation
By Alana D. Murray
Viewing guide for the drama Freedom Song about SNCC in Mississippi, which is by far one of the best films for students about the Civil Rights Movement.
Meet Medgar Evers: Introduction to the Southern Freedom Movement
By Deborah Menkart and Jenice L. View
Medgar Wiley Evers was one of Mississippi's most impassioned activists, orators, and visionaries for equality and against brutality. This is an interactive lesson to introduce students to his work and inspire them to learn more.
Exploring the History of Freedom Schools
By Deborah Menkart and Jenice L. View
An exploration of Freedom Schools allows students and teachers to explore the purpose and possibilities of public education today. This lesson uses primary documents to introduce the history and philosophy of Freedom Schools. The lesson is inquiry-based, hands-on, and engages students in critical reflection. Therefore, students learn about Freedom Schools not only from the readings, but they also experience the pedagogy.
Additional Resources
Recommended books, films, articles, lessons, and more for further learning about voting rights.
Voting Rights Act: Beyond the Headlines
By Emilye Crosby and Judy Richardson
The Voting Rights Act came into being through intensive organizing and activism spearheaded by the Black community, including people often marginalized and not seen as central to our society. Learn about key points in the history of the 1965 Voting Rights Act missing from most textbooks.
Mississippi at Atlantic City
By Charles M. Sherrod
This report by Charles Sherrod tells an engaging and profound story about the formation of the MFDP, the struggles faced by and within the African-American community, and the tremendous challenges yet to be addressed.
Vernon F. Dahmer: Civil Rights Martyr and American Hero
By Joyce Ladner
These remarks were prepared by sociologist and SNCC veteran Joyce Ladner for a commemoration of Vernon Dahmer on January 8, 2016, hosted by the Clarion Ledger in Jackson, Mississippi.
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Voting Rights
By Stacy Holloman
Lesson for 5th grade on challenges to voting before the Voting Rights Act.
Mississippi Freedom Schools: A Project from the Past Suggests a Lesson for the Future
By David Levine
The curriculum of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools helped spur political action.
Teaching History in the First Person
By Bill Bigelow
Teachers in the Mississippi Freedom Schools often engaged students in improvisational roleplays to help them think through the implicaitons of choices made by real people. Bigelow suggests here some improvisation ideas for the classroom.
Freedom School Curriculum
By Katie Kissinger
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This lesson uses a case study of Lowndes County, Alabama and three SNCC-related documents from the early 1960s—just before and after the Voting Rights Act—to explore the impact of the Voting Rights Act (and 1964 Civil Rights Act) on every day southern Black citizens: What did the legislation mean to them? Did they achieve their goals?


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Revving your engines: Tuning up your ERP project plan
Get started on your ERP project planning with tips on the challenges and steps of an ERP project plan in part one of a three-part series on ERP project success.
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Revving your engines: Tuning up your ERP project plan
Part 2: Maintaining your place in the race -- ERP project management
Part 3: The final ERP transition: Crossing the finish line successfully
A quick search of CIO magazine's website turns up more than 200 entries for the term "Project Plan" and even more for "Project Success" and "ERP Project." Many of these articles point out that "scope creep" and the failure to assess customers' real requirements are the biggest reasons projects fail. Other articles focused on selling users a particular tool for project management. A recent blog asserts that ERP project success may be defined as completion, regardless of the ROI or performance improvements which may or may not have been achieved. There are more than a few legendary ERP project failures, so how can we mere mortals hope to build successful projects?
In a series of three articles, we hope to show you just that by examining specific practices designed to lead to successful ERP projects. Part One, entitled "Revving your engines: Tuning up your ERP project plan," looks at some of the things to consider when getting started.
Not that I know a lot about Formula One cars, but it seems to me there's a reason racers maintain teams of superb mechanics. These experts know every nuance of their car's engine; the sound, vibrations, even the smell of the car as it careens around a track. They've spent time building their knowledge.
Initial ERP project planning requires the same kind of dedication. Considering that each ERP project has its own goals, environment and challenges, each project will have a different look and feel, although each should go through the same planning steps. These ERP project planning steps apply to both in-house efforts and projects using contractors. I have not included tips on selecting contractors, although companies should be wary of the lowest-cost contractor or contractors whose first response is to customize code or applications.
In a recent survey of ERP implementation, participants across many projects revealed the following insights:
Critical Success Factors
- 22% cited accurate requirements definition as a primary factor in success or failure.
- 16% cited upfront project planning.
- 16% cited Project Stakeholder commitment and alignment.
- 16% indicated Subject Matter Expert involvement.
- 13% identified and detailed the AS-IS processes as well as the TO-BE processes.
The successful ERP project plan must address these issues; you can classify them in three major categories:
- Defining the overall structure of the ERP project
- Designation of project staff and interrelationships
- Definition of major challenges, risk factors and high-level requirements
The ERP project plan identifies standards to be used throughout the project, such as project phases, high-level milestones, and strategic policy and goals. An ERP project plan is collaborative. First, there is too much detail for a single person to do it all. (See the Project Startup Checklist and the example Project Plan Outline.) Second, in order to identify possible risks and challenges, you need to include both stakeholders and SME or project leads for the specific applications.
During this effort, you will be building critical relationships with your customers, as well as developing their trust. While the project plan will not actually develop the AS-IS or TO-BE process analysis, it will identify when these tasks will be performed. Some projects, in order to "save time," determine that AS-IS processes are not sufficiently important. This has always seemed to me to be a false savings. The AS-IS process is important for identifying business rules that are not readily apparent, as well as customizations that may not have been recorded.
For Oracle's E-Business Release 12 (R12) implementations or upgrades, there are specific areas of concern. First, R12 supporting "Global Business" has introduced considerable changes to the technical infrastructure. In General Ledger (GL) alone there are 36 new tables, 14 changed tables and 40 obsolete tables. These result from R12's change from Set of Books (SOB) to Ledger Sets and Sub-Ledger Accounting.
Additional functional changes such as Multi-Org Access features and Trading Community Architecture (TCA) changes to incorporate Suppliers/Vendors have resulted in significant table changes. From the supply-chain side, Inventory Convergence (the combination of process and discrete inventory) adds more technical infrastructure change. For this reason, existing customizations will need to be examined thoroughly to determine changed/obsolete dependencies. Considerable risk exists with regard to custom reports, or with business intelligence warehouses. Technical challenges aside, stakeholders and users need to be prepared for process changes; history has shown that existing customizations can be made obsolete by new, standard functionality. In order to assess the level of risk, your IT team will need to work with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to identify the level of customization and identify reports which will need to be changed. In this case, you are assessing the level of effort that will be needed as well as working to set customer expectations.
Another critical area to consider is the level of documentation to be required for the project. In the ERP project plan, identify all required documentation. You should create a documentation plan and assign an administrator/controller of that plan whose responsibility is to ensure that documents comply with expected standards and a common look-and-feel or standard format and are completed and internally reviewed and approved on schedule. An example Documentation Index is given.
Risks identified during the ERP project initiation phase should be recorded in a Risk and Issue Log, which should be maintained throughout the project, along with a summary shown in the project plan. Don't forget to assess the amount of testing or how much training individuals may need. Your SMEs may need to be trained in R12's new functionality in order to help determine optimal setups; users who participate in Conference Room Pilots (CRPs) or testing will also need training. See these examples of a Risk Management Checklist as well as the sample Risk and Issue Log.
Depending on the overall scope of your project, your planning phase may take considerable time. The Project Plan outline example associates a series of 40+ tasks within four sections. The fourth section includes project kick-off and represents ongoing project plan activities throughout the project lifecycle. While written from the subcontracted project manager point of view, the tasks are equally applicable to an in-house effort. In-house efforts may require additional training time for potential project leads in R12 applications and differences. Because you will be leading and attending many meetings during this project initiation phase, I have included a copy of my preferred project meeting notes format.
Recommended Reading for Requirements Analysis:
- Getting It Right: Business Requirement Analysis Tools and Techniques. Kathleen B, Hass, PMP, Don Wessels PMP, and Kevin Brennan, PMP, Management Concepts, 2008
- Mastering the Requirements Process (Second Edition), Suzanne Robertson and James Robertson, Pearson Education, 2006
- Unearthing Business Requirements, Elicitation Tools and Techniques, Rosemary Hossenlopp, PMP and Kathleen B Haas, PMP, Management Concepts, 2008
About the author: Carol Francum has more than 20 years of global experience in IT, including quality and systems engineering, project management, and ERP business consulting. As a business analyst, she synchronizes and aligns applications and technology to meet customer needs. Carol has recently been named Sales Director for Ashford Global IT, providing "The Best in IT Training", and specializing in ITIL, Security and other business training. Carol can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com


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Platelets and white blood cells do not vary much between humans and animals. The types of white blood cell that are present in human blood may differ slightly from one species to another, with humans having five types of white blood cell, while most fish only have four types. Platelets vary in adhesiveness between species, with human platelets being moderately adhesive.


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JH 94 Fruit, oak and tannin, all working in harmony. This is a wine with a sense of authority. Sweet-sour cherries, spice and dried tobacco, with clips of resiny, toasty oak. Tannin is fierce but the fruit flavour has enough momentum to swing along with it. Drink to: 2025; Price: $45.00; Date Tasted: Feb 2015; Alcohol: 14%; Rating: 94 Points & Special Value Star; James Halliday; James Halliday Wine Companion. Winery Notes: Our flagship wine, Sagrantino stands out as one italy's premium varieties, originating from Umbria. We have the largest planting of Sagrantino vines in Australia. This deep ruby red wine produces a whack of upfront aged...
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Blue Pyrenees Estate Red Blend 2015 (HH 95, JH 95)
James Halliday 95 points. 83% cabernet sauvignon, 12% malbec, 5% merlot. This is a delight - and a surprise. Instead of the usually slightly bony/hard mouthfeel of most of the Blue Pyrenees red wines, this is luscious and round, cassis, redcurrant and plum all intersecting, pliable tannins doing nothing to diminish the pleasure. Alcohol: 14.5%. Closure: screwcap. Tasted: Mar 2018. Drink By: 2030. Rating: 95/100. James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion. Gold, Australian Single Vineyard Wine Show 2018 Gold, Australian Cool Climate Wine Show 2017
Devil's Lair Fifth Leg Red Blend 2016
Fifth Leg Shiraz Merlot Cabernet Sauvignon Fifth Leg is the quirky off-shoot of renowned Margaret River winery, Devil's Lair. Full of fun and larger than life, Fifth Leg has developed a reputation as somewhat of a 'refined larrikin' – serious about wine and the good things in life, but not at the expense of simple, easy-going fun and a good laugh. Grape Variety Shiraz, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon Maturation This wine spent nine months in French oak. Colour Vibrant purple with garnet hues. Nose Lifted ripe mulberries and spice with subtle berry fruit perfume and hints of vanilla. Palate A rich and luscious fruit filled palate of mixed...
Driftwood Artefacts Margaret River Meritage 2016 (JH 95)
James Halliday 95 points. This wine has it nailed, rich in fruit and great in structure. Blending it must have been a great deal of fun, albeit a lengthy process. It's one of those wines you can enjoy tonight or in 10 years. If you do want to drink it sooner than later, make sure the beef is large in size and high in quality." Winery Notes: BLEND 60.6% Petit Verdot, 17.4% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15.50% Malbec, 4.23% Cabernet Franc, 1.52% Merlot, 0.8% Shiraz COLOUR Brilliant, deep ruby red with purple hues. AROMATICS A vibrant generous bouquet of mulberries, blackberries, Turkish delight, liquorice and dark chocolate framed by well-integrated...
Forest Hill Highbury Fields Cabernet Merlot 2015
5 Star Winery Rating, James Halliday. Dark crimson with plum hues. Aromas of liquorice, blackberries and dark chocolate. The medium bodied palate has a generous mouth-feel with fine dusty tannins. Flavours of dark fruits and mocha. Forest Hill Vineyard is not only the oldest cool climate Vineyard in Western Australia, but also planted on one of the Mt Barker regions first farms. Settled in the 1840's, Highbury Fields is a site of historical agricultural significance in the Great Southern, which over the past century has been farmed for apples, dairy, grains, lamb and wool.Purchased over 15 years ago, the Highbury Fields property is today...
Giant Steps Harry's Monster Bordeaux Blend 2014 (JH 95)
"50% Merlot, 40% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Petit Verdot from the Sexton Vineyard, fermented separately...blended Jan '14 and matured in French oak (40% new) for 18 months. Pussyfooting with Cabernet and Merlot doesn't pay off, especially where you have the depth and varietal clarity of the grapes here, the Petit Verdot providing a rock solid bridge between the two varieties." 95 points, James Halliday
Grosset Gaia 2016 (JH 98)
James Halliday 98 points. (Highest rated cabernet blend of the year). Estate-grown cabernet sauvignon and cabernet franc, the certified organic vines 33yo. A breath of fresh air, pulling my lips up and out of the Dante's inferno of other wines in this particular tasting. Supple and immaculately balanced, every flavour, texture and beautifully nuanced fruits that are 100% within the varietal makeup, the tannins almost lustrous, so fine are they. AWC 2020.
Grosset Nereus Shiraz/ Nero d'Avola 2015 (HH 94)
~ BUY SIX AND PAY $49 NET EACH ~ Clare Valley – 3200 bottles produced. Real Review 94 points Toni Paterson, The Real Review, 24th January 2018 Predominantly made from Clare Valley shiraz with a dash of nero d'avola. Supple and joyous with a plush, dark-fruited palate. Fragrant dark cherries and mulberries, with a little blackberry on the finish. Excellent mid-palate fleshiness and intensity. A beautifully balanced, elegant red wine with gentle savouriness and pleasing restraint. 94 Points. Fascinated by the art of blending, Jeff has trialled shiraz-based wines for years. This release is shiraz with just a small amount of nero d'avola...
Henschke Keyneton Euphonium 2013 (JH 95)
~ Buy Six and Pay $72 net~ "A blend of shiraz, cabernet sauvignon, merlot and cabernet franc which says more about the vineyard and the Henschke winemaking expertise than the fruit composition. All the flavours are, as usual, fused together, oak and tannins providing context." James Halliday Wine Companion,October 2016 95/100
Hewiston Private Cellar Shiraz Mourvedre 2010 1.5L Mag (JH 96)
JH 96. Purple-crimson; it's not hard to understand why Dean Hewitson boldly puts 'cellaring potential 20 years' on the front label, for this complex and intense wine coming, as it does, from exceedingly old vines; satsuma plum, liqueur cherries, spice and fruitcake fill the palate from start to finish, the tannins fine and ripe, oak merely a vehicle. (28-Aug-2012) James Halliday. WA 93+. Deep purple-black in color, the 2010 Private Cellar Shiraz, Mourvedre shows off pronounced cassis, macerated blackberry and black plum notes over lavender, damp earth, black olives, sage and black pepper nuances. Medium-bodied, it is nicely poised in the...
Hewitson Old Garden Mourvedre 2011 (JO 95)
Cellar door price 88aud. Buy 6 or more and pay 52sgd per bottle. Jeremy Oliver 95 points. A beautiful wine of sensual perfume and charm. An earthy bouquet of dark plums, prunes,baked earth and animal hide lifted by scents of red flowers, cinnamon and exotic spice has a pinot-like appeal.Silky and refined - with a delightful depth and brightness of pure,succulent fruit underpinned by fine,loose-knit tannins,it finishes with genuine length of flavour, meaty and savoury qualities plus a refreshing acidity. Jeremy Oliver The Australian Wine Annual 2014. The Old Garden vines were planted in 1853 and are the oldest mouvedre vines in the world....
Hewitson Private Cellar Shiraz Mourvedre 2007 1.5L{Mag} JH 96
- James Halliday 96 points. "Outstanding texture and structure....precisely controlled." Cellaring potential 20 years.
Hewitson Private Cellar Shiraz Mourvedre 2008 1.5L(Mag) JH 96
~ Buy Six and Pay $90 net Each ~ JH 96 Good colour to a wine highlighting the synergy between old vine shiraz and mourvedre; the bouquet has an array of sultry black fruits which the palate builds on with its complex flavour, texture and structure all harmoniously interwoven; perfect line, length and balance; the 20-year cellaring suggestion on the label is conservative. (09-Jan-2011) James Halliday WA 94+ "garnet-purple in color, 2008 Private Cellar Shiraz Mourvedre has a pronounced earthy / meaty nose over a core of warm black cherries, blackberries and mulberries plus wilted roses, chocolate and allspice. The palate is medium to full...
Hewitson Private Cellar Shiraz Mourvedre 2009 1.5L Magnum JH 97
James Halliday 97 points. Tasting note: Light, clear crimson; given the medium-bodied weight of the wine, the intensity and length of the wine is prodigious; unlike the '08, red fruits are the main theme, rather than black, on the aromatic bouquet and through the palate. Made from very old vines, and comes with a 20-year cellaring guarantee; French oak and fine tannins complete the story of its ultra-limited production. (05-Sep-2011) [James Halliday]
JJ Hahn Reginald Shiraz Cabernet 2014 (JH 91)
"A quintessentially Australian blend of 85% shiraz and 15% cabernet sauvignon, this is all violet, black cherry, cassis and root beer sass. Gently extracted to maximise the wine's energy, this is a fun parry of bright fruits, set against a thrust of acidity and dusty tannins. 91 Points. Date when Tasted: 02 Jan 2017 Alcohol: 13.5% Drink: 2020 Closure: Screwcap" - Ned Goodwin, winecompanion.com.au. Established as a collaboration with the Hahn family in 1997, today Barossa winemaker Rolf Binder continues to produce the wines under the same label, with the JJ Hahn range now available in many countries. These are classic Barossa reds that...
Majella Musician Coonawarra Cabernet Shiraz 2015
Once again an exceptional wine at the price: vibrant, unmistakably Coonawarra to smell and taste, bursting with flavours of blackcurrant, mulberry and herbs, and fine, elegant and juicy in the mouth. The wine is quite low in oak, with just a smidge of vanillin showing faintly on the mid palate, but otherwise the brambly, blackcurrant flavours demand all the attention. Fine silky tannins integrate with the fruit and minimal oak treatment to produce an approachable well rounded wine with an extended length. Quite a complex wine! Drink now, but it should age beautifully for 3 - 5 years Majella "High pitched red and black currant aromas are...
Massena Howling Dog Durif 2015 (JH 94)
JH 94 Estate-grown saperavi, no vineyard sprays, destemmed, wild-fermented, neither fined or filtered. The black fruit flavours could have come from the River Styx, the bouquet super-complex, the texture likewise - the latter creates and almost airy feel to the palate.
Massena Moonlight Run GSM Blend 2016 (JH 95)
95 Points James Halliday. Constructed from Estate mataro (34%) fermented with partial stalk inclusion, 33% early harvested 150yo bush vine grenache and Tanunda Shiraz.The secret ingredient that invests the wine with savoury spoces and freshness is the alcohol, usually 14.5% and above in the Barossa Valley. The length and finish have zest and braille, important in establishing the texture of the wine. 14% alc. 5 Stars, drink to 2029 James Halliday. 94 points The Winefront. Blend of Barossa Valley mataro, grenache, and shiraz, pretty much in equal parts. The mataro included some stalks in the ferment. The grenache is off extremely old vines,...
Massena Primitivo (Zinfandel) 2017 (SK 94)
94 Points Sam Kim. Super-smooth and comforting, this delectable red shows blackcurrant, dark plum, mocha, game and black olive characters on the nose, followed by a sumptuous palate that is filled with ripe fruit flavours and velvety mouthfeel, finishing extremely long and silky. Sam Kim Wine Orbit
Mount Pleasant Mount Henry Syrah/Pinot Noir 2017 (WF 95+)
Gold Medal, Hunter Valley Wine Show. Gary Walsh, Wine Front, 95+ points. A blend of 70% Shiraz and 30% Pinot Noir. Small production. Big heart. It's a wine that most often brings a smile to my face, and for a slightly jaded animal such as myself, that's something of a small joy. Fine, perfumed, juicy, supple, are words that roll quickly off the keyboard as I taste. In terms of detail, well I'm thinking raspberry, a touch of smokiness, chocolate wrappers and other happy things. There's a gentle graininess to the tannin, a coolness to the acidity, and a fine almost savoury finish. It's a beautiful wine. Something different, and quite...
Rockcliffe Quarram Rocks Shiraz Cabernet 2016 (Gold SAW)
James Halliday-5 Star Winery. Gold Medal, Singapore Airlines Wine Awards WA, 2018. This winery is on a very impressive roll. The Quarrum Rocks range represents the best value we have seen in a very long time. Too cheap in our view and long may it stay that way. 75% shiraz/ 25% cabernet sauvignon. Great Southern region of Western Australia. COLOUR Deep red with purple hues NOSE Lifted aromas of dark berries, cassis and plum, with an underlay of spice and subtle toasty notes of cinnamon and nutmeg. PALATE Medium bodied, soft fleshy mouthfeel with well balanced acidity and fine, chalky tannins. Flavours of sweet juicy blackberries and...
ROLF BINDER HEINRICH GSM 2005 (1.5L) Magnum (WA 93)
WA 93 The 2005 Heinrich, a blend of Grenache, Mourvedre, and Shiraz (15%, 30%, and 55% respectively), reveals a dark purple hue along with a sweet perfume of crushed rocks, blueberries, creme de cassis, creosote, vanilla, and spice. It is a full, earthy effort to consume over the next 7-8 years. RPJ Oct 2006. The magnum format gives this wine a window to at least 2024 and probably beyond.
Turkey Flat Butcher's Block Red Blend 2016 (JH 94)
James Halliday 94 points. A shiraz/grenache/mourvedre blend, part sourced from some of the oldest (1865) vines on the Turkey Flat vineyard. Excellent colour; a warm and spicy bouquet introduces a medium-bodied palate with red and black berries, plus good mouthfeel and length. Oak plays little or no part in framing the palate, fine tannins doing the trick. JH. The Butchers Block is a traditional Barossa blend made with grapes selected from the Turkey Flat vineyards, including some from the original old vine plantings. It is a blend of Shiraz, Grenache and Mourvédre (Mataro), with the proportions of each variety varying from vintage to...
Turkey Flat Mataro 2017 (JH 95)
James Halliday 95 points. "Open-fermented with 20% whole bunches, matured for 6 months in French oak (50% new). Altogether elegant, likewise fresh and vibrantly juicy. The whole-bunch inclusion has worked very well, bringing a not of spice that will increase in the years ahead. Attention to detail is one of the many strengths of Turkey Flat. Drink: until to 2027." JH.
Two Hands Brave Faces Gren Mataro Sh '16 (WF 91)
Campbell Mattinson 91 Points This is a svelte, stylish, easy-drinking red wine with just enough in-built complexity to set it apart from the norm. It won't scare any horses but nor will it put anyone to sleep. On the latter point: the alcohol has been nicely tamed too. It tastes of leather and woodsmoke, blueberry and raspberry, with woody anise and resin as garnish. There's a peppercorn note and more than a hint of reduction. It all slips down nicely. The Wine Front, 15 November 2017. (McLaren Vale fruit)
Wicks Estate Eminence Shiraz Cabernet 2007 (JH 94) - WAS$107
SINGAPORE ONLINE RETAIL: $107 James Halliday 94 points. Very limited production. Release price 100aud. WINERY NOTES: The idea for the Eminence was born from a desire to produce a very limited release red wine from vintages of exceptional wine quality; displaying the character, structure and finesse to be worth considering as our flagship wine, a wine worthy of the title 'Eminence'. To create a wine of such distinction we hand selected only the most outstanding barrels from our finest parcels, culminating in a wine rich in character and finesse. The 2007 Eminence is a blend of Shiraz (75%) and Cabernet Sauvignon (25%), with a high...
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