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Berkshire Russian Imperial Stout - Berkshire Brewing Company Inc.
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Reviews by BoardwalkBock:
New York
4.26/5 rDev +5.4%
look: 4.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Poured from a 22 oz bomber into a Stone pint glass.
A: Black. Get some hints of dark red when held up to the light, but really only around the top.
S: Boozy, Caramel, Coffee.
T: Chocolate and Caramel upfront. Coffee and roasted malts afterward and alcohol on the aftertaste. Alcohol comes in and mixes well. Overall, solid taste.
M: Heavy and smooth. Right up my alley.
O: Very solid beer. One of my top RIS and definitely a mainstay in my fridge. Haven't tried to age it yet, because I can't hold on a bottle long enough. It's just that good. Very comparable to Old Rasputin and Siberian Night, but doesn't take the rain of top RIS. Just moved to RI recently and can get it locally and on a constant basis. Relatively cheap too. Roughly $5.50 per bomber. Highly recommended.
Serving type: bottle
02-19-2013 03:59:14 | More by BoardwalkBock
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4.75/5 rDev +17.6%
07-22-2014 03:55:25 | More by Stagga_Lee
4.5/5 rDev +11.4%
07-19-2014 18:58:54 | More by Sellen
2.68/5 rDev -33.7%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
pour is dark brown with a light tan head. Nose is sweet, magic marker, chocolate, uneaten sugar, stale grain. Taste is overly sweet and lacks malt complexity. Some chocolate, lots of sugar, brown sugar, caramel, thinner body and moderate carbonation.
Serving type: bottle
07-17-2014 14:44:26 | More by cpetrone84
3.5/5 rDev -13.4%
06-26-2014 00:08:19 | More by dustinjkline
2.68/5 rDev -33.7%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Got a bomber of this from totoropanda in a recent box. Cheers!
From a bomber into a snifter.
APPEARANCE: A clear brown pour yields a 2+ finger, medium looking, fluffy, light brown head with very good retention. Transparent dark brown body with no real carbonation evident. Head slowly fades to a creamy cap and sticks to the sides of the glass. A ring and splotchy wisp remain leaving some good lacing the whole way down. Body is a little light, but the head is good.
SMELL: Mild nose of roasted malts, some cocoa powder and light coffee notes. A good dose of dark fruits with licorice as well. Okay.
TASTE: Lightly roasted up front with some dark fruit sweetness through the middle into the swallow, much like the nose. Milder but lingering finish of dark fruit sweetness, grapes, dates, some lightly roasted flavors, licorice and some light bitter coffee notes. Too mild up front, but much more flavorful after the swallow.
PALATE: Medium body and medium carbonation. Slightly creamy on the palate, goes down okay and finishes somewhat sticky on the palate. Okay here.
OVERALL: This is an okay beer, but it's a bit mild overall and slightly underwhelming in the imperial stout category. Lighter color and too much dark fruit character for the style perhaps. A bit lighter on the palate as well. Decent beer, but not an imperial stout worth seeking out. Thanks again panda!
Serving type: bottle
06-23-2014 18:55:09 | More by Jeffo
New Hampshire
4/5 rDev -1%
06-12-2014 03:14:27 | More by SawDog505
4.25/5 rDev +5.2%
06-07-2014 22:37:01 | More by Joebassman
New York
3.75/5 rDev -7.2%
04-27-2014 15:03:08 | More by Noelito76
New Hampshire
3.75/5 rDev -7.2%
04-23-2014 00:47:16 | More by Kelp
3.78/5 rDev -6.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Pours a dark brown with red hues and a frothy light brown head
Smells of dark malts, dark fruits, raisins,
Taste is dark malty with some roastiness, light coffee, occasionally chocolate and red fruits . Finishes with a dark bready finish.
Mouthfeel is smooth kina creamy with a dry finish
Overall a solid option especially local and at a good price
Serving type: bottle
04-14-2014 21:33:32 | More by Sensaray
New Hampshire
4.25/5 rDev +5.2%
04-06-2014 21:08:03 | More by smccann
4/5 rDev -1%
04-02-2014 01:21:20 | More by wc94wc
New York
3.75/5 rDev -7.2%
03-31-2014 03:08:21 | More by paulish
New Hampshire
3.75/5 rDev -7.2%
03-27-2014 21:05:06 | More by beav19
4.75/5 rDev +17.6%
03-18-2014 12:44:36 | More by Fejj
4.25/5 rDev +5.2%
03-16-2014 01:59:39 | More by ctwybeerguy
Rhode Island
4.75/5 rDev +17.6%
03-15-2014 16:19:12 | More by Lamdawg420
4.5/5 rDev +11.4%
03-04-2014 01:18:40 | More by CSeavey64
4.25/5 rDev +5.2%
03-02-2014 13:48:29 | More by swierczt
4.25/5 rDev +5.2%
03-01-2014 01:02:06 | More by zekeman17
4.29/5 rDev +6.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Poured into snifter
A: Pours a motor oil – like pitch black with a thin, quickly dissipating, khaki head.
S: Dark fruit, medicinal and herbal aromas with hints of baking chocolate.
T: Dark roasted, but not bitter malts. Flavors of black coffee and bittersweet choc late mixed with medicinal, woody and earthy tones. Alcohol warms the palate nicely
M: Moderately thick and chewy body with very little carbonation.
O: A top tier RIS is what we have here. Loaded with flavor but accessible to even a novice beer enthusiast. Seek this out if you are in New England.
Serving type: bottle
02-23-2014 21:10:27 | More by KelsoSaaz
4/5 rDev -1%
02-22-2014 03:56:32 | More by Tarps68
3.75/5 rDev -7.2%
02-20-2014 08:12:27 | More by DBosco
4/5 rDev -1%
02-07-2014 23:34:00 | More by tberry1693
Berkshire Russian Imperial Stout from Berkshire Brewing Company Inc.
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President's Office
"Earth Shall be Fair and All Her People One"
Inaugural Address of Peyton Randolph Helm
Eleventh President of Muhlenberg College
October 19, 2003
Chairman Heffer and members of the Board of trustees, I am more honored than you can know by the responsibility you have bestowed upon me today. Faculty and staff colleagues, I am grateful for your confidence and your support as we begin our work together. Students, alumni, and parents, members of the Muhlenberg family and the Lehigh Valley community, thank you for your friendship. Colleagues from so many other distinguished institutions, thank you for your good wishes. Lorene, my old friend, thank you for your kind words about me. Members of the extended Helm family, thanks for being here this weekend.
Earlier today a number of you attended a celebration of faith and learning in Egner Chapel, conducted by our Chaplain, Peter Bredlau. Some months ago, Peter invited me to recommend music for this morning's service and I immediately suggested the old hymn that I sang as a choir boy in Louisville many years ago: "Turn Back O Man, Forswear Thy Foolish Ways." In making this choice I did something that I almost never do. I ignored the advice of my wife Pat, who thought my choice of this title might be perceived as flippant at best, or, at worst, might signal ambivalence about my new responsibilities. Similar objections were doubtless responsible for her rejection of this same musical choice when I suggested it for our wedding ceremony, more than 23 years ago.
And yet, I assure you my selection was not an ironic one. I have always been stirred by the words and cadences of this old anthem, and I think it is particularly appropriate to my theme today - the heroic work that Muhlenberg and other colleges of our sort embrace. For those of you unfamiliar with this piece, let me share some of the verses that I think are so germane. The second verse begins:
Earth might be fair, and all men glad and wise.
Age after age their tragic empires rise,
Built while they dream, and in that dreaming weep:
Would man but wake from out his haunted sleep,
Earth might be fair, and all men glad and wise.
Perhaps the evocative phrase "tragic empires" first attracted me to this hymn - after all, I was destined to become an ancient historian. But why are they "tragic"? and why are they "built while we dream"? I think that Clifford Bax, who composed these words in 1919 to 16th century music from the Genevan Psalter, wished to remind us that most of the ambitions and desires that impel us through our daily lives are of only illusory value, that the tangible manifestations of success with which we surround ourselves ultimately do not satisfy us. That we pursue an ephemeral happiness in a state of nightmarish trance. That most of us most of the time neglect the paths that lead to wisdom and, ultimately, fulfillment. That if we were to dedicate ourselves to this path, "earth might be fair, and all men glad and wise."
But what draws me back to this anthem, even today, is something quite different: the courage required to seek perfection, even as we know it is unattainable; the persistence to seek truth, to seek peace, to seek justice and harmony and knowledge, and to remain "undaunted" in the face of setbacks; the conviction to remember always that these ideals are elusive, but not illusory.
How, you may be wondering, is any of this relevant to Muhlenberg College and the occasion we celebrate today. Well. I believe that this courage, this persistence, this conviction are the very qualities that our times demand of all of us who labor in the fields of higher education and particularly liberal arts education of the sort offered at a college like Muhlenberg. I believe these are the very qualities that characterize our faculty and staff. We are determined not only to transmit to young women and men the knowledge our species has acquired and valued, but also to nurture their intellectual capacities as producers of new knowledge. And - yes, we are not embarrassed to say it - we are determined to impress upon them the importance of spiritual life, of faith, of honor, of ethical awareness, of character. We do all these things here at Muhlenberg because we believe quite simply that they are essential preparation for lives of leadership and service.
This sort of teaching demands extraordinary idealism. Whatever clichéd image of us may be cherished by those outside of academe, we do not live in an ivory tower and we are well aware of the brutality, selfishness, and cruelty that so often and so sadly characterize the so-called "real world." We understand the impatience of a society that is so frenzied that it usually cannot pause to understand why we teach the things we teach and the ways in which we teach them. We wince when our enterprise is mocked by those who oversimplify, ignore context and complexity, focus relentlessly on some narrowly defined "bottom-line," and remain doggedly and dogmatically oblivious to the life-enriching study of philosophy, art, dance, music, literature, languages, theoretical mathematics, and all the other arts and sciences that represent our species' richest and most precious legacy to our descendants. "You are impractical," these critics say. "You are expensive and inefficient. You are irrelevant." Or, as one critic recently jibed to a Muhlenberg student "What are you going to do with that major, open a philosophy store?"
Because we value free speech and open minds, we often listen to these voices and ask ourselves, "are our critics right?" This is why colleges and universities are among the most self-critical communities in existence. We are always questioning ourselves, always pushing ourselves to be better. And we should. But we must also make the case for what we do and why we do it. If there is one criticism I fear the most, because it has an element of truth to it, it is that small, private liberal arts colleges like Muhlenberg may be becoming "irrelevant." Not because we have strayed down the wrong path or failed to teach what is important, but because we have not defended our mission vigorously enough or eloquently enough.
A shrinking percentage of our country's college-going young people - the Annapolis Group estimates it currently at only 3% - graduate from small, residential liberal arts colleges like Muhlenberg. Increasingly, it seems, our country's youth fail to understand that the short-term benefits of narrowly focused training do not outweigh the long-term intellectual and analytical firepower of a broad-based education that has the potential to provide context, a wide array of problem-solving skills, and deep roots in the values and traditions of this and other cultures. They and their parents are apparently unaware that though we produce only 3% of our country's college graduates, this tiny minority is disproportionately represented in every corner of our country's leadership ranks. This meager 3% produced approximately 20% of all Pulitzer Prize winners, and 20% of scientists inducted into the National Academy of Sciences, as well as a disproportionate share of our country's physicians. In fact, 19% of our nation's presidents, and 11% of Fortune 700 CEOs have been educated on the campuses of small liberal arts colleges like Muhlenberg. 1
Yet despite this overachievement in so many leadership fields, the liberal arts are more embattled than ever, are mocked and derided as tangential. Enrollments continue to shrink. This trend should give all of us pause. It is not good for our children. It is not good for our country. We need to recommit ourselves to making the case for what we do, for explaining its value and importance.
It is not simply that we want our doctors and lawyers and our presidents to be well and broadly educated. My concern goes far beyond those important needs. I, for one, do not wish to live in a world where no one has ever read the poems of Sappho, gotten lost in the vibrant colors of a Van Gogh painting, explored the complexities of the human genome, reflected on the ecological impact of our behavior, explored the implications of Far Eastern religions, or enjoyed a performance of Shakespeare's Henry V. I do not wish some future St. Crispins day speech to refer to "we few, we happy few - we liberally educated few." I do not want to live on a planet that, intellectually speaking, is Bedford Falls without George Bailey.
And so, I believe, we must balance constant self-critique and a passion for self-improvement, with pride in what we do and what we stand for. Each time we challenge students to reject received wisdom and re-examine the intellectual underpinnings of dogma, each time we labor to help a student bring forth prose of clarity and grace from the muddled thoughts and phrases of a clumsy first draft, each time we reveal to our students the glories of a Brahms concerto or the subtleties of a Faulkner novel, each time we entice our students into research, exploration, and discovery, each time we show them by our personal example that faith and spirituality are complements to intellectual acuity, we are recommitting ourselves to a heroic task. We are working toward the essential if unachievable goal of waking our students from their haunted sleep and striving for an earth which might be fair - or at least fairer than it was before.
In his Histories , Herodotus recounts the story of a Spartan soldier who fought among the 300 heroes facing the combined might of the Persian Empire at the narrow pass of Thermopylae. Xerxes, the Persian king, leading a force of more than a hundred thousand warriors2, looked contemptuously at this tiny Greek contingent standing in his way, and demanded its surrender, boasting "I have so many archers that their arrows will blot out the sun." The Spartan leader replied, "Then we will fight in the shade."
This fall, Muhlenberg College, which has not only endured, but prospered for more than 155 years begins a new planning process which will chart its course through the first decade of the twenty-first century. Our aspirations and creativity are sure to vault far beyond our available resources. As we make difficult choices among facilities projects, curricular innovations, extracurricular programs, financial aid, and compensation we will often, I suspect, feel that we are "fighting in the shade." But, unlike the Spartans, we have allies far beyond the boundaries of our campus. Our alumni, our students' parents, our friends, will help us choose the right path and will band with us in achieving our goals, however audacious they may be.
And those of us fortunate enough to work here on this beautiful campus every day, will recommit ourselves to the mission of educating the next generation for leadership and service, inculcating in them an unquenchable curiosity, the skills of lifelong learning, and the character to lead lives that enrich and improve the world we share. And together, I like to think, we will send up from this campus not only a light for our world, but even, perhaps, to quote again from Clifford Bax's hymn, we will "peal forth in joy man's old undaunted cry - 'Earth shall be fair, and all her folk be one!'"
In concluding, I want to acknowledge the presence of two remarkable women. First, my mother, Nell Hoge Helm, who with my father bred into me and my brothers a love of learning and of people. And second, my wife Pat, who took over the arduous task of training me from my mother almost a quarter century ago. Thanks Mom, thanks Pat.
And Thanks to all of you.
1http://www.colegenews.org/x66.xml; http://www.chiefexecutive.net/depts/routetotop2003/186.htm Thanks to Ken Butler and Kelly Cannon for research support.
2Herodotus reports a Persian host of approximately 1.7 million, but most authorities agree that this a tremendous exaggeration, and suggest that Xerxes' invasion force numbered between 150,000 and 210,000 men. See Peter Green, The Greco-Persian Wars , pp. 58-59 for a discussion of the issues involved.


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Tonawanda News — LEWISTON — The driver sought in a fatal hit-and-run accident on Lewiston Road early Saturday morning was arrested hours later after surrendering to police.
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Sheriff James Voutour said shortly before noon, investigators received a call from Crapsi's attorney and police were directed to the location of the vehicle. Crapsi then turned himself in at the sheriff's office.
Crapsi was charged with a felony count of leaving the scene of a fatal accident. He was arraigned in the Town of Cambria and taken to Niagara County Jail. Bail was set at $2,500 cash/$5,000 bond.
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Sequestration Q&A: Who are the DoD civilians exempted from furloughs?
Tuesday - 7/16/2013, 2:12pm EDT
A "unified, consistent approach" drove the thinking of top Pentagon leaders, said Pat Tamburrino, chief of staff to the Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, in an interview on In Depth with Francis Rose (Federal News Radio DoD Reporter Jared Serbu guest-hosted).
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Just how consistent were the furloughs? Tamburrino, a member of the Senior Executive Service responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of Personnel and Readiness, was, himself furloughed last week.
"Consistency did not stop at a particular level of the workforce," he said. "It went from the entirety of the workforce."
Still, about 15 percent of the civilian workforce is exempt from furloughs, including certain employees providing safety and security on military bases, Wounded Warrior caregivers and mental-health professionals.
In this Q&A, Tamburrino discusses the DoD decision-making behind some of the furloughs and other civilian exempted from the forced days off.
QIn a letter to lawmakers last week, Undersecretary of Defense and Comptroller Robert Hale confirmed to lawmakers that the Pentagon was made to furlough civilians paid out of working-capital funds. Why was the decision made to furlough working-capital fund employees?
A "The decision to furlough working capital fund folks goes back the idea of doing this in an equitable and consistent manner across the government. So, the working-capital fund folks are paid for out of appropriated funds. And sequestration affected all the appropriated funds — again a lot of O&M but not exclusively O&M. So, the fact that appropriated funds were going down, the fact that the customers who supply the working-capital fund people will have less money to spend, those people are now subject to furlough."
QThose working-capital fund employees are distinct, separate and apart from people who are paid through non-appropriated fund employees. Can you explain that distinction?
A "The non-appropriated fund employees, the reason they're excepted from furlough, is to reduce that money does not help our sequestration problem at all because it's non-appropriated, and the sequestration hit is against the appropriated fund employees. [Non-appropriated fund employees are] about 130,000 employees, they're principally employed in morale, welfare and recreation activities worldwide. They're self-sustaining and further they do not operate over the same OPM personnel rules as the rest of the federal workforce. So essentially they are an entity unto themselves and adjusting that doesn't help us address the sequestration problem."
Q What is happening with civilian employees at the Defense Department Office of the Inspector General?
A "The DoD IG was excepted from furlough because the DoD IG operates under a separate statutorily mandated mission, the Inspector General Act of 1978. They have a unique mission — it's statutorily driven and it's in a separate line item in the DoD budget. So, it is essentially an organization inside DoD, but it is its own entity. So therefore, based on a thorough examination of that set of facts, they were excepted."
Q About two weeks ago, Stars and Stripes reported that German civilians working for the U.S. military were not only excepted from furloughs but are also on track to receive a pay raise. Is this true?
A "So, on both accounts, foreign nationals — as a general proposition — are excepted from furlough, because they are all subject to Status of Forces agreements, which are unique to the country that they're employed in. So, you can imagine to go through dozens of those individually and try to figure out the puts-and-takes — probably not very practical. So they were put off the table.
"In terms of the German issue ... As part of the general negotiations with them we do every year — it's called a tariff agreement — the German nationals did ask for a significant pay raise. At the end of the day, the pay raise will be approximately 1 percent, which is the same pay raise that the President has proposed for all civilian employees."
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Floyd County Auditor Darin Coddington announced Friday he will resign his post effective May 3.
In a prepared statement, Coddington cites personal reasons for the decision.
"It is with great regret that I must inform you that effective May 3, 2013, due to personal matters, I will no longer serve as your Floyd County Auditor," Coddington wrote. "Thank you for your trust. Floyd County will always have a special place in my heart."
Coddington came under criticism Thursday night at a special Floyd County Council budget meeting. Many council members said they were given the wrong figures from the auditor's office in the fall, when preparing the 2013 budget, which is why the county now has a $2.4 million deficit. And many were upset that Coddington was not present at the meeting, since his office was at the center of the problem.
"With the severity of this, I wonder why we don't have the auditor here," Councilman Brad Striegel said at the meeting.
However, Coddington said by phone Friday he is not resigning due to the budget crisis.
"It's for personal reasons," he said. "I have a lot of respect for the taxpayers, and I am going to miss it."
The Floyd County Republican Party precinct committee members will have to hold a caucus and elect someone to fill the final 20 months of Coddington's term which expires Dec. 31, 2014. However, Republican Chairman Dave Matthews said a caucus can not convene until Coddington's resignation becomes official, which means the office may have to function a few days without a sitting auditor.
"We can't replace the [sitting] auditor with another auditor," Matthews said.
"I was not involved in his decision," he continued. "I am trying to come to an [of] understanding how we feel about it."
Floyd County Commissioners President Steve Bush said it's "unfortunate" for Coddington that he has to resign due to personal reasons.
"I hate that for him," Bush said. "He says it's for personal reasons so that is where we are at. People can read into it what they want ... I wish him the best."
Floyd County Council members Dana Fendley and Lana Aebersold, both Republicans, said it's time to move forward.
"He is a nice person, but if someone can't do the job it's time to leave," Aebersold said. "I think it would have been very difficult for him to continue. It's sad ... he had an opportunity to help the county grow."
Fendley agreed.
"He was the first Republican in there in years, and he has to leave before his term is up ... looks bad on all of us," Fendley said. "I'm sorry for his troubles. I wish him well."
Striegel said considering the circumstances, "Mr. Coddington's decision to step down was probably the appropriate action and I wish him the best in the future," he said.
The council placed a 30-day hiring and spending freeze in the county until the budget situation is cleared up. Director of Floyd County Operations Don Lopp, his assistant and former auditor Teresa Plaiss, and Amanda Ault, the new chief deputy auditor for Floyd County have been tasked to make recommendations to fix the budget. Lopp said Thursday they already found $2 million in cuts/savings, but another $400,000 will have to be found in the next few weeks.
"I think we have a good path forward," said Council President John Schellenberger. "We have a good plan I think and if it gets approved it will get us back on track."


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A light agenda awaits Halifax County School Board members when they meet tonight at the Mary Bethune Office Complex at 6 p.m.
Talking budget matters will be on their minds as they are scheduled to set a proposed budget timeline tonight.
Board members also are expected to hear a presentation from Principal Priscilla Rice on the Cluster Springs and South Boston/Halifax Early Learning Centers.
Chairman Kimberly Farson is expected to recognize the school board clerk during Virginia School Board Association School Board Clerk Appreciation Week, and Superintendent Dr. Merle Herndon is expected to recognize school board members since February is Virginia School Board Association School Board Member Appreciation Month.
Director of Operations and Maintenance Larry Roller is expected to give a facilities maintenance work summary.
Under new business, Director of Finance Jay Camp is expected to give the financial report and seek payment of the bills.
Prior to adjourning, board members will go into closed session to discuss personnel and student discipline.


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Closing the Chasm
In most big bookstores, the books you see first don't last. They're out on the front tables for you to sample. If they sell well, there's no guarantee they'll stay on the shelves for months, much less years. Even the biggest bookstores don't have enough room to store a fraction of the new books that wash in and out, like foam on a tide.
Those that stay are part of the culture. You expect to find them at a bookstore because their appeal endures. With fiction, the appeal may last years, decades or centuries. Nonfiction books, however, bear the burden of relevance. Among the nonfiction categories, business books don't age as rapidly as sports and travel titles, unless they're about technology. Books about technology trends and companies tend to age as well as last week's meat.
When I look at my bookshelves, I wince at titles like The Big Tech Score and Managing Inter@ctivity. It's not that any of these books contain bad information; they simply speak of a time that is going or gone.
One exception is the work of Geoffrey A. Moore. Although his books are packed with examples from companies whose names are no longer in use, his insights about technology adoption remain relevant, especially (and ironically) for Linux. In fact, I think Moore's technology adoption model is a handy way to make sense of Linux's quietly growing success inside large enterprises. It also will be useful when it is time to grok Linux's inevitable success on desktops as well.
Moore's model is an old one: the adoption curve, which dates back to Everett M. Rogers' Diffusion of Innovations, first published in 1962 and still going strong, broken into pieces (Figure 1).
His main focus is the chasm between early adopters and the early majority. In Crossing the Chasm (1991) and Inside the Tornado (1995), Moore described the width of the chasm in terms of cultural opposites. According to Moore, the techie innovators and visionary early adopters on the left side of the chasm are radically different from the pragmatic early majority (Table 1).
Table 1. Cultural Opposites [from Inside the Tornado, page 18]
What appeals to both groups is also radically different. Techies and visionaries care about product qualities such as speed, design, ease of use, price, novel features and functions, impressive demos and trade-press coverage. Pragmatists care about reliable solutions, third-party support, de facto standards, cost of ownership, quality of support and success of colleagues.
Notice something funny? Did Linux skip a generation here? As a product, isn't Linux almost profoundly pragmatic? And, isn't it strange that what made Linux's visionaries excited was a roster of mostly pragmatic values?
The graph in Figure 1 isn't Moore's; it's Don Norman's version of Moore's curve. Dr Norman (www.jnd.org), a scientist whose dozens of books include such classics as The Design of Everyday Things, The Invisible Computer and Things That Make Us Smart, is a fan of Moore and his books. About Crossing the Chasm he says (www.jnd.org/dn.mss/life_cycle_of_techno.html):
The classic marketing book for high-technology companies, widely read and discussed, but almost never followed. Why is it so difficult for a high-technology company to understand that late adopters of a technology are very, very different from the technology enthusiasts who made the company successful? Because the whole culture of the company is based on its wildly successful teenage years, and high-tech companies hate to grow up. Immaturity is embedded in the culture. Technology is easy to change. Culture is hard.
But the culture Moore and Norman talk about is on the supply side—it's the culture of companies who make their living selling technology. It's different with Linux. "Linux company" has always had an oxymoronic quality. Lately I've begun to think there never has been such a thing as a "Linux company". Linux is too deep, too infrastructural, too free. Yes, you can productize and brand it, just as Pepsi productizes filtered water and sells it as Aquafina. But, like air and water, Linux is too elemental to be a product in itself. Here's how Don Norman puts the distinction:
There is a big difference between infrastructure products, which I call non-substitutable goods, and traditional products, substitutable goods. With traditional goods, a company can survive with a stable, but non-dominant market share. Coke and Pepsi both survive. Cereals and soaps have multiple brands. With infrastructure goods, there can be just one. MS-DOS won over the Macintosh OS, and that was that. MS-DOS transitioned to Windows, and the dominance continued. VHS tape triumphed over Beta. Most infrastructures are dictated by the government, which assures agreement to a single standard. When there is no standard, as in AM stereo or digital cellular options in the US, there is chaos.
When Don Norman wrote that paragraph, DOS/Windows was de facto infrastructure. What's happened since then is what many in our community have expected for a very long time: free forms of UNIX eventually will find adoption as universal infrastructure. Sure enough, today most web servers run on Linux or BSD. Sony, Matsushita, Philips and a pile of other consumer electronics giants are codeveloping a free and open embedded Linux distro for their own future product generations. DOS/Windows, which quietly used to serve as the OS for countless cash registers and point-of-sale (POS) terminals, is being replaced rapidly by new models that run on Linux.
In Inside the Tornado, Geoffrey Moore subdivides early adoption into two stages: The Bowling Alley and The Tornado. The Bowling Alley is "a period of niche-based adoption in advance of the general marketplace, driven by compelling customer needs and the willingness of vendors to craft niche-specific whole products." The Tornado is "a period of mass-market adoption, when the general marketplace switches over to the new infrastructure paradigm." These are followed by Main Street, "a period of after-market development when the base infrastructure has been deployed and the goal now is to flesh out its potential."
For web servers, database servers, rendering farms, point-of-sale systems and a variety of other niche categories, Linux has been bowling strikes for several years now. Now we're moving inside the tornado, big time.
But it's a stealth tornado, because few companies on the supply side (IBM is a huge exception) even bother to make a big thing about it. The real leadership is happening on the demand side, among the pragmatists.
Here's Linux. It's lying around looking useful. A lot of technologists know their way around or can learn it easily. It's free. There's no vendor lock-in. There are no royalties or other fees to pay. It's extremely useful as building material. There are lots of tools you can use to build with it, and most of those are free too. The only problem is PR; it still looks like it's a Visionary Thing.
But that image fits a pattern too. This one is described by Clayton Cristensen in another classic, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Harvard Business School Press, 1997). Cristensen says Great Firms are innovative by nature (witness Microsoft's defensive talk about their right to innovate), but their innovations are incremental. They improve the proven in gradual steps; they don't tip over their cash cows—and for very good reasons.
One is dependence on customers and investors as sole resources. Cristensen says:
While managers think they control the flow of resources in their firms, in the end it is customers and investors who dictate how money will be spent because companies with investment patterns that don't satisfy their customers don't survive. The highest-performing companies in fact are those that are best at killing ideas that their customers don't want. As a result, these companies find it very difficult to invest adequate resources in disruptive technologies—lower-margin opportunities that their customers don't want—until their customers want them. And by then it's too late.
Other reasons for avoiding disruptive technologies are "small markets don't solve the growth needs of large companies" and "markets that don't exist can't be analysed". On that last point, Cristensen says:
Because the vast majority of innovations are sustaining in character, most executives have learned to manage innovation in a sustaining context, where analysis and planning were feasible. In dealing with disruptive technologies leading to new markets, however, market researchers and business planners have consistently dismal records. In fact, based upon evidence from the disk drive, motorcycle, and microprocessor industries, the only thing we may know for sure when we read experts' forecasts about how large emerging markets will become is that they are wrong.
Linux is even more disruptive than any of Cristensen's examples, because its primary movement isn't from companies to customers—it's from hackers to customers. The creators of free tools, components and applications make the products of their labors available to anyone. In this respect, Linux resembles such natural building materials as rocks, wood, iron and concrete. The difference is that Linux occurs in human nature.
So companies don't "adopt" Linux so much as they mine and harvest it. Only, because it's digital stuff, there's no scarcity. That makes it infinitely less expensive than cheap lumber, rock, minerals and petroleum. All of which make Linux that much easier to adopt and that much more disruptive.
The remaining challenge, then, is cultural. There the chasm remains intact. On one side we have a bunch of techies who care deeply about the principles that brought Linux into the world and that made it so useful to so many at so little cost. They get worked up over ethical issues and about licenses like the GPL, which respects the nature of Linux and its development while hardly caring at all about its commercial potential. On the other side we have a bunch of techies who care deeply about solving problems and making things work, who hardly care at all about the political and moral issues that get the first side so worked up.
In fact, the two sides aren't opposed. They're just different constituencies with different priorities. The market logic is and, not or. We'll know we've bridged that chasm when we stop making a big deal about it. At that point we'll all be on Main Street.
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KENMORE — Just call them the Devil Dogs.
The Kenmore field hockey team, in its first season and made up of girls from Kenmore East and Kenmore West, doesn't even have an official nickname yet. But the girls do have a couple of wins under their belts, and the talent to make a deep playoff run.
Born out of a budget issue that required the two Ken-Ton high schools to blend their programs, the Kenmore varsity field hockey team was officially born in May of this year.
Early results show this as being a smart move by the district, as Kenmore opened its season with wins over Medina and Newfane. The team now sits at 7-1 and boats a 5-1 mark in Niagara-Orleans play.
After the two schools experienced success this past winter during the first season of its joint ice hockey team, one might think that blending the field hockey teams would be a no-brainer.
Not necessarily, pointed out Kenmore coach Jeff Orlowski, who also coaches the Kenmore ice hockey team.
"It's different because with the ice hockey team we didn't have any history," Orlowski said. "They were just so happy to have ice hockey in the town that they didn't care (that East and West) were playing together.
"This was a whole different ball game because these girls were rivals. They didn't like each other. They were taught not to. It's in their blood, the East-West rivalry in Kenmore. I've got to give accolades to all four of the captains — Morgan (Obrochta), Adriana (King), Lauren (Gantz) and Laura (Werwinski). They just brought this team together."
When you consider the field hockey rivalry set against the backdrop of the 50-plus years of the East-West feud, well, it was only natural for players to have some uncertainly or hesitation when they first heard the teams were merging.
"The girls from West, I know, were definitely a little anxious about it," said Ken West junior Adriana King. "We were a little nervous because we didn't know the East girls as much. The one thing that did help was the JV has been merged for the past couple years ... We were definitely anxious about how we'd get along because this is always a big rivalry."
It did take a bit of time for the girls to come together. The first couple of weeks were rough, with the West girls staying close together and the East girls naturally gravitating toward each other. But a flurry of early-season team bonding events showed all of the girls how much they had in common.
"On and off the field, we've made the best of friends," said Kenmore East senior Morgann Obrochta. "Adriana and I are best friends now, who knew?"


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Our family is the most important thing that we have here on this earth; it is what we must fight hardest to defend and to protect. If outside forces, including social pressures, faith issues, finances, or whatever, come in conflict with keeping our family together, we need to base our values and our actions upon what will keep the family whole.
You may be angry, you may be hurt, you may be afraid when your child, or your parent, or your spouse says, "I'm gay." Your loved one has likely already felt all of those and more. Though it may not feel like it to you, nothing has actually changed. You are the same parent you were before your child came out, or the same child, or the same spouse, and your gay family member's only change is the freedom from carrying the secret of her or his orientation or gender identity. Tomorrow there will still be homework, soccer practice, final exams, school, work, choir rehearsal, and everything else that goes on in our busy world.
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It's a time for celebration. And the appearance of Orion the Hunter in the late night skies is nature's calendar proclaiming another hunting season is under way.
The first week of bucks only season has arrived, and a November moon casts its beam between the breaks in drifting clouds to shine down on hunting camps across the land.
Hunting camps are equal parts reality and state of mind; sometimes they are more attitude than anything else.
Anxious wives may fear their husbands will get new ulcers or aggravate old ones, or invite a heart attack, with a week of altered life style, unbalanced camp fare. That isn't necessarily so. The relaxation, the camaraderie, the sound sleep can easily make up for eating scorched food out of tin plates, drinking re-boiled coffee, smoking a pipe.
Hunting camps are a final effort to escape from what man speaks of as civilization, an effort to return to the basics, to get back to nature. Back to the smell of moist earth, moldering leaves, a faint whiff of gunpowder.
To hear again the whir of wings, hear the wild-goose call. To see whitetails flashing across an open field or to witness sunsets rimmed in gold.
Hunting camp is mostly an excuse to escape from the daily pressures built up in today's traditional way of life. To some, it's a means of relieving stress; to others, a return to the ways of youth.
I am told by credible woodsmen that many an occupant of hunting camp doesn't even load his gun, for what he wants to find is change, tranquility, companionship, rather than competition. He is too often lost in humanity's race with itself.
With each generation, as human populations grow evermore dense, man collectively finds less room and tolerance for hunting camps as our forebears knew them. Yet the survival of both fish and wildlife, and perhaps people's sanity, depends increasingly upon our efforts to save, enhance and protect fellow inhabitants of the planet.
The opening of every hunting season is always a good time to ask oneself, "Just what have I done to help the fish, the birds and other wildlife to survive another year?"
Hunting is an ancient and honorable pursuit. If performed with a profound respect for life, it can be one of life's greatest pleasures.
Ever wonder why some men like to go hunting?
To hunt is to seek. Much as crusaders went on pilgrimages, so do many hunters go out today, for a bona fide hunter is a seeker, going on a personal quest, a spiritual journey. The quarry is less important than is the opportunity to go afield and seek.
A hunter realizes the hunt is more important than game: the opportunity to become absorbed in, become a part of, the panorama, to be surrounded by the silence of wild places, or hear the rattle of antlers or a woodpecker's hammer, or even a coyote's howl.
Seeking is more than merely hunting. It includes looking for a meaning, a purpose, a connection with that which is eternal in all of us. It is a way for us to humble our egos.
A hunter doesn't go out merely to bring back meat for the table. Steak and pork loins cost considerably less per pound as table fare.
A hunt is a communion with other hunters, nature and the hunter's own self. How can we describe to the inexperienced the magic of camping along a wilderness trail, rain tapping on the canvas of our tent, a flickering candle for light?
Or the whispered song of a stream sliding restlessly down a mountain draw? Or waking to absolute stillness of a star-rimmed landscape, its serene majesty suppressing every murmur of earth and sky?
To rise before dawn and trudge along steep, frost-plastered slopes, all in search of some wild game, perhaps an old white-tailed buck, probably too tough to hack with a hatchet, and all the while thinking we are experiencing the best days of our lives, is to grip the great outdoors.
Even if the hunt is only a symbol, it remains an expression of appreciation for wild things.
That is the true essence of hunting. And that is why we celebrate our heritage and the wonderful, magnificent gifts from the Almighty.
That is our blessing.
Top o' the morning!
— Blankenship is a columnist for The Register-Herald.
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