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John Franklin, 75, of Istead Rise, coordinated numerous dives on the wreck between 2010 and 2012.
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The Dornier 17 was 52ft long with a wing span of 59ft and capable of carrying 2,000lb of explosives.
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Piloted by Feldwebel (Flt Sgt) Willi Effmert, two of the four crew members were killed and washed up in Holland and elsewhere in England when the plane was forced to make a crash landing on the Goodwin Sands, off the Ramsgate and Deal coast, after an air strike on August 26, 1940.
Visits to see the Dornier 17 German bomber that was recovered from the Goodwin Sands can now be made at RAF Cosford, Shropshire.
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In Montenegro, UNHCR will support efforts to find durable solutions for persons displaced by the conflicts in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Kosovo under UNSCR 1244, and to prevent statelessness. The Office will also support Montenegro's efforts to enhance the asylum system that complies with international and EU standards.
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Solomon: Offenses carry the day in West Virginia's win over UT
By Jerome Solomon | October 6, 2012 | Updated: October 7, 2012 12:54am
Photo By Eric GayWest Virginia's Desmond Jackson (99) and his teammates jump for joy after Texas kicker Anthony Fera pushed a 41-yard field-goal attempt wide right during the fourth quarter of Saturday night's game in Austin.
AUSTIN - Midway through the second quarter, with the crowd in a frenzy and a game-tying play under review, the disc jockey at Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium played the early 1990s dance hit "Jump Around."
As per lyrical orders, many in the stadium, packed with 101,851 fans - the largest crowd in Texas football history - started jumping around.
Oddly enough, those jumping to the beat included the Texas Longhorns. The entire team.
And the press box shook from side to side. It was as if I were at Kyle Field. OK, let's not get carried away, but the place was jumping. It was as if a rave broke out in the middle of a football game.
Welcome to college football in the 21st century. Wild, entertaining - so much so that West Virginia president Dr. Jim Clements dropped to the ground to do pushups after an early Mountaineers touchdown - and offense aplenty.
Defense? Not so much.
Playing in its first road game as a member of the Big 12, West Virginia looked rather comfortable. The eighth-ranked Mountaineers didn't reach their season average of 53 points a game, but they came close in claiming a 48-45 victory Saturday.
The only other time these two teams met, it was in the same stadium 56 years ago to the day. Of course, then Memorial Stadium had 70,000 fewer seats and didn't have a gargantuan video screen.
That was a year before Darrell Royal showed up on the 40 Acres and turned UT football into a national power. West Virginia completed only four passes and won the game by a score of 7-6.
It took barely five minutes for the two teams to better the score from their previous matchup, and it was clear this was not your grandfather's college football.
A hurry-up-and-run-plays offense against a hurry-and-miss-tackles defense.
So much for No. 11 Texas being back to the level it was a few years ago, when the Longhorns won big games and contended for national titles.
The loss was the eighth straight for the Longhorns to a team ranked in the Associated Press poll.
"We knew it would come down to who made the critical plays," UT coach Mack Brown said. "You've got to give them credit. They made the critical plays."
And Texas made the critical mistakes, especially defensively. The 45 points were the most the Longhorns had scored in a loss under Brown, who is in his 15th season.
Okafor a presence
If defense wins championships, neither team appears to be headed toward a title. But that's an old axiom. West Virginia's offense is so good you almost forget about how bad its defense is.
The latest joke isn't that West Virginia quarterback Geno Smith puts up video-game-type numbers, it's that video games put up Geno Smith-type numbers. The senior lived up to the hype and buoyed his Heisman candidacy by completing 25 of 35 passes for 268 yards, with four touchdowns and zero interceptions.
Combine that with a surprising rushing performance by Andrew Buie, who rolled to 207 yards on 31 carries, and Texas was fortunate to hold the Mountaineers under 50 points.
"We just didn't make enough plays on defense," Texas senior defensive end Alex Okafor said.
Okafor did some damage, getting to Smith twice for sacks, forcing fumbles both times. But it wasn't nearly enough.
One of the fumbles was recovered by Jackson Jeffcoat in the end zone for a touchdown, which led to the sideline dance show that went on as the play was being reviewed by the replay official.
The second Smith fumble, which came midway through the fourth quarter, set up a 41-yard, game-tying field-goal try by Anthony Fera. The kick was wide right.
It was a critical miss, but far from the only mistake Texas made on this night.
The Longhorns were kind enough to let a couple of potential interceptions slip through their fingers, and their season-long problem of missed tackles again was an issue.
"You knew it was going to be a tough task slowing them down," Texas defensive coordinator Manny Diaz said.
It was obvious that expectations were the game would turn into a shoot-out when both teams gambled on fourth down near midfield. In the first quarter.
4th-down perfection
That wasn't unusual for the Mountaineers. After all, coach Dana Holgorsen is a disciple of Mike "I'll go for it on fourth-and-forever" Leach.
By game's end, West Virginia had a terrible 3-of-12 mark on third down but a game-changing 5-of-5 on fourth down.
A little more defense and Texas could have danced away with a win.
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Joined: 5/11/08
Somebody make AC3 please. Its been over ten years since I have started AC. Yaraq cows LOL. I can still remember my first Virindi kill. Spending hours upon hourings trying to hunt the hoary mattekar.
Then came AC2. The graphics were amazing. The classes/skills were an entirely new thing to me and badass. A lugian rock thrower? Fuck yes!. But somewhere down the road Turbine decided to ditch this game. Why?!?!?!? Easily the 2nd most fun game I have ever played. The 1st being AC1. But come on, this game had sooooo much potential, what happened??
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Originally posted by Sevensodd
Well 2 things happened.
1: The game was released WAY before it was ready. I played as well, from beta through release.
2. WoW happened. WoW basically took the quest advancement that Turbine pioneered and made it better.
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Joined: 9/15/07
Would be nice if they just rereleased AC1 with all of the lord of the rings graphics. Release it as F2P so people would try it out. The Character development in AC1 I still the best ive seen and the PVP was outstanding. I even like how they did it on PVE servers where you could do a quest and go red, and kill others that have done the same. I haven't played this game since the tusker island was introduced and the lvl cap was 126 so I don't know what direction this game has gone. Just as a side note I can't believe I played this game on 56k haha.
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Joined: 9/18/04
I miss AC2 as well, thought it was amazing.
I hope the AC series is not dead and they will do something with original AC / or AC3
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Joined: 3/25/07
Oh my God AC2 was horrible. I bought it and played it for a little while and it was just like "umm what the heck". It was nothing like AC1. I also thought it was kinda weird that you could take any item that drops and just smush it into currency if you dont want it without any tools.
This, of course, is just my opinion. The graphics was the selling point at the time. That I do recall.
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Joined: 4/11/05
The races and classes of AC2 are what I miss most. There is not a mmo that I have seen that remotely comes close to AC2. There was so much distinction and uniqueness between Humans, Lugians and Tumeroks and they all had there own personality and feel to them.
The funny thing that about AC2 was that it wasn't hardcore enough back then and by today's standards it would be way to much for the casual game. But I think this game is the perfect blend between Old School and New School MMO's.
My perfect wish for and AC3 would be a mix of all of Turbines games. I like LoTRO's world feel, DDO's twitch combat, AC2's Races and classes and AC1 for the lore and freedom and loot system. And most importantly there is no way in hell you should be able to quest to level cap. Get out there and hunt!
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Joined: 4/22/06
Becareful what you ask for you might end up with AC3, "Wish it never happened".
I don't trust dev.s to make 2s and 3s anymore. I think the dev meetings go somethign like -- ok 1s races on top of wow ... Everyone chimes in , "its great".
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Joined: 10/01/10
I tend to get discontent when I run out of content.
I would like to see a crossover title.
Have some major company buy the rights for the asheron's call franchise from turbine and the rights for a horizon's game and come out with:
Asherons call 3 -- the dragons of dereth.
In essence a portal to istaria was opened 50 years ago from dereth. This had major plusses and minuses.
The blight crossed over to dereth.
The people of dereth started being reborn as dragons and many other races that were never seen before.
Dragon lairs stirred up more olthoi hives.
I think they could come up with a good monthly storyline at any rate and being able to fly around dereth would be really neat.
AC had the skill/item system. Both sides have story. HZ had races and housing.
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Joined: 5/17/08
I really miss AC2. Hopefully Turbine is working on some sort of Asherons Call game
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Joined: 7/09/04
AC2 is still my favorite MMO I've ever played. I did play AC1 and liked it for awhile. What I didn't like about AC1 was that you have to spend 15 minutes buffing yourself and others to play 45 minutes. Plus you had to find all the ingredients. That wasted more time. In AC2, especially at the end, you could cast your buffing spell and automatically everyone in your friendship would receive the same buff. Also what turned me off about AC1 were the macros where you didn't have even be playing in the game to advance. I like playing honestly and that ruined it and why I left and moved on.
AC2 was ahead of its time. It's too bad the game was released before it was ready.
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Joined: 7/13/04
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Originally posted by escan
Yeah same here. AC2 was my first mmo and I remember being so excited to just gather mats and craft. The community was very close and I remember beind helped the first day I logged on.
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Joined: 11/11/06
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I played AC1 and 2 religiously, but I have to say that AC2 was far too different from AC1 for me. It's not that I didn't like AC2 in it's entirety, I thought it was very fun in many ways, but there were elements that clearly removed quite a bit of immersion for me.
AC1 just needs to be revamped into a new game with new graphics and avatar controls w/ underwater content and flight. That said, AC1 will always be the most amazing gaming experience I've ever had. Unique, original, epic . . . it has it all.
On a side-note, AC2 failed for several reasons, such as:
1. Chat - For the first 6 months chat flat-out didn't work. I remember MONTHS of no /tell, /guild and /anything. You were either in earshot of other characters (making lifestones gathering points) or you didn't group up, that simple. No chat, no multiplayer.
2. Class Revamp - Archanter nuke anyone? Does anyone remember when the classes were revamped? Yes, if you played, you did. They revamped the classes so many times and with such epic changes they were giving out re-roll privileges left and right. I WAS an archanter and without the ability to cast I pretty much had a gimp archer by the time they were done. Thankfully I saved up my re-rolls, but the fun I was having . . . well . . . my character was ruined.
3. Vendors - There were none. There was no reason to go to town other than to get quests. Since chat was almost always down, talking to PEOPLE meant going to the local lifestone (if you could find the right one). Need money? Just convert your inventory to gold, it was like having the mythical Midas-touch right in your inventory panel. That was dumb, sorry.
4. Crafting - Pretty much everything you want to craft could be found better on a mob drop. "Better" yet, all craftable items eventually broke irreversibly anyways. Lastly, gathering the items you needed to make something that MIGHT be worth your time took twice as long as merely questing for something better. Awful.
5. Animations - If you recall killing your first drudge you noticed one thing for sure, they looked NOTHING like the ones we remembered from AC1. Worst yet, the death animation was a cheesy scream at the sky on their knees, arms up, before over-dramatically falling on their face. Though nothing beats the Banderling death animation. Banderlings threw their club up in the air and it landed on their head before they fell down with a silly half-jump/flail. I had to fight to keep from cancelling my account after I first saw that animation. I wasn't sure if it was AC2 or the Three Stooges MMO with an AC twist.
6. AC1 Elements - When the game launched there were no Olthoi, no Virindi and absolutely no Shadows (that I can recall). Some were added later, but let's think about this for a moment. Should we add generic elements and forgo AC1's successful originality or just go ahead and follow some form of suit to keep our AC1 fans? Yeah, they blew it.
7. Empyreans and Drudges as Playable Races - Drudges are stupid and are the most classical of all classical enemies. No one wants to befriend a drudge, they ARE the bad-guy. Empyreans are legendary beings of untold power and they should remain that way. They are 10ft tall and have more power than anyone could ever properly estimate. Playing as an Empyrean on an equal plane as other creatures on Dereth was just a flat-out mistake. The only way an Empyrean could be considered an equal to a Human or Lugian is if they were severely retarded.
8. Ugly Mounts and terrible implementation - First of all, mounts were a recipe. WTF? Okay, fine they are a recipe, whatever, what do they look like? Ugly, mangled, walking fish . . . okay, okay, they are ugly walking fish, fine, but how are they summoned? Oh, they just poof out from under you and you get 5-30 minutes tops before they just disintegrate. WHAT? C'mon . . . that's, what in the hell . . . FINE, okay, how do you make them? Gold pieces. Okay, what in the living piss is happening here? Getting the mount recipes with the saddles and stuff was pretty cool, but EVERYTHING else was just horrid.
9. Harvesting - At first it was alright, it got you by (if you were crazy or bored enough to consider crafting), then it was COMPLETELY changed from the ground up. A veritable hot-and-cold treasure hunt and I have to say, I have no idea how telepathically my character was getting new clues when she was getting close.
10. Character Imbalance - This is easily explained with the following statement: NO class but the Lugian Juggernaut could solo level 48 group mobs. No class could do it other than them (I think there were reports of the Lugian "berserker" class being able to do it with the right setup, but that was much later). Lugian "Mechanics" could defeat level 30-ish group-mob armoradillos and and all while being under the mob's actual level. Other classes didn't stand a chance, period.
11. The Expansion - There was so much cheating with the eventual expansion it's not even close to funny. Olthoi were eventually integrated and people quickly discovered a cheat. Characters would jump up on each other's shoulders and sign off. The characters on top logged back on in mid air and were completely untouchable to the Olthoi. These "floating" characters could then fire away on the Olthoi and level up MUCH more quickly Turbine questimated. Characters were level 73 before the end of the first week, something that should have taken MONTHS at best. Fail.
Anyways, these were just the big ones. I mean, I loved the skill trees, I loved the armor and the quests. I really liked the Shreth's re-constitution into the game and the storyline was fairly involving, but the above elements weighed me down. Once I was at max level with all of the goods, I just couldn't see myself continuing to play; especially not after my character's class was nuked and I had to try to re-roll as a tank or full-archer.
Anyways, just my 11 cents. On the original topic, if they released an AC3 I'd be all over it, even if it was as bad as AC2, lol. I miss AC1 but the graphics and the character controls (and ever since the addition of the blue people), I just can't get back into it. Someone should pop an original launch-server online for AC1 and just leave it that way; when pyreals had weight, Atlan weapons were astonishing and GSA was a mere myth . . . I was in constant awe ;D
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Joined: 1/17/06
AC2..Greatest game ever to be closed. They did it dirty.
Originally posted by Battlestorm
Call BS on you being at the max lvl (150). They dropped out xp balls when the server was being shut down so you could see max lvl. Even with the cheats on the the ortho at the begining. Also a lot of the stuff you say through out the wall of text is wrong. The best gear was made by crafting. So did you really play or just look all this up?
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Joined: 11/11/06
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Yes, I thought I would spend a lot of time looking up complete misinformation about a FAIL game, nearly forgotten and years in the trash can, to post in this, on one of a possible billion forums, years later about things that don't matter anymore because I have had no personal involvement in the game what-so-ever. You got me . . . here's your sign.
Actually, nothing I said was wrong, not a bit of it, not in my experience. I re-read my post just to be sure and I vividly remember every single detail. Agree, disagree, I don't care. Gets some tissues, cry it out and then move on to the acceptance stage, I won't be changing anything.
If you need assistance with my "max-level" statement, I will say that I WAS at or near max level for the level cap that was in place when I stopped playing; not when they free-ball'd the servers just before hitting the power switch. I hardly think the technical cap-release before they pressed the big red button counts in any way, shape or form. You disagree and I respect that, even if I don't think it matters in even the most remote sense.
All of these things I wrote were experienced. I even provided my previous statements to AC2 in a very nice "I'm leaving, here's why" e-mail and they took the time two write me back a very detailed letter agreeing with me as well as addressing each issue and thanking me for my level of input and hoping I come back. Since they didn't tell me I was wrong anywhere in their letter (on the contrary, they agreed) . . . I'm pretty sure that what you've said here is . . . well, inessential, to be nice.
I remember chat being down, FACT. I remember having my Archanter nuked, FACT. The game was based off of the concept of not needing towns/vendors, FACT. I remember my guild's top max'd crafters and sites dedicate to AC2 crafting stating how relatively useless it was at some point, FACT. Animations were childish and cartoonish, especially Banderlings and Drudges, FACT. AC1 elements were missing, FACT. Mounts were ugly, universally agreed FACT. Empyreans and Drudges as playable characters, and a fail to me, FACT. Character imbalance, only certain classes able to solo great group mobs, FACT. I just talked to friends from my guild and friends who played, they completely concur, FACT.
I'm not sure what changed afterwards or what game you might be talking about, but these were the case at some point. What changed after my experience, or the experience of my friends, seems not to matter much . . . the game is offline now, and I'd venture that some of the things I mentioned had an involvement, but that's just a guess.
I respect that your experience was different and might be based on what you've seen just before the end of the game. I posted what I thought of the game based on what I and other friends like me had seen. I realize that our opinions and experiences vary, but do yourself a favor, post your experiences and back them up with specifics. If you just disagree without supplying actual information, you're just a Troll. If it acts like a duck and it quacks like a duck . . .
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Originally posted by Battlestorm
Bruise is correct about the impossiblity of being near lvl-cap (150) at any point in the game (without XP-eggs). highest lvl on any server was lvl 92, iirc.
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AC2..Greatest game ever to be closed. They did it dirty.
He probally ment that he got close to the first lvl cap of 50 and quit. A LOT happened to that game when hero lvl came out.
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There are definitely some "Facts" wrong in that evaluation. I remember when we had to collect materials to build the vendor halls, and then, once they were built, I remember making lots of coin listing mats for sale on the consignment vendors. I also remember that after crafting 2.0, the crafted gear was a whole lot better than most random drops (unless you got a lucky combo of great buffs/procs on a drop).
Some is subjective - I loved the playable drudges. Their intro movie was hilarious. They had amusing animations for healing (stooping to grab a bug from the ground and then eating it), and yes, their "platoon" death animation was an obvious homage.
Yes, AC2 had lots and lots of issues, like the broken chat that everyone remembers, but I thoroughly enjoyed my time in the game regardless. I played an invoker, and I didn't care if I couldn't solo group mobs. I joined groups to fight group mobs. That was one of the last games where I regularly grouped and had fun. Fets, Burun Beach, Rustwater Redoubt, Boots runs, dillos and shreth on Linvak, etc.
The game's been offline now longer than it was running, and you can still find people who want it brought back, although the chances of that happening are basically nil.
As for AC3 - I don't see it happening. Turbine is still working on some unrevealed new game that is sucking up most of their dev resources.
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Joined: 3/11/04
I definitely don't want AC3 because most of the dev including Turbine will just make another linear MMO with WOW quest system and such.
What makes AC and AC2 so fun was the exploration and excitment for killing mobs! I am pretty sure if AC3 announced Turbine will make it so easy and with level cap as well. (best known their LOTRO, even though I still love it)
Anyway, all I want is AC with revamp graphics!!!! Keep the core system, and I really appreciate what they are still doing by keeping AC alive!!! Just .... KEEP DOING IT and hopefully they will hire few more people to make this a bigger project again!
Well yea I am still dreaming!! =p
Originally posted by Dameonk
Way to early released yes but also with chat system down for months and nothing to do for lvl50 players more and more standing in east gevoth complaining and complaining.
When hero patch came alot of players cameback, but whining keep continuing and it never recover even tho AC2 was a great mmo.
On top of that, a awefull game called WoW came on market witch was the last nail in the coffin for AC2 the life team that patch the game almost every month have try there best but it was all to late, MS mainly screwed AC2 for most part.
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Thanks to Torsten Kilias and Alexander Löser of the Beuth University of Applied Sciences in Berlin for the following guest post about their INDREX project and its integration with Impala for integrated management of textual and relational data.
Textual data is a core source of information in the enterprise. Example demands arise from sales departments (monitor and identify leads), human resources (identify professionals with capabilities in 'xyz'), market research (campaign monitoring from the social web), product development (incorporate feedback from customers), and the medical domain (anamnesis).
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Over the years, Cerner Corp., a leading Healthcare IT provider, has utilized several of the core technologies available in CDH, Cloudera's software platform containing Apache Hadoop and related projects—including HDFS, Apache HBase, Apache Crunch, Apache Hive, and Apache Oozie. Building upon those technologies, we have been able to architect solutions to handle our diverse ingestion and processing requirements.
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Spark Streaming is one of the most interesting components within the Apache Spark stack. With Spark Streaming, you can create data pipelines that process streamed data using the same API that you use for processing batch-loaded data. Furthermore, Spark Steaming's "micro-batching" approach provides decent resiliency should a job fail for some reason.
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GEYSERVILLE, Calif. Think a winery visit means bellying up to a bar with a couple of glasses and a spit bucket? You haven't been to wine country lately.
These days you're likely to find all kinds of added attractions, from restaurants to farmers' markets to cocktail bars.
And then there's Francis Ford Coppola's latest venture which, once construction is complete, will include a swimming pool.
The idea is to help wineries stand out at a time when competition for shrinking tourist dollars is fierce and create something more than just another stop on the trail.
"The experience we're trying to create is a destination experience," says Chris Hall, proprietor and vice president of sales at Long Meadow Ranch Winery & Farmstead in the Napa Valley, which has, among other things, a working farm producing grass-fed beef and olive oil; a restaurant, Farmstead; a seasonal produce farmstand and a seedling nursery.
"You can come and eat the heirloom tomato salad at the restaurant, you can take the tomatoes home for yourself from the farmer's market. You can get the seeds to grow your own at the nursery," says Hall. "It's a full circle."
In the mood to sip and dip?
You'll be able to soon at the Francis Ford Coppola Winery in Geyserville.
Much of the director's movie memorabilia and awards that had been on display at his other winery, Rubicon Estate in the Napa Valley, have been moved to the new winery. Other features: a restaurant, Rustic, a full bar, a wine-tasting bar and an under-construction swimming pool that will come complete with a pool-side cafe.
Guests who want to swim will be issued towels and can also rent cabines, little huts, for changing and showering. A built-in stage will host children's puppet shows, readings and musical performances. And if you're still looking for something to do there are bocce courts.
"The idea is that when people come here, they are going to be coming for the day," says Corey Beck, general manager and director of winemaking. "One of the things Francis has always thought was kind of a little bit weird was that when people decide to come to Sonoma County or Napa or wherever and they take a vacation - what do they do with the kids? This is creating an experience for the family. Children can go swimming; they can see a puppet show. Mom and Dad can roll a game of bocce, have a little bit to eat, we're also going to have a children's menu, and then, also, by the way, taste wine as well."
Another winery offering a taste of something extra is Somerston, which is featuring food pairings and an art gallery at its Yountville tasting room, along with a gourmet grocery store - expected to open this fall - next door.
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sits down again. If an interloper sits at the desk or tries to log on to the computer, an alarm sounds and the camera snaps a picture of the person, too.
While most NEC customers are in Japan, the company reorganized its North American divisions in April to boost its overseas presence.
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On statistical grounds, the organizational ideas embodied in the center seem to work. Paper costs are 20 percent lower than those of other NEC groups of comparable size, thanks to fewer printers and copiers, and greater reliance on collaboration software.
Conference room time, measured by the number of hours employees reserve, is down 70 percent, while the average length of meetings has dropped 20 percent. Travel expenses are down 15 percent, in part because of videoconferencing.
Besides the direct cost savings, reducing travel likely cuts down on carbon dioxide emissions, an overall goal for many companies in environmentally sensitive Japan.
Another big cost savings comes in office space. Although 500 employees work in the center, there is only desk space for 400 of them. The desk space, often a section of a larger table, comes on a first come, first served basis, and no one has an assigned, permanent desk.
"A 30 percent office space savings--that is big in Tokyo," said Tomoaki Ikezawa, assistant manager of the international sales department in the second enterprise communications solution division.
The deskless 30 percent aren't tapping in from their kitchen, he added. The work-at-home concept is still not big in Japan. Instead, the lack of space is prompting sales representatives to visit clients more often, he said.
Sun has deployed a similar strategy. Employees at Sun put their personal possessions in a locker; NEC gives its employees a bag. And as at Sun, Ikezawa acknowledged, some employees do try to outsmart the system and maintain control over a piece of real estate by leaving equipment in a spot overnight.
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WALNUT CREEK — Recovering from a traumatic brain injury, the Army veteran told the suicide hotline counselor he had trouble remembering his birthday or address … and with keeping his job.
His unit lost 16 men during his first Afghanistan deployment, and the 37-year-old Purple Heart recipient had endured two failed marriages, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and years of alcoholism. When an injury sent this vet home early during his second tour, he told a Contra Costa operator with the Veterans Crisis Line he had hit a low point.
Isolated and with no one to keep him safe before the nearest veterans' center opened the next morning, the soldier and the crisis line counselor — also called a specialist — decided he should spend the night in the hospital, and they spoke for another 35 minutes before police arrived at his Midwest home.
On Aug. 1, the Contra Costa Crisis Center became one of six agencies across the country to help Veterans Affairs field this kind of call from veterans. Operating out of an office building, the nonprofit answered about 3,400 calls from all 50 states during the first month.
The agency now averages 215 calls on the vet line each week, for a center that already fields about 65,000 crisis calls a year.
Veterans Affairs launched the hotline in 2007 in conjunction with the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. With veterans accounting for almost 20 percent of all suicides in the United States, the issue of military suicide has drawn wide attention. President Obama signed an executive order requiring the VA to increase its hotline staffing by 50 percent by the end of this year.
VA spokesman Mark Ballesteros said the Veterans Crisis Line has received more than 665,000 calls since it started, and has rescued more than 23,000 suicidal vets. Calls to the hotline have increased by 35 percent in the past year, overwhelming the VA hotline headquarters in New York, said the hotline's national director.
"There's been a huge need for backup centers … and Contra Costa is certainly one of the better centers in our national network," said John Draper, project director. "This provides an anonymous, confidential process for veterans to reach out and get the services they need."
The Contra Costa office fields calls on the vet line mostly from former soldiers, but also talks with active military members and worried family and friends. Callers are from all wars, from World War II to Vietnam to the current conflicts, said Judi Hampshire, Contra Costa's crisis line director. She even worked with a caller who suffered from PTSD after his ship went down in the Falklands War.
In general, veterans present Contra Costa counselors with more acute cases than the public in general, she said.
"There is a higher percentage suicidality and anger issues heading to homicidal thoughts and behaviors" with callers who've served in the Armed Forces, Hampshire said. "A vet that calls usually has more access to lethal means, and when they have guns they know how to use them."
Veterans are more actively abusing substances and are more often intoxicated while on the hotline than other callers, she said. And Vietnam vets stand out from the others.
"They are a very unique group and how that war was and how they were not welcomed back affected them," Hampshire said. "There was also a culture of substance abuse prevalent during that war."
Younger veterans come with complicating factors, such as PTSD or traumatic brain issues.
"We have had quite a few veterans who are dealing with PTSD related to military sexual trauma — especially, but not exclusively, female callers," Hampshire said.
The center has paid staff and about 70 volunteers, ranging in age from 21 to 70 and older. Among their number are a priest, FBI agent, retired cop, veteran and a lawyer.
"People who come maybe have had their lives touched by suicide, but mainly they are people who want to be really impactful," Hampshire said.
While most calls do not end with intervention, the ones that do often require help from out-of-state resources. On Labor Day, a counselor stayed on the phone for hours with a distraught 32-year-old Alaskan active soldier while a plane flew to him.
"I think we're really grateful and proud to be a part of it because we know we're a part of a special group," Hampshire said. "We feel like we're really making a difference … and we're really appreciative that we get to help veterans."
Every time Contra Costa attendants talk to a veteran with suicidal thoughts they ask about his or her military history.
And then they thank them for their service.
"It always sort of surprises us," Hampshire said, "that many of them say that no one has thanked them before."
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