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November 29, 2010Homicide Investigator honored Investigator Garry McFadden
CMPD Homicide Investigator Garry McFadden was honored by the Mecklenburg Chapter of the North Carolina Society Sons of the American Revolution. McFadden was honored for his ongoing commitment to the community that goes above and beyond the call of duty. The 28 year veteran cop has committed a large portion of his off duty time to public speaking engagements to students concerning his job and the lessons that can be learned by his experiences. McFadden has spent the last 18 years of his career in the Homicide Unit.
As part of his outreach efforts he has served as a mentor to several prison inmates by motivating them to obtain their high school equivalency and assisting with their employment upon release. This selfless man should inspire us all. To learn more about the Sons of the American Revolution please visit their website at http://www.sar.org/ RT
November 29, 2010CMPD's Officer of the Month Officer Paul Arpino
CMPD is proud to announce that Officer Paul Arpino has been chosen Officer of the Month for December. Officer Arpino is assigned to CMPD's Freedom Division. The diligent officer has recorded 25 arrests between October 2nd and November 16th. He's helped close out a variety of cases in the division including a number of B&E and weapons cases. If you see Officer Arpino patrolling the neighborhoods in the confines of the Freedom Division, make sure to say thanks for the hard work and dedication. He's truly one of CMPD'd finest. RT
With the holidays rapidly approaching the Charlotte–Mecklenburg Police Department would like to provide you with some home security tips.
Make sure your home is well lit. Turn on outside lights, spotlights, motions lights, etc. Leave several lights on timers while you are away to give your home that lived in look.
Keep all shrubbery trimmed. Do not allow shrubbery to conceal windows or doors.
Remove anything a burglar could climb up on to gain entry or use to knock out a window or door; items such as ladders, tools, tables, and chairs.
All exterior doors should be solid, rather than hollow core.
Don't leave garage roll down doors open, even while you are home or while you are doing yard work.
Use a deadbolt lock to secure your doors. A good deadbolt should have a 1" throw, if you have glass within 40" of the lock a burglar could reach in and unlock the door. A double cylinders lock (this type needs a key on both sides to unlock) should be used if glass is near the lock.
If you are going away contact a trusted neighbor or friend to pick up your mail, newspaper and other delivered items.
Try not to leave gifts in open view. This is an invitation to burglars.
Don't advertise new gifts or purchases. Break up cartons before leaving them at the curb or dispose of them another way the morning of trash pick up.
Don't forget to engrave new gifts or purchases with your Drivers license number.
Don't open your door to strangers. Be wary of solicitors and salespersons. If a stranger asks to use your telephone, tell them to stay outside, lock the door behind you and make the call for them. Never let a stranger inside your home.
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department wishes your family a happy & safe holiday season. RT
November 24, 2010CMPD kicks off Toys for Tots campaign Police Chief Rodney Monroe with Marine Reserves
On Wednesday, November 24, 2010, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department launched their annual Toys for Tots Drive at the Police Training Academy on Shopton Road. The purpose of this event was to get the media and public aware that the CMPD, Charlotte Fire Department and United States Marine Corps Reserves are working together to provide toys to the underprivileged for Christmas. These toys will go to help provide for 600 families that our Explorer Post sponsor with our annual Christmas project. CMPD Police Chief Rodney Monroe as well as command staff were present for the kickoff. The Chief will spoke briefly about our partnership and commitment to helping the community during these challenging economic times.
For further information on the Toys for Tots campaign and how you can help please contact Officer Tom Allen at 704-301-8931 or by email at email@example.com. RT November 23, 2010CMPD Major participates in Richmond Marathon Major Cameron Selvey
Major Cameron Selvey, who supervises the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department's Internal Affairs Division spent last weekend in Virginia running the Richmond Marathon. The event is billed as "America's Friendliest Marathon" This year more than 16-thpusand runner's participated in the scenic course. Hats off to Major Selvey for staying the course and making the CMPD proud. RT
November 23, 2010Financial Crimes Unit Detectives Make an ArrestCharlotte Mecklenburg Police Department Financial Crimes Unit Detectives have arrested Wayne Walter Smith, Jr, W/M, DOB: 08/17/165 for the Exploitation of an Elder Adult.
The elderly victim met Mr. Smith through her church and was also the realtor that sold her house. The victim remained friends with Mr. Smith and his family. In October 2007, the victim signed a power of attorney giving Mr. Smith control of her finances, an excess of $150,000. The victim was in an assisted living facility at this time.
In March 2009, a friend of the victim's contacted the police department regarding adult exploitation. A referral was made to the Mecklenburg County Department of Social Services/Adult Protective Services Division and a joint investigation began with the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department. A warrant was obtained for Mr. Smith and he was arrested on November 24, 2010 and charged with Exploitation of an Elder Adult.
Please refer to complaint numbers: 2009-0326-0938-05
The Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department encourages individuals to look for signs of possible exploitation
Call 704-336-CARE (2273) to report suspected abuse, neglect or exploitation. RH
Beginning at 11:00 a.m. that day the CMPD will also officially launch the Toys for Tots Kick Off in the Training Academy Auditorium. The purpose of this event is to get the media and public aware that the CMPD, Charlotte Fire Department and United States Marine Corps Reserves are working together to provide toys to the underprivileged for Christmas. These toys will go to help provide for 600 families that our Explorer Post sponsor with our annual Christmas project. CMPD Police Chief Rodney Monroe as well as command staff will be present along with command staff from the CFD. The chief will speak briefly about our partnership and commitment to helping the community during these challenging economic times. 1110 AM WBT sports radio personality Jim Szoke has agreed to emcee the day's activities.
For further information on the event please contact Officer Tom Allen at 704-301-8931 or by email at email@example.com We look forward to a tremendous turnout for these important events.
November 17, 2010CMPD officers arrest armed robbery suspects Reginald Chisholm Shomari PittmanOn Tuesday, November 16, 2010, Westover division officers were dispatched to 900 E. Arrowood Road after a man called 911 stating he was robbed at gunpoint. When officers arrived they interviewed the victim who stated he just got off a bus on Arrowood Road when several young men attempted to befriend him and followed him to a convenience store. Once the victim left the store he stated the suspects produced a pistol and robbed him before they fled to the Light Rail Line at Arrowood Road. A short time later Focus Mission Team officers from the Westover Division observed two young men who matched the description of the robbery suspects. The victim identified Chisholm and Pittman as the suspects who robbed him. Property belonging to the victim was recovered from the suspects along with a pistol the victim says the duo used in the robbery. Reginald Chisholm, DOB: 01/01/1992 has been charged with Robbery with a Dangerous Weapon. This is Chisholm's fifth arrest in Mecklenburg County since 2008. Shomari Pittman, DOB: 06/11/992 has been charged with Robbery with a Dangerous Weapon and Possession of a Stolen Firearm. This is Pittman's fourth arrest in Mecklenburg County since 2009. RTNovember 15, 2010:Alert neighbor helps officers nab residential B&E suspects Tyshaun Doral Lee Nadon ToureOn November 11, 2010, North Tryon Division officers responded to the 1700 block of Purser Drive after a neighbor called 911 stating they observed three suspicious people casing out an unoccupied home. The suspicious trio took off before officers arrived. Once officers got on the scene they observed the rear door and window of the home had been broken. An alert neighbor observed the suspects leave the scene and told officers their whereabouts. Officers located the suspects in the 800 block of Eastway Drive. The neighbor positively identified the suspects. Stolen property from the home was also recovered from the suspects.Tyshaun Doral Lee, DOB: 03/24/1991, and Nadan Toure, DOB: 05/15/1992, were both arrested and charged with Breaking and Entering and Larceny. This case illustrates the importance of community involvement. These arrests would not have been possible without the assistance of an engaged neighbor who got involved. RT
In reference to the Metro Division Drug/Prostitution Sting, a total of 16 suspects have been arrested and will remain in the custody of the Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office. The search warrant produced a total of 12 arrests that encompassed the Brookshire Inn Motel and the BP gas station. Cocaine and marijuana were seized as well as GPS from one of the rooms searched. As a result of the warrant service, 3 suspects with indictments were located and arrested.
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department's Metro Division has been conducting an ongoing investigation into illegal drug and prostitution activity at the Brookshire Inn Motel located at 3601 Brookshire Boulevard. This investigation was launched on September 1, 2010, after numerous complaints from concerned citizens, a review of calls for service, and officer's observations of illegal activity occurring at this location.
The CMPD Metro Division's Focus Mission Team (FMT) worked in conjunction with the Vice and Narcotics Division, the Mecklenburg County District Attorney's Office, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. During the course of this investigation the CMPD gained critical intelligence into the inner workings of this operation through citizen cooperation, conducting undercover narcotics purchases and varying forms of surveillance.
The investigation revealed that several rooms at the motel were being used as a safe haven for criminal activity. Officers determined that this was an active open air drug market with a clear chain of command structured with a single leader in charge, a second in command and several lower level dealers. This operation ran 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Although we can not give an exact dollar amount it is believed that in excess of $25,000 of crack cocaine was being distributed each week from these locations. In addition, there was a high volume of prostitution activity. This dollar figure does not include financial gains that were also made by this group through the sale of other illegal drugs such as heroin, ecstasy, and marijuana.
During this operation officers made seventeen narcotics purchases from fifteen individuals. This led to seventy one charges being filed against these fifteen individuals and 40 drugs and prostitution related arrests were made in addition to the charges filed against our fifteen targeted individuals.
On Wednesday, November 3, 2010, the CMPD SWAT Team executed search warrants on four rooms at the motel. As a result of this investigation grand jury indictments were obtained for the arrest of 15 individuals and five search warrants were issued for various rooms at The Brookshire Inn. One room was vacant so we did not execute that search warrant. So far we have arrested five of the subjects that indictments were issued for felony level drug charges including Sale and Deliver Cocaine, Possession with The Intent to Sell and Deliver Cocaine, Conspiracy to Sell Cocaine, and Possession to Sale and Deliver Marijuana. Currently there are three people on unrelated charges in the custody of the Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Department that are targets of these indictments. Their indictments will be served on them by Mecklenburg County Sherriff's Deputies bringing the total arrest number to eight. Officers located drugs in all four rooms that were searched and stolen property was recovered in one of the rooms. RH
November 3, 2010:Cold Case Unit makes an arrest in a 2004 Homicide Case
Detectives with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department's Homicide Cold Case Unit have arrested Steven Antonio Elam, B/M, DOB: 09/07/1973 for the murder of Mr. Ronnie Dale Page, B/M, DOB: 09/22/1972.
On November 21, 2004, at 6:50 p.m. Mr. Page was returning to his sister's home with his niece at the 6500 block of Four Seasons Lane, when the suspect, Steven Elam, approached the victim's vehicle, shortly after carjacking a previous vehicle from the Sav Way on Central Avenue, and demanded that he get out. When the victim did not comply with the suspect's demands quick enough, the suspect became agitated and fired his weapon into the driver's side window of the vehicle, removed the victim with force and stood over Mr. Page and shot him multiple times, before fleeing the scene in the victim's vehicle, with the child still seated in the vehicle. The suspect then drove to a location off Central Avenue and demanded that an unknown couple take the child. The suspect, Mr. Elam, left the stolen vehicle there and fled the scene on foot.
Physical evidence recovered and processed by CMPD's Crime Lab at the request of the Homicide Unit established that the same unknown male DNA was recovered from both vehicles. This unknown sample was entered into the National DNA Database. On October 4, 2010, the database generated a match once Steve Antonio Elam's DNA was uploaded into the database subsequent to his 2007 federal conviction for a weapons violation.
Mr. Elam was arrested today, November 3, 2010 for murder and the following subsequent charges of 2 counts of Armed Robbery, 2nd Degree Kidnapping, and Possession of Firearm by Felon. Also to note, Mr. Elam was convicted on October 31, 2002 with Possession with Intent to Sell and Deliver a Controlled Substance, which is a felony.
This is the 31st homicide case cleared by the Cold Case Unit since its inception in 2003. RH
November 2, 2010:CMPD Civilian Employee of the MonthHickory Grove Crime Analyst Kaiti Reedy
Crime Analyst Kaiti Reedy has been awarded CMPD's Civilian Employee of the Month. Kaiti is assigned to the Hickory Grove Division; her boundless dedication to her position is an inspiration. A self starter who frequently works after hours and has been known to take her work home on weekends. The police community can sometimes prove to be a difficult culture to penetrate for civilian employees. Kaiti has clearly been accepted and embraced by the Response Area Commanders and Captain of the Hickory Grove Division. She is pleasant, professional and exceptional at her job. She sets the standard for what a knowledgeable and dedicated CMPD employee should be. And Kaiti is completely deserving of the title Civilian Employee of the Month. RT
November 1, 2010:November Officer of the MonthNorth Tryon Division Officer Rene Quiles
Officer Rene Quiles with the North Tryon Division is one of two Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Officers to be awarded Officer of the Month for November, 2010. Quiles strives to do more for the community and the CMPD every day. Rene has taken up the responsibility to go every Tuesday to the Latino radio station to provide community service on police relations and issues. He took on the responsibility of responding to the Latino community during the officer issues that occurred earlier involving Hispanic victims. He continues to earn the trust of the Latino community. He is direct with his responses and has invited the Latino community to ride with him to show how the community reacts to officers doing their everyday duties. Officer Quiles is truly one of CMPD's Finest and an asset to the community. RT
The police community can sometimes prove to be a difficult culture to penetrate for civilian employees. Kaiti has clearly been accepted and embraced by the Response Area Commanders and Captain of the Hickory Grove Division. She is pleasant, professional and exceptional at her job. She sets the standard for what a knowledgeable and dedicated CMPD employee should be. And Kaiti is completely deserving of the title Civilian Employee of the Month. RT


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- Tonight Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 47. Southwest wind 8 to 14 mph becoming north after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
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STOCKTON - Councilman Moses Zapien will hold office hours Monday for members of the community to come and meet with him.
Zapien, who represents Council District 4, will be available from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in Room 200A on the second floor of City Hall, 425 N. El Dorado St.
The idea is to create an open dialogue between elected officials and community members about how to get Stockton back on track.
"As council members, we need to ensure that we remain easily accessible and connected to the citizens we serve," he said.
Zapien's district extends north to Fourteen Mile Slough and March Lane; west to include the Port of Stockton and Brookside; and east to Wilson Way and Golden Gate Avenue. The district also includes the Miracle Mile and University of the Pacific.
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STOCKTON - The city's professional hockey franchise hired Rich Kromm as its new head coach and director of hockey operations on Monday. Kromm replaces Matt Thomas, who was the Thunder's coach for four-plus seasons before taking over the hockey program at the University of Alaska-Anchorage.
Kromm, 49, has 13 years of experience as a head coach in six different leagues, including the American Hockey League and the ECHL. He won the United Hockey League championship with the Muskegon (Mich.) Fury in 1999. His most recent job was with the Evansville (Ind.) IceMen first in the Central Hockey League and the ECHL last season. He was dismissed by Evansville in April after three seasons.
Before beginning his coaching career, Kromm played pro hockey for 10 seasons, including stints with the Calgary Flames and New York Islanders.
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Tami Holihan, an instructor at Mendon Center Elementary School in Pittsford, has been selected from a pool of more than 400 applicants to participate in the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Summer Teacher Institute for the week of July 21 to 25.
"Each year, the Library of Congress provides the opportunity for a carefully chosen group of K-12 educators to attend one of its five teacher institutes in Washington, D.C.," according to a release. "During the five-day program, participants work with Library education specialists and subject-matter experts to learn effective practices for using primary sources in the classroom, while exploring some of the millions of digitized historical artifacts and documents available on the Library's website (www.loc.gov.)"
Educators attending the teacher institutes develop primary-source-based teaching strategies that they can take back to their school districts, apply in the classroom and share with colleagues.
"Teaching with primary sources is a powerful way to help students ask engaged, probing questions, develop critical-thinking skills, and gain knowledge," according to the Library of Congress. "All educators can access classroom materials, teaching tools and strategies for teaching with primary sources from the Library's site for teachers at www.loc.gov/teachers/."
Primary sources are the raw materials of history — original documents and objects that were created at the time under study. They are different from secondary sources—accounts or interpretations of events created by someone without firsthand experience. Students working with primary sources become engaged learners while building critical-thinking skills and constructing new knowledge. Teachers working in the Library's collections will explore the largest online collection of historical artifacts with access to millions of unique primary sources for use in instruction," stated the release.
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Disabled Weare Iraq veteran has custom mountain bike stolen in Alaska
The five bikes stolen included one custom-made for Staff Sgt. Matt DeWitt, who lost both arms below the elbow to a rocket-propelled grenade while serving with the Army in Iraq in 2003. DeWitt's bike, which police say is valued at $19,000, has controls that allow the double-amputee to shift with his knees and brake using his back. "No one else can really ride it," he said. DeWitt, who is visiting Alaska for the first time from his home in Weare, N.H., had only used the bike a few times before it went m issing.
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There is no such thing as "practical training visa." Students remain on their F-1 visa while they are doing their optional practical training.
Do I need to have a job offer before applying for practical training?
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Even though I've completed my degree, I would like to continue to take a few classes while I am on practical training. Is that allowed?
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Fuel Cell Lift Trucks: A Grocer's Best Friend
December 2, 2011
A story about how fuel cell powered lift trucks are helping companies like Baldor Specialty Foods ensure that their customers have access to the freshest seasonal produce is currently posted on the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Blog.
The blog entry was added by Fuel Cell Technologies Program Manager Sunita Satyapal. For more information about fuel cell lift trucks, read the Fuel Cell Lift Trucks: A Grocer's Best Friend blog entry.


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Bestselling author Liza Palmer carries readers to North Star, Texas, in the amusing and poignant Nowhere But Home.
After Queenie Wake is dismissed from her restaurant job, she returns to North Star to cook meals for death row inmates.
Hopeful that the bad memories of her late mother and promiscuous sister (now the mother of the captain of the high school football team) have been forgotten by the locals, Queenie discovers that some people can't be forgotten—heartbreaker Everett Coburn—her old high-school sweetheart.
When secrets from the past emerge, will Queenie be able to stick by her family or will she leave home again?
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Queenie Wake has just been fired from her job as a chef for not allowing a customer to use ketchup . . . again. Now the only place she has to go is North Star, Texas, the hometown she left in disgrace. Maybe things will be different this time around. After all, her mother—notorious for stealing your man, your car, and your rent money—has been dead for years. And Queenie's sister, once the local teenage harlot who fooled around with the town golden boy, is now the mother of the high school football captain.
Queenie's new job, cooking last meals at the nearby prison, is going well . . . at least the inmates don't complain! But apparently small-town Texas has a long memory for bad reputations. And when Queenie bumps into Everett Coburn, the high school sweetheart who broke her heart, she wishes her own memory was a little spottier. But before Queenie takes another chance on love, she'll have to take an even bigger risk: finding a place to call home once and for all.
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TASSAJARA VALLEY -- Cattle and horses roam the hills of rural Tassajara Valley just beyond the sprawling subdivisions of San Ramon.
If Danville developer Sid Corrie has his way, this scenic valley near Mount Diablo could also be home to 150,000 new residents -- all buried 6 feet under.
"It's going to be gorgeous," Corrie said of his plans for a $35 million cemetery there. "We'll spend a fortune doing it."
The investment may well pay off: No burial space is left in the fast-growing San Ramon Valley. Though there are plenty of plots elsewhere in the Bay Area, Corrie argues that San Ramon, Danville and Alamo locals want to be buried where they live.
Keeping a cemetery green will require a lot more water than the ranchland it replaces. And it will be a hard sell convincing upset residents that sharing the road with funeral processions is a good idea.
"I don't want to sit on top of the knoll and watch people bring in caskets on Sunday," said Tim Clancy, who lives on 33 acres next to the site. "I don't want to sit on my porch and drink my coffee and watch people cry over the graves."
The project has been in the works for nearly eight years. Contra Costa County planner Demian Hardman said he is wrapping up the final environmental report and it could be before the county Planning Commission by March.
The cemetery could be approved as soon as June.
Creekside Memorial Park -- which would have a 50-year capacity and include a chapel, indoor and outdoor mausoleums and extensive landscaping -- would be built on 221 acres at 7000 Camino Tassajara. Irrigation water would be pulled from wells.
Most of the cemetery would be on flat land just off Camino Tassajara. Private family mausoleums would be on a ridgetop.
Creekside would be similar in acreage to two of the Bay Area's largest cemeteries but with less capacity. Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma has 356,000 burial plots on 204 acres and an additional 200 years of capacity. Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland has 175,000 burial plots on 230 acres with quite a bit of acreage left.
Rose Hills Memorial Park and Mortuary in Whittier is the country's largest cemetery. It is approaching a half-million burials on 1,423 acres.
In addition to 150,000 burial plots, Creekside would have space for cremation remains.
"To me, a cemetery could work out there if it wasn't too water intensive and if it fit in with the land," said county Supervisor Candace Andersen, of Danville. "I will say there definitely is a need for a cemetery in the San Ramon Valley. We have the Alamo Cemetery, but it is already booked."
Danville, Alamo, Blackhawk, Diablo and parts of San Ramon are in the Alamo-Lafayette Cemetery District. Residents pay district property taxes and are entitled to low-cost burials in the district's public cemeteries in Alamo and Lafayette.
A plot and burial at the Lafayette Cemetery costs $4,250. Corrie said he hasn't run the numbers on how much it will cost at Creekside, but "it will be very competitive," he said.
Lafayette Cemetery has only about 400 spaces left, and all the Alamo burial spots are sold, said Patricia Howard, the cemetery district manager. Both have room for cremation remains.
"I would love to be buried in the area," said former San Ramon Mayor Abram Wilson, a longtime proponent of Corrie's project. "This plan could work. It's financially sound. It's not growth-inducing. It would open up open space in perpetuity. And there's a need. I'm going to be the first one to buy a plot there."
Project opponents are well-organized and have made their voices heard at county meetings on the project.
"Primarily, it's a water issue," said Bill Newman, a cattle rancher who owns about 100 acres next to Corrie's land. "It's all wells out there. It's what you pull out of the aquifer is what you use out there. If we lose our water, we're kind of stuck."
Hardman said hydrologists are testing wells to determine how much water is in the aquifer.
Newman runs a website, www.stopthecemetery.org, that outlines the project and neighbors' concerns. He said the cemetery will have a negative effect on the valley's rural setting and destroy the ridgeline. He also questions the need for such a big cemetery.
Also, "it would probably drop property values," he said. "Some people won't buy near a cemetery."
Newman said he has a large circle of Tassajara Valley contacts he can rally when needed. Their concerns have shaped the environmental report being prepared by Hardman.
Seth Adams, land programs director for Save Mount Diablo, said he has concerns about the project, too. The area is a hot spot for rare and endangered species, including the California red-legged frog, burrowing owl, American badger, tiger salamander and various plant and bird species.
"We've been following this project for literally years," he said. "It could potentially preserve a significant amount of open space, but we are opposed to the ridgeline section of the project. That would be the most visible part of the project and the most damaging."
Corrie said the need for a cemetery should override the opposition. "Everybody is going to die, and they are not going to be shipped back to Indiana, believe me," he said. "You could not pick a less conspicuous site for a cemetery. It's a perfect location."
Contact Jason Sweeney at 925-847-2123. Follow him at Twitter.com/Jason_Sweeney.


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The White House has become increasingly mindful of the potential damage to President Barack Obama's image as he tries to manage two global crises while conducting presidential business as usual.
The split screen offers a stark contrast: the president rubbing elbows with well-heeled donors at swank West Coast fundraisers, versus the turmoil in Ukraine at the crash site of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 and in the Gaza Strip.
White House officials insist Mr. Obama can carry out his presidential duties whether he's holed up at the White House or hobnobbing in Seattle, Los Angeles and San Francisco at high-dollar fundraisers, as he will be over the next three days. But their stance belies their concern about the public perception of a president during an international crisis.
Mr. Obama is sticking with his plans to headline at least six fundraisers during his West Coast swing, but the White House announced Tuesday that he'll be foregoing an appearance on the late-night talk show circuit. White House press secretary Josh Earnest said the president decided against appearing on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" this week. "We elected not to do it this time, but hope we can arrange to do it in the near future."
Mr. Earnest told reporters that appearing on a comedy show was not appropriate at this time.
The decision underscores the challenges the White House faces in balancing the public expectation of robust presidential engagement in a time of crisis and not appearing paralyzed by the events.
The Obama White House has always been loath to change the president's schedule on the whims of world events, at times in the face of sharp criticism. Mr. Obama was criticized last Thursday, in the hours after the MH17 crash, for pressing ahead with a partisan speech on highway funding and a round of New York fundraisers.
The president's aides appear willing to take the same risk by sticking to his plans this week, although they deemed a round of late-night banter perhaps a step too far. White House aides are also quick to note that if events warrant, the president would quickly return to Washington.
Mr. Earnest told reporters Monday that last Thursday showed the president can lead "from the road." But, he said, "If it becomes clear that there's a need for him to come back to the White House in order to fulfill those functions, then we'll make a change in his schedule."
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Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world's only daily column that is sending a shout-out to two of the hardest workers we know. Summit Up staffers Kathryn Turner and Caddie Nath are both celebrating their birthdays today, so if you see either lady out and about wish them well and give them a big high-five from us.
Changing gears a bit, it seems that all the hullabaloo about the new mapping app on Apple's new iPhone has reached the High Country. If you haven't been paying attention, the release of iOS6 recently brought with it a new maps app that has had more than its fair share of issues and glitches. Breck's Don Woodard happened to notice the other day that Frisco was now shown at Copper Mountain and came up with a few implications. He writes thusly:
"The people in the old Frisco will need to move if they want to stay in Frisco.
"Obviously a move by Copper Mountain Ski Co. to increase the number of visitors.
"Old Frisco town employees may need to reapply for their jobs in what was the old Copper Mountain.
"Old Frisco town government should send all their tax revenue to the new Frisco.
"There is obviously no negotiating on all of this because it is what Apple, Inc. wants, and they are very important.
"Things could have been worse, Breckenridge could have just as easily been relocated to Mississippi."
Well, there you have it. It seems that just when you think you know a place, some computer programmer a 1,000 miles away lets you know that you were way off.
If we would have known that Frisco was really a part of Copper, we would have changed all our business cards from listing our address for the SU Corporate Suites as "40 W. Main St., Frisco" to "The base of Super Bee." That's definitely cooler.
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A recent roundtable sponsored by the Buckeye Hills-Hocking Valley Regional District and the Ohio Development Services Agency helped stress to area governments and organizations the importance of pooling their knowledge and resources to prepare for the coming growth in the oil and gas industry.
The "Shale Development: State Resources Regional Roundtable," held Oct. 31 at Marietta's Comfort Inn, was offered to a 12-county area including the eight counties covered by the district, according to Gwynn Stewart, district communications director.
"(The roundtable) was to provide awareness of what state and regional resources are available to local government," said Stewart.
Sharing information also helps to learn one another's "best practices," she added. "There's no sense repeating it if they've learned something that's helpful."
The meeting was attend by Washington County Commissioners Cora Marshall and Tim Irvine, as well as representatives from the city of Marietta, the Southeastern Ohio Port Authority and local educational institutions.
Roundtable speakers "were encouraging the different counties to have a structured plan (about) how we are going to provide service to the many, many people coming into the area," said Washington County commissioner Cora Marshall, who attended the roundtable.
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Recent technological advancements in hydraulic fracking have made extracting natural gas from shale in Ohio more efficient and cost effective.
Resource estimates indicate the Devonian-age Marcellus Shale is the largest exploration play in the eastern United States.
An industry-funded study by Kleinhenz & Associates (2011) suggests that new Ohio natural gas production could create and support more than 200,000 jobs and $14 billion injected into the state economy over the next four years.
Source: Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Geological Survey, Ohio State University Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics.
For Ohio Department of Transportation's (ODOT) Division of Jobs and Commerce, "our goal is to align transportation investments and strategies with the needs of Ohio's businesses and workers," said Brad Biggs, division regional manager in ODOT districts 9, 10 and 11 and a speaker at the shale development roundtable.
When it comes to business needs in the Marietta region, "It's more of a supply chain attitude for shale development," Biggs said. "It's companies that are looking to be within 70 to 100 miles of the shale play."
By working with ODOT's jobs and commerce division, "We can give them the ability to either expand that business or find a place to build that business within that area," he added.
The Marietta/Washington County area already has some major players in the oil and gas industry like Pioneer Pipe, said Biggs.
"...Pioneer Pipe had a large influence on the Pennsylvania (shale) play. I know it wants to be in the new (Ohio) play," he added.
Rick Hindman, assistant executive director of Buckeye Hills-Hocking Valley Regional District, said he was there in his role as chairman of the Natural Resources Committee for the Ohio Appalachian Task force that covers 32 Appalachian counties.
He said his focus at the roundtable was on ways for state, county and local entities and residents to share information related to the growth of the oil and gas industry.
"There has been an abundance of information out there related to property owners and leasing, (but) not so much information about local community impacts," said Hindman.
The state of Ohio has learned much about the impact of shale industry growth from other states, according to Hindman.
"We need some on-the-ground information, lessons-learned type of information" from places like Wetzel County in West Virginia, he said.
Hindman cited the example of Chesapeake Energy in Wetzel County. Early on, the company established a monthly citizens panel in the county to get input from residents. Issues discussed included school bus schedules and pot hole repairs.
"(A citizens panel) makes for a better relationship," said Hindman.
The panel's format was copied by Wetzel County when it created a bimonthly citizens panel comprised of all companies in the county working in oil and gas.
Marshall said, "I think it was a very good resource for information on how to get the message out."
and into the county" about coming growth and issues in the oil and gas industry, she said.
Irvine said he was pleased to build his list of industry contacts that he can turn to in the future.
"If questions come up, you have someone you can call," he said.


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LIVERMORE -- The day after Christmas, Mike Nicholson was to wrap up his last shift as the Livermore Area Recreation and Park District's ranger and naturalist supervisor, ending a 30-year career.
A self-proclaimed "Navy brat," Nicholson has always had an affinity for the outdoors. As a child, he often hiked and fished, spending hours exploring Hawaii's tropical rain forests.
Hired on by the district in 1982, Nicholson soon relayed his own enthusiasm for nature to local youth, introducing a junior ranger program the following year. Held on Saturdays for 9- to 12-year-olds, the program gave children the opportunity to hike and bike in the outdoors. It proved so popular, Nicholson started a companion program for older youth up to age 15.
Though the program's long-term goal is education, Nicholson said it more importantly instills an interest in nature in children to last a lifetime. Many of his former junior rangers continued on to become rangers, biologists, oceanographers and environmental lawyers.
"When I look back on my career, one of the more rewarding things is the influence I've had on these kids," Nicholson said.
In an era of budget cuts, LARPD board member Steve Goodman said Nicholson played a key role in maintaining the district's educational programs and continuing links to local schools.
"If you talk to people around Livermore, many of them were involved in that program," he said. "He mentored a lot of folks who were instrumental later on."
A graduate of Mission San Jose High School in Fremont, Nicholson attended the University of Utah, majoring in marine biology, and joined the Coast Guard as a marine science technician in 1971. He moved on as a park ranger in Fremont and later worked at Lassen Volcanic National Park and as an interpretive aide with the East Bay Regional Park District.
In March of 1982, Nicholson took a naturalist job with LARPD and was later hired on as their first ranger supervisor, overseeing the unit's day-to-day operations. Nicholson said he's pleased with the growth of the generalist ranger program; maintaining it, he said, is a "big deal."
"For a district of our size it's an important thing," Nicholson said. "With generalists, they do it all, so it's a really cost-effective way of operating."
Throughout his career, Nicholson was also a big believer in preserving open space. He was involved in acquiring the Brushy Peak Regional Preserve and in 1999 helped add 370 acres into Sycamore Grove Park. The district is in the process of annexing another 73 acres to the park. Nicholson calls Sycamore Grove, with its current 775 acres, a "significant asset."
"It's a wonderful park," Nicholson said. "It gives people in the community a place to go and escape the urbanism they have elsewhere, and it's so convenient."
LARPD board member Goodman credited Nicholson with playing a key role in securing the open space. Nicholson's hands-on style and expertise, he said, makes him difficult to replace.
"He comes with a wealth of knowledge, and that knowledge has been valuable," Goodman said. "His experience makes the position so unique. It's the end of an era in that respect."
At 61, Nicholson said he'll miss taking children on outdoor adventures, but he's not ready to fully retire yet. He'll pursue work with the National Park Service or the Oakland Zoo.
"I'm not the type of person who all of sudden can't have a place to go," he said.


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1.6 Argument and structure of the Report
1.6.1 Very soon after we had begun our examination of Irving's work along the lines sketched out above, it became clear that Irving did all of these things. Penetrating beneath the confident surface of his prose quickly revealed a mass of distortion and manipulation in every issue we tackled that was so tangled that detailing it sometimes took up many more words than had been devoted to it in Irving's original account. Unpicking the eleven-page narrative of the anti-Jewish pogrom of the so-called Reichskristallnacht in Irving's book Goebbels: Mastermind of the 'Third Reich' and tracing back every part of it to the documentation on which it purports to rest takes up over seventy pages of the present Report. A similar knotted web of distortions, suppressions and manipulations became evident in every single instance which we examined. We have not suppressed any occasion on which Irving has used accepted and legitimate methods of historical research, exposition and interpretation: there were none.
1.6.2 The discovery of the extent of Irving's disregard for the proper methods of historical scholarship was not only surprising but also deeply shocking. As this Report will show, it goes well beyond what Lipstadt alleges. I was not prepared for the sheer depths of duplicity which I encountered in Irving's treatment of the historical sources, nor for the way in which this dishonesty permeated his entire written and spoken output. It is as all-pervasive in his early work as it is in his later publications. In this respect the change of view which, as this Report will note, he underwent in 1988 with respect to the Nazi extermination of the Jews, has done no more than emphasise an already existing pattern. It is clear from all the investigations which I and my research assistants have undertaken that Irving's claim to have a very good and thorough knowledge of the evidence on the basis of which the history of Nazi Germany has to be written is completely justified. His numerous mistakes and egregious errors are not, therefore, due to mere ignorance or sloppiness; on the contrary, it is obvious that they are calculated and deliberate. That is precisely why they are so shocking. Irving has relied in the past, and continues to rely in the present, on the fact that his readers and listeners, reviewers and interviewers lack either the time, or the expertise, to probe deeply enough into the sources he uses for his work to uncover the distortions, suppressions and manipulations to which he has subjected them. The late Martin Broszat and the American historian Charles W. Sydnor, Jr., whose work is referred to below, are virtually the only previous historians to have gone some way down this road; this Report, however, is the first full-length investigation of Irving's work on a large scale.
1.6.3 Because of the scope of what we have uncovered, this Report cannot confine itself simply to the allegations made by Lipstadt, though it does deal fully with each one. The detailed analyses in this Report are all illustrative of the points made at the beginning of this Introduction, but inevitably in some cases they also go beyond them. It should be noted that this Report deals both with Irving's writings and speeches before the publication of Lipstadt's book in Britain in 1994, and in the years since then, up to 1998. As will become apparent, Irving's methods have not changed substantially since Lipstadt completed her book; indeed, however much his views have changed over the years, his methods have remained substantially the same. It is these methods which form the main object of scrutiny in this Report. The fundamental question to which Irving's historical writings and speeches will be subjected is this: do they conform to generally accepted standards of historical scholarship?
1.6.4That is, in other words, does Irving give a reasonably accurate account of the documents he uses; does he translate them in a reasonably accurate and unbiased manner; does he take into account as many other relevant documents as any professional historian could reasonably be expected to read and cite when he is using one particular source to substantiate an argument; does he apply consistent criteria of source-criticism to all the original material he uses, examining it for its internal consistency, its consistency with other documents, its provenance, the motives of those who were responsible for it, and the audience for which it was intended; are his arguments, his statistics and his accounts of historical events consistent across time and based on reliable historical evidence; does he take account of the arguments and interpretations of other historians who have examined the same documents; does he, in other words, advance his arguments and interpretations in a reasonably objective and unbiased manner?
1.6.5 Historians, of course, notoriously disagree on many aspects of the interpretation of the past. It is seldom, if ever, the case that one particular interpretation of a past event or a process is irrefutably right and all the others wrong. The records left to us by the past are fragmentary and incomplete and susceptible of a variety of interpretations. Historians have to take all kinds of evidence into account: immediate sources written at the time, eyewitness accounts written down shortly after the event in question, interviews and testimony from long afterwards - all these have their problems, and although historians generally give a greater weight to a source the nearer it is to the event with which it deals, this means neither that such proximate sources are entirely unproblematical, nor that more distant sources are to be dismissed out of hand. That is why gathering as many sources as possible relating to an event, whatever their nature, and comparing them with one another, is the basis of the historian's reconstruction of the past.
1.6.6Historians may disagree with one another for a variety of reasons, and such disagreements are the stock-in-trade of historical controversy. However, such differences of opinion are generally confined within the limits set by the evidence: the number of possible interpretations of an event is not limitless, and historical controversy usually reveals some to fit more closely with the historical evidence than others. Thus for example there has long been a considerable difference of opinion amongst historians as to when the Nazis reached a decision to undertake a systematic extermination of all the Jews in Europe; some, though not many, have put the decision early in 1941; rather more have argued for a date in late July or early August 1941; some have favoured October 1941; more recently one younger German scholar has argued for December 1941 and another for late March or early April 1942. All these estimations have their merits and demerits, and the argument continues, based on a detailed examination and comparison of the documentary record. However, the position can broadly be summed up by saying that there is a general consensus that a decision was taken at the highest level some time between the beginning of 1941 and the Spring of 1942, and most probably between June 1941 and April 1942. The limits set by the available evidence do not allow of a date, say, in January 1933, or January 1943. The view that, for example, no decision was ever taken, or that the Nazis did not undertake the systematic extermination of the Jews at all, or that very few Jews were in fact killed, lies wholly outside the limits of what it is reasonable for a professional historian to argue in the light of the available evidence.3 Scholarly disagreements often involve accusations of misreading or neglecting sources, or stretching interpretations beyond what the evidence seems to allow; but although there is sometimes room for a certain amount of disagreement at the margins, reasonable historians do not find it difficult to distinguish between interpretation and fantasy, argument and tendentiousness, imaginative readings of the sources and outright manipulations of them, minor errors of fact and deliberate distortions of the documents, or the accidental omission of relevant material and the deliberate suppression of inconvenient evidence. In this Report, these differences will be spelled out repeatedly and in very considerable detail in the course of subjecting Irving's historical work to critical scrutiny.
1.6.7This task is, in a sense, made easier by Irving's repeated insistence that he is not putting forward an argument for debate, but simply telling the truth. His philosophy of history, such as it is, was revealed in a press conference held in Brisbane, Australia, on 20 March 1986:5
Journalist: It could be argued, couldn't it, that history is always subjective, and your view of history too.
Irving: Oh yes. Look at the life of Rommel here, the life of Rommel, The Trail of the Fox. In writing that, I used two thousand letters that he wrote to his wife over his entire life....Well, two thousand letters, that manuscript was probably six hundred pages long when it was finally (completed), you're doing a lot of condensing, you're condensing an entire man's life into six hundred pages of typescript, and that process of condensing it is the nice way of saying, "but of course you're selecting, you're selecting how to present this man." And that is undoubtedly a subjective operation. And this is why I hope that the readers look at the overall image presented of David Irving by the media and they think to themselves: "Well, on balance we can probably trust him better than we can trust Professor Hillgruber, or Professor Jacobsen, or any of the other historians who write on the same kind of period."4
Journalist: Surely the same argument that you're putting up against the bulk of historians could be levelled at you.
Irving: Ah, but then, you see, but this is the difference: they can't prove their points, they can't prove their points. I can prove all my points because I've got all the documents and the evidence on my side, but they can't find even one page of evidence to attack me, and that is why they're beginning to rant and rave instead.5
1.6.8 In other words, Irving admits a degree of aesthetic subjectivity in condensing and organizing his material, but concedes none at all in formulating his arguments (or, as he would put it, proving his points). This Report takes him at his word and asks whether there is indeed any evidence available to disprove his points, or in other words, to demonstrate that his arguments are specious and arrived at not through an accumulation of documents and evidence but by manipulation, falsification, suppression, distortion, mistranslation, misinterpretation and other wilful violations of the basic methods of the professional historian in dealing with the sources on which historical reconstruction and interpretation are based.
1.6.9 The first part of the Report following this Introduction examines Irving's output as a historian, his reputation amongst professional historians, and his relations with the historical profession in general. In the course of the discussion, this section deals on a general level with Irving's use of historical evidence and the criteria to which he subjects it. The second part of the Report then turns to the question of whether Irving is, or is not, a Holocaust denier. This requires an outline of what is the generally accepted definition of the Holocaust and what Irving's attitude is to that definition. This part of the Report goes on via a survey of the literature on Holocaust denial to establish four criteria by which, it is argued, it is reasonable to judge whether or not someone denies the Holocaust, and then applies each of these criteria to Irving's work as a whole.
1.6.10 A third and longest part of the Report takes the 'chain of documents' on the basis of which Irving has sought to dissociate Hitler from the antisemitic policies of the 'Third Reich', and subjects each of them to an extremely detailed and rigorous examination in terms of Irving's treatment of the document or documents in question and in the light of the other documentation which is relevant to the issue under discussion. The purpose of this third part is to demonstrate at length, and as exhaustively as possible, Irving's admiration for Hitler and his determination to manipulate the available historical evidence in the service of this admiration. In case it might be thought that Irving's manipulations of the historical record in this respect are an exceptional aspect of an otherwise reliable historical oeuvre, the product of a peculiar bee in the bonnet of a generally honest and competent professional historian, the fourth part of the book turns to three other aspects of Irving's work and uncovers a similar story of lies and deceptions in Irving's presentation of past history. It begins by comparing all the available versions of Irving's account of the Allied bombing of Dresden early in 1945 with the evidence on which they rest and the researches carried out by competent and reasonably objective British and German historians of this event. It moves on to illustrate Irving's method by studying a sample of the members of Hitler's entourage on whose testimony, often elicited in personal interviews with Irving himself, he so frequently relies. And it concludes by taking some examples of Irving's explanation of those aspects of Nazi antisemitism which he is prepared to admit actually existed.
1.6.11 Once again, it should be emphasised that these topics, numerous though they are, were not chosen as particularly egregious examples of Irving's disregard of proper historical method. On the contrary, his account of the bombing of Dresden was selected for scrutiny because his book on the subject has been reprinted many times and did much to establish his reputation. His use of the evidence of Hitler's adjutants was chosen for examination because his access to their private papers, and his use of exclusive interview material generated in his meetings with them, have been presented as strengths of Irving's research not just by himself but by others as well. And finally, his analysis of the reasons for Nazi antisemitism was singled out for investigation because it seemed on the face of it that this might cast light on, or in some way modify or relativise, his insistence that Hitler was not involved in it. In every case, however, as this Report will demonstrate, Irving has fallen so far short of the standards of scholarship customary amongst historians that he does not deserve to be called a historian at all.
3. For these various dates, see Richard Breitman, The Architext of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution(London, 1991); Christopher Browning, The Path to Genocide: Essays on Launching the Final Solution (Cambridge, 1992); Philippe Burrin, Hitler and the Jews (London, 1993); Christian Gerlach, 'Die Wannsee-Konferenz, das Schicksal der deutschen Juden und Hitlers politische Grundsatzentscheidung, alle Juden Europas zu ermorden', Werkstattgeschichte 18 (1997), pp. 7-44; Peter Longerich, Politik der Vernichtung: Eine Gesamtdarstellung der nationalsozialistischeii Judcnvcrfolgung (Munich, 1998).
4. These were two historians who emphasised Hitler's role in leading and co-ordinating the policies of the 'Third Reich': see Hans-Adolf Jacobsen, Nationalsozialistische Aussenpoiltik (Frankfurt am Main, 1968), and Andreas Hillgruber, Hitlers Strategie, Politik undKriegfuhrung 1940-1941 (Frankfurt am Main, 1965).
5. Audiocassette 88: Irving press conference in Brisbane, Queensland, 20 March 1986, side 2, no. 107-126.
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You control a tribe of amoebas living in Earth's past trying to survive in the Primordial Soup. At first, your amoebas drift along, eating the nutrients that are available, but soon you'll have to figure out how to get to the rapidly depleting supply of nutrients before your opponent's amoebas beat you to it. You will purchase rule-breaking Gene cards to give your amoeba capabilities to be the top dog in the Soup. Some of these capabilities include more coordinated movement, longevity, aggression, etc. The player who keeps his amoebas alive and balances the use of his or her Gene cards will reign in the Soup.
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Doris Matthaus, Frank Nestel
Z-Man Games, Doris and Frank
Doris Matthaus
Year: 2005
Players: 3 - 4
Time: 120 minutes
Ages: 12 and up
Est. time to learn: 20-30 minutes
Weight: 1,368 grams
Language Requirements: Game components are printed in English. Manufacturer's rules are printed in English. This is an international edition or domestic edition of an imported item.
- 220 wooden Foodstuff cubes
- 28 wooden amoebas in different shapes
- 37 wooden Biological Points
- 4 wooden Score markers
- 25 wooden damage beads
- 44 cards(Gene and Environment cards)
- 1 Game Board
- 1 color rule booklet
- 4 reference booklets
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I brought this game about a year ago and I finally got a chance to play it. Well, it was worth the wait! In "Primordial Soup", you control amoebas, acquire genes so your amoebas can survive attacks, starvation and other amoebas who may have an appetite for something other than food (meaning you!). The rulebook explains the game very well, but you'll want to keep it close by. Some rules are a bit vague and could use further explanation, but it didn't ruin the game. When this happened, we checked out boardgamegeek.com and were able to answer any questions we had. The game is a nice combination of luck and strategy. Even a casual gamer will be able to learn this game.
This is one of my favorites of the 1998 game crop.
The premise is simple. You represent a tribe of amoeba in the primordial soup. Your objectives: Eat. Divide. Evolve.
You must cope with currents, changes in the ozone layer, food shortages and predator/prey relationships. In general, the way to do this is to develop mutations, of which there are many. The mutations include such things as Speed (allowing you to move twice in a turn), Struggle For Survival (allows you to eat other amoeba if food is insufficient), and Armor (an advanced mutation that protects you against being eaten).
Be careful, though, because every mutation you develop makes you that much more susceptible to changes in the ozone... which could cost you, either in terms of your mutations or in terms of BPs (Biological Points, or Beeps for short), the currency you use to evolve, move and divide.
This is a great game. Gameplay is straightforward enough that a young person can understand it, and yet there are sufficient choices and the game is complex enough that it will appeal to many hardcore gamers. Highly recommended.
The great thing (or bad thing depending on which side of the fence you stand) about German games are their many various themes (some abstract) wrapped around a game. In the game of Ursuppe, the theme is less abstract. Cultivate amoebas and win by getting to the top of the soup. OK, so that's my interpretation. Really you score points by two mechanisms. The first is based on the number of amoebas you have on the board. The second is based on the number of Gene cards you have which alter the charactoristics of your ameobas and help them survive.
The game is a blast to play. Each turn is divided into six phases in which everyone performs actions in turn. This helps minimize the downtime between players. These turns are basically as follows:
- Move your ameobas, feed and poop. If you can't feed, you starve and take a damage point.
- Change the ozone layer. This is a mechanism that serves two purposes. It determines the movement direction of the 'soup' for the next turn, and shows the ozone thickness. The second item will affect the number of gene cards a person may hold at any one time.
- Buy new gene cards.
- Collect BP's from the bank (the game's money) to buy new amoebas.
- Remove dead amoebas (those with two damage points or more).
- Scoring round.
First player to reach the dark area of the scoring track wins.
OK. So some of this is a rehash of the big review provided below. What makes it fun is trying to figure out what combination of genes will help your amoebas to survive. In our last game, the person who was last ended up winning by getting a good combination of genes at the right time. This makes for a game where you're not out of it just because you're in last place. The luck factor in the game is minimal for the theme (after all, how advanced are amoebas). The first game we played with four players clocked in at 2 and 1/2 hours, with about 1/2 hour of that going to covering the rules and playing a sample round. This leaves about two hours for the game which is about right. It may be a little long for some folks, but there is an optional mechanism that allows the game to end after playing through the ozone layer cards once and the person furthest ahead is winner. When played this way with four experienced players, you can get done in about 1 and 1/2 hours. All the usual raves about the bits apply. Good board, good pieces (I pushed the dowels in by hand Urrrahh!), rules in English and German on both the cards and rules sheet, etc. There's a great web site at Doris and Frank that has a FAQ, strategies and variations.
Overall, this game gets and 85db on the Mulder Meter. It's got plenty of shelf life before adding the expansion which makes the game more interesting.
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Some years ago, I "stepped out" with a young lady whose career path led ultimately to glamour modelling and "Page 3" fame. Naturally enough, I deserve kudos for this if only for the torment it put me through. Yes, she looked fantastic, and also knew both her names (professional and birth). But could she spell them? I don't think so, and I didn't bother asking. It would have been too complicated. Sexist? Absolutely, but only in her case. Why do I raise this now? Well, if nothing else, it was a case of style over substance, and it was a lesson I digested even if I did not strictly adhere to.
And why would I be dragging poor Doris Matthäus (and Frank Nestel) into this narrative?. Well, I am more than ever convinced that to succeed commercially as a purveyor of boardgames, the look must match the content. Poor visuals can kill an excellent design, or at least restrict it to the "specialist" section (basement). Of course, the opposite is also true. The giant box with oodles of bits more often disappoints than not. And just remember why you were attracted in the first place.
But back to Doris and Frank. Doris's artistic endeavours for a host of companies have provided the pre-eminent work in the games industry. I need only offer Elfenroads and Euphrat & Tigris for confirmation. So, we've got the artist, but is the game up to scratch? The school of thought that has consigned Doris and Frank to the "card game specialists" dump bin are palpably wrong. 1994's Fugger, Welser, Medici presented a brilliant trading mechanism, the view of which was clouded by cries of "takes too long". Well, how long do you want it to take? Would you walk out in the middle of the movie 'The Ten Commandments', once Moses had proclaimed "Thou shall not steal (unless it's to your advantage)"? Of course not. Furthermore, F,W,M offered three distinct scenarios. If you wanted to play for a couple of hours, you could, and to a satisfactory conclusion. The same applies to Ursuppe. Yes, it can take upwards of three hours (and almost certainly will first time out), but it can be curtailed at ANY point on the leader board, thanks to the clever scoring mechanism. Once the rule book has been fully digested, Ursuppe can be completed in between one and two hours. So there.
Ursuppe (Primeval Soup) falls firmly in the regimented German design school, with a rigid turn mechanism in which you need to "adapt or die". The theory? Maintaining the survival and subsequent development of your Amoeba. How? Read on.
Each round comprises six phases. Firstly the Amoeba move and feed. They may drift (at no cost) or you roll a die (cost -- one Biological Point (BP)) and trust the compass (1=west, 2=north, etc, with a 6 providing a free choice, and a 5 meaning that the Amoeba remains where it is). To feed, the Amoeba must digest three cubes (one of each colour other than your own). If any fail to achieve this, then they are marked with a damage point. Two of these and you're "dead". They then excrete, leaving behind two cubes of your own colour.
The second phase prompts an adjustment on the compass (Environment Card) and a survival check, whereby points on the Gene Cards are totalled and matched with the number on the new Environment Card. If you exceed this number, you must either dispose of Gene Cards or lose BPs.
The crucial third stanza allows for the "purchase" (by BPs) of Gene Cards. These ultimately dictate the course of play, offering almost limitless possibilities from extra moves through to protection in combat. For me, balancing action cards has always seemed the most difficult objective to attain in game development. Ursuppe offers perfect symmetry and that tantalising "to buy or not" option prevalent in great designs.
Next comes "divvy up" time. Each player receives 10 BPs, which can be used to "divide" Amoeba (place additional markers on the board at six BPs a pop). This is Ursuppe's ultimate quandary, to "divide" or save for the invaluable cards.
Shed not a tear in the penultimate stage, when those Amoeba with two damage points are removed. Personal attachment to these useless blobs is psychologically dangerous. You will quickly find that they are expendable as the fight against extinction gets decidedly competitive. Their death, however, is not in vain, as they are replaced by the very same foodstuff (coloured cubes) that was initially placed on every square on the board.
Scoring completes the round. The number of spaces to be moved is determined by the number of surviving Amoeba and the number of Gene Cards each player has. And then, in a nifty tweak, markers are moved counting only the VACANT spaces on the scoring ladder. Playing catch up is far from futile and you may be surprised at the ever-changing position. The winner will be the player furthest into the dark zone at the end of the track once someone has got this far. Alternatively, the game also ends when the last of the 11 Environmemt Cards is revealed. You might also agree to conclude a particularly aggressive game at any point on the track, or if someone has forged too far ahead.
Ursuppe allows the passive, assertive or downright belligerent to plot their own course or downfall and the variety of Gene Cards permits a pre-determined tactical plan. If you fight, be prepared to take losses. Acting the dunce will attract predators, whilst the truculent will attract the wrath of their fellow participants (all of them).
And it almost goes without saying that for looks and content Ursuppe is almost unparalled -- only the best of Avalon Hill and Hans im Glück stand comparison.


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