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October 2011 Newsletter of the USS Gygax.

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MONTHLY

PUBLICATION

OF THE

USS GYGAX

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USSGYGAX.COM Achievement Unlocked 2011 OCTOBER

WELCOME USS GYGAX 2011 STARFLEET REGION 4 CONFERENCE

Achievement Unlocked: 2011 OCTOBER 2 2

INSIDE THIS ISSUE Achievement Unlocked:

October 2011

Michael D. Garcia, Publisher

([email protected])

Larry L. Balsley, Editor-in-Chief

([email protected])

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Achievement Unlocked: 2011 OCTOBER 3

INSIDE THIS ISSUE Department Reports

CO’s Report “Rolling for Initiative” 4

Ops Report “Modus Operandi” 6

OIC Report “From the Desk of the OIC” 8

Academic Report 14

Appointments & Promotions Board 15

Features

Comics & Fun 9

Away Mission Report: Henderson, Nevada 12

Achievement Unlocked: 2011 OCTOBER 4 4

You decide your own level of involvement.

It's a quotation from Fight Club, but the meaning holds true for anything you're a part of. Gygax' momentum from October has rolled right into October. A number of you have passed the Academy challenge with flying colors and we outshined the other chapters with our Academy training in October. The longest section of our Monthly Status Report was our training accomplishments! Between all of us, we managed to pass over SEVEN-TY courses for the chapter, and that was noticed by our Regional Coordinator when we turned in our progress on October 1st.

We can keep the training ball rolling in October with this month's challenge, but what I would personally like to see if everyone passing OTS and OCC before the end of the year. I believe this is a goal easily accomplished within the time constraints, and it will earn you both a commission and a promotion to LTJG right away (if that's your desire).

With regard to rank and status, I wanted to share some of my thoughts on commissions and non-commissioned status, as well as plug a bit for the STARFLEET Marines. While at the R4 Conference, I had a lengthy discussion with the Fourth Brigade CO, Major Gen-eral Fleona Dysast'ar, about how the 20th MSG will bring in a new era to the R4 Marine contingient, and how even participating as a reservist is beneficial. It would be a great idea to be able to participate in both fleet and marine activities, and I've affiliated myself as a reservist as a result. This also opens up a whole other training school to you, and I think seeing some of the Marine training command courses showing up on the MSR will be a good thing. So, sit down with Lieutenant Colonel Madon and see how you can con-tribute to "The Natural 20s."

By the time this newsletter hits the press, we will be in the middle of our Extra Life mis-sion and having a lot of fun together! Afterwards, once we've all slept and rested, we will begin plans for our next humanitarian mission for Child's Play. Please contact our Operations Officer, Lieutenant Hadley, for more information on how you can help us raise money for that charity in the coming months.

Also, we're still working on our chapter's handbook and constitution. I've heard from only two other crew on providing input on this, and would love to have everyone send in their thoughts. In particular, our rank advancement guidelines seem to be the top priori-ty for many as they determine what will be involved in obtaining a higher rank. Of course, it's necessary to point out that most of you will top out at Commander and can

only be promoted to Captain by the Regional Coordinator, so even if you do blow through the ranks, remember where the endpoint is within the chapter. Please, please, please send in your suggestions so we can compose our chap-ter's vital documents with all points of view in mind.

The following personnel are being formally recognized by the CO for October:

- LT Melissa Hadley, for being the only crewmember to pass the SORS chal-lenge at 100% (all courses passed). In addition to her dedication to rise to that challenge, she led the entire chapter with THIRTY-FIVE courses passed, (twenty-five with DISTINCTION). Lieutenant Hadley will be recognized with a new commendation for our chapter, the monthly training award, the Bronze Tome of Knowledge for October 2011. Congratulations, Lieutenant Hadley!

- Shon Elliott, for attending the R4 Conference and setting a fine example of what Gygax is all about to the rest of the region. Our chapter made a big splash at the conference and Shon was a big part of that. For his success and his committment to the chapter in attending the R4 Conference, I have promoted him from Crewman Apprentice to Petty Officer 3rd Class.

In November, I would like to focus on recruitment of new SFI members to the chapter, as well as the training challenge. Who will be our recipient of the Tome for November? It could be you! We will issue a Golden Tome for the most dedicated student in the chapter at the end of the year when we count up the number of courses complet-ed. Keep training!

Commander Michael D. Garcia

Commanding Officer NX-63545 (USS Gygax)

OLLING FOR INITIATIVE R

Achievement Unlocked: 2011 OCTOBER 5

You decide your own level of involvement.

It's a quotation from Fight Club, but the meaning holds true for anything you're a part of. Gygax' momentum from October has rolled right into October. A number of you have passed the Academy challenge with flying colors and we outshined the other chapters with our Academy training in October. The longest section of our Monthly Status Report was our training accomplishments! Between all of us, we managed to pass over SEVEN-TY courses for the chapter, and that was noticed by our Regional Coordinator when we turned in our progress on October 1st.

We can keep the training ball rolling in October with this month's challenge, but what I would personally like to see if everyone passing OTS and OCC before the end of the year. I believe this is a goal easily accomplished within the time constraints, and it will earn you both a commission and a promotion to LTJG right away (if that's your desire).

With regard to rank and status, I wanted to share some of my thoughts on commissions and non-commissioned status, as well as plug a bit for the STARFLEET Marines. While at the R4 Conference, I had a lengthy discussion with the Fourth Brigade CO, Major Gen-eral Fleona Dysast'ar, about how the 20th MSG will bring in a new era to the R4 Marine contingient, and how even participating as a reservist is beneficial. It would be a great idea to be able to participate in both fleet and marine activities, and I've affiliated myself as a reservist as a result. This also opens up a whole other training school to you, and I think seeing some of the Marine training command courses showing up on the MSR will be a good thing. So, sit down with Lieutenant Colonel Madon and see how you can con-tribute to "The Natural 20s."

By the time this newsletter hits the press, we will be in the middle of our Extra Life mis-sion and having a lot of fun together! Afterwards, once we've all slept and rested, we will begin plans for our next humanitarian mission for Child's Play. Please contact our Operations Officer, Lieutenant Hadley, for more information on how you can help us raise money for that charity in the coming months.

Also, we're still working on our chapter's handbook and constitution. I've heard from only two other crew on providing input on this, and would love to have everyone send in their thoughts. In particular, our rank advancement guidelines seem to be the top priori-ty for many as they determine what will be involved in obtaining a higher rank. Of course, it's necessary to point out that most of you will top out at Commander and can

only be promoted to Captain by the Regional Coordinator, so even if you do blow through the ranks, remember where the endpoint is within the chapter. Please, please, please send in your suggestions so we can compose our chap-ter's vital documents with all points of view in mind.

The following personnel are being formally recognized by the CO for October:

- LT Melissa Hadley, for being the only crewmember to pass the SORS chal-lenge at 100% (all courses passed). In addition to her dedication to rise to that challenge, she led the entire chapter with THIRTY-FIVE courses passed, (twenty-five with DISTINCTION). Lieutenant Hadley will be recognized with a new commendation for our chapter, the monthly training award, the Bronze Tome of Knowledge for October 2011. Congratulations, Lieutenant Hadley!

- Shon Elliott, for attending the R4 Conference and setting a fine example of what Gygax is all about to the rest of the region. Our chapter made a big splash at the conference and Shon was a big part of that. For his success and his committment to the chapter in attending the R4 Conference, I have promoted him from Crewman Apprentice to Petty Officer 3rd Class.

In November, I would like to focus on recruitment of new SFI members to the chapter, as well as the training challenge. Who will be our recipient of the Tome for November? It could be you! We will issue a Golden Tome for the most dedicated student in the chapter at the end of the year when we count up the number of courses complet-ed. Keep training!

Commander Michael D. Garcia

Commanding Officer NX-63545 (USS Gygax)

OLLING FOR INITIATIVE

Michael D. Garcia is the Commanding Officer of the USS Gygax and the Founder and Head Ad-ministrator of WNOHGB.org. He can be reached at [email protected].

Achievement Unlocked: 2011 OCTOBER 6 6

Modus Operandi Okay, so we're a chapter. We have our ship, we have crew, we

have our website. We even have some casual interest, people

who might be joining us once they have time, energy or other

resources they can offer. We have some charities we're looking

into for long-term support. Is there really anything else we need to

do? Definitely!

At this stage, this is where we

really look at our vision, what

we want to do, where we

want to go, and how we want

to get there. This is a time for

goal setting, both short term

and long term.

Looking at our current goals,

one of the big ones is our

shakedown procedure. All in

all, the checklist itself is a list

of goals we must accomplish

to meet our requirements for

completing shakedown and

being commissioned. Many

of these mini-goals are al-

ready completed, but there

are many more we, as a chapter, can focus on.

One example of an important goal put forth by the

shakedown procedure is determining our bylaws and

constitution. This is a requirement for our chapter, and

it's something we can determine together in how it could

be written to properly portray us as a STARFLEET chap-

ter, as gamers, and as a group of friends. Some discus-

sion has already started on the forums, so feel free to

join in!

Other goals our chapter is currently working towards is

that of filling our senior staff roster. There's many posi-

tions presently open as of the time of this writing, from

Chief Engineering Officer to Deputy Officer in Charge of

the 20th MSG. If you have an interest contributing more

to the chapter and helping build us as a strong and ac-

tive group, please see Commander Garcia.

But outside of the on-paper business of the chapter,

what other goals do we have? What can Crewman Bob

or Ensign Joe get into? Well, as I mentioned last issue,

we're presently taking ideas of where we, as a corre-

spondence chapter, can assist in charity work. One

we're looking at is the Fleet Admiral's Challenge. The

Challenge has already started, as of October 1st, but it

Melissa Hadley is the Second Officer and Chief Operations Officer of the USS Gygax. She can be reached at [email protected].

Achievement Unlocked: 2011 OCTOBER 7

will be running until January 1st. Other charities, like

Child's Play are do-able year round!

Other goals we can look into are teambuilding oriented,

such as syncronized Trek episode/movie watching with

internet chat commentary.

Most, if not all of us, have access to DVDs, Netflix or

already-purchased iTunes Trekisodes, which would make

these internet meetings very accessible. Another could be

planning to have a certain percentage attendance at IC

2012 and R4 Conference 2012. Or plan an away mission

to meet up once or twice in the next year for our own small

con, with maybe a trip to a spaceflight museum or piece of

Trek history. The possibilities are endless.

At the publish of this newsletter, I will be making a thread

on the forums to ask others what they envision as goals

for our chapter. I don't mean the larger picture, for we all

know that already, but what events, activities and more

would you like to see? What more would you like to do?

Goals don't have to be large, and they don't have to be

solved or handled in one foul swoop. But each step we

take to discuss our ideas takes us one step closer to

them. For example, as of this writing, I'm already almost 8

lbs lost in my personal weight loss program. And like a

snowball effect, even the amount I've lost so far is fueling

my desire to work further towards that goal. The same

can be said for any goal; it only takes a few steps to get

the ball rolling.

Or, perhaps in our case, the dice rolling.

Achievement Unlocked: 2011 OCTOBER 8 8

FROM THE DESK OF THE

OIC Hello once again from the desk of the Marine OIC. October

comes, bringing Autumn and the expected oranges and browns

to the world in places which have more than one season. By plac-

es that have more than one season, I am not referring to any of

the following places:

Antarctica

The Sahara Desert

Florida

October also brings about Halloween. It

was a tradition in my family, as well as

many others, to dress up for Halloween

and hit up the neighbors for high fruc-

tose corn syrup under the guise of

frightening them. This is only one of

many happy traditions that I had with

my family. Sometimes I still even break

out the makeup. (See picture.) As a

brand new ship, the ball is in our court

to dictate our own traditions and I do

believe that Halloween will surely offer

some interesting tradition fodder. That

being said, I challenge each of you to come up with and pitch an

event for Halloween or the Autumn season for all of us to take

part in. I urge you all to make use of the forums and throw out

ideas. As always, don't hesitate to e-mail me

at [email protected] if you'd like help realizing them.

As of the time of this writing (late!) we are only days away from

Extra Life. Don't forget to support our gamers in their endeavors to

raise money for the Children's Miracle Network. It's such a great

cause!

Finally, on my own front, I've been research-

ing different ways to game amongst a group

of online friends. Ultimately, this will be for the

purposes of running a table-top “pen & pa-

per” RPG. I'm leaning towards Pathfinder,

which is in my opinion one of the best D&D

versions on the market today, but am open to

suggestions. Look for my post on the forums

opening the floor for discussion just after

Extra Life. The watch words for implementing

this will be cheap, easy and feature rich.

That's all we have today folks. Looking for-

ward to gaming with you.

Fun facts about Dungeons and Dragons:

D&D was founded by Gary Gygax in 1974.

Fun facts about your Marine OIC, John: John

was founded by his parents in 1982.

Fun facts about temporal mechanics: 1974 and 1982 are only

eight years apart.

John Madon is the SFMC Officer-in-Charge on the USS Gygax. He can be reached at [email protected].

Achievement Unlocked: 2011 OCTOBER 9

©2011 Kirk Felton

Top 10 Bumper Stickers on the USS Enterprise NCC-1701D

10. "Our other starship separates into 3 pieces!"

9. "One photon torpedo can ruin your whole day...think about it"

8. "HONK if you've slept with Commander Riker!"

7. "Guns don't kill people...Class 2 Phasers do!"

6. "Zero to Warp 9.7 in 13 seconds!"

5. "CAUTION...We have a trigger happy Klingon at tactical."

4. "If you can read this...don't you think you're a wee bit too close?"

3. "Have you hugged a Ferengi today?"

2. "We brake for cubes!"

1. "Wesley On Board!"

Source: spacefreak.tripod.com

Achievement Unlocked: 2011 OCTOBER 10 10

by CDR Michael D. Garcia

This year's Region 4 was held in Henderson, Nevada

at the Sunset Station Hotel/Casino. Crewman Ap-

prentice Shon Elliott and I arrived mid-morning after

a cab ride from McCarran International Airport. This

being our first conference ever, we didn't quite know

what to expect, but we make it a point to present

ourselves as positively as we could, listen to our peers

and the issues facing the region and represent our

ship in the best manner possible.

The first day began with a meet and greet in the Re-

gional Coordinator's (VADM Chrissy Killian) suite. We

had four ships in attendance: USS Sandstorm (the

host chapter), the Region 4 flagship USS PeaceKeeper

(Kingsburg, CA), USS Angeles (Los Angeles, CA), and of

course, USS Gygax. An officer from the R17 chapter

USS Stormbringer

also attended, as

Stormbringer was

originally launched

from R4. Once we all

met up in the suite,

Away Mission Report:

Gygax arrives at the R4 Conference 2011

CDRE Boyd Har-mon (USS Storm-bringer, left) and Region 4 Coordina-tor VDM Chrissy Killian (USS Peace-Keeper, right) are listening to the Sandstorm mem-bers discuss their latest adventures during the Friday night welcome din-ner at the Sunset Station's Grand Cafe.

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Away Mission Report: we wandered down to the hotel's restaurant, the

Grand Cafe for dinner and getting to know each other

in talking over various topics about STARFLEET and

Star Trek in general. After dinner, we returned to the

suite and continued until it got too late and we re-

tired for the evening.

USS Angeles brought the final episodes of their long-

running Star Trek: Hidden Frontier series and their

spinoffs Odyssey and The Helena Chronicles, which

was screened on the second night of the conference.

If you're interested in seeing the whole series, head

to

www.hiddenfrontier.com and enjoy the fruits of this

amazing fan-produced Star Trek series online. It spans

over a decade, and was a major project for that chap-

ter.

The general session began on the second day at 9am.

In addition to the chapters from the previous night,

we were joined by USS Onizuka (Chico, CA) and ISS

Pegasus (Las Vegas, NV). At the start, VADM Killian

gave her State of the Region address and informed us

of a number of issues:

- Region 4 is now at eighteen chapters. Three are in

shakedown status: USS

Sandstorm, which would

commission that evening;

USS Loma Prieta (San Fran-

cisco); and USS Gygax (San

Jose).

- She was unable to attend

the International Confer-

ence in Pennsylvania this

year, but she did dial in to

the meetings.

Continued, page 12.

Gygax arrives at the R4 Conference 2011

LT Hadley’s unclaimed badge and program.

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Away Mission (cont.)

- Region 4 has filed MSRs at 100% three months' running. Octo-

ber will make it four.

- Due to their inability to attend the awards banquet that even-

ing, ISS Pegasus was awarded with R4 Chapter of the Year. The

commanding officer of Pegasus, CDRE Bryan Schur, accepted

the award on behalf of his ship.

- From the International Conference, Region 4 won the SFI Re-

gional Newsletter of the Year for 2010. Region 4's USS Angeles

won the SFI Chapter Newsletter of the Year for 2010. You can

read R4's NL at www.region4.org and USS Angeles' award-

winning NL at http://www.ussangeles.org/index.php?

option=com_content&view=article&id=89

- Also discussed was

the state of the re-

gion's current web-

site as well as op-

tions for those chap-

ters in need of web

hosting. The discus-

sion was tabled

while the Reigonal

Coordinator con-

ferred with the Vice

Regional Coordina-

tor (RADM Jennifer

Cole, USS Angeles) to determine a course of action and an-

nounce it to the fleet.

The chapter also gave their updates to the assembly:

- USS Angeles (meeting chapter) is currently up to 100 total

members, with 35 active in SFI. They do monthly trips to Dis-

neyland and the Science Center, and they're currently organiz-

ing their team for the AIDS Walk. They also had a recent trip to

Cirroc Lofton's cafe in LA, and watched a couple of Jake-centric

episodes of DS9 with the actor.

- ISS Pegasus reported a major downturn in total members: 15,

down from 45. They are continuing their fundraising efforts

with the Ronald McDonald House.

- USS Onizuka read a letter of regret from the commanding

officer, CAPT Alvin Rupp. They're presently at 12 SFI members.

They recently completed a pizza fundraiser in Chico and they're

planning a cookie delivery for all firefighters in the area.

- USS Gygax presented with 16 SFI members. We discussed our

involvement with Extra Life and our intentions in participating

in Child's Play.

- USS William O'Darby is participaing in the USMC Toys for Tots

charity over the holidays this year.

- USS PeaceKeeper stated their recruitment is down and they're

focusing on designing a new website.

After the general session was the Marine Muster,

where Fourth Brigade Commanding Officer, Brigadier

General Fleona Dysast'ar addressed the group with

the current brigade numbers at 33 active marines, and

41 total (including reservists). She discussed the two

MSGs, and we talked about our very own 20th MSG

(The Natural 20s) and plans to expand the group in the

near future.

The session broke up afterwards for a break and we

returned for a round of trivia hosted by USS Sand-

storm. We formed teams, with USS Gygax, USS Onizu-

Above: BGEN Fleona Dysast'ar, Commanding Of-ficer of the Fourth Brigade. She was later promoted to Major General on Sunday morning during the farewell brunch. Right: CDR Joshua Andrews (USS Sandstorm) is dis-cussing menu choic-es with CDRE Har-mon.

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ka, and

ISS Pega-

sus com-

peting

together. We responded to and answered

questions against teams consisting of part of

USS Sandstorm and USS William O'Darby, USS

Peace Keeper and USS Angeles, the other part

of USS Sandstorm with USS Stormbringer. In

the end, the team of Gygax/Onizuka/Pegasus

won out by a single point. We won a couple of

hand-built collages and frames courtesy of USS

Sandstorm.

The next event was the awards banquet and

presentation of honors that night. It was at that time that USS

Sandstorm was brought into commission and Commander

Joshua Andrews received his promotion to Captain by VADM

Killian. In turn, he promoted some of his attending crew. At

that time, also, VADM Killian presented the R4 annual awards:

- Commanding Officer of the Year: Captain Alvin Rupp (USS

Onizuka)

- Flag Officer of the Year: Rear Admiral Jonathan Lane (USS

Angeles)

- Officer of the Year: Commander Stacy Levesque (USS Karme)

- Enlisted Person of the Year: Karen Hoagland (USS Angeles)

- Junior Member of the Year: Jonathan Williams (USS Angeles)

- Mothership Chapter of the Year: USS Angeles

- Shakedown Chapter of the Year: USS Karme

The region award banquet was visited by Steven Manley, who

portrayed 17 year-old Spock in Star Trek III: The

Search for Spock. He regaled us all with his stories

of his career in television and movies since his child-

hood and discussed his scene with Robin Curtis and

working for Leonard Nimoy. After his portion of the

evening was over, we all returned to the admiral's

suite for drinks and snacks, as well as the screening

of "Tossed Upon the Shore," which wraps up the

entire Hidden Frontier saga.

In the end, the R4 Conference was a huge success

for newly-commissioned USS Sandstorm and the

region. We met a lot of new friends and were wel-

comed into the region with open arms. We look

forward to the next conference and hope we can

entice more of our personnel into attending. Crewman Apprentice Elliott chows down on the dinner during the awards banquet.

The crew of the USS Angeles (front to back, right to left: RADM Jennifer Cole (Vice Regional Coordinator, R4), CAPT Dave Mason (CO), RADM Janice Willcocks (XO, Founder of USS Angeles), Kat Campbell, and CAPT Gloria Rodriguez (Second Officer)).

Achievement Unlocked: 2011 OCTOBER 14 14

ACADEMIC ACCOLADES TOS102: Main Characters Michael Garcia, Distinction

TOS103: Episodes Michael Garcia, Honors

TOS104: Treknology Michael Garcia, Honors

TOS105: Trivia Michael Garcia, Distinction

TNG101: Characters Michael Garcia, Distinction

TNG102: Main Characters Michael Garcia, Honors

TNG103: Episodes Michael Garcia, Honors

TNG104: Technology Michael Garcia, Honors

TNG105: Trivia Michael Garcia, Distinction

COC101: Interspecies Communication

Melissa Hadley, Honors

REC101: Recruiting Michael Garcia, Honors

COC102: Abbreviations & Acronyms

Michael Garcia, Distinction Melissa Hadley, Distinction

SOE102: Counter Espionage Larry Balsley, Honors

COC103: Netiquette & Emoticons Michael Garcia, Honors

COC104: HTML Basics Michael Garcia, Distinction

COC301: Basic Web Design Michael Garcia, Distinction

CTOC101: Geography & Physiology

Melissa Hadley, Honors

SORS103: Radio in TNG Melissa Hadley, Distinction

COC201: Newsletter Larry Balsley, Distinction

COL101: UFP Law Larry Balsley, Honors

CTOC102: Religion & Rituals Melissa Hadley, Distinction

CTOC103: People & Government Melissa Hadley, Distinction

CSCS104: Chaplains of the Revolutionary War

Melissa Hadley, Distinction

CSCS105: Religion in Star Trek Melissa Hadley, Distinction

CTOC201: Analysis of Caitians Melissa Hadley, Distinction

SFC101: SF Captains—Archer Melissa Hadley, Honors

SFC102: SF Captains—Pike Melissa Hadley, Distinction

SFC103: SF Captains—April Melissa Hadley, Honors

SFC104: SF Captains—Kirk Melissa Hadley, Distinction

SFC105: SF Captains—Picard Melissa Hadley, Distinction

SORS104: Radio in DS9 Melissa Hadley, Distinction

COE101: The Art of English Melissa Hadley, Honors

SORS105: Radio in VOY Melissa Hadley, Honors

SORS106: Radio in ENT Melissa Hadley, Distinction

SORS202: History of Radio Melissa Hadley, Distinction

SORS201: Beginnings of Radio Melissa Hadley

SORS203: Radio to Television Melissa Hadley, Distinction

SORS204: Shortwave Radio Melissa Hadley, Honors

SORS206: Other Uses for Radio Melissa Hadley, Distinction

SORS301: Amateur Radio Melissa Hadley, Distinction

SORS302: Amateur Radio Modes Melissa Hadley, Honors

*** Courses are listed in the chronologi-cal order they are posted to the ussgyg-ax.com Commencement Team forum.

Diploma recipients are listed by order of distinction and then chronological order

of posting to the forum.

Achievement Unlocked: 2011 OCTOBER 15

ACADEMIC ACCOLADES USS Gygax NX-63545

APPOINTMENTS &

PROMOTIONS BOARD Congratulations to all who have received appointments in the last month:

LTJG Monica Ayhens, Acting Chief Science Officer

©2011 Lore