| Name: Joe Koberstein | Profession: Game Programmer |
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Views Wisconsin State Journal :: OPINION :: A8 Saturday, January 24, 2004 Tang is the best space program achievement Let's see: A backwards mirror on the Hubble cost us almost $800 million and the space shuttle failure about $300 million. Now it looks like the Mars Spirit rover is kaput. There goes another $400 million down the tubes. If it wasn't for Tang this whole program would be for naught. - Joe Koberstein, Madison
Your Views Wisconsin State Journal :: FORUM :: B1 Sunday, November 23, 2003 \ Not a crime? Unless you're like Rip Van Winkle, you know that our large corporations are cheating their customers, stock holders and employee to enrich themselves, friends and families. What is horrible is the complicity of our government regulators with these criminals. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that large campaign contributors are safe from regulation and the recipient of all the favors the government has to offer. Why did Enron and Arthur Andersen get away with it for so long, or for that matter, why is Madison about to get a casino? Our government is bought and paid for and they don't even bother to deny it. Witness Chuck Chalva's defense when accused of using his elected position to sell favors: "It's not a crime." - Joe Koberstein, Madison
More Mail: Columbia Disaster Wisconsin State Journal :: OPINION :: A8 Saturday, February 8, 2003 \ Find less-expensive exploration solutions I mostly agree with Joe Koberstein's letter. He stated that space travel takes too much money to plan and launch new missions. It costs amazing amounts of money to make space explorations. Even the spacesuits cost millions of dollars and that's one of the least expensive things in the whole project. I think they should sort everything out on Earth, then do more space explorations. -- Ezra McCants
\ Space exploration critical to our future I disagree with Joe Koberstein's letter, "Space takes up money." As a seventh-grader, I often don't have to deal with these adult issues. However, after reading that letter in my language arts class, I feel he is shortsighted concerning our expenditures on our space program. Think about how many people tried to build an airplane. We only know about the people who succeeded, but don't you wonder about how many tried and failed? The list is endless. And now think where we are. If someone dies in California and is going to donate their kidneys to a little girl in Louisiana with kidney disease, we need airplanes to transport those organs. So it's important to take risks, because, while some people died in the process, how many people were saved? This is a setback, no doubt a tragic one, but we must move on. Is there a price on life? -- Sarah Czechowicz
Today's Mail: Columbia Wisconsin State Journal :: OPINION :: A8 Tuesday, February 4, 2003 Space takes up money I know that sad recent events will get every politician worth his rhetoric to sing praises to the space program and the brave astronauts, but let's take this opportunity to see if it's worth the cost and taxpayers' support. All we hear about is how the various governments are running huge deficits and we don't have funds to support education, the fight against poverty and AIDS or to promote earth-saving ideas like clean engines, yet we spend billions on space flights for national ego and little else. Let's spend our money on something that has a return greater than a few pretty pictures of Mars, exotic rocks and plants that can germinate without air. Let's start to make better choice with our limited resources. -- Joe Koberstein, Madison
Doyle Can Make Needed Cuts Wisconsin State Journal :: OPINION :: A11 Wednesday, December 4, 2002 \ Reduce staff, not services Joe Leean's letter stating that taxes have to go up because citizens won't accept a reduction in services is typical of what's wrong with today's elected officials. Do you suppose he uses that logic to guide his personal finances? Just keep spending and borrowing, Joe, and you'll wind up in the same place you put the state of Wisconsin -- in bankruptcy. I don't believe our state services are better than other states but because of our top-heavy bureaucracy we pay more for the same services. Let's start with a reduction in state staff and let's start at the top by eliminating political appointees. These people not only are expensive (Leean brought several people with him when he was appointed to head DHFS, a job for which he had no background or experience), but they add another level of inefficiency to an increasingly top-heavy system. -- Joe Koberstein, Madison
Joe Koberstein After graduating from art school in 1992, Joe Koberstein worked in both outdoor and corporate advertising. He moved to Los Angeles in 1995 where he pursued a career in publishing, working for the magazine, DieHard GameFan. He earned notability in the game industry and attracted work from Ascii Entertainment and various studios in L.A. Joe's work went international in 1997 when he did consulting and concepts for BodySonic in Tokyo, Japan. Joe currently works for Raven Software as a 2-D and 3-D Lead Artist. Game credits include Hexen II Mission Pack, Heretic II, Elite Force, Soldier of Fortune and Soldier of Fortune 2: Double Helix. Source: Selected articles from Raven Software Official Website - Company - Art http://www.ravensoft.com/frameset.html
Wisconsin State Journal, November 3, 2007 SOS: Urbanization in Nevin leads to conflict over hunting, trapping Chris Rickert 608-252-6198 crickert@madison.com Joe Koberstein feels so strongly about the dangers of hunting and trapping in the Nevin Springs Fish and Wildlife Area that he 's willing to go to jail. Eight months ago, Koberstein was walking his neighbor 's three dogs in Nevin, just off Big Blue Stem Parkway and within Fitchburg 's city limits, when all three were caught in coyote traps. The dogs were not seriously hurt, but it was a "traumatic " experience for them, Koberstein said, and it spurred the 67-year-old retiree to urge city and state officials to enact stricter limits on hunting and to outlaw trapping in what he contends is tantamount to "downtown Fitchburg " -- next door to the Swan Creek subdivision on Lacy Road and close to Eagle School. "They can 't have a shooting gallery in the middle of a city, " said Koberstein, a self-described hunter since age 12. "This is just such an obvious, stupid place to shoot guns. " Nevin Koberstein 's entreaties haven 't brought many people at the state Department of Natural Resources or Fitchburg city hall around to his point of view. The DNR has no plans to change its policies in Nevin, and Fitchburg Public Safety and Human Services Committee Chairman Jason Williams said his committee has declined to take action on the matter because it found "no real public threat " from hunting and trapping there. Williams also pointed out that the city has no regulatory authority over the land because it belongs to the state. So this month, Koberstein contacted SOS. SOS, in turn, sought an explanation for what at first blush seems like a questionable policy. Doug Fendry, a DNR area wildlife supervisor, acknowledged that the land around Nevin is "slowly urbanizing. " Because of that, the DNR tightened hunting restrictions on its property in 2002, he said. Deer hunters are limited to archery or muzzle-loading guns, while small-game hunters can use bows and arrows, shotguns with fine shot or birds of prey such as hawks or falcons. The changes were designed to lessen the likelihood that people living near Nevin could get hit or seriously hurt by a hunter 's errant shot. There were no changes made to trapping restrictions. Fendry said the preserve can not reasonably be considered "downtown Fitchburg " and is instead part of a 3,500- to 4,000-acre nature area that includes Dane County and other government-owned open space stretching from east of Fish Hatchery Road to Lake Waubesa, south of the Beltline. He said there are signs letting people know that the area is open to hunting and trapping and that state law already makes it illegal to fire a gun within 300 feet of a home without the homeowner 's permission. He and Fitchburg Mayor Thomas Clauder also said hunting and trapping on the preserve is necessary to keep the deer population down and to keep coyotes and other unwanted critters out of residents ' yards. "It 's far enough away from our neighborhoods that the city also wants to regulate these critters, " Clauder said. Fendry said Koberstein has been the only one living near the preserve to object to hunting and trapping there, although Koberstein said that 's just because most people don 't know about the practice. He also scoffs at the reasons officials give for allowing hunting and trapping there. "It was a rural community at one time, " he said. "It 's changed. They should change. " Meanwhile, Koberstein 's actions after the mishap with the dogs has led to a date at the Dane County Courthouse. Koberstein took the traps the dogs were caught in, later displaying them for a photo in the Fitchburg Star. He said DNR wardens retrieved them from his home and he was charged with the misdemeanor of taking an animal trap. "I told them I 'm retired and I 'd just as soon spend my time in jail, " he said. His jury trial is scheduled for Dec. 19.
Joe Koberstein Senior Artist (2D/3D/Concept/Lead) at Raven Software/Activision Location: Madison, Wisconsin Area Industry: Computer Games Current Senior Artist at Raven Software/Activision Past Owner/Founder at Koberstein Design (Self-employed) Art Director at Metropolis Publishing/ Men's Perspective and DieHard GameFan Production Artist/Graphic Designer at American TV advertising Education Madison Area Technical College
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