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Back in November, we announced our intention to bring Extended Validation SSL Certificates to IE7. This week at RSA we've announced that IE7's EV SSL support is now live! Many Certification Authorities (CAs), including VeriSign, CyberTrust, Entrust and GoDaddy, are already issuing EV SSL Certificates. We are already seeing businesses such as eBay, PayPal, Charles Schwab, Overstock.com , French Soaps and Stardock) beginning to use EV to offer verified identity information to their users. I recently read a Gartner Inc. survey that discovered nearly $2 billion were lost in e-commerce sales in 2006 due to security concerns – we certainly hope that IE7 and EV will help to reduce that number.
As EV enters the mainstream, users will need to find out more about these new certificates and how to use them when navigating the internet. We have posted new information on Extended Validation SSL (and FAQ), a tutorial on how to use the information presented in the Security Status Bar, and updated our online safety and identity theft guidance to take EV into account. Website owners who want to offer EV will be interested in our IE7 EV Implementation Guide.
Two years ago, Bill Gates announced IE7 at RSA highlighting the Phishing Filter as one of its major features. Today, at RSA, we reported updated results on the Phishing Filter. Since IE7 launched in October, the Phishing Filter has blocked more than 10 million attempts to visit known phishing websites – and is currently experiencing a rate of over 1 million blocks a week. IE7 users and our data providers are adding nearly 10,000 Phishing sites every week to help protect our community of users.
In addition to the 3 Sharp LLC analysis we commissioned a while back, Carnegie-Mellon University's Dr. Lorrie Cranor and her colleagues updated their independent, comparative study on anti-phishing toolbar accuracy last month, confirming that the Phishing Filter in IE7 is one of the most accurate anti-phishing technologies they tested. It was the only one that consistently caught more than 60% of phishing sites while having the lowest possible rates of incorrect ratings (otherwise known as false positives) .
We are continuing to improve the phishing filter. At RSA we announced 4 new Phishing Filter data providers: the Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT), BrandProtect, MySpace.com, and Netcraft's data from their anti-phishing toolbar (both IE and Firefox) . Together with our current partners (Cyveillance, Digital Resolve, Internet Identity, Mark Monitor, RSA) and our IE7 users, who continue to report great leads to us, we hope this will continue to improve the effectiveness of our Phishing Filter.
If you are at RSA, make sure and check out the IE Pod (#16) in the Microsoft booth (#1208).
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McCaw's family had written a wonderful piece about him and his life as a hardworking rancher. Three generations were there in force to cheer on the clan's patriarch.
The cattlemen also took time to acknowledge two of their own who have become players on the national stage. Patti Buck is the president of the American National Cattlewomen, and Brice Lee is the president of the National Public Lands Council.
Buck said she got frustrated that almost all country music was about cowboys and cattlemen, but the cattlewomen are out there working hard, too. So she wrote some lyrics and Andy Janowsky wrote the music then sang lead on the recording. The song premiered at the banquet, and a lot of people went home with CDs or DVDs.
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Fish swim around a coral reef in the Phoenix Islands Marine Protected Area, the largest protected marine area in the world. (Photo by Larry Madin, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
What are Marine Protected Areas?
Marine protected area (MPA) refers to any part of the ocean that receives some level of protection under international, federal, state, local, or tribal law. There are currently more than 5,000 MPAs worldwide, but this number only protects about one percent of the global ocean.
More than 40 percent of U.S. marine waters are currently divided into a network of nearly 1,700 reserves, refuges, preserves, sanctuaries, areas of special biological significance, and others designations that prohibit some form of human activity, such as development, fishing, anchoring, or removal of marine life. Sixty-nine percent were created, at least in part, to conserve biodiversity, ecosystems, or protected species.
Most have more than one objective, including preserving some feature of natural or cultural heritage or supporting sustainable production of marine resources. Less than 8 percent of the area in MPAs, and only about 3 percent of U.S. waters, are considered no-take zones that prohibit extraction or damage to the resources they contain.[ MORE ]
Although most of the MPAs in U.S. waters are administered by states, the majority of the area under protection falls under federal jurisdiction. Increasingly, MPAs are being established that cooperative oversight involving all levels of government and often includes participation by stakeholder groups and non-governmental organizations.
Globally, the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) helps support regional oversight of many MPAs through the UNEP-Regional Seas Program (RSP). Participants in the program are linked either through a convention or a regional agreement that is based on biology and geography rather than along national or other political divisions.[ LESS ]
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British Cycling have announced their long list for the UCI Road World Championships in September. The current Olympic champion Sir Bradley Wiggins is named alongside Tour de France winner Chris Froome in the road race team.
Sprinter Mark Cavendish is also named in the Men's elite road race squad alongside Welshman Geraint Thomas, who finished the Tour de France despite fracturing his pelvis on the first stage.
This is the first time both Wiggins and Froome have been named in a squad since the Tour of Oman in February. The strength of the squad has been acknowledged by British Cycling's performance manager Shane Sutton.
"I think the selection of the elite teams speak for themselves, we've got Olympic medallists, Tour de France winners and former world champions all in the mix and I think we could do well across the board there," he said.
The squad will be reduced down to a shortlist in time for the event, which starts on September 22 in Toscana, Italy.
Here is the squad in full:
2013 UCI World Road Championships longlist senior squad:
Men's elite road race - eight places (to be reduced to eleven names)
Mark Cavendish, Steve Cummings, Alex Dowsett, Josh Edmondson, Andy Fenn, Chris Froome, Luke Rowe, Ian Stannard, Geraint Thomas, Jon Tiernan-Locke, Bradley Wiggins
Men's elite time trial
Alex Dowsett
Sir Bradley Wiggins
Women's elite road race - six places
Lizzie Armitstead
Katie Colclough
Nikki Harris
Lucy Garner
Sharon Laws
Emma Pooley
Women's elite time trial
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Acer Nvidia Ion-based nettop revealed on web
Hornet picture and specs emerge online
Acer is prepping a nettop system based on Nvidia's Ion platform, according to Taiwanese reports.
Acer's Hornet: Ion driven
Unnamed industry sources told the website Digitimes that Acer will officially unveil the machine – known as Hornet – on 8 April in Beijing. Its price is rumoured to start at below $300 (£208/€227).
Hornet is likely to be the first machine on the market with Ion inside, which Nvidia describes as combination of the GeForce 9400 integrated chipset and Intel's Atom CPU.
Nvidia has already claimed that the GeForce 9400 "delivers up to ten times the graphics performance" of existing integrated chipsets paired with Atom. So it's no surprise that Acer will also reportedly bundle a motion-sensing gaming controller - shown above - with Hornet.
Could these be Hornet's official specs?
A Hornet SKU guide has also been published by Engadget, which refers to three Hornet models: Standard, Deluxe and Media Center.
Each machine comes pre-loaded with Windows Vista. The Deluxe and Media Center models also come with "Box Shell" - a Linux-based fast-boot light OS for quick access to the web and media files, we guess.
All three blue-bodied machines are based on the 1.6GHz Atom 230 desktop CPU and come with 1-2GB of memory. The Deluxe and Media Center will each have a 160GB hard drive, while the Standard will make do with 80GB – although this could change.
Wi-Fi connectivity will only come as standard on the Media Center machine, while wireless web will be optional on the Deluxe Hornet and "N/A" on the Standard.
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Indy - Second Helpings 2012by Bryan Roesler '06 • September 17, 2012 Share:
During the Second Helpings project, we worked with rescued food to prepare nutritious meals for Second Helpings to distribute. Second Helpings accepts donated perishable and overstocked food to prepare nutritious meals for thousands of hungry children and adults every day, and distributes them free of charge through local social service agencies in Greater Indianapolis. Second Helpings also trains unemployed and underemployed adults for meaningful careers in the culinary industry.
Our Wabash Day group cut hundreds of tomatoes and bell peppers, reseeded the front lawn, washed dishes swept and mopped floors, and help prep for hundreds of meals for Second Helpings to send out over the following couple of days. We prepared enough food to feed hundreds of people all over Indianapolis. Our group consisted of eleven Wabash volunteers. They were:
Bryan Roesler '06
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Wayne Lewis '06
Leslie Lewis (Wayne's Wife)
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Jacob Pactor 04'
Jason Simons 08'
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Interview with Alfred Opp (Part 5)
Conducted by Rita Opp Marchildon
3 February 2008, Richmond, British Columbia
Transcription by Connie Dahlke, Walla Walla, Washington
Wartime in Poland
We've talked a little bit about the war in your life. Let's go back to that era and talk about how old you were and what life was like for you then.
Well, it didn't start up with a bang, really. It went gradually into it. We left Teplitz in 1940, in September - mid-September - and then we came through Romania, and Yugoslavia, and Austria to Germany. We were settled in a camp where we were waiting to be shipped out to Poland, where we were supposed to be resettled - relocated.
And how old were you at this time?
I was 10 1/2 years old. By the time we were settled in - by the time we got to this place in Poland I was 11. Now the journey over there was very hard to take. There was not always enough to eat. There were interruptions. I didn't go to school -- I lost two years in school.
Going into Poland and seeing how the previous family had been pulled out of their house with a one-hour notice - that was very hard for Christian people to take. So here we came to this place - this farm - and everything was fine. Their animals were looked after. But we saw the way the people had been ripped out of their place. That's something my dad and my mom really had a hard time with. But we didn't last there very long because my dad came down with a serious illness - he had a heart problem from before. The heart problem increased because of the work on the farm. He was not a farmer, but he did his best. We had a Polish couple to work along with him - but he worked very hard. My dad always was a hard worker. He had a heart attack one night, and then we called the doctor who came a couple of days later, and so on, and then he signed a paper to have us moved into the city of Bromberg.
Bromberg was a rail station, and also a garrison where there were a lot of soldiers - army people - in it. A nice town - a very nice town. After my dad recovered he got a job working in a rail yard, in the wood-working department. At that time the boxcars of the trains that carried the freight - the sides were all built with boards. When they came back from the war they were all ripped apart, so they were brought into the rail-yard and my dad put new boards on them. Then they went back out again to Russia.
That town was loaded with army people. What was interesting - one army division was Ukrainian volunteers who were on the German side from the beginning of the campaign. They wanted to see that Ukraine was free, because Stalin really did a heck of a massacre in the Ukraine. He wanted to wipe them out. But the Ukrainian people thought that if they fought against the Communists they may have a good chance that Ukraine would be free. So they joined the German Army.
So in Bromberg my dad went to work and my mom and us kids made adjustments. I joined a musical band that they called Fanfahrenzug - that was a long trumpet without valves. We only did marches on a full tone. We were called on when there was a political rally and for various other occasions, and I had a little uniform that I wore. We only played music. We had absolutely nothing to do with the political things. But there were these political rallies. This activity took us around quite a bit and we met all kinds of people.
I went to school in Bromberg. I was twelve years old and I got into Grade Two because that's the way they judged my school grades. A little bit later I got into Grade Three, but I had trouble with it. But again, the good thing was, my school teacher in Grade Three was an army officer who had lost one arm and two legs - one below the knee and one above the knee - who walked on prosthesis. He came from Vollhynia or Galitzia which was similar in culture to Bessarabia but on the Polish-Russian border. He was so good to me. He took me under his wing and he taught me. He got something into my head at that time to open up my head, let's put it that way. To get out from a stupid head into an open head kid. He came and let me read "The Nordic Saga" which was something the Norwegian and Swedish people believed, which was their gods - same as the Greeks had gods - it was their way of worship. And that fascinated me. Because this teacher was so good to me, I worked literally hard to do my homework. From Grade Three he put me to Grade Five. And From Grade Five I had learned so much that he put me into the school office. Because we had not enough teachers, the director, the school principal, was teaching school. So the office was empty. So he told me to answer the phone. My God! I had never answered the phone in my life! So I told this teacher, "Well, I don't know what to do with it." He told me, "You cannot ruin it - when it rings, you pick it up and say Hello." And that's the way he pushed me. He pushed every button on me that you could possibly think of. And I was so determined to not make him feel bad! That is sometimes how we kids needed it. Rather that, than back in Bessarabia where we would get whipped over some small thing, or they slapped you over the hand - he did it by pushing the right button to get me going, by conscience. He knew what I could do if he pushed the right button. I'm very grateful for that guy.
So I went into that office when the phone rang I said, "H..H..H..Hello. Hello?" And when the person said something I would hang up! So I went to the teacher and said, "The phone rang, but I didn't hear anything." He then said, "Go right back again." And I would go back, and the next time it got better. And I would write the messages down. And that's the way you start, you know. When you come out from nowhere, with no such background, and all of a sudden you come out from the dark and now you're in the lime-light! Like you're standing in front of a TV camera! With a 12-year old kid! You can imagine! But this guy knew how to push the buttons. Boy! And that one was the stepping stone that got me to where I am today, to learn, and that got me into a lot of things. From his actions I learned and survived the war.
Now coming back to the war. The Russians moved in, and there were loads of refugees coming. They came by horse and wagon. They came by anything that had wheels! I saw a lady with a baby carriage - a baby in it, and bags hanging out all around. She was walking because there was no train going, no bus, nothing. They had to travel on foot. Those refugees moved into town because the Communists, the Russians, were moving so fast - faster than the horses went with the refugees. So the people didn't feel safe out in the countryside because the Freedom Fighters - the Polish Partisans - were robbing the people and beating the people up. Now the Polish people were very religious people. But the Partisans were also rude to their own Catholic people, but to a different degree. But I don't want to blame everything on the Poles. They did over-react sometimes. But that's what Hitler did to them, pulling them out of their own homes and so on. You have to understand their situation. But they overdid it. And all of a sudden we came in - innocent people - into their life. And what did they do? They took their revenge out on us - innocent people.
But anyway, those people on the run all moved into Bromberg because they felt safer there with all the people around rather than being out there on a country road somewhere. Stories have been written about massacres, people beaten up. And you know, people defended themselves. "Oh, don't take my stuff - that's mine." And the other one said, "To hell," and he beat him up over it. I mean, some of them went a little bit too far, but most of the Polish people were OK. In a war, you have to learn how to make adjustments regardless how bad it is. You've got to make adjustment. You have no way to survive if you don't make the adjustment. In other words, there is a feeling that comes over you - I don't know how to describe it. You begin to think like an animal. If you swat an animal on the left side, he moves to the right. And if you swat him on the right side, he moves to the left. And that's the way you are in a war zone. There's another sense moving into your system. You're eyesight is reacting more as you walk around, trying to see everything. You don't know where the next knife or the next bullet is coming from. You don't know! So that's the way you function. But after a while, believe it or not, you get used to it.
So thinking about the siege. The reason we didn't get out in time was that Dad was not a member of the Nazi party. All the people that belonged to the Nazi party got a notice. My dad didn't belong to the party. He did belong to the labor union, yes. But even though he worked for the government, for the railway, that didn't count. He didn't get a notice, or maybe the notice never got to him. Anyway, by the time that he realized it's getting late, it was too late. We went to the railway station to get away, where we were barely able to get on a train. The stationmaster put his hand up to go, then he got a signal - No go. Then all of a sudden he got a phone call that said, "The town is under siege - nothing goes out." So we had to go back to our apartment. Now what?
So we went into the apartment. We sat around, and three days later the Russian army moved in close and we all went down to the cellar. Now a tunnel connected all the cellars. We lived in an apartment complex that was for the workers - a worker's apartment. There were five apartments in it that were all Polish. We were the only Germans. The one apartment that we moved into, that Polish family got kicked out. You can imagine moving into a unit where a Polish family had been kicked out. It's like walking into a lion's cage. But soon our Polish neighbors learned that we, too, are innocent humans, that we didn't come with a straight-jacket on - we didn't want to convert them into Nazi's or anything like that. We were just ordinary people. So they accepted that. A lot of that had to do with my mom, because she was friendly, smiling, always said "Hi" - they couldn't avoid her! She didn't walk around looking different or suspicious - she made friends.
So anyway, we all went down to the cellar. We packed some essentials that we needed while we were down there. We figured, Well we may be there one or two nights. But it wasn't - it took a few nights, then the first Soviets moved in.
Now we had a tunnel from one cellar to the next. They had cut a hole between the cellars so that in an air-raid, if one apartment was hit the people could move into the cellar for the next apartment and save their lives. That was the reason for the tunnel. So one day, we heard noises above us - slamming doors and shouting Njemzi Germanski and all kinds of other things. And then they came down to the cellar with a flashlight because we had no light down there - we only had one light up in the staircase to come down by. Every family was in their own stall, where we had our storage. So the soldiers came around. There were four or five of them that came down, and they looked into everybody's face. Njemzi Germanski? - that means German soldier. They had a machine gun loaded. They found we were just women, children and old men - may dad was not actually old, just 43 - so they disappeared shouting Njemzi Germanski as they went out through the tunnel to the next cellar. So we were down there for another day and a half, and then another group of soldiers came through. We heard the noises - slamming doors and shouting. Those guys came down and they were drunk. They called them the Sweepers - they picked through all the pockets. Everywhere around they raided the houses, and anytime they found a Schnapps or alcohol they would drink it, and believe me they were loaded! To say anything to those guys - and they were all young fellows - 18 and 21 - anything you said to them was asking for trouble. So you stayed there, frozen. They felt you all up. I mean, they didn't stop at nothing. They went through everything - machine gun ready. Now if you can imagine! One of the tenants in our building - a Polish woman, Mrs. Piek that helped us later - she had a teenage daughter about 16 or 17 who was hiding underneath some rubble. If she had been found she would have for sure been raped.
Anyway, the soldiers went through and a couple or three others went through, and we survived all of that. We had a Polish man and woman who had a son that was very strong on his stand for Poland - and that was his right - he wanted to see Poland free. The old man came over and told my dad, "I'm not going to report you, because you are good people." We felt relieved - "Thank God" - because they could have easily done that.
So eventually we went up to our own apartment. Now mind you, no one had locked their apartment doors while we were in the cellar for those eight days. We had a pail for our toilet. We didn't cook any food - we just ate whatever we had. When the pail was full we took it up to the closest apartment to empty it. We also got our water from the closest apartment.
So then afterwards we went up to our own apartment and it had been ransacked, but not bad. And we couldn't care less! We were alive! And so we cleaned up, and while my folks were cleaning up, I went outside. I was five months shy of 15, and I thought there would be no harm. So I looked around outside. And I tell you! What I saw - so help me God - I cannot forget. The streets were packed with refugees when the tanks rolled through, and they used no horns and no brakes - they just rolled through. I saw wagons flattened. I saw wagons half-flattened. I saw animals - one horse run over dead, and the other one wasn't. People were crying, wounded, dying. Babies, children - it was so bad you would not be allowed to put that into a movie! Nobody came and helped those poor people - nobody - because they were Germans - they were nothing. And we had to live with that. We didn't put this on ourselves, but Hitler came along and put it on us. But we had to carry that load, innocently.
We who came through that went back to our apartments. Some time later they came and picked up my dad first. But before he left, my mother had to sew a Swastika on his coat to mark him, "You're a criminal." The guy came with a rifle across his back - a civilian Polish policeman. He was nice - he was doing his job. My dad's bags were light. I looked out the window seeing my dad escorted away as a criminal. That changed my life, folks. That changed it, you know?
Two or three days later a guy came around and said to my mom, "You have to report to the police" - because she was German she was to report to the police daily. She went there once and came back. The second day she went and took my little sister with her. That day, she didn't feel very good, so she figured, "I'll take my 2 1/2 year-old daughter to the station. They have a heart - they'll let me go again." And she told them she has two boys in the apartment. It didn't work. They put her in a camp for German outcasts. By then my mom was pregnant - I didn't know that. She looked a little big, but I didn't know she was pregnant. So there she was in the camp.
My brother and I were on our own in the apartment for just about a month - all by ourselves. My brother was 8 and I was five months away from 15. Now how do we survive? We had potatoes left, we had a little flour left, and quite a bit of preserves and compote.


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Thomas A. Beaudrie
Theodore J. Gauthier III
Thomas A. Beaudrie
Thomas A. Beaudrie, age 85, of Gladstone, passed away Friday evening, Aug. 17, 2012, at OSF St. Francis Hospital in Escanaba. Tom was born Nov. 28, 1926, in Sault Ste. Marie, the son of Francis and Anna (Cochrane) Beaudrie.
He was raised in Sault Ste. Marie and graduated from Sault Area High School. In 1944, Tom enlisted in the U.S. Navy during World War II until his honorable discharge in 1946. In Aug. 1946, Tom met Dorothy Futchik, also of Sault Ste. Marie, at a dance in Sault, Ont.. In 1947 he attended the Industrial Training Institute in Chicago and was awarded a diploma in machine drafting and design. As a school project he designed a pop bottle dispensing machine. He returned to Sault Ste. Marie in 1947 and accepted a position as the assistant city engineer until accepting a position as a draftsman and rodman on a survey crew. In 1948 he studied land surveying at the International Correspondence School in Scranton, Pa.. He eventually became a registered land surveyor. On Jan. 22, 1949, Thomas married Dorothy Futchik at St. Mary's Pro-cathedral in Sault Ste. Marie.
He was assigned city engineer and manager of the Street and Water departments in 1952. During this time he made a drawing of the city, with all the subdivisions and land descriptions on it. Additionally, he was hired by the Mackinac Island Carriage Tours, Inc., and designed a barn for 64 horses which still remains on Mackinac Island. In 1954, he was elected as the Chippewa County Surveyor and in 1958 he was hired as a right of way engineer by the Michigan Department of Transportation. Thomas and Dorothy resided in several locations throughout the lower part of Michigan from 1957 to 1965. They returned to Newberry in the Upper Peninsula, where Tom continued his employment for MDOT as a highway maintenance superintendent, covering a large portion of the U.P. until his retirement in 1984.
Additionally, Tom worked as a registered land surveyor, surveying a large portion of the Upper Peninsula throughout the course of his life. He was considered to be an exceptional example for future surveyors entering the career field.
Tom and Dorothy remained in Newberry until 2000, after which they moved to Gladstone where they have resided since. Tom and Dorothy are members of All Saints Catholic Church in Gladstone. Over the years Tom was a member of the Newberry and Escanaba Elks Clubs, the Newberry American Legion and the Gladstone American Legion: August Mattson Post No. 71.
He was passionate about gardening and enjoyed hunting, fishing and spending time with his family and grandchildren. He will be deeply missed.
In addition to his wife, Dorothy, Tom is survived by his son John (Matilda) Beaudrie of Bentonville, Ark., daughters Diane (Marvin) DeMilio of Marquette, Susan Wellman of Birmingham, Nancy (Jerry) Eckelberry of Hillsdale, Debra (Jeffrey) Stieve of DeWitt, and Kathryn (Paul) Walters of Gladstone; and sister Dorothy Ford of Bay City. Also surviving are 17 grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren, four great-great-grandchildren, two nieces, Christina and Lynn, and cousin Paul (Marion) Mende.
Tom was preceded in death by his parents, Francis and Anna, brothers Lloyd and William, and brother-in-law Paul Ford.
Tom's family will receive friends on Wednesday, Aug. 22, from 10-11 a.m., at the Skradski Funeral Home in Gladstone followed by military rites at 11 a.m. Mass of Christian Burial, to celebrate the life of Thomas A. Beaudrie, at noon at All Saints Church in Gladstone with Rev. Fr. Ronald Timock officiating. Luncheon will follow in the All Saints Parish Hall.
Contributions in Tom's name may be offered to the St. Vincent DePaul Store in Gladstone. Envelopes will be available at the Skradski Family Funeral Homes of Delta County. Messages of condolence to the Beaudrie family can be extended online at www.skradskifuneralhomes.com
Theodore J. Gauthier III
Theodore J. Gauthier III passed away on Aug. 7, 2012. Some may remember Tee as a teenage hooligan in Algonquin on his motorcycle (or later on his Harley because he never outgrew his love of motorcycles), some may remember him as the loudmouth at Edison (he had to be heard over those turbines, after all), and some may remember him for his love of hockey (he was an avid Lakers and Red Wings fan, he cheered for his grandson's team, and played in the "senior league" himself). He probably would have played with the "over 80" crowd, if he had not been sidelined by cancer.
Born on Nov. 15, 1946 in Sault Ste. Marie, Tee graduated from Sault Area High School in 1964. He earned an associate's degree from Lake Superior State College, where he played hockey for the Hornets. After four years in the U.S. Navy, he returned to the Sault and spent 33 years working at Edison Sault Electric Company, retiring as the hydro superintendent.
Tee will be missed by his wife of 43 years, Lynn Gauthier, and children Ted (Lisa) Gauthier IV, Kelly (Andrew Nash) Gauthier, Laurel (Tom) Powers, and Katey (Jim) Hirt; his mother Arleen Gauthier; his sisters Sharon (Marshall) Slayden and Franny (Bob) Gerrish; his six grandchildren, many nieces and nephews, and lots of friends. Tee appreciated the visits and support from his many friends during his illness.
The family requests that donations be made to Hospice of the EUP in lieu of flowers and extends heartfelt thanks to all of the staff at Hospice House and to the many wonderful people who cared for Tee at War Memorial Hospital. There will be no public service, per his request. Hovie Funeral Home is assisting the family.


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Let's just say the Prelude concept of less functionality in general is a silly idea in my opinion with the exception of those invested folks I mentioned, no matter which camera is in it. Just my opinion of course. Any idea as to how well they are selling?
Jeff - I can't speak with great authority on the video aspects of the Seacam Prelude with the Canon 60D, although I did try it briefly with the whale sharks in Isla Mujares as per .
However, for stills photography, I haven't found a function on the Canon 60D I could not control via the Prelude housing. I don't think the concept is "less functionality", as you've stated, but rather an alternative way to achieve functionality. The camera navigates quite differently than the D7000. I think if you actually spent some time with the 60D and Prelude housing in the water, you'd intuitively see the logic of the controls.
Being a Seacam distributor I'll say no more on the subject, but if you happen to be diving Key Largo anytime in the near future, you are welcome to borrow my 60D and Seacam Prelude housing for a few days and experiment.


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I figure that running around with lights and tripods will earn me a popularity rating of zero. However, I think I should be able to stick a flash and handle on my camera without looking too competitive...
So, I am looking at EOS 5D III + 580EX mk2 as my gear plus nothing else !! If anyone has any suggestions as to how I can carry this out, please offer advice. I thought exposure bracketing with 3 for 1 shooting, keep everyone out of the sun, but beyond that.....
I simply hate this happening, but once you have taken a few pictures which turn out nicely, then someone asks you... it is difficult to refuse.
Oh, forgot to mention: it all consists of a civil ceremony, a religious ceremony, dinner and breakfast the next day --- and it is all in French !!
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Look up who the Pro is. He might be coming with two assistants and doing videography as well. That means they will be staking out the prime vantage points. Important to introduce yourself to that photographer so he is not para pic of you being in the way.
Will that pro be doing shots of the bride and her maids getting dressed and makeup? That is a small space and you will be in the way. If no one is doing that, then you could take that on as you own contribution to the bride!
When is the event? Do you already own the equipment? Let us know and I will tell you how ai would tackle this.
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Asher - I doubt that I will have any opportunity to know anything about the photographer, but can imagine that saying hello and making it clear that I am there as an amateur and not selling anything to anybody might be a good idea.
All my gear is my own. I have reached that time in my life when I can afford the gear I should have loved to have when I was younger and impoverished (or the argentique equivalent).
I intend taking EOS 5D mkiiii, 430EX or 580EXII, Canon 24-80 L f/4 lens. Probably have 17-40 in the car, but think just one lens is manageable. I would rather keep a low profile, one camera, one lens seems about as much as I would like to be toting, but I just have to have one flash just in case for fill if we get full sun. I am expecting to be able to use raw and LR to compensate for extreme contrast conditions. I could give the 430 to my wife and use the 580 to fire the 430 by wifi, but have v little experience with flash as I ddon't really like it much; any suggestions on that?
I anticipate having privileged access to the bride, so getting in there is probable - I can shoot some video of preps with bridesmaids, of bride's parents tittivating themselves... Maybe take my 5D mkII and get my wife to wave that about at the same time...
I just don't want to let my friends down as they think I am Cartier Bresson reincarnated !!
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I'm afraid that I don't get it. You mention "don't want to let your friends down".
What are their expectations of you based on? Why on earth did they select and pay for this particular 'Pro' if they don't have the confidence in them that they will get the shots they need? So much so that they feel they need you there covering the wedding because your shots will be so much better (after all you are Cartier Bresson reincarnated to them)? At least I hope the bride doesn't have more confidence in you than their pro. I hope you get my point. Don't put the extra pressure on yourself as to how good you must be or how important you are to getting the shots.
On the other hand, it may be that she just wants someone that she has invited who is competent photographically to take photos throughout the day - that compliment those photos she will get from the pro - or maybe shots they aren't likely to take or times of day they may not be covering the event. I can see the importance of that and it may already have been discussed and agreeable to the pro.
It concerns me when you are talking multi-light setups and having a second shooter with your wife etc? I'd have to ask then - why is she hiring another photographer? I would presume that you may end up with conflicts with the hired pro and you may be jeprodising the effectiveness of their resulting coverage and images because of the irritations that that would probably cause.
Most significantly is the fact that there are very few 'pro' photographers who do not write concerns related to additional photographers into their contracts. Some state that no other people can take photos - while more common is a tolerance of photographers as long as they stay out of the way of the rightful working photographer. My contract allows people to shot as long as they don't interfere with me - - - but also no other photographers are allowed while I am photographing my signature shots (the time I have alotted for formals). And never presume that the bride fully perceives the importance of that agreement, even if she has been made aware and signed to it. If the photographer walks off the job or refused to do certain things because you or the bride have violated this agreement, you may have all the pressure on you to perform the rest of the photography LOL.
My advise! Nothing wrong with introducing yourself to the photographer if you feel like it and you are not interfering with their work. No need to go into details by stating that you will not be making money from your photos. The photographer doesn't care. Just stay out of their way and if they bark at you because you are an irritation - back off. I've had guys come up to me at weddings I am shooting - holding Canon or Nikon pro bodies with massive 85mm f1.4 or 70-200 f2.8 lenses trying to impress me. While I am courteous and may say nice camera etc, I am there working and not interested in what gear anyone has. If they get in my way, I don't care how impressive their gear or how important they think they are to the bride or groom - they will be informed of my desire to have them refrain from interfering. I think that would be pretty standard with most pro photographers.
So act like any of the other guests invited to the wedding, and take your photos from the outside without interfering with the paid photographer. Because you have more knowledge and better equipment than some of the guests, you should be able to find angles and make lens choices that get you some excellent shots acting in that role. Maybe ask the bride if there are any parts of the day that the photographer is't providing coverage - and if so, you can then step up to the plate and provide the extended coverage so the whole day is documented.
As far as equipment and gear. That is the easy part. A camera and lens are all that's needed. Doesn't matter which ones. If you need to use flash, keep it on the camera and bounce it off of a ceiling or wall. You may be surprised that it is a challenge to shoot with flash outdoors in bright sunlight - because flash sync speed restricts the shutter speeds that can be used.
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And finally - - - it could be that your real desire is to learn and practice taking photos at a wedding so that you can move into being hired for a wedding. Nothing wrong with that. I did it on a friends wedding 35 years ago where a professional photographer was hired. Many pros probably got their start that way. Photographing your friends wedding for that purpose - all that I have stated above, applies.
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Thanks for your comments, some of which I find very helpful.
As I said originally, it is the groom's family who have arranged the photos (as everything else) and I think it is more your 'on the other hand' being the case. The bride's family hardly know the groom, bride and groom living about 5 or 6 hours away from the bride's family, and maybe they just want to make sure that they get extra pictures for themselves. I don't know.
As you say, just a camera with one lens was my initial intention, but Asher asked about equipment, so I replied.
You give a good insight into how a pro wedding photographer is likely to be thinking and I certainly do not want to tread on his toes.
The French wedding photographers really tend to go overboard with loads of location shots with which I just wouldn't even want to compete. I thought to concentrate on very informal rather than the posed shots which he/she will be doing. Concentrating on the bride's friends.
I am sure you will understand that when close friends, who have some idea of your skills, ask you to get involved - I wouldn't even want to say 'No'.
I certainly had no intention, at 77, of building a new career - but maybe, just maybe, now that you have suggested it... ;-)
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Here's the thing, the Pro has everything organized and a very hard job. He/she has been given a list of required friend and family V.I.P.s and someone to guide them. They will have a list of key "must-have" "bride and maids getting ready" formal set ups and ceremony shots. At that time they don't want distracting flash from anyone. No doubt other guests will have cell phones or digicams with flash, but you'll stand out like an unwanted extra referee at at soccer match! So no flash except during the reception or wild dancing!
Survey the scene whenever you wish to take a picture. Be at the periphery, don't ever penetrate within 5 meters of the photographer's position or where they are aiming. You cannot be ever in their field of view.
Your pictures, being further away, will have more flattering perspective and complement the pro's work well. As you are shooting with one of the finest high resolution DSLRs ever made with a state of art L lens, you will be able to crop and still get wonderful treasures of images that the bride would love. Remember that a lot is happening where the pros do not simply have to record. The children and grandmothers in the congregation, folk with adoring smiles on their faces as the bride goes by, all from 5--7 meters away!
Also, you might be able to get to the dressmaker to record the bride and maids fitting or the bride and mother looking at the dress and veil or trying on the shoes, all days before the event. Another idea is an informal hour with the bride and groom a week before the wedding. Walking, sitting on a bench, shopping, embracing.
For sure, no matter how much of a gentleman I have been, when asked to do the same, if you end up in the pros viewfinder or if (s)he senses your presence, there will be a brief but terse showdown.
The pro has no choice in the matter, (s)he has to land the plane 100% of the time perfectly! You cannot be even sensed!
With that caveat, enjoy the wedding. I encourage you to do it and the extra joy you'll bring the bride's family will be well worth that very hard work and disciplined approach. At the end you will feel, not only a great sense of satisfaction, but also a deep appreciation of the monumental task of documenting a wedding for posterity!
Good luck!
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If I am shooting a wedding and I see another photographer on the scene, I ask them nicely the first time to please put the camera in the car and enjoy the festivities. The second time I am generally quite rude and demand they leave. I make it quite clear to the person paying me to shoot that there will be no other photographers en scene. It just cannot be. I do not have the time to worry over additional light (flashes) or shadows or noise or anything else. I am there at the request of the bride's family and they are generally paying me a boatload of money to do a professional job. If you want to shoot weddings, hang out your shingle, buy the gear and go into business but please stay out of mine. Sorry to wound you, but that Denbigh is exactly how I feel about other photographers as weddings.
Oh, how I know this from both ends.
As a friend of the family I like to let the pro do his/her job. And yes, its bloody hard work, and stressful if there's a chance he'll have to make allowances for a friend of the family. This is his living and reputation on the line, not yours. This isn't even a testing ground for you to feel your way for the future.
This is how it can best work. Tell the bride/groom you will happily take photos on the day but they will be from the guests perspective; the sort of casual, informal shots that the pro can't get.
Then, make sure the pro knows this. If he's any sort of a bloke he may even let you in from time to time, although, once introduced his mind will be elsewhere.
I'd also be inclined to keep low key with the flash, which could interfer with the pro. Also keep low key with the camera. Something a little less conspicuous. Be a guest. Take the happy snaps. Otherwise you'll just appear as some old fart with a flash camera trying to make the big time too late in life and annoying the guests, photographer and small children who want nothing to do with you çause their mother said so.
When a relative asks me to take some shots at a wedding I politely tell them I'll be too pissed to do so. When I was the pro, conditions where pre-determined with the bride. A pro can manage the guests with their point and presses. Thats their job. Step in once to rearrange things and he'll have a not so quiet word with you. Don't spoil anyone's day.
If nothing else works, go for Chris's advise. Its blunt and to the point. I like that. I might add a few expletives to the demand as well.
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