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Spring 2013 Distinguished Speaker Series
Gordon Program
On Thursday, March 21st, our Distinguished Speaker will be Michael Beck P.E., VP Operational Excellence, Harvest Power, Inc.
Date: Thursday, March 21, 2013
Time: 7:00pm-8:00pm
Location: 431 Stearns Center
RSVP: Please contact Marlys Vaughan at firstname.lastname@example.com for additional information.
After earning his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan State University, Mike Beck started his career in the auto industry, working for General Motors, initially at the Oldsmobile Division. His early roles were in new product development, reliability and test engineering. After winning a GM Fellowship, he attended the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, and returned to GM, joining the Powertrain Division, assuming engineering and project management roles in new engine development; a notable early success was the introduction of the ground-breaking Quad-4 engine.
At GM Mike met and worked with Dr. W. Edwards Deming, a consultant to the Division. Mike was selected to become an internal consultant in quality and continuous improvement, spent one year in training with Dr. Deming, and transitioned from Engineering Management to a position co-leading the Powertrain Statistical Network from 1987 through 1992. Strongly influenced by Deming, Mike obtained a second masters degree during these years, an M.S. in Applied Statistics from Oakland University. In this period Mike developed deep expertise in continual improvement, quality, statistical methods and organizational transformation, with successful applications in casting, machining, and assembly operations. He became very active in collaborating across organizational boundaries, and was a key contributor to the quality renaissance of GM Powertrain.
The next step in Mike's career led him to join Toyota, where he assisted in organizing the new Toyota Motor Manufacturing North America headquarters in Erlanger, KY. Mike recruited the HQ quality team members, provided initial training, and served as the Assistant General Manager of the Quality Division. He led the Hoshin Kanri process for the division, learned Lean from the inventors, and considers his biggest accomplishment publication of the Toyota Supplier Quality Assurance Manual, still in use today.
In 1998 Mike was recruited by United Technologies to lead the deployment of a new quality and lean approach for the Otis Elevator Company, where he served as the VP Quality and Continuous Improvement. Mike's contributions to the development and implementation of the ACE process at Otis, rigorous applications to factory, supply chain and field process improvements, and the development of the revolutionary Gen2 elevator system led to ROS growth of 6% during Mike's tenure.
Ford Motor Company recruited Mike to become the Quality Director for North American Car in 2001. Changes in leadership at Ford led Mike to return in 2003 to UTC, to the newly established Fire & Security Division as VP Quality and CI. Mike led establishment of the quality function, implementation of Policy Deployment and Phase Gate processes, and application of ACE and Lean to factory and field operations. Focus areas were new product development, manufacturing, and acquisition integration.
In 2007 Mike joined Terex Corporation, where he was recruited by a former UTC colleague to become VP Manufacturing for the Construction Division, responsible for Lean Manufacturing Deployment, Quality, Sales and Operations Planning, with P&L responsibility for all operations of the division, producing excavators, backhoe loaders, articulated and rigid trucks, and earth moving equipment.
Since 2009 Mike has provided consulting and leadership for applications of lean manufacturing, quality, engineering, and continuous improvement to a range of organizations, including the gaming industry, aerospace manufacturing, and construction firms. He is presently serving as VP Operational Excellence for Harvest Power, Inc., a startup green energy and recycling company based in Watham, MA, with operations at 28 sites across the US and Canada.


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Originally posted by soulshn
reply to post by Renegade2283
i would also not be able to deny that something needs to change. Nearly everyone here would agree that the game has been rigged against us for a very very long time. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, the work week gets longer, the paycheck gets smaller, and a dollar buys a little less. The bombs still fall and the propaganda still plays. All the while we stand on two sides of an imaginary line and point fingers at each other rather than realizing that we are all in this together.
If it takes some discomfort to effect a change i would gladly bear it to see my kids have a chance at a better world. The status quo has become quite tiresome in my opinion.
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Originally posted by cconn487
That shows how much you can trust that.
everthing BE very CLOSE…Yes?
Da End Game IS at our doorstep…

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Club salon meeting room (53 sqm up to 42 people)
This bright meeting room enjoys a beautiful view over the lake of Geneva.
All is set to let you focus only on your meeting objectives, Free WIFI, A/C, beamer, flip charts all available. A coffee machine is there for your comfort as well as a minibar with a few soft drinks and a safety deposit box for your valuables. This technical equipment and the coffee and drinks in the meeting room are included in the package.
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The Premise
This is a fanfiction story based on a zombie role playing game that took place in face-to-face sessions. As the authors describe it, the game was based on a standard premise:
The dead have returned after a series of disease outbreaks and botched attempts to deal with the situation. Atlanta is under siege. The police are no where in sight. The military are in route. But a small group of survivors find themselves running for their lives and in the middle of something much more sinister than they ever expected.
The author of this free zombie fiction is clear about his intent when he took the game and made it into a zombie story:
This is a character-driven fiction. I always believed Zombie fiction was never truly about the zombies...but the survivors.
About Developing Character-Driven Fiction
The lead author goes on to make some very useful statements about writing. He bases his own fiction on the actions taken by players during a role-playing session.
We play these games as a release and an exercise of our own imaginations and wits... What I intend is for the characters to live and breathe... They have a life of their own and, after a few sessions, both the GM and the player know how the character thinks and what makes them tick. There will be room for the character to grow and change,but it has to make sense in the framework of the character's own story.
As the leader, he is often in a position to guide the development of character through actively taking charge of the game. This, he says, is very similar to creating good character-driven fiction.
IN FACT, that's the fun. Discovering who they really are. Actually, that's the dynamics of any good zombie story. It's not about the undead and all of the details of the grossness although there is a place for that obviously. A good zombie story is about what we find out about the players. What they actually become. Are they who they claim to be? The hero? The Villain? The coward? The team player? The self centered? The possibilities are endless.


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Jean Masetti
Mondays: September 18, 25, October 2, 9, 16, 23
Ages 14 and Up: 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Relax and enjoy this novice/intermediate class. Learn more about watercolors and how to balance pigment, water, and paper to let the transparency of color and light create a mood or feeling in your paintings. Build your confidence with group and individual instruction. Supply list given at registration.
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Originally posted by DarknStormy
Originally posted by Casualboy100
We should take action before they get extinct
They are an important player in nature and if they went extinct then I would expect a few other things to go with them.. But I'm sure the economy is more important to most leaders than some pesky bees..
Originally posted by SunLife
SHouldnt this also effect other flying insects,Native Bees, Moths, butterflies, wasps, ect?
Originally posted by Plotus
Nothing will be voluntarily done, what is likely to happen is : The same foot dragging we have had with pollution from cars. factories and all the sources. Half hearted gestures to curb pollutants and dodges, buying and selling pollution credits, or fines that are government self serving and only intended as a revenue of sorts.
I'd guess we will have a Very apparent bad year in agriculture, which will be determined to be caused by a combination, but primarily non-pollination. A year or two will pass with ever increasingly bad harvests before this is addressed. The powers that be will vote to address this (after all what choice is there) and set up a commission to study it, while precious time is wasted, procure another dire catastrophe to drive up prices of everything, 'higher prices = more tax revenue, and still there will be nothing done........ until were on famine's doorstep. Then maybe the government will cooperate with agriculture to coordinate spraying and the containment of colonies, along with the truth about all manner of radio waves ie. Cell's, HAARP and the like. But it's also a convenient depopulation tool to let millions die of famine.
Only this time, it might be too late to turn back. Lets hope it becomes important enough that the cause is shown and addressed.
Originally posted by Hopechest
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The only science in your link is a random quote by Albert Einstein. I'm not saying your wrong but I just am not seeing how the extinction of bees would wipe out humans.
You know that bees are not indigenous to America don't you? Many plants have flowers that require an insect for pollination. And many different insects can do the job. Keep in mind that there were no honeybees in America until Europeans brought them over. So, prior to the 17th century, all the pollination in America was done by indigenous species like bumble bees, wasps, flies, butterflies, etc.
Not sure why other insects won't pick up the task when the bees go away since they have before.
We need the bees, we cannot live without them.
Now I must quickly say that there is no good evidence that Albert Einstein actually said this. In fact he most assuredly did not. All you have to do is google "Einstein bees," and you'll get the whole story: how this quote surfaced for the first time in the early 1990s, long after Einstein's death, and in contexts far removed from the possibility of verification. Moreover, one must note the fact that, genius though he was, Albert was a physicist, not an entomologist, and everyone knows that it's entomologists who are the real authorities on this matter.
But the question implied in this pseudo-quote still stands: is it true that human life depends on bee pollination? Or, more precisely, to what extent does the quality of human life depend on bee pollination? These are legitimate questions, and it's in everyone's best interest to promulgate answers based on good biology and economics, not hyperbole, anecdote, or - as the Einstein pseudo-quote warns us - fiction.
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What if there is a frequency being emitted that is killing the bees off..?
And surprisingly enough the officialdom denies that the pesticide spraying was what caused the mass die off..
"If man were to follow the teachings of Miss Carson, we would return to the Dark Ages, and the insects and diseases and vermin would once again inherit the earth."


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A physically disabled woman is suing an Aurora hospital, alleging she was sexually assaulted by another patient while being treated for depression.
The suit, filed Jan. 28 in Kane County Circuit Court, alleges Provena Mercy Medical Center failed to protect her from a patient in the psychiatric unit. The woman, who has spina bifida and uses a wheelchair, alleges the man entered her room on Jan. 30, 2006, and attacked her. She was able to scream and alert hospital staff, according to the suit.


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....That's what I'm opposed to. A dumb war. A rash war. A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.
Now let me be clear: I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power.... The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him. But I also know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors...and that in concert with the international community he can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history.
Obama Feels Your Pain
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history, such is the history of civilization for thousands of years. To interpret history from this viewpoint is historical materialism; standing in opposition to this viewpoint is historical idealism.
We are confronted by two types of social contradictions -- those between ourselves and the enemy and those among the people themselves. The two are totally different in their nature. To understand these two different types of contradictions correctly, we must first be clear on what is meant by "the people" and what is meant by "the enemy." At the present stage, the period of building socialism, the classes, strata and social groups which favor, support and work for the cause of the people, while the social forces and groups which resist the socialist revolution and are hostile to or sabotage socialist construction are all enemies of the people.
Originally posted by guohua
Just some of the likenesses I see in the present administration and the American People. We or should I say, Most of us are not like them and we don't want to be told what to do and controlled from Cradle to Grave, but they have another idea of how your daily life should be lived.
Originally posted by Mikeyy
They really need to get over all this political BS and allow us to drill our own damn oil.
I wish we can hold special elections where we vote on what to do with hot Topics.
Drill for oil in Alaska?
Stuff like that. Because our politicians are clueless as to what we acually want.
Originally posted by guohua
It is This, I keep Waiting For Obama's Red Book To Become Mandatory Reading
Originally posted by toepick
Originally posted by guohua
It is This, I keep Waiting For Obama's Red Book To Become Mandatory Reading
haha so true, I love it, and I can honestly say that I DO feel your pain!
also...sounds like you have some very interesting stories to share, I hope that you post some of them here on ATS
TV stations were under tight control: Between 1967 and 1976, the only so-called "entertainment programs" shown on Chinese television were eight revolutionary model operas. A British broadcaster, who happened to visit China in 1970, found, much to his surprise, that within a 26-minute principal evening news broadcast by the Beijing TV Station, 18 minutes were devoted to rolling captions of Chairman Mao's quotations against a background of music praising Mao.
With the Cultural Revolution, China's TV service comes to a standstill. Beijing TV Station announced:
In answer to Chairman Mao's call that "you people should be concerned about the important affairs of our country and should carry out the Great Cultural Revolution to its full extent," we have decided to launch a general, all-out offensive on a tiny handful of inner-Party power holders who have been taking the capitalist road. As a result, from January 3, 1967 on, this station will suspend normal broadcasting service except on important matters and occasions
China has announced It's Cultural Revolution and that by reorganizing the current small farming collectives into great communes workers would be released to work in industry.
With the Cultural Revolution came persecution of radical students and teachers and colleges were effectively closed down, and Chairman Mao also used the time to purge his rivals. A bi-product of the Cultural Revolution was that grain output declined leading to the country's largest famine in history.
Originally posted by Mikeyy
They really need to get over all this political BS and allow us to drill our own damn oil.
I wish we can hold special elections where we vote on what to do with hot Topics.
Drill for oil in Alaska?
Stuff like that. Because our politicians are clueless as to what we acually want.


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Nittany Lions open 2014 at Gardner Webb on Friday, Feb. 14
Entering his fourth season on the Penn State baseball staff, Brian Anderson primarily coaches the Nittany Lion pitchers and catchers and serves as the recruiting coordinator. His pitching staff's success last season led the Lions' to a 10-win improvement from the year before and its first winning season since 2012.
Anderson joined Penn State in August 2013 after playing a key role in engineering the revitalization of the Radford University baseball program over the previous six years as the pitching coach and recruiting coordinator. One of his biggest successes was the recruitment and development of Eddie Butler, who made his Major League debut in 2014 after getting drafted in the first round in 2012.
The Chesapeake, Virginia, native is now looking to send Nittany Lion pitchers to the pros. Jack Anderson (no relation), who was drafted by the Seattle Mariners in the 23rd round of the 2016 MLB Draft, became the first Lion pitcher to be drafted since 2012 after improving dramatically during his three seasons under Brian's tutelage. The submarine-style closer posted a 9.20 ERA in 14 games as a freshman before Brian's arrival, but graduated from Penn State as the school's all-time leader in saves and appearances. Jack also claimed the school's single-season saves record and tied for the saves lead in the Big Ten as a senior, and posted a 2.14 ERA after ranking among the nation's leaders throughout much of the season. He was on multiple watch lists for postseason awards and was named All-Big Ten and ABCA/Rawlings NCAA Division I Mideast All-Region.
Jack was not the only Nittany Lion hurler to see success in 2016, as the staff collectively shaved 1.25 runs off of its ERA from the previous season and recorded three combined shutouts for its most since 2011.
The success under Brian's guidance came despite starting the season with only one pitcher with previous experience as a collegiate starter in its three-man rotation. However, sophomore Sal Biasi excelled in his conversion from reliever to starter, leading the team in strikeouts, and freshman Justin Hagenman became the first Nittany Lion to win six games in a season since 2011, earning a place on the Big Ten All-Freshman team and the Louisville Slugger Freshman All-America team. Senior Nick Hedge returned to the rotation late in the season and ultimately led the team in ERA at 2.44, more than halving his 2015 total. Set-up man Dakota Forsyth also more than halved his ERA, dropping it to 2.28 in 43 1/3 innings pitched.
Anderson worked with a very youthful staff in 2015, as nearly half of the team's innings pitched in 2015 were thrown by first-year pitchers. Veteran returners also continued to develop under Anderson's guidance, as five of the seven lowered their ERA from 2014 to 2015, despite the Lions playing a significantly more difficult schedule that included 10 games against ranked opponents and five opponents that advanced to the NCAA tournament. Jack Anderson went from having an ERA above five in 2014 to leading the team in 2015 with a 2.98 ERA and five saves, also appearing in a team-high 60 percent of the team's contests.
At Radford, Anderson helped the Highlanders land major contributors to the success of the program. Under his tutelage, 12 recruits earned all-conference honors, 10 recruits ranked in Radford career top 10 statistical categories, and the 2012 senior class posted the most wins in a four-year stretch in program history with 115.
Eddie Butler arrived at Radford as a 35th-round MLB Draft selection in 2009 and left three seasons later as the first player in Big South conference history to be drafted in the first round (46th overall). Butler earned Big South Pitcher of the Year honors in 2012, a first for a Radford pitcher, and made his Major League debut with the Colorado Rockies in 2014.
Along with Butler, Eric Evans and Mark Peterson continued their post-Radford careers to professional baseball. Evans went from the most single-season losses in program history to a 23rd round selection of the Rangers in 2008, and Peterson was a free agent signee of the Royals in 2012.
In addition to pro success, Anderson's pitchers set Radford program records. Butler matched a school wins record in 2011 and set the program's ERA record in 2012. At the back end of games, Abram Williams became the school's all-time career and season saves leader.
Anderson spent the two years prior to arriving at Radford as a volunteer assistant at the University of Virginia. He worked directly with the Cavalier catchers and assisted with the day-to-day development of the hitters. During his time in Charlottesville, the Cavaliers finished 19th in the nation in batting average (.322) while setting school records in hits, RBIs and total bases.
Before moving to Virginia, Anderson served as an assistant coach at Marist College. He helped lead the Red Foxes to the 2005 MAAC title and a berth in the 2005 Baton Rouge Regional.
Anderson got his coaching start at his alma mater, spending one year as a volunteer assistant at George Mason, coaching catchers and assisting in hitting instruction. He also was the first base coach for the Patriots.
A standout catcher at Mason, Anderson was a four-year starter that ranks in the Patriots' all-time top 10 in eight statistical categories. Following graduation, Anderson inked a free-agent deal with the Expos organization, and played the 2002 season with the Vermont Expos of the New York-Penn League.
Anderson earned a degree in communications from George Mason in 2002. He is married to the former Colleen Boles.


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My Depression Was the Worst It Has Ever Been During My Pregnancy
What is a time of joy for many women was my darkest hour.
Last year, the interwebs were abuzz with news of a company that would pay you actual money in exchange for your own human feces. Cash for brown gold, if you will. As an investigative journalist (actually, it might have had much more to do with the fact that I was in a very precarious pseudo-homeless situation at the time) I felt it was my duty (doody?) to get to the bottom of this poop-for-pay craze, so I signed up to become a professional shitter.
Surely this must be some sort of perverted scheme started by some scat-porn-loving scammer, right? I assure you, it is not. A nonprofit company in Massachusetts has begun recruiting donors to supply stool samples for the purpose of generating lifesaving fecal matter transplant (FMT) treatments for patients sick with infections caused by Clostridium difficile bacteria, a particularly nasty stomach bug that immunocompromised people often acquire in hospitals. Traditional treatments don't really work so well, which left doctors struggling to find alternative therapies. As it turns out, introducing healthy patient FMTs via a tube up your butt or in your mouth (hopefully not using the same tube) causes the good bacteria from healthy dung to repopulate the diseased colon by kicking out the bad bacteria, which has proven much more effective than conventional antibiotics.
For every sample donated, they pay you $40, with a $50 bonus if you come in five days per week.
At first glance, this sounds like the best idea ever! However, it's not all as simple as it seems, and only four percent of potential donors actually make it through the process far enough to get paid. The CEO of the company says it's harder to become a stool donor than it is to get into MIT. And while that may be true, the fact remains that nobody's parents are gonna be like, "My kid didn't get into MIT, but he does poop into a bucket for money."
Perhaps unsurprisingly, I'm one of very few lady donors. As with many body-associated donations like blood and sperm (I assume) the first step is to fill out a pretty aggressive questionnaire. They ask you a lot of the normal stuff like, "Have you traveled outside the US?" "Have you taken illegal drugs intravenously?" and "Have you had sex with a man who's had sex with another man since 1974?" (Good first date question, by the way.)
However, there are some questions that are not as straightforward, which for someone (like me) who doesn't always read things correctly can be kinda confusing. For example: "Have you ever had to digitally remove feces?" My first thought was that "digitally" in this context meant "electronically" and I immediately envisioned the claw game, only instead of grabbing stuffed animals, you try to win turds. As it turns out, "digitally" on this survey meant using a finger to remove your own feces from your bum. Luckily for me — and I'm not trying to brag here — I've never had to do that. Another doozy: have I ever had "receptive anal"? This is probably obvious to normal people, but I thought it meant, like, was I emotionally into it? Were there candles? Just a heads up: "receptive anal" just means "anal."
So you passed the Q&A and you're onto round 2, which is literally round NUMBER 2, as it involves — you guessed it — poop. They give you proper provisions: a medium-sized Tupperware bowl and lid, a blue plastic thingy to place in the toilet to hold the aforementioned container during collection, and a fitted plastic bag to help ensure you don't turn the inside of your backpack into that breakfast scene from Trainspotting.
They also give you a guide to look through so you can first judge by eye whether or not your stool stacks up. On the Bristol chart, which details the range of acceptable donations, type 1 or 2 is described as "lumpy like nuts," or too dry to process into a treatment, while a 6 or 7 is too "mushy" and considered a potential sign of a gastrointestinal infection. You only get paid for samples they can use. Also, they need it quite fresh (within 45 minutes of release), which means you have to do it at the donation place or discreetly underneath a nearby bridge.
I would be lying if I said my first time wasn't an absolute nightmare. Handing over an unlabeled Cool Whip container full of a weighable amount of my own excrement to another human being really changes a person. It didn't help that my first delivery was to a rather handsome gentleman.
There I was, standing at the door with what felt like a pretty solid pound and a half of primo type 4 or 5 stuff, when the door swings open and there appears a young fellow, about six feet tall, with pretty blue eyes, who looks like his name might be Seth or Jake. I find I can't make eye contact, but I can't be sure if it's because he's attractive or because of what I'm about to surrender to him.
He notices my apprehension and says, "First time?" and I look down at my feet.
"Yup," I reply, blushing and smiling like a 14-year-old girl.
He looks at the bucket to make sure I've filled out the information properly and asks, "Are you feeling OK today?" as though he actually cared and was not just following protocol. I could tell right then and there we made a connection.
Of course, there are perks to being a stool donor; at $40 a plop, you really can't go wrong. Plus the hours aren't that bad, coffee is highly encouraged, and it's easy to work and multitask. Heck, I could even use Tinder on the job if I wanted.
But there are definite cons as well. It sounds crazy, but every time I would donate and it didn't make the cut, I would feel really bad about myself. If the sample is not big enough (it must be at least 55g, the size of a large egg) it gets tossed. If you get a drop of pee in it, it gets tossed. One time after inadvertently turning in a particularly runny dump, I was placed on a quarantine watch list, like some type of colon terrorist attempting to poison people via her own poop. I started to get really bummed out about it (no pun intended). I never imagined my self-esteem could be so influenced by my ability to defecate a certain way. I also started having what I call Pooper's Remorse, which was the unanticipated guilt from flushing $40 down the toilet every time I couldn't give it to the donation center in time.
While this is an absolutely amazing cause, I'm not sure how long I can keep at it before officially retiring from the professional poop game. However, I strongly encourage everyone who can to give it a go. You may save a life one day, if you give a crap.


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Canadian actor and dancer who stars as Hunter on The Family Channel series The Next Step. He was a lead dancer in the closing ceremonies for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games and was part of the dance crew FRESHH who finished as the runner-ups on Canada's Got Talent.
He teaches workshops, choreographs internationally, and performs at private and corporate events while not shooting The Next Step.
He opened for Carly Rae Jepsen at Rogers Arena and was featured in the Dallas Smith music video for his single "If It Gets You Where You Wanna Go."
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Performing since the age of 3, he has trained and competed in all styles of dance, including hip-hop, contemporary, jazz, tap, modern, and ballet. When he was 10, he landed the role of Harry in Vancouver Playhouse's musical Oliver.
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It is with a heavy heart that we have to report the passing of Daniel Rivas (pictured after the jump) and Bernat Martinez (pictured above), both of whom died during today's MotoAmerica Superbike/Superstock 1000 race.
The multi-bike incident occurred during the start of the race and included other riders who were more fortunate, such as Josh Chisum, Devon McDonough, & Kevin Pinkstaff.
Fan video of the start shows Rivas' bike going down the front straight of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, and then lose speed relative to the rest of the starting grid.
On the ground, Rivas was ultimately struck by another rider. He was airlifted to Natividad Medical Center in Salinas, where he succumbed to injuries. He was 27.
One of the riders involved in the aftermath was Bernat Martinez, who was less fortunate than the rest. After the incident, he was transported from the raceway by ambulance to Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, where he too succumbed to his injuries. He was 35.


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iron,electric and concrete...I think those are the index words for Modern Shanghai too...:)nice shot!...Jing
jing: thank you for your comments. Shanghai is nice city, though.
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Career Guidance
Choosing a career can be very satisfying if you have made the right choice. Like the famous adage goes, if you choose the job you love, you don't have to work a single day in your life. On the other hand, a wrong decision can leave you wishing that you had trodden a different path.
While doing a career search it is imperative to have the correct career information. An informed choice is always a better bet than an uninformed one. The right career advice can help you to choose a career to suit your personality as well as your aspirations.
Education, of course, plays an important role in getting you the right job in your chosen field. The stepping stones or pre-requisites for choosing your dream career are of course, the qualifications required to achieve it. With the right qualifications, the top careers are open to
you and the power of choice would be with you.
Career counseling can guide you in selecting the courses suitable for you.
CAO - Points Calculator
This is the 2016 Points Calculator issued recently by the CAO.
Click on picture below for full details.
You can access also directly on the Career Portal for further details or if you wish to download the CAOCalc Points Calculator and Course Search App : http://www.careersportal.ie/courses/pointscalculator.php
CAO Parents Night
Every year a night is held by Ms. Ryan the Guidance Counsellor for Parents of 6th Year students in the school usually in December with the aim of offering Guidance to both parents and students in completing the CAO Application Process. Advice is offered in relation to the difference between level 6, 7 and 8 courses, different progression routes including the FETAC and Failte Ireland courses of study.
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The Hawksky v2 powered glider is constructed from durable EPO foam and is complete as a Ready To Fly model. The Hawksky v2 is a massive improvement over in predecessor as it has a better motor mount, stiffer wing and fuselage as well as a more powerful motor and prop combo. The Hawksky v2 is designed not just for beginners in mind as it is a great aircraft for windy days and can perform loops, rolls and inverted flying with ease. It has a top mounted pusher prop to minimize the chances of damaging the motor and prop and comes with clip in removeable wings and optional wheels. This is one of the best and most versatile aircrafts to learn on as it is very durable and is super stable and capable of low speed flying as well as mild aerobatics.
The Hawksky is powered by a Dynam 1900kv motor motor and a 3 cell 11.1V 1800mah Lithium Polymer battery. The package is Ready to Fly and includes 2.4 Ghz radio gear and a Li-po Charger with AC adapter.
Total Length: 917mm
Wing Span: 1370mm
Wing area: 22.8dm2
Fuselage Length: 870mm
Weight: 600g
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Last week, I started to share information on FOSS multimedia tools, covering some integrated multimedia distributions and some audio tools. This week, in part two, I will cover video editing, scanning, converting from one format to another, and publishing your creative arts.
First, a bit of theory on why FOSS often creates better programs for artists. It is valuable for artists not only to use the programs but to also, with a little programming knowledge, be able to make the changes to the programs and at least actively help to guide the design. Often I tell people one of the reasons why people write Free Software is because the programmer wants to "scratch an itch," to solve a problem that they have. Having a programmer who is also an artist means the artist can design into the program the features and patterns of operation that is best for what they are doing.
Video Editing
I have made a series of videos using Kino. I just download the video from my video camera, have Kino automatically convert it into a usable format and then edit the video, export and import stills to use as title, and credit slides (along with using Inkscape to create the titles and credits). I could probably use other tools to do a more sophisticated video, but for me Kino is fast and easy to use.
Cinelerra is a full-featured video editor developed by Adam Williams at Heroine Virtual Ltd, and the code (known as the "HV version") is available for download from that site. Cinelerra allows for capture, compositing and editing of video and audio. Unlike a lot of other FOSS projects, there is no real collaboration in the development from the community, so the community around Cinelerra fixes bugs, adds extensions and does ports to various Linux distributions. Sometimes Adam Williams takes these enhancements and works them back into his source code tree. You can read more about this process at the Cinelerra community site.
Cinelerra is a good example of how modern day hardware can often do the editing working real time without having to render one frame at a time. However, if your desktop hardware is not the fastest, or you are doing something that is really CPU intensive, Cinelerra can use a render-farm of computers "in the background" to render the image in real time, or at least in an extremely short time.
There are four other FOSS video editors of which you want to be aware: Kdenlive, Openshot, PiTiVi, and Avidemux. And, there is a nice comparison of all the video editors on Wikipedia.
In the FOSS arena, we often encapsulate functionality such as converters, codecs and other common tools in libraries, plug-ins or command line programs that can be used as "filters" to a datastream. Often a lot of the "magic" behind a graphical user interface is created by a less glitzy command-line program.
Converting Graphic Files
Graphics come in two major formats: bit-mapped and vector. Keeping things at their simplest, bitmap graphics are typically things like digital photos, scans from scanners and web-camera snapshots. When you try to either shrink or zoom a bit-mapped image too much, they "get ugly." Sometimes the images are "pixelated" when they get too large and sometimes the colors run together when they get too small. Vector graphics are created by using...well...vectors, and they can usually be made smaller or larger without too much (if any) visible loss of the design.
ImageMagick is a set of command-line utilities to create, edit and convert bitmap images between various formats. But wait! ImageMagick not only "dices and slices," but it can apply special effects, mirror, rotate, and otherwise transform the image. ImageMagick also has a whole series of different language calling interfaces, so you can call the "magic" from your own program.
UniConvertor is a multi-platform universal vector graphics translator. The project uses the sK1 engine to convert one format to another. It has an import filters for: CDR, CDRX, CDT, CMX, AI, CGM, WMF, XFIG, SVG, SK, SK1, AFF and export filters: AI, SVG, SK, SK1, CGM, WMF. In addition, sK1 is an illustration program similar to Adobe Illustrator or Correl Draw using scalable vectors to store its data.
Converting Audio Files
gstreamer is a set of plug-ins that allow programs to interact with multimedia formats. By using gstreamer plugins an application can transparently pick up new codecs or improvements to old codecs transparently.
SoundConverter for GNOME and SoundKonverter for KDE will convert one format of audio stream into another.
Format Conversion
ffmpeg is a command line file converter that converts both audio and video formats. It can also transform video by converting from any sample rate to any other, resize the video and grab data from a live audio/video source. WinFF is a GUI for ffmpeg. Both are available on multiple platforms.
transcode is another suite of command line audio and video converters. transcode also has modules to import DVDs "on the fly" as well as live audio/video sources.
Multimedia_Converter is a simple-to-use GUI, which uses ffmpeg to do the conversions. Fairly simple to use, you first click on whether it is an audio file or a video file, fill in the names of the input and output files, then click on the button that has the conversion you need.
Xsane (and SANE) Image Scanner Software is used to scan documents, photographs, and slides. As in other program suites, Xsane is the graphical front-end to the command-line driven SANE commands. The SANE web pages have a list of scanners that the project supports, and the level of support for each scanner.
The SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) project was started by a friend of mine, David Mossberger-Tang. Before "SANE," setting up a scanner was close to impossible. But "SANE" does more than just allow you to set up flatbed scanners. It also does slide scanners, hand-held scanners, video cameras, still cameras and frame grabbers. SANE also works under a variety of other operating systems. By separating the "back end" from the "front end," David allowed for automation of various scanning jobs through the use of batch scanning and network scanning. There have been other graphical interfaces for SANE such as "Simple Scan," and applications such as OpenOffice.org.
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Icecast, darkice and darksnow are programs for streaming audio media (Ogg Vorbis and Mp3) to client systems. Icecast is the actual streaming server, darkice is a client program that accepts audio from a source, encodes it into a format such as Ogg Vorbis or mp3 and transmits it to a streaming server like icecast. Darksnow is a Graphical User Interface that controls Darkice.
By now you may have noticed that many FOSS programs tend to be written as some type of "command-line utility" that does some specific work, then a GUI that controls it. This allows other programs to control the command line as if you were typing in commands to that controlled program. Command line programming, in turn, can allow for relatively easy automation of the task.
In addition, Unix and Linux systems tend to develop small (and not so small!) languages that also allow you to automate things. Languages like Perl and Python are examples, but so are languages like awk.'Ä®
Multimedia Language
PureData (PD) and Graphics Environment for Multimedia (GEM) are a graphical programming language and an environment for the creation of interactive multimedia. This includes audio, video and graphical processing. The language and environment work together by creating a platform where the audio "flow" is linked and patch-paneled through "filters." Programmers are encouraged to create more "filters" in "C" or other languages and contribute them to the environment.'Ä®'Ä®
Drivers and Servers
Linux audio has gone through several renditions of device drivers and mechanisms over time. The current ones that you may see are:
ALSA – The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture, which consists of a driver and set of libraries to provide audio and MIDI capabilities for the Linux kernel. ALSA also provides a bit of backward compatibility for the older OSS (Open Sound System) that preceded it.
JACK – A system for allowing you to connect the audio output of one program or system to the audio input of another. It does this with high bandwidth and very low latency. JACK's default sound driver is ALSA, but JACK can also utilize Pulse Audio.
Pulse Audio - Pulse Audio is a sound system for a wide variety of POSIX operating systems, such as Linux, MacOS X, Solaris, NetBSD, FreeBSD, and even Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Pulse Audio uses a sound server to receive and process all audio streams, even those coming over the network and present them to the audio card. Pulse Audio has libraries to emulate older sound systems such as ESD, OSS and ALSA for applications that still use them. Pulse Audio can also use JACK to connect various sound sources and sound sinks.
Editing Subtitles
I was introduced to the value of closed captioning (subtitles) by my friend Joner Worm. While a lot of people think of closed captioning only for foreign languages, closed captioning is also very useful for people who have difficulty hearing or watching videos in noisy places. Also, for people that understand your language but speak a different language natively, closed captioning helps them through the "rough spots" of your accent. Almost any video of importance should have closed captions, and the more languages supported, the better. After all, what is the sense of creating the video if your message is not understood?
For those people unfamiliar with how subtitles work, usually they are generated as separate files with timing codes in them in the places where the text of the subtitle will appear. There is one file for each language. Generating the first set of timings and subtitles is usually the hardest part. After that translators can translate the text using the same timing marks.
KsubtitleRipper will take the original DVD and rip the video and subtitles from it, creating .srt files that hold the timings and the original subtitles. After you have these two files you can upload both the video and the original .srt file into an editor and create the translations.
If your video does not have an original subtitle to it, then you will have to create the timing marks yourself....not really hard, just "tedious."
Jubler is a cross-platform subtitle program that synchronizes subtitles to videos. It uses aspell as a dictionary and mplayer to play back the video. Jubler supports translations through the ability of aspell to select dictionaries and with two editors, a parent and a child.
Gnome Subtitles is another subtitle editor. It too supports translations and spell checking.
spumux is a command line tool that multiplexes subtitles into an mpeg2 video stream.
Make Your Own Music
After all of this graphic, audio and video capture and editing, you probably want to distribute your work of art. There is a number of FOSS tools and techniques for doing that.
CD and DVD Ripping and Burning
K3B is one of my favorite CD and DVD burning tools. For "just" ripping or creating a CD or DVD of songs or data files, it is full featured program, which I find easy to use. Other programs may be simpler, but do not give you the control that K3B does.
DVD Authoring
DeVeDe – Have a bunch of videos of different formats to put on a DVD? Want to play it in your home DVD player or in your computer? DeVeDe will allow you to place the videos, control the playback, and add menus.
DVDAuthor - A set of low-level tools to help you author a DVD. Start with a suitably-formatted MPEG stream (as created by various tools, such as FFmpeg or mjpegtools) and graphic images for your menus. Then, you can define buttons, chapters etc and turn the inputs into a DVD-Video disc.
ManDVD includes features for creating and editing subtitles, and an easy to use module for using still pictures to create a "slide show," complete with music, transition effects and more.
Scribus is an ideal program for creating editorial material such as books, magazines, fanzines, flyers and more. It works with text and images simultaneously.
While I am at it, I also have to put in a word for Lyx, LaTeX, TeX, and METAFONT as a text processing system for magazines, books and other large projects. By the use of the word "large," I do not want to imply that the system of programs are only good for large documents and books, but I do want to stress that as a document formatter you may find these programs continue giving when other systems simply choke.
Web Editing
Seamonkey,Bluefish, Screem, Quanta Plus and a variety of other editors for creating Web pages are available. Sometimes they are an editor by themselves. Other times (as in the case of Seamonkey) they are part of an over-all suite of tools.
Live Video Editing
So far we have been working with graphics, audio and video that are pre-recorded, editing, blending and adding effects to them, then burning them to a medium. The video has typically been done with non-linear video editing, a bit like taking a movie film, cutting it apart and piecing it back together - - as in the old film days. But what if you did not have the luxury of pre-recording the data and editing it over time? Or, you wish to create the special effects as the stream of data comes in? Or, you wish to see the effects as the video is playing in front of you? Fortunately, processors have become fast enough to do that type of editing in real-time, also known as Live Video Editing.
LIVES video editing is live and in studio, simple editing and manipulation of live video. Want to "VJ" and add special effects to the video stream? Real-time blending of clips? You can do that with LIVES. And, you can split LIVES into client and server components to allow for greater CPU in rendering.
Veejay is another program for doing "live" video editing, having video come in (perhaps from different sources) and apply effects to them in real time. Of course, this is dependent on having enough CPU power to do that editing, and both LIVE and Veejay can operate in a client/server fashion. If set to real-time mode, Veejay will drop output frames in order to keep up with the live video stream coming in.
Systems for Automation of Your Own Radio Station
By now you have put this all together: 2-D image and vector graphics; 3-D image and vector graphics; animation; audio capture and editing; video capture and editing; converting files from one format to another. The only thing is to reach for that ultimate triumph...a DJ/VJ!
Internet DJ Console is a shoutcast/icecast client that allows you to create and broadcast streaming audio over the Internet. You too can be your own "DJ," having multiple media players, fade in/out (crossfader) and handle VoIP calls all from your "console."
Another suite of tools to use for broadcasting (both over the Internet and with real radio) is Campcaster. Campcaster is a free, open source radio suite enabling live broadcast and scheduling for radio stations, whether their transmission is analogue, digital or on-line. Campcaster was developed along with other tools for putting out print media and running a radio station over the airwaves.
Rivendell is another suite of tools oriented toward managing a radio station, designed "by radio broadcasters, for radio broadcasters."
There are a large number of FOSS programs that are in the multimedia space, and even with the short synopsis that I have given each program here, I am sure that I have missed some very good multimedia programs. Therefore, I encourage people to comment on other programs and libraries that I may have left out.


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#Unstress for Success: Tools for Shifting Stress into Power
Learn from our panel as they address strategies for coping with stress to empower you towards success.
As always, thank you to everyone for continuing to be such engaging members of EPWNG. We have some very exciting events coming up in the next few months.... including our Spring PSOE #UNSTRESS FOR SUCCESS - Tools for Shifting Stress into Power! Our fabulous committee has prepared an engaging panel who will provide you with tools to utilitize your stress towards power! We hope you can make it - and bring a friend! Register Now! Don't forget about our Spotlight Section, highlighting our Platinum Member. This month it is Ashley Blankstein-Delaney from Whitehall. She provides great insights into her business and business trends.
EPWNG's Regularly Scheduled Networking Meetings are the core of what we do! Make sure you review the Tips From Our Founder - to ensure you are making every meeting count! If you are having difficulty registering for your meeting, please see the section below on how to make that process easier.
I hope to see you all at PSOE May 5th, or at a meeting in the near future!
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All Members: The Gift of Giving! The more you give the more you get!!! How can you help another member meet their need for the month? Giving of yourself benefits everyone! Try to target 3 or 4 women at each meeting. Reach out to each one with a simple email. This gift can be an offer for introduction, an idea, a cup of coffee, or anything else that helps a fellow member. The gift of giving is contagious, and we will all be rewarded!Special Welcome to our New Members! The first tip to help you start your networking journey: Find commonality. People like to be around those that share a common trait or same friend or similar history. Explore getting to know what you have in common with those you are first meeting and quickly you will find a connection!
Today's Platinum Highlight:
Whitehall of Deerfield, Ashley Blankstein-Delaney
Tell us about your work at Whitehall. What is the focus of your practice?
I am the Director of Community relations and Marketing at Whitehall of Deerfield. I have been in this role for 9 years, and the focus is to make sure all aspects of Whitehall of Deerfield are visible to the community. So many people think of us as a Nursing home and we are much more of a Rehabilitation center, offering short term rehab and long term care. Many people come to us for rehab post surgery. Knee and Hip replacements, any type of joint, more complicated like post stroke, cardiac, wound care and much more. What are some types of patients Whitehall sees and what are the support systems in place for the families? We see all different kids of patients at Whitehall. The only possible similarity is that they, mostly, at one point, knew someone who was here. The support we have in place for patients here is amazing while they are here and when they leave. Whitehall makes sure everything is set up at the home, and that the families are taken care of through a Care Plan and Care Conference. We have many difficult conversations here at Whitehall but that is what we do. We want to be open, honest and get people what they need.
What trends do you see for 2016? I see patients going home from the hospital faster and I see insurance changing again. I see a state that has a lot of financial problems that concern me, and I see people in my generation might not have Medicare available for when they need it. It's scary what's out there and nobody likes to think about the future. We all put off today what we will get to one day when there is time. The time is now. Protect your family, your friends and yourself.
What tips do you have for people considering placement? Go visit facilities without an appointment during the day, or over the weekend so that you see what the surroundings are when you are actually there. See what the place really looks like, how the people are hanging around, and how the staff treat each other, the patients and residents. Does Whitehall support other events that may not be apparent at first glance? Whitehall of Deerfield is dedicated to community outreach. We support local non for profit places like the YMCA in Northbrook, Faith In Action, which is a free service to seniors providing transportation, comfort care, companionship, and reading programs. Whitehall is also involved in school sponsorships for the local communities and endless other races, walks and more. Additionally, we are host to many educational seminars and industry meetings as a place for people to come together.
In what ways has EPWNG been a support to your business growth? I have met so many incredible women through this group that have helped me inform the community of our work at Whitehall. In return, I am able to offer free seminars to the community and allow the women coming in to present their business to a larger audience. Most importantly, EPWNG has given me the opportunity to help provide guidance on care to women who are experiencing a crisis with a loved one.
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Chicago Parent Playdate! Thank you Lourdes Nichollis for partnering with EPWNG to allow our members to showcase their goods and services at this fantastic event. Another wonderful way to connect to your fellow members and promote your business to a larger network!
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King of Devil's Island (Kongen av Bastøy, 2010)
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Upon their arrival at Bastøy Correctional Facility in the Oslo fjord, young offenders Erling (Benjamin Helstad) and Ivar (Magnus Langlete) are renamed C19 and C5 and shown to their new lodgings under the watchful eye of old-hand C1 (Trond Nilssen). After nine years, C1 is awaiting his pardon from Governor Håkon (Stellan Skarsgård), something he is not willing to let Erling jeopardise with his unruly behaviour and repeated escape attempts. When C5 is prayed upon by a Braaten (Kristoffer Joner), a member of staff notorious amongst the boys as a child abuser, however, C1 must decide what is worth more: his freedom from Bastøy or from his own guilty conscious.
With Scandinavian cinema enjoying a wider audience — and acclaim — than ever thanks to the likes of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Let The Right One In and Troll Hunter (all of which are soon to have their own American remake), there has arguably never been a better time for foreign language fare. First blown away by Marius Holst's King of Devil's Island during 2011's Edinburgh International Film Festival, it has lost none of its power and potency in the intervening year; if anything, the effect is even more haunting in the light of the Norweigian massacre of July last year.
Oppressive from its opening moments, which depict a whale being mercilessly harpooned by sailors, Holst's film is a masterclass in the slow build-up of tension, painting a landscape as unforgiving as the staff who inhabit it. From the instant Erling sets foot on the island, a collision course with Stellan Skarsgard's imposing governor is set with a crushing inevitability. There isn't a moment of warmth, of rest or respite, as the characters engage in their daily drudgery amid the snow-capped barracks and skeletal woodland of Devil's Island.
It is perhaps fitting then, that it is so difficult to warm to anyone in the picture. Erling, our protagonist, is a suspected murderer who thinks only of himself, leaving his dorm-mates to suffer as he plans yet another lonesome escape attempt. Ivar, meanwhile, is presented only as a victim, a thousand-yard stare and confused desperation doing little to facilitate any sense of agency, or, as a result, empathy. No, if there is a hero of the piece it is Olav, a prefect-like figure who enjoys the film's strongest character arc. While each performance is powerful in its own way, it is the conflict and determination in Olav's eyes that proves the most compelling.
As history dictates, the hurt and anger and the injustice culminate in a riotous release, as a burning barn brings an orange glow to the screen for the first time in the film's duration. While it allows for at least a trace of resolution and redemption, it does little to diminish the desperation and desolation that has built up over the rest of the movie. After all, this was not to be the end of the facility, and a truly happy ending was never really on the cards to begin with. The whale, it seems, got off lightly.
King of Devil's Island is out on DVD, Blu-ray and available on digital download from 29th October.


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Without a doubt, Childe Hassam is America's favorite Impressionist. One might argue Impressionism is the world's most loved art movement and that therefore, Hassam is amongst the most celebrated of all artists born on U.S. soil.
Some of the world's greatest artists, like Van Gogh, spent a lifetime in pursuit of their art with little critical, social or financial recognition. Hassam was not one of them. His talent was recognized early. He was feted from his first exhibition early on, collected aggressively and universally recognized as one of America's most significant painters from early in his career right up to his death. As an artist, Frederick Childe Hassam (October 17, 1859 - August 27, 1935) was a premier American Impressionist.
He was born Frederick Childe Hassam. He was named "Childe" after the surname of a maternal uncle and the "Hassam" was a distortion of the family name of Horsham, ancestors by that name having come to Boston from Sussex, England. Early in his career he dropped the use of the name Frederick and became simply, Childe Hassam. Listed amongst his ancestors are Nathaniel Hawthorne, the novelist, Richard Morris Hunt, the architect, and William Morris Hunt, the painter.
Childe Hassam was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, on October 17, 1855. His father was a successful Boston businessman who was ruined financially in the great fire of 1872. Hassam left high school without graduating and ended up working for a Boston wood engraver. As an artist his formal studies were begun at the Boston Art Club (1878) and later continued at the Acad�mie Julian in Paris (1886-1889). He was greatly influenced by Louis Boulanger and Jules Joseph Lefebvre. He attended drawing classes at the Lowell Institute, a division of MIT, and was a member of the Boston Art Club. The early portion of his artistic career were devoted to illustrations and watercolors. At the age of 23 Hassam was exhibiting publicly and had his first solo exhibition, of watercolors, at the Williams and Everett Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts in 1892.
From this time forward, Hassam was committed to the life of a professional painter. Recognition came early in both the U.S. and abroad. In 1884 he married Kathleen Maudď Doane. Two years later he set off for Paris to complete his artistic training at Academie Julian. In addition, it being the center of the art world at the time Paris was home to several of the most celebrated art schools in the world. Academie Julian and the Ecole des Beaux Arts were home to many other American artists. Both of these schools used figure drawing and painting as the primary training ground for acquisition of all artistic schools.
Hassam was extremely active in the social and technical areas of the artistic community. In 1890, he, and several others, founded the New York Water Color Club. He also joined the American Water Color Society and shortly thereafter joined the Players Club and the Society of American Artists. He went on to found other artistic societies and join other clubs and as a result the society of artists and collectors in New York, the art capital of the United States, regularly saw and purchased his work. The fruition of this entrepreneurial fervor came about in 1897 when he help establish the Ten American Painters, an exhibiting group that included many of the finest painters of the day: Frank W. Bensen, William Merritt Chase, Thomas Dewing, John Twachtman and J. Alden Weir.
The artist and his wife were tireless travelers. Between 1888 and ??? they visited Spain, Italy, England, and France. They traveled extensively in the U.S. and took regular holidays in East Hampton, Old Lyme, Greenwich and the Appledore Island off the coast of New Hampshire. This travel allowed the artist to have the constant reference of new landscape as well as permitting the interchange of idea and technique with fellow artists.
There is a lot of nonsense theory about why Childe Hassam is so popular. Some see him as a late arrival to the Impressionists banquet, some find him a blindly cheerful and, of necessity, shallow chronicler of his times, others portray him the "party boy" of artists' societies, who thereby bought his way into exposure to collectors, a sort of charlatan of the salons. It seems a much more basic issue. He was a tremendously talented painter who found the world to his liking, and conversely the world found Childe Hassam to its liking. The bald optimism of his paintings is overridingly contagious. The public loves his work.
Warren Adelson, in his perceptive essay on the development of Hassam's style refers to greater Boston at the time of Hassam's youth as the Athens of America. Great artists of all types were encouraged and supported. The artist's earliest training came in the form of an apprenticeship at the hands of George E. Johnson, the engraver. His first formal training would have been at the Lowell Institute and later at the Boston Art Club where he studied with Ignatz Gaugengigl. The work completed in the artist's early years reflected the French Barbizon school in subject matter and style with weighty, dark tonal palettes. It is a far cry from the work that would make him a preeminent American Impressionist.
In 1883, pursuing additional insight, Hassam made his first trip to Europe visiting England, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy and Spain all the while working in watercolor. It is on this journey that the young artist must have had full exposure to the closing efforts of the pioneering work of the French Impressionists who would have their final exhibition in 1886. It was in late that year that the newly married artist returns to Paris to study at the Academie Julian. After several years of study Hassam left complaining that the Academie was too confining and left little room for originality. But for Hassam the dye had been cast. Much of his finest work relates directly to the work of the French Impressionists, despite Hassam's statements to the contrary. These principal years of exposure left his work marked by bright colors, hurried, short brushstroke and an emphasis on the play of light that was common to the work of Monet, Degas and Caillebotte.
Through the remainder of his career he enjoyed perfecting the composition, framing, perspective and pictorial techniques shared by the leaders of the French movement. An examination of his later work will find relationships to Post-Impressionism, Symbolism and the modern movements developing in the early 20th century, but his finest work is plainly associated with exposures to the Impressionists work which he viewed in his years of study in Paris.
This watercolor of Venice is from Mr. Hassam's first trip to Europe. Following that trip, he exhibited 67 watercolors at Williams & Everett of Boston. He later made a project of painting another island, Appledore, which he painted in all aspects for over twenty years.


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Gary McGraw interviews me on The Silver Bullet Security Podcast
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I had a great time talking with Gary about privacy, anonymity, security, Cypherpunks, WikiLeaks, and more. Check it out!
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What Hand Sanitizer Can Teach Us About Cybersecurity
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I spent the last week at the RSA security conference in fear of getting sick before my talk on Friday, the last day of the conference. During that time I was nearly obsessive about using hand sanitizer to protect me against any germs I might be getting from shaking hands, or touching surfaces.
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Snipers at the Watering Hole
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Security researchers discovered a very sophisticated watering hole attack against Forbes.
There is a major trend towards increasingly targeted cyber attacks, from advanced persistent threats (APT), to spear phishing. Now we are seeing targeting applied to watering hole attacks. I think of this as the sniper at the watering hole. (more…)
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Security implications of Lizard Squad Attack on Tor
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Right after the Lizard Squad finished with a DDOS attack on the PSN and XBOX networks, they launched an attack against the Tor anonymity system. The attack was simple, set up enough Tor relays to be able to identify a significant fraction of Tor users and connect them with their activity. They got caught because they were bozos (perhaps intentionally). They did the attack hard and fast, which made it easy to identify the rogue relays, and they bragged about it (which told people to look for the attack). (more…)
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Chaos Computer Club censored (and me too)
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The Chaos Computer Club recently announced that their website was being blocked by Vodefone as part of their participation in the "Great Firewall of Britain". This is somewhat concerning as they don't seem to match any of the criteria for blocking that have been announced. This also blocks access to information and tickets for their upcoming conference. Many people predicted (me, EFF, and many others) that this censorship system would inevitable overreach when it was first announced. (more…)
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Security risk of Uber abusing trust & tracking reporters
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In two separate cases recently Uber has, or has talked about, abusing its information about their customer's movements.
First a Buzzed reporter Johana Bhuiyan was told that she was tracked on the way to a meeting by Josh Mohrer, general manager of Uber New York.
Next Emil Michael, SVP of business for Uber, talked at a private dinner about the possibility of using the information Uber has about hostile reporters to gather dirt on them. (more…)
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Protect your security from ISPs stripping email encryption
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Engineers at Golden Frog recently discovered that Cricket wireless was automatically disabling their email encryption.
It is not at all clear why they were doing this, but we do know how. When an email client attempts to make a secure connection to a server, it sends a STARTTLS command. If the server never sees the STARTTLS, then it assumes you just wanted an insecure connection. (more…)
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How to protect yourself against new DarkHotel type WiFi attacks
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Kaspersky recently announced the discovery of a new Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) that they are calling DarkHotel. This is in the fine tradition of giving all newly discovered hackers or vulnerabilities clever and evil sounding names. In this case they have found something quite interesting.
For the last 7 years a group has been systematically targeting executives and government officials staying at high end hotels. They hack their computers and grab their files, sniff their keyboards, and install virus that can then spread within the victim's organization. (more…)
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Dropbox and bad password hygiene
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The recent incident where attackers posted usernames and passwords for compromised Dropbox accounts really shows the importance of practicing good password hygiene.
GigaOm has one of many articles describing the actual events. The short version is that some hackers have been posting usernames and passwords to Dropbox accounts on a Pastebin page. Dropbox says that they have not been compromised, and that the passwords were actually taken from other websites or through other methods.
If this is true, and it seems reasonable, then those who have been compromised became victims because they reused their passwords across multiple websites. That is probably a bigger security error than choosing weak passwords in the first place.
The security at websites varies widely, usually based on the sensitivity of the information on that site. Banks tend to have better security than news sites or discussion sites. If you use the same password with all these sites, then if any of them is compromised the attacker can simply try your username / password on every other interesting website to see if they work there too.
The solution is to use a different password on every website. They should not be simply modifications of each other but actually completely different passwords. Additionally they should be long and random. This means that they will be impossible to remember, but a password manager or password vault can take care of that for you. It will generate the strong random passwords, fill in the forms for you, and sync between your various computers and other devices. There is no excuse not to use unique and strong passwords with every website, and you will be much safer if you do.
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BadUSB – Security vulnerability with no fix coming any time soon
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A couple of months ago researcher Karsten Nohl demonstrated a security vulnerability that he called BadUSB. Basically it was a demonstration that an attacker could alter the firmware in a USB device to automatically attack anything it was plugged in to. At the recent DerbyCon, researchers Adam Caudill and Brandon Wilson demonstrated their version of the attack and released sample code for how to implement it. This really opens pandora's box.
The problem here is that this is not actually a bug in USB. It is exactly how USB is designed to work (as insecure as that might be), and changing that behavior is likely to break a lot of other things. A good and effective fix for this vulnerability is probably years away.
In the mean time, take great care with USB devices. My suggestion is to never use another person's USB device. Don't use USB to transfer files, and make sure that any USB devices you do use are obtained directly in unopened packaging. There could still be exploits introduced in manufacturing, but at least you are as safe as reasonably possible.
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Event – Walk Against Warming – Sunday 11th November
Posted in Policies by Ferne Edwards on November 8th, 2007
Walk Against Warming is Australia's biggest day of action on climate change, with over 30 walks happening all over the country. This year's events will take place on Sunday 11th November, just before the Federal Election. Last year's events were huge. The Melbourne walk starts 1pm at the State Library. You can go to the website www.walkagainstwarming.org.au and pledge to walk.
Walk Against Warming
Sunday November 11, 1 pm
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I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time.
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Walter Pall's main blog about bonsai and his work with trees from day to day. Lots of good pictures of good trees and lots of valuable information about bonsai.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
little lilac got stumped
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- Arzivenko said...
Hello, when is spring fo you, here we are at fall. But this year we got a hot and dry fall, with cold (not so much, 10o C) at night and 25 to 30 degrees at day.
I dont know if its a good time for prune and colect trees, but we dont have any dwarf species here, so, if i got a nice native tree, i have to cut it very near to the ground. On spring it is ok, the tree come with new leaves quickly, but now at the fall it is not so fast.
you got anything to say Walter?
- April 14, 2009 at 1:49 AM
- Walter Pall said...
I would always cut in spring if possible. Also collecting in spring is better than in fall. But it depends on your climate. You will have to find out for yourself. do you have a raining season? If yes, then cut and collect just before the rain starts.
- April 14, 2009 at 7:18 AM
- Arzivenko said...
Well, we got two raining seasons, one in the spring with high temperatures, and one in the fall (just waiting to start) with low temps. The popular knowledge says that the best months to prune and transplant trees are the cold ones. As you say, i will have to find it by myselfe.
Thanks you!
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RIP Ian McHarg 28th December 1951 – 2nd April 2017:
We are very sorry to have to announce that Ian McHarg, who was Sound Engineer at The Trades Club for ten years, and a long-time friend of the club died on the 2nd of April 2017.
Some of his friends have contributed these words about Ian:
"We were very sorry to learn of the death of Ian McHarg on the 2nd April 2017
Ian worked at the Trades Club for many years and contributed hugely to our growth as a venue. He was a great sound engineer who loved his stage sounding right and worked hard to achieve perfection. He admired great musicians and was always ready to comment on how good the performers were – or weren't at times! He loved good songwriters and always listened and took in the lyrics and meanings.
In his time, he sound engineered for Yes and for The Drifters. He recorded/produced Dick Gaughan's album 'Gaughan Live at the Trades Club' and the Trades Club's own 'Trades Roots' album.
He was also a good friend to many of us, staff and members, and we will miss his dry humour and acerbic wit. He was a kind and clever man when you got to know him and will be hugely missed."
There will be an event to remember him at the Trades Club on Saturday 6th May, 2-6pm.
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