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In December of 2016, the International Joint Commission of the U.S. and Canada unanimously approved Plan 2014 — a bold effort to change the management of the Moses Saunders Dam to work with the power of nature rather than against it.
With just the flip of a few switches in Massena, New York and Cornwall, Ontario, water flowing from the dam will vary just enough to more closely mirror seasonal ebbs and flows: A small change for a big impact. This single policy decision will dramatically improve conservation in the Great Lakes, the largest freshwater body on Earth.
The transformation is similar to one we are seeing on the Colorado River. Once one of our nation's most powerful rivers, for years the Colorado has been siphoned off for agriculture, industry, cities and other uses to the point that it no longer reached the sea. But after water returned to the final miles of the Colorado's dry channel for the first time in more than a decade, signs of new life sprouted up almost immediately.
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The Moses-Saunders Power Dam, short for Robert Moses-Robert H. Saunders Power Dam, is a dam on the Saint Lawrence River straddling the border between the United States and Canada.
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- An increase of $12 million annually in economic value for New York will result through new hydroelectric production, outdoor recreation and tourism.
- Plan 2014 received unprecedented bipartisan support, including that of more than 36,000 individuals; 50 outdoor and environmental organizations; 23 New York towns and counties; and dozens of businesses, international policymakers and elected officials.
The Nature Conservancy is no stranger to working with many diverse partners to implement large-scale water management transformations. We know that improving outdated infrastructure that's been in place for decades takes patience and perseverance.
Together with a broad coalition of conservation groups and experts, The Nature Conservancy has worked relentlessly toward this day with state and federal governments, elected officials from both parties, environmentalists, hunters and anglers, outdoor enthusiasts and industries — for almost 20 years.
We had to learn a great deal about how to harness the power of nature to address the varied concerns of many stakeholders. We had to form plans, compromise, revise plans and revise plans again. The solution had to help protect shoreline property owners from flooding, allow species like Northern pike and black terns to access new and improved habitat, pump out clean energy, meet needs including recreation and shipping, and contribute to community prosperity.
Balancing these goals is a tremendous feat but one that a lake as great as Lake Ontario is capable of achieving—with help, of course, from a large team of committed people.
Plan 2014 has been described as an east of the Mississippi equivalent to restoring the Colorado River. Like the Colorado, Lake Ontario was once a mighty freshwater resource, and it will be again. This is an example of The Nature Conservancy at its best, working at the local, state, federal and bi-national levels with leadership provided by staff from across the organization to deliver results that make a difference for water on a global scale.
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England Rugby February In review
England Rugby February 2017 - In Review
England start their defense of the Six Nations Grand Slam, the Triple Crown and the Calcutta Cup this weekend. England v France- Fan's Thoughts
Well what can you say about that match? I rather think Eddie Jones summed it up.......... 'Winning Ugly' England 19 v 16 France -Fan's thoughts
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July 2002
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Product code 02RA00265/SECONTENTS
Foreword 5
Chapter 1
Executive summary 6
A sustainable airports policy 6
Section 1 How much capacity should be provided? 7
Section 2 Where to provide any extra capacity? 8
Section 3 Managing the impacts of airport growth 9
Chapter 2
Introduction 10
The future of aviation in the UK 10
A sustainable airports policy 11
Why are we looking 30 years ahead? 11
Why is aviation important to the UK? 12
The benefits of hub airports 13
Why is the Government deciding these issues? 14
Key issues for this consultation 14
The SERAS Study 15
How much capacity should be provided? 16
Chapter 3
The benefits of growth in air travel 17
Introduction 17
The case for new airport capacity 17
Costs of failing to build new runway capacity 21
Chapter 4
A hub airport in the South East 26
Does the UK need one or more large hub airports in the
South East? 28
Should we develop Heathrow further? 31
Chapter 5
Forecasts of demand for air travel 33SECTION 2
Where to provide any extra runway capacity? 40
Chapter 6
Introduction to airport options 41
Impacts on rail and road networks 43
Impacts on people and the environment 43
Impacts on regional planning 45
Chapter 7
Heathrow 47
Current situation 47
Description of options 48
Impacts on rail and road networks 51
Impacts on people and the environment 53
Impacts on regional planning 56
Chapter 8
Gatwick 58
Chapter 9
Stansted 59
Current situation 59
Description of options 60
Impacts on rail and road networks 64
Impacts on people and the environment 66
Impacts on regional planning 70
Chapter 10
Luton 73
Current situation 73
Description of options 74
Impacts on rail and road networks 77
Impacts on people and the environment 78
Impacts on regional planning 80
Chapter 11
Cliffe 82
Description of options 82
Impacts on rail and road networks 84
Impacts on people and the environment 85
Impacts on regional planning 88Chapter 12
Other South East airports 89
First tier airports 90
Second tier airports 92
Alconbury 94
Impact appraisal 96
Chapter 13
Freight 98
Chapter 14
Airport development up to 2030 102
Possible combinations of airport development 102
Economic appraisal 106
Chapter 15
Funding airport development 111
Managing the impacts of airport growth 114
Chapter 16
Action to tackle environmental concerns 115
Action at international level 115
Action at national level 119
Local air quality 120
Noise at the main South East airports 121
Noise mitigation and compensation 125
Chapter 17
Access to airports by rail and road 127
Chapter 18
Implications of growth for the safety of our airspace 130
Chapter 19
The next stage 133Annex A Summary of questions for consultees 136
Annex B The SERAS Study 139
Annex C Key documents 152
Annex D SERAS packages 157
Annex E CO appraisal 1582
Annex F Gatwick 161
Annex G The consultation process 171
Annex H Code of Practice 173Foreword
Over the last 50 years we have seen a dramatic increase in the amount of air travel across
the world. In the UK many more people now fly to holiday destinations or to visit friends
and family. Good air links are extremely important to UK businesses, providing access to
new markets, as well as bringing investment to the UK. Air transport links are therefore
essential to our overall transport network.
We are entering a crucial period for the future of air transport. Demand for air travel is
continuing to grow. At the same time, many of the UK's major airports are reaching their
capacity limits. We therefore face many difficult issues associated with the growth of
We need to ensure that, as a country, and as individual consumers, we are getting the most
from our aviation services and that the future of the aviation industry is a sustainable one.
Aviation has great economic, social and environmental relevance in the UK. We need a
long term framework that will maximise the beneficial aspects of aviation and minimise the
negative effects.
We intend to set this out in a White Paper on air transport, which will bring together our
UK airports policy and new policies on civil aviation. In advance of the White Paper and
in order to inform our conclusions, we are now publishing a set of seven consultation
documents on regional air services and airports, between them covering the whole of the
UK, of which this is one.
These documents describe the anticipated demand for air travel, the possible implications
of that for air services and new airport infrastructure, and the potential impacts – economic,
environmental and social – of such infrastructure. We have also examined a range of
related issues, some of them relevant to the whole of the UK, others to specific parts of the
This is an important step in the development of our future air transport policy. I hope that
you will take this opportunity to examine the issues facing the future development of the
industry, and will give us your views. Your response can help shape the new White Paper on
air transport.
Department for Transport
July 2002
Executive summary
This chapter summarises the Government's objectives for its consultation on new airport capacity
for the next 30 years. The Government welcomes your views on three key questions: how much
demand for air travel should be met, where to locate any new airport capacity, and how to manage
the environmental impacts of any airport growth. The chapter goes on to outline how the document
has been structured to help address these key issues.
The questions that we would like consultees to answer are set out in Annex A.
A sustainable airports policy
1.1 The Government is committed to ensuring that the long-term development of aviation is
sustainable. This will mean striking a balance between the social and economic benefits
of air travel and the environmental effects of any development. The Government believes
that, in principle, its policy for airports in the South East should aim both to maximise the
significant social and economic benefits that growth in aviation would bring whilst trying
to minimise the environmental impacts. However, the Government wants to consider the
responses to this consultation before coming to a view on how to strike the right balance.
1.2 The purpose of this consultation is to set out our appraisal of both the benefits and the
disbenefits of the options for additional airport capacity, and to seek views on those options in
the light of this information. Your responses will help the Government decide how much
weight to give to the various factors that will determine the final decisions on airport capacity.
1.3 In the South East consultation, we are seeking your views on the following three questions:
should new airport capacity be provided in the South East over the next 30 years and,
if so, how much? A particular issue is whether there is a case for having at least one
major hub airport.
where should any additional runway capacity be provided? A particular issue is whether
or not Heathrow should be developed further.
what controls, mitigation measures and compensation should be put in place to limit
and manage the adverse impacts of any additional airport development on people and
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What is THE most requested bedtime story by forty three million, eight hundred and ninety thousand, two hundred and twelve baby bats around the world?
That would be The Amazing Adventures of Sam the Bat!
Young Sam, safe with his mother in the free-tail bat colony in the Southern California desert, learns all the stories of his tribe. The most famous is the tale of the lost colony, who flew east to escape a drought and never returned. The story says the lost ones found a new home, under a bridge over a river, but no one knows for certain.
One fateful day, Sam loses his own colony and home, and thus begins an incredible adventure: wee Sam, the baby bat, goes from the desert to the rainforests of South America, to a five-star hotel in London, to the towers of Notre Dame in Paris, to the other side of the world -- only to find that sometimes, home is in the first place you should have looked, and sometimes, the stories are true.
"SAM THE BAT is a delightful book that manages at once to teach children about a fascinating and greatly misunderstood species, while holding them under the spell of a touching - and often very funny - story with an appealing hero. I'm sorry I didn't get to read it to my own children." — Peter S. Beagle, author of The Last Unicorn and Mirror Kingdoms
"SAM's story is a great introduction to the lives of bats around the world, and is a thrilling read. It's a great challenge to imagine life through the eyes of a bat (I've tried), and Allyson Beatrice does so beautifully. Through SAM, Beatrice explores the kindness of strangers, the importance of friends, and the value of family. I would recommend this book to any young person curious about the world and the animals living in it." — Daniel K. Riskin, Assistant Professor of Biology at the City University of New York, and from Animal Planet's Monsters Inside Me and Discovery Channel's Curiosity
About the Author:
Allyson Beatrice became fascinated with children's books when her nephew Gavin and niece Neavie were born. She made a deal with her sister-in-law that the kids could never be spoiled by too many books, and set out to build a library for her niece and nephew. She hopes that SAM will be a worthy bedtime story for them, and is anxiously awaiting their reviews.
Allyson lives in Los Angeles with a paranoid cat named Ruby, a neurotic dog named Mona, and a patient roommate named Kristen.
About the Illustrator:
Dave Dorman is an Eisner award-winning illustrator who has been working as a professional artist since 1979. He is best known for his photo-realistic renderings of action and fantasy subjects.
He has done artwork for comic, book, and game publishers, including The Batman for DC Comics and the Indiana Jones and Star Wars series for Dark Horse Comics. In addition, he has done a wide range of book and magazine covers. Some of these include the Aliens paperback series, the Lone Wolf series, the Surfing Samurai Robots series and many other single book covers. His work is also showcased in the Bram Stoker-nominated, illustrated novel Dead Heat from MoJo Press, and a book collection of his art, Star Wars: The Art of Dave Dorman.
To learn more about bats: Please visit Bat Conservation International


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Collision Course: Infrastructure and U.S. Population Growth
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American infrastructure faces two enormous challenges. Much of it was built shortly after World War II, so it is outdated and has been allowed to deteriorate. Equally important: the U.S. population continues to grow, requiring additional capacity and wearing out existing infrastructure at higher rates.
If current trends continue, our population will rise from 319 million in 2014 to 417 million in 2060. Nearly two-thirds (65%) of this increase will be due to new immigrants. This does not include the U.S.-born children of immigrant mothers, which are projected to total 40 million over the next 45 years. Owing to their above average fertility rates, immigrant mothers will account for 20.3% of all births over this period, higher than their share of the women in childbearing ages. Meanwhile, fertility rates of native-born mothers are falling.
Infrastructure and population growth? That's an odd couple. Immigration policy has been debated for years, but the debate usually focuses on border security, criminal deportations, and whether illegal alien workers are really needed to do the jobs that Americans "won't do." Immigration's impact on public infrastructure is rarely discussed.
Until the past few months infrastructure policy was on the back burner, surfacing when a bridge or levee collapsed, but generally of interest only to civil engineers and policy wonks. That changed briefly during the Great Recession, when Barack Obama's stimulus bill boosted federal infrastructure outlays by $55 billion, in nominal terms, over the 2009-2014 period. About half of that amount was spent in 2009 and 2010.
Since then the economy has recovered, but infrastructure spending has collapsed. The one constant over this period has been U.S. population growth:
Comparing 2015 with the year 2000 we find:
• Infrastructure spending, adjusted for
inflation, is 9.6% higher.
• U.S. population is 13.9% higher.
• Per capita infrastructure spending is 3.8%
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This page chronologically lists the changes and improvements that we have made in our organization, to our products, and on our website.
9 Oct 2017: National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) confirms resolution for payment of Rs.107 per Share to Non-promoter Shareholders. Continue reading
8 Aug 2014: Added social commenting in the Applications and Help & Support sections so users can comment on reed switch usage notes and application using Google+, Facebook or Twitter. Continue reading
1 Aug 2014: Added R5B normally closed ultra miniature SMD reed sensor capable of switching 5W. This sensor has a 6.5mm over all length! Continue reading
14 May 2014: New FM-328 sensor, can switch moderate loads of 10W. This sensor can detect any Ferro-magnetic material. Continue reading
1 Apr 2014: With great excitement, we unveiled our new responsive website. Aside from an updated look, it is also easier to better understand our wide range of products and applications, and link seamlessly into product usage notes that use pop-up glossary to help new reed switch users. Continue reading
8 May 2013: We installed a Solar plant as the first stage in reducing our dependency on fossil fuels. Our goal is to source 60-70% of our total power requirements from renewable sources over the next couple of years. Continue reading
30 Sep 2012: To make the factory more environment friendly, we went out of wet plating and went into a high vacuum sputtering process to coat all our reed contacts. Continue reading
23 Aug 2011: Our factory and office shifted to a new location as there was a need to build a new factory with the latest technology in construction as well as designing energy efficient equipments. The complete updated address can be found here. Continue reading
5 Feb 2009: Product Catalogs in PDF updated to reflect actuation distance and other changes made below. Continue reading
18 Jan 2009: Changes made to magnet actuation distances for the R5, R3, R2, R2B molded reed sensors and the MS-216-L, MS-228, MS-328 sensors as improvements in production process made these products more sensitive. Older AT band ordering codes will hold good. Continue reading
25 Dec 2007: AT bands and ordering codes for the R5, R3, R2 and R2B molded reed sensors were altered to help customers select the AT band before or after modification of leads. Continue reading
1 Jul 2007: R3 Reed Sensor dimensions increased slightly for better AT band holding during the moulding and SMD formation processes. Continue reading
15 Feb 2007: Our address pin code has been changed from 600 096 to 600 097. The complete updated address can be found here. Continue reading
15 Jul 2006: Our telephone numbers have changed and the new numbers are listed here. We have also enabled Google Apps for our domain and all email addresses have changed too. Continue reading
1 Feb 2006: Added new normally closed reed sensor sensitivity band 5-10 for very sensitive applications. Also added re-closure zones with respect to standard magnets. Continue reading
15 Oct 2005: Reed Switches and Reed Sensors are SGS certified for the RoHS compliant levels of Lead, Mercury, Cadmium and Hexalent Chromium. The SGS certificates are available in the corresponding product pages. Continue reading
28 July 2005: Different types of level sensing circuits for use in the domestic, construction and automotive industries. Continue reading
15 July 2005: New R5 Ultra-miniature SMD reed sensor capable of switching 5W. This sensor has a 6.5mm over all length! Continue reading
All product orders received from today will be supplied Lead (Pb) free, and will conform to the "Restriction of Hazardous Substances" RoHS directive. Continue reading
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Across the globe, manufacturers and governments alike realize that industrial convergence represents a fundamental growth opportunity and that this opportunity will present itself over the next 10 years. Manufacturers that embrace it can potentially unlock 10-20 times productivity increases. Those that do not will struggle to compete in the global economy.
But how do you get there? There are a lot of steps between your current Production Monitoring System that helps you get a 10-20% increase in productivity on your plant floor and the lofty goals of the Industrial Internet of Things.
Fortunately, you do not have to sit on the sidelines waiting for these technological advances to occur. You can, and should, be proactive about identifying what is needed in a solution for your factory and how you plan on taking advantage of emerging technological trends to make sure your solution is delivered.
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Potters of Mafeking Road Xmas Sale
Drop past on Saturday the 11th and Sunday the 12th November and pick out some treasures in time for the festive season! While you're at it - experience two of the Byron Shires most celebrated ceramacists in their art studios.
|Enter Here is currently in production on a private property in the township of Mullumbimby.
There are 17 utility poles being prepared for installation as a monumental entrance sculpture to the Mullumbimby Sculpture Walk. The sculpture scheduled for installation during the month of April 2016 with an opening event on April 30th.
Stone Samplers...in progress
The glazing process is abaout to begin and I spent most of the day yesterday preparing the studio for the next phase. The glaze palette is up for consideration and there will be quite some new testing and progressing the testing already in the pipeline. I have about 20 pieces finsihed construction and wouldl ike to glazr them all and choosefrom that series for the Tweed, Stone Samplers exhibition.
The Friends of the Gallery have a newsletter they send out periodocally and we have written something for the upcoming edition. I am showing with Karyn Fendley who paints very gorgeous landscapres and whose work is complementary to mine. We both sample the landscape and the exhibition is entitled Stone Samplers. About my own work, I quote:
From the Asian tradition of Scholars' Rocks (gōngshí- China, Suiseki - Japan), sculptor Suvira McDonald's ceramic forms initially derived from a study of these naturally occurring, characteristically shaped rocks..
Traditionally these samples of various stones are taken from the landscape for their unique visual qualities and represent an intuitive-aesthetic curiosity - in contrast with the more intellectual curiosity of western scientific specimen collecting. The stones,which often resembled mountainous formations or sometimes figures, are displayed and appreciated as stone samples and are mounted on ornately carved rosewood bases. Evidence suggests Gongshi originated in the Yellow Mountains which have deep spiritual significance in China. Chinese scholars often called these rare examples Spirit Stones and placed them in their studies for indoor contemplative viewing. In Japan, Suiseki forms a triad with ikebana and bonsai.
Suvira's sculptures have developed from this study over the past 6-8 years; it began with vessel forms, with direct relevance to particular landscapes and recently the sculptures have become more representational although with facetted stylisation. It is his chosen construction method that produces this. He has also emphasised the presence of quartz veins in the rocks which manifest as a waterfall-like part of his composition. The relationship of ceramics with landscape is not only pictorial but also one of materiality.
"My pieces have derived from this Gongshi tradition, translated into the ceramic medium and now several steps removed. As an ideally suited medium to represent landscape, ceramics is formed by firing to lavaic temperatures, broadly simulating a process of volcanic activity, producing igneous rock. The name stoneware is no accident!"
Return to the BLOG... preparing to exhibit
Having been distracted from writing here for the last 18 months, I have found my way back. I was this weekend past in a ceramics workshop with the Gold Coast Potters; indications are that a good time was had by all. It is good for me to work with potters who have experience in the field. They were stretched out of comfort and I was stretched taking them there. The was a lot of slab constructions . The most challenging part has emerged from the work I am doing in preparation for my exhibition at the Tweed Regional Gallery coming up at the end of the year, Stone Samplers, facetted landforms resonating with Karyn Fendley's paintings. The early works in this thread are the Emerald Mountain pieces (see Ceramic Sculpture gallery
Years ago I started researching the Asian traditional form of suiseki (Japanese) or gong shi (Chinese); it is a stone collecting tradition which has its kin in bonsai and ikebana. Years later I am constructing these complex facetted forms resembling landscapes.
Return to the BLOG
After 18 months of neglect i have returned to write in my blog.... . It is always intersting to see what was intended and what really happened. A lot happened and not all that was predicted...inevitably some of my intended projects languish.
It's almost February!!
The month of January flew by almost under the radar. Now with holidays over there is a storm upon us with flooding everywhere...it is hard to get really started. However I have managed to squeeze a few things in between Christmas and travel to Sydney (a visit to Anish Kapoor exhibition amongst other things). In the Ceramic sculpture section there are some new works posted; the variations on Emerald Mountain which were shown privately in Sydney and my whimsical Highrise Moonrise which I entered in the Byron Art Classic and scored second prize. So around the beginning of the month I had some much treasured studio time with few other commitments and took the opportunity.
Now as cyclone Oswald passes through there is time to contemplate the new projects coming up. The mission to support a public art program in Mullumbimby is an ongoing thread for this year. The return of biannual Sculpture by the Tree, in Federal, is too. Both of those projects require a constant administrative attention before any materialisation. As for studio time, new table ware is never far away, a range of new landscapes for wall as well as a continuation of the small freestanding pieces characterised by the Emerald Mountain series which I have named WU WEI.
My glaze research will continue in the Copper red direction and I have my eyes on developing a crystal snowflake glaze and other areas/colour as required. Then there is the wood kiln; the bricks are awairing to be stacked on site. Plenty to think about, even more to do.
An unusual reduction sequence
I have always had the impression that if I missed the early reduction stages I would miss the opportunity to transform the glaze quality in a firing. I thought only by vigilance could I get my reduction in at the right time and that after that a fusion took place that prevented any oxygen being drawn from the glaze matrix. Recently due to some unforeseen chaos in the studio I missed the cone 08 and the pyrometer showed 1162°C before I realised...
The thought of honey coloured Chun and brown Celadon plus the ruination of a kiln full of work did not entice me so I shut down and let temperature drop to 1000°C before continuing with normal reduction settings of the damper and primary air. Surprise surprise the glazes were as good as ever. The firing took an extra 2 hours and I used gas I had not planned on but the results were normal and I avoided the dreaded oxidised glazes which characterise badly managed firings. Whew! learning new things, continuously.
A new beginning...
Its with a feeling of great relief to be finally launching this website that Ulrich and I have been working on for the past many many months and a very welcome welcome thing that I am posting the first blog.
The website is going up in the time that of the year when everything else is coming to a close so it's good to have some studio time without teaching and without commissions taking centre stage. I have a few interesting sculpture ideas to start work on, so I'm feeling happy that that's right in front of me. There will be more of that to come. I will also be showing up at the Byron Beachfront Fair (with tablewares mostly) and the Byron Art Classic (with a quirky sculpture) in early January, two very special local events which enable us locals to get our work out there in public.
As for the year ahead, I have quite some projects already underway and I will talk about them more in future postings.There is tableware exhibition in October and a public art project being formed. Also Sculpture by the Tree returns in November at the Park in Federal bringing together sculpture from the region, and just in case I feel idle I have recently prepared the kiln site for my long awaited wood fire kiln; a project my friend and potter extraordinaire, Malcolm Greenwood, is joining me in.
Multi facetted Suvira McDonald is an award-winning Australian artist who may be found working in the forested hinterland of Byron Shire in northern NSW, Australia. His portfolio comprises two main threads of work, Ceramics and Sculpture. The contemporary ceramic art constantly finds new modes of expression; in his hands clay takes myriad forms. The large elemental constructed forms that find placement as garden sculpture, his unique ceramic landscapes, functional ceramics such as urns, platters, vases and the everyday coffee mug find uncommon form and excellence in his ceramic studio. His contemporary ceramic art has been acquired into many collections, private, public and corporate, in Australia and internationally.
His practice has been influenced and shaped by enquiry into the spiritual traditions of the Orient and various indigenous cultures: he found art and spirituality integrated into culture in these contexts, something amiss in our contemporary western society. Similarly Suvira is inspired by the natural elements in play surrounding his rainforest studio in Australia and realises an interplay of those cultural/spiritual influences with nature. His work has a distinct landscape reference whether the medium is ceramic, steel or other metals. The most overt landscape references are contained in his wall mounted ceramic panels, pieces which initially evolved from the artist's extensive studies in the field through photography and drawing, augmented by references to earth science, and various schools of landscape painting including the Heidelberg School of Painting, the screen painters of medieval Japan. These influences have been translated into ceramic language through his familiarity with the glaze science of the Sung Dynasty Chinese potters and his own glaze research over several decades. This eclectic set of influences all indicate his strong affinity with land and a connection with its underlying spirit. These highly original ceramic landscape panels appear as floating on the wall. See the Ceramics (landscape) Galleries.
In other areas of research Suvira McDonald is concerned with the production of contemporary ceramic sculpture. His work in this genre are often assemblages of multiple components with very richly encrusted surface textures evocative of ancient cultural symbols. Free standing pieces, which can also materialise as vessels, again reflect the landscape influence and and introduce a new reference, scholars rocks or gongshi, a traditional Chinese and Japanese art form. The Ceramics (sculpture) Gallery shows examples.
Functional ceramics is another genre within the ceramic medium Suvira continues to investigate. Discussing the contemporary vessel and its place in daily domestic rituals and special occasions is of particular interest and is central to the creation of the learning environment he creates for students. Examples of Suvira's tableware can be found in galleries of the Northern Rivers of NSW, and in the Ceramics (tableware) Gallery here on site. Funerary wares are also viewable there as he has produced a range of urns for ashes as well as memorials.
In the Sculpture (steel & assemblage) Gallery you can find recent explorations in metal. Impressions of the landscape which have initiated a progressional unfolding of spiralling steel rods has in turn produced a series of award winning pieces.
Placemaking is a name given to the broad activity of artfully producing public places. It integrates art into our built landscape, therefore producing cultural markers in those environments. Encompassing Public Art, placemaking represents an interface of art with architecture, a domain where architects, landscape designers and artists meet. The public art of Suvira McDonald enhances such places as corporate foyers and public parks. He has a proven ability to respond well in the commissioning process. Some public and corporate art works are for viewing in the Sculpture (public art) Gallery


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Alan Kotok
|Alan Kotok
Kotok at CSAIL in 2006
9 November 1941
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
26 May 2006 (aged 64)
Cambridge, Massachusetts
|United States
|Alma mater
|Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Clark University
|Known for
|World Wide Web Consortium, Digital Equipment Corporation, Spacewar!, computer chess
|Judith Kotok
|Scientific career
|computer science
|Digital Equipment Corporation, World Wide Web Consortium
Alan Kotok (November 9, 1941 – May 26, 2006) was an American computer scientist known for his work at Digital Equipment Corporation (Digital, or DEC) and at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Steven Levy, in his book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, describes Kotok and his classmates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as the first true hackers.
Kotok was a precocious child who skipped two grades before college. At MIT he became a member of the Tech Model Railroad Club, and after enrolling in MIT's first freshman programming class, he helped develop some of the earliest computer software including a digital audio program and what is sometimes called the first video game (Spacewar!). Together with his teacher John McCarthy and other classmates, he was part of the team that wrote the Kotok-McCarthy program which took part in the first chess match between computers.
After leaving MIT, Kotok joined the computer manufacturer DEC, where he worked for over 30 years. He was the chief architect of the PDP-10 family of computers, and created the company's Internet Business Group, responsible for several forms of Web-based technology. Kotok is known for his contributions to the Internet and to the World Wide Web through his work at the World Wide Web Consortium, which he and Digital had helped to found, and where he served as associate chairman.
Personal life[edit]
Alan Kotok was born in 1941 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was raised as an only child in Vineland, New Jersey.[1][2] During his childhood, he played with tools in his father's hardware store and learned model railroading.[1][2] He was a precocious child, skipping two grades at high school, and he matriculated at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) aged 16.[3] Although his interest in computers began at Vineland High School, his first practical experience of computing came at MIT; there he developed a habit of working late at night when more computer time was available.[1][2]
In 1977, at age 36, Kotok married Judith McCoy, a choir director and piano teacher on the faculty of the Longy School of Music.[2][4] They lived in Harvard, Massachusetts, Cambridge, Massachusetts and Cape May, New Jersey. The couple shared a love of 16th and 17th-century music and pipe organs, and toured historic pipe organs in Sweden, Germany, Italy and Mexico.[2] They had a daughter, Leah Kotok, and two stepchildren from Judith's prior marriage,[4] Frederica and Daryl Beck.[3][5]
Kotok recorded an oral history at the Computer History Museum in 2004.[1] He died at his home in Cambridge, apparently from a heart attack, on May 26, 2006, six months after the death of his wife during her treatment for cancer.[2][5]
MIT: 1958–62[edit]
At MIT, Kotok earned bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering.[6] He was influenced by teachers such as Jack Dennis and John McCarthy and by his involvement in the student-organized Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC), which he joined soon after starting college in 1958.[1]
While a graduate student and member of TMRC, Dennis introduced his students to the TX-0 on loan to MIT indefinitely from Lincoln Laboratory. In the spring of 1959, McCarthy taught the first course in programming that MIT offered to freshmen.[7] Outside classes, Kotok, David Gross, Peter Samson, Robert A. Saunders and Robert A. Wagner, all friends from TMRC, reserved time on the TX-0.[8] They were able to use the TX-0 as a personal, single-user tool rather than a batch processing system, thanks to Dennis, faculty advisors and John McKenzie, the operations manager.[9]
In September 1961, Digital donated a PDP-1 to MIT.[10] Although not an expensive machine, and with a tiny (by today's standards) 9K of memory, it had a Type 30 precision CRT display. Dennis oversaw the PDP-1 lab, located next door to the TX-0. Students from TMRC worked as support staff, programming the new computer.[8]
With classmates Elwyn Berlekamp, Michael Lieberman, Charles Niessen and Wagner, Kotok began to develop McCarthy's IBM 704 chess-playing program in 1959. Kotok described their work in MIT Artificial Intelligence Project Memo 41 and in his bachelor's thesis. By the time "the chess group" graduated in 1962, their program played chess "comparable to an amateur with about 100 games experience" on an IBM 7090.[11][12]
Although they came to learn a great deal about the game, neither Kotok nor McCarthy were known as chess players. Mikhail Botvinnik, three times world chess champion, wrote in his book Computers, Chess and Long-Range Planning that the Kotok–McCarthy program's "rule for rejecting moves was so constituted that the machine threw the baby out with the bath water."[13] The program drew criticism from Richard Greenblatt, who later wrote Mac Hack, which beat a person in tournament play,[14] and more recently, from Hans Berliner, when he looked back on it in 2005.[15] During the Cold War, Kotok-McCarthy played (and lost to) the best Russian chess program in the first match between computer programs.[16]
Martin Graetz, Stephen Russell and Wayne Wiitanen conceived the computer game Spacewar! while working at Harvard University in 1961. Inspired by Marvin Minsky's Three Position Display (which they dubbed the Minskytron), they had the first version running, with help from their MIT classmates Dan Edwards, Kotok, Stephen D. Piner, Samson and Saunders, by early 1962. Coded by Russell, Spacewar! was one of the earliest interactive computer games[17] and is sometimes called the first video game.[18]
Kotok did not write any of the Spacewar! code, but he did travel to Digital to obtain a sine-cosine routine that Russell needed.[19] Graetz credited Kotok and Saunders with building the game controllers that allowed two people to play side by side.[17]
Spacewar! has had an enduring legacy. The game's success was celebrated in Rolling Stone for the game's 10th anniversary in 1972 in "Spacewar: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums".[20] More recently, the source code has been transcribed into a Spacewar! Java applet,[21] and on the 40th anniversary in 2002, the creators of Spacewar! were interviewed by the New York Times.[18]
Edward Fredkin, at one time at BBN Technologies (BBN) (Digital's first customer for the PDP-1), McCarthy, Russell, Samson, Kotok and Harlan Anderson met in May 2006 for a panel to celebrate the Computer History Museum's restoration of a PDP-1 (with Gordon Bell on tape).[22] Their presentations illustrated the contributions of TX-0 and PDP-1 users to early software.
- Piner wrote Expensive Typewriter which enabled the group to operate the TX-0 and PDP-1 directly.
- Wagner wrote Expensive Desk Calculator.
- On a second PDP-1 in the physics department, Daniel L. Murphy wrote the Text Editor and Corrector (TECO) text editor, later used to implement Emacs.
- Samson wrote the type-justifying program known as TJ-2, an early page layout program, and implemented the War card game.
- Collaboration on computing waveforms with Dennis on the TX-0 led to Samson writing the Harmony Compiler with which PDP-1 users coded music.
- Kotok and Samson worked together on T-Square, a drafting program that used a Spacewar! controller to move the cursor.[8]
- Gross and Kotok built the digital audio program Expensive Tape Recorder.
Early PDP-1 users wrote programming software including an assembler translated from the TX-0 over one weekend in 1961.[8] Kotok later wrote an interpreter for the Lisp programming language in TECO macros.[8]
Kotok and his classmates are described as the first true hackers in the book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy.[7]
Digital: 1962–96[edit]
After graduating from MIT, Kotok started at Digital Equipment Corporation as one of the company's first few dozen employees; in his 34-year career with the company, he held senior engineering positions in storage, telecommunications and software.[2][23]
He began in 1962 by writing a Fortran compiler for the PDP-4, before contributing to the development of the PDP-5 instruction set.[1] Under Harlan Anderson (vice president of engineering), principal architect Gordon Bell led a team, including Kotok as an assistant logic designer, which developed the first commercial time-sharing computer, the PDP-6, designed and delivered in 1963–1964.[2] Aiming at a scientific market, Digital machines had a 36-bit word length to accommodate artificial intelligence work in Lisp and to compete with IBM mainframe computers.[24] In 1965, in what may have been the first around-the-world networking connection,[25] a PDP-6 at the University of Western Australia in Perth was operated from Boston in the United States via a telex link.[26]
Kotok became the principal architect and designer of several generations of the PDP-10, DECsystem-10 and DECSYSTEM-20.[6] Bell, Thomas Hastings, Richard Hill and Kotok wrote that the DECSystem-10 accelerated the transition from batch-processing to time-sharing and single-user systems.[27] With Kotok as system architect, the VAX 8600 (known as Venus) was introduced in 1984 as the highest-performance computer in Digital's history to date, operating up to 4.2 times faster than the standard at the time.[6][28]
Kotok expanded his areas of expertise from engineering into teaching and business: following a suggestion of Berlekamp, he taught logic design at the University of California, Berkeley during the 1975–1976 academic year; he also earned a master's degree in business administration from Clark University in 1978,[29] which prepared him for later work at Digital and W3C.
Web: 1994–97[edit]
While at Digital, Kotok recognized the Web's potential, and helped to found the World Wide Web Consortium. Early in 1994, in Zürich, Switzerland, Tim Berners-Lee had met with Michael Dertouzos to discuss starting a new organization at MIT.[31] In April 1994, Kotok, Steve Fink, Gail Grant and Brian Reid from Digital traveled to CERN in Geneva to speak with Berners-Lee about the need for a consortium to create open standards and coordinate Web development. Berners-Lee mentions the pivotal meeting with Digital in his book Weaving the Web.[32]
As technical director of Digital's Corporate Strategy Group, Kotok was instrumental in creating the Internet Business Group which advocated early adoption and integration of Internet and Web-based technologies.[23] Digital created the AltaVista search engine, the Internet firewall, the Web portal, the webcast and live election returns.[33][34] Digital continued its lead in Internet and Web development through difficult times, but Kotok questioned a corporate strategy that he believed consumed Web and Internet resources to sell Digital products like the AlphaServer.[35] For example, he saw a missed opportunity in Millicent, the micropayment system for buying and selling Web content for fractions of a U.S. cent.[36]
Kotok was a corporate consulting engineer for Digital 1962–1997, W3C Advisory Committee representative for Digital 1994–1996, vice president of marketing for GC Tech Inc. 1996–1997, member of the Science Advisory Board for Cylink Corp., a consultant for Compaq, and a content advisor for the Computer History Museum.[6][37]
Digital and GC Tech were early W3C members and were among the sponsors of the Fourth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW4) in 1995 in Boston.[38] Kotok coordinated a birds of a feather meeting on Selection of Payment Vehicle for Internet Purchases on April 7, 1997, at WWW6 in Santa Clara, California.[39] In La Jolla, California, he presented Micropayment Systems to the Electronic Payments Forum in 1997.[40]
W3C: 1997–2006[edit]
Kotok joined W3C as associate chairman in May 1997.[29] His role involved managing contractual relations with W3C hosts and member organizations, coordinating the worldwide W3C Systems and Web Team services to millions of pages and resources on the W3C website, and maintaining the W3C host site at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), where he was a research scientist.[1][23][29]
While he was associate chairman, Kotok was a member of the W3C management team,[41] and worked closely with the W3C Advisory Board.[42] He helped to establish a new W3C office in India and worked with an internal task force to reduce membership fees in developing countries.[43] He was a major contributor to the W3C Patent Policy and chaired Patent Advisory Groups, including one for HTML.[44][45] He briefly served as Domain Leader of the Technology and Society Domain which at that time included W3C's activity in digital signatures, electronic commerce, public policy, PICS, RDF metadata, privacy, and security.[46]
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- ^ "Meeting Report". Electronic Payments Forum. January 1997. Retrieved 2006-07-01.
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- ^ "In Memoriam: Alan Kotok". ERCIM News. ERCIM EEIG. July 2006. Retrieved 2009-02-11.
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