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For me at least, there are lots of surprises here. The first movement of the 8th symphony was first conceived as for a piano concerto, Beethoven's first after the Emperor. The first sketches for the Eroica symphony immediately follow those for the Eroica variations, op. 35, which surely means that Beethoven's first conception of that symphony was not the first or second movement but the finale. His first idea for the finale of the 5th was completely different from the one we know. Beethoven's commission from the Royal Philharmonic Society, which resulted in the 9th symphony, was for two symphonies, and Beethoven's ideas for the second were pretty strange:
Lockwood does not provide systematic commentary on every movement of each completed symphony, and his comments supplement the program notes in D.F. Tovey's Essays in Musical Analysis rather than covering the same ground. This is probably a second book on the symphonies, then, rather than the one and only. But for those who already know the symphonies reasonably well and want to know more about them, this is the book to have.Beethoven wrote:Adagio cantique - pious song in a symphony in the ancient modes - Lord God we praise thee - alleluia - either by itself alone or as introduction to a fugue. Perhaps the whole second symphony might be characterized in this way, whereby the vocal parts would enter in the last movement or already in the adagio. The orchestral violins are to be increased tenfold in the last movement. Or the adagio would be repeated in a certain way in the last movement, whereby the singing voics would enter one by one - in the adagio a text from Greek myth, a Cantique Ecclesiastique - in the allegro a celebration of Bacchus.
(Lockwood keeps notated musical examples to a minimum, mainly sketches, but refers readers to a web site with more of them: musicexamples.com.)
Lewis Lockwood, "Beethoven's Symphonies: An Artistic Vision" (New York: W. W. Norton, 2015)


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For garden industry, May is when market is hottest
Old Greenwich Garden Club holds annual plant sale at Riverside Community Center
OLD GREENWICH -- Each spring, as May gets underway, Linda Lewis prepares to celebrate the culmination of a year's work.
Stepping into her home's garden with sheers and shovel, she divvies up her plants.
"Hosta, peonies, lily of the valley, lamium and ferns," she said of this year's haul.
On Saturday, the plants will be up for sale at the Old Greenwich Garden Club's annual plant sale, which is taking place at the Old Greenwich Riverside Community Center.
"We open our doors at 8 a.m.," said Lewis, a co-chairwoman of the 65-member club. "And we'll have a line going out to the street at 7:30 for people waiting to get in."
Accountants have Tax Day, politicians have early November, and whoever wants to sell garden supplies has this: early May, the vernal window when the market for things that grow out front and back lands front and center.
"As a guide, Mother's Day weekend is really planting season," said Scott Kurtz, store manager at Kings Food Market on Arcadia Road.
`Very, very busy'
To prove his point on Friday morning, Kurtz approached a female employee who oversees flower sales. He asked about the top sellers. Without a moment's delay, she flipped open a book of bar codes that corresponded with pink New Guinea impatiens, geraniums, hydrangeas, azaleas and "combination baskets," which feature several of the plants.
"Lots of people say we have the best selection in town," said Kurtz, offering a dash of salesmanship. With that, he marched past the produce section, past the rainbow of in-store bouquets and out into the parking lot. There, more flower displays sat beside bags of potting soil, welcome mats and other gardening equipment. "We're going to be very, very busy starting tomorrow morning," he said.
Presumably, not every customer will be interested. Nearby, strolling down Arcadia Road on Friday morning, longtime Old Greenwich resident David Gray paused from shopping long enough to render a verdict on planting season.
Extra hours
"I grew up with the idea that you never put annuals out 'til May 15," he said, taking a jab at stores like The Home Depot and supermarkets he didn't specifically identify that break the old-time norm in the spirit of boosting sales.
Gray's favorite place to buy plants and flowers: Sam Bridge Nursery and Greenhouse up on North Street.
"This is it -- April, May and June are our crazy, crazy months," confirmed Susie Chavez, an employee at Sam Bridge, reached by phone Friday afternoon. In fact, the Sam Bridge business relies on workers putting in extra hours during these months, she said, to handle the surge in demand.
"Because we had a long winter this year, more than ever, people just can't wait to get their pots filled with flowers, get their herbs and tomatoes planted," she added.
Sole fundraiser
Of course, other items spring to mind, too. At Feingold Hardware, the stacks of Scotts "Turf Builder Seeding Soil" were running low on the Sound Beach Avenue sidewalk Friday morning. Inside, the shelves near the cash register were lined with other gardening essentials: gloves, flower pots and a spray called "Weed B Gon."
Salesman Andrew Wolf confirmed that this year's gloomy spring has dampened gardening sales somewhat. But it's finally picked up recently, he said. Soon, like all things in life, it will give way to the sorts of products that blossom themselves in the summer months: barbecue grills.
By then, Lewis and the Old Greenwich Garden Club will be well into another year of garden projects. Members maintain pretty patches at places like Old Greenwich School and throughout the village, and also conduct various classes and outreach programs. Their plant sale this Saturday is the group's sole fundraiser. Lewis declined to say how much money they generally raise.
Whatever this year's haul, though, she's certain about one thing. Come next week, she'll cast her eyes toward another year's Mother's Day.
"We'll start planning next year's right away," she said. "We'll have a meeting, maybe sometime next week."
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RENO, NV - Senate candidate Sharron Angle's religious views have reentered the public debate fueled by, of all things, an 18-year old small town controversy over football jerseys.
The candidate's appearance today before the Washoe Republican Women's Club hit all her talking points--the need to pay down the debt, cut taxes and spending, return more responsibility to states and communities, her revised explanation of what she would do with Social Security and, of course, tying Senator Reid to the state's economic woes.
But in a quick meeting with members of the press afterward, a new subject surfaced, one that once again brought Angle's religious views into the political debate.
It concerned a brief controversy in Tonopah in 1992 and the high school football coach's proposal to fire his team up to avenge a previous loss the year before by having his team drop the school's red and white jerseys in favor of black.
According to former Tonopah newspaper editor Bill Roberts, Angle, then running for her first public office on the Nye County school board, argued "black as a color was thoroughly evil, invoking the supernatural and especially the devil."
That's not the way Angle says she remembers it.
"I will just tell you that Bill Roberts and I have completely different recollections," Angle said. "That was 20 years ago and it really doesn't matter because Nevadans care about their homes, their jobs and the economy."
Angle added her relgious views are the basis of her value system. "Many people embrace my value system because they know I'm not going to lie."
Roberts' column in the Pahrump Valley Times was picked up by the Los Angeles Times and is now making the rounds on the internet.
A spokeswoman for her campaign said afterward Angle has no recollection of the controversy or any position she may have taken.
Angle's faith has surfaced earlier in the campaign after she likened her race to a religious calling and suggested government programs were violating the Ten Commandments encouraging idolatry.
In other remarks, Angle repeated her view of the New York Mosque controversy saying while the constitution guarantees the rights of private property "with those rights comes responsibility. Sometimes we give up our rights for the sensibilities of others."


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COOKVELLE, Tenn. -- It will be a banner day for the Golden Eagle
football program and a first for the women's track and cross
country programs when Tennessee Tech Athletics inducts five new
members into the TTU Sports Hall of Fame on Friday, Oct. 30, during
Homecoming festivities.
Four of the five -- Jim Bishop, John Moorhead, Tony Stone and Branon Vaughn -- played football for the Golden Eagles, while Dena Adams Fairley becomes the first member of the women's track and cross country program to be inducted.
The five will be honored during the annual Hall of Fame Dinner on Friday night, Oct. 30, and also recognized at the Homecoming football game on Saturday, Oct. 31. They will lift the total of people in the Hall of Fame to 146 since it was established in 1975.
* Dena Adams was one of the school's most
honored student-athletes during her career as a distance runner for
the Golden Eagles from 1994 to 1997, winning Academic All-America
and all-OVC honors while setting school records.
* Jim Bishop was a team captain and all-conference selection on the football team from 1968 to 1971, and also played one season on the Tech baseball team, before the NFL draft sent him toward a brief pro football career with the San Diego Chargers, Kansas City Chiefs and Houston Oilers.
* John Moorhead was a four-year letterman in both football and track & field for the Golden Eagles from 1955 to 1959. He set school and conference records on the track in the high jump and mile relay, and was a two-time all-OVC selection in football.
* Tony Stone was also on the Golden Eagle
football team during the second half of the 1950s, helping win an
Ohio Valley Conference championships, but his greatest
contributions to the program began eight years after his graduation
when he returned to his alma mater as an assistant coach and
headed up Tech's dominant defensive secondary from 1967 to
* Branon Vaughn was an OVC Defensive Player of the Year during his record-setting career as a defensive end from 1995 to 1999. A three-time all-OVC pick, he set several school records for quarterback sacks and was a national finalist for the prestigious Buck Buchanan Award.
In-depth biographies of each of the five inductees will be published as the Hall of Fame Dinner approaches. Tickets for the Hall of Fame dinner will go on sale soon at the Athletics Ticket Office in Eblen Center.


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On April 6, 2016 the JBL research team is setting off with 50 people to the Orinoco and to Venezuela's tabletop mountains in order to carry out aquatic and herpetological research for 10 days. Included in the luggage are the new JBL potassium and magnesium water tests to give us detailed information about the water composition at locations with aquatic plants. By measuring the currents in the rivers of the tabletop mountains, southeast of Venezuela, we'll find out which of the fish and plant species living there prefer the currents and how strong the currents actually are. Even though Venezuela is politically turbulent, we do not expect the team to be affected by the unrest because the rainforest of Orinoco and the isolation of the tabletop mountains both remain peaceful areas.
The jungle of Venzuela has no internet reception, but the team will still file sporadically but live reports about the expedition from there. You will find the reports in the Blog . In the follow-up to the journey we will, as with all the other expeditions, provide you with measurement data and daily reports with plentiful photos and videos under Expeditions .


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Parents Fake Sleep During Nighttime Feedings
Photo credit: Ghislain & Marie David de Lossy/Vetta/Getty Images
Late Night Feeding Study
According to the 2014 Chicco Late Night Feeding Survey, 44 percent of parents suspected their partners have pretended to be asleep to avoid late-night feedings. More than one-third of dads surveyed (38 percent) admit they have actually done so, but only 28 percent of moms say the same.
Moms (mostly) take over at midnight
The study also showed that 91 percent of moms generally take on the majority of the late-night feedings. However much that might suck at 2 a.m., there is a precious reward: the bonding time with your baby. The survey says, "Although late-night feedings put added strain on new parents, the bonding between parent and child during the wee hours is worth the lack of sleep. The majority of parents (75 percent) report those late-night feedings have deepened the bond between them and their babies." I wholeheartedly agree. As a work-from-home mom that breastfed my babies through their first year, nighttime feedings were solely my responsibility (by choice) and I wouldn't trade those special, sleepy hours sitting up feeding my babies for anything in the world.
Social media multi-taskers
Turns out many parents have trouble just focusing on one thing at a time. Ever the multi-tasking society that we are, the study found that a whopping 98 percent of moms and 94 percent of dads check social media while feeding Baby in the middle of the night. No big surprise — Facebook was the social network they are most likely to visit during the late-night feedings. But according to the survey, "That's where the similarities end, as half of dads are most likely to check Twitter (48 percent versus 23 percent of moms) and YouTube (45 percent versus 25 percent of moms) while Baby is feeding in the middle of the night; whereas moms are more likely to check Pinterest (38 percent versus 16 percent of dads)."
Chicco polled new moms and dads for the study in celebration of its new NaturalFit Advanced Feeding & Soothing System, which offers a three-stage system containing four bottles that adapt to the feeding styles as Baby grows. The bottles are engineered to be responsive to the changing feeding styles of babies by featuring distinct nipple shapes which also provide an easier transition between breast and bottle.
More on newborns and new parents
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I say 'click on the icon/word/image', not 'click on the mouse'.
English Teacher
How do I know when the word "click" is an intransitive or transitive?
Do you always say "click on the mouse" or you also say "click the mouse"?
If "click the mouse" is wrong, why "click the button" is right?
Thanks for your reply.
I say 'click on the icon/word/image', not 'click on the mouse'.
mus musculus. In some software program clicking on a pet 'feeds' it.
But the term 'computer mouse; shows that this is wrong. Impasse.
When you "click" a button on a computer screen, you are literally clicking a button on the computer mouse. In most cases, saying "click the OK button to continue" people will understand to move the mouse so that the mouse pointer is over the OK button and then click the button on the mouse.
Escher were alive!
These are what I found in the dictionaries.
Longman Activator Thesaurus
click on /ˈklɪk ɒn/ [transitive phrasal verb]
to press a button on a mouse in order to choose something on the screen and make the computer perform a particular action:
Click on 'next' when you have finished filling out the form.
Longman Phrasal Verbs Dictionary
click on
click on sth
to make a computer perform an operation by pressing a button on the mouse in order to choose something on the screen. A mouse is a small object connected to a computer, which you move with your hand to give commands to the computer
Once you have entered your data, click on OK.
Click on the printer icon with the right mouse button.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
2 [intransitive and transitive] to press a button on a computer mouse to choose something from the screen that you want the computer to do, or to press a button on a remote control :
Choose the image you want by clicking twice.
click on
Children can click on a sentence to hear it read aloud.
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
2 ~ (on sth) to choose a particular function or item on a computer screen, etc., by pressing one of the buttons on a mouse
Click the OK button to start.
I clicked on the link to the next page of the website.
To run a window, just double-click on the icon.
Oxford Dictionary of English 2nd Edition
■ Computing press one of the buttons on a mouse to select a function or item on the screen: [no obj.] you can click on an underlined word to jump to another section | [with obj.] click the left mouse button twice.
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One more from the Collins Cobuild English Dictionary
If you click on an area of a computer screen, you point the cursor at that area and press one of the buttons on the mouse in order to make something happen.
[no passive]
I clicked on a link and recent reviews of the production came up.
Click the link and see what happens.
From those dictionaries, the usage seems to be unpredictable!
"click on a link" and "click the link" both exist in Collins Cobuild Dictionary.
"click on" is repeatedly introduced in Longman series.
"double-click on the icon" and "click the left mouse button" are found in Oxford system.
It seems like a writer's option?


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Computers For Kids necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 78 diseños de 19 diseñadores freelance.
Computers For Kids
We're a green based nonprofit that accepts used computers, rebuilds them and finds ways to distribute them to schools and children who can't afford them. In addition to this, we properly recycle every we cant' reuse thus keeping the environment clean!
We realize a logo can't say everything about a company nor is it supposed to. We also somewhat understand the concept of branding. However, we're not experts in the field like the designers here. We also realize this could be a challenging project but we have the faith, thus the reason we are here. Our main emphasis is giving computers to schools and children along with recycling everything that can't be used. We're interested in a classy yet simple design that may or my not included children, computers, parts of computers or a way to represent recycling We don't have any desire to have a logo with a crayon style such as a daycare may use. The logo must be professional yet fun. (told you is was going to be challenging) After our launch in Tucson, our plan is to become national and occupy at least one major city in each state. Our tag line is "Building their tomorrows-today" and we would like it included in the logo if you see fit. Remember, your input is valuable to us!!! Upon creating a successful logo, we would like to use you to create our business cards and letterhead as well. GOOD LUCK and thank you in advance for all your effort.
UPDATE: We are uploading some ideas that we would like you to consider! The first picture with the round world and mice attached, grabbed our attention. The second picture includes some morphing the world into a mouse with the same concept.
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Chao Zhang has followed technology around the world — from China to Germany and finally to Seattle, where he joined the Microsoft Accelerator for Kinect to help launch his company, UBI Interactive.
What's next? Touch screens on any surface and exploring the future of human computer interaction. Find out more about how Zhang sees this new world unfolding in this episode of Nextcast.
Nextcast with Chao Zhang @ UBI Interactive from Nextcast on Vimeo.
Growing up with scientist parents, Chao "had a lot of toys, but they were all chemistry sets." When it came time to specialize in school, he pursued computer science which eventually led him to an intensive mentorship program with Microsoft.
When asked he's learned from building UBI Interactive, Chao smiles and says, "Starting a comany is really, really hard. That's what I learned." Coming from an international background and struggling with visas, he adds: "It's hard to just come here and get into the environment."
While UBI Interactive wants you to be able to turn any surface into a touch screen, Chao hopes the interaction between humans and computers doesn't stop there. "If humans want to work together with machines, there needs to be a more comfortable way to interact," he says. He looks forward to a day when "normal, ordinary people can talk to computers."
"In the future, it could be a 3D screen instead of a touch screen," Chao says, musing on the future of technology. "All the surfaces, all the walls, all the places — you can control them or they can read your mind."
Chao follows one mantra when he works: "Always make things perfect."
"In software development, the perfection never stops," he says. "The end user's satisfaction is most important, so if they feel good that's a kind of perfection for us."
Nextcast founder Jeff Dickey is passionate about technology, business and philosophy. He works as the chief cloud architect at Redapt, a Redmond-based cloud and big data infrastructure company. Additional reporting by Kate Stull. [Editor's note: GeekWire is proud to partner with Jeff Dickey who produces the Nextcast entrepreneur interview series].
Previously: Matt Hulett's startup advice: 'Money makes you soft'…Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz on search, startups, sticking it out…Entrepreneur Dan Shapiro: Startups aren't a science


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In collaboration with 100lux, we're holding an Audition in Montreal for the presentation of a KLOROFYL excerpt in February 2018.
Read all the details here: http://www.100lux.ca/audition
It's confirmed – Flato Markham Theatre will officially present the Award-winning full-length Production 'KLOROFYL' on January 18, 2018.
Get your tickets here: https://secure1.tixhub.com/markham/online/b_otix.asp?cboPerformances=3232&cboEvent=1969
We will be presenting a KLOROFYL excerpt at Dance Ontario's Dance Weekend 25th Anniversary edition. Join us on Saturday January 20 at 6:30pm at the Fleck Dance Theatre.
Among other exciting dance companies that you will be able to catch at the festival from January 19-21 2018, you can also experience:
- Skills & Soul Battle on January 19 at 9pm
- Apolonia's piece KUDETA, a commission for the School of Toronto Dance Theatre will also be performed on January 20 at 5:30pm
- Apolonia's piece UNHUSH, a commission for Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre will be performed on January 21 at 2pm
- We will lead an Urban Dance Workshop at 11am
We're coming to Montreal! We'll be doing a special collaboration with 100Lux. Dancers from Montreal AND dancers form our company will be part of the cast to remount KLOROFLY. 100Lux has been doing their thing for over 6 years now supporting promoting and leveling up urban dance and putting up platforms for urban dance artists from styles such as hip hop, popping, bboying, house, locking, krump, waacking. We'll be sharing the stage for three nights with company Ör Pür. Come through if you're in Montreal and you want to see something solid on a REALLY really nice stage AKA Place des Arts.
On the menu
Gadfly (Toronto)
Finding influences in the 1964 Japanese film Seven Samurai , in which warriors must regain their spark when forced to work together to survive, the play embodies the iconic style of Gadfly, which is rooted in the physical aspect of urban and contemporary dances, as well as the balance between creativity and entertainment.
Choreographers – Artistic Directors: Apolonia Velasquez and Ofilio Sinbadinho
Ör Pür (Montréal)
Simply fiction of the imagination or is it reality and ultimately fate? Do we have power over the Zodiak or is it the power of the Zodiak that defines us?
Choreographer – Artistic Director: Cindy Mc Auliffe
The Living Arts Centre is presenting our Award-winning full-length Production 'KLOROFYL' on March 18, 2018.
Get your tickets here: http://www.livingartscentre.ca/theatre-performances/klorofyl-gadfly-18
We're sad to me missing Dance Ontario Dance Weekend this year due to our upcoming tour. However, we're thrilled that The School of Toronto Dance Theatre will be presenting Ofilio's commissioned choreography RELOSSLSS. Watch is on Saturday, January 26 at 4 pm at the Fleck Dance Theatre.
You can catch many other companies at the festival January 26-27 2019.


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Thursday, October 28, 2010
'October' 24x30 oil
'October' oil, 24x30 © Marc R. Hanson '10
I neglected to mention that this was painted from a field study that I did earlier in the week...
'What A Difference A Day Makes" 8x10
Here's the little 6x8 that is on the exhibit ad for the show. This was a demo for my August workshop a couple of seasons ago.
21 comments:
Hi Marc,
Will all these painting
be for sale.
- October 28, 2010 at 3:14 PM
- Marc R. Hanson said...
This one will, some of the others might be but not all. They're my teaching tools and the exhibit is centered around B&W and how valuable it is for artists in study and in finished work. So it wouldn't make sense to sell my tools. :)
- October 28, 2010 at 3:18 PM
- Deb Kirkeeide said...
this is gorgeous Marc!
- October 28, 2010 at 4:35 PM
- Moish said...
I like it more than "What A Difference A Day Makes". maybe less is more.
- October 28, 2010 at 5:39 PM
- Marc R. Hanson said...
Thanks Deb and Moish.
I forgot to mention that it was painted from 'What A Difference A Day Makes'... thanks for that. I"m going to edit the post and include that painting for reference.
- October 28, 2010 at 5:41 PM
- Bruce Sherman said...
Hey there Marc!.... Cool this last posting!
Values sure have to be smack on in this approach - good exercise for all of us!
"You" are so right my Friend!
"What a difference a day makes!"
The difference ...is spelled out clearly... in black n' white! HAHA!!
Good Painting... and Good Luck with the show!
Warmest regards,
- October 28, 2010 at 7:11 PM
- Marc R. Hanson said...
Good one Bruce... :) And thank you for your comments. Snowing there yet? Slightly regretting it, but mostly looking forward to some painting in the snow.
- October 28, 2010 at 8:00 PM
- judith said...
Marc , They are all lovely , but the value study is amazing !
- October 28, 2010 at 8:30 PM
- Marc R. Hanson said...
Judith I'm glad that you feel that way. All of this stuff we practice about value really does make a difference in our ability to understand relationships.
I might change things about this if I were to do it again, but it was an amazing exercise in my ability to translate color into it's place in a value scale within the picture's parameters. I am on a bit of a time limit so I didn't have as much time to plan out the entire painting and just chose the field study as a guide. I'll probably be doing more of this in the future.
Thank you.
- October 28, 2010 at 8:34 PM
- Bruce Sherman said...
Hi back again!....Yep! Snowed last Thusday all night long...and hard enough to leave snow-covered roofs to greet me om my morning stroll!
Some places closeby had as much as 8 inches... on the ground. Didn't stay... the first snow never does. Ground is still too warm.... farmers here call it a "robin's" snow.
Some "loners" are still about, but the big flights departed... just in advance of the first snow. How do they know????
I much look forward to the snow cover for my painting. I even clomped about the basement to try out the bindings on my snowshoes! How's that for enthusism!!
Good Painting!
Warmest regards,
- October 29, 2010 at 8:17 AM
- Jean Spitzer said...
- October 29, 2010 at 9:44 AM
- Kelley Sanford said...
Who needs color? Amazing.
- October 29, 2010 at 1:20 PM
- Daroo said...
Nice painting -- I love the subtlety of the clouds.
Are you using Ivory black (or chromatic black) and white OR are you mixing two colors to get your black (say thalo & umber ?)
Do you ever teach the transparent monochrome approach in your classes? I am guessing that even though the main concern of both is value, its not really the same skill set as mixing with white to achieve the correct value.
Any chance of posting the painting that appears in the one sheet advertising the show (it reminds me of Carlson or maybe Dean Cornwell)?
- October 29, 2010 at 5:03 PM
- Marc R. Hanson said...
Thank you Jean and Kelley....
I sent this once from the iPhone but have no clue where it went??? Someone got a reply, but evidently not the blog...
Thank you Daroo. I used ivory black because the show organizers don't want any color to the paintings... for instance no sienna type value work. I know that even ivory black, and the others have warm and cool tendencies, but that's the word I had.
And you are right. For my purposes teaching a transparent technique on location wouldn't be as valuable or practical as mixing values with opaque black and white color.
Most of the reason for doing this is to teach myself and others the value of understanding how color and value are related. IMHO the only way to do that effectively is to do it from life.
I'm going to post that other painting...
- October 30, 2010 at 12:48 PM
- Daroo said...
Thanks so much -- you can really feel the light filtering down through the trees! Beautiful.
- October 31, 2010 at 8:29 AM
- billspaintingmn said...
Marc! These black and white paintings are wonderful! I will attempt to work on values this way,
(I've never painted in black & white before)
- October 31, 2010 at 3:13 PM
Your work is quite beautiful.
- November 3, 2010 at 8:17 AM
- martinealison said...
Très belle visite dans votre blog... Belles peintures...
- November 7, 2010 at 9:29 AM
- SKIZO said...
- November 8, 2010 at 5:58 AM
- jpatrickus said...
Mark, I viewed your work at the reception tonight. It was wonderful. All the artists provide excellent work. Thanks for teaching black and white this summer. It has greatly helped me with my work.
- November 13, 2010 at 9:51 PM
- Marc R. Hanson said...
Thank you for all of your kind comments. Black and White is interesting in more ways than just as a tool for study, but as a end product.
jpatrickus... Thank you for your review. Good crowds? I'm hoping to see some pics of the show in it's entirety.
- November 14, 2010 at 7:48 AM


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Illinois Supreme Court rules in favor of retirees
In a sweeping 6-1 decision, the Illinois Supreme Court last week struck down an attempt to force government retirees to pay more for their subsidized state health insurance. And while nothing is ever certain when it comes to the judiciary, the Court made it pretty darned clear that Illinois' new pension reform law is going to have real trouble passing constitutional review.
The Court, led by Justice Charles Freeman, did not specifically rule on the pension reform law, but declared "it is clear" that all pension benefits, including health insurance, cannot be, as the Illinois Constitution mandates, "diminished or impaired," which the ruling called the "plain and ordinary" meaning of the state's Constitution.
"We may not rewrite the pension protection clause to include restrictions and limitations that the drafters did not express and the citizens of Illinois did not approve," the Court ruled.
If that isn't a direct enough message to lawmakers, the governor and everybody else, I don't know what is. Pension benefits "shall not be diminished or impaired," is what the Constitution says, and the Court used the "plain meaning" angle to say they can't be cut.
For good measure the Court added that the state Constitution's language on pension benefit protections "was aimed at protecting the right to receive the promised retirement benefits, not the adequacy of the funding to pay for them."
That last line is perhaps the most important part of the ruling, because it more than just suggests the state's new pension reform laws – which rely on a "police powers" argument because the state allegedly can't afford to make the promised pension benefit payments – could very well be going right out the window.
The justices also sent a powerful message when they wrote that a "fundamental principle" they relied on in this ruling was that if there are any questions about legislative intent and the clarity of the language of a pension law, "it must be liberally construed in favor of the rights of the pensioner."
Therefore, the Court ruled, it is "obliged" to resolve any doubts "in favor of the members of the State's public retirement systems."
Looks like it's back to the ol' drawing board, fellas.
Attorney General Lisa Madigan's office pointed out that the pension reform case and the health insurance case have significant differences. The main difference is the emergency "police powers" argument. But as the Supremes essentially ruled last week, the state's financial problems are not the Constitution's concern.
The state pension reform legislation passed last year was projected to save taxpayers about $200 billion over 30 years. The health insurance reforms, which were specifically struck down last week, were projected to save up to around $80 million a year.
To say that last week's Illinois Supreme Court ruling could very well wind up blowing a hole in the state's budget would be akin to saying our Air Force dropped a few firecrackers on Vietnam.
If the pension reform law is the next to be struck down, there are few easy ways out of this fiscal nightmare.
Amending the state Constitution to remove that pension protection language would take more than two years because we'd have to wait until the 2016 election to hold the plebiscite.
And even then, deleting the Constitution's pension protection clause would almost surely only apply to new hires. In other words, all of the billions built up in the state's massive unfunded pension liability can't be touched.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Rauner's pension reform plan involves freezing annual pension benefit cost of living increases going forward and taking existing employees out of the pension fund altogether going forward. But last week's ruling was so sweeping and so all-encompassing that it's pretty tough to see how that would pass constitutional muster, either.
Senate President John Cullerton warned this very thing would happen years ago. He eventually negotiated a pension reform deal with the unions. But that deal was quickly rejected by House Speaker Michael Madigan, conservative newspaper editorial boards and much of the business community.
Cullerton then attempted to graft his pension reform proposal onto the business-backed plan. If the business-backed plan was rejected by the Illinois Supreme Court, Cullerton's compromise would then automatically become law.
But that idea, too, was rejected out of hand.
So instead of having a union-approved plan in place, we could very well be stuck with no plan at all. Why would the unions go back to the bargaining table if they have the Supreme Court on their side?
The bottom line is it's going to take some radical, out of the box thinking to resolve this issue or the state will assuredly face even higher taxes and lots more budget cuts to pay this tab.
Rich Miller also publishes Capitol Fax, a daily political newsletter, and CapitolFax.com.


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Arthur Nelson*—TERC Founder
The Nelson Companies and Chairman of TERC Board of Trustees and former Board Member (1965-2013)
Arthur Nelson worked as a research assistant in the Radiation Laboratory at MIT during the Second World War. He was, in fact, one of the first people to track an airplane with high-power microwave radar, a feat he accomplished standing atop a roof at MIT, beaming the radar off a plane flying overhead by moving the equipment by hand. The MIT Radiation Laboratory left Arthur with three indelible impressions: first, that difficult objectives can be accomplished given an intensity of effort; second, that the success of large technological undertakings depends upon skilled technicians and other paraprofessionals; and third, that the educational culture of MIT, whose motto is mens et manus—mind and hand—is much to be admired. These impressions were still etched in Arthur's memory twenty years later when he and six other technical educators met in 1965 at MIT as part of a month-long national conference on improving technical education. The group shared a vision of a nonprofit research center to develop high quality instructional materials for training a new population of specialized technicians. Together they founded TERC.
Current Board Members
Martin Storksdieck—Chair
Center for Research on Lifelong STEM Learning, Oregon State University
Before becoming the Director of the Center for Research on Lifelong STEM Learning in June 2014 Dr. Storksdieck served as the Director of the Board on Science Education (BOSE) at the National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academy of Sciences. As the BOSE Director he oversaw studies that address a wide range of issues related to science education and science learning, and provide evidence-based advice to decision-makers in policy, academia and educational practice. His prior research focused on what and how we learn when we do so voluntarily, and how learning is connected to our behaviors, identities and beliefs. This includes the role of personal perspectives in science learning, particularly related to controversial topics such as climate change or evolution, and how connections between school-based and out-of-school learning can create and sustain lifelong interest in science, but also learning itself. His research also focused on the role of science-based professionals and science hobbyists in communicating their passions to a broader public. Storksdieck has also previously served as director of project development and senior researcher at the non-profit Institute for Learning Innovation. In the 1990s he was a science educator with a planetarium in Germany, where he developed shows and programs on global climate change; served as editor, host, and producer for a weekly environmental news broadcast; and worked as an environmental consultant specializing in local environmental management systems. He holds an M.S. in biology from the Albert-Ludwigs University in Freiburg, Germany; an M.P.A. from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government; and a Ph.D. in education from Leuphana University in Lüneburg, Germany. Storksdieck also directs NRC's Roundtable on Climate Change Education.
Marta Civil
Department of Mathematics at The University of Arizona
Marta Civil is a Professor of Mathematics Education and the Roy F. Graesser Endowed Chair in the Department of Mathematics at The University of Arizona. Her research focuses on cultural, social, and language aspects in the teaching and learning of mathematics, linking in-school and out-of-school mathematics, and parental engagement in mathematics.
She has led several NSF-funded initiatives involving children, teachers, and parents, including Girls in the SYSTEM (Sustaining Youth in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), a gender equity project aimed at engaging low-income, culturally diverse children ages 8-13 in hands-on mathematics and science explorations in informal and after- school settings; MAPPS (Math and Parent Partnerships in the Southwest), which had as a goal to promote Latina/o parental involvement in mathematics through the development of leadership teams who learned about mathematics and in turn facilitated workshops for parents within their school district; and CEMELA (Center for the Mathematics Education of Latinos/as), an interdisciplinary, multi-university consortium focused on research and practice on the connections between the teaching and learning of mathematics and the cultural, social, and linguistic contexts of Latina/o students. She teaches primarily mathematics and mathematics education courses for preservice and practicing teachers and graduate courses on research in mathematics education.
Chris Dede
Graduate School of Education, Harvard University
Chris Dede is the Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. His fields of scholarship include emerging technologies, policy, and leadership. His current research includes seven grants from NSF, Qualcomm, the Gates Foundation, and the US Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences to explore immersive simulations and transformed social interactions as means of student engagement, learning, and assessment. In 2007, he was honored by Harvard University as an outstanding teacher, and in 2011 he was named a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association.Chris has served as a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Foundations of Educational and Psychological Assessment and a member of the 2010 National Educational Technology Plan Technical Working Group. His co-edited book, "Scaling Up Success: Lessons Learned from Technology-based Educational Improvement", was published by Jossey-Bass in 2005. A second volume he edited, "Online Professional Development for Teachers: Emerging Models and Methods", was published by the Harvard Education Press in 2006. His latest co-edited book, "Digital Teaching Platforms", will be published by Teachers College Press in 2012.
Herbert P. Ginsburg
Teachers College, Columbia University
Herbert P. Ginsburg holds the Jacob H. Schiff Chair at Teachers College, Columbia University, where he is Professor of Psychology and Education. For the past 30 years he has conducted research on cognitive development, particularly the development of children's mathematical thinking, both within the U. S. and in various cultures around the world. He has used the knowledge gained from research to develop several kinds of educational applications. He has created video workshops to enhance teachers' understanding of their children's learning of mathematics. He has contributed to the Silver Burdett & Ginn mathematics textbook series. He has developed tests of mathematical thinking and has explored how the "clinical interview" method for assessing children's mathematical knowledge can be used by teachers in their classrooms. Currently, he is engaged in research on young children's mathematical competence, and is developing a new mathematics curriculum for 4- and 5-year-old children.
Louis Gomez
University of California Los Angeles
Louis Gomez holds the MacArthur Chair in Digital Media and Learning in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California Los Angeles. Gomez has served since 2008 as a senior fellow at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, where he is part of the Network Initiation and Development effort. Beginning in 2009, he held the Helen S. Faison Chair in Urban Education at the University of Pittsburgh, where he was also director of the Center for Urban Education and a senior scientist at the Learning Research and Development Center. From 2001 to 2008, he held a number of faculty appointments at Northwestern University, including the Aon Chair in the Learning Sciences at the School of Education and Social Policy. Prior to joining academia, he spent 14 years working in cognitive science and human–computer interaction research at Bell Laboratories and Bell Communications Research (Bellcore). His scholarship focuses on understanding how to catalyze organizational change in schools and other institutions that improves the life chances of learners. His active research includes organizational improvement, the application of computing and networking technology to teaching and learning applied cognitive science, and human–computer interaction. Gomez received his bachelor's degree in psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1974 and a doctorate in cognitive psychology from UC Berkeley in 1979.
George E. Hein
George E. Hein, Professor Emeritus at Lesley University's Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences, has decades of experience as a curriculum developer, science educator, and director of national programs to facilitate systemic school change as well as extensive experience in museum education and visitor studies research. Early in his career he was an academic research chemist. In 1976 he founded the Program Evaluation Research Group (PERG) at Lesley University, which began by evaluating educational work of 25 museums and arts organizations in the Boston area and has become a major, national group studying education reform efforts. At Lesley, Dr. Hein developed and directed the university's first Ph.D. program. Most recently, Dr. Hein was a Museum Guest Scholar at the Getty Research Institute (2011) and held a Fellowship in Museum Practice at the Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies (2009-2010). From 2006-7, he was President of TERC. He has been a Visiting Faculty member in the Museum Studies Program at Fu-Jen University (2008); a Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Technology Sydney (2000); an Osher Fellow at The Exploratorium in San Francisco (1999); a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Visiting Scholar at the California Institute of Technology (1998); a Visiting Faculty member in the Museum Studies Program at the University of Leicester (1996); a Fulbright Research Fellow at King's College, London (1990); and a Research Associate at the Museum of Science, Boston. He serves on the advisory boards for several science museum exhibition development teams. He is the author of Progressive Museum Practice: John Dewey and Democracy (Left Coast Press. 2012), which was selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2013. Other publications include Active Assessment for Active Science (Heinemann, 1994) with Sabra Price, and Learning in the Museum (Routledge, 1998) as well as numerous papers on science education, museum education, and visitor studies.
Janice Jackson
Education Consultant in Policy, Leadership, and Organizational Change
Janice Jackson is a nationally recognized expert on leadership and organizational change in public schools and districts, equity strategies, teaching and learning, teachers' and principals' professional identity, and reflective judgment of principals and teachers. She was a Senior Associate at the National Equity Project and former Executive Director of the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education. She has worked in several academic positions, including Lecturer on Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education; Senior Associate on the Wallace funded Executive Leadership Program for Educators; faculty member in the Leadership for Change Program in the Carroll School of Management at Boston College; and assistant professor at Boston College in the Lynch School of Education with a joint appoint in the Department of Teacher Board Education, Special Education, Curriculum & Instruction and the Department of Educational Administration and Higher Education. Dr. Jackson entered higher education after serving as the Deputy Superintendent for the Boston Public Schools. During the first term of the Clinton Administration she served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education for the U. S. Department of Education.
Emily A. Maitin
Emily A. Maitin is the Executive Vice President and General Counsel for the Nelson Companies, where she oversees all legal matters pertaining to the Company's real estate and business related activities, including acquisitions, development, financing, leasing, property management, construction and general corporate and partnership matters. Prior to joining the Company, Ms. Maitin was an associate attorney with the law firm of Sullivan & Worcester in Boston and also served as a Law Clerk for the Superior Court of Massachusetts. Ms. Maitin is a cum laude graduate of Boston University Law School, where she was a member of the Law Review, holds a Masters Degree from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Smith College.
Ms. Maitin is on the Board of Directors of the New England Corporate Counsel Association, Inc. and served as its President from 2000-2002. Ms. Maitin is also on the Board of Directors of the Wellesley Historical Society, Inc. Ms. Maitin also serves as the Clerk or Assistant Clerk of several nonprofit organizations, including the 128 Business Council, TERC, and the Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation, Inc. and is a member of NAIOP, New England Women in Real Estate, the American Bar Association, the Massachusetts Bar Association and Association of Corporate Counsel.
Robert S. Miller
Marcum LLP Accountants and Advisors
Robert S. Miller is a Partner in Marcum LLP Accountants and Advisors. Mr. Miller has over 20 years of experience managing audits and reviews of clients across a variety of industries, including technology and software, real estate, service companies, not-for-profits, manufacturing and other closely held companies. He provides consulting services to companies in regards to mergers and acquisitions, including the performance of internal control reviews as well as evaluation of existing controls and recommendations for improvement.
Mr. Miller also specializes in SOC (Service Organization Controls) engagements, which provide a report on a service organization's internal controls. He also provides consulting services for businesses as it relates to fraud prevention and detection. Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Miller was a Partner at a regional accounting firm and spent his early career as an audit manager in a national firm. He has taught college level courses at several Boston area universities.
Rosann Tung
Annenberg Institute for School Reform, Brown University
Rosann Tung is Director of Research and Policy at Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, where she leads a team engaged in studies to inform district-level reform and community organizing for school reform. The team's work includes original research; documentation and evaluation of reform efforts; analyses of current education policies; and the development of tools to share lessons and best practices. Prior to joining AISR, she was founding Director of Research and Evaluation at the Center for Collaborative Education (CCE) in Boston, where she led studies of autonomous small school reform, reviewed English language learner education in urban districts, and documented patterns of enrollment and outcomes in the Boston Pilot Schools network. During her time at CCE, she was a lead author on a chapter about the status of English learner education in Boston Public Schools in "Forbidden Language: English Learners and Restrictive Language Policies", edited by Patricia Gandara of the Civil Rights Project. Rosann also served on the Massachusetts Committee on the Proficiency Gap, appointed by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. Prior to her tenure at CCE, Tung served as a post-doctoral researcher at Lesley University's Program Evaluation and Research Group (Cambridge, Mass.), where she conducted evaluations of federally funded systemic science and math reform efforts. She also served as a governing board member of the Mission Hill School (MHS) in Roxbury, Mass., a Boston Public Pilot School. Rosann earned a BA from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in Biological & Biomedical Sciences from Harvard University.
Jo Anne Vasquez
Stem Education Consultant and Professional Developer
Jo Anne Vasquez is an experienced science educator, author and professional development consultant. She was a Presidential appointee to the National Science Board, governing board of the National Science Foundation, becoming the first and only K-12 educator to hold a seat on this prominent board. Dr. Vasquez was named as the 2006 recipient of the Robert H. Carlton Award, science education's most prestigious honor, for her outstanding contributions to, and provided leadership in science education at the National level. The National Science Board has bestowed their 2013 Public Service Award for her outstanding commitment, extraordinary leadership, and tireless efforts to promote excellence in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. And in 2014 has been named the Outstanding Leader in Science Education by the National Science Education Leadership Association.
Dr. Vasquez has served on the Board of Directors, Executive Board and as President of National Science Teachers Association. Jo Anne has also served as Vice-Chair of the National Science Board's Commission on 21st Century STEM Education, Chair of the Elementary Science Teaching and Assessment Standards for the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards, Executive Board Member for the National Academy of Science's Center for Science, Mathematics and Engineering Education, committee chair and program reviewer for National Science Foundation, and as a member of the board for NASA's Classroom of the Future, National Resource Center's LASER Project, PBS's Scienceland, Sally Ride's Science Academy, WestEd and National Academy of Science Leadership Mentoring Program. She has also served as President of the National Science Education Leadership Association, Arizona Science Teachers Association, and the International Council of Science Education.
Honorary Board Members
H. Bruce Boal*
In gratitude for his vision and leadership, we honor H. Bruce Boal, who served on the board from 1965 to 2012. As Treasurer of TERC, and a board member since the organization's founding, he was vital to the growth of TERC into a nationally-recognized organization in mathematics and science education research.
After graduation from Harvard College and the Harvard Business School, Bruce Boal was commissioned in the U.S. Navy as a Supply Corps officer. In the 1960s, he joined Arthur Nelson in growing an electronics company that capitalized on the sudden interest in scientific, foreign language, and technical education. Mr. Boal was the President of Boaleeco Inc., a family-owned company active in meeting the needs of educators in developing countries for curriculum materials and related laboratory equipment.
Former TERC Board Members
Hubert M. Dyasi
Susan F. Friel
C. Bernard Fulp
Paul Goren
Carole M. Berotte Joseph
Jonathan A. King
Allen Z. Kluchman*
Larry Leverett
Pendred E. Noyce
Walter Palmer*
Robert S. Peterkin
Richard R. Ruopp*
Barbara C. Sampson
Lawrence Scadden
Robert F. Tinker
Edward B. Van Dusen*
Emily Wade
Alice Wilder


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Northrop Grumman steps up ISR challenge as piloted UAV enters flight test
New shapes in the sky are no strangers to the denizens of Mojave, where developmental and test aircraft frequent the clear desert air. Yet even the most seasoned of observers could be forgiven for taking more than a casual glance at the twin-boomed Firebird, which began flight tests there on Nov. 11.
The unconventional aircraft is unusual, not simply because it is designed to fly with or without crew, but also because it represents a potential new evolutionary stage in the quest for more affordable persistent surveillance. While requirements for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) have hardly changed since observer balloons floated over the World War I battlefields of France, the ability to serve these needs has driven constant innovation.
Now, 19 months after unveiling its secretly developed Firebird medium-altitude unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) demonstrator, Northrop Grumman believes a new two-seat derivative of its optionally piloted vehicle (OPV) concept is one such development. Aimed originally at enabling a medium-altitude UAV to transit freely through controlled airspace by having a pilot on-board, the growth of Firebird to a new two-seater enables the penetration of a broader section of the heavily contested ISR market including the buoyant one for special-missions aircraft.
To underscore the fact this is more than a marketing pipe dream, the company has quietly clinched its first contract from an unidentified customer and is beginning developmental flight tests of the first production-ready model at Mojave. It was here, like the demonstrator variant before it, that the newest Firebird was built and developed by Northrop Grumman's Scaled Composites (AW&ST May 9, 2011, p. 52). As with the first version, which took around one year from start to flight, the two-seater enters flight slightly more than 14 months after the program started.
"We're trying to think of when we last did a winged aircraft aimed at civil certification in that timeframe," says Firebird program manager Jerry Madigan, who adds: "We set ourselves a tough goal. We are looking at completing development testing at the end of the first quarter of 2013 with delivery after that. We do anticipate sensor upgrades and improvements over the systems life cycle because of its versatility and open architecture."
The second pilot position was added at the request of the customer, offering a new dimension to the concept of a purpose-designed UAV with the option of a pilot on board. Madigan says the second seat now gives users the option of a position for a co-pilot and/or sensor systems operator, while retaining the original goal of providing a low-cost ISR platform.
The two-seat Firebird is therefore also being positioned as a "replacement for the aging, inefficient and unsustainable fleet of special-mission aircraft," says Northrop. "Some of them are looking at asymmetric warfare situations where aircraft like the [Hawker Beechcraft] King Air or Cessna Caravan do not have the endurance, or the versatility," says Madigan.
"We'd like to hit all parts of the life cycle, and make it very reasonable to operate this capability. We're aiming at $10 million per aircraft with flight avionics and a basic sensor," he adds.
The price target is exclusive of the ground station that has been developed to operate with the Firebird. In addition to the basic capability of a maximum unpiloted endurance of 24-40 hr., depending on payload and engine, the Firebird offers a "versatile display and a big payload bay." The booms and wings offer "a lot of surface to do things with," says Madigan. Without naming the first user, he adds that the initial production rate is pegged at two per year during the next five years.
In early 2009, less than two years after Northrop bought out all the remaining shares in Scaled Composites, the company asked: "What if we designed it as a UAV from the start but then made it optionally piloted?
"It was drawn on a napkin and 12 months to that day later, they flew it on Feb 9, 2010," recalls Madigan.
Although the obvious target was the virtually uncontested medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) market enjoyed by General Atomics with the Predator and its follow-on Reaper and Gray Eagle, the Firebird is now evolving to compete across a variety of fronts.
The concept received key exposure at the 2011 Empire Challenge, the final interoperability and intelligence-sharing exercise run before the U.S. Joint Forces Command was disbanded.
"At Empire Challenge everybody saw us out there. Before that we kind of kept it quiet," says Madigan. "In all, we have flown 12 different payloads and at Empire Challenge we flew four payloads that we never tested before. These included electro-optic/infra- red (EO/IR) sensors, radar and a communications relay. One of the things people were amazed with was we set up an impromptu Droid cell phone network from the air," he adds.
Although Firebird's presence at the exercise was sponsored by the U.S. Army, other potentially more immediate customers at the event included U.S. Special Operations Command. Northrop previously said the command was interested in Firebird, but Madigan says only: "We competed for an undisclosed customer and we won, and they have certain requirements, including a two-seat production-standard vehicle.
"There are maybe applications where it could replace vertical-lift or other intelligence MALE vehicles, and the price point will come down," says Madigan. "The Army has a number of plans they've pushed out a little bit, but we're working with them on LEMV (long endurance multi-intelligence vehicle) and we can probably fit with their road map in a couple of areas." Northrop is scheduled to demonstrate Firebird to the Army "in a couple of weeks and do a couple of unmanned landings," he adds.
A final round of tweaks to the software for landing the vehicle in its unmanned configuration is scheduled to be released in late November as, to date, the Firebird has flown with a pilot in the cockpit.
Despite its slightly larger size and a more conventional, boom-mounted tail, the production Firebird clearly displays the Scaled Composites lineage of its demonstrator predecessor. The forward-swept, high-aspect-ratio wing is designed to produce a better lift-drag ratio for loitering at altitudes up to 32,000 ft. The wingspan is extended to 72.2 ft., an increase of more than 7 ft. from the demonstrator, and passes through twin tail booms, where it is cranked up to provide greater ground clearance for the single pusher-propeller and belly-mounted sensors.
The enlarged cockpit houses two pilots who sit in automotive-style seats more suitable and comfortable for longer-duration missions than the rudimentary ones used in the demonstrator. The cockpit is dominated by a Garmin G3000 electronic flight information system (EFIS), which incorporates three large 14.1-in. multifunction displays (MFD) and two 5.7-in. touch-screen GTC 570 vehicle management systems. The system was developed as the first touch-screen, integrated EFIS for light turbines and is baseline on the HondaJet business aircraft.
Northrop Grumman selected the Garmin system because of its versatility and the ease with which it can be adapted to either the piloted or UAV mode. The pedestal-mounted GTC 570 controllers, for example, have been modified with a "third-party" option that enables the display and GTC to be responsive to inputs/outputs from a third-party computer.
For the pilots, the small touch-screen is used for navigation and communication radio management and page navigation on the MFD, as well as control of the audio/intercom system, transponder codes and identifications, electronic checklist entries, flight-plan entry and selecting custom display options. The GDU 1400 displays function as either a primary flight display (PFD) or MFD, or in reversionary mode as both. When used as the PFD, the screen displays a simulated 3-D perspective topography that uses the G3000's terrain-alerting database to create a detailed graphical landscape.
In MFD mode, the display can be split vertically to enable two separate pages to be viewed side-by-side along with an EFIS strip for engine and fuel data. As well as standard flight-planning and weather-type functionality, Northrop will flight-test more specific display options related to the ISR payload sensors. These will include as many as three high-definition EO/IR sensors, synthetic aperture radar, ground and digital moving target indicator radar, and full-motion video. Others include electronic support, signals intelligence, communications relay and even precision weapons.
Payload capacity is 1,240 lb., while maximum takeoff weight is increased by around 2,000 lb. to 7,000 lb. The large payload bay for most of these sensors is mounted in the belly, forward of the firewall segregating the Firebird's six-cylinder, turbocharged Lycoming TEO-540E engine, though hard points are located on the wings for pod-mounted sensors and weapons.
If not being operated in piloted mode, the Firebird is designed to be commanded by a ground station to operate in either line-of-sight (LOS) unmanned mode, or beyond LOS mode. "If you want to go further (beyond LOS), the canopy comes off, the Garmin system comes out of the flight panel, and an L-3 satcom antenna goes in," says Madigan.
|Production-Ready Firebird
|Demonstrator Firebird
|Gross Takeoff Weight:
|6,650 lb.
|5,000 lb. (maximum)
|72.2 ft. (53 ft. folded)
|65 ft.
|35.5 ft.
|34 ft.
|9.8 ft.
|9.71 ft.
|up to 32,000 ft.
|up to 30,000 ft.
|Maximum Endurance:
|24-40 hr. (payload- and engine-specific)
|up to 40 hr.
|Payload Capacity
|1,240 lb.
|1,240 lb.
|Top Speed:
|200 kt*
|200 kt*
|Lycoming TEO-540E or optional heavy-fuel engine
|Lycoming TEO-540E
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A private jet is reported to have crashed in Aspen, Colorado, where the temperature is sitting at six degrees Fahrenheit. This incident is the second for today. There is no word yet on any injuries or survivors, but the plane flipped and erupted into flames upon landing, according to witnesses.
The plane is a Bombardier Challenger 600 that originated in Tuscon, according to the FAA, and it was attempting to land.
We'll update you as we get more information.
UPDATE: One person was killed, and two others are reported to be injured, according to the local ABC affiliate.
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Getting started with Apache Pig
If, like me, you want to play around with data in a Hadoop cluster without having to write hundreds or thousands of lines of Java MapReduce code, you most likely will use either Hive (using the Hive Query Language HQL) or Pig.
Hive is a SQL-like language which compiles to Java map-reduce code, while Pig is a data flow language which allows you to specify your map-reduce data pipelines using high level abstractions.
The way I like to think of it is that writing Java MapReduce is like programming in assembler: you need to manually construct every low level operation you want to perform. Hive allows people familiar with SQL to extract data from Hadoop with ease and – like SQL – you specify the data you want without having to worry too much about the way in which it is retrieved. Writing a Pig script is like writing a SQL execution plan: you specify the exact sequence of operations you want to undertake when retrieving the data. Pig also allows you to specify more complex data flows than is possible using HQL alone.
As a crusty old RDBMS guy, I at first thought that Hive and HQL was the most attractive solution and I still think Hive is critical to enterprise adoption of Hadoop since it opens up Hadoop to the world of enterprise Business Intelligence. But Pig really appeals to me as someone who has spent so much time tuning SQL. The Hive optimizer is currently at the level of early rule-based RDBMS optimizers from the early 90s. It will get better and get better quickly, but given the massive size of most Hadoop clusters, the cost of a poorly optimized HQL statement is really high. Explicitly specifying the execution plan in Pig arguably gives the programmer more control and lessens the likelihood of the "HQL statement from Hell" brining a cluster to it's knees.
So I've started learning Pig, using the familiar (to me) Oracle sample schema which I downloaded using SQOOP. (Hint: Pig likes tab separated files, so use the --fields-terminated-by '\t' flag in your SQOOP job).
Here's a diagram I created showing how some of the more familiar HQL idioms are implemented in Pig:
Note how using Pig we explicitly control the execution plan: In HQL it's up to the optimizer whether tables are joined before or after the "country_region='Asia'" filter is applied. In Pig I explicitly execute the filter before the join. It turns out that the Hive optimizer does the same thing, but for complex data flows being able to explicitly control the sequence of events can be an advantage.
Pig is only a little more wordy than HQL and while I definitely like the familiar syntax of HQL I really like the additional control of Pig.


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I can remember the speeder bike and B-wing commercials.
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Stormtrooper37 wrote:The only one I can remember but don't know what set or vehicle/ship it was advertising was the one where the background was black Darth Vader was holding Princess Leia prisoner, loads of Stormtroopers lined up and Han, Luke, Chewie and the droids arrive to rescue her.
Haven't the faintest idea whether it was just the figures being advertised, as never seen this clip uploaded on you tube, but it is the only Star Wars toy advert I remember
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10 best political feuds of 2013
It was an epic year when it came to high-profile feuds. Whether it was politicians versus TV hosts over Obamacare, or journalists going after one another over scoops, everyone was duking it out on the airwaves in 2013 in front of viewers who hopefully had some popcorn close by. In case you missed any, POLITICO has rounded up the must-see rumbles of the year.
1. Larry Klayman vs. CNN
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Following his court victory in December challenging NSA surveillance, conservative legal activist Larry Klayman appeared on CNN's "Erin Burnett: OutFront," but from the start argued with guest host Don Lemon and legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin. Klayman immediately attacked Lemon for supporting President Barack Obama, calling the host an "ultra-leftist," drawing protests from Lemon. Toobin tagged Klayman as a "lunatic" and said his court case was based on "tin-foil hat paranoia."
Lemon and Klayman went back and forth until Lemon asked producers to cut Klayman from the screen, which led Klayman to hit back at the host, saying "you're a charter member of the ACLU, you believe in free speech, right?" Lemon brought Klayman back on the air to give him the last word. That's when Klayman ripped into the two men, comparing them to the recently resigned Martin Bashir of MSNBC.
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"Let anybody watch this and see that CNN removes you from the screen when it doesn't like what you think," Klayman said, adding, "You have not acted in a respectful way, and it's, in fact, disgraceful."
2. Lawrence O'Donnell vs. Anthony Weiner
It's fair to say when failed New York mayoral candidate and disgraced former Democrat Rep. Anthony Weiner appeared on MSNBC's "Lawrence O'Donnell" show ahead of the primary in September, he wasn't expecting a dressing down. But that's exactly what he got from O'Donnell, who kicked off the segment by bluntly asking Weiner, "What is wrong with you?"
"What I find strange about your campaign is what seems to be your absolute desperate need for elective office and what seems to be your inability to live outside of it," O'Donnell said, adding, "You are being driven by some kind of demons."
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"Dude, I don't really need your psychiatric questions," Weiner shot back.
3. Chris Cuomo vs. Rep. Darrell Issa
The blame game of the government shutdown engulfed much of Washington for a time in the fall. And CNN's Chris Cuomo pointed an accusing finger at the Republicans and Rep. Darrell Issa when the California lawmaker appeared on "New Day" in October.
"No, Chris, I'm not going to let you have a pass on that," Issa responded to Cuomo's claim that the GOP shut down the government.
Cuomo, the younger brother of Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, responded, "You're not letting me have a pass? You just said a shutdown isn't worth it, but you shut down the government."
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Issa struck back, "Well, you can't accuse me of beating my wife and then turn around and tell me, isn't that true?"
4. Sean Hannity vs. Rep. Bill Pascrell: "Cut the crap!"
Sean Hannity opposes Obamacare, and when he had Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) on his show "Hannity" in October, the Fox News host went after the congressman for exemptions lawmakers supposedly were granted.
"You're getting special perks and breaks for yourself. So cut the crap and stop lying to the audience," Hannity said.
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"No, you stop. You stop the crap," Pascrell answered. "You don't know what you are talking about. You have been lying. You're talking about the president not wanting to negotiate?… Your pants are on fire, Sean."
Hannity wrapped up the schoolyard brawl thusly, "OK, yeah, so you're full of crap."


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Choose Between iPad and iPhone Apps for Your iPad Classroom
For your iPad classroom, there are thousands of educational apps to choose among some designed for the iPad, some for the iPhone. Both iPad and iPhone educational apps will work on your classroom iPads, but they work differently.
As you browse through apps for your classroom, you'll quickly notice that they are often categorized by device. Here's what you need to know before choosing an app:
iPhone (iPod touch) apps: These apps were designed for the smaller screen space of an iPhone, but they can be used on iPads too. What you have to remember is that their native resolution (just a fancy way of saying screen size) will be the same on an iPad, but they will appear to be relatively small on the larger iPad display.
iPad apps: The interface on apps designed for the iPad takes full advantage of the complete iPad display area.
Hybrid apps: Hybrid apps are denoted by a little + sign on the app icon and will automatically adjust to the resolution of your device. In other words, the same app that works on the smaller iPhone screen will also expand to take advantage of the full iPad display.
Resolution, pixels, and other mumbo jumbo: You just want to know which apps to use. Well, here's the scoop on iPhone versus iPad apps. It's like the difference between watching your favorite movie on a 27-inch television in the bedroom versus watching that movie at a theater. To quote an old cliché, size does matter.
Apps designed specifically for the iPad simply look better. It comes down to their screen size as measured in pixels — those little invisible dots that make up the images on your screen. Here's how the resolution breaks down by device:
iPhone apps have 480×320 pixel resolution.
Apps designed for iPhone 4 or later have 960×480 pixel resolution.
iPad 1 and iPad 2 apps have 1024×768 pixel resolution.
Apps designed for the third-generation iPad have an amazingly crisp resolution of 2048×1536 pixels.
Remember that hybrid apps that can adjust their display according to the device they detect.
How to use educational iPad apps on classroom iPads
Some apps are available in both iPhone and iPad versions. In those cases, always select the iPad app, of course. Many publishers will allow you to download the iPhone version free if you have both an iPhone and an iPad and have paid for the iPad-based version.
In some cases, however, the app you really want may have been designed only for the iPhone. For example, suppose you're an avid follower of Australian football. Chances are, the app you use to follow games "down under" may only be available as an iPhone app. Don't fret though, because you can still use it on your iPad. It just displays in its smaller native resolution.
You can tap the little 2x button in the bottom corner, and the display doubles in size to fill the iPad screen. Be aware, however, that this doesn't increase the pixel resolution of the app. It's just displaying that resolution over the entire screen. It looks fine in most cases. It's never as sharp as an iPad app, but really, what's a guy to do when you need the football scores from Australia?
Browse for educational iPad/iPhone apps in the App Store
You can access the App Store on your iPad or on your computer. In both cases, you need an Internet connection and that all-important iTunes account. Apps that are purchased on your computer will be transferred to your iPad the next time you sync them.
Have you ever tried walking into a bank where nobody knows you and cashing a check without your ID? You'll get the same cold shoulder in the App Store if you don't have your user ID and password. Make sure that you've signed up for an Apple ID, or you won't be able to download any apps.


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Welcome to the "Cosmo Catch Up," Cosmopolitan.com's daily news show. Today's topic: relationships! Watch the video to find out why it isn't always a good idea to be the cHiLL GiRL~* when you're single OR taken and how one-night stands are kind of like cats.
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Plymouth Diving is the competitive arm of the Everyone Active Diving Training Scheme and is based at the state of the art Plymouth Life Centre.
In 1992, Andy, along with his mentor Peter Squires, opened up 'Plymouth City Sports' with a goal to open up the sport of diving to as many people as possible and to nurture whatever talent came along toward the International stage.
Plymouth Diving has grown over the years from a small diving club based in Central Park pool with a handful of recognised divers and a small coaching team. In the last four years membership has doubled on the competitive side to the point where 71 divers competed at National level this year - an increase of some 20+ divers from the previous year.


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Way back in the 1900's, my family had splurged on a pizza. (This was a re-heally big deal for us.) The pizza came, a big, greasy, Philly- which- is- close- to- New- York style beast, and in the middle of it was that dollhouse table thing they started using in the 80s' (which are only 67 years away, have fun with that one tonight) that keeps the cardboard box from sinking into the middle of the pizza. This was in no way remarkable except that instead of calling it a dollhouse table thing, they called it a pietrod.
I fell in love with that pietrod right there on the spot, partly because I am dyslexic but no one knew it and that word felt right in my head the way no other word ever had before, but mostly because it introduced me to the radical notion that the words I was so reliant on for stability and sanity were simply a bi-product of complacency, that language itself was being created as it dripped from our lips and fingertips - and that I could, if I really thought hard about everything I knew about words without breathing or blinking or anything, break almost any rule and do anything I wanted it to.
Pretty powerful stuff for a kid growing up at the bottom of a patriarchal cult. That was my Frankenstein moment, the moment we all have that pivots us and changes everything to come after it. I think it may have been a Domino's pizza. I also think this guy totally gets what I'm talking about.
[Domino's isn't paying me to write this, but Clorox is. Beating Jim at disclosure statements is hard, but I'm giving it my best shot. ]
I just like to make up words, making up words is my favorite. In fact, I think my last site had a category called Is Too a Word. However, aside from the few cute kid-words my then-babies made up, I have been hard-pressed to find new word as witty, necessary, and just plain perfect as pietrod.
I know, right? I have a few words in the Clorox Icktionary, and I was going to add some more, but really, I think it's over. Shoop just dropped the mic and gangsta-stomped offstage. Next time your kids come in from playing outside, you can do a Shoop-check. If you smell something at a restaurant, you can check the carpet around you for Shoop stains. If you go on a horrible date, you can tell them they make you wanna shoop, shoop ba-doop, shoop ba-doop, shoop ba-doop ba-doop ba-doop at the end of the date and mean it.
Shoop is the perfect word, and it gives me the same tingle in my both my Broca and Wernicke that I did when I was a kid getting my mind blown by some marketing copy taped to a cardboard box surrounding an extra-large heart attack with pepperoni. It makes me want to play with words again, to see what I have missed because I've been too lazy to look for it.
It also reminds me that I need to mop my floors in the worst kind of way. Bygones.
What's your favorite not-word-but-should-be? Tell me in the comments, and if it has something to do with ickiness (most of the best ones do, really) you should totally submit it to Clorox's Icktionary at www.icktionary.com.


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Leak Detection in Winkelman, Arizona
Do you suspect a leak in your Winkelman pipes or an appliance but are unsure of the source? Signs of a leak can include hearing water dripping or running, seeing cracks or stains in ceilings and walls, feeling moisture under carpeting or smelling musty odors. If you believe you have a leak, give the Winkelman leak detection experts at Day & Night Emergency Services, LLC a call to identify its cause and source before the problem worsens. Day & Night Emergency Services, LLC has provided leak detection to Winkelman, Arizona homes and businesses for over 14 years. Call Day & Night Emergency Services, LLC for leak detection and get immediate action.
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Even a pipe that is dripping intermittently can make a huge mess. When moisture sits in dark areas behind walls and under flooring, mold, and mildew will grow. Moisture also rots wood and compromises the structural integrity of a building. If you suspect that you've got a leak in Winkelman plumbing or appliances, call the experts at Day & Night Emergency Services, LLC immediately. Our skilled Winkelman leak detection crew will locate the leak and quickly resolve the problem. Once identified, our dry out team will thoroughly remove water-damaged boards and insulation materials and dry all affected structures. Day & Night Emergency Services, LLC can stop leaks and prevent larger water damage problems.
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When you call Day & Night Emergency Services, LLC, a Winkelman leak detection professional will be deployed to your home or office, armed with state of the art equipment and the knowledge to use it to quickly diagnose the issue. Once identified using one or more of the methods below, we'll work to devise a plan to resolve the leak and dry the area completely.
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Obama Administration Devloping Internet ID Program
The Obama administration is planning to place authority for developing an Internet ID for Americans in the Commerce Department.
The news came at an event at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, where U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke spoke.
Details on the plans are essentially nonexistent, but Locke and others said a lot about what the IDs would not be: "We are not talking about a national ID card," Locke said. It also won't be government controlled. The goal is "...enhancing online security and privacy and reducing and perhaps even eliminating the need to memorize a dozen passwords, through creation and use of more trusted digital identities."
White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt, who also spoke at the event, said that the ID, which they refer to as "trusted identities," would not become mandatory. Anonymity and pseudonymity will remain possible on the Internet. There will be no central database and private industry will take the lead in implementation.
A vague outline for the program was released in June entitled the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC). That document was as vague as this week's event; trusted identities will do good things and avoid doing bad things.
It's not surprising that details are scarce. Designing an identity that is robust, affordable, secure, easy to use, and all the other things you'd want it to be, is not easy. In fact, many of the design goals operate at cross purposes with the others. Don't be surprised if this program takes a long time to come to a deliverable, or if the deliverable is irrelevant by the time it's here.
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A new study shows that for people with heart disease, "sexual activity generally is safe and no more strenuous than golf." That's provided that you do it "with a familiar partner in a familiar setting," so sex on the golf course is apparently out (unless that's your regular thing). Still, this is a study that's veritably begging for its corresponding Viagra commercial.
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