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ngg_tagwashington How We Die - a book review http://www.markorton.com/?p=4 Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://markorton.com/wordpress/?p=19 04040_howwedie_nuland.jpg]]> 4 2008-05-27 14:58:10 0000-00-00 00:00:00 open open draft 0 0 post 0 Book Review - The Whisperers - private life in Stalin's Russia http://www.markorton.com/?p=5 Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://markorton.com/wordpress/?p=29 19203151.jpgThis new book by Orlando Figes is exciting, terribly depressing, and cautionary.Based on hundreds of in depth interviews and thousands of letters, diaries, and government documents, Whisperers puts real people in place of the faceless numbers that constitute our usual image of the human costs of Stalinist Russia - the 10 million lost during collectivization, the same or larger number disappeared during the various Terrors and the 20 million or more dead during the Great Patriotic War (aka WWII).For those who do not have much background in Russian and Soviet history Figes provides concise sketches of key political and economic developments covering the entire span of Soviet Russia. You will not feel at a loss during the NEP period nor the ensuing collectivization and the round ups of "kulaks". This allows you to understand the private lives with a reasonable understanding of the context.]]> 5 2008-05-27 14:58:10 0000-00-00 00:00:00 open open draft 0 0 post 0 Health Care Crisis http://www.markorton.com/?page_id=104 Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wordpress2.5/?page_id=104 November 2005

The health care crisis in the US is growing in severity and yet is not the subject of any real public debate. More than 44 million Americans are without health insurance and almost 65 million will experience a lack of coverage during the year. Emergency rooms are the primary care provider of necessity. All of this despite the fact that, as a nation, we spend more than any other country in the world; 11% more than the next closest country; 90% to 100% more than countries like Germany, Japan, Canada, Australia, and France. Yet the outcomes for our healthcare system are completely second tier and nearly third world.

You may be shocked to see exactly how poorly our phenomenally expensive health system is performing. Just to add some further context, note that Sweden (1st in Infant Mortality to the US 41st position) has a per capita income roughly equal to that of Mississippi (the poorest US state) and spends almost exactly half of what the US does per capita on health care. Examine the Comparative Health System Data in which I have color-coded a few countries for quick comparison.

During our quadrennial presidential personality sweepstakes, neither candidate offered real solutions, really not even a discussion of the issues. We are stuck in a political environment in which neither the Republicans nor the Democrats are offering, and I would argue, are capable of offering real solutions.

Lets make a one basic observation about the situation:

This is not a money problem. As demonstrated by the data on the Comparative Health System Data chart, we clearly are spending enough money in aggregate.

But, this crisis is about money, namely, who gets it and what do they do with it. And, starting from the last serious attempt to tackle the problem during the first year of the Clinton administration, it is very clear that the political system is completely in the pockets of the various interests who have the money now, namely insurance and drug companies, hospitals, and doctors.

 

It seems obvious to me that we just need to look at any of a number of the top performing countries for the solution. Then, we need to have the political forces in place to tell some of the current participants that the rules have changed.

Central to any solution will be the participation of all US residents in the system. Healthcare is a basic human right and we should not be treated as "risk" factors in insurance company profit calculations. If everyone is part of the healthcare system, then we can effectively share the individual risks and expenses of healthcare across the whole population. Healthcare should not be an actuarial game to derive profit. It should be a system that delivers a reasonable level of service to everyone in the society.

Two players clearly are at the top of the hit list. First, most assuredly the insurance industry, which adds no value to our health care, but consumes by many estimates 15% to 20% of the resources, must go. Second, the drug companies can be brought into reasonable competition for prices that will bring market forces to bear.

Ironically, given the long history of doctors opposing national or single-payer systems in the US, doctors have now been reduced to the status of wage slaves like the rest of us. Many, if not a solid majority of doctors, will support real reforms to the system.

I close here with two basic notions:

  • our healthcare problems are not about a lack of money, and
  • we need to develop political forces that can overcome the control of government (Federal and state) health policies by the current players in the healthcare system.

Given the current Bush administration, I believe the focus of reform must be at the state level. It seems feasible to envision a single-payer system that covers all residents in a state like Massachusetts. We should try it.

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Off Balance Sheet Transactions http://www.markorton.com/?p=544 Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?p=544 544 2009-03-25 10:08:54 0000-00-00 00:00:00 open open draft 0 0 post 0 _edit_lock 1254313198 _edit_last 2 podPressPostSpecific a:6:{s:15:"itunes:subtitle";s:15:"##PostExcerpt##";s:14:"itunes:summary";s:15:"##PostExcerpt##";s:15:"itunes:keywords";s:17:"##WordPressCats##";s:13:"itunes:author";s:10:"##Global##";s:15:"itunes:explicit";s:7:"Default";s:12:"itunes:block";s:7:"Default";} Book Review: Successful Intelligence by Robert J. Sternberg http://www.markorton.com/?page_id=600 Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?page_id=600 Successful Intelligence: how practical and creative intelligence determine success in life

by Robert J. Sternberg (NY: Penguin Putnam, 1997)

uccessful Intelligence by Sternberg - book cover

Throughout my life I have been interested in intelligence, mine and that of others. From early years at Taft School where I was regularly described as a “gross underachiever” to later in my work life when I began to understand that “smarts” came in all shapes and sizes, intelligence has been an interesting issue. Who has it and how can you figure out what kind each person has?

Successful Intelligence (SI) presents an interesting addition to my own practical knowledge of intelligence and a further jumping-off point from Howard Gardner’s efforts in Frames of Mind: the theory of multiple intelligences.

The preface gives away the whole story. Let me quote a bit:

“Successful intelligence is the kind of intelligence used to achieve important goals. People who succeed, whether by their own standards or by other people’s, are those who have managed to acquire, develop, and apply a full range of intellectual skills, rather than merely relying on the inert intelligence that schools so value. These individuals may or may not succeed on conventional test, but they have something in common that is much more important than high test scores. They know their strengths; they know their weaknesses. They capitalize on their strengths; they compensate for or correct their weaknesses. That’s it.” (bold in text) (p. 12)

So, this is quite an invigorating start! Intelligence is something we use in day-to-day life.

The first half of SI takes up a review and critique of traditional efforts to define and measure human intelligence. For those of us who followed the uproar over The Bell Curve (Herrnstein and Murray, 1994) or have otherwise been exposed to critiques of standard approaches to intelligence, skip quickly to Part III “Successful Intelligence Is What Counts”.

SI posits three key elements of successful intelligence:

  • analytical
  • creative, and
  • practical intelligence

Analytical intelligence focuses on problem solving. SI discusses this under the following headings:

  1. Problem recognition
  2. Problem definition
  3. Formulating a strategy for problem solving
  4. Representing information
  5. Allocating resources
  6. Monitoring and evaluation
  7. Well-structured and ill-structured problems
    • means-ends analysis
    • working forward
    • working backward
    • generating and testing
  8. Mental sets and fixation
  9. Decision Making
    • economic models
    • utility models
    • game theory
    • satisficing

Creative intelligence focuses on finding good problems. Here SI struggles to develop a coherent and satisfying definition for creative intelligence by posing an “investment theory of creativity”. Unfortunately, this discussion struggles with a metaphor standing in as a definition: “Creatively intelligent people are like investors. They buy low and sell high.” This line of argument leads to the following notion of what creativity is about:

“In the investment view of creativity, then, the creative person buys low - comes up with an idea that is likely to be rejected and derided. That person then attempts to convince other people of the value of the idea and thus increase the perceived value of the investment. If he has finally convinced others of its value, the creative person sells high - leaves the idea to others and moves on to the next unpopular idea.” (p.190-191)

From my perspective and experiences in the business world, this gives much too much importance to the Don Quixote aspects of the process. What exactly is the “investment” here? Is it really true that creative people set out to be “rejected”? (Perhaps, some reading in the literature of innovation in industry might be helpful here. Although these are looking at the problem of creativity from a more macro level, Eric von Hippel’s Sources of Innovation and Everret Roger’s Diffusion of Innovations might shed some light on creativity.)

Leaving aside my quibbles about the difficulties SI has with defining creative intelligence, this chapter closes with a set of observations about how to develop creative intelligence. The section headings provide a good slice though these (paraphrased here):

Successfully intelligent people:

  1. actively seek out, and later become, role models
  2. question assumptions and encourage others to do so
  3. allow themselves and others to make mistakes
  4. take sensible risks and encourage others to do the same
  5. seek out for themselves and others tasks that allow for creativity
  6. actively define and redefine problems, and help others to do so.
  7. seek rewards for, and themselves reward, creativity
  8. allow themselves and others the time to think creatively
  9. tolerate ambiguity and encourage tolerance of ambiguity in others
  10. understand the obstacles creative people must face and overcome
  11. are willing to grow
  12. recognize the importance of the person-environment fit

The discussion of practical intelligence is altogether too brief because too much of this chapter is taken up with further efforts to debunk various standing notions of the connection between standard views of intelligence and real world success.

“Practical problems are characterized by, among other things, an apparent absence of the exact information necessary for solution and also by their relevance to everyday experience.” This leads to a discussion of the roll of “tacit” knowledge. BUT, SI’s use of the word “tacit” bears little resemblance to either my own usage or a dictionary definition (in this case my usage and the dictionary are in good synch).

“What, exactly, is tacit knowledge? It has three characteristic features. First, tacit knowledge is about knowing how - about doing. It is procedural in nature. Second, it is relevant to the attainment of goals people value, not the kind of academic drivel without practical value that teachers sometimes try to stuff in students’ heads. And, third, it is typically acquired with little help from others.” (p. 236)

Now, if we strip out SI’s confusing use of the word “tacit” (perhaps you may want to substitute “practical” or “worldly”), we now have a statement about that body of knowledge that one gains through the actions, association,and activities of day-to-day life - the world of knowledge accumulated through work, hobbies, social interactions and play. Go back and reread the paragraph quoted above. Excise “tacit” and substitute “worldly”. Now we can see what SI is trying to say. I have more than a small quibble with SI’s third feature. In my experience, most of my “worldly” knowledge was directly or indirectly gathered from the people around me. This usually occurred in an expressly “helping” mode.

Although SI is hardly a comprehensive or mature statement of exactly what successful intelligence is or how we can encourage its development, it at least moves the discussion of intelligence onto a plane where we can think of intelligence as a poly-dimensional entity. This gets us beyond the intellectually barren territory of IQ and other such nonsense. Further, SI helps to move us towards notions that can support practical thinking and policy making to support increasing the body of successful intelligence in all human beings.

Viewing this from my personal perspective as a business manager, I could not help but note the immense surface overlap between SI’s description of successful intelligence and many of the underlying principles ascribed to high-performance organizations. Here, for example, are statements (bolded in the SI text) from the discussion of Problem Solving:

Successfully intelligent people don’t wait for problems to hit them over the head. They recognize their existence before they get out of hand and begin the process of solving them.“(p. 158)

“Successfully intelligent people define problems correctly and thereby solve those problems that really confront them, rather than extraneous ones. In this way, the same problems don’t keep coming back into their lives. They also make the effort to decide which problems are worth solving, in the first place, and which aren’t.” (p. 160-161)

“Successfully intelligent people carefully formulate strategies for problem solving. In particular, they focus on long-range planning rather than rushing in and then later having to rethink their strategies.” (p. 163)

“Successfully intelligent people represent information about a problem as accurately as possible, with a focus on how they can use that information effectively.” (p.165)

“Successfully intelligent people think carefully about allocating resources, for both the short term and the long term. They consider the risk-reward ratios and then choose allocations that they believe will maximize their return.” (p. 169)

“Successfully intelligent people do not always make the correct decisions, but they monitor and evaluate their decisions and then correct their errors as they discover them.” (p. 170-171)

Now, if you substitute the words “successful companies” or “successful organizations” for “successfully intelligent people, you will get a set of useful statements about high-performance organizations. Hmmmm…

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Wall St. Stars and the Continuing Delusions http://www.markorton.com/?p=620 Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?p=620 Stars?

The New York Times and many others including government bureacrats like Treasury Secretary Geithner continue to talk about "stars" and "key personnel" when talking about retnetion bonuses for personnel in the financial services sector. The most recent article that caught my atention was a front-page, top of the fold article in the New York Times, "Crisis Altering Wall St. As Stars Begin to Scatter".

"There is an air of exodus on Wall Street — and not just among those being fired. As Washington cracks down on compensation and tightens regulation of banks, a brain drain is occurring at some of the biggest ones."

As should be painfully obvious to everyone these "key" people are exactly the people who engineered the enormous shenanigans and outrages that brought us to where we are. How can people who have ruined companies and cost the peublic trillions of dollars be "stars"? It seems that many, like the NYTimes, have not really learned anyhting from the near depression we find outsleves in. Many seem to think that it would be just fine if all the 'stars", these clever graduates of Harvard, Wharton, MIT and the rest of the "quant" producing schools went back to their desks and engineered some new financial services. What seems obvious to me is that much of went on over the last decade or so is just gambling and deceit. Do we want to allow these people to play their games and again endanger the useful portions of a finacial system? I think not.

Where Are the Stars Going?

"Top bankers have been leaving Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup and others in rising numbers to join banks that do not face tighter regulation, including foreign banks, or start-up companies eager to build themselves into tomorrow’s financial powerhouses."

 


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"is it really a good idea to have an economy so dependent on consumer spending?" http://www.markorton.com/?p=838 Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?p=838 My friend from college days Marcia Wilson asked this question via Facebook yesterday: "I keep wondering -- is it really a good idea to have an economy so dependent on consumer spending?  I keep reading that it's 2/3s of the GNP and I wonder if other countries are so dependent on consumer spending.  You're the only person I know who has a strong background in economics.  What do you think?"

First, a caveat and further comments......  I should point out that I do not have a strong background in economics. I did take a number of economics courses at Lawrence as an undergrad and I spent innumerable evenings puzzling over Marxian economics a bit later... but I have never envisioned myself as much above marginally literate about current academic economics. In fact, I have been very skeptical of the underpinnings of all the blather about "let the market decide.... keep the government out, the market is always the most efficient decider of economic and therefore political issues.....". The notion of the rational actor and markets that are in fact transparent, where everyone has equal access to information, seems on the face of it complete nonsense. To give some historical substance tho my position, I have frequently pointed people to a book, Manias, Panics, and Crashes: a history of financial crises, fourth edition by Charles P. Kindleberger (New York: Wiley 2000) and elsewhere I have written a review. Seems that Mr. Kindleberger will have to revise his book again. It is clear to me that we are living through a period that conclusively demonstrates that markets are unstable and corruptible, hardly the rational decision maker touted by politicians and economists. The role of governments in the world's economies are in need to much revision.

So, now to Marcia's question. After spending a while with Google, I can report that there is some confusion about the 2/3 or 70% consumer spending number. Consumer spending includes housing costs, food,  medical care, and much besides trips to the mall. Finding information to compare US consumer spending with other countries is difficult. But here is a useful chart in a blog entry by Frank Ahrens (October 30, 2008) in the Washington Post: ((http://voices.washingtonpost.com/economy-watch/2008/10/todays_release_of_the_third-qu.html))

For a better comparison, take a look at U.S. consumer spending compared to that in the other nations that make up the G-8 group of industrialized nations -- the U.S.'s closest peers:

U.S.: 70.2%
U.K.: 63.2%
Italy: 59.0%
Japan: 56.9%
Germany: 56.7%
France: 56.4%
Canada: 56.0%

Assuming that the economic data behind these percentages are consistent and relevant, it would appear that the US is significantly more consumer demand driven than similar counterparts. But, so what?  Marcia's question seems better viewed from the overall perspective of how the whole economy is working, specifically what are we spending money on in aggregate.

Consumer spending that is based on borrowing that increases continually over time is not sustainable. We are in the midst of correction as we speak. The bubble of credit card and home equity debt is now coming due. However, it is not clear that the government has done enough to reduce the likelihood that the banks will go on another consumer credit rampage. Credit card business has historically been a major source of profit for banks, so the temptation to go back to that source will be irresistible without government intervention.  On the other hand, it is unclear how long the consumer will be chastened about the use of debt as a matter of course in day-to-day life. Will we return to the days 25 yrs ago when the typical working class and middle class person might hold debt in two forms, home mortgages and car loans? Perhaps the current correction and lower consumer borrowing in the future will deflate the 70% to something closer to our cohort's performance.

Uses of National Income as Political Choices

We might also think about the fact that within in some bounds the way in which a society spends its income is not due to some force of nature nor the "invisible hand" of the market. The distribution of income and it uses is greatly influenced by political actions at the local, county, state and federal levels. The political systems make choices over how much tax to collect from whom and what to spend those dollars on. The political system makes choices over how economic activity is conducted. What types of activities are forbidden or favored? For example, how has it come to pass that the portion of employees who are unionized has fallen from roughly 25% in the '50s and 60's to 12% today? Some of this change is clearly due to changes in Federal law and regulations especially during the Reagan years in the '80s.081709-union-trends-Encarta See the chart borrowed from Encarta  ((http://encarta.msn.com/media_461543948/trends_in_union_membership.html on 08172009 9:12 AM EST))

More Choices - Military and Empire Expenses

As is well known, the US spends almost 50% of the world's military expenditures at $741 billionThis currently supports two wars and over 750 military bases scattered in virtually every nook and cranny of the globe. You can find more about all of these military bases in the DOD document Base Structure Report (opens new window).  No one mentions the word "empire" in response to all of this, but it is hard to imagine whbat else we can call it. Then, add on the intelligence expenses for the CIA, NSA, and other agencies with acronymsn that we don't even know. There are various estimates and declarations for these intelligence activities that range from $44 billion to $48 billion.

Our Longest War

Now we come to the longest, and arguably least successful war in American history, The War on Drugs. This war, whose beginnings, both rhetorically and on the ground, are in the Nixon years (1971 to be more precise) now consumes $20 billion in Federal funds and an almost equal amount of money in state funding. This does not take into account the roughly 300 thousand people in state and federal prisons on drug offenses out of a total prison population of roughly 1.6 million. It estimated that the state expenses for drug-related incarcerations is $6.3 billion annually. ((I freely borrowed and consolidated data from the Drug War Facts website on 8/17/9 at 12:25 PM:  http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/))

What Are People Spending their Money on:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/09/04/business/20080907-metrics-graphic.html?th&emc=th

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Is the Generalist Possible? http://www.markorton.com/?p=1251 Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?p=1251 I am a generalist. Some would say that I am really a very skimpy. Nevertheless I remain devoted to the idea that we need thinkers not bound to the artificial taxonomies of the academic and corporate world.


the world is too complex


Our world is filled with the enormous noise of the received, the approved and constantly reiterated world views of the academic/corporate machine.


Clark Kerr.


Public intellectual


Renaissance man

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Timeline of KCD and MMO with Contextual Entries http://www.markorton.com/?page_id=1451 Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?page_id=1451 Timeline of KCD and MMO with Contextual Entries

((originally developed as a wall poster for our 25th wedding anniversary party))

updated: 06/28/03

Nixon-resingsimages

Nixon resigns

Oct-73

Aug-74

KCD places personal ad in Real Paper. MMO replies.

RealPaper

Sep-74

KCD & MMO meet at Central Sq. T stop; go on first date; see Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage.

Scenes_from_a_Marriage_DVD_cover

Anti school busing riots in Boston

Oct-74

KCD & MMO have one-beer dates on Fridays

Microsoft Corp founded

Jun-75

Vietnam-war-helicopter-embassy

US abandons South Vietnam - war over

Jun-75

Sep-75

KCD & MMO start day classes at Wentworth Institute of Technology

Sep-75

MMO work - takes tickets at Brattle Theatre working for Harvey Meyerson. KCD serves fish at restaurant near Porter Sq.

Saturday Night Live 1st broadcast

Sep-75

May-76

MMO moves in with KCD and children at 249 Western Ave

look up 249 on a map

(opens in a new window)

Jun-76

MMO work - Stevens-Arnold South Boston - machinist

Dec-76

Torrey & Jane Orton visit during heavy snow storm. Fire rages on River St. Jane defeats everyone in air hockey.

Jun-77

KCD work - Arthur D. Little - machinist

Jun-77

MMO & KCD graduate from Wentworth

Jun-77

Wedding June 19, 1977 at Cambridge Community Center

Jul-77

MMO work - Minuteman Labs - mechanical designer, Acton, MA

Movies: Star Wars, Saturday Night Fever, Annie Hall

Dec-77

Renovations to 266 Western Ave - begin sweat equity

The Great Blizzard

Feb-78

Buy 266 Western from RCCC - continue renovations - The Great Blizzard

Aug-78

Move into 266 Western

Sep-78

KCD work - Cambridge Rindge & Latin High School - Voc Ed, Title 1,Math, Newspaper

Red Sox loose World Series despite Fisk homer in 6th game

Oct-78

1st Head of the Charles Regatta Party - series runs unbroken until 1995

ph_three_mile_island500

Three Mile Island nuclear plant "accident"

May-79

Jul-79

Cheryl Davis moves to California, drives cross country- solo. Arrives on 4th of July.

Aug-79

Buy 52 Kinnaird: Move in to first floor - kids declare, "We've moved to the suburbs!"

Sep-79

52 Kinnaird: construction on 2nd floor begins

Sep-79

First family computer - Radio Shack TRS80 "Trash 80" -$2,000 - every computer since has cost the same.

TRS-computer-model3x300

Sep-79

MMO work - MIT Biomechanics Lab Building 3 - staff engineer

Larry Bird starts playing for Celtics

Oct-79

Pink Floyd releases The Wall

Nov-79

May-80

52 Kinnaird: construction ends on 2nd floor - family occupies 2nd floor

Mt. St. Helens erupts

May-80

Sep-80

KCD work - Chelsea High printing teacher

ChelseaHSschool91

Sep-80

MMO work - C&K Design Engineer

C&K-7000toggle
reagan-1981images

Reagan starts first term as President

Jan-81

BMPC-200px-Ibmpcat

IBM introduces "PC"

May-81

Jun-81

KCD work - ECRM - Application Specialist, Bedford, MA

Sep-81

AJL starts high school

May-82

52 Kinnaird: construction - 1st floor bathroom, laundry room, closets in bedrooms.

Jun-82

Ida and Louis Davis spend 1st summer at 42 Kinnaird St

Jun-82

MMO, KCD, & JDL Green Tortoise bus from Boston to LA. AJL meets us there

AIDS-scientists-photo_no_287

AIDS epidemic identified

Jun-82

Jul-82

KCD 40th birthday

Sep-82

KCD work - Quadex - Training Specialist, Cambridge

Internet protocols TCP/IP established

Oct-82

Reagan announce Star Wars defense plan

May-83

Sep-83

JDL starts at Cambridge Rindge & Latin High School

Sep-83

MMO & KCD cross Canada on RR

Sep-83

MMO starts at Augat - 8 positions over 9 years in 3 locations

1984MacIntosh ad

Apple Computer introduces Macintosh with Superbowl Ad

click above to see the ad

Jan-84

Jun-84

KCD at Womens Technical Institute - Director of Curriculum

Jul-84

KCD & MMO give up plywood on concrete block bed for new futon bed, gift of Karen's parents - hippy days are over; middle age is at hand!!

1984-ozone hole

Ozone hole discovered over Antarctica

Oct-84

Nov-84

2nd computer - Mac Plus - $2,000

Mac-Plus-computer

Nov-84

KCD & children Virgin Islands

Dec-84

Louis Davis dies

Iran Contra Gate

Jan-85

Jun-85

AJL graduates from high school

Aug-85

KCD work - Karen at Kodak Electronic Printing Systems (Eikonix)

Sep-85

AJL starts at Bowdoin College, 3rd generation of Londons; Mark's mother is pleased too (her brothers went there)

Bowdoin-bearcolhead-190

1st Internet virus attacks 6,000 computers

Oct-85

Mar-86

KCD & MMO in Puerto Rico

Apr-86

MMO - Milan for work and Paris with Harvey Meyerson

May-86

52 Kinnaird St: 3rd floor construction begins, 5 skylights added, master bath with 6 ft tub, new roofing

Chernobyl-img01

Nuclear plant at Chernobyl in USSR blows up

May-86

Karen to Rome, Paris, Dueseldorf (for Kodak) nuclear fallout fears in Europe

Mar-87

KCD & MMO in Jamaica - explore relaxation as a vacation style

Jun-87

52 Kinnaird: construction - 2nd floor porch with wood stove and deck.

Jun-87

JDL graduates from high school

Aug-87

MMO - Taiwan (work) & Australia (Torrey & Jane)

Sep-87

JDL starts at Hofstra University

Hofstra ath_image02

Sep-87

MMO 40th birthday

time1987crash

Stock market crashes

Oct-87

Feb-88

KCD & MMO Big Bend National Park Texas - discover "snow birds"

Michael_Dukakis_in_tank

Mike Dukakis rides in Army tank

Apr-88

Jun-88

KCD & MMO Southwest w/ AJL & JDL. Great adventure on Burr Trail

Jul-88

52 Kinnaird St: 3rd floor construction complete - KCD & MMO move into "master suite"

1989-Tianasquare

Tiananmen Square massacre in China

Jun-89

Sep-89

JDL begins Peace Studies around the world year

Earthquake in San Francisco,

Oct-89

Carol Orton rides out earthquake in office tower in SF. Cheryl Davis unhurt in earthquake. Apartment trashed.

1989-SF-earthquakeCypress_LCluff_sm
brokoli

President Bush announces "No More Broccoli!"

Oct-89

MMO declares, "Bush finally says something I can agree with completely!" But, no broccoli ban achieved in Cambridge.

Dec-89

KCD travels to India for 3 weeks (spends 3 days with JDL in New Delhi & Agra)

Hubble Telescope launched into space

May-90

Jun-90

Ed O and Meredith Morgan marry. KCD and MMO are stunned by double ring ceremony.

Jun-90

KCD & MMO in Washington, DC, Virginia & West VA

Lech Walesa elected President of Poland

Jun-90

Aug-90

Ida Davis marries Joe Caminsky. Moves to 36 Kinnaird St.

Sep-90

JDL at Brandeis University. Proves he can hit the academic curve ball.

Sep-90

Patrice Simms arrives at 52 Kinnaird for sojourn at Northeastern University.

August-Wilson-images

August Wilson wins Pulitzer Prize for The Piano Lesson

Oct-90

berlin-wall-falls

Berlin Wall torn down

Nov-90

Mar-91

MMO & KCD in Mexico

Mandela_44831717_afp226300

Nelson Mandela freed from prison

Jun-91

AJL moves to NYC to continue work with NewsEdge.

Jun-91

JDL graduates from Hofstra University

Jun-91

KCD & MMO exchange wedding rings for second time. Gold replaces copper. Inspired by Ed & Meredith's double ring ceremony

Sep-91

KCD hikes hut to hut in White Mountains

Sep-91

KCD work - KCD to Industrial Services Program

Riots in Los Angeles after Rodney King verdict

May-92

Jun-92

KCD & MMO Glacier National Park w/ Ed & Meredith

bird_drive_200

Larry Birds retires from Celtics

Jun-92

FBI burns Branch Davidians in Waco, TX

Jul-92

Surprise 50th Birthday for KCD at Cambridge Community Center

Aug-92

MMO work - Augat fires Mark

Sep-92

JDL starts graduate school at UW

Sep-92

KCD breaks foot on hike in Princeton, MA. MMO says, "Its nothing" and they hobble a mile to the car.

Oct-92

3rd computer - Mac Centris 610 - $2,000

Oct-92

KCD & AJL to Southwest and Albuquerque Balloon Festival

Oct-92

KCD & MMO Midwest loop Chicago, Hyde Park, Galena, Madison, WI (see JDL at UW), LaCrosse, Frank Lloyd Wright

Pope Paul admits error in Galileo affair in 1630's

Oct-92

President Clinton begins disappointing terms in office

Jan-93

May-93

Patrice Simms graduates from Northeastern Summa Cum Laude

Jun-93

52 Kinnaird: build darkroom in 1st floor closet

Jun-93

MMO & KCD do Boston By Foot Tours

Sep-93

MMO Doc Linskey 5 mile race

Oct-93

Southwest

Nov-93

MMO Boston Police Chase - 5 miles; finishes in personal best 56 minutes.

Mar-94

MMO work - Manufacturing Extension Partnership start up in Lowell, MA

Mandela470x400nelson

Nelson Mandela elected President of South Africa

May-94

Jun-94

MMO & KCD Cascade Mtns, Mt St Helens, Mt Rainier, Seattle

Sep-94

KCD work - Karen starts photography & writing full time

Sep-94

MMO & KCD Doc Linskey 5 mile race

OJ-Simpson-car-chase

OJ Simpson takes freeway ride

Oct-94

Pizza Hut begins to sell pizza on the Internet

Oct-94

Feb-95

MMO work - New England Suppliers Institute. Starts working with Sherry Gordon with whom later starts Valuedge, Inc.

Mar-95

MMO and KCD to Paris

May-95

52 Kinnaird: rock garden construction begins and continues sporadically to present

Jun-95

Two new bikes for KCD & MMO gift from children

Oct-95

Head of the Charles Regatta Party goes on extended sabbatical

ToyStory-images

Toy Story released to movie theatres. First fully computer-animated movie

Nov-95

Apr-96

MMO & KCD Florida East to West Coast, Everglades and visit Ida & Joe in West Palm Beach

Jun-96

52 Kinnaird: Begin construction of 1st floor apartment. Move darkroom to second floor

Jun-96

Cheryl Davis pulls through critical illness

Sep-96

52 Kinnaird: End construction of 1st floor apartment. Kristen Graves becomes first and only tenant.

Taliban take over Afghanistan

Sep-96

Apr-97

52 Kinnaird: Begin rebuild of 2nd floor kitchen, add wall to create separate studio space for KCD, complete finish work on stairway to 3rd floor

Jul-97

52 Kinnaird: end 2nd floor construction

Aug-97

Family Reunion at Nantasket Beach

Sep-97

MMO 50th birthday

starbucks-central sq.

Starbucks Coffee opens in Central Square - Western civilization slumps in despair

Nov-97

Jan-98

KCD work - 1st show at Gallery 57 Cambridge, MA

Feb-98

KCD work - F8 Photography Group has first show in Concord, MA

Mar-98

4th computer - Mac PowerPC 233 - $2,000

Aug-98

Nantasket Beach House

Sep-98

JDL in Vietnam and Australia over three years with stops at 52 Kinnaird

President Clinton impeached

Sep-98

Oct-98

MMO & KCD to King Biscuit Blues Festival- Helena Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Memphis, TN

Nov-98

Ida Davis dies

Jan-99

KCD work - show at University Place

Mar-99

KCD work - Boat Building at Boston Public Library

Mar-99

MMO work - NESI, Inc. spins off

May-99

Noah Davis G. born. Herd of newbie Grandparents (G.s, Londons, KCD & MMO) wait it out.

Jun-99

KCD work - For Patrons Only at Mass Museum of Contemporary Art - continuing show

Aug-99

Nantasket Beach House

"dotCom" speculation begins

Sep-99

Oct-99

Nancy Orton dies

Dec-99

KCD & MMO publish Pretensions - art world agog

Dec-99

KCD goes to Vietnam tours country with JDL. Stops in Shanghai, visits Danielle Sun

Apr-00

KCD goes to Jackson MS with Linda Larson

Apr-00

MMO work - Valuedge, Inc. incorporated

Jun-00

AJL & family move to London

"dotCom" speculation fizzles

Aug-00

AJL and John G. marry

Aug-00

Nantasket Beach House

Dec-00

MMO AIDS 5 mi. Race. Beaten by 80yr old woman

Mar-01

KCD work - "New England Photographers '01" at Danforth Museum, Framingham MA

1st $million condo sold on Kinnaird St.

May-01

KCD to Jackson MS

Jun-01

5th Computer - Mac iBook with wireless connection to Internet - $2,000

Jun-01

MMO starts Lyme disease plague year - spends a month in bed with Nurse Karen propping him up.

Aug-01

Nantasket Beach House

9/11 Terrorist Attack

Sep-01

JDL returns to UW in Madison

Sep-01

KCD work - Child's Play with Mary Lang at Newton Free Library

Sep-01

Patriots win SuperBowl

Feb-02

AJL and family return to NYC

Jun-02

KCD work - Lines, Arc and Other City Pictures at MIT Dean's Gallery

Jun-02

KCD to Jackson MS

Jun-02

MMO & KCD 25th wedding anniversary

Jul-02

KCD - 60th Birthday

Jul-02

Nantasket Beach House

Oct-02

25th Anniversary Party at Cambridge Community Center where it all started

Nov-02

Andrea gives birth to second grand child, Nyla Olivia G. - November 9, 2002 in New York City

11092002-NYLA

May-03

Jonathan gets PhD May 16, 2003. Big family event with many in attendance.

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Maybe the Food Crazies Are Right ..... Will You Eat a Hamburger Again? http://www.markorton.com/?p=1713 Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?p=1713 Earlier in 2009, I decided that I would not buy ground beef in the supermarket any more. I had read articles that indicated that this stuff is actually a compliation of beef from potentially dozens of vendors and hundreds of cows. This, combined with the lax oversight of this industry by government made it very likely that this hamburger contains all sorts of things we might otherwise not like to eat along with bacteria that could make you sick. One of those articles, "E. Coli Path Shows Flaws in Beef Inspection" in the 10/30/09 NYTs is here.



http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/us/31meat.html

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A Failing Political System and Failing Society http://www.markorton.com/?p=1812 Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?p=1812 The first year of Obama's presidency has closed out. The media has been filled with rankings, ratings and rantings about what Obama did and didn't do, and what this all means for what he can do in the future. From the banks of the Hudson River here in Hudson, NY, the forecast is all gloomy.

The last year demonstrated the extent to which our politics is failing.

During the so-called health care debate, various interests spent some $500 million lobbying Congress on health care in 2009. There were 3,404 registered lobbyists thrown into this fray. This factoid lodged in my mind so I Googled around and found that this is this is true. So, even I could figure out that almost $1 million dollars was spent lobbying each member of the Congress and Senate. I admit to being not clever enough to imagine how many T-bone steaks accompanied by mashed potatoes and copious drinking this kind of money will buy. On the other hand according, to OpenSecrets.org, the top ten Senate races in 2008 averaged $6.8 million in spending, one suspects that much of the $500 million found its way into the hands of the incumbents who per force of their environment must spend most of their time thinking about money, theirs not yours. (( Total lobbying of the Federal government in 2009 makes the picture of our Federal government being the best that money can buy even more stark: $3.18 Billion dollars and 13,415 registered lobbyists. It should be noted that according to the NYTs recent changes in lobbying regulation is forcing many off the registered rolls, so this number doubtless under represents the total number of lobbyists and one would think the amount of money expended.))

All of this money, and the forthcoming tsunami of money crated by the recent Supreme Court ruling extending the rights of corporations to act as person and make unlimited contributions or expenditures of "free speech", arouse the question that many have argued, "Why bother participating in this charade?"

Beyond the money, we can see that some elements of the Federal government are profoundly anti-democratic. The US Senate a complex of anti-democratic characteristics. First, we have the fact that two Senators from Vermont or Wyoming or North Dakota, as examples, are elected by a few hundred thousand voters. While the large states require the vote of millions for a Senate seat. Why should a vote in Wyoming be worth roughly 75 times a vote in California?

Then, we have to consider the rules of the Senate that allow individual Senators to secretly black ball any nominee requiring Senate confirmation without recourse or public responsibility. So, Senators have the privilege of bad mouthing the Executive branch while secretly holding up its personnel. How is that anyone can think such a state to be good for government or the country. Speaking further of the Senate, we have this anti-democratic rule requiring 60 votes to cut off debate. As the Republicans have proven this year, this rule can result in virtually no legislation ever coming out of the Senate. It is bad enough that we have the inequalities of Senators representing states without the compounding evil of this 60% rule!

The presidency itself has during the post-WWII era evolved continuously towards an imperial model of the all-seeing ((see my earlier posting on the security state apparatus)) all powerful executive. Even the much ballyhooed Obama seems not to be able to resist the temptations of having a military-state security system that spends far more than 50% of the worlds spending on such matters at his disposal. Obama has continued the unconstitutional practices of unilaterally carrying out warfare. The Constitution clearly lays the responsibility for declaring war in the hands of Congress. Nothiong in the Constitution says anything about the president launching wars. Since WWII every President has continued the practice of carrying on wars without Congressional declarations of war. In the 1970s, after over ten years of undeclared war in Vietnam and Southeast Asia, Congress passed a piece of legislation, The War Powers Resolution of 1973, that was an attempt, a meek one given the constitutional allocation of war powers, to take back some of this authority from the presidency. No President since has paid it much attention to this act and Obama has continued the imperial presidency in his most recent Afghanistan war declarations. He simply informed us of his intentions and went ahead without the slightest bow to Congress.

More troubling in a way than all of this, is the fact that we, as a country, are in a continuing state of denial, or religious manias, that prevent even the discussion of our current troubles and ones that are looming ahead.

For example, in Obama's most recent tack on the Federal budget, he has called for a freeze on all parts of the budget excepting Medicaire, Medicaid, Social Security. He did not even mention the military budget in his public rhetoric before the TV cameras during his love fest with the Republicans in Baltimore last week. His stance is that 17% of the budget must be held responsible for bearing the burdens of budget cuts. Obama is unfortunately just reflecting the national elite's consensus that defense spending (military, spy, and security state $s) are not subject to any review. No one outside of the lunatic fringe, only to be found through Google, can question what we are getting for all of these dollars. Why do we need over 800 military bases and tens of thousand of personnel all over the globe? Can we as a society afford them? How do we explain our near third world infrastructure ((If more Americans traveled or even spent time looking at what is going on in other countries via the Web, they would be pounding the table over the condition of our transportation systems.))  and health system ((I always gag when I hear politicians and other Americans tout our health system as "best in the world" when our longevity infant mortality performance is just barely at the top of the third world. See here for more on this fantasy.)) ? How do we explain an educational system that chronically leaves a significant portion of our teenagers functionally illiterate. How do we explain homelessness that is now a multi-generational fact throughout the country? The way we explain these things takes a number of tacks. First, we say that we can not afford them. Or, another is to declare that we just need to get out of the way of market forces and everything will be repaired. Or, we invoke the post-cold war bogeyman of international terrorism.

The first stratagem, "we can't afford them", brings us around to one of the more destructive religious manias of our lifetime - free markets will fix everything, government is bad. Over the last thirty years the mantra of free markets has been repeated so relentlessly in so many forums and with so many media tools, that even now, after we been provided a cruel rebuke by world events, people go on believing this religious nonsense. Why do I say "religious"? Well, organized religion is based on received knowledge that is independent of any analysis or observable facts and enforced by organized forces. Certain high priests declared that man was rational and that the marketplace is the best arbiter of value and the best solver of when and where to apply capital to a problem. Now, it must be stated that from the very beginning some said that these ideas were just an operating hypotheses for the study of economics and not even a very good one at that.  Others found in history ready examples, many of them, that this model was an illusion. ((see Manias, Panics, and Crashes: a history of financial crises, fourth edition by Charles P. Kindleberger (New York: Wiley 2000) originally published in 1968 and now revised beyond the referenced 4th edition to cover the Dot Comm era of the early 2000s. )) All of this would have literally and figuratively remained an academic trifle but for the integration of academic economists, big finance, politicians, and government. The most recent upsurge of the free-market religion began in the 1960s and came to full flower in the 1980s in Thatcherism, Reaganism, and a herd of other imitators around the world. In a final ironic moment, a Democratic president, Bill Clinton and his cabal of Wall St. advisers like Robert Rubin (the thin cover between the Democrats and big business had completely fallen away by this time) talked the Congress into revoking the Glass-Steagal Act in 1999 to put into motion the free market forces that were so thoroughly routed last year. These politicians combined free market themes with big doses of big-government is bad government and topped this off with anti-union policies. The free market component lead to privatizations of everything governmental from water systems to prisons. Meanwhile, the rich were busy getting richer on the coat tails of the big government is bad team with a series of revisions to the tax code that reduced the tax rates on the rich and business to levels not seen since the end of the Gilded Age. You might say

Another bit of received wisdom, continuously reinforced by the media, is that the rich got to be rich by dint of brilliance and persistence. Bill Gates is our generation's classic rags-to-riches story. The data suggests a different story. Social mobility meets inherited advantages in education and social knowledge as well as direct inter-generational pass throughs of wealth.

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Are Americans Over Taxed?? http://www.markorton.com/?p=1825 Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?p=1825 Tax Revenue as Percentage of GDP - 2009

Timor-Leste[5]     109.7
Kiribati[4]     91.6
Denmark     50
Sweden     49.7
Zimbabwe     49.3
Belgium     46.8
France     46.1
Cuba     44.8
Finland     43.6
Norway     43.6
Austria     43.4
Lesotho     42.9
Italy     42.6
Bosnia and Herzegovina     41.2
Germany     40.6
Iceland     40.4
Swaziland     39.8
Netherlands     39.5
Slovenia     39.3
United Kingdom     39
Brazil     38.8
Ukraine     38.1
Hungary     37.3
Spain     37.3
Portugal     37
Russia     36.9
Israel     36.8
Cyprus     36.6
New Zealand     36.5
Luxembourg     36.4
Czech Republic     36.3
Botswana     35.2
Malta     35.2
Bulgaria     34.4
Serbia     34.1
Ireland     34
Moldova     33.8
Mongolia     33.8
Poland     33.8
Greece     33.5
Canada     33.4
Barbados     32.6
Turkey     32.5
Seychelles     32
Guyana     31.9
Estonia     31.1
Australia     30.5
Latvia     30.4
Dominica     30.3
Switzerland     30.1
Slovakia     29.5
Macedonia     29.3
Namibia     28.8
United States     28.2
Romania     28.1
Montenegro     28
Trinidad and Tobago     28
Japan     27.4
Jamaica     27.2
Bolivia     27
Tonga     27
South Africa     26.9
Kazakhstan     26.8
Korea, South     26.8
Croatia     26.6
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines     26.5
Samoa     25.5
Venezuela     25
Solomon Islands     24.7
Papua New Guinea     24.5
Belarus     24.2
Saint Lucia     23.1
Uruguay     23.1
Cape Verde     23
Colombia     23
Albania     22.9
Argentina     22.9
Morocco     22.3
Suriname     22.1
Fiji     21.8
Georgia     21.7
Belize     21.6
Kyrgyzstan     21.4
Jordan     21.1
Uzbekistan     21
Lithuania     20.9
Ghana     20.8
Malawi     20.7
Maldives     20.5
Turkmenistan     20.2
Macau     20.1
Djibouti     20
Senegal     19.2
Gambia     18.9
Bahamas, The     18.7
Kenya     18.4
Cameroon     18.2
Mauritius     18.1
Azerbaijan     17.8
Nicaragua     17.8
Vanuatu     17.8
India     17.7
Burundi     17.4
Sao Tome and Principe     17.4
Chile     17.1
China, People's Republic of     17
Thailand     17
Tajikistan     16.5
Zambia     16.1
Egypt     15.8
Honduras     15.6
Malaysia     15.5
Togo     15.5
Benin     15.4
Mauritania     15.4
Côte d'Ivoire     15.3
Mali     15.3
Sri Lanka     15.3
Peru     15.1
Dominican Republic     15
Tunisia     14.9
Lebanon     14.4
Philippines     14.4
Armenia     14.1
Rwanda     14.1
Costa Rica     14
Vietnam     13.8
Mozambique     13.4
El Salvador     13.3
Congo, Democratic Republic of     13.2
Ecuador     13.2
Liberia     13.2
Singapore     13
Hong Kong     12.8
Uganda     12.6
China, Republic of (Taiwan)     12.4
Micronesia     12.3
Comoros     12
Paraguay     12
Tanzania     12
Guatemala     11.9
Ethiopia     11.6
Burkina Faso     11.5
Guinea-Bissau     11.5
Indonesia     11
Niger     11
Nepal     10.9
Laos     10.8
Bhutan     10.7
Madagascar     10.7
Syria     10.7
Pakistan     10.6
Panama     10.6
Sierra Leone     10.5
Gabon     10.3
Mexico     9.7
Haiti     9.4
Bangladesh     8.5
Guinea     8.2
Cambodia     8
Algeria     7.7
Central African Republic     7.7
Iran     7.3
Yemen     7.1
Afghanistan     6.4
Sudan     6.3
Nigeria     6.1
Congo, Republic of     5.9
Angola     5.7
Saudi Arabia     5.3
Burma     4.9
Chad     4.2
Libya     2.7
Bahrain     2.4
Qatar     2.2
Oman     2
Equatorial Guinea     1.7
Kuwait     1.5
United Arab Emirates     1.4

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Wet Pavement Conspiracy? http://www.markorton.com/2001/11/20/wet-pavement-conspiracy/ Tue, 20 Nov 2001 14:05:44 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?p=470 LA Confidential and Training Day quickly come to mind as featuring a large number of wet days and nights and puddles in back alleys. How did they get this wet pavement? The arid and semiarid regions of the American southwest don’t have more than a handful of wet days in a year. In fact, deserts, typically have 10 or fewer inches of rain per year. Semiarid fall in the 10 to 15 inches per year. Here are a few cities and their average annual rainfall.
Average Annual Rain Fall (inches)
Miami
60
Atlanta
48
Boston
43
New York City
40
Washington, DC
39
Chicago
34
Jerusalem
19
Sacramento
17
Salt Lake City
15
Los Angeles
14
San Diego
10
Phoenix
7
Mojave Desert
4
Las Vegas
4
Cairo
1
More recently I have been noticing that TV and movie images of Los Angeles in particular are prone to wet pavement. Take the current Denzel Washington vehicle, Training Day, or the earlier LA Confidential as examples. Who are they kidding. We all know that LA is in a desert. Where does all this wet pavement come from? Are the filmmakers rubbing our noses in the history of all the Federal money that went into water projects?

11/20/01

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470 2001-11-20 10:05:44 2001-11-20 14:05:44 open open wet-pavement-conspiracy publish 0 0 post 0 _edit_lock 1237817797 _edit_last 2 podPressPostSpecific a:6:{s:15:"itunes:subtitle";s:15:"##PostExcerpt##";s:14:"itunes:summary";s:15:"##PostExcerpt##";s:15:"itunes:keywords";s:17:"##WordPressCats##";s:13:"itunes:author";s:10:"##Global##";s:15:"itunes:explicit";s:7:"Default";s:12:"itunes:block";s:7:"Default";} _aioseop_title Wet Pavement Conspiracy? - unexpected water in movies _aioseop_description Movies also seem prone to wet scenes in Los Angeles. LA Confidential and Training Day quickly come to mind as featuring a large number of wet days and nights and puddles in back alleys. How did they get this wet pavement? _aioseop_keywords arid, average annual rainfall, conspiracy, images of los angeles, mojave desert, movies, Denzel Washington,rain fall, semiarid regions, training day, wet pavement, wet scenes
Uber Organ - Tim Hawkinson http://www.markorton.com/2001/12/01/uber-organ-tim-hawkinson/ Sun, 02 Dec 2001 00:06:39 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?p=494 Most contemporary art is a bore or worse. However, a visit to MassMOCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA) a year or so ago revealed a delight, Uberorgan by Tim Hawkinson. This installation filled the giant main hall at the museum, a room some 300 feet long and 75 feet wide with a ceiling height of 40 feet, a giant space. The sounds produced by Uberorgan ranged from farts with truly foundation rattling lows to bassoon-like upper register squawks. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a tape recorder and no recordings appear to be commercially available. Although on first glance the player seemed to be a very direct use of a large Mylar strip with the musical score encoded as black stripes for each of the channels, things were in fact a bit more complicated. There were sensors arrayed to detect the presence and location of the audience. And each reed assembly has its own controller that contributes a further randomization to the timing of the sounds produced. Here are a few photos:

A view from the balcony overlooking Uberorgan


Uberorgan recorder and player


The Recorder Unit



The Player with Mylar score


Air Bladder

Reed and Controller Assembly

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494 2001-12-01 20:06:39 2001-12-02 00:06:39 open open uber-organ-tim-hawkinson publish 0 0 post 0 _edit_lock 1237853685 _edit_last 2 podPressPostSpecific a:6:{s:15:"itunes:subtitle";s:15:"##PostExcerpt##";s:14:"itunes:summary";s:15:"##PostExcerpt##";s:15:"itunes:keywords";s:17:"##WordPressCats##";s:13:"itunes:author";s:10:"##Global##";s:15:"itunes:explicit";s:2:"No";s:12:"itunes:block";s:2:"No";} _aioseop_description Most contemporary art is a bore or worse. However, a visit to MassMOCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA) a year or so ago revealed a delight, Uberorgan by Tim Hawkinson. This installation filled the giant main hall at the museum, a room some 300 feet long and 75 feet wide with a ceiling height of 40 feet, a giant space. _aioseop_keywords massachusetts museum of contemporary art, tim hawkinson, uberorgan, farts, tape recorder, air bladder, MassMOCA, installation, randomization, Uberorgan, _aioseop_title Uber Organ - Tim Hawkinson
Uberorgan by Tim Hawkinson at Mass MOCA http://www.markorton.com/2001/12/19/uberorgan-by-tim-hawkinson-at-mass-moca/ Wed, 19 Dec 2001 11:49:00 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?p=1246 (originally posted December 2001)

Most contemporary art is a bore or worse.

However, a visit to MassMOCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA) a year or so ago revealed a delight, Uberorgan by Tim Hawkinson. This installation filled the giant main hall at the museum, a room some 300 feet long and 75 feet wide with a ceiling height of 40 feet, a giant space.

The sounds produced by Uberorgan ranged from farts with truly foundation rattling lows to bassoon-like upper register squawks. Unfortunately, I didn't have a tape recorder and no recordings appear to be commercially available.

Although on first glance the player seemed to be a very direct use of a large Mylar strip with the musical score encoded as black stripes for each of the channels, things were in fact a bit more complicated. There were sensors arrayed to detect the presence and location of the audience. And each reed assembly has its own controller that contributes a further randomization to the timing of the sounds produced.

Here are a few photos:

A view from the balcony overlooking Uberorgan


 


Uberorgan recorder and player


 

The Recorder Unit



The Player with Mylar score


 

Air Bladder

 

Reed and Controller Assembly

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Whose Opinion (Advice) Is This? http://www.markorton.com/2002/01/01/whose-opinion-advice-is-this/ Tue, 01 Jan 2002 15:27:35 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?p=1319 Whose Opinion (Advice) Is This?

The Problem

At a time when we are quite aware of the need for and value of transparency in the reporting of the activities of corporations (thanks most recently to the Enron affair), we could quite usefully extend this transparency metaphor to other parts of day-to-day life. The print press, TV, radio, and internet are filled with opinions and advice from all sorts of people. Many of these pass for expert status just based on affiliation with universities, institutes, and think tanks.

Increasingly we must ask ourselves, “whose opinion is this?” Who is being served by the expertise?

Although many in the academic and chic cultural world (not to mention the various right-wing types in political and religious quarters) may think that relativism is the creation of post-WWII French philosophy, most of the rest of the world knows full well that “truth” is in fact relative, that is, relative to who is paying. No surprise, the “experts” know this too, and regularly seek to hide or obscure who is paying. Now, even the pinnacle of prestige in the medical world, The New England Journal of Medicine, has had to strengthen its guidelines that seek to separate research performed at arms length from the pharmaceutical/medical industrial complex from that more directly controlled.


A Step Towards a Solution

What can we do to provide a substantial increase in the transparency of our information sources while keeping things simple?

We should begin to demand that every expert, commentator, think tank institute, or university laboratory reveal the sources of 80% of the funds supporting its research/organizational activities. In the vast majority of case the list of sources will not exceed three or four. This protocol will provide a revealing base of background information without substantial burdens.


A Caveat

Although the protocol proposed here will increase the transparency of our sources of information, it will not relieve us of the work of making sense out of the data and theories presented in any given situation. Just because a given piece of research is funded by “bad people” does not mean that the data is not meaningful and the analysis correct.

 

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1319 2002-01-01 11:27:35 2002-01-01 15:27:35 open open whose-opinion-advice-is-this publish 0 0 post 0 _edit_lock 1257089640 _edit_last 2 podPressPostSpecific a:6:{s:15:"itunes:subtitle";s:15:"##PostExcerpt##";s:14:"itunes:summary";s:15:"##PostExcerpt##";s:15:"itunes:keywords";s:17:"##WordPressCats##";s:13:"itunes:author";s:10:"##Global##";s:15:"itunes:explicit";s:7:"Default";s:12:"itunes:block";s:7:"Default";} _aioseop_description At a time when we are quite aware of the need for and value of transparency in the reporting of the activities of corporations (thanks most recently to the Enron affair), we could quite usefully extend this transparency metaphor to other parts of day-to-day life. The print press, TV, radio, and internet are filled with opinions and advice from all sorts of people. Many of these pass for expert status just based on affiliation with universities, institutes, and think tanks. _aioseop_keywords Enron, transparency, advice, england journal of medicine, expert status, relativism, expert commentator, information sources, _aioseop_title Whose Opinion (Advice) Is This?
Enron, Trust and Malfeasance http://www.markorton.com/2002/01/21/enron-trust-and-malfeasance-2/ Mon, 21 Jan 2002 14:57:43 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wordpress2.5/?p=467 January 23, 2002 (revised 1/29/02)

The collapse of energy giant Enron over the last six months

The collapse of energy giant Enron over the last six months has produced a surprising level of outrage especially for a cynic like me. As this drama continues to unfold, I have been trying to understand how Enron structured their business and made money. Until just last night I was operating on the belief that the cleverness and sophistication of Enron’s managers simply outstripped my analytical skills. But, as I have been following the writing in the NY Times and Wall St. Journal, slowly it has come to me that they don’t understand the maze of structures and deals employed by Enron for years either.

Massive deceit, deception, and downright criminal activity

Then, last night, on the Jim Lehrer News Hour on PBS, Paul Solman, one of the regular financial reporters, gave his analysis of what has been going on. After listening to Solman’s report, it is clear that Enron has been engaging in massive deceit, deception, and downright criminal activity for years. Now, I must admit to some familiarity with the habits and attitudes of managers. I am used to the aggressive behavior of managers trying to stretch the accounting systems to make the most recent quarter look good. In fact, I have participated in such activities. But, Enron has engaged in a long-term shell game aided and abetted by its accounting firm, Arthur Andersen, LLC. The failure of the government (the SEC) and more importantly, the audit companies, to provide oversight, transparency, basic facts, and above all the application simple commonsense ethics to a huge company’s activities is outrageous. It undermines the credibility of the economy. If Arthur Andersen, one of the oldest and most prestigious audit firms can be so blind over so many years, what are we to make of their, and other audit firms’ reliability for oversight of all the other firms so many of us hold in our 401K funds? It will be interesting to see how the government and the financial institutions of capitalism react to this. It is a basic tenant of the capital and equity markets that timely, transparent information is essential not only to the best and highest use of our capital resources, but also to the maintenance of trust in a reasonably fair play space.

You can see the Solman report on the PBS web site (opens in a separate window) And, from Friday January 25, 2002, here is more Solman on Enron (opens in a separate window)

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467 2002-01-21 10:57:43 2002-01-21 14:57:43 open open enron-trust-and-malfeasance-2 publish 0 0 post 0 podPressPostSpecific a:6:{s:15:"itunes:subtitle";s:15:"##PostExcerpt##";s:14:"itunes:summary";s:15:"##PostExcerpt##";s:15:"itunes:keywords";s:17:"##WordPressCats##";s:13:"itunes:author";s:10:"##Global##";s:15:"itunes:explicit";s:2:"No";s:12:"itunes:block";s:2:"No";} _edit_lock 1238959707 _edit_last 2 _aioseop_description The collapse of energy giant Enron over the last six months has produced a surprising level of outrage especially for a cynic like me. As this drama continues to unfold, I have been trying to understand how Enron structured their business and made money. _aioseop_keywords accounting firm, arthur andersen, audit companies, Enron, paul solman, jim lehrer news, financial institutions, Wall St., shell game, oversight, credibility, _aioseop_title Enron, Trust and Malfeasance
"Long Live Marmite! Only the British Could Love It" http://www.markorton.com/2002/01/23/long-live-marmite-only-the-british-could-love-it/ Wed, 23 Jan 2002 23:54:26 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?p=487 from the New York Times January 24, 2002: a page A4 article "Burton-on-Trent Journal: Long Live Marmite! Only the British Could Love It"

"Being British, the company has had an appreciation of the public's divided loyalties between those who find Marmite revolting and those who think it sublime.

One campaign, a television ad exploiting the product's notoriety for producing bad breath, showed a woman excusing herself from a sofa clutch with her boyfriend and running into the kitchen to have a quick bite of Marmite. She returns, they kiss, and the final scene shows the woman alone while the man is heard throwing up in the toilet."

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Enron, Trust and Malfeasance http://www.markorton.com/2002/01/29/enron-trust-and-malfeasance/ Tue, 29 Jan 2002 14:16:47 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?p=483 January 23, 2002 (revised 1/29/02) The collapse of energy giant Enron over the last six months has produced a surprising level of outrage especially for a cynic like me. As this drama continues to unfold, I have been trying to understand how Enron structured their business and made money. Until just last night I was operating on the belief that the cleverness and sophistication of Enron's managers simply outstripped my analytical skills. But, as I have been following the writing in the NY Times and Wall St. Journal, slowly it has come to me that they don't understand the maze of structures and deals employed by Enron for years either. Then, last night, on the Jim Lehrer News Hour on PBS, Paul Solman, one of the regular financial reporters, gave his analysis of what has been going on. After listening to Solman's report, it is clear that Enron has been engaging in massive deceit, deception, and downright criminal activity for years. Now, I must admit to some familiarity with the habits and attitudes of managers. I am used to the aggressive behavior of managers trying to stretch the accounting systems to make the most recent quarter look good. In fact, I have participated in such activities. But, Enron has engaged in a long-term shell game aided and abetted by its accounting firm, Arthur Andersen, LLC. The failure of the government (the SEC) and more importantly, the audit companies, to provide oversight, transparency, basic facts, and above all the application simple commonsense ethics to a huge company's activities is outrageous. It undermines the credibility of the economy. If Arthur Andersen, one of the oldest and most prestigious audit firms can be so blind over so many years, what are we to make of their, and other audit firms' reliability for oversight of all the other firms so many of us hold in our 401K funds? It will be interesting to see how the government and the financial institutions of capitalism react to this. It is a basic tenant of the capital and equity markets that timely, transparent information is essential not only to the best and highest use of our capital resources, but also to the maintenance of trust in a reasonably fair play space. You can see the Solman report on the PBS web site (opens in a separate window) And, from Friday January 25, 2002, here is more Solman on Enron (opens in a separate window)

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Louis Faurer Retrospective - street photographer http://www.markorton.com/2002/07/01/521/ Mon, 01 Jul 2002 11:09:25 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?p=521 Addison Gallery Phillips Academy, Andover, MA

Louis Faurer Retrospective (thru July 28, 2002)

Two rooms filled with black and white pictures predominantly from the 1930's thru the 1950's. A lesser known street photographer, Louis Faurer, like Robert Frank and others, produced many of the photographic images that form the visual backdrop to our mind map of those times. Faurer's work was completley unknown to me until this visit. The work stands on its own both from a content and technical perspective. accident Louis Faurer, The Accident, Lexington Avenue, New York City, 1952, gelatin silver print, courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (This photo is actually the result of an error. It is a double exposure. The chalk outline on the street is an earlier picture of an accident with the chilled boy taken later.)







broadst (The title for this picture on the gallery's web site is incorrect. Unfortunately I do not have the correct information. Probably from the 1930's in New York City. One of many photos Faurer took of beggars, indigents, and others down on their luck) (both pictures borrowed from the Addison Gallery web site without permission)]]>
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Greenland and Global Warming http://www.markorton.com/2002/09/02/greenland-and-global-warming/ Tue, 03 Sep 2002 00:37:32 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?p=505 When I looked down into the Grand Canyon for the first time, I paused only for a moment at its immensity and moved right onto a more self-centered thought, “How tiny human history is in all of this, and even further, how much less significant my own life must be by extension.”It is clear that human beings will not outlast Nature. An article in the January 7, 2002 New Yorker magazine, Ice Memory by Elizabeth Kolbert suggests that Nature will win out in even the shorter run than my earlier musings. Greenland is about the size of France and 80% covered by ice. The ice sheet or glacier is over ten thousand feet thick. “A hundred and thirty-eight feet down, there is snow dating from the American Civil War; some twenty-five hundred feet down, snow from the days of Plato, and, five thousand three hundred and fifty feet down, from the time when prehistoric painters were decorating the caves at Lascaux. At the very bottom, there is snow that fell on Greenland before the last ice age, which began more than a hundred thousand years ago.” Starting in 1959 and continuing sporadically to this day, teams from various countries have drilled down through this ice and extracted cores on four or more occasions. At first no one was very interested in the cores, but a clever Danish scientist developed a technique that allowed for an accurate reading of the atmospheric temperature at the time each layer was deposited. This involves the ratio of two oxygen isotopes in rain water that is temperature dependent. So, what do these ice cores reveal about the earth’s climate?
“Its hard to look much further back in the record, however, without feeling a little queasy. About twenty thousand years ago, the Earth was still in the grip of the last ice age. During this period, called the Wisconsin by American scientists, ice sheets covered nearly a third of the world’s landmass, reaching as far south a New York City. The transition out of the Wisconsin is preserved in great detail in the Greenland ice. What the record shows is that it was a period of intense instability. The temperature did not rise slowly , or even steadily; instead, the climate flipped several times from temperate conditions back into those of an ice age, and then back again. Around fifteen thousand years ago, Greenland abruptly warmed by sixteen degrees in fifty years or less. In one particularly traumatic episode some twelve thousand years ago, the mean temperature in Greenland shot up by fifteen degrees in a single decade.”
So, over the last hundred thousand years of climate history captured in the ice there have been dozens of episodes of wild swings in temperature. But, taking a longer view, the earth has oscillated through warm periods of ten thousand years followed by ninety thousand years of cold during the last half million years. The warm period we now live in is now ten thousand years old; a cold period should follow. Although us humans are persisting in all sorts of un-neighborly activities, in the end, we may not have enough time to do ourselves in before Nature catches us. 9/2/2 ]]>
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On Walking Through the Empty Halls of a Mental Hospital Soon to Be Condemned http://www.markorton.com/2003/05/23/on-walking-through-the-empty-halls-of-a-mental-hospital-soon-to-be-condemned/ Sat, 24 May 2003 00:50:05 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?p=512 {Here is a text, an "elegy" as Linda describes it, on the closing of the Massachusetts Mental Health Center building in Boston}fenwood_door

By Linda Larson Incoherent thoughts become complete sentences. Thought begins. Unbound by common reasoning. Transparent eyes window the routine terror of people in glass houses dodging imaginary stones. Dreams of glory careen into nightmares of war-torn psyches. In whose eyes are wars sane? The docs weave filaments of reason trying to contain neon flares of fear. Creations of doom surround us and infect us. The ‘We’ here is royal, a happing out-of-tune congregation praising the persistence of our own ardent seeking souls. (We know horrors that would take Tom Ridge’s breath away.) We open our mouths and flowers fly out. Angels hover like moths impassioned by a light bulb in the night. We bloom up and out stringing words together as exultantly as the blue trumpets of morning glories on the vine. We are caught in the literal. Our rolling stones gather no moss, and we mean moss, not metaphor. Today, we flourish. The list of what we cannot do grows shorter and shorter. We become comfortable in a world of three dimensions; we gladly surrender the fourth, fifth and sixth. The ink on our delusions fades; the pages of our misspent passions are yellowing. We find ourselves free of demons, yet cannot help our nostalgia for their intensity. We wander bewildered from the shadows of Plato’s cave into other labyrinths of commonly held misconceptions of reality. We create a reality that we can bear. Who among us chooses to live in darkness? Plain and blunt reality is radiant with promise in its simplicity. Having had to fight so mightily for a handle on today, we are drawn to the black and white of reason, delighting in the clarity of the tangible, dimly lit from behind with acceptance. But there we are. It’s called therapy. Your eyes seem to see through us. You don’t touch, but your hands reach out. You inspect us as if thoughts could translate into sentences with a beginning, middle and end. Subject, verb, object are in disarray; You trick us into living a bit longer. ‘Don’t leave before the miracle happens. ‘ Mother told us, 36 years ago, “Hang on. They’ll find a cure.” Now we tell our children, graceful and lithesome as deer in the woods, “Don’t fear. Take the medication that makes you heavy and confines your mind. Sacrifice your youth and beauty on the fickle altar of coherence. They are close to a breakthrough.” And the aching we remember seeing in their young sweet eyes, battling the nuances of despair, willing hope against the odds, refusing to surrender to elementary genetics, which stalks them like a bounty hunter laying claim to their light. We ask ourselves, what will happen when we die and they are on their own? Once we were alone until we found each other in the hospitals, in meandering corridors we walked painstakingly our way through the maze. We found legitimacy here for our suffering. We shared a salute to our survival. We united and many came to love ourselves, sharing the same roller coaster rides of thoughts and beliefs. Some how we were released from our dungeons of self-enforced solitude. We became a community based on the mutual respect and understanding of our peers. The people whose faces and stories we shared gave us permission to love self. Instead of incarceration, the doors of the hospitals were unlocked and the hallways, the library, the research beds, the clinics and the small rooms where intensive work was being done by clients and therapists, the old quiet rooms of pained, disease-ridden reflection became battlefields for our liberty. If we so chose, we learned to live outside the hospital. We learned to navigate the reality of the majority. We learned to stop on red and find the way to go on green. In these haunted hallways, spirits of the people we have known and who have known us are still passionate, resounding with vitality remembered and respected, sometimes by osmosis, sometimes by default. We who remain give each other the recognition, the salutation of our fragile fellowship, living or dead. Some died too soon or disappeared along the way, but are not lost to us. We hear their footsteps, their voices, their paintings and poems, their whispers and cries. We see them out of the corners of our eyes. We see their identifying walk, their frantic, mute gestures directed at what only they could see. We remember the names of their gods, and we embrace them with our memories. We remember them as we go up to the fourth floor, the ICU, a locked unit and remember the plastic-green pallets smelling faintly of urine on the floor, all of us crowded into a little space and forging bonds unlike any other. We are not all friends, some of us are angry people, but we are all from the same region. There are many dialects but it is the same language. Why did we end up in this place of hope and light, when so many of us were locked into prisons of filth and despair or took or lost their lives. Just lucky I guess. And today…oh so grateful…beyond any words, so grateful. Grateful to be out in the air, to touch a tree trunk, to look up unhindered at the great sky, whatever its mood. Lives and sufferings have been redeemed in this swaying building. We stand for one last time on the front steps where we begged for cigarettes and shared coffee, pouring it from cup to cup, and got to know each others’ first names. We were there for better or for worse; in sickness and in health, we were stuck with one another. So fling out the shutters! Open the windows of this old Ark, which has brought so many of us so far. Emancipate the souls we left behind so they can fly out freely through the opened windows. Let them fly out into the chill autumn air, redolent with leaves rotting into the earth, and migrate into long-awaited, blessed freedom. We conscientiously set free our memories, for good or ill; we let go, unbind the fetters that drag us down…the hurts, the rage, the swamp of self-regret and the lowlands of self-pity. We forgive our lives for capturing us, and eventually we are released from this crumbling, temporary home. Today we returned to this doomed building and celebrate we have outlived it and remember the ones, brilliant in memory, who did not. © Linda Larson 2003 (photo by Anna Schuleit borrowed without permission from the web site http://1856.org/bloom/setting.html)]]>
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Milt Rogovin - The Forgotten Ones http://www.markorton.com/2003/10/12/milt-rogovin-the-forgotten-ones/ Sun, 12 Oct 2003 17:37:51 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?p=1340 During one of our whirlwind weekends in New York, Karen and I went to the New York Historical Society (2 West 77th Street New York, NY 10024 http://www.nyhistory.org) to catch the last day of the exhibit, REMEMBERING THE FORGOTTEN ONES: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF MILTON ROGOVIN.


Here is the whole article in the In Brief section

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1340 2003-10-12 13:37:51 2003-10-12 17:37:51 open open milt-rogovin-the-forgotten-ones publish 0 0 post 0 _edit_lock 1257097589 _edit_last 2 podPressPostSpecific a:6:{s:15:"itunes:subtitle";s:15:"##PostExcerpt##";s:14:"itunes:summary";s:15:"##PostExcerpt##";s:15:"itunes:keywords";s:17:"##WordPressCats##";s:13:"itunes:author";s:10:"##Global##";s:15:"itunes:explicit";s:2:"No";s:12:"itunes:block";s:2:"No";} _aioseop_title Milt Rogovin - The Forgotten Ones - photography - Buffalo NY _aioseop_keywords Milt Rogovin - The Forgotten Ones,Buffalo, dave isay, Documentary, milton rogovin, new york historical society, PHOTOGRAPHS, remarkable exhibition, photography, getty museum,
The Fog of War or A Fog of Ethics? http://www.markorton.com/in-depth-essays-commentaries/the-fog-of-war-or-a-fog-of-ethics/ Fri, 19 Dec 2003 00:58:50 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wordpress2.5/?page_id=398 Through our friend Esther Hanig we attended a showing of Errol Morris's new documentary, The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons From the Life of Robert S. McNamara. at the Kennedy Library in Dorchester on December 14, 2003. This documentary is an extended adventure into the historico-biography of Robert S. McNamara, most famous as the Secretary of Defense during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. The movie intersperses close up head shots of McNamara (always shown off center) responding to questions posed by the interviewer (never seen, but clearly the director Morris) with historical footage and graphics illustrating events or concepts.

 

 

McNamara today at age 87 McNamara as Sec. of Defense ca 1966. 
Photos appropriated from the New York Times web site  

 

One of the most effective sections reveals McNamara's role in the planning and execution of bombing campaigns during WWII under the command of Gen. Curtis LeMay. This bombing campaign attacked 67 Japanese cities. Morris uses historical footage of the results and then flashes the names of the Japanese cities with their populations on the screen immediately followed by the names and populations of similar-size American cities. In one night a fire-bombing of Tokyo incinerated 100,000 civilians. In the movie, Mr. McNamara tells Mr. Morris. "Lemay said, `If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals.' And I think he's right. He — and I'd say I — were behaving as war criminals." He asks, "What makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?" (thanks for this quote to the movie review article "War and Never Having to Say You're Sorry" by Samantha Power, Published: December 14, 2003 in the New York Times)

Later, covering the Vietnam War, Morris provides audio tapes of both Kennedy and Johnson speaking with McNamara about the war. These add more fuel to the argument that if Kennedy had lived that he would not have enlarged the US involvement. And, on the other hand, Johnson comes across as clearly responsible. No surprise there.

When asked during the post-screening discussion about why he waited for over twenty years to reveal that he had come to think the Vietnam war a mistake even while still Sec. of Defense, McNamara repeated his claim that as a former Sec of Defense he could not say critical things of the war policy because it would have been giving comfort to the enemy and endangering US troops.

This is a cruel bit of logic.

When McNamara left his position roughly 25,000 Americans had died and probably 10 to 20 times that many Vietnamese. By the time the war actually ended seven years later, more than twice that many had died on both sides. It remains a galling outrage that this man, so intimately involved with the development and prosecution of the Vietnam War, could be seeking absolution twenty years later. It is the minimum we human beings owe to each other that, when confronted with obvious wrong doing, we speak up. This obligation is all the more important for those in positions of power and authority. But, one of Morris's points in his movie is that evil and evil doers are never quite so easily categorized as might be in an old Western movie.

The end of the post-screening discussions with McNamara displayed this point with fresh vigor. After the program was officially closed, McNamara called for a few more moments of the audience's attention. He wanted to add to his call for work on developing and deploying a real policy on proliferation of nuclear weapons with a call for international standards for behavior by political leaders enforced by international judicial tribunals. Perhaps we might think of him in the dock for his role in the Vietnam War. Just as a small starting point for the prosecution: during the movie McNamara himself pointed out that more munitions were dropped on Vietnam during the war than all that were used in the European theatre of WWII. And, this, in a country that is just about the same land area as our states of Wisconsin and Minnesota and then, as now, one of the poorest countries in the world.

But, then, McNamara seems incapable of connecting the ethical dots in his own life. How can acknowledge that his role in the fire-bombings of Japan might be considered a "war crime", his policy in Vietnam wrong, and call for international standards of behavior enforced by international courts??

PS: I highly recommend the movie. It is challenging and very well made.

12172003

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Claverack Construction for Kiddies http://www.markorton.com/events/claverack-construction-for-kiddies/ Sun, 29 Aug 2004 22:53:57 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wordpress2.5/?page_id=29 July, 2004

Karen and I spent a few days in Claverack, NY putting together a playset for grandchildren Noah and Nyla.

 

Here is a Quicktime movie Claverack Construction for Kiddies (5 MB) that opens in a new window.

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The Interrotron http://www.markorton.com/in-depth-essays-commentaries/the-interrotron/ Sat, 19 Feb 2005 00:32:33 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wordpress2.5/?page_id=395 In a recent visit to the movies I picked up the FLM [Magazine] (Winter 2004), a product of Landmark Theatres, and found an article by Errol Morris, "13 Questions and Answers on the Filmmaking of Errol Morris". It contained a bit of drollery about the Interrotron.

In The Fog of War and other Morris' movies, the interview subjects stare straight into the camera while responding to a voice interviewing them from off screen.

Here is the text lifted without permission from the magazine's website (http://www.movienet.com/fogofwar.html). I have attempted to maintain the design and layout. I did add the picture of the Interrotron from another source.

Q Is it true that you interview people using a machine?

A Yes, the (patent pending) Interrotron. It's a machine that uses existing technology in a new and novel way. When I made my first film, Gates of Heaven, I interviewed people by putting my head right up against the lens of the camera. I would be talking to them, and it seemed as though they were looking directly into the lens of the camera, but not really. Almost, but not quite. Of course, they were looking a little bit off to the side.

Q Why? What's the point?

A To create the first person. When someone watches my films, it is as though the characters are talking directly to them…There is no third party. On television we're used to seeing people interviewed 60 Minutes style. There is Mike Wallace or Larry King, and the camera is off to the side. Hence, we, the audience, are also off to the side. We're the fly-on-the-wall, so to speak, watching two people talking. But we've lost something.

Q What?

A Direct eye contact.

Q Eye contact?

A Uh huh. We all know when someone makes eye contact with us. It is a moment of drama. Perhaps it's a serial killer telling us that he's about to kill us; or a loved one acknowledging a moment of affection. Regardless, it's a moment with dramatic value. We know when people make eye contact with us, look away and then make eye contact again. It's an essential part of communication. And yet, it is lost in standard interviews on film. That is, until the Interrotron.

Q I don't get it.

A I got tired of sitting so close to the camera. (In my early films, my cameraman would grab the back of my head and pull me back because you could see the side of my head in the lens. When he yanked me back, it often hurt.) And I started to wonder, what if I could become one with the camera. What if the camera and myself could become one and the same?

Q You're losing me.

A Well, not literally. Are you familiar with Teleprompters?

Q Not really.

A Well, Teleprompters are used to project an image on a two-way mirror. Politicians and newscasters use them so that they can read text and look into the lens of the camera at the same time. What interests me is that nobody thought of using them for anything other than to display text: read a speech or read the news and look into the lens of the camera.







(image borrowed without permission from http://www.spin.com)

Q OK.

A  I changed that. I put my face on the Teleprompter or, strictly speaking, my live video image. For the first time, I could be talking to someone, and they could be talking to me and at the same time looking directly into the lens of the camera. Now, there was no looking off slightly to the side. No more faux first person. This was the true first person.

Q It sounds like Buck Rogers. Were people willing to tolerate this?

A I worried at first. Would it frighten people? Would they run out of the studio screaming? Who could say? I used it for the first time in Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. And it worked like a charm. People loved the Interrotron.

Q The Interrotron? Did you make up the name?

A No, it was named by my wife, Julia Sheehan. She liked the name because it combined two important concepts — terror and interview.

Q But doesn't the device intimidate people?

A Oddly enough, no. It doesn't. People, if anything, feel more relaxed when talking to a live video image. My production designer, Ted Bafaloukos, said, "The beauty of this thing is that it allows people to do what they do best. Watch television…" We often think of technology as working against the possibility of intimacy. But there are so many counter-examples. The telephone is a good counter-example. There are things we can say to each other on the phone that we would never say if we were in the same room. You know, "Being there is the next best thing to using the phone…" The Interrotron is like that. It creates greater distance and greater intimacy. And it also creates the true first person. Now, when people make eye contact with me, it can be preserved on film.

Q Have you used it much?

A Whenever I need to. I used it in a film that introduced the Academy Awards® in 2002. Gorbachev, Laura Bush, Iggy Pop, Al Sharpton and Walter Cronkite have all been on the Interrotron.

Q Did Robert McNamara like it?

A Well, you have to remember that we are talking about someone who has been interviewed a thousand times. He walked into the studio and said, "What is that?" I smiled and said, "The Interrotron." He said, "Well, whatever it is, I don't like it." But then he sat down, and we proceeded to record over twenty hours of interviews. I guess he came to like it, too.



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2005-4-14 The Big Story in the Cambridge Chronicle http://www.markorton.com/family-friends/karen-davis-photographer-book-artist-teacher-web-developer-and-the-honey/karen-davis/ Fri, 30 Sep 2005 18:05:06 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wordpress2.5/?page_id=31 Fall 2005

Introduction

I can't really keep up with all of the projects, shows, and events that Karen is involved in. Here are some that caught my eye. Most recent are at the top.

April 14, 2005 Big Article in Cambridge Chronicle

About six weeks ago Karen received a telephone call from Hafthor Yngvason, the Director of Public Art. Some artist had failed to deliver for the April show. He was interested to connect Karen with another artist for a show of work about Central Square. Hafthor remembered Karen's work and thought that it would work well with that of sculptor John Tagiuri. So a mad rush ensued to get the work ready to hang. It must be noted that this happened just as Karen was preparing for a large show, over 40 pieces, at University Place in a show, "Parallels and Crosswalks 2", sponsored by the Cambridge Art Association (opens new window) .

Along the way Karen thought, "Gee, wouldn't it be great to put some of the Central Square photos up in the same locations in Central Square itself." Sort of a walking addendum to the formal display. The Arts Council staff ran around the Square and got permissions.

Then Mr. Wonderful pointed out that he had been playing around with his computer toys and this had lead him to Apple's iMovie and iDvd programs. Pretty simple to run. Why not take a series of the Central Square photos and connect them with the spoken text from one of Karen's Central Square books?

More rush rush.....then the DVD movie.

Finally the opening. Monday April 4. Here is more about that eventt >>>>>

The Reporter

Then the phone began to ring and I heard mysterious conversations about events and places in the past. It was The Reporter. Following a tour of Central Square lead personally for The Reporter by the Artiste, we found this in today's Cambridge Chronicle.

Go here for the whole story >>>>>

Go here for the whole story >>>>>

The DVD Movie

As mentioned above, the show at the gallery included a DVD movie. I have re-formatted this as a Quicktime movie. It is about 9 MB so if you are on a dial-up connection this could take a bit of time. Click here to open a new window and the movie will load.

Cambridge Chronicle

(borrowed without permission from http://www.townonline.com/cambridge/artsLifestyle/view.bg?articleid=224514)

A Central phase in her life

By Alexander Stevens

Thursday, April 14, 2005

Photographer Karen Davis believes Central Square attracts people who are going through life changes.

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Karen Davis holds up one of her photos of what
the Holmes Building looked like 10 years ago.

She's got lots of anecdotal evidence to prove her theory - friends and acquaintances who found Central Square on the way to finding themselves. But she also has first-hand experience: More than 30 years ago, she was a 31-year-old newly divorced mother of two fighting through depression who pulled up her roots from a comfortable, rent-free storybook cottage in Wellesley to live in a rent-controlled hovel with "a day-glo green living room" at 254 Western Ave. in Cambridge.

The movers, who saw both the home that she left and her new home, couldn't believe it. They asked why she had made the choice, but they didn't stick around for the answer when one of her new roommates - a cockroach - suddenly scampered out of its lair to welcome her.

"People I know have a lot of memories of life changes" associated with their time in Central Square, says Davis. "Part of it is moving to a place that's not that stable, a place where people move in and out while they're figuring out their lives. I'm sharing my memories because it was a very critical move for me. But a lot of people have parallel experiences."

Davis chronicles both her love of Central Square and the way it was a catalyst for change in her own life as part of the exhibit "Walking Central Square," hanging at the Cambridge Arts Council Gallery through April 22. She shares the show with Cambridge photographer John Tagiuri.

Part of the exhibit includes a quick, four-minute video presentation written and narrated by Davis, and set to a decade's worth of her black and white photos of Central Square.

In the piece, she describes her Wellesley home as a place she neither "fit in nor understood." And she gives the answer that the movers couldn't wait for: She felt a crushing sense of isolation there, and she needed a change. When a friend who lived in Central Square called to tell her about a rent-controlled apartment that was available, she jumped.

Davis describes it as the "greatest distance I ever leaped." In Central Square, she found exactly what she needed. Her two young children made friends immediately, and Davis was bound together with a community also in flux.

"There were six units in the building," remembers Davis, sitting in an Au Bon Pain (that used to be King's Pub, she notes). "There were puppeteers who used to move furniture, an academic, a jazz singer, a couple who had been in a commune that was breaking up. No one had money; everyone was just picking up work and making things go."

What they did have was time to talk and a desire for pot-luck dinners. And a common struggle can build powerful, familylike bonds. If it all sounds a little like "La Boheme" or "Rent," that's probably not far off.

And it wasn't just the neighbors who embraced Davis. She also found support elsewhere in the community. She says the Cambridge Community Center was a great resource for her kids. And "Mrs. Bartley" at Bartley's Burgers was extremely understanding of her when giving her waitressing hours.

And the "Walking Central Square" exhibit itself is testimony to the wisdom of her difficult decision to move. Had she not moved, she probably never would have discovered photography, or her new husband, or herself.

No wonder she has such affection for Central Square, even as some others may fear it and avoid it.

Appropriately, the exhibit isn't just in the gallery, it also lives in Central Square, which - as her photos document - is undergoing a metamorphosis from a quirky hodge-podge of oddly outdated shops into the home of an increasing number of chain stores that you'd also probably find at the Mall of America. Davis stands in front of the Cambridge Savings Bank on Mass Ave. in Central Square, site of the controversial Holmes building project. She's shuffling through crisp black and white prints of Central Square storefronts that she snapped a decade ago. She collects ones that show what the Holmes building looked like a mere 10 years ago, when the Holmes was home to funky shops such as Emily Rose and The Lucy Parson Center. Prints of the same photos hang in the Savings Bank windows; they're "before" and "after" shots of a Central Square extreme makeover.

Asked if patrons and passersby will understand that the photos are a snapshot of the Holmes building's recent history, she answers without hesitation: "If they've lived here for 10 years they will."

It's a motif that's played out at shops all over Central Square: Davis' photos hanging in Picante, T-Mobile, Falafel Palace and the Middle East, showing what those shops used to look like.

Davis says most of the shops were "very receptive" to hanging the photos. Although, if she hadn't just given up, she might still be waiting for corporate approval from the Starbucks home office, 3,000 miles away.

Davis is gentle in her review of the changes. She thinks they did a "decent" job with the Holmes building, but adds, "there are still a couple [changes] that are both amusing and unreal: the Gap and Starbucks. It's a symbol that things are really changing."

But if Central Square changed Davis, then maybe Central Square must be allowed to change as well.

And soon after her move, Davis had changed. As powerfully connected as she was in 254 Western Ave., those kinds of experiences are transient, like summer camp or college. Sooner or later, you move on. In 1977, she was remarried. In 1978, they moved to 266 Western. And a year later, it was time for another leap: She and her husband bought a home on Kinnard Street in Cambridge. Yes, that's in Central Square. In fact, it's about four blocks from the home that changed her life.

"Changed her life." Is that too strong a statement?

"Not at all," says Davis. "Everything came together for me in Central Square. But of course it's not the place, it's the people. I can't think of describing any place else as home."

"Walking Central Square," photos by Karen Davis and John Tagiuri, hangs at the CAC Gallery, 344 Broadway (at the City Hall Annex), in Cambridge, through April 22.


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Bull's Eye: unraveling the medical mystery of Lyme disease http://www.markorton.com/2005/10/18/bulls-eye-unraveling-the-medical-mystery-of-lyme-disease/ Wed, 19 Oct 2005 01:35:24 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?p=1239

(this posting was originally published on my old website in 2005)

Bull's Eye: unraveling the medical mystery of Lyme disease by Jonathan A. Edlow, M.D. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003)

Background

In June 2001 I came down with a mysterious illness that quickly landed me in the hospital. Before too long, I could barely walk nor readily take a pee. Sharp pains ran up and down both legs and there was a spreading lack of sensation from the waist down accompanied by extremely sensitive, constantly painful feet.

After a myriad tests and proddings by all sorts of interns, residents, and specialists, it was determined that I was in fact quite sick and getting worse. Based on a recent camping trip to Cape Cod and a strange red spot in my groin area (already disappeared from sight) Lyme disease was suspected. All the other testing and probing had eliminated a large number of nasty possibilities, but the tests for Lyme revealed nothing.

Nevertheless, it was decided that, since I was continuing to get worse, we should assume a bacterial origin and start antibiotics, Ceftriaxone in this case. Well, within a day or so, my symptoms showed a small improvement. Diagnostic victory was declared. After the installation of a catheter in my arm, I was sent home for a month of intravenous treatment. Not to drag this on, by August, I was going to the office for a couple of hours a day. By New Year's day I had started to walk on a treadmill again. Today, I am continuing to recover. L'Hermite's Sign is almost completely gone and the chronic pains in my feet amazingly still improve. My regular physician, Stanley Sagov, always introduces me to his student doctors as, "an interesting case", but Edward Wolpow, my neurologist has sent me on my way with the parting words, "Try not to get neurotic about this, maybe you will continue to heal, but maybe you won't".


Deer Tick (ixodes scapularis)

Adult on finger


larva, nymph, adult

(both images borrowed without permission from the American Lyme Disease Foundation web site (http://www.aldf.com/)


Bull's Eye is a terrific book on a number of levels.

First, there is the tale of how Lyme came to be recognized as a disease with appropriate backtracking to Europe and elsewhere for discussions of earlier intimations. The early phase of the discovery included mysterious rashes and arthritis that finally is recognized to have a geographic pattern. Then researchers began to do the basic epidemiological studies required. But, meanwhile all of the standard medical tests for bacteria and viruses as a potential source provided no real leads. Then, there are the examples of the various medical specialties trapped in there own worlds looking at the range of symptoms that cross fields like dermatology, rheumatology, infectious diseases, cardiology, and neurology being among the prominent ones. Since there was no clear origin for the disease, if in fact it was a disease, each specialty tended to head of on its own track.

At the request of some doctors from Yale patients began to save ticks and other insect that had bitten them. This lead finally to the deer tick. And this is a second delight of this book. the author pauses to provide fairly lengthy discussions of sometimes technical topics in an accessible language.

Meanwhile, there was still no direct connection between the ticks or any other biological agent and Lyme disease. Nevertheless, the usual trial and error of medicine had already produced two approaches to treatment, one centered on the notion that the cause was a bacterium, and the second that a virus was the troublemaker.

By the late 1980s, research has shown that Lyme disease was caused by a spirochete bacteria named B. burgdorferi that was transmitted to human beings through a bit by an infected tick, Ixodes dammini. Once infected people typically got a rash that was red, flat and round with a central clear spot, the bulls eye.

Left untreated, the rash would ultimately resolve itself. In many patients no further symptoms would arise. But in many untreated cases stage two symptoms would develop. About 15% develop neurological problems like meningitis, Bell's palsy, radiculitis, and others. About 10% of the untreated developed inflammation of the heart and finally about 60% developed arthritis, often of the knee.

 

 

 

 

 

So why is Lyme disease so controversial?

Here again, Bull's Eye provides an educative trip through some pretty complex issues. First, there is the issue of proper diagnosis of Lyme. In my case, several tests at different times never showed that I had in fact been infected. Bull's Eye details the problems with diagnostic tests and the likelihood of false positive and negative results. For the male of the species, this discussion was a useful revisit to the problems with the current tests for prostate cancer.

Then, there are those Lyme disease patients who develop long-term problems that are extremely resistant to treatment. And, given the vagaries of the diagnostic tools, it is perfectly possible that some or many of those late-stage patients may not be suffering from Lyme at all.

This has lead to continuing controversies about what type of antibiotics to use and how long the treatment should run. Given the fact that these intensive courses require intravenous methods, keeping a person on antibiotics for months at a time raises all sorts of issues of iatrogenic outcomes, cost, and efficacy.

You might ask, "How do I avoid Lyme?"  The answer is, "With difficulty."


(borrowed without permission from http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/lyme/riskmap.htm)

For detailed instructions on how to reduce your exposure to Lyme go to this CDC web page (opens new window).

As a closing note, if you develop any of the symptoms of the "acute" stage, get yourself immediately to a doctor. A standard course of oral antibiotics has proven to be amazingly effective in controlling this nasty disease.

Here is a list of symptoms taken from the American Lyme Disease Foundation web site (these match up very well with the Appendix B list in Bull's Eye):

Localized Early (Acute) Stage:

  • Solid red or bull's-eye rash, usually at site of bite
  • Swelling of lymph glands near tick bite
  • Generalized achiness
  • Headache

Early Disseminated Stage:

  • Two or more rashes not at site of bite
  • Migrating pains in joints/tendons
  • Headache
  • Stiff, aching neck
  • Facial palsy (facial paralysis similar to Bell's palsy)
  • Tingling or numbness in extremities
  • Multiple enlarged lymph glands
  • Abnormal pulse
  • Sore throat
  • Changes in vision
  • Fever of 100 to 102 F
  • Severe fatigue

Late Stage:

  • Arthritis (pain/swelling) of one or two large joints
  • Disabling neurological disorders (disorientation; confusion; dizziness; short-term memory loss; inability to concentrate, finish sentences or follow conversations; mental "fog")
  • Numbness in arms/hands or legs/feet
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2005-11-2 F/8 http://www.markorton.com/family-friends/karen-davis-photographer-book-artist-teacher-web-developer-and-the-honey/f8/ Wed, 02 Nov 2005 16:08:50 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wordpress2.5/?page_id=234 For a long time Karen participated in F/8, a photographic critique group.  The members have had many public exhibitions on their own and they have mounted several group shows. The most recent of these, "People and Places", was at the Firehouse Center for Arts in Newburyport, MA. f/8 has also exhibited in juried exhibitions at The Gallery of the Newton Free Library (2000) and at the Concord Free Library Gallery (1998).

left to right:

front row: Mary-Marshall Teel, Miriam Goodman, Karen Davis

middle row: Pierre Chiha, Frank Tadley, Carol Krauss

back row: Debi Milligan, Terence Knisely

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The Healthcare Crisis http://www.markorton.com/2006/02/02/the-healthcare-crisis/ Thu, 02 Feb 2006 16:26:00 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wordpress2.5/?p=26 The healthcare crisis in the US is growing in severity and yet is not the subject of any real public debate. More than 44 million Americans are without health insurance and almost 65 million will experience a lack of coverage during the year. Emergency rooms are the primary care provider of necessity. All of this despite the fact that, as a nation, we spend more than any other country in the world; 11% more than the next closest country; 90% to 100% more than countries like Germany, Japan, Canada, Australia, and France. Yet the outcomes for our healthcare system are completely second tier and nearly third world.

You may be shocked to see exactly how poorly our phenomenally expensive health system is performing. Just to add some further context, note that Sweden (1st in Infant Mortality to the US 41st position) has a per capita income roughly equal to that of Mississippi (the poorest US state) and spends almost exactly half of what the US does per capita on health care. Examine the Comparative Health System Data (below) in which I have color-coded a few countries for quick comparison.

During our quadrennial presidential personality sweepstakes, neither candidate offered real solutions, really not even a discussion of the issues. We are stuck in a political environment in which neither the Republicans nor the Democrats are offering, and I would argue, are capable of offering real solutions.

Lets make a one basic observation about the situation:

This is not a money problem. As demonstrated by the data on the Comparative Health System Data chart, we clearly are spending enough money in aggregate.

But, this crisis is about money, namely, who gets it and what do they do with it. And, starting from the last serious attempt to tackle the problem during the first year of the Clinton administration, it is very clear that the political system is completely in the pockets of the various interests who have the money now, namely insurance and drug companies, hospitals, and doctors.

It seems obvious to me that we just need to look at any of a number of the top performing countries for the solution. Then, we need to have the political forces in place to tell some of the current participants that the rules have changed.

Central to any solution will be the participation of all US residents in the system. Healthcare is a basic human right and we should not be treated as "risk" factors in insurance company profit calculations. If everyone is part of the healthcare system, then we can effectively share the individual risks and expenses of healthcare across the whole population. Healthcare should not be an actuarial game to derive profit. It should be a system that delivers a reasonable level of service to everyone in the society.

Two players clearly are at the top of the hit list. First, most assuredly the insurance industry, which adds no value to our health care, but consumes by many estimates 15% to 20% of the resources, must go. Second, the drug companies can be brought into reasonable competition for prices that will bring market forces to bear.

Ironically, given the long history of doctors opposing national or single-payer systems in the US, doctors have now been reduced to the status of wage slaves like the rest of us. Many, if not a solid majority of doctors, will support real reforms to the system.

I close here with two basic notions:

  • our healthcare problems are not about a lack of money, and
  • we need to develop political forces that can overcome the control of government (Federal and state) health policies by the current players in the healthcare system.

Given the current Bush administration, I believe the focus of reform must be at the state level. It seems feasible to envision a single-payer system that covers all residents in a state like Massachusetts. We should try it.

Solving the Health Care Crisis in the US - some data

Comparative Health System Data
Health Spending per Capita 2002
Infant Mortality per 1000 Births 2003
Life Expectancy in Years at Birth 2003

1

United States

$4,271

1

Sweden

3.44

1

Andorra

83.49

2

Switzerland

$3,857

2

Iceland

3.53

2

Macau

81.87

3

Norway

$3,182

3

Singapore

3.6

3

San Marino

81.43

4

Denmark

$2,785

4

Finland

3.76

4

Japan

80.93

5

Luxembourg

$2,731

5

Japan

3.84

5

Singapore

80.42

6

Iceland

$2,701

6

Norway

3.9

6

Australia

80.13

7

Germany

$2,697

7

Andorra

4.07

7

Guernsey

80.04

8

France

$2,288

8

Netherlands

4.31

8

Switzerland

79.99

9

Japan

$2,243

9

Austria

4.39

9

Sweden

79.97

10

Netherlands

$2,173

10

France

4.41

10

Hong Kong

79.93

11

Sweden

$2,145

11

Switzerland

4.42

11

Canada

79.83

12

Belgium

$2,137

12

Macau

4.44

12

Iceland

79.8

13

Austria

$2,121

13

Slovenia

4.47

13

Cayman Islands

79.67

14

Canada

$1,939

14

Belgium

4.64

14

Italy

79.4

15

Australia

$1,714

15

Germany

4.65

15

Gibraltar

79.38

16

Finland

$1,704

16

Luxembourg

4.71

16

France

79.28

17

Italy

$1,676

17

Spain

4.85

17

Monaco

79.27

18

United Kingdom

$1,675

18

Australia

4.9

18

Liechtenstein

79.25

19

Israel

$1,607

19

Liechtenstein

4.92

19

Spain

79.23

20

Ireland

$1,569

20

Guernsey

4.92

20

Norway

79.09

21

United Arab Emirates

$1,428

21

Canada

4.95

21

Israel

79.02

22

New Zealand

$1,163

22

Denmark

4.97

22

Jersey

78.93

23

Spain

$1,043

23

Gibraltar

5.4

23

Faroe Islands

78.9

24

Greece

$965

24

Ireland

5.43

24

Greece

78.89

25

Portugal

$859

25

United Kingdom

5.45

25

Aruba

78.83

26

Slovenia

$746

26

Czech Republic

5.46

26

Netherlands

78.74

27

Singapore

$678

27

Jersey

5.52

27

Martinique

78.72

28

Argentina

$654

28

Northern Mariana Islands

5.61

28

Virgin Islands

78.59

29

Uruguay

$621

29

Malta

5.72

29

Malta

78.43

30

Bahamas, The

$612

30

Monaco

5.73

30

Germany

78.42

31

Barbados

$601

31

Hong Kong

5.73

31

Montserrat

78.36

32

Korea, South

$470

32

Italy

5.76

32

New Zealand

78.32

33

Lebanon

$469

33

Portugal

5.84

33

Belgium

78.29

34

Saint Kitts and Nevis

$408

34

San Marino

6.09

34

Guam

78.27

35

Czech Republic

$380

35

New Zealand

6.18

35

Austria

78.17

36

Bahrain

$358

36

Greece

6.25

36

United Kingdom

78.16

37

Hungary

$318

37

Aruba

6.26

37

Saint Pierre and Miquelon

78.11

38

Brazil

$308

38

Man, Isle of

6.3

38

Man, Isle of

77.98

39

Chile

$289

39

Guam

6.58

39

Finland

77.92

40

Slovakia

$285

40

Faroe Islands

6.66

40

Jordan

77.88

41

Costa Rica

$257

41

United States

6.69

41

Luxembourg

77.66

42

Poland

$248

42

Taiwan

6.8

42

Guadeloupe

77.53

43

Panama

$246

43

Croatia

7.06

43

Bermuda

77.41

44

Estonia

$243

44

Cuba

7.27

44

Saint Helena

77.38

45

Mexico

$236

45

Israel

7.55

45

Ireland

77.35

46

South Africa

$230

46

Korea, South

7.58

46

Cyprus

77.27

47

Colombia

$227

47

Martinique

7.62

47

Puerto Rico

77.26

48

Dominica

$208

48

Cyprus

7.71

48

United States

77.14

49

Trinidad and Tobago

$204

49

Montserrat

7.98

49

Denmark

77.1

50

Grenada

$193

50

Saint Pierre and Miquelon

8.18

50

Taiwan

76.87

51.

Lithuania

$183

51

New Caledonia

8.23

51

Cuba

76.8

52

Antigua and Barbuda

$179

52

Reunion

8.31

52

Anguilla

76.7

53

Venezuela

$171

53

Slovakia

8.76

53

French Guiana

76.69

54

Latvia

$166

54

Hungary

8.77

54

Kuwait

76.65

55

Jamaica

$157

55

French Polynesia

8.95

55

Costa Rica

76.43

56

Turkey

$153

56

Chile

9.12

56

Portugal

76.35

57

Saint Lucia

$151

57

Poland

9.17

57

Chile

76.35

58

Maldives

$150

58

Virgin Islands

9.21

58

Northern Mariana Islands

76.16

59

El Salvador

$143

59

Bermuda

9.28

59

Libya

76.07

60

Namibia

$142

60

Puerto Rico

9.3

60

British Virgin Islands

76.06

61

Peru

$141

61

Guadeloupe

9.3

61

Uruguay

75.87

62

Jordan

$139

62

Cayman Islands

9.89

62

Jamaica

75.85

63

Iran

$128

63

American Samoa

10.09

63

American Samoa

75.75

64

Botswana

$127

64

Nauru

10.52

64

Slovenia

75.51

65

Gabon

$122

65

Costa Rica

10.87

65

Argentina

75.48

66

Mauritius

$120

66

Kuwait

10.87

66

French Polynesia

75.45

67

Syria

$116

67

Netherlands Antilles

11.06

67

Netherlands Antilles

75.38

68

Thailand

$112

68

Barbados

11.71

68

Korea, South

75.36

69

Tunisia

$108

69

Estonia

12.32

69

Czech Republic

75.18

70

Burma

$97

70

Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of

12.54

70

United Arab Emirates

74.75

71

Dominican Republic

$95

71

French Guiana

13.22

71

Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of

74.49

72

Paraguay

$86

72

Jamaica

13.71

72

Slovakia

74.43

73

Fiji

$86

73

Tonga

13.72

73

Tunisia

74.4

74

Romania

$86

74

Fiji

13.72

74

Paraguay

74.4

75

Belarus

$85

75

Brunei

13.95

75

Croatia

74.37

76

Belize

$82

76

Belarus

14.12

76

Brunei

74.3

77

Malaysia

$81

77

Bulgaria

14.18

77

Dominica

74.12

78

Guatemala

$78

78

Uruguay

14.25

78

Turks and Caicos Islands

74

79

Honduras

$74

79

Lithuania

14.34

79

Serbia and Montenegro

73.97

80

Bolivia

$69

80

Grenada

14.63

80

Poland

73.91

81

Kazakhstan

$62

81

Saint Lucia

14.8

81

Venezuela

73.81

82

Bulgaria

$62

82

Latvia

14.96

82

Bahrain

73.72

83

Ecuador

$59

83

Sri Lanka

15.65

83

New Caledonia

73.52

84

Nicaragua

$54

84

Saint Kitts and Nevis

15.83

84

Reunion

73.43

85

Guyana

$51

85

Dominica

15.94

85

Qatar

73.14

86

Swaziland

$46

86

United Arab Emirates

16.12

86

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

73.08

87

China

$40

87

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

16.15

87

Saint Lucia

73.08

88

Congo, Democratic Republic of the

$40

88

Palau

16.21

88

West Bank

72.68

89

Cape Verde

$37

89

Mauritius

16.65

89

Sri Lanka

72.62

90

Philippines

$37

90

Seychelles

16.86

90

Oman

72.58

91

Zimbabwe

$36

91

Bahamas, The

17.08

91

Albania

72.37

92

Albania

$36

92

Argentina

17.2

92

Panama

72.32

93

Bhutan

$36

93

Greenland

17.28

93

Mexico

72.3

94

Kenya

$31

94

Serbia and Montenegro

17.36

94

Bosnia and Herzegovina

72.29

95

Nigeria

$30

95

Turks and Caicos Islands

17.46

95

China

72.22

96

Turkmenistan

$30

96

Romania

18.88

96

Hungary

72.17

97

Sri Lanka

$29

97

Bahrain

19.18

97

Solomon Islands

72.1

98

Ukraine

$28

98

British Virgin Islands

19.55

98

Lebanon

72.07

99

Cote d'Ivoire

$28

99

Panama

19.57

99

Ecuador

71.89

100

Papua New Guinea

$25

100

Jordan

19.61

100

Barbados

71.84

Data for Spending: World Bank. 2002. World Development Indicators 2002. CD-ROM. Washington, DC Data for Infant Mortality: CIA World Factbook, December 2003 Data for Life Expectancy: CIA World Factbook, December 2003 All data courtesy of http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php (09/29/04)
]]> 26 2006-02-02 12:26:00 2006-02-02 16:26:00 open open the-healthcare-crisis publish 0 0 post 0 _edit_last 2 _edit_lock 1212078517 Book Note - Before the Dawn: recovering the lost history of our ancestors http://www.markorton.com/2007/02/27/book-note/ Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:32:30 +0000 http://markorton.com/wordpress/?p=7 Nichola Wade, Before the DawnEarlier this year I read Charles Mann's 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus and was rewarded with another reminder of how thin my understanding of our hemisphere's history is and how much new knowledge is being added by multiple disciplines. Here was a whole new world to be explored.

Nicholas Wade's book is another must read for those of us educated before the impact of the decoding of DNA had begun. He attempts to summarize what we have learned based on contemporary genetics combining it with the vast base of earlier research from paleoanthropology, archaeology, linguistics, and other fields.

Wade opens the book with a great little story about how genetics has determined a probably date for when human beings first began wearing clothing. Based on the fact that body lice are descended from head lice and show a special adaptation specifically providing body lice with the means to hang on to the fibers of our clothing, genetics is able to date our adoption of clothing to be about 72,000 years ago "give or take a few thousand years".

While discussing the evidence for the paths of human migration away from the African homeland, Wade mentions that the biggest region for the paucity of physical data is that because we were in glacial period, seal level was some 300 feet lower than today. Thus, since early humans would have followed the coast line to be close to a ready source of food, their early habitations are now well below water.

I won't attempt to summarize the book. Rather I urge you to retrieve it from your local library.

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About http://www.markorton.com/about-2/ Fri, 09 Mar 2007 01:20:29 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wordpress2.5/?page_id=7

Mr. Wonderful's World contains occasional work by Mr. Wonderful himself.

Send a note to Mr. Wonderful at MrWonderful@markorton.com

This is a photo of me in 2005 at some 5K road race.

You can be sure that I was near the back of the slow pack.








This work portrait was take by Steve Nelson of FayFoto at a meeting of the Greater Boston Business Network in East Milton, MA. He brought in his "head shot" equipment to take a small number of gratis shots of GBBN members. I snuck in at the end. Steve did a great job of buffing my hair up. It always seems to be standing at near right angels to my head. Sort of a modified clown look.

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Review of Gehry's Stata Center at MIT http://www.markorton.com/2007/03/11/review-of-gehrys-stata-center-at-mit/ Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:59:48 +0000 http://markorton.com/wordpress/?p=5 This building has been source of interest here from its inception. Last fall we walked around and through it with our friends Linda and Eliot. Today's article by our well-know local architecture critic takes a swing at answering the question of how well the building works as opposed to its now nearly iconic status as one of our own inventive buildings.

Boston Globe Sunday March 11, 2007 (URL for article in the Globe is at bottom of this entry)

 

The state of Stata

Now three years old, the inventive MIT building is meeting many of the goals that were set for it

CAMBRIDGE -- When the Stata Center at MIT, by famed architect Frank Gehry, opened three years ago, it garnered a lot of press. Not all of that was praise, to say the least.

There were bugs. There were, for instance, at least 50 simultaneous leaks in Gehry's dramatically shaped roofs. But bugs bother a lot of new buildings, especially if they're as inventive as this one. New buildings, like new computer programs, require a period of debugging. And people need time to adjust to a radically new kind of workplace.

It's three years now since Stata opened. It's time to look beyond the building's jazzy, cartoonish aesthetic and ask whether it's working. Is it serving the goals it was designed for?

After a month of wandering Stata and talking to inhabitants, I'm ready to say, yes, on the whole, Stata does work, and to a surprising degree.

Like any building, the Stata has to be seen as much more than merely a work of architectural art. It's a set of interior spaces, spaces where people go every day to study, play, socialize, run experiments, and do many other things.

MIT was very clear about its goals for those spaces. The building was supposed to be a mixing chamber. It would get MIT scientists, both teachers and students, to meet with one another. Too often, it was felt, they were holed up in isolated labs, apartments, and classrooms. Architect Gehry puts it this way:

"The main problem that I was given was that there are seven separate departments that never talk to each other. And when they talk to each other, if they get together, they synergize and make things happen and it's gangbusters . . . So they asked me to make places where people could bump into one another."

Stata, it was hoped, would nourish professional connections. People would cross the boundaries of scientific disciplines. Great minds would meet and spawn great ideas. Social life would improve.

Stata does these things best at a place that is loved by everyone. This is the so-called Student Street.

The Street is an indoor walkway that rambles a bending, twisting course through the Stata's ground floor. Sometimes its space is narrow, sometimes wide, sometimes high, sometimes low. Sunlight falls from above. Walls tilt and bend, often in bright colors, and angle off in ways that tempt you to follow them. Muscular concrete columns jab the air.

All kinds of people are here, too. Students and faculty hurry by, or perhaps stop for a sandwich or a cappuccino. A group pulls together a few chairs and tables and huddles to brainstorm a problem. Professors climb up from the parking garage below and stride to their elevators. At 5 o'clock, kids swarm out of the daycare center. Undergrads in gym shorts head for the fitness club. Others spill from the lecture halls and classrooms. Everything seems to happen on the Student Street.

Visitors come too, stopping to stare at the porcelain cow that is enthroned atop the coffee shop, which MIT hackers, um, liberated from the Hilltop Steakhouse in Saugus. The Student Street is for everyone. It's a digital-age reinvention of MIT's famous Infinite Corridor, far more brilliant than the original.
"Any kind of scientific work is always under construction, always still being built," remarks a professor of linguistics. He could be talking about the ever-changing Street or about the Stata itself.

Many years ago, it occurred to Gehry that his buildings looked more interesting while they were under construction than when they were finished. Ever since, he's looked for ways to give a finished building a sense of being something still in the process of happening. Nothing about the Stata feels quite finished. The architecture is a metaphor for the science it contains.

That science, it should be noted, barely existed a generation ago. Stata is home to the so-called intelligence or information sciences. Most of the researchers in the Stata are figuring out how thinking takes place and how it can be improved and communicated, whether in a human brain, a computer, a network, or a robot. (There's also a minority squad of linguists and philosophers.)

You can argue that the building itself is another metaphor, a metaphor for the Internet. Messages on the Net take crazy routes, following the path of least resistance. If you look at a Stata floor plan, it too appears to be total chaos. Except for the Student Street on the ground floor, there is never a main corridor, or any other organizing motif. No two places in the Stata are exactly the same.

So you just wander, like that electronic blip on the Internet, till you get where you're going (usually by asking someone -- another kind of social connector). You may run into people and projects you didn't know existed. Those who work here say -- almost unanimously -- that the Stata does indeed introduce them to one another, more than was true in the past.

They also mention food. The faculty dining room is heavily used. And there's a "tea kitchen" on every floor. Food is everywhere, serving its usual socializing function.

A less obvious move, but very important, is the fact that the Stata contains an amazing amount of unprogrammed space, space that isn't assigned to any particular use. An efficiency expert would call it total waste. People just grab it when they need it and make of it what they want. Students will fill an unprogrammed space with a newly invented game, or an impromptu discussion, or a party. "The undergraduates really mill in the building," says one professor. Because this kind of space isn't under anyone's direct control, the Stata feels liberating. You feel it's your turf to play on, not some administrator's.

Stata communicates that same kind of loose informality when you look at it from outside. When it first arrived, I described it this way:

"It looks as if it's about to collapse. Columns tilt at scary angles. Walls teeter, swerve, and collide in random curves and angles. Materials change wherever you look: yellow brick, mirror-surface steel, brushed aluminum, brightly colored paint, corrugated metal. Everything looks improvised, as if thrown up at the last moment."

Even a Doonesbury comic strip commented on the Stata's bizarre appearance. That inventive, improvised look, though, is a promise of what awaits you inside.

A few minor points:

  • Like a good car or a good suit, a good building costs more to buy, and often to maintain, than a bad one. Says the Stata's chief of maintenance: "This is a Maserati, not a Cadillac, and it needs a Maserati mechanic."
  • A lively building can be a recruiting tool. I'm told that when potential young faculty members see the Stata, they conclude that MIT must be alive and playful. "It's an icon for this age," says one professor. "It says we take risks."
  • The Stata doesn't look like one thing, it looks like an aggregate of unrelated parts, materials, textures and surfaces that somehow got crammed together. There's nothing commanding about it. Though it's huge, it's never overwhelming. Gehry goes so far as to claim the collage of many elements is the right architecture for a democracy.As noted, there are problems, too:
  • Not everyone loves the indoor materials, which are raw metal, glass, plywood, industrial lamps, and raw concrete. Gehry wanted his building to feel as unpretentious as a warehouse, so people wouldn't feel intimidated by it. They'd bang around in it and change it whenever they wanted.
  • Those multiple leaks have been fixed, but most of the fixes are sealed with caulk that will have to be regularly replaced.
  • Indoor heat and cold can be unpredictable, partly because so many computers are generating heat. Seminar rooms were too dimly lit and are being relamped. The sloped walls of one such room make people dizzy. And storage space everywhere is at a minimum.
  • A prominent outdoor brick amphitheater is little used and, worse, is said to be falling apart. No one will talk for the record, but apparently mortar joints have failed and major reconstruction will be needed.
  • Undergraduates mostly work in shared open space and some feel they lack privacy. Often they can be overheard -- and overlooked -- from a balcony above. In a few cases, clear glass walls have been frosted over for visual privacy, and it's likely that acoustical absorption will be added in places.The Stata's worst flaw, though, is the division of the upper floors into two towers, the Gates tower and the Dreyfoos tower, each named for a donor. If the goal of your building is to get people to meet and mix, you don't help it by separating them into two towers. Egotistic, donor-driven architecture -- "See where I made my gift" -- is a cliche at many campuses, but it shouldn't have happened here.So the Stata isn't faultless. Think of it this way: When you design a car, you first develop a prototype. You work out the bugs in the prototype before you go into manufacture. But you don't get to do a prototype for a new kind of building.Stata remains an amazing and, on the whole, excitingly successful place. For me, every visit was a spatial, visual, and social pleasure. Whatever you think of this building's a esthetics, it's doing its job.Some of my Gehry comments are taken from a book I recommend to anyone interested in the Stata. It's "Imagining MIT: Designing a Campus for the Twenty-First Century," by William J. Mitchell (MIT Press).
  • Robert Campbell is the Globe's architecture critic. He can be reached at camglobe@aol.com. http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2007/03/11/the_state_of_stata/?page=full

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    8 2007-03-11 09:59:48 2007-03-11 14:59:48 open open review-of-gehrys-stata-center-at-mit publish 0 0 post 0 _edit_last 2 _aioseop_title Review of Gehry's Stata Center at MIT _edit_lock 1225631174 _aioseop_description This building has been source of interest here from its inception. Last fall we walked around and through it with our friends Linda and Eliot. Today's article by our well-know local architecture critic takes a swing at answering the question of how well the building works as opposed to its now nearly iconic status as one of our own inventive buildings. _aioseop_keywords Cambridge, architect frank gehry, globe correspondent, boston globe, stata center, robert campbell, new buildings, roofs,
    Riverside - "suburbs of Central Square" http://www.markorton.com/2007/03/11/riverside-suburbs-of-central-square/ Sun, 11 Mar 2007 23:36:02 +0000 http://markorton.com/wordpress/?p=8 Boston Globe on a single day, but here we are. For some, who fled the neighborhood prematurely (even if for compelling personal reasons), this article will be a comeuppance. It is now several years since the first million $ condo was sold on Kinnaird St. Now, even the sharp eyes of the Globb have caught on.

     

    Down by the Riverside

    Between the Charles and Central Square sits a part of Cambridge where everyone fits in

     

    Town and gown are finally meeting in Cambridge's Riverside neighborhood.

    Long a working-class enclave between the Charles River and Central Square, Riverside is going upscale, and the long-testy relationship between residents and neighbor Harvard University has improved dramatically.

    After dropping plans to build a museum on a prominent corner because of neighborhood opposition, Harvard is on more peaceful terms with Riverside residents as it now builds new dorms for graduate students and affordable housing for some Cambridge residents. The additional housing should ease pressure on the neighborhood's rental market.

    Meantime, Riverside's combination of convenient location and rich, quirky architecture are drawing affluent young professionals, who cite Riverside's offbeat funkiness as one of the chief draws.

    "There are many people who are attracted to Riverside who could afford to live elsewhere," said Dean Atkins , an attorney. "It's a nice mix of intellectual progressives and working class. My wife and I were looking on Beacon Hill, but it's plain vanilla compared to this."

    The Atkinses live in a kitschy 1960s-era round building at 348 Franklin St. that is emblematic of Riverside's eclectic architectural mix.

    "It's sometimes referred to as the Austin Powers building," said Atkins, who bought a condominium there in 2003. "But the apartments are wonderful; you essentially get a pie-shaped space that is efficient, quiet, and gets a lot of light."

    At the neighborhood's other architectural extreme is an elegant 1846 Greek Revival House at 135 Western Ave. , a local landmark with four Ionic columns that is currently under renovation. According to Arthur Choo Jr. of Choo & Company Architects , the house's owner is refurbishing it with financing assistance from Just-A-Start Corporation , a non profit community development organization.

    "There's been a lot of meddling over the years with numerous layers of siding, and we're trying to bring it back as close to the original condition as we can," Choo said.

    As Cambridge neighborhoods go, Riverside is something of a free spirit, and it shows. Less uniform in appearance, and worn down in some places, Riverside was for years a haven of cheap housing during rent control. The elimination of rent control in 1994 forced many long time residents to move out. But the neighborhood was also among the most affordable in the city, setting the stage for the changes happening today.

    "When I bought here in 1995 it was the only part of Cambridge that you could touch," said Lisa J. Drapkin of Coldwell-Banker Residential Brokerage, a Riverside resident and a long time neighborhood champion.

    Some residents refer to Riverside's reputation in affectionate, almost self-deprecating terms.

    "In this neighborhood, historically there haven't been barriers to making dramatic changes to property. If you wanted to take a chain saw to your house, you could," said Mick Correll. "You cross Mass. Ave. into mid-Cambridge and it's completely different."

    Correll and his wife, Monique Brouillette, had just acquired half of a Mansard French Second Empire duplex on Kinnaird Street, and were moving furniture into the 1850s-era house one recent weekend.

    "We call this the suburbs of Central Square," Brouillette said.

    "There's a sense in Riverside that you can paint your house whatever color you want," said Marie Koger , a resident of Franklin Street, pointing out purple and orange houses near hers. "It's a First Amendment thing."

    Koger and her husband Jim , a retired designer of medical devices for Boston Scientific, lived in the neighborhood during the 1980s and '90s, and then returned and bought a house on Franklin Street after living in California.

    Free spirit or not, developers are providing the neighborhood with yuppie-friendly new housing. One such is 290 on River, a 20-unit townhouse development adjacent to the Whole Foods supermarket on River Street near Memorial Drive.

    The townhouses are grouped among seven buildings that all face inward to a landscaped parking court. Each unit features a small garden and garage parking. Prices range from $464,900 for a two-bedroom, one-and-a-half bath to $549,000 for a three-bedroom, two-bath corner unit. The first phase is nearing completion and the second phase has not yet started, but 50 percent of the units in each phase are already under contract.

    "The price has been non negotiable, and even so the demand has been quite remarkable" said Sandrine Deschaux , a vice president at Channing Real Estate, leasing agent for the complex. "People are buying second-phase units without even seeing them. I've been amazed at the demand from the biotechnology sector especially. All you have to do is get on Memorial Drive and you're in Kendall Square in five minutes."

    If 290 on River forms one edge of the neighborhood, at the opposite end Harvard University continues to grow, although to somewhat less resistance than in the 1960 s, when it earned the community's enmity for building the towering Peabody Terrace student housing complex nearby.

    "We have a lot of common interests with the neighborhood," said Tom Lucey , the university's director of community relations for Cambridge.

    Having dropped its plans for a museum by the Italian architect Renzo Piano in 2002, now the university is building a 250-bed graduate student dorm designed by architect Kyu Sung Woo on the old Mahoney's Nursery grounds at the corner of Western Avenue and Memorial Drive. This site will include a riverfront park open to the public. Nearby Harvard is also building a complex that combines low-rise brick buildings with townhouse-like wood structures that will also house 250 students and other affiliates.

    Once these are built, Lucey said, Harvard will have achieved its stated goal of housing 50 percent of its campus wide graduate students in Harvard housing.

    Harvard is also retrofitting the former Cambridge Light Company switch house on Blackstone Street into 33 units of affordable housing, with another six units in new buildings nearby. Qualification for this housing will be administered by the Department of Cambridge Community Development.

    Cambridge officials appear to be pleased by the university's community-friendly stance. Roger Boothe, director of urban design for the city said, "Harvard had a plan before that was twice the scale."

    Big as it is, even the Harvard touch may not change Riverside's essential character -- one that give s its residents a curious kind of bragging rights in this quirky city.

    "I like the idea that the neighborhood has an edge to it," said Franklin Street resident Dan Coleman, who grew up in New York's Greenwich Village. "Unlike the neighborhood west of Harvard Square, here it's not all about good taste."

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    Book Review - On Truth http://www.markorton.com/2007/03/13/book-review-on-truth/ Wed, 14 Mar 2007 02:42:38 +0000 http://markorton.com/wordpress/2007/03/13/book-review-on-truth/ Harry Frankfurt is at it again. Following up on his popular little book On Bullshit he has written another little book, On Truth, similar size and approach. But, this is really a bit more interesting for what it has to say and perhaps what is missing. I will revise and expand this entry shortly.]]> 11 2007-03-13 21:42:38 2007-03-14 02:42:38 open open book-review-on-truth publish 0 0 post 0 Gary Spina in the New York Times http://www.markorton.com/2007/03/14/gary-spina-in-the-new-york-times/ Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:13:32 +0000 http://markorton.com/wordpress/2007/03/14/gary-spina-in-the-new-york-times/ Gary Spina, a teacher and a writer, has also been a soldier, a sailor, a policeman and an outdoorsman, among other things.

    Gary Spina, a teacher and a writer, has also been a soldier, a sailor, a policeman and an outdoors man, among other things.

    (photo by Dith Pran - New York Times used here without permission

    This sketch of Gary Spina is really a great read. It gave a good start to my day.

    On Education
    A Teacher’s Adventurous Life, Distilled Into an Unlikely Book

    Published: March 14, 2007

    “The Mountain Man’s Field Guide to Grammar" is the brainchild of a man who loved to write, but hated learning the rules.

    Here is a permalink to the article.

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    April 24 - Visit to Washington - Harvey & Betsy http://www.markorton.com/2007/04/24/april-24-visit-to-washington-harvey-betsy/ Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:00:31 +0000 http://markorton.com/wordpress/2007/04/24/april-24-visit-to-washington-harvey-betsy/ Harvey conversing A regular feature: A regular distraction]]> 13 2007-04-24 16:00:31 2007-04-24 21:00:31 open open april-24-visit-to-washington-harvey-betsy publish 0 0 post 0 Sunday, May 6 - A Passion Revealed - Louis Vermond http://www.markorton.com/2007/05/06/a-passion-revealed-louis-vermond/ Sun, 06 May 2007 15:32:44 +0000 http://markorton.com/wordpress/2007/05/06/a-passion-revealed-louis-vermond/ 050607_transmitter_coil.JPGNancy and Louis visited us over this weekend. Besides the catch-up conversations and visits to various local spots, including the Peabody Essex Museum, Louis showed us his working replica short wave transmitter.

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    Year-In-Pictures Project http://www.markorton.com/photogalleries/year-in-pictures-project-2007/ Tue, 05 Jun 2007 13:31:29 +0000 http://markorton.com/wordpress/year-in-pictures-project-2007/ Since 2003 I have been working on the Year-In-Pictures project. Y-I-P started out as an effort to help me remember more about my day-to-day activties. It grew to include some commentaries and themes. In 2006 I fell behind in producing Y-I-P for the web. I am now renewing my focus.

    You can find entries for the Y-I-P project by selecting the appropriate Category on the right hand side of the blog.

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    North Korea - a visit to the "Axis of Evil" http://www.markorton.com/2007/06/21/north-korea-a-visit-to-the-axis-of-evil/ Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:26:24 +0000 http://markorton.com/wordpress/2007/06/21/north-korea-a-visit-to-the-axis-of-evil/ 040407_brucecummings_nkorea.jpg The book is organized around five topics: (1) the impact of the Korean War on North Korea, (2) the genesis of Korea's nuclear programs, (3) the legend of Kim Il Sung, (4) daily life in North Korea, and (5) the current leader (dictator) Kim Jong Il. The text is not what one might expect of an academic from the University of Chicago. Cumings writes in an openly polemic style that is directed to providing maximum exposure to North Korea and our miserable knowledge of this country. This book is relatively brief and a compelling introduction to North Korea and a portion of our foreign policy history that was substantially new to this reader]]> 16 2007-06-21 10:26:24 2007-06-21 15:26:24 open open north-korea-a-visit-to-the-axis-of-evil publish 0 0 post 0 _edit_lock 1225497271 _edit_last 2 Kaaterskill Falls Hike - but barely a drop of water in sight at the falls http://www.markorton.com/2007/10/06/kaaterskill-fall-hike-but-barely-a-drop-in-sight-at-the-falls/ Sat, 06 Oct 2007 17:42:29 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?p=977 October 5, 2007

    Karen organized an expedition with Nyla, Noah, and next door neighbor Teddy to Kaaterskill Falls in the Catskills. Karen took these pictures. Due to a lengthy summer drought there was very little water coming over the falls.

    I lagged behind and took some other photos. See below.

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    Here are my photos. I found evidence that there was some sort of manufacturing or processing done on the sides of this ravine. Large riveted and welded containers and old pipes.

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    Pictures http://www.markorton.com/?page_id=17 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:41:56 +0000 http://markorton.com/wordpress/?page_id=33 17 2008-04-18 10:41:56 2008-04-18 15:41:56 closed closed wpg2 draft 0 5 page 0 _edit_lock 1258671680 _edit_last 2 _wp_page_template default Armies and Orchids - a new poem by Linda Larson http://www.markorton.com/2008/05/19/armies-and-orchids-a-new-poem-by-linda-larson/ Tue, 20 May 2008 00:45:45 +0000 http://markorton.com/wordpress/archives/35 Armies and Orchids The little white posts Stuck in the soil Markers naming the orchids At the flower show Mimic acres of white crosses Sturdy and upright Over bones as fragile as Ruby’s Dragonfly. Orchids, deceptive, Feed only on air. A rich man’s hobby Nonetheless, crosses Bedecked, celebrating holidays With bright, cheerful flags waving Hello from those consumed In battle, at War Meister’s Command, Nightfire, Simple Pleasures, Shoot or be shot. Origami cranes, Piled high at Hiroshima Truman’s trade off in lives, The Emperor’s Saffron Delicacy, Pacific fang, Its unspeakable retort. Babies caught in the Tiger’s Jaw of history, spat out In its grinding wheel as Fossils of one century Name a blood-spattered Specimen after Rasputin Sorcerer’s Kiss, and I When my ship comes in As one day it must Will name a red as deep As pockets left by Hellfire missiles For Bush’s war, Soldiers’ Dust.]]> 18 2008-05-19 19:45:45 2008-05-20 00:45:45 open open armies-and-orchids-a-new-poem-by-linda-larson publish 0 0 post 0 _edit_lock 1237854848 _edit_last 2 podPressPostSpecific a:6:{s:15:"itunes:subtitle";s:15:"##PostExcerpt##";s:14:"itunes:summary";s:15:"##PostExcerpt##";s:15:"itunes:keywords";s:17:"##WordPressCats##";s:13:"itunes:author";s:10:"##Global##";s:15:"itunes:explicit";s:7:"Default";s:12:"itunes:block";s:7:"Default";} _aioseop_title Armies and Orchids - a new poem by Linda Larson _aioseop_keywords Linda Larson, poem, hellfire missiles, war soldiers, Bush, Rasputin, history, War, Rocky Springs Farewell - a poem by Linda Larson http://www.markorton.com/2008/05/19/rocky-springs-farewell-a-poem-by-linda-larson/ Tue, 20 May 2008 00:52:30 +0000 http://markorton.com/wordpress/archives/36 Rocky Springs Farewell Dedicated to Willie Joe Namath We didn’t really have a plan. We ended up here. A cold brook gives the place its name, Runs clear along a stony, sandy bed, So cold it makes the bones ache. He held my hand So I wouldn’t slip and break a hip. When he was little he loved bananas Couldn’t get the word out I became Naner for always having Naners in the kitchen for him. Even though I was under strict orders Not to climb anything at all We climbed the hill where the young girls Are buried and it made him quiet. Downed by Tuberculosis, Malaria, Redundant Diphtheria, sounding like Latin Names for flowering killers that might have Pursued Marie Antoinette if She had not already been spoken for. He grew alarmed- We were alerted to danger by an oncoming Swarm of mosquitoes. Such desolate graves might be contagious. Running for the car, I turned my ankle, and Otha Practically carried me, we abandoned the Tombstones, with their fading carved-in-stone dates, that In a few lifetimes will be gone altogether. His real going-away party was that evening. He would be deployed for nine months. We stopped at Cock of the Walk, A catfish house on the Ross Barnett Reservoir. My grandbaby toasted the Mississippi Legends With Rolling Rock… “Forrest! Van Dorn! Pemberton! Davis! Brilliantly outfoxed even Ulysses and Tecumseh! At least for a spell. “ I reminded him The pride of Dixie and Its Sons Sleep under the red clay We stand on. Don’t you fall asleep! Don’t you fall asleep! I had never told Otha I had buried his shot Dead in the back Father and what a farce his Daddy’s death had been-- Killed in an accident In another misguided war-- I brought this one up on Honor and sacrifice! We salted our beers, And it was the bubbles Not the South That rose again, Tickled our noses and Made us laugh. I had to laugh. Letting him go like this Behind a lie… His whole life A let’s pretend. Whatever happens To my little one in Iraq, Black umbrellas or no I’ll wear that smile like a flag. We drank up, And he drove his Naner home.]]> 19 2008-05-19 19:52:30 2008-05-20 00:52:30 open open rocky-springs-farewell-a-poem-by-linda-larson publish 0 0 post 0 _edit_lock 1237854755 _edit_last 2 podPressPostSpecific a:6:{s:15:"itunes:subtitle";s:15:"##PostExcerpt##";s:14:"itunes:summary";s:15:"##PostExcerpt##";s:15:"itunes:keywords";s:17:"##WordPressCats##";s:13:"itunes:author";s:10:"##Global##";s:15:"itunes:explicit";s:7:"Default";s:12:"itunes:block";s:7:"Default";} _aioseop_title Rocky Springs Farewell - a poem by Linda Larson _aioseop_keywords rocky springs, marie antoinette, joe namath, tombstones, black umbrellas, pemberton, Linda Larson, poem, Mississippi, Photo Galleries http://www.markorton.com/photogalleries/ Thu, 29 May 2008 02:41:12 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wordpress2.5/?page_id=21 21 2008-05-28 22:41:12 2008-05-29 02:41:12 closed open photogalleries publish 0 4 page 0 _edit_lock 1250706655 _edit_last 2 Events http://www.markorton.com/events/ Thu, 29 May 2008 16:30:24 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wordpress2.5/?page_id=27 27 2008-05-29 12:30:24 2008-05-29 16:30:24 closed open events publish 0 6 page 0 _edit_lock 1234632592 _edit_last 2 Mr. Wonderful makes a movie http://www.markorton.com/events/mr-wonderful-makes-a-movie/ Thu, 29 May 2008 16:32:52 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wordpress2.5/?page_id=28 March 19, 2002

    A couple of weeks ago Miriam Goodman emailed me about a possible role in a student movie. I got in touch with Tova Goodman, a student at Boston University, who let me know that they were looking for someone who could be "professorial".

    Hmmm, I thought, just the role for the Great Pontificator, Mr. Wonderful.

    But, not wanting to lead the young'uns astray, I sent along my "head shots" .

    If these didn't scare them off......(take a look here).

    One email later and the Director, Chris Zatta, signed me up to play the role of Professor Connel with a script called "Forensics".)

    The Saturday shooting began with the scenes in a park in Malden and abutting woods (good place for corpses).


    Dir. of Photography Rachel Cushing and Sound Boom man, James Kolowich, get set up.

    Dir. Chris Zatta (in gray coat center rear) watches as actors practice getting the body out of the rear seat.
    Discussions between Dir. Chris Zatta (center) and actors Christian Chandler (left) and Michael Makowski.
    Sound and camera at the ready.


    What is the clacking of the board on the slate at the beginning of a scene all about?

    I asked...

    Since Professor Connel only appears in about a third of scenes in the movie, I only had to hold out in the raw weather for half the day. The indoor shooting for the "lab" scenes began in early evening on the eighteenth floor of a Boston University dormitory.

    All around miracle worker and gaffer Hero Ngauv sets up for the lab scenes.


    Director of Photography Rachel Cushing helps out.

    Repairs are made.
    Preparation for gore.


    By the way, the stage blood here included peanut butter and chocolate syrup among its ingredients.

    Tova Goodman loading film into cartridges for the camera.

    Sunday brought more shooting indoors at several locations.

    Other scenes took place in Prof. Connel's classroom.


    Four actors get ready to rehearse.

    (from left, Christian Chandler, Michael Cuddire, Michael Makowski, Anastasia Barnes)

    Sound boom operator, James Kolowich, holds for a sound check in the classroom.
    A run through of action at the back of the class.
    Prof. Connel (Mr. Wonderful in costume) in this office scene.


    Director Chris Zatta (head at top left) making a point about the scene.

    Director Chris Zatta begging Mr. Wonderful,


    "Mark, this is Take 19!

    Can't you say your one line, "Oh", without making it sound like a question!!"

    Another thought....>>>

    So, its in the can.


    I can only hope that most of Mr. Wonderful's gaffes end up on the cutting room floor....

    See The Movie

    Come to the screening of the movie (and a bunch of other student-made movies) on Friday, May 17, 2002 at 7pm at the BU Photonics Center, 8 St. Mary Street.
    (St Mary Street is off Comm. Ave on BU's campus. Directly across from St. Mary
    Street on Comm. Ave is the Marsh Chapel. There is a Radio Shack store on the
    corner.)

    Seating is free and open to anyone, but it is limited so you'll have to get
    there early enough to make sure you can get in.

    Each of the movies will be 10 - 15 minutes in length. Contact me for details.

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    Family & Friends http://www.markorton.com/family-friends/ Fri, 30 May 2008 18:03:56 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wordpress2.5/?page_id=30 30 2008-05-30 14:03:56 2008-05-30 18:03:56 open open family-friends publish 0 2 page 0 _edit_lock 1238077269 _edit_last 2 2005-4-5 The Opening - "Walking Central Square" http://www.markorton.com/family-friends/karen-davis-photographer-book-artist-teacher-web-developer-and-the-honey/the-opening/ Fri, 30 May 2008 18:08:36 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wordpress2.5/?page_id=32 April 4, 2005

    The Opening

    Walking Central Square

    a site/non-site installation by Karen Davis and John Tagiuri CAC Gallery exhibition, March 17 – April 22, 2005 Opening Reception: Monday, April 4, 2005, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.

    Go to the Cambridge Arts Council website (opens in new window).

    Some abstract works by KCD.

    Some earlier B&W works by KCD.

    One of John Tugiuri's pieces

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    News from the beach http://www.markorton.com/2008/08/05/news-from-the-beach/ Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:01:12 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wordpress2.5/?p=34

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    Sept. 11 – Nov. 2, 2008

    (borrowed from press release by Griffin Museum)karen_motherdreams


    When Karen Davis was small, her younger sister, Cheryl, had a set of four mechanical dolls she called the McCann Family. After Cheryl died a few years ago, Davis inherited the dolls and made them the subject of a series of photographs. The McCann Family is featured in the Griffin Gallery of the Griffin Museum September 11 through November 2. The photographs are part of a visual memoir by Davis that is a work in progress. The mechanical dolls, she says, were "a thinly disguised version of the Davis family. There was a boy doll, girl doll, man and woman doll." The Davis family had a mother and father and two girls, so Cheryl decided she was the boy doll, Tom McCann. Karen Davis was the girl doll, Mary Ann McCann.  When Cheryl, who was born with spina bifida, died, the McCann Family and all their possessions went to Davis. "It has taken most of my lifetime to appreciate the courage and imagination of my sister," Davis says. "Placing the McCanns on stage - directing their actions, brings me back to our childhood and to memories of an extraordinary woman." "The McCann Family is a poignant visual tribute to the Davis family," says Paula Tognarelli executive director of the Griffin Museum of Photography. "Karen Davis spins her familial tale through the poetic capacity of her photographs. Her images move and charm the viewer all at the same time." Davis, of Cambridge, MA, is a photographer, book artist, and educator. Her work is featured at the Massachusetts

    Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA); Houghton Rare Books Library, Harvard University; Boston Drawing Project at Bernard Toale Gallery; and in corporate and private collections. Her work can be seen on her website, www.YesThatKarenDavis.com. Davis teaches photo-based and word-image courses for Lesley Seminars at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. She is also a principal in artistmarketing.biz, which specializes in websites and other marketing services for artists. An opening reception with the artist is Sept. 11, 7-8:30 p.m. It is open to all. The reception is preceded by a members-only talk with Davis at 6:15 p.m. Please RSVP by September 4.Tommy's World - photograph by Karen Davis (c) Karen Davis 2008

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    Healthcare Crisis http://www.markorton.com/in-depth-essays-commentaries/healthcare-crisis/ Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:35:03 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wordpress2.5/?page_id=37 Originally written in 2005

     

    The healthcare crisis in the US is growing in severity and yet is not the subject of any real public debate. More than 44 million Americans are without health insurance and almost 65 million will experience a lack of coverage during the year. Emergency rooms are the primary care provider of necessity. All of this despite the fact that, as a nation, we spend more than any other country in the world; 11% more than the next closest country; 90% to 100% more than countries like Germany, Japan, Canada, Australia, and France. Yet the outcomes for our healthcare system are completely second tier and nearly third world.

    You may be shocked to see exactly how poorly our phenomenally expensive health system is performing. Just to add some further context, note that Sweden (1st in Infant Mortality to the US 41st position) has a per capita income roughly equal to that of Mississippi (the poorest US state) and spends almost exactly half of what the US does per capita on health care. Examine the Comparative Health System Data in which I have color-coded a few countries for quick comparison.

    During our quadrennial presidential personality sweepstakes, neither candidate offered real solutions, really not even a discussion of the issues. We are stuck in a political environment in which neither the Republicans nor the Democrats are offering, and I would argue, are capable of offering real solutions.

    Lets make a one basic observation about the situation:

    This is not a money problem. As demonstrated by the data on the Comparative Health System Data chart, we clearly are spending enough money in aggregate.

    But, this crisis is about money, namely, who gets it and what do they do with it. And, starting from the last serious attempt to tackle the problem during the first year of the Clinton administration, it is very clear that the political system is completely in the pockets of the various interests who have the money now, namely insurance and drug companies, hospitals, and doctors.

    It seems obvious to me that we just need to look at any of a number of the top performing countries for the solution. Then, we need to have the political forces in place to tell some of the current participants that the rules have changed.

    Central to any solution will be the participation of all US residents in the system. Healthcare is a basic human right and we should not be treated as "risk" factors in insurance company profit calculations. If everyone is part of the healthcare system, then we can effectively share the individual risks and expenses of healthcare across the whole population. Healthcare should not be an actuarial game to derive profit. It should be a system that delivers a reasonable level of service to everyone in the society.

    Two players clearly are at the top of the hit list. First, most assuredly the insurance industry, which adds no value to our health care, but consumes by many estimates 15% to 20% of the resources, must go. Second, the drug companies can be brought into reasonable competition for prices that will bring market forces to bear.

    Ironically, given the long history of doctors opposing national or single-payer systems in the US, doctors have now been reduced to the status of wage slaves like the rest of us. Many, if not a solid majority of doctors, will support real reforms to the system.

    I close here with two basic notions:

    • our healthcare problems are not about a lack of money, and
    • we need to develop political forces that can overcome the control of government (Federal and state) health policies by the current players in the healthcare system.

    Given the current Bush administration, I believe the focus of reform must be at the state level. It seems feasible to envision a single-payer system that covers all residents in a state like Massachusetts. We should try it.

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    Healthcare Crisis http://www.markorton.com/2008/09/08/healthcare-crisis/ Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:39:06 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wordpress2.5/?p=41 Originally written in 2005

    The healthcare crisis in the US is growing in severity and yet is not the subject of any real public debate. More than 44 million Americans are without health insurance and almost 65 million will experience a lack of coverage during the year. Emergency rooms are the primary care provider of necessity. All of this despite the fact that, as a nation, we spend more than any other country in the world; 11% more than the next closest country; 90% to 100% more than countries like Germany, Japan, Canada, Australia, and France. Yet the outcomes for our healthcare system are completely second tier and nearly third world.

    You may be shocked to see exactly how poorly our phenomenally expensive health system is performing. Just to add some further context, note that Sweden (1st in Infant Mortality to the US 41st position) has a per capita income roughly equal to that of Mississippi (the poorest US state) and spends almost exactly half of what the US does per capita on health care. Examine the Comparative Health System Data in which I have color-coded a few countries for quick comparison.

    During our quadrennial presidential personality sweepstakes, neither candidate offered real solutions, really not even a discussion of the issues. We are stuck in a political environment in which neither the Republicans nor the Democrats are offering, and I would argue, are capable of offering real solutions.

    Lets make a one basic observation about the situation:

    This is not a money problem. As demonstrated by the data on the Comparative Health System Data chart, we clearly are spending enough money in aggregate.

    But, this crisis is about money, namely, who gets it and what do they do with it. And, starting from the last serious attempt to tackle the problem during the first year of the Clinton administration, it is very clear that the political system is completely in the pockets of the various interests who have the money now, namely insurance and drug companies, hospitals, and doctors.

    It seems obvious to me that we just need to look at any of a number of the top performing countries for the solution. Then, we need to have the political forces in place to tell some of the current participants that the rules have changed.

    Central to any solution will be the participation of all US residents in the system. Healthcare is a basic human right and we should not be treated as "risk" factors in insurance company profit calculations. If everyone is part of the healthcare system, then we can effectively share the individual risks and expenses of healthcare across the whole population. Healthcare should not be an actuarial game to derive profit. It should be a system that delivers a reasonable level of service to everyone in the society.

    Two players clearly are at the top of the hit list. First, most assuredly the insurance industry, which adds no value to our health care, but consumes by many estimates 15% to 20% of the resources, must go. Second, the drug companies can be brought into reasonable competition for prices that will bring market forces to bear.

    Ironically, given the long history of doctors opposing national or single-payer systems in the US, doctors have now been reduced to the status of wage slaves like the rest of us. Many, if not a solid majority of doctors, will support real reforms to the system.

    I close here with two basic notions:

    • our healthcare problems are not about a lack of money, and
    • we need to develop political forces that can overcome the control of government (Federal and state) health policies by the current players in the healthcare system.

    Given the current Bush administration, I believe the focus of reform must be at the state level. It seems feasible to envision a single-payer system that covers all residents in a state like Massachusetts. We should try it.

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    2008-9-11 Karen Davis - McCann Family at Griffin Photography Museum, Winchester MA http://www.markorton.com/family-friends/karen-davis-photographer-book-artist-teacher-web-developer-and-the-honey/karen-davis-mccann-family-at-griffin-photography-museum-winchester-ma/ Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:38:56 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wordpress2.5/?page_id=207 Karen had an opening today for her new series The McCann Family. Here is the announcement appropriated from the museum's website:

    GRIFFIN GALLERY THE MCCANN FAMILY - PHOTOGRAPHS BY KAREN DAVIS Sept. 11 – Nov. 2, 2008 Karen Davis photograph Mother Dreams - Image © Karen Davis  When Karen Davis was small, her younger sister, Cheryl, had a set of four mechanical dolls she called the McCann Family. After Cheryl died a few years ago, Davis inherited the dolls and made them the subject of a series of photographs.

    The McCann Family is featured in the Griffin Gallery of the Griffin Museum September 11 through November 2.

    The photographs are part of a visual memoir by Davis that is a work in progress. The mechanical dolls, she says, were "a thinly disguised version of the Davis family. There was a boy doll, girl doll, man and woman doll." The Davis family had a mother and father and two girls, so Cheryl decided she was the boy doll, Tom McCann. Karen Davis was the girl doll, Mary Ann McCann.

    When Cheryl, who was born with spina bifida, died, the McCann Family and all their possessions went to Davis. "It has taken most of my lifetime to appreciate the courage and imagination of my sister," Davis says. "Placing the McCanns on stage - directing their actions, brings me back to our childhood and to memories of an extraordinary woman."

    "The McCann Family is a poignant visual tribute to the Davis family," says Paula Tognarelli executive director of the Griffin Museum of Photography. "Karen Davis spins her familial tale through the poetic capacity of her photographs. Her images move and charm the viewer all at the same time."

    Davis, of Cambridge, MA, is a photographer, book artist, and educator. Her work is featured at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA);] Houghton Rare Books Library, Harvard University; Boston Drawing Project at Bernard Toale Gallery; and in corporate and private collections.

    Tommy's World - photograph by Karen Davis (c) Karen Davis 2008

    Her work can be seen on her website, www.YesThatKarenDavis.com.

    Davis teaches photo-based and word-image courses for Lesley Seminars at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. She is also a principal in artistmarketing.biz, which specializes in websites and other marketing services for artists.

    An opening reception with the artist is Sept. 11, 7-8:30 p.m. It is open to all. The reception is preceded by a members-only talk with Davis at 6:15 p.m. Please RSVP by September 4.


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    Though I am concerned that the present problems facing us may be beyond the present political system to navigate let alone solve.

    Just to mention one. Our overseas empire with almost 800 military bases (see the Base Structure Report from the Pentagon for the data) on every continent proves Eisenhower's point about the military industrial complex, though in truth this confirms what he is said to have wanted to say, "the military-industrial-Congressional complex". This monster that consumes almost a trillion $s every year (my calculation includes the Pentagon, CIA, NSA, Energy, and other secret intelligence/military enterprises along with the budgets for the War on Drugs and Homeland Security) continues to grow with no evidence that our security is actually improving. To the contrary, it appears that in some quarters our security may be significantly diminished.

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    In Depth http://www.markorton.com/in-depth-essays-commentaries/ Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:18:18 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wordpress2.5/?page_id=101 Here are some articles and notes that are either from much earlier in my website's history, some dating back to 1999, or just too long to reasonably be considered blog postings.

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    Health Care Crisis - the data http://www.markorton.com/in-depth-essays-commentaries/healthcare-crisis/health-care-crisis-the-data/ Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:22:41 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wordpress2.5/?page_id=113 Back to the Health Care Crisis essay

    Be sure to scroll down to the "Yellow" coded scores for the US.

    Comparative Health System Data

    Health Spending per

    Capita 2002


    Infant Mortality per 1000 Births 2003


    Life Expectancy in Years at Birth 2003


    1

    United States

    $4,271

    1

    Sweden

    3.44

    1

    Andorra

    83.49

    2

    Switzerland

    $3,857

    2

    Iceland

    3.53

    2

    Macau

    81.87

    3

    Norway

    $3,182

    3

    Singapore

    3.6

    3

    San Marino

    81.43

    4

    Denmark

    $2,785

    4

    Finland

    3.76

    4

    Japan

    80.93

    5

    Luxembourg

    $2,731

    5

    Japan

    3.84

    5

    Singapore

    80.42

    6

    Iceland

    $2,701

    6

    Norway

    3.9

    6

    Australia

    80.13

    7

    Germany

    $2,697

    7

    Andorra

    4.07

    7

    Guernsey

    80.04

    8

    France

    $2,288

    8

    Netherlands

    4.31

    8

    Switzerland

    79.99

    9

    Japan

    $2,243

    9

    Austria

    4.39

    9

    Sweden

    79.97

    10

    Netherlands

    $2,173

    10

    France

    4.41

    10

    Hong Kong

    79.93

    11

    Sweden

    $2,145

    11

    Switzerland

    4.42

    11

    Canada

    79.83

    12

    Belgium

    $2,137

    12

    Macau

    4.44

    12

    Iceland

    79.8

    13

    Austria

    $2,121

    13

    Slovenia

    4.47

    13

    Cayman Islands

    79.67

    14

    Canada

    $1,939

    14

    Belgium

    4.64

    14

    Italy

    79.4

    15

    Australia

    $1,714

    15

    Germany

    4.65

    15

    Gibraltar

    79.38

    16

    Finland

    $1,704

    16

    Luxembourg

    4.71

    16

    France

    79.28

    17

    Italy

    $1,676

    17

    Spain

    4.85

    17

    Monaco

    79.27

    18

    United Kingdom

    $1,675

    18

    Australia

    4.9

    18

    Liechtenstein

    79.25

    19

    Israel

    $1,607

    19

    Liechtenstein

    4.92

    19

    Spain

    79.23

    20

    Ireland

    $1,569

    20

    Guernsey

    4.92

    20

    Norway

    79.09

    21

    United Arab Emirates

    $1,428

    21

    Canada

    4.95

    21

    Israel

    79.02

    22

    New Zealand

    $1,163

    22

    Denmark

    4.97

    22

    Jersey

    78.93

    23

    Spain

    $1,043

    23

    Gibraltar

    5.4

    23

    Faroe Islands

    78.9

    24

    Greece

    $965

    24

    Ireland

    5.43

    24

    Greece

    78.89

    25

    Portugal

    $859

    25

    United Kingdom

    5.45

    25

    Aruba

    78.83

    26

    Slovenia

    $746

    26

    Czech Republic

    5.46

    26

    Netherlands

    78.74

    27

    Singapore

    $678

    27

    Jersey

    5.52

    27

    Martinique

    78.72

    28

    Argentina

    $654

    28

    Northern Mariana Islands

    5.61

    28

    Virgin Islands

    78.59

    29

    Uruguay

    $621

    29

    Malta

    5.72

    29

    Malta

    78.43

    30

    Bahamas, The

    $612

    30

    Monaco

    5.73

    30

    Germany

    78.42

    31

    Barbados

    $601

    31

    Hong Kong

    5.73

    31

    Montserrat

    78.36

    32

    Korea, South

    $470

    32

    Italy

    5.76

    32

    New Zealand

    78.32

    33

    Lebanon

    $469

    33

    Portugal

    5.84

    33

    Belgium

    78.29

    34

    Saint Kitts and Nevis

    $408

    34

    San Marino

    6.09

    34

    Guam

    78.27

    35

    Czech Republic

    $380

    35

    New Zealand

    6.18

    35

    Austria

    78.17

    36

    Bahrain

    $358

    36

    Greece

    6.25

    36

    United Kingdom

    78.16

    37

    Hungary

    $318

    37

    Aruba

    6.26

    37

    Saint Pierre and Miquelon

    78.11

    38

    Brazil

    $308

    38

    Man, Isle of

    6.3

    38

    Man, Isle of

    77.98

    39

    Chile

    $289

    39

    Guam

    6.58

    39

    Finland

    77.92

    40

    Slovakia

    $285

    40

    Faroe Islands

    6.66

    40

    Jordan

    77.88

    41

    Costa Rica

    $257

    41

    United States

    6.69

    41

    Luxembourg

    77.66

    42

    Poland

    $248

    42

    Taiwan

    6.8

    42

    Guadeloupe

    77.53

    43

    Panama

    $246

    43

    Croatia

    7.06

    43

    Bermuda

    77.41

    44

    Estonia

    $243

    44

    Cuba

    7.27

    44

    Saint Helena

    77.38

    45

    Mexico

    $236

    45

    Israel

    7.55

    45

    Ireland

    77.35

    46

    South Africa

    $230

    46

    Korea, South

    7.58

    46

    Cyprus

    77.27

    47

    Colombia

    $227

    47

    Martinique

    7.62

    47

    Puerto Rico

    77.26

    48

    Dominica

    $208

    48

    Cyprus

    7.71

    48

    United States

    77.14

    49

    Trinidad and Tobago

    $204

    49

    Montserrat

    7.98

    49

    Denmark

    77.1

    50

    Grenada

    $193

    50

    Saint Pierre and Miquelon

    8.18

    50

    Taiwan

    76.87

    51.

    Lithuania

    $183

    51

    New Caledonia

    8.23

    51

    Cuba

    76.8

    52

    Antigua and Barbuda

    $179

    52

    Reunion

    8.31

    52

    Anguilla

    76.7

    53

    Venezuela

    $171

    53

    Slovakia

    8.76

    53

    French Guiana

    76.69

    54

    Latvia

    $166

    54

    Hungary

    8.77

    54

    Kuwait

    76.65

    55

    Jamaica

    $157

    55

    French Polynesia

    8.95

    55

    Costa Rica

    76.43

    56

    Turkey

    $153

    56

    Chile

    9.12

    56

    Portugal

    76.35

    57

    Saint Lucia

    $151

    57

    Poland

    9.17

    57

    Chile

    76.35

    58

    Maldives

    $150

    58

    Virgin Islands

    9.21

    58

    Northern Mariana Islands

    76.16

    59

    El Salvador

    $143

    59

    Bermuda

    9.28

    59

    Libya

    76.07

    60

    Namibia

    $142

    60

    Puerto Rico

    9.3

    60

    British Virgin Islands

    76.06

    61

    Peru

    $141

    61

    Guadeloupe

    9.3

    61

    Uruguay

    75.87

    62

    Jordan

    $139

    62

    Cayman Islands

    9.89

    62

    Jamaica

    75.85

    63

    Iran

    $128

    63

    American Samoa

    10.09

    63

    American Samoa

    75.75

    64

    Botswana

    $127

    64

    Nauru

    10.52

    64

    Slovenia

    75.51

    65

    Gabon

    $122

    65

    Costa Rica

    10.87

    65

    Argentina

    75.48

    66

    Mauritius

    $120

    66

    Kuwait

    10.87

    66

    French Polynesia

    75.45

    67

    Syria

    $116

    67

    Netherlands Antilles

    11.06

    67

    Netherlands Antilles

    75.38

    68

    Thailand

    $112

    68

    Barbados

    11.71

    68

    Korea, South

    75.36

    69

    Tunisia

    $108

    69

    Estonia

    12.32

    69

    Czech Republic

    75.18

    70

    Burma

    $97

    70

    Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of

    12.54

    70

    United Arab Emirates

    74.75

    71

    Dominican Republic

    $95

    71

    French Guiana

    13.22

    71

    Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of

    74.49

    72

    Paraguay

    $86

    72

    Jamaica

    13.71

    72

    Slovakia

    74.43

    73

    Fiji

    $86

    73

    Tonga

    13.72

    73

    Tunisia

    74.4

    74

    Romania

    $86

    74

    Fiji

    13.72

    74

    Paraguay

    74.4

    75

    Belarus

    $85

    75

    Brunei

    13.95

    75

    Croatia

    74.37

    76

    Belize

    $82

    76

    Belarus

    14.12

    76

    Brunei

    74.3

    77

    Malaysia

    $81

    77

    Bulgaria

    14.18

    77

    Dominica

    74.12

    78

    Guatemala

    $78

    78

    Uruguay

    14.25

    78

    Turks and Caicos Islands

    74

    79

    Honduras

    $74

    79

    Lithuania

    14.34

    79

    Serbia and Montenegro

    73.97

    80

    Bolivia

    $69

    80

    Grenada

    14.63

    80

    Poland

    73.91

    81

    Kazakhstan

    $62

    81

    Saint Lucia

    14.8

    81

    Venezuela

    73.81

    82

    Bulgaria

    $62

    82

    Latvia

    14.96

    82

    Bahrain

    73.72

    83

    Ecuador

    $59

    83

    Sri Lanka

    15.65

    83

    New Caledonia

    73.52

    84

    Nicaragua

    $54

    84

    Saint Kitts and Nevis

    15.83

    84

    Reunion

    73.43

    85

    Guyana

    $51

    85

    Dominica

    15.94

    85

    Qatar

    73.14

    86

    Swaziland

    $46

    86

    United Arab Emirates

    16.12

    86

    Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

    73.08

    87

    China

    $40

    87

    Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

    16.15

    87

    Saint Lucia

    73.08

    88

    Congo, Democratic Republic of the

    $40

    88

    Palau

    16.21

    88

    West Bank

    72.68

    89

    Cape Verde

    $37

    89

    Mauritius

    16.65

    89

    Sri Lanka

    72.62

    90

    Philippines

    $37

    90

    Seychelles

    16.86

    90

    Oman

    72.58

    91

    Zimbabwe

    $36

    91

    Bahamas, The

    17.08

    91

    Albania

    72.37

    92

    Albania

    $36

    92

    Argentina

    17.2

    92

    Panama

    72.32

    93

    Bhutan

    $36

    93

    Greenland

    17.28

    93

    Mexico

    72.3

    94

    Kenya

    $31

    94

    Serbia and Montenegro

    17.36

    94

    Bosnia and Herzegovina

    72.29

    95

    Nigeria

    $30

    95

    Turks and Caicos Islands

    17.46

    95

    China

    72.22

    96

    Turkmenistan

    $30

    96

    Romania

    18.88

    96

    Hungary

    72.17

    97

    Sri Lanka

    $29

    97

    Bahrain

    19.18

    97

    Solomon Islands

    72.1

    98

    Ukraine

    $28

    98

    British Virgin Islands

    19.55

    98

    Lebanon

    72.07

    99

    Cote d'Ivoire

    $28

    99

    Panama

    19.57

    99

    Ecuador

    71.89

    100

    Papua New Guinea

    $25

    100

    Jordan

    19.61

    100

    Barbados

    71.84

    Data  for Spending: World Bank. 2002. World Development Indicators 2002. CD-ROM. Washington, DC

    Data for Infant Mortality: CIA World Factbook, December 2003

    Data for Life Expectancy: CIA World Factbook, December 2003

    All data courtesy of http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php (09/29/04)











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    113 2008-11-01 15:22:41 2008-11-01 19:22:41 open open health-care-crisis-the-data publish 37 1 page 0 _edit_last 2 _edit_lock 1225575198 _aioseop_title Health Care Crisis - the data _aioseop_keywords healthcare crisis, infant mortality, healthcare system, health insurance, public debate, political environment, 11 http://www.markorton.com/2009/12/13/remarks-on-president-obamas-speech-on-accepting-the-nobel-peace-prize-in-oslo-12102009/ 64.14.72.14 2009-12-13 17:11:56 2009-12-13 21:11:56 1 pingback 0 0
    Greenland and Global Warming http://www.markorton.com/in-brief/greenland-and-global-warming/ Sat, 01 Nov 2008 21:52:26 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wordpress2.5/?page_id=135 Originally written 9/2/2002

    When I looked down into the Grand Canyon for the first time, I paused only for a moment at its immensity and moved right onto a more self-centered thought, “How tiny human history is in all of this, and even further, how much less significant my own life must be by extension.” It is clear that human beings will not outlast Nature.

    An article in the January 7, 2002 New Yorker magazine, Ice Memory by Elizabeth Kolbert suggests that Nature will win out in even the shorter run than my earlier musings. Greenland is about the size of France and 80% covered by ice. The ice sheet or glacier is over ten thousand feet thick. “A hundred and thirty-eight feet down, there is snow dating from the American Civil War; some twenty-five hundred feet down, snow from the days of Plato, and, five thousand three hundred and fifty feet down, from the time when prehistoric painters were decorating the caves at Lascaux. At the very bottom, there is snow that fell on Greenland before the last ice age, which began more than a hundred thousand years ago.” Starting in 1959 and continuing sporadically to this day, teams from various countries have drilled down through this ice and extracted cores on four or more occasions. At first no one was very interested in the cores, but a clever Danish scientist developed a technique that allowed for an accurate reading of the atmospheric temperature at the time each layer was deposited. This involves the ratio of two oxygen isotopes in rain water that is temperature dependent.

    So, what do these ice cores reveal about the earth’s climate? “Its hard to look much further back in the record, however, without feeling a little queasy. About twenty thousand years ago, the Earth was still in the grip of the last ice age. During this period, called the Wisconsin by American scientists, ice sheets covered nearly a third of the world’s landmass, reaching as far south a New York City. The transition out of the Wisconsin is preserved in great detail in the Greenland ice. What the record shows is that it was a period of intense instability. The temperature did not rise slowly , or even steadily; instead, the climate flipped several times from temperate conditions back into those of an ice age, and then back again. Around fifteen thousand years ago, Greenland abruptly warmed by sixteen degrees in fifty years or less. In one particularly traumatic episode some twelve thousand years ago, the mean temperature in Greenland shot up by fifteen degrees in a single decade.”

    So, over the last hundred thousand years of climate history captured in the ice there have been dozens of episodes of wild swings in temperature. But, taking a longer view, the earth has oscillated through warm periods of ten thousand years followed by ninety thousand years of cold during the last half million years. The warm period we now live in is now ten thousand years old; a cold period should follow. Although us humans are persisting in all sorts of un-neighborly activities, in the end, we may not have enough time to do ourselves in before Nature catches us.

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    135 2008-11-01 17:52:26 2008-11-01 21:52:26 open open greenland-and-global-warming publish 150 6 page 0 _edit_last 2 _edit_lock 1225577663 _aioseop_description An article in the January 7, 2002 New Yorker magazine, Ice Memory by Elizabeth Kolbert suggests that Nature will win out in even the shorter run than my earlier musings. Greenland is about the size of France and 80% covered by ice. The ice sheet or glacier is over ten thousand feet thick _aioseop_keywords elizabeth kolbert, new yorker magazine, atmospheric temperature, climate, global warming, ice cores, _aioseop_title Greenland and Global Warming
    Milt Rogovin - The Forgotten Ones http://www.markorton.com/in-brief/milt-rogovin-the-forgotten-ones/ Sat, 01 Nov 2008 21:59:32 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wordpress2.5/?page_id=140 Written 10/12/2003

    During one of our whirlwind weekends in New York, Karen and I went to the New York Historical Society (2 West 77th Street New York, NY 10024 http://www.nyhistory.org) to catch the last day of the exhibit, REMEMBERING THE FORGOTTEN ONES: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF MILTON ROGOVIN.

    This proved to be the best photography, most engaging exhibit I have seen in years.

    "A joint project of the N-YHS, Sound Portraits Production (the Society's collaborators on the 2001 exhibition Flophouse ), and the Burchfield-Penney Art Center in Buffalo, this remarkable exhibition combines prime examples of 93-year-old Rogovin's photographs of Buffalo over five decades (including recent work), with audio installations and artifacts. The exhibition is accompanied by a short film, The Forgotten Ones , directed by Harvey Wang (which won the Best Documentary Short award at the 2003 Tribeca Film Festival), and a new book, Milton Rogovin: The Forgotten Ones (with Dave Isay, David Miller and Harvey Wang; published by Quantuck Lane Press in June, 2003)."

    (from the New York Historical Society web site)

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    Anne and Milton Rogovin (June 2003)

    At the heart of the experience was a roomful of triptychs, photos taken of the same family, if not always the same family members spanning three decades. Rogovin combined brief texts by one or more of those pictured and some included audio versions with the authors of the text speaking.

    Here are a few images:

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    Eva and Daughter 1972, 1985, and 1992 (image borrowed without permission from The Getty Museum (http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/objects/o112420.html)

     

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    Grandparents and Baptism Boy 1974, 1985, 1992 (image borrowed without permission from The Getty Museum http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/objects/oz112421.html)

     

    And an updated "quartet" extending the one above:

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    Here are a couple of other pictures gleaned from various web sites:

    rogo-man

     

    rogo-father

    (from the Working People series)

     

    There is a Milton Rogovin website.


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    In Brief http://www.markorton.com/in-brief/ Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:08:51 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wordpress2.5/?page_id=150 Brief Notes


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    Successful Intelligence by Robert J. Sternberg http://www.markorton.com/in-depth-essays-commentaries/successful-intelligence-by-robert-j-sternberg/ Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:21:38 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wordpress2.5/?page_id=158

    Successful Intelligence: how practical and creative intelligence determine success in life by Robert J. Sternberg (NY: Penguin Putnam, 1997)

    (This review is four pages long. Download a PDF (112K) for easier reading)

    Throughout my life I have been interested in intelligence, mine and that of others. From early years at Taft School where I was regularly described as a “gross underachiever” to later in my work life when I began to understand that “smarts” came in all shapes and sizes, intelligence has been an interesting issue. Who has it and how can you figure out what kind each person has?

    Successful Intelligence (SI) presents an interesting addition to my own practical knowledge of intelligence and a further jumping-off point from Howard Gardner’s efforts in Frames of Mind: the theory of multiple intelligences.

    The preface gives away the whole story. Let me quote a bit:

    “Successful intelligence is the kind of intelligence used to achieve important goals. People who succeed, whether by their own standards or by other people’s, are those who have managed to acquire, develop, and apply a full range of intellectual skills, rather than merely relying on the inert intelligence that schools so value. These individuals may or may not succeed on conventional test, but they have something in common that is much more important than high test scores. They know their strengths; they know their weaknesses. They capitalize on their strengths; they compensate for or correct their weaknesses. That’s it.” (bold in text) (p. 12)

    So, this is quite an invigorating start! Intelligence is something we use in day-to-day life.

    The first half of SI takes up a review and critique of traditional efforts to define and measure human intelligence. For those of us who followed the uproar over The Bell Curve (Herrnstein and Murray, 1994) or have otherwise been exposed to critiques of standard approaches to intelligence, skip quickly to Part III “Successful Intelligence Is What Counts”.

    SI posits three key elements of successful intelligence:

    • analytical
    • creative, and
    • practical intelligence

    Analytical intelligence focuses on problem solving. SI discusses this under the following headings:

    1. Problem recognition
    2. Problem definition
    3. Formulating a strategy for problem solving
    4. Representing information
    5. Allocating resources
    6. Monitoring and evaluation
    7. Well-structured and ill-structured problems
      • means-ends analysis
      • working forward
      • working backward
      • generating and testing
    8. Mental sets and fixation
    9. Decision Making
      • economic models
      • utility models
      • game theory
      • satisficing

    Creative intelligence focuses on finding good problems. Here SI struggles to develop a coherent and satisfying definition for creative intelligence by posing an "investment theory of creativity". Unfortunately, this discussion struggles with a metaphor standing in as a definition: "Creatively intelligent people are like investors. They buy low and sell high." This line of argument leads to the following notion of what creativity is about:

    "In the investment view of creativity, then, the creative person buys low - comes up with an idea that is likely to be rejected and derided. That person then attempts to convince other people of the value of the idea and thus increase the perceived value of the investment. If he has finally convinced others of its value, the creative person sells high - leaves the idea to others and moves on to the next unpopular idea." (p.190-191)

    From my perspective and experiences in the business world, this gives much too much importance to the Don Quixote aspects of the process. What exactly is the "investment" here? Is it really true that creative people set out to be "rejected"? (Perhaps, some reading in the literature of innovation in industry might be helpful here. Although these are looking at the problem of creativity from a more macro level, Eric von Hippel's Sources of Innovation and Everret Roger's Diffusion of Innovations might shed some light on creativity.)

    Leaving aside my quibbles about the difficulties SI has with defining creative intelligence, this chapter closes with a set of observations about how to develop creative intelligence. The section headings provide a good slice though these (paraphrased here):

    Successfully intelligent people:

    1. actively seek out, and later become, role models
    2. question assumptions and encourage others to do so
    3. allow themselves and others to make mistakes
    4. take sensible risks and encourage others to do the same
    5. seek out for themselves and others tasks that allow for creativity
    6. actively define and redefine problems, and help others to do so.
    7. seek rewards for, and themselves reward, creativity
    8. allow themselves and others the time to think creatively
    9. tolerate ambiguity and encourage tolerance of ambiguity in others
    10. understand the obstacles creative people must face and overcome
    11. are willing to grow
    12. recognize the importance of the person-environment fit

    The discussion of practical intelligence is altogether too brief because too much of this chapter is taken up with further efforts to debunk various standing notions of the connection between standard views of intelligence and real world success.

    "Practical problems are characterized by, among other things, an apparent absence of the exact information necessary for solution and also by their relevance to everyday experience." This leads to a discussion of the roll of "tacit" knowledge. BUT, SI's use of the word "tacit" bears little resemblance to either my own usage or a dictionary definition (in this case my usage and the dictionary are in good synch).

    "What, exactly, is tacit knowledge? It has three characteristic features. First, tacit knowledge is about knowing how - about doing. It is procedural in nature. Second, it is relevant to the attainment of goals people value, not the kind of academic drivel without practical value that teachers sometimes try to stuff in students' heads. And, third, it is typically acquired with little help from others." (p. 236)

    Now, if we strip out SI's confusing use of the word "tacit" (perhaps you may want to substitute "practical" or "worldly"), we now have a statement about that body of knowledge that one gains through the actions, association,and activities of day-to-day life - the world of knowledge accumulated through work, hobbies, social interactions and play. Go back and reread the paragraph quoted above. Excise "tacit" and substitute "worldly". Now we can see what SI is trying to say. I have more than a small quibble with SI's third feature. In my experience, most of my "worldly" knowledge was directly or indirectly gathered from the people around me. This usually occurred in an expressly "helping" mode.

    Although SI is hardly a comprehensive or mature statement of exactly what successful intelligence is or how we can encourage its development, it at least moves the discussion of intelligence onto a plane where we can think of intelligence as a poly-dimensional entity. This gets us beyond the intellectually barren territory of IQ and other such nonsense. Further, SI helps to move us towards notions that can support practical thinking and policy making to support increasing the body of successful intelligence in all human beings.

    Viewing this from my personal perspective as a business manager, I could not help but note the immense surface overlap between SI's description of successful intelligence and many of the underlying principles ascribed to high-performance organizations. Here, for example, are statements (bolded in the SI text) from the discussion of Problem Solving:

    "Successfully intelligent people don't wait for problems to hit them over the head. They recognize their existence before they get out of hand and begin the process of solving them."(p. 158)

    "Successfully intelligent people define problems correctly and thereby solve those problems that really confront them, rather than extraneous ones. In this way, the same problems don't keep coming back into their lives. They also make the effort to decide which problems are worth solving, in the first place, and which aren't." (p. 160-161)

    "Successfully intelligent people carefully formulate strategies for problem solving. In particular, they focus on long-range planning rather than rushing in and then later having to rethink their strategies." (p. 163)

    "Successfully intelligent people represent information about a problem as accurately as possible, with a focus on how they can use that information effectively." (p.165)

    "Successfully intelligent people think carefully about allocating resources, for both the short term and the long term. They consider the risk-reward ratios and then choose allocations that they believe will maximize their return." (p. 169)

    "Successfully intelligent people do not always make the correct decisions, but they monitor and evaluate their decisions and then correct their errors as they discover them." (p. 170-171)

    Now, if you substitute the words "successful companies" or "successful organizations" for "successfully intelligent people, you will get a set of useful statements about high-performance organizations. Hmmmm...


    5/1/2002

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    Whose Opinion (or Advice) Is It? http://www.markorton.com/in-brief/whose-opinion-or-advice-is-it/ Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:29:25 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wordpress2.5/?page_id=167 January 31, 2002

    The Problem

    At a time when we are quite aware of the need for and value of transparency in the reporting of the activities of corporations (thanks most recently to the Enron affair), we could quite usefully extend this transparency metaphor to other parts of day-to-day life. The print press, TV, radio, and internet are filled with opinions and advice from all sorts of people. Many of these pass for expert status just based on affiliation with universities, institutes, and think tanks.

    Increasingly we must ask ourselves, “whose opinion is this?” Who is being served by the expertise?

    Although many in the academic and chic cultural world (not to mention the various right-wing types in political and religious quarters) may think that relativism is the creation of post-WWII French philosophy, most of the rest of the world knows full well that “truth” is in fact relative, that is, relative to who is paying. No surprise, the “experts” know this too, and regularly seek to hide or obscure who is paying. Now, even the pinnacle of prestige in the medical world, The New England Journal of Medicine, has had to strengthen its guidelines that seek to separate research performed at arms length from the pharmaceutical/medical industrial complex from that more directly controlled.

    A Step Towards a Solution

    What can we do to provide a substantial increase in the transparency of our information sources while keeping things simple?

    We should begin to demand that every expert, commentator, think tank institute, or university laboratory reveal the sources of 80% of the funds supporting its research/organizational activities. In the vast majority of case the list of sources will not exceed three or four. This protocol will provide a revealing base of background information without substantial burdens.

    A Caveat

    Although the protocol proposed here will increase the transparency of our sources of information, it will not relieve us of the work of making sense out of the data and theories presented in any given situation. Just because a given piece of research is funded by “bad people” does not mean that the data is not meaningful and the analysis correct.

    January 31, 2002

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    "Sophie Ristelhueber: Details of the World" http://www.markorton.com/in-brief/sophie-ristelhueber-details-of-the-world/ Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:37:02 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wordpress2.5/?page_id=170 1/15/02

    October 2,  2001 - January 21, 2002 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

    Karen and I saw a few of Ms. Ristelhueber's photographs a couple of years ago at the Museum of Modern Art (New York). They were part of MOMA's annual New Photography selections. We were struck then by the power of her work.

    The current exhibit, Sophie Ristelhueber: Details of the World, at the MFA includes "Fait", 71 approximately 4 ft x 4 ft photographs taken in the deserts of Kuwait shortly after the end of the "Desert Storm" war. Some are taken from a helicopter and others are at ground level. All are intensely detailed but in some strange way quite abstract in their impact. This is accentuated in the exhibition by the juxtaposition of aerial and close-ups so that at first glance one can not be sure which is which. This is the scene of modern warfare.

    Another series of photographs entitled" Beirut" are 31 small black and white photographs of a streetscape in war torn Beirut. Another confrontation with the results of war.

    There is more here in this extensive exhibit. We highly recommend it.

    Every One, #3, 1994 Black and white photograph mounted on fiberboard 106 x 71 inches, unique installation at the Centraal Museum, Utrecht.



    (Picture to left and text description above borrowed from MFA web site 01/15/02)




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    Bush - the worst modern President http://www.markorton.com/2008/11/01/bush-the-worst-modern-president/ Sun, 02 Nov 2008 01:39:55 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wordpress2.5/archives/191 Since my entry this morning I have been thinking more about the Presidency and Bush. My knowledge of 19th century Presidents is a but spotty. Certainly the names Buchanan, Pierce, Johnson and Grant pop to mind as less than top of the heap.

    But, for the modern era, post WW2, Bush is clearly the worst, most destructive President.

    In the international sphere, we will be digging out from the morass of his crazed policies for a decade. This will most prominently feature the disaster of Iraq. A particularly problematic consequence of Bush's policies is the increased militarization of our foreign and domestic security strategies.

    On the home front, we have the staggering debt, degradation of civil rights and government practices, and lost time dealing with health care, infrastructure, income inequality, education, housing and more. I do not particularly hold him responsible for the global economic meltdown. That is really the result of a global infatuation for " free markets" in which both US parties and numerous others worldwide have indulged themselves for more than three decades.

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    karen_tommysworld http://www.markorton.com/2008/09/01/griffin-photography-museum-the-mccann-family/karen_tommysworld/ Sun, 02 Nov 2008 15:14:22 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/karen_tommysworld.jpg 205 2008-11-02 11:14:22 2008-11-02 15:14:22 open open karen_tommysworld inherit 204 0 attachment 0 http://www.markorton.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/karen_tommysworld.jpg _wp_attached_file 2008/11/karen_tommysworld.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:6:{s:5:"width";s:3:"400";s:6:"height";s:3:"267";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='85' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:29:"2008/11/karen_tommysworld.jpg";s:5:"sizes";a:2:{s:9:"thumbnail";a:3:{s:4:"file";s:29:"karen_tommysworld-150x150.jpg";s:5:"width";s:3:"150";s:6:"height";s:3:"150";}s:6:"medium";a:3:{s:4:"file";s:29:"karen_tommysworld-300x200.jpg";s:5:"width";s:3:"300";s:6:"height";s:3:"200";}}s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:1:"0";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:0:"";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:1:"0";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:1:"0";s:3:"iso";s:1:"0";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:1:"0";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} _wp_attachment_metadata s:667:"a:6:{s:5:"width";i:400;s:6:"height";i:267;s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='85' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:84:"/home/markorto/www/www/wordpress2.5/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/karen_tommysworld.jpg";s:5:"sizes";a:2:{s:9:"thumbnail";a:3:{s:4:"file";s:29:"karen_tommysworld-150x150.jpg";s:5:"width";i:150;s:6:"height";i:150;}s:6:"medium";a:3:{s:4:"file";s:29:"karen_tommysworld-300x200.jpg";s:5:"width";i:300;s:6:"height";i:200;}}s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";i:0;s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:0:"";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";i:0;s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";i:0;s:3:"iso";i:0;s:13:"shutter_speed";i:0;s:5:"title";s:0:"";}}"; karen_motherdreams http://www.markorton.com/2008/09/01/griffin-photography-museum-the-mccann-family/karen_motherdreams/ Sun, 02 Nov 2008 15:15:14 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/karen_motherdreams.jpg 206 2008-11-02 11:15:14 2008-11-02 15:15:14 open open karen_motherdreams inherit 204 0 attachment 0 http://www.markorton.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/karen_motherdreams.jpg _wp_attached_file 2008/11/karen_motherdreams.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:6:{s:5:"width";s:3:"400";s:6:"height";s:3:"267";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='85' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:30:"2008/11/karen_motherdreams.jpg";s:5:"sizes";a:2:{s:9:"thumbnail";a:3:{s:4:"file";s:30:"karen_motherdreams-150x150.jpg";s:5:"width";s:3:"150";s:6:"height";s:3:"150";}s:6:"medium";a:3:{s:4:"file";s:30:"karen_motherdreams-300x200.jpg";s:5:"width";s:3:"300";s:6:"height";s:3:"200";}}s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:1:"0";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:0:"";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:1:"0";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:1:"0";s:3:"iso";s:1:"0";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:1:"0";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} _wp_attachment_metadata s:670:"a:6:{s:5:"width";i:400;s:6:"height";i:267;s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='85' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:85:"/home/markorto/www/www/wordpress2.5/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/karen_motherdreams.jpg";s:5:"sizes";a:2:{s:9:"thumbnail";a:3:{s:4:"file";s:30:"karen_motherdreams-150x150.jpg";s:5:"width";i:150;s:6:"height";i:150;}s:6:"medium";a:3:{s:4:"file";s:30:"karen_motherdreams-300x200.jpg";s:5:"width";i:300;s:6:"height";i:200;}}s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";i:0;s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:0:"";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";i:0;s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";i:0;s:3:"iso";i:0;s:13:"shutter_speed";i:0;s:5:"title";s:0:"";}}"; Karen Davis - artist http://www.markorton.com/family-friends/karen-davis-photographer-book-artist-teacher-web-developer-and-the-honey/ Sun, 02 Nov 2008 15:52:17 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wordpress2.5/?page_id=221 Photographer, Book artist, Teacher, Web Developer

    Here are some notes about Karen's work.

    Unfortunately, they are listed in reverse chronological order - oldest on top.


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    1998-12-26 Brunch at 52 Kinnaird http://www.markorton.com/family-friends/1998-12-26-brunch-at-52-kinnaird/ Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:55:03 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wordpress2.5/?page_id=251 Brunch Photos from 12/26/98

    Here are a few pictures taken with our new toy, a Nikon Coolpix 900 digital camera.
    Most were taken at a "brunch" held at 52 Kinnaird on 12/26/98.

    Meredith (Back of head ), Karen, Danielle (Dan), Andrea, John




    Jonathan and Ed




    Andrea and John





    Maggie and Parker playing with "GOO"

    - where is the picture of Uncle Mark cleaning it up?




    Ed and Maggie at the playground.... Parker pulling from off-stage.



    Several of the inmates have taken to flight and

    landed in this year's edition of the Yule tree....



    Freeway, the albino cat, sneaking up on Neuron, the mouse, with a host of onlookers.

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    2003 Year-in-Pictures - 1st Half http://www.markorton.com/photogalleries/year-in-pictures-project-2007/2003-year-in-pictures-2nd-half/ Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:37:40 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wordpress2.5/?page_id=258

    These are the original 2003 Year-in-Pictures (YIP)


    First Half 2003 YIP:



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    2004 Year-In-Pictures 1st Half http://www.markorton.com/photogalleries/year-in-pictures-project-2007/2004-year-in-pictures-1st-half/ Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:45:15 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wordpress2.5/?page_id=288 288 2008-11-03 09:45:15 2008-11-03 13:45:15 open open 2004-year-in-pictures-1st-half publish 15 1 page 0 _wp_page_template page-no-sidebar.php _edit_last 2 _edit_lock 1237579878 wiki_page 0 wiki_page_toc 0 Michael Crichton’s Congo and the Transformation of the Western Mind http://www.markorton.com/in-depth-essays-commentaries/michael-crichton%e2%80%99s-congo-and-the-transformation-of-the-western-mind/ Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:35:44 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wordpress2.5/?page_id=297 Book Review/Essay  2/97

    (revised 1/29/02 - maps added at bottom)

    (revised 6/25/03 - map of Angola superimposed on the US)

    Michael Crichton’s 1980 pulp novel Congo opens with an introduction that is truly arresting . I quote here the first two paragraphs in their entirety.


    “Only prejudice, and a trick of the Mercator projection, prevents us from recognizing the enormity of the African continent.





    Covering nearly twelve million square miles, Africa is almost as large as North America and Europe combined. It is nearly twice the size of South America. As we mistake its dimensions, we also mistake its essential nature: the Dark Continent is mostly hot desert and open grassy plains.

    In fact, Africa is called the Dark Continent for one reason only: the vast equatorial rain forests of its central region. This is the drainage basin of the Congo River, and one-tenth of the continent is given over to it - a million and a half square miles of silent, damp, dark forest, a single uniform geographical feature nearly half the size of the continental United States. This primeval forest has stood, unchanged and unchallenged, for more than sixty million years.”

    This reader was gripped by his own ignorance of the facts and yet skeptical.  He could recall all those geography lessons of grade school. He had traveled a bit. But none of this brought enough confidence to bear for these first two paragraphs in this pulp novel not to send him off to his maps, atlases, encyclopedias, even the internet.

    Mercator. Yes, that is the projection so familiar from grade school. It even sticks in the mind that one of its key features is that the latitude and longitude lines are straight lines.  This is convenient for rectangular pieces of paper, but it creates great distortions of area. This rectangular display of the surface of the nearly spherical surface of the earth produces a Greenland that appears almost as large as the US. The farther away you go north or south from the equator the larger this error becomes.

    So, OK this Mercator, who on investigation in the ‘97 Grolier CD Encyclopedia, turns out to be a Flemish cartographer, Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594), produced cylindrical projections of a spherical surface.  This of course lead to this readers present state of misapprehension.

    Well, let’s take a closer look at this matter. A few simple comparisons of territories that he has driven across will put this into better perspective (this reader does have a bit of trouble with abstractions).

    So here is a chart neatly drawn up in tabular form (again courtesy of the above referenced CD encyclopedia). The data on Africa seems to hold up Crichton’s assertions. Hopefully the American reader (obviously of the East Coast persuasion) will find some suitable reference point to investigate the data for themselves. The India entry is just for fun and effect.

    Area (sq. miles)
    Population
    Texas
    267,277
    18,378,000
    New England
    71,929
    13,239,000
    New England, NY,PA,OH,IL
    274,423
    66,244,000
    United States (continental)
    3,106,231
    261,429,000
    Africa
    11,710,500
    720,000,000
    Nigeria (most populous in Africa)
    357,000
    98,100,000
    Zaire
    905,567
    41,200,000
    South Africa
    471,445
    43,500,000
    India
    1,269,345
    911,600,00
    Wisconsin
    65,503
    5,038.000
    Illinois
    57,918
    11,697,000
    Vietnam
    127,242
    71,800,000

    What strikes this parochial mind is that the Mercator effect is at work even in our views of the United States.

    Let’s investigate this a bit.

    First a couple of numbers to illustrate my thesis. Texas is 801 miles north to south and 773 miles east to west.

    By contrast, think of a car trip from Boston to Chicago. The American Automobile Association preferred yellow-line triptych calls this out at 925 miles. Boston to Washington DC is approximately 600 miles. Do these numbers and our mental images on the map jive?

    Let me close this bit of geography with a historical note about Vietnam. During the Vietnam War I found it useful in political discussions, during my college days in Wisconsin, to point out that Vietnam is very close to the combined land area of the states of Wisconsin and Illinois . In this area the US government dropped as much munitions as consumed during all of World War II in all theaters.


    Mercator Projection (circa 1596)


    Robinson Projection(most widely used by National Geographic and others during the 20th centuryh until 1980's)


    Both maps borrowed without permission from geography.about.com

    6/25/3

    Yesterday I was scanning through the New York Times and saw an article, "Latest Peace Hopes Thwarted on Africa's Battlefields" by Somini Sengupta. It was accompanied by a series of maps, including this one: (text added by me)

    As for the balance of the 314 pages of this pulp novel, it’s entertaining...lots of gorillas and other beasts .........a page turner.

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The exhibition of 18 large C prints by DiRado was a delight and should be on your list of art stops. The topic is dinner with family and friends. Though working with a huge camera, DiRado, a Worcester,MA, photographer, has the participation of a regular cast of characters in these posed pictures. The setups and striking lighting are quite commanding. He exploits depth of field wittily at times. Go see them. Don't miss the Italian themed exhibition with lots of good phots, many by Italian photographers unknown to me. I particularl liked the many works by Mario Giacomelli (1925 - 2000).]]> 309 2008-12-06 20:00:35 2008-12-07 00:00:35 open open stephen-dirados-dinner-series-how-we-lived publish 0 0 post 0 _aioseop_title Stephen DiRado, photgrapher, at Fitchburg Art Museum _edit_lock 1237900989 _edit_last 2 _aioseop_description The topic is dinner with family and friends. 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    There have already been massive attacks against whole countries with successful breakdowns that lasted for hours and days. Ukraine, Lithuania, and Georgia were targets over the last year. My memory is that suspicions fell to the Russian government because the attacks, in these cases massive Denial of Service assaults, appeared to originate from within Russia.

    At any rate, add this to your terror worries.

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    Hong Kong - escalators http://www.markorton.com/2009/01/09/hong-kong-escalators/ Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:50:27 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wordpress2.5/archives/318 [/caption]

    This is one of series of postings flowing from our trip to Hong Kong and Vietnam between December 15, 2008 and January 7, 2009.

    During my visit over the last three weeks in Hong Kong I was on more escalators than in my entire existence. This reflects the well known verticality of both the natural and built environment there. It also shows the city's interest in maintaining foot traffic as a viable mode of mobility. Even in the more remote parts of the city, pedestrian travel is aided by sidewalks, elevated walkways, and everywhere a web of pedestrian friendly access connected everywhere by escalators.

    Compared with the chronic outages of service on the MBTA escalators, I never came across a single escalator that was out of service.

    A final little reminder of the more typical lack of reliability of public escalators I experience in the US came on our return at Newark. After clearing customs we rounded a corner to see an escalator to carry us upstairs to catch our connecting flight to Boston. Sure enough, this escalator, a "Schindler" was emitting a loud clanking sound. We had seen plenty of Schindlers as well as Otis escalators in Hong Kong. None greeted us with such dramatic evidence of imminent failure.


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    For many years I have been taking pictures of these ubiquitous features of our urban environment. I remain unsure about what this little mania is about???

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    A Weekend of Museums - Brooklyn Museum, MOMA & the MET http://www.markorton.com/2009/04/02/a-weekend-of-museums-brooklyn-museum-of-art-moma-the-met/ Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:51:42 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?p=551 [/caption]

    Last weekend we spent one very busy Saturday in New York City museuming. We started in Brooklyn at the Brooklyn Museum. This time we took the 2 train from 125th St in Harlem. After 45 minutes and a bit of subway back and forth caused by track work, we emerged from the subway walking up to look straight at the new glass entrance hall of the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

    Brooklyn Museum

    Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings From Paris to the Sea

    We visited a number of galleries. I found the exhibition, "Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings From Paris to the Sea" very interesting. Unlike the New York Time's reviewer Holland Cotter, ((see his review March 27, 2009 "The Reluctant Impressionist here )) I am not too bothered with issues of exactly where any particular artist fits into the taxonomy that art critics and historians use.

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    Unlike most taxonomies of the physical world, art taxonomy seems to obscure more than enlighten. At any rate I really enjoyed the industrial and street scenes. His perspectives are frequently novel.((pictures of Caillebotte's work shown here borrowed without permission from the Brooklyn Museum website))


    Judy Chicago's "The Dinner Party"

    Judy Chicago's "The Dinner Party" is now on permanent display. I must admit that very few of the 1038 women honored in this piece were familiar to me. The "Heritage Panels" that are part of this work offer a timeline and some hints about why the women included at the dinner are there. The Brooklyn Museum has wonderful web pages on the Dinner Party, including a 3600 virtual tour here.

    "American Identities: A New Look"

    We made a return visit to the the fifth floor for the "American Identities: A New Look" permanent installation. This is proving to be worth a trot around whenever we get to this museum. The topics are great and the juxtapositions of art from different eras about similar topics provides an unusual view on artists  and topics.

    The Black List Project: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and Elvis Mitchell

    We also stopped by "The Black List Project: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and Elvis Mitchell" (web information here) on the way out the door. Large conventional portraits of notable people. This part of  "a documentary project that explores being Black in America.". Not sure how they chose the people included, but with such a large population to pick from any selections would probably raise that question.

    The Brooklyn Museum continues to be a very reliable source of good exhibitions without the crushes of the MET and MOMA. Good place to take the grandchildren.

    MOMA

    "Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West"

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    Stephen Shore 1973 photo Klamath Falls, OR in MOMA show

    With that we got back on the subway and headed back to Manhattan and a visit to MOMA. Fortified by one of the wonders of urban life, a hot dog from a street vendor, we went into MOMA and first looked at "Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West". This topically arranged visit to photographs of the American West was great fun for me. Lots of famous photographers juxtaposed with people unknown to me but shooting photos on a similar topic but perhaps from a completely different time. Leaving aside the pedagogical intent of the show, "the American West is a produced cultural artifact" - the quality of most of the images was very good. Lots to enjoy. ((Stephen Shore photo borrowed without permission from NYTimes))

    "The Printed Picture"

    I also returned briefly to look at an exhibition that I had stumbled on during an earlier visit. "The Printed Picture" explores the development of printing pictures, something that we take for granted. It is not so long ago that color pictures did not appear in daily newspapers. Color was reserved for the Sunday paper pullouts and magazines. On a daily basis one was used to quite grainy black and whites. Now color is ubiquitous, expected, and black and white images are the more unusual. One technology really caught my attention.  The Hewlett Packard Indigo press. This digital press prints in full four color at 120 pages per minute with variable page content on the fly. The age of on demand printing is here now. Maybe this should be obvious from the flourishing self-publication sites.

    Karen has now purchased the book that accompanies this exhibition,  The Printed Picture, a book by Richard Benson that traces the changing technology of picture making from the Renaissance to the present, focusing on the vital role of images in multiple copies.

    Paul Graham, "a shimmer of possibility"

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    I also went back to look again at a series of photos by Paul Graham, "a shimmer of possibility". Working predominantly in series format, these photos are really compelling. I found myself spending more than my usual 10 seconds studying these series. "New Orleans (Woman Eating) is a wonderful series which is occupied with a woman sitting in a bus stop eating chicken. But, the series seems also to be about accidental art found in the rubbish at her feet. ((The picture here of the series was taken by me. The second is borrowed without permission from MOMA's website))

    In another series, "Texas 2005",  8 pictures taken around sunset. Only on close examination of the first, taken at a low angle through trees between two houses looking towards a setting sun, do you realize that there are two figures, very faint figures, playing basketball. Later photos in the series show this play up close. In none is there any connection displayed between the photographer and the basketball players. We seem to be an unseen observer. But, as the title of this show suggests, these events are just "a shimmer of possibility". What in fact are we observing?

    Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective

    We also rode the escalators to the top floor to look at "Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective". This strange fellow made an enormous amount of "art" in his short life. Most of this seems to fit into the genre of art which MFA and PhD students will worry about. Not much for me to say about this except for repeating my distain for this genere of self-indulgent silli-business masquerading contemporary art. Nevertheless,  I did take a few shots of the exhibition.

    Here is a shot from above of Kippenberger large installation on the second floor.

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    I got more interested in some strange reflections as I was taking a few photos from the sixth floor balcony.

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    MET

    Pierre Bonnard: The Late Interiors

    After a brief bus ride, we trooped in to the MET. By this time I was pretty museumed out. Reinforced by a stop in the cafeteria (I can get there blind folded), we did look at the exhbition,    
    "Pierre Bonnard: The Late Interiors". Could be the end of the day or my general lack of interest in Impressionist flowers, but, I was underwhelmed and glad to board the M2 for Harlem.

     

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So, it was with some amazement that I had failed to notice this building in the 200 block of Warren earlier:


    [caption id="attachment_1736" align="alignleft" width="640" caption="249 Warren St. Hudson NY"]249 Warren St. Hudson NY - Orange Building[/caption]


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    The truck pulls up to 42 Kinnaird St. Cambridge, MA on 6/24 and arrives at 114 Warren St. Hudson, NY for unloading on 6/25



    114 Warren St. Hudson, NY




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Noah Graduates to Middle School at Trinity http://www.markorton.com/2009/06/13/noah-graduates-to-middle-school-at-trinity/ Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:12:13 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?p=628 Noah's 4th Grade class at Trinity, NYC6/9/9

    Grandson Noah Gilstrap graduated into the Middle School at Trinity in NYC.

    A telling point for me was the symbolic transition from the Lower School environment in which the students gave hugs to the Headmistress as they came up on the stage and crossed to greet the Headmistress of the Middle School with a handshake.

    John, Andrea, Noah, and Nyla at Noah's Graduation, TrinityNoah and Nyla

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    Hudson in the NY Times http://www.markorton.com/2009/06/15/hudson-in-the-nytimes/ Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:27:22 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?p=642 Peter Applebome penned an interesting piece in today's New York Times about two Hudsons, the Hudson River and the City of Hudson:

    June 15, 2009

    OUR TOWNS

    Two Rebirths, Miraculous but Unfinished

    All week long, the grand flotilla, led by a replica of Henry Hudson’s Half Moon, has made its way up the river. It sailed under the Rip Van Winkle Bridge here Thursday afternoon, marking the anniversary of the ship’s voyage 400 years ago.

    Part history lesson, part spectacle, part celebration, Hudson 400 in many ways marks a fragile, incomplete miracle — the way the river, a foul industrial cesspool just three decades ago, has been brought back to life.

    But if the river, in large part, has been reclaimed, the future of the towns along it is a more complicated business. And few places reflect those complications more than Hudson, about 100 miles north of New York City. Once a raucous industrial city spewing pollutants into the river, then a boarded-up postindustrial corpse, now, like the river, it’s both a marvel of reclamation and a problematic unfinished story.


    Here is a link to the whole article in PDF download format.

    The observations strike us as on target concerning the situation with jobs and the local population. There definitely are several realities at play in Hudson. Small stages make the contrasts more easily visible.

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    Wait till I put on the lid!

    Fortunately they don't whimper too loudly.

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    655 2009-06-15 13:41:46 2009-06-15 17:41:46 open open some-are-in-shock-over-the-move publish 0 0 post 0 _edit_lock 1245152836 _edit_last 2 _aioseop_description Some Are In Shock Over The Move to Hudson _aioseop_keywords moving, plastic bucket, whimper, Hudson, stuffed animals, podPressPostSpecific a:6:{s:15:"itunes:subtitle";s:15:"##PostExcerpt##";s:14:"itunes:summary";s:15:"##PostExcerpt##";s:15:"itunes:keywords";s:17:"##WordPressCats##";s:13:"itunes:author";s:10:"##Global##";s:15:"itunes:explicit";s:2:"No";s:12:"itunes:block";s:2:"No";} _aioseop_title Some Are In Shock Over The Move
    More Blather about Healthcare from "Experts" http://www.markorton.com/2009/06/16/more-blather-about-healthcare-from-experts/ Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:27:18 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?p=660 Acknowledge the basic facts about how the healthcare system is working today.

    Yesterday in a radio interview, "How to conquer health care challenges", with Professor Glenn Melnick  from the Rand Corporation and USC, we were again offered up "expert" opinion that does not even acknowledge the basic facts about how the healthcare system is working today.

    Here are a couple of examples from the interview lead by Kai Ryssdal:

    "RYSSDAL: Well, let me make sure I understand that. If doctors and hospitals are making less money, what is that do for the quality of care? I'm just trying to think about the argument that's going to come up on Capitol Hill on this one.

    MELNICK: Quality will have to suffer in some way. Whether it's through reduced access, whether it's through slower development of new technology......."

    The US spends nearly 50% more on healthcare than the next closest country (Switzerland) and more than twice most developed nations. Yet our basic outcomes of infant mortality and longevity remain at near third world performance. These are the facts of our situation. Money is not the problem. It is what we spend our money on that is the problem. To say that quality will inevitably decline as a result of spending less money is just nonsense. This flies in the face of the facts of the performance of all of the developed countries in the world, except us.

    Within the current US performance there are clear demonstrations of how superior performance is not driven by spending more money

    Even within the current US performance there are clear demonstrations of how superior performance is not driven by spending more money. Just read "THE COST CONUNDRUM: What a Texas town can teach us about health care." by Atul Gawande in the New Yorker. Here is part of Gwande's discussion of this point:

    Americans like to believe that, with most things, more is better. But research suggests that where medicine is concerned it may actually be worse. For example, Rochester, Minnesota, where the Mayo Clinic dominates the scene, has fantastically high levels of technological capability and quality, but its Medicare spending is in the lowest fifteen per cent of the country—$6,688 per enrollee in 2006, which is eight thousand dollars less than the figure for McAllen. Two economists working at Dartmouth, Katherine Baicker and Amitabh Chandra, found that the more money Medicare spent per person in a given state the lower that state’s quality ranking tended to be. In fact, the four states with the highest levels of spending—Louisiana, Texas, California, and Florida—were near the bottom of the national rankings on the quality of patient care.

    Melnick is not done demonstrating his lack of awareness of further basics about how healthcare works in the US.

    There are a number of economists who feel that health-care is expensive for good reason. And the reason is that it's valuable. That new innovation and new technology, while it may add to the cost of the health-care system, also brings with it tremendous benefits. The real challenge is can we develop a system to do the research to identify those things that are going to be high value in the first place, and to screen out those things that are low value and not adopt them as quickly as we have in the past. And that will be a challenge, but I think there's potential savings there. I don't know any country that has done it very well so far, because new innovation is just so complex and hard to predict.

    One of the well reported facts about "innovation" in American medicine is that there is no requirement for new technologies, new procedures, new medical devices, or even new drugs to prove their efficacy. This is well known and examples of the consequences are abundant. If we only knew which of all these "innovations" really provided improvements in healthcare outcomes we would all be better of and probably at a lower cost.

    I am not sure who Professor Melnick is, but, based on his performance during this interview, he would appear to be another example of that alternative text for PhD.


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    660 2009-06-16 08:27:18 2009-06-16 12:27:18 open open more-blather-about-healthcare-from-experts publish 0 0 post 0 _edit_lock 1245163271 _edit_last 2 podPressPostSpecific a:6:{s:15:"itunes:subtitle";s:15:"##PostExcerpt##";s:14:"itunes:summary";s:15:"##PostExcerpt##";s:15:"itunes:keywords";s:17:"##WordPressCats##";s:13:"itunes:author";s:10:"##Global##";s:15:"itunes:explicit";s:7:"Default";s:12:"itunes:block";s:7:"Default";} _aioseop_keywords healthcare system, infant mortality, US, health care challenges, kai ryssdal, atul gawande, _aioseop_title More Blather about Healthcare from "Experts"
    Moving Out Day - leaving Cambridge after 40 years.... http://www.markorton.com/2009/06/24/moving-out-day/ Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:02:31 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?p=674 The big moving truck pulled up this morning and by noon left with all of our possessions. The definitive end of our collective 40 year tenure in Cambridge.moving out day














    flag wrappingI am still surprised by the ways flags are used. Maybe I am stuck in the 1960s when this would be described as "desecration" and in some quarters lead to a stay in the local lock up.



    tree-at-52






















    This tree in front of our old house at 52 Kinnaird was the size of a forearm and perhaps 15 feet tall when we first moved here in 1978. Now it towers over the house at probably 75 feet in height.¶

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    674 2009-06-24 12:02:31 2009-06-24 16:02:31 open open moving-out-day publish 0 0 post 0 _edit_lock 1248200369 _edit_last 2 podPressPostSpecific a:6:{s:15:"itunes:subtitle";s:15:"##PostExcerpt##";s:14:"itunes:summary";s:15:"##PostExcerpt##";s:15:"itunes:keywords";s:17:"##WordPressCats##";s:13:"itunes:author";s:10:"##Global##";s:15:"itunes:explicit";s:2:"No";s:12:"itunes:block";s:2:"No";} _aioseop_keywords Cambridge, moving, kinnaird street, moving truck, flags, tree, height, desecration, 52 Kinnaird St., 42 Kinnaird St., _aioseop_description Moving Out Day - leaving Cambridge, MA after 40 years _aioseop_title Moving Out Day - leaving Cambridge, MA after 40 years
    Moving In - Hudson, NY http://www.markorton.com/2009/06/25/moving-in-hudson-ny/ Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:12:48 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?p=692 moving in Hudson NYWe went to Tanzey's for breakfast. When we returned the moving truck was alrerady parked in front of the house. Right on time.













    Soon enough the living room had furniture, not all in the right place, but enough to create a pause.

    Living room














    When all of the boxes and furniture were in the house, most of the rooms looked like this.

    room filled with boxes

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    692 2009-06-25 14:12:48 2009-06-25 18:12:48 open open moving-in-hudson-ny publish 0 0 post 0 _edit_lock 1248200089 _edit_last 2 podPressPostSpecific a:6:{s:15:"itunes:subtitle";s:15:"##PostExcerpt##";s:14:"itunes:summary";s:15:"##PostExcerpt##";s:15:"itunes:keywords";s:17:"##WordPressCats##";s:13:"itunes:author";s:10:"##Global##";s:15:"itunes:explicit";s:2:"No";s:12:"itunes:block";s:2:"No";} _aioseop_description Moving In - Hudson, NY _aioseop_keywords aren, Hudson, Hudson NY, moving, moving truck, furniture, _aioseop_title Moving In - Hudson, NY
    Jane Kogan's 70th Birthday Party - July 2nd - Provincetown, MA http://www.markorton.com/2009/07/03/jane-kogans-70th-birthday-party/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:51:16 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?p=708 Jane Kogan invited us to her 70th birthday party in Provincetown. The event, attended by around 35 people took place at the famous Lobster Pot restaurant. Jane chowed down on a disgustingly large lobster with all of the fixings. I got a chance to discover a new crowd of of friends and cronies.

    [caption id="attachment_710" align="alignleft" width="313" caption="Jane Kogan with lobster headdress"]Jane Kogan[/caption]

















    [caption id="attachment_711" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="Friends and relatives at my table. Apologies for the lack of names."]looking up the table[/caption]










    [caption id="attachment_714" align="alignleft" width="384" caption="more friends"]more friends[/caption]













    more friends












    [caption id="attachment_719" align="alignleft" width="384" caption="Jane chowing down"]Jane and her lobster[/caption]














    [caption id="attachment_718" align="alignleft" width="640" caption="Jane's birthday cake. It was explained that Jane does the New York Times Crossword puzzles in INK and does not know from whiteout!!"]Jane's birthday cake[/caption]




















    [caption id="attachment_749" align="alignleft" width="384" caption="We enjoyed the whole affair despite the bouncy weather on the ferry coming and going to Boston."]IMG_0093-2[/caption]















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    708 2009-07-03 14:51:16 2009-07-03 18:51:16 open open jane-kogans-70th-birthday-party publish 0 0 post 0 _edit_lock 1248203380 _edit_last 2 podPressPostSpecific a:6:{s:15:"itunes:subtitle";s:15:"##PostExcerpt##";s:14:"itunes:summary";s:15:"##PostExcerpt##";s:15:"itunes:keywords";s:17:"##WordPressCats##";s:13:"itunes:author";s:10:"##Global##";s:15:"itunes:explicit";s:7:"Default";s:12:"itunes:block";s:7:"Default";} _aioseop_keywords new york times, Jane Kogan, birthday, birthday party, Provincetown, Miriam Goodman, crossword puzzle, Lobster Pot restaurant _aioseop_description Jane Kogan's 70th Birthday Party - July 2nd - Provincetown, MA _aioseop_title Jane Kogan's 70th Birthday Party - July 2nd - Provincetown, MA
    Domestic Disaster Averted http://www.markorton.com/2009/07/17/domestic-disaster-averted/ Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:02:10 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?p=765 The fear of washing machine hoses bursting comes to life

    It is a classic fear of anyone with a washing machine that one of the water supply hoses, hidden away at the back of the machine, will burst and bring on Noah's second deluge. This happens because you have to turn off two valves by hand, twisting each one laboriously, to remove the pressure from the rubber hoses when the machine is not in use. No one ever does this. Thus, the rubber hoses are constantly under full water pressure.

    071409-manual valvesSince moving into 114 Warren St. just a few weeks ago, it was on my early list of repairs to replace the two manual valves for the washing machine with a single convenient lever valve so that we could in fact avert this feared event.

    Finally, last week I got around to the task. To my surprise (and delight at seeing that this fear was not without foundation), I discovered that one of the hoses was just about to burst.071409-hose-disaster-averted

    So, my little project to replace the two manual valves with a single lever unit grew to include buying new wire mesh reinforced supply hoses

    071709-new-valveNow all we have to do is to actually flip the little single lever valve to turn off the water between uses.

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080508-DD-box-w-text http://www.markorton.com/photogalleries/080508-dd-box-w-text/ Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:43:04 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/080508-DD-box-w-text.jpg 830 2009-08-14 15:43:04 2009-08-14 19:43:04 open open 080508-dd-box-w-text inherit 21 0 attachment 0 http://www.markorton.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/080508-DD-box-w-text.jpg _wp_attached_file 2008/05/080508-DD-box-w-text.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:6:{s:5:"width";s:3:"640";s:6:"height";s:3:"427";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='85' 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http://www.markorton.com/2009/08/19/a-household-cleaning-tip-or-confirmation-that-elbow-grease-works/ Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:18:06 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?p=901 Soapy Water and a Scrubbee

    We repurposed our butcher block dining room table years ago to Karen's art work. With a couple of riser blocks to get the top up to 36" from the floor (compared with 30" for a standard dining room table height) Karen used it as a work table for years.

    Now, with our move to Hudson, the table got a return life as a dining room table. In combination with our new chairs, it looked great except for the grimy blackish patina of the table top.

    What to do?

    Karen thought of a refinishing with a sander. I poked around on the internet for advice about cleaning butcher block. On that advice I applied a little warm water with soap and scrubbed with an abrasive pot scrubber. Mirabile dictu, the original glow of the maple top re-emerged.

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    It's not Art until you bite it http://www.markorton.com/photogalleries/simple-viewer-test/ Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:04:29 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?page_id=906 [svgallery name="notart-081409"]


    This series got started at breakfast at Johnny D's in Somerville, MA. I was taking pictures of left-over sausages as a mental icon for these events. One day, Michael Beach, a regular, said, as I was taking that day's photo, "It's not art until you bite it."

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    Just Another Cost of Doing Business? - Pfizer's $2.3 billion penalty and fine http://www.markorton.com/2009/09/04/just-another-cost-of-doing-business-pfizers-2-3-billion-penalty-and-fine/ Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:10:15 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?p=917 Is $2.3 billion really a lot of money?

    The Obama administration is touting the action taken this week against Pfizer for illegal promotion of several of its drugs. The $2.3 billion sounds like a lot of money to me, and I suspect most people. Is it really a lot of money or just an annoyance to a large company, just another cost of doing business?

    Take a look at Pfizer's Income and Balance Sheets (see their 2008 Financial Reports ) and a very clear picture appears. Pfizer had net incomes of $8.1 billion in 2008 and 2007 and a whopping $19.3 billion in 2006. They also have cash and short term investments (these are your well-known "quick assets" - meaning they are cash or near cash) on their balance sheets of $26 billion at the end of 2008. Now, look again at the $2.3 billion and the number looks quite different. To those who have watched the stream of pharmaceutical company ethical and legal transgressions over the years, this looks like a very manageable cost of doing business.

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    The Love Seat Is Gone - another Hudson Tale http://www.markorton.com/2009/09/06/the-love-seat-is-gone-another-hudson-tale/ Sun, 06 Sep 2009 12:13:32 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?p=923 In further proof that Hudson is part of America and more like Cambridge than first glances might reveal, an old love seat has disappeared from the alley running behind our house.

    Saturday, with more than a little help from our friend Chris Brown, we moved an old love seat downstairs and out to the "barn". As we were lugging this gem down the stairs, Chris said "Let's put it out on the street and someone will come and take it away."

    I replied, "Well, in Cambridge that would be a completely safe strategy. We once put an old metal office desk on the street only to see it scooped up by students living across from us literally within minutes. But, I am not so sure about putting old furniture on Warren St. in Hudson. I have never seen anything like that here. But, lets put it in the alley. Plenty of people go by out there."

    So, that is exactly what we did. I came back a bit later and put a sign on it, "Free".

    Later that night I went out back and saw that no one had taken us up on our "free" love seat. Then, I flashed back to a memory from our Western Ave. Cambridge days. During a move from one side of the street to the other, we left an old sofa bed on the side walk. In the middle of the night we awoke to fire engines dousing a fire set in the sofa. With that in mind, I pushed our love seat a bit closer to the edge of the alley and a bit further from our very combustible barn.

    Next morning, I went out to the barn and opened the door. The only evidence of our love seat was a slightly crumbled "free".

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    Fulfilling a quick decision to push ahead with opening a photography gallery in our Warren St. house we opened on Friday and held an opening Saturday (9/12/9). That evening we held a reception with two exhibiting photographers, Meg Birnbaum and Moira Barrett in attendance. You can seem more about the exhibition on the gallery's website.

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    Below, you can see a couple of photos  I made at the event as they were organizing for a prompt noon departure from Hudson.

    For more details here is an article from the Saratogian.

    Excerpted from the Saratogian article of 9/16/9:

    By PAUL POST

    SARATOGA SPRINGS — April Weygand couldn’t explain what drew her to view the flag-draped coffin of an unknown Civil War soldier.

    Like dozens of others who turned out Wednesday, the Wilton resident just wanted to pay her respects.

    The Union soldier’s remains will be buried today with full military honors at Gerald B.H. Solomon-Saratoga National Cemetery, exactly 147 years after his death at the Battle of Antietam on Sept. 17, 1862.

    ........

    A Military Forces Honor Guard made the 862-mile round trip to Antietam National Battlefield in Sharpsburg, Md., to retrieve the soldier, arriving in Saratoga Springs with a full police escort and more than 50 Patriot Guard motorcycle riders.

    ......

    A pine coffin, typical of the Civil War era, was covered with an American flag and lay in state for public viewing at the New York Military Museum on Lake Avenue. Civil War re-enactors portraying 125th New York Regiment comprised the official Union honor guard.

    ......

    The soldier’s remains will leave the museum at 9:20 a.m. today en route to the cemetery for 10 a.m. ceremonies led by Major General Joseph Taluto, adjutant general for New York National Guard. The soldier will be buried with artifacts found with his remains, including several uniform buttons and a "U.S." waste belt plate.

    He’ll be the first unknown soldier and the first Civil War soldier buried at Saratoga National Cemetery. For the first time in nearly a century and a half, he’ll no longer be alone, however, as he joins the 8,622 veterans already buried there from World War I to the War on Terror.

    The soldier’s remains were discovered last October by a hiker at Antietam, generating nationwide interest, especially among Civil War enthusiasts. Uniform buttons identify him as being from New York, and skeletal data places him between 17 and 19 years old. Otherwise, there is little known information about him.

    ......

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That evening I went off with David, Enid, Chris, and Amy to Germantown to dine at Haley's Indian-American Restaurant Deli. Others had the foresight to bring bottles of beer, so I drank too. More than my fair share I am sure. We had Samosas and Onion Pakoras for appetizers, then a large range of main dishes accompanied by various breads. Everything tasted great with none of the toned down seasonings I have come to expect where the American palate meets non-American cuisines. I particularly liked the Dal Tadka and Navrattan Korma.092409-Haleys Indian-American restaurant

    Karen was away so she missed out on this adventure. But, another day dawned, so off to Germantown we went this evening for the Thursday buffet. A much narrower range of food of course, nevertheless completely satisfying.

    On the way out the door after our dinner, I asked about cooking dals and I received a mini-lecture cum recipe and a small bag of split peas to try out for myself. What a treat.

    At other times of the day Haley's serves traditional American breakfast and sub foods. Thus, the "American" and "deli" parts of the name. We haven't tried these out.


    Haley's Indian-American Restaurant Deli

    4301 Route 9G

    Germantown, NY 12625

    518-537-2999

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    Hudson - Out in Early Morning for the Newspaper http://www.markorton.com/2009/09/25/hudson-out-in-early-morning-for-the-newspaper/ Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:41:39 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?p=1067 Looking west (towards the Hudson) down Warren St. to buildings across from our house.

    092509-earlymorning

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    I have had repeated emails with Craig (last name withheld at his request) at Mid-Hudson. In his first response, he wrote, "The service is burstable to 4.8 mbps, but sustained is usually between 2.5mbps and 3.5mbps." I pointed out to him that Mid-Hudson Cablevision widely advertises and states that their high speed internet services are "Downstream is 5 Meg" or as Craig has stated it "5 mbps". In a further email response, Craig stated that; "The 2.5-3mbps is the sustained service for the 5mbps plan, I am not sure why they don’t say that the 5mb service is “up to” 5mbps.

    After I submitted further data showing that the downstream or download speeds of the high speed internet service was 0.91 Mb/s on 9/22/9, I received a visit by a Mid-Hudson Cablevision technician, Jason, who performed tests on the cable modem and our internal router/wifi system. Our internal systems are not part of the problem. Jason replaced the cable modem and confirmed that speeds in the 3.5 to 4 Mb/s were the typical performance of the internet service.

    So, here we are with a company that advertises services at 5 Mb/s but has never delivered them. Further, no one has suggested that they will.

    Just to put all of this in context, Speed Matters finds that for NY state the average download speed is 8.4 Mb/s. This means that if Mid-Hudson Cablevision would just meet their advertised speeds the would still be 40% slower than the state average. We are not exactly setting a high bar here.

    So, now I await the next actions from Mid-Hudson Cablevision to bring their services into line with both their advertised service levels and

    Here is some data to substantiate my claims. You will notice that on the best days, the service levels never reach the advertised 5 Mbps.

    Download the whole spreadsheet - MHCable-speedtests-2009-09-28

    Click on the image to get a full-size readable version.

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    1020 2009-09-28 10:15:24 2009-09-28 14:15:24 open open mid-hudson-cablevision-inc-false-advertising-or-just-plain-bad-service publish 0 0 post 0 _cspc-page-transitions cspc-trans-wordpress|a:3:{s:12:"distribution";a:0:{}s:7:"columns";i:2;s:8:"overflow";s:6:"hidden";} _edit_lock 1254172964 _edit_last 2 podPressPostSpecific a:6:{s:15:"itunes:subtitle";s:15:"##PostExcerpt##";s:14:"itunes:summary";s:15:"##PostExcerpt##";s:15:"itunes:keywords";s:17:"##WordPressCats##";s:13:"itunes:author";s:10:"##Global##";s:15:"itunes:explicit";s:2:"No";s:12:"itunes:block";s:2:"No";} _aioseop_description Substandard internet service waiting for constructive repsonse from Mid-Hudson Cablevision. _aioseop_keywords Hudson, speed internet service, high speed internet service, speed matters, download speeds, cablevision, mbps, Craig Delong, Mid-Hudson Cablevision, Mid-Hudson Cable, slow internet connection, _aioseop_title Mid-Hudson Cablevision Inc. - false advertising?? or just plain bad service??
    MHCable-speedtests-2009-09-28 http://www.markorton.com/2009/09/28/mid-hudson-cablevision-inc-false-advertising-or-just-plain-bad-service/mhcable-speedtests-2009-09-28/ Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:21:34 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/MHCable-speedtests-2009-09-28.xls 1037 2009-09-28 10:21:34 2009-09-28 14:21:34 open open mhcable-speedtests-2009-09-28 inherit 1020 0 attachment 0 http://www.markorton.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/MHCable-speedtests-2009-09-28.xls _wp_attachment_metadata a:0:{} _wp_attached_file 2009/09/MHCable-speedtests-2009-09-28.xls Industrial Archeology - Columbia County, and, closer to home, Hudson http://www.markorton.com/2009/09/28/industrial-archeology-columbia-county-and-closer-to-home-hudson/ Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:02:07 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?p=1074 092809-looking-for-work-stott

    A few months back I was in the Spotty Dog cruising the books. I stumbled on a large format book with a great title: Looking for Work: Industrial Archeology in Columbia County, New York - the emergence and growth of local industry as revealed in surviving sites and structures (( 2007 Columbia County Historical Society, Kinderhook, NY)) by Peter H. Stott. ((Besides the attraction of the topic, Peter is a classmate from my prep school days, class of 1965,  at Taft School in Watertown, CT)) This 358 page book is a heavy duty monograph replete with endless notes about sources and a practical guide to the existing sites one might visit. There are lots of maps, illustrations, and photographs.

    [caption id="attachment_1591" align="alignright" width="336" caption="124 Warren St. - Ezra Waterbury House"]100209-124Warren-castiron[/caption]

    One little gem of a note concerns 124 Warren, the Ezra Waterbury House, built in 1870, just a few steps up the street from us. This is the only cast-iron front residential building still standing in North America.

    A telling note about the difficulty of getting monographs like this one published is that the original research here in Columbia County and in Albany in the State Archives and elsewhere took place over 18 months. The writing of the book was completed shortly afterwards in 1994, but the book was not actually published until 2007.

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    1074 2009-09-28 19:02:07 2009-09-28 23:02:07 open open industrial-archeology-columbia-county-and-closer-to-home-hudson publish 0 0 post 0 _cspc-page-transitions cspc-trans-wordpress|a:3:{s:12:"distribution";a:0:{}s:7:"columns";i:2;s:8:"overflow";s:6:"hidden";} _edit_lock 1258733263 _edit_last 2 podPressPostSpecific a:6:{s:15:"itunes:subtitle";s:15:"##PostExcerpt##";s:14:"itunes:summary";s:15:"##PostExcerpt##";s:15:"itunes:keywords";s:17:"##WordPressCats##";s:13:"itunes:author";s:10:"##Global##";s:15:"itunes:explicit";s:2:"No";s:12:"itunes:block";s:2:"No";} _aioseop_keywords Hudson, columbia county, columbia county historical society, columbia county new york, industrial archeology, taft school, monograph, practical guide, Ezra Waterbury, cast-iron, Peter H. Stott, _aioseop_title Industrial Archeology - Columbia County, and, closer to home, Hudson - Peter Stott's Looking for Work
    Getting the Proportions in Mind - Cambridge, Hudson, Columbia, Middlesex http://www.markorton.com/2009/09/30/getting-the-proportions-in-mind-cambridge-hudson-columbia-middlesex/ Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:04:02 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?p=935 Some comparative data:

    Middlesex County

    848 sq mi

    population 1, 465, 396

    density 1,780/ sq mi


    Columbia County

    land area: 636 sq mi

    population 62,363

    density 98 / sq mi

     

    Cambridge

    land area 6.4 sq mi

    population 101388

    density 15,767 / sq mi

    Estimated median household income in 2007: $58,850 (it was $47,979 in 2000)

    Cambridge: $58,850
    Massachusetts: $62,365

    Estimated per capita income in 2007: $41,093

    Cambridge: $41,093
    Massachusetts: $32,822

    Estimated median house or condo value in 2007: $558,800 (it was $331,600 in 2000)

    Cambridge: $558,800
    Massachusetts: $366,400
    2008 cost of living index in Cambridge: 148.5 (very high, U.S. average is 100)

    Read more: http://www.city-data.com/city/Cambridge-Massachusetts.html#ixzz0Safma1wS


    Hudson

    land area 2.24 sq mi

    population 6, 925

    density: 3,094 / sq mi

    Estimated median household income in 2007: $29,891 (it was $24,279 in 2000)

    Hudson: $29,891
    New York: $53,514

    Estimated per capita income in 2007: $20,111

    Hudson: $20,111
    New York: $29,885

    Estimated median house or condo value in 2007: $171,611 (it was $76,100 in 2000)

    Hudson: $171,611
    New York: $311,000
    2008 cost of living index in Hudson: 97.1 (near average, U.S. average is 100)



     

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    us_vs_world-miltary-spending http://www.markorton.com/2009/10/01/whither-the-american-empire/us_vs_world-miltary-spending/ Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:26:38 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/us_vs_world-miltary-spending.gif 1060 2009-09-30 08:26:38 2009-09-30 12:26:38 open open us_vs_world-miltary-spending inherit 358 0 attachment 0 http://www.markorton.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/us_vs_world-miltary-spending.gif _wp_attachment_metadata a:6:{s:5:"width";s:3:"670";s:6:"height";s:3:"501";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='95' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:40:"2009/08/us_vs_world-miltary-spending.gif";s:5:"sizes";a:2:{s:9:"thumbnail";a:3:{s:4:"file";s:38:"us_vs_world-miltary-spending-80x80.gif";s:5:"width";s:2:"80";s:6:"height";s:2:"80";}s:6:"medium";a:3:{s:4:"file";s:40:"us_vs_world-miltary-spending-150x112.gif";s:5:"width";s:3:"150";s:6:"height";s:3:"112";}}s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:1:"0";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:0:"";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:1:"0";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:1:"0";s:3:"iso";s:1:"0";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:1:"0";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} _wp_attached_file 2009/08/us_vs_world-miltary-spending.gif 092509-earlymorning http://www.markorton.com/2009/09/25/hudson-out-in-early-morning-for-the-newspaper/092509-earlymorning/ Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:40:44 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/092509-earlymorning.jpg 1068 2009-10-01 09:40:44 2009-10-01 13:40:44 open open 092509-earlymorning inherit 1067 0 attachment 0 http://www.markorton.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/092509-earlymorning.jpg _wp_attached_file 2009/10/092509-earlymorning.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:6:{s:5:"width";s:3:"640";s:6:"height";s:3:"480";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='96' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:31:"2009/10/092509-earlymorning.jpg";s:5:"sizes";a:2:{s:9:"thumbnail";a:3:{s:4:"file";s:29:"092509-earlymorning-80x80.jpg";s:5:"width";s:2:"80";s:6:"height";s:2:"80";}s:6:"medium";a:3:{s:4:"file";s:31:"092509-earlymorning-150x112.jpg";s:5:"width";s:3:"150";s:6:"height";s:3:"112";}}s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:3:"2.8";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:24:"Canon PowerShot SD850 IS";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1253876952";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:3:"5.8";s:3:"iso";s:3:"100";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:8:"0.003125";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} 092809-looking-for-work-stott http://www.markorton.com/2009/09/28/industrial-archeology-columbia-county-and-closer-to-home-hudson/092809-looking-for-work-stott/ Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:59:07 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/092809-looking-for-work-stott.jpg 1076 2009-10-01 09:59:07 2009-10-01 13:59:07 open open 092809-looking-for-work-stott inherit 1074 0 attachment 0 http://www.markorton.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/092809-looking-for-work-stott.jpg _wp_attached_file 2009/10/092809-looking-for-work-stott.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:6:{s:5:"width";s:3:"522";s:6:"height";s:3:"640";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:22:"height='96' width='78'";s:4:"file";s:41:"2009/10/092809-looking-for-work-stott.jpg";s:5:"sizes";a:3:{s:9:"thumbnail";a:3:{s:4:"file";s:39:"092809-looking-for-work-stott-80x80.jpg";s:5:"width";s:2:"80";s:6:"height";s:2:"80";}s:6:"medium";a:3:{s:4:"file";s:41:"092809-looking-for-work-stott-122x150.jpg";s:5:"width";s:3:"122";s:6:"height";s:3:"150";}s:5:"large";a:3:{s:4:"file";s:41:"092809-looking-for-work-stott-489x600.jpg";s:5:"width";s:3:"489";s:6:"height";s:3:"600";}}s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:3:"2.8";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:24:"Canon PowerShot SD850 IS";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1254139776";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:3:"5.8";s:3:"iso";s:3:"250";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:5:"0.125";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} Whither the American Empire? http://www.markorton.com/2009/10/01/whither-the-american-empire/ Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:36:10 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wordpress2.5/?p=358 Americans do not like to use the word "empire" in reference to the country's role in the world. Our Presidents uniformly role out rhetoric that sounds just like Obama's. Here is a paragraph from his Inaugural speech:

    And so, to all the other peoples and governments who are watching today, from the grandest capitals to the small village where my father was born, know that America is a friend of each nation, and every man, woman and child who seeks a future of peace and dignity.  And we are ready to lead once more.

    This is heart warming.  But, turning to some of the facts on the ground, as the generals and policy wonks like to say, we have to note that in justus_vs_world-miltary-spending the military dimension alone, there is solid evidence that there is an American empire.

    For instance, the US defense budget is not just the largest in the world, our military spending is larger that nearly all of the other countries in the world combined at 48%. See the graph to the left.  ((The image borrowed without permission from the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation http://www.armscontrolcenter.org/policy/securityspending/articles/fy09_dod_request_global/ ))

    Are we really spending all of this money for "defense"? Or is it something else that comes closer to empire that is consuming these resources?

    Perhaps another statistic will suggest something further of the scope of our empire. Lets look at the enormous, and growing, array of military bases covering the globe. As the Pentagon's Base Structure Report shows, we have over 750 military bases outside of the US. Leaving aside our bases throughout Europe, Japan, South Korea, and various islands, new bases are being added in Africa and Central Asia as this is written.


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    sept09ingallery (2 of 7) http://www.markorton.com/2009/10/05/skype-videoconferencing-and-caught-doing-peekaboo-with-jesse/sept09ingallery-2-of-7/ Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:42:29 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/sept09ingallery-2-of-7.jpg 1090 2009-10-05 13:42:29 2009-10-05 17:42:29 open open sept09ingallery-2-of-7 inherit 1089 0 attachment 0 http://www.markorton.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/sept09ingallery-2-of-7.jpg _wp_attached_file 2009/10/sept09ingallery-2-of-7.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:6:{s:5:"width";s:3:"640";s:6:"height";s:3:"426";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='85' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:34:"2009/10/sept09ingallery-2-of-7.jpg";s:5:"sizes";a:2:{s:9:"thumbnail";a:3:{s:4:"file";s:32:"sept09ingallery-2-of-7-80x80.jpg";s:5:"width";s:2:"80";s:6:"height";s:2:"80";}s:6:"medium";a:3:{s:4:"file";s:33:"sept09ingallery-2-of-7-150x99.jpg";s:5:"width";s:3:"150";s:6:"height";s:2:"99";}}s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:1:"4";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:12:"Canon EOS 5D";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1252632900";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:2:"63";s:3:"iso";s:3:"800";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:7:"0.00625";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} sept09ingallery (3 of 7) http://www.markorton.com/2009/10/05/skype-videoconferencing-and-caught-doing-peekaboo-with-jesse/sept09ingallery-3-of-7/ Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:43:42 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/sept09ingallery-3-of-7.jpg 1091 2009-10-05 13:43:42 2009-10-05 17:43:42 open open sept09ingallery-3-of-7 inherit 1089 0 attachment 0 http://www.markorton.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/sept09ingallery-3-of-7.jpg _wp_attached_file 2009/10/sept09ingallery-3-of-7.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:6:{s:5:"width";s:3:"640";s:6:"height";s:3:"426";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='85' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:34:"2009/10/sept09ingallery-3-of-7.jpg";s:5:"sizes";a:2:{s:9:"thumbnail";a:3:{s:4:"file";s:32:"sept09ingallery-3-of-7-80x80.jpg";s:5:"width";s:2:"80";s:6:"height";s:2:"80";}s:6:"medium";a:3:{s:4:"file";s:33:"sept09ingallery-3-of-7-150x99.jpg";s:5:"width";s:3:"150";s:6:"height";s:2:"99";}}s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:1:"4";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:12:"Canon EOS 5D";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1252632904";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:2:"63";s:3:"iso";s:3:"800";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:5:"0.008";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} 091009-Jesse http://www.markorton.com/2009/10/05/skype-videoconferencing-and-caught-doing-peekaboo-with-jesse/091009-jesse/ Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:44:21 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/091009-Jesse.jpg 1092 2009-10-05 13:44:21 2009-10-05 17:44:21 open open 091009-jesse inherit 1089 0 attachment 0 http://www.markorton.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/091009-Jesse.jpg _wp_attached_file 2009/10/091009-Jesse.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:6:{s:5:"width";s:3:"640";s:6:"height";s:3:"427";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='85' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:24:"2009/10/091009-Jesse.jpg";s:5:"sizes";a:2:{s:9:"thumbnail";a:3:{s:4:"file";s:22:"091009-Jesse-80x80.jpg";s:5:"width";s:2:"80";s:6:"height";s:2:"80";}s:6:"medium";a:3:{s:4:"file";s:24:"091009-Jesse-150x100.jpg";s:5:"width";s:3:"150";s:6:"height";s:3:"100";}}s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:1:"4";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:12:"Canon EOS 5D";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1252632971";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:2:"28";s:3:"iso";s:3:"800";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:5:"0.005";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} Skype videoconferencing and caught doing "peekaboo" with Jesse http://www.markorton.com/2009/10/05/skype-videoconferencing-and-caught-doing-peekaboo-with-jesse/ Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:49:04 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?p=1089 Karen took these photos. What's a guy to do when entertaining a grandchild via Skype?

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    091009-Jesse


    Later........ poor kid.

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    1089 2009-10-05 13:49:04 2009-10-05 17:49:04 open open skype-videoconferencing-and-caught-doing-peekaboo-with-jesse publish 0 0 post 0 _cspc-page-transitions cspc-trans-wordpress|a:3:{s:12:"distribution";a:0:{}s:7:"columns";i:2;s:8:"overflow";s:6:"hidden";} _edit_lock 1254766619 _edit_last 2 podPressPostSpecific a:6:{s:15:"itunes:subtitle";s:15:"##PostExcerpt##";s:14:"itunes:summary";s:15:"##PostExcerpt##";s:15:"itunes:keywords";s:17:"##WordPressCats##";s:13:"itunes:author";s:10:"##Global##";s:15:"itunes:explicit";s:7:"Default";s:12:"itunes:block";s:7:"Default";} _aioseop_description This is what happens when caught playing peekaboo via videoconference with grandson Jesse in Hong Kong. _aioseop_keywords Hong Kong, Hudson NY, jesse london, Karen Davis, Mark orton, peekaboo, Skype, videoconferencing _aioseop_title Skype videoconferencing and caught doing "peekaboo" with Jesse
    091009-Jesse-squushed http://www.markorton.com/2009/10/05/skype-videoconferencing-and-caught-doing-peekaboo-with-jesse/091009-jesse-squushed/ Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:03:59 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/091009-Jesse-squushed.jpg 1100 2009-10-05 14:03:59 2009-10-05 18:03:59 open open 091009-jesse-squushed inherit 1089 0 attachment 0 http://www.markorton.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/091009-Jesse-squushed.jpg _wp_attached_file 2009/10/091009-Jesse-squushed.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:6:{s:5:"width";s:3:"640";s:6:"height";s:3:"427";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='85' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:33:"2009/10/091009-Jesse-squushed.jpg";s:5:"sizes";a:2:{s:9:"thumbnail";a:3:{s:4:"file";s:31:"091009-Jesse-squushed-80x80.jpg";s:5:"width";s:2:"80";s:6:"height";s:2:"80";}s:6:"medium";a:3:{s:4:"file";s:33:"091009-Jesse-squushed-150x100.jpg";s:5:"width";s:3:"150";s:6:"height";s:3:"100";}}s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:1:"4";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:12:"Canon EOS 5D";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1252633091";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:2:"28";s:3:"iso";s:3:"800";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:5:"0.008";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} Hudson to Lake George in Adirondacks - a day trip http://www.markorton.com/2009/10/06/hudson-to-lake-george-in-adirondacks/ Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:59:57 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?p=1105 We took a ride today to Lake George in the Adirondacks on October 6, 2009

    Our first visit to this part of NY.  We drove Rte 9 north to Rte 4 N in Troy. Then we picked up Rte 4 wtih a stop in Lock Number 2 on the Champlain Canal (aka Hudson River north of Troy, NY). Troy and Glens Falls are definitely worth another real visit. Lake George is just a large a resort town with lots of hotels and amusements.

    Lots more to do in the Adirondacks. Karen read that this park is larger than the state of Vermont.

    The trip back via Rte 87 was 90 miles and took 1 and 1/2 hours.


    Click here to view a map of our trip Hudson to Lake George Trip October 10, 2009. ( in a new window)


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This was an opening cum party for two artists.

    GRAND OPENING AT BASILICA INDUSTRIA
    110 South Front Street Artists:
    Arthur Price and Earl Swanigan
    5:00pm – 10:00pm
    Entertainment: Walking the Dog Improv Ensemble Theater
    The OFF LEASH! Improv Ensemble will take audience suggestions and explore the art of spontaneous imagination. Look out to be entertained in unexpected ways!
    7:30pm – 8:00pm
    The Mother Fletcher Band
    8:00pm – 10:00pm ((borrowed from the Columbia County Council on the Arts website schedule))

    Earl Swanigan's work is engaging for its simplicity and currency. Here is a shot of one of his paintings  ((borrowed without permission from Rural Intelligence ))

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    There were lots of people including a few who we already know. They introduced us to more. It was a friendly event.

    As we were leaving the opening we realized that these large old industrial buildings down the hill near the railroad tracks had no real outdoor lights. As we felt our way through the cars towards the streets I turned back and took this photo:

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Here a few shots.

    101009-library-tent101009-library-books-tablle

    [caption id="attachment_1166" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="waiting for kids to fill in the banner"]101009-library-kids banner[/caption] [caption id="attachment_1167" align="alignleft" width="640" caption="Yep, there is one of Karen's photos on the raffle table"]101009-library-raffle table[/caption]


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    Here is a slide show (in Quicktime movie format) of the Lin piece.

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    Yottabytes and the National Security State http://www.markorton.com/2009/10/17/yottabytes-and-the-national-security-state/ Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:19:41 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?p=1216 The current New York Review of Books has an article by James Bamford, "Who's in Big Brother's Database" that reviews the new book by Mathew M. Aid, The Secret Sentry: The Untold History of the National Security Agency . I have gotten in line at my local library to read this book and will make further comments after that.

    Meanwhile, the Bamford article mentions the construction boom at NSA (National Security Agency) with a doubling of its headquarters and million sq. feet of data storage in the Utah desert costing some $2 billion. This to store the data from all of NSA's spying that by 2015 will be spoken of in terms of yottabytes.

    Now, before you think that Bamford is mainlining old Star Wars characters, a yotta- is the largest large number prefix officially recognized in the scientific lexicon. At our house we are approaching 1/2 Terabyte (1012) in our total digital stores, mostly photos. Really large corporate databases are measured in Petabytes (1015). A Yotta is 1024.

    Are you feeling safer?

    Do you really think that any email sent or telephone conversation you have had since 2002 or 2003 is not logged in the vast secret Security State Apparatus??

    I guess that a National Security State (Empire) that has had over 800 military bases throughout the world (see an earlier posting on this topic) to assure our influence elsewhere can not resist the opportunity the state of so-called war we have been in since 2001 to penetrate into every American's life.


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    Touring a Vision of the South Bronx - "The Provenance of Beauty" by Foundry Theater http://www.markorton.com/2009/10/25/touring-a-vision-of-the-south-bronx-the-provenance-of-beauty-by-foundry-theater/ Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:50:40 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?p=1257 At the urging and direction of Karen I drove down to the city Saturday (10/24/09) to attend this event, "The Provenance of Beauty" by Foundry Theater. It proved to be interesting as a performance piece though at times too tendentious in content. ((You can read Charles Isherwood's review in the New York Times here or a review by  JOE DZIEMIANOWICZ AND NICOLE CARTER in the Daily News))

    Click here for a video provided by the Foundry Theatre.

    Karen will go on this tour next Saturday. Her comments will probably add more to the conversation.

    But, Karen and I will get our own tour at some point in the near future given by John Gilstrap, Sr., a retired FDNY Captain.  I bumped into John Sr. at Andrea and John's house on 121st Street when I stopped by after my theater adventure. Once I got started telling John Sr about my afternoon on a bus in the South Bronx he reminded me that he had spent most of his career in the fire department  in a station that covered the exact territory in the South Bronx, Mott Haven and Hunts Point, that was the subject of this theater piece.

    Unlike the rules of no photography during the theater bus tour, I will get to take pictures from Captain John's car. And, I think that we will take digital recorder along.......

    Keep an eye out here for more on the South Bronx as suggested by the view of a fireman who watched the South Bronx burn down, rebuild, burn down, and rebuild during his tenure.

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    Video for "The Provenance of Beauty" - Foundry Theatre http://www.markorton.com/video-for-the-provenance-of-beauty-foundry-theatre/ Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:56:22 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?page_id=1268

    THE PROVENANCE OF BEAUTY. from Sunder Ganglani on Vimeo.

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    Adventures to the Quotidian - a new epoch in the serial - "It's Not Art 'til You Bite It" http://www.markorton.com/2009/10/25/adventures-to-the-quotidian-a-new-epoch-in-the-serial/ Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:39:53 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?p=1279 I have been taking photos as series for as long as I have been carrying a camera around as a regular daily routine. Some of these series now have well over a thousand images associated with them. For the first time I am publishing one of my series, "It's Not Art 'til You Bite It" in my new magazine, Adventures to the Quotidian.  Taking advantage of Hewlett Packard's MagCloud.com magazine publishing system, I can both publish and distribute this series in an attractive magazine format.




    If you would like to preview this first issue and then, of course, buy it, click on the MagCloud button below:






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    This Week's Outing - Poughkeepsie, Walkway over the Hudson, Mid-Hudson Bridge http://www.markorton.com/2009/10/28/this-weeks-outing-poughkeepsie-walkway-over-the-hudson-mid-hudson-bridge/ Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:02:01 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?p=1287 [iframe http://markorton.com/autoviewer/POK-walk-autoviewer 600 600]

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Election Day - Vote Yes on Library Budget Question http://www.markorton.com/2009/11/02/support-the-hudson-area-library-on-election-day/ Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:07:29 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?p=1349 Library Budget Question on the Ballot

    Tomorrow, Nov. 3rd, is Election Day here and around the state. On the ballot in Hudson and Greenport is a proposition to increase support to the Hudson Area Library. I have been working on this initiative and pass along the following reasons to go to the polls and say, "Yes" at the Library Budget line.

    Hudson provides $48,000 per year to support the library and this has been unchanged for a decade. Greenport provides support of $5,500. This tiny tax support puts our local library at the bottom of the pile in the Mid-Hudson Libraries consortium. Purchases of new books and maintenance of even minimal services are barely possible. Keeping a professional librarian on staff is barely possible. The library has been running a deficit for years and is about to exhaust its endowment. So, voting yes tomorrow will save the library and put it on a footing where we can begin to think about creating a level of services that will meet expanding demands for access to books, magazines, Internet, childrens' reading needs, and more.

    A Yes vote will increase public tax-based support for the library from $53,500 per year to #136,500 at the cost of roughly $2.50 per person per month.

    Libraries are an important element in a knowledge based world. Hudson needs to meet the challenge of providing everyine with access to the knowledge of the world.


    Vote Yes on the Library Budget question


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http://www.markorton.com/in-depth-essays-commentaries/timeline-of-kcd-and-mmo-with-contextual-entries/ Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:15:24 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?page_id=1398 Timeline of KCD and MMO with Contextual Entries

    ((originally developed as a wall poster for our 25th wedding anniversary party))

     

    updated: 06/28/03

    Nixon-resingsimages

    Nixon resigns

    Oct-73

     

    Aug-74

    KCD places personal ad in Real Paper. MMO replies.

    RealPaper

     

    Sep-74

    KCD & MMO meet at Central Sq. T stop; go on first date; see Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage.

    Scenes_from_a_Marriage_DVD_cover

    Anti school busing riots in Boston

    Oct-74

    KCD & MMO have one-beer dates on Fridays

    Microsoft Corp founded

    Jun-75

     

    Vietnam-war-helicopter-embassy

    US abandons South Vietnam - war over

    Jun-75

     

     

    Sep-75

    KCD & MMO start day classes at Wentworth Institute of Technology

     

    Sep-75

    MMO work - takes tickets at Brattle Theatre working for Harvey Meyerson. KCD serves fish at restaurant near Porter Sq.

    Saturday Night Live 1st broadcast

    Sep-75

     

     

    May-76

    MMO moves in with KCD and children at 249 Western Ave

    look up 249 on a map

    (opens in a new window)

     

    Jun-76

    MMO work - Stevens-Arnold South Boston - machinist

     

    Dec-76

    Torrey & Jane Orton visit during heavy snow storm. Fire rages on River St. Jane defeats everyone in air hockey.

     

    Jun-77

    KCD work - Arthur D. Little - machinist

     

    Jun-77

    MMO & KCD graduate from Wentworth

    Jun-77

    Wedding June 19, 1977 at Cambridge Community Center

     

    Jul-77

    MMO work - Minuteman Labs - mechanical designer, Acton, MA

    Movies: Star Wars, Saturday Night Fever, Annie Hall

    Dec-77

    Renovations to 266 Western Ave - begin sweat equity

    The Great Blizzard

    Feb-78

    Buy 266 Western from RCCC - continue renovations - The Great Blizzard

     

    Aug-78

    Move into 266 Western

     

    Sep-78

    KCD work - Cambridge Rindge & Latin High School - Voc Ed, Title 1,Math, Newspaper

    Red Sox loose World Series despite Fisk homer in 6th game

    Oct-78

    1st Head of the Charles Regatta Party - series runs unbroken until 1995

    ph_three_mile_island500

    Three Mile Island nuclear plant "accident"

    May-79

     

     

    Jul-79

    Cheryl Davis moves to California, drives cross country- solo. Arrives on 4th of July.

     

    Aug-79

    Buy 52 Kinnaird: Move in to first floor - kids declare, "We've moved to the suburbs!"

     

    Sep-79

    52 Kinnaird: construction on 2nd floor begins

     

    Sep-79

    First family computer - Radio Shack TRS80 "Trash 80" -$2,000 - every computer since has cost the same.

    TRS-computer-model3x300

     

    Sep-79

    MMO work - MIT Biomechanics Lab Building 3 - staff engineer

    Larry Bird starts playing for Celtics

    Oct-79

     

    Pink Floyd releases The Wall

    Nov-79

     

     

    May-80

    52 Kinnaird: construction ends on 2nd floor - family occupies 2nd floor

    Mt. St. Helens erupts

    May-80

     

     

    Sep-80

    KCD work - Chelsea High printing teacher

    ChelseaHSschool91

     

    Sep-80

    MMO work - C&K Design Engineer

    C&K-7000toggle
    reagan-1981images

    Reagan starts first term as President

    Jan-81

     

    BMPC-200px-Ibmpcat

    IBM introduces "PC"

    May-81

     

     

    Jun-81

    KCD work - ECRM - Application Specialist, Bedford, MA

     

    Sep-81

    AJL starts high school

     

    May-82

    52 Kinnaird: construction - 1st floor bathroom, laundry room, closets in bedrooms.

     

    Jun-82

    Ida and Louis Davis spend 1st summer at 42 Kinnaird St

     

    Jun-82

    MMO, KCD, & JDL Green Tortoise bus from Boston to LA. AJL meets us there

    AIDS-scientists-photo_no_287

    AIDS epidemic identified

    Jun-82

     

     

    Jul-82

    KCD 40th birthday

     

    Sep-82

    KCD work - Quadex - Training Specialist, Cambridge

    Internet protocols TCP/IP established

    Oct-82

     

    Reagan announce Star Wars defense plan

    May-83

     

     

    Sep-83

    JDL starts at Cambridge Rindge & Latin High School

     

    Sep-83

    MMO & KCD cross Canada on RR

     

    Sep-83

    MMO starts at Augat - 8 positions over 9 years in 3 locations

    1984MacIntosh ad

    Apple Computer introduces Macintosh with Superbowl Ad

     

    click above to see the ad

    Jan-84

     

     

    Jun-84

    KCD at Womens Technical Institute - Director of Curriculum

    Jul-84

    KCD & MMO give up plywood on concrete block bed for new futon bed, gift of Karen's parents - hippy days are over; middle age is at hand!!

    1984-ozone hole

    Ozone hole discovered over Antarctica

    Oct-84

     

     

    Nov-84

    2nd computer - Mac Plus - $2,000

    Mac-Plus-computer

     

    Nov-84

    KCD & children Virgin Islands

     

    Dec-84

    Louis Davis dies

    Iran Contra Gate

    Jan-85

     

     

    Jun-85

    AJL graduates from high school

     

    Aug-85

    KCD work - Karen at Kodak Electronic Printing Systems (Eikonix)

     

    Sep-85

    AJL starts at Bowdoin College, 3rd generation of Londons; Mark's mother is pleased too (her brothers went there)

    Bowdoin-bearcolhead-190

    1st Internet virus attacks 6,000 computers

    Oct-85

     

     

    Mar-86

    KCD & MMO in Puerto Rico

     

    Apr-86

    MMO - Milan for work and Paris with Harvey Meyerson

     

    May-86

    52 Kinnaird St: 3rd floor construction begins, 5 skylights added, master bath with 6 ft tub, new roofing

    Chernobyl-img01

    Nuclear plant at Chernobyl in USSR blows up

    May-86

    Karen to Rome, Paris, Dueseldorf (for Kodak) nuclear fallout fears in Europe

     

    Mar-87

    KCD & MMO in Jamaica - explore relaxation as a vacation style

     

    Jun-87

    52 Kinnaird: construction - 2nd floor porch with wood stove and deck.

     

    Jun-87

    JDL graduates from high school

     

    Aug-87

    MMO - Taiwan (work) & Australia (Torrey & Jane)

     

    Sep-87

    JDL starts at Hofstra University

    Hofstra ath_image02

     

    Sep-87

    MMO 40th birthday

    time1987crash

    Stock market crashes

    Oct-87

     

     

    Feb-88

    KCD & MMO Big Bend National Park Texas - discover "snow birds"

    Michael_Dukakis_in_tank

    Mike Dukakis rides in Army tank

    Apr-88

     

     

    Jun-88

    KCD & MMO Southwest w/ AJL & JDL. Great adventure on Burr Trail

     

    Jul-88

    52 Kinnaird St: 3rd floor construction complete - KCD & MMO move into "master suite"

    1989-Tianasquare

    Tiananmen Square massacre in China

    Jun-89

     

     

    Sep-89

    JDL begins Peace Studies around the world year

    Earthquake in San Francisco,

    Oct-89

    Carol Orton rides out earthquake in office tower in SF. Cheryl Davis unhurt in earthquake. Apartment trashed.

    1989-SF-earthquakeCypress_LCluff_sm
    brokoli

    President Bush announces "No More Broccoli!"

    Oct-89

    MMO declares, "Bush finally says something I can agree with completely!" But, no broccoli ban achieved in Cambridge.

     

    Dec-89

    KCD travels to India for 3 weeks (spends 3 days with JDL in New Delhi & Agra)

    Hubble Telescope launched into space

    May-90

     

     

    Jun-90

    Ed O and Meredith Morgan marry. KCD and MMO are stunned by double ring ceremony.

     

    Jun-90

    KCD & MMO in Washington, DC, Virginia & West VA

    Lech Walesa elected President of Poland

    Jun-90

     

     

    Aug-90

    Ida Davis marries Joe Caminsky. Moves to 36 Kinnaird St.

     

    Sep-90

    JDL at Brandeis University. Proves he can hit the academic curve ball.

     

    Sep-90

    Patrice Simms arrives at 52 Kinnaird for sojourn at Northeastern University.

    August-Wilson-images

    August Wilson wins Pulitzer Prize for The Piano Lesson

    Oct-90

     

    berlin-wall-falls

    Berlin Wall torn down

    Nov-90

     

     

    Mar-91

    MMO & KCD in Mexico

    Mandela_44831717_afp226300

    Nelson Mandela freed from prison

    Jun-91

    AJL moves to NYC to continue work with NewsEdge.

     

    Jun-91

    JDL graduates from Hofstra University

    Jun-91

    KCD & MMO exchange wedding rings for second time. Gold replaces copper. Inspired by Ed & Meredith's double ring ceremony

     

    Sep-91

    KCD hikes hut to hut in White Mountains

     

    Sep-91

    KCD work - KCD to Industrial Services Program

    Riots in Los Angeles after Rodney King verdict

    May-92

     

     

    Jun-92

    KCD & MMO Glacier National Park w/ Ed & Meredith

    bird_drive_200

    Larry Birds retires from Celtics

    Jun-92

     

    FBI burns Branch Davidians in Waco, TX

    Jul-92

    Surprise 50th Birthday for KCD at Cambridge Community Center

     

    Aug-92

    MMO work - Augat fires Mark

     

    Sep-92

    JDL starts graduate school at UW

     

    Sep-92

    KCD breaks foot on hike in Princeton, MA. MMO says, "Its nothing" and they hobble a mile to the car.

    Oct-92

    3rd computer - Mac Centris 610 - $2,000

     

    Oct-92

    KCD & AJL to Southwest and Albuquerque Balloon Festival

     

    Oct-92

    KCD & MMO Midwest loop Chicago, Hyde Park, Galena, Madison, WI (see JDL at UW), LaCrosse, Frank Lloyd Wright

    Pope Paul admits error in Galileo affair in 1630's

    Oct-92

     

    President Clinton begins disappointing terms in office

    Jan-93

     

     

    May-93

    Patrice Simms graduates from Northeastern Summa Cum Laude

     

    Jun-93

    52 Kinnaird: build darkroom in 1st floor closet

     

    Jun-93

    MMO & KCD do Boston By Foot Tours

     

    Sep-93

    MMO Doc Linskey 5 mile race

     

    Oct-93

    Southwest

     

    Nov-93

    MMO Boston Police Chase - 5 miles; finishes in personal best 56 minutes.

     

    Mar-94

    MMO work - Manufacturing Extension Partnership start up in Lowell, MA

    Mandela470x400nelson

    Nelson Mandela elected President of South Africa

    May-94

     

     

    Jun-94

    MMO & KCD Cascade Mtns, Mt St Helens, Mt Rainier, Seattle

     

    Sep-94

    KCD work - Karen starts photography & writing full time

     

    Sep-94

    MMO & KCD Doc Linskey 5 mile race

    OJ-Simpson-car-chase

    OJ Simpson takes freeway ride

    Oct-94

     

    Pizza Hut begins to sell pizza on the Internet

    Oct-94

     

     

    Feb-95

    MMO work - New England Suppliers Institute. Starts working with Sherry Gordon with whom later starts Valuedge, Inc.

     

    Mar-95

    MMO and KCD to Paris

     

    May-95

    52 Kinnaird: rock garden construction begins and continues sporadically to present

     

    Jun-95

    Two new bikes for KCD & MMO gift from children

     

    Oct-95

    Head of the Charles Regatta Party goes on extended sabbatical

    ToyStory-images

    Toy Story released to movie theatres. First fully computer-animated movie

    Nov-95

     

     

    Apr-96

    MMO & KCD Florida East to West Coast, Everglades and visit Ida & Joe in West Palm Beach

     

    Jun-96

    52 Kinnaird: Begin construction of 1st floor apartment. Move darkroom to second floor

     

    Jun-96

    Cheryl Davis pulls through critical illness

     

    Sep-96

    52 Kinnaird: End construction of 1st floor apartment. Kristen Graves becomes first and only tenant.

    Taliban take over Afghanistan

    Sep-96

     

     

    Apr-97

    52 Kinnaird: Begin rebuild of 2nd floor kitchen, add wall to create separate studio space for KCD, complete finish work on stairway to 3rd floor

     

    Jul-97

    52 Kinnaird: end 2nd floor construction

     

    Aug-97

    Family Reunion at Nantasket Beach

     

    Sep-97

    MMO 50th birthday

    starbucks-central sq.

    Starbucks Coffee opens in Central Square - Western civilization slumps in despair

    Nov-97

     

     

    Jan-98

    KCD work - 1st show at Gallery 57 Cambridge, MA

     

    Feb-98

    KCD work - F8 Photography Group has first show in Concord, MA

     

    Mar-98

    4th computer - Mac PowerPC 233 - $2,000

     

    Aug-98

    Nantasket Beach House

     

    Sep-98

    JDL in Vietnam and Australia over three years with stops at 52 Kinnaird

    President Clinton impeached

    Sep-98

     

     

    Oct-98

    MMO & KCD to King Biscuit Blues Festival- Helena Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Memphis, TN

     

    Nov-98

    Ida Davis dies

     

    Jan-99

    KCD work - show at University Place

     

    Mar-99

    KCD work - Boat Building at Boston Public Library

     

    Mar-99

    MMO work - NESI, Inc. spins off

     

    May-99

    Noah Davis G. born. Herd of newbie Grandparents (G.s, Londons, KCD & MMO) wait it out.

     

    Jun-99

    KCD work - For Patrons Only at Mass Museum of Contemporary Art - continuing show

     

    Aug-99

    Nantasket Beach House

    "dotCom" speculation begins

    Sep-99

     

     

    Oct-99

    Nancy Orton dies

     

    Dec-99

    KCD & MMO publish Pretensions - art world agog

     

    Dec-99

    KCD goes to Vietnam tours country with JDL. Stops in Shanghai, visits Danielle Sun

     

    Apr-00

    KCD goes to Jackson MS with Linda Larson

     

    Apr-00

    MMO work - Valuedge, Inc. incorporated

     

    Jun-00

    AJL & family move to London

    "dotCom" speculation fizzles

    Aug-00

    AJL and John G. marry

     

    Aug-00

    Nantasket Beach House

     

    Dec-00

    MMO AIDS 5 mi. Race. Beaten by 80yr old woman

     

    Mar-01

    KCD work - "New England Photographers '01" at Danforth Museum, Framingham MA

    1st $million condo sold on Kinnaird St.

    May-01

    KCD to Jackson MS

     

    Jun-01

    5th Computer - Mac iBook with wireless connection to Internet - $2,000

     

    Jun-01

    MMO starts Lyme disease plague year - spends a month in bed with Nurse Karen propping him up.

     

    Aug-01

    Nantasket Beach House

    9/11 Terrorist Attack

    Sep-01

    JDL returns to UW in Madison

     

    Sep-01

    KCD work - Child's Play with Mary Lang at Newton Free Library

     

    Sep-01

     

    Patriots win SuperBowl

    Feb-02

    AJL and family return to NYC

     

    Jun-02

    KCD work - Lines, Arc and Other City Pictures at MIT Dean's Gallery

     

    Jun-02

    KCD to Jackson MS

    Jun-02

    MMO & KCD 25th wedding anniversary

     

    Jul-02

    KCD - 60th Birthday

     

    Jul-02

    Nantasket Beach House

     

    Oct-02

    25th Anniversary Party at Cambridge Community Center where it all started

     

    Nov-02

    Andrea gives birth to second grand child, Nyla Olivia G. - November 9, 2002 in New York City

    11092002-NYLA

     

    May-03

    Jonathan gets PhD May 16, 2003. Big family event with many in attendance.

    JDL-grad051603_2

     

     

     

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2009 20:11:30 +0000 http://www.markorton.com/?page_id=1452 Timeline of KCD and MMO with Contextual Entries

    ((originally developed as an Excel spreadsheet as a wall poster for our 25th wedding anniversary party. Without any of the pictures or other graphical elements))



    updated: 06/28/03

    Nixon-resingsimages

    Nixon resigns

    Oct-73

     

    Aug-74

    KCD places personal ad in Real Paper. MMO replies.

    RealPaper

     

    Sep-74

    KCD & MMO meet at Central Sq. T stop; go on first date; see Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage.

    Scenes_from_a_Marriage_DVD_cover

    Anti school busing riots in Boston

    Oct-74

    KCD & MMO have one-beer dates on Fridays

    Microsoft Corp founded

    Jun-75

     

    Vietnam-war-helicopter-embassy

    US abandons South Vietnam - war over

    Jun-75

     

     

    Sep-75

    KCD & MMO start day classes at Wentworth Institute of Technology

     

    Sep-75

    MMO work - takes tickets at Brattle Theatre working for Harvey Meyerson. KCD serves fish at restaurant near Porter Sq.

    Saturday Night Live 1st broadcast

    Sep-75

     

     

    May-76

    MMO moves in with KCD and children at 249 Western Ave

    look up 249 on a map

    (opens in a new window)

     

    Jun-76

    MMO work - Stevens-Arnold South Boston - machinist

     

    Dec-76

    Torrey & Jane Orton visit during heavy snow storm. Fire rages on River St. Jane defeats everyone in air hockey.

     

    Jun-77

    KCD work - Arthur D. Little - machinist

     

    Jun-77

    MMO & KCD graduate from Wentworth

    Jun-77

    Wedding June 19, 1977 at Cambridge Community Center

     

    Jul-77

    MMO work - Minuteman Labs - mechanical designer, Acton, MA

    Movies: Star Wars, Saturday Night Fever, Annie Hall

    Dec-77

    Renovations to 266 Western Ave - begin sweat equity

    The Great Blizzard

    Feb-78

    Buy 266 Western from RCCC - continue renovations - The Great Blizzard

     

    Aug-78

    Move into 266 Western

     

    Sep-78

    KCD work - Cambridge Rindge & Latin High School - Voc Ed, Title 1,Math, Newspaper

    Red Sox loose World Series despite Fisk homer in 6th game

    Oct-78

    1st Head of the Charles Regatta Party - series runs unbroken until 1995

    ph_three_mile_island500

    Three Mile Island nuclear plant "accident"

    May-79

     

     

    Jul-79

    Cheryl Davis moves to California, drives cross country- solo. Arrives on 4th of July.

     

    Aug-79

    Buy 52 Kinnaird: Move in to first floor - kids declare, "We've moved to the suburbs!"

     

    Sep-79

    52 Kinnaird: construction on 2nd floor begins

     

    Sep-79

    First family computer - Radio Shack TRS80 "Trash 80" -$2,000 - every computer since has cost the same.

    TRS-computer-model3x300

     

    Sep-79

    MMO work - MIT Biomechanics Lab Building 3 - staff engineer

    Larry Bird starts playing for Celtics

    Oct-79

     

    Pink Floyd releases The Wall

    Nov-79

     

     

    May-80

    52 Kinnaird: construction ends on 2nd floor - family occupies 2nd floor

    Mt. St. Helens erupts

    May-80

     

     

    Sep-80

    KCD work - Chelsea High printing teacher

    ChelseaHSschool91

     

    Sep-80

    MMO work - C&K Design Engineer

    C&K-7000toggle
    reagan-1981images

    Reagan starts first term as President

    Jan-81

     

    BMPC-200px-Ibmpcat

    IBM introduces "PC"

    May-81

     

     

    Jun-81

    KCD work - ECRM - Application Specialist, Bedford, MA

     

    Sep-81

    AJL starts high school

     

    May-82

    52 Kinnaird: construction - 1st floor bathroom, laundry room, closets in bedrooms.

     

    Jun-82

    Ida and Louis Davis spend 1st summer at 42 Kinnaird St

     

    Jun-82

    MMO, KCD, & JDL Green Tortoise bus from Boston to LA. AJL meets us there

    AIDS-scientists-photo_no_287

    AIDS epidemic identified

    Jun-82

     

     

    Jul-82

    KCD 40th birthday

     

    Sep-82

    KCD work - Quadex - Training Specialist, Cambridge

    Internet protocols TCP/IP established

    Oct-82

     

    Reagan announce Star Wars defense plan

    May-83

     

     

    Sep-83

    JDL starts at Cambridge Rindge & Latin High School

     

    Sep-83

    MMO & KCD cross Canada on RR

     

    Sep-83

    MMO starts at Augat - 8 positions over 9 years in 3 locations

    1984MacIntosh ad

    Apple Computer introduces Macintosh with Superbowl Ad

     

    click above to see the ad

    Jan-84

     

     

    Jun-84

    KCD at Womens Technical Institute - Director of Curriculum

    Jul-84

    KCD & MMO give up plywood on concrete block bed for new futon bed, gift of Karen's parents - hippy days are over; middle age is at hand!!

    1984-ozone hole

    Ozone hole discovered over Antarctica

    Oct-84

     

     

    Nov-84

    2nd computer - Mac Plus - $2,000

    Mac-Plus-computer

     

    Nov-84

    KCD & children Virgin Islands

     

    Dec-84

    Louis Davis dies

    Iran Contra Gate

    Jan-85

     

     

    Jun-85

    AJL graduates from high school

     

    Aug-85

    KCD work - Karen at Kodak Electronic Printing Systems (Eikonix)

     

    Sep-85

    AJL starts at Bowdoin College, 3rd generation of Londons; Mark's mother is pleased too (her brothers went there)

    Bowdoin-bearcolhead-190

    1st Internet virus attacks 6,000 computers

    Oct-85

     

     

    Mar-86

    KCD & MMO in Puerto Rico

     

    Apr-86

    MMO - Milan for work and Paris with Harvey Meyerson

     

    May-86

    52 Kinnaird St: 3rd floor construction begins, 5 skylights added, master bath with 6 ft tub, new roofing

    Chernobyl-img01

    Nuclear plant at Chernobyl in USSR blows up

    May-86

    Karen to Rome, Paris, Dueseldorf (for Kodak) nuclear fallout fears in Europe

     

    Mar-87

    KCD & MMO in Jamaica - explore relaxation as a vacation style

     

    Jun-87

    52 Kinnaird: construction - 2nd floor porch with wood stove and deck.

     

    Jun-87

    JDL graduates from high school

     

    Aug-87

    MMO - Taiwan (work) & Australia (Torrey & Jane)

     

    Sep-87

    JDL starts at Hofstra University

    Hofstra ath_image02

     

    Sep-87

    MMO 40th birthday

    time1987crash

    Stock market crashes

    Oct-87

     

     

    Feb-88

    KCD & MMO Big Bend National Park Texas - discover "snow birds"

    Michael_Dukakis_in_tank

    Mike Dukakis rides in Army tank

    Apr-88

     

     

    Jun-88

    KCD & MMO Southwest w/ AJL & JDL. Great adventure on Burr Trail

     

    Jul-88

    52 Kinnaird St: 3rd floor construction complete - KCD & MMO move into "master suite"

    1989-Tianasquare

    Tiananmen Square massacre in China

    Jun-89

     

     

    Sep-89

    JDL begins Peace Studies around the world year

    Earthquake in San Francisco,

    Oct-89

    Carol Orton rides out earthquake in office tower in SF. Cheryl Davis unhurt in earthquake. Apartment trashed.

    1989-SF-earthquakeCypress_LCluff_sm
    brokoli

    President Bush announces "No More Broccoli!"

    Oct-89

    MMO declares, "Bush finally says something I can agree with completely!" But, no broccoli ban achieved in Cambridge.

     

    Dec-89

    KCD travels to India for 3 weeks (spends 3 days with JDL in New Delhi & Agra)

    Hubble Telescope launched into space

    May-90

     

     

    Jun-90

    Ed O and Meredith Morgan marry. KCD and MMO are stunned by double ring ceremony.

     

    Jun-90

    KCD & MMO in Washington, DC, Virginia & West VA

    Lech Walesa elected President of Poland

    Jun-90

     

     

    Aug-90

    Ida Davis marries Joe Caminsky. Moves to 36 Kinnaird St.

     

    Sep-90

    JDL at Brandeis University. Proves he can hit the academic curve ball.

     

    Sep-90

    Patrice Simms arrives at 52 Kinnaird for sojourn at Northeastern University.

    August-Wilson-images

    August Wilson wins Pulitzer Prize for The Piano Lesson

    Oct-90

     

    berlin-wall-falls

    Berlin Wall torn down

    Nov-90

     

     

    Mar-91

    MMO & KCD in Mexico

    Mandela_44831717_afp226300

    Nelson Mandela freed from prison

    Jun-91

    AJL moves to NYC to continue work with NewsEdge.

     

    Jun-91

    JDL graduates from Hofstra University

    Jun-91

    KCD & MMO exchange wedding rings for second time. Gold replaces copper. Inspired by Ed & Meredith's double ring ceremony

     

    Sep-91

    KCD hikes hut to hut in White Mountains

     

    Sep-91

    KCD work - KCD to Industrial Services Program

    Riots in Los Angeles after Rodney King verdict

    May-92

     

     

    Jun-92

    KCD & MMO Glacier National Park w/ Ed & Meredith

    bird_drive_200

    Larry Birds retires from Celtics

    Jun-92

     

    FBI burns Branch Davidians in Waco, TX

    Jul-92

    Surprise 50th Birthday for KCD at Cambridge Community Center

     

    Aug-92

    MMO work - Augat fires Mark

     

    Sep-92

    JDL starts graduate school at UW

     

    Sep-92

    KCD breaks foot on hike in Princeton, MA. MMO says, "Its nothing" and they hobble a mile to the car.

    Oct-92

    3rd computer - Mac Centris 610 - $2,000

     

    Oct-92

    KCD & AJL to Southwest and Albuquerque Balloon Festival

     

    Oct-92

    KCD & MMO Midwest loop Chicago, Hyde Park, Galena, Madison, WI (see JDL at UW), LaCrosse, Frank Lloyd Wright

    Pope Paul admits error in Galileo affair in 1630's

    Oct-92

     

    President Clinton begins disappointing terms in office

    Jan-93

     

     

    May-93

    Patrice Simms graduates from Northeastern Summa Cum Laude

     

    Jun-93

    52 Kinnaird: build darkroom in 1st floor closet

     

    Jun-93

    MMO & KCD do Boston By Foot Tours

     

    Sep-93

    MMO Doc Linskey 5 mile race

     

    Oct-93

    Southwest

     

    Nov-93

    MMO Boston Police Chase - 5 miles; finishes in personal best 56 minutes.

     

    Mar-94

    MMO work - Manufacturing Extension Partnership start up in Lowell, MA

    Mandela470x400nelson

    Nelson Mandela elected President of South Africa

    May-94

     

     

    Jun-94

    MMO & KCD Cascade Mtns, Mt St Helens, Mt Rainier, Seattle

     

    Sep-94

    KCD work - Karen starts photography & writing full time

     

    Sep-94

    MMO & KCD Doc Linskey 5 mile race

    OJ-Simpson-car-chase

    OJ Simpson takes freeway ride

    Oct-94

     

    Pizza Hut begins to sell pizza on the Internet

    Oct-94

     

     

    Feb-95

    MMO work - New England Suppliers Institute. Starts working with Sherry Gordon with whom later starts Valuedge, Inc.

     

    Mar-95

    MMO and KCD to Paris

     

    May-95

    52 Kinnaird: rock garden construction begins and continues sporadically to present

     

    Jun-95

    Two new bikes for KCD & MMO gift from children

     

    Oct-95

    Head of the Charles Regatta Party goes on extended sabbatical

    ToyStory-images

    Toy Story released to movie theatres. First fully computer-animated movie

    Nov-95

     

     

    Apr-96

    MMO & KCD Florida East to West Coast, Everglades and visit Ida & Joe in West Palm Beach

     

    Jun-96

    52 Kinnaird: Begin construction of 1st floor apartment. Move darkroom to second floor

     

    Jun-96

    Cheryl Davis pulls through critical illness

     

    Sep-96

    52 Kinnaird: End construction of 1st floor apartment. Kristen Graves becomes first and only tenant.

    Taliban take over Afghanistan

    Sep-96

     

     

    Apr-97

    52 Kinnaird: Begin rebuild of 2nd floor kitchen, add wall to create separate studio space for KCD, complete finish work on stairway to 3rd floor

     

    Jul-97

    52 Kinnaird: end 2nd floor construction

     

    Aug-97

    Family Reunion at Nantasket Beach

     

    Sep-97

    MMO 50th birthday

    starbucks-central sq.

    Starbucks Coffee opens in Central Square - Western civilization slumps in despair

    Nov-97

     

     

    Jan-98

    KCD work - 1st show at Gallery 57 Cambridge, MA

     

    Feb-98

    KCD work - F8 Photography Group has first show in Concord, MA

     

    Mar-98

    4th computer - Mac PowerPC 233 - $2,000

     

    Aug-98

    Nantasket Beach House

     

    Sep-98

    JDL in Vietnam and Australia over three years with stops at 52 Kinnaird

    President Clinton impeached

    Sep-98

     

     

    Oct-98

    MMO & KCD to King Biscuit Blues Festival- Helena Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Memphis, TN

     

    Nov-98

    Ida Davis dies

     

    Jan-99

    KCD work - show at University Place

     

    Mar-99

    KCD work - Boat Building at Boston Public Library

     

    Mar-99

    MMO work - NESI, Inc. spins off

     

    May-99

    Noah Davis G. born. Herd of newbie Grandparents (G.s, Londons, KCD & MMO) wait it out.

     

    Jun-99

    KCD work - For Patrons Only at Mass Museum of Contemporary Art - continuing show

     

    Aug-99

    Nantasket Beach House

    "dotCom" speculation begins

    Sep-99

     

     

    Oct-99

    Nancy Orton dies

     

    Dec-99

    KCD & MMO publish Pretensions - art world agog

     

    Dec-99

    KCD goes to Vietnam tours country with JDL. Stops in Shanghai, visits Danielle Sun

     

    Apr-00

    KCD goes to Jackson MS with Linda Larson

     

    Apr-00

    MMO work - Valuedge, Inc. incorporated

     

    Jun-00

    AJL & family move to London

    "dotCom" speculation fizzles

    Aug-00

    AJL and John G. marry

     

    Aug-00

    Nantasket Beach House

     

    Dec-00

    MMO AIDS 5 mi. Race. Beaten by 80yr old woman

     

    Mar-01

    KCD work - "New England Photographers '01" at Danforth Museum, Framingham MA

    1st $million condo sold on Kinnaird St.

    May-01

    KCD to Jackson MS

     

    Jun-01

    5th Computer - Mac iBook with wireless connection to Internet - $2,000

     

    Jun-01

    MMO starts Lyme disease plague year - spends a month in bed with Nurse Karen propping him up.

     

    Aug-01

    Nantasket Beach House

    9/11 Terrorist Attack

    Sep-01

    JDL returns to UW in Madison

     

    Sep-01

    KCD work - Child's Play with Mary Lang at Newton Free Library

     

    Sep-01

     

    Patriots win SuperBowl

    Feb-02

    AJL and family return to NYC

     

    Jun-02

    KCD work - Lines, Arc and Other City Pictures at MIT Dean's Gallery

     

    Jun-02

    KCD to Jackson MS

    Jun-02

    MMO & KCD 25th wedding anniversary

     

    Jul-02

    KCD - 60th Birthday

     

    Jul-02

    Nantasket Beach House

    Bush White House beating war drums - Cheney leads the deceptions Sep-02

     

    Oct-02

    25th Anniversary Party at Cambridge Community Center where it all started

     

    Nov-02

    Andrea gives birth to second grand child, Nyla Olivia G. - November 9, 2002 in New York City

    11092002-NYLA

     

    May-03

    Jonathan gets PhD May 16, 2003. Big family event with many in attendance.


    JDL-grad051603_2
    062003_Mission Accomlished Bush declares victory in Iraq Jun-03
    Aug-03 Dan Sapoznick graduates from Smith College Social Work school with Master's degree 082003-DanSapoznick-graduates






    Aug-03








    Visit to Bantam Lake, CT - Harvey, Betsy and company 082003-BantamLake
    Sep-03 One of many visits to Nelson, NH and Miriam Goodman's camp 082003-NelsonNH-Mir
    042004-CentralArtery Central Artery in Boston is demolished - the end of the Big Dig looms Mar-04
    Free Speech Zone at Convention site near North Station072004-FreeSpeechZone Democrats hold convention in Boston Jul-04
    Aug-04 Karen has hip replacement surgery.
    Aug-04 Nantasket Beach Family week
    Red Sox stun (stomp) Yankees in playoffs Oct-04
    Red Sox win first World Series in 86 years Oct-04
    Nov-04 Thanksgiving in Claverack with Morgan-Ortons - faulty oven leads to Weberizing the turkey in driving rain 112004-trueky-weber
    112004-george-bush Bush defeats Kerry for a 2nd term!! Nov-04

     

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    Valuedge, Inc. sold to Emptoris, Inc. - not quite a living changing financial moment, but a success nevertheless - so says MMO

    KCD photography show and reception at AJL's house in NYC

    KCD photos of Central Sq. appear everywhere in Central Sq. shop windows and big display in City Hall Annex Art hall

    Bush White House beating war drums - Cheney leads the deceptions

    Sep-02


    Jun-03

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    Nixon-resingsimages

    Nixon resigns

    Oct-73

     

    Aug-74

    KCD places personal ad in Real Paper. MMO replies.

    RealPaper

     

    Sep-74

    KCD & MMO meet at Central Sq. T stop; go on first date; see Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage.

    Scenes_from_a_Marriage_DVD_cover

    Anti school busing riots in Boston

    Oct-74

    KCD & MMO have one-beer dates on Fridays

    Microsoft Corp founded

    Jun-75

     

    Vietnam-war-helicopter-embassy

    US abandons South Vietnam - war over

    Jun-75

     

     

    Sep-75

    KCD & MMO start day classes at Wentworth Institute of Technology

     

    Sep-75

    MMO work - takes tickets at Brattle Theatre working for Harvey Meyerson. KCD serves fish at restaurant near Porter Sq.

    Saturday Night Live 1st broadcast

    Sep-75

     

     

    May-76

    MMO moves in with KCD and children at 249 Western Ave

    look up 249 on a map

    (opens in a new window)

     

    Jun-76

    MMO work - Stevens-Arnold South Boston - machinist

     

    Dec-76

    Torrey & Jane Orton visit during heavy snow storm. Fire rages on River St. Jane defeats everyone in air hockey.

     

    Jun-77

    KCD work - Arthur D. Little - machinist

     

    Jun-77

    MMO & KCD graduate from Wentworth

    Jun-77

    Wedding June 19, 1977 at Cambridge Community Center

     

    Jul-77

    MMO work - Minuteman Labs - mechanical designer, Acton, MA

    Movies: Star Wars, Saturday Night Fever, Annie Hall

    Dec-77

    Renovations to 266 Western Ave - begin sweat equity

    The Great Blizzard

    Feb-78

    Buy 266 Western from RCCC - continue renovations - The Great Blizzard

     

    Aug-78

    Move into 266 Western

     

    Sep-78

    KCD work - Cambridge Rindge & Latin High School - Voc Ed, Title 1,Math, Newspaper

    Red Sox loose World Series despite Fisk homer in 6th game

    Oct-78

    1st Head of the Charles Regatta Party - series runs unbroken until 1995

    ph_three_mile_island500

    Three Mile Island nuclear plant "accident"

    May-79

     

     

    Jul-79

    Cheryl Davis moves to California, drives cross country- solo. Arrives on 4th of July.

     

    Aug-79

    Buy 52 Kinnaird: Move in to first floor - kids declare, "We've moved to the suburbs!"

     

    Sep-79

    52 Kinnaird: construction on 2nd floor begins

     

    Sep-79

    First family computer - Radio Shack TRS80 "Trash 80" -$2,000 - every computer since has cost the same.

    TRS-computer-model3x300

     

    Sep-79

    MMO work - MIT Biomechanics Lab Building 3 - staff engineer

    Larry Bird starts playing for Celtics

    Oct-79

     

    Pink Floyd releases The Wall

    Nov-79

     

     

    May-80

    52 Kinnaird: construction ends on 2nd floor - family occupies 2nd floor

    Mt. St. Helens erupts

    May-80

     

     

    Sep-80

    KCD work - Chelsea High printing teacher

    ChelseaHSschool91

     

    Sep-80

    MMO work - C&K Design Engineer

    C&K-7000toggle
    reagan-1981images

    Reagan starts first term as President

    Jan-81

     

    BMPC-200px-Ibmpcat

    IBM introduces "PC"

    May-81

     

     

    Jun-81

    KCD work - ECRM - Application Specialist, Bedford, MA

     

    Sep-81

    AJL starts high school

     

    May-82

    52 Kinnaird: construction - 1st floor bathroom, laundry room, closets in bedrooms.

     

    Jun-82

    Ida and Louis Davis spend 1st summer at 42 Kinnaird St

     

    Jun-82

    MMO, KCD, & JDL Green Tortoise bus from Boston to LA. AJL meets us there

    AIDS-scientists-photo_no_287

    AIDS epidemic identified

    Jun-82

     

     

    Jul-82

    KCD 40th birthday

     

    Sep-82

    KCD work - Quadex - Training Specialist, Cambridge

    Internet protocols TCP/IP established

    Oct-82

     

    Reagan announce Star Wars defense plan

    May-83

     

     

    Sep-83

    JDL starts at Cambridge Rindge & Latin High School

     

    Sep-83

    MMO & KCD cross Canada on RR

     

    Sep-83

    MMO starts at Augat - 8 positions over 9 years in 3 locations

    1984MacIntosh ad

    Apple Computer introduces Macintosh with Superbowl Ad

     

    click above to see the ad

    Jan-84

     

     

    Jun-84

    KCD at Womens Technical Institute - Director of Curriculum

    Jul-84

    KCD & MMO give up plywood on concrete block bed for new futon bed, gift of Karen's parents - hippy days are over; middle age is at hand!!

    1984-ozone hole

    Ozone hole discovered over Antarctica

    Oct-84

     

     

    Nov-84

    2nd computer - Mac Plus - $2,000

    Mac-Plus-computer

     

    Nov-84

    KCD & children Virgin Islands

     

    Dec-84

    Louis Davis dies

    Iran Contra Gate

    Jan-85

     

     

    Jun-85

    AJL graduates from high school

     

    Aug-85

    KCD work - Karen at Kodak Electronic Printing Systems (Eikonix)

     

    Sep-85

    AJL starts at Bowdoin College, 3rd generation of Londons; Mark's mother is pleased too (her brothers went there)

    Bowdoin-bearcolhead-190

    1st Internet virus attacks 6,000 computers

    Oct-85

     

     

    Mar-86

    KCD & MMO in Puerto Rico

     

    Apr-86

    MMO - Milan for work and Paris with Harvey Meyerson

     

    May-86

    52 Kinnaird St: 3rd floor construction begins, 5 skylights added, master bath with 6 ft tub, new roofing

    Chernobyl-img01

    Nuclear plant at Chernobyl in USSR blows up

    May-86

    Karen to Rome, Paris, Dueseldorf (for Kodak) nuclear fallout fears in Europe

     

    Mar-87

    KCD & MMO in Jamaica - explore relaxation as a vacation style

     

    Jun-87

    52 Kinnaird: construction - 2nd floor porch with wood stove and deck.

     

    Jun-87

    JDL graduates from high school

     

    Aug-87

    MMO - Taiwan (work) & Australia (Torrey & Jane)

     

    Sep-87

    JDL starts at Hofstra University

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    Sep-87

    MMO 40th birthday

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    Stock market crashes

    Oct-87

     

     

    Feb-88

    KCD & MMO Big Bend National Park Texas - discover "snow birds"

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    Mike Dukakis rides in Army tank

    Apr-88

     

     

    Jun-88

    KCD & MMO Southwest w/ AJL & JDL. Great adventure on Burr Trail

     

    Jul-88

    52 Kinnaird St: 3rd floor construction complete - KCD & MMO move into "master suite"

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    Tiananmen Square massacre in China

    Jun-89

     

     

    Sep-89

    JDL begins Peace Studies around the world year

    Earthquake in San Francisco,

    Oct-89

    Carol Orton rides out earthquake in office tower in SF. Cheryl Davis unhurt in earthquake. Apartment trashed.

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    President Bush announces "No More Broccoli!"

    Oct-89

    MMO declares, "Bush finally says something I can agree with completely!" But, no broccoli ban achieved in Cambridge.

     

    Dec-89

    KCD travels to India for 3 weeks (spends 3 days with JDL in New Delhi & Agra)

    Hubble Telescope launched into space

    May-90

     

     

    Jun-90

    Ed O and Meredith Morgan marry. KCD and MMO are stunned by double ring ceremony.

     

    Jun-90

    KCD & MMO in Washington, DC, Virginia & West VA

    Lech Walesa elected President of Poland

    Jun-90

     

     

    Aug-90

    Ida Davis marries Joe Caminsky. Moves to 36 Kinnaird St.

     

    Sep-90

    JDL at Brandeis University. Proves he can hit the academic curve ball.

     

    Sep-90

    Patrice Simms arrives at 52 Kinnaird for sojourn at Northeastern University.

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    August Wilson wins Pulitzer Prize for The Piano Lesson

    Oct-90

     

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    Berlin Wall torn down

    Nov-90

     

     

    Mar-91

    MMO & KCD in Mexico

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    Nelson Mandela freed from prison

    Jun-91

    AJL moves to NYC to continue work with NewsEdge.

     

    Jun-91

    JDL graduates from Hofstra University

    Jun-91

    KCD & MMO exchange wedding rings for second time. Gold replaces copper. Inspired by Ed & Meredith's double ring ceremony

     

    Sep-91

    KCD hikes hut to hut in White Mountains

     

    Sep-91

    KCD work - KCD to Industrial Services Program

    Riots in Los Angeles after Rodney King verdict

    May-92

     

     

    Jun-92

    KCD & MMO Glacier National Park w/ Ed & Meredith

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    Larry Birds retires from Celtics

    Jun-92

     

    FBI burns Branch Davidians in Waco, TX

    Jul-92

    Surprise 50th Birthday for KCD at Cambridge Community Center

     

    Aug-92

    MMO work - Augat fires Mark

     

    Sep-92

    JDL starts graduate school at UW

     

    Sep-92

    KCD breaks foot on hike in Princeton, MA. MMO says, "Its nothing" and they hobble a mile to the car.

    Oct-92

    3rd computer - Mac Centris 610 - $2,000

     

    Oct-92

    KCD & AJL to Southwest and Albuquerque Balloon Festival

     

    Oct-92

    KCD & MMO Midwest loop Chicago, Hyde Park, Galena, Madison, WI (see JDL at UW), LaCrosse, Frank Lloyd Wright

    Pope Paul admits error in Galileo affair in 1630's

    Oct-92

     

    President Clinton begins disappointing terms in office

    Jan-93

     

     

    May-93

    Patrice Simms graduates from Northeastern Summa Cum Laude

     

    Jun-93

    52 Kinnaird: build darkroom in 1st floor closet

     

    Jun-93

    MMO & KCD do Boston By Foot Tours

     

    Sep-93

    MMO Doc Linskey 5 mile race

     

    Oct-93

    Southwest

     

    Nov-93

    MMO Boston Police Chase - 5 miles; finishes in personal best 56 minutes.

     

    Mar-94

    MMO work - Manufacturing Extension Partnership start up in Lowell, MA

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    Nelson Mandela elected President of South Africa

    May-94

     

     

    Jun-94

    MMO & KCD Cascade Mtns, Mt St Helens, Mt Rainier, Seattle

     

    Sep-94

    KCD work - Karen starts photography & writing full time

     

    Sep-94

    MMO & KCD Doc Linskey 5 mile race

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    OJ Simpson takes freeway ride

    Oct-94

     

    Pizza Hut begins to sell pizza on the Internet

    Oct-94

     

     

    Feb-95

    MMO work - New England Suppliers Institute. Starts working with Sherry Gordon with whom later starts Valuedge, Inc.