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Night photography by Bob Avakian
Bob Avakian and his wife Gail visited Martha's Vineyard for the summer in 1973 and it has been home ever since.
Bob Avakian and his wife Gail visited Martha's Vineyard for the summer in 1973 and it has been home ever since. Trained in architecture, engineering and building, for years he has worked in the construction field as a custom homebuilder.
After finding himself in management, removed from the satisfaction of hands-on involvement, he turned to photography as a means of self-expression. "In the early 70's I took a photography class as an art elective while in college. Soon after, I moved to Martha's Vineyard. I still had my camera but going from NYC to a quiet Island was a big change and street photography was too intimate on a small island, so the camera got put away except for taking photos of family and friends. A few years ago I took a workshop in architectural photography and it was at that moment that my passion for photography was rekindled"
As his photographic vision has evolved he has been drawn to the natural landscape and an exploration of night photography. "Night photography is my main focus," he explains. "I love low light situations. You get an altered reality, something that goes beyond what you remember in a scene. It takes on a painterly quality." A common thread in Bob's work is the element of mystery. He drives around the Island, he explains, searching for isolated scenes that contain an unusual light source or another mysterious quality. "I photograph the landscape at night and at dawn. The camera captures the frames as stills, freezing time, regardless of the length of the exposure, and creating an image different from what the eye perceives. I like to believe that these resulting images are from a moment suspended between night and day.
The camera allows me to see my surroundings with new eyes. Out at night, alone, the day's cares recede and the sense of time fades. Allowing a heightened awareness to take over, I direct my attention to conveying the quiet and solitude of the night. It is this shift in attention, I believe, that allows me to experience the moment with a different vision.
My exposure and printing decisions enable me to take the surroundings I know so well and present them, as they have not been seen before. What fascinates me about this process is that magical element of surprise. I venture out in search of scenes that contain an unknown light source of have some other mysterious quality. Of course there are times when I don't find anything. Since the night sets the stage, I never know where I will wind up. It reminds me so much of life."
William Baczek of William Baczek Fine Arts said about Bob's work:
"Avakian allows the camera to use the "real" world to present us something that doesn't really exist so that a new world becomes revealed". And Vicki Goldberg, Photography Critic and Author, said: "Avakian, purposely exceeding the outer limits of photography's faithfulness to nature, produces a vision of earth that is even lovelier than the landscape that we know."
Bob has recently been the recipient of numerous awards. In the 2014 Neutral Density Photography Awards his night photography was awarded first place. In 2013 he was selected as a Photolucida Critical Mass top 50 photographer and also won second place in the International Photography Awards, Night Photography category.
His photos have been featured in Aline Smithson's, "Lenscratch"; in Wilson Cummer's New Landscape Photography blog and on the popular photo site Peta Pixel. Bob shows his work on Martha's Vineyard at The Granary Gallery and in Boston The 555 Gallery represents him. His work is in the collection of The Boston Athenaeum and the Martha's Vineyard Hospital's permanent art collection. [Official Website]
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DOE Patents Patent: Hydrogen production from carbonaceous material
Title: Hydrogen production from carbonaceous material
Hydrogen is produced from solid or liquid carbon-containing fuels in a two-step process. The fuel is gasified with hydrogen in a hydrogenation reaction to produce a methane-rich gaseous reaction product, which is then reacted with water and calcium oxide in a hydrogen production and carbonation reaction to produce hydrogen and calcium carbonate. The calcium carbonate may be continuously removed from the hydrogen production and carbonation reaction zone and calcined to regenerate calcium oxide, which may be reintroduced into the hydrogen production and carbonation reaction zone. Hydrogen produced in the hydrogen production and carbonation reaction is more than sufficient both to provide the energy necessary for the calcination reaction and also to sustain the hydrogenation of the coal in the gasification reaction. The excess hydrogen is available for energy production or other purposes. Substantially all of the carbon introduced as fuel ultimately emerges from the invention process in a stream of substantially pure carbon dioxide. The water necessary for the hydrogen production and carbonation reaction may be introduced into both the gasification and hydrogen production and carbonation reactions, and allocated so as transfer the exothermic heat of reaction of the gasification reaction to the endothermic hydrogen production and carbonation reaction.
Lackner, Klaus S.; Ziock, Hans J.; Harrison, Douglas P.
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
C - CHEMISTRY C10 - PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES C10J - PRODUCTION OF PRODUCER GAS, WATER-GAS, SYNTHESIS GAS FROM SOLID CARBONACEOUS MATERIAL, OR MIXTURES CONTAINING THESE GASES
C - CHEMISTRY C01 - INORGANIC CHEMISTRY C01B - NON-METALLIC ELEMENTS
C10J2300/0973 - Water
C10J3/463 - {in stationary fluidised beds}
C01B3/34 - by reaction of hydrocarbons with gasifying agents
C10J3/54 - Gasification of granular or pulverulent fuels by the Winkler technique, i.e. by fluidisation
C10J2300/0966 - Hydrogen
H - ELECTRICITY H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS H01M - PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY
H01M8/0612 - from carbon-containing material
C01B2203/066 - with fuel cells
C10J2300/1646 - integrated with a fuel cell
H01M8/0662 - Treatment of gaseous reactants or gaseous residues, e.g. cleaning
C01B2203/86 - Carbon dioxide sequestration
C01B3/12 - by reaction of water vapour with carbon monoxide
C10J2300/0983 - Additives
C10J2300/1807 - Recycle loops, e.g. gas, solids, heating medium, water
Y - NEW / CROSS SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES Y02 - TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE Y02E - REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
Y02E60/50 - Fuel cells
C10J2300/093 - Coal
C01B2203/84 - Energy production
C - CHEMISTRY C01 - INORGANIC CHEMISTRY C01F - COMPOUNDS OF THE METALS BERYLLIUM, MAGNESIUM, ALUMINIUM, CALCIUM, STRONTIUM, BARIUM, RADIUM, THORIUM, OR OF THE RARE-EARTH METALS
C01F11/18 - Carbonates
C01B2203/04 - containing a purification step for the hydrogen or the synthesis gas
C01B2203/0216 - containing a non-catalytic steam reforming step
C01B2203/0233 - the reforming step being a steam reforming step
C01B2203/0475 - the impurity being carbon dioxide
Y - NEW / CROSS SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES Y02 - TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE Y02P - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION OR PROCESSING OF GOODS
Y02P30/00 - Technologies relating to oil refining and petrochemical industry
C01B2203/06 - Integration with other chemical processes
C10J2300/1853 - Steam reforming, i.e. injection of steam only
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Lackner, Klaus S., Ziock, Hans J., and Harrison, Douglas P. Hydrogen production from carbonaceous material. United States: N. p., 2004. Web.
Lackner, Klaus S., Ziock, Hans J., & Harrison, Douglas P. Hydrogen production from carbonaceous material. United States.
Lackner, Klaus S., Ziock, Hans J., and Harrison, Douglas P. Tue . "Hydrogen production from carbonaceous material". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1175028.
title = {Hydrogen production from carbonaceous material},
author = {Lackner, Klaus S. and Ziock, Hans J. and Harrison, Douglas P.},
abstractNote = {Hydrogen is produced from solid or liquid carbon-containing fuels in a two-step process. The fuel is gasified with hydrogen in a hydrogenation reaction to produce a methane-rich gaseous reaction product, which is then reacted with water and calcium oxide in a hydrogen production and carbonation reaction to produce hydrogen and calcium carbonate. The calcium carbonate may be continuously removed from the hydrogen production and carbonation reaction zone and calcined to regenerate calcium oxide, which may be reintroduced into the hydrogen production and carbonation reaction zone. Hydrogen produced in the hydrogen production and carbonation reaction is more than sufficient both to provide the energy necessary for the calcination reaction and also to sustain the hydrogenation of the coal in the gasification reaction. The excess hydrogen is available for energy production or other purposes. Substantially all of the carbon introduced as fuel ultimately emerges from the invention process in a stream of substantially pure carbon dioxide. The water necessary for the hydrogen production and carbonation reaction may be introduced into both the gasification and hydrogen production and carbonation reactions, and allocated so as transfer the exothermic heat of reaction of the gasification reaction to the endothermic hydrogen production and carbonation reaction.},
Simultaneous shift reaction and carbon dioxide separation for the direct production of hydrogen
journal, December 1994
Han, Chun; Harrison, Douglas P.
Chemical Engineering Science, Vol. 49, Issue 24
Multicycle Performance of a Single-Step Process for H 2 Production
Separation Science and Technology, Vol. 32, Issue 1-4
Hydrogen from methane in a single-step process
journal, July 1999
Balasubramanian, B.; Lopez Ortiz, A.; Kaytakoglu, S.
Chemical Engineering Science, Vol. 54, Issue 15-16, p. 3543-3552
Carbonaceous material for production of hydrogen from low heating value fuel gases
Patent Koutsoukos, Elias P [Los Angeles, CA]
A process for the catalytic production of hydrogen, from a wide variety of low heating value fuel gases containing carbon monoxide, comprises circulating a carbonaceous material between two reactors--a carbon deposition reactor and a steaming reactor. In the carbon deposition reactor, carbon monoxide is removed from a fuel gas and is deposited on the carbonaceous material as an active carbon. In the steaming reactor, the reactive carbon reacts with steam to give hydrogen and carbon dioxide. The carbonaceous material contains a metal component comprising from about 75% to about 95% cobalt, from about 5% to about 15% iron, and upmore » to about 10% chromium, and is effective in suppressing the production of methane in the steaming reactor. « less
Process for the liquefaction of solid carbonaceous materials wherein nitrogen is separated from hydrogen via ammonia synthesis
Patent Stetka, Steven S [Fleetwood, PA]; Nazario, Francisco N [Parsippany, NJ]
In a process for the liquefaction of solid carbonaceous materials wherein bottoms residues are upgraded with a process wherein air is employed, the improvement wherein nitrogen buildup in the system is avoided by ammonia synthesis. In a preferred embodiment hydrogen from other portions of the liquefaction process will be combined with hydrogen produced as a result of the bottoms upgrading to increase the H.sub.2 :N.sub.2 ratio in the ammonia reactor.
Hydrogenation of carbonaceous materials
Patent Friedman, Joseph [Encino, CA]; Oberg, Carl L [Canoga Park, CA]; Russell, Larry H [Agoura, CA]
A method for reacting pulverized coal with heated hydrogen-rich gas to form hydrocarbon liquids suitable for conversion to fuels wherein the reaction involves injection of pulverized coal entrained in a minimum amount of gas and mixing the entrained coal at ambient temperature with a separate source of heated hydrogen. In accordance with the present invention, the hydrogen is heated by reacting a small portion of the hydrogen-rich gas with oxygen in a first reaction zone to form a gas stream having a temperature in excess of about 1000.degree. C. and comprising a major amount of hydrogen and a minor amountmore » of water vapor. The coal particles then are reacted with the hydrogen in a second reaction zone downstream of the first reaction zone. The products of reaction may be rapidly quenched as they exit the second reaction zone and are subsequently collected. « less
Hydrogenation process for solid carbonaceous materials
Patent Cox, John L [Richland, WA]; Wilcox, Wayne A [Richland, WA]
Coal or other solid carbonaceous material is contacted with an organic solvent containing both hydrogen and a transition metal catalyst in solution to hydrogenate unsaturated bonds within the carbonaceous material. This benefaction step permits subsequent pyrolysis or hydrogenolysis of the carbonaceous fuel to form gaseous and liquid hydrocarbon products of increased yield and quality.
Method for separating liquid and solid products of liquefaction of coal or like carbonaceous materials
Patent Malek, John M [P.O. Box 71, Lomita, CA 90717]
A method of improving the quality of slurry products taken from coal liquefaction reactors comprising subjecting the slurry to treatment with an alkaline compound such as caustic soda in the presence of steam in order to decompose the phenolic and acidic materials present in the slurry, and to also lower the slurry viscosity to allow separation of solid particles by sedimentation.

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Ionia DPS receives aerial ladder fire truck
Evan Sasiela
esasiela@sentinel-standard.com
IONIA — An aerial ladder truck with a 101-foot platform ladder is the newest addition to the Ionia Department of Public Safety's firefighting fleet.
Truck 53 arrived at the Ionia DPS Wednesday, June 12, said Director Troy Thomas. It replaces the department's old aerial truck with its 75-foot ladder.
The Ionia DPS truck committee has worked since 2016 to make the new vehicle a reality, Thomas said.
"It's been a long three years," Thomas said. "It's finally here so it's nice. We're very excited about it."
It is recommended front-line trucks be replaced every 20 years, with the new truck expected to serve 20-25 years in the community, Thomas said.
The department's old ladder truck was purchased in 1996. Thomas and Ionia City Manager Jason Eppler have planned on acquiring the firefighting apparatus for five years.
"The city council's good at giving (Eppler) the ability to manage the money so this stuff can be replaced before something totally breaks," Thomas said. "If you keep trucks too long, they break and then you're just without a truck."
The $1 million aerial ladder truck took a year to build. The Ionia DPS primarily serves Ionia and Ionia and Easton townships, but Thomas said the ladder truck will be available for municipalities in and out of Ionia County to use.
"Smaller departments rely on mutual aid with each other, so that's what we do," Thomas said. "If we need them, we call them. If they need us, they call us. It's a collaboration that has to happen in smaller areas."
The new truck uses a remote control to operate the ladder and the pump panel is raised up. It is also 47.5 feet long — more than 8 feet longer than the old truck. The Rosenbauer Group manufactured the vehicle.
"It's safer for everybody," Thomas said.
The truck should be in service in a couple weeks after Fleet Manager Todd Verduin stocks it with equipment. Employees also have to be trained on the new vehicle. Thomas said a handful of DPS employees have been trained and can use the truck if a fire call comes in.
As for the old ladder truck, it is still housed at the DPS building. Thomas said the DPS is looking to sell the vehicle for $80,000.
"There's a large market for it, but the price is just down," Thomas said. "There's not a lot of value in them unfortunately. We'll be working with a broker to get that settled."
The Ionia City Council approved the sale of the old truck and financing of the new truck at its June 4 meeting.
Ionia and Easton townships also contributed $100,000 each to fund the truck, Thomas said.
"It's great that we're able to have the type of equipment to effectively and safely fight fires that a lot of communities don't have that unfortunately," he said.
Truck 53 is named for former DPS firefighter Rick Nemetz, who died of a heart attack in 2008 while hunting.
"He was a great firefighter and great guy, so we thought we'd pay a little tribute to him by naming the truck after him with his badge number," Thomas said.
Nemetz's family plans to visit the DPS to view the truck later this month.
"We're very fortunate to live in a community this size and be able to have the type of equipment we have," he said.
— Contact reporter Evan Sasiela at esasiela@sentinel-standard.com. Follow him on Twitter @SalsaEvan.
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Q: Any way to guarantee a code will always be executed on the main thread? Excuse me if this question sounds stupid but this is beyond my knowledge of Objective-C.
I am developing some classes that have to always be executed on the main thread.
Ok, I can pollute my code with a bunch of
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but I would like to know if there is something I can do to prevent the methods of this class from running on other threads that is not the main or to at least warn during debugging, compiling, or whatever if they are used not on the main thread.
thanks

A: I sprinkle such methods with my BLOCK_UI() macro from https://github.com/gradha/ELHASO-iOS-snippets. At runtime the macro will assert if the method is not running on the main thread. The macro goes away in release builds because I consider calling such an API in the background a programmer error, but if you want to make an API which is permissive with the programmer, you can also check for the main thread and invoke yourself in the main thread if needed. Example:
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A: You can always check via the helpful API "[NSThread isMainThread]"

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Broadway's long-running "Wicked" lands in the Bluegrass State for two weeks this November. Louisville's Whitney Hall at the Kentucky Center plays host to the "Wizard of OZ" prequel from November 18th through December 6th. For those who haven't had the experience, "Wicked" is quite the treat. The sensational production brings with elaborate set designs, an […]
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Posted by Julie Harmon On March - 9 - 2012
The Schuster Center in Dayton, Ohio will be housing the limited spring run of the highly acclaimed Broadway musical Wicked, from April 29 to May 17, 2015. The Dayton staging of the hit musical which spawned the show tune favorite "Defying Gravity" and gave everyone a clear picture of what happened in Oz even before […]
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Ants, bees, wasps, termites
(-) Grasshoppers, crickets, katydids, cockroaches
1 to 1 1/2 inches
1/2 to 1 inch
1/4 inch or less
1/4 to 1/2 inch
3 inches or more
(-) Waste areas, railroads, roadsides
Carolina Grasshopper
Dissosteira carolina
The Carolina grasshopper is frequently seen in dusty, open habitats like dirt roads and vacant lots. Its yellow-bordered, black hindwings make it look like a mourning cloak butterfly.
Cockroaches and Termites
About 100 species of cockroaches and termites in North America north of Mexico
Cockroaches well-known: they are flattened, small, brown or black, often shiny insects that can hide in tight crevices and lack specialized appendages. Recently, termites have been included in their order.
Differential Grasshopper
Melanoplus differentialis
The differential grasshopper is familiar to most Missourians. Originally it lived only in wet meadows and creek bottomlands, but with the spread of farms, it has become a pest of many food crops.
Katydids
About 250 species in North America north of Mexico
Katydids are a family of insects that may also be called longhorned grasshoppers, because of their super-long antennae. Many resemble green leaves. Others are brown. Populations of some species may be bright pink.
Oblong-Winged Katydid
Amblycorypha oblongifolia
The oblong-winged katydid is one of many species in the katydid family. Although it is usually green in most places, some populations made up of pink-form individuals.
Red-Legged Grasshopper
Melanoplus femurrubrum
The red-legged grasshopper is a type of short-horned grasshopper. These small insects are an important food for Missouri's wild game birds.
Short-Horned Grasshoppers
About 620 species in North America
The short-horned grasshopper family includes many familiar jumpers. They are named for their antennae, which are relatively short compared to those in the "long-horned" or katydid group.
Yellow-Collared Scape Moth
Cisseps fulvicollis
The yellow-collared scape moth is more often "orange-collared." And whether you think it looks more like a firefly or a wasp, it's still a moth!
Plume Moths
Nearly 150 species in North America north of Mexico
Slim, delicate plume moths are instantly recognizable by their T-shaped silhouette, long legs, and muted shades of tan and brown. It can be hard to separate the various species.
Isabella Tiger Moth (Woolly Bear; Woolly Worm)
Pyrrharctia isabella
Not many people know the adult Isabella tiger moth when they see one, but we're all acquainted with its caterpillar, the woolly worm, or woolly bear.
About Land Invertebrates in Missouri
Invertebrates are animals without backbones, including earthworms, slugs, snails, and arthropods. Arthropods—invertebrates with "jointed legs" — are a group of invertebrates that includes crayfish, shrimp, millipedes, centipedes, mites, spiders, and insects. There may be as many as 10 million species of insects alive on earth today, and they probably constitute more than 90 percent all animal species.
Spider Facts
Insect, Spider and Kin Facts


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Tom Rothrock
An album named after the instrument it fetishizes, Resonator (a wood-bodied guitar with a single metal coned center often called by the brand name DOBRO) is producer Tom Rothrock's first album as a recording artist. You'll immediately recognize the Resonator's bluesy soul sound as the backbone of many of Beck's early songs. You old-timers and blues enthusiasts may scoff at pop music's grope at authenticity, re-discovering the guitar some fifty years after its heyday. You cannot, however, chide Rothrock's passion for the instrument. This instrumental work resonates with respect and reverence. He adds hip-hop beats, live drums and strings to the equation for a cinematic mood and scope. Fitting, considering it was Michael Mann's urging Rothrock to compose the score for Mann's film Collateral, that set the prolific producer to work on his own compositions. Getting your hands on the entire album may prove problematic as it's been limited to a one-time pressing of 1,203 hand-numbered copies. Not to fear, it's just the first in a series of instrumental albums planned by Mr. Rothrock, released via his newly re-launched Bong Load Records.
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Garret says:
Funny – I've had one of his songs from Collateral on my computer forever and I love it. Maybe I should look into him.
I hadn't finished reading your commentary before listening to the song. And about a minute through it I thought, "Why does this song remind me of 'In the Air Tonight' by Phil Collins?', like it should be in a Michael Mann film?"
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PHILADELPHIA � New Hope-Solebury jumped off to a 7-0 lead en route to a 62-41 romp at Math and Science Technology Charter School Monday night in Bicentennial League boys basketball action.
New Hope had to deal with the curve balls thrown by Mother Nature, which caused unexpected cancellations all over the area last week.
The coach also pointed out the play of Spencer Tinkel, who finished with game highs in points (15) and rebounds (9).
�He�s had four or five double-doubles (this season),� Fedele said.
Tinkel fell one short on the rebounds, but the scoring was spread around. Matt Massimino added 12 points, and Justin Cebrick came off the bench to add 10.
The Panthers offered little resistance as the Lions opened up a 14-point lead (26-12) shortly before halftime. MaST made a six-point run to close out the first half at 26-18.
Before the Panthers could get comfortable in the third quarter, New Hope made a 14-point run to dispel any hopes for a MaST comeback.
The Panthers� Devon Jackson drew a foul on a lay-up, but he failed to convert the three-point opportunity. Then Tinkel scored, and Jack Dougherty and Massimino followed by sinking 3-point shots. Tinkel then drew a foul while grabbing a rebound and made both free throws.
After Massimino and Tinkel scored on a lay-up and a short jump shot, respectively, Jackson finally broke the run with a jump shot for MaST. It was, however, just a minor interruption as Dalton Waterman, Massimino and Cebrick scored to close out the quarter.
New Hope had a 52-24 lead after three periods. MaST scored 17 points in the final frame, but it was of little consequence.
�We had a few guys come off the bench and play well, so overall it was a good performance,� Fedele said.
Quinton Saunders and Shane Holmes had 12 points each for MaST Charter.


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Verner Edward "Vern" Suomi (1915 – 30 July 1995) was a Finnish-American educator, inventor, and scientist. He is considered the father of satellite meteorology. He invented the Spin Scan Radiometer, which for many years was the instrument on the GOES weather satellites that generated the time sequences of cloud images seen on television weather shows. The Suomi NPP polar orbiting satellite, launched in 2011, was named in his honor.
Suomi was born in Eveleth, Minnesota to John and Anna Suomi. His parents arrived in the United States in 1902 from Finland. (The family surname, Suomi, is of Finnish origin and means Finland in Finnish.) He was the sixth of seven children; he outlived all but two sisters, Esther and Edith. He received his first degree from Winona Teachers College (now Winona State University). He taught high school science. Later, he attended the University of Chicago, where he received his PhD in 1953.
By 1948, Suomi was among the earliest faculty members of the Department of Meteorology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Together with Robert Parent, in 1965, Suomi founded the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) there. From this, came the first weather satellite to provide imagery from a geostationary orbit and was named the Applications Technology Satellite (ATS-1), launched on 6 December 1966, that included a Spin Scan Radiometer. The subsequent ATS-3, launched in November 1967, using a spin scan camera, made what would be known as the first color images of the whole earth.
Suomi led the development of McIDAS (Man-computer Interactive Data Access System) in 1972, displaying the images produced by his satellites such as SMS-1 in 1974.
A very popular professor, he formally retired from teaching in 1986.
Suomi was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1966, awarded the National Medal of Science in 1977, awarded the Franklin Medal in 1984, the Charles Franklin Brooks Award from the American Meteorological Society in 1980; a lifetime achievement award from the International Meteorological Organization, and numerous other awards and honors including the World Meteorological Organization's International Meteorological Organization Prize (the IMO Prize) and the first Walter Ahlstrom Prize.
On January 24, 2012, NASA renamed a recently launched NPP Earth monitoring satellite after Dr. Suomi. On that occasion, John Grunsfeld, associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, said that "Verner Suomi's many scientific and engineering contributions were fundamental to our current ability to learn about Earth's weather and climate from space." The Suomi NPP houses the VIIRS instrument that provided the images which were combined to make the 2012 The Blue Marble photo.
Suomi died in Madison, Wisconsin at age 79. He was survived by his wife Paula and his children Eric, Stephen, and Lois; two sisters, Edith and Esther; two granddaughters; and many nieces and nephews.
1 2 Lewis, John M.; Martin, David W.; Rabin, Robert M.; Moosmüller, Hans (2010). "Suomi: Pragmatic Visionary". Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 91 (5): 559–577. doi:10.1175/2009BAMS2897.1.
↑ "Most Amazing High Definition Image of Earth - Blue Marble 2012", NASA @ Flickr.com, 25 January 2012.
↑ Herzog, Karen (January 26, 2012). "Satellite renamed to honor UW's Suomi". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved 2012-01-29.
↑ Memmott, Mark. "'Blue Marble 2012': NASA's 'Most Amazing' High Def Image Of Earth So Far", The Two-Way, National Public Radio, 25 January 2012.
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Testers who analyze quality in every aspect of the team's deliverables also have a responsibility to mitigate risks and practical issues that are bound to come up, and help the team succeed in their product as well as at being agile. Here are five such issues that testers can help the team alleviate or avoid.
Let's say an agile team has a user story to develop a webpage in a sprint. The product manager mentions only the mandatory fields of the webpage in the story's description while scoping it in the sprint. The developer works on the story for a couple of days and adds the listed fields on the page, but because he going on leave for a few days, he only provides the basic form fields without any input validations or error messages on the page.
Once back from his vacation, he checks in the code and shares it for testing a day before the sprint ends. The tester tests it for a day and raises some minor severity issues. In the final sprint demo, the product manager points out that a number of fields are missing on the webpage. Because testing is not complete yet, the story is tagged as a spill-over item to the next sprint. Few UI changes are added in the next sprint's scope, along with the pending validations and error messages.
What do you think went wrong in this story?
Agile is all about controlling and minimizing the typical risks of conventional software development techniques. When working with agile, we have the flexibility to control our direction and steer our path based on unforeseen and unplanned changes and events.
But it is the same flexibility and dynamic nature that makes agile prone to many risks during the project.
These risks are the practical issues that any agile team is bound to face eventually and that, if not handled quickly, may lead to failure of the sprint or the agile process as a whole. Testers who analyze quality in every aspect of the team's deliverables also have a responsibility to mitigate these risks and help the team succeed in their product as well as at being agile.
Here are five such issues that testers can help the team alleviate or avoid.
Agile assumes that each user story is a unit of work to be achieved in a sprint. The user story needs to be granular enough and have all relevant details and context when scoped. But because agile also recognizes changing requirements as likely, this gets used as an excuse to not list the requirements for each user story or give details early on. This leads to ambiguous requirements, often resulting in low-quality outcomes and rework on the feature.
The actual aim of agile is to work on a feature based on the best knowledge of its requirements at the given time. The sprint format in the Scrum process leaves scope to work on a feature again if enhancement is needed. But that is based on collecting all available information for one story and only then scoping it in a sprint. If that is not ready yet, the story should not be scoped in the current sprint.
Testers in an agile team have the responsibility of reviewing user stories when they are being planned for the sprint and requesting clarification from the product management. Similarly, developers can raise questions about technical and design details they feel are missing and get them defined during planning sessions. Based on these details, testers will create their test scenarios around that user story, and developers will create their implementation design and keep asking more questions if needed over the next few days of the sprint.
In the example at the beginning, the tester could have raised the concern that the user story did not have complete details for the webpage to be developed while scoping it in the sprint. The developer should have asked about relevant validations and error messages needed, as well as some broad layout details to work with.
When a sprint is in progress, developers may dig into their assigned stories and, in trying to get the more complicated things done, digress from the priority of each story. As testers, we constantly need to question the delivery of the most valuable features in the sprint so that we are sure to test and deliver them as early as possible.
During the sprint planning discussion, we must assign business priorities to each story being scoped in. The sequence in which the stories will be delivered will depend on that.
Testers may also raise concerns when more time will be needed to test a feature, and request for it to be delivered early so that the testing can be completed well within the sprint deadline.
At all times we must assume that only the stories that are done from both development and testing perspectives are the ones that are designated as delivered in the sprint final build.
In the example, the developer could have shown the developed page to the product manager and asked for feedback during the sprint to avoid multiple iterations. The tester should have asked for a buddy build for the story before the developer left for vacation to provide more testing time and get maximum issues within the sprint. This would have avoided the task needing to spill over to the next sprint.
During the sprint testing cycles, all issues found pertaining to a feature must be tagged with the relevant user story. This can be done easily by linking the issues together in the issue-tracking tool being used.
The testing team must decide on a tolerance threshold for the number of issues for each user story based on their severity, beyond which they would raise a quality concern against that story. Testers should then request these issues to be fixed before any further development is done on that story. This helps immensely in avoiding delivery of half-baked features with too many known issues yet to be fixed at the end of the sprint. This way, at the end of the sprint, all user stories are at a minimum quality benchmark with no obvious or critical issues. Of course, improvements and enhancements are always welcome and may be taken in further sprints.
In the example story,the tester should have raised maximum issues against the user story within the sprint and brought them to the product manager's attention, along with missing or undelivered functionalities.
When working in a sprint format, the process is bound to be very fast-paced, with each team member being relied on heavily for the assigned user stories.
There may be parallel tracks or other activities, like performance improvements, code refactoring, white box tests, or documentation and reviews, that team members may be expected to handle, which, if they go beyond a number of hours per sprint, may hinder the sprint deliverables. It is the team members' responsibility to bring any such activities to the ScrumMaster's notice as risks during the daily stand-up meeting.
The testing team may raise any planned resource or time conflicts during the sprint planning session itself, so that estimation may account for these time losses. Team members also are expected to bring up any planned vacations or leave during the planning session so that their absence may be accounted for during estimation.
In the example story,the developer's leave plan should have been taken into account when assigning the user story, and consequently, there could have been a co-owner of the story to take up the additional parts, such as implementing validations and UI improvements to the page while the developer was away.
Scrum ceremonies, such as the sprint planning sessions, daily stand-ups, triage meetings, and sprint retrospectives meetings, rely heavily on the team's self-drive and total involvement. Without these factors, the ceremonies become mere formalities, adding little value to the process.
Testers in an agile team must be involved in every phase of the agile development process and raise concern if the team is not performing any of the ceremonies in the correct fashion. Only with full participation and regular communication can we actually achieve success as an agile team.
In the example, the team could have communicated more over the user story, talked to the product manager, and proactively gotten more information, details, and feedback during development. The tester could have initiated more discussions around the requirements and worked closely with the developer to highlight issues instead of waiting for the final build at the end of the sprint.
A tester's role in an agile team is to provide assistance and support in all areas, so they may need to switch hats frequently, depending on the team's needs. The success of this endeavor, though, also depends on an open, communicative, and receptive environment fostered within the team. Following these basic pointers can make testing a fun and collaborative part of the agile environment and add a lot more value.
This article hits the nail on the hat. Nice write-up of what is wrong with Agile in reality. Another issue is product owners not committing to acceptance criteria at any point claiming that "we are agile" and "can hit this next iteration"...and then never do.
During the consultant's training sessions Agile sounds great. Agile is to management the panacea that fixes all issues. In fact it is just a tool that fosters failure to plan and cranking up the baseless expectations of delivering features faster. And what happens when time is of the essence? Quality gets cut, bug fixes are postponed, and devs are put on yet another story to cram more half-baked features into a release. Agile often accomplishes only two things: higher stress levels and worse quality.
Thanks a lot @Tim for your kind words. You are right in saying that Agile is becoming just a sought after keyword by management as the "silver bullet" get everything done. But in actual turns out to accomplish less and less each day if the above points and scenarios are not taken into consideration soon enough.
Most of the projects running in Agile have so much loop holes in the execution that the end result is nothing but a stressfull team and customer issues. This article talks a lot about the responsibility of Testers in Agile development. I do agree with the fact that Testers can improve the quality of the product but most of the times, it is Product Managers who has no Release backlog / Product backlog items in their bucket which drives to a complete failure of the product. And for this, the blame goes to Engineering team. My view is that a Product Manager always play a major role in the Agile development as well as in success / failure of the Product line.
Thanks for a thoughtful article. I worked on a team that was highly Agile and on other teams that were less Agile. The tester can try to influence the team to be more Agile, but cannot compel others to do it if they are unwilling. What the tester must do in every situation is work with the team to create the best possble software. Good testing technique, hard work, flexibility, open communication and cooperation go a long way.
Nishi is a Consulting corporate trainer, Agile enthusiast and a Software tester at heart! With almost a decade of experience working in Agile environment in product-based companies, she has had a chance to work in all stages of software testing life cycle. She now works at Agile Testing Alliance as a coach, trainer and mentor in areas of Agile, DevOps, agile testing, test automation, BDD using Cucumber etc. along with conducting QA Induction boot-camps and ISTQB workshops in corporates and as public courses.
In her spare time she likes reading and sharing knowledge about Software Testing, Agile and various aspects of software testing processes and practices. She is certified by Agile Testing Alliance (ATA) as a CP-DOF, CP_SAT, CP-AAT, CP-MAT and by ISTQB as a Foundation and Advanced Test Analyst and likes to keep updating her skills periodically.


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Greg Moore, possibly the Globe's next editor, wins a big award
On December 19, 2012 By Dan KennedyIn Media5 Comments
Greg Moore
As the Boston Globe seeks to replace departing editor Marty Baron, here's someone to keep at least one eye on.
Former Globe managing editor Greg Moore has been named the Benjamin C. Bradlee Editor of the Year by the National Press Foundation for his leadership of the Denver Post. Moore was recently seen in the vicinity of the Globe, according to several people I've spoken with, although there's also talk that he has no desire to return to Boston.
The smart money is on an internal candidate. The names that come up most frequently are metro columnist Brian McGrory, editorial-page editor Peter Canellos and managing editor Caleb Solomon. At The Phoenix, Peter Kadzis is predicting Solomon, and floats several other names as well. But, really, who knows what might happen?
Regardless of who ultimately moves into the glass house being vacated by Baron, congratulations to Greg Moore.
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Poynter weighs in on the Globe's lifted editorial
On September 4, 2012 September 4, 2012 By Dan KennedyIn Media2 Comments
Craig Silverman of Poynter Online weighs in with a smart take on the Boston Globe's decision not to release the name of the staff member who wrote an unsigned editorial that was lifted almost word for word from WBUR.org.
The original piece, which criticized Vice President Joe Biden's "put y'all back in chains" comment, was written by Republican political consultant and WBUR contributor Todd Domke. The Globe editorial was the subject of a recent "editor's note" (which you'll find at the bottom) in which the paper expressed its "regrets."
As I wrote on Aug. 24, the editor's note raised as many questions as it answered, since it did not reveal the identity of the person who wrote it or whether he or she had been disciplined.
Last week, as you may have heard, Boston Herald columnist and WRKO Radio (AM 680) talk-show host Howie Carr sent a dispatch to subscribers to his email list claiming he had learned the culprit was Globe columnist Joan Vennochi, and that she had been suspended for two weeks. The email ended up being posted to the Free Republic, a right-wing website.
Oddly, though, that information has not appeared in the Herald, which instead ran a story on the Globe's decision not to name names. The Herald also criticized Emerson College journalism professor Mark Leccese for not addressing the issue in the unpaid blog that he writes for the Globe's Boston.com site.
Also writing about this have been Jim Romenesko and iMediaEthics.
Silverman's piece is the fullest treatment so far. He quotes editorial-page editor Peter Canellos as saying:
Our policy is not to discuss internal disciplinary actions. But our editor's note should speak for itself. There were similarities in structure and phrasing that shouldn't have been used without attribution. We take these matters very seriously.
Silverman also expresses frustration at the Globe's response, writing that "the paper won't name the writer, won't detail any related discipline, won't say if they're reviewing previous work, and won't call it plagiarism."
It strikes me that this would have been a one-day story if the Globe had simply announced who did it, whether that person had been disciplined and, if so, what the punishment was. The borrowing from Domke's piece looks to me more like extreme sloppiness than classic plagiarism.
And yes, I understand that such matters are confidential at most companies. But if this had been a signed column rather than an anonymous editorial, naming the person would have been unavoidable. I don't see why it should be handled differently simply because the piece did not carry a byline.
John Sununu's complicated alliances
On January 17, 2012 By Dan KennedyIn Media, Politics6 Comments
John Sununu
Boston Globe editorial-page editor Peter Canellos and I recently exchanged some emails over Globe op-ed columnist John Sununu's lobbying work on behalf of Akin Gump. I ended up choosing not to write about Sununu because I was satisfied that Sununu's non-disclosure in his columns, though potentially problematic, did not rise to the level of unethical behavior. It was also clear that I'd need to do a lot more research than I had time for in order to put some flesh on the bones.
Today Media Matters, a prominent liberal media-watch organization, weighs in. And I don't regret my decision. Oliver Willis and Joe Strupp have really done their homework, only to find that the whole situation is fairly ambiguous. It looks like they got excited about the chance to write that the former New Hampshire senator was using the Globe to further his interests in such controversial practices as hydrofracking only to find that Sununu's ties to Akin Gump are rather tangential.
One thing Willis and Strupp don't mention is that Sununu has used his column to carry water for Mitt Romney on several occasions, including the run-up to the New Hampshire primary. This one, for instance, couldn't be any more favorable if one of Romney's kids had written it. Sununu did not endorse anyone, but his column dutifully noted that his father, former New Hampshire governor John Sununu, had endorsed Romney.
There is a larger question here. Why do news organizations use political partisans and lobbyists — and people who are both — to write opinion pieces for them? That, to me, is the real issue. I find nothing in Sununu's columns that are insightful or fresh enough to make me think he earned a piece of the valuable real estate he commands. He's there because of who he is, not because of what he has to say.
I don't mind strong opinions. Frankly, I'd like to see more of them in the Globe. But if I want those opinions from a politician-turned-lobbyist, I can always turn on cable TV.
The Globe's opinion pages beef up
On May 5, 2010 By Dan KennedyIn Media14 Comments
Joshua Green
A year ago, the biggest question at the Boston Globe was whether the New York Times Co. was serious about shutting it down if it couldn't squeeze out $20 million in union concessions.
These days, the story is considerably more pleasant. Though no one thinks the Globe is entirely out of the woods (there is, after all, a revolution under way), the paper keeps expanding in modest but useful ways.
The latest initiative is coming tomorrow: a weekly column on the op-ed page by the Atlantic's fine political writer, Joshua Green, who, according to Globe editorial-page editor Peter Canellos, will offer a Washington perspective from a non-ideological perspective.
"He's a pure reporter and analyst," Canellos says. "And I think that for somebody looking at the changing landscape of Washington these days, this is a happy meeting of a writer and subject, because it's a fascinating time."
This coming Sunday will mark a significant expansion of the opinion pages. For years, the Globe has published a third opinion page, reserved for letters, every other week. Now the paper will publish three and four pages on an alternating schedule.
Newish op-ed columnists Joanna Weiss and Lawrence Harmon will join standbys Joan Vennochi and Jeff Jacoby. Harmon, the Globe's chief editorial writer on city issues, will continue to write his column once a week. Weiss will now write twice weekly, picking up Harmon's Tuesday slot.
On weeks when there are four opinion pages, Canellos says, the extra space will be used for features such as "visual op-eds" by cartoonist Dan Wasserman and longer essays by columnist James Carroll and other writers.
Finally, Canellos says that a somewhat nebulous new online feature called "The Angle" will be beefed up with some definition and some original content as the result of a new partnership with "Radio Boston," which WBUR (90.9 FM) is expanding from a weekly to a daily program next week.
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Pop go the Globe's opinion pages
On November 3, 2009 By Dan KennedyIn Media4 Comments
Peter Canellos
In an apparent attempt to infuse the Boston Globe's opinion pages with a pop-culture sensibility, editorial-page editor Peter Canellos has announced that feature writer Joanna Weiss will be moving to the editorial board and writing a weekly column for the op-ed page.
Canellos also announced that editorial-board member Larry Harmon will begin writing a weekly column as well.
The full text of Canellos' e-mail to the staff follows.
I'm pleased to announce that Joanna Weiss, whose Globe career has spanned political writing, popular culture, and TV criticism, will be joining the editorial-page staff on November 16. She will be a regular member of the paper's editorial board and write a weekly op-ed column. A close observer of social trends and culture, and a bright, empathetic writer, Joanna will provide a vibrant new voice on our op-ed page, and an important new perspective on our daily editorials.
Joanna joined the Globe in 1999 from the Times-Picayune of New Orleans. She grew up in Maryland and is a graduate of Harvard University.
I'm also pleased to be able to add a weekly op-ed column by one of the longtime stars of our editorial board, Larry Harmon. He will remain a regular member of the board while bringing a new voice to the op-ed page. A lifelong Bostonian and graduate of Boston Latin School and Boston University, Larry joined the editorial board in 1992. He is the co-author of "Death of an American Jewish Community," the definitive account of the block-busting and red-lining of Mattapan in the '60s and '70s. Larry knows Boston from the street level, and will bring a neighborhood perspective to our op-ed page.
As the months go by, Marjorie Pritchard, Dante Ramos and I will continue to look for new voices to add to our op-ed pages, in print and online, to ensure the broadest and most provocative range of opinions.
Please join me in congratulating Joanna and Larry,
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