Todd Allen will introduce Eric Benn who will tell us how we are being spied on from space. Eric had a career of 38 years in the national Intelligence Community, specializing in remote sensing and analysis of data from imagery collection systems that included an analysis of imagery from satellites, drones & unmanned aerial vehicles, aircraft, and various other sources. See what pictures he has of your backyards!  

 

 

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The Zoom Room opens at 11:45 AM.  After the Pledge of Allegiance and opening Password Todd will introduce our speaker. 

 

They are recorded in “speaker view” which means if you do ask questions during the Q and A session you will appear on screen unless you disable the camera. 

 

 

Kathy Geraghty offered a Happy Dollar in honor of her family who planned a memorable COVID 19 Birthday party for her on Valentines’ Day. 

 

The Raffle Management Team (RMT) awarded its $10 in-kind donation to Willing Hands to Ginia Allison and Wayne Gersen for her response to a question regarding his favorite reading material. 

 

 

REMINDER: Here’s the link to make your donation in lieu of paying for meals at Jesse’s AND the place to donate your Happy Dollars! As Todd announced at the meeting last week, the funds will be earmarked for Willing Hands. https://hanovernhrotary.ejoinme.org/COVID-19.

 

 

Wayne Gersen introduced his son-in-law, Alex Thurman, who used this presentation to describe the trove of information he’s assembled on COVID 19 as part of the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC)’s effort to serve as a clearing house.  Alex reported that at the beginning of 2020 the IIPC expected to generate lots of internet traffic because they served as the primary source for aggregating information on the Tokyo Olympics. But by mid-April is was evident that the COVID coverage would swamp the Olympics… and with over 10,000 different citations it was the largest collection ever. And if you have a website you would like to nominate for the IIPC’s COVID collection, just click here and take five minutes to complete the form. Alex would be pleased that I was able to use internet links to provide a succinct description of his professional work. 

 

A report on Alex’s latest amateur internet project appeared in this morning’s Daybreak: an illustrated catalogue of gravestones in Green-Wood Cemetery. This is what happens when a Scrabble and crossword devotee gets a camera and can only walk close to home: Marsh. Spring. Bay. Beach. Haddock. Salmon. Seal.... All ordinary words that happen to be names that also happen to be the names on gravestones in Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery. Alex Thurman is lead archivist with the International Internet Preservation Consortium and an amateur photographer (and the son-in-law of former Dresden supt. Wayne Gersen). He started walking through the historic cemetery's 478 acres last year, and one day took some pics of gravestones with names that were also words... and then found a lot more and launched "Green-Wood Glossary: a wording expedition." 

 

 

March 3 – Todd Allen will introduce Tracy Hutchins from the Upper Valley Business Alliance who will give us some insights on how the pandemic is playing out in our region.

 

March 10 – Len Cadwallader introduces Jim Rubens whose talk, American Promise, will offer some ideas on how to take money out of politics.

 

March 17 – Dick Podolec will introduce Phil Hanlon, Dartmouth College President, who’s talk scheduled for election day was moved to this date. 
 

March 24 – Todd Allen introduces Christine Pederson who will tell us about the Easter Seals campaign in New Hampshire

 

March 31 – Todd Allen brings Noel Pauili, a Senior Scientist at Adimab to tell us about his firm’s efforts to “…turn good molecules into best in class molecules”.  

 

We’re now booked through May but have open dates from June forward…. Do YOU have any ideas for speakers to fill in the blanks? We’d love to hear them! 

 

Wayne Gersen