Tag Archives: Seth Lachterman

Thursday – 12/22/2016

Late start. Appointment for PT with Anna Marie Zeitsmann. Finally understand focus on upper back muscles. Got new headlamp for car. 

Lunch at Camea with Ole Breuning and Seth Lachterman about UTM matters. Good discussion. 

Worked more on Angry Old White Guy essay. Also some library emails about marketing.  Slow cooked beef for beef stew. 3 hrs at 215 degrees.

Spoke via Skype for 30 minutes w Torrey. He was hand holding a cellphone so his head bounced around during the whole conversation.  He and Jane are at their Christmas house above the beginning of the Great Ocean Road west of Melbourne  We talked about redefining human identity in contrast to the neoliberal concept.  Jane came into view at end  She announced that her doctors have pronounced her cancer free  Quite amazing for lung cancer that seemed quite late stage six months ago.

 

 

Friday – 12/16/2016

Temperature at 7 am.

Karen went to NYC. I worked on the volunteer management system for most of the morning. Brief conversations w Matt Almeida and Brigid Dorsey.

Left DOG closed  

Walked up to CMH for UTM mtg about the remote patient monitoring project. Very cold still. Mtg lasted until 4pm.

Walked down to Farmer &  Sons for HAL drinks with Board candidate Gary Sheffer. Miranda, Tessy, Carol Pledger & Lisa Dolan attended. He will add a lot to the Board.   

Karen returned at 8:30pm

 

 

 

Tuesday – 11/22/2016

New blood pressure cuff for CMH project.

New blood pressure cuff for CMH project.

Full day of work for UTM getting ready for Melville presentation tomorrow. 

img_4324Dinner st Dave Drake’s new apartment on New St in Catskill. SJ Williams and Pauline Decarmo came with us. Lots of talk about movies and books. Reviewed yesterday’s movie Moonlight.img_4328

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Dave’s apartment looks well fitted out including space for his painting work. 

Monday – 11/21/2016

Drove to Albany with Karen for visit with Dr. Rivard about hydrocele in left testicle. After one look and heft he said he wouldn’t try to talk me out of the operation. Now scheduled for 1/28/2017.

Started reading The Attention Merchants  img_4320

Went to movie, Moonlight. Very good.img_4321

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Fire station Delaware Ave. Albany NY

UTM telecon on the way back. Seth is possessed about Wednesday meeting with Melvilles. Talked further w Gayle Gendron about a couple of slides about benefits and marketing. 

Watched first of six part tv series The Night Manager. 

Friday – 11/11/2016

Went to Bob’s for breakfast, quite crowded because it is Veteran’s Day. Saw this on the way home. Thought of all the hissing pipes that we no longer have to worry about.

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Started work on Angry White Guy essay. Talked with Matt Almeida. Very brief. Seth Lachterman brought new blood pressure cuff by gallery. Read bits of Will in the World, a biography of Shakespeare. 

Wednesday – 12/2/2015 – new office completed, UTM, art opening CGCC

Up early. In office by 8:15 am. Still searching out solutions for problems with Macbook connecting with wifi. Other devices work well, but laptop has trouble connecting and varying speeds. From web search it is clear that my model, late 2013 13″ MBPR is a troubled model with regard to wifi.

Overly long telecon with UTM. Angie Keefer continues to be disciplined and quite good. Ole a bulldog. Seth defensive.

Did other nits. Set up physical therapy appointment for tomorrow at 7:30am.

Final paint on desktop in office. All work now done.

2pm UTM mtg at One City Centre with Seth and Ole to go over presentation to MHM law firm. Ole still doesn’t have details of how things work in his mind. Spole with Brandon Lachterman, send him invoice for work to date.

new fire staiurs in central lobby of One City Centre.

New fire stairs in central lobby of One City Centre.

Art Opening – CGCC

Went to see work my Maria Kolodziej-Zincio. Historical narrative of her parents during WWII.

Wednesday 10/7/2015

The True Size of Africa

Stumbled on this on Zite. Wrote blog posting and put it on Facebook: ”

“The True Size of Africa” – immappancy revisited”

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10072015-BagelTyme-Met with Seth at 11am – updated various projects: CMH, Deepankr, Belvedere. Came up with alternative proposal for them. Will see if they are interested. Lunch at Bagel Tyme. Had not been in there in five or six years. Peanut butter on whole wheat bagel.

Met with David Ackerman. Typical short meeting. Reviewed Randy Johnston mtg in Chicago. Need to find out about Ole’s project??

Worked on office project for rest of afternoon.

Played tennis at Total Tennis from 6:45 to 9pm.

 

Thursday – 10/1/2015

Work Decision

Woke up at 4:30 am. Decided that today was a good day to tell UTM, David and Seth, that my days with them are over at the end of the year. Got to bring this engagement to an end.

When I signed on formally with UTM in March 2014 you were aware of my involvement as a founder with my brother Ed in a start up medical devices company, Prescient Medical Devices, LLC (PrescientMedicalDevices.com). For a number of reasons we had put the development of the company on pause while we addressed some IP issues. This made it possible to make a commitment to UTM for a year which was the time frame we talked about at that time.

PMD is now restarting. My brother is making presentations to investors and we expect that these will be fruitful. This means that I need to position myself to focus most of my energies on PMD by the latest January 2016.

I suggest that we move the project of finding a sales/marketing person on to the front burner. You may have other priorities. Lets talk about how I can be most helpful.

Thanks,

Felt immediate relief from taking this step despite the deceptive statements about PMD. Nothing new is happening as far as I know on that front.

Problems in Basement

Controller on boiler

Controller on boiler

No heat. Waiting on plumber Ihlenburg.

Went to Belvedere Home Healthcare in Albany for UTM meeting. Good meeting gathering requirements. They will conduct a survey of potential users.

Back to Hudson for HAL Exec Comm lunch at Mexican Radio. Followed by mtg with David Murphy, Betsy Miller and T Parsons about upcoming hard hat tours of Armory for high rollers. Then, at 3pm meeting with Ann Rosenthal about her role as Chair of Program Committee. Smart, energetic, engaged…. big plus for library.

While Karen taught her online course I went to Bell’s Pint Nite at The Spotty Dog. After chatting up the regional sales rep for Bells I was given a Bell’s Pint glass. Also had good chat with Sherrie Jo Williams and Pauline DeCarmo and a couple of their friends.IMG_0916

Friday – 4/10/2015

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Agi Clark
Born: Budapest Hungary
Emigrated to the U.S. with parents on February 1957
Graduated from Christopher Columbus H.S. in the Bronx
BFA degree from Pratt Institute major Fine and Graphic Arts
 
Career in Advertising in NYC 1967-1991
Art Director at Pritchard Wood (British Airways, Jamaica, Indian Tourist Office, The Bahamas)
Creative Director Senior V.P.  at N. W Ayer (DeBeers Diamonds, AT&T, Kraft, J.C.Penney, Seven Up)
Chairman, Chief Creative Officer LGFE (New York Stock Exchange, Hennessy Cognac, Contel, Wall Street Journal)
 
Advertising Director for the Liberal Democratic Party (Alliance of Free Democrats)
in Hungary in the 1994 and 1998 elections.
Advertising for the Mayor of Budapest, Gabor Demszky 1994 and 1998
 
Moved to long time country house in 2000
Two photography exhibits one in Budapest, one at Hudson Opera House.
Established the magazine Hudson River Art (with Peter Barton) designed and produced it
Volunteered at John L. Edwards elementary school (mentored reading)
On the Board of the Hudson Library (can’t remember the year.)
 
One son, two grandchildren. Grandson second year at Berkeley California, granddaughter junior at Poughkeepsie Day School.
Very good meeting with Joe Keenan and Agi providing much new direction and content. Now will focus on creating overall messaging strategy. We will meet again next Friday.

 

UTM

– Raizlabs, Surge, Coherent Solutions, Gavant, all intro discussions. Seth called to tell me that he and David want me to take over the website project. Send letter to Alan Coon informing him of our disappointment and need for him to step in. Seth is altogether too emotional.

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Tuesday – 3/31/2015

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First DOG show of 2015 ready to hang

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First DOG show of 2015 ready to hang

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First DOG show of 2015 ready to hang

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Kay Kenny’s house

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Serious garden defenses at Kenny house

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Snow almost gone.

Lots of UTM work. Meetings with Jan and Seth and Eliel. Talked about the long overdue website. Seems that Seth and Eliel are flailing around and each other.

Cleaned up HAL Armory site and worked on new calendar plugin for HAL website.

Hung up the first DOG show. Went to Kay Kenny’s house in Saugerties to pick up her pictures. Had to break in thru screen door.