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DOJ 'Streisands' Its Own Prosecutor By Requesting His Name Be Removed From An Unflattering Court Opinion
from the coverup:-ur-doing-it-wrong deptNo matter how many Streisands get hoisted by their internet-aided petard, there's always another person or entity who thinks he/she/it can somehow bury unflattering information/photos/Facebook status updates.
In what is the latest (but certainly not the last) example of how wielding a bigass shovel only makes people more aware of your desperate burial attempts, a prosecutor for the Department of Justice was called out by name in a judicial bench slap for telling a "half-truth" in the courtroom:
Albert was criticized by the court for telling "a half-truth" during the trial - specifically, misrepresenting testimony from a prior proceeding while cross-examining the defendant at trial.Well, the DOJ wasn't too pleased with having their boy (Jerry Albert) being called out in the court's opinion and requested his name be replaced with the more innocuous this-could-be-anybody term "the prosecutor."
This misrepresentation resulted in a mistrial. The question presented on appeal was whether the prohibition on double jeopardy prohibited a retrial (a question that the panel decided in the government's favor).
[U]pon initial release of this opinion, the government filed a motion requesting that we remove Albert's name and replace it with references to "the prosecutor." The motion contended that naming Albert publicly is inappropriate given that we do not yet know the outcome of any potential investigations or disciplinary proceedings.Much like jabbing at a alligator with a stick, this only served to make the presiding Judge righteously pissed. Judge Carlos Bea went "all in" on his amended opinion, smacking around the DOJ for its presumptuousness:
The mistake in judgment does not lie with AUSA Albert alone. We are also troubled by the government's continuing failure to acknowledge and take responsibility for Albert's error.Now, not only is Jerry Albert's name tied to such bad-for-business terms like "mistrial," "misconduct" and "misrepresentation," but by simply pressing this point, the Department of Justice turned a mere footnote of interest only to those directly involved in the trial into a rapidly expanding Google bomb that links the DOJ with these same bad-for-business terms, along with other unflattering terms like "coverup" and "benchslap."
The Department of Justice has an obligation to its lawyers and to the public to prevent prosecutorial misconduct. Prosecutors, as servants of the law, are subject to constraints and responsibilities that do not apply to other lawyers; they must serve truth and justice first. Their job is not just to win, but to win fairly, staying within the rules. That did not happen here, and the district court swiftly and correctly declared a mistrial when Albert's misquotation was revealed.
And Judge Bea wasn't done yet, adding this crucial (and damning) paragraph to the benchslap/Streisandstorm:
We declined to adopt the government's suggestion and denied its motion. We have noticed that the U.S. Attorney's Office in Arizona regularly makes public the names of prosecutors who do good work and win important victories. E.g., Press Release, U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Arizona, "Northern Arizona Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Arson," (January 31, 2012).... If federal prosecutors receive public credit for their good works - as they should - they should not be able to hide behind the shield of anonymity when they make serious mistakes.Hell. Yes. Government representatives are always so quick to grab credit for anything tangentially related to their work, but good lord, they still seem to think that screwing up should somehow be rewarded with swift coverups and plausible deniability.
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Tape and recovery are synonymous. But it's the automation that libraries add to the base technology that make tape a viable road forward for storage managers.
The comparative low cost for backup and recovery ensures tape's continued use to keep up with the explosion of data. New tape technologies need to maintain pace with the increasing time and cost of backup/recovery. Even though redundant and/or remote disk mirroring has become less expensive, and thus more popular, due to its higher speed, tape is still the best solution for many businesses.
Best practices for recovery take a data snapshot from disk and write it to removable tape cartridges. Then the cartridges are sent to a safe, off-site archive. Tape overcomes single points of disk failure like software corruption cascading to the mirror or disasters, including sabotage, affecting both locations. For example, several companies mirrored from one World Trade Center tower to the other before Sept. 11. Others mirrored from their WTC tower to buildings across the street, which were also destroyed.
When using tape, a library is the most efficient method for fast, reliable backup and restoration of large amounts of data. Library automation provides economies of scale that individual drives can't by consolidating data, lowering total cost of ownership (TCO), reducing human intervention and error, simplifying backup and recovery, providing unattended lights-out backup and allowing a scalable growth path. Libraries' reduced administrative costs have a big impact on TCO. That effect is amplified by using a tape library in conjunction with a storage area network (SAN). But all tape libraries are not created equal, and choosing the right one requires extensive analysis (see "How to choose a tape library").
Tape library configuration
Before you can calculate a tape library's TCO, you need to choose the right combination of tape formats (see "A guide to tape formats") - which determines the capacity and transfer rate of individual drives - and the number of tape slots, which determines the total capacity of your library. The range available to you is quite broad: from autoloaders costing a couple of thousand dollars, to enterprise libraries in the hundreds of thousands of dollars (see "Scoping out tape library vendors").
The first step in automation is an autoloader. An autoloader, by definition, has one drive that typically serves seven or eight cartridges. An autoloader is good for unattended backup for a week or more for smaller companies. The newest versions are rack-mountable in a 2U format and have two drives - in case one fails. A library, in contrast, has more than one drive. Libraries range in size from small footprints up to room-size models comprised of chained-together libraries serving an entire enterprise. Libraries usually have express cartridge access to load an individual tape or groups of tapes. Larger libraries have bar code readers to inventory and keep track of tapes, magazine-style express slots and a host of other features.
Library vendors keep increasing system densities to decrease footprint. Another trend in library design is the use of auxiliary memory on cartridges for faster operation and more intelligent diagnostics. Libraries typically have a life of five to seven years and the tape drive technology may be upgraded during this time. All major computing platform environments are supported.
Libraries allow two or more drives to access a large number of cartridges. The transfer rate for the library is essentially equal to the transfer rate for a single drive multiplied by the number of drives, minus a little overhead, which all adds up to transfer rates of over a terabyte of data per hour. New formats and migration roadmaps associated with tape formats like LTO, S-AIT and SDLT, along with faster robotics, are raising the bar on capacities and transfer rates. Libraries are denser, smaller and faster than anyone thought possible a few years ago.
When sizing automation to an application, consider the ratio of drives to cartridges. For capacity, fewer drives are used. For transfer speed, more drives are used. Make sure that you have the actual transfer rate (less overhead) needed to meet your business recovery time objective.
Use TCO analysis to evaluate libraries
Vendors traditionally sold libraries via relationships, strong product features and functions. Users looked at TCO as the cost of hardware, software, maintenance contracts, power use and personnel to install, operate, manage and maintain an IT system - the technology TCO. As technology costs continue to drop and personnel and business costs continue to rise, business issues have assumed more significance and can no longer be left out of the TCO assessment.
Libraries should be selected based on how well they support the business TCO. The business TCO addresses the potential dollar cost/benefit to the user and business, showing how well the proposed library improves availability, performance and recovery cost impacts. Business costs have the greatest impact on a company's recovery from an outage and must be part of the TCO evaluation (see http://www.evaluatorgroup.com for a free white paper detailing TCO calculation).
You won't want to send a library back once installed, so include an on-site service contract in your calculations. Make sure you get the service level you need. It's a good idea to have a spare tape drive on hand: Will vendors provide a spare drive? Media cost can be the largest expense in large systems: Is there a special media purchase price bundle with a new library? Tapes can be reused, but need to be retired when they have been used for specified passes, or begin to show a rise in soft errors reported by the backup software. Include that in your TCO.
Choosing a tape format
There are more choices today for tape drives than ever before. There is no perfect format for all of your applications - you should consider the best choices for work groups, midrange systems, enterprise systems and specialized applications on their own merits. Unfortunately, the interchange capability of different tape technologies is nonexistent or extremely limited. There is interchange between vendors of the same type of devices. For practical reasons and safety, make sure the interchange is demonstrated and certified.
Comparing the capacity of different formats can be tricky. Most vendors offer data compression for tape systems built into the hardware. Also, independent software vendors (ISVs) provide compression. A typical loss-less data compression rate to use for estimation is two to three times, although the algorithms vary and the compressibility of data varies widely. Generally, business data compresses well, scientific data compresses poorly and systems data varies. To compare different tape technologies, always use native, uncompressed specifications. But you should also consider how cartridge construction, recording technology, software support and other tape characteristics meet your needs.
Cartridges.Tape cartridges come in two flavors, single reel and dual reel. Your choice will affect both the capacity and load time characteristics of the system.
The single reel tape cartridge has all the tape on one reel - the take-up reel is inside the tape drive unit. That saves space and cost in the cartridge, providing better alignment of the head assembly. The drive is larger - since the take-up reel is there - but the cartridge has more capacity per cubic inch because there is no empty space in the cartridge.
On the other hand, dual reel has a faster load time, which is the time from when a cartridge is inserted until the tape is ready for read or write of data. Single reel takes about one minute. Dual reel midpoint load is faster and can load in four seconds. In midpoint load, the cartridge has the take-up reel included and is always half empty. Put simply, choose single reel for capacity and dual reel for performance.
Recording technology. There are many ways that data is actually written onto the tape. The different formats have different characteristics in density, speed and reliability. Linear parallel recording writes multiple tracks simultaneously. Linear serpentine writes data in one channel along the tape and reverse and writes in the other direction on another channel. The cost of writing in serpentine is less expensive than linear parallel due to not having to have an expensive, parallel tape head. A third technology - helical scan recording - is similar to that used in consumer VCRs. Data is actually recorded in stripes at an angle across the tape by the rotating head.
Software support. Tape manufacturers maintain a close relationship with backup/recovery ISVs to ensure compatibility with their new products. A new tape product or library is not ready for use in the market until the ISVs port compatibility with their software and the popular operating systems.
Footprint. Tapes drives follow the computer industry trend demanded for a smaller footprint to reduce the real estate required for the device. Small form factor is key in lower end systems. Tape drives for midrange have been mostly in the 5.25-inch format, while enterprise class drives are larger. The 3.5-inch format is becoming popular in new midrange models to increase the number of drives in a library or to fit in an internal system bay.
Interconnects. There are many ways to connect tape drives to the system platform or host library. SCSI was the popular standard, but native Fibre Channel (FC) connections are increasing in importance, due to the popularity of network-attached storage (NAS) and SANs. Enterprise systems still use ESCON and the newer, faster FICON.
Auxiliary memory. Newer generation tape cartridges have non-contact, non-volatile memory chips that can be read by an RF reader. Metadata of where and what is stored and key diagnostics on these chips can provide vital information prior to loading the tape, increasing the degree of automation libraries can perform. Unfortunately, there is no auxiliary memory standard, which will frustrate automation providers and users until vendors get together and do the right thing. The new generation of tape drives or "super drives" such as LTO, Super DLT, AIT3 and Super AIT will have a dramatic affect on library automation (see "How new generation tapes change libraries" below). The increased cartridge capacity and transfer rate performance of super drives will increase the density and reduce the size of libraries, which will need fewer slots and less media.. That will help maintain tape's 60-fold cost advantage over disk, while providing faster data access to enhance applications
On the downside, super drives are not designed for the high duty cycles of the enterprise market. Enterprise class drives like StorageTek's 9840/9940 and IBM's 3480/90 should be used where duty cycles exceed 50%.
Tape libraries are great in SANs
Currently, the killer application for SANs is backup/recovery. Today, most SANs are connected by FC. The FC option on a tape drive costs more than SCSI. FC tape drives are needed in high-end library applications. Until the FC option cost comes down, it's less expensive to use routers and bridges to support multiple SCSI drives in a library. However, it is better to use native support than convert. Also, care must be taken to address the FC topology. For example, special ports or switches are needed that support arbitrated loop.
When using storage resource management software, make sure it's compatible with your tape library and HBAs, switches, and operating systems.Keep in mind that testing should be down to the firmware level. Don't mix and match - use tested, validated configurations. Once you arrive at a stable configuration, your tape library can aid in:
Serverless backup. Most backup software ISVs allow the tape drive to be the initiator in the SAN. Backup is much faster through a host and doesn't degrade the network.
Disaster recovery. SANs can be bridged or linked over large distances by iFCP, FCIP and soon, iSCSI. Even if you have redundant RAID, snapshots to a tape library are required as there are too many single points of failure such as software corruption, viruses and sabotage. Using the right backup software, a SAN can also split or duplex the write to a remote location.
SAN management and virtualization. Used to reduce the complexity and proprietary nature of SAN solutions. Tape, disk and memory strengths are blended and used proportionately to reduce cost. Tape is represented as an image on disk and then tapes are completely filled using volume stacking. StorageTek and IBM are the leaders in this market. SAN virtualization will become important.
Tape striping or redundant array of inexpensive taped (RAIT). This approach works for high bandwidth applications such as telemetry and seismic data. Currently, RAIT applications don't share data well in a SAN, due to EOT and other specific differences. Specialized software will be an important part of your tape library selection for this application.


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Concussion factor makes playoffs so many games of chance
In the misspent days of my television-watching youth in the 1950s -- this is so long ago that the remote control consisted of getting off the couch, crossing the room and turning the dial to one of the five other channels -- my favorite show was the after-school classic, The Mickey Mouse Club. (This Disney reference is only tangential to hockey, unlike Wayne Gretzky's 1984 off-the-cuff assessment of the Devils as a Mickey Mouse organization, and, of course, the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, but please stick with me.) The show's best day was Wednesday, known as Anything Can Happen Day. It's a memory, like Proust's madeleine, that flooded over me like hot Zamboni water recently during a chat with Predators coach Barry Trotz.
The topic was the coming playoffs and Trotz, currently settling in as a Nashville fixture that ranks somewhere behind the Grand Ole Opry and conspicuous religious faith, suggested that he had never seen a postseason so wide open. In most years, he said, a team or two would have separated from the pack during the regular season -- often Detroit and San Jose in the Western Conference, maybe Chicago in 2010 when it won the Stanley Cup. This spring, nothing.
In Trotz's view, the mere act of qualifying for the playoffs, earning that golden ticket, seemed to give a team almost as good a chance of winning the 35-pound spittoon as the next guy. The coach was on such a roll that it seemed impolitic to mention the Florida Panthers. Still it was difficult to quibble with the thesis.
Minus Annette Funicello and mouse ears, the NHL is poised to offer two-plus months of childhood Wednesdays in this Anything Can Happen spring.
There are so many questions:
• If wards-of-the-league Phoenix, which has not won a playoff series since 1987 when the franchise was in Winnipeg, wins four rounds, does Commissioner Gary Bettman present the Cup to himself?
• If Canucks goalie Roberto Luongo lets in a soft goal in the first period of Game 1 at home against the Kings, will someone need to squeegee his remains out of the blue paint?
• Can NHL CEO John Collins line up the Red Cross as a sponsor for the Pittsburgh-Philadelphia first-round series? Sidney Crosby is a Type A personality, but in this series we might learn if his blood type is O negative.
• Whose brain is going to be rattled first -- and worst?
Anything can happen in this glorious tournament, but one certainly will: a concussion.
Now, a team might choose to call it by another name -- flu-like symptoms is all the rage, an escape hatch from following prescribed NHL concussion protocols -- but the "c" word will enter the playoff equation at some point as surely as beards and stitches. The team with the most key players who can count backwards from 100 by three -- a rudimentary neuropsych test -- without lapsing into Mandarin or Portuguese has a real chance.
Welcome to the Concussion Lottery, 2012.
"There are so many things that have to go right for a team to win," says general manager Ray Shero, whose Penguins were Cup champions in 2009. "It's not necessarily the best team, best player, best goalie or best coach who wins. You have to be lucky, and you have to be healthy. Look at last year. Vancouver essentially ran out of healthy defensemen at the end. And in 2006, Buffalo had a great shot but (lost to Carolina in the Eastern Conference Final because it) wound up out of defensemen in that series, having to rely on a lot of minor league guys."
It is a given in the modern NHL, which is increasingly aware of the concussion scourge but virtually impotent in preventing head injuries, that a team is going to get its bell rung, figuratively, because of the intensity of four rounds of playoff hockey.
The question will be for whom that bell tolls.
This is about timing. Crosby and star defenseman Kris Letang returned from their concussions with enough games remaining in the regular season to reintegrate into the Penguins' lineup. (In Crosby's 14 games back after his most recent head/neck injury, Pittsburgh scored 63 goals.) The formerly concussed Alex Steen, adored in St. Louis and rarely mentioned outside the 314 area code, returned to the Blues with seven games left. He should be a factor as the playoffs crunch-along, especially if St. Louis, the only team that swept its first-roud opponent during the regular season, can nail shut the window of championship opportunity in San Jose.
So many marquee players, so many sheared axons.
(Flyers defenseman Chris Pronger, out since Nov. 20 with a head injury that will likely end his career, and Kings winger Simon Gagné, who has a history of concussion and has been shelved since late December, aren't even part of this discussion.)
The Blackhawks seemingly have learned to muddle through without Jonathan Toews, the fulcrum of their team, since the captain sustained a concussion on Feb. 19; Chicago lost just five games in regulation the rest of the season. Still, if he returns in the first round, a possibility, Chicago has an exponentially better chance of beating the Coyotes, who by this point are inured to the uncertainty surrounding their franchise.
Daniel Sedin, concussed by an elbow from Toews' teammate Duncan Keith, is expected to resurface for Vancouver's opener against Los Angeles, but there are no guarantees that his progress will continue in a straight line. With an effective Daniel joining twin Henrik on the top line, the Canucks (assuming Ryan Kesler, who has five points in his last 18 games, lifts his play close to the level of last spring) could again bring out the optimism in a fretful fan base and eventually the riot cops. If Daniel's brain takes a stutter step, the Canucks will struggle to get to the Western final.
Aaron Rome was one of the defenseman the Canucks missed last June because of his four-game suspension for a hit to Nathan Horton's head that prematurely ended the final for both of them. According to Bruins GM Peter Chiarelli, Horton is a long shot to come back during this year's playoffs after a 36-game absence caused by yet another concussion, this one sustained with a seemingly innocuous hit on Jan. 22 in Philadelphia. Not coincidentally, Boston's swoon began at about that time.
While Tim Thomas's decision not to attend the Cup dog-and-pony show at the White House did nothing for team unity, the more logical explanation for Boston's slide was that Horton's concussion obliged the Bruins to re-slot players who had been superb in their proper roles. Now Rich Peverley, part of a great third line, has to be a first-line right wing. The delicate balance of 2011, when Horton played with David Krejci and Milan Lucic as Boston tiptoed through a record three seven-game series, was ruined. The Bruins overcame the loss of Horton to concussion in the 2011 Cup final. That was four games. Four rounds is another question, although as Boston's second-line center Patrice Bergeron notes, "We need to play with the guys we have."
"It'd hard to put a percentage on (the role of health in playoff success)," says Red Wings captain Nicklas Lidstrom. "But it ranks right up there as the most important thing."
"We won some series early (with champion Tampa Bay in 2004) and got some rest," says Rangers center Brad Richards. "We were pretty much 100 per cent going into the final. (Being healthy) helped win us a couple of games."
When Crosby returned in November from his Jan. 1, 2011 headshot heard 'round the world, he looked like Superman flying through a window. In Return 2.0 last month, he appeared more like a great player simply walking through the door, someone who had a game to play but no point to prove. Crosby is one reason why Rangers GM Glen Sather has rightfully dubbed Pittsburgh as the favorite, but the concussion lottery is a game of chance.
The only hope is that the Stanley Cup Final is not a case of my neurologist can beat your neurologist.


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Tenants at Melbourne's Wholesale Fruit and Vegetable Market have until Friday to sign a lease agreement with the Victorian Government if they want to relocate to Epping.
The State Government is spending $500 million to close the current Footscray site and move the market to the city's northern suburbs.
But Shane Schnitlzer, president of FreshState, a group that represent the market's stallholders, says the rent rates on offer are too high.
"In an admission by the government affidavit material submitted to court, they are admitting that a large percentage of our traders will not be able to afford to go to Epping," he said.
"So if you knock out 50 per cent of our wholesale trade, effectively what's going to happen is 50 per cent more control over fruit and vegetables. The price will go up, consumers will pay more, end of story."
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Make Your Case: Creighton BluejaysPosted by nvr1983 on March 11th, 2009
As part of our ongoing quest to provide you with the best college basketball coverage in the nation, we have enlisted the help of some of the finest team-specific bloggers on the planet to help us. With the NCAA Selection Show coming up on March 15th there are still several teams on the proverbial "bubble". We figured it might be interesting to see what kind of nonpartisan arguments these bloggers could make for their team deserving a spot in the NCAA tournament. We welcome any discussion of their arguments and praise or criticism of their reasoning in the comment section. If your team is on the "bubble" and you would like to submit something, please contact us at email@example.com.
Creighton– Submitted by Patrick Marshall of Bluejay Basketball.
Creighton Profile
Record: 26-7
Record vs. RPI Top 50: 2-2
Record vs. RPI Top 100: 7-3
Best Wins: New Mexico (Home), Dayton (Home), Northern Iowa (Road), and Illinois State (Home)
Worst Loss: Drake (Home)
After last Saturday's blowout loss in the Semifinals of the Missouri Valley Conference to Illinois State, Creighton is one of those teams that is sitting squarely on the bubble. I am going to state my case as to why Creighton deserves to go to the NCAA Tournament over other bubble teams.
Creighton was favored to win the Missouri Valley Conference this season, and even though they had a slow conference start at 5-4, they started playing better as a team and reeled off 10 straight wins (including a Bracketbuster win against George Mason) to tie Northern Iowa for a share of the MVC regular season title. The Bluejays extended their winning streak to 11 with a first round win in the MVC Tourney against Wichita State in dramatic fashion, but then turned around and got blasted by Illinois State.
Last impressions are hard to erase from people's minds and the Illinois State loss will be a hard one for people to forget. However, statistical history is on Creighton's side. There has never been a team with 26 wins in the RPI top 100 that missed the NCAA Tournament. Also, the MVC regular season champion has made the NCAA tournament the last 15 years.


text: Dark Arts Nemaworkshop's transformation of the W New Orleans—French Quarter captures the charms and mysterious undercurrents of the city without skipping a beat on the hotel's signature style. 03/27/2013 By Erika Templeton Photography by Vincent Chih-Chieh Chin CONTACT & SOURCES What is New Orleans? It's the Big Easy, the birthplace of jazz and the levee—home to Bourbon Street, the po'boy and Louisiana voodoo. Whatever comes to mind, one thing is clear: the city of New Orleans has an undeniable voice all its own. Thanks to the tireless work of the staff at Starwood Hotels and Resorts, so does the W Hotel. As the chain moves forward with a comprehensive renovation strategy to update its North American portfolio, more than 10 W properties are set to complete renovations by February 2014. The recent transformation of the W New Orleans—French Quarter serves as an insightful microcosm of their efforts as they stay true to their own brand, while celebrating the distinct cultures of the cities where they operate. Nemaworkshop, an interior design and architecture firm based in New York City, led the full-scale renovation of the W New Orleans—French Quarter, which was unveiled in the middle of 2012. Principal Anurag Nema and his team worked closely with the W to create a narrative-based design that would gracefully merge the two distinct voices of the city and the hotel into one cohesive story. "The goal was that, while following the W DNA, by the time the project is done the design can be only New Orleans," Nema says. Thanks to the city's rich culture, the designers found so many stories they "almost created a whole book" during planning. The group spent much of their time meeting with locals and hotel staff, editing back ideas, and identifying clear synergies between the W and the city that would also create an alluring guest experience. Ultimately, they landed on a narrative about New Orleans' origins in jazz and voodoo—notions that blend seamlessly with the W's ties to adventure and energy. According to the initial design intent, "What binds these is that they are both unscripted and emerge from a mysterious underground. Like the city of New Orleans itself, they have their own internal logic which is intuitive, impulsive and spontaneous." It's quite befitting, too, for a firm like nemaworkshop, which is a strong proponent of a fluid, research-based design approach that allows stories to form organically as ideas come forward, rather than imposing a top-down design. The hotel features two distinct themes, Jazz and Tarot, which alternate floor by floor. All 97 guest rooms feature an eye-catching corner-wrapped image, which spans from floor to ceiling and continues on across part of the ceiling itself. Jazz room guests will find a close-up image of a trumpet, while Tarot room guests will see the queen of pentacles. In classic W fashion, each room also boasts clean lines in modern blacks and whites. Here, the hotel's signature style is mixed with gold tones and rich primary colors relevant to the design motifs. Jazz rooms are bright and vibrant like the music itself, with golden yellow walls and white lacquered furniture; tarot rooms are more dark and sultry, with deep blue hues and furnishings inspired by the famed New Orleans voodoo queen, Marie Laveau. How do you know you've hit the nail on the head? When hotel staffers familiar with voodoo practice refuse to enter. That was the challenge Nema faced when he started inviting local stakeholders into his mock-up room, which featured a portrait of Laveau. "We come from outside, we try to learn as much as we can and sort of pick what's interesting to us, but at the same time, we of course think of practicality and of the people," he says. Pages: 1 2 View All Related Articles MTS Partners with Stacy Garcia for 2 New Chair Collections Brentano's Latest Collection Draws Inspiration from their Founder [HD Expo] Hospitality Design Experts Weigh in on How Sensory Design Impacts Hotels


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Please click on the links below to access the past call information. Webinar to Discuss Implications of New Article on Quitlines and NRT Improving Adherence to Web-Based Cessation Programs: A Social Network ApproachIncorporating Social Media Technologies into Cessation ServicesWeekly Patterns in Usage of Tobacco Quit LinesWeb-assisted Tobacco Interventions: Recent Research on Online Support for Smokers Trying to QuitAsian Language Quitlines, A Multi-State or National Approach? Report From a Recent Study: African American use of the California Smokers HelplineUsing Telephone Quitlines to Treat Youth SmokersPractical Challenges and Promising Strategies for Adapting MDS Intake Questions for In-Person Cessation ProgramsImproving Canadian Quitline Reach and Integration: Methods to Evaluate the Impact of a Quitline Number on Cigarettes PackagesGathering Feedback From Members for a Research Quarterly Call SeriesDate: April 26, 2012Title: Webinar to Discuss Implications of New Article on Quitlines and NRT Speakers: Dr. Shu-Hong Zhu(University of California San Diego)andDr. Bruce Baskerville(University of Waterloo)Slides:Presentation Slides (Jessie Saul)BMJ Article - "Effect of offering different levels of support and free nicotine replacement therapy via an English national telephone quitline: randomized controlled trial"BMJ Article EditorialsQ&A:Webinar SummaryPosition StatementDescription: During the webinar, attendees discussed the implications of the recent article by Janet Ferguson et al. published in the British Medical Journal. The article, titled"Effect of offering different levels of support and free nicotine replacement therapy via an English national telephone quitline: randomised controlled trial,"described a 2x2 randomized study conducted in the UK comparing standard quitline care to proactive counseling, and provision of NRT to no NRT. The authors conclude that "offering free nicotine replacement therapy or additional (proactive) counselling to standard helpline support had no additional effect on smoking cessation."Presentations included a summary of the study design and findings, as well as formal responses from Dr. Shu-Hong Zhu(University of California San Diego)and Dr. Bruce Baskerville(University of Waterloo). Strengths and weaknesses of the study, as well as implications for quitlines in a North American context were discussed.»back to top
Date: March 8, 2012 Title: Improving Adherence to Web-Based Cessation Programs: A Social Network ApproachSpeaker:Amanda L. Graham, PhD, is Director, Research Development of the Schroeder Institute for Tobacco Research and Policy Studies at Legacy®Slides: please click hereCall recording: click hereQ&A: click hereDescription: Practical counseling, social support, and nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) are components of tobacco dependence treatment that increase the chances of cessation. Web-based interventions are a promising delivery channel for tobacco dependence treatment. Although millions of smokers use the Internet for cessation assistance each year, most users engage only minimally with even the best designed cessation websites, diminishing their impact due to limited exposure/use of effective treatment components (an insufficient "dose"). The goal of this study is to compare the effectiveness of two approaches to improve adherence to the elements of tobacco dependence treatment delivered via the Internet. Addressing adherence to Internet cessation programs is critical and timely to leverage the potential public health impact of this "broad reach" treatment modality. The proposed study is unconventional and innovative in its use of a social network intervention approach to improve both behavioral and pharmacological treatment adherence to enhance cessation outcomes.Speaker Bio: Amanda L. Graham, PhD, is Director, Research Development of the Schroeder Institute for Tobacco Research and Policy Studies at Legacy®. Dr. Graham also holds an appointment as Associate Professor (Adjunct) in the Department of Oncology at Georgetown University Medical Center and is a member of the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Graham's research interests are in understanding and increasing consumer demand for evidence-based cessation treatment interventions, particularly among smokers who might not otherwise access treatment. She has expertise in dissemination and implementation research as well as the development, implementation, and evaluation of tobacco dependence treatments across various modalities, including Internet, telephone, and tailored print.
»back to topDate: February 9, 2012Title: Incorporating Social Media Technologies into Cessation ServicesSpeakers: Jack Boomer, QuitNow Services Director, BC Lung Association and Frankie Best, Manager, Tobacco Control Program, British Columbia Ministry of HealthSlides: please click hereCall recording: please click hereQ&A: please click here Description: QuitNow Services, British Columbia's provincial cessation services, funded by the Ministry of Health and managed by the BC Lung Association. QuitNow Services include telephone, on-line, text and email support to people who want to quit smoking as well as tools and resources for family and friends of quitters and also tools, resources and videos to educate healthcare professionals. Since 2008, QuitNow Services has dabbled in social media and learned many lessons along the way. With over 2100 members on the facebook page (www.facebook.com/quitnowbc) and over 600 followers on twitter (www.twitter.com/quitnowbc), we continue to seek ways to exploit our social media resources.As of September 30, 2011, British Columbian's who smoke may call their HealthLine to receive up to twelve weeks of free patch and gum. All callers are referred and encouraged to use Quitnow Services. There has been a tremendous year over year increase in calls to QuitNow By Phone. The 14 week text messaging program, launched in January 2011, adds to the compliment of cessation services.In early September, 2011, QuitNow Services launched an enrolment database to helps better understand who enrolls in its services. Real time reporting on who is accessing services will be available for program planning and decision making.Jack Boomer and Frankie Best will talk about the lessons they learned to incorporate social media into their suite of cessation services, experiences they have had to date, and the impact of social media. They will identify potential research opportunities that may be of interest to the quitline community.For more information about the services provided in this Province, visit: http://www.quitnow.ca/index.php or follow us on facebook (www.facebook.com/quitnowbc) or on twitter (www.twitter.com/quitnowbc).Speaker Bios: Jack Boomer, QuitNow Services Director, BC Lung AssociationJack has more than 12 years of tobacco control experience working on smoke-free initiatives with the Ministry of Health and Worksafe BC, the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the BC Lung Association. He has worked on tobacco control issues with other jurisdictions in Canada, with a primary focus on cessation. Frankie Best, Manager, Tobacco Control Program, British Columbia Ministry of Health Frankie has 18 years experience with the BC provincial government, the last 12 in public health. She believes in providing exceptional service to British Columbians and more recently has developed a new passion in Social Media, as a way of reaching key audiences.
»back to topDate: November 10, 2011Title: Weekly Patterns in Usage of Tobacco Quit LinesSpeaker: Morgan Johnson, MPH, Project Director, The Monday CampaignsSlides: to download the slides for the presentation, click hereCall recording: to download the audio recording from the presentation, click here Q&A: to download the questions and answers from the presentation, click hereDescription: Very little research has been conducted on the day-to-day fluctuations in health behaviors. For tobacco cessation in particular, insight into behavioral patterns may be valuable for determining how to optimally time interventions to reach the most people and sustain behavior change. New evidence suggests that there are consistent weekly cycles in usage of tobacco quit lines. Studying these cycles may help us streamline quit line programs by more efficiently allocating quit line resources at certain optimal times, as well as showing us when is the best time to promote these programs to capture the most tobacco users. This presentation will walk participants through the evidence for these weekly patterns and what the results contribute to our knowledge of quit lines and how to improve them.Speaker Bio: Morgan Johnson serves as a Project Director and analyst with The Monday Campaigns: an organization dedicated to promoting the beginning of the week as a key day for health promotion. As a public health practitioner, Morgan has worked on a wide variety of health topics, from obesity prevention to violence and emergency management. Prior to her work with The Monday Campaigns, Morgan served as the lead trainer for community-based data analysis and disaster response for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Before working with the city, she spent several years developing and implementing and evaluating public health mobile data collection networks in North Carolina for use in community assessments and disaster response.
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Date: Thursday, September 8, 2011Title: Web-assisted Tobacco Interventions: Recent Research on Online Support for Smokers Trying to QuitSpeaker: Peter Selby MBBS, CCFP, MHSc, FASAM Clinical Director, Addictions Program Head, Nicotine Dependence Clinic, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Associate Professor, Departments of Family and Community Medicine, Psychiatry and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of TorontoSlides: to download the slides for the presentation, click hereCall recording: to download the audio recording from the presentation, click hereDescription: The delivery of smoking cessation intervention can be challenging in most practice settings. Several methods have been explored by our team as well as others in how best to engage practitioners to deliver smoking cessation intervention to their patients/clients, and also in how to reach smokers directly. Telephone-based mass distribution of cessation resources has a demonstrated ability to reach very large number of smokers, and has been implemented in both the United States and Canada. The utility of the internet also holds much promise in reaching large number of smokers. In North America about 80% of the population, 16 years of age and older, use the internet and about 80% of them have searched for information on health. We have implemented a study, where treatment-seeking smokers from across the province of Ontario were able to enroll via the study website to receive smoking cessation medication and counseling support. The participants were made aware of the provincial quitline and provided with resources developed by the quitline. In two other related studies, the online enrollment strategy was successfully coupled with pharmacist- and physician-led behavioral intervention. This presentation will present this innovative online enrollment strategy and outcomes related to reach and effectiveness of the intervention. The presentation will aim to demonstrate that web-based smoking cessation intervention approaches ensure wide reach and ease of recruitment with little to no decrease in effectiveness. The costs and staffing associated with this method are minimal and the method can be readily combined with services offered by the quitlines.Speaker Bio: Peter Selby MD. is the Clinical Director of the Addictions Program and Head of the Nicotine Dependence Clinic at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). He is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Family and Community Medicine, Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. He is the executive director and creator of the TEACH project - a continuing education certificate program in Applied Counseling for Health with a focus on smoking cessation, through the University of Toronto. Dr. Selby's research, as a Principal Investigator at the Ontario Tobacco Research Unit, includes smoking cessation especially in smokers with co morbid conditions, and web-based interventions, and as a Principal Investigator of the STOP study, investigations include the effectiveness of NRT and medications in different types of intervention settings. He helped start the program for pregnant substance using women at St. Joseph's Health Centre providing both addiction medicine and obstetric care. He continues his clinical research with pregnant women who use substances and is the PI of a knowledge translation program (PREGNETS) to increase the adoption of evidence-based interventions with pregnant smokers. »back to topDate: Thursday, August 11, 2011Title: Asian Language Quitlines, A Multi-State or National Approach? Speaker: Shu-Hong Zhu, PhD, University of California, San DiegoSlides: to download the slides for the presentation, click hereCall Recording: to download the audio recording from the presentation, click hereQ&A: to download the questions and answers from the presentation, click hereDescription: Dr. Shu-Hong Zhu will present preliminary results and lessons learned from his ongoing Asian Language Quitline Study. The study is being conducted to examine the feasibility of providing Asian Language quitline services through a central service provider, the University of California San Diego. UCSD and the California quitline have been providing quitline services in Korean, Vietnamese, Cantonese, and Mandarin to California smokers, and through this research study have been expanding the services they provide to other state quitlines. The presentation will focus on the process of setting up service provision to other state quitlines, and the outcomes they have observed to date. Lessons learned will also be discussed. Speaker Bio: Shu-Hong Zhu, Ph.D. is a Professor at the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego and the Director of the UCSD Center for Research and Intervention in Tobacco Control (CRITC). Dr. Zhu's research focuses mainly on smoking behavior and interventions for smoking cessation, with a bent towards population-based studies. He has been the Principal Investigator for the California Smokers' Helpline since its inception in 1992. The Helpline is internationally recognized for its scientific innovation and its dedication to the dissemination of research findings to public health services. A psychologist with a strong background in methodology, Dr. Zhu has published on behavioral intervention as well as experimental design. He has won many awards, including the 2010 Beverlee Myers Award for Outstanding Leadership and Accomplishments in Public Health and the 2010 APHA Excellence Award from the American Public Health Association. He consults widely with various health and governmental agencies, has been a consultant for the WHO and the World Bank on Tobacco Control Initiatives in the Western Pacific Region, and has worked extensively with Asian colleagues on designing, implementing, and evaluating tobacco control efforts. »back to topDate: Thursday, July 14, 2011Title: Report From a Recent Study: African American use of the California Smokers Helpline Speaker: Phil Gardiner, DrPH, Tobacco Related Disease Research Program Slides: to download the slides for the presentation, click hereCall Recording: to download the audio recording from the presentation, click hereQ&A: to download the Question & Answers from the presentation, click hereDescription: Phil Gardiner will present the results of a study comparing utilization rates of the California quitline by African-American smokers to those of white smokers. Eighteen years of quitline data were analyzed for the study, including over 61,000 African American and over 279,000 white smokers. The study found that within the context of California's comprehensive tobacco control program, which includes a strong media campaign, African-American smokers were significantly more likely to call the state quitline than white smokers. Dr. Gardiner will discuss the reasons for African Americans greater participation with the quitline and what additional efforts apart from the quitlines are necessary to lower African American smoking rates in California. Speaker Bio:Dr. Gardiner is a Public Health activist, administrator, evaluator and researcher. For the past 25 years, he has worked on studies ranging from Hypertension, Multiculturalism and AIDS, to Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Diabetes and Smoking. Dr Gardiner received his Doctorate in Behavioral Sciences from the University of California at Berkeley, where he focused on Youth Violence as a public health issue. Through out his research career, Dr. Gardiner has maintained his community activism to address racial disparities in health, through writing, organizing, evaluating and public speaking. For the past 15 years, Dr. Gardiner has lectured around the country on African American health disparities generally and menthol smoking in the Black Community, particularly. Currently, Dr. Gardiner is the Social & Behavioral Sciences and Neurosciences and Nicotine Dependence Research Administrator for the Tobacco Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP), University of California Office of the President. Dr. Gardiner was a member of the national Steering Committee for National Conference on Tobacco Or Health in 2009 and was the national co-chair for the 2nd Conference on Mentholated Cigarettes which was held in Washington D.C. in October 2009. Dr. Gardiner is the co-editor of the Society for Nicotine and Tobacco special Journal Supplement that came out of the conference, Menthol Cigarettes: Toward a Broader Definition of Harm. Dr. Gardiner, along with Dr. Pamela Clark wrote the lead article for the above mentioned journal, making a strong case for the banning of mentholated cigarettes: http://ntr.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/ntq176? ijkey=g10fjZI5OeKdPz5&keytype=ref Dr. Gardiner is an adjunct faculty member at Touro University in Vallejo, a graduate medical college, where he teaches a course on Health Disparities. Dr. Gardiner is also the leader of an independent consultant firm, Gardiner & Associates, whose main evaluation work has centered on health disparities. And lastly, Dr. Gardiner is Co-Chair of the African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council (AATCLC), a group of Black professionals dedicated to fighting the scourge of tobacco impacting the African American community in California and Nationally. »back to topDate: June 9, 2011Title: Using Telephone Quitlines to Treat Youth SmokersSpeaker: Art Peterson, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Slides: to download the slides for the presentation, click hereCall Recording: to download the audio recording from the presentation, click hereDescription: Quitlines have a long-standing goal and interest in continuing to extend smoking cessation services to reach more smokers. An obstacle has been the limited scientific evidence for effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions specifically geared toward youth. Collaborating with 50 high schools, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center recently completed a large (n=2,151) long-term randomized trial to evaluate proactive telephone counseling (1) for reaching youth, and (2) for effecting cessation1,2. In this presentation, Art Peterson of the FHCRC will describe the trial and its results. The favorable results for both reach and effectiveness may present a possible new opportunity for quitlines to further extend quitline services to youth and young adults. (1) Peterson AV, Kealey KA, Mann SL, Marek PM, Ludman EJ, Liu J, Bricker JB. Group-Randomized Trial of a Proactive, Personalized Telephone Counseling Intervention for Adolescent Smoking Cessation. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2009;101(20), 1378-1392. (2) Kealey KA, Ludman EJ, Marek PM, Mann SL, Bricker JB, Peterson AV. Design and Implementation of an Effective Telephone Counseling Intervention for Adolescent Smoking Cessation. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2009;101(20), 1393-1405.Kealey KA, Ludman EJ, Mann SL, Marek PM, Phares MM, Riggs KR, Peterson AV Jr. Overcoming barriers to recruitment and retention in adolescent smoking cessation. Nicotine Tob Res. 2007;9(2):257-70. Speaker Bio: Arthur V. Peterson, Jr., Ph.D., Full Member, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Public Health Sciences Division, Cancer Prevention Research, and Professor of Biostatistics, University of Washington, has worked as a cancer prevention scientist, biostatistician, and professor at the Hutchinson Center and University of Washington since 1976. His experience includes the analysis of correlated endpoint data; the design, conduct, and analysis of group randomized trials. Dr. Peterson has a Ph.D. in Statistics from Stanford University. Dr. Peterson has served as Director and Biostatistician of two major long-term group-randomized trials in youth smoking prevention/cessation: the Hutchinson Smoking Prevention Project (1984-2000), and the Hutchinson Study of High School Smoking (2000-2009). »back to topDate: May 12, 2011Title: Practical Challenges and Promising Strategies for Adapting MDS Intake Questions for In-Person Cessation Programs Speakers:Lija Greenseid and Anne Betzner, Professional Data Analysts Slides: to download the slides from the presentation, clickhereCall recording: to download the audio recording from the presentation, click hereDescription: Since the development of the Minimal Data Set for evaluating quitlines (MDS), tobacco control programs have wrestled with the question of whether, and how, to standardize intake and follow up questions across different types of cessation programs, such as in-person tobacco cessation counseling. Professional Data Analysts, Inc. is an independent evaluation firm currently working with five state quitlines to conduct their evaluations, and has been involved with the process of using the MDS for other types of cessation programs. Interestingly, the resistance from in-person programs (funders, staff, and other stakeholders) to embrace changing their intake processes and using MDS questions has been more of a challenge than the technical aspects of using the MDS for non-phone-based interventions. In this presentation, they will describe the challenges they have encountered and the strategies they have used to work with in-person programs to get MDS questions incorporated into their intake processes, such as modifying MDS questions to fit the local context and resources and working with funders and/or program staff to gain buy-in. They will also describe some of the technical aspects of the process (e.g., going from phone to paper intake administration). Speaker Bios: Lija Greenseid is a senior evaluator with Professional Data Analysts, Inc. She is the project manager for the evaluations of ClearWay Minnesota's QUITPLAN Helpline telephone stop-smoking program, quitplan.com web program, and in-person cessation counseling program serving American Indians in the state. She also manages the evaluation of a statewide in-person cessation program sponsored by the Florida Department of Health. Anne Betzner is a Vice President of Professional Data Analysts, Inc. She manages evaluations of tobacco control programs for the states of Hawaii and Connecticut, both of which include quitlines and in-person cessation counseling programs. She also manages the evaluation of cessation media for the state of Florida. »back to topDate: April 14, 2011 Title: Improving Canadian Quitline Reach and Integration: Methods to Evaluate the Impact of a Quitline Number on Cigarettes PackagesSpeaker: Bruce Baskerville, PhD, Senior Scientist, Propel Centre for Population Health Impact Note: for details on the speaker and topic, click hereSlides: to download the slides from the presentation, click hereCall summary: to download the summary of the presentation and Q&A's from the call, click here»back to topDate: November 23, 2010Title: Gathering Feedback From Members for a Research Quarterly Call SeriesSpeaker: N/ANote: To view the November 23rd call agenda, click here. For a summary of the pre-call survey, click here. Slides: to download the slides from the presentation, click hereCall summary: to download the summary of the presentation, click here.
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The mourning dove was named the state symbol of peace in 1971. Mourning Doves are named for their familiar song, a low moaning "cooah, coo, coo, coo." The males and females look very similar, but the males can be larger and more colorful with a bluish cap and a pink chest. Mourning Doves measure about 12 inches with a slim body, grayish-brown backs, buff-colored undersides, black spots on the wings and behind the eye, and white feathers in the tail which can be seen in flight. Look for their small head and a long, pointed tail. Listen for their wings to "whistle" as they fly.
These doves are one of the most abundant and widely distributed birds in North America, and Wisconsin. Listen for their cooing as the sun goes down and look for them on telephone wires, on at your bird feeder and in forested areas throughout the year. These doves are more abundant in the southern two-thirds of the state.
The mourning dove breeding season is long, from April to September, but most nesting happens from May until August. Doves build a platform of loose twigs and grass in trees or shrubs at about 10-30 feet above ground. In wooded areas, elms and maples are preferred and in open areas, they like lines of coniferous trees (spruce trees) and windbreaks for nesting. Mourning doves lay two white eggs per clutch (a nest of eggs) and raise between two and five clutches per year. Both parents take part in incubating the eggs and caring for the young. In the first weeks, mourning dove hatchlings are fed crop milk or "pigeon milk," which is secreted by the crop lining in both the male and female. It is extremely nutritious - more than cow's milk! Young doves, or "squabs," hatch without feathers and grow fast, increasing their weight by 14 times within 15 days of age. Young can survive on their own at five days after leaving the nest and most leave the nest area within two to three weeks of fledging. Mourning doves usually do not live long and may not survive for more than one year because of predators, disease, accidents, hunting and weather extremes.
Doves like weed seeds such as pigweed, foxtails, wild sunflower, and ragweed. They also like grains that include corn, sorghum and millet. Insects are also a side dish in the dove's diet. Doves will travel two to eight miles for food.
Wisconsin has two sub-species of Mourning dove that look almost alike. Some of them migrate to wintering grounds and others stay in Wisconsin all winter.
This bird species is currently hunted in Wisconsin, along with many states. They have been hunted for many years throughout the United States and continue to be one of the most abundant birds in North America.


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PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 11, 2012 – Thanks to generous support from sponsors and employees, Delaware Investments raised $116,950 this year in its charity golf outing — the Delaware Investments® Charity Classic — for Rock to the Future. In addition, its parent company's foundation, Macquarie Group Foundation, is matching $100,000 of the funds raised for a total donation to Rock to the Future of $216,950.
Rock to the Future is a youth development organization that provides free music education and tutoring to lower-income Philadelphia students. Through music training and tutoring, the program helps local students increase academic performance and establish positive lifestyle choices.
Through eight years of golf tournaments, the Delaware Investments Charity Classic has raised $1,340,255 for local organizations. Previous beneficiaries include:
"We've been located in Philadelphia for more than 80 years, and we're thrilled to hold this event in support of the local community," said Patrick P. Coyne, president, Delaware Investments. "Working with our partners to support these great organizations is something we're truly proud to do each year."
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We've had about four inches of snow, which seems to be hanging around a bit. It is not terribly cold, but this brings its own problems. The snow was a bit soft yesterday and it started sticking to my clog soles. The wooden, unsoled part in the middle welds to slightly damp snow, and then builds up, in the same way as how children roll large snow balls for snowmen. Add a few shavings and pretty soon you're a couple of inches taller, until one falls off and then your limping!
I believe there is a dialect word for these clods of snow, but I'm blowed if I can find it. Any ideas anyone?
We had the return of a little sun in the afternoon which was very welcome, it having been rather cloudy for many days.
The last slab of the oak butt I milled attracted the attention of a cafe proprietor, so I've been working that up for a couple of food presentation boards with my usual knife-tooled finish.
In the background you can see some progress on the green oak bench I'm working on. It has a lower back than the last two. I need to get the trailer down into the woods when the snow melts so I can level the legs in, the front two need taming a bit from their current wild splay.
Felling again today. I have a new camera that takes pretty decent video – it looks really good on a big TV screen, but this extract is compressed for ease of downloading so quality is just ordinary. Spot the inattention just before it finally goes down. Tut, tut! On this day that was the only tree to fall in one, all other three had to be hand winched down – I'm sparing you the endless video with a click, click, click sound track.
Not wildly exciting. Today (it took a little while to load up the video) I've been felling on the slopes above where the video was taken, rather more snow now, melting stuff. Keeping a footing is rather important, and the escape route is vital. I did a lot of dragging timber to the ride, and left some pieces long to fit on the Landy roof rack, I'm not taking the trailer in until the weather improves. I got the Land Rover a little stuck last week and ended up winching a rock out of the way so I could get home.
I leave the brash piles as shelter for wildlife. Not that all wildlife is the forester's friend:
The top of this sycamore had been de-barked by squirrels, the upper one in a full ring and killed the lead growth.


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