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To the Editor:
In November of 2006, Tennessee voters overwhelmingly approved an amendment to the State Constitution to allow county and city governments to implement a senior citizen property tax freeze program. This program is not a government handout, but a way to offer the elderly residents, many on fixed incomes, protection from large, unaffordable property tax increases during the twilight years of their lives. Despite the voters approving this program state-wide, the law requires that the county commission vote to implement the program at the local level before it benefits us here.
The Cannon County Commission has yet to implement this program to protect the elderly home owners of our community, despite numerous other counties across the state implementing the Senior Tax Freeze Program. Most of the surrounding counties including Coffee, Smith, Wilson and Rutherford Counties, have already implemented this program to benefit their seniors. Why has the Cannon County Commission not even discussed or voted on this program yet? The majority of the senior citizens of his community have worked hard all their lives, raised their families, and many now cannot work anymore due to health problems that come with age, thus many of them live on very fixed incomes.
Large property tax increases can make our elderly have to choose between buying food and medicine or going without so they can pay for their land tax bill and keep their homes from being taken from them by the government. Should we not at least consider a program that would freeze property taxes at their current level for some of the most vulnerable of our community? Many of the citizens that would benefit from this program are our parents, grandparents and great uncles and aunts that raised and protected us as children. Now that they are advanced in years, do they not deserve our help? Please contact your county commissioners today and encourage them to implement the Senior Citizen Property Tax Freeze Program before they consider another large property tax increase.
Randall Reid
Woodbury, TN


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Binnacle List - A ship's sick-list. A binnacle was the stand on which the ship's compass was mounted. In the eighteenth century and probably before, a list was given to the officer or mate of the watch, containing the names of men unable to report for duty. The list was kept at the binnacle.


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The most extraordinary event of my life. That is a bold statement coming from a guy who has catered for the worlds elite athletes at two Olympic Games, operated the most incredible catering contracts on the planet and is now living in rural Oxfordshire.
My affiliation with PAL grows each day. The foundation was publicly launched, at Soho House New York, on the roof top last Friday night. Hundreds of guests turned up for the most wonderful event in the city.
Whilst I may have met the most incredible people, innovators, leaders, change managers and though meisters the entire focus was on the cause. Founder Conor McCreedy made a passionate speech and the crowd were enthralled at the video which followed.
I am thrilled we inducted new ambassadors on the night and unveiled our official video. The pride has come together, now we need to take it to you, the rest of the world.
Look at the launch video here to see the truth behind the cause and what you can do to help.
PAL Ambassadors at the New York Launch
To all those who attended, thank you.
We are busy planning our next launches in Cape Town and in the United Kingdom, at the most incredible venues you can imagine!!
Don't forget you can order your McCreedy Blue PAL bracelet of support from the Lianne Landman Collection.
Watch this space for exciting news and developments as they happen


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Here are a few new items that I have made and added to my shop TLC Creations.
I am sorry if you want this necklace, it sold minutes after listing, but I have several other owl items and pretty things available. Don't forget when you buy 3 items you get 1 FREE!
No Coffee No Workee!
Happy shopping!


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Why DC8? DC8 was designed for transferring your old vinyl records to CD's, doing 78 or cylinder restorations, cleaning up old radio shows, and even restoring your old reel-to-reel tapes. You can record, edit and playback alls kinds of files with the right tools to restore them to their original (or better) lustre. DC8 can be your audio media center.
Diamond Cut DC8 builds on the solid DC7 foundation and adds many new features to make it a "State of The Art" audio restoration system. We have again listened to our customers and added enhancements to many aspects of the program . We have improved the click detection and replacement with the addition of our Big Click Filter, added new audio enhancement filters and updated the CD burning capability with a full featured CD and DVD burner. We have added direct support for many more file types like Broadcast Wave, Ogg Vorbis and FLAC files.
Be Sure to check out our before and after page for some dramatic examples of what DC8 can do!
Here is a list of DC8's features:
Big Click Filter (NEW)
|The Big Click filter automatically detects and repairs clicks lasting much longer than the standard click algorithm. Clicks lasting 100's of milliseconds can now be effectively found and repaired automatically. The big click filter uses our new spectral interpolation algorithm for a dramatically better repair than you ever thought possible.
Overtone Synthesizer (NEW)
The Overtone Synthesizer Filter generates an octave higher harmonics to add life to "dull" or limited bandwidth recordings. This effect is different and complementary to our VVA harmonic enhancer. See below for an example of what it can do:
Sub Harmonic Synthesizer (NEW)
The Sub Harmonic Synthesizer adds bass or sub-bass an octave below the exiting low frequencies. You can use it to add impact to almost any recording or to re-construct a lower octave that may have been missing in a restored original.
To see what can be done to an old cassette recording, listen to the following before and after recordings.
DVD Burner (NEW)
|DC8 Includes a DVD burner so you can burn CD's, DVD's or Blu-Ray disks to backup your work. The data burner works with ISO9660 or Joliet file systems and can burn Track-At-Once or Disk-At-Once modes with single or multi session disks.
Continuous Noise Filter with
The Continuous Noise filter is used for getting rid of constant background noise such as hiss and surface noise.
Our new technology reduces the aliasing and artifacting that sometimes affects the quality of the sound when you're pushing the Continuous Noise Filter to its limits. As you increase the power and amount of filtering on a tough file, in the past, you could generate new noise called artifacting. This machine-like ghosting was quite annoying and we'll be very happy to see it showing up much less in our restorations. Artifact suppression mode helps you push the Continuous Noise Filter harder without yielding these disturbing results!
The CNF filter also features an adaptive mode, This intelligent filter adapts itself to the changing nature of the noise in your file. As it gets smarter, your noise disappears.
|Skin System (NEW)
|You can now change the overall appearance of DC8 to suite your mood or visual preference. We have included the ability to use the Windows Skins to change the style of the various screen elements that make up visual style. We have included a base set of styles and you can add your own.
DC Tune Library Database
This is cool new feature that increases both the power of DC8 and the uses for the product. The Tune Library is a database view that now lets you store, audition, and catalog your entire collection...all within the familiar confines of DC8. You can build playlists, burn CDs, track every single audio file on your computer...without ever having to copy it to one folder! It supports MP3, WMA, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis and your wave files all in the same environment and makes it easy to organize your entire portfolio of audio.
Best of all you can play all of your music through any of DC8's filters or effects without going into waveform editing mode. With DC8 you can now play, or shuffle playback all files thru the multifilter with a different preset for each tune.
Virtual Phono Preamp
|This novel new approach to RIAA equalization offers more accuracy and better sound to any record type. The Virtual Phono Preamp works great in conjunction with our flat phono preamps and offers you the best possible approach and most accurate EQ ever developed for vinyl restoration. This powerful new approach also includes a 3-band EQ, gain adjustment, balance controls and a 30 Hz Rumble filter to make recording your files a breeze...no matter what setup you present to DC8.
The Multi-Filter with LIVE Feedthrough
You can select multiple different filters (up to 20) to apply to your audio in one filter pass. You can apply click and hiss removal to clean up your file and then, in that same session, add some reverb and equalization to enhance your final product. This is a great time saver because you can handle many tasks in one single pass through your audio.
EZ Clean
|One click noise reduction. Even the most inexperienced user can clean their treasured vinyl and tape recordings with one click of the mouse. DC 8 includes a powerful new automated system that seeks and destroys clicks, pops, hiss, hum and other disturbances common to older recordings.
Easy DeClick and DeCrackle(Improved)
This is an "easy to use" click and pop noise reduction filter. I works great on all but the most difficult material and has been optimized to find the most common types of impulsive noises. With DC8 you can also remove Big Clicks in one pass with the Ez Declick filter.
For DC7, we improved just about every facet of our Impulse filters and you'll notice enhancements down the line with every slider you move...but most importantly, we've added a new checkbox that makes special consideration for brass and strong vocal passages that used to confuse the filters and remove good audio. With this new enhancement, you can push the Impulse filters to new heights and achieve even better results over competing products.
Punch And Crunch
This cool feature is a four band dynamic expander (punch) and compressor (crunch). It is a great method for breathing new life back into recordings or mastering your own recordings to sound best on the radio. This has been enhanced in Version 7 with an additional band (4 instead of 3), variable frequency crossover points and symmetrical slope crossovers.
Variable Frequency Mode allows you to move around the crossover frequencies with your mouse and Symmetrical Third Order Crossovers improve the selectivity of the filter
This filter is also very effective and bringing out vocal from a noisy recording. Its dynamic nature make it easier to use than a traditional compressor/expander.
Narrow Crackle Filter
| Many times during restoration, you come across tiny clicks that lie just beneath the surface of your good audio that are hard to eliminate with standard click removal techniques. We saw these lemons and made lemonade with our new Narrow Crackle Filter. After the Standard or Easy Impulse filters have done their jobs, a new step will be the Narrow Crackle Filter that cleans up the minute clicks you used to have to live with.
Stretch And Squish Redesign
|For DC7 we upgraded our compression and expansion filter Now you can make major changes to both speed and pitch of your audio files with no discernable difference in quality. Where the old time compression expansion tool was effective with only about a 10% increase or decrease in speed, you'll be amazed with what you can achieve using the new guy. Even if you've never used this tool before, you must try it...if nothing else but for the "giggle factor".
Spectrogram View
|Used to be, you had to be a Forensics specialist and pay $1400 to get the Spectrogram view in your audio restoration. No more. The spectrogram view is sort of like an X-ray for sound. Sometimes stray clicks and pops can hide within the standard Time Domain View that you're used to seeing with virtually every audio editor. The Spectrogram let's you peer into the Frequency domain in a way you've never seen before. Those hidden clicks stick out like a sore thumb in the Spectrogram.
Full Support for popular file formats. (Improved)
DC8 has added full support for Ogg-Vorbis, FLAC and Broadcast wave to our existing support of Wav, WMA and MP3
CD Burner (Improved)
Improved for DC8, we have a full featured Audio CD burner. Your can burn Disk-At-Once or Track-At-Once disks including support for CD Text writing. You can make CDs with our Easy to use Drag and Drop System our use the DC Tune Library.
You can also import WLS, XML or M3U playlist formats into the DC Tunes Library.
EZ Enhancer
One stop quick and easy enhancement plus tone controls . Even though this filter is easy to operate, don't be fooled. We have combined our best enhancement techniques into one filter with a bunch of presets and a very simple set of controls. This should be your first stop for putting the finishing touches on your restorations.
Virtual Valve Amp lifer Enhanced
Many folks prefer the sound of tubes. The VVA is a tube simulator that allows you to re-create the sounds of many popular tube preamplifiers of the past.
For DC7 we added a new High Noise Suppression mode to aid in enhancing noisy recording plus added New Pentode 6267-EF86 Tube and MOSFET 2SK-175 transistor types.
Using the FAT BASS section of the Virtual Valve Amplifier, you can build up weak or inadequate bass lines in your favorite tunes and get those floors rattling again.
Audio Playback Scrubbing
|Rock the reels to find an exact spot on the tape (well,a digital recreation anyway)
Dynamics Processor
This is a complete compressor, expander and noise gate in one filter.
We have Increased Range of Attack and Release for a much better Noise Gate
|CD Ripper (Improved)
Sample Rate Conversion
|Change sample rate and bit depth on any file.
Make Waves
Create waveforms from sub bass to supersonic, you can create waveforms for effect or audio measurements with the "Make Waves" generator. Great for testing your audio system or your hearing.
New in DC8 is the ability to save and recall presets like all of our standard filters. We have added dozens of presets already.
|Standard Filters (LP, HP, BP,Notch)
All the necessary tools to do what needs to be done. Low Pass, High Pass, BandPass, Median, Average IIR type filters in Butterworth and Chebyshev configurations and multiple slopes. These filters come in handy for removing rumble, DC, whistles and other steady noises that corrupt your recordings.
Record music with no time limits
Record from any input your system supports and Easily navigate to your sound card's mixer to adjust input levels on recording.
The wave file format has a 2 gigabyte limit. For those of you recording long radio shows or other events, this can be a real problem. Not with DC8 Though we can't fix the problem for Microsoft, we can find a nifty way of working around it. As we approach the limit, we simply stop the recording and open a second file. You get your whole recording...just split into several files.
Batch Editor with Auto Leveling
|Got a bunch of files of varying volumes that you'd like to make into a CD? No problem, just go into our Batch File editor and tell it to Auto Level these files. The Auto Leveler will raise the level or normalize all of the files so that your CD level will not fluctuate during playback.
10 and 20 Band Graphic EQs
|The standard equalizer filter in both 10 and 20 bands. Another powerful and easy to use enhancement and noise reduction tool.
|Yes real reverb...
Echo Effect
|The Echo Effect contains two independent delay lines, which can be used in a number of different modes providing it with a great deal of flexibility compared to the old analog systems. Because it performs its function utilizing digital techniques, it does not suffer from the noise and distortion buildup associated with the older analog systems.
|Very often, files will become "clipped" if the input on the sound card is turned up too high and the sound card is overloaded. The results are usually distortion and a waveform that is "flattened out" on top. The new DeClipper helps remove this distortion and reform the waveforms.
Fast Multi-Tiered Editor
There are two modes of graphical editing, the Classic mode and the Fast Edit mode. The Fast Edit mode of operation allows instant editing with each level saved in the Fast Edit History Window, so instant undo over numerous levels is easy. Cut/Copy/Paste instantly…regardless of file length.
Right Mouse Button "Preview from Here" for quick preview without zooming around
Output VU Meters
|Two 100 segment VU meters can be displayed which will indicate the output of any filters that are being used. These meters indicate the level of the left and right channels and have both average and peak reading ballistics.
Direct X Support
|Now you can use your favorite DirectX plug-ins within the DC8 operating system. You can even use them in the DC8 Multi-Filter.
Multi-Codec Sensor Support
|DC8 automatically scans your system for Codecs and adjusts to whichever ones you have installed on your machine.
AVI Audio Support
|Many of our customers wanted the ability to open an AVI file and extract the audio for editing. Many of our customers will now be happy! You can play an AVI within DC8, you can select an area and extract the audio.
More Presets
|Now over 1270 Included!
And more....
Please download the demo and give it a try today. There is really no substitute.
|Note: DC8 requires Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista or Windows 7 (any version)


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Tip Jar
The first week, when this was the "no new projects" project, I felt relieved to take a little time off. Maybe there was something to that.
I'm not quite sure where I'm going with this. I gave myself three months to try to set some boundaries and bring a little peace and balance to my life. Somehow, I don't think three months is long enough.
I'm taking tips.
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- Rachel Locke said...
I'm learning that part of being a good balancer, is rolling with the flow. You need to have boundries set up, like you have been talking about. But you also need some flexibilty in there. Some days may give you a littl extra time. Some may give you less. Some days you may need complete time off. Some days hubby may say I'll play with the the girls you sew. Maybe you work better with several projects going at once. Its not about how many you do at one time, but how much time you spend each day.
Does any of that make any sense?
- LunaMoonbeam said...
Ugh...what a very STICKY subject. I've found that the best thing, for me, is to set up a schedule. In the morning, while the kids eat breakfast, it's time to read and answer e-mails, blog comments, etc. After breakfast, while they play, it's my Crafting time. I can sew, cut, list items in the shop...whatever. Nap time is time to read blogs - it's the quietest thing I can think of, and it's my treat. The afternoon is for taking photos for the blog, making dinner, tidying up the house...
That's WAY simplified, but it's what's worked for me.
- The Crafty Panda said...
It's a constant struggle to balance. I also try to stick to a schedule and set aside certain times for crafting - while the kids are busy with something else. Other times are pure kid time - trips to the park, bike rides. The rest of my time goes to hubby and home details. Right now I'm too busy for me time, but try to schedule 5 minutes everyday for Mommy Inspiration.
Best wishes!


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The hotel offers 378 comfortable and well-equipped, air-conditioned guestrooms. Room facilities include climate control, clock radio, direct-dial phone, fax machine and in-room safe. Other room amenities include blackout drapes/curtains, desk and minibar. Bathroom amenities include complimentary toiletries, hair dryer, makeup/shaving mirror and shower/tub combination. Entertainment: In-room entertainment options at Hotel Weare Chamartín include flat-screen TV, pay movies and satellite television service. Internet connection options: Business guests will appreciate wireless Internet access. Additional charges are applied for dial-up Internet access. Housekeeping services and complimentary newspapers are also available.
Dining facilities at Hotel Weare Chamartín include a restaurant. Breakfast is available - a surcharge will apply. There is also room service available. The hotel boasts a 24-hour front desk service. An ATM/banking facility is also available. Other services: coffee shop or café, complimentary newspapers in lobby, concierge services, dry cleaning/laundry service, elevator/lift, laundry facilities, porter/bellhop and television in lobby.
Hotel Services and Facilities
Hotel facilities
- 24 hour front desk
- Laundry
- Business Center
- Concierge
- ATM Machine
- Dry cleaning service
- Lounge/Bar
- Internet Access - Free in room
- Restaurant
- Non-Smoking Facility
How to bookMaking your reservation in Hotel Weare Chamartín is easy and secure. Simply select your dates of stay and click on the "Check Rates" button to submit the form.
After room types and rates are returned to your screen, you will be able to choose the rate you desire by reading the room information in the center of the screen, then clicking on the "Book Now" button on the right side of the screen. After you have selected your desired room type, you will be taken to a "Complete your booking" form. Then you will need to review the "Details of your stay" and fill in the blanks on the "Guest Details" section. Be sure your name and email address are spelled correctly.
After you fill out all of the needed information, press the "Complete reservation" button. To ensure your security, we use a secure commerce server, which encrypts the credit card number and encodes it into a non-usable form.
Area information
- Madrid, Spain (MAD-Barajas) - 5.94 mi
- National Archeological Musuem Museo Arqueologico Nacional - 0.61 mi
- Museo Tiflologico - 1.48 mi
- Museo Lazaro Galdiano - 1.60 mi


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Marty Haldane is the founder of Appraisers Now Ltd.
As a 3rd generation Appraiser who spent over 10 years with the family Appraisal firm, Marty was frustrated by the slow adoption of cloud based services and mobile apps specific to the appraisal market. His frustration, combined with the fascination for technology, resulted in ANOW.
Marty knows that Appraisers need dedicated tools unique to our industry as much as Lawyers or other business professionals need software solutions specific to theirs.
He believes firmly that the Appraisal & Real Estate ecosystem will go through a massive technological change in the next few years and Appraisers need the tools, ecosystem, and courage to participate in that change.
Marty and his team plan to lead that technology charge.
The ANOW office management, marketing and sales team are focused on connecting with our customers one at at time.
From free trials, demos and training to unlimited chat, email and phone support our team is focused on working with you.
Our Development team is the engine of ANOW. They are so focused on our product and the customer experience we could not even get them all together for the company photo (mobile team was MIA).
They are our product factory cranking out new products and great updates every month,but continue to be obsessed with customer experience. We rotate our Development team to the front lines regularly, so don't be surprised if you find yourself corresponding with one of our big brains, they really want to learn from your usage of ANOW.


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Swasdee to Thailand [Welcome to Thiland]
Thailand is located at the South East Asia. It is the second most visited country by tourists. Thailand Tourism industry has expended drastically over the decades. The drastic change was noticed when "visit Thailand year" was launched in the year 1987. Various factors like diving sites, sandy beaches, hundreds of tropical islands, varied night-life, archaeological sites, museums, hill tribes, exceptional flora and bird life, palaces, numerous Buddhist temples and several World Heritage sites are the reason why visitors prefer descending Thailand over any other country. You can also board cheapest Thailand flights and experience the magic of this beautiful country.
It is a beautiful place with pretty smiling faces, and is popularly known as, "Land of Smiles". It is a perfect blend of natural beauty, adventure, fun and excitement for the visitors. It doesn't matter which part of the country you plan to explore because you can land up experiencing the most memorable Thailand holidays in your life time. If visiting a fascination vacation destination is on your mind, you can also book your flight tickets to any charming city in Thailand.
Amusing adult entertainment and night life of Thailand also allure tourists towards the country. Cabaret shows, bars, mouth watering cuisine and restaurants also accentuate the pleasure of visiting this amazing country. Each city has its distinct flavor that magnetizes tourist towards it. Some of the worth-seeing, dynamic cities of Thailand are-
Bangkok: It is the capital of the country and one of the leading tourists spot. Ancient museums with royal touch and various tales of divine old era, good shopping places and fine dining places make it a perfect package of holiday for people. Hundreds of Buddhist temples with beautiful infrastructure attract people towards it. If you want to visit the capital then book your discount or low coast flight to Bangkok and enjoy the metropolis.
Pattaya: If you love water sports and white sandy beaches, then Pattaya is the place for you. Phra Tamnak Hill, the Buddhist temple of Wat Yannasangwararam and bottle museum are the major attractions here. The Sri Racha Tiger Zoo, interesting shows of pig racing, a ride across the Coral Islands in a cruise and Elephant Village offer exciting elephant safaris. Experience the fun of being in Pattaya and book your tickets in the cheep flights available.
Phuket: Green palm trees along the beautiful beaches with blue water and a tranquil environment, rejuvenating atmosphere, happening night life, old museums, parties at beaches, if you want to witness all these during your next holiday trip then, Swasdee to Phuket- Pearl of the South. Book your flight tickets to the Phuket for your next holiday trip.
Thailand is a destination full of adventures, excitement, natural beauty, fun and thrill that mesmerizes travelers to explore this wonderful land, thus making Thailand tourism a great success and an experience to cherish for the lifetime.


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Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love & Wisdom
This was a book I had on hold at the library forever. What a delight to find it mailed to me out of the blue. Now that we live in Astoria, we paid extra to keep our Multnomah County Library cards. So when a book on my holds list comes up, they mail it to me. This makes me ridiculously happy.
It took a long time for me to get my hands on this book because a ton of people had it on hold. Which also means I can't renew it, which is a bummer. This is a book that I'd like to go back and reread from the beginning, even though I haven't even finished it yet.
I would have quickly gotten bored or irritated if this book had strayed too far into self helpy, religious or spiritual territory. Because, you know, Buddhism is exotic, and from The Orient, and therefore "mystical," and it also makes me want either chicken tikka masala or sushi. But in a very calm, detached sort of way.
Thankfully, the authors spoke more about the science of the brain. This was both super interesting and dense to read at the same time. I don't think I've given a second thought to brain biology or neuroscience since I had to pass tests in high school, (which is funny, because I didn't pass any tests in high school). I'm not a reader that can just gloss over the dense, heavy parts. I want to understand every word. And when speaking of the brain, which I haven't thought about in 20 years, I had a lot of catching up to do. I found myself rereading paragraphs a couple of times, to the point of distraction.
I was grateful for the reminder that the human brain is unbelievably complex. I make jokes often about me and my anxious, nutty brain. To grossly oversimplify: our thoughts, memories, and emotions are neurochemicals, hormones and electrical impulses. I sort of forgot all about that. I forgot all about neurons, axons and synapses. I forgot about our cerebellum, amygdala, and basal ganglia. I forgot it all. I was a humanities major for a reason. With humanities, you can make shit up and still sound like you know what you're talking about. It's harder to do that with science.
So I had to slow down and concentrate on what I was reading. I couldn't hope to absorb this book before bed. I'd get through a couple pages and feel like I was reading a different language. And not because it wasn't interesting. It was TOTALLY interesting. And it wasn't all biology. The authors explained the brain's development, how we are wired for survival, and how we are prone to remember and replay our threatening or anxious memories, because that is how our ancestors beat off the saber tooth tigers.
The Buddhist aspect comes in in the form of meditation, quieting our "monkey brain," and observing and rewiring our threat memories and survival scripts that play over and over. Boy, I need help with this. Neuroticism can be charming and entertaining sometimes, but anxiety can quickly become a beast. With big, big teeth.
I was nearly done with this book, but not completely finished. Normally, the three week deadlines of library books give me the incentive to hurry up and get through them, instead of causally picking them up for half a year at a stretch. With this book, I do need more time. I don't want to buy more books. So I will put it on hold again, and wait for the delightful day it shows up in my mailbox again.


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Reviled by many critics and ignored by audiences, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) has unjustly slipped under many film fans' radars. Dig below the surface, scrape away years of dirt, and you'll reveal a rich and multifaceted cinematic gem.
Sitting down to watch TPFWWM again, I am reminded of two things. First: it is one of David Lynch's finest films as a director, and second: it is one of the greatest horror films ever made, despite the fact it has never been categorised as such and you'll never find it in the horror section of your local online video download store-hub.
Serving as a prequel to Twin Peaks, the TV series, TPFWWM tells one story that operates on two distinct levels. The film assembles the facts behind the last seven days of Laura Palmer's life, a high school prom queen played with tortured fatalism by Sheryl Lee. Key to understanding Laura is the revelation of the sexual abuse she suffers at the hands of the mysterious "Bob".
Overlaid like an acetate cartoon-cell on top of the very everyday town of Twin Peaks, is the supernatural world of The Black Lodge. This is a place outside of conventional space and time whose inhabitants sometimes leave to live in a small room above a convenience store. These entities exist to inflict pain on humankind, the suffering represented by the creamed corn they consume with each soul. They release one of their own, Bob, to possess someone close to Laura with the intention of corrupting her and condemning her to torment in The Black Lodge. An equally valid counter-interpretation is that this is only in the mind of the actual perpetrator of these acts.
Our film opens on a TV screen displaying static. An axe thuds abruptly into the TV as sparks fly and a woman screams. This violently demonstrates that Twin Peaks the TV show is in the Past. Dead. Finished.
In the FBI's Philadelphia headquarters, David Bowie's Agent Jeffries appears for a few minutes, after 2 years missing in the field. Jeffries points accusingly at Cooper (a clue to his eventual fate) and proceeds to explain to the assembled agents of his imprisonment in The Black Lodge and the creatures he met there. Jeffries attended one of their meetings to decide the fate of Laura Palmer at the cost of his soul. His tale told, he promptly disappears again.
Meanwhile, in an unfriendly town which appears to be the emotional opposite of Twin Peaks, Agent Chet Desmond, played by Chris Issac, accompanied by Agent Sam Stanley (Kiefer Sutherland channelling Stan Laurel) investigate the murder of Theresa Banks. As Desmond closes in on the otherworldly fate of girls claimed by Bob, he too disappears without trace.
There are several scenes in TPFWWM which are instantly cinematic, unique and bold enough to distance the film from its broadcast heritage. The 10-minute "Pink Room" sequence takes place in a sleazy bar, almost all sound drowned out by pounding, rhythmic music. We can nearly discern snippets of dialogue but the overall effect is exactly the same as trying to hold a drunken, dreamy conversation in a noisy bar or club. The result is hypnotic, unsettling and ultimately leads to one of Laura's redemptive acts as she saves her friend from a similar fate to her own. (Later DVD releases have subtitles come up at this point, but I know that the original European cinema print has no subtitles and the atmosphere it conjures is all the better for not having them.)
In another powerful scene we encounter Bob in Laura's bedroom. The intrusion is so unexpected and visceral that we cannot still our hearts from leaping when it comes. Maybe it's because we don't expect the standard jumps and scares of a standard horror film here, that we are so taken aback by this.
Lynch has always been a great and unique sound designer. The eerie and omnipresent industrial rumble over Eraserhead springs to mind, or the noise the cadaver makes when moved early on in TPFWWM. When Laura and her father are accosted by a one-armed man on the road into town, his insane screeching and the revving of the car engine combine to drown out the words in a deafening overload of hate and anger.
Yes, you may gain slightly more satisfaction from TPFWWM if you've seen Twin Peaks the series, and for fans of the television show most of the major players do appear in cameos, but as a stand-alone film concerning abuse, incest, loss of identity and the downwards spiral of a confused high-school girl, it is brave and fearless. As a fable about possession and evil inflicted by spirits from another world, an inter-dimensional war between gods centring on a small town and a supernatural horror, it is also triumphant. A game of two halves certainly, but both will chill, disturb and unnerve you more than most so-called horror films out there.


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Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics
Review of Black 47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory, by Cormac O Gráda
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During the late 1840s more than one million Irish died and many more emigrated, with the Irish population not returning to its former level for over a century. Author Cormac Ó Gráda would appear to bewell suited to write about this tragedy. He is professor of economics at the University College in Dublin and is considered Ireland's premier economic historian and a leading authority on the Great Irish Famine. Despite his credentials and the fascinating nature of his subject matter, this book will be a big disappointment for many economists. Black 47 and Beyond is a work of history, not economics. Many of the historical aspects of the famine are examined in significant statistical detail, but ultimately these refined empirical results paint no clearer or more certain a picture of the famine than the ballads, folklore, and newspaper accounts that the author dismisses. The important point to be remembered is that the free market did not cause the famine nor did the potato blight that struck around the world during the 1840s. Like other famines in history, the Irish genocide was the result of government at work.
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Thornton, Mark. Black 47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory, by Cormac O GrádaThe Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 3, No. 2 (Summer 2000): 89–93


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Visual Health Search
New visual search tools aim to take you inside the human body to address health related concerns, improve healthy outcomes, and reduce medical errors and cost.
New visual search tools aim to take you inside the human body to address health related concerns, improve healthy outcomes, and reduce medical errors and cost.
Do you remember the film "Fantastic Voyage" with Raquel Welch? She and her companions were miniaturized and inserted into a scientist's comatose body to remove a deadly brain clot.
An arteriovenous fistula forces them to detour through the heart where they had to induce a temporary cardiac arrest and replenish their supply of oxygen in the alveoli of the lungs. (Credit here to WikiPedia). The animation was terrific and you felt you were indeed inside the human body. That was in 1966.
Advance to the year 2011 and this movie set is becoming realized in our daily life as "visual search." In the world of health, both Google and Healthline have embarked on this mission. (See Jonathan Allen's article on The Human Body Visual Search Engine.
Is visual search a replacement for text-based search that's part of our daily life today? This is unclear, but I believe consumers and professionals will embrace a visual-based search paradigm using a mouse or just the finger to navigate a topic's complexity.
Why is Visual Search Transformative?
The following scenario might seem familiar:
You develop a strange pain or symptom and, eager to discover what it is, you jump on the Internet to get some answers. Once you type in your symptoms or possible condition, you are met with a slew of information, much of it very broad and, in many cases, made more confusing by medical terminology.Now you're not sure whether it's a life threatening illness or simply nothing at all. Instead of answers and peace of mind, you end up more confused and, most likely, more worried than you were when you began.
If this is familiar, you aren't alone — this is a common experience when it comes to searching for health-related information on the Internet.
Now picture the same scenario but, instead of typing search words into a browser you use your computer, mobile, or tablet device to call up a 3D image of the human body. You point to the area where you're feeling pain and immediately a variety of highly targeted information is displayed in easy to understand language including symptoms, possible diagnosis, treatments, and emergency situations.
Now, armed with the answers you need, you're able to make an informed decision about whether or not to see a doctor. Sounds a lot better, doesn't it?
Fortunately, the latter of these two scenarios is becoming reality right now.
Searching the Human Body
Google recently launched Google Body Browser, an interactive application that allows users to view the body in layered 3D. The body can be turned, manipulated, and literally "dissected" down to the vascular level to see how its functions work and connect. This kind of detailed information gives users access to the human body that's never been available before and goes a long way in promoting a level of understanding that can help people make better informed decisions about their health.
Healthline Networks has also embraced this new trend in visual search with the launch of Healthline BodyMaps, a new 3D visual search tool developed in partnership with GE healthymagination and Visible Productions. This new tool layers search on top of a 3D anatomical model, and allows people to navigate male and female anatomy, view systems, and organs and explore how the body works.
It transforms the body into a rich learning platform with medically guided search capabilities and links to relevant information. This interactive experience serves up high quality 3D images and offers users nearly 1,000 different views of the body as well as simplified and easy to understand search terms.
Interestingly enough, such a search tool may actually convert physicians from being frustrated by consumer use of the Internet for health information into advocates. As many of us have experienced, as patients entering a doctor's office armed with a wealth of "facts" we found on the Internet, we are scolded. This can certainly lead to problems in patient/caregiver communication.
However, with the emergence of new technologies like 3D visual search that offers easy-to-understand and highly targeted information, patients can now become better informed with regard to their condition.
Better yet, physicians and other care providers may embrace visual health search to improve professional / client communications. Already physicians are embracing smartphones and tablets at an astonishing rate.
The market is headed to where the ubiquitous doctor's or patient's clipboard will be replaced by the iPad or other digital tablet, filled with applications for improving workflow and accessing patient-specific information. We can envision doctors and nurses using anatomical images and animations in 3D to explain procedures, show the benefits of physical therapy, and even demonstrate the impact of weight gain or smoking on the patient's health as they age five, 10, and then 20 years or more.
Visual search is transformative, and should go a long way in helping to improve the communication between doctor and patient. And this will hopefully foster a new sense of partnership as the two parties work together to address health related concerns, improve healthy outcomes, and reduce medical errors and cost.


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Bone marrow stem cell therapy offers hope to multiple sclerosis patientsBy ANI
Thursday, May 6, 2010
WASHINGTON - A groundbreaking trial using bone marrow stem cell therapy for multiple sclerosis (MS) patients has helped stabilise the disease, say researchers.
The research team, led by Neil Scolding, Burden Professor of Clinical Neurosciences for the University of Bristol and North Bristol NHS Trust, completed the trial in patients with MS to begin translating the findings from the laboratory to the clinic.
The Bristol team report on this pioneering trial in an article published online in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics.
The paper, 'Safety and feasibility of autologous bone marrow cellular therapy in relapsing-progressive multiple sclerosis' was performed at the Institute of Clinical Neurosciences, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol and the Bristol Haematology and Oncology Centre.
The study explored the safety and feasibility of cell therapy in patients with MS. Participants had a general anaesthetic during which bone marrow was harvested. The marrow cells were filtered and prepared so that they could be injected into the patient's vein later the same day.
The procedure was well tolerated and the participants were followed up for a year. No serious adverse effects were encountered. The results of clinical scores were consistent with stable disease. The results of neurophysiological tests raised the possibility of benefit.
Professor Neil Scolding said: "We are encouraged by the results of this early study. The safety data are reassuring and the suggestion of benefit tantalising. A larger study is required to assess the effectiveness of bone marrow cellular therapy in treating MS. We are hopeful that recruitment to this phase 2/3 study may begin towards the end of this year.
"Research into the underlying mechanisms is ongoing and vital, in order to build on these results. We believe that stem cells mobilised from the marrow to the blood are responsible, and that they help improve disease in several ways, including neuroprotection and immune modulation." (ANI)
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The Fall Has Arrived Time For Changes 2015
As we move into the autumn, we watch how beautiful the leaves on the trees start changing colours & feel the coolness of the nights settling in while drinking our pumpkin spiced lattes .It's important to accept change with open arms & surrender the energy to spirit with trust & faith. I feel many changes coming in many ways & when we do feel & see the changes, we need to stay grounded as best as we can energetically & surrender to your higher self to hear your soul speak. Clear out what no longer serves your higher self & ask yourself if you are truly happy ? What are you missing in your life that your not getting ? you are the only one who can make changes, we need to release the past to bring in the new. Some people do not like change but if we stay in situations where we are not at peace & loosing sleep with worry that's when we need to listen to our heart & soul speak to hear the truth. Change can be painful but if we do not resolve issues nothing changes & it brings disease & depression into our lives. We all go through cycles in life & need to accept change. If we stay stuck in our situation nothing moves forward, it creates more chaos. Once you make a decision, the universe works with you. Become one with your own soul & take your power back, your authentic empowerment ! Walk away from any & all negativity & completely distance away from drama ! Put aside fear & embrace peace ! Be aligned with your mind & heart to see clarity with your highest intention and surrender with no expectations & know all is well. Things happen for a reason. Our wounds make us stronger which brings out our true essence of our being of who we truly are.
New Update on Soul Work on Shaw TV Sept 2 2015
New Update on" Soul Work' on Shaw TV Sept 2 2015
Its sure has been a interesting week with the energies of the super moons ! Spirit sure brought things up rather bluntly to my attention that needed to be resolved etc.I knew I had to make some big decisions on my show "Soul Work" on Shaw TV. I finally got up at 3 Am, put the coffee on & my Ipad.I immediately came across the movie "The Shift" with Dr.Wayne Dyer that Hay House was showing in tribute to his passing. It just appeared out of no where. I watched the movie & absolutely loved it.It sure confirmed many things that I needed to hear & that's how I knew the decision I had to make was the right choice as I felt at peace. The messages started to roll in from spirit loud & clear just watching the movie. Wayne Dyer was such an amazing man in many ways & truly left a huge impact in this world. What a true blessings he has been for many. I am grateful & blessed to have spirit bring me to put the movie right in front of me to give me the messages & confirmation I truly needed. I was not listening to my intuition about the decision I needed to make for a while & watching this movie gave me the conformation I truly needed, a big thank you Dr Wayne Dyer,Hay House & Spirit ! I felt his energy around me with a big smile when I said out loud thank you for the message. It was amazing.
The Blessings Of The Full Moons This Summer 2015
The Blessings OF The Full Moon this summer 2015
So how has everyone's summer been ? We sure have had an amazing hot summer here in Calgary its been very hot indeed ! July brought in 2 full moons which gave us the opportunity to clear emotional issues that needed to be resolved within your soul etc,The full moon on July 31 was the "Blue Moon" Full Moon which represented relationships on all levels & forms etc. Full moons represent endings & also new beginnings with things. We have soul contracts with everyone karmically.Every full moon I take advantage of what emotions come up that still need to be healed & or resolved etc,thats why we have full moons every month to help us move forward in a huge way if we are ready to do so etc.The worse thing you can do is to walk away when there is opportunity presented to you from spirit. You cannot run from things it only follows you etc.Its important to reflect back upon the past 30 days of the full moon & see what lessons your soul has taught you .What lessons you do not learn from will come back until you have finally learnt the hard way.


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#mysusturbanfoods is an Instagram campaign that aims to collect the ideas and examples of sustainable practices in urban food systems around the Globe. Tell us what makes urban food systems more sustainable and tag us to be featured in the account.
Best shots will be included in the final exhibition of the H2020-MSCA Susturbanfoods project in May 2018 – Bologna (Italy).
January 2018: Training, data collection, and dissemination activities of Susturbanfoods
With the new year, we have started the last phase of the Project, we are performing the Assessment of the case studies while collecting some missing data. In parallel, we are completing dissemination and traning activities around Europe.
- IO and hybrid life cycle assessment (2 ECTS), International Life Cycle Academy, 22-24 January 2018, Barcelona, Spain
Data collection:
- Arvaia (CSA, planned agriculture, Bologna, Italy
- AgroParisTech rooftop garden, third session of data collection, Paris, France
- New case study: Azienda agrícola Floema (Social innovation, farmer-consumer distribution via WhatsApp), Bologna, Italy
- Seminar at AgroParisTech, Paris, France: "Sustainability assessment of social and technological innovations in urban agriculture" for researchers and HEI students
SustUrbanFoods at the AESOP Sustainable food planning conference – 14&15th November – Coventry, UK
Last week, Susturbanfoods joined the AESOP Sustainable food planning group in the annual conference, hosted by the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University (UK), on the 14-15 November.
The concept of the conference was the following:
After seventeen years from its early conceptualisation, and ten years on from its institutionalisation (Van der Valk and Viljoen 2014), sustainable food planning is a thriving transdisciplinary research and policy field bringing together policy makers, academics, and practitioners across the globe. Food charters, food strategies and food policy councils have multiplied, 'alternative food networks' have gained significant and growing shares of the food market and new forms of localisation of food production, including urban agriculture, are gaining ground and becoming central components of new food policy strategies.
Yet, the scale and speed of the 'food' crisis make us see these achievements as modest and utterly inadequate. Urban food poverty and malnutrition, and the related use of food banks, are on the rise even in some of the most wealthy countries of the world; the most vulnerable populations in both the global North and South are unshielded by austerity politics, food-commodity speculation, land grabbing or staple food price rises. Diet-related diseases (such as diabetes and obesity) are growing at alarming rates among children in the supposedly 'well-fed' countries of the world. We still waste between 30% and 50% of the food we produce while millions of farmers and land workers growing our food across the globe are struggling to make a living. And the environmental impacts of our food 'regime' and diets are devastating.
Planning for sustainable food production and food provision is more than ever urging us to look for more effective, equitable and just approaches that radically change not only the way we grow food, but the very core of our living space.
In the conference, we participated with a study on how urban agriculture is implemented on vacant spaces towards social inclusion and urban regeneration, presenting the results published in an article in Sustainability (MDPI).
Two case studies of SustUrbanFoods exemplify these practices:
Via Gandusio is a community rooftop garden that was implemented by the municipality of Bologna, in collaboration with the University and the association Biodivercity to foster the community building of the residents.
The Spazio Battirame of the Eta Beta social cooperative renovated an abandoned building and the adjacent agricultural space in a suburbial district of Bologna with the aim of producing local and organic vegetables that are sold to Bologna citizens and employing adults and youth in risk of social exclusion.
We took part in the session "Urban agricultural planning & design"
- Daniel A.C., Aubry C., Colle M., Barbillon A. "Development of an urban agriculture project: "projection" and "revelation""
- Solman H. van der Valk, A., Pedroli, B "Alleviating tourist pressure on city centres by fostering alternative food experiences away from tourist hotspots"
- Sanyé-Mengual E. Gasperi D., Pennisi G., Rizzati N., Bazzocchi G., Magrefi F., Mezzacapo U., Centrone Stefani M., Orsini F. Gianquinto G. "The use of vacant spaces for urban horticulture in the city of Bologna (Italy)"
- Mees C. "Participatory design and planning for food production, shelter and cultural expression: Shared urban gardens in New York City"
During the conference, a Book launch on the topic took place, including the following publications:
- Everyday Experts: How People's Knowledge Can Transform the Food System (People's Knowledge Collective)
- Public Policies for Food Sovereignty: Social Movements and the State (Aurelie Desmarais, A, Claeys, P., Trauger, A.)
- Right to Food and Nutrition Watch 2017 The World Food Crisis: The Way Out 10th Anniversary Issue
- Beginning to End Hunger: Food and the Environment in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and Beyond (Chappell, J.)
- Food Sovereignity, Agroecology and Biocultural Diversity (Pimbert, M.)
- Forest Gardening in Practice (Remiarz, T.)
- Gender, Nutrition, and the Human Right to Adequate Food: Toward an Inclusive Framework (Bellows, A., Valente, F., Lemke, S. and Maria Daniela Nunez Burbano de Lara)
- Political Ecology, Food Regimes, and Food Sovereignty: Crisis, Resistance, and Resilience (Tilzey, M.)
- Special Issue of RUAF Magazine UAM No. 33 "Urban Agroecology" (Produced by CAWR & RUAF)
Seminar at the Department of Agricultural Sciences of UNIBO
As part of the dissemination of the project, three seminars will be held in the Department of Agricultural Sciences as an opportuniy to exchange knowledge with the colleagues from UNIBO.
Today, we offered the first seminar at DIPSA where we presented an overview of the project, including objectives and expected results, and we showed the dynamics established in the past WORKSHOP with the stakeholders in Bologna.
The two other seminars at DIPSA are planned as follows:
- October 2017 – Presentation of the methodological framework and preliminary results
- May 2018 – Final presentation: Results and policy recommendations
Case study: iPom Pellerrossa – Bologna (Italy)
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Urban area: Peri-urban
Innovation type: Technological innovation
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Videos, Web Sites, and Blogs (Selected)
2019- Blogger/blog editor, Journal of the American Planning Association blog at planning.org https://www.planning.org/blog/?tags=1339.
2019 Harvard New Towns Initiative new towns database: https://research.gsd.harvard.edu/new-towns/.
2017 Creating Healthy Neighborhoods. American Planning Association https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo-v-6uk15c
2013- Initiator, Healthy Places Design Lab https://research.gsd.harvard.edu/healthy/ and Health and Places Initiative http://research.gsd.harvard.edu/hapi/, various webmasters.
2010-2012 Manager, www.healthymetropolis.blogspot.com (combined with www.designforhealth.net in 2012)
2011- Design for Health Flickr collection https://www.flickr.com/photos/designforhealth/
2007- Correspondent, Planetizen Interchange. Monthly comment for 6 years then updates. www.planetizen.com/blog/10386.
2007 A. Forsyth, K. Thering, and G. Nicholls. Script for Corridor Housing Initiative: A Strategy for Effective Planning 30 minutes. www.housinginitiative.org. Director/Producer T. Biaso. http://www.housinginitiative.org/video.html
2006- Manager, www.designforhealth.net. J. Richardson webmaster; initial design W. Parks.
2006-2007 Manager, www.housinginitiative.org. W. Parks/J.Richardson webmasters. Part of multiple award winning project.
2002-2003, 2004- Coordinator www.plannersnetwork.org. C.O. Ritthichai, J. Richardson webmasters. One award.
2003-2007 Principal Investigator/Manager, Design Center Image Bank at www.designcenter.umn.edu/images. Various webmasters. Free cataloged 30,000+ image collection transferred to UMN libraries.
2002-2007 Manager, www.designcenter.umn.edu. J. Richardson webmaster. Won two awards/citations. Two awards/citations.
1997 Narrator and Host, Structures and Stories. Springfield: WGBY 57 (PBS). 28 minutes. Director/Producer D. Hunt; Historian F. Gagnon.
2011- Collaborator, Nell Lewin Flickr Site. With H.E. and E.M Forsyth. Photos taken by my maternal grandmother prior to 1913 plus her recipes from the first half of the twentieth century.


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SOLIHULL NHS Care Trust has confirmed that there will be a charge for those patients who park at Solihull Hospital when visiting the borough's new walk-in health centre.
The state-of-the-art facility, will open on the hospital's site in April. But people who are visiting the centre will have to put their hand in their pocket if they want to use the hospital's car park.
This has angered Maggie Throup, the prospective Conservative MP for Solihull, who believes that visitors should not have to stump up the cash.
The care trust has said that a parking charge is common practise at NHS facilities in town centres.
Ms Throup said: "The idea of this clinic is to provide equitable access to GP services for people across the borough, however by having to pay the usual hospital car parking charges, anyone visiting the clinic will be penalised.
"Having carried out market research on the provision of GP services, I know free parking at surgeries is a big plus point."
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Things are starting to pick-up on Mars once more as Curiosity starts into a new round of science studies in the region dubbed "The Kimberley". Having been surveying the region since its arrival there at the beginning of April, the rover was commanded to move to a sandstone slab scientists dubbed "Windjana" after a gorge in Western Australia, and is in keeping with giving notable landmarks in the area unofficial names lifted from that part of Australia.
The slab lay a short distance roughly southwards from the rover's position where the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) imaged it on April 11th, 2014. Following the initial selection of the slab as an area for further study, the rover was commanded to drive closer to it to enable further visual inspection. The slab is around 60 centimetres (2 feet) across, and was selected because it offered a good surface for drilling, and lay within what scientists call the "middle unit" because its location is intermediate between rocks that form buttes in the area and lower-lying rocks that show a pattern of striations.
The sandstone rock in the area is of particular interest to mission scientists because it represents a somewhat different environment to that studied extensively by Curiosity during the time it spent in the "Yellowknife Bay" area, drilling and sampling mudstone rocks.
"We want to learn more about the wet process that turned sand deposits into sandstone here," Curiosity's lead Project Scientist, John Grotzinger, explained. "What was the composition of the fluids that bound the grains together? That aqueous chemistry is part of the habitability story we're investigating."
Understanding why some sandstones in the area are harder than others also could help explain major shapes of the landscape where Curiosity is working inside Gale Crater. Erosion-resistant sandstone forms a capping layer of mesas and buttes. It could even hold hints about why Gale Crater has a large layered mountain, dubbed "Mount Sharp" (officially called Aeolis Mons), at its centre.
Once the rover had positioned itself close to the rock, initial inspection operations were carried out, which included using the turret-mounted spectrometer on Curiosity's robot arm as well as the mast-mounted ChemCham laser so that the rock could be properly analysed ahead of any drilling operation. These operations also included deploying the rover's "wire brush" to clean an area of the rock's surface, removing dust and debris to expose the rock itself, allowing for further examination and analysis.
Before any sample drilling could occur, however, the rover would need to carry out a "mini-drilling" operation, much as it did at "Yellowknife Bay". Such operations both confirm the drill's readiness for sample gathering and confirm that the subject rock is a suitable target for drilling and gathering sample material.
This "mini-drilling" operation took place on Tuesday, April 29th, cutting a hole around 2 centimetres (0.8 inch) deep into the rock. This allowed the science team to evaluate the interaction between the drill and this particular rock – an important factor given issues enountered due to vibration during the rover's previous operations – and also for the tailings of powder rock created by the drilling operation to be examined for their suitability for collection by the drilling mechanism.
When collecting sample material, the rover's hammering drill bores as deep as 6.4 centimetres (2.5 inches) into a target rock. As it does so, some of the tailings from the drilling operation are forced up into the drill bit itself, and delivered to one of two holding chambers (Chambers A and B in the diagram below) located in the head of the drill bit mechanism.
Once drilling is complete, the gathered samples are transferred to CHIMRA – the Collection and Handling for In-Situ Martian Rock Analysis system, also within the rover's turret system, where the tailings are sifted and sorted ready for eventual transfer to the Curiosity's on-board chemical laboratory systems, comprising the Chemical and Mineralogy (CheMin) and Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) suites of instruments.
At the present time, the outcome of the analysis of the mini-drilling operation, and the suitable of "Windjana" as a sample-gathering point is unclear; however, it would appear likely that sample drilling operations will go ahead nearby as a result of this test.
First Asteroid Image from the Surface of Mars
Curiosity racked-up another first on Sol 606 (April 20th), when the Mastcam captured the first image of asteroids taken from the surface of Mars. The image was combined with pictures captured the same night of the Martian Moons Phobos and Deimos, and the planets Jupiter and Saturn. Deimos, the outermost on the Martian moons, and which may have itself been an asteroid prior to wandering in Mars' gravitational influence, appears at its correct location in the sky at the time the image of Ceres and Vista was captured. Phobos, Jupiter and Saturn, which were all imaged at different times, are shown as inset images on the left. All of the images form a part of ongoing astronomical work the rover has been performing periodically.
Ceres, with a diameter of about 950 kilometres (550 miles), is the largest object in the asteroid belt, large enough to be classified as a dwarf planet. Vesta is the third-largest object in the asteroid belt, about 563 kilometres (350 miles) wide. These two bodies are the destinations of NASA's Dawn mission, which orbited Vesta in 2011 and 2012 and which is now on its way to begin orbiting Ceres in 2015.
The main image appears grainy, with Ceres, Vista and three stars appearing as streaks because it was captured over a 1-2 second exposure period. The graining on the image is the result of cosmic rays striking the camera detector is the image was captured. The images of Deimos, Phobos, Jupiter and Saturn were all captured over a much shorter 0.25-second exposure, thus rendering them as bright objects against a "clean" black background. Sunlight reflected by Deimos makes it appear overly large.
The interesting point (for those into astronomy) with the main image is that Vesta and Ceres would be naked-eye visible to anyone with average eyesight were they to be standing on the surface of Mars.
All images courtesy of NASA JPL.


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Coming up in the orchard
Happy New Year if it's not to late to say so! Hope you all had good Christmas. This has to be the wettest autumn and winter for many years so you need your wellies if you visit. Nevertheless, it is still a lovely place to commune with nature whatever the weather. We took down the yurt on a particularly sunny day before Christmas and managed to dry it off and pack it away for the winter. We have some events coming up shortly so do come along if you can.
Wassail Sunday 19th Jan 4pm
Come along and join in this traditional orchard blessing. Lots of singing, noise making, cider drinking and parading around the fields. Most importantly, sitting around a fire and having fun! Wear warm old clothes and stout shoes or wellies. Bring a torch and something, for example saucepan lids, to make a noise.
Winter pruning Saturday 8th Feb 10-12am
Continue formative pruning of our apple and pear trees. No experience necessary. Wear warm old clothes and stout shoes or wellies. Secateurs provided or bring your own.
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Wassail 2018
Thanks to all who attended the Wassail on Sunday, for once it was neither raining nor snowing! We had a good attendance of all ages and everyone enjoyed sitting round the fire, eating, drinking, chatting and singing the Gloucestershire Wassail song to accompanying tambourine (inexpertly played by Jane……) By the time it was dark we were ready to choose a King and Queen of the orchard who led the procession around Ash Field making a good amount of noise and pausing now and then to 'Hurrah!' the trees and for the children to hang toast dipped in cider in the branches. Most enjoyable! This ceremony was originally carried out in cider orchards in the West Country but has now spread all over so we are proud to be part of a long tradition – and its a lot of fun too!
Happenings in 2017
Apple Day
Thanks to all who attended our Apple Day on October 8th. The weather was kind to us and it was lovely to see so many folk come and enjoy the Orchard including some who had not been before. Its been a wonderful year for fruit and for the first time we had some apples from our own orchard to taste along with some kindly donated by Forty Hall farm. It was especially great to see so many children, they particularly enjoyed having a go at scratting and juicing some apples and tasting the delicious juice they produced. Thanks to Roger and Isobel for manning that. A big thanks is due to Janet and Brian for the wonderful clay modelling with a variety of Green Men plaques being created by all ages. Also to Pippa for sterling work with Guess the Weight of the Cake, June for her wonderful cakes and Kate and Co. for helping with the clear up. Finally thanks to Ralph and Toni for the loan of tables from the Northaw Scouts.
Thanks to those who attended Northaw Transition CICs AGM which was held on October 8th, the same day as the Apple Day. It was great to have an opportunity to present a roundup of our news and to formally thank all those who have volunteered this past year. We have recorded 300+ volunteer hours since the start of the year – running the orchard would not be possible without that support.
Haymaking in July/August
After several moths of fine weather it came the time to mow and rake and the showers descended. Trying to find a dry day for both activities proved testing. But in the end we managed to to the main cut in both fields and with the help of a brilliant gang of volunteers we even managed to rake up the somewhat soggy hay. Thanks to all for your hard work.
Scything Demonstration and Get Together
We had a lovely Saturday afternoon on the 22nd July when Nick Edwards came with his trusty scythe and showed us how to cut a meadow in the traditional way. Some of us had a go with varying degrees of success – he made it look so easy! Although it rained a bit we all huddled under the Marquee and Yurt and enjoyed plenty of teas and cakes whilst browsing the bookstall. Scything certainly beats using a strimmer!
Pruning workshop
Thanks to Dave Smith for kindly donating his time and expertise carrying out summer pruning of the plums in June. We all learned a lot and had an ejoyable hour or two in the lovely weather which brought out a dazzling display of butterflies.
Family Picnic
We had a great turnout for our Easter Family Picnic event. Lots of children and their families from 1-year olds to ninety year-olds came a long and enjoyed the lovely weather! The children joined in activities including insect hotel building, bug collecting and of course, an Easter egg hunt or just enjoyed exploring the field, whilst Mums, Dads and Grandparents just chilled out. A very enjoyable event and just what the orchard is for.
Dancing For the Orchard
A very big thanks to everyone who supported our 'Dancing for the Orchard' fund raiser on Saturday 25 March. It was a really great family event with all ages, from 8 to 80+ coming along and enjoying the fun. Gareth and his beautiful harp kicked off the evening with some quieter entertainment so that everyone could have a good chat. This was followed by the brilliant Resonance Band which soon had everyone up and dancing the night away. Thanks to the wonderful musicians, to Pippa for her very persuasive raffle ticket selling, to Donna for her amazing energy in organising and running the bar and to everyone, too many to name, who turned up to set up the hall and helped pack it away at the end. We are so lucky to have such a great team working for the Orchard. We raised £380 towards improving access to Ash Field – great stuff!
Willow Harvest
We had an excellent day harvesting our willow bed on Thursday 5th January with the help of Mel from Hertfordshire Basketry who kindly came to lend a hand. It was chilly but beautiful and we got a lot done. We now have 17 varieties of willow bundled up, labelled and ready to use. The willow will be used to create a sculpture in Ash Field – if you'd like to come along and help or just see how its done, we are planning to do this on Thursday February 9th (and there's always loads else to do too!). Check the Events page nearer the time for details.
A Round up of Activities from 2016
Apple Day
We had a great turnout for our Apple Day on October 8th with loads of activities for children and adults alike including apple bobbing and clay modelling (some amazing Green Men plaques produced), colourful lithoprinting, palmistry, face painting and photography, Nobody escaped the ever popular, Guess the Weight of the Cake! The harp recital in the yurt was especially wonderful and folk also enjoyed sitting round the firepit tucking in to cake, tea and cider. Many thanks to all who contributed and especially for the donations of all those magnificent cakes and to the Scouts as ever for their urn
Village Day at Cuffley
Under the banner, Love Your Local Trees, the Orchard and the Friends of Northaw Great Wood shared a joint stand promoting wildlife, conservation and sustainable living at the Village Day on September 3rd. There was lots of interest and it was great to be able to show what our two organisations do in the Parish
Family Picnic Day
We were blessed with unexpectedly fine weather on Sunday 22 June for our Family Picnic event which enabled us to have a quick whizz round with the tractor and mower before everyone arrived. This was a very enjoyable afternoon. Lots of children had fun playing games in the open space while the grownups enjoyed tea and cake in the sunshine. There were plenty of cakes to buy as well and an excellent selection of plants for sale which, together with a guided Herb Walk, all raised funds to support the project. Thanks to everyone who donated cakes and plants and to the Scouts for the use of their trusty urn.
A Grand Day Planting Hedging
Before Christmas we took delivery of 750 free native hedging plants sponsored by Brown & Carroll Ltd., a company based in Basildon, through a scheme called Time4Trees. Employees from Brown & Carroll and their associated company ISG, sportingly came to help with the planting in February along with volunteers from the Friends of Northaw Great Wood. We had lovely weather and a great day putting in hedging along the southern boundary of Ash Field helped by a lunch break at the Two Brewers and the kind loan of the facilities in the Scout Hut – many thanks to everyone who helped out and also to The Tree Feller Tree Surgery for the donation of mulch.
Our first Wassail
Along with community orchards throughout the UK we carried out a traditional blessing or 'wassail' in the orchard on a snowy Sunday evening in January. Traditional wassail songs were sung, and a wassail King and Queen appointed who led a parade around the orchard accompanied by much banging of musical instruments to drive away bad spirits. The ancient custom of hanging toast soaked in cider from the trees followed!Everyone enjoyed warming themselves around the bonfire, drinking mulled apple juice and listening to the gentle sounds of a harp as darkness fell.
Befriend a Tree
Looking for a special present or a unique way of commemorating an event or person? Why not befriend a tree in the orchard.
For a donation of only £25 you can choose your very own tree. In return, you will be updated on its progress and will receive a handsome certificate. Even better, you will be able to sample fruits from your tree each year. We still have over 60 fruit and nut trees to choose from including cherries, plums, apples, pears, cobnuts, quinces and more.
Comments from a 'Befriender'….
'Northaw's Hidden Gem.
It was a small feature in the Autumn 2015 Update that caught my eye and led to one of the best Christmas gifts ever! Northaw Community Orchard was inviting local residents to befriend a tree in support of the Orchard. We had recently downsized our home and was missing a large mature garden with several fruit trees and the fruit they produced so a quick call to the Orchard group and £25 was exchanged for a nice certificate confirming that I had (on behalf of my wife) adopted Lane's Prince Albert apple tree number 13 in Willow Field. A Christmas gift that was well received. Brownie points for me.
Since then we have had much enjoyment helping with the occasional general maintenance tasks necessary to help the trees establish and keep the Orchard in good order. Tucked away in the valley between Northaw Road West and Vineyards the Orchard is a haven for wildlife and the soul. A unique recreational space for all the parish to enjoy. Take time to visit when you are passing and who knows, you too might be inspired to get involved.'
The Orchard wins an Award
We were thrilled when the Orchard was awarded joint first place at the CPRE Hertfordshire Rural Living Awards in October 2015. Well done everyone!
Get involved
The Community Orchard is a public space for all to enjoy and we rely on the help of volunteers to make it a special place for everyone. Send us a message or just turn up to one of our events listed on the Events page.


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William M. Scheiterle, 93, of Eldred, PA, passed away Saturday (December 22, 2012) at the Bradford Regional Medical Center following a brief illness.
Born December 11th, 1919 in Olean he was a son of Michael W. and Margaret C. Scheiterle. On June 12th, 1969 he married Arlene Goodman of Eldred, who passed away on May 12th, 1994.
Bill was a 1938 graduate of Olean High School and had resided in Eldred since 1969. He was employed as a lab technician at McGraw Edison for over 20 years prior to retiring in 1983.
Captain Scheiterle was a veteran of WWII having served as a Cryptographic Coding Officer and having served in the Pacific Theater in the Russels, Palau, Okinawa and China. After WWII he served in the Marine Corps Reserves for 18 years retiring as a captain.
He was a lifetime Member of the American Legion dating back to 1945; he was affiliated with Post 138 in Smethport, Pa. He was a past president and past secretary of the Bucktail Chapter Military Officers Association of America; past president of the Branch 169 Fleet Reserve Association; a lifetime member and past commander of the Lake Erie Basha, China Burma India Veterans Association; he was also a member of the National Officers Association, the First Marine Division Veterans Association and a founding member of the McGraw-Edison Retirees Club.
Up to the time of his passing, Captain Scheiterle was very active daily at the Eldred WWII Museum, and was the Chaplain of the Mt. Jewett based Bob Swanson Chapter of the Marine Corps League.
He is survived by one stepson, Richard Brent (Denise) Wood of Hampshire, Ill; four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
In addition to his wife he was preceded in death by his son, Richard "Rick" Scheiterle on August 6th, 2002 and his stepson, David A. Wood on February 5th, 2009.
Friends may call Saturday (December 29th, 2012 at the Frame Funeral Home in Eldred from 12 to 2 pm at which time Funeral Services will be held with the Rev. Jay Tennies officiating. Burial will follow in Lamphier Cemetery, Eldred.
Full Military Honors will be presented after the funeral service by the Bob Swanson Chapter of the Marine Corps League.
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So, the Tour of California certainly got off to an interesting start (or, rather, non-start [2]? or, perhaps a stutter start [3]?) For this next recipe featuring California cuisine, I take us to the Palace Hotel [4] in San Francisco. In 1923, the English actor George Arliss was staying at the Palace Hotel. The chef was inspired to create a recipe in his honor and serve a meal to the actors in the play. He whipped up a salad dressing featuring anchovies, mayonnaise, vinegar, green onion, garlic, parsley, tarragon and chives. And, he named it after the play Arliss was starring in – The Green Goddess.
The Green Goddess [5], the play, involves a convoluted story of jealousy with Arliss playing a Raja infatuated by one of three survivors of a plane crash that landed in his, fictional, kingdom. Unfortunately, the woman, Lucilla, is married to another survivor. Hilarity ensues. (Hostages! Kidnapped children! Sacrifice!) Lucilla is eventually killed by a bomb leaving the Raja to end the story consoling himself with the line: ""She'd probably have been a damned nuisance." (Why this was left off of the Top 100 Movie Quotes [6], I'll never know.)
This dressing is still served at the Palace Hotel, and is known around the world, meanwhile, the play and the subsequent movie are pretty much all but forgotten.
Since we've got two cycling races going on now, we really don't need to be spending a lot of time in the kitchen. This is an easy recipe that can be whipped up in a matter of minutes. I took the original recipe and adapted it a bit to fit the vegetarian or vegan taste. Capers are substituted for anchovies and the mayonnaise is cut with a little Greek yogurt. (Although, this recipe would work nicely with just the Greek yogurt if you find the taste of mayo overwhelming.)
Vegetarian Green Goddess Dressing
by Megabeth
1 cup fat-free mayonnaise (or vegan mayo)
1 cup fat-free greek yogurt
2 teaspoons chopped capers
1 green onion, chopped
2 teaspoons chopped parsley
2 teaspoons chopped chives
1 Tablespoon apple cider vinegar
!/4 teaspoon dried OR 1 teaspoon cut, fresh tarragon
Throw it all in a blender.
Blend until smooth. Refrigerate for 3 to 4 hours before using.