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“Hotel Gramercy Park” Film Traces the Famous Hotel’s Highs, Lows

catch this running on sundance now if for no other reason than the schnable decorating scenes.
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coppice farming in america. help write the story:

Hello friends!

We hope this message finds you fulfilled and healthy after a wonderful summer/autumn. I'm writing because Mark Krawczyk and I have begun writing what will be, to our knowledge, the first North American manual on coppice agroforestry, and we have two favors to ask of you.

For those of you who don't know, coppicing is a traditional forest management practice where deciduous trees get cut during dormancy and then regrow from the stump. We can later harvest these sprouts to make crafts, fuel, fodder for livestock, and many other useful products. Though humans have coppiced for over 6,000 years, no comprehensive resource exists that describes coppice system design, management, and establishment for our continent, well-suited North American species and projected yields, and the economics of coppice systems. It's a big gap to fill and we're eager to fill it as best we can!

We're already well underway, writing, researching, and building connections and a portfolio of case studies. Mark will travel to the west coast and Midwest this December to learn more about how folks have been using coppice there. Dave has begun combing the literature for any and all existing research on the subject so we can consolidate what researchers know. He is also building a database of species and their coppicing characteristics. We hope to complete our first draft by winter's end.

The first favor: while we've contacted publishers about this project (and they are interested), we've elected to self-fund our manuscript development. We ask you, our friends, colleagues, students and supporters, to help make it happen by engaging in our Kickstarter campaign. If you're not familiar with it, this wonderful web-based service enables folks to financially support creative projects in return for various creative rewards and a connection to the project's creative process. Like Community Supported Agriculture, this Community Supported Authoring structure helps us maintain our financial viability while we create a resource the permaculture community needs. Even small amounts-$5 and $10 offerings-will help us achieve and pass our $5,000 goal so we can travel to interview and photograph practitioners, acquire resources from overseas, and cover at least some of our living expenses while we work. Check out the write-up, video, and rewards on our campaign page at:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/coppiceagroforestry/dave-and-mark-write-a-coppice-agroforestry-book.

The second favor: if you or someone you know already uses coppicing as a way to produce crafts, biochar, animal fodder, or other products, we would LOVE to hear about it. Please send the person's contact information to both of us at the email addresses above. Also, if you have or know of any written materials, research papers, or references, we'd also love to hear about those. You can send references to Dave at davej@edibleforestgardens.com or at 308 Main St. #2C, Greenfield, MA 01301.

We feel grateful for whatever support you can provide (moral and otherwise) and will deeply appreciate you passing this email along to friends, listservs, and networks that may also be interested in helping support our work. (I guess that makes three favors! Thanks! :-)

With sincere thanks,

Mark and Dave
via permaculture
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painting a shipping container


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rip charlie boy, son of big charlie. charlies dad and my moms dad were brothers. he was our family hero:

Charles McDowell, Commentator, Dies at 84 "NYT, WAPO, Richmond Times Dispatch

The following is an excerpt from Charles McDowell's column from Aug. 9, 1974, the day President Richard M. Nixon resigned.

also this: Every February from 1967 through 1998, Charles McDowell wrote of the endlessness of the dreary month of February. This piece ran on Feb. 7, 1993.

this : Charles McDowell column on the opening of the Berlin Wall from Nov. 12, 1989.

and this : Ronald Reagan across the river. Oct. 10th 1985


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A survey of the sea floor near BP’s blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico has turned up dead and dying coral reefs that were probably damaged by the oil spill, scientists said on Friday.

The coral sites lie seven miles southwest of the well, at a depth of about 4,500 feet, in an area where large plumes of dispersed oil were discovered drifting through the deep ocean last spring in the early weeks after the spill.

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toxic red sludge / iron oxide / hematite / mars red / red mars / red ochre / red bole / china red


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mick about keiths new book


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nice hanging stair system at house tower


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baltic birch plywood


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dockery farms

wiki entry via bluesland w/ robert palmer
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the cedar tavern - "I can remember when there were maybe 200 artists living in nyc. everybody knew everbody"


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garza design + build


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bronxserra

the bronx serra


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This car is called an MI special as seen in the Nov.1950 Mechanix ILLustrated, It is built on a 1932 ford frame It has 1937 ford drive train with a 1957 392 hemi engine for power it runs fine.


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the illusion of choice - george carlin

via samoa fb
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1940 Packard convertible coupe with a 1949? Cadillac rear clip and 1953? Olds motor and trans (runnable with fresh fuel and tuneup). I don't know the history of the car, but it's been safely parked for decades in a southern California garage. Complete with top bows and 50's caddy hubcaps. Certainly an odd late 50's custom! If anybody has any history, please let me know.

discussed here on jalopy journal
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Guest House in Vato / Paan Architects


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select-a-spring

paint and hardware sign


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a huge QSL card collection

QSL is one of the Q codes used in radiocommunication and radio broadcasting. A Q code message can stand for a statement or a question. In this case, QSL means either "do you confirm receipt of my transmission?" or "I confirm receipt of your transmission". A QSL card is a written confirmation.

QSL cards confirm either a two-way radiocommunication between two amateur radio stations or a one-way reception of a signal from an AM radio, FM radio, television or shortwave broadcasting station. They can also confirm the reception of a two-way radiocommunication by a third party listener. A typical QSL card is the same size and made from the same material as a typical postcard, and most are sent through the mail as such.
via reflib
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The Glass House’s forgotten older brother re-enters the architecture world thanks to a real estate advertisement. The Booth House, Phillip Johnson’s first commissioned home, was recently put on the market by Sirkka Damora, an architect who lived there for fifty five years with her husband Robert, also an architect. So thank you William Raveis Real Estate for reminding the world of its impact.

In 1946, when the house was built, the Damoras cared not for Johnson’s name, (he wasn’t famous yet), but rather for his enthusiasm of using new materials and technologies like concrete blocks, steel beams and plate glass to promote affordability and modern living. As architects they were excited to see how such functionalist Bauhausian ideas could be implanted into American architecture to create a new aesthetic.

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He's been practicing: Peña ran three to six miles every day while trapped underground. The New York Road Runners, a running organization, extended an invitation to Peña on October 14, the day after the rescue operation ended. New York Road Runners President Mary Wittenberg said that Peña “demonstrated how running can play an important role in our physical and emotional well-being under any circumstance.”

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the amber chamber


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feelin' moogy


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