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Jim Nelson, Camp Joy Gardens
No full textJim Nelson runs Camp Joy Gardens, a sunny, redwood-ringed 4.5-acre farm in Santa Cruz County’s San Lorenzo Valley. One of the Santa Cruz area’s first farms to shun chemical pesticides and fertilizers, Camp Joy was inspired by the example of Nelson’s mentor, Alan Chadwick. Employing biodynamic principles, the farm grows a bountiful harvest of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and other products using home-grown hay mulch, cover crops, fertilizer from on-farm goats and chickens, and other organic inputs. A community supported agriculture program distributes weekly produce baskets to twenty-five local families.As a non-profit educational organization, Camp Joy offers tours and programs for local schools, presents workshops for adults, and hosts apprentices from all over the world. Locals flock to the annual spring plant sale and fall open house to wander the colorful orchards and gardens and to buy seedlings, fresh bouquets, dried wreaths, honey, jams, candles, and other farm products.Nelson was an early protégé of Alan Chadwick at the UCSC Garden, where he met his first wife, Beth Benjamin. After leaving the Garden, the couple briefly experimented with farming in Canada. They eventually returned to Santa Cruz, where one day Chadwick shared with them a letter he had received from a Boulder Creek landowner, Cressie Digby, who expressed interest in providing four acres for young organic farmers to cultivate. In 1971, Nelson and Benjamin established Camp Joy Garden on Digby’s landIn this interview, conducted by Sarah Rabkin in Jim Nelson’s home at Camp Joy Gardens in Boulder Creek, California, on August 20th and October 23rd, 2008, Nelson talked about the founding and early days of the UCSC Garden, his experiences with Alan Chadwick, the creation and evolution of Camp Joy, and his philosophy as a farmer-educator. Two farm dogs slept nearby on the living-room floor, and the scent of ripe pears drifted in from the kitchen, which was filled with crates of newly harvested fruit
Authorisation in Grid Computing
No full textThis paper briefly surveys how authorisation in Grid computing has evolved during the last few years, and presents the latest developments in which Grid applications can utilise a policy controlled authorisation infrastructure to make decisions about which users are allowed to perform which actions on which Grid resources. The paper describes the Global Grid Forum SAML interface for connecting policy based authorisation infrastructures to Grid applications, and then describes the PERMIS authorisation infrastructure which has implemented this interface. The paper concludes with suggestions about how this work will evolve in the future
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Orin Martin: Manager, Alan Chadwick Garden, CASFS
No full textOrin Martin manages the Alan Chadwick Garden at UC Santa Cruz, where he is widely admired for his skills as a master orchardist, horticulturalist, and teacher. Martin grew up an athletic and outdoors-oriented child in Massachusetts, Florida, New York State, and Ohio—without any interest in gardening, which struck him as “an onerous chore, and kind of sissy stuff, actually.” While he was in Washington, D.C. in the late 1960s, as a student at American University, he “got politicized” by current events: some 100,000 citizens marched on the Pentagon to protest the Vietnam war; Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated. In 1969, exhausted and alienated after a lonely struggle to avoid the military draft, Martin followed some friends to Santa Cruz, where he heard about “this place called ‘The Garden’”—the one being cultivated by Alan Chadwick and his protégés on the UCSC campus. “I wandered up there one morning,” said Martin in this interview, “and I was just bowled over, and fell in love with it, and felt, I have to do this.” Martin had no training as a gardener. His unfinished undergraduate studies were in English; his interests leaned toward writing and literature. Suddenly infatuated with the Chadwick garden nonetheless, he attended public lectures given by Alan Chadwick on the campus and in town. In 1972, shortly after Chadwick had left Santa Cruz and the UCSC Farm had been launched, Martin began volunteering several days a week at the Farm and Garden. When the apprenticeship program there became formalized under Chadwick successor Stephen Kaffka, Martin applied; after completing the apprenticeship in 1975, he received a grant to start a community gardening program in various locations around Santa Cruz County. In 1977, UCSC hired Martin and a colleague named “Big” Jim Nelson (not to be confused with the Jim Nelson interviewed in this series) to oversee the Farm and Garden. More than thirty years later, countless productive garden beds, fruit trees, and former apprentices bear vital testimony to the effectiveness of Martin’s ministrations. In this interview—conducted on July 11th and August 29th, 2008, at UCSC’s Science and Engineering Library—Orin Martin spoke with Sarah Rabkin about his work with the Farm and Garden and the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, his cultivation of an organic rose collection and orchards of citrus and deciduous fruit tree varieties especially suited to the local climate, and his mentorship of Farm and Garden apprentices
Il logos inciso nell'argilla. Ricordo di John Chadwick
No full textOn the centenary of the birth of John Chadwick (who, together with Michael Ventris, deciphered the Cretan script "Linear B"), the author, who knew him personally and corresponded with him, reconstructs and relates unpublished aspects of how Chadwick arrived at his discoveries, thanks to his military decryption experiences during the Second World War. Philosophy had flourished on Greek soil several centuries after Linear B, yet we cannot help but recognise that its basic constituent, the logos, the word as the expression of (future) thought, was indeed born on the clay tablets of Crete.Nel centenario della nascita di John Chadwick (il quale decifrò insieme a Michael Ventris la scrittura cretese “Lineare B”), l’autore, che lo conobbe personalmente ed ebbe con lui uno scambio epistolare, ricostruisce e riferisce aspetti inediti di come Chadwick giunse alle sue scoperte, grazie a esperienze di decrittazione militare risalenti alla Seconda Guerra Mondiale. La filosofia era fiorita sul suolo greco diversi secoli dopo la Lineare B, eppure non possiamo fare a meno di riconoscere che il suo costituente basilare, il logos, la parola in quanto espressione del pensiero (futuro), era davvero nato sulle tavolette d’argilla di Creta
Transitions, vol. 4, no. 2, February 1991; An End. A Beginning. A new era dawning in America's Northwest
No full textOsborn, John--An End. A Beginning. A new era dawning in America's Northwest; Robertson, Lance--Timber gets unlikely critic--The Register-Guard, 1990-11-22(Eugene, OR); Duncan, Don--Hoquiam learns a lesson in conspicuous consumption--The Seattle Times, 1990-5-24(Seattle, WA); Ludwick, Jim--Panel to soften Champion blow--Lewiston Tribune, 1990-10-11(Lewiston, ID); Ludwick, Jim--Starting over AFL-CIO program works to retrain laid-off workers across the state--Missoulian, 1990-4-1(Missoula, MT); Federal grants to retrain displaced forest workers--The Spokesman Review, 1990-12-21(Spokane, WA); Wickline, Michael R.--Timber's future: Will there be a second century?--Lewiston Tribune, 1990-5-12(Lewiston, ID); Johnson, David--Andrus to timber towns: 'Can-do' attitude wins--Lewiston Tribune, 1990-5-25(Lewiston, ID); Hedberg, Kathy--Logger's Stew: It's not a very well-rounded meal--Lewiston Tribune, 1990-9-10(Lewiston, ID); Cronin, Mary Elizabeth--Students urge timber towns to diversify--The Seattle Times, 1990-5-29(Seattle, WA); McDermott, Terry and Nogaki, Sylvia--Once a great notion, Decline of the timber industry marks the death of the old Northwest--The Seattle Times/Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 1990-12-16(Seattle, WA); Scates, Shelby--Where has Paul Bunyan gone?--Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 1990-3-18(Seattle, WA); The Forest Service can't solve all problems--Lewiston Tribune, 1986-11-18(Lewiston, ID); Reforestation a jobs option--The Spokesman Review, 1990-5-5(Spokane, WA); Oliver, Chadwick D.--A plan to help timber communities--The Seattle Times, 1990-8-27(Seattle, WA
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Piracy and the Origins of Universal Jurisdiction : :On Stranger Tides? /
No full textIn Piracy and the Origins of Universal Jurisdiction , Mark Chadwick relates a colourful account of how and why piracy on the high seas came to be considered an international crime, subject to the principle of universal jurisdiction prosecutable by any State in any circumstances. Merging international and domestic law, history, literature, and sociology, the author weaves an intricate tale that reveals the pirate to be the original "enemy of mankind" and forerunner of today's international criminals: those who commit genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and aggression. In so doing, Mark Chadwick proposes a convincing reappraisal of the pirate's role in the crystallisation of international criminal law, bringing much-needed clarity to a disputed area of international legal history
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Principles and Practice of Marketing
No full textThis edition has been rigorously updated by Professor David Jobber and new co-author Fiona Ellis-Chadwick to offer a contemporary perspective on marketing, with the latest digital developments and ethical accountability emphasized throughout. Trusted by both students and lecturers this authoritative text is brought to life through engaging examples and interactive resources
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Jim Cochran: Swanton Berry Farm
No full textJim Cochran was born in Carlsbad, California in 1947. He came to UC Santa Cruz in the late 1960s as an undergraduate student to study child development and 19th century European intellectual history. As a student at Merrill College (one of the UC Santa Cruz residential colleges), he lived up the hill from the Chadwick Garden (Student Garden Project) and admired the organic food and flowers grown on that steep hillside. After he graduated, Cochran took a job as an assistant to organizers of Co-op Campesina, a farm worker-owned production co-op in the Pajaro Valley, California. He later helped several farmer co-ops in Central California with marketing and financial planning. This shaped his future role as founder of Swanton Berry Farm, famous as the first certified organic farm in the United States to sign a labor contract with the United Farm Workers (UFW). Swanton Berry Farm offers their workers low income housing on site, health insurance, vacation and holiday pay, a pension, and other benefits including an employee stock ownership program. In 2006 Cochran received the Honoring Advocates for Social Justice in Sustainable Agriculture (Justie) Award from the Ecological Farming Association.Cochran began Swanton Berry Farm in 1983 because he wanted to try to grow strawberries organically. He was the first (modern) commercial organic strawberry farmer in California, and in 1987 the California Certified Organic Farmers certified his farm. Cochran’s methods became a resource for other organic strawberry growers, and in 2002, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded him the Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award for developing organic methods of growing strawberries that did not rely on the soil fumigant methyl bromide. A key component of Jim’s success was his partnership with UC Santa Cruz agroecologists Steve Gliessman and Sean Swezey in on-farm research.Travelers along the North Coast of Santa Cruz County visit the Swanton farm stand on Highway One, where they pick strawberries by the sea, and savor the fabulous jams, truffles, strawberry pies, scones and other treats concocted in the kitchen. When no one is minding the store, customers pay on the honor system, a lesson in trust that Cochran encourages. A photo exhibit documenting the agricultural history of Santa Cruz County and of the United Farm Workers is displayed above long comfortable tables where customers sip coffee supplied by the Community Agroecology Network.Ever a visionary, Cochran joined the Roots of Change Council’s Vivid Picture Project, which is “daring to dream up a comprehensive vision of a sustainable food system in California.” He discusses all of these aspects of his career in this interview conducted by Ellen Farmer on December 10, 2007, at Swanton Berry Farm in Davenport, California
Leonard Street Orphan Home and Chadwick Home and School, Scrapbook One, circa 1926
No full textLeonard Street Orphan Home and Chadwick Home and School, Scrapbook One.The Leonard Street Orphans Home was founded in 1890, and orphans attended Spelman day school for free. Chadwick Hall was named for Amy Chadwick, director of the Leonard Street Orphans Home (1903-1936). For individual images with further description, search: "auc.050.1043".The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generosity of the Digital Public Library of America for supporting in part the digitization of this collection as part of the Black Women's Suffrage Digital Collection, a project made possible through funding from Pivotal Ventures, A Melinda Gates Company
Chadwick, Liverpool and the bomb.
No full textThe author intends to set out in this thesis Chadwick's scientific and diplomatic
contribution to the development of the atomic bombs that ended World War Two. The
far-reaching consequences of Chadwick's efforts to establish a nuclear physics research
prograrmne, both academic and commercial, in austere post-war Britain are also shown.
A brief history of Chadwick's academic career, at Manchester, Cambridge and Liverpool
Universities is given, which indicate how his intimate knowledge of atomic and nuclear
physics culminated in the building of a state-of-the-art 37" pole diameter cyclotron at
Liverpool University. The help that Lawrence and his colleagues generously and freely
gave to Chadwick is also acknowledged.
The crucial role of the Liverpool cyclotron in determining the necessary nuclear fission
cross-section measurements needed to establish the feasibility of an atomic bomb, is also
discussed. Chadwick's precise and penetrating insight of the bomb's feasibility, was
presented in the final Maud Report that was sent, prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbour,
to the U.S.A. It was this Report that convinced the Americans that an atomic bomb was
a feasible and obtainable objective and started, as a matter of urgency, American fission
bomb research.
A brief history of fission and the events surrounding its discovery is also presented, as is a
comparative discussion on the German and Japanese progress in atomic bomb research
in World War Two.
It would not have been possible to give specific details of many of the above events
without primary source material to substantiate them The author has located a large
number of previously un-published letters, documents and photographs - only some of
which have been included - but all of which are being incorporated into a Chadwick
Archive at Liverpool University
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