https://land8.com/members/mattschelly/activity/ Activity feed for Matt Schelly. Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:50:42 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=6.0.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 914b1db6751ea5d0c3a7a46206cedb12 http://land8.com/forums/topic/friday-chat-sessions/#post-167040 Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:11:50 +0000 Oh, I wanted to add that our attrition was a combination of retirements (which usually meant managment or upper levels), one new child (we do not allow part-time or remote-access employment), one firing (due to some unrevealed severe infraction), and people hired away into new jobs elsewhere (these were interesting to me since it meant some…[Read more]

]]> 0 10e7d9868d7b704f90c88ab38b70d124 http://land8.com/forums/topic/friday-chat-sessions/#post-167041 Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:21:38 +0000 By the way, for those of you who may not know (I didn’t), Olmsted, the son of a Connecticut merchant, dropped out of college (supposedly due to sumac poisining) and his father bought him a farm on Staten Island in 1848. He had previously been employed as a seaman, merchant, and still as a journalist, which apperantly led to his 1850 trip to…[Read more]

]]> 0 657797dabd4bde9a0d5529c0917b6032 http://land8.com/forums/topic/friday-chat-sessions/#post-167042 Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:07:22 +0000 I’ve been slowly reading Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England, I skipped the “at sea” portion and I am only up to page 92., but it quite fascinating to hear Olmsted describe the English landscape as he first observes it and then knowing what he achieves later in his life. It is available in full view on Google Books.

]]> 0 47c68cf0d7c4a0894db7637a36406a7c http://land8.com/forums/topic/friday-chat-sessions/#post-167044 Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:41:02 +0000 I am in the public sector (community planner for a county) and we have had a hiring and wage freeze for two years. We might get a 2% increase for 2011. We have lost, through attrition, about 15% of our workforce (20% of our planners, including management). Our work assignments have shifted to more planning and fewer project reviews. So, the…[Read more]

]]> 0 f623dc7142ef9e85ddd70e7b9cea2abd http://land8.com/forums/topic/friday-chat-sessions/#post-167045 Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:24:53 +0000 Has anyone found some good webinars or video pieces about village and small town design/planning?

]]> 0 c894f1b414e0c17c22afc1511fd76f52 https://land8.com/activity/p/27330/ Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:56:24 +0000 To all:
check out my new discussion group: townscapes, villagescapes

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