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Wednesday, August 8th, 2012 | Our Best Advice | Comments Off

LOVE scrabble image courtesy of CHEESESLAVE

My nephew loves scrabble (he beats everybody at 12), but he’s also fussy about food so I’m combining this post to encourage organic food for kids through Home Grown Gardens. Listen to Natural health physician and www.Mercola.com founder Dr. Joseph Mercola discuss the numerous benefits and importance of home organic gardening. For some time now we’re seeing that many of our Clients at ISA offer Job descriptions to Chef’s who are familiar with healthy diets, who also have skills with maintaining organic gardens and container grown vegetables and herbs. Benefits include food on hand for emergency preparedness and working with our youth, as FEMA also advises.

TIPS from a CHEESLAVE is fun to read how this mother advises a wide range of sustainable agriculture with a twist. She’s having her healthy cake and her child is eating it too. In this climate of “busy”  few believe they’ve got time to make their own, but Anna Marie makes it quick, delight-full and easy to follow. If what constitutes a healthy diet for you are the latest trends here’s a quick guide from Natural Health blog.

Christie Brinkley at 58 growing herself fit creatively

Having control what goes into the recipes and food you consume is key. Or as the wonderfully fit and inspired Christie Brinkley at 58 puts it about her healthy indulgence: I have a red truck and I will fill it up with every blooming plant in the nursery.” I know the feeling of irresistible gardening and my husband is passionate about it. Do it with friends and family.

Purchase organically grown starters and get your gardening going today (it’s always a good time to begin), and inspire your neighbors to do the same. A great way to ensure there is food during a power outage in your area (the notion that we’re not seeing alarming global weather changes is called denial). TIP: conserve water by understanding irrigation, don’t leave it to your gardner or landscapers. Many don’t know the best advice is that the most common cause of poor results isn’t watering too little it’s watering too frequently.

Over the years we’ve been privileged to experience Chefs bringing samples of their favorite recipes (oh how we love this!) and witnessed a huge change in cuisine to be fresh (preferably plucked just before prepping a meal). They mix home garden bounty with the best ingredients purchased from locally grown farmers and shop farmers markets within a 50 mile radius. Lingering with them for good-eats gossip and tips is one of our favorite pastimes.

TIP: Make a quick fresh pesto sauce from chopped cilantro, raw pistachio nuts, and garlic. If you don’t wish to have cheese (some people are vegan or dairy sensitive) simply flavor with EVO, fresh lemon and herbs from your garden with a bit of jalapeño for heat, then spoon over thinly sliced tomatoes or avocado tucked into butter lettuce leaves layered on a plate like an open lotus. Takes minutes to prep and the rest of your container grown tomatoes can go into sauces, raw soups, juicing, and sharing with neighbors. Or use this healthy quick summer squash recipe from the New York Times.

Enjoy our TIPS and Our Best Advice, and send us yours!

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PICNIC ON MARS

Monday, August 6th, 2012 | Our Best Advice | Comments Off

Dr. Adam Stelzner of Curiosity landing team taking questions (after the landing)

Over the years ISA staffing has had fascinating job description challenges (which we love), but nothing quite like staffing a picnic on Mars. We see a highly qualified Curiosity trained Chef participate with skillfully prepared space-food specialty cuisine. Peanut’s have accompanied each JPL rover’s landing as a treat ritual (shared among the staff for good luck). We say definitely begin with peanuts and add chocolate (Chef’s choice amuse bouche) along with freshly made food. Make it a Picnic on Mars theme, and show JPL’s video gone viral  Curiosity Seven Minutes of Terror .

Curiosity Mission EDL and Landing Team heads. Over 400 people comprise the team which includes a Surface Team who will take over for the experiments phase of this commission.

neighbor canal builders

Some of the secrets for colonizing Mars may lie in Chile’s terrain. According to Paul Davies article (Davies is director of the Beyond Centre for Fundamental Concepts in Science at Arizona State University): ‘Mars could well harbor microbes in a similar setting. It’s not impossible. There are salt deposits there too, and although the Martian atmosphere is much thinner and holds less water vapour than the Atacama Desert, there may be niche environments in which deliquescent absorption could still operate. Cocooned in salt, protected from the oxidising soils and the intense ultraviolet radiation, Martian microbes may be able to photosynthesise, and support a Lilliputian ecosystem sustained by traces of water permeating salt rocks.’ See more here.. Seems the uniform size of the small gravel at the surface suggests it’s material carried from the crater rim by water, rather than debris blown out of nearby smaller impact craters.

Curiosity landed as shown by her feminine foot on Mars terrain (note to JPL - why not in color film?)

After the landing, a conference was held for the press by the EDL Landing Team (who manned the first phase of the mission’s tracking and reporting), verifying the cam downloading link was operative. Curiosity will wake to become the world’s news with her ‘feminine wheel’ firmly planted on the surface of Mars. Sharing their shouts of joy the ground team (wearing blue engraved polo shirts) high-fived in emotional congrats (tears openly running all around). These are heroic men and women who patiently inch by inch move us along. The dramatic narrative video Seven Minutes of Terror was presented by Adam Stelzner, (do forward it to others it’s high info). Love his Elvis sexy hair and 50′s sideburns; a cool mechanical engineer Stelzner’s vivid passion instantly infused everyone to bring this baby to Mars and make cheerleaders of us all. Curiosity’s name was selected from submissions made by students from around the world. The winning young lady from Taiwan (Clara Ma) was sitting in the cheering audience at JPL watching her dream come true.

Curiosity communication system

Then a handoff from the EDL Landing Team to the Surface Team was commemorated by a jar of red marbles (red for Mars). Each day will see a marble removed for countdown as new data arrives. The Marble Jar ritual is a new JPL tradition (following on the heels of the Peanuts Jar ritual). So when Martians scratch their heads wondering what’s with Earthlings and their rituals with marbles and peanuts, you’ll know where that came from.

Humans can be so sweet and crazy it makes your heart melt. To imagine a vehicle zooming at 13,000 miles per hour suddenly come to a full stop, pivot to position, and then move down for landing during only a 7 minute window, is beyond the beyond. To explore our family of planets back yard (yep, picnic time).

Mars science lab rover mockup comparison

We heard from team member Pete Teissinger how the entire mission was cost budgeted to be about $7.00 per American, the least costly and most exciting movie ticket we could ever hope to see. We wholeheartedly agree!

TIP: purchase something from NASA’s store offerings showing your support towards this wonderful mission. Stay tuned with this stunning legendary event by checking out NASA/JPL channel and websites. If you’re unable to imagine how profoundly meaningful this truly is, close your eyes and picture yourself sitting in Curiosity moving about this Red Planet, with all of its mystery awaiting your discovery.

After the Cam dust covers were removed we could see thumbnails beautifully enhanced to a better quality. For the next three months scientists around the world will work to track experiments for data telemetry. First commission commands were preloaded onto Curiosity acting under those directions (temporarily) to ensure she remains safe. Interactive directives will come from the team for the next set of activities to begin.

TIP: Check things out on Mars by doing your own online research. Do include children and friends who will gladly wish to know about this monumental accomplishment by forwarding our TIPS to them too. Don’t forget to prepare a fantastic Mars picnic to share together and send others Our Best Advice, (see more TIPS on our Sitemap), and if you need Party Staff, call us!

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