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HUDSON A local business owner is giving back to the community by focusing on the needs of one woman at a time.

Jackie Chaves, who started her own cleaning business in 2003, is committed to helping other women clean their homes while they struggle with ongoing health problems.

For the fifth year, Jackies Clean Sweep of Hudson is partnering with Cleaning For A Reason, a foundation that focuses on providing free professional cleaning services for cancer patients undergoing treatment.

With October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Chaves is speaking out about her desire to simplify the hectic lifestyles of women with cancer.

Cleaning is such a great distraction, and when I am done, it is good to know that we have made someone happy and made them smile, Chaves said. It is a great satisfaction.

Chaves said she understands first hand how cancer can impact a persons ability to complete normal, everyday tasks such as cleaning. In 2009, her mother was sick with ovarian cancer, and was constantly undergoing treatments and attending doctor visits.

She was so tired a lot of the time, and I wasnt near her to help, said Chaves, who learned about Cleaning For A Reason and requested that her mother apply. Shortly after, Chaves decided that her own business would become a member of the Cleaning For A Reason team.

I know how difficult it was on my mother, and realized this was my chance to give back to the community. This provides my clients, who are such good people, with one less thing for them to worry about when they are ill, she said.

Typically, Chaves will allow four cancer treatment clients at a time. To date, she has assisted many sick clients, offering them free cleaning services while they focus on their health.

Two maids will spend about two hours at a time cleaning their homes, Chaves said, adding that bathrooms, kitchens, appliances and floors are cleaned.

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Photo courtesy Lawrence Halprin Collection, The Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania.

Landscape architect Lawrence Halprin conducting a Driftwood City Discussion at Sea Ranch during a July 5, 1966, workshop.

Fifty years ago, a breathtaking, 10-mile-long, mile-wide strip of the California coast, 105 miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge, was declared a privately-owned model community and opened for radically eco-friendly residential development. Owned and managed for 42 years as a sheep ranch, the new town was named The Sea Ranch (the The is mandatory).

Al Boeke, manager of The Sea Ranch for its new owners (Oceanic Properties, a division of Hawaii-based Castle & Cooke), enlisted the advice and support of Larry Halprin (who died in 2009), now regarded as the countrys most idealistic, farseeing, nature-loving landscape planner, to come up with a strict set of guidelines to prevent his dream development from turning into one more piece of suburbia-by-the-sea. Halprin, in turn, picked two architectural firms he trusted to realize his ideals, and demonstrate to subsequent designers, builders, and homeowners what could be done the integrate their buildings with this unique setting. Joseph Esherick was the most respected architect of the Bay Region Tradition at the time. MLTW (Charles Moore, Donlyn Lyndon, William Turnbull, and Richard Whitaker) was a young Berkeley-based group of friends who had designed a couple of small but remarkably innovative houses in northern California, which had attracted Halprins favorable attention.

MLTW was invited to design what was called Condominium I: an interlocked redwood cluster of 10 individual homes under one common roof sloping down to the sea, punctured by mineshaft modern towers facing south. Each distinctive unit manipulates a common kit of parts, and has a different orientation to the ocean.

Finished in 1965, Condo I seems to grow out of the land, like a pile of elegantly shaped and assembled wooden boulders facing rock formations that rise out of the sea, forever washed and sculpted by climbing ocean waves. It went on to become the most famous building of its time in the country. Eshericks contribution was a family of six natural houses tucked under one of the many old cypress hedgerows that divide the grassy meadows, perpendicular to and behind the steep oceanside bluffs. They were designed in such a way that one is almost unable to say where landscape ends and building begins, particularly now that the hedgerows have grown to embrace the houses. Some even had sod roofsa conceptual statement found in later Sea Ranch housesto help hide their intrusive existence. As Esherick wrote, The ideal kind of building is one you dont see. Along with Eshericks welcoming village store, bar, and post office (signposted with Barbara Stauffachers stylized rams-head logo), these model buildings reflected Halprins kibbutz-bred ideals of an egalitarian, democratic community, with people and houses living lightly on the land.

Fifty years later, there are about 1,800 houses and 1,300 permanent residents at The Sea Ranch, California, 95497. Many non-residents also own property here, which makes them members of The Sea Ranch Association (TSRA), which became the legal owner of about half of the original 3,500 acres. When people buy a lot at The Sea Ranch, they simultaneously become members of the Association and legal owners of a parcel of the commons land open to all memberswhich includes many acres of legally protected ocean-fronting hedgerow and meadow land, as well as forested land east of the highway. Oceanic Properties saw its $27 million investment on the Sonoma County coast driven underwater by a nearly 10-year-long moratorium on building new houses and (effectively) selling new lots, the result of a 1972 California law designed to keep the states public coastline open to all. Oceanic decided to sell its unsold share of The Sea Ranch to the incorporated non-profit owners association it had created. Many of the nonresident owner/members today use their properties as second or vacation homes, which they rent out to visitors between their own stays. In recent years, some houses here have changed hands for a million dollars or more.

After generating a great deal of controversy and hostility (and many lawsuits) among property owners, the moratorium was ended in 1981-82 by a complex compromise agreement, which satisfied few. Even after 1982, disputes continued, occasionally becoming hostile and divisive. What have they been arguing about for more than 30 years, in what was intended to be a challenging but Utopian demi-paradise?

Many of Halprins original guidelines have been respected, and a common (perhaps too common) design language did emerge, one of irregular but simple wood-faced buildings that merged with or at least respected the landscape and their neighbors. But Halprins hopes for clustered housing, which left clear the meadows and bluffs, were overridden early in the day by Oceanic Properties decision to realign building lots to obtain maximum ocean views. By the end of the 1960s, Halprin had been dismissed by Oceanic. In 1969 Boeke quit, leaving planning and management in the hands of less idealistic administrators. This, as architectural critic and editor Donald Canty wrote in 2003, marked the beginning of the end of the heralded Sea Ranch plan.

Both Halprin and his principles for the development of The Sea Ranch had been all but canonized, if often disregarded, by 1983, when he held the first of three day-long workshops to re-educate residents about those principles, discuss benign, malign, and unavoidable changes over time, and (he hoped) put a stop to unorthodox and wayward growth. Halprin conducted similar workshops in 1993 and 2003. Sea Ranch residents apparently need to be reminded of the founders ideals once a decade.

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Travel around a neighborhood after a storm and you will see tree limbs, large and small, scattered about the ground. Why do some limbs fall in high winds or after ice storms while others merely bend? Should you worry about that large limb overhanging your driveway?

"One reason trees fail is weak branch unions," says Tchukki Andersen, CTSP, BCMA and staff arborist with the Tree Care Industry Association. "Homeowners can educate themselves about tree limbs, but they should call a professional arborist if they are worried about an overhanging branch."

Trees may suffer from naturally formed imperfections that can lead to branch failure at the union of the branch and main stem. There are two types of imperfections that create weak unions: a branch union with included bark and an epicormic branch.

Branch unions can be characterized as strong or weak. Strong branch unions have upturned branch bark ridges at branch junctions. Annual rings of wood from the branch grow together with annual rings of wood from the stem, creating a sound, strong union all the way into the center of the tree.

A weak branch union occurs when a branch and stem (or two or more co-dominant stems) grow so closely together that bark grows between them, inside the tree. The term for bark growing inside the tree is "included bark." As more and more bark is included inside the tree, the weak union is formed that is more likely to fail.

In storm damage surveys conducted by the University of Minnesota's Forest Resources Department, 21 percent of all landscape trees that failed in windstorms failed at weak branch unions of co-dominant stems. Some species are notorious for having included bark: European mountain ash, green ash, hackberry, boxelder, willow, red maple, silver maple, Amur maple, cherry, Bartlett pear and littleleaf linden.

Epicormic branches (also called water sprouts) are formed as a response to poor pruning practices, injury or environmental stress. Epicormic branches are new branches that replaced injured, pruned or declining branches. Commonly, epicormic branches form on the stems and branches of topped trees. When old, large epicormic branches are growing on decaying stems or branches, the epicormics are very likely to fail.

Epicormic branches, by their very nature, form weak unions because they are shallowly attached instead of being attached all the way to the center of the stem. Epicormic branches grow very quickly so they become heavy very quickly. After a time they lose their connection to the main branch and may fall to the ground because the underlying wood cannot support their weight.

"If a weak union is also cracked, cankered or decayed, the union is likely to fail, causing the branch to fall off the tree," says Andersen. "Sometimes, ridges of bark and wood will form on one or both sides of a weakened branch union in order to stabilize the union. The branch is very likely to fail when a crack forms between the ridges."

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(CNN) -- High level workers are looking for an alternative to the 9 to 5. Armed with years of experience, a growing number of professionals are looking to fashion project-based careers where the monotony of office life is exchanged for a varied and tailored work schedule. Business Talent Group, the brainchild of Jody Miller, works with nearly 300 companies to provide projects for its highly experienced pool of workers. Roping in opportunities from sectors such as Healthcare, Media and Manufacturing, the 'full-time' employee may be a role of the past.

CNN: What is the landscape like for employee recruitment?

Jody Miller: Typically, companies that have to get work done have two ways they look at it: one is that they usually hire full-time employees or they can go out to firms, consulting firms, outsourcing firms and have them do work. In fact, there's a growing population of people who prefer to work independently and create a project-based career, and those people are fantastic. Companies are now understanding that they can harness this group of talent to create exactly the team that they need to get their work done, and then disband that team and put another team in place.

CNN: Has there been a shift in how people view their work life?

JM: I think you're seeing two different things happening. On the talent side, we're seeing three demographic trends: we're seeing baby boomers retiring, we're seeing women increasingly joining the workforce, and we're seeing Millennials who want a different relationship between work and life. These three demographic trends are driving more and more people into the independent talent market.

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