Reactive Archey Target Design Team Mimic

This design project will aim to provide archery hunters with a platform to simulate shooting at string jumping deer. String jumping refers to a spooked deer hearing the snap of a bow string and instintivly ducking up to ten inches. This often results in wounded or missed deer. We will design and build a control system that uses the sound of a bow string as a trigger to operate a mechanical target system. A sound sensor will mimic a deer’s hearing in close range hunting and then send a signal to the mechanical system to replicate the dropping motion of the spooked deer. If successful, the system will allow hunters to improve their marksmanship and minimize missed or wounded deer that result in lost time, money, and resources

Their Chance for Redemption?: The Dauphin County Regiment at Second Fredericksburg

After a less than respectable showing on the slopes of Marye’s Heights in December 1862, the 127th Pennsylvania Regiment found itself in desperate need of an opportunity to redeem itself on the field of battle. Could a mulligan assault on the same ridge be the key to restoring their honor? Assigned to Hall’s Brigade in Gibbon’s Division for the duration of the Chancellorsville Campaign, they now had a chance to find out. [excerpt

Edith Macpherson Park: Testament to a Pioneering Biodynamic Farmer

A public park is a fitting testament to a pioneer biodynamic and organic farmer. Edith Macpherson Park is a public park, located in Namur Street, Noble Park, a south-east suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia). Edith Macpherson Park offers visitors a quiet, green, grassy, leafy refuge in suburban Melbourne. The park has a nicely appointed and maintained children’s playground, as well as a public barbeque. Edith Ileen Macpherson (1898-1984) bequeathed the park land to the Dandenong City Council. In life, she was always known as ‘Ileen’, her middle name. Her modest weatherboard house had been purpose-designed and built to accommodate her own special needs. This disability-access house served her for three decades, but in her will she specified that it be razed to the ground leaving no trace - and so it was. The playground of Edith Macpherson Park occupies the site of the demolished house. Ileen Macpherson and Ernesto Genoni’s Demeter Farm operated for two decades (1934-1954). Ernesto and Ileen were both members of the Rudolf Steiner’s Experimental Circle of Anthroposophic Farmers and Gardeners which was headquartered in Dornach, Switzerland. An imperative is to correct the name of the park from ‘Edith Macpherson Park’ to ‘Ileen Macpherson Park’. The Park ought to bear the name which the donor bore all of her life - rather than a name by which she was never known, albeit that ‘Edith Ileen Macpherson’ appears on her birth certificate, death certificate, and her will. This simple name rectification would properly honour the life and generosity of the donor who pioneered of biodynamic and organic farming in Australia