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i thought there'd be no reason to continue the flow of missives once i got back to the states. but it seems my wandering is not over, and so i find it necessary to keep people in touch with what's going on.
this year has already seen me in exotic locations in spain, ireland, and florida, and now i'm back in atlanta for the moment – two months – before gallivanting off again. to recap: spain was wonderful, but too cold. ireland was wonderful, but too hot (okay, it's a simile), and florida was wonderful, and juuust right.
i was too busy seeing friends and partying in europe to get much done (6 paintings in 5 weeks), but i made up for it in florida, where i stayed with my friend pete practically without meeting a single other soul, painting 20 paintings in his garage while he was off working, and getting to really love the view across his own private river (not really) into the dense vastness of saltmarsh florida. i like florida so much in the winter that i'm planning on doing it again, a residency in the everglades (with any luck), and the winter florida art show season. it's nice not to be cold, or hot.
the moment i got back into atlanta, everything went into high gear. my daybook had been relatively empty, the only things i needed to accomplish each day being to sleep late, paint all day, make some food, eat, lounge around in the evening reading, and sleep late. but for 2 months in atlanta i am rushed off my feet, seeing people, taking commissions, painting lots of little paintings to sell at all the art shows, and doing all the running around necessary to get my finances in order for the journey to come.
i don't think it's me; i think atlanta itself acts as a vortex of frenetic activity. i don't think it's possible to be in this town and not be booked solid by things to do, places to go, and people to see. it may surprise you to know that i am actually quite a private and shy person. you can stop laughing; it's true. i don't like to walk up to total strangers and start in on the important questions, and i would never make the first move in a relationship of any description. and, okay, you're really not recognizing me now, so i'll just stop.
but it is true that i have a very strong need for solitude and quiet. i can hardly think my own thoughts when i'm around other people (this missive is being written while everyone at dave and elizabeth's are out doing other things and i'm here alone), and it's very difficult, when i'm around people, to paint or scheme my next fabric work, or to write chapters of my bestselling demotivational handbook – lazy is good, quit your day job.
the thing about being nomadic the way i am it is that i tend to spend quite a lot of time with others, sharing living space, camping out in backyards, fitting in to the habits and preferences of other people. always being a guest.
and this is good, because i'm learning how to be more flexible and adaptable, how to make do with whatever tool or situation i have at hand. it's an interesting discipline. after giving away most of my stuff and putting the remainder in storage, i am left each time i repack for another adventure, with just what i can carry on my back or stuff into my car, and this does a real number on my natural tendency to collect stuff i might need later. can't do that when my packs are already full with things i really need.
i've tried to get as far away from the owning of things as i can, and it's a double edged thing. on the one hand, having pared my cd collection down to about 20, i often miss albums i thought i wouldn't need again. same with books. in the 3 or 4 times in my life that i've given away everything and started over again, i've learned that the books are the hardest to replace, and so i give away or sell fewer of them than i used to, because i always end up getting exactly the same library every time i settle down and start over.
for some reason, it never really occurred to me when i was selling all my stuff and giving up my apartment this january, that i was really starting all over again again. i thought i was just taking a break. but it turns out that i've gone and restarted the whole game one more time, and i've been down this road enough times that i almost know what i'm doing.
not really, because i'm always in the dark about what's really happening. but it will turn out that the skills i developed all those other times when i've given away everything and started over again will come in really useful this time. who knows how long i'll remain nomadic, or where i'll finally settle down? all bets taken gladly.
it may seem glamorous to be flitting about the universe, but people who flit about the universe will tell you that it's like waiting for the cosmic greyhound bus. but it's new to me and i'm still enjoying waking up not quite knowing where i am (especially after the 4.9 earthquake we had in atlanta the other day. i woke up, looked at the clock, went back to sleep for the aftershocks, and straight back into dream after dream about walking around asking people their experience of the earthquake. too cool.)
i'm spending the spring in decatur georgia, in the newly renovated basement apartment of a friend from ex work. it's a great deal, i'm helping paint the basement in designer faux, and learning a new technique for the backgrounds of some of my paintings.
when i left atlanta in january i had my year all planned out. january and february in europe, then march at a residency in florida, back to atlanta in april, teach at 2 art centers, do 4 good art shows, and then go off to a residency in connecticut, another residency in the rabun gap in the north georgia mountains in august, and who could tell after that. but all those plans evaporated totally when i came back from europe, and i've been improvising since. i stayed with my friend pete in florida during march, and now am at julie's during my time in atlanta.
then in june i was going to hang with a very old friend and artist buddy in charlottesville, virginia, but the connecticut residency (at a farm in rural east haddam) came thru at the last minute, so i'm going to be there in june, and at my friend bianchi in virginia in july. and then that residency in north georgia in august, and then i'm thinking the fall festivals in atlanta, followed by a possible trip to france to visit a friend, and then back to florida to do the spring season in february and march, and then back to atlanta for next year's dogwood, inman park, virginia highlands, and decatur arts festivals. how's that sound to everyone? doable? completely insane? remember, they're only plans, and god messes with plans, which is why everyone always questioned their deals in the old testament.
we'll see what happens. my entirely reasonable basic plan (some way to support myself while i'm nomadic, and some way to haul my stuff) requires several miracles beyond just good health and 3 more wishes.
firstly is keeping the bills, few as they are, paid. that's probably the larger miracle, but so far it's been one of the most consistent.
my show stuff, on the other hand, (tent and panels and all my framed watercolors and large bulky oils and numerous small oils and framed prints and boxed prints and real soon now fabric work and a sewing machine) has expanded beyond the capacity of my cute little dodge doohickey that i've had for years now and has never given me any trouble.
at this point, i need a truck. not a looker, something old and reliable and with no resale value. or a van; i could store most of my supplies in one of them and be almost nomadic. or the most far out solution of all – who can see me in a camper? i could go stay anywhere and paint. i love to drive, i love to travel, i don't have much stuff, and just need a few square yards to store my studio equipment. i'd love an rv.
if anyone knows someone with an old roomy conveyance to spare, that they'd rather just see in good hands than to try to get any money out of, then please let me know, and i'll paint that person a picture to thank them for being my miracle.
things work that way for me now. i guess i knew what i was getting into when i decided to sell all my stuff and move to somewhere unspecific. not. i didn't know what i was getting into when i quit my day job, did i? but that didn't stop me, and it didn't cause a catastrophic failure, either.
all my plans are in little puffs around me, and stuff continues to happen all the time that i frequently describe as miracles because of the timing and apparent sense of humor behind it all. here i am just going along with the changes of plans that crop up every day, and i'm not all that worried for the future. money still comes in, i still get out and attend shows and make contacts and do commissions, and i still pay my bills (oh boy, my cellphone bill since i came back to the states in march? $300 bucks, at 40 cents a minute for overage. so i bumped my coverage up to 1200 minutes, and will watch my usage from now on. and the kind folks at tmobile took the extra off my bill, thanks very much.)
as for knowing what i'm getting into, i firmly deny it, figure i'm as in the dark, as to what i'm doing and why, as i could possibly be, and have decided that it'll all come clear eventually, and i would be better just carrying on trying not to stumble thru my days.
i'm actually enjoying myself immensely these days, partially because i've become almost oblivious to time and outside obligations, and partly because it's full spring here on the forest moon of endor, i mean atlanta, and i just love all the different shades of green, like that bright green green of trees just out, against the almost black branches, with purple stormclouds approaching.
i followed the spring backwards as i came up from florida, and now i'm going to keep following it. the tulips are still coming out in connecticut, and the dogwoods will be in full bloom when i get there. spring being my favorite time, and dogwoods being my favorite tree, i'm almost heaven where pretty things follow me around all the time.
being back has been a spin back up into overdrive. all of a sudden i was in reach of people and events and obligations, and within moments of turning my cellphone on in jfk my daybook was full for the next week, and it's been that way ever since.
i find that i'm not as efficient on the fly as i am when i'm settled, and there are still mistakes in scheduling and people i've forgotten to get back to, and opportunities that i missed, sometimes by moments. but i figure i'll get the hang of it before too long.
the nomadic life simplifies a whole lot of your existence. my most important possessions are my cellphone and my daybook.
now that i am computerless, my emails are down to the bare minimum, but if anyone doesn't need their old laptop anymore i could really use it. mine died somewhere in the cargo hold between spain and new york at the end of february, and the only reason i'm writing this with such relative coherence is because i'm using my friend dave's computer while everyone's gone.
in a way i feel like i did when i first started running out of savings after having quit my day job. i felt panicky whenever i thought about it, and so tried not to think about it, and kept describing it as when that cartoon character walks off the cliff and keeps going. the trick to staying aloft is the art of not panicking, the not looking down, not listening to the dire predictions of the realists around you. that's what keeps you up in the air.
so even tho i've got that crunchy thing in the pit of my stomach now and then, i know it feels like i'm 20 feet from the edge of the cliff by now, and i know from experience that in another few weeks i'll be 40 feet from the edge of the cliff, and still walking. money will still be coming in when i need it, and things will continue to happen miraculously. it's happened like that for well over 2 years now, and even tho my plans have turned completely inside out, the miraculous conditions that seem to support me keep right on working, as long as i don't panic.
all this is what fuels my best selling demotivational handbook, lazy is good – quit your day job. you can play by your rules, as it turns out. plans are for nothing, but you're alive every moment until you die, and there's always a chance to reinvent a piece of your life. it's okay, nobody will notice, so as long as it suits you, you can rearrange things. it's figuring out what you want that counts, learning who you are. but that's the key to understanding life, isn't it?
as usual i'm preoccupied with the important questions of life. why are we here, etc. i know most people get tired of asking these questions after some particular hangover in their 20s, but these big questions have always been my central focus. they just got subsumed by business as usual during my 30s. now that i'm almost 47 (this friday, the 16th, isn't it great?, and more gray hair, and more wrinkles around the eyes, a few more aches and pains, and a very interesting set of changed attitudes) i'm back to the big questions, and they're more urgent and cogent than ever.
my kid is here with me, after hanging in little 5 points with her friends all day. she's 14 and lives in white suburban fayetteville now, so any time she comes to the city she goes right to the middle of hip urban oddity and calls me from my borrowed cellphone now and then to reassure me. i think we'll go to eatz for dinner, and eat greens and beans and rice and jerk chicken, and then to decatur where i'm staying.
it's 2 bedrooms, so allison gets her own room, and gets to take a long bath in the largest domestic tub i've seen in years, while i sleep soundly in my own bedroom. it's a far cry from the open plan loft where i used to live in downtown atlanta.
my friend ben came back from his travels to thailand. and we got together earlier this week to talk over our wanderings, he suffering jetlag, me still waking up at times unsure what country i'm in. we sat in little 5 points at a pub with a patio, drank guinnesses and watched a massive thunderstorm come over us. all raging wind and scurrying streetlife, we sat and talked for hours about everything we'd been thinking since the last time we'd seen each other.
except for frequent emails, ben and i haven't been in the same city for many months now. the trouble with catching up with old friends is that so much changes in each individual life that you become a whole nother person every couple of months, and it's difficult to explain the simplest thing without backtracking and getting really circular. which is why you cultivate friends and keep them for years and years.
i'm really lucky, despite this strange movable life i lead, to have very good friends that i've known for forever. almost a full complement of friends for every stage of life. i've got a friend from childhood, cathy, several friends from my college days (bianchi and laura), many friends from my time in ireland (kay, brendan, diarmuid, renee, marie), a few friends from my days in new york (brad, gail, dierdre), and tons of friends and buddies from right here in atlanta (too numerous to count). i've even got some internet friends i'll probably never meet in the flesh (martin, tim).
at the moment, being nomadic, i'm going around visiting all the friends i've accumulated over the years, and making new ones all the time. life just keeps getting more interesting, and more amazing things happen every day.
i've discovered a lack of a link between work and money. to most people, there's a real correlation. you spend time working, and you make money. if you want to make more money, you work more. weeks when you work really hard, you expect to rake it in. but that's not how it works for me. since my money all comes thru the right hand of miracles, there is no causal link between how hard or how frequently i work, and how much or how often i get paid.
i do my best not to panic, because that was the first lesson i learned – worry and the miracle erodes, panic and it evaporates. i pay my bills when they come due, and buy the art supplies i need, and there's always enough to buy food and gas, and the day after i consider panicking and decide not to bother, a check comes in the mail, or someone calls me to ask for a commission, or something else.
it's a wonderful thing, being a lily in the field. it's the essence of how to make quitting your day job work. you guys can't do it because you're all wrapped up in the system, but i seemed to have cut a hole in the fabric and escaped. i'm tearing more holes all the time, so look for them and stick your head thru to say hi.
i've got tons more to say, but don't i always? there are several more shows to do before i leave, one in downtown atlanta this weekend (broad street and marietta), and one in watkinsville, most of the way to athens, next weekend. and then a couple of days with allison at a campground in myrtle beach, and after that i'm out of here for the summer, and won't be back until september.
and then only for a short while. round and round and round she goes, and where she stops no-one knows.
please don't feel slighted if you write me and i don't answer for awhile, because once i leave atlanta again i'm not sure if i'll be able to find a computer to borrow in order to write back. but i'll be on my cellphone, at 678-697-6724, so call me, especially after 9 pm when my phone minutes are unlimited.
everybody take care of yourselves, and be light and happy. life is short; why waste it worrying or being angry or dissatisfied? smell the roses, and to hell with the day job.
love jeanne


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On Friday evening, Nottingham Forest confirmed the signing of Alexander Milosevic on an 18-month contract. The Swedish international will bolster Martin O'Neill's options in defence with Forest suffering an injury crisis and supporters are delighted with his acquisition.
Top signing this????????
— Joe (@youngharrison92) February 1, 2019
— Nffc Fan (@NffcFan3) February 1, 2019
Really pleased about this signing.
— Andy Swannell (@swannell_erie) February 1, 2019
You all Nottingham Forest fans should be pleased with the signing of Milosevic, proper leader & lad. Warrior.
— Albin (@GustafssonEU) February 1, 2019
As a Swede (half Swede) I can tell you guys his strong in the air and good with his feet. A modern playing centre back that is also a leader on the field. A fighter! Think this will be a very good signing for Nottingham.
Couple years ago: https://t.co/aZX9xfdW6L
— El Toro (@MrPink7676) February 1, 2019
Plays with big heart and great leader! Feel lucky NF FC.
— Filip (@HammarlundFilip) February 1, 2019
Milosevic made 119 appearances in all competitions in two stints at AIK prior to his move to Forest, winning the Allsvenskan title last season. The 27-year-old has led a nomadic career, playing for Vasalaund, Besiktas, Hannover 96, SV Darmstadt 98 and Caykur Rizespor, but he'll be hoping to make a name for himself in the Midlands.
With Michael Hefele ruled out for the season, Michael Dawson recouping from a hamstring injury and Tobias Figueiredo recovering from a leg problem, Forest aren't blessed with depth at the back ahead of Saturday's meeting with Birmingham City. New-boy Yohan Benalouane is likely to start at the heart of the defence and Milosevic could be thrown straight in.
Left-back Jack Robinson might have to be used in a makeshift capacity if the Swede is unavailable. Fans took to social media to reveal their delight in Milosevic's signing and they may have an opportunity to see him in action over the weekend.
Crippy Cooke's previous article
Report: Nottingham Forest identify 24-year-old replacement for Danny Fox

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8 Sep 2015
New app to help Lake Tahoe! Students of the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center have launched an app that can be downloaded to your smartphone to help researchers understand and improve our changing shores of Lake Tahoe.
The notion behind the App is to get everyone to partake and become "citizen scientists." Thousands of people visit our Tahoe beaches throughout the year, including the locals; UC Davis wants to take advantage of the foot traffic to generate feedback about our nearshore. The app allows you to describe what you see while during your time at the beach, logs your location, date, and time. Whether it's about the water clarity, animals and plants, algae, beach conditions, the good or the bad, the Environmental Center wants to hear about it! These observations will help with the analysis of the physical and chemical interactions that impact Lake Tahoe's nearshore in hopes to help preserve it as well as other lakeshores.
The UC Davis TERC, Tahoe Environmental Research Center, "is a global leader in research, education, and public outreach on lakes that provides critical scientific information to help understand, restore, and sustain the Lake Tahoe Basin and other systems worldwide."[1] The TERC has two main labs/offices in the Tahoe Area, the Tahoe Science Center in Incline Village and the Eriksson Education Center in Tahoe City. Both locations are open to the public for tours and educational exhibits!
Download the Citizen Science App HERE!
[1] http://terc.ucdavis.edu/about-terc/index.html


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I found myself in Mishiwaka, Indiana for Record Store Day Black Friday this year. I managed to snag a few titles there, but came up short on my want list - most notably some Kinks EP's.
I had an early flight home. My family was on a later flight due to wacky airline pricing and mile redemption. I landed, had enough time to go home, get the dog out of storage and return to pick up my loved ones. As I always do when picking someone up at LAX, I wait for their call at Soundsations Records in Westchester.
It's closer to the terminals than the 'cell phone lot.' You can see the control tower in the background on the above photo. When I get the 'we've landed' text, I'll wrap up my purchase. By the time I get to the terminal, my family is at the curb.
This year, I passed through the day after Black Friday. I was able to get the two Kinks EP's I was unable to snag in Mishiwaka - along with a few other titles from their used bins.
I especially like the mannequin wearing a suit made of real 45's.
This upcoming Record Store Day I will be in New Orleans on business. If there are any recommendations on RSD in that city, please feel free.


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1139117762261493190.post2147914383484121871..comments2020-08-06T11:51:41.320-07:00Comments on Inflatable Kayak Report: Kayaking in the Sacramento San Joaquin River DeltaKevin T - Inflatable Kayak Reporthttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1139117762261493190.post-90718077597757255812012-01-31T20:30:17.897-08:002012-01-31T20:30:17.897-08:00Thanks Kevin DanThanks Kevin

email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1139117762261493190.post-71971104315113825812012-01-31T16:31:50.923-08:002012-01-31T16:31:50.923-08:00Hello, I am in the San Francisco Bay Area and onl...Hello,

I am in the San Francisco Bay Area and only sometimes venture out to the Sacramento area. I recommend joining a very active kayak Meetup group in the Sacramento area called the Sacramento Paddle Pusher. They have a lot of paddle events going on and almost something every weekend.

http://www.meetup.com/Sacramento-Paddle-Pushers/

KevinKevin T - Inflatable Kayak Reporthttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1139117762261493190.post-64764795250748895962012-01-31T14:39:56.858-08:002012-01-31T14:39:56.858-08:00Hey, I live in Sac (Elk Grove) area and amd just s...Hey,
I live in Sac (Elk Grove) area and amd just saw your blog. I am not sure if you are still running the blog, but if you are, was wondering if you have been able to explore Sac a bit more?
I am brand new to kayaking and looking for some feedback to where to start. I am going on my first journey to Consumnes River this weekend...wish me email@example.com


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Mangaluru, July 06, 2016: Karnataka state government is not extending any subsidy to encourage solar roof top units. However, the central government is providing 30% subsidy for purchase of such units by hospital, educational institutions and other government offices through the ministry of new and renewable energy from recognized channel partners, informed minister for power D K Shivakumar replying to a question from MLC Ivan D'Souza, chief whip of ruling Congress in state legislative council.
Replying to another query by MLC Ivan on rate at which the department purchases power from solar roof top units, Shivakumar said electricity supply companies buy power at Rs 9.56/unit on net metering basis that is in excess after meeting own power consumption needs by the producer not availing subsidy.
In case, a power producer (using solar roof top units) has availed subsidy to set up the unit, he/she gets paid Rs 7.90/unit for excess power generated and supplied to grid.
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|Nikhil lBhandary, Carstreet mangalore
|Wed, July-6-2016, 2:25
|Now itself there is lot of power cuts . If we opt for solar power think in Monsoon we have to be in dankness.
|Vijay R, mangalore
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|Think solar won't work in rainy season on Dakshina Kannada becuas there is continuous rains.


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It's clear that 21st century technology consumers have outgrown 20th century legacy models. As we move forward, the age of machine learning, advanced predictive analytics, and artificial intelligence are leading the evolutionary changes.
Technology partners within life sciences organizations face increasing pressures to evolve their commercial models, products, and approach to meet growing business demands. Technology giants such as Google, Amazon, and Facebook have already shaped consumer expectations through their engagement with interactive, intuitive, and simple applications for consumers to accomplish their tasks. An evolution towards systems of engagement is underway, and now is the time to join that evolution.
The Salesforce Platform has joined this evolution, and is quickly becoming the industry standard platform to deliver complex applications in the cloud at a global scale. One way to accomplish this is by moving away from monolithic, on premise systems, to Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions. PaaS and SaaS solutions are better architected to enable the speed that business requires to evolve. Tools such as Lightning, Managed Packages, Shield, Big Object, and Heroku are giving rise to a new era of human centered design applications which are easier to use, faster to deploy, and operate seamlessly for global deployments.
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Sometimes it is necessary to remind Nigerians that we are no longer under the jackboot umbrella. And whether our democracy is flawed or not, the system of popular persuasion is much to be preferred to the shadow of the army that rules by diktat.
That accounts for why the nation rose in uproar when the chief of army staff either goofed or tried to present a lack of judgment as goof when he spoke of some unholy meetings between soldiers and some unknown pollical bigwigs.
Anything that throws us back to that era ought to be treated with not only suspicion but the impulse of revulsion. Hence there is much to be praised in one of the recent actions of the House of representatives. This concerns the decision to redeem one of the indecencies of the military era, especially the regime of the soldier with exaggerated dark goggles called Sani Abacha. The House of representatives passed the bill that the Nigeria NLG should pay three percent of its mammoth yearly profits to the Niger Delta Development Commission as part of its social duties to a region ravaged by its irony of wealth: oil and gas.
Other companies in the region have acquiesced, if some do in name but not always in deed. At least they recognise the supremacy of the law of the land. The NLNG was given a tax holiday in this regard, and asked not to pay while dip their gloriously oily hands in their pockets.
The House of representatives has now decided to put national interest above the cynicism that has characterised our political elite who collude with the oil and gas mavens to oppress their kith and kin.
If the idea of the tax holiday was to allow the company get rooted, it has had about a generation to do so. It is time to bow to the impulse of the people and put aside three percent to develop the area. They claim they do not pollute the region. They merely process.
Is that not a cynical argument? They want to eat their cake and have it, or vice versa. Let others produce the gas, and although while we are processing it, it does damage, we can take the profit and not the responsibility. No one in their patriotic senses and in the full working of logic accept that argument. Because I don't make garri but merely distribute it, I am not in the garri business.
They believe that they have been working in the society, including giving scholarships. Records show they give more scholarship to vocational youths than the more substantial demands of the region, especially those who want university education.
The NLNG makes about N500 billion a year. And they are not even being asked to pay a tithe or even half a tithe, but a measly fraction. Yet they yell in pain.
The NLNG is owned by four shareholders, and Nigeria, represented by the NNPC, owns 49 per cent. The balance belongs to Shell Gas BV, Total LNG Nigeria Ltd, and ENI International Ltd. These firms control 25.6 percent, 15 percent and 10.4 percent respectively.
The NDDC is owed over a trillion naira in debt, as the Managing director Nsima Ekere has noted. Firms with strong foreign content should not be seen to be adding to the burden.


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We entered the court through the arch, a drummer was playing, the beat echoed, the coolness of the air and the soft misty drops of rain added to the intrigue of this place. It was dim in the court and as I viewed the light and shadow playing on the stone I saw in the distance the light glowing from the pyramid.
It was quiet, few people were there just shadows and silhouettes in the distance. The sound of the drums had dissipated as we passed through the second arch. The fountains were off and the romantic sounds from a violinist was faintly coming to life as I looked at the black pools of still water reflecting the beautiful glow of the glass pyramid. With just enough light to make out the opposing foreground and background of new and old it was a surreal and for a moment nothing else existed but myself and this place.


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By a rail worker
The RMT's Annual General Meeting, meeting in Dublin on 2-7 July, will discuss what the union has described as the "pensions crisis" facing rail workers. Despite a 76% vote for strike action, the executive has decided not to set strike dates and instead accept the employers' proposal for a "tripartite commission" — one union representative, one employer and an "independent chair" — to find a solution.
The union had previously rejected this proposal, and with good reason. 'Independent' chairs are typically just bosses' representatives in disguise, and are unlikely to take the union's side in a dispute. Moreover, such an approach ignores the fact that there are, naturally, major differences between the union's demands and the employers', differences which cannot be resolved through polite discussion. And although talks with employers are not in themselves illegitimate, to suspend strike action when the bosses have made no major concessions can only demobilise and demoralise members.
In addition, as an emergency motion to the AGM from East Midlands Central points out, "it is likely that the duration of this commission will be considerable and during this time our pension rights will continue to be eroded". The employers have threatened to unilaterally introduce contributions hikes on 1 July: and the demobilisation of the union while the commission sits will mean these attacks become a done deal. Industrial action before 1 July could have stopped the bosses in their tracks; instead, it is the union that is now on the defensive.
The executive has pointed out repeatedly that our strike mandate "remains live". If we are to get this dispute back on the rails, we need to force them to take that seriously.


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Review #5 Total Recall (2012)
Directed by- Len Wiseman
Starring- Colin Farrell, Jessica Biel, Kate Beckinsale, Bookem Woodbine and Bryan Cranston.
I was hoping I would like this. I did not. I didn't care about the movie. I didn't care about the characters. I didn't care about Colin Farrell and Jessica Biel. There was no way I was emotionally invested in this movie. I'm not going to bother explaining the plot. It was crap. Philip K. Dick is turning in his grave. The Schwarzenegger one was much much better. I actually cared about what happened to him, and more exciting things happened to him, and as a result, I cared. The majority of movies seem to be sequels or remakes or spinoffs. This was not a successful remake. With remakes I think they should either resemble the original completely, or be different enough for it to be a movie in its own right. It's a tv show, but I really like Sherlock. The fact that times have changed is important enough for me not to be hung up on Conan Doyle's books, but I can still appreciate how the character of Holmes can function in modern times.
I have few positives for Total Recall. The effects were good, I liked the futuristic feel of the UFB, the flying cars and anti-gravity travel pod was pretty cool. In fact, I thought the landscape was more like Blade Runner than the Arnie version. Although, the police guards resembled the stormtroopers from Return of the Jedi a little too much for my liking. The film was too political. Don't get me wrong, having studied it, I love politics. But for me, Total Recall (the original, I haven't read the book), isn't about a futuristic fascist state like in Equilibrium or 1984. It's about the simulation of a holiday/different life, and the implantation of different memories into the person's brain. And Colin Farrell was running around trying to do a thousand different things at once, it felt like he couldn't really dedicate enough of his time to finding out who he is and was trying to save the world instead.
Biggest problem with this movie- they don't go to Mars. This BEYOND offended me. The best part of the original movie took place on Mars. That was kind of the climax of the movie, and to be honest, was what made it? The three breasted woman was there for all of twenty seconds, and they were running around too much for me to be able to properly be bothered to pay attention to what was going on.
No. No. No. No. 2 stars.


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Michelle Wolf is (Still) not a Nice Lady
I've said it before and I'll say it again, Michelle Wolf is not a nice lady. She's a nasty woman who gets shit done, and perhaps the most recent proof of this is her speech at this year's White House Correspondents' Dinner. What she said has sparked much support, as well as a whole lot of outrage. Many are calling on Wolf to apologize for her remarks. So, as many others have noted, Wolf was basically hired to roast people at this dinner, and now she's supposed to apologize for doing just that. Cool.
In December, I wrote a piece on Michelle Wolf's first HBO special, Nice Lady. Prior to Wolf's speech, if you googled "Is Michelle Wolf Jewish?" my review of her special was the first thing to come up. I noticed that this earlier piece started to get more traffic right after Wolf's White House Correspondents' Dinner speech, and started getting some interesting new comments as well. I'll just give you a taste of some of them, since they have been deleted: "You liberal women disgust me. You'll be the end of the USA and Judaism;" "...Look at how egotistical Jews are! You are so stupid, because you think you are so very smart!...;" "Michelle Wolf is hideous. That is why she is a bitter female. That is why she is a feminist;" and "Wolf is a c*nt. A tool of the jew left." Fun stuff, right?
So, why do people think Michelle Wolf is Jewish (she's not), and how has this misconception shaped some of the criticism that she's received? Side note: Michelle, everyone thinks you're Jewish anyway so why not just seal the deal? Join us!
Let's tackle this first question. Why do people think Michelle Wolf is Jewish? I have a few ideas.
- Curly hair
- Fran Drescher-esque voice
- The fact that she's a comedian.
What do these three things have in common? They all harken back to Jewish stereotypes. The first two have to do specifically with stereotypes surrounding what Jewish women look and sound like, and the third has to do with stereotypes surrounding Jews' roles in the entertainment industry. In sum, while of course there's no one way to look or sound or be Jewish, it seems pretty clear that this misconception about Wolf's background is rooted in some very specific, and again, stereotypical, images of Jews.
Now, onto some of the specific criticism of Wolf's speech. I'd like to focus on what our dear president (who wasn't even there) had to say. In a Sunday tweet he said, "The filthy "comedian" totally bombed (couldn't even deliver her lines––much like the Seth Meyers weak performance)..." Let's first address the misogynist elephant in the room. This tweet is, unsurprisingly, extremely sexist. Putting the word "comedian" in quotes, and claiming that Wolf "couldn't even deliver her lines," are swipes at her credibility, and her talent as a comedian. I probably don't need to tell this crowd that delegitimizing a woman's ability to do her job is one of the oldest tricks in the book.
I wish there was more time to talk about the sexist nature of much of the negative feedback Wolf is receiving. Boy would I love to say, "Really, guys? Conservatives can say whatever the hell they want about Hillary Clinton's appearance for the entire 2016 presidential campaign but Michelle Wolf has to apologize for one 'smokey eye' comment?"
Going back to Trump's tweet, I can't help but fixate on the word "filthy." Jews have often been referred to as "dirty" and "filthy" in anti-Semitic comments, and while I believe this phenomenon likely has many roots, the one that comes to mind has to do with Hitler's descriptions of Jews in Mein Kampf. In short, Hitler saw Jews as "parasites" that "lived off" other races and weakened them by compromising their "purity." I don't think it's too much of a stretch to see a connection between this idea of Jews as parasites, and the idea that Jews are somehow unclean. While Trump didn't specifically say anything about Wolf being Jewish, and while it's possible he was referring to the nature of Wolf's comedy and not to Wolf herself, I think his word choice is telling.
Among other examples, the president's tweet and some of the comments on my December blog post make one thing quite clear: in many cases, Wolf isn't simply being criticized as a woman, she's being criticized as a Jewish woman. (Again, Michelle, let's make it official––call me!) There's plenty of disdain out there for Jews and women alike, but perhaps the combination of the two––this perceived extra "otherness"––can help explain the specific nature of some of this criticism, and the overall vitriol of it. I might even go so far as to say that this misconception about Wolf's identity works to chip away at whatever privilege Wolf has as a white woman.
On the bright side, being perceived as a Jewish woman comedian can be a good thing, too. I mean, who wouldn't want their name on a list with the likes of Joan Rivers, Gilda Radner, Sarah Silverman, and Fanny Brice? As I said back in December, and will undoubtedly say again, Michelle Wolf isn't Jewish, but her no-holds-barred comedy is certainly in keeping with the strong tradition of Jewish female comedians. These are not nice ladies––and thank goodness for that.
I wondered if Michelle Wolf was Jewish only after a few minutes of watching her on The View; she strongly resembles a younger version of my aunt (with her sense of humor, as well), and just the name "Michelle Wolf" comes across as particularly Jewish.
And lets face it, she started working in the financial sector before getting into comedy, so there's another ring of the stereotype bell.
Also, being as funny as she is, helps, too.
As a white, Jewish male, I'm just sorry Michelle Wolf isn't on the team! She's outstandingly talented and funny, cute, real, genuine, and drop-dead gorgeous! Anyone who insults her for being a woman, assuming she is Jewish, or for her style of quirky delivery is a fool.
The only reason I thought Wolf might be Jewish was her last name. No sterotype about her looks or persona. You may want to think about that.
The hypocrisy in this country is sickening. The staff lady that insulted Senator McCain has yet to apologize and she is NOT a comedian, why these hateful republicans expect Michelle Wolfe to apologize for her roast. She has no reason to apologize
Actors with two Jewish parents: Mila Kunis, Natalie Portman, Logan Lerman, Paul Rudd, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bar Refaeli, Anton Yelchin, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Adam Brody, Kat Dennings, Gabriel Macht, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Erin Heatherton, Lisa Kudrow, Lizzy Caplan, Gal Gadot, Debra Messing, Jason Isaacs, Jon Bernthal, Robert Kazinsky, Melanie Laurent, Esti Ginzburg, Shiri Appleby, Justin Bartha, Margarita Levieva, James Wolk, Elizabeth Berkley, Halston Sage, Seth Gabel, Corey Stoll, Michael Vartan, Mia Kirshner, Alden Ehrenreich, Julian Morris, Debra Winger, Eric Balfour, Dan Hedaya, Emory Cohen, Corey Haim, Scott Mechlowicz, Odeya Rush, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson is Jewish, too (though I don't know if both of his parents are).
Actors with Jewish mothers and non-Jewish fathers: Timothée Chalamet, Jake Gyllenhaal, Dave Franco, James Franco, Scarlett Johansson, Daniel Day-Lewis, Daniel Radcliffe, Alison Brie, Eva Green, Joaquin Phoenix, River Phoenix, Emmy Rossum, Ryan Potter, Rashida Jones, Jennifer Connelly, Sofia Black D'Elia, Nora Arnezeder, Goldie Hawn, Ginnifer Goodwin, Amanda Peet, Eric Dane, Jeremy Jordan, Joel Kinnaman, Ben Barnes, Patricia Arquette, Kyra Sedgwick, Dave Annable, and Harrison Ford (whose maternal grandparents were both Jewish, despite those Hanukkah Song lyrics).
Actors with Jewish fathers and non-Jewish mothers, who themselves were either raised as Jewish and/or identify as Jewish: Ezra Miller, Gwyneth Paltrow, Alexa Davalos, Nat Wolff, Nicola Peltz, James Maslow, Josh Bowman, Andrew Garfield, Winona Ryder, Michael Douglas, Ben Foster, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nikki Reed, Zac Efron, Jonathan Keltz, Paul Newman.
Oh, and Ansel Elgort's father is Jewish, though I don't know how Ansel was raised. Robert Downey, Jr., Sean Penn, and Ed Skrein were also born to Jewish fathers and non-Jewish mothers. Armie Hammer, Chris Pine, and Mark-Paul Gosselaar are part Jewish.
Actors with one Jewish-born parent and one parent who converted to Judaism: Dianna Agron, Sara Paxton (whose father converted, not her mother), Alicia Silverstone, Jamie-Lynn Sigler.
In reply to Actors with two Jewish by Bee
What is the point in this list you've written up?
The reason some people think she's Jewish basically is her last name. Wolfe! That's it. Her timing or her referencing isn't Jewish. She doesn't make fun of herself nor is she saying anything original that hasn't been said before....so that's how I knew she wasn't Jewish :)
In reply to The reason some people think by Sarah D. Saunders
Her timing or her referencing isn't Jewish. What exactly is Jewish timing and Jewish referencing? Please elaborate.
How to cite this page
Klebe, Larisa. "Michelle Wolf is (Still) not a Nice Lady." 2 May 2018. Jewish Women's Archive. (Viewed on August 14, 2020) <https://jwa.org/blog/michelle-wolf-is-still-not-nice-lady>.


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Dr. El Hajjaji Publishes Paper on Water Treatment
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- 11.14.2018
Dr. Samir El Hajjaji, Assistant Professor of Chemistry in the School of Science and Engineering (SSE), recently co-authored a paper with Dr. Asmaa Msaad of the Chemistry and Environment Laboratory at University Hassan I in Settat that was published in Desalination and Water Treatment, a scientific journal dedicated to the research and application of integrated water management, water reuse, wastewater and related topics. The journal is indexed by Web of Science, SCI-E and Current Contents, and its 2018 impact factor is rated at 1.38. The paper, titled "Industrial Wastewater Decolorization by Activated Carbon from Ziziphus Lotus", reports the application of novel low-cost and eco-friendly adsorbent made from leaves of jujube, a shrub species commonly found in Morocco. With this new type of activated carbon, color in wastewater taken from a Moroccan jeans factory can be reduced by more than 97% in only 5 hours.
An abstract of the published paper can be accessed through the following link:


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The Whole Life Challenge, I was already trying to look for minimally processed foods to feed my family, and was especially dismayed at the long list of artificial crap in almost all of the supposedly healthy "nutrition" bars we were used to eating. The one brand that didn't contain a ton of added sugar and other awful ingredients? LaraBar. Honestly, most of the flavors contain a mere four or five ingredients—and virtually none (except those containing chocolate chips, as far as I can tell) has added or refined sugar of any kind.
This is why LaraBars are a perfect grab-and-go snack when you're doing The Whole Life Challenge. Again, not all of the flavors are completely sugar-free, so they're not all compliant, but many of them are—including my favorite flavor: Coconut Cream Pie. However, as much as I love LaraBars, the more I thought about how few ingredients there were, the more I wondered if I could just make them myself. So I did a quick online search and behold! There were a ton of websites sharing their recipes. Coming in at the very top of my "Coconut Cream LaraBar Recipe" search was a site called My Whole Food Life. The recipe looked awesome so I decided to give it a try and OMG was I glad that I did. These things were like coconut crack. Almost too good—and, I hate to say it, a billion times better than the store-bought LaraBars. They're also crazy-easy to make. If you want to check out the recipe, click here. (Note: My Whole Food Life also has recipes for a ton of other LaraBar flavors that I have yet to try, plus plenty of other recipes that are Whole Life Challenge compliant!)
Now, as great as the recipe is, I modify things slightly when I make mine. So, with Melissa of My Whole Food Life's permission of course, I'm going to share the recipe with my variations, which basically entail making these as bite-sized balls instead of bars and adding a few tablespoons of cacao powder to turn them into a second flavor that's akin to delicious little brownies. (I also use the almond mulch left over from my HOMEMADEALMOND MILK in place of whole almonds.) These make a great snack or dessert and, placed in small wrappers they could even be passed off as candy. (Did somebody say Valentine's Day?) My husband and son absolutely love them, and so do I (probably a little too much). Give them a try and let me know what you think.
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Serves 6
20 pitted dates (15 if you're using Medjool)
½ cup raw almonds (or ½ cup almond mulch, left over from HOMEMADEALMOND MILK)
½ cup raw cashews
¾ cup shredded unsweetened coconut (plus more for optional coating)
2 tablespoons extra virgin/cold pressed coconut oil
2 tablespoons water
3 tablespoons raw cacao powder (plus more for optional dusting)
1. Place dates in a food processor and pulse until chopped.
2. Add almonds, cashews and shredded coconut and pulse into a fine meal.
3. Add the coconut oil (it's fine to leave it solid) and water and mix until a dough forms.
4. Optional (if making the chocolate brownie flavor): Add the cacao powder and mix until well combined.
5. Taking about a tablespoon at a time, use hands to roll dough into bite-sized balls.
6. If desired, roll coconut cream balls in shredded coconut. Or, place a tablespoon or two of cacao powder in a mesh sieve and lightly dust the brownie bites.
7. Store in the refrigerator for up to two weeks.
NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION (approximately 4 pieces):
COCONUT CREAM: 223 calories; 14 g fat (9 g saturated); 9 mg sodium; 26.6 g carbohydrates; 3.8 g fiber; 19.7 g sugar; 2.9 g protein; 3% calcium; 5% iron


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2020 State Fact Sheets
Find information on Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) in your state. Here are updated 2020 fact sheets. Click on the link of each state to download the fact sheet.
Find information on Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) in your state. Here are updated 2020 fact sheets. Click on the link of each state to download the fact sheet.
A survey released today by Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote (APIAVote) and AAPIData reveals many insights into the fastest-growing racial group in the United States, including their voting plans for House and Senate races in 2018, and various issue priorities such as education, health care, and the state of the economy. In addition to election-related topics, the survey also contains key opinion data on affirmative action, labor protections, and immigration policy, including the administration's recently announced plans to revoke the legal status of immigrants with green cards who have used government assistance.
Find information on Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) in your state. Here are updated 2018 fact sheets. Click on the link of each state to download the fact sheet.
This report includes findings from the 2016 National Asian American Survey (NAAS), a nationally representative survey of 2,238 Asian American and 305 Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) adult interviews conducted by telephone from August 10 to September 29, 2016. This particular report focuses on the 1,694 Asian American and 261 NHPI registered voters who took the survey, with an overall margin of error +/- 3.5%. Future reports will examine the policy views of Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in greater depth and civic engagement among noncitizens and citizens alike.
Understanding the opinions, priorities, and positions of Asian American voters is critical for us to not only better understand what our communities care about, but to also better amplify these opinions and priorities to those that shape policies and make decisions that affect all of us.
Find information on the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) in your state. Factsheets include number of eligible AAPI voters in the state, total population numbers, ethnic population breakdown, population growth rates, county breakdown based on AAPI population, and more.
The Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander population above the age of 50 is one of the fastest growing segments of an already rapidly growing racial group. However, gaps in civic engagement, education, and outreach persist for AAPI, particularly AAPI 50+. There is a lack of outreach for both voting and volunteerism, as well as a lack of outreach through popular mediums, such as ethnic media.
Along with the growing presence of Asian American voters is a growing interest in the opinions and priorities of this electorate. This report presents the results of interviews conducted by telephone from August 14 to September 11, 2014, of 1,337 registered voters who identify as Asian American, producing an overall margin of sampling error of +/- 2.7%.
This report looks at Asian American youth voters, and finds that age bears a significant relationship to nativity among Asian Americans. In past midterm elections, Asian American youth participation has been low relative to older Asian Americans, and to white and African American youth. Asian American young adults are those least likely to receive election-related voter contact. At the same time, Asian American young adults are more likely than average to say that they are more enthusiastic about the 2014 election th
The data on Asian American public opinion reveals that Asian American voters are "up for grabs" in terms of party identification. Given that the Asian American electorate is still making up its mind on political parties, it is surprising to still find low rates of electoral contact. Ethnic media is an important source of political information, especially for Chinese American and Vietnamese American voters. Asian Americans tend to favor the Democratic Party on many key issues. Overall, voter enthusiasm is the same than before.


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From Eos: "Distant Quake Triggered Slow Slip on Southern San Andreas"
23 September 2019
Terri Cook
A high-resolution map of surface displacements indicates that the 2017 Chiapas earthquake caused substantial creep along a segment of the San Andreas Fault, located 3,000 kilometers away.
The 2017 magnitude 8.3 Chiapas earthquake caused up to 15 millimeters of creep on the segment of the San Andreas Fault that runs along the northeastern edge of California's Salton Sea. Credit: USGS/NASA's Earth Observatory
In the traditional model of the earthquake cycle, a seismic event occurs when an active fault abruptly releases strain that has built up over time. About 20 years ago, however, seismologists began finding that some faults, or sections of faults, can experience slow earthquakes—a gradual type of aseismic slip, or "creep," that can last for months. Because both types of events release pent-up energy, determining the proportion of seismic versus aseismic slip along active faults is crucial for estimating their potential hazard.
Although conventional interpretations predict that aseismic slip should occur at a roughly constant rate, geodetic observations have shown that at some locations fault creep is anything but steady. Measurements along the southern San Andreas Fault in California, one of the most studied examples of a creeping fault, have shown that this section often experiences bouts of accelerated creep and that these events can be spontaneous or triggered by seismic events. But the underlying conditions and mechanisms that cause slow slip are still poorly understood.
San Andreas Fault. Temblor
Now Tymofyeyeva et al. [JGR Solid Earth] report detailed observations of a slow-slip event that occurred along the southern San Andreas Fault following the magnitude 8.3 earthquake that hit offshore Chiapas, Mexico, in September 2017. The team combined the results of field mapping with creepmeter and Sentinel-1 interferometric synthetic aperture radar observations to create a high-resolution map of surface displacements near the Salton Sea. The researchers then entered the results into numerical models to constrain the crustal properties that could generate the observed behavior.
The results indicated that surface slip along the 40-kilometer-long section between Bombay Beach and the Mecca Hills accelerated within minutes of the Chiapas earthquake and continued for more than a year. The event resulted in total surface offsets that averaged 5-10 millimeters, comparable to the slow slip triggered by the 2010 magnitude 7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah (Baja) earthquake, even though the stress changes along the southern San Andreas due to the Chiapas earthquake were several orders of magnitude lower.
The findings offer compelling evidence that the Chiapas earthquake triggered the 2017 slow-slip event along the southern San Andreas Fault, according to the researchers, and show that although shallow creep near the Salton Sea is roughly constant on decadal timescales, it can vary significantly over shorter periods of time. The authors conclude that the response of the southern San Andreas, and potentially other major faults, to different seismic events is complex and likely reflects crustal conditions as well as local creep history.
See the full article here .
Earthquake Network projectEarthquake Network is a research project which aims at developing and maintaining a crowdsourced smartphone-based earthquake warning system at a global level. Smartphones made available by the population are used to detect the earthquake waves using the on-board accelerometers. When an earthquake is detected, an earthquake warning is issued in order to alert the population not yet reached by the damaging waves of the earthquake.
The project started on January 1, 2013 with the release of the homonymous Android application Earthquake Network. The author of the research project and developer of the smartphone application is Francesco Finazzi of the University of Bergamo, Italy.
Get the app in the Google Play store.
Smartphone network spatial distribution (green and red dots) on December 4, 2015
Meet The Quake-Catcher Network
The Quake-Catcher Network is a collaborative initiative for developing the world's largest, low-cost strong-motion seismic network by utilizing sensors in and attached to internet-connected computers. With your help, the Quake-Catcher Network can provide better understanding of earthquakes, give early warning to schools, emergency response systems, and others. The Quake-Catcher Network also provides educational software designed to help teach about earthquakes and earthquake hazards.
After almost eight years at Stanford, and a year at CalTech, the QCN project is moving to the University of Southern California Dept. of Earth Sciences. QCN will be sponsored by the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) and the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC).
The Quake-Catcher Network is a distributed computing network that links volunteer hosted computers into a real-time motion sensing network. QCN is one of many scientific computing projects that runs on the world-renowned distributed computing platform Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC).
The volunteer computers monitor vibrational sensors called MEMS accelerometers, and digitally transmit "triggers" to QCN's servers whenever strong new motions are observed. QCN's servers sift through these signals, and determine which ones represent earthquakes, and which ones represent cultural noise (like doors slamming, or trucks driving by).
There are two categories of sensors used by QCN: 1) internal mobile device sensors, and 2) external USB sensors.
Mobile Devices: MEMS sensors are often included in laptops, games, cell phones, and other electronic devices for hardware protection, navigation, and game control. When these devices are still and connected to QCN, QCN software monitors the internal accelerometer for strong new shaking. Unfortunately, these devices are rarely secured to the floor, so they may bounce around when a large earthquake occurs. While this is less than ideal for characterizing the regional ground shaking, many such sensors can still provide useful information about earthquake locations and magnitudes.
USB Sensors: MEMS sensors can be mounted to the floor and connected to a desktop computer via a USB cable. These sensors have several advantages over mobile device sensors. 1) By mounting them to the floor, they measure more reliable shaking than mobile devices. 2) These sensors typically have lower noise and better resolution of 3D motion. 3) Desktops are often left on and do not move. 4) The USB sensor is physically removed from the game, phone, or laptop, so human interaction with the device doesn't reduce the sensors' performance. 5) USB sensors can be aligned to North, so we know what direction the horizontal "X" and "Y" axes correspond to.
If you are a science teacher at a K-12 school, please apply for a free USB sensor and accompanying QCN software. QCN has been able to purchase sensors to donate to schools in need. If you are interested in donating to the program or requesting a sensor, click here.
BOINC is a leader in the field(s) of Distributed Computing, Grid Computing and Citizen Cyberscience.BOINC is more properly the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing, developed at UC Berkeley.
Earthquake safety is a responsibility shared by billions worldwide. The Quake-Catcher Network (QCN) provides software so that individuals can join together to improve earthquake monitoring, earthquake awareness, and the science of earthquakes. The Quake-Catcher Network (QCN) links existing networked laptops and desktops in hopes to form the worlds largest strong-motion seismic network.
Below, the QCN Quake Catcher Network map
ShakeAlert: An Earthquake Early Warning System for the West Coast of the United States
The U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) along with a coalition of State and university partners is developing and testing an earthquake early warning (EEW) system called ShakeAlert for the west coast of the United States. Long term funding must be secured before the system can begin sending general public notifications, however, some limited pilot projects are active and more are being developed. The USGS has set the goal of beginning limited public notifications in 2018.
Watch a video describing how ShakeAlert works in English or Spanish.
The primary project partners include:
United States Geological Survey
California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (CalOES)
California Geological Survey
California Institute of Technology
University of California Berkeley
University of Washington
University of Oregon
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
The Earthquake Threat
Earthquakes pose a national challenge because more than 143 million Americans live in areas of significant seismic risk across 39 states. Most of our Nation's earthquake risk is concentrated on the West Coast of the United States. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has estimated the average annualized loss from earthquakes, nationwide, to be $5.3 billion, with 77 percent of that figure ($4.1 billion) coming from California, Washington, and Oregon, and 66 percent ($3.5 billion) from California alone. In the next 30 years, California has a 99.7 percent chance of a magnitude 6.7 or larger earthquake and the Pacific Northwest has a 10 percent chance of a magnitude 8 to 9 megathrust earthquake on the Cascadia subduction zone.
Part of the Solution
Today, the technology exists to detect earthquakes, so quickly, that an alert can reach some areas before strong shaking arrives. The purpose of the ShakeAlert system is to identify and characterize an earthquake a few seconds after it begins, calculate the likely intensity of ground shaking that will result, and deliver warnings to people and infrastructure in harm's way. This can be done by detecting the first energy to radiate from an earthquake, the P-wave energy, which rarely causes damage. Using P-wave information, we first estimate the location and the magnitude of the earthquake. Then, the anticipated ground shaking across the region to be affected is estimated and a warning is provided to local populations. The method can provide warning before the S-wave arrives, bringing the strong shaking that usually causes most of the damage.
Studies of earthquake early warning methods in California have shown that the warning time would range from a few seconds to a few tens of seconds. ShakeAlert can give enough time to slow trains and taxiing planes, to prevent cars from entering bridges and tunnels, to move away from dangerous machines or chemicals in work environments and to take cover under a desk, or to automatically shut down and isolate industrial systems. Taking such actions before shaking starts can reduce damage and casualties during an earthquake. It can also prevent cascading failures in the aftermath of an event. For example, isolating utilities before shaking starts can reduce the number of fire initiations.
System Goal
The USGS will issue public warnings of potentially damaging earthquakes and provide warning parameter data to government agencies and private users on a region-by-region basis, as soon as the ShakeAlert system, its products, and its parametric data meet minimum quality and reliability standards in those geographic regions. The USGS has set the goal of beginning limited public notifications in 2018. Product availability will expand geographically via ANSS regional seismic networks, such that ShakeAlert products and warnings become available for all regions with dense seismic instrumentation.
Current Status
The West Coast ShakeAlert system is being developed by expanding and upgrading the infrastructure of regional seismic networks that are part of the Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS); the California Integrated Seismic Network (CISN) is made up of the Southern California Seismic Network, SCSN) and the Northern California Seismic System, NCSS and the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN). This enables the USGS and ANSS to leverage their substantial investment in sensor networks, data telemetry systems, data processing centers, and software for earthquake monitoring activities residing in these network centers. The ShakeAlert system has been sending live alerts to "beta" users in California since January of 2012 and in the Pacific Northwest since February of 2015.
In February of 2016 the USGS, along with its partners, rolled-out the next-generation ShakeAlert early warning test system in California joined by Oregon and Washington in April 2017. This West Coast-wide "production prototype" has been designed for redundant, reliable operations. The system includes geographically distributed servers, and allows for automatic fail-over if connection is lost.
This next-generation system will not yet support public warnings but does allow selected early adopters to develop and deploy pilot implementations that take protective actions triggered by the ShakeAlert notifications in areas with sufficient sensor coverage.
The USGS will develop and operate the ShakeAlert system, and issue public notifications under collaborative authorities with FEMA, as part of the National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program, as enacted by the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977, 42 U.S.C. §§ 7704 SEC. 2.
For More Information
Robert de Groot, ShakeAlert National Coordinator for Communication, Education, and Outreach
ShakeAlert Implementation Plan
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Of course now I feel even worse for the guy because, although I've been pretty calm and collected during this pregnancy, the damn has broken and the hormone surge has been let loose. One moment I'm happy and fine, then, the next I feel like I could burst into tears. Well, that is unless you piss me off and then that's just another story. Like trying to discuss with me when we should go to Babies R Us to register, agree on the time and date and then change it up on me? That will end in a slamming of the front door as I angrily drive away to aerobics. Drive away without hitting any poles of course. I feel very bad for him, but even worse for me. I'm at the point of the pregnancy where I can no longer flip sides in bed peacefully. It takes great effort and thought which I don't really seem to have at 1 a.m. Say hello to my 29 week old belly. Camille no longer just kicks me, she now has learned how to swim. Instead of swift movements I now have waves going up and down over the belly.


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On October 22, 2018, at the age of 85, Eugene Peterson passed from this earth to more fully be with his creator. He is the author of many books and of THE MESSAGE bible translation. He has completed his journey along the sawdust trail and has entered the life to come in "the new country of grace—a new life in a new land!" (Romans 6:1-3, The Message). He is survived by his wife, Jan, his three children, and many grandchildren. In honor of a life well-lived, here is an excerpt from his book Living the Resurrection. To learn more about Eugene and his legacy click here.
The Practice of Resurrection at Every Meal
The Gospel writers are fond of telling stories of Jesus at meals. The meal was one of their favorite settings for showing Jesus as he revealed himself, talked, worked, and welcomed men and women to him.
Formation-by-resurrection does not depend on a specially prepared setting or a carefully selected time and place. The norm is the normal. There is nothing more normal and routine and everyday than eating a meal.
Our common humanity is out in the open as we eat together. We need to eat to stay alive, and at this meal we're all eating the same thing—vegetables, fruits, breads. The act of eating together has a wonderful way of obscuring—at least temporarily—self-importance.
Christian practice in matters of spiritual formation goes badly astray when it attempts to construct or organize ways of spirituality apart from the ordinariness of life. And there is nothing more ordinary than a meal. Breakfast and supper. Fish and bread. The home in Emmaus and the beach in Galilee. These provide the conditions and materials for formation-by-resurrection.
Both of these meals were what we might call working meals. They weren't specially prepared for the purposes of a spiritual revelation. They weren't "staged." They were a natural and integral part of daily life.
We have wonderful metaphors in our Scriptures that use food as a way of talking about an appetite for God: "O taste and see that the Lord is good" (Psalm 34:8); "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied" (Matthew 5:6); "My soul is feasted as with marrow and fat" (Psalm 63:5); and Jesus' "I have food to eat of which you do not know" (John 4:32).
But these resurrection meals were not metaphorical. They ate real bread and actual fish. Baked bread, fried fish—food for the stomach.
There is a place for getting away from our daily lives to pray and reflect and rest. Jesus is also a model for doing this: "And in the morning, a great while before day, he rose and went out to a lonely place, and there he prayed" (Mark 1:35). But however much these practices of withdrawal are useful and necessary—very necessary—what Luke and John are both making us face with their stories is that a primary place for spiritual formation, formation-by-resurrection, is the daily meals we sit down to in the course of our daily work.
Every time we pick up a knife and fork, every time we say, "Pass the salt, please," every time we take a second helping of cauliflower, we are in a setting congenial to spiritual formation.
There is a venerable, but I think wrongheaded, tradition in some parts of the church of using the resurrection for strictly apologetic purposes—using it to prove the divinity of Jesus. There is obviously something to apologetic uses of the resurrection. Paul does it. But even Paul, for the most part, brings up the resurrection of Jesus to engage us in the practice of resurrection.
I'm not using the word practice like in practicing the piano. Practice is a word we say when a doctor has a practice or enters his practice. It's one of those all-encompassing words that includes everything we're doing.
A meal is a host/guest arrangement. The meal itself is usually the work of many hands, both apparent and hidden. But a host, whether explicitly or implicitly, sets the terms and conditions of the meal. The best hosts do this most inconspicuously, so it might be difficult at times for an outsider to discern the difference between the host and the guest.
The host/guest reality that is present in all meals taken in common provides extensive experience in the nature of spiritual formation. The guest at a meal is fully participating. The host doesn't eat the guest's meal, for example. But at the same time, the guest is totally dependent on the host. As guests, we are at the table in the first place because of an invitation. The food was purchased or grown, prepared, and served by the host—although as guests we may have been invited to help. And the host is going to clean up afterward.
No wonder the meal is such a frequent biblical setting for experiencing the ways of God in our lives. We're totally involved and at the same time totally not in charge. But these fused totalities can be nearly indiscernible in actual practice. "Host" is not a totalitarian role. At the table of a genial and experienced host, guests experience enormous freedom and spontaneity.
Jesus is host, always. We are never "in charge" of our spiritual formation. We don't decide the menu. We don't customize the details according to our tastes and appetites. But at the same time, we are completely present and participatory, engaged in the actual formation-by-resurrection itself.
The Deconstruction of Meals
We find ourselves living in a time when the common meal has been pushed to the sidelines. The machine and its metaphors dominate the way we live and think and talk about the way we live.
The common meal is probably the primary way by which we take care of our physical need for food and our social need for conversation and intimacy and our cultural need to carry on traditions and convey values. The meal—preparation, serving, eating, cleaning up—has always been a microcosm of the intricate realities that combine to make up even the simplest life of men, women, and children. Because it is so inclusive (anyone and everyone can be included in the meal) and because it is so comprehensive (taking in the entire range of our existence—physical, social, cultural), the meal provides an endless supply of metaphors for virtually everything we do as human beings. These metaphors nearly always suggest something deeply personal and communal—giving and receiving, knowing and being known ("taste and see that the Lord is good"), accepting and being accepted, bounty and generosity ("land flowing with milk and honey").
And always, deeply embedded in the common meal—sometimes it's invisible, and we don't see it—is the experience of sacrifice: one life given so that another may live. It may be the life of a carrot or a cucumber or a fish or a duck or a lamb or a heifer, but it's life. Eating a meal involves us in a complex, sacrificial world of giving and receiving. Life feeds life. We are not self-sufficient. We live by life, and life is given to us.
The prominence of these meals keeps us in intimate touch with our families and our traditions in which we are reared, personally available to friends and guests, morally related to the hungry, and, perhaps most of all, participants in the context and conditions in which Jesus lived his life, using the language he used.
But the centrality of the meal in our lives today is greatly diminished. We still eat, of course, but the world of the meal has disintegrated. The exponential rise of fast-food restaurants means there is little leisure time for conversation. The vast explosion of restaurants means there is far less food preparation that takes place in the home. The invasion of the television set to a place at the head of the table at family meals virtually eliminates personal relationships and conversations. The frequency with which prepared and frozen meals are used erodes the culture of family recipes and common work. All this and more means that the meal is no longer easily accessible or natural as the setting in which to encounter the risen Christ. For most of us, the machine has replaced the meal as the dominant feature and metaphor of daily living.
But we still eat meals—all of us. So the meal remains a major opening, place, condition in which we can practice formation-by-resurrection, though we will probably need to be more deliberate and intentional about it.
The Shape of the Liturgy
The focal practice for the meal and formation-by-resurrection is the Lord's Supper. We variously designate it Holy Communion, the Lord's Table, the Holy Eucharist. This practice has, from the beginning of our Christian way, occupied a central place in our worship. There is also a strong and continuous tradition in Christian practice of treating every meal as a kind of mini-sacrament. This tradition has a firm foundation in the biblical language that describes what Jesus did when he gathered people into his presence and ate with them.
Four different times we have a sequence of four verbs to describe what Jesus does at meals. The four verbs are took, blessed, broke, and gave. This is what Dom Gregory Dix calls "the shape of the liturgy." Early on in the Christian community, worship was defined by this fourfold Eucharistic shape, and it has continued to be the pattern ever since. But more than worship was thus defined. Our very lives "in the land of the living" take on the shape of the meal, this central and dominant resurrection meal.
Jesus takes what we bring to him—our bread, our fish, our wine, our goats, our sheep, our sins, our virtues, our work, our leisure, our strength, our weakness, our hunger, our thirst, whatever we are. At every table we sit down to we bring first of all and most of all ourselves. And Jesus takes it—He takes us.
Jesus blesses and gives thanks for what we bring, who we are in our bringing. He takes it to the Father by the Holy Spirit. Whatever is on the table and is around the table is lifted up in blessing and thanksgiving.
Jesus breaks what we bring to him. The breaking of our pride and self-approval opens us up to new life, to new action. We discover this breaking first in Jesus. Jesus was broken, his blood poured out. And now we discover it in ourselves.
Then Jesus gives back what we bring to him, who we are. This self that we offer to him at the Table, is changed into what God gives. Transformation takes place at the Table as we eat and drink the consecrated body and blood of Jesus. A resurrection meal. "Christ in me."
We initiate the practice of resurrection at the Eucharistic Table, but it doesn't end there. We continue the identical practice at every meal we sit down to. For the Christian, every meal derives from and extends the Eucharistic meal into our daily eating and drinking, tables at which the risen Lord is present as host.
All the elements of formation-by-resurrection are present every time we sit down to a meal and invoke Jesus as host. It's a wonderful thing, really, that one of the most common actions of our lives is also the setting in which the most profound transactions take place. The fusion of natural and supernatural that we witness and engage in the shape of the liturgy continues—or can continue—at your kitchen table.
You've been reading from Eugene Peterson's Living the Resurrection. To learn more about Eugene and his legacy or THE MESSAGE click here.


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Rios committed to the University of Maryland after finishing this season with the Saints at 9-1 with a 1.48 ERA. Rios set an ECC record for stirkeouts in a seven-inning game this season, striking out 18 batters against Plainfield on April 13. He also batted above .500 this season.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The new American Athletic Conference will hold its first men's basketball tournament at the FedExForum in Memphis next March.
Commissioner Mike Aresco made the announcement on Tuesday.
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