This example shows the use of the Load Flow tool of Powergui to initialize a 29-bus 735 kV network with detailed modeling of power plants using hydraulic turbines, speed regulation, excitation systems and power system stabilizers.
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In the Powergui menu, select 'Load Flow'. A new window appears. A summary of the load flow settings is displayed in a table. Press the 'Compute' button to solve the load flow. The table now displays the actual active and reactive powers of the load flow blocks of the model.
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Press the 'Report' button to get a report that shows a load flow summary and detailed load flow results at each bus.
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"Increasingly, small-time landlords are just giving up, like one who has left two large apartments on the second and third floors of her building vacant for more than a decade, after a series of tenant difficulties. It's just not worth the bother, or the risk, of being legally tied to a tenant for decades.
Perversely, that is hurting the city's renters as well, as a large percentage of the city's housing stock is allowed to just sit vacant, driving up rents that newcomers pay for market-rate housing."
MP: As we know from basic economic theory, rent control laws are doomed to fail with many predictable unintended consequences in the long run: fewer new rental units are built or made available, many apartments are removed from the market, a decline in the quality of housing, lower rental rates for long-term tenants but much higher rents for new tenants, inefficient use of housing space, etc. In other words, rent control laws guarantee that there will be less affordable housing in the long run, not more.
Confiscating property is what liberals and leftists do. It's their riason d'tere. Wherever possible, they will tax it away, regulate it away and, when in complete control, simply seize it. Theirs is an ideology based on enslavement through theft. Or, as our President likes to put it, "spreading the wealth around".
Has anyone seen the movie Pacific Heights (streaming on Netflix)? Matthew Modine plays an honest homeowner who rents a room in his newly-purchased home to Michael Keaton's character, a con man who uses San Francisco's ridiculously pro-tenant housing laws against Modine and his girlfriend. At every turn, Modine's attempts to get Keaton- who doesn't pay rent and is slowly destroying the home- evicted are undermined by the city government and the courts.
There are 15 "just causes" for eviction under rent control.
Many of the "just causes" pay tenants relocation benefits. Households can receive $15,304 in relocation assistance, with even more for senior or disabled persons. If a landlord wants to make capital improvements or simply move-in, then it is enriching to the tenants that move out.
Results do not matter since those pushing such programs don't pay the costs of the unintended consequences. So they get by with just feeling good about the intentions.
People who do not live in San Francisco are often critical of San Francisco- but really, what concern of theirs is it anyways if a city full of liberals enacts local legislation that is very liberal? Housing regulation, especially of rental properties, is something of intense interest to the population- it is a very expensive city, and for many renters rent is the most expensive thing in their monthly budget.
Now, if you lived in San Francisco, you'd know that the dot-com boom gave cause for the building of many new residential properties in the city, intended for all the new rich being created in Silicon Valley. When the bust came, those new rich were suddenly far fewer in number. So there is an excess of residential capacity in the city because it is marginally cheaper for landlords to hold out for higher rent rather than accept market rates, which are regulated by the city.
Deregulating the housing market in the city would most probably result in the dislocation of many lower income residents who would be unable to meet the demands of landlords for increased rent. That dislocation could potentially be a serious liability for city social services, while significantly lowering the existing tax base.
Rent control is a bad idea.
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"So there is an excess of residential capacity in the city because it is marginally cheaper for landlords to hold out for higher rent rather than accept market rates, which are regulated by the city."
First, you cannot use the terms "market rates" and "regulated" in the same sentence. They have opposite meanings.
"So there is an excess of residential capacity in the city because it is marginally cheaper for landlords to accept NO rent, than accept those which are regulated by the city."
31,000 vacant units sounds like a normal vacancy factor for a city the size of SF.
The recession has driven up vacancy rates across the state of California.
As a landlord in Santa Monica, which is an awful place to be a landlord, I know there has been no reason to hold units off the market since many years ago when VACANCY DECONTROL became the law of the land.
There may be units held off the market, but rent control is not a likely reason.
rent control has nothing to do with it.
those "just causes" are largely illusory.
one of my ex girlfriends in SF is a property manager and another owns 6 rental condos.
it is virtually impossible to evict a tenant in SF even for non payment of rent or property destruction.
it's quite common for people to stop paying rent and manage to stay in a unit for 6-12 months. it's absolutely astounding.
your comment about the recession is pure nonsense. the SF real estate market has been one of the strongest in the country. sale vales are not down. nice neighborhoods still sell at $1000/ft. rents are WAY up too and finding an apartment right now is VERY difficult. it's easy to pay $5000 for a 2br in a nice part of town.
if the vacancy rates reflected recession then prices would be soft and availability high. the opposite is true.
you are speaking from no knowledge at all.
SF's market is nothing like LA.
what concern of theirs is it anyways if a city full of liberals enacts local legislation that is very liberal?
Gee, you might have bothered to read the post. It's NONE of our business -- but there's nothing nosy about discussing the negative consequences that result from liberal policies. You mention the supposed problem low-income renters would face in the absence of the rent-control laws but completely ignore the 33,000 vacant apartments.
Putting them back on the market might well lower overall rental rates -- but, then, it's none of my business, is it.
morganovich, the quotation marks around "just causes" are the SF Tenants Union's and not mine. I can believe it is very difficult to evict for non-payment of rent in SF. A city that would outlaw Happy Meals, is capable of uber controls over private property.
Rent control doesn't make housing affordable. In fact, it does the opposite, raising median rents in a rent-controlled jurisdiction.
Low-income renters who think rent control makes housing more affordable for them are simply ignorant.
Well Señor Sam from where I sit should we be overjoyed that San Francisco cursed the country with Nancy Pelosi and Dianne Feinstein?
I suspect, the high cost of taxes, regulations, fees, etc. force businesses to cut corners.
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The rental vacancy rate is not due to the recession. Read the linked article and study the map at the bottom. The vacancy rates are much higher in rent-controlled San Francisco, Oakland and Berekely than in the surrounding cities. The difference is so dramatic you can trace the city limits from the vacancy rate.
I read the original article in The Bay Citizen, which is good, but unfortunately too short. But as soon as you read through the comments, you realize why this is a problem. The comments are mostly hostile to the article, and try to go out of their way to argue either that the laws aren't a problem, that the story's too anecdotal, that the author is some industry shill, or that the shortage is the fault of the rich. They don't seem to grasp that this situation is hurting poor renters (thought it's explicitly stated in the article); they seem to think that renters are someone entitled to the property they rent (namely that they have some sort of ownership rights over something they don't own); and they tend to view these things through the lens of class struggle (poor helpless tenants fighting huge, evil landlords). I don't think the law is going to change in SF anytime soon.
I would have a lot of vacancies if I held out for super high rents.
But to stay full I lower my rents.
I'm sure each unit is unique and each landlord is unique.
vacant units in San Francisco are being held off the market? Are they not being offered for rent?
Or are they being offered at very high prices that renters are not willing to pay?
I once held a unit off the market in Santa Monica for about a year, then I had a change of heart.
But since there is vacancy decontrol now there is no rational reason to hold units off unless you are planning to convert or sell or demolish in the near future. etc.
"The comments are mostly hostile to the article,"
The most illuminating aspect of the Bay Guardian article IS the comments, made mostly by economic illiterates who don't realize the long run costs of such "fair" policies. I am amazed at how many seem to declare a form of "squatters rights" for any rental unit they live in. Anyone owning rent controlled property in SF is an idiot.
your comments don't make much sense and are ignoring the reality of san francisco.
"careful, diligent,patient, and kind landlords tend to not have problem tenants"
this is just not true at all. in a city like SF where tenants are essentially unevictable, it happens to most of them. run a big building, and you will get rolled.
further, rent control means that you are always getting squeezed. rents stay flat but your property tax and maintenance costs keep going up. thus, when a unit comes available, you need to price it highly to compensate for the ones you lose money on. you cannot lock in a losing rate and have to keep it forever. new buildings and condos tend to rent for less because they do not have rent control (but can be renegotiated at lease end).
your recession comments are complete nonsense. there is nothing like that going on in SF.
further, the inability to get a tenant out makes people not rent. i know a ton of people who have a rentable unit in their home but won't rent it because of the risks and hassles. one bad tenant can wreck your life for 18 months and you may wind up paying 10-15k to get rid of them (exclusive of legal costs). if you want to rent a downstairs unit for a year while you wait to do a big renovation and make it all one unit, you wouldn't dare to rent it for fear you would not get it back.
it also prevents unit renovation. if you kick a tenant out to renovate a unit, you have to re offer it to them afterward at the same rent. so why would you bother?
"supply and demand explains a lot about markets" is essentially so broad as to be meaningless.
if you add in nasty costs for sellers that the buyers do not see or understand, you get a market dislocation.
let's say you have a unit that you would rent for $5000 and that i would like to rent for $5000. normally, we'd have a deal. but if you face a 5% of losing a year of rent then ($5000 X 12 x .05) adds in an expected cost to you or $3000/year = $250/month. so you'd only be willing to rent at $5250.
then add to that that fact that you cannot raise my rent or ask me to leave. what's the cost to you of that as your taxes and costs go up over time. it's not enough to make money now, you have to think about 10 or even 30 years done the line.
my neighbor 12 years ago in pacific heights had been in her unit for 35 years. she was paying $200/month for a nicer unit that the one we paid $2700 for.
any sane building owner will factor things like that into their price.
making them think about a decade while a renter only thinks about this year creates a market dislocation and a gap between what buyers will pay and sellers will sell at.
taking out rent control solves that immediately and drops prices.
so, sorry, but your notions here seem to be missing the point and uninformed by local data.
Unless you're one of the 20% of U.S. households who earns at least $100,000 a year, when tenants pay high rent, they attempt to compensate by finding bargains elsewhere.
Unfortunately, San Francisco drives-up the costs of almost everything. So, it's difficult for consumers to find bargains, since producers are squeezed by low prices (which consumers demand) and high costs (which government imposes). Lower quality or failed businesses is often the result.
"Low-income renters who think rent control makes housing more affordable for them are simply ignorant."
Which could be one cause of low-income.
"Unfortunately, San Francisco drives-up the costs of almost everything. So, it's difficult for consumers to find bargains, since producers are squeezed by low prices (which consumers demand) and high costs (which government imposes). Lower quality or failed businesses is often the result."
Why do you believe this is unique to SF?
this 31,000 number is very misleading.
when they talk about "san francisco real estate" they lump in a number of outlying areas that no one in the bay area actually thinks of as san francisco.
it's like piling newark into the manhattan stats.
The landlords are not "giving up", they are pricing up.
The law permits landlords to reprice their rents at market value after an apartment is vacant for a specified period of time, which I believe is two years (but I'm not sure).
So yes, rent control is the problem, but it's the evasion of rent control that is causing the vacancies. Vacancy rates for apartments are declining practically everywhere, and rents are either rising or will rise soon. Apartments are the best performing sector of commercial real estate in the nation with vacancy rates at or below long-run averages.
The idea of rent control has some merit but the application is, as usual, a disaster. Maintaining affordable housing for the low wage earners that any city requires to function is good in principle (or instead you can have better public transit that runs all night out to the suburbs). Affordable housing for our community elders is also laudable. But all of these community assets and ideals are being solely heaped on the landowners as if by virtue of owning property they are rich which is a fallacy. They might have been reasonably well off before they bought property but assets eat cash, sometimes all of it, and as the recent economic trends prove you can't even count on getting the money you paid for it back. Rent control should be a cost shared by the entire city that benefits from it. City taxes should reimburse land owners the difference so everyone, renters owners and visitors, contributes to the benefit they receive by being in a rent controlled city. Don't like to give city taxes to the landowners who are solely subsidizing rent controlled units now? Then abolish rent control!! To control costs, rent control should be means tested. Every 2 years a landlord should have the right to challenge a tenant to prove to the rent board with their tax returns that they are poor enough to deserve the subsidy. I myself am a renter in SF. I would probably qualify for subsidy but maybe not. My peers vote for rent control but have no idea the problems it causes as currently enacted. I have seen lawyers and doctors living in rent controlled apartments for decades when they have half a dozen other houses that they OWN! Fix rent control instead of enforcing the garbage now in place.
Unfortunately, your notion doesn't reflect reality. US vacancy rates on average are over 6% while San Francisco vacancy rates are only 4 to 5 %. The latest 2011 figures show vacancy rate declining, not rising. And it's not because landlords are irrationally petulant, witholding their property idly. San Francisco still has a very tight rental market. If vacancy rates are rising, it's because deluded landlords are holding out for more rent than the market will bear. There is no evidence landlords hold property idly off the market because of the "hassle" of rent control.
The only reason landlords may hold property idly would be to convert from rental to private ownership, or sell to someone doing such conversion, such as to TIC or condo property flippers, - in which case the number of idle vacancies can go up superficially during the process of conversion, while in reality vacancies are going down.
Abnormal increases in housing valuation drives speculation, and it's such speculation that drives superficial increases in vacancies, as seen perhaps in 2009-2010. When rental properties are flipped however, they are ultimately removed from the rental market, driving rental costs up by reducing vacancies in the long run.
In San Francisco, although housing valuation did not fall in the last few years, it still is going sideways which makes flipping on the basis of property appreciation alone difficult if not impossible. Because rental units somewhat depreciate the valuation of a property, such properties create an opportunity for an immediate turnover profit when converting to private ownership. In the current economic climate, rental conversions are rampant in some parts of the city because it happens to be the most lucrative game at the moment. Hence a great deal of rental space is being taken off the market to convert to private ownership, especially in certain desirable areas, like the Marina and North Beach.
Private housing speculation is what is driving lower vacancy rates, - rent control simply makes that speculative flipping a little more profitable.
Changes in TIC laws and financing have diminished the necessity of condo conversion, making TIC ownership not much different than condo ownership, hence condo conversion laws have been effectively side-stepped. And since countries like China have implemented new housing controls, limiting property ownership, you are also seeing foreign investors help prop up speculative runs in areas that people presume will hold value. Wealthy people are looking for safer places to park their money, and San Francisco just happens to be one of those places. However doing so cannibalizes rental properties because wealthy people don't invest in properties that may be illiquid.
I suspect eventually though, some of those same properties may end up back on the rental market, but only as individual owners begin to lease out their TIC or condo while waiting for housing values to appreciate.
So between increasing demand for rentals and a shrinking supply of rentals from conversions to private ownership, rents have been going up. If anything, stronger rent control laws are needed to put the brakes on the cannibalization of the rental market by speculators and dubiously rational speculation of that sort.
Since rent control is what created the massive value differences that the "speculators" exploit, and rent control increases median rents, what is needed is to get rid of rent control entirely.
@randian, your conclusion implies that prohibitions are inherently problematic and therefore should not exist. Few people would agree with you that laws should not exist simply because people will find ways to break them. In that case, take out all traffic control at all intersections. Eliminate speed restrictions on all roads. Eliminating rent control would only expedite local speculation and displacement of a stable and productive long-term population. That is not a useful or desirable long-term goal for a city. You might as well make robbery legal while you're at it.
The broader financial crisis of our time itself is based on the damage irrational housing speculation caused. As everyone is witnessing today, the process of a market self-correcting itself can be devastating and not necessarily something short-lived or inconsequential. Not all stupidities should be left to self-correct.
If a local housing market is in dire need of expanding rental space, then what value is there in releasing the brakes on speculation to cannibalize remaining rental space? Any exploitation and theft of an effective subsidy given to one group would therefore be an example of breaking the law. There are many cases where vagueness in law leads to exploitation of it for gain. That doesn't make such exploitation right. It just means the law needs to be rewritten to eliminate loopholes.
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Later on Luuk Rietveld of TU Delft took us through the dynamics involved in "innovations in urban water cycle" citing that urbanization and demography, climate change, re-use and recovery, efficiency and alternative water sources and also, water quality as being the drivers of innovation. More interestingly, he elucidated that waste water treatment plants produced more energy than they consumed.
The night finally came to a gradual steep when Stijn Biermann of IMARES presented the Management plan for the European Eel. The Eel is not important economically he said, but is an important part of the culture of the Netherlands and most European countries. The Eel is in a bad state as its stock is quickly declining, but the cause of the decline is not known yet. All countries need to take action!
The long evening did not end without cross-sectioning the details of the presentations. An enlightening evening we all had, so much information, so much expectation and hopefully that Mr Bierman would find a solution to Eel population decline.


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Security Council Press Statement on United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (15.10.2021)
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Martin Kimani (Kenya):
The members of the Security Council heard a briefing by the Assistant Secretary-General for Africa in the Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations on the sharp deterioration of the situation regarding the presence of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) in Gok Machar, South Sudan.
The members of the Security Council expressed their grave concern over recent developments in Gok Machar, including threats to the safety and security of peacekeepers which resulted in the death of a peacekeeper from Ethiopia on 14 September 2021, undermining the ability of UNISFA to support the Joint Border Verification and Monitoring Mechanism (JBVMM). The members of the Security Council noted that these recent threats followed the forced relocation, completed between 26 and 31 August 2021, of UNISFA troops and equipment from the JBVMM team site 11 in Safaha/Kiir Adem and team site 12 in As Sumayah/War Abar to the JBVMM Sector 1 Headquarters in Gok Machar due to the threats to the safety and security of peacekeepers.
The members of the Security Council reiterated their full support for UNISFA and expressed their continued concern that the full implementation of UNISFA's mandate is being obstructed.
The members of the Security Council demanded the Government of South Sudan to facilitate the unimpeded implementation of UNISFA's mandate, as described in resolution 2575 (2021), and provide full support to UNISFA's personnel by removing any obstacles that hinder UNISFA's work to protect civilians, including by ensuring the mission's freedom of movement and by facilitating UNISFA's provision of food, medicine and other supplies to its personnel.
The members of the Security Council also called on the Government of South Sudan to honour its obligations in accordance with resolutions 2518 (2020) and 2575 (2021) and under the Status of Forces Agreement with UNISFA.
The members of the Security Council underscored the important role of UNISFA and the JBVMM in support of achieving peace, security and stability in Abyei and the broader region, and urged the Government of South Sudan to intensify its mediation efforts with members of the local community in Gok Machar to reduce tensions and to provide for the redeployment of UNISFA personnel to team sites 11 and 12. The members further called on Sudan and South Sudan to convene a meeting of the Joint Political and Security Mechanism (JPSM) to address the existing challenges and facilitate the work of the JBVMM.
The members of the Security Council welcomed the continued cooperation between the Governments of Sudan and South Sudan, which is critical for the peace, security and stability in Abyei and the broader region. Recalling resolution 2575 (2021), they reiterated their support for the African Union, the African Union High-Level Implementation Panel and the United Nations Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa in mediating with the Governments of Sudan and South Sudan.
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Adele on The FADER
Adele shares new video for "Oh My God"
Watch Adele's new video for "Oh My God," from '30' 2021's bestselling record.
Christmas week vinyl sales top 2 million
Americans bought 2.11 million vinyl records from December 17–23. Adele's '30' accounted for 59,000 units sold.
Adele to embark on 2022 Las Vegas residency
Weekends with Adele will kick off at Caesers Palace on January 21 and runs until April 16.
Adele's 30 outsells all other 2021 albums in the U.S. in three days
Just three days after its release, Adele's '30' is already the best-selling album of the year in the U.S.
The 8 projects you should stream right now
Listen to new projects from Kaytranada, Adele, Gud & Rx Papi, Bby Kodie, Mr Twin Sister, Ovlov, Klein, and Jessy Lanza.
Adele shares intimate living room recording of "To Be Loved"
Watch Adele perform a live rendition of "To Be Loved" ahead of the November 19 release of new album 30.
Adele's 30 may worsen vinyl crisis
Adele orders 500,000 copies of new album '30' amid widespread vinyl shortage causing manufacturing delays, independent artists left hanging.
Adele shares 30 tracklist
Adele has shared the tracklist for her upcoming album 30.
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Adele announces live return
Adele will headline two nights at London's Hyde Park as part of the 2022 British Summer Time festival.
Adele returns with new song "Easy On Me"
Watch Adele's video for Easy On Me ahead of the November 19 release of new album 30.
Adele announces release date for new album 30
On November 19, Adele will release her fifth album 30.
Tyler, The Creator and Skepta are not on the new Adele album
Adele wanted to incorporate the voices of her friends Tyler the Creator and Skepta on '30'.
Adele previews new song "Easy On Me," announces release date
Watch a snippet of Adele's new song "Easy On Me."
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Adele will host this week's SNL
Adele announces she will host the October 24 episode of Saturday Night Live alongside musical guest H.E.R.
Lady Gaga (probably) jokes that she's calling her next album Adele
Adele might be the title of Lady Gaga's new album, but it probably won't be. Right?


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Steiner: "Very naive" to think 2021 rules will change F1 order
Pablo Elizalde
motorsport.com 6 January 2020
A planned overhaul of the technical regulations - plus the introduction of a budget cap - is hoped to end up mixing up the field after years of domination from Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull.
However, as team owner Gene Haas considers the future of his squad in Formula 1, Steiner reckons it would be wrong to try to convince the American that 2021 will present a chance to fight near the front.
"It's very naive. It's not going to happen," Steiner told Motorsport.com about the prospect of smaller teams fighting for wins in 2021.
"I think it's difficult to say what to convince him [Haas]. He needs to convince himself. That's how I see it.
"He understands that best. I don't think I can do a lot to convince him, he needs to convince himself that this is what he wants to do, that this is what he wants to use his marketing money to invest in.
"He's got a good enough understanding that if I tell him he can win in 2021, he might say 'he doesn't know what he's doing'. I would have to agree with him. So, I don't know.
"But, as I said, there is still so much open issues here that at the moment I don't know if he should make a decision now."
McLaren planning to run at budget cap levelF1's budget cap may force Renault to increase spendingFerrari plans to increase its F1 budget in 2019
F1 will introduce a costs limit of $175m - excluding driver salaries and fees associated with engines - in 2021, and will be in place until at least the 2025 season.
Steiner thinks the cap doesn't go far enough in helping smaller outfits and says a "second step" will be necessary in order to allow a team like Haas to make a big jump ahead.
"I think there needs to be a second step in the budget cap because otherwise it just won't happen, because the financials, the payouts I don't think are getting this good that in the future that the smaller teams can reach the levels of the budget cap, the top level," he said.
"I don't think any of the smaller teams are prepared to spend that amount of money because there is no return on investment at some stage.
"So, for sure it should close the gap in maybe already in '22, but in '23, but a good step would be to make a second go at the numbers and I think nobody would disagree with that."


The Icecreamists, an ice cream parlour in Covent Garden began selling a human breast-milk based ice cream last month, only to have it confiscated recently by Westminster Council in order to check that it was "fit for human consumption". New York chef Daniel Angerer was reported as served human cheese (he didn't, but see his blog for the recipe). He was advised by the New York Health Department to stop, since although there were no departmental codes forbidding it they claimed "cheese made from breast milk is not for public consumption, whether sold or given away". What is it exactly that is disturbing with a human milk ice cream or cheese? And are there any good reasons to hinder selling it?


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The error when I order/add to card:

I already targeted the cause, it's when I check the 'Applies on a Catalog Item view' (second image), but i need this to trigger the order and execute my script.
Do you know how to solve this?
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Oil Drilling Activity
Onshore drilling increased activity five weeks running, with the addition of 1 rig to 909. Across the three major unconventional oil basins, the oil rig total increased by 5. US rigs targeting oil is up 2, with the total standing at 751. US operators continue to show patience and are keeping a keen eye on their balance sheets as crude prices hold just below US$60 (WTI) per barrel.
Sources: EIA Weekly Update and GCA analysis
Natural Gas – Two superpowers team up
In yet another example of the way in which global gas markets are becoming ever more interconnected, two pieces of news this week emphasized both the visible, physical flows of gas, and the less visible commercial connections that are also developing.
As we reported a few weeks ago, in spite of the apparent oversupply in the global LNG market, spot prices in Asia have been increasingly bolstered by higher than anticipated Chinese demand. The result has been the highest LNG prices since January 2015, with the JKM index sitting just a whisker short of $10/MMBtu.
A new push in China to meet environmental targets, a recovery in economic growth, and a cold snap in the Beijing area have conspired to push up demand, to the point where rationing is taking place in some service territories, with both industrial and residential customers being hit. It even led to one hospital appealing to local residents to curb their gas demand to help maintain supplies.
Moving across the world, therefore, to the frozen wastes of the Yamal peninsula, we have another major event in the world of LNG, which on first sight doesn't have much of a connection with gas shortages in Beijing. On closer inspection, however, the links are obvious.
The first cargo loading at Yamal LNG is a direct result of Chinese investment and influence backstopping the consequences of western sanctions on Russia in the wake of the Ukraine annexation. With Novatek, the operator, itself accessing Chinese finance to fund its 50% share, and CNPC and the Silk Road Fund accounting for another 30% of the investment (the remainder being with French company Total), the gas links between Russia and China are becoming stronger still.
Whether those first cargoes from Yamal go directly to China remains to be seen, but either through direct shipment or by displacement, China will benefit directly from its financing activities.
As the first application of ice-breaking LNG carriers, Yamal is also interesting for a host of technical reasons, and many eyes will be turned north as the project starts moving into its fully commercial phase.
The geopolitics of gas have never quite rivaled those of oil, but we are in a new era for the gas sector now, where the stakes are higher and the role of gas as an engine for the world's biggest economies has never been greater.
Crude Oil – Synchronized global expansion drives demand
Strong worldwide distillate consumption reflects the synchronized economic expansion across most advanced and emerging economies and the acceleration in global trade. Distillate is set to remain the main driver of oil demand in 2018, unless there is a recession in the United States or China. But with refineries focused on maximizing throughput to make distillate, gasoline, which is a co-product, remain relatively more abundant. Gasoline stocks, like distillates, have drawn down this year, but the reduction has been far smaller and stocks remain above the decade average.
Prices for refined products, especially distillate fuel oil, led crude prices higher between June and November, but now fuel prices are falling and putting crude prices under pressure.
The US distillate market started the year in substantial oversupply, with inventories well above the long-term average. But as a result of strong demand, primarily in export markets, the market has moved into an increasingly large deficit as the year has progressed. Stocks have fallen by more than 33 million barrels since the start of the year compared with a ten-year seasonal average fall of 3 million barrels.
US refiners have responded by increasing crude processing and distillate production to unprecedented levels to meet demand. US refinery crude runs have been running at record rates almost continuously since April, according to data from the EIA.
Refinery runs in the most recent week were 800,000 barrels per day higher than at the same point in 2016 and 1.8 million barrels per day above the 10-year seasonal average.
At the end of November, US refineries were processing crude at rates that had only ever previously been seen during the summer peak driving season. There has been a clear lean towards maximizing the production of distillate fuel oil to take advantage of higher margins than on gasoline. US refineries produced a record 5.4 million barrels per day of distillates in the last week of November, 480,000 barrels per day above the 10-year seasonal average.
In the longer term, with developed and emerging markets on track for expansion next year, strong demand for distillate fuel oil should keep refinery margins firm and provide an upward bias to crude prices in 2018.
Weekly Recaps
Total US rig count (including the Gulf of Mexico) stands at 931, up 2 this week with rigs targeting oil up 2. The horizontal rig count stands at 796, up 4 this week.
The total number of active onshore rigs increased to 909 (up 1). Compared to a November 2014 figure of 1,876 active rigs, the level remains 50% below the 2014 high.
Across the three major unconventional oil basins, the oil rig total increased 5; it stands at 510, with Permian up 3, Eagle Ford up 3 and Williston down 1.
Brent, the global benchmark for oil, dropped US$0.15 to US$63.32 a barrel, reflecting a loss of 0.24% on the week.
WTI crude decreased US$0.66 to US$57.60 a barrel, down 1.13% on the week.
US Crude Oil Supply and Demand
US crude oil refinery inputs averaged 17.2 million barrels per day, with refineries at 93.8% of their operating capacity last week. This is 192,000 barrels per day more than the previous week's average.
US gasoline demand over the past four weeks was at 9.1 million barrels, up 0.5% from a year ago. Total commercial petroleum inventories decreased 2.5 million barrels last week.
On the supply side, EIA data indicated that total domestic crude production increased 25,000 barrels to 9.707 million barrels a day. The Lower 48 crude production now stands at 9.191 million barrels per day, up 20,000 barrels this week.
US crude imports averaged 7.2 million barrels per day last week, a decrease of 127,000 barrels per day from the previous week. Over the last four weeks, crude oil imports averaged 7.6 million barrels per day, 4.9% less than the same four-week period last year.
Crude oil inventories decreased 5.6 million barrels from the previous week. The crude stored at Cushing (the main price point for WTI) decreased 2.7 million barrels; total storage is 55.6 million barrels (~62% utilization).
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Because they're both "perfect" pretty-boys with a hidden dark side who are yandere for their albino brother? They'd certainly have a lot to bond over, in any case.
Heck, even their color schemes and those of their respective rival/brother match up (white and blue for Arjuna, red and black for Karna)! It's enough to make me wonder if TM took some inspiration from Jin in crafting Arjuna's character... Though Karna is absolutely nothing like Ragna. Aside from the fact that their names both have five letters and end in "na", that is... Help, I think I'm becoming a conspiracy theorist!
Is all the world's pleasure enough to satisfy the superslut?
I don't know how it would go, but I'm compelled to tell you if you want even more insanity, toss in Fergus.
They'd have a great time riding together I'd bet, maybe slay some wyverns or shapeshifters.
The founder of the Clowns in Tokyo Ghoul is named Roma... Should I say who I'm shipping her with?
Ryougi and 02 sure have a bad habit of biting their nails.
Marie A. and Marie B. in a Persona 5 fusion.
Moses teaching Amakusa how to properly stage a religiously based rebellion? Be the brother of a government official first. Exaggerate how bad he is second.
Leonidas would never compliment anything other than her muscles, he's the perfect match for her.
Screw the rules, I have a white arse!
Riordan's Artemis is asexual, so I can't really see her being in a relationship. They could definitely be friends though.


This post is a report on a summary of my progress and results so far and future plans for the project. For now, Mr Rodney has assigned me to do a project for Siggraph Asia and look into ARtoolkit codes to try and modify it further if possible.
MagicMouse: an Inexpensive 6-Degree-of-Freedom Mouse - E. Woods, P. Mason, M. Billinghurst.
The ARtoolkit has been setup on my laptop and is working fine. Familiarize myself with the ARtoolkit and openGL concept.
TouchDesigner has been installed on my laptop with the latest video drivers installed (though its a third-party driver and thus at times TouchDesigner may crash).
I have had to familiarize myself with TouchDesigner and a few of the operators and got a few things going (from the youtube video).
-This is posted on youtube but can't actually see the bubbles. The high-res video has been uploaded to http://rapidshare.com/files/149030701/CA1.wmv .
To make the movement of the shark geometry move more randomly.
Once the random movement is done, more geometries easily be implemented.
Add texture to the bubbles.
Understand fully how the AR Tool kit is implemented into TouchDesigner using the SHM (Shared Memory).
Have the shark to interact with the marker - once the marker is shown, the shark will move towards the marker.
Clean up the AR Tool kit codes.


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Southern Cross Kids provides a fun, safe and encouraging environment for children at risk. Through the experience of an annual camp and ongoing monthly Kids Club events, young people that have suffered trauma can enjoy friendship and fun in a safe place.
Safety and fun can feel like a luxury for many kids; yet it's a childhood right. This is why so many of them absolutely love club - and for many of them, it is something they need in a very real way. We are making a remarkable difference in many young lives.
Through Kids Club we hope to:
Give traumatised young people a place where they can relax and make friends.
Enable these children to connect with caring adults in a safe and fun environment.
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Our monthly Kids Club enables attendees to enjoy and sustain the friendships made on the annual South Sydney Southern Cross Kids Camp. Through interaction and laughter, the positive perspectives and skills gained at camp are kept alive.
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Southern Cross Kids is a national organisation that works with children in six states across Australia. For more information check out the Southern Cross Kids website.
Kingsway Community Care partners with Southern Cross Kids to deliver the Southern Sydney Camp. These camps run over 5 days, involve a team of up to 60 trained volunteers who care for 30 children. Our involvement with Southern Sydney Camp was established in 2015 and in that time we've cared for and encouraged over 120 young people.
The camps are jam-packed with craft, games, cooking, fun and teaching. We desire to provide a week of safe and happy memories.
Southern Cross kids club relies on the dedication and commitment of a team of volunteers. If you would like to join our team we'd love to hear from you. Please get in contact with our Team Leader, Avril Mundy.
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100 Backpacks Ready For Delivery to 100 Local Students
With the rising costs of living, childcare, education and extra-curricular activities, many families are finding it increasingly difficult to meet these costs, particularly families who are facing hardship. Today 100 Back Packs were packed to be delivered to children and teenagers across the Shire.
Official Opening of Georges River's First Adult Crisis Accommodation Service
There are currently 23 women, or women with children, who are survivors of Domestic and Family Violence in the Georges River region, and who have become homeless as a result of their situation. These women and children have had nowhere to turn, until now.
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Need your Christmas presents wrapped? Head over to the Gift Wrapping Stall at Westfield Miranda! Simply make a donation and you'll not only have beautifully wrapped gifts, but you'll also be making an difference in the lives of many people in our community through supporting Kingsway Care.
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23 Survivors Appeal
According to Specialist Homeless Services, there are currently 23 women or women with children who are homeless as a result of Domestic and Family Violence in the Georges River region. For these 23 women, many with young children, this Christmas and holiday season will be scary and uncertain, and with no safe place to stay, the dangers of homelessness are real.
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Tukur Buratai, chief of army staff, says Boko Haram insurgents have advanced in technology and now use Drones and mercenaries.
Sani Usman, spokesman of the army, quoted Buratai as saying this while speaking on the recent multiple attacks on military bases in Metele and other parts of Maiduguri.
He said the use of high technology by the insurgents is a trend that poses threats and require review of military operations against the insurgents.
"Since 2015, the Nigerian Army in conjunction with sister services and other security agencies have systematically degraded the capabilities and capacity of Boko Haram terrorists and many successes were achieved," he was quoted as saying.
"Specifically, the Nigerian Army troops deployed at Kukawa, Ngoshe, Kareto and Gajiram came under attack at different times within a two-week period between November 2 and 17, 2018. Each of these incidents was successfully repelled and several members of the terrorists killed.


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Juan Joseph: Wikis
Juan Joseph
№: -- CFL Free Agent
Date of birth: August 26, 1987 (1987-08-26) (age 22)
Place of birth: Jefferson, Louisiana
Position(s): QB
Weight: 188 lb (85 kg)
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College: Millsaps College
NFL Draft: 2008 / Undrafted
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2009 Edmonton Eskimos*
Saskatchewan Roughriders*
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Juan Joseph (born August 26, 1987 in Jefferson, Louisiana) is a professional Canadian football quarterback who is currently a free agent. He was signed by the Edmonton Eskimos as an undrafted free agent in 2009. He played college football for the Millsaps Majors.
Joseph has also been a member of the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
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Joseph attended West Saint John High School in Edgard, Louisiana. Where he was a member of the Rams 2003 and 2004 2A State Championship teams. While in high school, he was teammates with Kansas City Chiefs, Tyson Jackson and Green Bay Packers, Quinn Johnson.
In 2008, he was the winner of the Conerly Trophy given to the best college football player in the state of Mississippi. The other finalists were Michael Oher and Peria Jerry.
Joseph was signed by the Edmonton Eskimos in April 2009.
Joseph was traded to the Saskatchewan Roughriders for Kitwana Jones on May 15, 2009. He was cut on June 25, 2009.
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1996: T. Thomas | 1997: S. Patridge | 1998: J. Johnson | 1999: D. McAllister | 2000: J. Bright | 2001: E. Manning | 2002: R. Davis | 2003: E. Manning | 2004: M. Boley | 2005: J. Norwood | 2006: P. Willis | 2007: D. Fletcher | 2008: J. Joseph | 2009: A. Dixon
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The Matterhorn: intersections of literature & art
3. Soundtracks
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Musical memories and collective experiences
Dr. Kathleen Waller
Part of the ongoing series on Identity and Culture.
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Does the soundtrack to our teenage years define us? It's made not only of stand-alone music but the music that accompanies experiences, such as viewing films, going on a roadtrip, attending a dance/club/party, having a first kiss/sleepover/job.
Perhaps a secret yearning for the culture of one's youth can be more easily found in music than in retro fashion or makeup. The sound of a time or the sound of a movement is a cultural collective response to history. It may arrive unbidden — on the radio, at a party, when you open a website. This lack of control makes the experience a part of others' as well. It is something we can release ourselves to, if we choose.
I've made a playlist for today's newsletter on Spotify. You might want to play the songs to see if they, too, conjure anything for you…to make a collective experience for all of us in this community. Feel free to make your own - just for you - or share a link in the comments.
Youth and memory
The music we know from our youth is proven to help us remember, specifically fond memories. As Kelly Jacubowski et al tell us in "A Cross-Sectional Study of Reminiscence Bumps for Music-Related Memories in Adulthood":
Autobiographical memory processes play a key role in the construction of a sense of self throughout the course of one's lifespan (Conway, 2005). Music can be a highly effective cue for autobiographical memories—in particular, positive emotional memories comprising social themes (Jakubowski & Ghosh, 2019; Janata, 2009; Janata et al., 2007), which may be more vivid and embodied than memories triggered by other perceptual cues, such as famous faces or verbal prompts (Belfi et al., 2016, 2018; Zator & Katz, 2017).
I can create many soundtracks in my mind. There was the 1960s music that my gymnastics coach would play until his daughter would do a takeover with early 90s gems that were great for tumbling: Jump and Jump Around come to mind. Still, if I happen to hear Mr. Postman or Leader of the Pack, I'm taken back to backflips and leaps on the balance beam. These songs added a kind of narrative and humor to our time in the gym.
And then there was the soundtrack of hanging out. Music from Pulp Fiction and Friends. Music only listened to in the car (RIP WFNX Boston and Julie Kramer's Leftover Lunch) or at school dances (Stairway to Heaven was a dangerous in between, much better for hanging out, but often comically used as a slow dance song, only to speed up and confuse already awkward pre-teens on the dance floor; this must have happened for two decades before it was used by the DJs for us, which is why it must've been both a mix of humor and sincere appreciation for good music). Music from immortalized bands through death (Nirvana, The Smashing Pumpkins, Sublime, and Jimi Hendrix—even though it was way before our time) reminded us of our mortality, made our time together ephemerally magic.
But there was living music, too. Pearl Jam—how many times did we listen to Yellow Leadbetter (many call it a homage to Hendrix) and air guitar or pretend to know the lyrics without lyric-finder?—I was going to move on, but let me stay with this song a moment! I finally got a chance to see Pearl Jam live at the NOS Alive festival in Lisbon with a surprise appearance from Jack White (starting with a cover of John Lennon's Imagine). It was incredible…but in respect for the festival providers, they stopped after five encore songs and posted the playlist later…including an unplayed parenthetical final encore: Yellow Ledbetter. Gutted. At least it's an excuse to see them again.
via @pearljam on IG, July 15, 2018
And here's my personal shot of Eddie Vedder (who, if you don't know his solo stuff, also created the soundtrack for the film Into the Wild):
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I guess I have to do a newsletter on the politics of Pearl Jam or something of that genre. Later. Personally, it was an interesting time in my life at that concert. My husband was there with me and I was five months pregnant. I was listening to music that recalled the most intimate experiences of friendship from my teenage years and at a festival I had attended single with a friend from my childhood just a couple years previously. There was a lot going on…and this music allowed me to just be with it. To drift in between times and moments and futures.
(Doing this research is fantastic. I'm listening to my favorite songs while I write…this is also probably why I'm getting lost in tangents! But I guess music does that to us all, doesn't it? It's sound unleashes a multitude of memory and emotion, of hope and identity…)
Moving on, perhaps because I was teaching teenagers for so long, I kept evolving in my tastes and developed different soundtracks for different moods. My students brought me their favorites and I did the same. It was how I discovered Black Star (with a song about Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye—thanks, Alex) and Chance the Rapper (thank you, Mac). And then, between the artsy-fartsy English departments and musically oriented colleagues, we kept up with the best Indie in the 2000s and 2010s.
Each person I know makes me think of different music, whether they introduced me to it or we listened to it together or they made a playlist for me on Spotify. This is the soundtrack of my life.
Music is linked with memory, as John Legend explains with HeadSpace:
And here's a cool explanation for kids. However, you might also check out "Narratives of popular music heritage and cultural identity: The affordances and constraints of popular music memories," which questions the limits of connections between memory and music:
Although those narratives offer a sense of belonging and identity through their connection to experiences of time and place, there are also factors that compromise this potential. The article discusses limits to the accuracy of memories and impediments to representations of local diversity.
There's also a cool list of references at this link about such topics as music pirates acting as curators and music as cultural heritage.
Music is nostalgic; even if the music was made in a different era, we link it to different parts of our lives and perhaps through the changes in our bodies over time as well.
A communally experienced soundtrack
Collective or cultural memory is a way for us to relate and a way to elevate our human experience. So when artists create with a soundtrack in mind, explicit or implicit, they create layers of meaning and methods of exploration (our memories, our emotions…culture).
Last Christmas, we were back in Boston with my family. Due to COVID, young children, and cold rain, we were both limited with what we could do and wanted to get out of the house for a little bit. Low and behold: the Christmas light soundtrack ride-along in Waltham!
Maybe just because I don't hear the thick Boston accent much, the ticket seller reminded me of carnivals I had been to as a kid. It felt both a little like home and the entry to some real-life horror movie. I locked the doors, anticipating disgruntled pandemic serial killers hiding in the odd displays. We tuned into the local radio station as directed that was playing particular music to accompany Santa, camels, flags, and huge light tunnels. Bizarre.
The whole thing was admittedly mildly entertaining due to the outrageousness of the sheer number of lights (a million, apparently) and silly Christmas music to go along with it. No, this isn't a newsletter about Christmas in September. But Christmas in America truly has a public soundtrack, one that we hear in shops and on radio stations…starting way too early. Christmas albums are lucrative and it's a chance for everyone to be a bit silly and not care about the artistic value of the songs, I guess. Love Actually (2003) teaches us this through "Christmas is All Around." It's not the song that's important, but the narratives that experience it.
There's fun in a soundtrack. Where is the truth? Is it something to unite us? A free expression in a free space. As music fills up a car, a home, a mall, a concert hall, or a street corner, it inhabits the space with those who occupy it. But it's also part of the brain — our individual and collective memories. Apparently we can also be brainwashed by music that we may hear unbidden in public spaces (or at the request of the driver in the car, for example). The good news is that research shows we have a pleasurable reaction to music we know, even if we don't like it. That's not such a terrible type of brainwashing, but it does bring up many questions about marketing, both in the music industry and through advertisements and social media influencers. Should scroll through those reels with the sound off to keep some semblance of individual free will?
Occupied space
One might investigate this takeover of free space by music through a Foucaultian power perspective implicitly discussed in the articles in Foucault News' Special Issue on Everyday Politics of Public Space, Space and Culture (2019) or in a recent ruling in Florida restricting loud music to be played from car that can leak into our lives. As Forbes explains:
Florida's new loud music statute says that it is "unlawful for any person operating or occupying a motor vehicle on a street or highway to operate or amplify the sound produced by a radio, tape player or other mechanical soundmaking device or instrument from within the motor vehicle so that the sound is plainly audible at a distance of 25 feet or more from the motor vehicle."
Considering that the average car is about 15 feet long, it won't take much to get a ticket.
Personally, I love a drive-by song sampling. Opera, rap, Britney…I guess it's sort of obnoxious if it's too loud? It's certainly powerful; it commands attention and asserts one's mutable identity. But if you're not parked somewhere, I don't see the problem besides the driver and passengers' hearing. I also love a passerby with a boombox on their shoulder or bicycle basket. Yeah, it still happens. My husband completely disagrees as I'm sure many of you do, but it amuses me as long as, again, it keeps rolling along.
My music is normally safely contained in my headphones, but what if the Drake I'm walking to is loud enough for the barista to hear when I take out one ear for an order? Or what if the Radiohead I've got on while I'm writing is heard by the neighbors below?
In Switzerland, they take their noise control seriously. No 'loud noises', including practicing a musical instrument, should be heard during the lunch hour or between evening (some buildings as early as 7 pm!) and morning (6 or 7). Sundays are also off limits. Even buskers have some tight regulations. Is this control or is it freedom (for those who don't want to hear other's music, or want to avoid a type of mind control)? Is the threat of a passive-aggressive police call by a neighbor an aural panopticon?
After living in Hong Kong for so long, I understand limiting noise pollution. But at the same time, I wonder what we are missing out on when we suppress musical expression? Is it not a way of expressing oneself? Of attempting to communicate to the rest of the world who is listening: this is what I feel or this is who I am?
Musical bodies
Julia Kristeva's theories about the distinction between semiotic and symbolic language can be used to understand music as a language. Randi Rolvsjord explains in Music as a Poetic Language:
The semiotic modality is also in the foreground in musical interplay and musical performances. In Kristeva's theory, musical elements turn out to be the characteristics of the semiotic modality in language expressions. Musical elements such as timbre, dynamics, rhythm and intonation articulate the semiotic. But of course as we shall see later, this does not imply that music is exclusively a semiotic language. There is more to music than musical elements, and in Kristeva's terminology, every human language and dialogue is to some degree symbolic.
Kristeva "proposed that bodily drives are discharged in language and that the structure of language is already operating in the body." With music, we both play it and feel it through the body, whether through dance, the movement of fingers and vocal cords, or the sensation of vibrations. You might also take a look at her book entitled Revolution in Poetic Language (1984).
Derridian Différance tells us that life is a dance. Derrida and Deleuze use dance to represent hope, in different ways. As I explain in my PhD dissertation as a conclusion to discussing dance in various films about immigrants in an earlier chapter:
Deleuze connects dancing to cultural identity formation, linking the creative "collective dance" with simultaneous fragmentation and unity (Cinema 1 62). Derrida explains that "laughter and dance" create "hope" through their expression of independent joy ("Différance" 405). We can further think of music as a type of extension of dance – through movement of body to create art, from our moving limbs, vibrating vocal chords, or tapping fingers. Song is the dance of language. (p. 351)
Last week, I found myself at a festival again for the first time since before the pandemic as well as since I've become a mom (I think this only matters because of time available; I'm not saying anything about moms and dads at festivals, because some of my best Clockenflap memories include my best friends with their kids and industrial-sized headphones/noise blockers).
We danced. And we felt the music move through our bodies even when we stood still.
This past week, I finally had the chance to do it again, attend a music festival that is. I went to the Zurich Open Air festival to see Kings of Leon, Bastille, and Two Door Cinema Club. I knew I was missing live music…I just didn't know how much. We're still trying to get past this pandemic (etc.), aren't we?
Bastille especially provided experience not only of beautiful music but also of a space of shared human joy; lead singer Dan Smith pronounced on stage at one point, as if suddenly struck: "It's so good to be back doing this stuff. We need it!" He also claimed his music was "depressing, sorry," but I think we also needed to experience a range of emotion together, the thousands of us outside, standing close together, singing to share our experiences from the past few years. They were fun, too, and the highs felt higher because of the lows. Their cover of "Of the night" was a collective dance experience, choreographed by the self-proclaimed awful dancer on stage. We got down nearly to the ground only to get up, jumping for the sky. The movement seemed to echo the emotional journey they were taking us on.
Who says you can't make youthful memories in your forties? Can we not keep discovering newness in the world and in ourselves with music as the soundtrack, the ideas and emotions that perhaps we cannot fully name, the impressions of life that feel like pieces of art more than reality?
This is only the setup, guys. I haven't had a chance to really get into the texts yet in an explicitly artistic soundtrack kind of way. I'll leave that for next week. In the meantime, you can check out the full playlist to this post on Spotify.
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Kathleen Waller is a novelist with a PhD in Comparative Literature. She previously taught literature, cultural studies, art, ethics, and epistemology to high school and university students for twenty years. For more information: kathleenwaller.com
Gianni Simone
Writes Tokyo Calling
Sep 17, 2022Liked by Dr. Kathleen Waller
You are so right about music and memory. It's not only the taste of madeleines. And the playlist - or the mixtape that old timers like me used to make - was and still is an art.
This is the only thing I've attempted on Substack so far: https://giannisimone.substack.com/p/my-favorite-things-1?utm_source=url
2 replies by Dr. Kathleen Waller and others
Vlad Gogish
Sep 7, 2022Liked by Dr. Kathleen Waller
I love the playlist! I agree that music has an incredible way of bringing people together and memorializing shared experiences. Thank you for sharing your perspectives!
© 2023 Kathleen Waller


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The flag flew at half mast at the Veterans Affairs Hospital on E. 23rd Street at First Avenue on Oct. 21, three days after the death of Colin Powell at age 84 of COVID-related complications. (Photo by The Village Sun)
View from the park bench: Reflecting on Colin Powell
BY LEONARD QUART | Sitting in Washington Square Park during a chilly, but bright and breezy autumnal day, I watch a procession of people go by. Some are characters I recognize from other days in the park: a man with a cart loaded with bad paintings he tries to sell, a homeless man who talks to himself in Spanish and never says a word to anyone else. But other people are not quite as recognizable: a women talking loudly about her medical problems to no one; an accordion player, trombonist, and drummer who are park regulars; countless students.
There are also innumerable people walking dogs, nursery school classes held together by a long tape with which their teacher guides them, bocce players leisurely throwing balls, and a middle-aged man working out by boxing with a trainer.
On this day, the air is clean, the park feels at peace for the moment, and the disparate nature of the people who are part of the park's fabric exhilarates me. That is, except for the homeless (many of them in the park are addicted), who I feel some compassion for, but much more irritation than empathy. I take no pride in my having little tolerance for their constant begging and aggressive wheedling. I do that, knowing solutions to the problems of homelessness are difficult to accomplish, and that most of these individuals face lives that are dead-ends.
While observing daily life in the park, I reflect on the death of Colin Powell, which strangely stirs me. It may be because I have memories of him at City College in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps and as a member of their drill team, the Pershing Rifles. It's a world that I had nothing to do with; nobody I knew was a member of the ROTC, and we were all anti-military. But he was one of two Black members of the very white ROTC, and I was interested in what shaped him.
I discovered later he went to the same South Bronx high school my father did, and lived about three miles from my house, in a slightly poorer neighborhood. In public, he always emanated integrity, decency and reflectiveness. But it's hard to forget and forgive him making the case for the invasion of Iraq at the United Nations Security Council. Powell had the grace to feel remorse and was haunted by the decision. But this good, pragmatic man, a gifted statesman and general, still could never quite expunge that act.


There are few things in life that moms crave more than a full night of sleep. From the moment their alarms go off, a list of things to do that day compete with the desire to hit the snooze button a few times or turn off the alarm entirely. Without proper sleep, parents struggle through the day and have a hard time taking care of the kids and themselves. Fortunately, it's possible to improve your sleep quality and the quantity of sleep you get, even if your children keep you up at all hours.
For example, most people rely on caffeine to get through the day. While a small cup of coffee improves concentration and wakes you up, caffeine in excess can lead to anxiety and insomnia. One way to improve your ability to fall asleep is to cut out caffeine six hours before bed. This extends beyond your afternoon coffee or drinking soda with dinner. Protein bars, ice cream, and candy or chocolate all have caffeine, which can keep you up. Skipping dessert can help your sleep schedule and your waistline. To sleep better, you don't have to dramatically change your lifestyle. Rather, simply evaluate opportunities for small changes throughout the day.
Check out the infographic below created by Benjamin Franklin, The Punctual Plumber. There are tips for getting more sleep and explanations for why your sleep might suffer in the first place. You might realize improving your sleep is as easy as changing a few small habits and rallying the family around these changes.


It's about 6-8 weeks before I can plant outside.
Which means that it's time to get my TPS started I'm very excited for this potato season.
What I'm sowing this year are some intentional crosses and a few seeds from bonus berries which set on their own.
What TPS are you sowing this year?
Anyone else who is starting seeds now?
Our climate is getting less and less friendly to potatoes, to the point I'm not devoting much effort to them. But a few seasons ago I planted the variety White Superior and one plant made two berries with seeds. I was thinking the other day I should get them out and give em a try so I'll be doing that real soon.
I have a good supply of seeds I was gifted but I read that they stay viable for a very long time so I'm leaving them in storage for now.
Have you tried first earlies? They are tricky to breed with, but they make a crop very quick. They are done in June for me or can be planted late as an autumn crop, ~4 months before fist frost. That avoids any hot dry months if that's the issue.
My TPS does not have a chance of getting old because I sow them as soon as I can. But I also heard they stay viable for some years.
They are up after a week and germination was quite good in all of them.
I have just finished harvesting mine here in Aus. The climate is getting difficult for most potatoes here but I am concentrating on selecting for more heat and dry tolerance to help with that. I have found that the diploids grow, flower and tuberise so much better in the heat than tetras so I am concentrating on those in particular - especially those that are very early to beat the hottest part of summer and have low dormancy to be able to plant two or three crops in the season. Our seasons are long here.
Blue Congo and Salad Blue are both considered to be synonyms of All Blue, so that first cross is probably a self. It sounds like you have plenty of diversity in the parents though, so lots of fun seedlings to look forward to.
Do you normally grow seedlings under the conditions shown? They look like they desperately need more light.
@Rowan 3 crops of diploids in one year sounds wonderful! My high dormancy diploids are really struggling with the long storage. I hope they survive until planting time.
@Bill they might be considered synonyms in the US. Sadly names of varieties get confused and lumped into a familiar name a lot when they travel. But they are actually 2 different varieties in Europe. Blå Congo is an old Swedish variety. It's often called Blue Swede or Blue Congo in other European countries, but it's from Sweden. It's on the floury side, a mid season variety. The plant habit, flowers and tuber characteristics are different from the UK Salad Blue. Tuber skin colour is a warm purple on Blå Congo and a cool blueishpurple on Salad Blue. Colour saturation in the tuber is less uniform in B.C. than in S.B. The UK Salad Blue is also a very waxy salad potato, not floury at all. Both are different in taste too. Blå Congo has a good strong oldfashioned potato flavour, getting earthy if overfertilized. Salad Blue is very mild and well balanced.
I always grow them like that daylight in march is ok here, as long as it's not too cloudy all the time. I find that more light isn't really necessary for potatoes.
They get repotted once or twice before I can plant outdoors. Since I plant them deep each time, just letting the top leafs stick out, they make lots of roots on the leggy stems. I think deep rooted TPS give a better harvest than shallow plants.
Yeah, that happens a lot with potatoes. The names get confused and then sorting out the mess is nearly impossible.
I've always found that leggy potato seedlings are difficult to harden off, but I guess if the light improves while you are going through the process of potting them up, that probably balances things out.
Yeah, by now I have a whole list of potato variety synonyms. And another list with things to grow out side by side, where I am suspecting it's two varieties sharing a name.
Now I'm wondering if All Blue was a third variety originally and the imported B.C. and S.B. just got lumped into it because they are all blue hahaha I'll grow Blå Congo and Salad Blue this year. I can do a side by side picture comparison of them for reference. The differences between the two are quite obvious. It should be possible to tell if there is a third one hiding in the All Blue mystery.
The daylength is indeed rapidly increasing for me. Daylight today is 12h 25m, in 4 weeks it's 15h already and on Midsummer it's almost 19h. Not real midnight sun, but pretty long.
The only issues I have at hardening off time is the strong spring sun burning seedlings if I'm not careful. I got triple glass windows at the house, UV rays are not going through. So any plants going from the house outside have to be placed in shade for a while. Ideally I bring them out during a cloudy week.
All Blue, Syn. Congo, Congo Black, Russian Blue, British Columbia Blue, McIntosh Black, River John Blue, Sharon's Blue, Blue Marker (Jewett). Probable synonyms: Blue Congo (Blaue Kongo, Blaue Schweden), Congo Blue, Purple Congo, Nova Scotia Blue, Blue of Sweden, Fenton Blue, Himalayan Black, Black Russian, Davis Purple, Eureka Purple, Purple Mountain, Shaw #7. If this is not confusing enough, in Europe, there are two Congo cultivars (homonyms). The other one has white flowers, making it quite distinct from this one.
I'm aiming to plant out at least 200 TPS seedlings this year. I potted up the seedlings last weekend into deep 32 cell Nursery type trays and added 8 cubic yards of compost to the 100x10 feet bed designated for 2019 potatoes and tilled it all well. All seed was from a generous trade from Oxbow Farms. Varieties are Magic Dragons, Unknown Diploid,Tree Leaves Mix, Cthulhu's Jockstrap, Careta Amarilla, Bountiful, Shetland Black # 4 and # 5, Katahdin, and I think one more. I'm super excited to grow these out. I've grown TPS before, but not for several years. I had previously grown Magic Dragons, Goldsegen, and Marron Bells.
Very deep mildly acidic clay loam with abundant sandstone and quartzite gravel and stones. Very high water table, Border of Koppen climate Oceanic and Humid Subtropical, USDA Zone 6b, very windy frost pocket valley at the foot of a lonely mountain, historic dairy and orchard county.
I've got about 10 TPS lines started, all but one are germinated at this point. All stuff from the KPP seed train. I also am going to do a germination trial of the TLSF 17 seed I produced last year, I processed the seed using two different methods, one lot with trisodium phosphate 10% solution and the other with a saturated CaOH solution. Both methods rapidly cleaned the seed gel from the seeds, but I don't know if the CaOH is too harsh a treatment that might have damaged or killed the seed. I'm not actually interested in growing out any TLSF 17 TPS this year, so I'm not going to count it in my grow out list.
I'll be growing about 5600 seedlings this year, belonging to 88 lines. About 70% of that is andigena (of which it is about 80% tetra and 20% diploid), 20% modern, and 10% wild species and wild/domesticated crosses. I'm hoping to find about 120 to advance to second year trials from that.
About 30% is already planted out, but the weather got pretty wet over the last week and is holding up the process. I will now have to rush to get everything in the ground before they grow too large.
I'm just starting to give the seedlings their first pots. The total number is still unknown, but I already know it's more than I should grow lol as always.
So far it's just one line that's potted up, with 30 plants remaining, after discarding 11 weaklings. Might discard another 5.
Probably around 200-300 in total... I need to borrow a rotavator when the ground finally thaws.
Well, as intriguing variety names go, I think 'Cthulhu's Jockstrap' is...fantastic!
I'll suggest 'Lovecraft's Wedgies' if anyone needs a name for a chipping variety that they have developed.