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What is the Transition? Part 2
An Important Weather SHIFT
This is not a contribution to the raging global warming debate in which some people who pretend to be civilized threaten those who disagree with them with torture and death.
And it's about a weather trend, not what happened last week in one place.
This is about a global weather shift. And if this shift is correctly described below, then it has major consequences. But almost no one is talking about it.
In their local areas, this shift has been apparent to North American gardeners for years, as they have been increasingly able to grow plants farther north than previously possible. The first map below is the USDA (US Dept. of Agriculture) Plant Hardiness Zone map published in 1990. It told gardeners what plants would survive in their geographical zone, but gardeners learned to "cheat" the zones in recent years, growing plants rated for one zone south of their garden. The second map below was a revised zone map published by the Arbor Day Foundation in 2006 because they knew the USDA 1990 map was seriously out of date (the maps are from Mother Jones):
Notice how Zones 3 and 4, for example, shifted north, in some places by hundreds of miles, indicating warmer temperatures farther north.
In 2012, the USDA published their own new zone map and admitted that the "new map is generally one 5-degree Fahrenheit half-zone warmer than the previous map throughout much of the United States." So they admitted that the lowest temperature to be expected in many areas was five degrees F greater in 2012 than it was in 1990!
That same warming trend was bringing heat and drought farther north each year. For a decade, Northern Mexico has been struggling with heat and drought. In 2010 and 2011, this condition moved into Texas with a vengeance, bringing scorching heat and a lot of wildfires. In 2011, the wildfires spread to New Mexico and Arizona, with Colorado often experiencing smoke from these fires. In 2012, winter temperatures averaged six to seven degrees F above normal in Colorado, and by Spring, the fires arrived en masse in Colorado and Utah, and by Summer, even into Wyoming and Montana:
Colorado farmers are facing disaster
During the Summer, more than 60% of the counties of the lower 48 states of the US were declared drought disaster areas. And this Winter has been far milder than normal in most of the US:
U.S. Agriculture Secretary: 2013 already a drought disaster
America's first official disaster areas of 2013 were designated because 597 counties have experienced severe drought conditions for eight consecutive weeks, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Last year, 2,245 counties in 39 states were declared disasters by the USDA. With continued drought projected for much of the United States, farmers may have another hard year ahead of them.
2 Great Lakes hit lowest water level on record
…the lakes…declined 17 inches since January 2012.
Chicago expected to tie record for lack of snow
Chicago's mild winter reaches another milestone on Tuesday: 319 days without an inch of snow falling.
That ties the record set in 1940. Wednesday will break the record and, with temperatures forecast to surge into the 50s Friday and Saturday, the record streak will continue.
Low water may halt Mississippi River transport next week
And a good summary:
2012 was hottest year on record for Lower 48 states
The average temperature was 3.3 degrees higher than in the 20th century…
Last year was the hottest year on record for the contiguous 48 states, marked by near-record numbers of extreme weather events such as drought, wildfire, tornadoes and storms, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
And surface temperatures in the Arctic have been rising for years. Here is the longer-term chart:
While the US heats up, Canada's winters become more mild, and the surface temperature rises in the Arctic, there have been increasingly fierce and deadly winters over the last few years on the other side of the North Pole, especially in eastern Europe. From 2012:
Europe death toll rises in big freeze
Blizzards hit eastern Europe hard
And from 2013:
Pyrenees ski resorts top world snow charts with over 7 meters (23 feet) of snowfall in one month
Heaviest snowfall in many years hits Polish-Slovakian border
Snowiest winter in 100 years paralyzes Moscow
New satellite image shows the unusually frigid and snowy conditions that blanketed much of Great Britain
Heavy snowfall closes dozens of roads in Turkey
Record snowfall closes lifts and roads in the Pyrenees
Snowpocalypse Russia: 'Snow tsunami' swallows streets, cars, buildings
Europe hit by blizzards, air traffic havoc, deaths
Croatia snowfall shatters record set in 1861
Snow blankets parts of Middle East, Jerusalem
'Lowest temperaure in Bangladesh's history' brings at least 80 deaths
Unprecedented cold spell breaks 50-year records in Pakistan
Heavy snow, torrential rain, gale-force winds batter Greece
Russian Trans-Caucasian highway closed due to heavy snowfall
China's extreme cold snaps records
More than 100 dead as cold snap hits India
Record cold snap grips Korean Peninsula
Coldest winter in decades for Russia with snow as much as 5 meters (16½ ft) deep – Plows cannot reach roads to clear them
And I can go back to 2012 headlines and find a lot more of the same, though, as usual (as always???), the trend accelerated in 2013.
Admittedly, claiming trend changes for weather is a dicey business. Weather has a knack for frustrating those who declare trends. But there is strong evidence for a rather persistent procession of heat marching north toward the geographic North Pole in the Western Hemisphere and cold moving south from the Pole in the Eastern Hemisphere.
So, if that's right, what could be the cause?
Well, there's another well-known phenomenon making a similar directional march. Here are some graphics from ModernSurvivalBlog.com that track the movement of the magnetic North Pole, with the data supplied by conventional scientific organizations such as NOAA. Here is an animated gif of the movement over the last 400 years:
And here's the last 150 years:
And over the last 50 years:
From the creator of these graphics:
Since 1860, the magnetic pole shift has more than doubled every 50 years…During the past 10 years, the magnetic north pole has shifted nearly half of the total distance of the past 50 years!
Here's another way to look at the accelerated movement:
Where is the pole heading? In the direction of Siberia. All this is not woo-woo information, airports that paint magnetic compass readings on their runways are having to repaint those number every several years.
What's happening is that, depending on where you are, a compass reading can change by one degree every five years.
The magnetic South Pole is doing the same type of movement away from the geographic South Pole, having moved off the land mass of Antarctica years ago.
Most simplified graphics of the Earth's magnetic field look something like this:
So the question is: Is weather moving with the movement of the magnetic poles? Another way to frame the question: At the magnetic poles, the Earth's magnetic field captures charged particles flowing from the Sun on the solar wind and directs them toward the surface, an effect visible in the extreme northern and southern latitudes as the Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis. Is the same energetic pattern also delivering the coldness of space to the planet's surface? Or is it the relative thinness of the magnetosphere at the magnetic poles?
Well, if it's correct that this coldness is moving with the magnetic poles, why should anyone care? Because if substantial coldness is moving away from the traditional locations of the geographic poles in Arctic and the Antarctic, then it would seem that the ice at the geographic poles would melt far more quickly than most would expect before equivalent new formations of ice could develop, particularly in the South Pacific where there is no landmass nearby. Perhaps I am uninformed, but I have not heard that such an effect is being accounted for in anyone's climate change model. And as shown at the beginning of this post, the movement of heat north through North America from the south is proceeding rapidly. If this continues, or more likely accelerates, there might be a whole lot more melting of polar ice caps than previously expected, raising sea levels faster than almost anyone anticipates.
And perhaps my effort above was feeble, but there is a lot of evidence out there for this weather shift. So why are so few talking about it? Clearly, because it doesn't fit people's models of how things work. Magnetic pole movement is straight out of conventional science, while the idea that it would impact the weather is not. The solution for most? Ignore the evidence.
What is the Transition? Part 3 is here.
Posted in Transition | Tagged Arctic, geomagnetic field, magnetic poles, polar ice melt, pole shift, sea level rise, shift, the shift, weather | 7 Replies
Posted on February 9, 2013 by Thundering Heard
I have made reference to "the Transition." Before trying to describe its essence, it will be useful to first review aspects of the Transition, in other words, some of its identifiable characteristics. One aspect that runs through all of the others is acceleration, as you will see.
Below is a chart of how much shaking the planet has experienced from strong earthquakes for the last 30 years. This chart sums up the Richter values for all earthquakes of magnitude 6.0 or greater for each year. The earthquakes are summed rather than simply counted so that larger earthquakes have slightly greater weight on the chart. To show the trend, the column for each year shows the 10-year average of all that shaking. The trend is unmistakable—things started to really scale up in the early 1990's:
The data for this chart was assembled from a straightforward query of the USGS (US Geological Survey) database at their Global Earthquake Search page.
After the massive Japan earthquake and aftershocks of 2011 (it is worth watching this video graphical display of the world's 2011 earthquakes, especially if you live in the Ring of Fire), there were fewer earthquakes in 2012. However, 2013 is off to a very fast start, as shown in part in this link from Feb 2:
Earth reeling from eight major earthquakes striking in 5 days
And since that post on Feb 2, there have been an 8.0, a 7.0, a 6.4, and a 6.3 in the Solomon Islands, a 6.9 in Japan, and a 6.9 in Columbia.
Earth doesn't typically see a lot of large tsunamis, but their occurrence has ramped up fivefold in recent years. According to data at the NOAA Global Historical Tsunami Database, which has records going back to 2000 BC, there have been 34 tsunamis with a wave height greater than twenty feet over the last 400 years. Six of those, or 18%, have occurred since the year 2000:
Year Location Water Height Deaths
2000 GREENLAND 50.0
2004 INDONESIA 50.9 226,898
2006 INDONESIA 20.9 802
2009 SAMOA 22.4 192
2010 CHILE 29.0 156
2011 JAPAN 38.9 15,854
In the Twentieth Century, there was a tsunami with a twenty foot wave height about once every ten years. In this century, it has happened once every two years, resulting in the deaths of a quarter million people despite the fact that none of these tsunamis struck a major city. The NOAA's database shows that even a tsunami less than five feet in height can kill thousands. With 23% of the world's people living in what is called the "near coastal zone," tsunamis are likely the single most life-threatening Earth-change phenomenon on the planet.
Due to the great behavioral variations of active volcanoes, the tracking of volcanism is not as mathematically rigorous as that for earthquakes and tsunamis. There is a site jointly sponsored by the Smithsonian and the USGS that reports on volcanic activity in the latest week. Here is their list for the week of 30 January–5 February 2013:
New Activity/Unrest:
Colima, México
Etna, Sicily (Italy)
Paluweh, Lesser Sunda Islands (Indonesia)
Rabaul, New Britain
Reventador, Ecuador
White Island, New Zealand
Ongoing Activity:
Batu Tara, Komba Island (Indonesia)
Chirpoi, Kuril Islands (Russia)
Copahue, Central Chile-Argentina border
Karymsky, Eastern Kamchatka (Russia)
Kilauea, Hawaii (USA)
Kizimen, Eastern Kamchatka (Russia)
Lokon-Empung, Sulawesi
Sakura-jima, Kyushu
Santa María, Guatemala
Shiveluch, Central Kamchatka (Russia)
Tolbachik, Central Kamchatka (Russia)
So, their list is all from the Pacific Rim and Italy. According to some who track this carefully, after a total of 77 volcanic eruptive events for all of the year 2012, there were 44 volcanic eruptive events recorded just in the month of January 2013.
Here are some volcano-related headlines shown on the SOTT.NET Earth Changes page in just the last couple of weeks:
The Great Awakening? Ten volcanoes awaken in one week
Indonesia's Mount Lokon volcano shaken by double eruptions
Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano erupts in Chile
Tavurvur volcano erupts in Papua New Guinea, ash cloud diverts flights
Hawaii's Mount Kilauea lava lake hits new record high
Manam volcano (Papua New Guinea): Large explosive eruption sending ash plume to 45,000 ft altitude
Campi Flegrei supervolcano raising anxiety among Italian residents
WEATHER EXTREMES (Storms, Floods, Heat Waves, etc.)
Does anyone on the planet need to be told that storms are ramping up in size, intensity, and frequency, resulting in unprecedented flooding? And that heat waves have taken on new intensities and duration? Is there anyone still claiming, "It's just the internet, nothing has changed, we just have better reporting."? Anyone making such claims would be well-advised to review the recent history of the global insurance industry. The venerable Lloyd's of London almost went bankrupt in the mid-1990's after 350 years of annual profits. They said they had to completely revamp their weather catastrophe calculations because the actuarial data on which they had relied for 300 years (!) was no longer applicable.
Below are some quotes from September 2010 on the web site of Munich Reinsurance, the largest re-insurance company in the world. Reinsurers sell insurance to other insurance companies to cover catastrophic losses:
Munich Re's natural catastrophe database, the most comprehensive of its kind in the world, shows a marked increase in the number of weather-related events. For instance, globally there has been a more than threefold increase in loss-related floods since 1980 and more than double the number of windstorm natural catastrophes…
Prof. Peter Höppe, Head of Munich Re's Geo Risks Research/Corporate Climate Centre: "It's as if the weather machine had changed up a gear."
Heavy rain and flash floods are affecting not only people living close to rivers but also those who live well away from traditionally flood-prone areas.
And then things accelerated further. By October 2012, Munich Re reported that the numbers were even larger. They reported that weather-related loss events in North America had grown fivefold over the past three decades, and that there was "an increase factor of 4 in Asia, 2.5 in Africa, 2 in Europe, and 1.5 in South America."
There are literally thousands of headlines available to demonstrate this idea further, here are just a few:
Cyclone frequency in Indonesia increases 28-fold since 2002
Global warming – or something much worse? Australia adds new colour to temperature maps
The temperature forecast for next Monday by Australia's Bureau of Meteorology is so unprecedented – over 52C – that it has had to add a new colour to the top of its scale, a suitably incandescent purple.
Tornado slams into Italian steel plant – video
To give you an idea how rare tornadoes are in Italy, four tornadoes in total were recorded in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, three were recorded in the 20th century and four were recorded since 2008 alone, with two of those coming in 2012.
And the damage is not limited to single instances, it is cumulative in many areas, for example, the US East Coast:
Former USGS scientist: Coastal cities are 'sitting ducks' for next big storm
"We have left our coasts sitting ducks, and Sandy destroyed these natural protections," she said.
In the space of a few hours, Sandy blew through the sand dunes that had served as natural protections for communities up and down the Atlantic coast.
"Basically these dunes build up over geologic time, and yet the superstorm wore them down over a couple of days, and it is going to take geologic time again to build them back up," McNutt said.
For those who are more video oriented, this youtube poster does a good job of grabbing news video of weather extremes and earth changes from around the world each month. These can be useful to watch since they can remind just how quickly, under the tremendous distraction of daily life, we forget what's been happening:
Extreme Weather Events and Earth Changes DECEMBER 2012
The November installment includes Superstorm Sandy. Since the news media typically won't cover a weather story unless there is a body count to report, few are aware that Lower Manhattan in New York City is still seriously impaired, with skyscrapers running from emergency generators on the street because their basements are still flooded.
RISING TIDES – WITH PERPLEXITY THE SEA AND WAVES ROARING NOVEMBER 2012
FIRE AND ICE – EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS AND EARTH CHANGES JANUARY 2013
(While I applaud SOTT.NET and the maker of the youtubes above, fidockave213, for their excellent work at collecting earth change information, I am not aligned with their editorial views.)
Part 2 describes a huge weather shift taking place on the planet that almost no one is talking about!
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Category: Farewells	(Page 1 of 4)
In Dodgers, Farewells, History
The amazing life of Tommy Lasorda ended Thursday at the age of 93.
I was just becoming a baseball fan when he became the Dodgers' manager in September 1976. Nearly 40 years later, I would find myself in the Dodger press box cafeteria at lunch as an employee and introducing my two sons to Lasorda, and having him shake hands with them.
Here is my chapter on Lasorda for 100 Things Dodgers Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die:
Puig, Dodgers grieve over José Fernández
In Farewells
Matthew Mesa/Los Angeles Dodgers
A number of Dodgers had personal connections with José Fernández, such as Austin Barnes, Chris Hatcher and Kiké Hernández, who all played in the Marlins organization with the All-Star right-hander.
But perhaps no one in Los Angeles was closer to the Miami All-Star, who died overnight in a boating accident, than Yasiel Puig.
Baseball mourns death of José Fernández
Yasiel Puig embraces José Fernández at Marlins Park on August 19, 2013. (Jon SooHoo/Los Angeles Dodgers)
Baseball fans woke to tragedy and shock this morning with the news that José Fernández and two others had been killed overnight in a boating accident.
"José Fernández was one of the nicest, most respectful, young players I ever had the pleasure of getting to know. My heart is shattered," SportsNet LA's Alanna Rizzo said on Twitter this morning, expressing the sentiments of so many.
"The fact that José, his mom and others risked their lives to flee Cuba, saved her from drowning, only to die in this way, is incomprehensible," she added.
Hermano, wherever you are, you know how much I loved you. Sin palabras. My heart is with the families. pic.twitter.com/JGVSRYXlMf
— Yasiel Puig (@YasielPuig) September 25, 2016
Said former Dodger pitcher Dan Haren on Twitter: "José Fernández is one of the most genuine guys I've ever played with. He loved life, he loved baseball. … He will be missed dearly."
For Dodger fans of my age, it was instinctive upon hearing the news to think instantly of former Dodger pitchers Tim Crews and Bobby Ojeda, who were in a 1993 Spring Training boating accident that took the life of Crews and their new Cleveland Indians teammate, Steve Olin. Gary Smith of Sports Illustrated wrote a devastating story four months after that accident, and Jon Saraceno and Bob Nightengale of USA Today revisited in 2013.
Fernandez was 24 years old.
The Dodgers share in baseball's devastation over the death of José Fernández and offer his family and friends our sincere condolences. pic.twitter.com/dvSzF80FxM
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) September 25, 2016
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Toles takes Dodgers from milder to wilder
In Farewells, Postgame
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Andrew Toles found the golden ticket.
Impossible to believe even as it was happening right in front of us. Joe Davis making the call into his mic, TV capturing the dramatic picture.
Do you believe in Mira-Toles?! YES!
— Dodger Insider (@DodgerInsider) September 1, 2016
Justin Edmonds/Getty Images
The Dodgers, who scored three runs in their first 25 innings at Coors Field this week and trailed 8-2 after seven innings in their series finale with the Rockies, rode the Wonkavator to three runs in the eighth and five in the ninth — capped by Andrew Toles' everlasting gobstopper of a grand slam — to a 10-8 victory over Colorado.
In a week-long performance that resembled a Broadway show purposefully designed to be the worst it could possibly be, the Dodgers shocked expectations (spookily similar to Alex Guerrero's ninth-inning grand slam last season) by bringing their fans to their feet.
Baseball update: still baseball.
This Dodger team, a veritable young Frankenstein for all the ways it has been reconstituted during this injury-plagued, transaction-filled season, delivered a "Puttin' on the Ritz" finish thanks to Toles, whose remarkable rise from Single-A ball now has him batting .397 with a .463 on-base percentage while slugging .690 on the big stage.
Let's not go stir-crazy: Toles isn't about to unseat Corey Seager for the National League Rookie of the Year Award. But for all the publicity that Yankees freshman Gary Sanchez is getting in New York, Toles leads Sanchez and all other late arrivals (minimum 50 plate appearances, in other words) in on-base percentage, holds similarly gold-medal status in batting average and is riding a silver streak to second in slugging percentage.
Andrew Toles is, as my wife likes to say, "insanity sauce."
For the Dodgers, it was thievery worthy of Bonnie and Clyde. Major League teams had lost 448 out of 449 games this year when trailing by at least six runs after the seventh inning. According to Elias Sports, this franchise rallied from a similar deficit against the Cleveland Spiders in 1899 — this is only the fourth time they've done so in 117 years since.
Did the Dodgers need any help? Oh, all they could get. And they got it, with a string of hits and walks leading up to the opposite-field blast by the Way-to-Go Kid.
Scully, Dodgers remember victims of Orlando tragedy
In Dodger Stadium, Farewells
Flags flew at half staff Thursday at Dodger Stadium in tribute to the victims of the mass murder early Sunday morning in Orlando. Before Thursday's game, Vin Scully led those in attendance at Dodger Stadium into a moment of silence. Here is the text of what he said:
Former Dodger pitcher Lee Pfund dies at 96
In Farewells, History
Maury Wills greets Lee Pfund in August 2012 (Jon SooHoo/Los Angeles Dodgers)
Lee Pfund, who pitched 15 games for the Dodgers in 1945 and later went to become an immensely successful baseball and basketball coach at Wheaton College, passed away Thursday at age 96.
Pfund, the father of former Lakers coach Randy Pfund, coached Wheaton to the 1957 NCAA College Division basketball title and won 362 games from 1952-75, then later was honored by the school naming its baseball stadium after him.
Born in Oak Park, Illinois nine days after the 1919 World Series involving the Chicago White Sox ended, Pfund pitched two shutout innings on April 25, 1945, in his Major League debut, a memory he described in this Dodger Insider story commemorating the 70th anniversary of that moment and recalling his life in sports. Click here to read the entire story.
Our best wishes go to Randy Pfund and the Pfund family.
Remembering Mike Sharperson, 1961-1996
At 5:05 a.m., 20 years ago today, former Dodger All-Star infielder Mike Sharperson died at the age of 34, following a one-car accident near the junction of Interstate 15 and 215 in Nevada.
All-Star infielder. When Sharperson made the National League All-Star team in 1992, he and the Dodgers got a lot of grief. It was a year of grief. Los Angeles was in turmoil after the riots of late April. The Dodgers were on their way to their worst season in 87 years. Their best hitter was a 30-year-old who had never played a full season in the Major Leagues, whose career high in home runs was three.
The right-handed Sharperson was best known as a platoon partner of lefty-hitting Lenny Harris. A good contact hitter who batted twice for the Dodgers in the 1988 playoffs, Sharperson hit .297 with a .376 on-base percentage and more walks than strikeouts in 415 plate appearances in 1990. He played and hit a bit less in 1991, when the Dodgers lost the National League West title by one game.
Then in the spring and early summer of 1992, as Darryl Strawberry faded and before Mike Piazza arrived, Sharperson — still alternating at second and third base with Harris, Juan Samuel, Dave Hansen and Dave Anderson — somehow emerged as the Dodgers' best hitter.
Come July, the Dodgers needed an All-Star representative, and Sharperson was it.
Farewell, Alan Young — and remembering 'Mr. Ed' at Dodger Stadium
In Dodger Stadium, Farewells, History
Today, we remember Alan Young, the "Mr. Ed" actor who passed away Thursday at age 96. Young and his horse companion made a memorable visit to Dodger Stadium for the 1963 season premiere, highlighted above. Sandy Koufax, Willie Davis, Leo Durocher, Johnny Roseboro and more appear.
A meaningful tribute to Louis Coleman's grandfather
In Farewells, Thinking out loud
Louis Coleman stands during introductions at the Dodgers' home opener April 12. (Juan Ocampo/Los Angeles Dodgers)
Harold Louis Coleman Sr.
As you know, Louis Coleman's grandfather, Harold Louis Coleman Sr., passed away last week. That's about all we knew about the Dodger reliever's need to go on bereavement leave.
But thanks to a column by Coleman's uncle, Billy Watkins, in Jackson, Mississippi's Clairon-Ledger, we now know much more.
Watkins' piece is not only a reflection on his own uncle, but a reflection on our priorities, our choices and our lives.
… I asked Uncle Harold a few years ago something about my maternal grandfather, who I loved deeply. Uncle Harold was one of the few still alive who knew the answer and the only one I felt comfortable asking about it. Understand, it wasn't concerning anything illegal or shameful. It was merely something I wanted to know about my grandfather.
"I'll tell you," Uncle Harold said to me. "But you have to drive to Schlater to hear it."
It was his way of inviting me to come see him.
I never made that trip. So whatever he would have said to me was lowered with him into the black Delta earth late Saturday afternoon.
My ignorance, arrogance and apathy haunt me. …
Billy Watkins
Watkins also wrote this passage on Louis Coleman (that is, Harold Louis Coleman III):
… Hal and Kathy's son, Louis, spoke at the funeral.
Louis is a relief pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers. I read on the team website the night before: "Louis Coleman has been placed on the bereavement list following the death of his grandfather. Also, the Dodgers called up … "
One line. I wish all Dodger fans could've heard Louis' tribute. He didn't dance around the fact that his "Pappy" was "always right" and, at times, not the easiest person to get along with. He called him "a man's man."
Louis Coleman pitching Monday against the Marlins, in his first game back after bereavement leave. (Juan Ocampo/Los Angeles Dodgers)
"But he had a way of making things simple," Louis said. "I used to throw at a tater sack hung across a barbed wire fence when I was growing up. That was my target."
As a member of the Kansas City Royals in 2011, Louis earned his first save at Yankee Stadium in New York and his first win at Fenway Park in Boston.
"And to this day, if I can't find my control, I can hear Pappy saying, 'Just hit the tater sack.' "
A little more than 48 hours after delivering that talk, Louis was back with the Dodgers, back on the mound in a one-run game against the Miami Marlins in the seventh inning. Louis was perfect. Three up, three down. He struck out slugger Giancarlo Stanton for the third out. I came out of my recliner and pumped my fist. …
You can read the entire piece here. Thanks to Watkins' longtime friend, Dodger senior vice president of planning and development Janet Marie Smith, for forwarding it to me.
Vin Scully remembers Joe Garagiola
In Broadcasting, Farewells
Joe Garagiola, the one-time big-league catcher and longtime big-league announcer who was Vin Scully's partner on NBC the night Kirk Gibson hit his 1988 World Series home run, passed away today at age 90.
Garagiola played in the Majors from 1946-54 and worked as a broadcaster until he was 87. He was also a frequent presence on entertainment shows, such as "To Tell the Truth" and "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson," but if you're from my generation, you remember him fundamentally for his work on NBC Game of the Week baseball broadcasts. His voice was integral to Saturday afternoons for years.
Today, Scully shared some thoughts about his former colleague.
"I was very fortunate to know and work with Joe Garagiola," Scully said. "Boy, did he surprise me as a broadcaster. Joe was always a funny and decent man, but he was a big surprise to me. When we got together in the booth, he was very serious. The part that surprised me was how well prepared he was for each and every telecast. Joe didn't just rely on his experience as a player, but he did his homework and all of us benefited from his knowledge and research.
"I will miss his laughter and his love for the game, but most of all I will miss a deeply religious man, who had a great sense of humor. My prayers are with Audrey and his family."
With Vin Scully at his side, Glenn Frey calls Pedro Guerrero homer in 1985
Eagles co-founder Glenn Frey, who passed away today at age 67, once called a Pedro Guerrero home run alongside Vin Scully. Jason Footer of The Sporting News passed along the clip.
Lance Rautzhan, 1952-2016
We're sorry to pass along the news that former Dodger reliever Lance Rautzhan has passed away at age 63.
Rautzhan was a rookie on the 1977 Dodgers, making his MLB debut that July and going all the way to the World Series both that year. In 1978, he returned to the postseason after delivering a 2.93 ERA in 61 1/3 regular-season innings.
As Ken Gurnick of MLB.com points out in his obituary for Rautzhan, the left-hander from Pottsville, Pennsylvania was the winning pitcher in one of the most famous Dodger playoff games ever, when Los Angeles scored three runs in the top of the ninth to defeat Philadelphia in Game 3 of the 1977 National League Championship Series. Rautzhan faced one batter, retiring Bake McBride to end the eighth inning.
Overall, Rautzhan pitched in 80 regular season games for the Dodgers with a 3.73 ERA. He finished his career with Milwaukee in 1979, shortly before his 27th birthday.
Rautzhan was inducted into the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame in November 2014.
Longtime Dodger Billy De Lury passes away
Vin Scully and Billy DeLury (Jon SooHoo/Los Angeles Dodgers)
Billy DeLury, a Dodger employee since 1950, the same year Vin Scully joined the organization, passed away Saturday evening. He was 81 years old.
"I was privileged to know Bill DeLury for more than 60 years," Scully said, "from the time he was an office boy in Brooklyn and rose to become a most valuable member of the organization as our traveling secretary. A Dodger from head to toe. A respected baseball man. And a deeply religious husband and father. Anyone and everyone in baseball who knew Bill will mourn his passing and he will be truly missed."
Said Dodger president and CEO Stan Kasten: "Billy's consistent dedication and outstanding character were both an inspiration in our front office as well as a daily reminder of our roots in Brooklyn. His presence will be missed by all who knew him."
A native of Brooklyn, DeLury began his career with the Dodgers on September 1, 1950 at age 17 after graduating from high school, employed by the organization both in New York and Vero Beach, starting out in jobs including laundry and the mail room. He received his first World Series ring in 1955 while, as he called himself, "an office boy."
Working his way up the ladder, DeLury sold advertising for Dodger programs, then moved into the minor-league department under vice president Fresco Thompson, before becoming assistant ticket manager and, for more than 20 years, the Dodgers' traveling secretary. His service with the Dodgers was continuous, save for his military duty from 1957-58. In recent years, he has served as an assistant to the broadcasters and to the traveling secretary.
Billy DeLury with Vin Scully, Sandy Koufax, Jaime Jarrin, Tommy Lasorda and Maury Wills
A famous DeLury story involved him getting the assignment, while still a teenager, to leave the Polo Grounds in the ninth inning of the final game of the 1951 National League playoff between the Giants and the Dodgers, with Brooklyn ahead 4-1, to take the train back to Ebbets Field and begin distributing World Series tickets. When he arrived, there were no crowds, only a night watchman who told him of Bobby Thomson's home run, which was dubbed the "shot heard 'round the world."
Update: Jon SooHoo has posted some of his favorite photos of DeLury.
In Memoriam: John Keenan
By Mark Langill
It was only natural Kansas native John Keenan would become a baseball scout, a position he held with the Dodgers between 1962 and 1998. His grandfather, Bert Wells, was a Dodger scout from 1940-79, and Keenan's son Mike would become a Midwest crosschecker with the Cincinnati Reds.
Keenan was hired as a part-time scout by Al Campanis, who was then the franchise's scouting director. He became a full-time scout in 1963, serving first as an area scout in the Midwest. Keenan spent his final 13 years in the organization as the Midwest supervisor or national crosschecker.
Among the players signed by Keenan are Don Sutton, Bill Russell, Davey Lopes, Rick Sutcliffe and Mickey Hatcher. Keenan also signed outfielder Mitch Webster, who as a scout in 2008 represented the Dodgers when Keenan was inducted into the Greater Midwest Professional Baseball Scouts Association Hall of Fame.
"John signed me, and has known me since I was a kid," Webster said. "He has been a great mentor for me as a scout and as a player. All those hard times as a minor leaguer, you're looking to stay alive, and John was always there to add encouragement."
The funeral service for Keenan, who died Thursday, will be held Monday in Great Bend, Kansas.
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Daniel McConnell: Christmas with a lot less cheer
The decision of the Government this week as to what kind of Christmas we will all have is keenly awaited but it is likely many will be unhappy with what ultimately is decided.
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Tue, 24 Nov, 2020 - 08:58
Daniel McConnell Political Editor
The leaders of the three government parties – Micheál Martin, Leo Varadkar and Eamon Ryan – met on Monday night as they always do but this meeting took on additional significance.
As Taoiseach Micheál Martin told this newspaper, the country is set to move back to level 3 restrictions from next week, but he cast doubt over large gatherings involving alcohol.
It seems the wet pubs are to be sacrificed again to allow most other areas of the country to re-open. Those business owners who have been shut since March are facing into a bleak Christmas.
Behind the scenes, members of Mr Martin's Cabinet remain at odds over whether pubs and restaurants should fully reopen ahead of the usually busy Christmas period and the final decisions around the easing of these restrictions are not expected to be hammered out until Thursday.
"It is really tricky," said one minister. "We would love to be able to say yes to everyone and allow all to re-open on December 1 but, as the Taoiseach said, the mixing of large numbers of people and alcohol is seen as highly problematic."
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Importantly, the Taoiseach said that whatever transpires this week, it will be the Government and not its medical advisors who will make the call, a clear reference to demands from some medics to extend the lockdown as opposed to easing it.
A renewed desire to counter the perceived dominance of the chief medical officer and his National Public Health Emergency Team (Nphet) is emerging within Government and the Taoiseach gave voice to that. He said on Monday:
Nphet will give its advice but Government will decide how we exit level 5."
The Taoiseach said it would require "a national effort" to "get vaccines out properly and safely" with the cooperation from various State agencies once the vaccines come through the safety approvals.
While he spoke of the ambition to re-open, Mr Martin warned the arrival of vaccines is "not the moment to relax" but rather it is the time "to double down" on efforts to prevent the spread of the virus.
At the #NPHET briefing in the Department, the @CMOIreland presented this slide on how worried people in Ireland are feeling about #COVID19. pic.twitter.com/7etaywxdnf
— Department of Health (@roinnslainte) November 23, 2020
His commentary reflects the fine line he and his government are walking amid building expectations among a weary public as to some relaxation.
Covid-19: Vaccine could see life back to normal 'by next May or June'
While level 3 is the starting point on December 1, we know that some categories will drop to level 2 to allow families and friends to come together for meals and drinks.
As we are reporting this morning, it is the intention to allow people to travel all over the country for Christmas and for households to meet with up to two other households, which would facilitate family get-togethers for Christmas day.
If you are in a large family and you normally congregate on December 25, it looks like you will have to pair up with your favourite sibling this year.
"The big gathering is unlikely to be recommended, but the Government is keen to allow families to come together at a very special time of year," said one minister yesterday.
The Government will announce it decision on moving out of level 5 restrictions on Thursday to avoid clashing with the Late Late Toy Show.
The weekly Nphet meeting has been brought forward to Wednesday in a bid to give time for the politicians to make their decision. Given the Late Late Toy Show is on Friday, there is a recognition in Government that it would be preferable to announce the decision on Thursday.
Whatever is decided, it is a huge call.
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Ellis Vows To Rectify Complacency In Banyana squad
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Banyana Banyana head coach Desiree Ellis has vowed to rectify the complacency showed by her players in their 1-0 victory over Lesotho in the first leg of the Women's AFCON played this past week.
Read: Banyana Secure First-Leg Win Over Lesotho
The Banyana mentor hailed her players for scoring early however, bemoaned her side's loss of concentration, stating that her team will be better prepared when playing in front of their home support.
"We scored early and didn't concede so those are the positives we took from the game," said the Banyana coach.
"However, we lost concentration we allowed them to turn the game into a battle, something we should have never allowed. We kept telling to stay in the game and that's it's not over.
"In the second leg we will have to be stronger mentally. This will be positive because we are going to be playing at home in front of our own supporters. We have to play well for them. We will work hard at keeping our concentration for the full game in our preparations," concluded Ellis.
Banyana are currently preparing for the second leg tie which will be played at the Dr Petrus Molemela stadium, in Bloemfontein, today.
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My novel Implanted was featured at the 2108 European Speed Reading Championship! Test your knowledge with the reading guide if you've already had a chance to read the book!
The last couple of weeks (and maybe into the next) I've been buried in critiques. Hence this slightly delayed post. I'm not complaining, mind you, but the volume recently—the result a confluence of chance—has forced me to evaluate my process in between all my edits, insertions, and comments.
I read everything. For me, critiquing is less about the genre or subject matter and more about supporting the writer behind the project.
I firmly believe there is a level of trust required for exchanging work. And that mutual respect means doing my best to evaluate the work I agree to critique, regardless of what it is, as I would hope others would do for me. It's too early for me to be trapped in a particular genre, and I'm always eternally grateful that my CPs and trusted readers are usually game to crit whatever I send their way.
Part of this is because I've spent a lot of time in non-genre specific writing groups. In fact, one of the more successful groups I've been a part of has members writing in completely different genres—poetry, alt lit, women's fiction, and then there's me. All of us have good bs detectors and strong writing chops, which definitely helps. Plus having this exposure also keeps me from getting tunnel vision from the particular genre/style I'm writing in.
If a fellow writer thinks they'll benefit from an honest reader reaction from me, I'm happy to support them. Karma is important, and I know I've benefited from the writer connections I've made. That's not to say if they hand me a mystery I'll be thrilled. But I'll do my best to critique it, with the caveat that I'm not as well-versed in this genre as I am others.
I usually have to read a piece twice before I'm ready to critique.
This is time consuming, yes. That has become abundantly clear these last couple of weeks. BUT, it's something I've made peace with. Mostly because my own standards of quality demand it.
Reading the piece the first time, I'm trying to get a general feel for the story, understand how all the different elements work as a whole. I might make some copy edits in the first round, but really I'm just reading for story.
This is a tremendous help when it comes time to offer my comments on the second pass. That's when I decide what are real issues that need to be dealt with to support an author's story intentions. I believe I have to understand the macro story elements into order to comment on the micro-level ones (outside of grammar).
My critique style has evolved as I've taken strides with my craft.
What this essentially means is that early on, I was overly focused with style and micro level issues. If someone wrote a line in a way I wouldn't, I'd offer my suggestions for changing it. I was also overly concerned with "the rules" and more than happy to say "You're doing it wrong!" because the craft books said so. I won't say I was a Craft Nazi, one of the Writerly Types to Avoid, but it took time for me to digest all that advice so I could apply it in more constructive ways.
But after a number of critiques, after reading a variety of work, I've been exposed to a lot of different ways of doing things. And I've realized with all the do's and don'ts out there, all that matters is whether a particular technique is effective in a particular story context. That's it.
So I've adopted a more flexible live and let live policy. I'll still point out awkward phrasings or unsuccessful techniques, but I've come to realize that just because someone doesn't write something exactly the way I would doesn't make it wrong. It just makes it different, and that's ok. And that frees up more of my mental space for addressing more substantive story issues.
I rarely say no to requests to exchange work, but the time may be nigh to change that.
For so long, I was too scared to share my work. Then, when I got less scared, I had trouble finding people to share it with. I talked about this progression in my post The Critique Mindset a while back.
So while I'm a huge proponent for exchanging work for critique, all things in moderation. And maybe it's time to take my own advice.
Happy Nanoing for those participating! Happy writing for the rest of us! And only good thoughts for our friends on the east coast!


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There's a reason Lentine Zahler, aka "Skratch Labs' Cookie Lady," is the Oprah of cookie dough. (Photo: Peyton Skelton)
The Tour of California Is Powered By Cookies
Skratch Labs has been cooking for athletes since 2013, but this year the team put "The Cookie Lady" in charge—and athletes loved it.
A.C. Shilton
Here's the thing about bike racing: When you go from leading the race to sliding face-first across the pavement—usually in just a matter of chaotic seconds—all you really want to do is curl up with a cookie. But at 90 percent of races, the only eat-your-feelings option in your jersey pocket is a brick of energy bar.
Not at the Tour of California, though. If you have to be scraped off the pavement with a spatula, there's a cookie waiting with your name on it. In fact you don't even have to crash to get a cookie. Lentine Zahler, aka "Skratch Labs' Cookie Lady," is the Oprah of cookie dough. Every morning before the race it's: "You get a cookie! You get a cookie! EVERYBODY GETS A COOKIE!"
"We've mixed like 400 bajillion so far," jokes the pro-triathlete-turned-pastry-chef-turned-cookie-pusher. (Technically, the number of cookies she's baked in the past few days of the stage race is closer to 2,500, but when you're mixing batter in hotel rooms at midnight, it's hard to keep track of how many you've made.)
In 2013, Skratch Labs, the whole-foods-first endurance fuel company, inked a partnership with the Tour of California. It was a move made by race organizers to ensure riders got high quality, delicious meals at their host hotels—something that doesn't always happen in Europe.
"It's kind of ironic, French bike racing cuisine is horrific," says pro racer Ted King. He adds, "Hands down the best race food is at the Tour of California. It's killer, the Skratch team does a great job; I think a lot of the European riders look forward to coming to California because the food is so outstanding."
Skratch was tasked with both cooking snacks and meals for riders during the day and overseeing the dinners served at night. In the past, Chef Biju Thomas ran the show. But after opening a curry restaurant in Denver earlier this year, he passed the baton to Zahler.
She's the perfect person for the job. After a career as an iron-distance pro triathlete, Zahler attended pastry school at Le Cordon Bleu. Originally she planned to return to racing post-culinary school, but working in fine dining didn't allow much time for training. At a race she bumped into the founder of Skratch Labs, Dr. Allen Lim. "He was like my hero because he was creating healthy recipes for athletes," she says. Eventually she snagged a job at the Boulder company.
During the Amgen Tour of California, Zahler and her team were in the kitchen each day by 5 a.m. "We get in and get two giant rice cookers going," she says, adding that there's a ton of rice, coffee, and more crude jokes than should probably be told before 6 a.m.
Skratch Labs always makes both sweet and savory cakes that the riders can stuff into jersey pockets. The savory cakes pair up rice, Bragg Liquid Aminos, a generous smear of Justin's Maple Almond Butter, and bacon. The sweet cakes, meanwhile, usually mix together lime zest, coconut milk, and some sort of berry.
After the rice cakes are made, cut and wrapped (and there's a very specific way they have to be wrapped in order to be eaten while peddling), Zahler turns off the rice cookers and focuses on stage two: the post-ride meal. "On days where there's a long transfer between the end of the stage and the hotel we provide a meal for the athletes to eat in the cars," says Zahler.
Athletes have come to look forward to these meals, and if they don't get them, they get pissed. Zahler says that a few days ago a team didn't realize that Skratch would be cooking food at the finish line. Planning ahead, the team ordered boxed lunches for its riders. When the team managers got to the finish line and saw Skratch's trailer, they realized their mistake. But instead of simply letting the riders choose which option they wanted, the managers took the Skratch meals and ate them themselves.
"When the riders found out they flew off the handle. People got pissed," says Zahler. For good reason too. A typical Skratch meal is something like Parmesan-and-black-pepper fried rice with egg, tomato, corn, and fresh avocado salad, or a chicken teriyaki and tomago egg burritos with a kale and herb salad, or—on rainy days—pork braised over rice with a blueberry and fennel salad. "Even the soigneurs [the term for the team members who pick up and distribute meals], who have no business eating a 400-calorie rice cake, can be found trying to get one," says Zahler.
But the real highlight for everyone is the cookies. Last year, Zahler made a batch—full of chocolate chips, pecans and coconut—on a whim. They handed them out, not expecting it to go beyond that. "But the riders kept asking for them," she says. "So I said, well I guess we could make more at the hotel tonight." Using a super sub-par Holiday Inn kitchen, she and her colleagues whipped up several more batches. The riders destroyed them. This year they made 16 different varieties.
"I really love sneaking dessert into these guys' diets because they totally crave it but think they shouldn't have it. And I don't believe in shouldn't," says Zahler—especially when it comes to cookies.
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PBS Newshour features Embodied Workplace's NYPD + community mindfulness event in Ft.Greene Park, Brooklyn. Watch the clip above. Spectrum News NY1 also featured the event, find a clip here.
Embodied Workplace provides mindfulness training for organizations and social service institutions worldwide. Our creative mindfulness programs are experiential, scientific and conceptual and include meditation and yoga. They are designed specifically to help address implicit bias, reduce stress, enhance productivity and improve morale at work.
Companies like Aetna, Google, Goldman Sachs, Apple, Nike and General Mills recognize the benefits of mindfulness programming in the workplace and have implemented ongoing mindfulness training in the office.
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Research at UCLA has found that it increases density of gray matter in brain regions linked to learning, memory, emotion regulation, and empathy.
According to a study conducted at University California Davis, meditation training enhanced the participants' emotional well-being and led them to perform better on tasks related to focus and sustaining attention.


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Life is busy, but you can do good right where you are, and The Do Gooders Podcast is here to help. Join Christin Thieme, editor of The Salvation Army's Caring Magazine, as she interviews guests for ideas to make an impact—from what it means to do good, to where to discover joy, what it is really like to be homeless or how to raise kind kids. If you want to be inspired and find tangible tips for simple actions you can take for good, this is the podcast for you.
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73: The one thing you need to plan for the New Year with Megan Fate Marshman
What are your plans for the New Year?
Will it depend on how things are going in the moment?
It doesn't need to. You really can trust God's plan for your life—in all things, no matter what your life looks like right now.
That's what Megan Fate Marshman explores in her new book, a power-packed, biblical look at Jeremiah 29:11-14—a familiar passage that begins: "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, …
So how is God inviting us to practically trust him through Jeremiah 29?
How can we take active steps to trust God regularly?
And how does trusting God's plans for our lives change the way we live?
Megan is on the show to share just that.
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72: How to use your imagination in retelling the story this Christmas with Russ Ramsey
Story may be the most compelling way to deliver information, which we can assume is why Jesus delivered so many of his messages in parables—story.
Russ Ramsey explores the narrative arc of the Bible from Genesis through Revelation in a new way in his three-part series: Retelling the Story. While staying true to Scripture, Russ shares these familiar stories with visual, compelling language allowing us to connect with God's word through our imagination.
As one endorser wrote, Russ helps us "rescue truth from the jaws of familiarity."
Russ is a pastor at Christ Presbyterian Church in Nashville, and allows his own life experience to influence his storytelling—as a father, for instance, exploring how Joseph must've felt as his wife delivered a baby in a barn.
He's on the show today to share more about the series, and especially part one: "The Advent of The Lamb of God." He's also going to read an excerpt from it as a gift to us.
I hope you can sit somewhere quiet, and allow your imagination to picture each little detail of this beautiful story.
71: A simple guide for how to pray today with Pete Greig
"From American presidents to Irish poets, from rock stars in London to single mothers in Wichita, prayer has been the argument 'that cannot be proven,' the 'gaping need' of every human soul since the very dawn of time.
"It is no exaggeration to say that to be human is to pray."
These are the words of Pete Grieg, a writer and church planter who co-founded and leads the 24-7 Prayer movement around the world. A pastor in England, Pete has written a number of bestselling books and his latest really is one for all of us: "How to Pray: A Simple Guide for Normal People."
He's on the show to share more about prayer and yes, how to pray—especially following Jesus's instructions to keep it simple, keep it real and keep it up.
70: How The Salvation Army is responding to need and rescuing Christmas with Sabrina Kiser
Consider for a moment that you lost your job at the start of this global pandemic. You had a good job. Last New Year's Eve you never could have expected to be unemployed. But now you are. Your usual expenses are still due and while you now have no income, you've also added new needs—like health insurance. You know this Christmas won't be like it was last year, but can you really not buy any gifts for your child?
It's a sobering reality that so many Americans are facing this year.
And as some have said, it's a disaster without the cleanup. We're in month nine of the ongoing hurricane.
So while we've heard again and again this year that the need is greater, we know that need is personal. It touches individual lives—many who have never needed assistance before.
Sabrina Kiser is the Director of Social Services for The Salvation Army in the western U.S. She oversees initiatives like The Way Out, a plan to double The Salvation Army's impact on homelessness by 2024. And this year, she has supported the significant expansion of feeding and sheltering in response to COVID-19.
In just the 13 western states, The Salvation Army has provided more than 5.5 million meals, beverages and snacks and some 600,000 nights of lodging since mid-March.
Sabrina is on the show today to explore need from all angles—as the pandemic hit, the outlook right now and as The Salvation Army prepares for what's to come—especially as we're currently out to rescue Christmas.
BONUS: Behind the Scenes with The Salvation Army this Christmas
That's right! This is a special, bonus episode from our live event on Giving Tuesday—the Do Good Expedition.
Thank you so much to each of you who joined us! If you didn't, you might not be on our email list, so be sure to sign up now to see all future invites.
Each year on Giving Tuesday, people all around the world take action to support causes they care about. And after the year we've had, it's really nice to think about all the good that can come from that collective action.
Of course, when you give to The Salvation Army, you support all kinds of causes, like helping those experiencing homelessness, feeding the hungry and buying Christmas gifts for kids who need a little joy this holiday season.
As part of our event, we recorded a special episode of this podcast to take you behind the scenes of how The Salvation Army is rescuing Christmas in three communities and from three different vantage points.
So allow me to introduce to you today Captain Kristy Church, Salvation Army Corps Officer of the Roseburg (Oregon) Corps; Jhoana Hirasuna, Social Services Director of the Pasadena (California) Tabernacle Corps; and Sam Jarosz, Public Relations Director in the Del Oro Division, based in Sacramento.
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69: A simple approach to a meaningful Advent with Tsh Oxenreider
To live simply is to live holistically in your life's purpose—and set aside all the rest.
That's what Tsh Oxenreider will tell you after more than a decade of writing about the art of simple. Tsh is the bestselling author of several books and just released a new journey into Advent that guides us with simplicity in contemplating the presence of God before feasting in it.
She writes: "Advent is our invitation to rest in the already–not yet anticipation of the God incarnate, who will one day right all the wrongs of the world. And yet he already came, 2,000 years ago as a helpless baby. Already, not yet. We live in the middle, where we're invited to wait with hope."
Tsh says Advent is an inward posture—it's a gift, not a burden. She's on the show to share more about her new guide and how you can meaningfully observe Advent in the days ahead.
Major Babe , 12/01/2020
Love each episode!
krmv20 , 11/12/2020
There's still good in this world!
It's so encouraging to listen to people who are not tired of doing good in the midst of a hurt world. There's so much need and these messages bring hope and motivation!
ellie.r92 , 06/17/2019
Good listen
Love being able to listen to something positive and encouraging. The episode about finding joy was really great and gave so many practical tips.
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Community is both a beautiful and frightening thing. At times I've experienced the worst of community. I've seen churches split into vicious camps, individuals rejected by a group because of a failure, creativity and inspiration stifled by control, and trust and confidence eroded by gossip. When I witness the ugliness of community, I'm tempted to run like the wind. Everything in me wants to retreat into protective isolation, far away from the risk of people-inflicted pain.
But I've also seen the beauty of community. I've seen faces of compassion looking into mine as I poured out frustration and tears. I've heard writers cheer a fellow struggler after one-too-many rejections. I've watched churches unite to provide food, clothing and the unmatched love of Jesus to people with no hope. I've felt my sides aching from raucous laughter instigated by the unique banter between friends.
Something otherworldly happens when people come together. Yes, at times our humanity makes community a frightening thing. But when community happens—true, pure, holy community—I believe we see the fingerprint of God. Communion is a joining, and it cannot happen in the presence of only one. Sure, there is safety is isolation, but there is no magnificence.
Think of it this way: It is entirely possible for me to create a nice picture with simply a blue crayon. But if my blue is joined with the reds, yellows, greens, pinks, oranges and purples of others, something entirely different is created. A rainbow perhaps. Maybe even the Sistine Chapel.
Community is messy. It's complicated, uncomfortable, often unpredictable and always a bit risky. But magnificence is possible only by allowing your color to be mixed with the colors of others.
Wow, Michele. Thanks for talking about this. It reminds me of the little book I read called "Messy Spirituality". We are all a mess and only God in all his infinite wisdom can put us together and make something amazing.
We have the same banking account Michele! — Or at least the same banker, maybe that's a better way to put it. I love how you write about Magnificance and mixing with the colors of others — I've seen both sides too, and some days… I like my back porch more than I like well.. the difficult seasons of community. But I can't stay there for too long, or I turn grey.


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The Australian Federal government has announced an additional $10 million in funding for the launch of the National System for Domestic Commercial Vessel Safety (National System) administered by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) which began on 1 July this year.
Last year, in response to an industry backlash over new fees and charges associated with the National System, the government promised $102 million in funding over ten years and announced that no levies would be charged during the first year of the scheme's operation. With the additional funding, the levy-free period has now been extended to three years.
Announcing the funding boost, deputy prime minster Michael McCormack said the government remains committed to the National System delivering safety benefits for commercial boating, fishing and tourism operations across Australia.
"The Australian Government has listened to the concerns of Australia's domestic commercial vessel industries about the cumulative impact of costs and charges on these industries. In response, I am announcing the Australian Government will provide an additional $10 million funding for the national system, increasing our total contribution to $65 million over ten years, and increasing total funding by all governments to $112.4 million.
"This additional funding will mean no levy will be charged to industry for the first three years of AMSA's service delivery to assist all operators as services transition.
"This will provide two more years for AMSA to engage with industry on a range of important matters."
New fees for services provided by AMSA to individuals, such as issuing safety certification to vessels and seafarers, and accrediting marine surveyors, were also introduced on 1 July. However, the government also announced that due to "efficiencies that have already been identified" by AMSA, the fee for a new Certificate of Survey and a Certificate of Survey renewal will be reduced from $366 to $206.
A review of all costs and charges for the National System will be conducted in 2020–21 including public consultation.
Courtesy of www.marinebusiness.com.au
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We are now on our way to Kisumu where we will be coaches at Girls Get Geeky happening over the weekend. It is about 8 hours drive from Nairobi.


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Q: Sed appears to work but file doesn't change Based on: sed: Replace part of a line
I want to modify my sysctl.conf file. The line which contains PermitTunnel something must be changed to PermitTunnel point-to-point.
So using as one man said in the post before, I would use:
sed -e 's/PermitTunnel.*$/PermitTunnel point-to-point/g'

Including at the end of the line my file.
Since -n is not used, I guess I'm expected to receive at standar output the result of my operation. Then I executed it and get (notice I'm using -2- instead of -to- just in order to see if I can modify the file as I want, because the file already have the desired line at this case):
root@debian:/home/dit# sed -e 's/PermitTunnel.*$/PermitTunnel point-2-point/g'/etc/sysctl.conf
PermitTunnel point-2-point

But then I do:
root@debian:/home/dit# cat /etc/sysctl.conf | grep PermitTunnel
PermitTunnel point-to-point

So as you can see, the file has not changed. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks for reading

A: You command take sysctl.conf as input, and stdout as output. You have to use the -i option to replace "in place"
sed -i -e 's/PermitTunnel.*$/PermitTunnel point-2-point/g'/etc/sysctl.conf

You can also specify a suffix for a backup file:
sed -i.bak -e 's/PermitTunnel.*$/PermitTunnel point-2-point/g'/etc/sysctl.conf

From man sed:
-i[SUFFIX], --in-place[=SUFFIX]
     edit files in place (makes backup if extension supplied)

Alternatively, you can redirect stdout to a new file:
sed -e 's/PermitTunnel.*$/PermitTunnel point-2-point/g'/etc/sysctl.conf > /etc/sysctl.conf.new

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ITTI WINS BEST AVIATION INSTITUTE AT AVIATION AWARDS 2016
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The International Travel and Tourism Institute (ITTI), a training institute projecting the values of professionalism in the travel and hospitality industry, has won the Aviation Institution of the Year at the maiden National Aviation Awards, which came off recently. The maiden National Aviation Industry Awards, which was held under the theme: "Recognizing the cream of Ghana's Aviation Industry and the unsung heroes of change over the years." recognised distinctions exhibited in every classification of the aviation industry in Ghana.
Kate Adoma Addo, Executive Director of the institute, lauded the efforts of the organisers of the award scheme but believes that the institute's recognition by a prestigious award scheme like the National Aviation Awards is a long time coming.
"I know we have a lot of word-of-mouth referrals because we do a lot of good work. We have a lot of students coming in from other schools for further training and even though it is a good feeling to know that we have being recognized for what we doing, we are not too surprised," she told the B&FT in an interview.
Ms. Addo, in appreciating the support of her team of consultants, family and the Almighty God as well as professional colleagues in the aviation, hospitality and tourism industries, added that this award is a major endorsement of what the institution has been doing informally for 15 years and formally for nine years.
With over 25 years experience working in the aviation industry from Ghana Airways through Virgin Nigeria and Virgin Atlantic, Ms. Addo added that she has led ITTI to train over 6,000 airport workers in all departments from cargo and passenger handling, luggage, aircraft handling, groundsmen, customer service personnel and human resource professionals as well as the hospitality and customer-focused organisations.
The institution, which is affiliated to the Institute of Travel & Tourism (ITT-UK) and enjoy immeasurable benefits from this organisation, specializes in training individuals as well as corporate bodies for the aviation, tourism and hospitality industry, primarily in customer care, business communications and customised programmes for corporate bodies.
"What we do is training in several departments of airport operations which is strongly backed with customer care and business communication. When you pass through ITTI, you should be so versatile such that if you don't find a job in the travel industry, you can be able to work in any organisation. Service excellence delivery is very important," she added.
Ms. Addo also added that the institute, which is collaborating with institutions in Liberia, Nigeria and The Gambia is planning to dominate West Africa. But before it embarks on its sub regional domination, ITTI will revive its Kumasi campus and open a new one in Tamale now that the northern part of the country has an international airport.
She said that ITTI is also looking to increase its affiliations with international bodies and currently working on recognition from International Air Transport Association (IATA), a trade association of world airlines, primarily major carriers, which supports the aviation industry with global standards for airline safety, security, efficiency and sustainability.
She added that the institution will soon establish a full time hotel school to practically train people in the hospitability industry.
Endorsed by the Ministry of Transport, the 2016 National Aviation Awards saw a total of 33 companies and individuals recognised. The event brought together over 160 local and international industry professionals.
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Across much of the continent, various market drivers are prompting distribution network operators (DNOs) to extend connectivity to secondary substations. This increased connectivity integrates the substations into SCADA systems and enables medium and low voltage (MV/LV) monitoring. In some cases, it also assists integration with distribution management systems (DMSs) and full-blown automation for self-healing. According to a report from led by aggressive investments in France, Italy, and Spain, European distribution utilities are expected to spend $23.9 billion on equipment and services to automate or monitor their secondary substations over the next decade.


The Feminist Review Trust is seeking applications from eligible entities for the 3rd round of its 2018 grant program that gives grants to projects in the UK and internationally that support women.
The grants represent the diversity of women's lives globally and support the creativity which with women fight the inequalities they face. Set up in 2001, the Trust was funded by Feminist Review. Run as a collective since its inception in 1979 the voluntary work of Feminist Review's editorial teams over the years has provided the means for the Trust to share the success of the journal with groups of women throughout the world similarly working for change.


Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called for the inclusion of Iran and Egypt in future talks on finding a solution to the political situation in Syria.
Stressing that the Syrian issue concerns many regional players and "the whole Islamic world," the Russian FM said that international organizations such as the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation should also be included in order to hold future meetings "in a more representative format".
The announcement came after Lavrov met with the foreign ministers of Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the United States to discuss the Syrian conflict in Vienna on Friday.
After meeting with his Jordanian counterpart Nasser Judeh, Lavrov also announced that Russia and Jordan have agreed to coordinate their military operations, including airstrikes, in Syria.
According to Lavrov, the two countries will set up a "special working mechanism" in the Jordanian capital city of Amman to share information and coordinate their actions.
Jordan, who is part of a US-led coalition carrying out airstrikes against ISIS in Syria, is seeking to maintain the security of its border with Syria while also protecting Syrian rebels it supports.
The string of meetings in the Austrian capital came a few short days after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad visited Moscow in his first overseas trip since the civil war erupted in Syria in 2011.
The visit, which took place on Tuesday evening, was announced by the Kremlin on Wednesday after al-Assad had returned to Damascus.
During the visit, al-Assad thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for Russia's military involvement in Syria, stating that the move prevented "more widespread and harmful" terrorism in the country.
Russia began launching airstrikes in Syria late last month, marking its first major military operation in the Middle East since 1941.
Moscow asserted the airstrikes were targeting ISIS militant positions in Syria but the US and rebel groups in Syria quickly disputed these claims. US Defense Secretary Ash Carter said that the Russian warplanes were not in areas with ISIS forces.
The ongoing civil war in Syria is approaching its fifth year and has claimed as many as 330,000 lives, with most of the casualties being civilians. The armed opposition to Assad's regime primarily consists of the Free Syrian Army, the Islamic Front and ISIS militants. The Free Syrian Army has captured some territories, primarily in southern Syria; however, ISIS has made much more significant territorial gains, with nine Syrian provinces currently under its control.
Several countries have intervened militarily in Syria in an attempt to quash ISIS militants, including the United States, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates.


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Q: Keep Git merge strategy in repo Short
Globally in ~/.gitconfig as well as per repo in .git/config some settings (such as merge strategies) can be configured. None of these options is kept in the repo itself. Is there a way to define merge strategies that live in the repo (just as .gitigrore and .gitattributes)?
Background
Assumed I have some sort of boilerplate git repo that is meant to be forked and used as a starting point for certain projects. Also since the master boilerplate can change but should be in sync with its 'child projects' (or vice versa), I want to add the boilerplate as upstream. This way I am able to git fetch upstream && git merge upstream/master from time to time to keep up with the changes in the boilerplate.
Now: Certain files will exist in all repos and should intentionally NOT in sync. Take README.md as an obvious example.

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Is there a way to define merge strategies that live in the repo (just as .gitignore and .gitattributes)?

Not with native git: anything config-related is a bit too dangerous to be kept in the repo, and should be set by the user explicitly.
See "Is it possible to clone git config from remote location?".
One workaround would be to version a "setup" script which would be in charge to perform the requested git config commands.
Each user would have to execute it once after a git clone.


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London Travel Guide |
Home Attractions in London Airfare to London Accommodation What to do in London Travel Guide
Bayswater – the diverse area of London
The Bayswater area spans north of Hyde Park and comprises Queensway and Paddington. It has a cosmopolite atmosphere, with shops, pubs and restaurants serving all the cuisine you can think of.
The near-by Paddington station has a direct rail link with Heathrow Airport; while if you need to get to Luton, the Bayswater tube station offers direct link to King's Cross / St. Pancras and from there to Luton Airport.
>>Heathrow Airport Transportation
>>How to get to London Luton Airport
The area's high street is Queensway, which runs north from Bayswater Road (which runs from Marble Arch to Nothing Hill Gate). Queensway has two tube stations: Bayswater (Central Line) and Queensway (Circle Line).
There are plenty of restaurants and shops on Queensway, along with a shopping and cinema complex. However, Bayswater is considered an area to stay and explore other parts of London.
Bayswater itself was born in the 1800s as Tyburnia (now Hyde Park Estate), but Bayswater Road was a Roman military road which led out to the west of the country. Soon, the area became a desirable place in which to live, as it offered quick access to the city by carriage or Hackney Cab. As the city grew, Bayswater started to spread toward the west and started attracting various international communities.
Tube stations in the area
The Bayswater area is served by the following metro stations: Marble Arch (Central Line), Lancaster Gate (Central Line), Queensway (Central Line), Bayswater (Circle, District Lines), Royal Oak (Hammersmith and City, Circle Lines), and Paddington (Circle, District, Bakerloo, Hammersmith and City Lines)
>>read more about: How to Navigate the London Tube
The places of interest in the area are: Marble Arch, Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens and St Sophia's Cathedral.
Buckingham Palace is located within walking distance (about 30 minutes from Bayswater tube station), but you can also use the tube to get to the sights. Big Ben, The Parliament and London Eye are also easily reached via Westminster tube station (on Circle, District and Jubilee Lines), with direct connection to Bayswater tube station. Do plan to do a lot of walking between the sights once you are in the city center. The feel and architecture of the city are totally worth it.
Where to stay in Bayswater
Although located in Central London, Bayswater offers plenty of hotels which are low or mid budget. But you can also find a lot of 4-star hotels here, as well. Generally speaking, hotels in Bayswater are cheaper than those in Kensington or the West End. And with a direct connection to Oxford Street and all important sights, Bayswater is surely an area worth choosing when you look for a hotel.
Here is a list of hotels in Bayswater:
Holiday Villa Hotel : this is a 3-star hotel with sensible prices, located close to the tube (Bayswater station) and park. It's just 10 min from West End.
Lords Hotel London : is located close to Bayswater and Queensway tube stations but Paddington is also close by. The park is also close. The prices are low especially if you book in advance. Breakfast is included in the price.
Kensington Court Hotel: is a 2-star hotel, with both shared and private bathrooms. The Bayswater tube station is close by and is also close to Paddington. The family rooms are a good option if you travel with the kids. Breakfast is included in the price and there's free wi-fi within the hotel.
Bayswater Inn Hotel: is a 3-star hotel, located close to Bayswater tube station. Paddington station is also close by. Nothing Hill is within walking distance.
Royal Hyde Park Hotel: is a 2-star hotel, close to Bayswater tube station and Paddington rail station. It rooms offer air conditioning and satellite TV.
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La cubitière est une des pièces constitutives de l'armure, dont le but est la protection du coude.

Ce faisant, la cubitière relie le brassard d'arrière-bras et le brassard d'avant-bras : ce sont des sortes de tuyaux métalliques qui protègent respectivement l'arrière-bras (le haut du bras, ou bras au sens strict) et l'avant-bras, et dont la cubitière forme l'articulation.

On appelle également la cubitière « garde-bras », dont dérive le « grand garde-bras », pièce des armures de joute.

Fonctionnement, en liaison avec l'arrière-bras
Le but de la cubitière est de permettre au bras de se plier. Mais il faut aussi que celui-ci puisse tourner sur lui-même. Pour cela, le brassard (ou « canon ») d'« arrière-bras » est constitué en réalité de deux parties, l'une fixe, et l'autre mobile, dont la bordure fait saillie pour entrer dans la gorge dont est équipée la partie fixe, ce qui solidarise les deux pièces tout en permettant la rotation du bras.

Variantes
La forme de la cubitière a beaucoup évolué avec le temps, ce qui permet d'en déterminer l'époque par l'examen :
 La cubitière apparait dès , sous sa forme la plus primitive : ce n'est alors en effet qu'une simple protection du coude, sorte de cône de fer attaché par des sangles. Ce n'est qu'au  que l'on commence à voir apparaître des cubitières assurant également au coude une protection latérale.
 Dès la fin du , la cubitière prend la forme pointue qui sera la sienne au siècle suivant ;
 Au  : la cubitière, toujours très simple, est en pointe ;
 Lorsqu'arrive la fin du , la cubitière est équipée de grands « ailerons », ou « oreillons » ;
 Au  : les ailerons ont sensiblement diminué de taille, et la cubitière fait appel à des lames articulées ;
 Enfin, sous Louis XIII, lorsque l'armure voit arriver les derniers temps de son utilisation, les ailerons sont réduits à leur plus simple expression, et le brassard d'avant-bras est constitué de lames à recouvrement.

Certaines cubitières avaient même une partie saillante équipée d'un dard.

Oreillons de cubitière
Appelés également « ailerons », ou encore « goussets », les oreillons de cubitière sont une pièce essentielle, puisqu'elle assure la protection latérale du coude. La taille des oreillons vise à assurer cette protection en toutes circonstances, que le bras soit plié ou non.

Cette taille a varié dans le temps, contribuant à aider à la datation des cubitières.

Les oreillons de cubitière ont pu prendre des formes qui n'étaient pas déterminées que par leur fonctionnalité, puisque certains oreillons étaient, par exemple, trilobés.

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by Darrell Proctor
DOE Awards GE Two Projects to Test Hydrogen Combustion
General Electric (GE) has been awarded two projects from the U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE) as it continues to develop and test equipment and systems needed for hydrogen combustion in gas turbines.
GE on May 25 announced the proposals, which were selected by DOE's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, are worth more than $12 million. GE on Wednesday said the work will "accelerate the path towards a a 100% hydrogen combustion future."
The projects are among continuing work by GE to support hydrogen combustion. The company recently announced the first hydrogen burn with GE's H-Class turbine at the Long Ridge Energy Terminal, a large multimodal facility in Hannibal, Ohio. Long Ridge, located on the border of Ohio and West Virginia, entered commercial operation in October 2021.
"We applaud the DOE's leadership, commitment and investment in hydrogen combustion," said Jeffrey Goldmeer, Emergent Technologies Director at GE Gas Power. "The investments the agency is making will help us accelerate the development and testing of retrofittable F-class combustion systems capable of operation on 100% hydrogen using a combination of micro mixer and axial fuel staging technologies."
This GE Research Combustion, or GRC, test cell is among 10 such units being used by the company for advanced combustion research and development at GE's Research Combustion Laboratory in Niskayuna, New York. Courtesy: GE
DOE Funding
GE's projects are among six proposals that would receive a total of $25 million in federal funding that was announced by the DOE last week. GE on Wednesday said the awards "represent another key milestone in GE's efforts to advance hydrogen technologies for gas turbines and combined cycle power plants, which will help achieve significant reductions in carbon emissions."
The April commissioning of Long Ridge opened the door to a demonstration of the first advanced class hydrogen-burning power plant. Long Ridge is powered by a GE 7HA.02 gas turbine, which can burn up to 20% hydrogen by volume in the gas stream initially, with GE's technology roadmap developed to burn more hydrogen over time.
GE is researching high hydrogen combustion through its Gas Power business and its Research Lab, with the Gas Power engineering team working in Greenville, South Carolina. The Research Lab is located in Niskayuna, New York. GE said the engineering groups have "decades of hydrogen experience and [utilize] fully capable build-and-test facilities for studying hydrogen combustion and flame characteristics."
Keith McManus, who leads the Combustion Team at GE Research and is leading GE Research's project, said advancing the integration of hydrogen would increase power plant efficiency.
"As everyone close to hydrogen technology knows, the technical challenges are considerable when you're talking about being able to run a turbine on 100% hydrogen. Having worked on hydrogen combustion technologies for many years, we are aware of the many challenges and have made considerable progress over time," said McManus. "Working in cooperation with the DOE, we're confident we can make even more strides that get us closer to 100%."
Research Division Project
GE on Wednesday said the Research division's project totals close to $7 million. The group is studying the operation of hydrogen-fueled turbine components on special rigs in its combustion test facility in Niskayuna. The group will examine how gas turbine efficiency can be improved for both simple- and combined-cycle power generation applications.
GE Gas Power's award, totaling nearly $6 million, "will focus on the study of highly reactive hydrogen fuels and addressing the challenges associated with this type of combustion dynamics," according to GE, which said that as part of that program, the project team will develop and test gas turbine components with natural gas-hydrogen fuel mixtures and up to 100% hydrogen.
The DOE and GE have collaborated over the past several years to research and develop combustion solutions for more sustainable power generation. GE's DLN2.6e combustion system, which is standard on current GE HA gas turbines, was developed as part of the DOE's High Hydrogen Turbine program.
The technology has enabled the DLN 2.6e combustion system to operate on blends of natural gas and hydrogen. GE said it has developed a "technology roadmap to achieve 100% hydrogen in this platform in the next decade." The company on Wednesday said it has more than eight million operating hours on hydrogen and similar low-BTU fuels from more than 100 units.
—Darrell Proctor is a senior associate editor for POWER (@POWERmagazine).
#DOE #natural gas #awards #GE #hydrogen #gas turbines #research and development #R&D
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