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Q: Another RPi idiot who can't understand cron Me big dum nooby, no grok cron, pleez you fix brain.
From the pi home directory, I type:
crontab -e

And at the bottom of the file I add a line:
*/5 * * * * date "+(0 6) %H:%M %Z" >> /home/pi/scripts/scripts.log

according to instructions I've read elsewhere while thrashing about on the Web; which I take to mean that every five minutes the system date will be printed to scripts.log.  I did add a blank line after this, saved and exited nano, and got the message "crontab: installing new crontab".
I waited, and nothing happened.  I went into raspi-config, set the time zone, and rebooted, though that shouldn't matter since it's supposed to run every 5 minutes, not at a specific time.  Yes, I created a scripts directory... after the third try... but still nothing.  No output at the command line, nothing in the scripts directory, no error messages.
Sorry to rehash what's been covered before, but the threads I've read are all in the context of some specific project, and I don't know enough yet to separate out the info I'm looking for.  I just want something, anything, to work using cron, then I'll think about the next thing to screw up.
My abject gratitude and a hollow promise to buy you a beer.
EDIT:  Thanks for the referral to another thread, but now I'm confused even more.  What script am I supposed to be running?  Do commands have to be part of some file, rather than executed directly as if they're typed on the command line?  (I hope that makes sense.)  Are the lines that start with env >/tmp/test.sh.dummy supposed to be in the script file with the date command, or part of the crontab file?
EDIT 2:  OK, so I've RTFM'ed on the Web for several hours, and now I understand that cron only runs scripts.  I was laboring under the assumption that it was a sort of "batch file," where commands would be as they would be typed at the command line and executed in the same way.
Let's forget the damn "date" thing, I just want to get this to work at all.  I've typed on the command line:
echo "This is a test."

That worked just as I expected.  Then I created a shell file, in the scripts directory in the pi directory, called firstscript.sh.  It reads as follows:
#!/bin/bash
echo "This is a test."

On the command line, I typed:
sudo chmod +x /home/pi/scripts/firstscript.sh

In the cron table, I've entered the line:
* */2 * * * /home/pi/scripts/firstscript.sh

...With a carriage-return at the end.  This is after all the commented lines.  There was no #! (hashbang?) at the beginning of the file, so I did not add one.  Saved this, got the response crontab: installing new crontab.
If I understand this correctly, it should run every two minutes.  Waited 10 minutes.  Rebooted, waited another 10.  Tried the same, with the command in the crontab line changed to just ./firstscript.sh.  Bupkus.
Forgive the long-windedness of this, I just don't know enough about what's going on to know which details are relevant.

A: Me big dum ekspurt, pleez me fix own brain.
I just figured out what the problem is. I've even seen this before, and I really should have recognized this problem when I saw it again.
Quoting the crontab(5) man page:

Percent-signs (%) in the command, unless escaped with backslash (\),
  will be changed into newline characters, and all data after the first
  % will be sent to the command as standard input.

The % characters in the arguments to the date command are being intercepted by the cron daemon, and changed into newlines. This is creating an invalid command. You need to change this:
*/5 * * * * date "+(0 6) %H:%M %Z" >> /home/pi/scripts/scripts.log

to this:
*/5 * * * * date "+(0 6) \%H:\%M \%Z" >> /home/pi/scripts/scripts.log

and it should work.
As I mentioned previously in comments, the command in a crontab line does not need to be a shell script. It can be any command that you can execute from a shell prompt, except that it's run in a restricted environment. But in some cases, including this one, you have to be aware that cron will process the command itself before passing it on to /bin/sh to be executed.
Replacing the date command by a shell script that does the same thing would have worked (as long as the script name doesn't include any % characters), but it's not necessary.

A: You can Google the following steps:

*

*Create a shell script.

*Make sure the script has an appropriate hashbang on the first line.

*Mark the script executable.

*Try executing it on the command line.

*If it works, add it to your crontab.

EDIT:
I have tested and confirmed the OP's findings. I have also tested and confirmed my method shown above.

OP's Method:
Add command to crontab:

Produces no results:

Method listed above:
1. Create a shell script.
2. Make sure the script has an appropriate hashbang on the first line.

3. Mark the script executable.

4. Try executing it on the command line. (It worked...)
5. If it works, add it to your crontab.

And the results were as expected:


For nearly everyone, it's time to dump Java. Once promising, it has outlived its usefulness in the browser, and has become a nightmare that delights cyber-criminals at the expense of computer users.
Sun Microsystems released Java in 1995 as a technology for building applications that could run on any platform, including Windows, Macintosh and Linux. In its heyday, major browsers embraced Java for running applets within pages. All anyone needed was a browser plug-in for executing programs.
Today, that plug-in has become a top security risk, along with Adobe Flash. Partly to blame for the problem is Oracle, which acquired Sun and its invention in 2009. The database vendor has heightened the risk by failing to launch timely patches.
The latest security meltdown is a case in point. Despite being warned in April of critical vulnerabilities, Oracle did not get around to releasing an emergency patch until last week, after reports that cyber-criminals were exploiting the flaws. Security Explorations, the Polish firm that first reported the vulnerabilities to Oracle, later said the patch contained a flaw that could be used to circumvent the fix.
In the meantime, criminals are having a field day. Atif Mushtaq, security researcher at FireEye, says the number of computers infected with malware exploiting the flaws is growing. As of Tuesday, up to a quarter-million computers had been infected. Hackers are at an advantage because computers users are laggards when it comes to applying Java patches. Up to 60 percent of Java installations are never updated to the latest version, according to security vendor Rapid7.
Over the just-past Labor Day weekend, the SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center and Websense reported finding separate phishing campaigns trying to lure people to malicious sites capable of exploiting the vulnerabilities. SANS discovered link-carrying emails that copied a recent Microsoft message about service agreement changes. Websense found emails disguised as order verification messages from Amazon.
Security experts rate the latest flaws as critical, because hackers can use them to commandeer a computer and take whatever data they want. Risking that kind of damage for a technology with little purpose makes no sense.
Those who are using a Java application, should run it in a dedicated browser that's used for nothing else, Patrik Runald, director of security research at Websense, says. Another browser should be used for daily Web surfing. "I've run a browser with Java disabled for years," he said.
Supporters once believed that Java would play a significant role in running Web applications. That never happened. Instead, browsers became the operating system for the Web. "(Java) never took off the way it was anticipated," Runald said.
So the verdict is clear. Disable Java plug-ins in all browsers, whether Firefox, Chrome or Internet Explorer. Java's glory days are over and it's time to pull the plug.


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Mum who gave birth to baby on the toilet thought she was 'just bloated from IBS'
A woman thought she was bloated from her IBS — but realised she was pregnant when she gave birth in the toilet.
Samantha Vallance, 32, was in bed with husband Richard at their house in Doncaster in the early hours of Monday morning when she felt a sudden pain in her side.
She got up to go to the bathroom, but then shouted that she was having a baby to her husband — who thought it was a joke at first, Yorkshire Live reports.
Samantha ended up going through the entire birthing process in the bathroom as there was no time for ambulance crews to get there in time.
New dad Richard, 39, said: "We were in bed in the early hours and Sam got up to go to the toilet.
"She said she felt a sharp pain down below, next thing she is shouting me saying she was having a baby. I was stunned.
"Sure enough when I got there baby was starting to show so I quickly got some towels and caught the baby coming out.
"It was a very rapid birth. It was too late to ring an ambulance so I checked the babies breathing and it appeared healthy and normal.
"I helped Sam lay down and then kept checking on the baby while I rang the ambulance."
Shortly after that, the ambulance arrived, and mum and baby were taken to hospital to get checked over.
Richard said that there were no signs that Samantha was pregnant, she had been a bit bloated but they just put it down to Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) which can cause gastrointestinal discomfort.
She was also on a contraception injection at the time.
Richard added: "In the few moments it had taken between her calling me and then seeing the baby I didn't believe her.
"I thought it might be a joke at first."
The couple haven't been able to decide a name for their new addition yet which is their fifth child together.
After the birth, the family have been inundated with donations to help them since they were so surprised by the arrival.
They have been donated hats, bibs, coats, shoes, bottles, cribs, blankets, nappies and milk to name just a few of the items they have received.
Richard added: "To be honest we were so relieved as we had nothing.
"It makes you feel good that there are good people out there in these troubling times."
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Client Winningly Serves Comeuppance at Bronx DMV!
Bronx DMV has a designated room for clients to meet and consult with their attorneys. Picture depicts door that leads into attorney room. Yesterday, I learned a new word: Coprogenics, compulsive and obsessive poo smearing. It is used when describing autistic kids but some adults have it too.
Apparently a customer was upset at his guilty finding at the Bronx Traffic Violations Bureau and likely was equally upset with his lawyer. Client must have considered appealing but after a deep discharge of his thoughts decided against such actions. The client had no access to Yelp or Facebook to write a negative review of his/her lawyer so the client resorted to a more traditional means of criticism. Attorney room is shared by 5 regular lawyers and numerous visiting lawyers. The object of this feculence remains unknown.


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The George Bacon residence (1906) has the distinction of having been designed by Henry Bacon. Henry Bacon, the builder's first cousin, is one of the most famous 20th century American architects, specifically noted for his work in the Classical Revival style. Bacon is best remembered for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., which he designed in 1911. The Bacon home reflects the architect's fascination with Greek and Roman temple design with the addition of Palladian overtones that some describe as "Jeffersonian Classicism." Jefferson's influence can be attributed to the architect's familiarity with eastern Virginia, where this style is much more common than in the Pacific Northwest.
The George Bacon home is a rectangular two and one half-story building with a wood frame. The massive front portico supported by four square columns, that strongly suggests a Greek temple, is the homes central feature. Other classical features include a semicircular window in the center of the pediment, small, straight-topped windows, and the dentils (small block-like projections) below the eaves. Also worth noting is the handsome front door, capped by a semicircular fanlight.
This attractive and unusual home was built for George Bacon, who came to Whatcom in 1889 as a young man of 23. After becoming a successful real estate dealer he opened a farm and a home loan business in partnership with Harry Ells. Bacon was also active in politics, serving as a city councilman during the 1890's. He later managed the Bellingham Bay Improvement Company.
Bacon's successful business ventures allowed him to build his new house, using the plans his cousin drew. Soon after its completion in 1906, his partner Harry Ells built a house of similar size on the adjoining lot. The home remained in the Bacon family until 1938, the year after George Bacon's death. From 1972 until 1990 the house was owned by the Archdiocese of Seattle, for use as a home for "predelinquent" boys by Catholic Family and Children Services. It has since returned to private ownership.
For more information see the George H. Bacon House National Register of Historic Places Nomination.
George Bacon House (2001 Eldridge Avenue)Currently selected
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"Dancing with the Stars" Protesters Charged
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(LOS ANGELES) — Sam Sotoodeh and Barzeen Soroudi, the two men who were arrested after rushing the stage to protest Olympian Ryan Lochte during a live performance of Dancing with the Stars, have been charged.
According to documents obtained by ABC Radio, the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office filed criminal complaints against Sotoodeh, 59, and Soroudi, 25, charging each man with leaving a spectator area and entering a stage and interfering with a performance — both Los Angeles Municipal Code violations.
The maximum each could face if convicted is six months in jail and a one thousand dollar fine.
The pair, who screamed "Liar" and tore open their shirts to reveal the name Lochte with a slash through it, told ABC News after their arrests that their intention was not to hurt Lochte. They said they just believed he embarrassed Americans by exaggerating a story about being robbed at gunpoint in Rio de Janeiro during the Summer Olympics.
The protesters' arraignment is set for October 4.
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You might be surprised to learn that not all windows are made equal. While people tend to focus on crucial elements such as the double or triple glazing and the locks, what your window frames are actually made of is equally important.
If you are searching for thermally efficient and durable windows, considering aluminium should certainly be on your list of options.
Here are just some of the excellent benefits of aluminium windows and bifold doors.
When you're making a big investment in new windows, you definitely want them to last. Aluminium is not only lightweight, it's long lasting too. You should expect your windows to last at least between 20 and 30 years and what's more they are pretty easy to maintain.
Condensation on windows and in your home can be a pest. Not only does it look unsightly but it can also cause damage over time, lower the temperature in any room and contribute to health issues such as asthma. Condensation occurs when water vapour comes into contact with warm surfaces. Aluminium windows have tight seals and are resistant against all weather conditions – that means you're less likely to suffer from condensation, even if areas such as the kitchen.
The one thing you'll notice about aluminium compared to uPVC is that they are a lot thinner and lighter. Some people think that this excludes them from taking triple glazing. Nothing could be further from the truth. You can get very low u-values with aluminium frames and that will undoubtedly improve the level of insulation that you get in your home.
Another myth that attaches to aluminium windows is that they can corrode. Again this is not true and you should expect your windows to have a pretty long lifespan. There's little to do in the way of maintenance, whether you're having windows installed or something like a bi-fold door. The windows come with exceptional finishes that protect them from the harshest climates. That also makes them a lot more versatile than standard uPVC windows.
Surely aluminium costs a lot more than the cheaper uPVC? While the initial installation cost might be slightly more expensive, the truth is that the insulating properties of aluminium windows will save you money on your utility bills over the long-term, particularly when compared to both wood and uPVC.
Changing windows is not something that we do every day, of course. It's also a pretty sizeable investment for any household. If you are looking for something that is versatile, looks great and delivers exceptional levels of thermal protection, then it's well worth a closer look at.
The good news is that aluminium windows and bifold doors can be built and tailored to any location. It makes sense to look at this option if you want low maintenance windows that are built to last a very long time.


Situated on the Mighty Murray River in the north west of Victoria, Swan Hill is bathed in sunshine most of the year.
The autumn weather has to be experienced, warm days in the mid 20's and mild nights make this region a very attractive destination as evident by the number of visitors and holidaymaker who visit Swan Hill each year.
This Murray River weather is perfect for swimming, golf, bowls, fishing and more. You can enjoy a Mediterranean climate with low humidity and high sunlight hours (more than Queensland's Gold Coast). The average daily temperature for summer in the Swan Hill region is 28° Celsius and in winter 15.7° Celsius.
The earliest frost is usually in May and the latest in September. Average rainfall for the area is 345mm per annum with almost 300 rain fee days each year.
Come and experience the local weather at Swan Hill in a healthy lifestyle as you relax in the comfort at Jacaranda Holiday Units. Enjoy long warm summers and crisp clear winters.
Quite simply, the local weather when staying at the Jacaranda Motel can only be described as perfect!


Budget airline, Flybe, advertised for actors to masquerade as passengers to avoid a £280,000 penalty fine for having too many empty seats.
The airline also put on extra flights, offered free trips and put its own staff on stand-by to fly in the event that seats were not filled.
Flybe placed an advert on an actors' website for 'extras' to fill empty seats and warned staff to prepare to fly to Ireland.
The Exeter-based company was forced to make the desperate move after failing to reach an agreement with Norwich International Airport on the terms of a deal concerning passenger numbers.
The episode has prompted criticism from environmentalists over unnecessary flights but Flybe passed the buck and blamed airport bosses, saying they were 'intransigent and greedy'.
The terms of the deal stated Norwich Airport would charge Flybe £280,000 if it did not fly 15,000 passengers on the Norwich to Dublin route during 2007-2008. The airline was 172 passengers short by the deadline, prompting the unusual move to commandeer actors.
Flybe said it would offset additional carbon emissions and had not needed to use actors to fill seats.


I'm back. In fact, I've been back for more than a week now. I've been back from several days spent in western North Carolina. It's beautiful country out there, and, where I was staying, it was beautiful country without cell phone signal or Internet connection. It was a week-long digital sabbath, or, if you prefer, a week-long digital detox. It was a good week. I didn't find myself. I didn't discover the meaning of life. I had no epiphanies, and I didn't necessarily feel more connected to nature. But it was a good week.
I know that reflection pieces on technology sabbaths, digital detoxes, unplugging, and disconnecting are a dime a dozen. Slightly less common are pieces critical of the disconnectionists, as Nathan Jurgenson has called them, but these aren't hard to come by either. Others, like Evgeny Morozov, have contributed more nuanced evaluations. Not only has the topic been widely covered, if you're reading this blog I'd guess that you're likely to be more or less sympathetic to these practices, even if you harbor some reservations about how they are sometimes presented and implemented. All of that to say, I've hesitated to add yet another piece on the experience of disconnection, especially since I'd be (mostly) preaching to the choir. But … I'm going to try your patience and offer just a few thoughts for your consideration.
First, I think the week worked well because its purpose wasn't to disconnect from the Internet or digital devices; being disconnected was simply a consequence of where I happened to be. I suspect that when one explicitly sets out to disconnect, the psychology of the experience works against you. You're disconnecting in order to be disconnected because you assume or hope it will yield some beneficial consequences. The potential problem with this scenario is that "being connected" is still framing, and to some degree defining, your experience. When you're disconnected, you're likely to be thinking about your experience in terms of not being connected. Call it the disconnection paradox.
This might mean, for example, that you're overly aware of what you're missing out on, thus distracted from what you hoped to achieve by disconnecting. It might also lead to framing your experience negatively in terms of what you didn't do–which isn't ultimately very helpful–rather than positively in terms of what you accomplished. In the worst cases, it might also lead to little more than self-congratulatory or self-loathing status updates.
In my recent case, I didn't set out to be disconnected. In fact, I was rather disappointed that I'd be unable to continue writing about some of the themes I'd been recently addressing. So while I was carrying on with my disconnected week, I didn't think at all about being connected or disconnected; it was simply a matter of fact. And, upon reflection, I think this worked in my favor.
This observation does raise a practical problem, however. How can one disconnect, if so desired, while avoiding the disconnection paradox? Two things come to mind. As Morozov pointed out in his piece on the practice of disconnection, there's little point in disconnecting if it amounts to coming up for breath before plunging back into the digital flood. Ultimately, then, the idea is to so order our digital practices that enforced periods of disconnection are unnecessary.
But what if, for whatever reason, this is not a realistic goal? At this point we run up against the limits of individual actions and need to think about how to effect structural and institutional changes. Alongside those longterm projects, I'd suggest that making the practice of disconnection regular and habitual will eventually overcome the disconnection paradox.
Second consideration, obvious though it may be: it matters what you do with the time that you gain. For my part, I was more physically active than I would be during the course of an ordinary week, much more so. I walked, often; I swam; and I did a good bit of paddling too. Not all of this activity was pleasurable as it transpired. Some of it was exhausting. I was often tired and sore. But I welcomed all of it because it relieved the accumulated stress and tension that I tend to carry around on my back, shoulders, neck, and jaw, much of it a product of sitting in front of a computer or with a book for extended periods of time. It was a good week because at the end of it, my body felt as good as it had in a long time, even if it was a bit battered and ragged.
"[T]he tremendous accumulation of tiredness, which must be the common property of all our contemporaries"–indeed, and to that we might add the tremendous accumulation of stress and anxiety. The Internet, always-on connectivity, and digital devices have not of themselves caused the tiredness, stress, and anxiety, but they haven't helped either. In certain cases they've aggravated the problem. And, I'd suggest, they have done so regardless of what, specifically, we have been doing. Rather the aggravation is in part a function of how our bodies engage with these tools. Whether we spend a day in front of a computer perusing cat videos, playing Minecraft, writing a research paper, or preparing financial reports makes little difference to our bodies. It is in each case a sedentary day, and these are, as we all know, less than ideal for our bodies. And, because so much of our well-being depends on our bodies, the consequences extend to the whole of our being.
I know countless critics since the dawn of industrial society have lamented the loss of regular physical activity, particularly activity that unfolded in "nature." Long before the Internet, such complaints were raised about the factory and the cubicle. It is also true that many of these calls for robust physical activity have been laden with misguided assumptions about the nature of masculinity and worse. But none of this changes the stubborn, intractable fact that we are embodied creatures and the concrete physicality of our nature is subject to certain limits and thrives under certain conditions and not others.
One further point about my experience: some of it was moderately risky. Not extreme sports-risky or risky bordering on foolish, you understand. More like "watch where you step there might be a rattle snake" risky (I avoided one by two feet or so) or "take care not to slip off the narrow trail, that's a 300 foot drop" risky (I took no such falls, happily). I'm not sure what I can claim for all of this, but I would be tempted to make a Merleau-Ponty-esque argument about the sort of engagement with our surroundings that navigating risk requires of us. I'd modestly suggest, on a strictly anecdotal basis, that there is something mentally and physically salubrious about safely navigating the experience of risk. While we're at, it plug-in the "troubles" (read, sometimes risky, often demanding activities) that philosopher Albert Borgmann encourages us to accept in principle.
Of course, it must immediately be added that this is a first-world-problem par excellence. Around the globe there are people who have no choice but to constantly navigate all sorts of risks to their well-being, and not of the moderate variety either. It must then seem perverse to suggest that some of us might need to occasionally elect to encounter risk, but only carefully so. Indeed, but such might nonetheless be the case. Certainly, it is also true that all of us are at risk everyday when walking a city street, or driving a car, or flying in a plane, and so on. My only rejoinder is again to lean on my experience and suggest that the sort of physical activity I engaged in had the unexpected effect of calling on and honing aspects of my body and mind that are not ordinarily called into service by my typical day-to-day experience, and this was a good thing. The accustomed risks we thoughtlessly take, crossing a street say, precisely because they are a routinized part of our experience do not call forth the same mental and bodily resources.
A final thought. Advocating disconnection sometimes raises the charges of elitism–Sherry Turkle strolling down Cape Cod beaches and what not. I more or less get where this is coming from, I think. Disconnection is often construed as a luxury experience. Who gets to placidly stroll the beaches of Cape Cod anyway? And, indeed, it is an unfortunate feature of modernity's unfolding that what we eliminate from our lives, often to make room for one technology or another, we then end up compensating for with another technology because we suddenly realized that what we eliminated might have been useful and health-giving.
It was Neil Postman, I believe, who observed that having eliminated walking by the adoption of the automobile and the design of our public spaces, we then invented a machine on which we could simulate walking in order to maintain a minimal level of fitness. Postman's chief focus, if I remember the passage correctly, was to point out the prima facie absurdity of the case, but I would add an economic consideration: in this pattern of technological displacement and replacement, the replacement is always a commodity. No one previously paid to walk, but the treadmill and the gym membership are bought and sold. So it is now with disconnection, it is often packaged as a commodified experience that must be bought, and the costs of disconnection (monetary and otherwise) are for some too hight to bear. This is unfortunate if not simply tragic.
But it seems to me that the answer is not to dismiss the practice of disconnecting as such or efforts to engage more robustly with the wider world. If these practices are, even in small measure, steps toward human flourishing, then our task is to figure out how we can make them as widely available as possible.
I've disconnected from the Internet for the simple reason, if that's what it is, that I value my eye-sight, which, at thirty-three years old and the result of eye surgery some years ago, is beginning to give out, ever so slightly. Using the computer in any way, shape, or form is not possible for me and I don't have an e-mail address anymore. What I'll miss, though, are the comments and conversations around these topics of technology, humane limitations, and so on. I'm, of course, not comfortable leaving my full name, home address and telephone in a comment box, so, if you can think of some way of keeping in touch outside of e-mail and the Internet, please let me know. If you have a post-office box address, or some work address, I could send a hand-written letter your way. It's been a pleasure, as I wrote, and I"ll miss the conversation. Still, the time saved will be spent re-vivifying my neighbourhood and learning to love my neighbours; my in-laws have no trouble living without e-mail, so it can be done by most people who do not or cannot scare up the means to get online or see no reason to do so.
Very sorry to hear about your eyesight. I'm a bit hesitant to post address, etc. too, but if you could have someone email me on your behalf at LMSacasas@gmail.com, I'd be happy to get you a mailing address.
have you ever tried centering prayer?
Sounds like a nice week!
I suppose if you had the time and really wanted to, you could have continued some of your writing projects on a non-internet connected laptop, or in a paper notebook. Clearly you couldn't post to the blog, but you could probably get some useful work done- reading and writing, both.
I recently decided to deactivate my facebook account, just as an experiment. It's given me a bit more free time so far, but hasn't resulted in much more physical activity. I've noticed the disconnection paradox, myself, when on road trips without internet access. The disconnection almost feels like a given.
There's also a feeling of being sucked into the online world. The outside is always available through the front door, but something about the internet often draws me to stay inside.
Hi Michael, I just discovered your blog. I appreciate your thoughtful approach, but I suspect we'll have significant differences from what I can tell. I'm a farm boy from the Midwest, now living in LA. I'm not a romantic about nature or its effects. My father wasn't either, not really anyone else I knew from his generation was that I ever knew. We never went camping, and I may never go camping.
In fact, I'm not a romantic about anything, and think it harmful. Or maybe I should say I'm a recovering romantic. I think we're all romantics by default. I'm not saying you are a romantic, but at least I'm an anti-romantic. Take the hiking in the woods you described. My body gets tired and sore from office work and reading books at home. I found a standing desk and walking in place some of the day much better for my back. But the best thing is massage therapy. I've been going to the same woman for seven years now who must be the best therapist in LA county. It is a very deep muscle therapy. For me that is better than any activity I can ever do to put my tired and stressed muscles back into shape. The service the therapist provides is most certainly "packaged as a commodified experience", but how exactly that is bad I don't see. How that is "disconnected" I don't see. She's like a sister to me. I don't see any of this as unfortunate, tragic, or disconnected. I think we too easily accept romantic viewpoints.
On risk, I absolutely agree that risk is necessary and good. My main risks are financial, as were my father's on managing his farm. He wanted more for his family that the average, and he worked harder and risked more. I'm glad he did. I may have an office job, but I work harder and risk more than most on the set of things I think are important. I think and by now see my efforts will redound to those I love and those I care about. In fact, many men do have jobs where we must be good at managing risks of all sorts. It isn't just the financial folks that do this. Many may not vocalize this, but many of us see the risk management as an upside to a job. I do. Just to be clear, I'm in no way saying people like me risk as much as those who perform physical tasks such as the farmer, those in the military, firemen, or construction workers. I'm just saying the place of the risk element is the same.
Thanks for your comment. I apologize for the slow response time. Blogging is what I do when I have some spare time to devote to it, and, lately, the spare time has not been forthcoming. In any case, I appreciate your taking the time to share your thoughts, even if, especially if, they are in fact significantly different from mine.
Just a couple of thoughts in reply. I don't think I would describe myself as an "anti-romantic," but I do strive to avoid any romanticism in my thinking about technology and its consequences. In this particular post I was especially conscious of the temptations to romanticize nature, disconnection, etc. Consequently, I tried to make rather modest claims for own experience and ground them, so far as they could be grounded in something beyond my own experience, in tangible realities such as our embodied condition.
That said, there is no one generic version of "embodied existence." Age, health, injury, etc.–all of these matter. I certainly wouldn't claim that everyone would benefit from an experience similar to mine. For some, it might be downright foolish. Clearly, you've taken some measures to look after the well-being of your body. And I certainly wouldn't suggest that your relationship with your therapist is inauthentic or whatever else.
I don't if this might come off as romantic or not, but I do think, based on my limited experience and on a variety of studies (e.g., http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494409000838) that there is something valuable about being in "nature." (I put quotation marks around nature because I realize that it is a contested term.) When folks spent a good deal of their time outdoors, it would not make sense for them to romanticize being outdoors or to seek it out as something novel. Rather, it was taken for granted. It would only be after most of our work and play was moved indoors that we might begin to feel or sense that something was perhaps lacking.
Regarding risk, there are certainly a variety of forms risk might take in our experience. The risk you describe is certainly real and consequential. I may not have done a very good job of articulating it, but I had a more specific kind of risk in mind in the post above. Physical risk perhaps, as a opposed to emotional risk, or financial risk, or risks to reputation, etc. Now, like you, I want to distance my sense of risk from that of those who put their lives in peril as a matter of course for the work they do. The more moderate, physical risk I encountered simply had the effect of enlivening some aspects of my person that would otherwise be dormant, and I found this to be generally conducive to my well-being. Perhaps other forms of risk do much the same thing; I'm not sure, they seem different in their kind and effects.
Again, thanks for reading and commenting. I always appreciate thoughtful readers who encourage me to think again about what I've written.


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California CCAs solicit info on long duration storage, with possible procurement launch this summer
/in Community Choice in the News /by leora
Utility Dive
A group of 11 community choice aggregators (CCA) in California last week issued a request for information (RFI) for storage technologies with a minimum duration of eight hours. The CCAs are looking at long-duration storage for long-term resource planning, according to the RFI. State regulators have found that meeting electric sector greenhouse gas reduction targets could require around 1 GW of long-duration storage in play by 2026.
Depending on the responses to the RFI, some of the CCAs might launch a request for offers for long-duration storage, potentially as soon as this summer, CB Hall, senior power procurement manager at MCE, told Utility Dive. With the RFI, "we wanted to give the market a heads up that certain CCAs may be ready to move quicker than others," Hall said.
The RFI is a first step in identifying resources that could meet these needs. The 11 CCAs — which include MCE, the Clean Power Alliance of Southern California, CleanPowerSF and Silicon Valley Clean Energy — are open "to a wide variety of proposals," the request says.
But there are some requirements. Specifically, the CCAs are looking for technologies with a minimum eight-hour duration that can interconnect directly into either the transmission or distribution system and participate in the state's electricity markets. In addition, they should qualify as "resource adequacy" resources with the CPUC and California Independent System Operator.
Responses to the RFI are due July 1.
"With the long duration storage RFI, CCAs are starting early as these are long-lead-time resources. By collaborating in this way CCAs can optimize their resource planning and procurement efforts, achieve economies of scale, and save ratepayer costs," Girish Balachandran, CEO of Silicon Valley Clean Energy, said in an emailed statement.
Read more here: https://www.utilitydive.com/news/california-ccas-solicit-info-on-long-duration-storage-with-possible-procur/579505/
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Selma, North Carolina facts for kids
Selma, North Carolina
"A Charming Place to Be"
"The Crossroads of Tradition and Innovation"
Location of Selma, North Carolina
Coordinates: 35°32′13″N 78°17′5″W / 35.53694°N 78.28472°W / 35.53694; -78.28472Coordinates: 35°32′13″N 78°17′5″W / 35.53694°N 78.28472°W / 35.53694; -78.28472
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4.80 sq mi (12.43 km2)
174 ft (53 m)
UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
Selma is a town in Johnston County, North Carolina, United States. In 2010, the population was 6,073, and as of 2018 the estimated population was 6,913. Selma is part of the Raleigh-Durham-Cary Combined Statistical Area. The area has a population over 1.7 million residents, though the town of Selma is able to maintain its rural character. The Everitt P. Stevens House, located in Selma, was the site of the last Grand Review of the Confederate Army held on April 6, 1865, after its defeat at the Battle of Bentonville.
Designated routes and highways
Passenger rail service
Commercial rail service
Selma is located at 35°32′13″N 78°17′5″W / 35.53694°N 78.28472°W / 35.53694; -78.28472 (35.536982, -78.284642).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 3.2 square miles (8.3 km2), all of it land.
1890 527 105.9%
2019 (est.) 7,101 16.9%
As of the census of 2000, there were 5,914 people, 2,254 households, and 1,480 families residing in the town. The population density was 1,830.6 people per square mile (706.9/km2). There were 2,515 housing units at an average density of 778.5 per square mile (300.6/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 47.09% White, 40.33% Black, 0.57% Indian, 0.19% Asian, 0.08% Pacific Islander, 9.89% from other races, and 1.84% from two or more races. Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 19.02% of the population.
In the town, the population was spread out, with 27.9% under the age of 18, 11.6% from 18 to 24, 28.6% from 25 to 44, 20.4% from 45 to 64, and 11.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 31 years. For every 100 females, there were 94.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 88.8 males.
The median income for a household in the town was $23,856 and the median income for a family was $32,430. Males had a median income of $26,886 versus $21,453 for females. The per capita income for the town was $12,101. About 23.1% of families and 30.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 45.9% of those under age 18 and 22.1% of those age 65 or over.
Approximately 36% of people in Selma are affiliated with a religion. The predominant religion in Selma is Christianity, with the largest numbers of adherents being Baptist (15.64%) and Methodist (6.02%). Others include Pentecostal (4.02%), Roman Catholic (2.52%) and Presbyterian (1.46%).
Johnston County Airport (IATA: JNX, ICAO: KJNX, FAA LID: JNX) is a general aviation airport located approximately 7 miles west of Selma in Smithfield.
Raleigh-Durham International Airport (IATA: RDU, ICAO: KRDU, FAA LID: RDU) is the region's primary airport, located approximately 40 miles northwest of Selma, between Raleigh and Durham.
Interstate Highway
United States Highways:
US 301 (named Pollock Street)
North Carolina Highways:
NC 39
Amtrak's Palmetto and Carolinian passenger trains stop at the historic Selma Union Depot. They offer service to Charlotte, New York City, Savannah, and intermediate points.
Norfolk Southern Railway
The Johnston County Area Transit System (JCATS) is a coordinated transit system that provides transportation services in Selma and throughout Johnston County.
A CSX freight train passes the Selma Union Depot.
On May 1, 1867, lots were sold around a newly established station on the North Carolina Railroad. From those lots, the town was built and considered a railroad town for many decades. Selma was officially chartered as a town on February 11, 1873. The town recently renovated its 1924 passenger depot, which has Amtrak service. The town is also home to the Mitchener Station, which was built in 1855 and thought to be the oldest surviving train station in North Carolina. After Interstate 95 was built in the late 1950s, the town experienced growth due to its location next to the interstate. Today, there are many hotels and restaurants located in the area thanks to the traffic from I-95.
The Downtown Selma Historic District, Noah Edward Edgerton House, Richard B. Harrison School, Nowell-Mayerburg-Oliver House, William E. Smith House, Everitt P. Stevens House, Selma Union Depot, and West Selma Historic District are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Historic Union Station
Max G. Creech Selma Historical Museum
American Music Jubilee/Rudy Theatre
Ice House
Selma is home to two schools within the Johnston County School District:
Selma Elementary School
Selma Middle School
Mitchner University Academy is a private, non-traditional school offering K-12 education.
Myrtle Cagle, pilot and member of Mercury 13 female astronaut program
Seby B. Jones, former mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina
Drique London (born Madrique Sanders), rapper and hip hop artist
Lunsford Richardson, founder of the Vick Chemical Company, maker of cold remedies such as Vick's Cough Drops
Selma, North Carolina Facts for Kids. Kiddle Encyclopedia.


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13th Marine Expeditionary Unit and Boxer Amphibious Ready Group Post Deployment Brief
Col. Anthony M. Henderson, Commanding Officer of the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, addresses the Marines and Sailors aboard the USS New Orleans on April 4, 2016. https://news.usni.org/2016/09/12/13th-meu-co-argmeus-key-theater-mobile-forces
The Center for Adaptation and Innovation at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, as a part of its Returning Commander Series, hosted the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) on Thursday, 20 October. Retired Lieutenant General George Flynn introduced Colonel Anthony M. Henderson, commander of the 13th MEU, who presented on the Boxer ARG and 13th MEU's most recent deployment. The Boxer ARG and 13th MEU deployed on 12 February for 213 days, and returned to California on 12 September 2016. The MEU provides a forward deployed, flexible, sea – based Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF) capable of conducting amphibious operations, crisis response and limited contingency operations. They consist of a command element, a reinforced infantry battalion, a composite aviation squadron, and a combat logistics battalion. The MEU is comprised of about 2,100 Marines and Sailors.
The Boxer ARG and 13th MEU conducted multiple sustainment training and operational exercises and supported Freedom of Navigation operations in the Pacific Command – (PACOM)and Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) in, Central Command –(CENTCOM). OIR operations included strike operations by AV-8B Harriers against ISIL targets.
In addition to sustaining ground readiness, aviation readiness was also maintained. Over 6000 flight hours were conducted, which maximized aviation efficiency. As stated by Colonel Henderson, "We have to keep the flight hours going as much as possible, that saves lives." Aircraft were launched simultaneously from two separate regions, which enabled integration between two separate MAGTFs. Unique to this deployment, command and control was maintained across three separate seas.
During its deployment cycle, the 13th MEU also executed several amphibious and expeditionary exercises and operations to include:
− Theater Security Cooperation exercises and amphibious training in Sri Lanka, Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia
− Support to POTUS visit
− A combined amphibious joint forcible entry exercise in Exercise SSANG YONG 16
− Sustainment training
− Security force missions and Joint Theater Cooperation exercises to safeguard US personnel and equipment in support of IMCMEX and Exercise EAGER LION 2016 in Jordan