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The membership of the America the Beautiful for All coalition stretches from the Marianas to Maine, Alaska to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. We are the largest, most diverse coalition of its kind to ever exist in the United States. Last week, 170+ conservation, climate change, and community leaders from across the United States ... Read More "6 Ways to Support the America the Beautiful for All Coalition" »

For like a year we've been sporadically reading the 1980 Barry Malzberg collection The Man Who Loved the Midnight Lady. Today let's finish it up with the final five pieces of fiction in the book, all of them from the period 1977-1980. But first, links to my blog posts on the previous 23 stories in the volume. “On the Air”“Here, for Just a While”“In the Stocks”“The Man Who Married a …

Written by MichaelWell, this post won’t be as long. I’ve given up on this session after reaching what was almost definitely a dead end. And that’s after beating the darn ghost!This will be less of a blow-by-blow of the steps I’ve taken, and more of just a list of failures and frustrations.First, going back to the grave to dig up stuff that was stolen from me results in death, from …

Got back from Ilfracombe just in time for a quick shower and a bite to eat before we all set off for a walk over the hill to The Rock at Georgham. Was sat in the sun drinking a perfect pint of Butty Bach when I got an email from Joel Squires saying that unfortunately he wasn't going to be able to meet up for a bass session this weekend, …

Plans to upgrade access at a Docklands Light railway station in the midst of new housing have been approved by Newham Council. Pontoon Dock station will see two new escalators taking passengers to the station via a mezzanine level in a growing area along the Canning Town to Woolwich Arsenal branch. Looking east along the DLR tracks This stretch has seen thousands of new homes though many vast plots sit …

There is nothing like landing bass on top during October, especially if you are fishing with your son. Jason is home for a couple of weeks. We launched at Duncan Bridge on Smith Lake this past Tuesday morning and fished the main channel north of the Duncan bridge. We were blessed to witness one of the most scenic early morning sunrises ever on Smith Lake. Of course, that is our …

This is a blog post about a series of small, purpose-fit web applications that can be run from your local desktop (or a remote server, if necessary) to visualize geographic data in a map. The first application lets you visualize GeoJSON files, the second SQLite databases containing MBTiles data and the third GeoParquet files. These are tools which were written to address specific use cases for SFO Museum but are …

By Fida TK. The worst part was that he had asked me, easy, without any sort of pressure or anything like that. He said, can I take it all with me, and I said yes, a little stupidly maybe, and so he got my toes and my spleen and my soul in his arms and walked out of my room, and there I was on the bed, a rough-cut blob …

MegalomaniaCame out of Megalopolis feeling a lot of things but what I did not feel was disappointed-- not a bad thing but not necessarily a good thing either. I run hot and cold on Francis Ford Coppola. Thought his first two Godfather films were classically well-written if visually conventional, too-carefully curated portraits of a corrupt American family, thought Apocalypse Now was a vividly directed Vietnam war movie that had little …

In a fast-paced industry like tech, it can be hard to deal with the fear of missing out on important news. But, as many of us know, there’s an absolutely huge amount of information coming in daily, and finding the right time and balance to keep up can be difficult, if not stressful. A classic piece of technology like an RSS feed is a delightful way of taking back ownership …

This map of Overijssel was originally created by Nicolaas ten Have and printed by Frederik de Wit in 1680. Such maps can be useful to understand the location where your ancestor lived. It shows the major roads and rivers. It also shows the jurisdictions, in this case the Land van Vollenhove in blue, Salland in yellow, and Twente in pink. The map shows some local features like noble manors, castles, …

We clipped some things from the Tulsa game to look at the 3-4 defense and what North Texas is doing. Tulsa ran the stuff Tech did — counter, inside zone, and did play-action off of it. There is good and some less-than-good. Here is the youtube if you prefer that.

More on Allen’s case against the US Copyright Office here.

The BBC have produced a number of programmes in the past to help us understand how to engage and think about abstract painting. Here are some Youtube links to two series, Rules of Abstraction and Abstract Artists In Their Own Words. Rules of Abstraction (Approx 6 x15 mins): Abstract Artists In Their Own Words (approx 4×15 mins): I’ve also uploaded three learning resources to this website relating to the theme …

Here’s a round-up of mathematical news stories from last month. Maths Research News A claimed proof has been published by Vigleik Angeltveit and Brendan D. McKay that the Ramsey number R(5,5) is at most 46. More detail can be found in this blog post about the discovery. (via Joshua Cooper) According to this Quanta article, a team of Ukrainian mathematicians have made progress on an old conjecture about solids of …