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Anchorage: Free divers clean up Sand Lake
“We can actually breath about 60% more in terms of volume if we breath in through our belly, then our chest, then into our throat.” – Katya Karankecich
“Fancher says most everyone in the group can hold their breath for at least two minutes. They swim up to 40 feet deep.
“Weak men hate others who accomplish greater feats than their own; strong men are inspired by witnessing greater accomplishments than their own.”
“Weak men hate others who accomplish greater feats than their own; strong men are inspired by witnessing greater accomplishments than their own.”
Power to the Peaceful – Kurt Haskell’s Coronavirus Gym
“No weights with gym closed? Create your own with items you find at home like cement blocks.”
Kurt Haskell during the coronavirus ordeal:
Why English Is Hard To Learn – Poem by James Donovan
So true! There are so many exceptions to the rules, and words are adopted from different European languages.
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(vid) Dr. Mandell: Virus A, B, or C – “Don’t live out of fear. Live out of love!”
“Don’t live out of fear. Instead, live out of love!”
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Perloff cloistering himself to get his book done
Historian James Perloff says he hasn’t done many podcast appearances or blogging lately because “I’m working on a book on 9/11, and I’m finding the only way to get this book done is that you almost have to become a hermit.” – 0:55 of hour 2 Continue reading “Perloff cloistering himself to get his book done”
Do You Make Decisions from Your Head or Your Heart? – Logic & Facts Vs Emotions
The heart is more than a pump, containing brain-like cells. Many emotions and decisions come from the heart, not the brain. So NEVER get a heart transplant!
It’s pretty easy to tell which type I am. How about you?
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Head-locators are categorized differently than heart-locators. Head-locators make decisions based on logic and facts whereas heart-locators make decisions based on their emotions. Do you think from your head or your heart?
(vid) Dr. Berg: The REAL Reason Apple Cider Vinegar Works for Losing Weight
Dr. Berg explains why many people are too alkaline, not too acidic, as is commonly taught.
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(video) Linkin Park: The Making Of ‘Minutes To Midnight’
Minutes to Midnight (2007) – Album #3
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Making Of Minutes To Midnight Subtitulado (HD)
Published on Mar 29, 2013
© 2007 Warner Bros. Records Inc., A Warner Music Group Company
Todos los secretos, todo el proceso y el cambio de la banda en este tercer álbum de estudio, titulado “Minutes To Midnight”
(video) Linkin Park Documentary – ‘Hybrid Theory’ through ‘Living Things’
Linkin Park Documentary – (Hybrid Theory through Living Things)
Published on Aug 8, 2013
RIP Chester…Linkin Park has been my favorite band since 6th grade when Hybrid Theory was the first album I’d ever purchased. In my final semester of college I decided to take an independent study course and produced this video as a tribute. The video discusses the band’s growth from their early years of “Hybrid Theory” through their most recent album “Living Things.” My inspiration came from the deep respect and appreciation I have for the band and their music. Their fearlessness to experiment and grow as musicians regardless of the consequences is a testament to their brilliance.
(video) Linkin Park: The Making of ‘Meteora’
Meteora (2003) – Album #2
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Anchorage’s Fish Creek – Mysterious Journey Revealed
While admiring from Anchorage’s Coastal Trail the s-curves of a waterway that flows into Cook Inlet, I asked a nearby bicyclist if he knew more about this. Did he ever!
Bob told me how he personally tracked the little known, Fish Creek to its headwaters and documented its fascinating journey that is often hidden. He sent me the links to his meticulous research, and gave me permission to share.
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Books VS eBooks — Books still have advantages
One of the problems with ebooks…
Also, I’ve heard Kindle can change the content or delete ebooks even after they’re downloaded.
And books can be highlighted and written on.
(video) 3 Active Stretches for Hamstrings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucb4SQaYNho
3 Active Stretches for Hamstrings | #MuscleMonday
(video) Why Don’t Dogs Live Forever? | Rodney Habib | TEDx
Oldest known dog: 30 years
Oldest known cat: 38 years
Super cute dog @ 13:35
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Why Don’t Dogs Live Forever? | Rodney Habib | TEDxNSCCWaterfront
‘Patch and Pray’ Crack Repairs on Oroville Dam – “They put cement into the cracks and troweled it over,” a Berkeley civil engineer said. “I call it ‘patch and pray”
Why we’re getting jacked:
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From: nbcbayarea.com
‘Patch and Pray’ Crack Repairs on Oroville Dam Emergency Spillway: UC Berkeley Civil Engineer
“They put cement into the cracks and troweled it over,” a Berkeley civil engineer said. “I call it ‘patch and pray”’
Six months before rushing water ripped a huge hole in a channel that drains a Northern California reservoir, state inspectors said the concrete spillway was sound. As officials puzzle through how to repair Oroville Dam spillway, federal regulators have ordered the state to figure out what went wrong.
Earlier inspection reports offer potential clues, including cracks on the spillway surface that if not properly repaired could let water tear through the concrete. In recent years, construction crews patched cracks — including in the area where water burrowed a huge pit last week. …
Last August, a team of inspectors did not check the channel on foot but instead from afar, also concluding that everything looked fine. …
Robert Bea, professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering at University of California, Berkeley, said it’s “obvious those repairs didn’t work.”
“We don’t have details on the repairs, but they put cement into the cracks and troweled it over,” Bea said. “I call it ‘patch and pray.”’
On Monday, federal regulators told the department it must enlist a group of independent consultants both to assess what went wrong and to recommend long-term fixes.
Documents and interviews show that crews were patching cracks in 2009 and 2013. …
“Any type of evidence that might have been there is gone,” Eric Holland of the water resources department’s dam safety division said. “Everything has been washed away.”
Related:
Records Show Gov’t Knew of Dangers of Oroville Dam for YEARS — Did Nothing to Fix It!
Records Show Gov’t Knew of Dangers of Oroville Dam for YEARS — Did Nothing to Fix It!
I wonder how many other warnings have gone unheeded, regarding issues of all kinds.
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From: steemit.com
Records Show Govt Knew of Dangers of Oroville Dam for YEARS — Did Nothing to Fix It
Nearly 200,000 people had to be evacuated from the floodplain beneath Oroville Dam, when an earthen emergency spillway threatened to disintegrate under the sheer volume of floodwater putting pressure on the structure — the exact scenario federal and state officials were cautioned about over a decade ago.
But they didn’t heed the warning.
“Three environmental groups — the Friends of the River, the Sierra Club and the South Yuba Citizens League — filed a motion with the federal government on Oct. 17, 2005, as part of Oroville Dam’s relicensing process, urging federal officials to require that the dam’s emergency spillway be armored with concrete, rather than remain as an earthen hillside,” reports the Mercury News.
That motion was filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission when the groups found Oroville Dam — the tallest in the United States and completed in 1968 — did not meet modern safety standards. Heavy rains and flooding, they said, would overwhelm the primary concrete spillway and force waters over the emergency spillway — but the volume could erode the earthen chute and inundate communities nearby.
Worse, such an extreme event could cause failure, or “loss of crest control.”
…bowing to budgetary and financial concerns — didn’t listen.
“FERC rejected that request….
“A filing on May 26, 2006, by Thomas Berliner, an attorney for the State Water Contractors, and Douglas Adamson, an attorney for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, discounted the risk. It urged FERC to reject the request to require that the emergency spillway be armored, a job that would have cost tens, if not hundreds, of millions of dollars.”
Officials blew off concerns as hyperbolic since the earthen spillway had been designed to accommodate 350,000 cubic feet per second, and — in extreme circumstances — could safely sustain heavy damage without being completely destroyed. …
“The emergency spillway meets FERC’s engineering guidelines for an emergency spillway. The guidelines specify that during a rare flood event, it is acceptable for the emergency spillway to sustain significant damage.” …
Those who warned of the dangers in 2005 saw their fears nearly come to fruition.
“We said ‘are you really sure that running all this water over the emergency spillway won’t cause the spillway to fail?’” Ron Stork of Sacremento’s Friends of the River told the Mercury News. “They tried to be as evasive as possible. It would have cost money to build a proper concrete spillway.
“I’m feeling bad that we were unable to persuade DWR and FERC and the Army Corps to have a safer dam.”
Eric See, California Department of Water Resources spokesman, denied reports there had been any lapse in safety at Oroville Dam, despite reports of the over-decade-old warning to FERC.
WIND TURBINES SLAUGHTER MILLIONS of birds and bats annually — Blade tips move up to 180 mph!
This is so sad: something so good for the environment is not so good.
Hopefully, our Anchorage, Alaska wind turbines on Fire Island are not as catastrophic.
Not mentioned in this article, the giant wind turbines also emit a strong, subsonic hum that disturbs nearby human residents, who often have to then move to maintain their health and sanity.
Smaller wind turbines may be more humane for animals and people.
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From: savetheeaglesinternational.org
Wind turbines are actually slaughtering millions of birds and bats annually
The Obama administration is issuing 30-year permits for “taking” (killing) bald and golden eagles. The great birds will be legally slaughtered “unintentionally” by lethal wind turbines installed in their breeding territories, and in “dispersion areas” where their young congregate (e.g. Altamont Pass).
By chance (if you believe in coincidences), a timely government study claims wind farms will kill “only” 1.4 million birds yearly by 2030. This new report is just one of many, financed with taxpayers’ money, aimed at convincing the public that additional mortality caused by wind plants is sustainable. – It is not.
Dr. Shawn Smallwood’s 2004 study, spanning four years, estimated that California’s Altamont Pass wind “farm” killed an average of 116 Golden Eagles annually. This adds up to 2,900 dead “goldies” since it was built 25 years ago. Altamont is the biggest sinkhole for the species, but not the only one, and industry-financed research claiming that California’s GE population is stable is but a white-wash.
Eagles are not the only victims. Smallwood also estimated that Altamont killed an average of 300 red-tailed hawks, 333 American kestrels and 380 burrowing owls annually – plus even more non-raptors, including 2,526 rock doves and 2,557 western meadowlarks.
In 2012, breaking the European omerta on wind farm mortality, the Spanish Ornithological Society (SEO/Birdlife) reviewed actual carcass counts from 136 monitoring studies. They concluded that Spain’s 18,000 wind turbines are killing 6-18 million birds and bats yearly.
Extrapolating that and similar (little publicized) German and Swedish studies, 39,000 U.S. wind turbines would not be killing “only” 440,000 birds (USFWS, 2009) or “just” 573,000 birds and 888,000 bats (Smallwood, 2013), but 13-39 million birds and bats every year!
However, this carnage is being covered up by self-serving and/or politically motivated government agencies, wind industry lobbyists, environmental groups and ornithologists, under a pile of misleading studies paid for with more taxpayer money. …
Nevertheless, news has leaked that eagles are being hacked to death all across America. This is hardly surprising, as raptors are attracted to wind turbines. They perch on them to rest or scan for prey. They come because turbines are often built in habitats that have abundant food (live or carrion) and good winds for gliding.
Griffon Vultures – courtesy of the association of ecologists GURELUR, Navarre, Spain
Save the Eagles International (STEI) has posted photographs of raptors perched on nacelles or nonmoving blades , and ospreys building a nest on a decommissioned turbine. Moving blades don’t deter them either: videos show a turkey vulture perched on the hub of a spinning turbine, and a griffon vulture being struck. Birds perceive areas traveled by spinning blades as open space, unaware that blade tips are moving at up to 180 mph. Many are focused on prey. These factors make wind turbines “ecological death traps,” wherever they are located.