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PufPuf23's JournalSamantha Fish opened for Rolling Stones in last show of their USA tour (7/21/24)
Here is the set she played.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7OXea660OVpwp5et2ME1tHcdwww0iuIT
Watch Duty is an informative site about the wildfires.
https://app.watchduty.org/There are many large new wildfires burning in the western states. Sobering as looks to be even worse than recent years.
There are major evacuations in California, Oregon, Idaho and Montana today.
Have spent the last 4 years from late July to end of Summer rains in severe smoke, last year was in evacuation warening with hose lays and sprinklers around my home for two months with alternating crews from all over the USA stationed across the road at the base of my driveway.
See What Wind Turbine Assembly Would Look Like on Humboldt Bay, Courtesy of This Presentation From the Harbor District
From Lost Coast Outpost 7/25/24
Includes a 54 minute video and links to earlier articles on the evolving project.
See What Wind Turbine Assembly Would Look Like on Humboldt Bay, Courtesy of This Presentation From the Harbor District
In about six years time, massive floating wind turbines – nearly as tall as the Eiffel Tower – could line the shores of the Samoa Peninsula.
At a special meeting on Tuesday, staff with the Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District unveiled a draft simulation showing how the Humboldt Bay Offshore Wind Heavy Lift Marine Terminal – the staging and integration facility where the gigantic wind turbines components would be fully assembled – would transform our view of the bay.
The floating turbines slated for the Humboldt Wind Energy Area, located roughly 20 miles west of Eureka, would be among the largest in the world, according to Harbor District Development Director Rob Holmlund. Each turbine tower would be mounted on a floating triangular platform, itself measuring 100 feet tall and up to 425 feet long per side. The turbine would stand at roughly 1,000 feet – about the size of the Eiffel Tower – from the ocean surface to its wing tips. Each blade is as long as a football field.
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Once the heavy-lift terminal is fully operational, which could be as soon as late 2029, Holmlund said the facility would have the capacity to assemble two turbines per week. The turbines will hang out in wet storage for an undetermined amount of time until they’re ready to be towed out to sea.
“From there [the turbines] can either go to Morro Bay, Oregon, or the Humboldt lease areas,” Holmlund said. “Once it leaves Humboldt Bay, that’s the end of our part of the project.”
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“With California’s offshore renewable energy goals, as well as Oregon and Washington, it’s likely that there will be multiple decades of construction of wind turbines [in Humboldt Bay],” Holmlund said. In addition, wind turbines that are already out in the ocean will need to be towed back into the bay periodically for maintenance. “It will be an ongoing project. … It can also be used for other projects in the future.”
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https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2024/jul/25/offshore-wind-simulation/
Climate engineering off US coast could increase heatwaves in Europe, study finds
This is an issue that never occurred to me and would not take notice but is a front page article in the US oriented version of The Guardian today.
Climate engineering off US coast could increase heatwaves in Europe, study finds
Scientists call for regulation to stop regional use of marine cloud brightening having negative impact elsewhere
A geoengineering technique designed to reduce high temperatures in California could inadvertently intensify heatwaves in Europe, according to a study that models the unintended consequences of regional tinkering with a changing climate.
The paper shows that targeted interventions to lower temperature in one area for one season might bring temporary benefits to some populations, but this has to be set against potentially negative side-effects in other parts of the world and shifting degrees of effectiveness over time.
The authors of the study said the findings were “scary” because the world has few or no regulations in place to prevent regional applications of the technique, marine cloud brightening, which involves spraying reflective aerosols (usually in the form of sea salt or sea spray) into stratocumulus clouds over the ocean to reflect more solar radiation back into space.
more at The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/21/climate-engineering-off-us-coast-could-increase-heatwaves-in-europe-study-finds
Reggie Jackson is an amazing and truthful man who said what needed to be said in a respectful manner.
Have some doubts about MLB (gambling, greedy owners, pricing outside the reach of many families, etc.)
Yesterday's game at Richwood celebrating the black contribution to baseball was outstanding.
Willie Mays was my first and most enduring hero. Been a SF Giant fan since a small child and still build my day around the Giant game during the baseball season. So glad that I watched the pre-game show and panel of former players.
The SF Giants did this:
The Giants’ inclusion efforts trickled down to their minor-league system as well. The organization invited every player at all levels who claimed any African-American heritage to take leave from their affiliates and travel at the Giants’ expense to Birmingham to attend the game. Nearly a dozen players, including 2022 first-round pick Reggie Crawford and talented outfield prospect Grant McCray, took up the team on its offer.
“I’m so glad I could be here to be a part of this,” said Crawford, who is on the Triple-A injured list with what is believed to be mild shoulder inflammation. “This is something I wouldn’t want to miss.”
Jewish Groups Pull Support From Oregon Food Bank for Blasting 'Israel's Violence' in Gaza
Jewish Groups Pull Support From Oregon Food Bank for Blasting ‘Israel’s Violence’ in Gazaby Shiryn Ghermezian; June 4, 2024; the algemeiner
A total of 12 Jewish organizations based in Oregon, including nonprofits and five synagogues, announced in a joint statement that they will not support the Oregon Food Bank until it retracts its condemnation of Israel’s military actions during the ongoing Israeli campaign targeting Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip.
The local Jewish groups, including the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland, also called on the Oregon Food Bank to issue a new statement “indicating that it will maintain its focus on hunger and its root causes here in Oregon.”
They added, “Until such time we will support other local organizations who are upholding this important mission.”
On April 30, the Oregon Food Bank released a statement that called for an immediate and permanent ceasefire to end “Israel’s violence against Palestinians.” The organization — which collects and distributes food across five main locations in Oregon and southwest Washington — claimed that Israel’s military campaign in the Gaza Strip puts Palestinians in the region “at risk of genocide.” The food bank condemned what it described as “indiscriminate attacks by the Israeli army on Palestinians, including the bombardment of neighborhoods, healthcare facilities, humanitarian aid efforts, and refugee camps.”
more at: https://www.algemeiner.com/2024/06/04/jewish-groups-pull-support-oregon-food-bank-blasting-israels-violence-gaza/
Rob Arkley
Five Facts about Rob Arkley, Funder of Luxury Travel for Supreme Court Justices and Groups Packing the CourtLisa Graves; November 7, 2023
What Just Happened? Senator Dick Durbin has announced the Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on a subpoena to Robin Pickering Arkley II on Thursday, November 9, as the Committee investigates the big Supreme Court ethics scandals.
The Committee is also planning to issue subpoenas to billion-dollar trust fund operator Leonard Leo, who helped arrange expensive trips and more for justices, and to billionaire Harlan Crow, who has provided luxury travel and more to Justice Thomas. Senator Durbin and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse first requested information about those luxury gifts in July, but Rob Arkley, Leo, and Crow refused to provide information.
Arkley Is Less Well Known But a Player. Most coverage has focused on Leo, who helms a dark money influence machine that helped pack the U.S. Supreme Court with right-wing activists committed to overturning Roe v. Wade and more, and Crow, who has given a shocking array of valuable secret gifts to Thomas (including luxury travel to exclusive locales, tuition for Thomas’ ward, and the purchase and refurbishment of the home of Thomas’ mother). But Arkley has received far less attention. Here are five things to know about Rob Arkley.
1. He Has Been a Rich Benefactor of Supreme Court Justices. Arkley underwrote exclusive, secret trips for Supreme Court justices, Sam Alito and Antonin Scalia. As ProPublica reported this summer, Arkley provided at least one luxury vacation to Sam Alito that Alito never disclosed, despite his attestation that he accurately provided disclosures required by the Ethics in Government Act. Alito has mounted an unprecedented PR campaign to assail the Senate’s investigation by performing a Q&A with David Rivkin, whom he asserted was a journalist but whose day job is working as a right-wing lawyer with business before the Court and who is representing Leonard Leo in trying to block the Senate’s investigation of influence peddling. Alito also signed an assertion that he fully complies with voluntary ethical rules, a claim Chief Justice John Roberts reiterated in his efforts to thwart Senate action on a mandatory Code of Conduct. But ProPublica’s reporting team–Justin Elliot, Josh Kaplan, and Alex Mierjeski–came with receipts in the form of photos of Alito’s expensive salmon fishing trip as well as eye-witness accounts that Alito’s trip was funded by Arkley. That reporting noted that Arkley also provided luxury travel to Justice Antonin Scalia and may also have befriended Justice Clarence Thomas.
More at: https://truenorthresearch.org/2023/11/five-facts-about-rob-arkley-funder-of-luxury-travel-for-supreme-court-justices-and-groups-packing-the-court/
Rueben Williams of Thunderbird Management Group
Rueben WilliamsRueben Williams founded the Thunderbird Management Group more than 20 years ago. Its primary mission is to develop artists and create long-lasting careers in the music industry for those artists. From the successful 20-plus-year career of Tab Benoit, one of Williams’ first clients, to the rapid rise of current artists like Devon Allman, Samantha Fish, and Mike Zito, Williams has clearly succeeded. Williams’ company has represented such artists as Cyril Neville, Big Chief Monk Boudreaux, Anders Osborne, the Royal Southern Brotherhood, Jonathon Boogie Long, the Honey Island Swamp Band, and others. Through those relationships, Williams has also been involved as executive or associate producer on over 25 records, many of which have been nominated for GRAMMYs® and Blues Music Awards. These accomplishments run concurrently with Williams’ and Benoit’s founding of and involvement with the Voice of the Wetlands, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Through VOW’s recordings, festivals, and educational outreach, they hope to bring public awareness to and create solutions for the coastal erosion in southern Louisiana. Part of this outreach occurred in 2006, when Williams and Benoit brought more than 50 New Orleans musicians to perform at the 2006 Democratic and Republican National Conventions.
https://blues.org/blues_kba_winner/rueben-williams/
Saw Allman Brothers on a high school field trip over 50 years ago to Fillmore West to see the blues: BB King, Buddy Guy, and an opening band that was new to us, Allman Brothers on first national tour. Familiar with Devon Allman's because discovered Samantha Fish in 1987. Devon and Samantha share Rueben Williams as manager and play together fairly often. There is a music video and song from Devon Allman's first solo album "Turquoise" that is with Fish. If one watches that video, the older black man that tips Allman and Fish when they are busking is Cyril Neville. Here is a version of the Petty-Nicks song from just about 2 years ago.
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Here is a Devon Allman Project video where they play "Fire on the Mountain" (Grateful Dead) with 4 guitars.
Trump-appointed 9th Circuit judge hearing Biden genocide case met with Israeli officials
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
A judge on the federal appeals court panel in a case accusing President Joe Biden of enabling genocide in Gaza traveled to Israel recently and met with government officials urging support for their military actions. Lawyers for Palestinian-rights groups say Judge Ryan Nelson has forfeited any appearance of neutrality and must disqualify himself from the case.
“Recusal in this important case is necessary to ensure the appearance of fairness to the parties and promote the integrity of our legal process,” attorneys led by the nonprofit Center for Constitutional Rights argued in a motion Tuesday night asking Nelson to withdraw from the panel before next Monday’s hearing.
Judges recuse themselves from a case when they conclude that they have a conflict of interest or that they would be seen as biased. Democrats in Congress want Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito to recuse himself from former President Donald Trump‘s criminal cases because of flags outside Alito’s homes that were used by supporters of Trump’s challenges to the 2020 election results, but Alito has declined.
The motion was filed shortly after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals announced members of the randomly selected panel that will hear the appeal of a federal judge’s dismissal of the suit: Nelson and Daniel Bress, both appointed by Trump, and Jacqueline Nguyen, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Read more: https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/dei-teacher-union-19489151.php
Note that a Federal Judge has already dismissed the suit against POTUS Biden and Judge Nelson is on the appeals panel.
IMHO ridiculous to charge POTUS Biden with enabling genocide in Gaza and was correct to dismiss the suit.
What a tangled mess.
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