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Summary: How do different types of shoreline react to flooding and sea level rise? In this topic guide, students learn about various “hard” and “soft” features of coastal shorelines and how wetlands can help control flooding. As a field experience, students examine characteristics of a shoreline and predict its resiliency to sea level rise. Students identify natural and engineered solutions that help shoreline structures stay resilient.

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  1. Shoreline features vary in different places along coastlines, and are differentially impacted by sea level rise and storm surges.
  2. Soft shorelines absorb wave energy and water, and hard shorelines reflect or redirect wave energy and water.
  3. Coastal wetlands can help protect communities from damaging sea level rise and storm surges.
  4. Engineered shorelines can positively or negatively affect coastal resiliency.

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  • MS-ESS3-3. Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.

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  2. Describe how different shoreline structures might respond to flooding and sea level rise.
  3. Identify the ecological services wetlands provide to control flooding and erosion.

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  • Activity: Shoreline Survey field experience—Look at National ESI Shoreline database maps for a study site. Visit the site with students to survey and map hard and soft features of the coastal shoreline and compare it to the ESI maps. Based on the shoreline structures, ask students to forecast the impacts that rising sea level might have on the area.
    • National ESI Shoreline (Environmental Sensitivity Index) maps
    • Example Field Experience at Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, OR
      • National ESI Shoreline screenshot for Yaquina Bay
      • Hatfield Marine Science Center Nature Trail mapping worksheet—Walk the HMSC Estuary Nature Trail and draw on the map different symbols and colors to indicate shoreline features. Create a key to the symbols and colors
      • Example of a completed map
  • Activity: Wetlands and their ecological services—in this Lesson 1.3 of the Bringing Wetlands to Market curriculum, students learn about the different types of wetlands and their ecological roles, and they identify one or more local wetlands.
  • The role of wetlands in coastal flooding
    • RISE Webstory 5: The Flood Next Time—Video (5:40) Converting salt ponds back to original wetlands could help a small community near San Francisco survive flooding from sea level rise
  • Reading
    • Shoreline Armoring: Pros and Cons—From NOAA’s State of the Coast website
    • Living Shorelines—This NOAA website shows how natural bank stabilization techniques are implemented to restore shorelines.
    • Coastal habitats shield people and property from sea level rise and storms
    • Komar, P.D. and Allan, J.C., 2010. USGS article “Design with Nature” strategies for shore protection—The construction of a cobble berm and artificial berm and artificial dune in an Oregon State Park

  • Map the hard and soft shoreline features of a coastal area. How many different shoreline types are there? Which features are natural and which are human-made? Is there evidence of existing coastal erosion or flooding?
  • HMSC has a problem with erosion which is encroaching on the walking path and threatening buildings. Ask students to suggest potential solutions for engineering a shoreline that would help address the erosion problem. Photos
  • Create a PSA about the role wetlands play to control flooding and erosion.


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By Ruth Engel | Think Pieces | November 5, 2013 |

The Inside Llewyn Davis soundtrack is streaming at NPR first listen right now, and I highly recommend checking it out. The film, the latest from the Coen Brothers, is set in 1961 and follows Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) for a week as he makes his way through the New York folk scene. It also stars Justin Timberlake, Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, and John Goodman, and looks like it’ll be more popular among white folks than Trader Joe’s Kale Chips.

The album itself is lovely - Oscar Isaac’s voice is so compelling that I’m sure his performance in the movie will be beyond reproach even if he doesn’t act at all. It includes a number of instantly recognizable folk standards, including one of my all-time favorites,” 500 Miles.” Marcus Mumford collaborates on an aching version of “Fare Thee Well (Dink’s Song)” that contains no frenetic banjo strumming, and Chris Thile and the Punch Brothers bring warmth and a fiddle into the mix.

The incredible T-Bone Burnett produces the soundtrack. He notably worked with the Coen Brothers on O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and recently touched upon the enduring magic of that soundtrack in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, saying:

O Brother Where Art Thou? came out 11 or 12 years ago, so people who are in their 20s now were in their early teenage years when it came out, and it would have made a deep impression on them. All those kids refer back to that film as their portal into this whole world of 20th century American music. There’s also a big trend of 21st century musicians going back through the 20th century and reinterpreting it, redefining it — post-modernism, really — bringing new life into songs that had seemed to be worn through. People come up to me and tell me that was an important record to that generation. We all owe the Coens a lot for creating that portal in the first place.

I’m now in my 20s, and Burnett nails me perfectly. Even though I had been raised on Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Bob Dylan, O Brother became the album that defined folk music for me. My family listened to the CD on car trips, and many of the songs became staples at campfire sing-alongs (yes, actual sing-alongs around actual campfires).

The O Brother soundtrack is such a masterpiece because it doesn’t strive to literally recreate Depression Folk. The audience is looking back on an era, and the music looks back with them. It uses the songs and the desperation of the 1930s but also incorporates elements of gospel, updated harmonies, and a brashly anachronistic 1959 recording of “Po’ Lazarus.” Burnett pulls us back to the Depression not by creating an accurate record, but by working back along the long legacy of folk. He is right to call the O Brother a “portal” - it created an emotional window to a fairly inaccessible era. In 2000, when the film was released, it was hard to imagine an America as destitute and hopeless as the 1937 South had been. The music helps span that gap, drawing together familiar modern sounds and thirties standards to create a more understandable world.

The Inside Llewyn Davis soundtrack builds a similar path, but it reflects our more nostalgic, self-aware world. Over the last decade, popular folk music has become more discernibly folk-y (remember Train’s “Drops of Jupiter?” Same era as O Brother). Now we have groups like Mumford and Sons, The Lumineers, and Of Monsters and Men churning out Top 40 hits. And it’s this culture that really makes the Llewyn Davis soundtrack interesting. Burnett and the Coens don’t shy away from using modern heavy-hitters, from Mumford to Justin Timberlake, who manages to be incredibly recognizable even when he has a twangy guitar instead of his Sexyback synth. Longtime Peter, Paul, and Mary fans might find the beat a little fast at times and the sound just slightly too clear, but will immediately recognize finger-picking patterns. The album feels like a self-conscious retrospective effort.

This awareness is the strength of the soundtrack. It provides music that feels as comforting and familiar as a cookie-cutter Mumford and Sons song, but contains fifty years of folk history. For audiences that unplugged from popular music years ago and are currently yelling at me to get off their lawns, the music will evoke nostalgia for a better time. But for the rest of us, the soundtrack contextualizes not only the well-known collaborating artists, but also much of today’s folk scene. I have no doubt that the film will feel similar, I can only hope that it will become as definitional to the teenagers in Bob Dylan t-shirts from Hot Topic as O Brother, Where Art Thou? was to me.

Dustin is the founder and co-owner of Pajiba. You may email him here, follow him on Twitter, or listen to his weekly TV podcast, Podjiba.


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Four months after lying on a cot in the Holmes Regional Medical Center emergency room, Logan Radd scored, you could say, the second-biggest victory of his life Sunday.

The 13-year-old Satellite Beach surfer captured top honors in the 2020 opener of the Toyota USA Surfing Prime series at Sebastian Inlet, winning his under-14 division, in the eventual Olympic qualifying event that attracts the top young amateurs from the East Coast.

Related: Florida surfer jumps onto shark, gets bitten

Radd, an outstanding young surfer who was bitten twice on his left heel by what was believed to be a black tip shark back in September and needed 19 stitches, considers this his most coveted trophy.

"To be honest, I'd have to say yes, especially after getting bit by a shark," said Radd, before checking out the surf conditions at noon Monday.

Related: Florida boy gets knocked off surfboard by shark

Physically, and psychologically, the seventh grade home-schooled student has recovered, and in a big way.

"When I first got back in the water, it felt kind of weird," Radd said. "Now, if I see a shark, I get a little spooked, but I think anyone would."

Physically, he's fine, although he was sidelined three weeks after splitting his stitches trying to surf just days after getting bit. He still managed to win one of the divisions at the National Kidney Foundation contest in Cocoa Beach.

"Lucky it was (just) his heel," said Gordon Lawson, the head judge at last weekend's contest. "He got nipped, but all of us have been bitten by a shark at some point."

Sunday, on his first wave of the day in the quarterfinals, Radd posted an 8.67 ride, the highest in his division, after two big turns and a little air while riding a new surfboard shaped by Bruce Regan at Quiet Flight. From there, he dominated.

"That was a major win for him," Lawson said. "This was the best amateur contest we've had in years, especially in his division."

"i knew he had a chance," said Radd's mom, Jennifer, a teacher of 3- and 4-year-olds at Eastminster Presbyterian Church in Indialantic. "But the level of surfing is so high now. Just the camaraderie on the beach is amazing. They're all just as good as each other. Any of them could have been up there (getting the trophy)."

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A week ago, Radd won the O'Neill East Coast Grom Tour's first stop of 2020 at Paradise Beach in Melbourne.

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Radd's older brother, Bailey, and his dad, Steve, a Brevard County fireman, also are seasoned surfers, but longtime pro John Holeman has been his coach for two years.

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Palm City's Zoe Benedetto, a 14-year-old Ron Jon team rider whose 8.5 ride was the highest score among girls, won both the Girls U18 and U16 titles.

Fellow Ron Jon rider William Hedleston of Cocoa Beach had the highest wave score of the event, a 9.23 ride, to win the Boys U18 title.

Owen Moss of Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, used a three-turn combo at the buzzer to clinch the Boys U16 crown.

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"We told him we could go anywhere," his mom said. "But he picked the (restaurant) at the Sebastian Beach Inlet and ordered the double cheeseburger."

"It was good," Radd said.

This time, fortunately, he was the one taking the much more delicious bite.

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Can cities handle our traffic mess? I doubt it!

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Can Palo Alto and other Peninsula cities ever find a way to diminish the terrible traffic congestion problems we all are experiencing, particularly during commute hours? I am more of a skeptic every day.

Palo Alto is trying, but it’s going to be a struggle. The city created PATMA (Palo Alto Transportation and Management Association) a couple of years ago and that organization so far has received more than $1.2 million the past two years from the city to get people not to use their cars to get into town. They’ve had some success since this fledgling organization started – some 330 trips, by their count, have been eliminated. Cost of that? About $1,800 per vehicle. PATMA’s goal for December 2019 – five months from now – a total of 397 cars. The city’s funding for the program will inexorably surge the next couple of years.

But the traffic problems will inevitably worsen. Take a look at all the new buildings, especially offices, in the Menlo Park-Palo Alto-Mountain View area. Thousands of square feet accommodating thousands of jobs, many of them new. And when people get these jobs, they need housing (which this area now lacks), more schools and cars for the workers and their families. Ipso facto, the result is more traffic. And it’s a big regional problem.

PATMO Executive Director Steve Raney agrees he’s got a hard task in front of him – reducing traffic is a challenging problem that has to be tackled step by step. He quoted Palo Alto City Manager Ed Shikada’s response about the traffic problem: “You can make it better. You can deal with traffic hot spots. You can manage traffic, but you can never completely solve it.”

Raney told me TMA programs ($1,800 per car eliminated) are cheaper than building a parking garage downtown. Right – and wrong. Garages cost $60,000-plus per space, so he’s right it’s cheaper, but garages serve a community day and night for years on end, so we’re not just talking about 397 cars that won’t use a garage.

So what is PATMA doing to solve this problem? Diligently talking with employers and employees to reduce single vehicle commute trips, paying $163/month for Caltrain passes to get low-income employees to use Caltrain to commute to work, paying $10 for early morning and after 8 p.m. Lyft rides so employees who live nearby can get home (BTW, Lyft is a car on the road, and Lyft and Ubers have caused more traffic in NYC than the city ever experienced), creating a long-term education program so residents, visitors and shoppers can use public transit, bikes or their feet to get downtown, and provide some incentives to do all this.

Yet let’s face it, our public transit program is inept. Next year 2020, PATMA plans to concentrate on California Avenue and work on eliminating single vehicle drivers. With a proposed 2021 program, the cost to the city is an anticipated $2.86 million a year. Their goal is to eliminate some 3,500 solo drivers. Gold stars for trying.

But in reality, 3,500 is just a drop in the bucket, and I think they know it and we know it, as much as city councils that pour money into organizations like this know it.

Their problem is people like me. I like my car. It gets me quickly where I want to go. I don’t drive much (2,500/miles/year), just around town, and I DON’T BIKE. I am a terrible biker. I ran into a tree as a college biker and had to be carried away; I’ve fallen off my bike at least six times, and now, as a senior citizen, I simply can’t bike, given my balance issues. I’m not the only one.

Part of our regional problem is the result of our last 10 years of area city council members encouraging more and more developers to build, so their cities can thrive as more and more companies want to locate in the Valley. During this decade, councils haven’t insisted on developers providing enough parking for future building occupants. “Don’t worry about that,” they kindly said, and, as I paraphrase, “Just build a plaza/statues/benches/tiny park by your office building instead.”

And therein lies our traffic problem. More buildings, employees and cars. And not surprisingly, I’ve never heard any city officials accept the blame for causing all these traffic and overcrowding problems. But that’s another column.
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Posted by Resident, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood,
on Jul 9, 2019 at 8:30 pm

The facts you list are all completely true. I hasten to add though that you have not mentioned the one other fact that is public transport.

To give Caltrain passes assumes that Caltrain is running with empty seats at commute time. There is no truth in this and even with electrification and extra trains, Caltrain cannot solve getting riders from across the Bay, from the Coast, to and from our airports, to those working graveyard shifts, etc. and the first and last mile problem is not dealt with.

Better public transportation needs to take these factors into account including crossing city and county boundaries.

VTA has recently been given a failing grade as a public service provider. The worst in the country.

Without comprehensive public transport for those commuters and regular travelers such as school children should be a given. The fact that Google et al can run better transportation services for their workers than the transit agencies begs me to ask why we are not asking them to aid the rest of the community?

We need to comprehensively redo public transportation in the Bay Area as a region. Unless the whole region rewrites everything presently done for the public to use comprehensive transit as an affordable, efficient service that is an alternative commute, as opposed to looking at buses as serving poor communities that are not able to afford their own cars, we are not going to get anywhere.

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Posted by Resident, a resident of Midtown,
on Jul 9, 2019 at 8:57 pm

The city is doing way too much to try and influence the situation, they end up wasting a whole lot of taxpayer money and actually making the situation worse. They should leave well enough alone.
I'm always gonna be opposed to punitive solutions. They are either directly punishing car drivers, or neglecting car drivers entirely as if they don't even exist, and then they're surprised that there's traffic!
What I see is a group of high-minded bureaucrats who fantasize about turning the region into Denmark, instead of elected representatives doing their job of serving the people.
The traffic situation isn't merely caused by companies trying to expand their businesses or employees drawn to a place where they can find high-paying jobs. The government has blood on their hands. The traffic has been exacerbated immensely by failed government experiments and gross mismanagement (a perfect example was when they shut down a lane on 101, took forever to finish the project, only to shut down the lane for another 2 years because of the JPA flood control and worrying about endangered bird species), justified by a demonization campaign against the "single-occupant commuter" and "cars are bad now" just like "plastic is bad now" even both are absolutely essential things in our lives that we can't suddenly live without overnight.

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Posted by Oldster, a resident of Old Palo Alto,
on Jul 10, 2019 at 1:39 pm

The day City of Palo Alto City Councilmembers give up their special parking spaces at the City Hall gatage is the day I could believe those "let them eat cake" aristocrats might start working for us commoners instead of for the revolving door class of people who got us into this traffic mess.

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Posted by Online Name, a resident of Embarcadero Oaks/Leland,
on Jul 11, 2019 at 12:25 pm

Of course it's not going to get better. The city refuses to impose a moratorium on office construction while it continues to waste our tax dollars narrowing roads to create more congestion and pollution and then wastes more money preaching at US -- not the commuters, not their employers -- to get out of our cars.

Maybe they should start paying US for all the time we're stuck in traffic instead of paying for the commuters' expenses!

What an expensive farce.

Anyone on looked at the mess on Charles ton lately?

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Posted by Citizen in PA, a resident of Leland Manor/Garland Drive,
on Jul 11, 2019 at 12:53 pm

Public Transportation needs a major overhaul!

Ask the Europeans hpw they have managed to make their public transit seamless! The Swiss have public transit perfected.

Palo Alto City Council should send the transportation Board to Basel and hire them. CA State and USA public transportation needs a major overhaul too.

Stop the Oil Industry from keeping our country in the dark ages!

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Posted by Stop Castilleja Expansion, a resident of Old Palo Alto,
on Jul 11, 2019 at 4:13 pm

City Council and Planning say they want to protect cyclings and safe routes to work, yet they have spent three years trying to make Castilleja's planned expansion compliant in order to satisfy the school (not a taxpayer, just benefits from our services).

The featured variance/craziness is the proposed single entrance to an underground garage on Bryant Bike Boulevard. And they may want to commandeer one lane of Embarcadero when they so desire.

It's all about loyalties, not fairness.

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Posted by Curmudgeon, a resident of Downtown North,
on Jul 11, 2019 at 4:19 pm

All new commercial construction must incorporate sufficient housing to accommodate its employees. That won't address the excesses of the past, but it will contain the future problem.

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Posted by PA Grandma, a resident of Community Center,
on Jul 11, 2019 at 7:35 pm

Traffic will not get better with any of the proposed city schemes. The city is so oversubscribed with current and future jobs that the only thing that will possibly at least keep the barely viable status quo is to STOP DEVELOPMENT! And any plans in the pipeline should include parking for every worker. Any future plans should include both parking and housing.

Diamond doesn't mention Stanford's expansions here, but the volume of cars that will start pouring through our streets will increase traffic dramatically. Stanford must provide housing and parking for their future employees.

Public transportation that really worked would be fantastic. But it's a lovely pipe dream at this point. Where are more rail lines going to go? How much housing will be demolished to widen streets? What happens when fleets of Google/Facebook giant busses start adding to the traffic?

We are never going to get control of this until development stops.

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Posted by mauricio, a resident of Embarcadero Oaks/Leland,
on Jul 12, 2019 at 5:58 am

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More development means more traffic and no delusional talk of public transportation will change that reality. The odds cities can handle the traffic mess are zero.. Unless development is halted and tech companies stop expanding and hiring and move elsewhere, the traffic mess, already horrible, will become nightmarish.

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Posted by Resident, a resident of Midtown,
on Jul 12, 2019 at 8:08 am

I think we're already at "nightmarish". They want to bring the level of congestion up to "apocalyptic" so that driving is literally not viable anymore.

As long as these people are in power, they may yet achieve their goal of forcing us out of cars and achieving a green utopia, even if it takes a scorched earth method of doing it.

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Posted by Resident, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood,
on Jul 12, 2019 at 8:49 am

San Francisco and NYC, among others, have worse traffic due to Uber and Lyft drivers circling until such time as they get their next ride. SFO airport is rerouting ride share pickups and dropoffs to improve traffic circulation at its terminals.

For whatever reasons, these Uber and Lyfts are becoming a good choice for many people to get where they want to go. Whether they do it regularly, frequently or seldom, they are choosing to ride share rather than walk, drive, or use public transportation. I myself use them, not often, but they are handy and they have the bonus of not requiring to find a parking spot at destination.

We don't have school buses and many parents drive their kids to school for multiple reasons.

When school is out, there is less traffic. When it rains, there is more traffic with less people on bikes. With less shopping choices, people are driving further to get basics. Every time an OSH closes, people drive extra miles to get whatever they need. Every time a home is built without adequate parking, it means more cars parking on streets. ADUs, underparked developments, RPPs, all ignore the reality that cars still need to park when they are not in use. When cars move they are traffic, when they are still they require parking. That is the reality.

Palo Alto is way too congested with people, workers, residents, renters, homebuyers, visitors, Ubers, etc. We are not urban and were never designed to be urban. We are suburban, we are leafy streets, pleasant neighborhoods, residents looking for R & R near home, and we enjoy our Palo Alto that way. We do not want to turn into Manhattan. We want to be suburbia.

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Posted by Physics is the problem, a resident of Adobe-Meadow,
on Jul 12, 2019 at 1:12 pm

The reason we have traffic is because of too many cars all trying to use the same finite amount of space. There is NO FIX for that except to increase the space or decrease the cars. It's been a warning call for only about 30 and we've done nothing but add more cars. It was still bad in the 90's with less cars and no "dieted" roads. Now we have a lot more cars so road diets or not, traffic will suck loudly...because of too many cars all trying to use the same finite amount of space.

The sad answer is that traffic will only improve when enough people stop using their cars. If you can have to use a car 100% of the time, I'd be working like hell to help others get out of their cars so your traffic might be better.

If you want better traffic for those on the road you have to reduce the amount of cars. Science and technology cannot help those who deny physics.

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Posted by Kait, a resident of another community,
on Jul 13, 2019 at 7:38 am

Another solution is one tech employers have used for years: Work-from-home days. Most of my tech employers have had a standard one-day-per-week WFH policy. Many employees simply do not need to be onsite to be productive. In fact, many studies have found that people are more effective when they work from home.

Add to that the fact that employees aren't losing hours of commute time each day, and the resulting benefits of lowered stress, traffic, and environmental damage clearly show that having a strong WFH policy is a big plus. It won't solve the entire traffic problem, but it'll sure help, especially when employers start allowing employees to WFH more than one day per week.

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Posted by mauricio, a resident of Embarcadero Oaks/Leland,
on Jul 13, 2019 at 11:03 am

mauricio is a registered user.

Working from home would be helpful at the margins, but not make a significant dent regarding the traffic disaster. The original sin was in converting suburbia and a small college town into a major job center. They are fundamentally incapable of supporting major job centers, especially infrastructure-wise, as their roads are singularity unsuitable for the resulting traffic mess, not even considering the housing issues involved. It is like tasking a small 4 cylinder Honda to haul heavy boulders up a mountain, and that's why local municipalities will never be able to even slow down the worsening traffic disaster, let alone solve the problem.

The rational behind allowing suburbia to become a major job center was so flawed and corrupt it is mind boggling that those responsible, at least on of whom is still serving on the Palo Alto CC, and is a major mentor to younger mega development politicians was not discarded by the voters and paid no political price for this disaster

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Posted by Curmudgeon, a resident of Downtown North,
on Jul 13, 2019 at 3:29 pm

"it is mind boggling that those responsible, at least on of whom is still serving on the Palo Alto CC, [snip] was not discarded by the voters and paid no political price for this disaster"

Palo Alto needs more effective, objective voter education. Else the voters pick the familiar names, or rely on the candidates' own (too often mis)representation of themselves.

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Posted by No hope, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood,
on Jul 13, 2019 at 8:11 pm

Where is all the traffic going to flow when they close Churchill and Palo Alto. Ave due to grade separation. The Stanford expansion will also exacerbate the problem. City council has no solution other than opting for the easiest solution and not thinking long term.

Palo Alto has been completely asleep on this one. Embarcadero and Page Mill will grind to a halt.

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Posted by 15% here, 10% there, another 10% somewhere else, a resident of Adobe-Meadow,
on Jul 16, 2019 at 4:55 pm

I agree the only solution is to reduce the amount of cars on the road, but it won;t be one soluiton. 10% more people riding bikes 50% of the time, 10% taking the bus or train,15% working from home 1 0r 2 days a week...it all adds up! The "marginal" fixes, when assembled together creates a great reduction in car trips which is the ONLY solution to our traffic issues.
Everyone should be backing more programs to make it easier to get out of your car, at least some of the time so when you have to drive, there are less cars and less traffic.

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Posted by Arastradero Rd Mess, a resident of Barron Park,
on Sep 26, 2019 at 8:16 am

The traffic mess caused by the Arastradero Rd changes is the biggest reason why all city council members should be replaced! Traffic is not balanced. It is making it safer to bike, but more dangerous to drive. Reduced driving lanes, more narrow roads, dangerous short merges into single lands, tighter corners so you hit on-coming traffic, all add to more road rage! The road changes will cause more accidents for drivers.

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One of the new features introduced with the Windows 10 Creators Update is Game Mode, which supposedly provides a better and more consistent gaming experience by altering the allocation of hardware resources when a game is running. That may sound interesting, but in my earlier testing I found little to no benefit—and a few cases where Game Mode actually dropped performance. Of course that was with an Insider Preview build, so the public release of the Creators Update ought to be better, right?

Turns out, the simple answer is that it's not substantially different from what I saw before. In most cases, the changes are small and would go unnoticed. But that's if I'm doing my normal thing while playing games: I close any unnecessary applications sitting in the background and basically free up resources so that the game will run as well as possible. Game Mode in theory works best when you don't take such measures and simply let the OS handle the dirty work.

Windows does all of this already, and it has been doing so for decades. It's called multi-tasking, and we're all familiar with the concept by now. All running processes on your PC have a different priority level. Windows has six priorities: low, below normal, normal, above normal, high, and realtime. Most processes launch at 'normal' priority, which means the OS will treat them relatively equally. A process running at a higher priority will get more resources than lower priority tasks, but it will only get those resources if it needs them—so a high or realtime priority process that's not doing anything won't bog down your system.

Game Mode changes things in some fuzzy fashion, allocating specific CPU cores to the game and leaving other cores for the remaining processes, and likely altering priority levels. Microsoft is a bit nebulous on what it's doing right now, and there are 'planned additions' to Game Mode in the future.

Right now, my testing shows that Game Mode has some small benefits on a low-end CPU and some disturbing results on a high-end CPU—it killed background video playback on a system that could easily handle playing a game and a video simultaneously with Game Mode disabled.

Setting up Game Mode

A quick primer, for the uninitiated. Enabling Game Mode is a two-step process. First you need to turn it on in the Windows Settings area, but you also need to enable it for each game as well. To do this, open the Windows Game Bar (Win+G) with the game running, and check the "Use Game Mode for this game" box. (FYI, some systems only seem to show the Game Bar if the game is running in borderless window or windowed mode.) The good news is you don't need to exit and restart the game—the effect is almost immediate.

Here's what I did for testing Game Mode this round. I selected two sets of hardware, a high-end Core i7-5930K build and a budget Core i3-7100 build. (Note that I had planned on a 'midrange' Ryzen 1600X build to round things out, but after seeing what happened with the high-end and low-end builds, running more tests seemed unnecessary.)

Next, I looked at previously compiled results for games and selected those that showed the most benefit from a faster CPU—the idea being that's where Game Mode is most likely to help. I came up with the following list: Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation (DX12), Dawn of War 3 (DX11), Fallout 4 (DX11), Grand Theft Auto 5 (DX11), Hitman (DX12), and Total War: Warhammer (DX11). While three of the games support DX12, Total Warhammer's implementation isn't useful if you're using an Nvidia GPU, so I stuck with DX11.

Now comes the tricky part. I plugged in a second display and loaded up some extra tasks. I opened Task Manager, Chrome and Edge with a few tabs running in each—email, a Google Docs file, and Twitter. Word and Excel are open as well, and a couple of utilities (MSI Afterburner and HWiNFO64) are active. None of this makes too much of a difference, so I opened Firefox and loaded up a 1080p60 YouTube video for good measure.

Game Mode results

The above doesn't cause any problems during routine PC use, but what happens when you start playing a game? On the Core i3 budget build, things went south quickly in most games—not necessarily for the game, but the YouTube video started dropping frames and was clearly compromised, and gaming performance started stuttering a bit as well compared to running lean and clean. On the high-end PC, as you would expect given the hardware, everything continued to run more or less business as usual.

For each game, I selected some reasonable settings (1080p medium for the budget system and 1080p ultra for the high-end PC), and tested with and without enabling Game Mode.

Here are the with/without Game Mode results for the six tested games across two systems.

The budget PC clearly shows some advantages to enabling Game Mode, right? I mean, look at the minimum fps results—the 97 percentiles are better than before on most games, and in some cases minimum framerates are 20-30 percent higher. The high-end PC doesn't do as well, with four games showing almost no change, Hitman showing a moderate benefit to minimum fps with Game Mode, and Total Warhammer showing a slight drop in minimum fps.

If that was the whole story, at least I could come away saying Game Mode tends to help a bit with PCs that are struggling to maintain framerates while doing other moderately complex background tasks (like watching a YouTube video). The problem is that there's a second part to what's going on, specifically what happens to the video playback on Youtube.

On the i3-7100 and GTX 1050 Ti, without Game Mode the Youtube video starts to stutter a bit in some games, more severely in CPU intensive games like Ashes: Escalation. It's a workload that's too much for the PC to handle already, but turning on Game Mode takes the video from stuttering to stop-motion playback. The audio didn't drop out, but the video would show a single frame for seconds at a time. In either case, I wouldn't recommend streaming an HD video on a budget system while gaming (unless it's a very lightweight game).

What you might not expect is that Game Mode has a similar though lessened impact on the high-end i7-5930K and GTX 1080. Without Game Mode, the video plays without any serious issues, but turning on Game Mode causes stuttering and occasional long freezes in all the games I tested. So while Game Mode might help gaming consistency in certain situations, it does so at the cost of background task consistency.

By tweaking the resource allocation to favor games, Game Mode can prevent background tasks from using otherwise idle cycles.

None of this is particularly shocking. Windows has had decades of practice at tuning task scheduling, and the various priority levels are usually sufficient—provided you have enough hardware to throw at a problem. If playing a video uses 10 percent of your CPU, and playing a game uses 50 percent of your CPU, you can likely do both tasks at the same time without running into problems. But if playing a game uses 75 percent of your CPU and the video playback or other tasks can use 35 percent of your CPU, there's no magical software solution that will allow both tasks to run without some form of compromise.

On the i7-5930K, something is clearly wrong.

By tweaking the resource allocation to favor games, Game Mode can prevent background tasks from using otherwise idle cycles. Microsoft didn't go into specifics, but suppose Game Mode reserves all but one CPU core for the game. That's not a bad idea on a dual-core or maybe even quad-core CPU, but with a 6-core processor it's unnecessary.

I'm not sure if that's what's happening, but whatever the cause, Game Mode didn't play nicely with background video playback. With Youtube, that's not such a big deal. But if one of the background tasks is a video encode for Twitch livestreaming, that's a real problem.

Of course I've only tested a handful of games, on two hardware configurations. Maybe there's some specific combination of hardware and software that will show greatly improved results with Game Mode. I doubt it, and a better solution is to shut down unneeded background tasks when playing games—at least if your PC doesn't have enough RAM and processor performance to handle things. Upgrading your PC's hardware is another option, but that costs money. And if you're using a PC infested with malware, definitely take care of that problem before thinking about playing games. It's all about priorities.

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It was October 4th, 1957. Scientists at MIT noticed that the frequency of the radio signals transmitted by the small Russian satellite increased as it approached and decreased as it moved away. This was caused by the Doppler Effect, the same thing that makes the timbre of a car horn change as the car rushes by.

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GPS has come a long way since Sputnik. Here are the major milestones along the way.

Currently, a total of 31 GPS satellites orbit the earth twice a day.

1959 The Navy built the first real satellite navigation system, which it called TRANSIT. The system was designed to locate submarines, and started out with six satellites and eventually grew to ten. The subs often had to wait hours to receive signals from the satellites, but the model set the stage for true GPS with continuous signaling from satellites in space.

1963 The Aerospace Corporation completed a study for the military that proposes a system of space satellites that sends signals continuously to receivers on the ground and could locate vehicles moving rapidly across the earth’s surface or in the air. The study lays out the GPS concept that we know today for the first time: receivers in vehicles on the ground would derive a precise set of location coordinates by measuring the transmission times of radio signals from satellites.

The Air Force launched the first "Block I" GPS satellite into space in 1974.

1974 The branches of the military, after having worked on a GPS system for the past 11 years, launch the first satellite of a proposed 24-satellite GPS system called NAVSTAR. The satellite, and many to follow, are meant to test the NAVSTAR concept.

1978-1985 The military launches 11 more test satellites into space to test the NAVSTAR system, which by then was called simply "the GPS System". The satellites carried atomic clocks with them, to more precisely measure transmission times. Some of these satellites (starting in 1980) carried sensors designed to detect the launch or detonation of nuclear devices.

1983 Shortly after the Russians shot down Korean Air flight 007 after it wandered off course into Soviet airspace over the Kamchatka Peninsula, president Reagan offered to let all civilian commercial aircraft use the GPS system (once it was completed) to improve navigation and air safety.

1985 The government contracts with private companies to develop “airborne, shipboard and man-pack (portable)” GPS receivers.

1989 After years of testing, the Air Force finally launches the first fully operational GPS satellite into space. The Air Force had planned to launch the satellite on the Space Shuttle, but changed its plans after the Challenger disaster in 1986 and used a Delta II rocket instead.

The first handheld consumer GPS device, the Magellen NAV 1000.

1989 Magellan Corporation claims to be the first to market in the U.S. with a hand-held navigation device, the Magellan NAV 1000.

1990 Fearing military adversaries might use the GPS system to advantage, the Defense Department decides to deliberately decrease the accuracy of the system.

1994 The FAA and Bill Clinton tell the worldwide airline industry that can continue using the GPS system free of charge “for the foreseeable future.”

1995 The first rev of the GPS system was finally completed in 1995 when the last of a full “constellation” of 27 fully operational GPS satellites is launched into space. Of those 27, three were used as spares to quickly replace any of the 24 active satellites that failed. The satellites, which weighed between three- and four-thousand pounds, circled the globe twice a day. They were situated so that at least four of them were visible from any place on earth at any time of day.

1998 Vice President Al Gore announced a plan to make the GPS satellites transmit two additional signals to be used for civilian (non-military) applications, especially to improve aircraft safety. Congress approved the plan (called “GPS III”) in 2000.

The Befefon Esc! was the first mobile phone with GPS built in.

1999 Mobile phone manufacturer Benefon launched the first commercially-available GPS phone, a safety phone called the Benefon Esc! The GSM phone was sold mainly in Europe, but many other GPS-enabled mobile phones would follow.

2000 The Defense Department ended the purposeful degradation of GPS, which it implemented before the first Gulf War. GPS became ten times more accurate overnight, and all kinds of industries--from fishing to forestry to freight management--soon began using it.

Personal GPS devices like the TomTom Start 45 car navigation device became hugely popular shortly after the turn of the century.

2001As GPS receiver technology got much smaller and cheaper, private companies began pumping out personal GPS products, like the in-car navigation devices from Tom Tom and Garvin.

2004 Qualcomm said it had developed and tested “assisted GPS” technology allowing phones to use cellular signal in combination with GPS signal to locate the user to within feet of their actual location.

The first "Block II" satellite joined the GPS constellation in 2005.

2005 The first of a new generation of GPS satellite, called “Block II,” was launched from Cape Canaveral. The new breed of satellite transmitted signals on a second, dedicated civilian channel.

2009 The Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report warning that the $5.8 billion effort to upgrade the GPS satellites was so fraught with technical problems, cost overruns, and delays that some of the satellites could begin to fail in 2010. This sent the Air Force scrambling to allay fears, saying "There's only a small risk we will not continue to exceed our performance standard."

The next generation of GPS satellite, called "Block III" will be activated starting in 2014.

2010-2011 The Air Force launched two new GPS satellites, one in 2010 and one in 2011, that are meant to keep the constellation operable until the next generation “Block III” satellites can begin launching in 2014. The new Block III satellites will add an additional civilian GPS signal, and will enhance the performance of existing GPS service.

2012 At present, the Air Force manages a constellation of 31 operational GPS satellites, plus three decommissioned satellites that can be reactivated if needed. The constellation is managed to ensure the availability of at least 24 GPS satellites, 95% of the time. On October 4 the Air Force will launch the next addition to the constellation, the GPS IIF-3 satellite, into space.

Sources: The Rand Corporation, United States Naval Observatory, United Launch Alliance, GPS.gov

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The refugee crisis in Europe has challenged many accepted truths, and shown that the solution lies in applying international human rights law to override political maneuvering.

For the refugee ‘crisis’ this narrative went along predictable lines: reports of numbers and the response of States. The inability of Greece, Macedonia, and then Hungary to ‘cope’, and the defensive measures taken to stop the ‘invasion’. The generic term used was ‘migrants’ ‘Syrians’ ‘refugees’ - depersonalising. Although there were some personal stories, there was no analysis as to who they were: men, women, children, age?

 The ultimate solution to the current refugee’ crisis’ is to end the war. That must be the end game. Traditional narratives and the policies and knee jerk reactions that follow, have failed. A different approach is needed and this crisis has perhaps shown us the way forward: there is a new and positive image of masculinity which favours peace over war; there is a tide of good will and common humanity across borders, languages and cultures, which has shown that our governments can be swayed by citizen engagement-democracy. Above all, and to meet the demands of the immediate situation now, there is a legal framework which  can guide States through this if they only drop their political rhetoric and seek practical ways forward.

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Luke 11:17-27, Serving together

Sunday, March 04, 2007

My post yesterday is very much a rhetorical question more than anything after a very interesting chat with a friend about church leadership. Coincidently, the sermon in church today has to do with exactly the same topic: church leadership in the theme of serving together.

Luke 22:17-27 (ESV)
17 And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he said, "Take this, and divide it among yourselves.
18 For I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes."
19 And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me."
20 And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, "This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.
21 But behold, the hand of him who betrays me is with me on the table.
22 For the Son of Man goes as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!"
23 And they began to question one another, which of them it could be who was going to do this.
24 A dispute also arose among them, as to which of them was to be regarded as the greatest.
25 And he said to them, "The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them, and those in authority over them are called benefactors.
26 But not so with you. Rather, let the greatest among you become as the youngest, and the leader as one who serves.
27 For who is the greater, one who reclines at table or one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines at table? But I am among you as the one who serves.

The gist of the sermon is pretty straightforward: it basically drives home the fact that how the world practice power or authority and how Christ does it are poles apart. While one greatness is determined by how many people are servant to him, the other is determined by how many are served. Different focus, different standards.

What intrigued me though was this passage in John.

John 13:3-17 (ESV)
3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,
4 rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist.
5 Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him.
6 He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, "Lord, do you wash my feet?"
7 Jesus answered him, "What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand."
8 Peter said to him, "You shall never wash my feet." Jesus answered him, "If I do not wash you, you have no share with me."
9 Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!"
10 Jesus said to him, "The one who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not every one of you."
11 For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, "Not all of you are clean."
12 When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, "Do you understand what I have done to you?
13 You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am.
14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.
15 For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you.
16 Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.
17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

I find this passage so prominent and significant in carrying the message of servanthood that I am very perplexed why it was not picked up by the other Gospels. And I am sure there is an answer. But I do not have one. Do you?

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Pete is a cutie and enjoyed another fun day with Grandma & Grandpa Dankelson, as well as a short outing to the cafeteria.

Hope everyone is enjoying a quiet week. We loved hearing from several of you in your Christmas cards, and your well wishes for Peter are very appreciated.

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