Notes: games on...on the radio...Cavaliers Boston...41 fouls up to end of third...messed up...89-74 Cavs...will check back...Dodgers on...eighteenth in a series...see previous...
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This is what the inland portion of the central coast of California once looked like. A dense assortment of small shrubs, especially sagebrush, formed a perfect environment for oak seedlings and a rich habitat for an abundant number of animal species.
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This is what the inland central coast of California looks like today. Nearly all the oaks are over 100 years old (seedlings fail because of cattle grazing) and the landscape is covered in non-native weeds.
http://www.californiachaparral.com/enativeamericans.html
captions of photos...rolling about I took note of the Oaks...wasn't seeing young oaks...too, took note of a lack of insects hitting the windshield...and became alarmist!...I am an alarmist...sounds better than 'fear monger', which is bandied in the comments to the youtubes suggesting the Hawaii volcano is going to cause a super sized landslide with a supersized tsunami which will...well, reach right up to my door!...it's Chicken Little's time...literally...asteroid impacts, 'the sky is falling', our worse fear, and oft argued to promote space programs and get our eggs out of Little's singular basket!...and if that isn't enough, it's the Bible thumpers refrain of armageddon, or Hollywood's dystopian fares...'there's nothing to fear but fear itself', said President Roosevelt, in the midst of fearful WW2...Muncie hits a Home Run...Dodgers 1...and I haven't picked up who they're playing!...they're in the fourth...bottom...Dodgers have been sailing after a long stay in the doldrums...announcers sometimes forget listeners are coming into a game midgame...then again, they can be annoyingly repetitive with 'today is today' info!...anyway, not to be fear mongering, but in the Hawaii landslide list one commentator notes they have tsunami dreams...which I do too!...on occasion...not very often...but...they're scary...the waves are huge, skyscraper tall like in the movies...remarkably, there have been such...geological records indicate as much...Rockies?...think I heard that...and too that the 1812 Capistrano....Parra ties it up for...lol...they will not mention the opposing team!...yes...Rockies...that 1812 quake was centered in the Channel Islands...apparently, that's where all the major quakes are...Californians are familiar with the Big One, earthquake...and that to be on the San Andreas Fault...which is easy to see from Space, and from the roadways......Dodger's defense saves them...announcers all agog...two outs...anyway, for all my alarming, I'm woefully unprepared for disasters...just lazy I guess...or spectating...pointing out perils...a grim regard...if the Angels bullpen can't get it together...doom and gloom...anyway, Catalina can have a landslide that would send a wave over Newport, and right to my door!...hmmph...where was I?...Taylor at third, Utley second...San Francisco shook during the World Series!...Indians and their fires...that quoted site above has a good take...brb...
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Before those changes, the Dinkey landscape – in fact, the whole, forested western slope of the Sierra Nevada – was maintained by strategic cultural burns. Mono and other Native firelighters used local topography, winds, and fuel characteristics to steer and time their fires near their settlements and along an intricate, interlacing trails network, creating a complex, patchy pattern of vegetation along creeks, in meadows, and in the uplands.
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Prior to the arrival of Europeans and Anglo Americans, the overall effect of year upon year of cultural burning was a bountiful landscape on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada, one that John Charles Frémont described in 1845 as “copiously watered with numerous and bold streams,” with oak orchards that Frémont described as “cultivated parks,” cedars and pines five to twelve feet in diameter, and abundant grass that was “fresh and green all the year round.”
https://www.kcet.org/shows/tending-the-wild/cultural-fire-on-the-mountain-an-introduction-to-native-cultural-burning
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Fremont may have been overstating the Indians' influence...top of 7th...1-1...
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Father Antonio records an interesting interaction between the Spanish and the Kizh, which demonstrates a certain degree of religious intolerance, which would come to characterize Spanish-Native relations. Near a cove on Catalina, the Spanish found a Kizh place of worship. He describes the following scene:
“They had what we would call an altar, there was a great circle all surrounded with feathers of various colors and shapes, which must come from the birds they sacrifice. Inside the circle there was a figure like a devil painted in various colors, in the way the Indians of New Spain are accustomed to paint them. At the sides of this were the sun and the moon. When the [Spanish] soldiers reached this place, inside the circle there were two large crows larger than ordinary ones, which flew away when they saw strangers, and alighted on some nearby rocks. One of the soldiers, seeing their size, aimed at them with his harquebus [matchlock rifle], and discharging it, killed them both. When the Indians saw this, they began to weep and display great emotion. In my opinion, the Devil talked to them through these crows, because all the men and women held them in great respect and fear.” (printed in Spanish Voyages to the Northwest Coast of America in the Sixteenth Century by Henry R. Wagner, 1929).
...a curio...:)...bottom of 7th...I think...what happened in Cleveland?...Cavs 111 Celts 102...thought as much...
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When a Spanish expedition first visited the Quiroste’s village in 1769, the valley was full of meadows, hazel groves, and stretches of burned earth. The expedition chaplain, Juan Crespi, noted in his diary that the Quiroste hunter-gatherers were careful managers of the landscape. He wrote that they regularly burned the meadowlands “for a better yield of the grass seeds that they eat.”
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The famous watchword of “Take nothing but photos, and leave nothing but footprints” that governs much of American conservation philosophy has resulted in landscapes dominated by mature vegetation that is prone to catastrophic wildfires. “It sounds nice, but in reality it just doesn’t work,” admits Hylkema.
https://www.archaeology.org/issues/272-1709/letter-from/5826-letter-from-california-fires
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hmmph...Rockies have a runner on third...'Rockies take a two to one lead'...tough grounder got by Utley...
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A reverence for nature was central to their way of life. Regional natives, as Malcolm Margolin, author of “The Ohlone Way,” has noted, “like hunting peoples everywhere, worshipped animal spirits as gods, imitated animal motions in their dances, sought animal powers in their dreams, and even saw themselves as belonging to clans with animals as their ancestors.” A fragment of one regional native song declared:
I dream of you.
I dream of you jumping.
Rabbit,
Jackrabbit,
Quail.
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Dance was a passion for these peoples. Not only was it a means of ritual and celebration, it was a way of communicating—with each other, with strangers, and with the universe. Another remnant from an Ohlone song contains the poignant and haunting line: Dancing on the brink of the world.
http://goodtimes.sc/cover-stories/spirit-weavers/
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Long before Don Gaspar came,
Ohlones made their place here;
The river their companion
For at least five thousand years.
They made up their own language,
We know only seven words
Of a song: They sang of “. . . dancing
On the brink of the world. . . ”
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Notes: This song was written in 1994, during Celia’s campaign when she was running for election to the
Santa Cruz City Council. In thinking about appropriate campaign issues, we realized that the San
Lorenzo River was the central geological feature that has guided the evolution of the City. Consulting
Don Clark’s Santa Cruz County Place Names, we discovered that Portol´a first camped on the river
on October 17, 1769, the very same day of the year that we experienced our most recent major
earthquake—October 17, 1989. It was a magical coincidence. Cresp´ı, in his diary recording the discovery
in 1769, notes that in the bed of the river, “. . . there is a thick growth of cottonwoods and alders . . . ”
and that “Besides the growth along the river there are many redwoods . . . ” and that “Not far from the
stream, we found . . . [a] variety of herbs and roses of Castile.”
Then, looking in Malcolm Margolin’s The Ohlone Way: “There is an Ohlone song . . . from which
only one evocative line survives: Dancing on the brink of the World. We know nothing more about this
song, just that one haunting line.” Could this refer to earthquakes experienced by the Ohlones?
These lyrics, the score, and a MIDI file may be downloaded from
http://maxwell.ucsc.edu/~drip/songs/riversong.http://www.cityofsantacruz.com/Home/ShowDocument?id=53328
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bottom of 9th...Randolph K...Bellinger up...Dodgers/LA are like a neighboring tribe...not so anxious if they win or lose...fly out two out...Kemp stepped off base thinking to go to second...Rockies had missplayed the ball, but catcher backed up, and tossed ball over...and "Kemp is out...putting foot forward advancing...one false step"...Rockies 2 Dodgers 1...I have sympathies for the Giants...
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DavidDavid
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