OTI:notes:5/15/18

Open To Interpretation

Notes: sixteenth?...I've lost count...in a series...see previous...:)...game on...on the radio...wow!...Trout leading off...Ohtani following...someone listened to me!...Barria pitching...little bit low..underway...soapstone...brb...

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 It is suspected that the Tongva of Catalina traded their soapstone bowls, shell beads, and finely-crafted quartz fetishes for crops and resources from other tribes on the mainland. Ti’ats, large canoes made of redwood planks, sewn together with plant fibers, carried up to 30 people across the channel and facilitated trade.

https://www.catalinaconservancy.org/index.php?s=news&p=article_38

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Cole pitching for Astros...full count on Trout...W...Ohtani up...K...Cole is tuff!...Upton Homerun!...Angels 2...Pujols fly out...Simmons single...caught stealing...Rivera catching...bottom 3rd...Rivera ground out to first...Trout up...3-2....oh...K...Ohtani up...hmmph...in browsing the sites about the Catalina Island Indians and their soapstone mining--they had a monopoly, trading along the coast and inland--I found mention of their 'soapstone guild'...that's out there somewhere...thought was they had a boat building 'guild' and a 'soapstone' guild...making things makes a kind of organization--a 'school'?...foul tip from Ohtani knocked the homeplate umpire silly...trading out for the second base umpire..big pause in Ohtani's at bat...doing things too...fishermen teaching their sons to fish...women teaching basket weaving...maybe they fished and hunted too!...a Gabrieleno Artemis!...there are islands too off Lower California--Baja...Ohtani foul fly out...Trout saves a long ball...makes the out...runner on first stays put...but moves to second on wp...

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The Isla de Cedros was named by early Spanish explorers who mistakenly associated the large amounts of redwood and cedar driftwood arriving with the California current for local pines visible on the crest of the island.

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These native peoples possessed sophisticated maritime technology and watercraft and depended largely on ocean resources for their livelihood.

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Currently, archaeological research into the indigenous history of the island is being conducted by researchers from California State University, Northridge and Oregon State University, under the direction of Dr. Matthew R. Des Lauriers.^{[citation needed]} More than 70 archaeological sites have been identified, with several dating in excess of 10,000 years old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedros_Island

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Bregman scores on base hit...Angels 2 Astros 1...two out...K...bottom of 4th...one out...Pujols up...

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As he explored, his feet crunched over shells of large Pismo clams—bivalves that he hadn't seen before on the mountainous island, 100 kilometers off the Pacific coast of Baja California. The stone tools littering the ground didn't fit, either. Unlike the finely made arrow points and razor-sharp obsidian that Des Lauriers had previously found on the island, these jagged flakes had been crudely knocked off of chunky beach cobbles.
"I had no idea what it meant," says Des Lauriers, now a professor at California State University (Cal State) in Northridge. Curiosity piqued, he returned for a test excavation and sent some shell and charcoal for radiocarbon dating. When Des Lauriers's adviser called with the results, he said, "You should probably sit down." The material dated from nearly 11,000 to more than 12,000 years ago—only a couple thousand years after the first people reached the Americas.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/08/most-archaeologists-think-first-americans-arrived-boat-now-they-re-beginning-prove-it

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two outs...Simmons on first with a hit...Valbuena up...yesterday was a long read about stone tools turning up all over the Amercas that was pushing back the occupation to that time about...12,000 BC...and they are all over...suggestion a wide spread population...and here the Indians are on this far out of the way Island...can't find yet if they had sewnplank boats...apparently, red wood logs would have drifted up all along Baja and this island...that's a really good site!...goes over the whole study along the west coast of the Americas...oldest fishhook has been found on Cedros Island...and some similarities between 'kits' on the coast, and those in Japan...'kits' are the hunting fishing tools they used...bottom of 5th...still Angels 2-1...one out...Calhoun up...157 batting average...fly out...Rivera up...outahere!...homerun...Angels 3-1...Trout up...W...Ohtani up...oh heck...Ohtani wapped a single, but Trout thrown out trying to reach third!...on to 6th...

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The full results—published Wednesday in Nature—suggest that the corridor wasn’t lush enough to support human colonizers until 12,600 years ago, which corresponds to the earliest archaeological evidence of human activity in the region. That’s at least 400 years after the Clovis culture, a major wave of early Americans, first appeared, and more than 2,000 years after the first Americans arrived. (Read about the new finds that are revolutionizing our understanding of who the first Americans were.)

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/08/ice-free-corridor-first-americans-archaeology-migration/

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Thanks to a growing body of archaeological and genetic evidence, researchers publishing today in Science say it’s increasingly likely that the first humans to arrive in the Americas followed a coastal route, making the most of marine resources on a “kelp highway” that spanned the edge of the north Pacific from Asia to North America. And they made this journey well before glaciers retreated to open the traditional Beringia overland route.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadthings/2017/11/02/first-americans-kelp-highway/#.WvutnGeG9jo

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Barria sailing...on to bottom of 6th...

the bit about the Kelp is a curio...the Russians at Ft. Ross brought Alaskan Indians with their kayaks along...they were hunting otters for the fur...brb...

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The little “tree” in my hand is a dart head fashioned from creamy-brown chert and bristling with tiny barbs designed to lodge in the flesh of marine prey. Erlandson recently collected dozens of these little stemmed points from San Miguel Island, a scrap of land 27 miles off the coast of California. Radiocarbon dating of marine shells and burned twigs at the site shows that humans first landed on San Miguel at least 12,000 years ago, and the dart head in my hand holds clues to the ancestry of those seafarers. Archaeologists have recovered similar items scattered along the rim of the North Pacific, and some have even been found in coastal Peru and Chile. The oldest appeared 15,600 years ago in coastal Japan.

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jun/20-did-humans-colonize-the-world-by-boat/

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headed to bottom of 7th...Angels 3-1...Barria did good!...

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The kayak was first used by the indigenous Aleut, Inuit, Yupik and possibly Ainu^[1] hunters in subarctic regions of the world.

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Kayaks are believed to be at least 4,000 years old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayak#History

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Kinsler with one out double...Calhoun up...7-79...hooey...Calhoun gets a hit, and Kinsler gets the out trying for home...Reddick in left has thrown out two, Trout and Kinsler...but I like the trying for the extra base--home!...

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The umiak, umialak, umiaq, umiac, oomiac, oomiak, ongiuk, or anyak^[1] is a type of open skin boat used by both Yupik and Inuit, and was originally found in all coastal areas from Siberia to Greenland.

^{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umiak}

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Reddick gets a double...a hustle double...Trout couldn't nip 'm...I don't understand...not only did the eskimos have the skin boats...and occupied the Arctic Circle...they had the know how to just walk over snow and ice...so I don't see Ice Age sheets were a barrier to them...to come from Siberia, or Northern Europe, to the Americas...short fly out to Calhoun...runners stay put...w...bases loaded...liner down the third base line...Astros 4-3...Oltuvi...reining mlb mvp...hmmph...Bedrosan in for Alverez...day late dollar short!...well. it seems a 'natural step' from a 'sewn skin boat' to a 'sewn plank boat'...and somewhere in there a 'sewn reed boat'...Kinsler throws Oltuvi out at home...fly out to Upton...bottom of 8th...an Eskimo could have kayaked from Alaska to SoCal foraging on the kelp ecology...kelp is in Japan...and likely around the Bearing Straight Islands...Trout up...

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ST. LOUIS—Ancient humans from Asia may have entered the Americas following an ocean highway made of dense kelp.
The new finding lends strength to the "coastal migration theory," whereby early maritime populations boated from one island to another, hunting the bountiful amounts of sea creatures that live in kelp forests.
Today, a nearly continuous "kelp highway" stretches from Japan, up along Siberia, across the Bering Strait to Alaska, and down again along the California coastline, Erlandson said.

https://www.livescience.com/7042-ancient-people-kelp-highway-america-researcher.html

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Trout and Ohtani made out...Upton up...ground out...

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Virtually alone in a forbidding wilderness closer to Siberia than to Anchorage, they have been dive bombed by eagles, bitten by otters, buffeted by 70-mph winds, rattled by earthquakes, and lost in storms. And each year they return for more, drawn back by the Aleutian paradox. If this rugged, remote ecosystem is collapsing, can any place on Earth be safe?

http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/birds/spectacled_eider/worldcatch.html

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yes...there's lots of kelp around the Aleutians...and things going south...that report in 2000...brb...

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Coal mines had their canaries. When it comes to microplastics in the ocean, Alaska has its seabirds.
A nearly decade-long University of Alaska project to monitor the ecology of puffins, crested auklets and other seabirds that flock to the storm-tossed Aleutian Islands has produced crucial baseline information about microplastics contamination in marine waters off Alaska.

https://www.newsdeeply.com/oceans/articles/2018/02/12/how-microplastics-are-contaminating-seabirds-in-remote-regions-of-Alaska

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hmmph...error1...Johnson mishandled the ball from Pujols...and runner...Riddick!...scores...and then a double play...Astros 5-3 bottom of 9th...these close games hinge on who can play error free...and those two aggressive baserunning outs configure in...looking back...hindsight...well, hindsight can't get that plastic out of the ocean/wild life...gloom...'Albert gets a hit!'...Pujols on...phthalates...

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Phthalates (US: /ˈθæleɪts/,^[1] UK: /ˈθɑːleɪts/^[2]), or phthalate esters, are esters of phthalic acid. They are mainly used as plasticizers, i.e., substances added to plastics to increase their flexibility, transparency, durability, and longevity. They are used primarily to soften polyvinyl chloride

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phthalate

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Valbuena not happy with third strike call...Kinsler up...slider gets Kinsler...and that's how the ballgame ends...to tomorrow morrow...maybe go to game...

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