RADIO 91.5 KUSC
Childhood favorite/I wasn't allowed to listen to anything else but this: http://www.kusc.org/
(The best: weekday mornings with Alan Chapman + the evening program with Jim Svejda)
11/25/13
11/21/13
Concrete Channel Notes
CONFERENCE NOTES Future of the Concrete Channel
Flood risk is distributed and managed amongst communities via waterway improvements that promote gentrification and displacement - disproportionate risk distribution.
New generations of civil engineers, landscape architects, and policy makers must pioneer multi-objective, multi-value infrastructure proposals to replace 'rationally planned' infrastructure that is now failing. It is possible.
Rationally planning is dead, rivers are alive.
Favorite speakers:
Carol Armstrong, City of Los Angeles
Lewis Adams, Friends of Los Angeles River
David Fowler, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District
Flood risk is distributed and managed amongst communities via waterway improvements that promote gentrification and displacement - disproportionate risk distribution.
New generations of civil engineers, landscape architects, and policy makers must pioneer multi-objective, multi-value infrastructure proposals to replace 'rationally planned' infrastructure that is now failing. It is possible.
Rationally planning is dead, rivers are alive.
Favorite speakers:
Carol Armstrong, City of Los Angeles
Lewis Adams, Friends of Los Angeles River
David Fowler, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District
11/20/13
Celia says
EXCERPT from An Island Garden by Celia Thaxter
Through the early hours of the day the mottled, pearly clouds keep their shape, with delicious open spaces of tempered blue between; by and by the sky's tender fleece is half shadowed, toward noon it melts into loose mists. Color everywhere tells against these pellucid grays, -- the gold of Lemon Lilies, the flame of Iceland Poppies, all the sweet tints of every blossom. Presently the happy rain begins to fall, so soft, so warm, so peaceful, the very sound of it is a pleasure; every leaf in the patient garden, which has waited for the shower so long, spreads itself wide to catch each crystal drop and treasure its deep refreshment. All day it rains; at night the melody lulls us to sleep as it patters on the roof.
Through the early hours of the day the mottled, pearly clouds keep their shape, with delicious open spaces of tempered blue between; by and by the sky's tender fleece is half shadowed, toward noon it melts into loose mists. Color everywhere tells against these pellucid grays, -- the gold of Lemon Lilies, the flame of Iceland Poppies, all the sweet tints of every blossom. Presently the happy rain begins to fall, so soft, so warm, so peaceful, the very sound of it is a pleasure; every leaf in the patient garden, which has waited for the shower so long, spreads itself wide to catch each crystal drop and treasure its deep refreshment. All day it rains; at night the melody lulls us to sleep as it patters on the roof.
11/19/13
make an emergency preparedness kit
"Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future." - Deepak Chopra
11/18/13
UC strike
EXCERPT from my inbox - UC Strike
The UC Student-Workers union's lawyers and labor consultant have been unequivocal: as student employees, working in the higher education sector in California, whose previous contract has expired, UC graduate student instructors, readers, and undergraduate tutors now have the legal right to engage in Wednesday’s sympathy strike.
But this is not the story that the Vice Chancellor and certain department chairs have been telling graduate students. I’ve heard from some graduate students that they’ve been told that they cannot strike because Wednesday’s action is a sympathy strike, and from others that they’ve been told they cannot strike because the action is not a sympathy strike. Some, having received these messages from their advisors and fearful of retaliation, are concerned about their academic standing should they strike. Faulty, illegal, contradictory information about labor law is being passed off as the truth and passed on to graduate students as a way to confuse them and to intimidate them from engaging in legally protected collective action.
The UC Student-Workers union's lawyers and labor consultant have been unequivocal: as student employees, working in the higher education sector in California, whose previous contract has expired, UC graduate student instructors, readers, and undergraduate tutors now have the legal right to engage in Wednesday’s sympathy strike.
But this is not the story that the Vice Chancellor and certain department chairs have been telling graduate students. I’ve heard from some graduate students that they’ve been told that they cannot strike because Wednesday’s action is a sympathy strike, and from others that they’ve been told they cannot strike because the action is not a sympathy strike. Some, having received these messages from their advisors and fearful of retaliation, are concerned about their academic standing should they strike. Faulty, illegal, contradictory information about labor law is being passed off as the truth and passed on to graduate students as a way to confuse them and to intimidate them from engaging in legally protected collective action.
11/15/13
Future of the Concrete Channel
CONFERENCE Future of the Concrete Channel
8:45AM - 6PM, Thursday, November 21st
David Brower Center, Berkeley
As concrete channels inevitably age and reach the end of their design lives, river managers confront the question of what to do with this deteriorating infrastructure?
8:45AM - 6PM, Thursday, November 21st
David Brower Center, Berkeley
As concrete channels inevitably age and reach the end of their design lives, river managers confront the question of what to do with this deteriorating infrastructure?
11/10/13
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11/5/13
weekend dining
hot pot baklava ice cream
bacon collards sausage eggs
pineapple guava cherry tomato
coffee latte tea and juice
11/1/13
Exploratorium Conversation
PANEL Conversations about Landscape: The City and the Ocean
Exploring Blue Urbanism and Landscape Planning, free w/registration
6-8PM, Wednesday, November 6th
Exploratorium, Pier 15, Bay Observatory
Living on the coast is great.
Exploring Blue Urbanism and Landscape Planning, free w/registration
6-8PM, Wednesday, November 6th
Exploratorium, Pier 15, Bay Observatory
Living on the coast is great.
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