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<font size="+1"><i>October 28, 2017</i></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.recordonline.com/news/20171027/federal-official-pushes-ahead-pipeline-project">Federal
official pushes ahead pipeline project</a></b><br>
WAWAYANDA - Federal regulators gave Millennium Pipeline Co.
permission Friday to start building the 7.8-mile natural gas line
that will supply the Competitive Power Ventures plant, pushing the
project forward even as a dispute continues over the state's denial
of permits for that pipeline.<br>
The notice to proceed, issued to Millennium by a Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission official, was a victory for Millennium and the
company building the $900 million power plant in Wawayanda, which is
largely built and was due to be tested soon. The state Department of
Environmental Conservation had denied Millennium's permits for the
gas pipe about two months ago, arguing the company needed to
document the potential effects of the greenhouse gases that the
650-megawatt power station will release. FERC overruled that
decision two weeks later, and DEC is challenging FERC's ruling.<br>
The DEC rehearing request, and a separate one filed by environmental
groups opposed to the CPV plant, were still pending when the FERC
official declared on Friday that construction may start.<br>
Michelle Hook, a Millennium spokeswoman, said afterward that the
company hopes to begin work in early November and expects to finish
in about six months, depending on the winter weather.<br>
Pramilla Malick, leader of an Orange County citizens group that has
fought the power plant, called the FERC official's decision "an
unprecedented abuse of process and law," and urged Gov. Andrew Cuomo
and Basil Seggos, the state's environmental conservation
commissioner, "to use the police powers of the state to protect our
water and prevent any construction activity." She also asked them to
suspend the CPV plant's permits.<br>
DEC officials had no immediate response to the FERC decision. They
had asked the commission to withhold permission for Millennium to
start construction while the DEC's challenge involving the pipeline
permits was pending....<font size="-1"><br>
"The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation will
seek a stay of FERC's ruling and is evaluating all options in
order to protect the environment," said the DEC in a statement
Friday. "FERC's decision today encroaches on state's rights, runs
counter to the federal Clean Water Act, and prevents states from
protecting precious natural resources."<br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/bp-shell-oil-global-warming-5-degree-paris-climate-agreement-fossil-fuels-temperature-rise-a8022511.html">BP
and Shell planning for catastrophic 5C global warming despite
publicly backing Paris climate agreement</a></b><br>
Companies are trying to 'have their oil and drink it' by committing
to 2 degrees C in public while planning for much higher temperature
rises, says shareholder campaign group, ShareAction.<br>
Oil giants Shell and BP are planning for global temperatures to rise
as much as 5 degrees C by the middle of the century. The level is
more than double the upper limit committed to by most countries in
the world under the<span> </span><a
href="http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/paris-climate-agreement"
style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
text-decoration: none; background: 0px 0px; color: rgb(236, 26,
46);">Paris Climate Agreement</a>, which both companies publicly
support.<br>
The discrepancy demonstrates that the companies are keeping
shareholders in the dark about the risks posed to their businesses
by climate change, according to<span> </span><a
href="https://shareaction.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
text-decoration: none; background: 0px 0px; color: rgb(236, 26,
46);">two new reports</a><span> </span>published by investment
campaign group Share Action. Many climate scientists say that a
temperature rise of 5 degrees C would be<span> </span><a
href="http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/arctic-circle-sea-ice-free-global-warming-limit-two-degrees-celcius-climate-change-paris-agreement-a7616311.html"
style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
text-decoration: none; background: 0px 0px; color: rgb(236, 26,
46);">catastrophic for the planet</a>.<br>
ShareAction claims that the companies' actions put the value of
millions of people's pensions at risk. Two years after BP and<span> </span><a
href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/nigeria-seize-12-oil-bloc-africa-richest-prosecute-shell-eni-corruption-charges-petroleum-federal-a7549626.html"
style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
text-decoration: none; background: 0px 0px; color: rgb(236, 26,
46);">Shell</a> shareholders voted resoundingly in favour of<span> </span><a
href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/bp-shareholders-back-motion-for-company-to-be-more-transparent-about-climate-policy-10182538.html"
style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
text-decoration: none; background: 0px 0px; color: rgb(236, 26,
46);">forcing the companies to make detailed disclosures</a><span> </span>about
climate risks, the companies have made unconvincing steps forward,
according to the reports.<br>
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href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/bp-shell-oil-global-warming-5-degree-paris-climate-agreement-fossil-fuels-temperature-rise-a8022511.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/bp-shell-oil-global-warming-5-degree-paris-climate-agreement-fossil-fuels-temperature-rise-a8022511.html</a><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://shareaction.org/">Our
latest reports</a></b><br>
It's been two years since we co-filed shareholder resolutions on
climate disclosure at BP and Shell. While the oil majors have
complied with the minimum requirements of those resolutions, their
current business models continue to ignore the reality of the
low-carbon transition. We have published two reports analysing each
company's performance in order to support institutional investors to
press the companies to move beyond climate disclosure and take
meaningful action now.<br>
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href="https://shareaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/InvestorReport-AimingForA-BP.pdf">https://shareaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/InvestorReport-AimingForA-BP.pdf</a><br>
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href="https://shareaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/InvestorReport-AimingForA-Shell.pdf">https://shareaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/InvestorReport-AimingForA-Shell.pdf</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/10/26/shipping-executive-deliberately-mislead-public-climate/">Shipping
executive: 'We have deliberately misled public on climate'</a></b><br>
By Karl Mathiesen Published on 26/10/2017, 12:30pm<br>
Industry veteran said lobbyists at UN shipping talks were
'prostitutes employed by our racket to try and put one over on the
general public'<br>
A UK shipping executive has turned on the industry for ignoring the
effect lobbying has had on its efforts to reduce carbon pollution.<br>
In <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://splash247.com/can-honest-damage/">an op-ed published
</a>on the trade press site Splash 24/7 on Thursday, Andrew
Craig-Bennett said industry mockery of a report released this week
that concluded lobbyists had "captured" talks at the UN
International Maritime Organisation (IMO) was misplaced.<br>
On Monday, the NGO Influence Map <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/10/23/un-shipping-climate-talks-captured-industry/">released
a damning report </a>that exposed the degree to which these
shipping registries and industry lobby groups had infiltrated the
body intended to regulate them.<br>
While some details in the report were incorrect, said Craig-Bennett,
a 41-year veteran of the shipping industry, "it is basically right,
and we all know that it is".<br>
"From the feedback I got, it was an eye opener for many [IMO]
delegates," van Ypersele told Climate Home News. When asked what
exactly had been surprising for those in the room, he said as far as
he knew, they had not known that "CO2 is a stock pollutant, and
therefore that zero net emissions are needed to stabilise the CO2
and temperature". Stock pollutants are long-lasting chemicals that
accumulate in the environment over time.<br>
Craig-Bennett said the industry should move fast to adopt new and
disruptive technologies. "The only sensible proposal before the IMO
is the one coming from the Pacific Islands - including the Marshall
Islands - calling for zero emissions by 2035… Seventeen years is
long enough to pay down and scrap all existing ships and replace
them with something else."<br>
He also sarcastically noted the IMO's "infinite wisdom" in not
allowing journalists to report on its discussions. Climate Home
News' deputy editor Megan Darby was banned from the IMO for <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.climatechangenews.com/2016/07/15/offshore-carbon-why-a-climate-deal-for-shipping-is-sinking/">doing
just that in 2016</a>.<font size="-1"><br>
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href="http://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/10/26/shipping-executive-deliberately-mislead-public-climate/">http://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/10/26/shipping-executive-deliberately-mislead-public-climate/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/10/23/un-shipping-climate-talks-captured-industry/">UN
shipping climate talks 'captured' by industry lobbyists</a></b><br>
Published on 23/10/2017 By Megan Darby<br>
Business interests dominate at the International Maritime
Organization, analysis shows, steering it towards weak greenhouse
gas emissions rules<br>
The shipping industry has "captured" UN talks on a climate target
for the sector, using its clout to delay and weaken emissions curbs.<br>
That is the conclusion of a <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://influencemap.org/report/Corporate-capture-of-the-IMO-902bf81c05a0591c551f965020623fda">report
by business lobbying watchdog Influence Map </a>on the
International Maritime Organization (IMO). The study was released to
coincide with a meeting of an IMO working group on greenhouse gases
on Monday.<br>
Based on analysis of delegate lists, meeting submissions and
outcomes, it finds business interests exert an uncommon degree of
influence over decisions. This, campaigners warn, jeopardises the
international climate goals adopted in Paris....<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/10/23/un-shipping-climate-talks-captured-industry/">http://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/10/23/un-shipping-climate-talks-captured-industry/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://influencemap.org/report/Corporate-capture-of-the-IMO-902bf81c05a0591c551f965020623fda">https://influencemap.org/report/Corporate-capture-of-the-IMO-902bf81c05a0591c551f965020623fda</a>
Report<br>
-more:<br>
<b>International Maritime Organization (IMO) </b><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://splash247.com/can-honest-damage/">(opinion) Can we
be honest about the damage we are all doing? </a></b><br>
Amongst this week's contributions to the gaiety of nations we may
include the attempt by our industry's lobbying bodies to tell the
world that they do not do what we pay them to do - to influence
national and international policy in favour of people who own and
operate merchant ships.<br>
on. In my case, I was the observer ... at a session on solid bulk
cargoes, more than 30 years ago, and I saw a carefully drafted,
science-based, regulation, which would have improved safety and been
simple to enforce, turned into a pile of scientifically unsound but
'commercially helpful' garbage by, in that case, the Australian
mining industry, who were pretending to be the Australian
government.<br>
I have no reason to think that any other sessions, or any other
governments, are different. Bismarck's remark about making sausages
comes to mind.<br>
Let's be practical. We are in this business to make money.<br>
How can we make lots of it, whilst at the same time keeping this
planet's delicate oceans and atmosphere intact? Planets don't come
with lifeboats.<br>
Most of us will have seen the reports of the study, published last
month by the University of Washington at Seattle, into the <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://splash247.com/study-maps-correlation-busy-shipping-lanes-intense-thunderstorms/">frequency
of lightning strikes</a> at sea and their much higher incidence
over heavily used shipping lanes. In case you missed it, lightning
strikes are twice as common over the two busiest shipping lanes in
the world, those leading towards and away from the Straits of
Malacca, as they are elsewhere, and this is because of the greater
number of particulates in the atmosphere over those shipping lanes,
which affects cloud formation.<br>
That is direct evidence that our ships are interfering with the
climate.<br>
Remember, if you have been in shipping for 30 years, that the world
fleet is now four times as large as it was when you started.<br>
Our oceans are a mass of churned up fragments of plastic, leopard
seals are eating krill because there are no penguins, reefs are
blanching, life in the seas is dying, and all our representatives
can do is to offer up the prayer of the young Saint Augustine - "O
Lord, make me virtuous, but not yet!"<br>
It doesn't really do, does it? When we are offered such validations
of Disraeli as, "Shipping moves 90% of goods at the cost of 3% of
emissions", which is a running together of numbers from different
places - the valid comparison would be with transport emissions, not
total emissions - we can feel nothing but contempt and disgust at
the prostitutes employed by our racket to try to put one over on the
general public.<br>
The IMO does not have the power to influence public opinion, all it
can do is to slow down, or speed up, regulatory charge.<br>
Regulation of emissions exists, in a very feeble form; real
regulation of emissions is unavoidable; all we can do is to choose
to promote it or to try to delay it.<br>
We all know that if we try to regulate emissions by measuring fuel
consumption, and so on, people in our business are going to cheat.
It's what people in our business do. The only way to keep ourselves
honest is to ban the infernal combination engine altogether, along
with the external kind, and to adopt zero emissions.<br>
Before you throw your hands up in horror, take a moment to think
about this.<br>
The best way to make loads of money whilst stimulating economic
development is the same as it always has been - to ride the wave of
a truly disruptive technology. Containers, diesel engines, welding,
steel, refrigeration, wireless, the telegraph cable, compound
expansion steam, carvel planking, the astrolabe and the mariner's
compass - these have been the great disruptors, and the biggest of
them involved propulsion.<br>
We want to make money, and to lead long, comfortable, lives.<br>
These are the only facts that matter.<br>
I hope we all agree?<br>
Because if we do, we must also agree that the only sensible proposal
before the IMO is the one coming from the Pacific islands -
including the Marshall Islands - calling for zero emissions by 2035.<br>
That would give us 17 years to scrap every ship on the planet and
replace them with ships that do not consume hydrocarbons and emit
greenhouse gases when in operation.<br>
That's a real disruption, unlike unmanned ships and suchlike, which
are chicken feed.<br>
Seventeen years is long enough to pay down and scrap all existing
ships and replace them with something else.<br>
Let's take a blank sheet of paper and think about that. The playing
field is now quite level...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://splash247.com/can-honest-damage/">http://slash247.com/can-honest-damage/</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/climate-change-maps">How
Climate Change Affects Cartography</a></b><br>
Mapmakers talk about how they approach shifting coastlines and
melting ice.<br>
THE MAPS IN NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC'S 10th edition of its Atlas of the
World, released in 2014, were similar to those in 50 years' worth of
previous editions, from the familiar outlines of continents to Nat
Geo's patented font.<br>
But there was an important difference—the shape of the Arctic.<br>
Using data from NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center, Nat
Geo remapped the area in 2013 to show how the Arctic's ice sheet had
receded. The change was so extensive that President Barack Obama
mentioned it in a speech on global warming. But as soon as the
cartographers had finished drawing, their map was already out of
date.<br>
"The sea ice changes monthly and daily so it's very hard to capture
it in one static image," explains Rosemary Wardley, a senior GIS
cartographer at National Geographic Maps, and part of the world
atlas team.<br>
To capture this state of change, Nat Geo has attempted to portray
the Arctic "a little differently" in its recent visual atlas,
presenting data about the state of the sea ice over time and during
different seasons. The ice has a more "physical look" and a less
"solid, white feel." "We wanted to make sure the user could see the
multiyear ice [ice that survives more than one melting season] and
that while it's something solid, it is changing," says Wardley....<br>
...By 2050, an estimated 66 percent of the world's population will
live in cities, driven in part by climate change, such as extreme
flooding or drought in rural areas. Expanding cities are at
increased risk from the effects of climate change, as mapped by the
European Environment Agency. They also require new maps to help us
understand them.<br>
"We live in layers stacked up. A 3D map is hard to navigate partly
because we are so used to maps being flat," says Bonnett. "It's not
just a question of physical changes and data changes, but of us
trying to get our heads around new dimensions in mapping."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/climate-change-maps">https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/climate-change-maps</a><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2017/10/26/watch_samantha_bee_s_climate_change_themed_halloween_special_video.html"><b>This
Halloween, Samantha Bee Wants to Scare the Disbelieving Pants
Off of Climate Change Deniers</b></a><br>
Halloween is just days away, and studies show that Americans are
more afraid of clowns than climate change. Full Frontal's Samantha
Bee is on a mission to change that by taking the concept of Hell
Houses—essentially haunted houses created by religious organizations
to scare people out of being gay or getting abortions—and using it
for her own means. Bee partnered with the people behind Terror
Behind the Walls, a haunted house at Eastern State Penitentiary in
Philadelphia, and set up a climate change-themed Hell House that
imagines a future in which the Earth is ruined beyond repair.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFjV8hZR4uM">(Video) Full
Frontal's (Hot As) Hell House | October 25, 2017 Act 3 | Full
Frontal on TBS</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFjV8hZR4uM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFjV8hZR4uM</a><br>
At the end, Bee found that the experience had changed at least one
climate change denier's mind—but it wasn't the cockroaches that did
it. As for the others in her focus group, maybe Ingrid Michaelson
can sing some sense into them: Michaelson showed up to sing a parody
of her song "Be OK" called "(Earth Is) Not OK." <br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/jAPltvZCt9w">(Video)
(Earth is) Not OK ft. Ingrid Michaelson | October 25, 2017 | Full
Frontal on TBS</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/jAPltvZCt9w">https://youtu.be/jAPltvZCt9w</a>
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The special effects really are something.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2017/10/26/watch_samantha_bee_s_climate_change_themed_halloween_special_video.html">http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2017/10/26/watch_samantha_bee_s_climate_change_themed_halloween_special_video.html</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://e360.yale.edu/features/climate-change-and-the-human-mind-a-noted-psychiatrist-weighs-in">Climate
Change and the Human Mind: A Noted Psychiatrist Weighs In</a></b><br>
Author Robert Jay Lifton has probed the psyches of barbaric Nazi
doctors and Hiroshima survivors. Now, he is focusing on how people
respond to the mounting evidence of climate change and is finding
some reasons for hope. <br>
BY DIANE TOOMEY • OCTOBER 26, 2017<br>
<b>e360: </b>At the end of your book, you give an articulate
explanation of why you, as a 91-year-old who will not see the worst
effects of climate change, care about this issue. Could you share a
bit of that now?<br>
<b>Lifton: </b>It's sometimes assumed that when one reaches the
last stages of life, one shouldn't have to care about the human
future. One, after all, won't be there. But it can be the reverse
for many of us, and I think I'm hardly alone in this. If one
considers oneself, as I do, part of the human flow, part of the
Great Chain of Being, part of human connectedness, which extends
from generation to generation, of course it includes one's own
children and grandchildren — and I have those. But it's more than
that. It's continuing the human chain that one has been a part of.
And in my case, that I sought to in some ways contribute to, in a
modest fashion, all through my life in my work.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://e360.yale.edu/features/climate-change-and-the-human-mind-a-noted-psychiatrist-weighs-in">http://e360.yale.edu/features/climate-change-and-the-human-mind-a-noted-psychiatrist-weighs-in</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.thenation.com/article/it-doesnt-matter-if-cities-are-climate-change-proof-if-no-one-can-afford-to-live-in-them/">(opinion)
It Doesn't Matter if Cities Are Climate Change-Proof if No One
Can Afford to Live in Them</a></b><br>
In the wake of this year's devastating hurricanes, cities need to
focus on equity in all of their future climate-adaptation plans.<br>
Trump and the head of Housing and Urban Development, Ben Carson,
seem patently uninterested in shoring up the environmental defenses
of vulnerable public-housing systems. Carson and Trump both seem
committed to systematically defunding and deregulating housing
programs, and outsourcing public infrastructure projects to private
contractors. Peter Kye, author of PRRAC's recent policy brief on
public housing and climate adaptation, explains that "areas of
Houston that had not previously flooded were devastated" by
Hurricane Harvey, showing that "extreme weather can affect housing
in areas not traditionally seen as vulnerable." For areas facing
unprecedented levels of disaster, preparedness has to go beyond the
local level, Kye says, making it "more urgent than ever that HUD
takes a more active role in assessing the vulnerability of housing
that serves low- and moderate-income people, promotes
climate-planning efforts that considers housing concerns, and takes
concrete steps to protect HUD-assisted housing."<br>
Public housing in flood-prone areas can't afford to wait for the
next catastrophe. After Superstorm Sandy struck New York and exposed
stark inequalities between richer and poorer neighborhoods, the city
got serious about disaster preparedness by foregrounding
environmental justice in its climate-adaptation planning. Housing
authorities laid out a plan to build for equitable resilience: For
example, housing authorities can ensure that seniors and people with
disabilities living in public-housing projects are prioritized in
evacuation plans when the next storm hits. Working-class
neighborhoods should be guaranteed safe access to back-up public
transit, so they're not isolated when subway and bus lines are
flooded. To prevent the next Sandy from pushing the city into the
same backward slide that post-Katrina New Orleans has undergone,
housing authorities in cities like New York should institute a
democratic planning and risk-communication system, so that
reconstruction projects do not become taxpayer-subsidized vehicles
for gentrification.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.thenation.com/article/it-doesnt-matter-if-cities-are-climate-change-proof-if-no-one-can-afford-to-live-in-them/">https://www.thenation.com/article/it-doesnt-matter-if-cities-are-climate-change-proof-if-no-one-can-afford-to-live-in-them/</a><br>
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</b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/a-yoga-meditation-for-resilience-resistance-equality_us_59f25256e4b06ae9067ab769">A
Yoga Meditation for Resilience, Resistance, Equality and
Community: Sthirasukhamasanam</a></b><br>
How can we help each other remain stable and firm in our resistance
and resilience without giving up the sweetness of soft moments of
surrender, interpersonal tenderness and compassion? I've been
practicing yoga and meditation for decades, but as a member of the
LGBTQI community in the U.S., finding that balance in each moment
currently seems to require more consistent, mindful effort as 2017
wears on. The eight limbs of ancient yoga invite us to be mindful of
the outward and inward principles of integrity that guide being in
right relationship to our environment and ourselves, including but
not primarily focused on physical postures and mindful breathing, in
order to focus so that senses and eventually even one's own thinking
no longer distracts the mind from unity and interconnectedness with
All That Is.<br>
My favorite verse of yoga's most ancient text, Yoga Sutras of
Patanjali, is simply "Sthirasukhamasanam" (Book 2 Sadhanapadah,
Verse 46). Every time I practice, spiritually and physically, in
each pose, in teaching, and even in breathing, this ancient
principle invites me to seek a balance of two seemingly opposing
dynamics — sthira (alertness and strength) and sukha (relaxation and
softness). Sthirasukhamasanam describes the spiritual and physical
balance and wholeness we seek through each moment of yoga practice.
Yoga is a way to find that balance through moment-by-moment
adaptation and flexibility to the way things are right now — without
judging, recoiling, or dominating. Yoga helps me to accept myself
and others where we are — one moment at a time: "Yoga is now," as
the ancient text's very first verse begins.<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/a-yoga-meditation-for-resilience-resistance-equality_us_59f25256e4b06ae9067ab769">https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/a-yoga-meditation-for-resilience-resistance-equality_us_59f25256e4b06ae9067ab769</a></font><br>
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<b><a
href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-franco-american-microtones-notebook-20171025-story.html">Review
What do microtones have to do with global warming? Two concerts
offer an answer</a></b><br>
The 18th-century theorists who devised the well-tempered system of
tuning instruments meant merely to improve music. This is the
mathematical way to fiddle with the size of intervals between notes
so that fixed-pitch instruments, particularly keyboards, can play in
all 12 keys without retuning. This has been the tuning system of
Western music in all its manifestations ever since. However
ill-tempered, the civilized world is, for the most part, musically
well-tempered....<br>
...We first need to learn to think differently so that we can do
business differently. Nor should we expect the same solutions for
every environment. For instance, climate-change deniers in states
like Wyoming aren't necessarily stupid, Lempert said, rather they
just see no options when their survival is entirely dependent on the
fossil fuel industry.<br>
This was also Harrison's argument against the "industrial gray" of
using the same tunings for every piece. He liked to move around,
between styles, between centuries and between cultures. In his
alluring "Varied Quintet," for violin, harp, harpsichord and
percussion, Harrison let bells ring the way bells like to ring in
all their sonic complexity. Harp and harpsichord had Baroque-era
tunings and provided extra perfume to his most delicious melodies,
such as the one for violin sensuously played by Shalini Vijayan in a
movement honoring Fragonard.<br>
Pairing Johnston's Ninth String Quartet and Philip Glass' String
Quintet provided a compelling example of how microtones alter
perception. After a while what first seems out of tune eventually
starts to sound right. This can be compared to what happens when you
don spectacles that turn everything upside down. After a while your
brain adjusts and when you take the glasses off everything is upside
down.<br>
Johnston's 1988 quartet, illuminatingly played by the Lyris Quartet,
is a small masterpiece of altered reality, its every unamplified
chord taking on the quality of amplification, of righting a
topsy-turvy world. Glass' sextet (played by an enhanced Lyris, with
extra violist and cellist) is a reduction of his Third Symphony
meant to presumably cut through the sonic haze of the original
orchestration for 19 strings. But it also loses in the process a
richness, making me wonder what might have happened were it played
in a more acoustically natural equal temperament.<br>
Sometimes tuning is everything, sometimes not. The watery effects of
Karen Tanaka's "Jardin des Herbes" for micro-tuned harpsichord,
performed by Gloria Cheng, suggests the sound of nature in her
natural state. Steven Stucky's "Two Holy Sonnets of John Donne"
performed in memory of the composer who died last year, are
conventionally tuned, but the musky mezzo-soprano of Peabody
Southwell filled in earthy nuance.<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-franco-american-microtones-notebook-20171025-story.html">http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-franco-american-microtones-notebook-20171025-story.html</a></font><br>
example <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmNllWvg620">La
Ritournelle et le Galop by Pascale Criton</a> <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmNllWvg620">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmNllWvg620</a><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/28/business/28oil.html?_r=0&pagewanted=print">This
Day in Climate History October 28, 2005 </a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
October 28, 2005: The New York Times reports:<br>
"A sudden interruption in oil supplies sent prices and profits<br>
skyrocketing, prompting Exxon's chief executive to call a news<br>
conference right after his company announced that it had chalked up<br>
record earnings.<br>
'I am not embarrassed,' he said. 'This is no windfall.'<br>
"That was January 1974, a few months after Arab oil producers cut
back<br>
on supplies and imposed their short-lived embargo on exports to the<br>
United States. Oil executives, including J. K. Jamieson, Exxon's
chief<br>
executive at the time, were put on the defensive, forced to justify<br>
their soaring profits while the nation was facing its first energy<br>
crisis.<br>
"Three decades later, their successors are again facing contentions<br>
that oil companies are making too much money and have failed to
expand<br>
production.<br>
"Politicians and other critics are asking why the industry allowed
its<br>
refining capacity to tighten.<br>
"Exxon Mobil, the world's largest oil company, said yesterday that
its<br>
third-quarter net income jumped 75 percent, to $9.92 billion. Its<br>
profit in the first nine months of this year - $25.42 billion -<br>
already equals its full-year earnings for 2004. This year's sales,<br>
which topped $100 billion in the last quarter, are expected to
exceed<br>
those of Wal-Mart.<br>
"Another oil giant, Royal Dutch Shell, reported a 68 percent jump in<br>
profits yesterday, to $9.03 billion. Chevron is expected to post a<br>
profit of more than $4 billion today.<br>
"This year is shaping up as an exceptionally lucrative one for the
oil<br>
industry, thanks to strong global demand, tight supplies and high<br>
prices for oil and natural gas. While the idea that the Bush<br>
administration was considering imposing a windfall profits tax was<br>
knocked down yesterday by officials, longstanding resentments
against<br>
Big Oil are resurfacing and could end up imposing some additional<br>
burdens on the industry.<br>
"The sense that government should step in to curb the phenomenal<br>
wealth and power often enjoyed by oil companies goes back to Exxon<br>
Mobil's corporate ancestor from the late 19th century, the
Rockefeller<br>
oil trust known as Standard Oil.<br>
"Today, Republicans and Democrats alike, aware of the politically<br>
sensitive issue of high energy prices, are putting increasing
pressure<br>
on the oil and gas industry to return some of its profits. The ideas<br>
include forcing the industry to invest in more refining capacity, to<br>
increase inventories to cushion energy shocks, or to provide money<br>
directly to the government program that helps low-income people pay<br>
heating bills."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/28/business/28oil.html?_r=0&pagewanted=print">http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/28/business/28oil.html?_r=0&pagewanted=print</a><br>
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