Excellent, brief summary of the science and art of propagation prediction. It's full of pointers to resources such as Radio Mobile Online by Roger Coudé, VE2DBE (ve2dbe.com/rmonline.html), which would be very handy for regional ARES and RACES disaster response groups, and already (seems to be) used by AREDN's mesh network.
Americana, album, song cycle, courageous heart
ARRL's hands-on radio experiments : basic electronic experiments from the pages of QST magazine by ARRL Inc.
All kinds of nuggets of knowledge plus hints and kinks
The title says it all. It's a well-written resource, and a resource to resources. An excellent update to the 2016 edition.
For me, this was a real page-turner of recent history of technology. You'll have to go elsewhere for details, but it was excellent as a survey of who, what, when, and where.
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Publisher: Soho Crime (June 5, 2018)
Publication Date: June 5, 2018
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Language: English
ASIN: B076NS4WNW
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Print Length: 336 pages
Publisher: Soho Crime (June 5, 2018)
Publication Date: June 5, 2018
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Language: English
ASIN: B076NS4WNW
Text-to-Speech: Enabled
X-Ray:
Enabled
Word Wise: Enabled
Lending: Not Enabled
Screen Reader: Supported
Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,396 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
#10 in Books > Humor & Entertainment > Humor > Lawyers & Criminals
#37 in Books > Humor & Entertainment > Humor > Satire
#38 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Mystery > Traditional Detectives
The City is a pioneering short documentary film from 1939 that contrasts the problems of the contemporary urban environment with the superior social and physical conditions that can be provided in a planned community. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_(1939_film) See also http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031160/, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nuvcpnysjU
Initial release: May 26, 1939
Initial release: May 26, 1939
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.3 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
from https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/103258/unable-unwilling:
"A light, satirical card game set in a Quaker meeting. Membership has declined so far that you, the players, are all that are left. Unfortunately, the meeting still has over 40 nominated positions, and they all need to be filled by teatime. Can you persuade your Friends to nominate someone else? Or will you be the first to collapse from overwork, resign your membership and write an angry letter to The Friend?
"The players each have a handful of cards, comprising nominations for jobs and increasingly-desperate ways of trying to get out of them. The game uses a line mechanic, similar to Family Business or Guillotine, with players eliminated when they succumb to too much work; the winner is the last player standing."
"A light, satirical card game set in a Quaker meeting. Membership has declined so far that you, the players, are all that are left. Unfortunately, the meeting still has over 40 nominated positions, and they all need to be filled by teatime. Can you persuade your Friends to nominate someone else? Or will you be the first to collapse from overwork, resign your membership and write an angry letter to The Friend?
"The players each have a handful of cards, comprising nominations for jobs and increasingly-desperate ways of trying to get out of them. The game uses a line mechanic, similar to Family Business or Guillotine, with players eliminated when they succumb to too much work; the winner is the last player standing."
One of the most powerful acts of devotion is also one of the most simple: bowing down and surrendering to the earth. This is the basis for the Five Prostrations, a time-honored Buddhist meditation practice that joins the mind and body.
On Touching the Earth, Buddhist masters Thich Nhat Hanh and Sister Chân Không update this ancient teaching for the modern student. You learn each phase of this practice, which will help empty your body of resentment while opening it to compassion for all life.
Through the songs of Sister Chân Không (whom Thich Nhat Hanh has called a living bodhisattva, or one dedicated to the enlightenment of all beings), you also gain an ancient Buddhist technique for communicating tenderness and healing to your body. Touching the Earth comes to you with a foldout explaining this artful meditation in detail.
On Touching the Earth, Buddhist masters Thich Nhat Hanh and Sister Chân Không update this ancient teaching for the modern student. You learn each phase of this practice, which will help empty your body of resentment while opening it to compassion for all life.
Through the songs of Sister Chân Không (whom Thich Nhat Hanh has called a living bodhisattva, or one dedicated to the enlightenment of all beings), you also gain an ancient Buddhist technique for communicating tenderness and healing to your body. Touching the Earth comes to you with a foldout explaining this artful meditation in detail.
from http://www.xpn.org/component/k2/item/2106-various-live-at-the-world-cafe-volume-...
"World Cafe with David Dye has just polished off the track list for the 26th Volume in its incredible series of live recordings from XPN's signature program. Artists including Feist, Back Door Slam, Counting Crows, Levon Helm, Joe Jackson, and many others have contributed to this stellar collection.
"Available Now for Members Only! And only Members can keep XPN and the World Cafe going strong! The track list includes live recordings from XPN's signature program. Artists include Joe Jackson, Mike Doughty, Feist, Back Door Slam, Counting Crows, Levon Helm, and many others. Pledge Now and get your copy!
Here's the track list for Live At The World Cafe, Volume 26, Marathon :"
1. Sheryl Crow - "Love is Free"
2. Counting Crows -"Come Around"
3. Wilco - "What Light"
4. Back Door Slam - It'll All Come Around"
5. Eli "Paperboy" Reed - "Stake Your Claim"
6. Vampire Weekend - "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa"
7. Joe Jackson – “The Uptown Train"
8. Ingrid Michaelson - "The Way I Am"
9. Kathleen Edwards - "I Make The Dough You Get the Glory"
10. New Pornographers - "My Rights vs Yours"
11. Rilo Kiley – “Dream World"
12. Feist - "1234"
13. Gary Louris - "Omaha Nights"
14. Levon Helm - "Got Me A Woman"
15. Ryan Bingham - "South Side of Heaven"
16. Mike Doughty - "27 Jennifers"
17. The Black Keys - "Strange Times"
18. Nada Surf - "Whose Authority"
19. Sara Bareilles - "Love Song"
"World Cafe with David Dye has just polished off the track list for the 26th Volume in its incredible series of live recordings from XPN's signature program. Artists including Feist, Back Door Slam, Counting Crows, Levon Helm, Joe Jackson, and many others have contributed to this stellar collection.
"Available Now for Members Only! And only Members can keep XPN and the World Cafe going strong! The track list includes live recordings from XPN's signature program. Artists include Joe Jackson, Mike Doughty, Feist, Back Door Slam, Counting Crows, Levon Helm, and many others. Pledge Now and get your copy!
Here's the track list for Live At The World Cafe, Volume 26, Marathon :"
1. Sheryl Crow - "Love is Free"
2. Counting Crows -"Come Around"
3. Wilco - "What Light"
4. Back Door Slam - It'll All Come Around"
5. Eli "Paperboy" Reed - "Stake Your Claim"
6. Vampire Weekend - "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa"
7. Joe Jackson – “The Uptown Train"
8. Ingrid Michaelson - "The Way I Am"
9. Kathleen Edwards - "I Make The Dough You Get the Glory"
10. New Pornographers - "My Rights vs Yours"
11. Rilo Kiley – “Dream World"
12. Feist - "1234"
13. Gary Louris - "Omaha Nights"
14. Levon Helm - "Got Me A Woman"
15. Ryan Bingham - "South Side of Heaven"
16. Mike Doughty - "27 Jennifers"
17. The Black Keys - "Strange Times"
18. Nada Surf - "Whose Authority"
19. Sara Bareilles - "Love Song"
Lies, sissies, and fiascoes : the best of "This American Life" - 11 self-revelatory radio monologues with perfunctory musical accompaniment [Sound recording] by Ira Glass
Amazon.com
Are you a sucker for a well-told story--one that'll make you hoot with pleasure, drop your mouth in disbelief, tear up with empathy? If that be the case, you're likely already a fan of the brilliant beyond-hip This American Life. If you're not yet familiar with the Public Radio show and its ingenious host, Ira Glass, Lies, Sissies & Fiascoes will tickle your ears and engage your sense of wonderment. Underscored by adroitly chosen musical bits from Jonathan Richman to Liz Phair to Yo La Tengo, The Best of TAL springs into action illustrating the criterion for true fiasco with Jack Hitt's lively narrative of an uproariously bad production of Peter Pan. David Sedaris recounts reeling off insults and complaints in iambic pentameter as a teen bitten by the Drama Bug (which bites "Jews, homosexuals and plump women who wear their hair in bangs" the hardest). Dishwasher Pete tells how he duped the Letterman show, Scott Carrier gives a moving account of how his life unraveled and came back together during the season he conducted interviews with schizophrenics, and Ira Glass sounds off on getting over heartbreak. --Paige La Grone
Are you a sucker for a well-told story--one that'll make you hoot with pleasure, drop your mouth in disbelief, tear up with empathy? If that be the case, you're likely already a fan of the brilliant beyond-hip This American Life. If you're not yet familiar with the Public Radio show and its ingenious host, Ira Glass, Lies, Sissies & Fiascoes will tickle your ears and engage your sense of wonderment. Underscored by adroitly chosen musical bits from Jonathan Richman to Liz Phair to Yo La Tengo, The Best of TAL springs into action illustrating the criterion for true fiasco with Jack Hitt's lively narrative of an uproariously bad production of Peter Pan. David Sedaris recounts reeling off insults and complaints in iambic pentameter as a teen bitten by the Drama Bug (which bites "Jews, homosexuals and plump women who wear their hair in bangs" the hardest). Dishwasher Pete tells how he duped the Letterman show, Scott Carrier gives a moving account of how his life unraveled and came back together during the season he conducted interviews with schizophrenics, and Ira Glass sounds off on getting over heartbreak. --Paige La Grone
Actors: Fiona Fullerton, Michael Jayston, Hywel Bennett, Michael Crawford, Davy Kaye
Directors: William Sterling
Format: Multiple Formats, Dolby, Full Screen, NTSC
Language: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
Rated: G (General Audience)
Studio: Screen Media
DVD Release Date: December 28, 2004
Run Time: 95 minutes
Directors: William Sterling
Format: Multiple Formats, Dolby, Full Screen, NTSC
Language: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
Rated: G (General Audience)
Studio: Screen Media
DVD Release Date: December 28, 2004
Run Time: 95 minutes
The theory that would not die : how Bayes' rule cracked the enigma code, hunted down Russian submarines, and emerged triumphant from two centuries of controversy by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
An enjoyable collection of biographies of Bayesians and their 'enemies'. Not much was made of the irony that neither Thomas Bayes nor Pierre Laplace would have been 'Bayesians'. The most 'practical' part of the book was the indirect pointer to the OpenBUGS software project, http://www.openbugs.info/w/. (I'd like to explore using it for making software project estimates ... even if it's already been done.) For me, one of the most interesting factoids was that Bayes came up with his approach as a response to David Hume's thoughts on the problem of induction; Bayes wanted to show that it was probable that God was the creator of the universe. Towards the end of the book, McGrayne mentions that some modern-day philosophers have carried on in that vein. All in all, it was good fun.