In the next few days I'll bring you up to date on the much smaller beach birds that Chicagoans follow closely. We're not getting as much detailed news as often as in previous seasons. I conjecture that the groups involved have concluded from the experiences of recent seasons that a little more space, physical and public-attention-wise, would be helpful to the birds' well-being. But there is still good news to report, including a naming contest.
Well, I took the plunge. I am off to Joseph City, Arizona in two weeks for a family wedding. I haven't flown in over 20 years and wish it was a direct flight. And have never been farther west than San Antonio. Adventure awaits!
Ah 79F low overnight. 0.0001" aka Trace. Tucson had scattered showers. Hope remains for plentiful H²0 events.
On today, we'll yesterday actually, July 2, 1863, Robert E. Lee's strategic arrogance and incompetence was skinned open. He lost 3 separate chances in 1863 to defeat the Union army at Gettysburg. His faux gentlemanly approach resulted in vague task delegations. Troops movements were slow and later in the day. 2 moments were potential breakthroughs at the deadly Peach Orchard and Wheatfield. These 2 tactical defeats will illustrative of the Southern indecision as the Yankees, SicklesN Sykes etc quickly assessed situations and forcefully ordered rapid troop movements.
On Lee's far left flank, Longstreets long march resulted in a late afternoon set of tactical retreats by the Union, back up Little Round Top. Devils Den. Out of ammunition, a school teacher, an ordinary American of sorts from Maine, led the Maine boys at the end of the Union line. The Confederates were closing on taking Little Round Top and "rolling the flank" of the Union. Union flank / <<. Confederate end pushing the end line ___ . Not good! and Cannon on Little Round Top commanded much of the field.
So, typically ordinary American, Joshua Chamberlain, out of ammunition, ordered his troops to "fix bayonets". His sword led a downhill charge so maniacally energetic that Hoods Texans were shocked and scared and stunned. They fled downhill as many just stunned, stood and were captured.
Today, Lee's great blunder known as Picketts Charge. A deadly charge that would be the marking of future stupid trench charges during WW1 battles like the Somme.
When General George Pickett returned, Lee asked, where is your Division? Sir, I have no Division.
Yet encouraged by Lee's, the South waged a century of history rewriting war with lies and misrepresentations about Lee and Grant.
Our distance from the sun doesn’t change much, percentage-wise (a little over 3%). So today (July 3), we’re about three million miles (five million km) farther from the sun than we will be six months from now. That’s in contrast to our average distance from the sun of about 93 million miles (150 million km).
Fifty thousand Civil War veterans traveled to Pennsylvania for the reunion in 1913; the youngest was 61, and the oldest alleged to be 112. It ended with Confederate survivors walking the path of Pickett's charge up to the stone wall, where the Union veterans were waiting to shake their hands and embrace them.
In 1938, almost 2,000 veterans — with an average age of 94 — attended a reunion to mark the battle's 75th anniversary. It was at this reunion that President Franklin Roosevelt dedicated the Eternal Light Peace Memorial, which commemorates the 1913 reunion and reconciliation. On the front of the memorial, these words are carved: "Peace Eternal in a Nation United." The flame can be seen from a distance of 20 miles.
yes indeed! I know this story. My paternal grandfather's grandfather fought for the Union, as did my maternal Grandfather's grandfathers.None that I could determine were at Gettysburg.
We were at Gettysburg on July 1 or 2, a century after the battle in 1963. Granddad had 1860s Harper's Bazaar and Atlantic magazines we would read. alas gone now.
We visited Antitem, Chancellorsville, The Wilderness, Richmond, Petersburg, DC in 1963. Was amazing.
I think I'v visted Gettysburg more than a dozen times over 60 years. I consider it one of the most important places and moments in American history.
Here is story - Sept 8, 1994. I was at Gettysburg, on Cemetary Ridge maybe near the Peach Orchard area. I was driving back to MA after some business and fam visit in WV.
My cell phone rings. "Doug, we are so glad you answered and you are okay". Why ? What happened. A USAIR flight crashed into Pittsburgh airport, and we are very concerned some of our employees (BigCorp) were on this common hub flight from O'Hare to Pittsburgh.
So, nerd-geek me, can't help but do rapid ROM. It's both trained and well unavoidable.
To put Gettysburg in perspective, there were about 24 total hours of combat. About 9,000 deaths, including about 2k from wounds but probablly higher. USAIR 427 has 132 deaths. So.
Gettysburg was as if a 737 crashed every 20 minutes for a day. In an area you can see of about 3 miles (Union line) by about 1/4 mile of combat depth.
3 737 crashes every hour for a day. That was Gettysburg.
Or a 9/11 a day for 3 days.
Or an Iraq War II in 3 days.
Or a D-Day every day
Or 6 weeks of Iwo Jima in 3 days in 1/10th the combat area.
Your question isn't quite right. Many of us watch streaming content on our televisions. However, that's not the only way that content is delivered to our TVs. Traditional "broadcast" services are still available, which includes the major networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, etc.). In broadcasting, a signal is sent out to whoever has the ability to receive it, whether that's via an antenna, satellite dish, or coax cable. The broadcast starts when it starts and ends when it ends. Everyone who watches that broadcast is pulling down the same "broadly cast" feed. Because that content can be accessed by anyone (with the right receiver), broadcast content is heavily regulated by the gummint.
By contrast, streaming content is delivered one-to-one. If you want to watch a streaming program, you initiate a connection with the service, which then streams that content directly to your device. You and I might start watching the latest episode of "The Bear" at exactly the same time, but we will each be watching our own feed. Recently, some streamers have started doing "live" events which emulate traditional broadcasts, but are actually millions of one-to-one connections, which is why these things still have some technical glitches. Because the content is delivered through a "private" one-to-one connection, the gummint doesn't apply the same level of regulation (yet).
Another difference is that if those of us who get broadcast channels via the airwaves, or cable networks through the cable system, have a full-featured DVR (such as TiVo), we can have a number of programs and episodes saved to the hard drive, so that we can start watching one at any time we please, and pause it when we wish and come back later, and fast-forward through the commercials. So that may sort of replicate the streaming or on-demand experience in a limited way, no?
For streaming services--which I don't have yet for lack of updated equipment that can handle them--I'm guessing that in contrast to cable monopolies (which were granted by local governments) there is enough competition among them that government regulation isn't needed to keep them honest when it comes to giving good value and not taking advantage (not that the monopolies didn't get away with a lot despite regulation). The customer's right of exit (right to cancel and switch) can help a lot with that. Do streaming services have an interface that keeps kiddies from seeing stuff they shouldn't see?
You might be surprised to learn that you've likely been using streaming technologies for years. If you've ever clicked on any of the videos that CynthiaW embeds into her articles, those have been streamed to you via YouTube.
As for controlling the kiddies, most of the big Content Aggregators (Netflix, Disney+, etc.) do allow parents to establish separate profiles for their kids that can be controlled more "effectively". I haven't tested this functionality at all though.
As Marque noted, it's a bit more convoluted now that much of "Broadcast TV" is delivered digitally and is much more widely distributed, but the key difference is the "one-to-many" vs "one-to-one" delivery method.
I’d assume it’s the same these days. The old days of analog signals over coax cable are probably gone for good. Antenna, over-the-air TV uses digital encoding now, too.
Streaming just means entertainment services that aren’t packaged and bundled like traditional “telecable” once was. Most of “cable” is still just live TV broadcast from servers. Sometimes “live” in this case just means it’s not “on-demand”, not one broadcaster sending the same signal to vast numbers of households at any given moment….
All my assumptions in a nice package. I look forward to learning where I’m wrong. 😑
One of my best friends in Wuhan...he's been to Sulawesi and several other areas of Indonesia. He says it is like a paradise. Perfect weather, environment is not being destroyed by logging to build cattle ranches...
Good morning. 73 degrees here and sunny with highs in the 80s.
The mothership is updating the Trump administration attacks on certain liberal higher education institutions — Harvard, University of Virginia, and Penn. The FP headlines a progressive who writes “I’m Finally Hanging My American Flag”
Thank you for this. The "Kaltblut-Video" video is particularly interesting. I believe I'll watch it again before checking the morning news. Or maybe after.
That is a bird, a very interesting beach bird.
In the next few days I'll bring you up to date on the much smaller beach birds that Chicagoans follow closely. We're not getting as much detailed news as often as in previous seasons. I conjecture that the groups involved have concluded from the experiences of recent seasons that a little more space, physical and public-attention-wise, would be helpful to the birds' well-being. But there is still good news to report, including a naming contest.
Always happy to hear more about the piping plovers!
Perhaps this weekend or early next week.
Well, I took the plunge. I am off to Joseph City, Arizona in two weeks for a family wedding. I haven't flown in over 20 years and wish it was a direct flight. And have never been farther west than San Antonio. Adventure awaits!
I hope everything goes very smoothly.
Thanks. Me, too, but I'm prepared either way.
Ah 79F low overnight. 0.0001" aka Trace. Tucson had scattered showers. Hope remains for plentiful H²0 events.
On today, we'll yesterday actually, July 2, 1863, Robert E. Lee's strategic arrogance and incompetence was skinned open. He lost 3 separate chances in 1863 to defeat the Union army at Gettysburg. His faux gentlemanly approach resulted in vague task delegations. Troops movements were slow and later in the day. 2 moments were potential breakthroughs at the deadly Peach Orchard and Wheatfield. These 2 tactical defeats will illustrative of the Southern indecision as the Yankees, SicklesN Sykes etc quickly assessed situations and forcefully ordered rapid troop movements.
On Lee's far left flank, Longstreets long march resulted in a late afternoon set of tactical retreats by the Union, back up Little Round Top. Devils Den. Out of ammunition, a school teacher, an ordinary American of sorts from Maine, led the Maine boys at the end of the Union line. The Confederates were closing on taking Little Round Top and "rolling the flank" of the Union. Union flank / <<. Confederate end pushing the end line ___ . Not good! and Cannon on Little Round Top commanded much of the field.
So, typically ordinary American, Joshua Chamberlain, out of ammunition, ordered his troops to "fix bayonets". His sword led a downhill charge so maniacally energetic that Hoods Texans were shocked and scared and stunned. They fled downhill as many just stunned, stood and were captured.
Today, Lee's great blunder known as Picketts Charge. A deadly charge that would be the marking of future stupid trench charges during WW1 battles like the Somme.
When General George Pickett returned, Lee asked, where is your Division? Sir, I have no Division.
Yet encouraged by Lee's, the South waged a century of history rewriting war with lies and misrepresentations about Lee and Grant.
Our distance from the sun doesn’t change much, percentage-wise (a little over 3%). So today (July 3), we’re about three million miles (five million km) farther from the sun than we will be six months from now. That’s in contrast to our average distance from the sun of about 93 million miles (150 million km).
Fifty thousand Civil War veterans traveled to Pennsylvania for the reunion in 1913; the youngest was 61, and the oldest alleged to be 112. It ended with Confederate survivors walking the path of Pickett's charge up to the stone wall, where the Union veterans were waiting to shake their hands and embrace them.
In 1938, almost 2,000 veterans — with an average age of 94 — attended a reunion to mark the battle's 75th anniversary. It was at this reunion that President Franklin Roosevelt dedicated the Eternal Light Peace Memorial, which commemorates the 1913 reunion and reconciliation. On the front of the memorial, these words are carved: "Peace Eternal in a Nation United." The flame can be seen from a distance of 20 miles.
yes indeed! I know this story. My paternal grandfather's grandfather fought for the Union, as did my maternal Grandfather's grandfathers.None that I could determine were at Gettysburg.
We were at Gettysburg on July 1 or 2, a century after the battle in 1963. Granddad had 1860s Harper's Bazaar and Atlantic magazines we would read. alas gone now.
We visited Antitem, Chancellorsville, The Wilderness, Richmond, Petersburg, DC in 1963. Was amazing.
I've walked across some of that land. It's hard to grasp what happened there.
I think I'v visted Gettysburg more than a dozen times over 60 years. I consider it one of the most important places and moments in American history.
Here is story - Sept 8, 1994. I was at Gettysburg, on Cemetary Ridge maybe near the Peach Orchard area. I was driving back to MA after some business and fam visit in WV.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USAir_Flight_427
My cell phone rings. "Doug, we are so glad you answered and you are okay". Why ? What happened. A USAIR flight crashed into Pittsburgh airport, and we are very concerned some of our employees (BigCorp) were on this common hub flight from O'Hare to Pittsburgh.
So, nerd-geek me, can't help but do rapid ROM. It's both trained and well unavoidable.
To put Gettysburg in perspective, there were about 24 total hours of combat. About 9,000 deaths, including about 2k from wounds but probablly higher. USAIR 427 has 132 deaths. So.
Gettysburg was as if a 737 crashed every 20 minutes for a day. In an area you can see of about 3 miles (Union line) by about 1/4 mile of combat depth.
3 737 crashes every hour for a day. That was Gettysburg.
Or a 9/11 a day for 3 days.
Or an Iraq War II in 3 days.
Or a D-Day every day
Or 6 weeks of Iwo Jima in 3 days in 1/10th the combat area.
Can anyone explain to me how "streaming" is different than watching a movie or a show on television?
Your question isn't quite right. Many of us watch streaming content on our televisions. However, that's not the only way that content is delivered to our TVs. Traditional "broadcast" services are still available, which includes the major networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, etc.). In broadcasting, a signal is sent out to whoever has the ability to receive it, whether that's via an antenna, satellite dish, or coax cable. The broadcast starts when it starts and ends when it ends. Everyone who watches that broadcast is pulling down the same "broadly cast" feed. Because that content can be accessed by anyone (with the right receiver), broadcast content is heavily regulated by the gummint.
By contrast, streaming content is delivered one-to-one. If you want to watch a streaming program, you initiate a connection with the service, which then streams that content directly to your device. You and I might start watching the latest episode of "The Bear" at exactly the same time, but we will each be watching our own feed. Recently, some streamers have started doing "live" events which emulate traditional broadcasts, but are actually millions of one-to-one connections, which is why these things still have some technical glitches. Because the content is delivered through a "private" one-to-one connection, the gummint doesn't apply the same level of regulation (yet).
Does that help?
Another difference is that if those of us who get broadcast channels via the airwaves, or cable networks through the cable system, have a full-featured DVR (such as TiVo), we can have a number of programs and episodes saved to the hard drive, so that we can start watching one at any time we please, and pause it when we wish and come back later, and fast-forward through the commercials. So that may sort of replicate the streaming or on-demand experience in a limited way, no?
For streaming services--which I don't have yet for lack of updated equipment that can handle them--I'm guessing that in contrast to cable monopolies (which were granted by local governments) there is enough competition among them that government regulation isn't needed to keep them honest when it comes to giving good value and not taking advantage (not that the monopolies didn't get away with a lot despite regulation). The customer's right of exit (right to cancel and switch) can help a lot with that. Do streaming services have an interface that keeps kiddies from seeing stuff they shouldn't see?
You might be surprised to learn that you've likely been using streaming technologies for years. If you've ever clicked on any of the videos that CynthiaW embeds into her articles, those have been streamed to you via YouTube.
As for controlling the kiddies, most of the big Content Aggregators (Netflix, Disney+, etc.) do allow parents to establish separate profiles for their kids that can be controlled more "effectively". I haven't tested this functionality at all though.
I think I get it now. Thnx.
As Marque noted, it's a bit more convoluted now that much of "Broadcast TV" is delivered digitally and is much more widely distributed, but the key difference is the "one-to-many" vs "one-to-one" delivery method.
I’d assume it’s the same these days. The old days of analog signals over coax cable are probably gone for good. Antenna, over-the-air TV uses digital encoding now, too.
Streaming just means entertainment services that aren’t packaged and bundled like traditional “telecable” once was. Most of “cable” is still just live TV broadcast from servers. Sometimes “live” in this case just means it’s not “on-demand”, not one broadcaster sending the same signal to vast numbers of households at any given moment….
All my assumptions in a nice package. I look forward to learning where I’m wrong. 😑
I'm showing my nerd level. It's all just stuff that comes in over the cable and the nomenclature confuses me. I'm easily confused.
Sulawesi... Now I want to go there.
So pretty. And not hot all the time, according to the video!
One of my best friends in Wuhan...he's been to Sulawesi and several other areas of Indonesia. He says it is like a paradise. Perfect weather, environment is not being destroyed by logging to build cattle ranches...
Good morning. 73 degrees here and sunny with highs in the 80s.
The mothership is updating the Trump administration attacks on certain liberal higher education institutions — Harvard, University of Virginia, and Penn. The FP headlines a progressive who writes “I’m Finally Hanging My American Flag”
Good morning, everyone. 72Fs, dew point of 71, going to be 90 later, probably won't rain.
I'm taking Vlad to the podiatrist this morning to check the progress on his toe.
Updated to correct authorship.
Substantially cooler this morning. Temperature and dew point around 59ºF. Supposed to be like this the next couple days.
That sounds pretty nice, if damp.
Thank you for this. The "Kaltblut-Video" video is particularly interesting. I believe I'll watch it again before checking the morning news. Or maybe after.
Birds digging holes ... or news? Not a tough choice.
How about our current news folks digging holes and then occupying them?
That would be fun. Bring a lawn chair, sell cold sodas and cookies ...
For an additional fee, attendees can throw a handful of dirt on them.
I would happily subscribe to a website called "Birds digging holes". Maybe even a streaming channel.
We could also have "Lizards digging holes" and "Rodents digging holes."
Those would be "spin-offs" once the core audience is established.
Is Sasquatch a direct translation of MegaPod.. Or does Sasquatch mean "Hinde 'N Seek Champion"?