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4/26/24.

Happy Bandcamp Friday. Here's a post about an album not currently on Bandcamp. Yes, the music is The Pastels excellent debut compilation "Up For A Bit With The Pastels", but really this is about a new collaboration between Stephen Pastel (and at times members of The Pastels) and Gavin Thompson.

"This Is Memorial Device" is the musical companion to the theater production based on the cult novel by David Keenan. Memorial Device is the fictional band in the book, and Stephen Pastel and Gavin Thompson bring the book to life with their music. Geographic (sub-label of Domino Recording Co. curated by Stephen Pastel) is releasing the album. There are two tracks currently available: "Introduction To Why I Did It" and "We Have Sex". The latter is built upon teenage recordings Stephen made with his friend Corky.

According to the Domino release page, this sounds like The Pastels in some spots and nothing like The Pastels in others. This endeavor recalls the BMX Bandits' soundtrack to the film Dreaded Light.

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The Pastels, 1986. photo by Lawrence Watson

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🏜🌞 cross section - canyon

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A few months ago we had the opportunity to make this topographic map of Bali from 1935 published by Reproductiebedrijj Topografische dienst (Batavia). We love the colors of the terrain and the bathymetric lines. Gallica is a fantastic resource and also the National Library of France, with their Cartes et Plans department. They do a fantastic job of digitalization. The DEM come from the AW3D30 project, in this case. We are thinking of doing a bathymetric version as well. What do you think? Would you like to see some other places in Indonesia mapped?

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Zoio, Portugal - 2023.07.26

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Comparing Different Countries Population, Population Density and Size - Find out more here ->

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❤️FELICE 20023❤️ “Finalmente la pace - Planisfero fisico” | Poster: stampa digitale su carta fotografica satinata e profili in plastica bianca | 100x70cm. #carlocolli #diemauerartecontemporanea A colpo d’occhio diamo per scontato che si tratta di una semplice carta geografica, di un planisfero fisico, ma soffermando lo sguardo ci accorgiamo dell’anomalia, che, per quanto inquietante, invita e lascia spazio a molte riflessioni che possono dare e restituire infinite declinazioni all’immagine che si presenta davanti ai vostri occhi. Romanticamente, per come è presentata, ci riporta alla memoria i banchi di scuola, proprio la dove per la prima volta con grande stupore e meraviglia scoprivamo e localizzavamo le coordinate del punto esatto del nostro sguardo sull’immensità del mondo, ma oggettivamente, oltre a farci vivere questa nostalgica intima dimensione temporale, ci induce inevitabilmente a porci delle domande sulle possibili cause di tale scenario post apocalittico. A prescindere dalle possibili declinazioni che possiamo attribuire a tali cause, che non sto qui ad elencare per non condizionare le vostre intime riflessioni, di sicuro ci accorgeremo o spero ci ricorderemo che nulla è scontato, e che esse semplicemente o terribilmente sono connesse alla perdita di uno dei principali valori indispensabili per la naturale e sostenibile convivenza e coesistenza in questa nostra casa comune: il rispetto. Davanti alla celestiale calma di questo primordiale mare sconfinato, a voi le vostre intime riflessioni. Didascalia opera: C'era una volta, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, finalmente la pace. . . . . #conceptualillustration #contemporaryartcollection #contemporaryprintmaking #contemporaryart #conceptual_art #alteration #contemporatyartist #planisfero #cartageografica #geographic #world #erased #mappa #pacenelmondo #planisferofisico #magazine (presso Prato, Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmy5QHmoqBe/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Jacquie Scott Lynch - Honors Education in The U.S

Jacquelyn Scott Lynch, Ph.D. has been married for 27 years to her husband, John, a native of Dublin, Ireland. She comes from a large family of seven siblings and maintains a close bond despite their geographic distance. Professor Scott Lynch has one daughter, Aisling, with whom she formed a mother-daughter screenwriting team after Aisling graduated from college.

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A partir de noviembre de 2004: National Geographic cumple 20 años: aniversario en la televisión alemana

El canal de documentales de divulgación científica y aventuras National Geographic cumple 20 años. Una mirada retrospectiva a las producciones más interesantes, así como dos nuevos programas documentales para conmemorar el importante aniversario. El 1 de noviembre de 2004, hace casi exactamente 20 años, nació en Alemania el popular canal de televisión National Geographic. El canal es conocido…

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The changing geography of “energy poverty”

New Post has been published on https://thedigitalinsider.com/the-changing-geography-of-energy-poverty/

The changing geography of “energy poverty”

A growing portion of Americans who are struggling to pay for their household energy live in the South and Southwest, reflecting a climate-driven shift away from heating needs and toward air conditioning use, an MIT study finds.

The newly published research also reveals that a major U.S. federal program that provides energy subsidies to households, by assigning block grants to states, does not yet fully match these recent trends.

The work evaluates the “energy burden” on households, which reflects the percentage of income needed to pay for energy necessities, from 2015 to 2020. Households with an energy burden greater than 6 percent of income are considered to be in “energy poverty.” With climate change, rising temperatures are expected to add financial stress in the South, where air conditioning is increasingly needed. Meanwhile, milder winters are expected to reduce heating costs in some colder regions.

“From 2015 to 2020, there is an increase in burden generally, and you do also see this southern shift,” says Christopher Knittel, an MIT energy economist and co-author of a new paper detailing the study’s results. About federal aid, he adds, “When you compare the distribution of the energy burden to where the money is going, it’s not aligned too well.”

The paper, “U.S. federal resource allocations are inconsistent with concentrations of energy poverty,” is published today in Science Advances.

The authors are Carlos Batlle, a professor at Comillas University in Spain and a senior lecturer with the MIT Energy Initiative; Peter Heller SM ’24, a recent graduate of the MIT Technology and Policy Program; Knittel, the George P. Shultz Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and associate dean for climate and sustainability at MIT; and Tim Schittekatte, a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan.

A scorching decade

The study, which grew out of graduate research that Heller conducted at MIT, deploys a machine-learning estimation technique that the scholars applied to U.S. energy use data.

Specifically, the researchers took a sample of about 20,000 households from the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s Residential Energy Consumption Survey, which includes a wide variety of demographic characteristics about residents, along with building-type and geographic information. Then, using the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey data for 2015 and 2020, the research team estimated the average household energy burden for every census tract in the lower 48 states — 73,057 in 2015, and 84,414 in 2020.

That allowed the researchers to chart the changes in energy burden in recent years, including the shift toward a greater energy burden in southern states. In 2015, Maine, Mississippi, Arkansas, Vermont, and Alabama were the five states (ranked in descending order) with the highest energy burden across census bureau tracts. In 2020, that had shifted somewhat, with Maine and Vermont dropping on the list and southern states increasingly having a larger energy burden. That year, the top five states in descending order were Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, West Virginia, and Maine.

The data also reflect a urban-rural shift. In 2015, 23 percent of the census tracts where the average household is living in energy poverty were urban. That figure shrank to 14 percent by 2020.

All told, the data are consistent with the picture of a warming world, in which milder winters in the North, Northwest, and Mountain West require less heating fuel, while more extreme summer temperatures in the South require more air conditioning.

“Who’s going to be harmed most from climate change?” asks Knittel. “In the U.S., not surprisingly, it’s going to be the southern part of the U.S. And our study is confirming that, but also suggesting it’s the southern part of the U.S that’s least able to respond. If you’re already burdened, the burden’s growing.”

An evolution for LIHEAP?

In addition to identifying the shift in energy needs during the last decade, the study also illuminates a longer-term change in U.S. household energy needs, dating back to the 1980s. The researchers compared the present-day geography of U.S. energy burden to the help currently provided by the federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), which dates to 1981.

Federal aid for energy needs actually predates LIHEAP, but the current program was introduced in 1981, then updated in 1984 to include cooling needs such as air conditioning. When the formula was updated in 1984, two “hold harmless” clauses were also adopted, guaranteeing states a minimum amount of funding.

Still, LIHEAP’s parameters also predate the rise of temperatures over the last 40 years, and the current study shows that, compared to the current landscape of energy poverty, LIHEAP distributes relatively less of its funding to southern and southwestern states.

“The way Congress uses formulas set in the 1980s keeps funding distributions nearly the same as it was in the 1980s,” Heller observes. “Our paper illustrates the shift in need that has occurred over the decades since then.”

Currently, it would take a fourfold increase in LIHEAP to ensure that no U.S. household experiences energy poverty. But the researchers tested out a new funding design, which would help the worst-off households first, nationally, ensuring that no household would have an energy burden of greater than 20.3 percent.

“We think that’s probably the most equitable way to allocate the money, and by doing that, you now have a different amount of money that should go to each state, so that no one state is worse off than the others,” Knittel says.

And while the new distribution concept would require a certain amount of subsidy reallocation among states, it would be with the goal of helping all households avoid a certain level of energy poverty, across the country, at a time of changing climate, warming weather, and shifting energy needs in the U.S.

“We can optimize where we spend the money, and that optimization approach is an important thing to think about,” Knittel says.