In coastal Northern California a pathogen that has yet to be discovered wiped out all the sea stars (starfish) that were the primary predator of sea urchins. This led to a population explosion of urchins which then overgrazed and wiped out the kelp. The kelp provided the primary habitat, kelp forest, which caused a major die off of just about everything else. This has gone on for at least 10 years if I remember correctly.

Everyone knows you should only drink pure grain alcohol and rain water.

chipoatley
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Santa Monica
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Since you can easily afford it then yes it is worth it. LAT provides good local and regional coverage and even gets the occasional Pulitzer Prize to prove it. I like to see their coverage of water issues which I do not see anywhere else.

chipoatley
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Santa Monica
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Was thinking about posting this guy. Too bad for what happened to him.

Title: Faic le hAdmháil (Nothing To Declare)

Genre: Irish dark comedy

Format: feature

Logline: It's about two people, two countries, and a border. Maybe three. With Brexit it's complicated.

passing through Dublin, looking for specialty bookshops

I will be passing through Dublin in ten days with about 36 hours to look for a sample of Irish graphic novels. I'll be at the airport so on foot mostly in and around Dublin 2 and have found about a dozen bookstores. Some of the bookstores I find in Google Maps list their holdings, including comics and graphic novels. But I'd like to see a sample of Irish creators - I can get X-Men or Cixin Liu in America. Do you have any favorites? (I suppose I can also get to Dublin 1 and Dublin 4 - where there is a rare and antique bookshop I am going to visit to see an academic history book about Donegal they have listed.) Any recommendations?

Great look. How tall are (thinking about that in reference to your GW).

Take down the silted-up Matilija Dam and Ventura beaches get a few years of sand. Plus the Ventura River is restored to free running and the steelhead can come back again. Win win. PS: all the approvals are already in place.

Congratulations, great job and great persistence.

And can I ask what app you used to do your tracking and statistics?

chipoatley
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PPT ASEL Aerobatics

The most memorable air show stunt I ever saw was a Marine Harrier and AH-1 fly tandem formation up to in front of the crowd in the stands and come to a complete stop in hover. They turned to face the crowd, did a little nose dip to nod “Hi y’all!”, then turned back the way they came and slowly flew away. It was memorable and awesome!

chipoatley
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Santa Monica

Some are spoiled and here for fun that they cannot get in their own countries but most are here for serious work at internationally recognized schools. And to have a little fun in between. ;-)

Russia has been harassing Sweden for more than ten years. The tactic is to fly one or two combat jets at high speed down the Baltic directly at Sweden and with all transponders turned off. At the very last moment the jet make a hard turn and just barely avoid Swedish airspace. Then they turn on the transponders and go to medium altitude and RTB. It’s a test of the radars and the air defense system in general. It’s also an implied threat.

Good on Sweden!