I like sharing my plans with those who will listen. For example, last year I said what I was going to do in 2019, and as far as I can tell it is mission accomplished. Now my goals for 2020 are a little more structured and ambitious.. Whereas last year, I wanted to just kinda “go with the flow” and see what happens. Looking back, it went well and relatively according to plan. The first half of the year was […]

Welcome to the 2020 (25th!) redesign for Perishable Press. Like many of the previous designs, the new design is super minimal and organic. The #1 goal this time around was to find an optimal balance between performance and aesthetics. Or put another way.. ..the least amount of code for the best possible user experience. This article goes thru the design and attempts to explain some of the techniques and thinking that went into the process. Here is an overview of […]

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I see so many technical (and other) questions in forums and social media that go unanswered. Not due to lack of trying, but due to lack of understanding. People posting questions like this (an actual post in a popular PHP group on FB): Hello PLease Help Me PHP :( SQL INJECTION login.php No I am not kidding, here is a screenshot of the actual post: Sadly this level of communication is common on FB and other social media Posts like […]

Title: The Routledge handbook of sensory archaeology [electronic resource] / edited by Robin Skeates, Jo Day.
Imprint: Milton : Routledge, 2019.
Shelfmark: Taylor & Francis ebooks
Subjects: Archaeology.
Senses and sensation.
Archaeology. fast (OCoLC)fst00812938
Senses and sensation. fast (OCoLC)fst01112562

Title: Photography in Japan, 1853-1912 [electronic resource] / Terry Bennett.
Author: Bennett, Terry, author.
Imprint: Tokyo Rutland, Vt. : Tuttle, [2006]";"©2006
Shelfmark: EBSCO ebooks
Subjects: Photography -- Japan -- History.
Japan -- History -- 1868- -- Pictorial works.
Japan -- Social conditions -- 1868- -- Pictorial works.
Photography. fast (OCoLC)fst01061714
Social conditions fast (OCoLC)fst01919811
Japan. fast (OCoLC)fst01204082
Since 1868 fast

Title: The human past [electronic resource] : world prehistory and the development of human societies / edited by Chris Scarre.
Imprint: London : Thames & Hudson, 2018.";"©2018
Shelfmark: Ebook Central
Subjects: Prehistoric peoples.
Human evolution.
Hunting and gathering societies.
Agriculture, Prehistoric.
Antiquities, Prehistoric.
Agriculture, Prehistoric. fast (OCoLC)fst00801820
Antiquities, Prehistoric. fast (OCoLC)fst00810762
Human evolution. fast (OCoLC)fst00963030
Hunting and gathering societies. fast (OCoLC)fst00964206
Prehistoric peoples. fast (OCoLC)fst01075242

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Is there a single surge mechanism? Contrasts in dynamics between glacier surges in Svalbard and other regions Murray, Tavi; Strozzi, Tazio; Luckman, Adrian; Jiskoot, Hester; Christakos, Panos During the 1990s, Monacobreen, a 40-km-long tidewater glacier in Svalbard, underwent a major surge. We mapped the surge dynamics using ERS synthetic aperture radar images, differential dual-azimuth interferometry and intensity correlation tracking. A series of 11 three-dimensional (3-D) velocity maps covering the period 1991–1997 show a months-long initiation and years-long termination to the surge, with no indication of a surge front travelling downglacier. During the surge, the front of the glacier advanced 2 km, the velocity and derived strain rate increased by more than an order of magnitude, and maximum ice flow rates measured during 1994 were 5md 1. The spatial pattern of both velocity and strain rate was remarkably consistent and must therefore be controlled by spatially fixed processes operating at the glacier bed. We combine these results with those published in the literature to construct a typical Svalbard glacier surge cycle and compare this to surge dynamics of glaciers from other cluster regions, especially those of Variegated Glacier in Alaska. The strong contrast in dynamics suggests that there exist at least two distinct surge mechanisms. Sherpa Romeo green journal. Permission to archive final published version.

Late surge glacial conditions on Bakaninbreen, Svalbard, and implications for surge termination Smith, A. M.; Murray, Tavi; Davison, B. M.; Clough, A. F.; Woodward, J.; Jiskoot, Hester Bakaninbreen is a polythermal glacier in southern Spitsbergen, Svalbard, that last surged between 1985 and 1995. Seismic reflection data were acquired during early quiescence in spring 1998, just upstream of the surge front. The results were combined with complementary ground-penetrating radar data to investigate the glacial structure and basal conditions. We find no difference between the ice thickness values determined from the seismic and radar methods, suggesting that any layer of basal ice cannot be greater than 5 m thick. Interpretation of the amplitude of the seismic reflections indicates the presence of permafrost close to the glacier base. A thin layer of thawed deforming sediment separates the glacier from this underlying permafrost. In an area just upstream of the surge front the permafrost becomes discontinuous and may even be absent, the ice being underlain by 10–15 m of thawed sediments overlying deeper bedrock. Highpressure water is believed to have been required to maintain the propagation of the surge, and this area of thawed sediment is interpreted as a route for that water to escape from the basal system. When the surge front passed over this thawed bed, the escaping water reduced the pressure in the subglacial hydraulic system, initiating the termination of the surge. Surge termination was therefore primarily controlled by the presurge permafrost distribution beneath the glacier, rather than any feature of the surge itself. This termination mechanism is probably limited to surges in polythermal glaciers, but the techniques used may have wider glaciological applications. Sherpa Romeo green journal. Permission to archive final published version

Multiple tropical Andean glaciations during a period of late Pliocene warmth Roberts, Nicholas J.; Barendregt, René W.; Clague, John J. The extent and behaviour of glaciers during the mid-Piacenzian warm period illustrate the sensitivity of the cryosphere to atmospheric CO2 concentrations above pre-industrial levels. Knowledge of glaciation during this period is restricted to globally or regionally averaged records from marine sediments and to sparse terrestrial glacial deposits in mid-to-high latitudes. Here we expand the Pliocene glacial record to the tropics by reporting recurrent large-scale glaciation in the Bolivian Andes based on stratigraphic and paleomagnetic analysis of a 95-m sequence of glacial sediments underlying the 2.74-Ma Chijini Tuff. Paleosols and polarity reversals separate eight glacial diamictons, which we link to cold periods in the benthic oxygen isotope record. The glaciations appear to coincide with the earliest glacial activity at high northern latitudes and with events in Antarctica, including the strong M2 cold peak and terminal Pliocene climate deterioration. This concordance suggests inter-hemispheric climate linkages during the late Pliocene and requires that the Central Andes were at least as high in the late Pliocene as today. Our record fills a critical gap in knowledge of Earth systems during the globally warm mid-Piacenzian and suggests a possible driver of faunal migration preceding the large-scale biotic interchange in the Americas during the earliest Pleistocene. Sherpa Romeo green journal. Open access article. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC by 4.0) applies

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