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Tropical Strorm Cristobal
Source: MagicSeaWeed.com.
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Tropical Storm Cristobal looks to be headed towards Louisiana.
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Source: Ventusky.com
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I've been finding a lot of good information online. Below is a link that will take you to articles on the following twelve topics. You can read any and all of them online.
1. A group for the study of iberian seafaring – Filipe Vieira de Castro 7
2. The iberian caravel: tracing the development of a ship of discovery – George R. Schwarz 23
3. Exploration and empire: iconographic evidence of iberian ships of Discovery – Katie Custer 43
4. The nau of the Livro náutico: the textual excavation of a portuguese indiaman – Alex Hazlett 63
5. The spanish navy and the ordenanzas of 1607, 1613, and 1618 – Blanca Rodriguez Mendoza 79
6. Diego García de palacio and the instrucción náutica of 1587 – Erika Laanela 153 7. Rigging an early 17th – century portuguese indiaman – Filipe Vieira de Castro, Nuno Fonseca and Tiago Santos 177
8. Santo António de Tanná: story, excavation, and reconstruction – Tiago Miguel Fraga 201
9. Spanish shipbuilding in the eighteenth century: the album of the Marques De La Victoria – J. Bradshaw Coombes 215
10. Ship timber: forests and ships in the iberian peninsula during the age of discovery – Pearce Paul Creasman 235
11. Nautical astrolabes – Gustavo Garcia 249
12. Design of a computer-based frame to store, manage, and divulge information from underwater archaeological excavations: the pepper wreck case – Carlos Monroy and Richard Furuta 275
2. The iberian caravel: tracing the development of a ship of discovery – George R. Schwarz 23
3. Exploration and empire: iconographic evidence of iberian ships of Discovery – Katie Custer 43
4. The nau of the Livro náutico: the textual excavation of a portuguese indiaman – Alex Hazlett 63
5. The spanish navy and the ordenanzas of 1607, 1613, and 1618 – Blanca Rodriguez Mendoza 79
6. Diego García de palacio and the instrucción náutica of 1587 – Erika Laanela 153 7. Rigging an early 17th – century portuguese indiaman – Filipe Vieira de Castro, Nuno Fonseca and Tiago Santos 177
8. Santo António de Tanná: story, excavation, and reconstruction – Tiago Miguel Fraga 201
9. Spanish shipbuilding in the eighteenth century: the album of the Marques De La Victoria – J. Bradshaw Coombes 215
10. Ship timber: forests and ships in the iberian peninsula during the age of discovery – Pearce Paul Creasman 235
11. Nautical astrolabes – Gustavo Garcia 249
12. Design of a computer-based frame to store, manage, and divulge information from underwater archaeological excavations: the pepper wreck case – Carlos Monroy and Richard Furuta 275
Here is the link.
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I was thinking of some of the mistakes I've made over the years and came up with a quick list of ten. These are mistakes I regretted enough that I kept them in mind over the years and have avoided repeating them too many times. Some are very simply yet costly. The one I'll mention today is very simple, yet it is something I never want to repeat.
It occurred around thirty years ago. I parked at a state park, and walked probably a good mile or so to get to a shallow water area in front of a high-end resort that I liked to detect. The people gathered in a small area with a sandy bottom. I guess the surrounding sea grass kept them from spreading out more, so that helped me. It was a small exclusive resort so there wasn't a lot of people, and there weren't many coins or good items, for that matter, but I could usually pick up one good find. It was not easy to get too, but there was one fellow who worked at the resort who also regularly detected the area. He was closely watching me and what I was doing when I dug up a gold chain in the very shallow water right in front of him. I saw him react with disgust upon seeing the flash of gold in the sunlight when I lifted my scoop out of the water. It was a very delicate 14K Italian chain with a small Jesus charm. Very pretty.
Anyhow I stuffed the chain in my shirt pocket and started my long walk back to the car. When I got to the car I noticed the chain was missing from my pocket. Additional inspection revealed a small hole in the corner of my pocket. I had to walk back most of that mile or so before refinding the chain partly exposed in the wet sand. I learned that it only takes a very small hole for a thin gold chain to escape. I also learned to check my pockets before putting any good finds in them.
There was also the time my wife thought she found a very good spot and was picking up a lot of coins. She discovered she was picking up some of the same coins because they were falling through a hole in the leather marble pouch she was using. We both had a laugh over that one. At least it was just coins and she didn't have to walk a mile to find her losses.
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Soaring and Mourning.
What a day of contrasts! Saturday we saw the human spirit soar towards the stars and fall to the depths of hate and despair. When the human spirit is free, it soars to the heavens, but when wounded, it burns cities. The riots of this weekend reminded me very much of the Viet Nam war era protests and riots when I was a psychology professor 50 years ago. The only thing that surprised me this time, is that it didn't happen sooner. The pressure was building before the George Floyd killing lit the fuse.
As Viktor Frankl, Holocaust survivor and psychiatrist, wrote: man's primary drive is not pleasure; it is the discovery and pursuit of meaning. The life of the spirit must be maintained along with that of the body. When the God-given rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are taken away, you can expect an explosion.
I am not justifying or excusing illegal or destructive behavior - just taking a look at one psychological factor that contributed to the explosiveness of the situation and at the same time holds the solution.
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The bush burned and was not consumed.
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