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This is one of my very close friends. his name I Dan.
Here he is predicting a Vancouver Canucks win while we were watching the game last night.
I tried to be a bit creative with the pop up flash. It made the ball look cool.
This was taken in March 2013. Might be worth nipping up to this spot after work tomorrow, so glad I finish at 3pm :-)
What they predicted was correct, it would clear up from the East. I went on foot from Chalupki to Rudyzswald where open fields became my motif for the evening... Previous photo was the start.
It was open, without houses or any buildings.
After the previous coal train I stood against the light and then this ET22 PKP Cargo came during a solo ride.
I was on the right side of the tracks and this was just a start.
Rudyszwald, Poland
While predicting where the birds will overnight on this refuge is an iffy proposition, this shallow lake just off the tour-route road is a regular hangout. The trick is to check it out early to see if any pathfinder birds have already selected it. If so, they will continually vocalize to the overflying birds trying to entice them to drop down and join them (increasing safety in numbers). There are several blinds here that you can select for different vantage positions. It's still early, and this lake was eventually completely filled with overnighting birds.
IMG_4274; Sandhill Cranes
It predicted many indivdual design features of Fords over the following three years. While it was a 'pushmobile', the press releases stated that it was planned around a gas turbine engine.
RBC Is First Bank to Predict Canada Headed For Recession in 2023
Economy to contract by annualized 0.5% pace in middle of year
‘Inflation has been too strong for too long’: economists
By Randy Thanthong-Knight
July 7, 2022 at 7:33 AM EDTUpdated onJuly 7, 2022 at 11:54 AM EDT
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Royal Bank of Canada became the first of the country’s major banks to predict the nation’s economy will fall into a recession next year amid four-decade high inflation, historic labor shortages and aggressive interest-rate hikes.
In a new set of projections released on Thursday, Canada’s largest bank said it expects back-to-back quarters of negative growth in 2023, a situation economists refer to as a technical recession.
The recession call illustrates the extent to which Canada’s resource-heavy economy -- which has been benefiting from the recent boom in energy prices -- remains vulnerable to global economic headwinds and higher borrowing costs that threaten to stall expansions in most major advanced economies.
Canada’s central bank will need to continue hiking into the slowdown to temper inflation expectations threatening to entrench price pressures, RBC said.
“Though higher rates will technically push Canada toward a contraction, the Bank of Canada now has little choice but to act,” according to the report, which was written by economists Nathan Janzen and Claire Fan. “Inflation has been too strong for too long and is starting to creep into longer-run business and consumer expectations.”
Earlier this week, the central bank’s quarterly surveys of executives and consumers showed inflation expectations over the next couple of years have hit a record in Canada: 78% of businesses expect the consumer price index to exceed 3% over next two years.
Still, the recession in Canada will likely be moderate and short-lived by historical standards and will be reversed once inflation settles enough for central banks to lower rates, RBC said.
The Canadian economy is expected to contract by an annualized 0.5% pace in the second and third quarters of 2023, according to the new forecasts. Growth will average 0.8% next year, down from 3.7% this year.
As the economic contraction plays out in 2023, Canada’s unemployment rate will likely rise about 1.5 percentage points to 6.6%, they said, adding that it wouldn’t take long to unwind that weakness in 2024 and beyond.
Toronto Office Vacancies Rise to a Record on Recession Fears
Royal Bank projects the Bank of Canada will increase its benchmark policy rate to 3.25% by the end of this year, from 1.5% right now. The central bank is widely expected to hike the overnight rate by three quarters of a percentage point at its next decision on July 13.
RBC cited a number of headwinds facing the nation’s economy.
While Canadians continue to fuel a recovery in the travel and hospitality sectors and higher commodity prices have boosted the mining and energy industries, RBC said soaring prices are cutting into households’ purchasing power. The housiing market, meanwhile, is sliding in some regions with prices in Toronto down 11% in four months.
Canada will also feel the spillover from slowing global growth. The US unemployment rate is expected to climb and emerging markets will struggle with higher food and energy prices and borrowing costs, acting as a drag on Canadian exports.
Even without rate hikes, labor shortages would be hampering Canada’s economy as businesses struggle to find workers to grow, Fan and Janzen said.
Scientists predict that when climate change eventually leads to the extinction of the human species there will be a new dawn...
It will be the Jealopus that will evolve and take our place...
Snow begins to drift when wind speeds exceed a threshold velocity of 5 meters per second. Of course, the quality of the snow already on the ground has much to do with this too, and its physical composition changes with the drifting process. The mechanisms involved can be difficult to predict. Extensive research and complex equations have been created in efforts to make those predictions.
Likewise, the reasons for which the majestic snowy owl seem to drift southward in unpredictable irruptions every few years are just as uncertain. The reproduction and survival of these exalted raptors of the north seem to be intimately tied to those of a rodent, the lemming. So population growth of the birds and the lemmings are at least part of the reason that some of these birds have traveled as far south as Bermuda. Each year, it seems, at least a few birds manage to make it to our region. I hope we will have ample opportunity to see them again this year. #SnowyOwl
Experts make different forecasts: someone predicts a tough scenario, and someone is sure that the economy will not suffer much. Personally, I believe that any crises open up new opportunities, motivate, reveal our strengths and weaknesses, which should be worked on. Crises come and go, recession is replaced by growth. It has always been so. All that remains is not to panic, adapt and move forward.
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The folklore of using wild persimmon seeds (from the native American persimmon tree, Diospyros virginiana) to predict winter weather is a longstanding tradition in the United States, particularly in the South, Midwest, and Ozarks regions. It's often described as an "old wives' tale" or nature-based prognostication, similar to reading woolly bear caterpillars or squirrel nest heights. Of course, they were never considered as accurate as the famed Farmers' Almanac.
Here’s the traditional meaning of each shape found inside a wild persimmon seed:
Spoon (or shovel):
Predicts a cold, snowy winter with lots of heavy, wet snow that you’ll have to “scoop” or shovel.
Fork
Predicts a mild winter with little snow, light powdery snow, or generally dry conditions.
Knife
Predicts a bitterly cold, harsh winter with piercing winds that “cut like a knife,” often icy but not necessarily snowy.
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Das Tagpfauenauge war Schmetterling des Jahres 2009 in Deutschland.
Ein Porträt des Tagpfauenauges: 🐛Anders als die hoch spezialisierten Raupen sind die Falter wenig wählerisch. Im zeitigen Frühjahr werden Weiden, Huflattich, Schlehen und Löwenzahn besucht, im Sommer mit Vorliebe rote und blauviolette Blüten.Das Tagpfauenauge, wissenschaftlich Inachis io, gehört zur Familie der Edelfalter, seine Flügelspannweite beträgt fünf bis sechs Zentimeter.Und wie bei Kleinem Fuchs, Admiral und Landkärtchen ernähren sich die Raupen nahezu ausschließlich von Brennnesseln, weshalb diese Arten auch als Brennnesselfalter zusammengefasst werden.Die jungen Raupen sind zunächst grüngelb gefärbt, später werden sie leuchtend schwarz mit weißen Punkten. Sie tragen fleischige, bedornte Fortsätze. Die Raupen treten in großen Nestern auf, sie leben also gemeinschaftlich und überziehen dabei mehrere Brennnesselpflanzen mit ihrem Gespinst. Bevorzugt werden dabei sonnige Standorte.Dank ihrer typischen Flügeloberseiten mit vier bunten Augen auf braunrotem Grund kann man das Tagpfauenauge kaum verwechseln. Die großen Augen sollen möglichst Fressfeinde abschrecken, umgekehrt dient die graubraune Flügelunterseite der Tarnung im zusammengeklappten Zustand.Anders als die hoch spezialisierten Raupen sind die Falter wenig wählerisch, mehr als 200 Nektarpflanzen wurden registriert. Im zeitigen Frühjahr werden Weiden, Huflattich, Schlehen, Pflaumen und Löwenzahn besucht, im Sommer mit Vorliebe rote und blauviolette Blüten. Wichtig sind dabei Disteln, Wasserdost, Flockenblumen und Skabiosen, Klee und Luzerne. Gerne fliegt das Tagpfauenauge auch Schmetterlingsflieder (Buddleia) im Garten oder auf Siedlungsbrachen und Bahnflächen an. 🐛
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A portrait of the daycare eye: unlike the highly specialized caterpillars, the moths are not very picky. In early spring, pastures, hoof slattish, slopes and dandelion are preferred to be red and blue -violet flowers in summer. The day -to -day eye, scientific inachis io, belongs to the family of the noble butterfly, its wing span is five to six centimeters. As with a small fox, admiral and country cards, the caterpillars eat almost exclusively from fuel, why are these types Also combined as a nettle butterfly. The young caterpillars are first colored, later they become bright black with white dots. They wear fleshy, so far. The caterpillars occur in large nests, so they live together and cover several nettle plants with their web. Sunny locations are preferred, thanks to their typical wing tops with four colorful eyes on a brown -red background you can hardly confuse the dayfall eye. The big eyes are supposed to scare as predictors as possible, conversely, the gray -brown underside of the camouflage is used in the composite condition. Other than the highly specialized caterpillars, the moths are little selective, more than 200 nectar plants have been registered. In early spring, pastures, hoof slattish, slopes, plums and dandelions are visited, in summer red and blue -violet flowers. It is important to thistle, water dost, flake flowers and skaboses, clover and lucerne. The dayfall eye also likes to fly butterfly lilac (Buddleia) in the garden or on settlement wasteland and railway areas.
They are predicting rain overnight and into tomorrow. We had been cool all day until the wind shifted. That brought in humidity and the cloud bank you see here started to form. We will most likely get a thunder shower overnight. They are not calling for severe weather.
This is what happens during the autumn months. We will keep getting changes in wind direction. From the northeast, it will be cool, from the southwest it will bring in warmer moist air and when they meet, depending on conditions, all heck can break lose. it can be anything from constant rain and windy to tornadoes and gale force winds.
Forecasters are, after 44 days of no precipitation, predicting what they call a Pineapple Express to hit the West Coast of the United States, for the next 4 days. We say... "the storm door's open". Rain totals (it is a very warm system headed straight here from Hawaii so snow levels will be very high in the Sierras) are expected to be anywhere from 2inches at lower elevations, to up to 10 inches in the mountains. California survives on a series of reservoirs to gather rain and snow melt, and the predictions are quite promising to regenerate our supplies.
C'mon RAIN !!!
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The one-way Firehole Lake Drive takes you through the woods and back to a place where hidden geysers and thermal features that can't be seen from the road, are found. Several pullouts and parking areas along your drive make it easy for you to get out of the car and take your time admiring these natural wonders. This is also where Great Fountain Geyser is located. Great Fountain Geyser is the only geyser not in the Upper Geyser Basin that is predicted at the Old Faithful Visitor Education Center. Eruptions 100 ft. high shoot out from a pool of water in a magnificent display. The road continues on and squeezes between Firehole Lake and Hot Lake before taking you back into the woods where it eventually meets back up with the main road right across the street from the Fountain Paint Pot parking lot and boardwalk. Ample parking is available at Firehole and Hot Lakes with boardwalks leading you along the banks of the steaming water. RVs, buses and trailers are not permitted on this road due to narrow sections along the way. Pick up an Old Faithful Area Trail Guide at any visitor center so you can read about all the different features and stops around Firehole Lake Drive. [Source: www.youryellowstonevacation.com/index.php?p=region&re...] Yellowstone's Firehole Lake Drive is a 3-mile, one-way side road off the Grand Loop located between the Old Faithful exit and Madison Junction. It has many geysers and hot springs visible from the road. There is also a boardwalk around the Firehole Lake itself, leading you to small geysers and springs. [Source: www.yellowstonepark.com/road-trips/firehole-lake-scenic-d...]
Yellowstone National Park is a national park located in the U.S. states of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho. It was established by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872. Yellowstone was the first National Park in the U.S. and is also widely held to be the first national park in the world. The park is known for its wildlife and its many geothermal features, especially Old Faithful Geyser, one of its most popular features. It has many types of ecosystems, but the subalpine forest is the most abundant. It is part of the South Central Rockies forests ecoregion. [Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_National_Park]
A Hindi Woman tells predicts a clients future near Batu Caves in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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For the first time in seemingly weeks Friday was predicted to be perfect bluebird weather. Coupled with the news just released the day prior that the Pan Am Railways acquisition by CSXT had been approved I figured I should skip my beloved ex Boston and Albany for once and go to the old Boston and Maine before the changes come. While it won't happen overnight, it will be quicker than we expect before blue dip or ugly patched GEs are rare and intermodal trains on District 3 are but a memory.
With that in mind a look at the turnover revealed that a 22K was tied down at Fitchburg scheduled for an early recrew to bring into Ayer and that an EDPO was out of East Deerfield headed east and counterpart POED was moving with work at Graniteville before going west. Throw in regular AYPO building in Ayer and it was an unusual busy morning to the point that you actually had to make a choice what you wanted to focus on!
Anyway, first up I headed here to find 22K (47th Street Chicago to PAS Ayer) tied down on Main 2 just west of CPF FG as outbound Keolis/MBTA train 403 trails away for Fitchburg and Wachusett on Main 1. The standard NS SD60E has a colorful BNSF and UP GE duo trailing making for some nice variety here in the morning sun just west of Bemis Road at MP 48.3 (from North Station via the Fitchburg Route main) and 328.3 (from Mattawamkeag, ME via Pan Am's Freight Main).
Fitchburg, Massachusetts
Friday April 15, 2022
The weather forecast predicted some NLC display so I headed out to see it. While quite nice the were visible just barely above the horizon. I was hoping for more clouds like this around the sky this setting allowed to see the milky way at the same time as the NLC - pretty cool :)
Anyway the sky was pretty bright, I had to choose ISO 1600 and even stopped down to f/2.8 to not overexpose the highlights (NLC). This lead to a generally low visibility of the night sky.
NLC happen mostly in summer and when viewed to the north. They are located in the Mesopause, about 90-100km above earth (imagine this, there are clouds in 'space'). Also I have never seen such pattern of clouds (apart from the forum post the other day). These clouds are the highest clouds by a big margin (nex would be 60km lower or so!)
Predicted weather forecast for this morning sounded promising... so took the plunge, got up in the dark and drove an hour to this spot (Chalky Beach, NSW; Australia) eager for what might happen.
The image you see here was taken during a 10 minute splash of color!
I managed a couple of other keepers during this brief episode and will post them later..
Hope you like this one - thanks in advance for any comments, views or favorites - always very much appreciated!!!
Hope you have an awesome day and weekend!!
"Badlands drama and light"
May 19 2024 will definitely go down as one of the most amazing days I have spent photographing in the South Dakota badlands. From mid afternoon until sunset, we had storms rolling through the entire park. It was very difficult to decide where to go with so much cloud drama, dark skies, braking storm moments, crazy light, and beauty at every turn......so....we tried to go EVERYWHERE. We were in the middle of the park in a downpour, when we saw the clouds breaking to the west. We knew the light was going to get crazy there, so we drove as fast as legally possible to the Yellow Mounds. I parked the car, jumped out, grabbed my camera and tripod and moved as fast I could safely move to find my first composition. As we predicted, the storm was breaking right overhead and the light began pouring in on the mounds. The edge of the thunderstorm produced the most magnificent mammatus clouds and mixture of light. I was able to get a number of different shots during the next half hour as the dynamic weather presented incredible opportunities in this special area. This was one of the first images I was able to compose.
Taken on the first day of the G8 protests. After I left my office, I headed along Princes Street to see what was happening. The police were just blocking access to the rest of the street. The 'jumper' is a member of the Rebel Clown Army who was trying to taunt them.
This photo has actually just won first prize in a photography competition which relates to an exhibition by the famous USA based Scottish photographer, Harry Benson who has taken some very famous and iconic images. I get to have dinner with the great man himself...and this picture will be exhibited in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery during August, alongside his work. Now that's what I call seriously COOL! :-)
Top temperature predicted this week by the kind folks at the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM or as we used to call it, the Weather Bureau - why a Bureau though?) is a humid 35C. Sounds like no-one has told them it's now Autumn! Putting that aside, we were down the back alleys of Fortitude Valley in Brisbane and I noted these old commercial buildings (read shops and maybe Bubbles Bath House - whatever that could be!!!!) with four old brick chimneys. Well, they are old and back then of course before Global Warming it seemed to get colder for sure in winter. Chimneys are not rare in Brisbane at all on older buildings but I do wonder even then how many times they were lit up.
Thanks to everyone for your kind enquires about my hearts progress this last week, that support is greatly appreciated. After all the tests, they have confirmed that my heart has deteriorated in terms of its pumping capacity since my last echo sound three years back. Well, that's the heart failure for you I guess. It's kind of relentless. One happy note amongst a sea of bad (my blood pressure is also very low too which goes with the above)...when I started my cardio vascular journey as a 34 year old it was high enough 240/150 to blow my head off and get rushed immediately to hospital. My doctor at the time thought his blood pressure machine (it has a name but I can't spell it) was broken and took three readings on two machines. I have battled high BP since and it's an unpleasant change really to swim to the other end of the pool as low BP is harder to treat.
Anyway, the happy note was that I also had a four hour stress test on my heart, that test is a chemical one (walking on a treadmill uphill would kill me) so they do CT's before and after filling you with chemicals that mimic stressing your heart and radio active tracers that allow them to see your heart arteries and muscle - the upshot of which was 13 years after my quadruple by-pass, the arteries are at least still good, despite all those chocolates that our neighbour gave us at Christmas etc etc etc!
So now I am on new drugs for me and new drugs on the market that hopefully will strengthen my heart a bit without lowering my BP further. It's kind of a Catch 22 and complicated journey. I know that many of you have your own to make and of great challenge...getting old isn't all line dancing and orchid growing! Have a happy weekend everyone. And thanks again.
Lake Michigan's appearance depends upon winds. On a calm day, the lake is as flat as a tabletop. Strong winds from the north or south make it look like an ocean with a pounding surf. Sheboygan, Wisconsin juts out into Lake Michigan and often is faced with strong winds. We have a small but active surfing community as a result.
Yesterday we were hit by gale winds which gusted to over 40 m.p.h. at times and produced waves that were 10-18 feet high. More of the same is predicted for today, though the winds aren't supposed to be quite as fierce.
Lake Michigan rocks!
This is South Pier and the Sheboygan lighthouse in the distance.
The weather forecast predicted heavy snowfall. The temperature was about -15C. The relentless wind out of the south-east had a familiar bite.
This female Snowy Owl is big and she is beautiful. After having been on foot for more than 90 minutes to reach this area I had decided to change locations because the wildlife activity was quiet. There was a couple more areas I wanted to explore. Not more than 30 seconds later I looked to my right and saw something white, at a distance.
I raised my camera and took a look and there she was. She had seen me but due to the distance between us she remained unconcerned. I took a few shots and moved closer. Every 50 feet I would take a series of shots as I made my approach. She remained relaxed and I'm certain that the weather conditions made her feel right at home.
She may have felt comfortable in this deep freeze but my fingers were so cold that they were starting to not function. Yes, I have to wear better gloves and I remembered I had a long walk ahead of me to get out of here, so I decided to start my exit. I would also be losing light soon and the decision to leave was an easy one.
This was a predicted 6.4 ft. tide combined with large surf to inundate this rocky shore.
Estero Bluffs State Park,
San Luis Obispo Co., California
See adjacent photo for same view at extremely low tide.
October. Fall has started and no rain is predicted for the next couple weeks. Well, that was weeks ago. Today is a gray rainy day and i must confess i was longing for this but I do love, love a colorful day!
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The nice weather people at the Beeb predicted more thunderstorms would roll in tonight - so I couldn't resist going out with the camera. I wasn't disappointed.
This photo was taken just off the A14 at Kettering / Burton Latimer in Northamptonshire at 11pm. A few minutes later I got totally drenched as the torrential rain hit. But it was worth it to be able to watch the amazing light show.
Equipment: Nikon D7000, Nikkor 10-24mm @15mm, ISO 100, F5.6, 13sec. Manfrotto tripod
Post production: S-curve applied to control contrast. cropped
The weather forecast predicted rain, rain and more rain for the weekend, so when I noticed a brief break in the clouds early this morning, I grabbed my camera and drove off in search of a composition or two... I didn't find much...
I processed this in B&W just to be different... :)
Nikon D300, Sigma 18-200mm at 80mm, aperture of f11, with a 1/250 second exposure.
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