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Dr. Grant Schmidt, director of the Roseburg VA Health Care System’s Urgent Care Clinic, oversees the staff and providers who serve on the “front line” of the Roseburg VA’s COVID-19 response. Recently, several former enlisted medical providers, known as Hospital Corpsmen in the Navy and Medics in the Army and Air Force, joined the Roseburg VA as part of the Intermediate Care Technician program here in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Schmidt, who hails from the Bay Area in California, served as an Army radio operator in the 1980s before going on to serve as a physician for the Navy for 12 years. “Many times [Corpsmen and Medics] are the only health care provider available in very stressful or dangerous situations and, therefore, are well respected by the troops and Sailors. Many of our Veterans have had interaction with the “Docs” during their tours of duty, so there is a familiarity with our ICT’s that only a Veteran can experience,” said Schmidt. The worldwide pandemic caused by SARS-CoV2, the disease that causes COVID-19, has brought cheers and tributes for health care workers across the globe. Traditional first responders and ordinary citizens – police, firemen, military and many others – line the streets outside medical facilities and atop balconies from New York City to New Delhi to show appreciation for the difficult work front line providers do each day. (Official RVAHCS Photo by T. T. Parish/Released)
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National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
The Honest John was the first nuclear tipped rocket to be deployed by the United States Army. It was a simple, free-flight rocket capable of delivering a nuclear warhead. This highly mobile system was designed to fire like conventional artillery in battlefield areas. The first Honest John battalions were deployed to Europe in the spring of 1954.
This solid fuel rocket was by far the easiest to operate of all U.S. nuclear weapons in the fifties. It took a six man crew only five minutes to mount the rocket on to its launcher. After that, all that remained was to set the proper azimuth, and then fire the rocket.
It was replaced by the Improved (M50) Honest John in 1961 which reduced the system's weight, shortened its length, and increased its range. In July 1982, all Honest John rocket motors, launchers, and related ground equipment items were classified as obsolete
Length 27 feet, 3 inches
Diameter 30 inches
Weight 5,820 pounds
Range 15.4 Miles
Warheads W7, W31
Stockpiled 1954-1961
A scene on the Nassington ironstone mine in Northamptonshire with one of the system's 16 Hunslet 0-6-0STs. 1970
David Bridgwater, USFS R6 aerial survey program manager, with Digital Aerial Sketch Mapping (DASM) system's KDS touchscreen during early testing. Salem, Oregon.
Photo by: Unknown
Date: c.2001
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Source: Aerial Survey Program collection.
Note: The transition from collecting data on paper maps to digital data collection with DASM happened over the course of several years of testing. The first year for 100% DASM data collection in Oregon and Washington was 2003. Charlie Schrader-Patton was the technical expert and USFS support for this system. For more see:
Schrader-Patton, C. 2001. Digital Aerial Sketchmappping. RSA-LSP-3400-RPT2. Salt Lake City, UT: USDA Forest Service, Remote Sensing Application Center. 11 p.
For a 2006 video of DASM use, see: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DTpooXhR8I
For geospatial data collected during annual aerial forest insect and disease detection surveys see: www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r6/forest-grasslandhealth/insects-...
For related historic program documentation see:
archive.org/details/AerialForestInsectAndDiseaseDetection...
Johnson, J. 2016. Aerial forest insect and disease detection surveys in Oregon and Washington 1947-2016: The survey. Gen. Tech. Rep. R6-FHP-GTR-0302. Portland, OR: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection. 280 p.
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
The Croy Creek Trail System is a skills development area jointly managed by BLM and Blaine County located in south-central Idaho, west of Hailey. The trails were designed and constructed primarily for motorcycle riders and mountain bikers, but hikers and equestrians also frequent the system. The trails receive approximately 15,000 - 20,000 visits per season. The Croy Creek Trail System offers mountain bikers year round riding opportunities because of the system's low elevation. The ride experience at Croy Creek includes traditional single track and modernized mountain bike trail features including rollers, berms and table top jumps.
Photos by Leslie Kehmeier, Mapping Manager, International Mountain Bicycling Association.
CREEED Service Center team installs a solar water heating system for supplying hotel guests with hot water throughout the year. SWH system consists of 18 vacuum tube collectors with heat pipes, and water heating tanks of 4 tons. System's pumps operate on power, provided by PV panels to 4 gel batteries and an invertor.
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The third annual State of the Schools event featured BCPS Superintendent Dr. S. Dallas Dance both celebrating the school system’s progress and detailing the next generation of ways BCPS will deepen and expand the educational experience and opportunities for students. In addition, the luncheon highlighted student voices, performances, and artistic talents throughout. State of the Schools is hosted by the Education Foundation of Baltimore County Public Schools in conjunction with Achievement/Excellence Sponsor Daly Computers and other business sponsors.
Typhoon Haiyan, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Yolanda, is the second-deadliest Philippine typhoon on record, killing at least 4,011 people in that country alone. The thirtieth named storm of the 2013 Pacific typhoon season, Haiyan originated from an area of low pressure several hundred kilometers east-southeast of Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia on November 2, 2013. Tracking generally westward, environmental conditions favored tropical cyclogenesis and the system developed into a tropical depression the following day. After becoming a tropical storm and attaining the name Haiyan at 0000 UTC on November 4, the system began a period of rapid intensification that brought it to typhoon intensity by 1800 UTC on November 5. By November 6, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) assessed the system as a Category 5-equivalent super typhoon on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale; the storm passed over the island of Kayangel in Palau shortly after attaining this strength. Thereafter, it continued to intensify; at 1200 UTC on November 7, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) upgraded the storm's maximum ten-minute sustained winds to 235 km/h (145 mph), the highest in relation to the cyclone. At 1800 UTC, the JTWC estimated the system's one-minute sustained winds to 315 km/h (196 mph), unofficially making Haiyan the fourth most intense tropical cyclone ever observed. Several hours later, the eye of the cyclone made its first landfall in the Philippines at Guiuan, Eastern Samar, without any change in intensity; if verified, this would make Haiyan the strongest tropical cyclone to make a landfall on record, surpassing the old record of 305 km/h (190 mph) set by Atlantic Hurricane Camille in 1969. Gradually weakening, the storm made five additional landfalls in the country before emerging over the South China Sea. Turning northwestward, the typhoon eventually struck northern Vietnam as a severe tropical storm on November 10. Haiyan was last noted as a tropical depression by the JMA the following day. The cyclone caused catastrophic destruction in the central Philippines, particularly on Samar Island and Leyte. According to UN officials, about 11 million people have been affected and many have been left homeless. ift.tt/I56uJy
Howard County Library System's Evening in the Stacks held on February 22, 2014 at the Miller Branch.
On Monday, June 6, 2016, Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen spoke to members, guests, and students at a World Affairs Council of Philadelphia luncheon event.
Janet L. Yellen took office as Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System on February 3, 2014, for a four-year term ending February 3, 2018. Dr. Yellen also serves as Chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee, the System's principal monetary policymaking body. Prior to her appointment as Chair, Dr. Yellen served as Vice Chair of the Board of Governors, taking office in October 2010, when she simultaneously began a 14-year term as a member of the Board that will expire January 31, 2024.
Dr. Yellen is Professor Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley where she was the Eugene E. and Catherine M. Trefethen Professor of Business and Professor of Economics and has been a faculty member since 1980.
Dr. Yellen took leave from Berkeley for five years starting August 1994. She served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System through February 1997, and then left the Federal Reserve to become chair of the Council of Economic Advisers through August 1999. She also chaired the Economic Policy Committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development from 1997 to 1999. She also served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco from 2004 to 2010.
Dr. Yellen is a member of both the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has served as President of the Western Economic Association, Vice President of the American Economic Association and a Fellow of the Yale Corporation.
Dr. Yellen graduated summa cum laude from Brown University with a degree in economics in 1967, and received her Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 1971. She received the Wilbur Cross Medal from Yale in 1997, an honorary doctor of laws degree from Brown in 1998, and an honorary doctor of humane letters from Bard College in 2000.
An Assistant Professor at Harvard University from 1971 to 1976, Dr. Yellen served as an Economist with the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors in 1977 and 1978, and on the faculty of the London School of Economics and Political Science from 1978 to 1980.
Dr. Yellen has written on a wide variety of macroeconomic issues, while specializing in the causes, mechanisms, and implications of unemployment.
Army Maj. Gen. William Wofford, the adjutant general of the Arkansas National Guard, and Army Capt. Tanya Phillips, the state's suicide prevention program manager, discuss a Soldier's case before visiting with him at the Central Arkansas Veterans Heathcare System's Eugene J. Towbin Healthcare Center on April 17, 2010. "It takes the strength and courage of a warrior to ask for help," Wofford said. The Arkansas National Guard has aggressively pursued innovative ways to help troubled Citizen-Soldiers and -Airmen since leaders first noticed increased warning signs about two years ago. (U.S. Army photo by SSG Jim Greenhill) (Released)
National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
The Honest John was the first nuclear tipped rocket to be deployed by the United States Army. It was a simple, free-flight rocket capable of delivering a nuclear warhead. This highly mobile system was designed to fire like conventional artillery in battlefield areas. The first Honest John battalions were deployed to Europe in the spring of 1954.
This solid fuel rocket was by far the easiest to operate of all U.S. nuclear weapons in the fifties. It took a six man crew only five minutes to mount the rocket on to its launcher. After that, all that remained was to set the proper azimuth, and then fire the rocket.
It was replaced by the Improved (M50) Honest John in 1961 which reduced the system's weight, shortened its length, and increased its range. In July 1982, all Honest John rocket motors, launchers, and related ground equipment items were classified as obsolete
Length 27 feet, 3 inches
Diameter 30 inches
Weight 5,820 pounds
Range 15.4 Miles
Warheads W7, W31
Stockpiled 1954-1961
Howard County Library System's Evening in the Stacks held on February 22, 2014 at the Miller Branch.
Animation illustrating orbits of Pluto, Charon, Nix, and Hydra about the system's barycenter. Derived from two Hubble Space Telescope images and a diagram of the orbits.
Reprojected plane of orbits to face-on view, determined angles swept in the three days separating original images, made new frames based on date/angle. Each time step represents one Earth day.
Image 1: 15 May, 2005 hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/19/image/b/
Image 2: 18 May, 2005 hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/19/image/c/
Orbit diagram: hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/19/image/h/
Video created by R. Kline, Cornell University Department of Astronomy
Howard County Library System's Evening in the Stacks held on February 22, 2014 at the Miller Branch.
On Monday, June 6, 2016, Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen spoke to members, guests, and students at a World Affairs Council of Philadelphia luncheon event.
Janet L. Yellen took office as Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System on February 3, 2014, for a four-year term ending February 3, 2018. Dr. Yellen also serves as Chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee, the System's principal monetary policymaking body. Prior to her appointment as Chair, Dr. Yellen served as Vice Chair of the Board of Governors, taking office in October 2010, when she simultaneously began a 14-year term as a member of the Board that will expire January 31, 2024.
Dr. Yellen is Professor Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley where she was the Eugene E. and Catherine M. Trefethen Professor of Business and Professor of Economics and has been a faculty member since 1980.
Dr. Yellen took leave from Berkeley for five years starting August 1994. She served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System through February 1997, and then left the Federal Reserve to become chair of the Council of Economic Advisers through August 1999. She also chaired the Economic Policy Committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development from 1997 to 1999. She also served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco from 2004 to 2010.
Dr. Yellen is a member of both the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has served as President of the Western Economic Association, Vice President of the American Economic Association and a Fellow of the Yale Corporation.
Dr. Yellen graduated summa cum laude from Brown University with a degree in economics in 1967, and received her Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 1971. She received the Wilbur Cross Medal from Yale in 1997, an honorary doctor of laws degree from Brown in 1998, and an honorary doctor of humane letters from Bard College in 2000.
An Assistant Professor at Harvard University from 1971 to 1976, Dr. Yellen served as an Economist with the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors in 1977 and 1978, and on the faculty of the London School of Economics and Political Science from 1978 to 1980.
Dr. Yellen has written on a wide variety of macroeconomic issues, while specializing in the causes, mechanisms, and implications of unemployment.
The "scam" is a ticket raffle held at the conclusion of each Club meeting. Members and guests who have purchased tickets participate in the event.
Diane Johnson, left, carried the tickets and Cheri Van Hoover, center, who won one of the four ticket pulls, looks at her (non-winning) ticket while Frank Trafton looks on.
Rotary is an international service organization of local business, professional and civic leaders. Rotary is a global organization - there are over 1.2 million Rotarians in nearly every country in the world. Check us out - we welcome everyone interested in working with us to make the world a better place! www.rotary.org
Rotarians are action-oriented. While we enjoy our meetings and social events, we are focused on taking action to improve our communities both locally and around the world. www.ejcrotary.club
Among our dozens of local projects here on the Olympic Peninsula are the Chimacum High School Horticulture Pavilion currently being built in the school’s vocational garden, the large pavilion in H.J. Carroll County Park for community use, the large garage used to house our county library system’s bookmobile, the program to help returning military veterans integrate back into their communities, the middle school playground, and the support provided to our local teen center.
Internationally, we built a water treatment facility in rural Thailand and trained villagers how to use it and maintain it, we helped to design and built sanitary facilities and hand-washing stations in seven rural villages on the slopes of the Andes Mountains in Ecuador in order to reduce the incidence of disease, and we helped to build over twenty wells and water distribution systems for villages in rural Honduras. At present, we are part of a consortium of seven Olympic Peninsula Rotary Clubs developing a global grant to build composting toilets in the African country of Togo.
See our club’s website at: www.ejcrotary.club/
Join us on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/The-Rotary-Club-of-East-Jefferson-County...
We are proud to be a partner of Chimacum Schools, where, among many other things, we sponsor the Chimacum High School Interact Club, a youth group of Rotary-affiliated high school students at Chimacum High School.
We have sponsored Rotary Exchange Students for over twenty years, providing Chimacum and Port Townsend High School students, and others, the opportunity to spend a year living with host families overseas and experiencing their culture while providing a safe and welcoming environment for foreign students spending a year with Chimacum families to experience the beautiful Olympic Peninsula. This year, our incoming student is from the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and our outgoing student is in Croatia.
We welcome guests and visitors! The Rotary Club of East Jefferson County meets on Thursdays at noon - at the Tri-Area Community Center at 10 West Valley Road in Chimacum WA one last time on August 29th, then, after a move, at the Old Alcohol Plant Restaurant at 310 Hadlock Bay Road, Port Hadlock WA from September 5th into the future. A light buffet lunch is available at 11:30am. A brief business meeting, which begins at noon, is followed by a speaker and presentation. The meeting is concluded at 1pm.
McNel Septic System's Kenworth T880 features a careful distribution of weight across the 20,000-pound steer axle, 46,000-pound rears, and 13,000-pound pusher. With the 4,000-gallon tank and the payload distributed properly, McNel Septic System owner Shawn Carlton says he can do twice the work with the T880 compared to what he did with his previous truck.
Looking up to the Mercedes-Benz Arocs Skip Lorries, (MT63 GBN & BA63 GBN) as they pose in low level light. Both feature Hyva Skip Loading Gear and Transcover Sheeting System's.
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The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided the clearest look yet at the iconic multi-planet system HR 8799. The observations detected carbon dioxide in each of the planets, which provides strong evidence that the system’s four giant planets formed much like Jupiter and Saturn, by slowly building solid cores that attract gas from within a protoplanetary disk.
Colours are applied to filters from Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera), revealing their intrinsic differences. A star symbol marks the location of the host star HR 8799, whose light has been blocked by a coronagraph.
The colours in this image, which represent different wavelengths captured by Webb’s NIRCam, tell researchers about the temperatures and composition of the planets. HR 8799 b, which orbits around 10.1 billion kilometres from the star, is the coldest of the bunch, and the richest in carbon dioxide. HR 8799 e orbits 2.4 billion kilometres from its star, and likely formed closer to the host star, where there were stronger variations in the composition of material.
In this image, the colour blue is assigned to 4.1 micron light, green to 4.3 micron light, and red to the 4.6 micron light.
[Image description: This image shows the planetary system HR 8799. The image background is black. At the centre of the image, there is a symbol representing a star labeled HR 8799. This star blocks the light from the host star. There are four exoplanets, which look like fuzzy dots, pictured in the image surrounding the star. Furthest from the star is a fuzzy, faint blue dot, labeled b, at the 10 o’clock position. At the one o’clock position, second furthest from the star is a blueish-white fuzzy dot labeled c. Just below that is an orange dot labeled e. At the four o’clock position, still nearby the star, is another fuzzy white dot labeled d.]
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, W. Balmer (JHU), L. Pueyo (STScI), M. Perrin (STScI); CC BY 4.0
Hyattsville Brach Library, Prince George’s County Memorial Library System’s (PGCMLS). Built in 1964. The library is known for its Googie flying saucer entrance. Closed in 2017 for renovation. 6530 Adelphi Road.
Howard County Library System's Evening in the Stacks held on February 22, 2014 at the Miller Branch.
Howard County Library System's Evening in the Stacks held on February 22, 2014 at the Miller Branch.
The tower is finished off with four pinnacles. One is the stair turret, (from where this picture is taken ) two are dummies, and this one pictured here, is the chimney for the heating system's boiler.
Pictured; Gordon Bretherton (left) Trevor Gilbert (bottom) Centre unknown.
Army Maj. Gen. William Wofford, the adjutant general of the Arkansas National Guard, pauses to write an encouraging note to a troubled Soldier before visiting with him at the Central Arkansas Veterans Heathcare System's Eugene J. Towbin Healthcare Center on April 17, 2010. "It takes the strength and courage of a warrior to ask for help," Wofford said. The Arkansas National Guard has aggressively pursued innovative ways to help troubled Citizen-Soldiers and -Airmen since leaders first noticed increased warning signs about two years ago. Also pictured is Army Capt. Tanya Phillips, the state's suicide prevention program manager.(U.S. Army photo by SSG Jim Greenhill) (Released)
Howard County Library System's Evening in the Stacks held on February 22, 2014 at the Miller Branch.
Operating on the Q10 to JFK Airport. Formerly Bee Line Bus System's 463
Detroit Diesel Series 50 DDEC
Allison B-400R WTEC
“Brazen” Web-Site
This web-site interface is designed to reconstruct an operation system’s interface: each section opens in a new window (all within one browser window) and it may be moved, minimized or closed. The site’s background represents a panorama of moscow and may be moved with the help of arrows in the left and right sides of the screen.
Creative Director & Designer — Roman Krikheli.
Designers — Alexander Blouckher.
Illustrator — Vika Mamikonova.
Programming — FHN.RU.
Howard County Library System's Evening in the Stacks held on February 22, 2014 at the Miller Branch.
A M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System’s crew from the 17th Fires Bde. stationed at JBLM, fire rockets from a HIMARS during a HIMARS Rapid Infiltration exercise Feb. 1, 2014 at Schoonover, Calif. The joint exercise was performed to provide hands-on training in a simulated deployed environment to maintain readiness of Airmen and Soldiers.
This is a Thelonious Monk photoshop exercise for the new flickr format. This is a system’s test. The long horizontal landscape on a T.Monk theme.
The new flickr format follows market trends, and attempts to get flickr back to IMAGES. Big juicy images.
But I was always “blogging”, that is writing TEXT w/images. 45rpms can have a 2d image (you can handle it like an object) you can listen to it, and sometimes there is something to read on the back of the jacket.
It’s cool enough to have a Thelonious Monk 7” (but it’s actually 33 1/3), even if the record itself plays like gravel. Anyhow, the songs are well known:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmhP1RgbrrY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qweSlfP6BtI
The new flickr format is like all the other internet upgrades. One day everything changed. Was it better? Or is it just different? I was going to call it quits after 200 posts, and now they’ve given me more (they want more).
Thelonious Monk was one of a kind. There are so many pianos and pianists in the universe and he decided to play it his way. You notice that right away.
Each Future World pavilion was initially sponsored by a corporation who helped fund its construction and maintenance in return for the corporation's logos appearing prominently throughout the pavilion. For example, Universe of Energy was sponsored by Exxon, and The Land was sponsored by Kraft, then Nestlé. Each pavilion contains a posh "VIP area" for its sponsor with offices, lounges, and reception areas hidden away from regular park guests. In the years since the park's opening, however, some sponsors have decided that the branding wasn't worth the cost of sponsorship and have pulled out, leaving some of the pavilions without sponsors. Disney prefers to have sponsors helping to pay the bills, so pavilions without sponsors have an uncertain future. After General Electric left Horizons in 1993, it closed for a couple of years, then re-opened temporarily while neighboring attractions were renovated. Horizons closed permanently in January 1999 and was demolished in the summer of 2000 to make room for the opening of Mission: SPACE in 2003. MetLife abandoned Wonders of Life in 2001 and that area is closed. Test Track is sponsored by General Motors, Imagination! is sponsored by Eastman Kodak, and Mission: SPACE is sponsored by Hewlett-Packard. Spaceship Earth was sponsored by Bell System from 1982 to 1984, then AT&T (Bell System's parent company, following the Bell System Divestiture) from 1984 until 2003. It was not sponsored between 2003 and 2005. It is now sponsored by Siemens.
Talk about a very wet and stormy evening in the city. Very strong & gusty southerly winds & rain were observed as this strongly awaited atmospheric river/storm system’s main cold front made ‘landfall’ in the Bay Area. This was indeed the strongest storm so far this season for the region. Conditions outside looked like a tropical storm! Certainly, this was a stormy night for the region. The Sierras were also looking at feet of snowfall before all this is said & done. This evening was just the 1st part of the storm. More heavy rain & wind was in store for the state over the next day or two as this atmospheric river was forecast to inch back north towards the South Bay the very next day... Things would finally die down by Friday. Stay safe out there, everyone! (Video taken Wednesday, January 27, 2021)
*Weather forecast/update: A strong Pacific storm, or atmospheric river, was expected to bring periods of moderate to heavy rain to the region. This system was forecast to arrive by Tuesday (Jan 26) & was to bring periods of heavy rain & high winds. This will likely result in an increased risk of mudslides over steep terrain, debris flow over wildfire burned areas, as well as localized ponding of water in low-lying areas. Up to 3 inches of rain was expected in urban areas & 3-7 inches possible over higher terrain. The entire area from Napa south thru Monterey & San Benito Counties would get a good soaking from this atmospheric river. Latest model guidance suggests the coastal slopes of the Santa Cruz Mountains & Big Sur look to be the primary target of the heaviest rain. On top of this, a high wind watch was also in effect during the period. South winds 20-30 mph with gusts up to 50-60 mph are possible. North Bay, San Francisco Bay Shoreline, East Bay, Santa Cruz Mountains, and the South Bay will all be affected. Timing of the strongest winds are forecast to happen Tuesday evening thru Wednesday morning as this strong system’s cold front sweeps thru. Damaging winds can blow down trees & power lines which may result in power outages… Stay tuned to the latest forecast for the most up-to-date weather info online…
Howard County Library System's Evening in the Stacks held on February 22, 2014 at the Miller Branch.
The Salt Lake City Public Library system's main branch building is an architecturally unique structure in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is located at 210 East, 400 South, across from the Salt Lake City and County Building and Washington Square.
The Salt Lake City main library has an area of 240,000 square feet (22,000 m2) and is a five-story tall, wedge-shaped building. The library has a collection of over 500,000 books as well as subscriptions to over 60 newspapers and magazines and 163 internet capable computers.
The structure includes 44,960 cubic yards (34,370 m3) of concrete as well as 176,368 square feet (16,385.1 m2) of glass. One of its features is the five-story curved glass wall. Designed by the same architect, the downtown Central Branch of the Vancouver Public Library has a very similar design. This is clearly apparent in the main foyer and the sweeping outer facade.
Outside the library is Library Square, a landscaped and paved plaza. Originally, much of what is now landscaped open space was to be out buildings, but Mayor Rocky Anderson asked for these to be left out and create a public park. There are several shops on the square as well as the studios of radio station KCPW-FM. Library Square is paved with limestone from Israel.
Upon entering the five story building, one enters the "Urban Room", which has the same limestone paving as the square. The room extends for all five floors and ends with a skylight of 20,000 square feet (1,900 m2). More shops line one side of the Urban Room.
A rooftop garden completes the structure. It is planted with trees, grasses, flowering bulbs and various perennial plants.
The whole library depends on natural lighting, reducing the need of lights in the library. A huge five story glass wall is where most of the light comes from.
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Secretary Landgraf and Public Health Director Dr. Karyl Rattay were joined by state Sen. Bruce Ennis and Reps. Ruth Briggs-King, Dave Wilson and Harvey Kenton in recognizing the 20th anniversary of Delaware’s Statewide Trauma System. “No matter where in Delaware someone suffers a traumatic injury, they enter into the same system of care,” Secretary Landgraf said. “We are only a handful of states to have an inclusive statewide trauma system.”
Dr. Rattay said the state’s trauma system is credited with saving 1,319 lives and caring for 101,000 seriously injured people since 2000, an almost 50 percent decrease in the mortality rate in that time. The Delaware mortality rate is now consistently lower than the national rate reported by the federal National Trauma Data Bank.
Fourteen individuals who have 20 years of continuous service to the trauma system were honored at the ceremony in the House chambers at Legislative Hall:
•Edward L. Alexander III, MD, FACS of Bayhealth Kent General Hospital
•Marilynn K. Bartley, MSN, RN of Christiana Care Health System
•Steven Blessing, MA, Chief, EMS and Preparedness Section, DPH
•Steven D. Carey, MD, FACS of Nanticoke Memorial Hospital
•Dean Dobbert, MD, FACEP, Kent County EMS Medical Director
•Deborah Eberly, BSN, RN, CEN, CNML of Bayhealth
•Gerard J. Fulda, MD,FACS of Christiana Care Health System
•Linda Laskowski Jones, MS, APRN, ACNS-BC, CEN, FAWM, FAAN of Christiana Care Health System
•MarySue Jones, RN, MS, State Trauma System Coordinator, OEMS, DPH
•James P. Marvel, Jr., MD, FACS of Beebe Healthcare
•Ross E. Megargel, DO, FACEP, State EMS Medical Director
•Stephen G. Murphy, MD, FACS of Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children
•Lawrence E. Tan, Esq., NRP, Chief of Emergency Medical Services, New Castle County
•Glen H. Tinkoff, MD, FACS of Christiana Care Health System
Sen. Ennis, who advocated for and helped to push through the enabling legislation, read a joint resolution recognizing the trauma system’s anniversary. Rep. Kenton in honoring Sen. Ennis’ role in creating the trauma system said, “We’ll never know, Senator, how many lives you saved.” Rep. Briggs-King in praising the statewide system of care said, “For a small state, you’ve made a huge statement.”
Trauma survivor Melanie Pertain shared how the system helped her and her family after they were involved in a serious motor vehicle crash on Concord Pike in 2013. “I received tremendous care in the ER and then the OR after we were transported to Christiana Hospital,” said Pertain, who spent two weeks in the surgical ICU after suffering a traumatic brain injury and other injuries in the accident. “My new mantra is ‘Be grateful, not hateful.’”
In this video, it shows a late-season storm system bringing in rainy, stormy, unsettled weather to California. Heavy rain, gusty winds, thunderstorms, snow and hail were all associated with this slow-moving low pressure system. On April 5, 2020, this system's main cold front ushered in widespread moderate to heavy rain, especially for areas of the South Bay. Then on April 6, 2020, the showers were more spotty with thunderstorms occurring in locations, especially in the Central Valley during the afternoon. Unluckily, I couldn't chase the storms in the valley due to work. I was only able to capture a brief downpour during my lunch break... Oh well, there's always another storm... hopefully. This weather was a welcomed sight since we are still below our average rainfall for this time of year (as well as the snowpack, which is just above 50% of average). This was the strongest system to impact the state in weeks. After this however, this might be the last decent storm for a while... Enjoy it while it lasts! (Footage taken April 5-6, 2020 from San Jose and briefly in Milpitas at my work)
*Brief weather scenario/update:
A storm system originating from the Gulf of Alaska was dropping southward, bringing in stormy weather to California over the weekend with lingering leftover showers forecasted into the new week. Some t-storms were possible as the storm’s strong cold front pushes through by early Sunday. Some of the stronger storms that do form can drop heavy rain, hail & even possibly spawn a weak tornado/funnel cloud. The t-storm chances were to continue into Monday as the low pressure system slowly drifts southeast just off the California coast. After this storm event, things would start to dry out & turn spring-like starting Tuesday onward for the Bay Area...
Howard County Library System's Evening in the Stacks held on February 22, 2014 at the Miller Branch.
Unused employee quarterly pass for the Oakland, Antioch and Eastern Railway, originally the Oakland and Antioch Railway, which was an electric interurban trolley than ran from the Key System's Oakland pier (with San Francisco service) to Sacramento, became the San Francisco-Sacramento Railroad, and was absorbed by the Sacramento Northern Railway in 1928. Also known as the Sacramento Short Line.
See here for more route info: www.cowellhistoricalsociety.org/html/oa_er.html
The three preserved Huddersfield trolleybus in a line -up at the event for the 50th anniversary of the system's closure. L to R, numbers 541, 619 and 631 line-up across Sandtoft Square.
Curious to see this portable gaming system's outer box? You can do so here: www.thegaygamer.com/2017/04/welcome-to-wonderswan-world-t...
That same post offers up some background information on this Japan-only handheld as well as some of my impressions after spending a good amount of time playing it.
Looking for an interplanetary vacation destination? Consider a visit to Europa, one of the Solar System's most tantalizing moons. Ice-covered Europa follows an elliptical path in its 85 hour orbit around our ruling gas giant Jupiter. Heat generated from strong tidal flexing by Jupiter's gravity keeps Europa's salty subsurface ocean liquid all year round. That also means even in the absence of sunlight Europa has energy that could support simple life forms. Unfortunately, it is currently not possible to make reservations at restaurants on Europa, where you might enjoy a dish of the local extreme shrimp. But you can always choose another destination from Visions of the Future. via NASA ift.tt/1MZEWjs
Van Damme State Park consists of beach and upland on the Mendocino Coast. Of all the park system's units along the Mendocino coast, Van Damme is perhaps the richest in terms of historical resources connected with the redwood lumber industry. Its story is a prime example of the struggles and eventual failures of a small, independent lumber operation.
Location/Directions
The park is located three miles south of the town of Mendocino on Highway 1. The highway runs through the park separating the campground and the Fern Canyon trail head to the east and the beach and parking lot to the west.
Seasons/Climate - Recommended clothing
The weather can be changeable; layered clothing is recommended.
Facilities - Activities
The park features the lush Fern Canyon scenic trail system; the Pygmy Forest where mature, cone-bearing cypress and pine trees stand six inches to eight feet tall; and the bog, or Cabbage Patch, where skunk cabbage grows in abundance. The park's ten miles of trail go along the fern-carpeted canyon of Little River. A paved road is used by joggers and bicyclists. The beach is popular with abalone divers.
Kayak Tours
Visitors can get a unique perspective of the coast line by taking the kayak tours, available through a concession agreement, at the Van Damme beach parking lot.
About the Park
Van Damme State Park was named for Charles Van Damme who was born at Little River in 1881, son of John and Louise Van Damme, early settlers of the region. John Van Damme and his wife were a Flemish couple. The patriarch of the family was born in Bredene, Belgium on May 22, 1832. New research indicates that John Van Damme was born in Bredene, Belgium, not Ostend. "Following the sea" for some years, Van Damme, upon his arrival in Mendocino County, later worked in the lumber mill at Little River. In this settlement all of his children were born, including Charles, whose love for the area prompted his acquiring, after some years as a successful operator of the Richmond-San Rafael ferry line, a plot of ground along the redwood coast. Upon his demise this area became a part of the State Park System in 1934.
In those early days lumbering was a major economic factor in the development of the northern coastline. Little River was built as a mill town in 1864 by Ruel Stickney, Silas Coombs and Tapping Reeves after the property, formally called Kents Cove, was purchased from W. H. Kent in 1862. Before long it had attained fame, not only as a lumber port, but as a shipyard as well. Alas, a stand of timber, if logged, does not last forever and by the end of the century, even though logging was periodically moved back into the headwaters of Little River, the mill was forced to close in 1893.
What was left of Little River soon deteriorated; the shipyard, the wharf, the town, several chutes for loading lumber and the lumber mill itself. Activity at the port, which once hummed with activity, declined. Little River's school, once attended by nearly 100 students, closed; its weekly steamship service ended, and a shipyard where, in 1874, Captain Thomas Peterson turned out full-size lumber schooners for the coast wide trade, phased out. Only the schooner Little River returned, to be wrecked on the very beach from which it originally departed.
Plagued by a lack of sufficient timber reserves, fires, substantial loss of business and trade, deterioration of the port's chutes and wharf, the end of coast wide shipping and the attendant decline in population, Little River reverted to a natural state. Its acquisition by the State Park System in 1934, and the subsequent addition of peripheral lands has preserved some of California's most interesting natural resources.
A series of small waterfalls in a mountain stream beside the Mt.Houkyou Gokurakuji Course hiking trail.
Photographed with OLYMPUS OM-SYSTEM S ZUIKO AUTO-ZOOM 1:4 f=75-150mm No.276091
The third annual State of the Schools event featured BCPS Superintendent Dr. S. Dallas Dance both celebrating the school system’s progress and detailing the next generation of ways BCPS will deepen and expand the educational experience and opportunities for students. In addition, the luncheon highlighted student voices, performances, and artistic talents throughout. State of the Schools is hosted by the Education Foundation of Baltimore County Public Schools in conjunction with Achievement/Excellence Sponsor Daly Computers and other business sponsors.
The Defense Department’s establishing a 30-member Ebola medical support team to rapidly and effectively respond to any potential Ebola virus outbreaks in the U.S. has brought some of the U.S. military health system’s best medical professionals together. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Jeffrey Allen)