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Howard County Library System's Evening in the Stacks held on February 22, 2014 at the Miller Branch.
Wow, talk about a stormy night! 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 Tuesday nearing midnight, January 26, 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…
Edited Hubble Space Telescope image of Saturn, taken about one month ago. Color/processing variant.
Original caption: Saturn is by far the solar system’s most photogenic planet, and in this latest Hubble Space Telescope snapshot it is especially so because Saturn’s magnificent ring system is near its maximum tilt toward Earth (which was in 2017).
Hubble was used to observe the planet on June 6, 2018, when Saturn was only approximately 1.36 billion miles from Earth, nearly as close to us as it ever gets.
Saturn was photographed as it approached a June 27 opposition, when the planet is directly opposite to the Sun in the night sky and is at its yearly closest distance to the Earth. Though all of the gas giants boast rings, Saturn’s are the largest and most spectacular, stretching out eight times the radius of the planet.
Saturn’s stunning rings were first identified as a continuous disk around the planet by Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens in 1655. 325 years later, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft flyby of Saturn resolved thousands of thin, fine ringlets. Data from NASA’s Cassini mission suggests the rings formed 200 million years ago, roughly around the time of the dinosaurs and Earth’s Jurassic period. The gravitational disintegration of one of Saturn’s small moons created myriad icy debris particles, and collisions today likely continually replenish the rings.
Visible in this Hubble image are the classic rings as recorded by early skywatchers. From the outside in are the A ring with the Encke Gap, the Cassini Division, the B ring, and the C ring with the Maxwell Gap.
Saturn’s appearance changes due to its seasons, caused by the planet’s 27-degree axial tilt. It is now summer in Saturn’s northern hemisphere and the atmosphere is more active. This may be responsible for a string of bright clouds visible near the northern polar region that are the remnants of a disintegrating storm. Small, mid-latitude puffs of clouds are also visible. Hubble’s view also resolves a hexagonal pattern around the north pole, a stable and persistent wind feature discovered during the Voyager flyby in 1981.
Saturn’s colors come from hydrocarbon hazes above the ammonia crystals in the upper cloud layers. Unseen lower-level clouds are either ammonium hydrosulfide or water. The planet’s banded structure is caused by the winds and the clouds at different altitudes.
This is the first image of Saturn taken as part of the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) project. OPAL is helping scientists understand the atmospheric dynamics and evolution of our solar system’s gas giant planets.
This is a photo of the ferry MV Taku at the pier in Ketchikan, Alaska. The MV stands for 'Mainline Vessel'.
It is part of the Alaska Marine Highway System operated as a division of the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities for the State of Alaska. All of the system's ferries are named after Alaskan glaciers.
The Marine Highway is a part of the Alaska highway infrastructure. The system is 50 years old and operates year-round.
I took this picture from my our balcony on the Carnival Legend.
A pair of EMD SD-26s move through Guilford Rail System's East Deerfield Yard in East Deerfield, MA. GRS is now known as PanAm Railways, and I'm pretty sure these two locomotives are at the very least out of service, if not already been scrapped. Taken on May 31, 2003 on Fuji Provia 400
The calm after the storm... Gotta love the sunlight reflecting off of the wet street! Thunderstorms had occurred in the region during the morning hours this day. It was finally feeling a lot like fall! They were still predicting a strong El Niño this upcoming winter... Pic taken from around San Jose, CA. (Monday around sunset, November 9, 2015; 4:39 p.m.)
Weather update:
A cold storm system was to bring periods of rain to the Bay Area from late Saturday night thru Monday. This system which had dropped down from the Gulf of Alaska was to bring rain to across much of northern and central California, along with mountain snow. Rain had began in the North Bay late Saturday night as the system's cold front pushed in. The front then pushed southward into our region by Sunday. Widespread shower activity was to follow the front from Sunday night through Monday. T-storms were likely on Monday due to an unstable airmass behind the front. Showers were forecast to taper off by Monday evening. Drier weather was forecast to return by Tuesday...
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.
Školní batoh Topgal CHI 187 I
Moderní dvoukomorový školní batoh CHI 187 v nejnovějším stylu. Navíc školní pouzdro zdarma jako dárek!
Ideální batoh pro holky na prvním stupni ZŠ.
Ergonomicky tvarovaný zádový systém s polstrováním a vyjímatelným hliníkovým rámem společně s délkově nastavitelnými ramenními popruhy zajistí pohodlné a bezpečné používání tohoto batohu.
Přední komora batohu je prostornější, je zde umístěný praktický organizér, karabina na klíče, šikovná kapsa ze síťoviny a další malá zipová kapsička. Zadní komora poskytuje dostatek prostoru pro další školní pomůcky. Mezi těmito komorami je důmyslně skrytá, zipem uzavíratelná kapsa na box na svačinu, nebo na jiné věci, které chcete oddělit od ostatních školních potřeb v batohu. Na čelní straně mají batohy do školy dvě menší kapsy. Do obou z nich se bez problému vejde penál CHI 190 nebo CHI 191 a jiné menší věci.
Pro oživení vnitřního prostoru batohu je použito pestrobarevné podšívky.
Na jedné straně batohu je menší elastická kapsa na 1,5l láhev s pitím a popruh k zafixování lahve. Druhá menší postranní kapsa obsahuje poutko s karabinou, na kterou je možné zavěsit pytlík na přezůvky nebo si lze do kapsy uschovat jiné drobnosti.
Na popruzích jsou umístěny háčky pro zavěšení dlouhých konců popruhů a držák na PET lahev. Kromě úchytu s plastovou rukojetí pro pohodlné přenášení batohu v ruce je přidáno i poutko na zavěšení batohu na školní lavici. Batohy je doplněn o četné reflexní plochy pro zvýšení viditelnosti školáka za každých povětrnostních podmínek. Dno batohu je chráněno pevným materiálem, plastovými nožkami a zpevněné jsou také spodní hrany.
Součástí batohu je pytlík na papuče a pláštěnka na batoh a penál CHI 190!!!
Penál CHI 190 a CHI 191 ve stejném designu jako dárek zdarma!
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.
U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. (r) Arnold Fields was the guest speaker at the Durham VA Health Care System’s Vietnam Veterans Day Ceremony, where he pinned Veterans with the Vietnam War 50th Anniversary Commemorative lapel pin, sang one of his signature songs, America the Beautiful, and was presented a certificate of appreciation by Director Paul Crews.
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.
UIS student Shaina Humphrey speaks to State Representative, Rita Mayfield, during U of I Day at the Capitol. Around 250 students and alumni from the University of Illinois System’s three universities spent the day speaking with lawmakers about the educational and economic importance of the U of I when it comes to the future of Illinois.
Cayuga-Seneca Canal Lock 2 & 3, Seneca Falls, NY. Part of the New York State Barge Canal - a National Historic Landmark.
Completed in 1918, the Canal System's four branches stretch more than 450 miles, linking the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Lakes. Its scope and technical innovations made it the most ambitious enlargement of the Erie Canal and the connecting waterways that first opened New York State and North America's interior during the 1820's.
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Howard County Library System's Evening in the Stacks held on February 22, 2014 at the Miller Branch.
30-10-2018
Canon EOS-1D X Mark II with Rokinon 14mm f/2.8 IF ED UMC w/AE
20.0 seconds @ f/2,8, ISO 1600
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From left to right: Mars, Saturn, Jupiter and Venus along the solar plane. Pluto's somewhere within Sagittarius, close to Albaldah, a Triple-Star system.
Residing in a region of Bortle Scale 9 makes any attempt at the Milky Way pretty challenging.
Talk about a very wet & stormy evening in the city... Very strong & gusty southerly winds & heavy 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…
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.
Full version of the video here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvDW6JHPuaQ
This video shows Winter Storm Nika bring much needed rainfall to drought-strickened California. Much of the system's moisture and rainfall fell during the morning hours this Sunday, February 2, 2014. The satellite imagery was courtesy of NASA, as well as radar images from The Weather Channel.
We were treated with a sunrise prior to the system's cold front passage. As the front moved thru, southerly to southeasterly winds began to blow. Coming late morning, the rains had lit up but the winds were gusting anywhere from 20-30 mph, especially around the foothills of Mt. Hamilton.
Coming afternoon, some atmospheric instability from Nika had increased chances of thunderstorm development. There was a few storm cells that grew around our region. It's been a while since we've seen a full grown cumulonimbus so this was a welcome sight...let alone rain! It was Super Bowl Sunday as well this day so me and some of us went to my cousin's place in Sunnyvale to watch the game. Gloomy, stormy skies persisted as Nika slowly drifts southwestward, finally leaving our area by early evening or so.
Summary:
Winter Storm Nika had given us a little but much-needed beneficial rainfall this day in California. Some afternoon instability had led to possible t-storm development. Afternoon high temps this day reached into the mid to upper 50's. Despite Nika's moisture, the drought in California was still a big growing concern. Wells are starting to run dry and reservoir levels at record lows as the state faces the worst drought in almost a century. The number of vulnerable communities is expected to increase. State officials have said that 17 communities will be out of water within the next two to four months or so...
Rainfall summary, though just a drop in the bucket:
Total accumulated inches of rain that fell from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday for our area in San Jose, CA this day alone: 0.08 inches.
Howard County Library System's Evening in the Stacks held on February 22, 2014 at the Miller Branch.
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 - one last time at the Tri-Area Community Center at 10 West Valley Road in Chimacum WA on August 29th, then 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.
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.
U.S. Air Force Veteran Roberta Sabo with her $50 gift card donated by the Women Veterans of New Mexico. WVNM collaborated with HUDVASH (Albuquerque Homeless Veterans) and the VA New Mexico Health Care System's Women's Clinic. Each program was given 15 $50 dollar gift cards to support our homeless Veterans and pregnant women Veterans.
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. Washington Post Book Critic Ron Charles.
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.
Howard County Library System's Evening in the Stacks held on February 22, 2014 at the Miller Branch.
In preparation for a snow storm predicted for Saturday, January 21, the subway system’s fleet of snow fighting equipment has been fueled, prepped and deployed near historically vulnerable outdoor locations. This is a jet-powered snow thrower and sweeper. Photo by Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
Howard County Library System's Evening in the Stacks held on February 22, 2014 at the Miller Branch.
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 - one last time at the Tri-Area Community Center at 10 West Valley Road in Chimacum WA on August 29th, then 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.
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.
Howard County Library System's Evening in the Stacks held on February 22, 2014 at the Miller Branch. Washington Post Book Critic Ron Charles, left, and bestselling author Chris Bohjalian.
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.