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“Most of the activity is winding down right now and is moving to the east, and any lingering thunderstorm potential today will be mostly over the northern sierra south of I-80,” Del Valle said.īut the fires they started remain and once the storms passed, the winds picked up.įor both the two largest fires burning in California - the Dixie and Caldor - windy conditions are expected Friday. Now the overactive electric activity is coming to an end across the state. The fast-moving storm brought lightning strikes to a huge stretch of Southern California, from the Mexico border to Ventura County. The lightning is winding down and the winds are picking up This makes ‘dry thunderstorms’ much more likely during a drought year.” “When a major drought is in place, like in California now, there is significantly less water and moisture in the ground and thus in the atmosphere via a lack of evaporation. “Droughts are part of a vicious cycle that reinforces itself,” CNN meteorologist Brandon Miller says. This activity is all due to climate change-fueled drought. wo05Iz7JDz- CAL FIRE AEU September 10, 2021 Some of the wild weather was caught on video. Lightning from heavy storm cells passing through the northwestern part of El Dorado County started the largest on Kanaka Valley Road in Rescue. Southern California residents woke up to a summer storm that unleashed thunder, lightning and heavy rain. “Lightning from heavy storm cells passing through the northwestern part of El Dorado County started the largest on Kanaka Valley Road in Rescue.”įirefighters were diverted from the Caldor Fire to fight multiple lightning fires late last night throughout El Dorado County. The annual average was 27 fatalities from 2009-2019. has averaged 43 reported lightning fatalities per year over the last 30 years. “Firefighters were diverted from the Caldor Fire to fight multiple lightning fires late last night throughout El Dorado County,” tweets Calfire. According to the National Weather Service Storm Data, the U.S. In the Sacramento area “we saw most of the activity over the central and southern Sacramento Valley and portions of the mountains including the Caldor Fire area,” Idamis Del Valle, a meteorologist with NWS Sacramento, told CNN Weather. Unfortunately, that was the case Thursday night. “Many of the largest wildfires in California history were sparked by cloud to ground strikes.” A rare August lightning storm streaked across Northern California skies early over the weekend and another, prompting the cameras to come out to capture the brilliant natural light show. “Lightning in California creates significant wildfires every year,” Myers says. “For many outside of the western states, lightning means heavy rain, and although some storms do bring rain, many are considered dry storms that don’t produce enough rainfall to extinguish the fire that was created,” explains CNN meteorologist Chad Myers. While many of these storms brought some beneficial rain to the drought-stricken region, like in San Francisco, many of them were ‘dry thunderstorms.’Ī dry thunderstorm happens when the air the rain falls into is so dry the rain evaporates before it hits the ground.
Since 2011, South Pitch has provided a unique opportunity for filmmakers from across the American South to pitch their next film production to a panel of industry judges. Jasmin Mara López, director of Silent Beauty Tracey Arcabasso Smith, director of Relative Missy Malek, director of We’re Too Good For ThisĪmada Torruella, filmmaker and NOFF programmerĢ:30 PM – 4:00 PM Healing as Documentary ProcessĪs storytellers, how can different healing practices play a guiding role in the development of documentaries around our own families? What types of long term care can we provide protagonists and our film teams throughout the lengthy process of producing a documentary?Īurora Brachman, director of Still Waters Maria Luisa Santos, producer and editor of Stay Here Awhile They will reflect on the challenges and inspirations for how their works push the boundaries of traditional film structures in collective storytelling. This panel discussion will feature filmmakers whose documentary and narrative films featured in this year’s lineup weave together different storylines to shape a communal narrative. Monday, November 7 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Cinema and the Collective Lens Music artist Akeem ‘GUAP’ Hayes, writer and protagonist of Stoop Kid Marcus Pontello, director of Friday I’m in LoveĬharnelle Quallis, co-producer and editor of A Taste of Heaven: The Ecstatic Song & Gospel of Maestro Raymond Anthony Myles Mirissa Neff, director of This Is National Wake How does music play a role in supporting social movements and reshaping narratives? This panel discussion will feature artists whose films in this year’s lineup explore the role of music in our collective imagination. Sunday, November 6 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM Music, Memory, and Movements Kiyoko McCrae, NOFS Director of Documentary Programming and Filmmaker Labs Veronica Rutledge, director of A Place on the Edge of Breathīhawin Suchak, director of Outta the Muck and Documentary Accountability Working Group member andĭawn Valadez, Filmmaker and Director of Youth and Artistic Development Programs, BAVC Kameelah Mu’Min Rashad, Psy.D, Founding President, Muslim Wellness Foundation and Documentary Accountability Working Group member How do we center healing and care in our documentary filmmaking practices? Panelists will discuss various initiatives working to develop values and guidelines for ethical documentary filmmaking and share best practices from their own experiences in filmmaking.ĭr. Jax Deluca, National Endowment for the Artsģ:00 PM – 4:30 PM Healing Informed Practices and Community Care in Documentary Filmmaking Maggie Bowman, Facilitator, Independent Media Arts Group Members of the offshoot group Indie Media Arts South will talk about what regional organizing has meant to them, as they harness the power of their networks to create an infrastructure that supports their work. This interactive event will include the release of an IMAG briefing that highlights recent successes and upcoming opportunities for the field. Join members of the Independent Media Arts Group (IMAG), a collaborative project of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Sundance Institute, as they reflect on their work over the last three years and look ahead to the future. Saturday, November 5 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM Community as Infrastructure: Strengthening Independent Media Arts at a Regional and National Level Zandashé Brown, filmmaker and NOFF programmer Join producer Effie Brown and director Elegance Bratton in conversation as they speak to the journey of bringing the story of this Gotham Award–nominated story to screen.Įlegance Bratton, director of The Inspection NOFF 2022 Filmmaker Conference panels are free and open to the public and will take place in the FotoKem Theater at Second Line Stages (800 Richard St, New Orleans).įriday, November 4 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM Production Case Study: The Inspection With QSel gradients only, lipid 1.3 ppm signalĭecreased by 300-fold compared to QSel gradients = 0 in the new sequence. Fig 3 shows dependence of lactate 1.3 ppm, lipid 0.9 ppm, 1.3 ppm and 2.0 ppm on We were able to boost lipid suppression by employing Qt1crusher. Lactate signals were similar between the two sequences (performed in a separate experiment). However, suppression of lipids at 1.3 ppm was three times less in the new sequence than the old sequence. Signals at 0.9 ppm and 2.0 ppm were similar between the two sequences. Selection gradient ratio 0:-1:2 which selects the ZQ->DQ pathway. ResultsFig 2 shows comparison of lipid signals from the previous sequence (Fig 1a) and the modified sequence (Fig 1b) with the coherence Sequence/parameters and the new sequence/parameters with a lactate phantom and an oil phantom as well as a lactate phantom placed near the typical 4 We performed comparison of the previous Sel-MQC-CSI to suppress lipid signals that might be insufficiently suppressed by Sel-MQC owing Volume saturation (VSS-OVS) bands around the region of interest in 3 4) We placed the very selective suppression outer Inversion profiles of the RF pulses were analyzed to find optimal pulse lengths by solving the BlochĮquation. As the 2.0 ppm lipid signal introduced significant baseline distortion to analyze lactate signals at 1.3 ppm, weĬarefully adjusted the RF pulse lengths to avoid excitation of one of these two The J-coupling between these lipid peaks produced MQC during the pulse train and left these peaks not adequately suppressed. (1.3 ppm) and CH peak (4.1 ppm), they excited the lipid resonances at 2.0 ppmĪnd 5.3 ppm as well. Though these pulses wereĪdequate for selective excitation/refocusing of lactate CH 3 peak 3) In the previous sequence, RF pulses of Gauss shape and 7.8 ms duration were used for both 90 oĪnd 180 o pulses. States while lipid spins experience addtional dephasing. During these nonzero gradients (indicated as Qt1crusher in Fig 1b), lactate spins remain at their zero quantum coherence Ratio of a:-1:2 or 1:b:2 where a≠0, a≠1 and b≠0, b≠-1, further suppression of lipid We found that by employing the coherence selection gradient Quantum to zero quantum transition (DQ ->ZQ) of lactate whileĭephasing lipid signals. Quantum to double quantum transition (ZQ -> DQ) or double Selection gradients with the ratio of 0:-1:2 or 1:0:2 to select either zero This removes addition and subtraction processes on Hadamard Replaced with direct slice selection on the first pulse of the Sel-MQC pulse Modifications were made from the previous sequence: 2 1) Hadamard inversion slice encoding scheme was HISPAN ET IND REX M 8 R T H"King of the Spains and the Indies, Mexico, 8 Reales." Crowned Spanish coat of arms between the Pillars of Hercules adorned with PLVS VLTRA motto It was under the reign of this monarch that the United States Mint began the U.S. Silver dollar of King Charles IV of Spain, 1806ĬAROLUS IIII DEI GRATIA 1806 "Charles IV by the Grace of God, 1806." Right profile of Charles IV in soldier's dress with laurel wreath. "Ferdinand VI, by the Grace of God, King of the Spains and the Indies" "Both (are) one, Mexico, 1753." Displays two hemispheres of a world map, crowned between the Pillars of Hercules adorned with the PLUS VLTA motto.įERDND VI D G HISPAN ET IND REX Silver dollar of Ferdinand VI of Spain, 1753 "Philip V, by the Grace of God, King of the Spains and the Indies"ĭisplays the arms of Castile and León with Granada in base and an inescutcheon of Anjou. "Both (are) one, Mexico, 1739"ĭisplays two hemispheres of a world map, crowned between the Pillars of Hercules adorned with the PLUS VLTR motto. "King and Queen of Castile, Leon, Aragon…"ĭisplays the personal emblems of the monarchs: Isabella's yoke and Ferdinand's arrows. Letter S on the left is the sign of the mint of Seville and VIII on the right i.e. " Ferdinand and Elisabeth, by the Grace of God"ĭisplays the arms of the Catholic Monarchs post 1492, with Granada in base. Silver dollar of the Catholic Monarchs, after 1497 This is why archeological artifacts should be left in place and reported to the land management agency: where they are is just as important as what they are."Pieces of eight" redirects here. Second, the coins’ exact location and what they were found with has contributed to educated guesses about their history. First, the visitor who found the coins and turned them into the park showed great respect for the history and resources in the park and instead of keeping them, ensured everyone could learn about the coins. The lack of nearby places having potential to contain ancient deposits suggests the coins are not associated with 17th or 18th century Native Americans or Spanish explorers. Third, the coins were found in a canyon bottom, a setting unlikely to preserve ancient deposits. Second, the coins were found in a scatter of modern houseboat trash that included 15 United States coins dating from 1974 to 2016. First, the dates of the two coins are widely divergent (84) and are significantly earlier than the Dominguez and Escalante Expedition of 1776, the first known Spanish presence in the area. The park visited the site where the coins were found and believes their presence near Halls Crossing is modern, based on three observations. Fernando Vela Cossio and Luis Fernando Abril Urmente assisted with the identification. The coins are being stored in a climate controlled environment to protect them and are not on public display. A hiker in the Halls Crossing area discovered two small coins and turned them into the park for further study. However they were probably part of a modern coin collection, perhaps accidentally or intentionally dropped by a visitor to Lake Powell. Glen Canyon National Recreation Area’s investigation of centuries old Spanish coins turned into the park has provisionally concluded the coins are authentic. The smaller coin as a dinero dating to the reign of Alfonso X. Spanish Coins turned into Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. Explore bean bag fillers and bean bag covers from the wide range of brands. Actual product colour might differ slightly due to the image quality. 1029 Online, Beanbag Chairs have got to be one of. The microbead filling offers a high degree of softness, support, and durability, making it the perfect bean bag chair for adults and children. Its squared-off shape offers greater support by cushioning where it’s needed most. Saturn has 82 moons.Ĭooling can cause the liquid water beneath the moon’s ice shell to freeze and expand, causing the ice shell to crack.Įnceladus is already a cold place in our solar system with an average surface temperature of negative 328 degrees Fahrenheit. The tiny moon has an eccentric orbit that brings it closer than usual to Saturn at times but also pushes it out further from Saturn than the other moons as well. Enceladus feels those forces especially at its poles, stretching the icy shell thin. Organic compounds have been found on Saturn's moon EnceladusĮnceladus is Saturn’s sixth largest moon and its tides are at the mercy of the gas giant’s gravity. New ocean world discoveries from Cassini and Hubble will help inform future exploration and the broader search for life beyond Earth. This illustration shows Cassini diving through the Enceladus plume in 2015. “We want to know why the eruptions are located at the south pole as opposed to some other place on Enceladus, how these eruptions can be sustained over long periods of time and finally why these eruptions are emanating from regularly spaced cracks,” said Max Rudolph, study author and assistant professor of earth and planetary sciences at the University of California, Davis. Researchers wanted to understand the activity they were observing and used numerical modeling in an attempt explain the stripes and plume activity. No other icy planets or moons have anything quite like them.” What makes them especially interesting is that they are continually erupting with water ice, even as we speak. “They are parallel and evenly spaced, about 130 kilometers long and 35 kilometers apart. “First seen by the Cassini mission to Saturn, these stripes are like nothing else known in our solar system,” said Doug Hemingway, study author at the Carnegie Institution for Science. The cracks are named for cities referenced in the folk tale “One Thousand and One Nights.” The stripes are large cracks that allow jets of water to shoot up through the icy shell, creating plumes that have intrigued scientists since the Cassini mission flew through them in 2015.Ī new study analyzing the tiger stripes published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy. Scientists believe the icy water world could be another potential spot for life in our solar system.Īnd along the south pole, four “tiger stripes” can be seen. The tiny moon, only about 300 miles across, contains a rocky core and global subsurface ocean beneath an icy shell. We predict that the tiger-stripe regions with highest relative temperatures will be the lower-latitude branch of Damascus, Cairo around 60 degrees W longitude and Alexandria around 150 degrees W longitude.Saturn’s moon Enceladus is an intriguing oddity. The tidal displacements required imply a Love number of h2 > 0.01, suggesting that the ice shell is decoupled from the silicate interior by a subsurface ocean. The ice shell thickness needed to produce the observed heat flux is at least 5 km. Vapour produced by this heating may escape as plumes through cracks reopened by the tidal stresses. Here we show that the most likely explanation for the heat and vapour production is shear heating by tidally driven lateral (strike-slip) fault motion with displacement of approximately 0.5 m over a tidal period. Neither model addresses how delivery of internal heat to the near-surface is sustained. The plume characteristics and local high heat flux have been ascribed either to the presence of liquid water within a few tens of metres of the surface, or the decomposition of clathrates. Enceladus, a small icy satellite of Saturn, has active plumes jetting from localized fractures ('tiger stripes') within an area of high heat flux near the south pole. That means Jews went without Chinese food for 1,062 years this time was called the Dark Ages. It went something like this:Īccording to the Hebrew calendar, it is the year 5780, and according to the Chinese calendar it’s the year 4718. I once heard a joke about to how much Jews love Chinese food. 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Prof Christopher Andrew, former official historian, MI5, The Secret World: A History of Intelligence (2018), 82 Alan Barnes, saxophonist, composer, The Sherlock Holmes Suite (2007), 64 Jo Brand, comedian, writer and actress, Going Forward (2016), 66 Prof Sir Ross Cranston, High Court judge (2007-17), Labour MP (1997-2005), 75 Graham Gooch, cricketer, former England captain and coach, Test career 1975-95, 70 Lauren Groff, novelist and short story writer, Fates and Furies (2015), Florida (2018), Matrix (2021), 45 Woody Harrelson, actor, Cheers (1985-93), The People vs. Marcus Agius, chairman of trustees, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (2009-19), chairman, Barclays (2007-12), 77 William Buick, flat jockey, winner of four British Classic Races, 35 Barbara Cassani, chairwoman, London 2012 Olympic bid (2003-04), 63 George Clinton, funk singer and bandleader, The Cinderella Theory (1989), 82 Prof Sir Philip Cohen, biochemist, Royal Medal recipient (2008), 78 Willem Dafoe, actor, Platoon (1986), At Eternity’s Gate (2018), The Lighthouse (2019), 68 Louise Haigh, Labour MP for Sheffield, Heeley, shadow transport secretary, 36 Don Henley, musician, a founding member of the Eagles, Hotel California (1976), 76 Nigel Hess, composer, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (Novello Award, 1997), 70 Andrew Holness, prime minister of Jamaica, 51 Rhys Ifans, actor, Notting Hill (1999), The King’s Man (2021), 56 Nick Prettejohn, chairman, TSB bank, Reach (media group) and the Prisoners Abroad charity, 63 Terence Stamp, actor, Billy Budd (1962), The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994), 85 Rufus Wainwright, singer-songwriter, Poses (2001), 50 Prince George of Wales, 10. The band has sold more than 50 million albums. Known as the Welles Declaration, more than 50 countries then took the same stance in 1974 Greece’s military junta led by “the Colonels” since 1967 collapsed, and the former prime minister Constantine Karamanlis was invited to return from self-imposed exile in 1994, after 20 years of exile in the US, the dissident writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn arrived in Moscow in 2010 the boy band One Direction formed on the TV show The X Factor, having failed to progress as solo competitors. In 1940 the acting US secretary of state Sumner Welles condemned the annexation of the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) by the Soviet Union. He had been sidelined by the Gang of Four (later purged from the Communist Party) the previous year in 2005 the Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead by Metropolitan Police officers at Stockwell Tube station, south London, after he was mistaken for a suspect in the failed 21/7 London bombings the previous day in 2011 the right-wing terrorist Anders Behring Breivik opened fire at a youth camp on Utoya island, Norway, two hours after detonating a bomb in Oslo. In 1847 Mormon pioneers reached the Great Salt Lake in Utah, the homeland of the Latter-day Saints in 1943 US forces captured Palermo, General George S Patton’s first significant victory in the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1977 Deng Xiaoping was returned to positions of power in China’s government. It wasn't necessary to rescue any hostages, but a bonus accrued if one did. Many of the mines contained PTMC workers held hostage by the robots. The player then had a brief interval of time within which to escape the mine. Exiting the mine required the player to locate and detonate the mine's nuclear reactor, causing the exit doors to open. The action always takes place in the mineshafts (as necessitated by the portal renderer), although outdoor segments were introduced in Descent³. The premise of Descent was that the player piloted an armed spacecraft charged with purging mines infested by renegade mining robots. With true 3D enemies, the game introduced a more frightening level of realism. Perhaps the more significant improvement over Doom was that Descent used bitmap sprites only for powerups and not for opponents. In this scheme, the player progressed from one enclosed chamber to another, and since the chambers were linked by narrow doors or tunnels, it was a straightforward matter for the program to know that other chambers were unnecessary to render. Instead of using BSP trees, however, Descent's scene graph employed portals. Like those programs, it used a software renderer (3D graphics accelerator cards were not yet mainstream on the PC) and shared texturing similarities. The year Descent was released, 1995, was a year or two after id's Doom but before Quake. Descent Maximum was a title developed exclusively for the Playstation, but shared much in common with the PC Descent II. There was also a Descent game produced for the Sony PlayStation. Descent was ported to Apple's Power Macintosh in 1996 and both versions supported multiplayer network play over a variety of protocols. With the release of the Pentium, the performance requirements disappeared as an issue. The original Descent ran under DOS and was (with some tweaking) playable on 386-based PCs at 33 MHz. |
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