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The Annual West Seattle Garage Sale is just around the corner. This year it falls on May 14th & 15th . At the end of their garage sale, participants often donate their unsold items to our Junction Thrift Store at 4504 California Ave SW.
We need volunteers either Saturday the 14th or 15th for 3 hour shifts:
– Unload cars dropping off merchandise at the shop.
– Pack items that we can sell and stack those boxes.
– Dump broken items into our trash bin.
– Pack and transport items we can’t sell to the Northwest Center truck nearby.Shifts:
Saturday, May 14th – 12pm to 3pm or 3pm to 6pm
Sunday, May 15th- 10am to 1pm or 1pm to 4pm or 3pm to 6pm
Work shifts are 3 hours long but we can be flexible with your availability.Please contact the Volunteer Coordinator at 206–932-4044 x8 or send email to jillk@soundgenerations.org or apply online at https://scws.typeform.com/to/DBaLgg.
Here’s the problem, and the legality that the administration faces as the administration tries to give away money to these international climate change groups: it’s now prohibited by law. On March 17, 2016 – the U.N. officially recognized the so-called ‘State of Palestine.’ They said that the ‘ State of Palestine ’ is a full member of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
According to a 1994 law, passed by the House, passed by the Senate ( both controlled by the Democrats at the time ), signed into law, the United States cannot give any money to ‘ an affiliated organization of United Nations ’ that grants the Palestinians membership as a state. It’s called the 1994 Foreign Relations Authorization Act. These climate change groups are clearly affiliated organizations of the U.N.The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – the organization that the Palestinian group, this so-called State of Palestine, just joined as a member state – says on its own website that it is ‘ institutionally linked ’ to the U.N. It also reports that the Green Climate Fund is one of it – it says – its ‘ constituted bodies, ’ so there’s a direct link.
The pipeline of money that the Obama administration is planning to send to these organizations must be shut off.
That’s what happened in 2011, when the Palestinian group joined the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization – commonly known as UNESCO. That triggered a similar 1990 law – and the United States has not given any money to UNESCO ever since.Topic: Way Back and Now
Update: May 26 2009 The daily image update has been temporarily suspended because of large areas of missing data in the past week. NSIDC currently gets its data from the SSM/I sensor on the DMSP F13 satellite, which is nearing the end of its operational life and experiencing intermittent problems.
NSIDC has been working on a transition to a newer sensor on the F17 satellite for several months. At this time, we have more than a year of data from F17, which we are using to intercalibrate with F13 data. The F17 data are not yet available for near-real-time updates. We will resume posting daily updates as soon as possible, either from F13, if the present problem is resolved, or from F17, when the transition is complete.
Jump to 2016
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Makes you wonder ( once again ) how long this has been going on and if the anomalously low readings we’ve seen for awhile are due to a slow sensor degradation.
Time will tell.
The STOP N’ SHOP is lucky to be the recipient of many wonderful donations from the community, ranging from furniture, clothing, and home décor. Happily, the proceeds provide financial support that keep the many wonderful programs running at the Senior Center of West Seattle. We need a “behind the scenes” volunteer 6 hours per week to help with the intake and pricing of the merchandise. Ideal work hours are Wednesday & Friday afternoons from 1-4pm, but there is flexibility.
Please complete our online application at https://scws.typeform.com/to/DBaLgg or contact the Volunteer Coordinator, at 206-932-4044 or via email at jillk@soundgenerations.org to learn more!
Would you like to work in a kitchen with an experienced chef? Would you enjoy being part of a team of volunteers that prepare and clean up after serving a nutritious lunch to seniors and others in our West Seattle Community? If so, we need your skills at the “Junction Diner” at the Senior Center of West Seattle. We have a lot of fun, and you will receive many thanks from our seniors and staff, and you can enjoy a free lunch!
Clean Up & Dishwasher:
Mon – 10:30am -2:30pm
Wed – 10:30am -2:30pm
Thurs – 10:00am-1:00pm
Server/Dining Helper:
Tues – 10:30am -2:30pmPlease complete our online application at https://scws.typeform.com/to/DBaLgg or contact the Volunteer Coordinator, at 206-932-4044 or via email at jillk@soundgenerations.org to learn more!
Do you enjoy working in the kitchen with an experienced chef? We have volunteer jobs for prepping, serving, and cleaning up. We need your skills to help prepare and serve nutritious meals in our “Junction Diner” for seniors and guests at the Center.
We have a lot of fun, you will be well appreciated by all of our seniors and staff, and you can enjoy a free lunch! Flexible ongoing shifts available Mon – Fri.Please complete our online application at https://scws.typeform.com/to/DBaLgg or contact the Volunteer Coordinator, at 206-932-4044 or via email at jillk@soundgenerations.org to learn more!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2110119100/kazoo-magazine?ref=video
I hope this takes off!
Sunshine Music Together, The Parent Map Golden Teddy Award Winner for Best Music Program in Seattle for the 5th consecutive year as well as a Golden Teddy Award Winner for Best Infant & Toddler Class, is offering a FREE demonstration class tomorrow Saturday, April 2nd at 10:30 (RSVP) at the Fauntleroy Schoolhouse on California Ave!
To schedule your free demo class online, please click on this link; https://secure.mainstreetsites.com/dmn1284/demos.aspx.For more information call 206-281-1111
Music Together is a researched-based, internationally recognized early childhood music development program for children aged birth to five and their parents or caregivers. The 45-minute classes include songs, rhythmic rhymes, movement, and instrument play – forty-five minutes of pure fun with your child every week!
Watch a video of what a Music Together Class is all about;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3HJyqr1twITopic: This Can't Be !
ka = thousands of years
At Lake JR01 from the Boothia Peninsula, Nunavut, ( Canada ) chironomid-inferred mean July air temperatures were warmest in the mid-Holocene, reaching as high as 7.5° C. Temperatures decreased over the course of the mid- to late-Holocene. Overall terrestrial and aquatic production, as indicated by chironomid, pollen and diatom concentrations and accumulation rates, as well as sediment organic and biogenic content, were higher prior to 5.0 ka than at any other time in the Holocene. The diatom community assemblages during the mid-Holocene also indicate that this was a warm period in the lake’s history. Between 5.0 and 1.0 ka, the lake was cooler and less productive. Inferred temperatures, based on both the chironomid and the pollen records, indicate additional cooling between 0.46 and 0.36 ka that corresponds to the Little Ice Age (LIA).
During the Early and Middle Holocene … focus is on the implications of the four major climate cold anomalies that have recently been identified as key time-windows for global RCC ( Rapid Climate Change ) ( Mayewski et al. 2004). These cooling anomalies are well-dated, with the following precise time-intervals for archaeological RCC research: (i) 8.6–8.0 ka, (ii) 6.0–5.2 ka, (iii) 4.2–4.0 ka and (iv) 3.1–2.9 ka ….
Geochronometry: A branch of geochronology that deals with the quantitative (numerical) measurement of geologic time. The abbreviation ka – for thousand
Former student at Denny middle school – Deanna Paige Tennison was last seen at Lake Washington High School at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday 23rd, March 2016. Picture is broadcast widely on Facebook at this link and on the Seattle Times too.
https://www.facebook.com/spitfire67/posts/10208179777387811?fref=nf
If you have any information please call 740.304.1304, the Kirkland PD or 911.Topic: Log-in link is here
Topic: Model airplane found
Rob sent this – “Saw this model airplane at westcrest dog park. It’s by the shelter and watering station in the middle of the park. Judging from the condition I would guess it crashed in the bushes and someone found it. No name on it anywhere.”
Topic: Lost Backpack
I lost my backpack this morning around High Point. Its a Chrome Bravo 2.0, black with a reflective panel. Heres a link to a picture of it: https://www.rei.com/media/ef4d3386-c459-442d-8e78-8addbdb7457a
Please let me know if you’ve seen it!
Topic: Rossby Responds
What follows regards Francis and Vavrus (2012), hereinafter FV (2012), by atmospheric scientists Jennifer Francis from Rutgers University and Steve Vavrus of the University of Wisconsin. Their paper can be downloaded here:
FV (2012) claims a measured decrease in the zonal or west to east wind component due to “arctic amplification” (AA) would increase jet stream meandering, increase the amplitude or “waviness” of the flow, and increase persistent long wave blocking patterns around the northern hemisphere. This, in turn, would increase severe weather, droughts, floods and temperature extremes. These claims were subsequently picked up by media outlets and offered as further gist for the fodder of catastrophic, CO2 caused, water vapor amplified, global warming.
HOWEVER, as often is the case, current science is NOT the ” settled science “.
“The reader needs to understand that anytime we experience severe weather, it is proof that adequate COLD in the high latitudes and Arctic has been generated by the normal radiational cooling process by the earth that creates the adequate potential energy across the latitude lines to cause amplification of the jet stream waves and speeds that pushes this colder air southward to warmer latitudes that then creates the necessary temperature gradients to liberate that energy, creating storms as well as high pressure systems.”
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“If the occurrence of severe weather is increasing worldwide, it is not a sign of a warming earth. It is the opposite of what climate hysteria claims, and an indication of a cooling, not warming earth.”
More about Francis and Vavrus [2012]
Similarly, Francis and Vavrus [2012] suggest that atmospheric Rossby waves have elongated meridionally in recent decades due to Arctic amplification. They hypothesize that these elongated waves propagate more slowly and favor more extreme weather conditions. They speculate that as the earth continues to warm, Arctic amplification will increasingly influence the North Atlantic atmospheric circulation, potentially causing more extreme weather in association with the slower waves.
Motivated by these previous studies linking Arctic amplification to increased slow-moving Atlantic weather patterns, we seek to answer the following three questions: (1) Have wave extents increased over the past 30 years ? (2) Have the phase speeds of large-scale atmospheric waves decreased ? (3) Has the frequency of blocking events increased ?
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