#northwestern united states

[meteorologistaustenlonek]

"There is high confidence in a dangerous heat wave in the Pacific Northwest. Locations in the interior valleys and lower elevations of western Oregon could see one of their hottest five-day stretches on record (by average temperature), with 100+ degree highs likely." - NOAA Weather Prediction Center

#NOAA Weather Prediction Center #NW US Heat Wave #Northwestern United States #Major Heat Wave #NOAA #National Weather Service

[reportwire]

Several US regions face weekend weather systems that may complicate post-Thanksgiving travel | CNN

Several US regions face weekend weather systems that may complicate post-Thanksgiving travel | CNN

CNN  —  As well-fed holiday travelers pack their bags, hit the roads and squeeze into planes this weekend, widespread rain and snow could cause delays in the trip home. Several weather systems are forecast to trouble regions of US on Saturday and Sunday, including two in the Northeast and another pair dumping snow on parts of the Pacific Northwest. Multiple storms are also expected to move…

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#blizzards and ice storms #continents and regions #government organizations - us #national oceanic and atmospheric administration #national weather service #north america #northwestern united states #seasons of the year #severe weather #southwestern united states #Texas #the americas #united states #us department of commerce #us federal departments and agencies #weather #winter (season)

[pangeen]

“ Schwabacher Landing “ // everywhere_but_no_where

#Schwabacher Landing #Grand Teton National Park #northwestern Wyoming #United States #Autumn #Fall

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Sentenced To Jail For Escape Made During Fall of 1920,” Toronto Globe. July 9, 1932. Page 1. ---- Back From U.S., Because of Unemployment, Accused Is Recognized ---- FIRST HELD AS VAGRANT ---- (Special Despatch to The Globe.) Port Arthur, July 8. - Pleading guilty to a charge of escaping from the Industrial Farm near Fort William in the fall of 1920, Allan Garrow, this city, was sentenced to six months in jail by Judge M. J. Kenny today.

After serving eight months of a sentence of from three months to two years, less one day, imposed in April 1920, by the late Magistrate W C. Liobie, on a theft charge. Garrow, then 19 years old, escaped when he was left unguarded while working in a field at the institution. He embarked on a boat for Superior, Wisconsin, which he made his home port as a sailor for the next ten years.

In 1930 Garrow was forced out of employment when all but United States citizens were dismissed from the service of the company with whom he had been working. Deported and back in Canada, he secured employment with local steamship companies until arrested on a vagrancy charge Monday. He was recognized in police records.

Before commencing the term of six months, to which he was sentenced today, Garrow must complete his 12-year-old term at the Industrial Farm.

#fort william #thunder bay #escape from prison #prison break #on the lam #escaped prisoner #northwestern ontario #lakehead industrial farm #sentenced to prison #deported from the united states #great depression in canada #history of crime and punishment in canada #crime and punishment in canada

[dcoglobalnews]

MEXICO ARRESTS DRUG LORD CARO QUINTERO, WANTED FOR KILLING US AGENT

Mexico’s navy on Friday captured drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, convicted of murdering a U.S. anti-narcotics agent in 1985, in a law enforcement coup that came at a heavy cost when a helicopter used in the mission crashed, killing 14 military personnel.Marines flushed out Caro Quintero with a bloodhound in a far-flung corner of the northwestern state of Sinaloa, one of Mexico’s drug-trafficking…

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#Drug lord #Joe Biden #Mexican Army #MEXICO #Mexico&039;s navy #northwestern state of Sinaloa #Rafael Caro Quintero #the Guadalajara Cartel #U.S. anti-narcotics agent in 1985 #United States #USA

[thestuffedalligator]

Birdwomen Family: Harpyidae

Birdwomen are the most common of magical creatures, appearing on every continent except for Antarctica*. Opportunistic omnivores, birdwomen take the form of massive carrion birds, typically corvids, vultures, condors and eagles, with the heads of women. They appear to be exclusively female; however, some species such as the Mediterranean harpy (Harpia strophades) do pair up during the mating season, with members impressing prospective partners by inflating a pair of gular sacks at the base of the throat similar to the behaviour of frigatebirds (family Fregatidae) and the greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus).

The magic of most species of birdwomen are affiliated with storms and disease. The alkonost (Harpia bilibinae) lays its eggs in the sea, and their hatching causes thunderstorms to form, while the droppings of the Mediterranean harpy immediately befoul food.

While most species are reluctant to directly attack humans, birdwomen have no qualms in consuming carrion. Multiple cultures report birdwomen as constant companions to sites of battle and bloodshed. Nordic myths of Valkyries spiriting away the dead are almost certainly inspired by the sight of Scandinavian species of birdwomen feasting on the bodies of the slain after battle, possibly the crested harpy (Valkyria cristatus), nicknamed by professional harpiers as the "Thor's falcon."

The North American birdwoman (Harpia canadensis) is the largest known species of birdwoman, with species standing between five and six feet tall, with respective wingspans of 12 to 15 feet wide. Easily identified by their black, iridescent plumage, North American birdwomen exhibit an intelligent, often playful and curious personality. While native to western and central Canada and the northwestern United States, one birdwoman was sighted in Point Pleasant, West Virginia through the late 1960s; following the 1967 Silver Bridge collapse, one harpier reported seeing this same birdwoman consuming the bodies of two disappeared travellers who had washed up downriver.

*Sightings of the "penguinwomen" of Antarctica are unsubstantiated and should not be counted as fact.

#harpies #unreality #narrativia #i have spiderwick on the brain and this happened #valkyries #norse mythology #mothman #cryptids

[flowerishness]

Anaphalis margaritacea (Western pearly everlasting)

There are over 100 species of Anaphalis but only Anaphalis margaritacea is native to North America. It is widespread across most of Canada, the United States and Northwestern Mexico. This species also has native, wild populations throughout Europe and the the Far East. This healthy specimen was found growing on an empty building site. Just what this plant loves: full sun and poor soil.

Western pearly everlasting is dioecious, meaning that the pollen-producing (male) and seed-producing (female) flowers are borne on separate plants. The flowers are either entirely staminate (producing pollen) or functionally pistillate (mostly producing just seed, but with a few staminate flowers present). Thus the female flowers have a brilliant 'back-up plan' which ensures that, even if there are no male plants in the vicinity, there is still a way to produce the next generation of Western pearly everlasting.

#flowers #photographers on tumblr #pearly everlasting #native plants #dried flower arrangements #fleurs #flores #fiori #blumen #bloemen #Vancouver

[hopefulkidshark]

Glacier National Park, Montana, United States: Glacier National Park is an American national park located in northwestern Montana, on the Canada–United States border, adjacent to Waterton Lakes National Park in Canada—the two parks are known as the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. The park encompasses more than 1 million acres and includes parts of two mountain ranges (sub-ranges of the Rocky Mountains), more than 130 named lakes, more than 1,000 different species of plants, and hundreds of species of animals. This vast pristine ecosystem is the centerpiece of what has been referred to as the "Crown of the Continent Ecosystem," a region of protected land encompassing 16,000 sq mi. Wikipedia

#Glacier National Park #Montana #United States

[famousinuniverse]

Honiara, Solomon Islands: Honiara is the capital and largest city of Solomon Islands, situated on the northwestern coast of Guadalcanal. The city is served by Honiara International Airport and the seaport of Point Cruz, and lies along the Kukum Highway. The airport area to the east of Honiara was the site of a battle between the United States and the Japanese during the Guadalcanal Campaign in World War II, the Battle of Henderson Field of 1942, from which the former emerged victorious.

#Honiara #Solomon Islands

[mysticstronomy]

WHAT IS A BLACK NEUTRON STAR??

Blog#269

Wednesday, February 8th, 2023

Welcome back,

If a star is gigantic enough, it can collapse in on itself to form a black hole. Stars that are still huge, but not big enough to become black holes, tend to explode in supernovae, eventually transforming into what is known as a neutron star.

What has long puzzled scientists is that the smallest black holes tend to be at least five times the mass of the Sun, while neutron stars are at most 2.5 times the mass of the Sun. Inside those boundaries lies what has become known as the "mass gap" — a mysterious range between the mass of black holes and neutron stars.

Now, though, a new discovery by a team of European astronomers seems to fit into that gap, suggesting a new class of objects that were thought to be impossible.

Using the National Science Foundation's Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in Louisiana and the Virgo detector in Italy, a team of experts discovered an unusual celestial object that's about 2.6 times the mass of the Sun.

"The reason these findings are so exciting is because we’ve never detected an object with a mass that is firmly inside the theoretical mass gap between neutron stars and black holes before," Laura Nuttall, a gravitational wave expert from the University of Portsmouth's Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, and co-author of the paper published in The Astrophysical Journal today, said in a statement. "Is it the lightest black hole or the heaviest neutron star we’ve ever seen?”

The object — dubbed a "black neutron star" by the BBC — was first detected in August, when it merged with a massive black hole of 23 solar masses, transforming into a final black hole of 25 solar masses some 800 million light-years from Earth.

The two objects were extremely different in mass, making it an highly unusual merger.

"It's a challenge for current theoretical models to form merging pairs of compact objects with such a large mass ratio in which the low-mass partner resides in the mass gap,"

Vicky Kalogera, professor at Northwestern University in the United States, and co-author, said in the statement.

The mass ratio was so off, Kalogera likened it to "Pac-Man eating a little dot" and "in one bite."

"This discovery implies these events occur much more often than we predicted, making this a really intriguing low-mass object," she added.

But we still can't say for certain that we know what it actually is.

Originally published on futurism.com

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(Saturday, February 11th, 2023)

"WHAT IS OUMUAMUA"??

#astronomy #outer space #alternate universe #astrophysics #spacecraft #universe #white universe #parallel universe #astrophotography #space #cosmology #cosmos

[mindblowingscience]

Using cannabis may cause changes in the human body's epigenome, a study of over 1,000 adults suggests. The epigenome functions like a set of switches, activating or deactivating genes to change how our bodies function. "We observed associations between cumulative marijuana use and multiple epigenetic markers across time," Lifang Hou, a preventative medical doctor and epidemiologist from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine explained in July 2023. Cannabis is a commonly used substance in the United States, with 49 percent of people trying it at least once, Hou and a team of US researchers report in their published paper. Some US states and other countries have made it legal, but we still don't fully understand its effects on our health. The researchers studied around 1,000 adults who had participated in a long-term previous study where they had been asked about their cannabis use over a 20-year period. Study participants provided blood samples on two occasions during that time, at the 15- and 20-year points. They were aged between 18 and 30 at baseline, or 'year 0'.

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#Health #Science #Epigenetics #Cannabis #Weed

[reportwire]

CNN projects Rep. Mary Peltola will win race for Alaska House seat, thwarting Sarah Palin's political comeback again | CNN Politics

CNN projects Rep. Mary Peltola will win race for Alaska House seat, thwarting Sarah Palin’s political comeback again | CNN Politics

CNN  —  Alaska Rep. Mary Peltola, the Democrat who won a special election that sent her to Congress this summer, will once again thwart former Gov. Sarah Palin’s bid for a political comeback. CNN projected Wednesday that Peltola will win the race for Alaska’s at-large House seat after the state’s ranked choice voting tabulation, defeating Palin and Republican Nick Begich III. CNN also projected…

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#Alaska #civil disobedience #conflicts and war #continents and regions #coups and attempted coups #domestic terrorism #Donald Trump #elections (by type) #elections and campaigns #government and public administration #government organizations - us #international relations and national security #kelly tshibaka #Lisa Murkowski #national security #north america #northwestern united states #political candidates #political figures - us #political organizations #Politics #Protests and demonstrations #riots #Sarah Palin #societal issues #society #terrorism #terrorism and counter-terrorism #the americas #united states

[cypherdecypher]

Animal of the Day!

Bushy-tailed Woodrat (Neotoma cinerea)

(Photo from National Parks Service)

Conservation Status- Least Concern

Habitat- Western Canada; Northwestern United States

Size (Weight/Length)- 40 cm

Diet- Fruits; Leaves; Insects; Seeds

Cool Facts- Bushy-tailed woodrats, like many other species of rodent, thrive in human altered environments. Normally, these woodrats live in canyons and rocky areas but readily make homes in mines or old buildings. Being mostly nocturnal, a bushy-tailed woodrat could be sharing your attic and you would never know. Bushy-tailed woodrats rarely have to drink and get the majority of their water from eating succulents and sagebrush. Males are highly territorial but females are very chill. The female offspring of a mother will often create overlapping territories and occasionally share food stashes with each other. When females make a nest for their babies, it is done 15 meters up a pinetree.

Rating- 11/10 (When threatened, they drum their hind foot.)

#animal of the day #animals #mammals #rodents #wednesday #july 19 #bushy-tailed woodrat #woodrat #rat #biology #science #conservation #the more you know

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“U.S. to decide fate; Deportation proceedings have begun at International Falls; Minn., against Manuel Fischer, 29, who escaped last week from an Ontario internment camp. He was taken to International Falls on the U.S.-Canadian border after his capture Saturday at Virginia, Minn.”

- from the Toronto Star. August 27, 1940. Toronto Public Library, Toronto Star Photograph Archives, TSPA_0019245F.

#u.s.-canada border #border crossings #escaped prisoner #deportation from the united states #international falls #fort frances #northwestern ontario #internment camp #german national #canada during world war 2 #enemy aliens #dangerous foreigners #crime and punishment in canada #history of crime and punishment in canada

[eretzyisrael]

Former Miss Iraq pays sympathy visit to site of Hamas slaughter

Sarah Idan (left), former Miss Iraq, on a visit to the site of Kfar Aza, one of the sites ravaged by Hamas terrorists on 7 October

“I visited Kfar Aza, a place where the heart-wrenching horror of Hamas’s infiltration led to a massacre of innocent Israeli families right in their homes,” tweeted Idan, a Democrat running to represent California’s 30th congressional district in place of Adam Schiff, who is vying to enter the U.S. Senate in 2024.

“Located just a mile from Gaza, we stood witness as the Iron Dome intercepted rockets launched by Hamas. I brought my old uniform from Iraq to be mentally prepared, but I was still shocked and at a loss for words. Never in my life, not even amidst the terror of ISIS, have I seen such barbarity. What was once a vibrant community now echoes with a haunting silence of tragedy,” she continued.

By “uniform,” Idan means the camouflage pants, T-shirt reading “Fight Back” and combat boots that she wore as a translator for U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq.

“I don’t care what’s your religion if your God permits you to do this in his name then your God is wrong. My mind is still traumatized by the scene, the smell of the dead bodies. Shame on those pretending the massacre didn’t happen,” she tweeted.

More than a hundred civilians were murdered and others were kidnapped from Kfar Aza when 3,000 heavily armed Hamas terrorists forced their way across the border and rampaged across the northwestern Negev, murdering around 1,200 persons in total, mostly civilians, wounding thousands more and taking some 240 hostages back to Gaza.

Idan and her family were forced to flee Iraq after she posed for a selfie with Miss Israel Adar Gandelsman at the Miss Universe pageant in Las Vegas in 2017 and wearing a bikini in a swimsuit competition.

Her Iraqi citizenship revoked, Idan immigrated to the United States in 2017.

On May 19, she filed her candidacy for the California seat, which includes the cities of Burbank and West Hollywood, and parts of Glendale and Pasadena.

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Iraq beauty queen:’people in Israel looked like my people’

Miss Iraq rebuilding relations between Arabs and Jews

Brave Iraqis get awards for advocating normalisation

#Antisemitism #Arab-Jewish relations #Iraq/Israel

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Saturday 23 September 2023

Viola flettii (Olympic violet) is endemic to the Olympic Mountains of the northwestern United States where it grows in rock crevices on basalt outcrops and alpine screes (talus). Here it was being cultivated on the alpine bench of Cambridge Botanic Gardens, UK.

Jill Raggett

#Viola #Olympic violet #plants #horticulture #alpine #coolglasshouse #purple flowers #gardens #garden #botanic #botanic garden #violet