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For my blog “If you didn’t know: Why bees are important.” this date, 10/12/15.

Source - Wikipedia

ISS

The ISS is orbiting over Belgium, now. 1:42 pm PST, 5/2/17. David Schaedler

INTRA-COUNTRY SUBJECTS, US vs THE WORLD October 13, 2015

Finance - commerce and trade

Foreign Relations - laws and agreements between countries

Governments - military, support and agreements

Water or Borders - Atlantic and Pacific, Canada and Mexico

United Nations - Nations letting other nations know their concerns in peace

Doctors Without Borders - Doctors flying into any other country they’re needed

USAIDS - supporting our democracy in other countries by lending funds.

David Schaedler

Emergency Spillway eroding, possibly near collapse. National Weather Service issues Evacuation Warnings. ABC News10 5:00-6:00 pm PST. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. Oroville, Palermo, Gridley residents please, GET OUT! Evacuation Center in the Chico Fairgrounds. DS 2/12/17

Additional Rains expected in 3 days. DS 2/12/17 7:00 pm PST. 8:00 pm. Chico Fairgrounds Full. Do not go there. I didn’t get the name of the church to be diverted to. See following posts. New10. Sacramento’s channel 3 News has news reports on this. Butte county residents call 211 for information. DS 2/12/17 Evacuation Orders lifted in Oroville Dam area. Residents pack for home. How much will repairs to both spillway's cost? White House pays attention to results. DS 2/14/17 5:00 pm PST.

The damage to the Oroville Dam Spillway is DANGEROUS. 185,000 cubic feet/s of Feather River water is coming into Lake Oroville and only 41,000 CFS is going out. The emergency 2nd Spillway may have to be used before morning, to avoid dam overflow. We need that water, and Oroville, including the dam.

David Schaedler 2/9/17 7:10 pm PST.

The 10th - the dam is 96.7% full, 5’ from the top. The broken spillway does not carry water along it all the way, the water is diverted outward about ½ way down. DS 2/10/17 Late 2/10/17 The dam is now 98.8% full. With so much rainwater entering, the damaged spillway can only remove much less than that. The rains have ceased today, but forecasts indicate more. How full can it get? ABC News 6:35 pm PST. 46 of 48 of Sacramento’s Weir’s are open. Overflow water is pouring through now. Dry, but more rain is expected. D. Schaedler 2/10/17 2/12/17 Oroville Reservoir overflows Dam. Emergency spillway in use. How long will this go on? DS 8:00 am PST.

Pull out the marshmellows.

Get it right and be on the right side.

Why Aren’t We Inspired by Hillary Clinton? - The New Yorker

Would the historic election of the first woman President evoke a similar thrill and sense of wonderment as the election of the first African-American President?

Senator Bernie Sanders, Clinton’s opponent, summed it up: “I don’t know that a man would be treated the same way that Hillary is.” He added, “Some of it is sexist.”

Sacramento, 103rd annual UC Davis Picnic Day. Anywhere else? 4/22/17 David Schaedler

4/23 was also Earth Day 2017 and International Record Store Day. DS 4/24/17

Oroville Spillway Reconstruction shown. Oroville residents will be able to see what's going on. David Schaedler 6/22/17

Today in History

1812 - Massachusetts governor Eldridge Gerry “Gerrymanders” for the first time.

1790 - The Religious Society of Friends, also known as the Quakers, petitions the government for the abolition of slavery.

1971 - Eighty-Seven countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union sign the Seabed Arms Control Treaty, outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean Seabed in international waters.

1997 - Space Shuttle Discovery is launched to service the Space Telescope Hubble.

D. Schaedler 2/11/17

Project Blue (@proj_blue) tweeted at 1:49 PM on Dec 04:

Interested in the science of imaging Earth-like #exoplanets? See this @reddit_AMA w NASA scientists doing just that:

Project Blue is a Kickstarter, crowd funding campaign to finance plans to build an orbiting telescope capable of imaging a planet in the AlphaCenturi star system, a first. No telescope, however large, has yet done that.

It will employ nested lenses capable of being focused by warping, and also of blocking the intense light of a star, 4.37 light years away, in order to see the dim planet.

So far, Kickstarter has received 1,000 donations, and that was the first number to tackle. Now Project Blue has gone beyond that.

It appears their next goal include building a starship that can get there in 40 years instead of 10’s of thousands. That’s would be at approximately 1/10 the the speed of light!

This starship may only include machinery, sensors computers and a radio, as well as propulsion and antenna, and not include people. Since it took 9.5 years for a conventional spacecraft to reach Pluto, the idea of a non-conventional positron-electron powered ship to reach the nearest star in 40 years is a real jump in propulsion invention and may have barriers to overcome. This idea of a new way is not uncommon in America, we invent news ways all the time. Kickstarter and Project Blue and are standing on the edge of reality, both in devices and present knowledge. David Schaedler 12/6/16