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RegionObama TransitionDaily DigestMeetings
The Drury High School Council meets Tuesday, Jan 13, at 6:30 in the conference room. Agenda items include AYP, school grant, laptop initiative and PowerSchool updates. |
Steve Decker cleans up in front of BankNorth on Wednesday.
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More Snow
The Berkshires received several inches of snow this morning, but not enough to close schools, unlike yesterday's sleety mess. Temperatures will drop into the 20s this afternoon. A few more snow showers are expected through the weekend.
We have reports that the roads are very slippery to take care in the evening commute. |
Duff'em If You've Got'em
 North Adams Regional Hospital went smoke-free Monday — so did all its sister sites, from Sweet Brook to Northern Berkshire Family Practice to the Women's Exchange. No ashtrays, no smoking: No butts about it. |
Wanted: Eagle Eyes
MassWildlife's annual eagle count runs Dec. 31 to Jan. 14. Anyone sighting one of the regal birds in Massachusetts is asked to participate.
Send date, time, location and town of eagle sightings, number of birds, whether juvenile or adult and observer's contact information to Mass.wildlife@state.ma.us. |
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Other StuffMars Rovers Mark 5 Years
 Spirit and Opportunity have been trekking the red planet for half a decade. Spirit hit the 5-year mark on Sunday; Opportunity will on Jan. 24. |
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Williams College Team Witnesses Todays Eclipse In Siberia - August 01, 2008
WILLIAMSTOWN - "Detail in the corona was fabulous and the sky, completely clear," said Prof. Jay Pasachoff of Williams College after viewing the August 1 total solar eclipse in Siberia.
The moon took a couple of hours to cover and uncover the sun, starting over northern Canada and in the Arctic, and reached Novosibirsk, the major Siberian city, at 5:45 p.m. local time. Novosibirsk is 11 time zones later than United States Eastern Time, nearly halfway around the world.
"It was a surprise and a relief that the cooling of the atmosphere from the eclipse itself wiped the sky completely clean of clouds," said Pasachoff, who with his colleague Dr. Bryce Babcock, carried out observations to study how the solar corona is heated to millions of degrees.
"We were located on the roof of the University of Novosibirsk's physics department, collaborating with Dr. Alfia Nestorenko of the department and Dr. Igor Nestorenko of the nearby Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
"The diamond rings sparkled at the beginning and the end of totality, and we had a sweeping view of the approaching eclipse shadow over the birch and pine forest that surrounds Akademgorodok, the academic city outside Novosibirsk," Pasachoff said.
Members of Pasachoff's eclipse team included undergraduates Katie Dupre and Marcus Freemans and Russian history professor William Wagner of Williams College; Matthew Baldwin, a Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium exchange student from Swarthmore College; Marek Demianski, a visiting astronomy professor from the University of Warsaw, Poland; Dr. Paul Rosenthal of Williamstown; and Michael Kentrianakis of New York City.
Additional observations involved Dr. Robert Lucas of the University of Sydney, Australia, in imaging the corona with a special filter that passed only light emitted by the hot coronal gas. The Williams College group was joined on site in Siberia by 10 Greek astronomers, headed by Prof. John Seiradakis from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, with whom they had observed the previous solar eclipse, in 2006. The Williams College team will go to China next year for the total solar eclipse on July 22, 2009.
Pasachoff is chair of the International Astronomical Union's Working Group on Eclipses. This eclipse was the 47th that he has seen. |
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