Friday, September 29, 2017
[Volcano_Vista_HS] Daily Announcements Thursday, Sept 28th
Good Morning Hawks
Today is Thursday, September 28, 2017
Please rise for the pledge
CONGRATULATIONS to Jaden Flores whose Balloon Piñata design won first place in the National Hispanic Cultural Center design contest. Her design will be made into a piñata and displayed for an exhibit during Balloon Fiesta. Alizé Velez, Ashley Fry, and Natasha Aspera won Honorable Mentions.
ATTENTION ALL STUDENTS
Be sure to have your ID with you on today during 4th period. We will be switching out your old ID with the new one that works. If you do not have a fourth period, please come by the activities office to pick up you new ID. This process must be completed by October 11. When we come back from Fall Break ID Cards will be $10.00. You have two weeks to get your new ID.
BOWLING: THE Bowling coach will be at Mrs. Bork's room, F-106 during lunch today. Will be answering any questions you may have about being involved. ANY INTERESTED STUDENT IS WELCOME TO PARTICIPATE. We will compete against almost 25 other schools from across the State. You can letter in this activity.
Underclassmen your PICTURES are here. Stop by the activities office during lunch to pick up your pictures or your proofs.
RETAKES will be taken on Wednesday October 4th. Please stop by the activities office and make an appointment.
SENIORS: Retake Day is your last chance to have your picture taken for the yearbook. Stop by and make an appointment for you photo by October 4th.
ELECTIONS: We will be having the Mayoral Elections on our campus on Tuesday, Oct 3rd in The Black Box from 7am -7pm. School will be in session, and we will have the North Lot open for any voters coming to our campus on this day. If you see any people coming to vote, please be courteous and direct them to the Black Box.
SENIORS if you are interested in meeting with a representative from Arizona State University please see Mr. Garcia to sign up in E224 at lunch or after school
SENIORS there are 2 college fairs coming up: the New Mexico College Fair is on Sunday from 12:00 to 3:00 at the Albuquerque Convention Center and The Westside College Fair is Tuesday October 3rd at Cibola from 6:30PM to 8 PM
ATHLETICS:
STAFF FITNESS: yoga in the library today at 2:40.
THURSDAY:
GOLF: will have their first match at Los Altos at 8am
GIRLS SOCCER: will play Cibola at 3:30
BOYS SOCCER: will play Cibola at 4:30 at the soccer complex
FRIDAY:
FOOTBALL: will play Highland at 7pm at Wilson Stadium
SATURDAY:
XC: will be hosting the meet at Ben Greiner Field at 9am
GIRLS SOCCER: will play Piedra Vista at home at noon
BOYS SOCCER: will play at Piedra Vista in Farmington at noon
And remember
As always
It's Great to be a Hawk
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[californiadisasters] On This Date In California Weather History (September 29)
1976: Pinnacles National Monument (Monterey Co.) received 1.18" of rain.
1976: Thunderstorms struck the central and southern San Joaquin Valley with up to 2-1/2" of rain falling in some areas.
Dramatic lightning displays were seen from Fowler to Delano and marble size hail fell in Visalia and Porterville.
The storm knocked out power to several thousand customers and also struck two F-106s airplanes operated by the Fresno Air National Guard causing burn marks on the planes. The heavy rain also caused a roof to collapse at a building under construction as well as flooded homes, businesses and streets.
It also caused additional damage to crops that were seriously affected by the rain associated with Tropical Depression Kathleen.
1970: Drought in Southern California climaxed and hot Santa Ana winds blew starting on 9.25 and ending on 9.30. Winds peaked at 60 mph at Cuyamaca.
The winds sparked the Laguna Fire, one of the largest in California history.
8 were killed, 400 homes were destroyed, and 185,000 acres were burned as of 9.28 from Cuyamaca to Alpine.
In all, the fire consumed whole communities of interior San Diego County.
500,000 acres were burned and caused $50 million in damage.
Moisture from this system produced a particular cloudburst of 3" in 30 minutes in San Bernardino.
Around San Bernardino farmlands, orchards and vineyards were eroded and some roads were damaged.
Many homes were flooded.
1932: Heavy rains starting on 9.28 and ending on 10.1 came from a dying tropical cyclone.
It brought flooding to parts of the mountains and deserts of Southern California.
4.38" of rain fell at Tehachapi in 7 hours on 9.30.
Floods in Tehachapi resulted in 15 deaths.
1921: A tropical storm crossed the Baja peninsula southwest of Yuma, AZ, and moved up the Colorado River Valley.
Several stations along the Colorado River reported in excess of 3" of rain, including 3.65" at Yuma.
Other amounts included 1.5" at Flagstaff, 1.24" at Prescott, 0.68" at Tucson, and 0.56" at Phoenix, AZ.
1894: San Francisco received 0.68" of rain.
1890: 1.12" of rain falls in Fresno, tying the highest calendar day amount on record for the month of September last set on September 26, 1898.
Source: NWS San Francisco/Monterey, Hanford, Reno, Las Vegas, Phoenix, & San Diego
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[californiadisasters] 2011 Japanese Tsunami drives species 'army' across Pacific to US coast
Tsunami drives species 'army' across Pacific to US coast
Scientists have detected hundreds of Japanese marine species on US coasts, swept across the Pacific by the deadly 2011 tsunami.
Mussels, starfish and dozens of other creatures great and small travelled across the waters, often on pieces of plastic debris.
Researchers were surprised that so many survived the long crossing, with new species still washing up in 2017.
The study is published in the journal Science.
The powerful earthquake that shook north-eastern Japan in March 2011 triggered a huge tsunami that reached almost 39m in height on the Tōhoku coast of Honshu.
The towering waves washed hundreds of objects out to sea, ranging in size from tiny pieces of plastic to fishing boats and docks.
A year later, scientists began finding tsunami debris with living creatures still attached, washing up on the shores of Hawaii and the western US coast from Alaska down to California.
"Many hundreds of thousands of individuals were transported and arrived in North America and the Hawaiian islands - most of those species were never before on our radar as being transported across the ocean on marine debris," lead author Prof James Carlton, from Williams College and Mystic Seaport, told BBC News.
"Much of the debris is still out there and it could be that some of these Japanese species will still arrive. I wouldn't be surprised if a small Japanese fishing boat lost in 2011 was to show up 10 years after the event."
The research team has detected 289 different species so far. Mussels were the most common, but there were also crabs, clams, sea anemones and star fish.
So common were findings that new species were still being discovered even as the study drew to a close in 2017, six years after the tsunami.
The scientists say that many other species have likely made the journey and so far escaped detection. No colonies of invaders have so far been established but the research team believes that this is likely to happen.
"When we first saw species from Japan arriving in Oregon, we were shocked. We never thought they could live that long, under such harsh conditions," said co-author John Chapman from Oregon State University.
"It would not surprise me if there were species from Japan that are out there living along the Oregon coast. In fact, it would surprise me if there weren't."
The key element that has made this possible according to all the scientists involved is the ubiquitous presence of plastic, fibre glass and other products that do not decompose.
"The wood generated by the tsunami lasted a short time compared with the enduring nature of the plastic," said Prof Carlton.
"For aeons if a plant or animal was to raft across the oceans, their boat was literally dissolving underneath them. What we have done now is provide these species with rather permanent rafts; we have changed the nature of their boats."
Moving much more slowly than ships, the plastic or fibre glass rafts gave the species time to gradually adjust to their new environment, making it easier for them to reproduce and their larvae attach to the debris.
The researchers are concerned that with so much plastic in our oceans, and with climate change making cyclones and storms more intense, the threat of invasive marine species has never been greater. The tsunami research shows just how much of an impact this route can have.
"There's nothing comparable in the scale of what we've seen before in the history of marine science," said Prof Carlton.
"The thousands of kilometres travelled, the sheer diversity of the community combined with how long this has been going on - so this has really reset the stage for the role of marine debris and its potential dispersal of invasive species."
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[californiadisasters] Injurious Rock Avalanche Strikes Yosemite For 2nd Day
The Latest: Yosemite IDs British man killed by rock fall
Updated 12:02 am, Friday, September 29, 2017
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on a second rock fall in Yosemite one day after a deadly slide (all times local):
7:40 p.m.
Yosemite National Park has identified the British tourist killed by a massive rock fall.
The park says 32-year-old Andrew Foster of Wales and his wife were hiking at the bottom of El Capitan when a chunk of granite about 12 stories tall broke free and plunged down.
Foster died, and his wife remains hospitalized. The park didn't release her name.
A second rock fall from El Capitan on Thursday injured one person, who was airlifted to a hospital. There's no word on the person's condition.
The collapses come at the peak of climbing season for El Capitan, when people from around the world come to test their skills on its sheer walls. The park says at least 30 climbers were on the formation Wednesday during the deadly rock fall__._,_.___
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