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What Is Weather?

Rain and dull clouds, windy blue skies, cold snow, and sticky heat are very different conditions, yet they are all weather.

Weather is the mix of events that happen each day in our atmosphere. Weather is different in different parts of the world and changes over minutes, hours, days and weeks. Most weather happens in the troposphere, the part of Earth’s atmosphere that is closest to the ground.

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Weather is the state of the atmosphere, including temperature, atmospheric pressure, wind, humidity, precipitation, and cloud cover. It differs from climate, which is all weather conditions for a particular location averaged over about 30 years. Weather is influenced by latitude, altitude, and local and regional geography. It impacts the way people dress each day and the types of structures built.

Explore weather and its impacts with this curated collection of classroom resources.

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Weather is the state of the atmosphere, describing for example the degree to which it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy.[1] On Earth, most weather phenomena occur in the lowest layer of the planet's atmosphere, the troposphere,[2][3] just below the stratosphere. Weather refers to day-to-day temperature, precipitation, and other atmospheric conditions, whereas climate is the term for the averaging of atmospheric conditions over longer periods of time.[4] When used without qualification, "weather" is generally understood to mean the weather of Earth.

Weather is driven by air pressure, temperature, and moisture differences between one place and another. These differences can occur due to the Sun's angle at any particular spot, which varies with latitude. The strong temperature contrast between polar and tropical air gives rise to the largest scale atmospheric circulations: the Hadley cell, the Ferrel cell, the polar cell, and the jet stream. Weather systems in the middle latitudes, such as extratropical cyclones, are caused by instabilities of the jet streamflow. Because Earth's axis is tilted relative to its orbital plane (called the ecliptic), sunlight is incident at different angles at different times of the year. On Earth's surface, temperatures usually range ±40 °C (−40 °F to 104 °F) annually. Over thousands of years, changes in Earth's orbit can affect the amount and distribution of solar energy received by Earth, thus influencing long-term climate and global climate change.

Surface temperature differences in turn cause pressure differences. Higher altitudes are cooler than lower altitudes, as most atmospheric heating is due to contact with the Earth's surface while radiative losses to space are mostly constant. Weather forecasting is the application of science and technology to predict the state of the atmosphere for a future time and a given location. Earth's weather system is a chaotic system; as a result, small changes to one part of the system can grow to have large effects on the system as a whole. Human attempts to control the weather have occurred throughout history, and there is evidence that human activities such as agriculture and industry have modified weather patterns.

Studying how the weather works on other planets has been helpful in understanding how weather works on Earth. A famous landmark in the Solar System, Jupiter's Great Red Spot, is an anticyclonic storm known to have existed for at least 300 years. However, the weather is not limited to planetary bodies. A star's corona is constantly being lost to space, creating what is essentially a very thin atmosphere throughout the Solar System. The movement of mass ejected from the Sun is known as the solar wind.

No matter what the weather may be, it is because of this weather that there are many lives here on this earth, both in water and in soil.

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बारिश और सुस्त बादल, तेज़ हवा वाला नीला आसमान, ठंडी बर्फ़ और चिपचिपी गर्मी बहुत अलग स्थितियाँ हैं, फिर भी ये सभी मौसम हैं।

मौसम हमारे वायुमंडल में प्रतिदिन घटित होने वाली घटनाओं का मिश्रण है। दुनिया के अलग-अलग हिस्सों में मौसम अलग-अलग होता है और मिनटों, घंटों, दिनों और हफ्तों में बदलता रहता है। अधिकांश मौसम क्षोभमंडल में होता है, पृथ्वी के वायुमंडल का वह भाग जो ज़मीन के सबसे निकट होता है।

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मौसम वायुमंडल की स्थिति है, जिसमें तापमान, वायुमंडलीय दबाव, हवा, आर्द्रता, वर्षा और बादल आवरण शामिल हैं। यह जलवायु से भिन्न है, जो किसी विशेष स्थान के लिए लगभग 30 वर्षों में औसत सभी मौसम की स्थिति है। मौसम अक्षांश, ऊंचाई और स्थानीय और क्षेत्रीय भूगोल से प्रभावित होता है। यह लोगों के हर दिन कपड़े पहनने के तरीके और निर्मित संरचनाओं के प्रकार को प्रभावित करता है।

कक्षा संसाधनों के इस संग्रहित संग्रह के साथ मौसम और उसके प्रभावों का अन्वेषण करें।

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मौसम वायुमंडल की स्थिति है, उदाहरण के लिए यह वर्णन करता है कि यह किस हद तक गर्म या ठंडा, गीला या सूखा, शांत या तूफानी, साफ या बादल है।[1] पृथ्वी पर, अधिकांश मौसम संबंधी घटनाएं ग्रह के वायुमंडल की सबसे निचली परत, क्षोभमंडल, [2][3] में समतापमंडल के ठीक नीच�� घटित होती हैं। मौसम दिन-प्रतिदिन के तापमान, वर्षा और अन्य वायुमंडलीय स्थितियों को संदर्भित करता है, जबकि जलवायु लंबी अवधि में वायुमंडलीय स्थितियों के औसत को संदर्भित करता है। [4] जब बिना योग्यता के उपयोग किया जाता है, तो "मौसम" का अर्थ आम तौर पर पृथ्वी का मौसम समझा जाता है।

मौसम एक स्थान से दूसरे स्थान के बीच हवा के दबाव, तापमान और नमी के अंतर से संचालित होता है। ये अंतर किसी विशेष स्थान पर सूर्य के कोण के कारण हो सकते हैं, जो अक्षांश के साथ बदलता रहता है। ध्रुवीय और उष्णकटिबंधीय हवा के बीच मजबूत तापमान विरोधाभास सबसे बड़े पैमाने पर वायुमंडलीय परिसंचरण को जन्म देता है: हेडली सेल, फेरेल सेल, ध्रुवीय सेल और जेट स्ट्रीम। मध्य अक्षांशों में मौसम प्रणालियाँ, जैसे अतिरिक्त उष्णकटिबंधीय चक्रवात, जेट स्ट्रीम प्रवाह की अस्थिरता के कारण होते हैं। क्योंकि पृथ्वी की धुरी उसके कक्षीय तल (जिसे क्रांतिवृत्त कहा जाता है) के सापेक्ष झुका हुआ है, वर्ष के अलग-अलग समय में सूर्य का प्रकाश अलग-अलग कोणों पर आपतित होता है। पृथ्वी की सतह पर, तापमान आमतौर पर सालाना ±40 डिग्री सेल्सियस (-40 डिग्री फारेनहाइट से 104 डिग्री फारेनहाइट) तक होता है। हजारों वर्षों में, पृथ्वी की कक्षा में परिवर्तन पृथ्वी द्वारा प्राप्त सौर ऊर्जा की मात्रा और वितरण को प्रभावित कर सकते हैं, इस प्रकार दीर्घकालिक जलवायु और वैश्विक जलवायु परिवर्तन को प्रभावित कर सकते हैं।

सतह के तापमान में अंतर के कारण दबाव में अंतर होता है। उच्च ऊंचाई कम ऊंचाई की तुलना में ठंडी होती है, क्योंकि अधिकांश वायुमंडलीय ताप पृथ्वी की सतह के संपर्क के कारण होता है जबकि अंतरिक्ष में विकिरण संबंधी हानियां ज्यादातर स्थिर होती हैं। मौसम का पूर्वानुमान भविष्य के समय और किसी स्थान के लिए वातावरण की स्थिति की भविष्यवाणी करने के लिए विज्ञान और प्रौद्योगिकी का अनुप्रयोग है। पृथ्वी की मौसम प्रणाली एक अराजक प्रणाली है; परिणामस्वरूप, सिस्टम के एक हिस्से में छोटे परिवर्तन पूरे सिस्टम पर बड़े प्रभाव डाल सकते हैं। मौसम को नियंत्रित करने के मानव प्रयास पूरे इतिहास में होते रहे हैं, और इस बात के प्रमाण हैं कि कृषि और उद्योग जैसी मानवीय गतिविधियों ने मौसम के पैटर्न को संशोधित किया है।

अन्य ग्रहों पर मौसम कैसे काम करता है इसका अध्ययन यह समझने में सहायक रहा है कि पृथ्वी पर मौसम कैसे काम करता है। सौर मंडल में एक प्रसिद्ध मील का पत्थर, बृहस्पति का ग्रेट रेड स्पॉट, एक एंटीसाइक्लोनिक तूफान है, जिसके बारे में माना जाता है कि यह कम से कम 300 वर्षों से अस्तित्व में है। हालाँकि, मौसम ग्रह पिंडों तक ही सीमित नहीं है। एक तारे का कोरोना लगातार अंतरिक्ष में खो रहा है, जिससे पूरे सौर मंडल में एक बहुत ही पतला वातावरण बन रहा है। सूर्य से उत्सर्जित द्रव्यमान की गति को सौर पवन के रूप में जाना जाता है।

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Fotogenic : Face & Body Editor

"EVERYONE IS PHOTOGENICS" Are you searching the right photo editing app for your mobile photography? "Fotogenic" is the best choices for photo editing app to suit every level of photographer. We've created an interactive help for you to understand how to use it for each feature. Even if you have never used photo editing app before, you will create wonderful works of art. It has an innovative and easy to use interface that creates a beautifully simple user experience. It's easy and intuitive for beginners yet capable enough to be appreciated by professional photographers. Features : TOOLS • Text On Path : Adding text on a path is an important way to create unique text effects • Speech Bubble : A fun way to perk up your photos is by adding cartoon style speech balloons • Captions : Add a caption below and above your photos • Stretch : Make you taller • Slimmer : It's a snap to get a leaner • Crop : Crop photo • Perspective : Fix Keystone distortion • Rotate : Turn your photo 90 degrees left or right • Straighten : You can easily fix slanted photos • Square Fit : Square photo without cropping • Mosaic : Hide the unwanted parts BEAUTY • Smooth : Flawless complexion • Whiten : Dazzling white smiles • Detail : It provides unrivaled clarity • Makeup : Adding a shadow for your eyes or paint a nice color for your lip • Clone : Eliminate unwanted objects • Bodybuilding : You can get an attractive and sexy body in seconds • Tattoo : You can get inspiration what symbol to put permanently on your body • Bronze Skin : Making your bronzer appear naturally sun kissed • Defocus : It allows you to focus a subject of your photo • Reshape : Simulate realistic plastic surgeries COLOR ADJUSTMENT • Vibrance : Well saturated colors • Color Splash : Nice looking abstract artworks • Color Replacement : Easily change the color of objects • Levels : Stretch brightness levels in a histogram • Filters : Hundreds of great photo filters in 5 different categories • Red Eye : Fix red eye effect • Lighting : Add depth and warmth • Channel Mixer : Adjust the percentages for the Red, Green and Blue • Brightness & Contrast : Fix too light or too dark areas • Sharpen : Almost every digital image needs at least a little bit of sharpening • HDR : Achieve an HDR (high dynamic range) look • Highlights & Shadows : Easy method for correcting lighting PAINT • Signature : Add digital Signature • Paint : Perfect tool for those who love the art of hand painted Artistic Brushes • Funny Brushes : 40 fun brushes in 5 different categories (Cute,Halloween,Indicator,Kid,People) • Weather : You’ll be able to transform the atmosphere of your picture in just a few seconds(Clouds,Lightning,Rain,Rainbow,Snow) • Glowing Lines : Wrap a part of the main object with a glowing beam of light (Glow lamp,sparkle,Fire,Glow Line) • Seagull : Create a wonderful graphic composition (Butterfly, Seagull) Live Brushes • Flare : Add magic to your photos • Bokeh : Create soft dreamy backgrounds • Money : Take them, they are flying into your hands! • Dandelion : Bring happiness to your photos • Bubble : Add the wonderful flying bubbles • Petals : Falling petals. Your photos will look very elegant and ethereal (Red Rose,Yellow Rose,Daisy,Autumn) • Confetti : Essential part of memorable photos • Shapes : The ideal complement for a fun photo composition TEXTURES • Mixer : One of the fastest ways to get amazing looking images is by using Blending modes. • Light Leaks :  Add an artistic touch to your photos • Grunge : Convert normal everyday photos into worn out style. • Gradient :  Create natural looking composite images. • Lens Flare : Trendy cool colorized photos • Vignette : A popular photo effect • Mask : Highlight a part of your image in different shapes • Frames : Dozens of Picture frame with 4 different categories • Doodle : Perfect way for you to add humor or feeling to your photo (5 different categories) • Borders : Create a simple but effective border Read the full article

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Great Lakes Moment: Warmer, wetter, wilder

Scientists have predicted that warmer, wetter and wilder weather is coming and that this will be one of the greatest environmental challenges of the 21st Century. Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie water levels set record highs for the month of May. These high water levels are putting a human face on climate change in our region.

In Detroit’s Jefferson-Chalmers neighborhood, Tiger Dams—flexible tubes filled with water—were installed at a cost of $2 million to protect homes from flooding.

On Belle Isle, construction of the new $1.5 million Oudolf Garden had to be delayed last year because of 100-year high water levels. The solution was to redesign it to be flood proof, including moving it further away from the riverfront and raising it by 3 feet.

In 2019, the Friends of Detroit Rowing, which leases the Belle Isle Boat House, had to move 60 weddings due to high water levels. Flooding around the Belle Isle Boat House was preventing vendors from making deliveries for weddings and they even had to build a temporary elevated sidewalk like a dock to get people into the building.

At times, water has covered the Strand near the Coast Guard station, and fish have been seen swimming across the road. Completion of a $5 million Lake Okonoka habitat restoration project had to be delayed because of record-high water levels. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources, who manages Belle Isle State Park, has had to invest more than $300,000 to stave off flood damage on Belle Isle.

In Wyandotte, high Detroit River water levels in 2019 caused flooding of the parking lot of The Waterfront Restaurant and Lounge, causing temporary closures. In spring of 2019, portions of Downriver received 3.6 inches of rain in a 7-hour period, causing substantial flooding of basements in Allen Park, Lincoln Park and Ecorse, resulting in substantial damage to personal belongings. In Wayne County’s Elizabeth Park, Michigan’s oldest county park, high Detroit River water levels have flooded parking lots along the canal and restricted access to a new kayak launch.

Flooding at Wayne County’s Elizabeth Park (Photo by John Hartig)

High water levels have caused property damage and increased shoreline erosion and flooding. Scientists worry that climate change is increasingly turning extraordinary into the ordinary. These warmer, wetter and wilder climate conditions will likely also result in changes to how our ecosystems function. For example, warmer lakes, tributaries and terrestrial ecosystems, reduced ice cover, and increased runoff will alter the range and distribution of certain bird and fish species, increase the frequency and severity of harmful algal blooms in the western basin of Lake Erie, exacerbate wetland loss, create new threats from invasive species, diminish beach health, and in some cases displace or extirpate native species.

The Earth’s average surface temperature has risen about 0.9 degrees Celsius since the late 19th century, a change driven largely by increased carbon dioxide and other human-made emissions in the atmosphere. Most of the warming has occurred in the past 35 years, with the five warmest years on record taking place since 2015. Atmospheric monitoring in the Western Lake Erie Climate Division has documented a 5.6 percent increase in precipitation since 1951 and an increase in the frequency of extreme precipitation events. Scientists predict that climate change will also result in wilder weather conditions, including more intense and frequent storms that will increase flooding and runoff, alter our ecosystems, and result in substantial social and economic impacts.

Detroit’s response

In Detroit, climate change is projected to increase the intensity and frequency of storms that will test and overwhelm the city’s infrastructure and threaten the health of residents in other ways. Flooding will continue to affect Detroit homes and streets due to projected increases in intense precipitation. Detroit is also projected to see a significant increase in very hot days, with as many as 65 days above 90 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of this century, exacerbating the burden of heat and poor air quality on the city’s most vulnerable residents.

Greenhouse gas emissions are driving global climate change, and Detroit is committed to contributing its fair share to efforts led by cities around the world in mitigating the impacts of climate change. Despite the United States pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord in 2017, over 400 U.S. mayors, representing 70 million Americans, have signed on, including Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, to fight climate change and lower greenhouse gas emissions.

In 2017, Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice worked with many community, governmental, business and academic partners to develop the Detroit Climate Change Action Plan. In 2019, Detroit released its Detroit Sustainability Action Agenda, addressing climate change and other sustainability issues. On July 24, 2019, Detroit City Council unanimously passed an ordinance to greatly and swiftly reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the city. The ordinance stipulates that greenhouse gas emissions from city sources will be reduced from baseline conditions by 35 percent by 2024, 75 percent by 2043 and 100 percent by 2050. It will also work towards reducing citywide emissions by 30 percent by 2025. These carbon emission reduction targets established in the ordinance are based on the standards of the Paris Climate Agreement, which looks to prevent global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius by the end of the century.

Windsor’s response

The city of Windsor committed to be a leader of climate change adaptation and mitigation through its daily actions and services. This is shown through the development of its Climate Change Adaptation Plan. In fact, Windsor was one of the first municipalities in Ontario and Canada to undertake adaptation planning. In November 2019, the city of Windsor declared a climate change emergency, acknowledging the dramatic impacts already happening and worsening in the future if things aren’t improved.

In addition to adapting to the changing climate, the city of Windsor developed a Community Energy Plan with ambitious targets to support the global effort to keep global temperature increases within 1.5 degrees Celsius. Through the implementation of this plan, the Windsor community will reduce per capita energy use and per capita CO2 emissions by 40 percent between 2014 and 2041.

Do our part

Solving climate change will take a global effort, but we all must do our part. Things that we can do include:

support the implementation of the Detroit Sustainability Action Agenda and the Detroit Climate Action Plan, and Windsor’s Climate Change Adaptation Plan and Community Energy Plan;

practice energy conservation in our homes and businesses;

perform an energy audit of our home or place of work;

walk, cycle, carpool or take a bus instead of driving;

consider an electric vehicle or plug-in hybrid;

promote and use renewable energy; and

remind our elected officials that we must care for the place we call home and ensure that it is a gift to our children and grandchildren.

Published July 6, 2020 By: John Hartig

(source: Great Lakes Now)

                                           SUPER SENSES

Okay so for the sake of future reference here’s a rundown of Matt's super senses and how they work as far as this blog is concerned.

RADAR

Matt’s radar is actually just high end echolocation. When sound bounces off of an object it makes an echo, can then used that echo to establish an object's location, shape, and size.

This lets Matt ‘see’ up to 350 yards in 360 degrees without focusing, even more when he is.

HEARING

By far the strongest of Matt’s super senses, his hearing enables him to detect an acoustic pressure change of 1 decibel at a pressure level of 7 decibels ( whereas the lowest threshold for average human hearing is 20 decibels ) He can hear a person’s heartbeat at a distance of 20 feet. And can hear something like a gunshot from up to 30-40 miles away when focused.

Can tell if someone’s lying based on their heartbeat. although this can be circumvented.

His hearing can give him an edge in a fight as not only can he monitor his own vitals but his opponents as well.

SMELL

You know what? I’m going to Hype his sense of smell more than most do.  His nose is much harder to fool that his hearing. it’s roughly as strong as a bloodhound’s, which is at least 1,000 times more powerful than a human’s.

Can track can an individual’s scent through a crowd of people at a distance of roughly 50 feet. He once smelled a sniper from two blocks away just by the gun powder. And it makes sense to me that he would be more likely to recognize somebody based on their smell than heartbeat.

TOUCH

Matt’s sense of touch is powerful enough to know how many bullets are in a gun by holding it and read newsprint, it however cannot distinguish between colors. While not as great this sensitivity extends to the rest of his body, allowing him to feel minute temperature and pressure changes in the atmosphere around him and can feel someone’s body heat up to 5 feet away from him.

TASTE

Is strong enough to tell exactly how many grains of salt are on a pretzel, or taste any other ingredients as long as there is at least 20 milligrams of that substance present. Can taste things in the air as well and tell what his lover had for breakfast with a kiss.

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WEAKNESSES

While incredibly impressive and extremely useful Matt’s super senses come with a number of drawbacks.

It takes a great amount of focus to maintain control of his senses, head injuries can make him lose that focus in his senses run while.

Is also more susceptible to smoke and poison gas, or any potent smells can overload his senses.

Even a simple illness such as the common cold can cripple his radar.

With all his powers still can’t read anything laminated, computer screens, photos, signs, etc.

His radar can’t keep up with super speed, and can easily become disoriented in large crowds, or the rain.

Sound, of course Matt greatest strength, his hearing, also doubles as his biggest weakness, extremely loud or high pitch noises can bring him to his knees within seconds, and even smaller scale stuff like dog whistles and construction work can give him a migraine.

Oh yeah gets migraines all the time.

Much like real lie detectors his can be beat, either by something like a pacemaker or simply a good liar.

Super smell means being allergic to almost everything.

Has to be careful about what he puts on his skin because sensitive skin makes him prone breaking out into rashes.

Is a picky eater.

living in a bustling city he often gets distracted bythe various sites and smells around him, this also makes it more difficult to get to sleep.

jumps at sudden loud noises.

His overly sensitive nerve endings make injuries more excruciating.

                                           SUPER SENSES

Okay so for the sake of future reference here's a rundown of Matt's super senses and how they work as far as this blog is concerned.

RADAR 

Matt's radar is actually just high end echolocation. When sound bounces off of an object it makes an echo, can then used that echo to establish an object's location, shape, and size. 

This lets Matt ‘see’ up to 350 yards in 360 degrees without focusing, even more when he is. 

HEARING

By far the strongest of Matt's super senses, his hearing enables him to detect an acoustic pressure change of 1 decibel at a pressure level of 7 decibels ( whereas the lowest threshold for average human hearing is 20 decibels ) He can hear a person's heartbeat at a distance of 20 feet. And can hear something like a gunshot from up to 30-40 miles away when focused. 

Can tell if someone's lying based on their heartbeat. although this can be circumvented.

His hearing can give him an edge in a fight as not only can he monitor his own vitals but his opponents as well.

SMELL

You know what? I'm going to Hype his sense of smell more than most do.  His nose is much harder to fool that his hearing. it's roughly as strong as a bloodhound's, which is at least 1,000 times more powerful than a human's. 

Can track can an individual’s scent through a crowd of people at a distance of roughly 50 feet. He once smelled a sniper from two blocks away just by the gun powder. And it makes sense to me that he would be more likely to recognize somebody based on their smell than heartbeat.

TOUCH

Matt's sense of touch is powerful enough to know how many bullets are in a gun by holding it and read newsprint, it however cannot distinguish between colors. While not as great this sensitivity extends to the rest of his body, allowing him to feel minute temperature and pressure changes in the atmosphere around him and can feel someone's body heat up to 5 feet away from him.

TASTE

Is strong enough to tell exactly how many grains of salt are on a pretzel, or taste any other ingredients as long as there is at least 20 milligrams of that substance present. Can taste things in the air as well and tell what his lover had for breakfast with a kiss. 

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WEAKNESSES

While incredibly impressive and extremely useful Matt's super senses come with a number of drawbacks.

It takes a great amount of focus to maintain control of his senses, head injuries can make him lose that focus in his senses run while.

Is also more susceptible to smoke and poison gas, or any potent smells can overload his senses.

Even a simple illness such as the common cold can cripple his radar.

With all his powers still can't read anything laminated, computer screens, photos, signs, etc.

 His radar can't keep up with super speed, and can easily become disoriented in large crowds, or the rain.

Sound, of course Matt greatest strength, his hearing, also doubles as his biggest weakness, extremely loud or high pitch noises can bring him to his knees within seconds, and even smaller scale stuff like dog whistles and construction work can give him a migraine. 

Oh yeah gets migraines all the time.

Much like real lie detectors his can be beat, either by something like a pacemaker or simply a good liar.

Super smell means being allergic to almost everything.

Has to be careful about what he puts on his skin because sensitive skin makes him prone breaking out into rashes.

Is a picky eater.

living in a bustling city he often gets distracted bythe various sites and smells around him, this also makes it more difficult to get to sleep. 

jumps at sudden loud noises.

His overly sensitive nerve endings make injuries more excruciating.

Game of Thrones’ Iain Glen on the fiery finale and saying goodbye to Emilia Clarke

Game of Thrones is coming. And as the world’s most  popular TV show gears up for its fiery finale, Iain Glen – aka Ser Jorah Mormont –  explains what life  in Westeros is really like. ‘Tits and dragons’ and all… By Chris Harvey 23 March 2019 Photos by Frank Allias 

Put under a read more because I included almost the entire article. It Is quite long:

[...] One abiding memory of Glen will be from the last season, when Jorah, infected with the slow-creeping but deadly greyscale, bites down on a leather strap as the thick, scaly layer that covers his torso is cut away piece by piece with a scalpel. It may not have been his most nuanced performance but the agony on his face made it impossible to look away. ‘I was pretty spaced out,’ he tells me. The prosthetic took eight hours to apply – it had underlayers that would ooze pus and blood as it was sawn off – so Glen had to be on the filming base at 11pm, have make-up applied all night and then shoot a 12-hour day. ‘After what it required, the acting became quite easy,’ he says. We’re in a photographic studio near the Thames. Glen biked here from his home in south London. ‘I’m addicted to cycling,’ he says. He will even cycle to red-carpet events and park his bike around the corner. ‘I find it a very sterile atmosphere being in the back of a limo… and [cycling] is quicker. I duck and dive, and I’m not somebody who will wait endlessly at a red traffic light.  I go up one-way streets the wrong way, too.’ He looks fit and lightly tanned. He was at home in Dulwich, where he lives with his partner, actor Charlotte Emmerson, and their two children, Mary, 11, and Juliet, six, when the scripts for the final season of Game of Thrones landed in September 2017.   ‘Security around the series has got more and more fierce,’ he says, ‘to the point where nothing was allowed on printed paper throughout the whole season.’ It could only be accessed online, with extensive security protocols – it wasn’t even allowed on the cast’s own devices. ‘There was a bit of resistance from actors to that,’ he adds, ‘particularly of an older generation.’ He performs a convincing harrumph – ‘“I need to look at my lines, how can I possibly…?”’ When he read the scripts, ‘I felt, “they’ve done it, they’ve pulled it off”,’ he says, ‘that balance of satiating people’s desire for things to be complete, but leaving enough questions in the air for people to try to project forward what world will follow, individually for all the characters and universally for the world that Thrones has occupied.’  Sadness at the end of ‘the best ride in the world’, after almost 10 years of the show, was tangible at the read-through of the series with all of the main cast in Belfast 10 days later. ‘There’s a real sense of loss, it’s like a family… there were lots of tears because it was coming to an end, but real excitement and joy that we were going to shoot it.’ As characters died within the story as they read, it felt to Glen and others as if they were really being lost. ‘We’ve all grown very close to each other.’  The filming would prove to be punishing. An enormous battle scene involving many of the key characters, pitched against the Night King’s invading Army of the Dead, was shot at the set of the fictional castle of Winterfell, in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It took 11 weeks of night shoots in sub-freezing temperatures, enduring rain, mud, high winds and ‘sheep s—’. Glen has described it as ‘a real test, really miserable’. [...] Young actors like Kit Harington (Jon Snow) and Emilia Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen) ‘are made’ by being in the show, Glen says. His storyline has been joined to Clarke’s almost from the start. What was their parting like in real life? ‘We’re friends and we’ll always be friends,’ he says. ‘Emilia went through an extraordinary story arc for herself as a person, and her character. I saw her as a nervous young actress, who had just got this big gig and everyone, [from] directors [down], was saying, “Is this the right actor? Is this how she should look? Does the wig look right?” It’s an incredible amount of pressure and I saw this young girl cope with it incredibly well.’ ‘She did ask for guidance and invariably I was saying, “Just keep doing what you’re doing.” Emilia’s very gifted, she really has no idea how good she is – she remains very vulnerable but it’s not a destructive vulnerability, it keeps her very focused… She’s [also] a very altruistic, warm person, who was the great generator of social life during Thrones. I’ll always keep an eye on what she’s doing and take pride in it.’ In the series, Ser Jorah is in love with Daenerys. Although Clarke’s character was aged up from the books for TV (in George RR Martin’s novels, she is in her early teens) fans have worked out that Daenerys can still only be 16 or 17 at the start of the show (Clarke was 22 at the time of the first season). ‘There was a point when it was definitely unrequited sexual love,’ Glen says, ‘but I think there’s always been a reciprocated love without the physicality.’ Given that Ser Jorah is in his mid-40s in the show and Glen is now 57, is his love for Daenerys age-appropriate? ‘You have to say that there’s a lot in Thrones that’s not “appropriate”,’ he returns, ‘but it feels plausible for a very different period.’ At the end of season one, Daenerys emerged from her husband’s funeral pyre unburnt and naked, with three newly hatched dragons. I wonder how Glen feels about former cast member Ian McShane’s contention that the show is ‘just tits and dragons’? ‘If tits and dragons is a negative, it doesn’t seem to stop it being a massive hit, does it?’ he says. He accepts that ‘there might have been a degree of HBO trying to arrest people’s attention, and you could accuse The Sopranos of doing that as well – there were tits and violence but there was a psychology that was underlying the whole thing.’ He thinks it might have been overstated in the first season of Thrones, in ‘putting everything on the line’ to establish the world, but says he has never felt concern about the many controversial scenes in the show, from sadistic sexual fantasies to rape. ‘At the end of the day, you can choose to watch or not to watch. When I look at history, at things that have taken place in real life that are just awful, I think there is room for dramas that try to depict that, so I’m not into censoring. I never felt things were gratuituous… Violence wise, it’s never bothered me.’ After filming their final scene, each of the main cast members was presented with a drawn storyboard from the making of the show. Glen’s depicted the bloody gladiatorial battle Jorah fought to win back Daenerys’s favour in season five. It was shot in the bullring of Osuna, in Andalusia, southern Spain, and had special memories for him. His family were with him, and the director took his daughter Mary, then seven, into the make-up tent to get blood all over her face ‘so she looked like Daddy’, then had her shout ‘action’ and ‘cut’ for the scene. After the presentation speech by writers David Benioff and DB Weiss, Glen says he was in floods of tears. Glen, who also has a son, Finlay, 22, from his first marriage to actor Susannah Harker, says he adores being a father. ‘I keep producing children… it imbues your life with a great amount of fun and magic and exhaustion. I have to be away working sometimes, and if I could I would have them with me all the time, because being woken up by a child, or having to wake up a child and deal with the minutiae and a lot of the boring crap, just having those eyes looking at you full of discovery... I love it.’ 'I always think it’s a woman’s prerogative,’ he adds, ‘I think my lady is now done on the kids and that’s fine, but I would always have more.’ He breaks off to take a call from her. As a boy himself, growing up in Edinburgh (he has two older brothers, Hamish and Graham) he was equal parts shy and extrovert, he says, and had no sense of danger. He would happily crawl out of a very high window and climb along gutters. His escapades saw him hospitalised a few times. He was adept at pretending to fall over and hurt himself – ‘I could even do it for you now.’ He still has an earring in his left ear, which he pierced himself with a pin, aged 12. ‘Dad refused to take me to the golf club unless I took it out. I thought, “F— it, I’m not going then. No.”’ His investment banker father paid for him to attend the independent Edinburgh Academy, but he had to stay on to try to improve his grades, then got the same ones again. He  managed to get into Aberdeen University to study Russian, where he discovered the joy of drama and dropped out to go to Rada. He studied alongside Ralph Fiennes, Jane Horrocks, Imogen Stubbs and Jason Watkins, but still walked away with the top acting prize for his year, the Bancroft Gold Medal,  previously won by the likes of Mark Rylance, Fiona Shaw and Kenneth Branagh. Glen built an acclaimed stage career alongside early TV roles, but has always managed to mix blockbuster  paydays – for films such as Tomb Raider (2001) and the  Resident Evil franchise – with more personal work. As Thrones’ popularity has grown, salaries have risen exponentially, with the top-end cast paid a reported $500,000 per episode (around £380,000). He notes that it’s a flat fee for a season, however many episodes you’re in. Have the rewards felt life-changing? ‘No, not really,’ he says. ‘I’ve always been lucky and busy as an actor.’ Glen experienced the negative side of press attention when his first marriage broke up in the early 2000s. Some of it was ‘intrusive’, he says – questions that related to the fact that he ‘sailed close to another relationship,’ which was [that of] Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. ‘I did a two-handed play with Nicole, which was about a sexual relationship.’ The play was David Hare’s adaption of La Ronde, The Blue Room, which famously featured Kidman’s nude bottom and Glen performing naked cartwheels. It led, perhaps inevitably, to tabloid rumours of an affair between Glen and Kidman, whose marriage ended around the same time. Glen has always denied it, but it ensured that his separation from Harker was played out in public. ‘Compared to what some people have to deal with, it was fine,’ he says. ‘But you have a lot of eyes on you and pressure on you, when you just want to deal with your own private life.’ There’s generally no other downside to fame, he notes (‘My wife says it’s like getting your bottom patted every day’), although he will politely refuse to pose for selfies if he is with his family. Game of Thrones’ vast, global appeal means that he was once even surrounded by fans while visiting a township in South Africa. [...]

Day 13-14: Veneto>Trieste, Trieste>Senj

1,187 miles completed, 900 or so to go...two new countries 🇸🇮🇭🇷

Greetings from Senj, Croatia 😊

WHAT THE HELL do Croatians put in their Lemon Ice Tea? If I got 3 hours sleep last night I’d be exaggerating. But that it’s my go to energy drink for cycling here, it bodes well for an excellent ride 😊 The last time I felt this wired, well, too long. The likely explanation is the E numbers in the supposed healthier option of iced tea; equally, I’ve just cycled through a country, crossing it’s border silently, just a sign to say I was approaching Slovenia, and 250 metres later, boom: no control, cars, only a change of tarmac, once grey and flat, now pale and cracked.

I assumed the control point was further on up the mountain; surrounded by lush forests and rolling hills, void of life other than the apparent chorus of feathered natives. The sun hadn’t fully appeared and the weather could go either way, leaving me rather focused on the option of getting over the top and in to Croatia quickly. The final peak on the route is around 900m, but even my luggage felt lighter than any other climb I’d done this trip. Rolling on, I eventually hit a border control believing this was Slovenia, and for the first time, I was asked for my passport by a guard who came out and met me, and taught me that “Vala” was thank you. None the wiser that I had crossed into Croatia, my bike, Monkey II and it’s younger sibling, my frame bag, rolled on, blissfully alone. I’d realised that Spotify had moved into the next week and the deepest joy, a new Discover Weekly playlist. Artificial intelligence is very clever. In the tunes it presented me this week, first on the list, Crazy by Seal, Moving by Supergrass. I couldn’t be more elated on a ride than I felt in those two hours. I was in my own private heaven.

Not until I stopped for cappuccino at Cafe Bicicletta did I realise it was the Croatian border I crossed. I should have realised passing through Rejika, a crumbing, graffiti, once grand port city, interlaced with tram lines and an intricate network of roads. I looked very alien, and the city people looked very different to those I had seen in Trieste, just 20 miles ago and a country away. I didn’t know until I paid for my drinks that Croatia, whilst in the EU, has its own currency, the Kuna. I’d bought a roll, and at what I believed was €2.70 for a bit of bread, I was getting the “tourist” rate, the lady corrected me, taking my euro coins, all 50c, and putting me out of my confusion.

1000m climbed and 40 miles to go, the landscape again changed dramatically. Forested mountains to my left, the Adriatic and stark, barren, sometimes silhouetted landscapes to my right. It was beautiful, the route, challengingly hilly, and still the heavy clouds followed me, reminding me to keep pedalling or risk a soaking. I realised at this point my chain had developed a new rub in the big ring. It’s quite disheartening to hear...so small ring most of the remaining miles the answer.

I have a habit of unknowingly booking my bed at the highest point in a town. The accommodations in Senj was just this, with a 30% wrong turn to finish and 2200 climbing metres for the day, finally arrived, meeting the friendliest hosts of my trip, immaculate studio apartment, a freshly made tea, overlooking the ancient town and it’s proud castle. My goodness, I had arrived. It started to feel like the Odyssey had been to get to this Dalmatian Coastline. Inclement weather across Italy behind me, now I could breathe. If I hadn’t already felt challenged, it was now I was going to find out what I am made of.

Looking back at Italy, whilst I love Italy, I had not loved this particular visit. I’d got unlucky with the low weather front that arrived as I reached the Alps, and is still with me, but hopefully passing. I could have left later in the year. But if I felt the roads were busy now, in two months, they’d be so much worse.

I hit my low points in Italy (assuming there will be no more). I had to force a rest day after Venice, huddling down in a closed petrol station deciding how long I could survive as I chilled to the bone, sheltering from the freezing wind and wet to the core despite my wet weather gear. After finding the nearest hotel, and then waking the next day to the same torrential rain and 4 degrees, my heart was truly deflated. There was only one thing for it. Improvise. Adapt. Overcome. It was drastic, but the ridiculousness of the necessity to dress up as a cycling clown weirdly raises my spirits. The hotel owner, Rosa, and her husband, who called himself Leonardo (da Vinci) after helping to craft my stapled bin liner dress to go with my ingenious shower cap helmet/head saver, joined in laughing at my insistence at my intention to at least start again rather than get a train, or another friend’s suggestion, a ferry. All great options. Only to me that felt like failure. By 10 I was on the road with gritted teeth and an unbreaking resolve to make it to Trieste.

Looking left, I could see the Dolomites like a northern wall, covered in snow to the lower levels, a constant reminder of how messed up my trip would have been if I’d gone with any intial plan to ride through Trento. Surprisingly, the rain abated somewhat by the time I reached the Italian Rice Fields, wetlands with more water networks than I’ve ever seen and an abundance of wetland birds of all shapes and sizes. I had no nutrition for this 5 hour ride. I’d didn’t stop. And at 3:10pm, I arrived, victorious in the Italian Riviera town of Trieste. I really liked it here. My room was great, central, and vibrant atmosphere all around. I made my four yearly visit to McDonald’s to get a hot chocolate (amazing in Italy! Last time I was in McDonald’s was also a cycling trip in Italy in 2016, where starving and desperate after a long hard ride and all of Italy closed for lunch, I ordered 9 chicken nuggets, 6 chicken wings, a side salad, and fries, and ashamedly, enjoyed and demolished them all 😆). Knowing that a tough day lay ahead, I found my local bike mechanic to give my bike a mini service and at 10am I hit the road in search of new countries.

A few friends knowing what I’m doing, cycling from home to somewhere in Greece, ask am I having fun. This is my 6th cycling adventure, and in my head, an adventure won’t always be fun. Sometimes it won’t be fun at all, from beginning to end. Some adventures will be a combination of fun and he’ll, and the hope is that the trip will be more fun than arduous. The thing is, when it’s a good day, it’s amazing. There are incredible moments, desperate days, and varying degrees of pain and pleasure. But I think is good to take the risk and see what happens. At no point during or after an adventure have I said “I wish I hadn’t done it”. Even travelling alone and carting your own gear, riding 6 hours a day or more in all weather, you take yourself both mentally and physically to places otherwise unreachable, creating heightened memories and teaching you things about yourself, revealing your weaknesses and discovering strengths. I wasn’t sure I’d have a knee strong enough to make this trip. But here I am, over half way, excited, happy, weary but ready for another day. And when all is said and done, it’s still only a trip around a supermarket car park compared to those that climb mountains or sail across oceans. I have so many options to get home. On my hardest day this trip, I was sat within 5 miles of an international airport (Marco Polo), a train station (could have got me to Trieste) and a ferry terminal (anywhere between Trieste, Dalmatian Coastline and Athens).

I still have my cycling t shirt casual evening attire. I wear it now almost to excuse myself for my scruffy appearance. As if to say “no need to ask. Yup. Cyclist. Solo. Smelly. Weird”. I’ve also not managed to shed my wet weather gear yet but it’s coming. I can feel it! 😊

‘The changes have become more radical’: farmers are spending more time and money trying to grow crops in new climates

Chris McGreal in Langdon, Missouri

Richard Oswald did not need the latest US government report on the creeping toll of climate change to tell him that farming in the midwest is facing a grim future, and very likely changing forever.

For Oswald, the moment of realisation came in 2011.

The 68-year-old lives in the house he was born in and farms 2,500 acres with his son, some of it settled by his great-great-grandfather. The land sits where the Missouri river valley is about four miles wide.

Growing up, Oswald heard tales of a great flood in 1952 which prompted the army to construct levees.

“The next flood wasn’t for another 40 years, in 1993. Heavy rains day after day after day after day until the runoff water and the rain just overpowered the river and the levees,” said Oswald. “Both the ’52 and ’93 floods lasted three weeks. They were abnormal.”

Then came the big Missouri river flood in 2011.

“Heavy rains and heavy snow in the Dakotas and Montana created a huge amount of water. That flood lasted here almost four months. More rain than anybody really ever has any memory of coming down the river,” he said.

Oswald’s farm was underwater for much of that time and the corn lost. Missouri declared a state of emergency. Crops were ruined or never planted. Grain prices surged.

The flooding was memorable in its own right but Oswald also sees it as marking a shift in weather patterns which has forced him to farm differently.

“When I was a kid, my dad would say an inch of rain was a good rain. That’s just what we needed. Now we get four inches, five inches, six inches in one sustained wet spell that lasts two or three days. I don’t ever remember that as a boy. I’ve never seen the sustained wetness in the land that we have now. Even though the river hasn’t gone on the land it’s raised the water table so that the rains that we’ve had this fall, which have been unusually heavy, make it muddy. Continually muddy,” he said.

On 23 November, the National Climate Assessment warned of “substantial damages” across the US in the coming years from increasing wildfires in the west to flooding in the east. But the sharpest rise in temperatures will be between the coasts as the midwest endures longer and hotter summers, heavier rains and droughts that collectively are predicted to significantly reduce US agricultural production.

“Expected increases in challenges to livestock health, declines in crop yields and quality, and changes in extreme events in the United States and abroad threaten rural livelihoods, sustainable food security, and price stability,” said the 1,600-page report, the work of 13 federal agencies.

Climate change is likely to make it harder to grow crops, and to make those that do grow more vulnerable to diseases and pests because of rising humidity. The report said heat and diminishing air quality will take its toll on livestock. Farmers will collectively have to spend billions of dollars to adapt. The effects are already seen from prolonged drought in Kansas and torrential rains in Iowa.

Before the flood in 2011, Oswald, a Missouri river valley crop farmer, was skeptical about the warnings that rising temperatures heralded a more difficult future. Since then, the routines of planting and harvesting that his family has pursued on the same land for five generations have given way to a haphazard cycle governed by waves of extreme heat and intense rains.

“The changes have become more radical. The way the rains come down and the temperatures. You’re constantly trying to manage it,” said Oswald, a former president of the Missouri Farmers Union. “There’s so much unknown about the weather now that it’s pretty hard to do much about it.”

As his son, Brandon, works a combine harvester up and down a field, Oswald kicks the soil with his foot.

“If you look at this, it’s pretty dry right on top but not too far down it’s mud. Two weeks ago there was water standing here from all the rain and the inability of the soil to absorb that much moisture because the level of the river was such that the water level was pretty close to the top of the ground here,” he said.

That mud makes it difficult to plant and to harvest. The rains narrow the number of days when Oswald can get a crop in the ground. If it forces him to delay planting the corn, that means the soybeans will go in late. Worst of all, Oswald said, is that it is all so unpredictable. Where planting was typically spread over the same few days in spring and summer every year, now it can vary by weeks.

Gene Takle, one of the authors of the climate change report and director of the climate science programme at Iowa State University, traces the sharply increased rainfalls to rising temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico. He said that for centuries, the gulf’s waters have been carried as moisture into the midwest and delivered consistent rainfalls that made the region America’s breadbasket.

But as temperatures have risen so has the amount of moisture in a dome of vapour over the Gulf of Mexico. Takle said that at the same time climate change has moved a pressure centre in the Atlantic, known as the Bermuda high, westwards and closer to a band of low pressure over the Rocky mountains creating higher windspeeds across parts of the midwest. That, in turn, has intensified the flow of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico.

The result is heavier rains dumping huge amounts of water on to fields, alongside rising temperatures.

“Humidity is the the key, the smoking gun, for the increase in our rainfall,” said Takle, a professor of agronomy and of geological and atmospheric sciences.

Takle said that heavy rains in 2013 forced farmers in north-western Iowa to abandon planting altogether on more than 700,000 acres, more than 10% of the state’s land. That came a year after Iowa was hit by widespread drought that also hit the crop harvest.

Some farmers are installing drainage systems to cope with the higher rainfalls, a sign that they know climate change is here to stay. Others are buying expensive new equipment that allows them to plant more seeds in the narrowing windows between rains.

Takle, who grew up on a farm and whose brother still farms in Iowa, said the intense rains have a long-term impact, too. Scientists calculate that dry soil is unable to absorb the water from a rainfall of more than about 1.25in over 24 hours. After that the water starts to erode the soil.

“You start to get excess water moving down slope surfaces and carrying with it any nutrients and nitrogen and phosphates or soil particles,” he said. “We’re getting more of the soil erosion promoting rainfalls. Farmers are using cover crops in the spring period to have some some residual vegetation on the surface to protect it from these extreme events.”

Standing amid his soybeans, Oswald nods north toward the hills on the edge of the valley.

“We farm some upland fields up over that hill a couple of miles,” he said. “They’re rolling hills and they’re terraced. They have structures on them to help control the runoff of the water. But when you have those big rains, none of the terraces or the dams can keep up with that as well as they should. So you have more erosion.”

The size of harvests is already falling. This year, heavy rains have hit soya bean crops, delaying planting or washing out the plants in parts of the midwest, including Iowa.

Alongside the rains are increasing temperatures.

“This year we saw 100-degree temperatures in May which is very unusual,” said Oswald. “I don’t ever remember that in my lifetime or even heard about it. That’s a first ever.”

The Missouri Climate Center recorded that temperatures were above average throughout the spring and summer this year, with September on average 3F warmer than during the 20th century

In the short term, higher temperatures have had some benefit because in parts of the region they extended the growing season and contributed to bigger harvests.

“In the midwest we have about nine days more now than we did 50 years ago,” said Takle. “Part of the increase in yields that we’ve been experiencing over the last 20 or 30 years definitely has been due to the earlier planting and the longer growing season.”

But Takle said those benefits are being lost, and will be reversed in the coming years, as rising temperatures combine with the heavy rains to make growing ever more difficult. He said corn is vulnerable to high temperatures during pollination.

A decade ago, Oswald was on the fence about climate change.

“At a certain point you just have to look at what’s going on in your own world and try to decide what you think the impacts of that are,” he said.

As Oswald’s thinking changed, so did his determination to persuade others of the reality of climate change. As president of the Missouri Farmers union, he had some success in getting a discussion going among its members. But he said climate change is politically charged among farmers in part because some see it as a stick to beat them over their practices.

“One of the problems farmers have is when we start talking about environment, a lot of times Sierra Club comes to mind and Sierra Club is pretty radical in their approach. When you have a group that says cows are the problem, you need to get rid of all the cows, and raising corn is a problem, we need to get rid of all the corn, then you’re not going to have a lot of farmers who want to join in and follow you,” he said.

Still, Oswald believes that denial is in retreat. Where farmers, including him, were once skeptical they now see the change with their own eyes. The problem is what to do about it.

“A lot of them will say there’s nothing we can do about it so we might as well not worry because we can’t have an impact, we just have to live with it,” he said.

But he said as climate change bites, farmers are increasingly accepting of the science as they are forced to spend more money on equipment and seeds to maintain current crop yields.

“It’s become almost an annual assault on their ability to produce good crops. So they are now starting to ask questions and I think are listening a little more to what the scientists are saying about the potential future.”

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