On Friday around 1:00 P.M. I took this photograph. The clouds were so thick and swirled; they really looked like whipped cream. Clouds are a type of colloid – liquid ^* water droplets so very tiny they are suspended in our atmosphere.

*In some clouds the droplets are made of ice.

Clouds

Here is another image of the sky at about the same time.

Clouds

This was sent to me by Leone McDermott, the chair of our library department:

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FIELD TRIP TO GROWING POWER, AN URBAN FARM IN MILWAUKEE

Saturday, April 30
Depart from Truman at 11:30 a.m.
Return to Truman at 6:30 p.m.
$10 Tour entrance fee (payable in advance)
BYOL (Bring Your Own Lunch)

One Book, One Truman will culminate with a tour of Growing Power, an urban farm and community food center located in Milwaukee. The farm includes greenhouses, fish runs, beehives, hen houses, goats, turkeys, ducks, and more. Growing Power works not only for sustainable agriculture but also for community development through the promotion of equitable food access. The founder of Growing Power, Will Allen, received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2008 and was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine in 2010. To learn more about Growing Power, visit its website at http://www.growingpower.org.

The event will last from about 11:30 a.m. until 6:30 p.m.; the farm tour itself will take 90 minutes. Transportation to and from Milwaukee will be via chartered bus. The only cost to participants is $10 for the tour entrance fee. People are required to bring their own lunches to eat on the bus, since there are no dining facilities at Growing Power.

Participation in this event is limited to 56 people from Truman’s students, staff, and faculty. If you would like to participate, please print and complete the attached sign-up and release forms. Return them with a $10 check made out to Truman College, with “Field trip” written in the memo line. You can send your completed forms and payment to Leone McDermott, Library, via college mail or give them to library staff members at the circulation counter or reference desk. If you have questions, please contact Leone at lmcdermott@ccc.edu or 773-907-4877.
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The two forms may be downloaded here:

Sign Up form
Release form

Just log on at http://student.ccc.edu and give it a try. You will retain access for one year after the last semester you are a student – this service gives you access to microsoft applications and it also provides some “cloud” storage and of course it provides email. We’ve been told it is a big improvement over our previous email system for students.

Disaster in the Gulf

On April 20, 2010 the explosion and sinking of the oil rig Deepwater
Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico marked the beginning of what would become the
worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. With an estimated 215 million
gallons of crude oil spewed into the gulf over 87 days, the devastation to
the regions wildlife is unparalleled. Although clean-up operations are in
full swing, marine and plant life are suffering in a region that many fear
will never be the same again.

Dr. Ilze Berzins and Ken Ramirez from Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium will discuss
one of the nation’s richest environmental regions and what its future holds
at the Chicago Council on Science and Technology lecture on Sept. 7 at the
Northwestern University Chicago Campus, Baldwin Auditorium, 303 E. Superior
St. Reception and registration begin at 5 pm and presentation at 6 pm. Cost
is $10 in advance and $15 at the door. Cost for students is $5.
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