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LinkedIn Partners with Typepad

Typepad sent out an e-mail update today talking about some new features. One that was featured, their new association with LinkedIn. LinkedIn is an up and coming business and professional service that allows people to create a professional profile. Read more about it here. There's a new widget that allows you to show your LinkedIn profile on your Typepad site.

I guess I was ahead of the curve on this one, I joined LinkedIn about a week ago and put the link to my profile up earlier this week. You can read my profile by clicking on the LinkedIn logo on the upper left side of my site.

Mt. St. Helens at Sunrise

This incredible photo comes via my sister-in-law in Canada. Someone else sent it to her. Unfortunately I don't have who actually took the photo.

Mt. St. Helens continues to spew ash, while it is forming a lava dome in the crater and still having minor tremors.  In this sunrise shot, she appears to be blowing smoke rings (and anything so benign is welcomed, given recent history.)

What forms the "smoke rings" is the air flowing over the mountain getting pushed up higher as it goes up and over the top.  The moisture content and initial temperature are just right so that the moisture condenses from a vapor to small particles at the higher altitude. 

When the moving air moves past the peak and comes down again, the particles evaporate back to an invisible vapor.  The two "pancakes" describe that there are two layers of air for which this is happening, thus making this awesome picture possible.

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