FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: United States Naval Observatory, Washington, D.C. ~ 04 JAN 2011

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[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

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Road Trip: United States Naval Observatory, Washington, D. C.

The United States Naval Observatory provides a wide range of astronomical data and products, and serves as the official source of time for the U.S. Department of Defense and a standard of time for the entire United States. The United States Naval Observatory is one of the oldest scientific agencies in the United States, with a primary mission to produce Positioning, Navigation, and Timing.

The United States Naval Observatory products support activities in the following areas:

Astrometry
Integrated Image and Catalog Archive Service, star catalogs, fundamental reference frames, space astrometry.

Astronomical Applications
Astronomical data calculators (e.g., rise/set times, Moon phase, etc.), information on astronomical phenomena and related topics, astronomical and navigational almanacs, software products.

Earth Orientation
Daily, weekly, and long-term EO products, GPS-based products (rapids, ultra-rapids, UTGPS), VLBI-based products, background information, technical and scientific publications and software.

Precise Time

USNO Master Clock, Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers, web-based time synchronization, GPS timing products and services, Two-Way Satellite Time Transfer, and Loran-C timing products.

The U.S. Naval Observatory operates two Master Clock facilities. The primary facility, in Washington, D.C. maintains 57 HP/Agilent/Symmetricom 5071A-001 high performance cesium atomic clocks and 24 hydrogen masers. The alternate master clock, at Schriever Air Force Base, maintains 12 cesium clocks and 3 masers. The observatory also operates two rubidium atomic fountain clocks.

Learn More About The United States Naval Observatory HERE!!

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[HopeandGlory]

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[PROCON]

Woo-Hoo!!

We Support The

U.S. Military!!!

[laurenmarlowe]

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[BIGLOOK]

Aloha Lauren!

[PROCON]

Happy New Year, no tie tonight!...:=)

[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy Hope, and THANK YOU for our Pledge Of Allegiance!

FIRST!!

[JRios1968]

Happy New Year

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening to you PROCON! Awesome post!

SECOND!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Road Trip: U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington, DC

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A Lover Of God
January 4, 2011

In a brief biography of St. Francis of Assisi, G. K. Chesterton begins with a glimpse into the heart of this unique and compassionate man born in the 12th century. Chesterton writes: “As St. Francis did not love humanity but men, so he did not love Christianity but Christ. . . . The reader cannot even begin to see the sense of a story that may well seem to him a very wild one, until he understands that to this great mystic his religion was not a thing like a theory but a thing like a love-affair.”

When Jesus was asked to name the greatest command in the Law, He replied, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment” (Matt. 22:37-38). The questioner wanted to test Jesus, but the Lord answered him with the key element in pleasing God. First and foremost, our relationship with Him is a matter of the heart.

If we see God as a taskmaster and consider obedience to Him as a burden, then we have joined those of whom the Lord said, “I have this against you, that you have left your first love” (Rev. 2:4).

The way of joy is to love the Lord with all our heart, soul, and mind.

Oh, help me, Lord, to take by grace divine
Yet more and more of that great love of Thine;
That day by day my heart may give to Thee
A deeper love, and grow more constantly. —Mountain

Put Christ first and you’ll find a joy that lasts.

Read: Matthew 22:34-40

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. —Matthew 22:37

Bible in a year:
Genesis 10-12; Matthew 4

[PROCON]

Good evening and Happy New Year, Lauren!!

Thanks for tonight's Canteen!

You ready for 2011?!

[laurenmarlowe]

Aloha ahiahi BIGLOOK!!

THIRD!!

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening JRios1968, and a very Happy New Year to you too!

[laurenmarlowe]

Hi MA!

*HUGS*

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening Mayor, and thank you for the words from The Bible.

[SevenofNine]

OHHH TOMKOWWWWWW Guess who Obama may appoint part of his adminsationnnn

Richard Daley

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-03/obama-said-to-consider-william-daley-for-top-white-house-post.html

Remember Chicago is all in the family

[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy PROCON!

I was so ready for 2011, indeed!

Planning on having some fun this year, spending some more time with my kiddos.

And a very Happy New Year to you too PROCON!

[PROCON]

Hiya BIGLOOK!

Got any big plans to visit the mainland in 2011?!

[oldteen]

Good evening lauren! Thank you for tonights Canteen! *hugs*

Nice to see you and Happy New Year!