Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium[citation needed],[3] because of a tendency to group the years according to decimal values, as if non-existent year zero were counted. According to the Gregorian calendar, these distinctions fall to the year 2001, because the 1st century was retroactively said to start with the year AD 1. Since the Gregorian calendar does not have year zero, its first millennium spanned from years 1 to 1000 inclusively and its second millennium from years 1001 to 2000. (For further information, see century and millennium.)
The year 2000 is sometimes abbreviated as "Y2K" (the "Y" stands for "year", and the "K" stands for "kilo" which means "thousand").[4][5] The year 2000 was the subject of Y2K concerns, which were fears that computers would not shift from 1999 to 2000 correctly. However, by the end of 1999, many companies had already converted to new, or upgraded, existing software. Some even obtained "Y2K certification". As a result of massive effort, relatively few problems occurred.
The Ambient Weather WS-2000 is a comprehensive local and remote personal weather station. Connect your station to the Ambient Weather Network and join an interactive weather community with the ability to customize your online dashboard, share weather data socially, and experience the benefits of AWN+ for one month*, all for free. Experience the convenience of having your personal weather information with you on the go from your computer, tablet, or mobile device. Features real-time dashboard with expandable tiles, historical graphs and data, email and text alerts, IFTTT, Amazon Alexa, Google Home, API for programmers, public share feature, and more.
The Ambient Weather WS-2000 is a comprehensive local and remote personal weather station. The high-definition, full color TFT LCD display is easy to read, day or night, and includes a light and dark colored background.
The console receives wireless wind speed, direction, rainfall, temperature, humidity, UV, and Solar Radiation from the outdoor sensor array, and receives barometric pressure, humidity, and temperature from the included WH32B indoor sensor. The brilliant, dynamic color tablet combines measured parameters with calculated data, such as 'Feels Like' Temperature (Wind Chill and Heat Index), Dew Point, 10 Minute Wind Speed and Direction, Sunrise, Sunset, Moon Phase, Forecast, and more. The multi-screen display also includes NIST internet time server synchronization, imperial and metric units of measure, high and low alarm conditions with audible alert, calibration of all major parameters, and real-time internet weather publishing to the Ambient Weather Network, our interactive weather community.
With your WS-2000 purchase you will also receive a free one-month subscription* to AWN+, our enhanced Ambient Weather Network experience. AWN+ goes beyond your standard account by adding key map layers like air quality, snow depth, fires, tropical cyclones, and river gauges. Enjoy up to 10 customizable SMS alerts daily and a 10-Day hourly forecast. Plus, AWN+ gives you access to 3 years of your station's historical data for insightful analysis.
The wireless sensor array connects to the console via RF (915 MHz) up to 330 feet line of sight in open air (100 feet under most conditions). The wireless signal will not pass through solid metal, earth, or ground. The sensor array's primary power source is a solar panel which charges the super capacitor, with optional battery backup (batteries not included).
The high definition TFT Display Tablet receives wireless wind speed, direction, rainfall, temperature, humidity, UV and Solar Radiation from the outdoor sensor array, and barometric pressure, humidity and temperature from the indoor sensor.
The brilliant, dynamic color tablet combines measured parameters with calculated data, such as 'Feels Like' Temperature (Wind Chill and Heat Index), Dew Point, Wind Speed and Direction (averaged once per second over 16 seconds), Gust (the maximum wind speed sampled once per second in the 16 second update period), 10 Minute Wind Speed and Direction Average, Sunrise, Sunset, Moon Phase, Forecast, and more.
The WS-2000 also displays minimum and maximum conditions with time and date stamp, historical archived data, which can be exported to SD Card (optional) for advanced data analysis in Excel, The SD Card is also used for firmware updates.
Connect your weather station to the Ambient Weather Network at Ambientweather.net. Register for free and set up your account. Join an interactive community that lets you observe real-time hyperlocal weather, customize your own personal dashboard of weather "tiles" from your station feed, share details of your weather socially, and so much more.
With your Ambient Weather Station purchase, you will also receive a free one-month subscription* to AWN+, which is our enhanced Ambient Weather Network experience. AWN+ goes beyond your standard account by adding key map layers like air quality, snow depth, fires, tropical cyclones, and river gauges. You will also receive Growing Degree Days (GDD), Heating Degree Days (HDD), and Cooling Degree Days (CDD) on your dashboard. Enjoy up to 10 customizable SMS alerts daily and a 10-day hourly forecast. Additionally, AWN+ gives you access to 3 years of your station's historical data for insightful analysis.
The Ambient Weather skill provides Ambient Weather personal weather station owners with the ability to get real-time, and past weather information generated by the devices they have set up at Ambient Weather Network.
The DI-2000 form should be used to obtain approval to accept travel expenses for official travel from a non-Federal source. Whenever an employee is on official travel for the Department of the Interior, the Department (or another Federal agency) generally should pay for the travel expenses. Sometimes, however, a private sector entity may offer to pay for those travel expenses, and DOI may be authorized to accept that payment from an outside source under Federal law (31 U.S.C. 1353; 41 C.F.R. 304-1).
Ethics review of the circumstances of these payments ensures that the payment of official travel expenses by a non-Federal entity satisfies the necessary conditions and procedures required under these laws. To facilitate this review process, the employee must seek prior approval at least five business days before the event.
Before you begin filling out the DI-2000, download the form and save it as a PDF file on your local or network drive. If you begin filling out the PDF on the website, you cannot save the information you enter.
Today, America finds itself in the midst of prosperity, progress, and peace. We have arrived at this moment because of the hard work of the American people. This election will be about the big choices we have to make to secure prosperity that is broadly shared and progress that reaches all families in this new American century. In the year 2000, the Democratic Party stands ready to meet that challenge and to build on our achievements.
When Thomas Jefferson was elected as our Party's first president in 1800, America was a young country trying to find its place in the world. Two hundred years later, Democrats gather at a moment of vast possibility to nominate Al Gore as America's next president. A new economy founded on the force of new technologies and traditional values of work is giving rise to new industries and transforming old ones. Biological breakthroughs give us the chance to unlock the mysteries of humanity's deadliest plagues. While the globe is still beset with tragedies and difficulties, more people live under governments of freedom, liberty, and democracy than ever before in history. America enjoys unparalleled affluence at home and influence abroad.
Yet this moment is clearly one of possibility, not absolute guarantees. We must remember that our achievements were accomplished only with creativity, courage, and conscience; with a willingness to innovate and imagine; and with a recommitment to our basic American values of hard work, community, embracing diversity, faith, family, and personal responsibility. And all of it can be imperiled again.
Let us not forget that America's future did not always seem so bright. Under the Bush-Quayle administration, America was suffering through economic stagnation. Businesses were failing. Jobs were disappearing. The welfare rolls swelled. Crime exploded in the streets. Hope and optimism were scarce. Most Americans felt that the American Dream was endangered - if not extinct.
But in 1992, Americans elected Bill Clinton and Al Gore with a mandate to turn America around. And that's just what they did. They took on the old thinking that had come to dominate politics and offered new ideas - new ideas that met the challenges of the day, new ideas that kept faith with America's oldest values, new ideas that worked.
Eight years later the record is clear: the longest economic expansion in American history. The most jobs ever created under a single administration. The first real wage growth in 20 years. The highest home ownership rate ever. The lowest African-American and Hispanic-American unemployment rates in American history. The lowest crime rate in 25 years. The lowest number of people on welfare since the 1960's. The largest drop in poverty in nearly 30 years. The lowest level of child poverty in 20 years. And after 15 painful years when the rich were getting richer and the poor were getting poorer, America is finally growing together instead of growing apart.
These are accomplishments, not accidents. They came about because Democrats - from the White House, to the Congress, to State Houses all across America - brought new thinking and new action to our most pressing challenges. We used government as a catalyst to engage the best ideas and energies of the American people. We asked citizens to get involved and they did. They tutored in their children's schools, patrolled on neighborhood crime watches, volunteered in local hospitals, and voiced their opinion on every issue. They shaped effective solutions to real problems. It will take more of this brand of new thinking if we are to build on this record of achievement.
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