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Edmund Sanders Los Angeles Times 2013-08-08 17:14:00
Israel's military on Thursday night ordered the nation's southern airport in Eilat closed until further notice, citing unspecified security threats. [Updated 1:28 p.m. PDT, Aug. 8: The airport was reopened about two hours later.] The airport is predominantly used by tourists traveling to the Red Sea resort city, and the shutdown comes during the peak vacation season. Due to the airport's proximity to the restive Sinai Peninsula, the military has from time to time closed the facility for security reasons. Israel's military has long been concerned about the possibility that Sinai militants would attempt to shoot down Israeli airplanes using shoulder-fired missiles and recently considered equipping planes with anti-missile defenses. The last shutdown, lasting a few hours, was in April after rocket attacks against Eilat. The latest closure may be related to an ongoing crackdown by the Egyptian military against militants operating in the Sinai, Israeli media reported. | |
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Moon of Alabama Back in February this report from Turkey got me interested: Was the police really interested in those suicides or was this one of those political investigations, not unheard of in Turkey, that are held simply to remove the suspects from their job?2011-09-14 15:52:00 |
Comment: While Mossad's involvement in a possible assassination ploy isn't really surprising, recent report by the Turkish Prime Ministry Inspection Board citing 'telekinesis' as possible cause of mysterious suicides does add an interesting twist to the story. |
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Ian Black and Spencer Ackerman The Guardian 2013-08-08 09:41:00
US and British diplomatic personnel evacuated from Sana'a as Washington warns of 'specific and immediate threat' Yemeni security forces remained on high alert on Tuesday night amid fears of an imminent attack by al-Qaida in the capital, Sana'a, after the US and Britain withdrew all embassy staff and again urged their citizens to leave the country. The US state department later described a "specific and immediate threat". BBC Arabic quoted a Yemeni military official as saying that "extraordinary and unprecedented" security measures had been put in place, with armoured vehicles deployed around the presidential palace and other sensitive government and foreign installations in the capital. Dozens of al-Qaida operatives are said to have streamed into Sana'a in the last few days, apparently to take part in a terrorist attack, the BBC said. The Yemeni claim could not be confirmed but it appeared consistent with US statements. | |
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Andrea Peterson The Washington Post 2013-08-05 09:15:00
The taste-testers of Google founder Sergey Brin's lab-grown burger called it cake-like and "very close to meat" - perhaps not the most encouraging response to a $332,000 investment. But Brin isn't alone in making investments in artificial or lab-grown animal products, other tech entrepreneurs like Bill Gates and Peter Thiel have put their money into developing alternatives to the traditional raising livestock method. Why? Because they just might be the future of food. Brin says he was partially motivated to invest in his lab-grown burger ventures by animal welfare concerns, saying that people imagine "pristine farms" while he's "not comfortable" with the reality of factory farming conditions. But he also thinks synthetic meat is a "transformative" technology on the "cusp of viability," even if it sounds like science fiction to the general public. But thanks to Brin's investment in the work of Mark Post of Maastricht University, it's no longer science fiction even if it's still decades from being on the consumer market. To grow the meat, Post took muscle stem cells from living cows via a biopsy and fed it with fetal bovine serum. One barrier to the process is the $250 per liter cost of the serum, which can require as many as three cow fetuses to produce a liter. | |
Comment: The claim that raising livestock has negative environmental impact is hugely uninformed. Read Lierre Keith's book, The Vegetarian Myth, to get all the facts that prove that it is agriculture indeed that destroys the top soil and the entire ecosystem of the planet. Lierre Keith on 'The Vegetarian Myth - Food, Justice and Sustainability' The Vegetarian Myth | |
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Josh Rubin and Matt Smith CNN 2013-08-06 06:25:00
"I am the shooter." Maj. Nidal Hasan made that blunt declaration Tuesday at the outset of his court-martial in the 2009 massacre at Fort Hood. The Army psychiatrist is charged with killing 13 and wounding 32 at a processing center for soldiers heading into combat zones overseas. "The evidence will clearly show that I am the shooter," Hasan told the panel of 13 senior officers who will decide his fate. "The evidence presented with this trial will show one side. The evidence will also show that I was on the wrong side. I then switched sides." But the declaration wasn't exactly news to now-retired Staff Sgt. Alonzo Lunsford, who was shot seven times that November day. Lunsford, the first of several survivors scheduled to testify against Hasan, recounted how the now-admitted gunman rose from a chair in the processing center, pulled out a pistol and began shooting.
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Comment: Hasan himself may believe he was the lone shooter that day, but the evidence suggests otherwise: Reviving the War of Terror: Patsy framed in Secret Team psy-op to generate public support for wars | ||
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StoptheWarCoalition Writer and activist Arundhati Roy, interviewed on Democracy Now, on the tenth anniversary of the Iraq invasion, 19 March 2013. She also says Barack Obama is no different from Bush or Blair.YouTube 2013-08-08 04:33:00
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deceptionsusa.com YouTube 2013-07-29 00:00:00
If you are Monsanto, you can commit the most egregious crimes against humanity but you are never guilty of any safety violations. In Fact the EPA, FDA and USDA approve your products for public consumption. Monsanto is a glaring example of everything that is wrong with Congress, the White House, the FDA, the EPA, the USDA, Media and Corporate America. Representative Democracy ? Ya Right ! | |
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RIA Novosti 2013-08-08 17:21:00
Russia has destroyed more than 30,000 metric tons of chemical warfare agents, or about 76 percent of its chemical weapons stockpile, Russia's industry and trade minister said Thursday. Russia has destroyed more chemical agents than any other of the 180 signees of the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention, Minister Denis Manturov said while visiting a chemical weapons disposal facility in the Bryansk Region, which borders Ukraine and Belarus. More than 500 inspections of Russia's chemical weapons stockpile have been conducted since the convention came into effect, and not a single violation has been detected in this respect, the official added. Last year, Deputy Industry and Trade Minister Georgy Kalamanov said Russia planned to destroy all of its chemical weapons by 2015. | |
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Daily Mail UK A 95-year-old world War II veteran died after being Tasered and hit with bean bag rounds by police for threatening care home staff - but his family insist he was killed unnecessarily.2013-08-08 14:34:00 Police say that John Wrana, who lived in a Chicago assisting living home, was brandishing his cane, a metal shoehorn and a knife before officers shocked him and hit him with bean bag rounds.
The senior citizen had been reported to authorities because he was being 'involuntarily' committed for medical treatment by staff at the Victory Centre, the Chicago Tribune reported. He was behaving in 'combative' manner, by threatening staff with his cane and a shoehorn. Wrana was reportedly scheduled to undergo a risky surgery, and was apparently afraid to end up on life support. When police arrived at Park Forest at around 8.45pm, they said he was ordered to surrender, but he refused to and continued to berate staff and threaten them. | |
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Julie K. Brown Miami Herald 2013-08-08 10:07:00
At just 17, Israel Hernandez-Llach was already an award-winning artist, on the threshold of acclaim in Miami Beach art circles. He was a sculptor, painter, writer and photographer whose craft was inspired by his home country of Colombia and his adopted city, Miami. He was also a graffiti artist, known as "Reefa," who sprayed colorful splashes of paint on the city's abandoned buildings while playing cat-and-mouse with cops, who, like many, consider graffiti taggers to be vandals, not artists. It was while spray-painting a shuttered McDonald's early Tuesday morning that Hernandez-Llach was chased down by Miami Beach police and shot in the chest with a Taser. He later died. | |
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The Guardian 2013-08-07 09:55:00
A massive early-morning fire has destroyed the arrivals hall at Kenya's main international airport - the largest in east Africa - forcing its closure and the rerouting of all inbound flights. No serious injuries were reported at Jomo Kenyatta international airport (JKIA), said Michael Kamau, the cabinet secretary for transport and infrastructure. Two people were treated for smoke inhalation. The blaze broke out on the 15th anniversary of the bombings of the US embassy buildings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, in neighbouring Tanzania, but there were no immediate signs of terrorism in Wednesday's fire. Kenya's anti-terror police chief, Boniface Mwaniki, told the Associated Press that he was waiting for the fire to be put out so he could inspect the scene before making a judgment. Black smoke was visible across much of Nairobi as emergency teams battled the blaze. Passengers reported a slow response by the under-resourced fire brigade. The fire raged for more than four hours before being contained, though flames still persisted two hours later. | |
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Michael Allen Opposing Views 2013-08-05 09:02:00
Joshua Hill's daughter, Alexandria, was taken from him and his wife in November 2012 because they smoked pot in their Round Rock, Texas, home while their child slept. The 2-year-old child was then placed in an abusive foster home by a private agency contracted by Child Protective Services. "She would come to visitation with bruises on her, and mold and mildew in her bag," Hill told KVUE-TV (video below). "It got to a point where I actually told CPS that they would have to have me arrested because I wouldn't let her go back." Alexandria was placed in a second foster home with Sherill Small in Rockdale, Texas, seven months ago. It would be her last home. | |
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Jonathan Wolfe Opposing Views 2013-08-05 08:54:00
Disturbing video has surfaced of an attack on a school bus in Pinellas County, Fla. In the video, three 15-year-old teenagers are seen brutally beating a 13-year-old boy. After the fight, the victim left the bus with black eyes, bruises and a broken arm. Since the video has been publicized, many have called into question whether the bus driver, 64-year-old John Moody, did enough to stop the fight. Moody can be heard frantically calling dispatchers during the fight, even saying "they're going to beat this boy to death," but he never physically intervenes in an attempt to stop the beating. "You gotta get somebody here quick, quick, quick, quick," he told dispatchers. "They're about to beat this boy to death over here. Please get somebody here quick. They're still doing it. There's nothing I can do." | |
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Antoni Slodkowski & Mari Saito Reuters 2013-08-05 06:42:00
Highly radioactive water seeping into the ocean from Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is creating an "emergency" that the operator is struggling to contain, an official from the country's nuclear watchdog said on Monday. This contaminated groundwater has breached an underground barrier, is rising toward the surface and is exceeding legal limits of radioactive discharge, Shinji Kinjo, head of a Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) task force, told Reuters. Countermeasures planned by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco) are only a temporary solution, he said. Tepco's "sense of crisis is weak," Kinjo said. "This is why you can't just leave it up to Tepco alone" to grapple with the ongoing disaster. "Right now, we have an emergency," he said. | |
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Tim Murphy Mother Jones 2013-08-07 03:00:00
What could possibly go wrong when miners, frackers, and drillers reshape the geology beneath our feet? Talk to the evacuees of Bayou Corne, Louisiana. About once a month, the residents of Bayou Corne, Louisiana, meet at the Assumption Parish library in the early evening to talk about the hole in their lives. "It was just like going through cancer all over again," says one. "You fight and you fight and you fight and you think, 'Doggone it, I've beaten this thing,' and then it's back." Another spent last Thanksgiving at a 24-hour washateria because she and her disabled husband had nowhere else to go. As the box of tissues circulates, a third woman confesses that after 20 years of sobriety she recently testified at a public meeting under the influence. "The God of my understanding says, 'As you sow, so shall you reap,'" says Kenny Simoneaux, a balding man in a Harley-Davidson T-shirt. He has instructed his grandchildren to lock up the ammunition. "I'm so goddamn mad I could kill somebody." But the support group isn't for addiction, PTSD, or cancer, though all of these maladies are present. The hole in their lives is a literal one. One night in August 2012, after months of unexplained seismic activity and mysterious bubbling on the bayou, a sinkhole opened up on a plot of land leased by the petrochemical company Texas Brine, forcing an immediate evacuation of Bayou Corne's 350 residents - an exodus that still has no end in sight. Last week, Louisiana filed a lawsuit against the company and the principal landowner, Occidental Chemical Corporation, for damages stemming from the cavern collapse. Texas Brine's operation sits atop a three-mile-wide, mile-plus-deep salt deposit known as the Napoleonville Dome, which is sheathed by a layer of oil and natural gas, a common feature of the salt domes prevalent in Gulf Coast states. The company specializes in a process known as injection mining, and it had sunk a series of wells deep into the salt dome, flushing them out with high-pressure streams of freshwater and pumping the resulting saltwater to the surface. From there, the brine is piped and trucked to refineries along the Mississippi River and broken down into sodium hydroxide and chlorine for use in manufacturing everything from paper to medical supplies. Bayou Corne is the biggest ongoing disaster in the United States you haven't heard of. | |
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Rajah Maples KHQA 2013-08-07 16:30:00
Center, Missouri -- Rescue workers want to thank a higher power for coming to the rescue early Sunday morning. Emergency crews spent an hour and a half trying to extricate a 19-year-old Quincy woman trapped in her in crushed car on Missouri 19 near Center, Mo. The Missouri Highway Patrol said Aaron Smith, 26, crossed the center line and struck Katie Lentz head-on. Now, friends, family and those who rescued Lentz would love to find and thank a mysterious priest who they say helped make the rescue possible. New London Fire Chief Raymond Reed said rescue crews spent the first 45 minutes after the accident trying to get Lentz out of a car to no avail Sunday morning shortly after 9 a.m. The metal on an older model Mercedes dulled the department's equipment. "It was a very well-built car, and when you compact materials like that one, they become even stronger because you're cutting through multiple things instead of one layer," Reed said. Reed says Lentz was pinned in between the steering wheel and the seat. After 45 minutes passed, medical workers told rescue crews that Katie was failing and fast. That's when Reed decided to move the car, which was standing on its side, back on all four wheels. About an hour into the rescue, Katie asked rescue workers to pray out loud with her. That's when a priest appeared out of no where. | |
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Hindustan Times Stray dogs were found gnawing at the body of an abandoned newborn girl on the government medical college premises in Yavatmal, a senior official said here on Wednesday.2013-08-07 06:57:00 "On Sunday evening, some people noticed that some stray dogs were eating the body of the newborn girl on the college premises. The mutilated body was recovered from the spot and immediately sent for post-mortem," Medical Superintendent Dr Kishor Ingole told PTI. He said that they were clueless about who dumped the body of the infant on the college premises. "Somebody from outside must have dumped the deceased girl on the hospital premises. The campus is spread over 120 hectares and hence it is difficult to keep a tab on the visitors," Ingole said. An FIR was registered in this connection and probes are on to trace her parents. Ingole informed that a similar incident had taken place on the campus earlier. Source: Press Trust India |
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BBC NewS 2013-08-07 18:19:00
Air travellers across Africa are facing long delays after a huge fire ripped through the main airport in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, forcing its closure. Hundreds of passengers have been left stranded outside Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA). It has reopened for cargo and domestic services, though many flights have been diverted to other regional airports. The Kenyan authorities say no casualties have been reported and that the blaze has been contained. The cause of the fire is not yet known. Security officials say they are waiting to inspect the damage before drawing any conclusions. However, correspondents say the airport is old and overcrowded. Kenya's anti-terrorism chief, Boniface Mwaniki, said he did not believe the fire - which happened on the 15th anniversary of the bombings by al-Qaeda of the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania - was connected to terrorism. "We don't want to speculate, but at this stage we do not think there is any such link," he told the Reuters news agency. | |
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Marc Lallanilla Live Science 2013-08-02 16:52:00
When the Perseid meteor shower bursts across the sky later this month, will people be able to hear it? For centuries, people have reported hearing a sound made by meteors as they streaked across the skies overhead. And with the Perseids about to dazzle skywatchers with a meteor display that will earn it the title "fireball champion," some researchers are wondering if the Perseid meteor shower will be heard as well as seen. In A.D. 817, as a meteor shower passed over China, many observers reported hearing buzzing, sizzling or hissing sounds, according to a 1992 report by Colin Keay, a physicist at the University of Newcastle in Australia. [When Space Attacks: The 6 Craziest Meteor Impacts] | |
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Paul Bedard Washington Examiner 2013-08-03 16:26:00
The earth barely missed taking a massive solar punch in the teeth two weeks ago, an "electromagnetic pulse" so big that it could have knocked out power, cars and iPhones throughout the United States. Comment: Wow, that was close! How come we haven't heard about this until now? Two EMP experts told Secrets that the EMP flashed through earth's typical orbit around the sun about two weeks before the planet got there. Comment: 2 "EMP experts", really? Uhm, what's an "EMP expert"?! "The world escaped an EMP catastrophe," said Henry Cooper, who led strategic arms negotiations with the Soviet Union under President Reagan, and who now heads High Frontier, a group pushing for missile defense. Comment: Missile defense, interesting. No conflict of interest there then, right? But pray tell us, how does a politician-cum-arms industry lobbyist get to be an 'EMP expert'? We can hear Cooper, in this YouTube video of the Washington, D.C. lobbying event that he, Woolsey and Pry attended on July 29th, describe 24 minutes in a "near-miss of a solar emission in the last several months"...
It's pretty clear that Cooper is not an 'expert' on solar activity. He next says, "We missed that, but we're still in the window of solar maximum and will be for the rest of this year." If Cooper knew what he was talking about, he would surely be aware that NASA has said we are going through the quietest solar maximum in 100 years. However, from his recounting of U.S. military experiments detonating high-altitude and underground nuclear weapons and testing their electromagnetic pulse capabilities as strategic offensive weapons, we can see that Cooper is indeed 'expert' in this kind of man-made EMP. But that is a whole other ball-game to solar flares and solar activity in general. So what gives here? What are these technocrats really trying to tell us? | ||
Comment: Here's the YouTube 'About' blurb of the High Frontier conference: This two-pronged effort by servants of the Military-Industrial Complex and intelligence community to 'warn the American people' about the (hyped) threats to its critical infrastructure from potential 'catastrophic' damage due to electromagnetic pulse blasts caused by the Sun and Iran/North Korea are a timely distraction from the real threat posed by 'civilization-destroying' Near-Earth Objects; specifically cometary debris exploding in our atmosphere, evidence for which is all around us as fireballs are now seen and heard on a daily basis. Conflating EMP-generating solar flares with non-existent Iranian/Korean plans to detonate nukes high in the atmosphere above the U.S. smacks of desperation. Such implausible scenarios suggest that their only option, once overhead airbursts such as we saw in Russia happen more frequently, is to try to pull the wool over people's eyes by misinforming them about the real source of the threat, and to pretend that they are in a position to do anything about it. This all brings to mind a prescient quote from British astronomer Victor Clube: | ||
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Raw Story 2013-08-07 19:39:00
Scientists proposed developing a more potent strain of the deadly H7N9 bird flu on Wednesday to examine how mutant forms might spread among humans, a topic that has stoked global alarm in the past. The announcement came a day after Chinese scientists reported the first likely case of person-to-person transmission of the H7N9 virus, which has killed 43 of the 134 people infected since March according to official figures. US health authorities said any new H7N9 experiments that seek US funding would undergo a new, strict safety review, after concerns over such research on another bird flu, H5N1, in December 2011 raised fears that terrorists could unleash a virulent lab-grown strain and cause mass deaths. Those concerns led to a year-long halt to the research being led by Ron Fouchier of Erasmus Medical Center in The Netherlands and US colleagues in Wisconsin. That voluntary moratorium was lifted earlier this year by a group of 40 scientists around the world. Fouchier told AFP that his lab has resumed work on an engineered H5N1 virus, but that US labs have not and are awaiting a final decision by American health authorities, expected in the coming weeks. | |
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Sheila M. Eldred Discovery News 2013-08-07 18:00:00
Forget setting your hopes on a single due date when you get pregnant: A new study suggests that pregnancies naturally vary by as much as five weeks. Until now, due dates have been a source of guessing games at baby showers and inaccurate dates often take center stage in birth stories. But errors were attributed in large part to miscalculations. The study published today in the journal Human Reproduction suggests that even with incredibly accurate information, choosing a due date is largely a guessing game - something that surprised the researchers. "We found that the average time from ovulation to birth was 268 days - 38 weeks and two days," Dr. Anne Marie Jukic of the National Institutes for Health, said in a press release. "Even after we had excluded six pre-term births, we found that the length of the pregnancies varied by as much as 37 days." Pregnant women usually get a due date that's 280 days after the first day of their most recent menstrual period. Using that method, 4 percent of women deliver on their due dates. | |
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Douglas Main LiveScience 2013-08-08 14:28:00
An unusually large number of bottlenose dolphins are washing up on the shores of the Mid-Atlantic U.S. Coast, most of them already dead. Federal scientists have declared it an "unusual mortality event" and are investigating the cause. The number of dolphins stranded in July is more than seven times higher than average, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said in a conference call today (Aug. 8). The strandings began at the beginning of July, and have accelerated in the past two weeks, said Teri Rowles, National Marine Mammal Stranding Coordinator with NOAA Fisheries. Higher-than-average levels of dolphin strandings have been seen in New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, scientists said. In July, a total of 89 dolphins were stranded in these areas. As of yesterday (Aug. 7), a total of 35 strandings have occurred already in the month of August. Although the cause is not yet known, the primary suspect is morbillivirus, an infectious pathogen, Rowles said. One dead dolphin has tested positive for this virus, she added. | |
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Associated Press via Yahoo News Heavy thunderstorms early Wednesday hit already saturated areas of south-central Missouri, where one child has been reported killed and a woman remains missing in flooding that also has forced the closure of major highways and a handful of evacuations.2013-08-08 13:08:00 The Missouri Department of Transportation closed Interstate 44 south of Rolla along the Gasconade River, and U.S. 63 in Maries County after about 6 inches of rain fell in the area early Wednesday. Traffic was being rerouted several miles around the flooded sections of the highways, said Sgt. Dan Crain, spokesman for the Missouri State Highway Patrol in Rolla.
The National Weather Service said the Gasconade River at Rich Fountain was about 4 feet below flood stage, the point at which water is high enough to cause flooding, early Wednesday. It was expected to reach its 20-foot flood stage later Wednesday and rise to near 32 feet early Thursday, depending on how much more rain hits the area. "It's a real mess," Crain said. "We're encouraging folks to be really careful. When there's water over the roads, don't take the chance. Don't take the risk. Please turn around." | |
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Andrea Thompson Hurricane Henriette, churning across the Pacific as a Category 2 storm, was spotted by NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite on Aug. 6, with thunderstorms whose tops extended 10 miles (16 kilometers) up in the atmosphere.LiveScience via Yahoo News 2013-08-08 12:58:00
Henriette first formed as a tropical depression in the Eastern Pacific on Aug. 3, just behind Tropical Storm Gil. As Gil faded, Henriette strengthened into a tropical storm, then a hurricane. While it has reached Category 2 status, it is expected to weaken soon, according to the latest forecasts from the National Hurricane Center in Miami. The hurricane's 10-mile-high thunderstorm clouds aren't unexpected for a strong storm - the stronger the storm, the higher its clouds reach in the atmosphere. These high clouds tend to be the ones that drop the most rainfall during a storm. TRMM measured the rainfall rate from thunderstorms near Henriette's center to be about 2.2 inches (5.5 centimeters) per hour. | |
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Dr. Tony Phillips High above Earth in the realm of meteors and noctilucent clouds, a strange form of lightning dances at the edge of space. Researchers call the bolts "sprites," and they are as beautiful as they are mysterious. Jason Ahrns, a graduate student from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, photographed a cluster of bright red sprites over Oklahoma City on August 6th. Click on the arrow in the first image here to view a rare high-speed movie of the phenomenon:SpaceWeather.com 2013-08-08 05:03:00
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Nina Golgowski New York Daily News 2013-08-04 10:51:00
Collin Backowski, 25, was buried underneath ice and snow Saturday after an ice tunnel in Mt. Hood, Oregon collapsed above him. Rescuers have recovered the body of a 25-year-old snowboarder who was buried alive in an ice cave collapse in Mount Hood, Oregon. Friends of Collin Backowski of Pines, Colorado say he was standing only 30 feet to 40 feet ahead of them when the natural ice cave abruptly crashed down on Saturday. Authorities say the lone snowboarder was instantly covered with a mass of ice and snow the size of a school bus. A full-scale search began on Saturday, and rescuers returned on Sunday with chainsaws and hand tools. They discovered Backowski's body under about 10 feet of snow. | |
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Meng Zhao Oxidative stress and mitochondrial damage have been implicated in the pathogenesis of several neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Oxidative stress is characterized by the overproduction of reactive oxygen species, which can induce mitochondrial DNA mutations, damage the mitochondrial respiratory chain, alter membrane permeability, and influence Ca2+ homeostasis and mitochondrial defense systems. All these changes are implicated in the development of these neurodegenerative diseases, mediating or amplifying neuronal dysfunction and triggering neurodegeneration. A recent article published in the Neural Regeneration Research (Vol. 8, No. 21, 2013), entitled "Oxidative stress, mitochondrial damage and neurodegenerative diseases", summarizes the contribution of oxidative stress and mitochondrial damage to the onset of neurodegenerative diseases and discusses strategies to modify mitochondrial dysfunction that may be attractive therapeutic interventions for the treatment of various neurodegenerative diseases. Neural Regeneration Research 2013-08-07 17:03:00 |
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HealthDay News 2013-08-08 05:40:00
The color of your night light may make a big difference in your mood, research conducted in hamsters suggests. The study found that hamsters exposed to blue or white light at night had more depressive-like symptoms and depression-related changes in the brain than those that were exposed to red light. The only hamsters that did better than those exposed to red light were those that had total darkness at night, according to the study in the Aug. 7 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience. Although results obtained in animal studies are not always replicated in humans, the results may prove important for people, particularly those whose work on the night shift makes them susceptible to mood disorders, said study co-author Randy Nelson, a professor of neuroscience and psychology at Ohio State University. "Our findings suggest that if we could use red light when appropriate for night-shift workers, it may not have some of the negative effects on their health that white light does," Nelson said in a university news release. | |
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Andrew W. Saul "Vitamin C can truthfully be designated as the antitoxic and antiviral vitamin." (C.W. Jungeblut, MD)Orthomolecular Medicine News Service 2013-08-08 04:25:00
As if the Cuban missile crisis wasn't enough, I had even more to be worried about as a child at the turn of the 1960's. When all of us in first grade had been told that we were to be vaccinated against polio, I for one didn't want to go near the school on that day. Regardless of my fear of needles, I had no choice in the matter. So, like all the rest of the kids, I braced up, got in line, and marched down the tiled hallway to meet my fate. When I got to the school nurse's office, I was astounded to be handed a lump of sugar with a drop of something soaking into it. I was told to eat it. I did. Then I was told I could go. Escape without a shot? What a fantastic turn of events! Life could begin anew. In time, my classmates and I would all learn the name of our painless benefactor, Dr. Albert Sabin. With more time, I would find that his live oral vaccine had become the leading cause of polio in the US. What surprised me most was that the strongest criticism originated from the most eminent of sources: the other polio hero, Dr. Jonas Salk. On September 24, 1976, the Washington Post reported Dr. Salk's assertion that the Sabin live oral virus vaccine had been the "principal if not sole cause" of every reported polio case in the United States since 1961. (1) Salk repeated this accusation July 6, 1977, when he was interviewed on CBC television (2), saying: "(W)e have known now since 1961 in the United States, and prior to that in other countries, that the live virus vaccine for polio does cause the disease itself." | |
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| Science of the Spirit |
Lauren Cahoon Roberts LiveScience 2013-08-07 16:11:00
Predicting the future may be impossible, but that doesn't stop many people from believing that some have the power to do so. In fact, a new study finds people are more prone to believe in prognostication when they feel their lives are out of their own control, suggesting that faith in paranormal forecasting provides a kind of coping mechanism for humans. "It can be unpleasant to think that we aren't really in control of our lives, and people go to great lengths psychologically to "trick" themselves into feeling more in control," said study researcher Katharine Greenway, a psychologist at the University of Queensland in Australia. "One way they can do this is by enhancing the feeling that the future is predictable, so that they know what is going to happen." One in four Americans believes that precognitive abilities exist, and thousands of dollars are spent on psychics every year, despite any scientific proof that our futures can be predicted, according to the study. Greenway said the new study stemmed from wanting to test her theory that a sense of control is vital to why many people cling to the myth that the future is knowable. In the study, the researchers divided the TK-how many participants, whose ages ranged from TK to TK, into two groups. One group wrote a description about a time they felt in control (the high-control group), and another group wrote about a time they felt out of control (the low-control group). Then, each group answered questions about their beliefs in the paranormal. The results showed that those in the low-control group showed stronger beliefs in future foretelling. | |
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Shaunacy Ferro PopSci 2013-08-07 17:30:00
The words that consistently pop up in published literature can tell us a lot about individual and cultural trends and values. Are people talking about their emotions more? Are people feeling depressed? Patricia Greenfield, a psychology professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, decided to use word frequency patterns to identify how people's values have shifted over time from the sociological concepts of gemeinschaft (translated from German as community, reflecting a rural society with a subsistence economy) and gesellschaft (translated as society, reflecting an urban, wealthy, technological culture). By analyzing word frequency data from more than a million books published in the United States and Britain between 1800 and 2000, using Google Books Ngram Viewer, Greenfield found that our language has slowly shifted to focus on individualism and material gain. We now use more individual-focused words like "get" and "choose," rather than group-focused words like "give" and "obliged." | |
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Dr Kevin Barrett Remember the Hitler salute?truthjihad.blogspot.com 2013-08-07 06:38:00
A Russian reporter, honoring Obama's world takeover bid, has invented the "Obama salute."
So from now on, any mention of Obama, or any appearance of Obama's image on the TV screen, must be immediately greeted by a mandatory "Obama salute." Any failures to salute the world dictator will be punished. Remember, the NSA is watching! | ||
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