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Joe Quinn asked recently: Was the West, Texas Explosion a Meteorite Impact?Sott.net 2013-05-02 12:51:00 More information has come to light that suggests exactly that, and, at the very least, strengthens the idea that a 'missile' strike of some kind caused the explosion. We now have four different video angles of the fire at the fertilizer plant. In the first three videos, we can see the explosion that happened afterwards. In the last video, we can't see the explosion, but it gives us another vantage point of the site in flames: Video from viewpoint #1:
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Democracy Now
2013-05-02 17:28:00
The FBI added Assata Shakur to its Most Wanted Terrorist List today. In addition, the state of New Jersey announced it was adding $1 million to the FBI's $1 million reward for her capture. Shakur becomes the first woman ever to make the list and only the second domestic terrorist to be added to the list. Assata Shakur, who was born Joanne Chesimard, was a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army. She was convicted in the May 2, 1973 killing of a New Jersey police officer during a shoot-out that left one of her fellow activists dead. She was shot twice by police during the incident. In 1979, she managed to escape from jail. Shakur fled to Cuba where she received political asylum. She once wrote, "I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from the political repression, racism and violence that dominate the U.S. government's policy towards people of color."Tune in Friday when we will cover these latest developments. In 1998, Democracy Now! aired Shakur reading an open letter to Pope John Paul II during his trip to Cuba. She wrote the message after New Jersey state troopers sent the Pope a letter asking him to call for her extradition. | |
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2013-05-01 16:00:00
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the U.S. Forest Service, and the Carbon County Sheriff's Office are asking for help from the public in gathering information about the theft of approximately 559 pounds of high explosives from a USFS explosives bunker located near Red Lodge. A press release from the ATF says that in April 2013, someone used forced entry to get into an explosives storage facility owned and operated by the U. S. Forest Service, which is located about two miles south of Red Lodge. Officials say that various emulsion-type explosives, explosive cast boosters and detonating cord were taken from the facility. | |
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Refreshing News
2013-04-28 14:58:00
On Sunday morning's Meet The Press, permanent cast member, Sen. John McCain, weighed in on the increasing tensions between Syria's strongman, Bashar al-Assad, and the international community over his alleged use of chemical weapons. McCain's recommendation? Invasion, of course. McCain's reasoning for starting yet another war in the Middle East is as specious as all of his other Because the public is supposed to believe that McCain is very worried about the He did try to bury the idea of boots on the ground by advocating smaller steps such as establishing a "no-fly" zone, using cruise missiles and drones to wipe out any grounded air power Assad has, and arming the rebels. Yet McCain lambasted Obama for his "incrementalism," suggesting that were the United States to engage in any of McCain's proscribed solutions, he would immediately move the goal post from "No boots on the ground" to "We're not doing enough." | |
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IntelliHub
2013-05-01 19:00:00
According to Wikipedia: Sibel Deniz Edmonds (born 1970) is an Iranian-American former FBI translator and founder of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC). Edmonds gained public attention following her firing from her position as a language specialist at the FBI's Washington Field Office in March 2002, after she accused a colleague of covering up illicit activity involving foreign nationals, alleging serious acts of security breaches, cover-ups, and intentional blocking of intelligence which, she contended, presented a danger to the United States' security. Her later claims have gained her awards and fame as a whistleblower. In March 2012, she published a memoir, titled Classified Woman - The Sibel Edmonds Story. Edmonds testified before the 9/11 Commission, but her testimony was excluded from the official 567 page 9/11 Commission Report. | |
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The Economic Collapse Blog 2013-05-01 16:31:00
The mainstream media is not telling you this, but the truth is that most Americans are steadily getting poorer. The middle class is being absolutely eviscerated, and poverty is soaring to unprecedented heights. The fact that 90 percent of the population is constantly sliding downhill is not good for our society. The United States is supposed to be a land of opportunity with a vibrant free market system that enables average people to make better lives for themselves. Unfortunately, free enterprise is being strangled to death in the United States today. Entrepreneurs and small business are being pounded into oblivion by rules, regulations, red tape and oppressive levels of taxation. At the same time, millions of jobs have been shipped out of the United States by corporate giants and sent to countries where it is legal to pay slave labor wages. All of this has happened under both Democrats and Republicans. Meanwhile, wealth and power continue to become even more heavily concentrated in the hands of big government and big corporations. Our founding fathers warned that we should not allow such large concentrations of wealth and power, because they tend to funnel the rewards of society into the hands of a select few. We need to change the rules of the game so that entrepreneurs, small businesses and average workers can thrive in this country once again. If big government and big corporations continue to gobble up even more wealth and power, the wealth inequality that we see right now will only get even worse. The following are 22 facts that prove that the bottom 90 percent of America is systematically getting poorer... | |
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Kyle Munzenrieder
Miami New Times 2013-04-26 16:13:00
Kiera Wilmot got good grades and had a perfect behavior record. She wasn't the kind of kid you'd expect to find hauled away in handcuffs and expelled from school, but that's exactly what happened after an attempt at a science project went horribly wrong. At 7 a.m. on Monday, the 16 year-old mixed some common household chemicals in a small 8 oz water bottle on the grounds of Bartow High School in Bartow, Florida. The reaction caused a small explosion that caused the top to pop up and produced some smoke. No one was hurt and no damage was caused. According to WTSP, Wilmot told police that she was merely conducting a science experiment. Though her teachers knew nothing of the specific project, her principal seems to agree. "She made a bad choice. Honestly, I don't think she meant to ever hurt anyone," principal Ron Pritchard told the station. "She wanted to see what would happen [when the chemicals mixed] and was shocked by what it did. Her mother is shocked, too." After the explosion Wilmot was taken into custody by a school resources officer and charged with possession/discharge of a weapon on school grounds and discharging a destructive device. She will be tried as an adult. | |
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David Unze
SCTimes.com 2013-04-30 15:10:00
St. Cloud police are investigating a Monticello man who claimed to be Pink Floyd band member David Gilmour while racking up a care bill as high as $100,000 at St. Cloud Hospital. The man even signed an autograph for a hospital employee's son before he was arrested by St. Cloud police. No charges have been filed against Phillip Michael Schaeffer, 53, who was booked April 24 at the Stearns County Jail for investigation of felony theft by swindle. Schaeffer came to St. Cloud Hospital on April 20 for treatment and gave the name David Gilmour when he checked in, according to St. Cloud police. He claimed to not have any health insurance and was treated and released. After he left, hospital employees had suspicions that he wasn't really the Pink Floyd singer-guitarist. That suspicion led to the hospital flagging his patient chart in case he returned, hospital spokeswoman Jeanine Nistler said.The next day, "there was some discussion among security staff leading people to believe that he really wasn't David Gilmour," Nistler said. "So our security supervisor pulled up the security camera shots of when this man entered the hospital and compared them to pictures on the Internet of Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and determined he was not David Gilmour." | |
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Tom Duggan
ValleyPatriot.com 2013-05-01 12:58:00
Methuen Police Chief Joe Solomon told the Valley Patriot this afternoon that D'Ambrosio a sent text message and posted terrorist threats on social media. "We took this very seriously," Chief Solomon said. "He posted a threat in the form of rap where he mentioned the White House, the Boston Marathon bombing, and said 'everybody you will see what I am going to do, kill people." | |
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Nigel Bunyan
The Guardian 2013-05-02 10:56:00
Veteran BBC broadcaster described as 'opportunistic predator' after admitting to assault of 13 girls between 1968 and 1986 Stuart Hall, the veteran BBC broadcaster, has been described as an "opportunistic predator" by the Crown Prosecution Service after he admitted to a string of historic sex offences against girls. | |
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Michael Allen
Opposingviews.com 2013-05-01 23:29:00
James Eades and a friend were driving on Friday morning when they came to anOperation Thunder Checkpoint in Augusta, Georgia, which they thought was an accident scene (video below). "We saw what appeared to be an accident scene. A couple of police cars with blue lights, a car carrier and a couple of cars sitting around with no lights on," Eades toldWJBF-TV. Eades tried to turn his car around via an u-turn to avoid traffic delay, but when police saw Eades turning around, they pulled him over. | |
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2013-05-02 03:37:00
An American lawyer representing detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp has been found dead in an apparent suicide. The body of Andy P. Hart, a 38-year-old US federal public defender, was found last week with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. According to Truthout, an investigative blog, news of the attorney's death came only this Wednesday from an investigator working on Guantanamo detainees' habeas corpus petitions. That investigator requested anonymity. According to court documents, Hart had previously represented Kahlid Saad Mohammed, a 39-year-old Guantanamo detainee from Saudi Arabia who was transferred back to his home country in 2009 after being identified as having only "low-level" terrorist affiliation. Perhaps most notably, Hart was assigned to defend Mohammed Rahim al-Afghani, one of 16 detainees at Guantanamo which the US government has designated as "high-value." Al-Afghani, thought to be Osama bin Laden's translator, was detained by the CIA and allegedly tortured prior to his arrival in Cuba in 2008. | |
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The Raw Story 2013-05-01 19:03:00
Federal authorities are investigating a Saudi Arabian diplomatic compound in Virginia over a potential case of human trafficking, according to BuzzFeed and NBC Washington. Federal and local police were called to a home in McLean overnight, where they encountered "two potential victims of trafficking" from the Philippines. One of the women attempted to flee. Real estate records indicate the residence belongs to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said an investigation was ongoing, but could be complicated if the subjects have diplomatic immunity. Brandon Montgomery, an ICE spokesman, told BuzzFeed that "other agencies" were also involved, but did not elaborate. | |
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The Raw Story
2013-05-01 06:40:00
British police on Wednesday arrested "Coronation Street" star William Roache, the longest-serving star in the world's longest-running soap opera, on suspicion of rape. Roache, 81, has played lothario Ken Barlow in the series portraying life in a fictional northern English town since its first episode on December 9, 1960. He was arrested at his home in northwest England over an allegation of raping an under-age girl between April and July 1967. "An 81-year-old man from Wilmslow in Cheshire has this morning, Wednesday May 1, 2013, been arrested by Lancashire Constabulary on suspicion of rape," a Lancashire Police spokesman said. He said the man would be interviewed during the course of the day. Broadcaster ITV, which makes Coronation Street, said it was not in a position to comment but reports said Roache would not not appear in the soap while investigations continue. Roache issued an apology in March after appearing to suggest that sex abuse victims were being punished for past sins, and calling for anonymity for those accused of child sex offences. In another interview last year Roache claimed to have slept with 1,000 women. | |
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RT.com
2013-05-01 06:02:00
Could the accident that caused a deadly explosion at the West, Texas fertilizer plant occur elsewhere? According to a report by the US Congressional Research Service, thousands of facilities across the country risk harming nearby populations. On April 17 a Texas fertilizer plant burst into flames, leaving more than 15 people dead and over 160 injured. The mushroom cloud that followed the blast was covered by media outlets across the globe, but according to government estimates nearly 7,000 more potentially hazardous sites remain active across the industry. According to a November 2012 Congressional Research Service (CRS) memo prepared for Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) 6,985 facilities fall under a federal monitoring criteria that they pose a risk to populations greater than 1,000, with 90 such facilities potentially impacting over a million people in a worst-case scenario. The report, which is based on regulations that compel private corporations to submit risk management plans to the Environmental Protection Agency, is based on calculations of how people within a set radius would be impacted by "a worse-case scenario release from a single chemical process." | |
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ABC News
2000-09-08 18:44:00
A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an intelligence test has lost an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the city. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld a lower court's decision that the city did not discriminate against Robert Jordan because the same standards were applied to everyone who took the test. "This kind of puts an official face on discrimination in America against people of a certain class," Jordan said today from his Waterford home. "I maintain you have no more control over your basic intelligence than your eye color or your gender or anything else." He said he does not plan to take any further legal action. | |
Comment: Authoritarian followers can't be too smart if they're going to be authoritarian followers!
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LiveScience
2013-05-02 13:53:00
The oldest known hip from a great ape is now shedding light on the evolution of hominids, revealing the ancient creature may have adopted the upright posture often linked with humans and living great apes, researchers say. Scientists discovered the fossil skeleton of an ape near Barcelona in Catalonia in northeastern Spain in 2002, when a bulldozer was clearing the land for digging. They named it Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, or the ape from near the village of Els Hostalets de Pierola in Catalonia. The researchers estimate the ape lived about 11.9 million years ago. Analysis of its skeleton and teeth suggest it was male, weighed about 77 lbs. (35 kilograms) and dined on fruit. | |
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Nancy Atkinson
Universe Today 2013-05-02 12:41:00
The 1908 explosion over the Tunguska region in Siberia has always been an enigma. While the leading theories of what caused the mid-air explosion are that an asteroid or comet shattered in an airburst event, no reliable trace of such a body has ever been found. But a newly published paper reveals three different potential meteorite fragments found in the sandbars in a body of water in the area, the Khushmo River. While the fragments have all the earmarks of being meteorites from the event - which could potentially solve the 100-year old mystery - the only oddity is that the researcher actually found the fragments 25 years ago, and only recently has published his findings. Like the recent Chelyabinsk airburst event, the Tunguska event likely also produced a shower of fragments from the exploding parent body, scientists have thought. But no convincing evidence has ever been found from the June 30, 1908 explosion that occurred over the Tunguska region. The explosion flattened trees in a 2,000 square kilometer area. Luckily, that region was largely uninhabited, but reportedly one person was killed and there were very few people that reported the explosion. Forensic-like research has determined the blast was 1,000 times more powerful than a nuclear bomb explosion, and it registered 5 on the Richter scale. | |
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John Myers
Duluth News Tribune 2013-05-02 17:08:00
Heavy snow continues to fall this afternoon in parts of northern Wisconsin, with Rice Lake already reporting 17 inches on the ground. The heaviest snow had moved east of Hayward at noon but was still falling in Park Falls, Ironwood and Ashland. The Wisconsin Department of Transportation earlier advised no travel because of heavy snow on U.S. Highway 53 between Spooner and Gordon; U.S. Highway 63 from Spooner to Hayward; and state Highway 70 from Stone Lake to Siren. Other highways are reported to be snow-covered, including U.S. Highway 2 east of Iron River. The unusual May snowstorm moved just south and east of the Twin Ports but hovered over southeastern Minnesota, north-central Wisconsin and into Washburn, Bayfield, Ashland and Iron Counties where up to 14 inches fell overnight. | |
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Donna Harris
Sun Herald 2013-05-01 16:58:00
South Mississippi should brace for more showers through Saturday morning as a low pressure system hovers over the area, dropping nearly a foot of rain in east Jackson County, officials said. The National Weather Service on Thursday morning registered rainfall at 1.71 inches in Gulfport, 4.27 inches in Biloxi and 7.12 inches in Pascagoula. Radar estimates showed rainfall could have been even higher in Jackson County, meteorologist Mike Efferson said. "Anywhere from 10 to 12 inches," he said. "It was significantly higher in the northern half of the county and along that eastern border that meets up with Alabama. The Coast will see a redevelopment of showers and thunderstorms Thursday afternoon with possibly another 1 to 3 inches to fall on already soaked soil, while some isolated areas could see significantly more, he said. | |
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Arutz Sheva
2013-05-02 16:50:00
Sixteen people have been killed and three more are missing in Saudi Arabia after downpours caused flash floods in several areas of the desert kingdom, the civil defense authorities said on Wednesday, the AFP news agency reported. Two others died in flash floods in neighboring Oman, local media reported, as cloudbursts swept across most Gulf countries. The official Saudi SPA state news agency quoted a civil defense statement as saying people died in several areas including in the capital Riyadh, Baha in the south, Hail in the north and in the west. | |
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The death toll for stock killed during the freezing winter and early spring weather has hit 100,000 and is still rising, the National Fallen Stock Company (NFSCo) has said.Farmers Weekly 2013-05-02 13:43:00 The NFSCo figures show 64,000 more animals died on farms in England, Scotland and Wales between January and April 2013 compared with the same period 12 months ago. It is a rise in deaths of more than 24%. In addition to this, Northern Ireland recorded stock losses of 29,000 in the blizzards at the end of March. A further 8,000 animals died on the Isle of Man, taking the toll to 101,000 animals over the four-month period. A statement released by NFSCo pointed out that the figures excluded animals collected privately and those categorised as "special services" by collectors. Special service operations are carried out by collectors where losses are more numerous than normal, the NFSCo statement said. "Consequently the figures here will be a minimum, and will increase as new data is received," it warned. The toll English, Scottish and Welsh sheep losses in April were 50% higher than April 2012 costing 35,000 extra lives Welsh cattle losses in April were more than double 2012's equivalent to almost 2,700 head Cattle losses in England and Scotland in April were about a quarter more than 2012 (23% and 25% to 13,800 and 9,700 head respectively) Cattle losses for England, Scotland and Wales were up 34% and more than 7,000. |
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People in parts of Colorado and Wyoming pulled puffy jackets, hats and umbrellas out of the closet again Wednesday for another round of wet spring snow. The May Day snow storm was making travel difficult on some Colorado highways, where several crashes were reported late Wednesday, and along Interstate 80 in southeastern Wyoming. Denver's airport reported about 50 flight cancellations, and other flights were delayed for de-icing.Associated Press via Yahoo News 2013-05-02 10:59:00
By midday, more than a foot of snow had fallen at Rocky Mountain National Park. The heavy snow caused power and heat outages there and in Cheyenne, which received 15 inches of snow by noon Wednesday. West of Cheyenne, 20 inches fell near Buford, while Casper saw 4 inches of snow. Parts of the Midwest were also getting rare May snow. South Dakota's largest city, Sioux Falls, got its first May snowfall in 37 years. The city received 1.5 inches of snow by late morning. A winter storm warning was also in effect for parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin. Snow fell in parts of Nebraska, and western Iowa was expecting snow between Wednesday night and Thursday morning. | |
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krvg.com
2013-04-29 04:37:00
Weslaco - Experts say there has been an increase in the number of migratory birds falling from the sky in the region. They said recent weather changes may be affecting the migrating species. Some residents reported finding dead birds in their yards. "I heard the (bird) slam on the ground ... on the pavement," Norma Lopez said. She found a second dead bird Monday morning. "I didn't really get next to it or touch it, but I did see it open its mouth a few times. That was it," Lopez said. She said her friends in other Valley cities have witnessed the same phenomenon. "I heard my friends had some outside their window. (I) also heard of another one in Brownsville," Lopez said. Roy Rodriguez, a bird specialist at Bentsen State Park, said random bird deaths aren't new. Still, he said they are rare in the region. "A fall out is a phenomenon where birds literally fall out of the sky after flying into a head wind," Rodriguez said. Recent cold fronts and micro storms in the coast are making migration difficult for millions of birds, he said. "They have to seek shelter and land. The first thing they do is head west," Rodriguez said. Experts said another storm surge Monday could force more birds to fall out of the sky. They said people can help those birds. If the bird is breathing, place it in a box and let it rest. "There is a lot of danger on the ground, especially from cats. Pick the bird up and put it in the box and let it rest," Rodriguez said. Rodriguez said the bird should have water and food - like a piece of fruit. Bird seed is not recommended for exhausted birds. | |
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ScienceDaily.com
Crude oil toxicity continued to sicken a sentinel Gulf Coast fish species for at least more than a year after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, according to new findings from a research team that includes a University of California, Davis, scientist.2013-05-01 09:29:00
With researchers from Louisiana and South Carolina, the scientists found that Gulf killifish embryos exposed to sediments from oiled locations in 2010 and 2011 show developmental abnormalities, including heart defects, delayed hatching and reduced hatching success. The killifish is an environmental indicator species, or a "canary in the coal mine," used to predict broader exposures and health risks. The findings, posted online in advance of publication in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, are part of an ongoing collaborative effort to track the impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on Gulf killifish populations in areas of Louisiana that received heavy amounts of oil. Other species that share similar habitats with the Gulf killifish, such as redfish, speckled trout, flounder, blue crabs, shrimp and oysters -- may be at risk of similar effects. "These effects are characteristic of crude oil toxicity," said co-author Andrew Whitehead, an assistant professor of environmental toxicology at UC Davis. "It's important that we observe it in the context of the Deepwater Horizon spill because it tells us it is far too early to say the effects of the oil spill are known and inconsequential. By definition, effects on reproduction and development -- effects that could impact populations -- can take time to emerge." | |
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Firefighters were able to beat back a powerful wildfire that bore down on a dry Southern California city, limiting the damages to a single house and curbing the threat to hundreds more. But the difficult conditions that helped fuel the 4 1/2 square-mile blaze in Riverside County on Wednesday could be even worse in parts of the state Thursday.Associated Press via Yahoo News 2013-05-02 08:34:00 "Today was a transition day," state fire spokesman Julie Hutchinson said. "Tomorrow is the big wind day" Winds of 20-30 mph are expected, along with nearly non-existent humidity and an abundance of wildfire fuel. "The grass, brush and trees are very volatile. They're ready to burn," Hutchinson said. "Everything is just very dry. And not just in Southern California, statewide." Forecasters said high pressure would send strong winds through Southern California's passes and canyons and near coastal foothills Thursday.
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Douglas Main
Live Science 2013-04-24 12:10:00
Spring has gotten off to a colder- and snowier-than-average start in parts of the United States, particularly in the eastern Rockies and Upper Midwest. Duluth, Minn., for example, has seen 51 inches (130 centimeters) of snow this April.That's not only the most snow the town has seen in any April - breaking the old mark of 31.6 inches (80 cm) - but the most snow the town has received in any month, ever, according to government records. As of Monday (April 22), a total of 995 snowfall records have also been broken so far this month, according to AccuWeather. Over the same time period last year, 195 snowfall records had been broken. More than 91 percent of the upper Midwest also has snow on the ground as of today (April 24), meteorologist Jason Samenow wrote at the Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang blog. "Snow cover in the previous 10 years on this date hasn't even come close to reaching this extent (ranging from 19 percent to much lower)," he wrote. So why has spring failed to take hold? Blame the jet stream. The record snow and below-average cold is due to a trough or dip in the jet stream, which has brought blasts of freezing air as far south as the Mexican border, said Jeff Weber, a scientist with the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. | |
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From the University of Manchester: Storm study reveals a sting in the tail
Watts Up With That? 2013-05-01 19:06:00
University of Manchester scientists, working with colleagues in Reading, Leeds and the US, have described how these types of cyclones can strengthen to become violent windstorms. The Great Storm of 1987, which famously caught out weatherman Michael Fish, left a trail of destruction when winds up to 120mph swept across southern England and northern France, killing 22 people. More recently, gusts of 100mph in January 2012 damaged buildings in Scotland and cut power to tens of thousands of homes. Such storms are characterised by severe gale-force winds known as sting jets that descend from several kilometres above the surface. "Sting jets are these regions of strong winds that tend to occur to the south and south-east of the low centre," explained Professor David Schultz, who led the research in Manchester's School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences. | |
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reader "agimarc" writes:
Story here: http://www.adn.com/2013/04/29/Watts Up With That? 2013-05-01 18:52:00
Yes, have a look at the image at right. Here is a complete list of record lows for Alaska in the past 7 days, 996 new record lows were set (click low temp and details tab): http://wx.hamweather.com/maps/ | |
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Michael McEvoy
Metabolic Healing 2012-03-09 09:30:00
One indicator of possible pathogenic infections is high iron levels. Host pathogens need iron for survival. There is evidence that increased levels of iron decreases certain immune cell scavenging abilities, such as neutrophils, and T cells. Simultaneously, increased levels of iron become a source of replication for certain pathogens, such as gram negative bacteria, klebsiella, aeruginosa, listeria, tuberculosis, gonorrhoae, candida albicans and others. Reduction of iron levels has demonstrated in animal studies to inhibit the promulgation of certain pathogens, such as shigella. There is evidence that decreased serum iron may also be due to pathogens using iron for its own purposes. This may be especially true if there is a rapid and precipitous drop in iron levels. Iron is essential for life processes. It has essential roles in the body such as red blood cell and hemoglobin formation, ATP synthesis in every cell of the body, as well as its need for the formation of the antioxidant catalase. While iron is essential for life, iron is a very toxic element that requires sufficient iron binding proteins such as transferrin, ferritin and lactoferrin. Excess iron accumulation not only can increase pathogens, but can also become a primary cause of oxidative stress and free radical activity. Iron is an extremely reactive mineral when unbound and exposed to oxygen. There is ongoing research that demonstrates that microorganisms have developed mechanisms for stealing ferritin (the protein that stores iron and releases it) from different organs and tissues of the body. For example, listeria obtains ferritin from neurons, epithelial cells, macrophages and intestinal cells. The parasite entamoeba histolytica steals ferritin from the blood, brain, lungs and intestines. Candida Albicanscan heist ferritin from the GI tract to survive. | |
Comment: Iron toxicity has other far-reaching consequences. For more information see:
Iron overload - the missed diagnosis Donating blood at the blood bank Hemochromatosis and Autoimmune Conditions | |
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Yoav Gonen
New York Post 2013-05-01 12:46:00
Say so long to sloppy Joes and chicken fingers! A Queens elementary school has become the first traditional public school in the country to serve all vegetarian all the time, replacing lunchroom legends like meatloaf with organic tofu, spinach wraps and couscous. Education officials say PS 244 in Flushing was the natural choice to pioneer a meat- and fish-free menu because it has incorporated healthy living and eating into its academics for years. And with much of its population hailing from East Asian countries, the diverse elementary school is home to plenty of already-committed vegetarians. | |
Comment: Studies have shown that children who have been on strict-vegetarian diets have neurological impairments that may persist into adolescence. Vitamin B12 is an essential nutrient which is important for children's development, and the only source is animal foods. In addition, plant foods contain anti-nutrients that are not found in animal food. For more information on why vegetarian / vegan diets are dangerous see:
Academic Impacts of Vegetarian Childhoods The Vegetarian Myth The Truth About Vegetarianism 12 year old vegan has the degenerating bones of 80 year old 7 Reasons Why I Will Never Be A Vegetarian | |
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Josh Colwell
The Coastal Source 2013-04-30 18:31:00
Savannah, Georgia - Surveillance video from B&D burgers on Congress Street in downtown Savannah shows what appears to be a normal night at the bar suddenly appear to take a paranormal turn. "We saw it on our surveillance video. Our manager Josh Pair saw it and it caught his attention because he was sitting in the office and then he saw it and began filming it on his phone off the surveillance video because there was no way to explain it. I mean, there is no way to explain it," says Marketing Manager Gena Bilbo. If the orbiting light doesn't do it for you, a stack of falling cups may. "And with no provocation, with no wind, nobody walking by, no anything, the cups just fall over," says Bilbo. |
