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Ante Sarlija
Sott.net 2015-08-09 13:55:00
Just before the opening of the new extension of the Suez Canal in Egypt, the branch of the Islamic State in Egypt, calling themselves 'Wilayet Sina' (Arabic for 'the Sinai Province of the Islamic State'), captured one Croatian citizen and have threatened to execute him unless their demands are met. Some media are speculating that the ISIS militant in the video is none other than Jihadi John himself, who we were told recently, has defected from ISIS due to fears of losing his own head. This ISIS video was titled "A message to the Egyptian government" and claims that the hostage can be saved if the Egyptian government releases certain female Muslim prisoners in 48 hours even though it is uncertain which female Muslim prisoners are supposed to be released since the jihadi organization apparently forgot to specify. According to the Croatian media, the deadline has now been removed from the ISIS website and the Croatian captive has been transported to ISIS-controlled area in Libya.Certain news outlets are claiming that he has already been beheaded, but the authenticity of the beheading video couldn't be confirmed immediately. The Croatian citizen was abducted in Cairo while driving on a highway according to reports and worked as a subcontractor for the French seismic survey group CGG. The New Suez Canal The construction of this mega project started on the 5th of August 2014. It is essentiallyan expansion of the existing Suez Canal which connects the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. The area surrounding the Canal is supposed to be turned into an industrial, commercial and logistics hub meaning the construction of more ports, factories etc. The Egyptian leadership is already referring to the Canal as the "Egypt's gift to the world" since it is supposed to decrease the transition time for ships and also help the Egyptian economy. But the importance of the Suez Canal goes further than that. Egypt has seen continued violence in the Sinai, which borders the Suez Canal, due to clashes between the military and the ISIS-affiliated extremists. The activity of these militants didn't seem to have much effect on the project as it was finished on the 23rd of July, only a year after construction first began. | |
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Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research 2015-08-08 00:00:00
What is the relationship between war in a military theater and "economic warfare"? An act of war is invariably an economic undertaking which supports dominant corporate interests. The conduct of US-NATO military operations is carried out on behalf of powerful financial institutions. US led wars in the Middle East under the humanitarian mantle of the "global war on terrorism" largely serve the interests of Wall Street, the Anglo-american oil conglomerates, the so-called 'defense contractors", the biotech conglomerates (Monsanto et al), Big Pharma and the corporate media. But modern warfare is by no means limited to the sphere of military and intelligence operations. Washington not only imposes economic sanctions on countries which do not support its imperial agenda, it also fosters the outright destabilization of national economies. While the Pentagon and NATO coordinate military operations against sovereign countries, Wall Street carries out concurrent destabilizing actions on financial markets including the rigging of the oil, gold and foreign exchange markets directed against Russia and China. | |
Comment: As the famous comedian George Carlin once said, "It's a big club - and you ain't in it". But don't feel too bad that. In order to join the big club, and a part of the group that is outlined in the article above, you'd really have to give up any notion of fairness, responsibility, compassion and empathy towards your fellow man. When it comes right down to it, that's an immense price to pay: losing one's humanity (assuming one has any to start with) for the ephemeral riches of status, "power," and wealth achieved at the great expense of others.
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RT
2015-08-07 19:59:00
A hacking group has sent an open letter to the head of military counterintelligence at the Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) to complain about Defense Ministry staff allegedly sidestepping the corporate email system to share top secret information, using public services instead. The members of the Shaltay Boltay hacking group claim that they have accessed emails and mobile devices belonging to Ksenia Bolshakova, an assistant to Roman Filimonov, who is a former head of the construction department at the Defense Ministry. "After careful examination of the array, it is with great regret that we found out about the absolute incompetence of staffers at some of the departments of the Defense Ministry when it comes to information security; to be more specific, we're dealing with criminal negligence," a letter addressed to FSB Colonel-General Aleksandr Bezverkhny said. According to the hackers, the ministry's employees were sending unencrypted official documents, containing sensitive data about Russia's defense capabilities, through free email services such as Yandex, Mail.ru and Gmail, RBC reported. The emails span a period between 2011 and 2015. The unsecured e-mail channels were used to "transmit reports and information on the issues discussed at the meetings with the Minister of Defense and his deputies," the hackers said. Emails also allegedly included information on the units hosting the Iskander ballistic missile systems and the positioning of Russia's 4th gen nuclear submarines. | |
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Sputnik
2015-08-09 12:05:00
By terminating the Mistral deal with Russia, France closed the door on a golden opportunity to establish strategic and trade partnership with Russia, said Philippe Migault, a senior research fellow at the French Institute of International and Strategic Relations (L'Institut de Relations Internationales et Strategiques - IRIS). The $1.3 billion deal was officially terminated on Wednesday. Paris is reported to have already transferred some 1.1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) to a Russian bank as a compensation for the non-delivery of two Mistral-class helicopter carriers. "We [France] managed to close the door on the entire Russian defense market, potential Eldorado, and all in order to please US and European "allies." Due to the cancellation of the Mistral contract, a strategic partnership with Russia collapsed," Migault said. | |
Comment: One has to wonder what hold the US has on European countries, that they can be forced act so decisively against their own national interest.
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RT
2015-08-09 20:26:00
A young entrepreneur in San Francisco has created a new housing project, in attempt to circumvent skyrocketing rents in big US cities. He is now ready to share his ideas with others, he told RT. Luke Iseman, 31, rented some warehouse space, and installed shipping containers to create 11 original residencies. "We shouldn't have to live in the middle of nowhere to afford to build our own house. We should be able to do that in the middle of the most expensive cities in the world,"Iseman said. "We were tired of paying our rent, so for less than rent on two-bedrooms, we're renting this whole half-acre, and [told] the landlord, 'We're just going to build small houses here, and you're going to get an automatic payment of rent every month, so don't worry about it," he said, explaining how the project started. The profit isn't huge, but the main goal is to share it with others and trigger housing perception changes, Iseman told RT. "We make a little bit of money from it, not a ton, but we're also able to share what we're doing, and encourage others to copy it. For me, success in this project is how to change people's ideas about housing," he said. "Everyone should be able to experiment with the roof that they put over their heads. We can change that if we create that norm, and we'll see much more innovation in housing, and it will be much more interesting houses if they are made of shipping containers and all sorts of other objects," Iseman added.
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Diane Schiller, Susan Carroll, Lauren Caruba and Lomi Kriel
Houston Chronicle 2015-08-09 14:25:00
The man accused in the murderous rampage that left five children and three adults dead inside a northwest Harris County home climbed through an open window, tied everyone up and shot each one in the head, according to prosecutors. "He restrained, shot and killed eight people," Celeste Byrom, an assistant district attorney said during a brief court hearing in which David Ray Conley III, 49, who is charged with multiple counts of capital murder, was ordered held without bail. One of the dead, Valerie Jackson, had recently changed the locks, but Conley was still able to get inside the home as a window had been left unlocked, according to the prosecutor. The charging documents identify four of the victims: Valerie Jackson, Jonah Jackson, 6, Trinity Jackson and Nathaniel Conley. No other ages or relations are provided. Conley has a history of domestic violence that dates back to at least 2000. He has previously threatened and attacked Jackson, who listed her address in those court papers as the house in the 2100 block of Falling Oaks where the bodies were discovered. Authorities have not yet revealed the names of all the dead, but those identified include Jackson. He was last arrested in July for allegedly smashing Jackson's head into a refrigerator multiple times, after she fought to get a belt from him that he said he was going to use to discipline one of her children for staying out late. In another case, a Harris County judge in 2013 issued an emergency protective order to keep Conley away from Jackson who was later sentenced to nine months in jail. | |
Comment: Dangerous men are sometimes hard to spot, especially since our society does not teach those skills at home or in school. If they all looked and acted like Charles Manson, it would be much easier to save yourself (and your children) from people like this. Learn how to avoid them - read Sandra Brown's book, How To Spot A Dangerous Man Before You Get Involved.
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Christina Sarich
Natural Society 2015-08-08 19:31:00
In a document quietly signed into law a few years ago, your right to grow your own food was surreptitiously taken away and given to the Federal government through the right of 'seizure' given to the Feds, by the Feds. Was this a preemptive strike to make all Americans dependent upon corporations like Monsanto, Syngenta, Dow, Bayer, etc. for food? The document is titled executive order 13603: "National Defense Resources Preparedness." In this 10-page document the federal government declares its right to seize control of many things - from 'all forms of energy' to 'all useable water sources' - and perhaps most alarming: "All commodities and products that are capable of being ingested by either human beings or animals."That means food. | |
Comment: Self-sufficiency and self-sustainability have no place in America.
See also: Your votes don't count: Politicians against labeling of GMO's were huge beneficiaries of BigAg donations | |
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RT
2015-08-09 16:21:00
Scotland says it will ban genetically modified crops on its soil. According to officials, the move will protect the environment. They are also taking advantage of new EU laws, allowing member states to decide whether they want to grow the crops or not. Although the EU imports large quantities of GM crops from abroad, it is less sure about growing them on their own soil. Some environmental groups are worried about the impact they could have on the countryside, while there are also concerns over health issues for humans, despite producers of the crops insisting they are safe. Only Monsanto's maize MON810, which is cultivated in Spain and Portugal, is currently on sale for human consumption within the EU. "Scotland is known around the world for our beautiful natural environment - and banning growing genetically modified crops will protect and further enhance our clean, green status," Richard Lochhead, the Scottish government's minister for the environment, food and rural affairs, said in a statement. The politician also added there was no public demand for introducing GM crops. "There is no evidence of significant demand for GM products by Scottish consumers and I am concerned that allowing GM crops to be grown in Scotland would damage our clean and green brand, thereby gambling with the future of our £14 billion ($22 billion) food and drink sector," Lochhead added. | |
Comment: More and more countries are recognizing who the terrorist are when it comes to our food supply. Bravo Scotland!
Down with Monsanto: Increasing number of countries banning cancer causing glyphosate and GMO's See also:
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Carolina May
The number of people not in the labor force reached another record high in July, according to new jobs data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.Breitbart 2015-08-07 16:08:00
The BLS reports that 93,770,000 people (16 and older) were neither employed last month nor had made specific efforts to find work in the prior four weeks. The number of people outside the workforce in July increased 144,000 over June's record when 93,626,000 were not in the workforce. July's labor force participation rate however remained the the same as June at 62.6 percent. Before last month the labor force participation rate had not been that low since October 1977, when the participation rate was 62.4 percent. The BLS reports that the civilian labor force did experience a slight uptick from 157,037,000 in June to 157,106,000 in July after the month of June saw it drop by 432,000. While the labor participation rate remains at the lowest its been since the late 1970s, the BLS highlighted that the unemployment rate remained at 5.3 percent and nonfarm payroll jobs increased by 215,000. | |
Comment: When the government tells you that we are recovering economically, they are lying to you. Things are going to get worse.
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Bethania Palma Markus
Raw Story 2015-08-07 12:57:00
A Texas woman says she suffered a nightmare scenario in which Harris County sheriff's deputies sexually assaulted her in public during a traffic stop last month. Charnesia Corley, 21, said officers with the Harris County Sheriff's Department made her pull her pants down and did a body cavity search without her consent while she was lying in a gas station parking lot, according to ABC13. Corley was driving to a nearby market when she was stopped by deputies. The department told the station she was pulled over for running a stop sign. After stopping her, the deputy ordered Corley out of her car because he said he smelled weed. He cuffed her and placed her in his patrol vehicle parked at a gas station. After searching Corley's car and finding nothing, the deputy returned to his car and said he smelled pot there. He called for a female deputy to search Corley, who ordered Corley out of the car and onto the ground. | |
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Sneha Shankar
Raw Story 2015-08-08 12:42:00
An unarmed college football player was shot and killed by a police officer in suburban Dallas, Texas Friday, after he crashed his car through the front window of a car dealership. The teenager, who is black, was identified as 19-year-old Christian Taylor of Arlington, who was enrolled as a sophomore at Angelo State University in San Angelo. The Arlington Police Department said in a statement, cited by the Associated Press, that officers were responding to a burglary call at 1.a.m. on Friday, when they discovered a car had been driven through the front window of the Classic Buick GMC dealership. The statement added that there was a struggle after the officer approached Taylor, who was a 2014 graduate of Mansfield Summit High School and a football player. The officer, identified as Brad Miller, 49, shot Taylor during the altercation. Miller, who was placed on administrative leave after the incident, has been with the department since last September after graduating from the police academy in March. He had been working under the supervision of a training officer. | |
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Scott Beale
Sputnik 2015-08-08 02:17:00
The New York City Human Resources Administration moved to fire an employee for missing 18 months of work. The man's excuse? He was dead. Geoffrey Toliver, a Medicaid-eligibility specialist, died of cancer at age 65 on Dec. 8, 2014. Even though an obituary had been written about him and published online, the HRA recently filed charges against Toliver and an administrative-law judge supported his firing noting that Toliver had failed to show up for his hearing. "How do you fire a man who is already dead? He deserves better. The agency itself should have known," said Ted Willbright, who considers Toliver as a brother. "Some people he worked with were very supportive, so how did HRA, the organization, not know?He's dead and they're saying he abandoned his job. He didn't abandon his job. His job abandoned him. He was a good man. Truly, truly a good man." The HRA said it had sent Toliver several calls and letters which weren't answered.The agency marked the begin date of his absence as Nov. 12, 2013. "We did everything we could to contact him and his family," said HRA spokesman David Neustadt. "This employee was not paid when he wasn't working, but we left his job open in case he recovered." However, Toliver's brother Anthony said he believed the agency was aware of his brother's passing. "It's my understanding that my brother's family spoke directly to his supervisor during his long hospitalization and informed them of his death," Anthony said. According to an obituary, Toliver was born in Harlem and "very well liked by his colleagues." | |
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2015-06-03 10:25:00
A fully dressed and well-preserved corpse of a noblewoman who died in the 17th century has been discovered by French archeologists. The woman's body was in a lead coffin, along with the heart of her husband. The body was found in the chapel of St Joseph's convent in Rennes, Brittany, in northwest France, in March 2014. However, the identity of the lady was only revealed on Tuesday by the French National Institute for Preventative Archaeological Research(Inrap). The body, 1.45 meters in length, was still wearing shoes and a cap. It is thought to be Louise de Quengo, a widow of the Breton nobility who died in 1656 when she was about 60 years old. The team from Inrap says that the body is "in an exceptional state of preservation."
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Phys.org
2015-08-07 00:00:00
Astronomers at the 29th International Astronomical Union General Assembly will announce on August 14 the discovery of a new transiting "circumbinary" planet, bringing the number of such known planets into double digits. A circumbinary planet orbits two stars, and like the fictional planet "Tatooine" from Star Wars, this planet has two suns in its sky. The discovery marks an important milestone and comes only four years after the first Kepler circumbinary planet was detected. Once thought to be rare or even impossible, these ten discoveries confirm that such planets are common in our galaxy. The research was recently published in the Astrophysical Journal. The new planet, known as Kepler-453 b, also presented astronomers with a surprising twist—the tilt of the orbit of the planet rapidly changes, making transits visible only 9 percent of the time. "The detection was a lucky catch for Kepler," said William Welsh, professor of astronomy at San Diego State University and lead author of the study. "Most of the time, transits would not be visible from Earth's vantage point." The change of orientation of the planet's orbital plane, known as precession, brought it into proper alignment halfway through the space telescope's lifetime, allowing three transits to be observed before the end of the mission. "The low probability for witnessing transits means that for every system like Kepler-453 we see, there are likely to be 11 times as many that we don't see," added co-author Jerome Orosz, also a professor of astronomy at San Diego State University. The precession period is estimated to be approximately 103 years. The next set of transits won't be visible again until the year 2066. | |
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A landslide swept away a passenger bus near Siddababa at Dobhan-5 along the Tansen-Butwal road section on Saturday, killing at least three persons. The landslip about a kilometre above the road swept the bus (Lu 1 Kha 5771) at around 1:30pm, said police. The bus that was stuck in the mudslide was carried away in a matter of minutes. It has now been submerged in the flooded Tinau river. There were 22 people including the driver and his assistant on board when the disaster struck. The vehicle had left Tansen, the district headquarters of Palpa , at around 11:45am. It is not yet clear how many people have been missing. Lilamani Adhikari, the conductor of the vehicle, said 15 people were seen moving out of the bus soon after it got stuck. "Two-three persons stayed inside the bus saying that it would be safer to remain there instead of going outside," said Adhikari. Police identified the deceased as Bidya Shrestha, 17, of Tanhu-8 in Palpa and Bishnu Bahadur Thapa, whose address is unknown. | |
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Greater Kashmir
2015-08-09 19:02:00
Two persons were seriously injured after a bear attacked them at Watelab in Raithan forest range of Khansahab in central Kashmir's Budgam district yesterday evening, police said. Locals said they had gone to bring their cattle back from the woods when the attack took place. The duo, identified as Farooq Ahmad Lone s/o Ghulam Nabi Lone and Shakeel Ahmad Teqkhri s/o Mohmmad Shafi are both residents of Katchwari. Nomads rescued them after they raised an alarm. Tehsildar Khansahab Ali Mohmmad Malik said that one of the injured Farooq Ahmad was shifted to SKIMS Soura for specialised treatment. | |
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Christopher Bucktin
Daily Mirror, UK 2015-08-09 16:33:00
A female swimmer lost her arm after it was ripped off by an alligator in a popular Florida river. Nearby canoers and kayakers heard screaming and realised the reptile was attacking the 37-year-old. The attack happened near Wekiva Island on Saturday afternoon. One started hitting the alligator with a paddle as it bit into the women's midsection witnesses said. Her rescuers were able to get the unidentified woman to shore and called 911. "You just saw some blood and some bone. There wasn't anything else there," said Richard Ward. Jakob Frick said he was canoeing with friends when they saw the woman swimming in the water.
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Comment: See also these other recent alligator attacks -
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Koh Gui Qing and J.R. Wu
Reuters 2015-08-09 12:47:00
A typhoon battered China's east coast on Sunday, killing eight people and forcing authorities to cancel hundreds of flights and evacuate more than 163,000 people. Typhoon Soudelor killed six people in Taiwan earlier on the weekend then moved across the Taiwan Strait and slammed into the mainland's Fujian province late on Saturday. It churned towards the neighboring provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangxi on Sunday, the Xinhua state news agency said. The Tropical Storm Risk website downgraded Soudelor to a tropical storm as it moved inland. Eight people were killed in Hangzhou city, CCTV state television reported, as heavy rain and wind toppled trees and triggered flash floods and mudslides.
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While some Hull beach goers hurried for cover when Tuesday's afternoon storm rolled in, Lucinda Dixon headed in the opposite direction for a round of storm watching - and she got a dramatic snap of a waterspout when she did. Dixon had parked her Jeep off the shore at Hull Gut around 4 p.m., when she noticed the spout near Peddocks Island, about a half mile away. "I've never seen one before," she told The Patriot Ledger Wednesday. "It was there for about two minutes and then it just fell apart." The National Weather Service's Taunton office confirmed that it got a report of the waterspout at 4:28 p.m. Tuesday. The weather service defines them as "tornadic waterspouts," since they form over water much like tornados on land. They form downward, from clouds to water, during severe thunderstorms, high winds and hail. Just a couple of hours before Dixon saw the spout, those enjoying the sun at Nantasket Beach included youngsters Charlotte Chandler and Simone Doyle-Trainor, both 9, who were with Charlotte's mother, Jessie Chandler, and Simone's father, Steven Trainor. "They had to scramble, kind of pack up quickly, because the wind came up really fast," Jessie Chandler said of the girls. "They had to get out of Dodge." | |
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Times of Malta
2015-08-08 15:09:00
Two paragliders were slightly injured after their parachute broke loose from a speedboat as a freak storm swept through Malta. Shocked beachgoers watched on helplessly as they watched the drama unfold and screamed in horror when the cord attaching the parachute to the boat snapped under huge strain. On seeing the 20-year-old man and a 16-year-old woman in trouble, bathers rushed into the sea in an attempt to hold the speedboat which had been pushed perilously close to the beach by the fierce storm. However, the could do little except watch the two people suspended with their legs and arms flailing. Then the cord snapped and the parachute flew into a nearby field before landing in the bushes and dragged against a wall of a boathouse. The water spout had been seen coming from a southeasterly direction at around noon. It whipped up dust from Rinella before proceeding north across Malta.
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Four rare albino green sea turtles hatched on Vamizi Island for the first time since a green sea turtle monitoring program began on the small, crescent-shaped island off northern Mozambique in 2003. The Vamizi Conservation and Research team was surprised to discover the albino green sea turtles on a morning patrol of the island. The discovery was made on May 25, but news of it is only now starting to gain widespread attention. The four albino green sea turtles, two of which survived to make their way into the ocean, lacked pigmentation in their eyes. Their red eyes indicated the hatchlings were true albinos. "Albinism is often associated with other malformations, which is why most animals die a few hours after being born, so having two true albino hatchlings surviving and having no apparent external malformations can then be considered quite rare," Joana Trindade, conservation and community manager on Vamizi Island, told GrindTV.
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newyork.cbslocal.com
2015-08-06 14:38:00
A school bus transporting special needs children got stuck in a sinkhole in the Bronx late Thursday afternoon. As CBS2's Jessica Schneider reported, the bus was traveling down the street down Creston Avenue toward East Burnside Avenue, in the Tremont section of the Bronx around 3 p.m. The bus was taking special needs students to camp, officials said. The bus went over what was then a small pothole, and ended up plummeting into what became an enormous sinkhole. The ground opened underneath the bus to something that was about 10 feet long and 6 feet wide.
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myfox8.com
2015-08-08 10:08:00
A preliminary investigation into a hiker's death in Yellowstone National Park suggest the man was attacked by a grizzly bear. While the exact cause of death has not been determined, investigators said they identified what appear to be defensive wounds on the victim's forearms, Yellowstone National Park said in a statement Saturday. A forensic autopsy is scheduled for Monday. The victim, whose name has not been released, was found Friday in a popular off-trail area less than a mile from Elephant Back Loop Trail — an area he was known to frequent. His body was partially eaten and covered. Based on partial tracks found at the scene, it appears that an adult female grizzly and at least one cub were present and likely involved in the incident near Yellowstone Lake, the statement said.
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Phys.org
2015-08-08 00:00:00
Hong Kong on Saturday recorded its hottest day since authorities began taking temperature readings 130 years ago, due to the influence of a nearby typhoon. The daily maximum temperature hit 36.3 degrees Celsius, the Hong Kong Observatory said, with higher temperatures recorded in some parts of the city earlier in the day. A layer of haze hung over the metropolis of seven million, as people wielding electric fans and umbrellas tried in vain to beat the boiling heat. "This is a new record," a Hong Kong Observatory spokesman told AFP. | |
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Jennifer Viegas
D News 2015-08-07 15:38:00
A new species of fish that researchers describe as being "downright scary looking" has just been discovered in the deep sea. The new anglerfish, which has been placed in the genus Lasiognathus, adds to the growing number of formidable-looking known species in the deep sea. This particular fish, described in the journal Copeia, was found at nearly 5,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico's northern region. "As a researcher, the one thing I know is that there's so much more we can learn about our oceans," co-author Tracey Sutton of Nova Southeastern University said in a press release. "Every time we go out on a deep-sea research excursion there's a good chance we'll see something we've never seen before — the life at these depths is really amazing." The fish was found during ongoing work looking at the effects of oil spills on deep-sea marine life. It was identified based on three females. | |
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Therese Wade
Thespiritscience.net 2015-08-07 19:55:00
"Every part of your body has its own consciousness or its own soul." These transformative words, spoken by indigenous medicine women, began my journey within to discover the extraordinary healing capacity of the human body. When this perspective was introduced to me, I was suffering from a severe chronic pain disorder. I suddenly imagined incorporating this concept into my meditation routine. I thought, Can my body hear me...can I talk to it to gain its cooperation in healing this condition? That night, after reaching a state of deep calm through meditation, I inwardly engaged my body in a heartfelt conversation, with hope, but having no idea what to expect. After about one hour of this focused communication, something amazing happened. My tissues began to respond. Connective tissue pulled and stretched apart layers of scar tissue. Nerves fired and my calf muscles began to perform flexion and extension exercises independently of my conscious control. As this response continued, one of my calf muscles that had become paralyzed by the neuropathic condition — diagnosed as Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy — came back to life as electric-like jolts shot through the area. | |
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Dr Sircus.com 2015-08-06 18:52:00
High blood pressure is a common condition in which the force of the blood against your artery walls is high enough that it may eventually cause health problems however one can have high blood pressure (hypertension) for years without any symptoms. Even without symptoms, damage to blood vessels and your heart continues and can be detected. Uncontrolled high blood pressure increases your risk of heart attack and stroke so a well-planned holistic natural approach to hypertension will bring results safely and effectively without ridiculous cost and danger from toxic pharmaceutical drugs. About 1 in 3 adults in the United States has high blood pressure though the condition itself usually has no signs or symptoms. Knowing your blood pressure numbers is important, even when you're feeling fine. At the same time one should know one's breathing ratebecause the faster one breathes the high the pressure will go because fast shallow breathing drives down CO2 levels and that constricts the blood vessels. | |
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Yahoo! News
2015-08-07 23:40:00
The number of people diagnosed with Legionnaires disease has risen to 108 as America's largest city suffers from a record outbreak of the form of pneumonia, authorities said Saturday. No new deaths have been reported on top of the 10 announced earlier in the week and officials say the outbreak is now on the decline. To date, 94 people have been admitted to the hospital with the infection since the outbreak began on July 10 in the south Bronx, the poorest section of New York state. The disease is spread by a bacteria, which has recently been discovered in the cooling towers of five buildings in the South Bronx area. Officials believe the cause of the outbreak came from one of the sites, which has since been cleaned and disinfected. All those who died were older patients and had pre-existing medical conditions. Legionnaires' disease is not contagious and can be treated with antibiotics. "This is literally unchartered territory," New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said Saturday. "We've never seen an outbreak of Legionnaires like this in the city," he told reporters. | |
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Vivian Giang
Quartz 2015-08-06 14:20:00
Our brain's ability to process information and adapt effectively is dependent on a number of factors, including genes, nutrition, and life experiences. These life experiences wield particular influence over the brain during a few sensitive periods when our most important muscle is most likely to undergo physical, chemical, and functional remodeling. According to Tara Swart, a neuroscientist and senior lecturer at MIT, your "terrible twos" and those turbulent teen years are when the brain's wiring is most malleable. As a result, traumatic experiences that occur during these time periods can alter brain activity and ultimately change gene expressions—sometimes for good. |
