Have treasure hunters found another unidentified flying object on the floor of the Baltic Sea?
When a Swedish team using side-scan sonar picked up a strange circular object about 200 feet in diameter sitting on the floor of the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland last June, experts speculated that the object was just a glitch in the team's equipment, NBC reported.
The object sat in in 275 feet of water and 900 feet of "skid marks" behind it suggested that it may have moved across, or crashed on, the sea floor.
Now, CNN cites the team as saying they have discovered visual evidence of a second "disc-like shape" some 200 meters from the original find.
Team leader Peter Lindberg, who made headlines with his recent haul of two 200-year-old Champagne salvaged from a 19th-century Baltic Sea shipwreck and recently auctioned — joked to CNN that the first object they found might be an unidentified flying object, or UFO.
According to an Associated Press report from 2009, the Baltic Sea is "awash" in shipwrecks.
"There are hundreds of Viking ships out there, hundreds of old trading ships, hundreds of warships," the news service quotes Estonian wreck-hunter Vello Mass as saying. "The Baltic's an archaeological paradise."
However, according to Lindberg's team, the objects they have discovered are too big to have fallen off a ship or be part of a wreck,
"We've heard lots of different kinds of explanations, from George Lucas's spaceship — the Millennium Falcon — to 'it's some kind of plug to the inner world,' like it should be hell down there or something," Lindberg reportedly said, adding: "We won't know until we have been down there."
Andreas Olsson, head of Archaeology at Sweden's Maritime Museums, while intrigued, questions the reliability of one-side scan sonar images, saying they make it difficult to distinguish between a natural geological formation and something else.
"It all depends on the circumstances when you actually tow the [sonar] fish after the boat," he said.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/news/regions/europe/unidentified-flying-object-ufo-baltic-sea-sweden-finland-sonar-shipwreck
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Friday, February 3, 2012
Multiple Wolf Attacks in Small Russian Towne
Moscow - A pack of wolves attacked inhabitants of a Russian provincial town on Tuesday, cornering some residents in buildings until police came to the rescue, the Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday.
The wolves were reported by local residents from several locations in the city of Petrozavodsk, some 660 kilometres north-west of the capital Moscow.
The carnivores forced some residents to take cover in an apartment building and a hotel, police responding to the scene found. The officers were ultimately forced to open fire to clear out the wolves.
One of the wolves attacked police officers and was shot dead. The remainder of the pack took cover in a nearby forest, the report said.
Wolves are widely considered a pest in Russia and, outside of nature preserves, are hunted legally, sometimes with the government paying a pelt bounty.
Attacks on humans are rare. Those that do generally take place in Russia's sparsely inhabited central Siberian and Far Eastern districts.
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/europe/news/article_1688271.php/Wolves-attack-corner-residents-of-Russian-town
The wolves were reported by local residents from several locations in the city of Petrozavodsk, some 660 kilometres north-west of the capital Moscow.
The carnivores forced some residents to take cover in an apartment building and a hotel, police responding to the scene found. The officers were ultimately forced to open fire to clear out the wolves.
One of the wolves attacked police officers and was shot dead. The remainder of the pack took cover in a nearby forest, the report said.
Wolves are widely considered a pest in Russia and, outside of nature preserves, are hunted legally, sometimes with the government paying a pelt bounty.
Attacks on humans are rare. Those that do generally take place in Russia's sparsely inhabited central Siberian and Far Eastern districts.
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/europe/news/article_1688271.php/Wolves-attack-corner-residents-of-Russian-town
Aspertame in Diet Soda might be Deadly
As a health editor, I really do try to practice what I preach. I walk up escalators. I don't smoke. I get off the subway a few stops early to get more exercise in each morning. And I try not to drink my calories (unless it's a glass of wine -- that's healthy, right?).
I thought that was enough. But over the past year, I've learned that Diet Coke, my calorie-free drink of choice, may be doing more harm than I thought. A study last summer presented at an American Diabetes Association meeting suggested an association between diet soda and a wider waist. A second, unrelated study found that aspartame -- the artificial sweetener found in most diet soft drinks -- raises blood sugar in mice prone to diabetes, with possible implications for humans as well. And just yesterday, we heard word that a diet soda a day is linked with an increased risk of stroke and heart attack (findings that were also presented last year at the International Stroke Conference).
"They may be free of calories but not of consequences," Helen P. Hazuda, Ph.D., an author on the first study and a professor and chief of clinical epidemiology at the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio's School of Medicine, said in a statement.
Uh oh -- my "light" choice has turned into a vice.
While I've long suspected that a bottle full of chemicals is likely not as healthy as a glass of pure H20 (the ingredient list, including aspartame, caramel coloring and phosphoric acid, was a tip off), I've never considered it to be a real risk.
The truth is that Diet Coke and I have a long history. Cans of the stuff got me through late-night study sessions in college and grad school. When I lived abroad, the more economical two-liter bottle became a taste of home. And the individual-serving plastic bottles became the mainstay of my working life: a bottle with my salad at lunch and the occasional second bottle when the day got stressful. We have free vending machines at work (thank you, AOL Huffington Post Media Group), and the ritual of getting up and taking a walk over right before lunch became a habit. Always the health editor, I drank with a straw to avoid staining my teeth.
But, as with any great love story, there were tough times, as well. Through the years, I became a caffeine addict to varying degrees. If I went too long on the weekend without a Diet Coke (no free vending machines at home), I'd get a headache. And while I'd long acknowledged that artificial sweeteners trigger migraine headaches for me, I was in denial that Diet Coke counted. I swore the caffeine content counteracted any adverse affects.
Things could have gone on like that, but when I started reading more and more about a possible association between diet soda and serious health problems, I knew I had to do something. If I had already cut back on processed foods and started opting for organic produce with fewer pesticides over the past few years, how could I just ignore this research?
While compelling, studies linking diet soda to health problems are hardly definitive at this point. "It's hard to translate one observational study into public health messages," Hannah Gardener, lead author on the most recent diet soda study and asst. scientist at the clinical research division of the University of Miami's department of neurology, told me over the phone on Tuesday. "For people who take a precautionary approach and change their habits on one study, they certainly wouldn't be missing out on any important nutrients."
In other words, it couldn't hurt to make some serious changes and for me, these few studies were convincing enough. And so I drank my last Diet Coke on New Year's Eve 2011 -- I went out and bought a single-serve bottle at the grocery store so I wouldn't have any temptation left at home. As my New Year's Resolution, I made the decision to go one month diet soda free, and then to reintroduce it as an occasional special treat, not a daily lunch-salad pairing.
Coinciding with the latest health findings on diet soda, there's been some speculation about whether or not it's addictive. Last November, for instance, a U.K. man announced he was a diet soda addict who downed 18 cans of Diet Coke a day.
While I'm no chain drinker, for sure, there was something incredibly hard about avoiding the Diet Coke, even when I knew it could possibly be linked to health problems. My lunch didn't feel nearly as satisfying without that aspartame-sweetened beverage to wash it down and my mid-afternoon slumps were much more pronounced. I became a little moodier and I often had to take a nap after work for those first two weeks. To be honest, the strong reaction concerned me and spurred me on in my commitment, but it didn't make the month-long ban, which officially ended yesterday, any easier. So I asked HuffPost blogger Dawn Jackson Blatner, R.D., author of The Flexitarian Diet, to offer her best advice on how to make kicking the habit as painless as possible:
1. Replace the fizz. "What I have found is that my patients who are diet soda drinkers are in love with two things: with caffeine and with carbonation," Blatner told me. So you'll need a swap that addresses both. Get your fizz fix by taking a shot glass (1.5 oz) worth of 100 percent juice, such as pomegranate, blueberry or sour cherry, and mixing it in with sparkling water, she suggests. I switched to a Schweppes black cherry seltzer water, courtesy of the work vending machines.
2. Get a caffeine substitute. Even if you get your carbonation, cutting out caffeine abruptly can make you feel like you're dragging. Blatner suggests swapping for either iced or hot green tea, which is loaded with health benefits and has a specific compound, L-theanine, that makes it a gentler source of caffeine. If you want to cut caffeine altogether, do it slowly, cutting down the amount a little bit every three days. I went cold turkey, which ended with headaches and irritability.
3. Replace the ritual. "Human beings love pattern, we love habituation, we love routine," Blatner says. For me, there was something about getting up around 2 p.m., walking over to the vending machine and grabbing my drink. For others, it may be the one time you get to stretch your legs, or even the experience of sipping out of a can. Once you identify the habit, find a way to replace it. I kept up with the vending machine walks and just swapped in the seltzer water. Others may want to find their replacement drink in a similar container or take a walk with a co-worker and skip the vending machine altogether.
4. Keep downing the water. People forget that one of the main components of diet soda is water. So make sure you replace it with water -- staying well hydrated has a host of other health benefits, as well.
Blatner says that with the right tools, most people can kick this habit in about two weeks. For me, it took the whole month of January -- it wasn't until the end that I finally stopped craving my mid-day fix. Now, as planned, I'm hoping to reintroduce it as an infrequent treat -- as Blatner put it, if you finish a bad day with a zero-calorie drink instead of a pint of Ben and Jerry's, then that's not so bad.
And I'll be honest. Yesterday was February 1 and I broke the Diet Coke fast with my first can. And yep, it was amazing. But then something funny happened: around 4:00, I started craving that black cherry seltzer. And I bet I will again today.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/laura-schocker/diet-soda-addiction_b_1248404.html
I thought that was enough. But over the past year, I've learned that Diet Coke, my calorie-free drink of choice, may be doing more harm than I thought. A study last summer presented at an American Diabetes Association meeting suggested an association between diet soda and a wider waist. A second, unrelated study found that aspartame -- the artificial sweetener found in most diet soft drinks -- raises blood sugar in mice prone to diabetes, with possible implications for humans as well. And just yesterday, we heard word that a diet soda a day is linked with an increased risk of stroke and heart attack (findings that were also presented last year at the International Stroke Conference).
"They may be free of calories but not of consequences," Helen P. Hazuda, Ph.D., an author on the first study and a professor and chief of clinical epidemiology at the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio's School of Medicine, said in a statement.
Uh oh -- my "light" choice has turned into a vice.
While I've long suspected that a bottle full of chemicals is likely not as healthy as a glass of pure H20 (the ingredient list, including aspartame, caramel coloring and phosphoric acid, was a tip off), I've never considered it to be a real risk.
The truth is that Diet Coke and I have a long history. Cans of the stuff got me through late-night study sessions in college and grad school. When I lived abroad, the more economical two-liter bottle became a taste of home. And the individual-serving plastic bottles became the mainstay of my working life: a bottle with my salad at lunch and the occasional second bottle when the day got stressful. We have free vending machines at work (thank you, AOL Huffington Post Media Group), and the ritual of getting up and taking a walk over right before lunch became a habit. Always the health editor, I drank with a straw to avoid staining my teeth.
But, as with any great love story, there were tough times, as well. Through the years, I became a caffeine addict to varying degrees. If I went too long on the weekend without a Diet Coke (no free vending machines at home), I'd get a headache. And while I'd long acknowledged that artificial sweeteners trigger migraine headaches for me, I was in denial that Diet Coke counted. I swore the caffeine content counteracted any adverse affects.
Things could have gone on like that, but when I started reading more and more about a possible association between diet soda and serious health problems, I knew I had to do something. If I had already cut back on processed foods and started opting for organic produce with fewer pesticides over the past few years, how could I just ignore this research?
While compelling, studies linking diet soda to health problems are hardly definitive at this point. "It's hard to translate one observational study into public health messages," Hannah Gardener, lead author on the most recent diet soda study and asst. scientist at the clinical research division of the University of Miami's department of neurology, told me over the phone on Tuesday. "For people who take a precautionary approach and change their habits on one study, they certainly wouldn't be missing out on any important nutrients."
In other words, it couldn't hurt to make some serious changes and for me, these few studies were convincing enough. And so I drank my last Diet Coke on New Year's Eve 2011 -- I went out and bought a single-serve bottle at the grocery store so I wouldn't have any temptation left at home. As my New Year's Resolution, I made the decision to go one month diet soda free, and then to reintroduce it as an occasional special treat, not a daily lunch-salad pairing.
Coinciding with the latest health findings on diet soda, there's been some speculation about whether or not it's addictive. Last November, for instance, a U.K. man announced he was a diet soda addict who downed 18 cans of Diet Coke a day.
While I'm no chain drinker, for sure, there was something incredibly hard about avoiding the Diet Coke, even when I knew it could possibly be linked to health problems. My lunch didn't feel nearly as satisfying without that aspartame-sweetened beverage to wash it down and my mid-afternoon slumps were much more pronounced. I became a little moodier and I often had to take a nap after work for those first two weeks. To be honest, the strong reaction concerned me and spurred me on in my commitment, but it didn't make the month-long ban, which officially ended yesterday, any easier. So I asked HuffPost blogger Dawn Jackson Blatner, R.D., author of The Flexitarian Diet, to offer her best advice on how to make kicking the habit as painless as possible:
1. Replace the fizz. "What I have found is that my patients who are diet soda drinkers are in love with two things: with caffeine and with carbonation," Blatner told me. So you'll need a swap that addresses both. Get your fizz fix by taking a shot glass (1.5 oz) worth of 100 percent juice, such as pomegranate, blueberry or sour cherry, and mixing it in with sparkling water, she suggests. I switched to a Schweppes black cherry seltzer water, courtesy of the work vending machines.
2. Get a caffeine substitute. Even if you get your carbonation, cutting out caffeine abruptly can make you feel like you're dragging. Blatner suggests swapping for either iced or hot green tea, which is loaded with health benefits and has a specific compound, L-theanine, that makes it a gentler source of caffeine. If you want to cut caffeine altogether, do it slowly, cutting down the amount a little bit every three days. I went cold turkey, which ended with headaches and irritability.
3. Replace the ritual. "Human beings love pattern, we love habituation, we love routine," Blatner says. For me, there was something about getting up around 2 p.m., walking over to the vending machine and grabbing my drink. For others, it may be the one time you get to stretch your legs, or even the experience of sipping out of a can. Once you identify the habit, find a way to replace it. I kept up with the vending machine walks and just swapped in the seltzer water. Others may want to find their replacement drink in a similar container or take a walk with a co-worker and skip the vending machine altogether.
4. Keep downing the water. People forget that one of the main components of diet soda is water. So make sure you replace it with water -- staying well hydrated has a host of other health benefits, as well.
Blatner says that with the right tools, most people can kick this habit in about two weeks. For me, it took the whole month of January -- it wasn't until the end that I finally stopped craving my mid-day fix. Now, as planned, I'm hoping to reintroduce it as an infrequent treat -- as Blatner put it, if you finish a bad day with a zero-calorie drink instead of a pint of Ben and Jerry's, then that's not so bad.
And I'll be honest. Yesterday was February 1 and I broke the Diet Coke fast with my first can. And yep, it was amazing. But then something funny happened: around 4:00, I started craving that black cherry seltzer. And I bet I will again today.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/laura-schocker/diet-soda-addiction_b_1248404.html
McDonalds Announces "No more Pink slime"
McDonald's announced last week that, as of last August, is has stopped using ammonium hydroxide in the production of its hamburgers. MSNBC reports that the chemical, used in fertilizers, household cleaners and even homemade explosives, was also used to prepare McDonalds' hamburger meat.
And while the announcement is making headlines, you may (or may not) want to know about some other unusual chemicals being used in the production of some of our most-popular foods:
The International Business Times lists some other questionable chemicals showing up in our foods:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/mcdonald-confirms-no-longer-using-pink-slime-chemicals-171209662.html
And while the announcement is making headlines, you may (or may not) want to know about some other unusual chemicals being used in the production of some of our most-popular foods:
The International Business Times lists some other questionable chemicals showing up in our foods:
Propylene glycol: This chemical is very similar to ethylene glycol, a dangerous anti-freeze. This less-toxic cousin prevents products from becoming too solid. Some ice creams have this ingredient; otherwise you'd be eating ice.
Carmine: Commonly found in red food coloring, this chemical comes from crushed cochineal, small red beetles that burrow into cacti. Husks of the beetle are ground up and forms the basis for red coloring found in foods ranging from cranberry juice to M&Ms.
Shellac: Yes, this chemical used to finish wood products also gives some candies their sheen. It comes from the female Lac beetle.
L-cycsteine: This common dough enhancer comes from hair, feathers, hooves and bristles.
Lanolin (gum base): Next time you chew on gum, remember this. The goopiness of gum comes from lanolin, oils from sheep's wool that is also used for vitamin D3 supplements.
Silicon dioxide: Nothing weird about eating sand, right? This anti-caking agent is found in many foods including shredded cheese and fast food chili.So, what moved McDonald's to make the change in their hamburger production? In a statement posted on its website, McDonald's senior director of quality systems Todd Bacon wrote:
"At the beginning of 2011, we made a decision to discontinue the use of ammonia-treated beef in our hamburgers. This product has been out of our supply chain since August of last year. This decision was a result of our efforts to align our global standards for how we source beef around the world."The U.S. Agriculture Department classifies the chemical as "generally recognized as safe." McDonald's says they stopped using the chemical months ago and deny the move came after a public campaign against ammonium hydroxide by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/mcdonald-confirms-no-longer-using-pink-slime-chemicals-171209662.html
Iran Leader Warns of War with U.S
(CNN) -- The supreme leader of Iran issued a blunt warning Friday that a war would be detrimental to the United States.
"You see every now and then in this way they say that all options are on the table. That means even the option of war," Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said during Friday prayers in Tehran. "This is how they make these threats against us.
"Well, these kinds of threats are detrimental to the U.S.," he said. "The war itself will be 10 times as detrimental to the U.S."
His comments came after stern comments Friday from Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak.
"Today, unlike in the past, there is a broad global understanding that it is crucial to stop Iran becoming nuclearized and that no options should be taken off the table," he said.
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has come to the conclusion there is a growing likelihood Israel could attack Iran sometime this spring in an effort to destroy its suspected nuclear weapons program, according to a senior administration official.
The official declined to be identified due to the sensitive nature of the information.
The United States and its allies have warned that Iran is trying to make a nuclear weapon. Iran insists that its nuclear program is for peaceful, civilian purposes
http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/03/world/meast/iran-warning/
"You see every now and then in this way they say that all options are on the table. That means even the option of war," Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said during Friday prayers in Tehran. "This is how they make these threats against us.
"Well, these kinds of threats are detrimental to the U.S.," he said. "The war itself will be 10 times as detrimental to the U.S."
His comments came after stern comments Friday from Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak.
"Today, unlike in the past, there is a broad global understanding that it is crucial to stop Iran becoming nuclearized and that no options should be taken off the table," he said.
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has come to the conclusion there is a growing likelihood Israel could attack Iran sometime this spring in an effort to destroy its suspected nuclear weapons program, according to a senior administration official.
The official declined to be identified due to the sensitive nature of the information.
The United States and its allies have warned that Iran is trying to make a nuclear weapon. Iran insists that its nuclear program is for peaceful, civilian purposes
http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/03/world/meast/iran-warning/
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Russia Holding Firm against Military intervention in Syria
Reporting from Beirut—
As diplomats attempted to craft a compromise, Russia remained firm Wednesday in its pledge to veto any U.N. Security Council resolution that could open the door for international military intervention in Syria.Meanwhile, fighting raged anew in the troubled Middle East nation, with nearly 70 additional deaths reported by opponents of Syrian President Bashar Assad, whose bloody crackdown on street protests has led to calls from the Arab League and Western powers for him to step aside.
After a closed-door meeting, U.N. diplomats said progress had been made to overcome Russia's objections. "But there are a lot of difficult issues and we are not there yet," said British Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant, according to the Associated Press.
Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said, "I think we have a much better understanding of what we need to do to reach consensus."
But Moscow continues to oppose any U.N. move that calls for Assad to step down or would slap new economic penalties or an arms embargo on Damascus.
Behind Russia's resolute stance is its longtime relationship with Assad and his family, who have run Syria for four decades, as well as a web of business and security interests, and deep discomfort in Moscow with the concept of foreign-mandated change in leadership. Russian diplomats say they were deceived last year when a U.N. resolution designed to protect Libyan civilians morphed into a Western-led bombing campaign that doomed the long-ruling government of Moammar Kadafi.
Moreover, opposition to the resolution will not cause significant damage to relations between Russia, the West and the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf, predicted Fyodor Lukyanov, editor of the journal Russia in Global Affairs. Other concerns, such as the situation in Iran and Afghanistan, keep Washington and its allies engaged with Russia, he said, and Moscow's relations with gulf countries are already bad.
"Russia has nothing to lose," Lukyanov said.
U.N. action could help determine the future of Syria as it nears the one-year anniversary of a protest movement that was met by the government crackdown and has since evolved into armed rebellion that has left the country on the precipice of civil war.
A draft U.N. resolution circulating in New York would authorize unspecified "further measures" should Syria not comply with its terms, including a "political transition" in which Assad would cede power.
The Arab League and its Western allies, including Washington, are pushing the proposal. But Syria, backed by Russia and other nations, calls the scheme an affront to its sovereignty.
Moscow, which last year joined with China to veto a U.N. resolution that would have condemned the Syrian crackdown on dissent, is concerned that the revolt in Syria, along with other "Arab Spring" movements, are part of a Western conspiracy to dominate the Middle East, Russian analysts say.
Vladimir Chizhov, Russia's envoy to the European Union, said the current U.N. draft was "missing the most important thing: a clear clause ruling out the possibility that ... [it] could be used to justify military intervention in Syrian affairs."
"For this reason," he said, "I see no chance this draft could be adopted."
Violence continued to ravage Syria on Wednesday, with an opposition coalition, the Local Coordination Committees, reporting at least 68 more deaths, more than half in clashes outside Damascus. The military has been clearing armed rebels from towns near the capital after insurgents brazenly advanced to within a few miles of the capital, embarrassing the government.
The official government news agency reported that four military officers, including a brigadier general, were killed Wednesday and six were wounded in a confrontation with an "armed terrorist group" outside Damascus.
The United Nations has reported more than 5,000 deaths since protests against Assad's rule broke out in March.
Casualty figures cannot be independently verified because journalists' access is limited in Syria.
Also on Wednesday, Iran reported that 11 Iranian pilgrims had been abducted in Syria, the latest in a series of kidnappings of Iranian citizens. Iran is a close ally of Syria, but Tehran has advised its citizens to hold off on bus tours to the nation.
Kidnappings, mostly of Syrians, have become a regular feature of the conflict, reflecting a generalized breakdown in law and order, human rights activists say. Abductees are often used as bargaining chips to gain the release of kidnap victims held by the other side, observers say.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Drone Spots River of Blood in Texas
CHICAGO - A drone enthusiast testing out his airborne camera discovered a river of blood behind a Texas meatpacking plant, prompting outrage and investigations by local authorities.
"We were very concerned with the fact that this discharge was going into the creek which is going into one of our treasures - the Trinity River," Zachary Thompson, director of Dallas County Health and Human Services, told AFP.
"People should be able to use it as a fun and recreational area. You don't want to see it impacted by any kind of discharge."
Especially not pig blood.
"I was looking at images after the flight that showed a blood red creek and was thinking, could this really be what I think it is? Can you really do that, surely not? " the drone operator told sUAS News - an online magazine for small unmanned aerial system enthusiasts.
"Whatever it is, it was flat out gross."
The plant operator has said that the spill was caused by a clogged pipe, Thompson said. But it's not clear whether the pipes leading into the creek were legal.
A spokesman for the city of Dallas's attorney - who has reportedly filed charges in the case - did not return a request for comment.
Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Drone+discovers+river+blood+Texas/6061303/story.html#ixzz1kGjZY8bD
"We were very concerned with the fact that this discharge was going into the creek which is going into one of our treasures - the Trinity River," Zachary Thompson, director of Dallas County Health and Human Services, told AFP.
"People should be able to use it as a fun and recreational area. You don't want to see it impacted by any kind of discharge."
Especially not pig blood.
"I was looking at images after the flight that showed a blood red creek and was thinking, could this really be what I think it is? Can you really do that, surely not? " the drone operator told sUAS News - an online magazine for small unmanned aerial system enthusiasts.
"Whatever it is, it was flat out gross."
The plant operator has said that the spill was caused by a clogged pipe, Thompson said. But it's not clear whether the pipes leading into the creek were legal.
A spokesman for the city of Dallas's attorney - who has reportedly filed charges in the case - did not return a request for comment.
Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Drone+discovers+river+blood+Texas/6061303/story.html#ixzz1kGjZY8bD
Landslide in New Guinea Leaves Several Dead
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea -- Rescuers were pulling bodies from the debris of a landslide that struck mountainous central Papua New Guinea, a disaster official said Wednesday. Local news media reported that as many as 60 people were dead or missing.
At least four bodies had been recovered by Wednesday evening, though the full extent of the damage to villages hit by Tuesday's landslide was not immediately known, said Martin Mose, the director of the South Pacific island nation's National Disaster Center.
"We are expecting more (bodies)," Mose said. "I am unwilling to put a number on that until I get confirmation from my team."
The National newspaper reported that 40 bodies had been recovered and 20 people were still missing following the landslide in the central town of Mendi.
The landslide carved a 1-mile (1.5 kilometer) trail of destruction across the remote landscape, Mose said, leaving roads to the villages cut off.
Photos from the Papua New Guinea Post-Courier showed scores of villagers searching a gigantic mound of dirt for survivors and victims.
Local lawmaker Francis Potape told Radio Australia's indigenous language service that the landslide completely covered two villages while people slept.
"There are people buried underneath and a number of them are, from what I have heard, children," The National quoted Potape as saying.
Three National Disaster Center officials and a police specialist dog unit flew to Mendi on Wednesday to join police at the disaster site.
Prime Minister Peter O'Neill also flew to the site to assess the damage on Wednesday
Residents of Poland find Blood in Drains
Residents of Koscierzyna, Poland were shocked when they discovered a river of blood pouring out from under manhole covers and running down the streets of their small town. Many concerned citizens phoned the police to investigate the river of blood that left coagulating pools of blood in its wake.
According to a January 24, 2012 report by The Telegraph, the source of the flowing blood was a nearby meat packing plant with a clogged drain that allowed the blood to back up and stream into the street.
People are upset that a large quantity of blood wound up near two schools and a food market. Officials have already cleared the blood from the streets, but concerns about sanitation remain.
http://www.examiner.com/unexplained-phenomena-in-national/river-of-blood-flows-through-town-poland-after-clogged-drain-fiasco
According to a January 24, 2012 report by The Telegraph, the source of the flowing blood was a nearby meat packing plant with a clogged drain that allowed the blood to back up and stream into the street.
People are upset that a large quantity of blood wound up near two schools and a food market. Officials have already cleared the blood from the streets, but concerns about sanitation remain.
http://www.examiner.com/unexplained-phenomena-in-national/river-of-blood-flows-through-town-poland-after-clogged-drain-fiasco
3.4 EarthQuake hits Mt St. Helens
SEATTLE (AP) -- A magnitude 3.4 earthquake occurred at 2:51 a.m. Wednesday about 10 miles north of Mount St. Helens.
The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network reports mild shaking was felt in Longview, Castle Rock and Morton.
The University of Washington reports the quake was followed by a half-dozen small aftershocks in the next hour.
Small quakes are common in the area around the volcano in southwest Washington.
http://www.kgw.com/news/local/34-quake-hits-just-north-of-Mount-St-Helens-138036888.html
The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network reports mild shaking was felt in Longview, Castle Rock and Morton.
The University of Washington reports the quake was followed by a half-dozen small aftershocks in the next hour.
Small quakes are common in the area around the volcano in southwest Washington.
http://www.kgw.com/news/local/34-quake-hits-just-north-of-Mount-St-Helens-138036888.html
Massive Tornadoes in Alabama dozens Reported Dead
The numbers of known dead in Alabama rose rapidly this evening. At least 58 were killed in the state Wednesday, The Associated Press reported after 11 p.m. ET.
The toll came soon after ABC News Birmingham, Ala., affiliate WBMA, also known as "33/40," reported at least 53 people dead, which was not long after Alabama emergency officials told ABC News at least 40 had died.
"There are more out there to be confirmed because search and rescue is underway in a number the counties," Alabama Emergency Management Agency information manager Yasamie August said. "However, there are still storm systems moving through the county, as we speak."
In addition, at least 11 were dead in Mississippi, ABC News confirmed.
The Associated Press reported two deaths in Georgia and one in Tennessee Wednesday, plus one person killed by the same storm Tuesday in Arkansas.
Mayor Walter Maddox reported 15 dead Wednesday in Tuscaloosa, Ala., a city of approximately 180,000 flattened by an estimated mile-wide tornado.
"I'm in my car at corner on McFarland. Milo's Hamburgers isn't there anymore," Tuscaloosa resident Phil Owen told WBMA. "Hobby Lobby [is the] only thing still standing at Woods Square Shopping Center. Big Lots, Full Moon Barbecue -- piles of garbage where those places were."
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"We have way over 100 injuries throughout the city of Tuscaloosa," Mayor Maddox said. "We have hundreds of homes and businesses destroyed and hundreds more damaged."
President Obama declared a state of emergency for the search and rescue response in Alabama, and Gov. Robert Bentley told WBMA he expected him to declare another one to help pay for the cleanup.
"It's very difficult to see this," Bentley told WBMA of the damage.
In confirming the state of emergency, President Obama said federal officials had their eye on the storms and would help as needed.
"Michelle and I extend our deepest condolences to the families of those who lost their lives because of the tornadoes that have swept through Alabama and the southeastern United States," he said in a written statement. "Our hearts go out to all those who have been affected by this devastation, and we commend the heroic efforts of those who have been working tirelessly to respond to this disaster."
As the known death toll rose this evening, forecasters warned people to brace for even worse weather.
"Today is the day you want to be careful," Greg Carbin of the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center in Oklahoma told The Associated Press.
The weather system was expected to move into Georgia, Tennessee and Kentucky by the night and into the Carolinas by Thursday morning.
For the areas already hit, the latest deadly storm was an all-day affair on top of about a dozen deaths from rough weather in the region over previous days.
"The storm came in early this morning even before daybreak and a number of destruction and damage was done during that time," said August, the Alabama emergency official, Wednesday evening. "And then we knew it would likely come back through. We didn't know the extent of the damage.
"We are opening shelters throughout the state to make sure folks who have nowhere to go tonight will have somewhere to go out of the weather," August said.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/massive-tornado-hits-alabama-storms-leave-16-dead/story?id=13465028
Solar Storm on the Sun
Solar flare 2012 was the worst solar storm in a decade. This time the scientists were only 13 minutes off on the predicted time of the solar storm. Following 11 years of considerable calm, the sun has woken up again to send out flares after strong flares in all directions and now earth-bound sentinels can feel the stirrings in the atmosphere and their surroundings in the form of geomagnetic storms.
The prediction was utilized and timely warnings were sent out to satellite operators and power connection operators to shut off sensitive systems. Geomagnetic storms that are stirred by solar flares can adversely affect the power supply, and interfere with satellite communication. They can even fry satellites and leave them useless. Following the warning, some airlines of Canada and Europe changed the routes of polar flights as the north pole and surrounding area was mostly the target of charged particles called CME (coronal mass ejection) and X rays hurled out by the sun.
Yesterday sun spewed the most powerful solar flare of this season. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) rated the flare an X1.7-class eruption. The scientists rate flares according to classes defined by alphabets and while X-class flares are the most powerful type of solar storm, M-class storms falling within the mid-range and C-class flares are the weakest ones. Luckily earth was not in the target range of this massive flare.
Dean Pesnell, SDO Project Scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, stated, “It’s a great week for Space Weather!
Scientists are excited about this solar activity and their thrill can be felt. Facebook update of officials from NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center read, “Region 1402 is Alive!!!!!!!!!!!!! Another huge X-ray event is in progress.”
Radiation levels are climbing right now and is expected to peak in the later months of 2012 and 2013. What we are experiencing in the form of spectacular northern lights is just the beginning, claim the scientists.
Doug Biesecker, a physicist at NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center, said, “The radiation storm will almost certainly be weaker. The coronal mass ejection seems to be headed well away from Earth, which is good because this one seems like a bigger beast than the last one, but that’s still preliminary.”
The exact prediction of solar flares has become more important in our age as much of the world’s networks are interconnected and the population has become increasingly reliant on technology that use satellite communication. Solar flares hamper satellite communication due to the geomagnetic storm stirred up by the flares, so being pre-informed is of paramount importance.
Strong flares as this one can disrupt satellite communication. Even weaker flares interfare with earth’s magnetic field and cause brilliant auroras that are more popularly called the Norther and Southern Lights.
CME that is large enough can trigger a big geomagnetic storm in the earth’s atmosphere, affecting radio communication, air flight schedules, communication, and power outages.
http://nvonews.com/2012/01/28/solar-flare-2012-was-the-worst-solar-storm-in-a-decade/
The prediction was utilized and timely warnings were sent out to satellite operators and power connection operators to shut off sensitive systems. Geomagnetic storms that are stirred by solar flares can adversely affect the power supply, and interfere with satellite communication. They can even fry satellites and leave them useless. Following the warning, some airlines of Canada and Europe changed the routes of polar flights as the north pole and surrounding area was mostly the target of charged particles called CME (coronal mass ejection) and X rays hurled out by the sun.
Yesterday sun spewed the most powerful solar flare of this season. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) rated the flare an X1.7-class eruption. The scientists rate flares according to classes defined by alphabets and while X-class flares are the most powerful type of solar storm, M-class storms falling within the mid-range and C-class flares are the weakest ones. Luckily earth was not in the target range of this massive flare.
Dean Pesnell, SDO Project Scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, stated, “It’s a great week for Space Weather!
Scientists are excited about this solar activity and their thrill can be felt. Facebook update of officials from NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center read, “Region 1402 is Alive!!!!!!!!!!!!! Another huge X-ray event is in progress.”
Radiation levels are climbing right now and is expected to peak in the later months of 2012 and 2013. What we are experiencing in the form of spectacular northern lights is just the beginning, claim the scientists.
Doug Biesecker, a physicist at NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center, said, “The radiation storm will almost certainly be weaker. The coronal mass ejection seems to be headed well away from Earth, which is good because this one seems like a bigger beast than the last one, but that’s still preliminary.”
The exact prediction of solar flares has become more important in our age as much of the world’s networks are interconnected and the population has become increasingly reliant on technology that use satellite communication. Solar flares hamper satellite communication due to the geomagnetic storm stirred up by the flares, so being pre-informed is of paramount importance.
Strong flares as this one can disrupt satellite communication. Even weaker flares interfare with earth’s magnetic field and cause brilliant auroras that are more popularly called the Norther and Southern Lights.
CME that is large enough can trigger a big geomagnetic storm in the earth’s atmosphere, affecting radio communication, air flight schedules, communication, and power outages.
http://nvonews.com/2012/01/28/solar-flare-2012-was-the-worst-solar-storm-in-a-decade/
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