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Sunday, 12 October 2014

Threat of pyroclastic flows from Mt. Sinabung still overshadows Karo residents

© Volcano Alert @infoVolcano / TwitterLarge pyroclastic flow on Sinabung on 9 Oct 2014 It has been reported that Mount Sinabung in Karo regency in North Sumatra is still prone to emitting deadly pyroclastic flows that could occur at any time. During the past week, the active volcano repeatedly erupted, spewing hot clouds and showering the nearby city of Berastagi with volcanic ash.Head of the Sinabung observation post, Armen Putra, said the pyroclastic...

Riding your Flow: Enhancing creativity and productivity

Why is that we tend to be more successful at pursuits we are genuinely passionate about? Why does time seem to drag when you are completely bored and uninterested in a task? How come you can easily lose yourself in a task that really piques your interest?According to positive psychology, doing things that you find genuinely interesting and stimulating can put you into a state Flow, which is defined as an '.' During flow, self-awareness and the...

Tend to your inner garden - Why your gut flora may be making you sick

Over the last 100 years, with the industrialization of our food supply, our diet has changed dramatically. This highly processed, high-sugar, high-fat, low-fiber diet has substantially altered our gut bacteria, contributing to the epidemic I call diabesity.The food we eat not only feeds our fat cells, but also determines what kind of inner garden we are growing in our guts. This garden is filled with bugs that determine more about your health and...

Update: Tropical Storm Gonzalo nears Leeward Islands; Hurricane Watch for Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico

Hurricane watches and tropical storm warnings have been issued for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands as Tropical Storm Gonzalo strengthens in the Atlantic Ocean just east of the Leeward Islands. Tropical Storm Gonzalo, the seventh named storm of the 2014 Atlantic hurricane season, formed early Sunday afternoon.Gonzalo is moving toward the west at 10 to 15 mph, and is expected to steadily gain strength over the next few days. Hurricane watches...

Millions faced with severe weather across central U.S. - Multi-day severe outbreak begins tonight; three severe thunderstorm watches issued

The severe weather outbreak is set to begin Sunday night, continuing through Monday and Tuesday as a deep dip in the jet stream swings from the Great Plains into the South.In addition, the flash flood threat will be in play from this same system as locally heavy rainfall is wrung out over areas that have been soaked in past days.Below, we have more details on severe weather and flash flood threats across the country. You can scroll down the page,...

BioSurveillance: Tracking your Preschooler's health

© activist post There is growing trend toward the use of "biosurveillance" - Web-based systems to track public health, many times with an added predictive model . As you'll see in the University of Michigan press release below, a familiar sales pitch is employed to assert that the only way to keep the public safe is through pervasive surveillance ... now including preschoolers.With Ebola taking center stage as the latest threat to humanity, along...

USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 4.0 - Near Mammoth Lakes, California

© USGS Event Time2014-10-13 00:13:50 UTC2014-10-12 17:13:50 UTC-07:00 at epicenter014-10-12 17:13:50 UTC-07:00 system timeLocation 37.475°N 118.783°W depth=7.1km (4.4mi)Nearby Cities25km (16mi) SE of Mammoth Lakes, California108km (67mi) NE of Clovis, California108km (67mi) NE of Sanger, California113km (70mi) NNE of Reedley, California206km (128mi) SSE of Carson City, NevadaScientific data...

Israel, Palestine draft joint Ebola response plan

© Reuters/Baz Ratner To draft a joint action plan to prevent Ebola, Israeli and Palestinian officials held a meeting over weekend, while Tel Aviv is introducing hospital drills and setting tighter border controls to curb the threat of the deadly virus.In a series of efforts to prevent the Ebola virus from spreading into Israel, COGAT, the Defense Ministry unit responsible for Palestinian civilian affairs, announced that Israeli and Palestinian officials...

11 Colombian Indians killed by lightning strike

© ReutersA building in Colombia, where an indian tribe held a ritual, was hit by ligthing leaving 11 people dead and another 15 injured. Bogota (AFP) - Eleven Wiwa Indians killed by lightning during a tribal ceremony in Colombia's Sierra Nevada mountains will be left unburied where they died according to their traditions, an official said Sunday.The community of about 60 families will abandon their remote village in the wake of Monday's tragedy,...

Russian scientists have created three Ebola vaccines according to Health Ministry

© www.theheraldng.comLaboratory tests for Ebola vaccines. Russian scientists are working on three potential Ebola vaccines which they expect to introduce as soon as in the next six months. "One of the vaccines is "already ready for clinical trials," Russia's health minister Veronika Skvortsova has announced. "We have created three vaccines," Skvortsova announced in an interview with Rossiya-1 TV. "One vaccine is based on a strain of Ebola, and the...

Democracy thrives on Neptune

© http://ift.tt/1n6HvTv Following the news coming out of the US and its concubine states can sometimes be very disorienting. What do you publish when so much is being violated simultaneously?Running a blog means a constant source of information from around the world of the so many violations of sovereignty, genocides, terrorism and lies that the west has undertaken in its quest to rule supreme against the people of this planet.As is the case with...

Dallas health worker who tested positive for Ebola wore 'full' protective gear

A Texas health worker who provided care for the firstperson diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. has tested positivefor the deadly virus in a preliminary examination. (Reuters)In the first apparent case of Ebola transmission in the United States, a Texas hospital worker who treated an Ebola-stricken Liberian man has tested positive for the deadly virus.The preliminary test result was announced early Sunday, four days after the death of Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan in Dallas.The Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital worker reported "a low-grade fever"...

PET scans reveal psychopathic markers

© SOTT In the USA, our current system of government is not working; not unusual, since there has never been a lasting system of governance that has worked. All 'ocracies' and 'isms' currently in place will in time be thrown upon the refuse pile, to join a heap of other failed systems throughout history. Why can't we get it right? After thousands of years spent in refinement of dozens of systems, we are no closer to fair governance today than we...

West Antarctic glacier likely melting from geothermal heat below, not from Global warming

A paper published today in finds evidence that one of the largest glaciers in West Antarctica, the Thwaites Glacier, is primarily melting from below due to geothermal heat flux from volcanoes located along the West Antarctic Volcanic Rift System, i.e. not due to man-made CO2. © JoNova CAGW proponents have alleged that West Antarctic glaciers such as such as the Thwaites Glacier and the neighboring Pine Island Glacier are rapidly melting due to man-made...

Mouse study reveals part of the brain that reacts to the 'love hormone'

© Thinkstock.comAccording to researchers, "Oxytocin, the body’s natural love potion, helps couples fall in love, makes mothers bond with their babies, and encourages teams to work together. Now new research at Rockefeller University reveals a mechanism by which this prosocial hormone has its effect on interactions between the sexes, at least in certain situations." The discovery of a small group of neurons that respond to oxytocin in mice has shed...

Former NSA director had thousands personally invested in obscure tech firms

© DOD/NSAArmy General Keith Alexander New financial disclosure documents released this month by the National Security Agency (NSA) show that Keith Alexander, who served as its director from August 2005 until March 2014, had thousands of dollars of investments during his tenure in a handful of technology firms.Each year disclosed has a checked box next to this statement: "Reported financial interests or affiliations are unrelated to assigned or prospective...

Explosion at Saskatchewan gas facility prompts evacuation

An explosion and fire at a gas pumping station in Saskatchewan on Saturday prompted an evacuation.RCMP said the blast occurred at a TransGas facility near this small community, northeast of Saskatoon.Police say there have been no injuries reported.The area around the facility that was being evacuated is just over three kilometres.TransGas is a subsidiary of Crown-owned SaskEnergy, and company spokesman Dave Burdeniuk said several buildings at the...

Nature's pain killers

Are you in pain? You don't have to reach for over-the -counter pain killers, or even the heavy pharmaceutical hitters prescribed by your doctor; there are literally hundreds of natural pain killers waiting for you in the abundance of nature. You can count on plants and herbs to alleviate everything from arthritis pain, to headaches, to burns - read on to find out more.Many pharmaceutical pain medications, while effective and useful at times, can...

Leading Neuroscientist: "ADHD is not a real disease"

One of the world's leading pediatric neuroscientists, Dr. Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D, recently stated publicly that Attention Deficit/Hyper-Activity Disorder (ADHD) is not 'a real disease,' and warned of the dangers of giving psycho-stimulant medications to children.Speaking to the Observer, Dr. Perry noted that the disorder known as ADHD should be considered a description of a wide range of symptoms that many children and adults exhibit, most...
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