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<span style="color: #373e4d;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">My poetry reveals some concepts using a philosophical line belonging to existentialism. While extrapolating this relationship between the human being and nature, I've tried to underline the immanence of God. My work is influenced by the philosophy found in writings belonging to Plato, Kafka, Hegel, Kant, Kierkegaard, and others while pleading for a spiritual awakening. The verses are outspoken on issues of love sufferings, violence against women, natural disasters, deprivation of liberty, the human condition, and human regression.</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>This volume comprises my poetry work. It includes philosophical, religious and love poems as well as several poetic pieces about life, nature, sound, dance, color and death. It also contains Quatern, Rondeau, Ottava Rima, Ekphrastic, Pantoum, Kyrielle Sonnet, Villanelle, Alexandrine, Mirror Sestet, Quintain, Rondelet, Triolet, Alliteration, Tanka, Haiku, Senryu, Sextuple, Crystalline, Choka, Tetractys, Fable, Boketto, Palindrome, Acrostic, Fibonacci, Hexaverse, Triquatrain, Dadaist, Terza Rima, Spenserian Sonnet, Jintishi, Sestina, Complex, Oxymoron, Cinqku, Kimo and Monoku poems. I wanted to sense the essential human existence and to extrapolate it to infinity and to God. The poems themselves covered some symbolistic and antagonist ideas.</div>
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<span style="color: #373e4d; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">My poetry broke some old ideas for a new vision for life. They came into being in a new surrealistic world. I wanted to sense the essential human existence and to extrapolate it to infinity, or more exactly, to God. The poems themselves covered some symbolism and antagonist ideas such as those of lightness and darkness or goodness and badness.</span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09833575818637694753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1921593041860075078.post-86260093895397814942013-09-25T18:48:00.000-07:002013-09-27T10:17:09.608-07:00A Massive Earthquake in Pakistan Has Resulted in the Birth of a New Island<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A New Island (Poem)<o:p></o:p></div>
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The southwestern Pakistan was stricken by a major earthquake,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Which killed people, and collapsed so many buildings and houses.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The forming of a
small island in the Arabian Sea was not a fake.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Men had to leave their homes together with their kids and
spouses.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p>The quake that hit Pakistan’s Baluchistan province had 7.8
magnitude.</div>
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On the coast of Gwadar, many houses collapsed on the poor people
inside.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The new island, having a width around 100 feet and 20 to 40
feet altitude,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Is a rocky formation above the water rising to disappear like
a sea tide.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mud volcanoes have risen off the coast of Pakistan and
disappeared again <o:p></o:p></div>
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Within a few months being washed away by the currents in the
Arabian Sea.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The mystery of this volcano, which can meet the same fate,
no one can explain.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Vikings Edda and the Bible, in searching for the truth,
for sure, form a key.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p>The earthquake was centered at a strange triple junction in
the Earth’s surface,</div>
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And the Arabian tectonic plate was pushing its way beneath
the Eurasian plate. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The Indian plate rammed into both of them, the terrain was
deformed to resurface.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This rare effect of a quake is more interesting than the changes
in the atomic weight.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The tremors were even felt in northern part of India
including New Delhi, its capital, <o:p></o:p></div>
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This earthquake being similar with that one moving parts of Chile
10 feet to the west.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The story about another island temporarily rising from the
Arabian Sea is also real. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The ‘’ super typhoon’’ formed in the Pacific Ocean proves that
the weather is stressed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Typhoon Usagi swept through the Luzon Strait separating
the Philippines and Taiwan<o:p></o:p></div>
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To bring heavy
torrential rains and high winds to the island while weakening slightly.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Usagi made landfall in China's Guangdong Province in the
city of Shanwei, near Kowloon.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The rain continued inland over China triggering flash flooding,
the life changing sightly.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Batanes Islands, in the extreme northern Philippines
north of Luzon, took a direct hit.</div>
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Heavy rain has fallen in the northern Philippines, where the
typhoon was named Odette.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Japan is damaged by the earthquake and the tsunami, because
it’s time to start a split.<o:p></o:p></div>
People of San Francisco wait for their turn thinking that the life isn't finished yet.<br />
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A major earthquake struck southwestern Pakistan earlier
today killing about 100 people, injuring thousands, collapsing building and
houses; and causing a small island to form in the sea off Pakistan’s coastline.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The U.S. Geological Survey mentioned that the quake that hit
Pakistan’s Baluchistan province early Tuesday morning was a 7.8 magnitude.
Officials recently declared that at more than 150 people died during this
quake. That number is expected to rise while the Pakistani military are
continuing to clean up the zone. Many one-level houses, in the region where the
quake hit, collapsed on the people inside.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The power and force of the quake was underscored by the
small, visible island that rose off the coast of Gwadar, near the port, in the
Arabian Sea, off the southern coast of the country. Pakistan’s Geo News declared that “the
island’s altitude is 20 to 40 feet and width around 100 feet,” and that ''the
island is roughly 350 feet off shore'', citing the deputy inspector general
Moazzam Jah. Arif Mahmood, the head of Pakistan’s meteorological department. A
rocky formation is now just above the water and it is visible from the coast.
The rise of this new island is very interesting because most earthquakes rarely
have such a drastic effect on the world surface. It’s not entirely clear what
caused the new island to jut out of the sea. Earthquakes are definitely capable
of causing dramatic shifts in the terrain.<o:p></o:p></div>
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According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) the
earthquake struck around 100 km southwest of the city of Khuzdar in Baluchistan
province, at a depth of 23 km (15 miles). The tremors wear even felt in
northern part of India including national capital, New Delhi. The earthquake
caused considerable panicky among people and many ran out of houses and
buildings. There were no reports of aftershocks.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In 2010 a magnitude 8.8 earthquake caused parts of Chile to
move “at least 10 feet to the west.” The geoscientists on Twitter talked about
the possibility that the new island may have been produced by what’s known as a
“mud volcano.” Back in 2010, says NASA, a mud volcano caused a different island
to temporarily rise from the Arabian Sea. If that’s the case, Pakistan’s new
island may not be around for a long time.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mud volcanoes have risen off the coast of Pakistan in the
past and disappeared again within a few months, washed away by the waves and
currents in the Arabian Sea. It is quite likely that this new volcano will meet
the same fate.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The earthquake was centered at a strange triple junction in
the Earth’s surface, declared the USGS. In Pakistan, near the site of today’s
earthquake, ''the Arabian tectonic plate is pushing its way beneath the
Eurasian plate while the Indian plate rams into both of them from the south.''<o:p></o:p></div>
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One of the strongest tropical cyclones in at least eight
years has formed in the western Pacific Ocean moving toward Hong Kong.
Categorized as a “super typhoon” at its peak on Thursday (September 19, 2013),
Usagi swept through the Luzon Strait separating the Philippines and Taiwan on Saturday
(September 21), bringing torrential rains and high winds to island communities.
On Saturday morning, Usagi’s maximum sustained winds were at 139 mph with gusts
exceeding 163 mph. Usagi is weakening
slightly.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Usagi is the strongest storm to have formed in 2013. The
last time we saw a storm this strong was in 2005, when Major Hurricane Wilma
formed as an extremely strong tropical cyclone in the Atlantic Ocean.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Super Typhoon Usagi is the strongest storm to have formed in
the last 30 years speaking in terms of Usagi’s barometric pressure (the lower
the pressure, the stronger the storm). The strongest storm since people have
begun to measure and track storms was Super Typhoon Tip. It formed in 1979 and had and its pressure
was about 870 millibars (mb). At its peak on September 19, Usagi had an
estimated barometric pressure of 882 mb. The last time we had a super typhoon
as strong as Usagi in the western Pacific was back in 1984 when Super Typhoon
Vanessa had a pressure of 880 mb. However, Super Typhoon Megi in 2010 came very
close to this with a pressure of 885 mb. Usagi made landfall as a typhoon in
China's Guangdong Province in the city of Shanwei, about 90 miles
east-northeast of Kowloon, Hong Kong. Winds gusted to 119 mph at Shanwei around
the time of landfall, and the barometric pressure plunged to about 940
millibars (27.8 inches of mercury). Chinese weather authorities said landfall
occurred at 7:40 p.m. local time (7:40 a.m. EDT U.S. time) on Sunday.<o:p></o:p></div>
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According to the Japanese Meteorological Agency, as of early
Monday morning (U.S. time), Usagi was centered over central Guangdong Province
and had weakened to a tropical depression. While the winds from Usagi have
subsided, locally heavy rain will continue inland over China, which could
trigger flash flooding.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Prior to hitting China, Usagi was a super typhoon. A
tropical cyclone is dubbed a "super typhoon" when maximum sustained
winds reach at least 150 mph. Usagi underwent a period of rapid intensification
from early Wednesday through midday Thursday (U.S. Eastern time), going from a
55-knot (65-mph) tropical storm to a 140-knot (160-mph) super typhoon in just
33 hours, or just under a 100 mph intensification, based on satellite estimates
of intensity. Usagi killed more than 30 people<o:p></o:p></div>
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By Friday night, though, Usagi underwent an eye-wall
replacement cycle, causing the storm to weaken slightly. In addition, the outer
rain bands began to interact with Taiwan and Luzon, disrupting the storm's
low-level inflow, further weakening the storm.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The center of Usagi passed north of the north coast of Luzon
on Saturday, local time.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Batanes Islands, in the extreme northern Philippines
north of Luzon, took a direct hit. Basco Airport reported a sustained wind of
112 mph, and then went nearly calm as the eye passed overhead and the pressure
dropped to 930 millibars.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Heavy rain has fallen in parts of the northern Philippines,
where the typhoon was named Odette.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Telegraph analyzed the damages of Japan, which are a
consequence of the earthquake and the tsunami. They found 2,414 dead persons. Also,
they found:<o:p></o:p></div>
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10,000 – Likely final death toll figure is set to reach
beyond that mark.<o:p></o:p></div>
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15,000 – Number of people unaccounted for.<o:p></o:p></div>
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50 – Number of Britons missing, presumed dead.<o:p></o:p></div>
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550,000 – Evacuated from their homes since the quake struck
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Much of the media attention in the West now is being focused
on the ongoing dramas of the nuclear reactors that have been affected by the
quake and tsunami. Germany has ordered that its seven nuclear reactors placed
into service before 1980 be taken offline and it’s unclear what their fate will
be. There’s a certain level of panic setting in worldwide over nuclear power at
the moment (particularly among elected officials). Even here in relatively
tectonically stable Illinois there’s nervousness.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In Japan the concern may be well-founded. The amount of
radiation that has been released is enough to be a concern for the years that
come. Japan has been the home to some of the world’s most damaging earthquakes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09833575818637694753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1921593041860075078.post-58737075782127798252013-06-10T12:40:00.001-07:002013-06-10T12:40:36.515-07:00 Plastic Water Bottles Causing Cancer?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The EWG says that "BPA is associated with a number of health problems and diseases that are on the rise in the U.S. population, including breast and prostate cancer and infertility. Given widespread human exposure to BPA and hundreds of studies showing its adverse effects, the FDA and EPA must act quickly to set safe levels for BPA exposure based on the latest science on the low-dose toxicity of the chemical."<br />BPA is an industrial chemical whose major use is in the production of polycarbonates and epoxy resins. Polycarbonates are used in various consumer products, including a number that come into contact with food, such as certain plastic beverage containers and baby bottles, plastic dinnerware, and plastic food storage containers. Epoxy resins are part of the protective linings used in food and beverage cans, and it is likely that canned food is the major source of human consumption of BPA (in addition to that from plastic baby bottles). The plastic beverage containers that use BPA in their manufacture are the hard colored plastic bottles with the number 7 on the bottom (as opposed to PET bottles that are clear, softer and have the number 1).<br /> We'll never forget when Sheryl Crow attributed her breast cancer to the BPA (Bisphenol A, a chemical used in plastics) in re-used water bottles. <br /><br /> According to Shanaz H. Dairkee, Ph.D., a Senior Scientist of Cancer Research at the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute and Consulting Professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, BPA is all around us, everywhere. "We are swimming in it," she says. "In our homes, workplaces, schools, and recreation areas." She points out that it's used to line food cans and paper plates, in beverage bottles, and even in cash register receipts. <br /><br />Beverly Rubin, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Anatomy & Cellular Biology at Tufts University, says BPA is also in the soil, ground water, and in the dust that collects both indoors and outdoors. And, it's not just around us: a whopping 93% of people in the U.S. have appreciable levels of BPA in their urine, according to Cheryl S. Watson, Ph.D, the editor-in-chief of Endocrine Disruptors (Landes Bioscience Journals) and professor of bio-chemistry and molecular biology at the University of Texas Medical Branch. Dr. Dairkee says that BPA has also been found in human blood, breast milk, and fetal liver - which indicates that BPA can cross the placenta. <br /><br /> The danger of BPA in our bodies lies in its relationship to estrogen, Dr. Watson says. "BPA resembles (but is not exactly like) natural estrogens, and can mimic or disrupt the actions of the body's own estrogens, for both males and females." When a body has too much estrogen, Dr. Dairkee says, it can initiate cancer and precancerous lesions in estrogen-sensitive tissues. The effect has has been proven in animals, with results that repeat across species. Though this isn't technically direct evidence that BPA causes cancer in humans, humans are indeed animals, and the results of these tests should be taken seriously. <br />The human papillomavirus (aka HPV) is more or less everywhere, statistically speaking. It’s estimated that 75 to 80 percent of all sexually active adults will have some form of HPV in their lifetime. Some will develop genital warts, while in others, the virus will lead to a life-threatening disease: Nearly 12,000 new cases of HPV-related cervical cancers are diagnosed in the U.S. every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. <br /><br />“HPV is a skin-to-skin contact infection,” says Diane Harper, M.D., professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine and a lead researcher of HPV and cervical cancer prevention and treatment. Condoms can’t shield you from HPV because the virus could be lingering on skin outside of the condom. “There are over 100 types of HPV that invade the human skin, and 40 types invade the soft, wet, mucosa in the mouth, anal, and genital area,” says Harper.<br /><br />It’s those 40 that have been linked to cervical cancer. “HPV-16 causes the greatest number of cancers,” says Harper. “About 90 percent of the time, HPV infections disappear within two years and never cause any ill effect. Five percent of the time, the HPV infections will turn into a cancer precursor, and about half of those cancer precursors will develop into cancer.”<br /><br /> Schedule an annual ob/gyn exam to get a Pap test, which will screen for cellular changes that, left untreated, could lead to cervical cancer. <br /><br />But, cautions Harper, know that a Pap is not a flawless method: “Pap screening programs are very effective but not perfect at early detection for early treatment,” she says. What’s even more frustrating is that once you have HPV (whatever the form) there’s no pill to pop or shot to get rid of it. “No anti-viral exists for it to date,” says Harper. “There is no treatment for HPV infections — the only treatment is for cells already infected with HPV that have changed into a cancer precursor or a cancer.” What that means: surgical removal to cut out the HPV-ridden growths either on the outside, or inside of your body.<br /><br /> There are two vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix, which pretty much ward off the most common strains. "Both vaccines protect against some types of HPV that cause cancer and some types that cause genital warts," says Harper, who helped develop both vaccines. "Cervarix provides better protection against cancer-causing types and Gardasil provides better protection against genital warts. But they both only protect against a limited number of HPV types, not all the types that cause cervical cancers.” <br /><br />Though early detection through Pap smears has made cervical cancer relatively rare in the United States (with an annual death toll of about 4,000), lack of preventive screening and treatment results in the death of some 200,000 women in developing countries each year. In those areas, the manpower and testing laboratories often aren't available to facilitate regular check ups. However, Dr. Surendra Shastri, head of preventive oncology at Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai, may have come up with a solution. <br /><br />Suspicious Pap smears are usually further investigated by dousing cervical cells in acetic acid, which is basically a sterile vinegar solution. This allows even less-trained healthcare workers to examine the cells under a microscope and determine if any cancerous cells are present. After conducting research comparing unscreened women to those screened with the vinegar process only for fifteen years, Dr. Shastri presented his findings yesterday to the American Society for Clinical Oncology — announcing an astounding 31% reduction in death from cervical cancer among the women regularly screened with his new method. <br /><br />In India alone, implementing this process could save 22,000 women a year — and 73,000 worldwide. And, while Dr. Shastri's study benefited from the high level of organization and diligence of a controlled study, the process is simple and cheap enough that it could work miracles in areas with limited medical access. The issue lies mainly in the follow-up process; it may prove difficult to get women who test positive into hospitals for the necessary treatment. But, this is one case where knowing is quite literally half the battle; and coupled with other low-cost methods currently in development, it could mean major change in the health of women the world over.<br /><br />As far as HPV leading to throat cancer, Dr. Haddard says the risk is relatively low. However, he explains, many patients with throat cancer are likely to have had HPV - it's present in two out of three cases, according to the American Cancer Society. He likens the phenomenon to smoking: "Not all smokers will develop lung cancer, but of patients who do have lung cancer, many of them are smokers." So, while having HPV does increase the risk of developing throat cancer, it's not an inevitable result. According to Dr. Haddard, smoking and drinking are much more closely linked to throat cancer. <br /><br /> Additionally, as for the buzz about <br /><br /> There are some preventative measures one can take. If you get the HPV vaccination, use protection when you have sex, make sure that you and/or your partner get regular Pap smears, and quit smoking.<br /><br /><br /><br />.Of course, smoking doesn't just increase your own risk of getting cancer, it increases the risk for everyone around you. Secondhand smoke is a well-known carcinogen, but what about thirdhand smoke? Even after cigarette smoke has cleared, toxins can linger, says Dr. Jyothi Marbin, M.D., a pediatrician at Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland. <br /><br /> Some of Dr. Marbin's patients have reported that their asthma symptoms flare up in a room where someone has been smoking. ("Even long after the smoker is gone," she notes.) It's no coincidence: Thirdhand smoke contains at least 11 toxic substances, she says, "including arsenic, cyanide, and lead." <br /><br />Dr. Marbin says that everyone should be concerned, but children are at a greater risk, as they spend more time indoors. <br /><br /> Non-smoking adults are commonly exposed to thirdhand smoke when they stay in a hotel, ride in a car, or move into a home or a building where smoking is allowed. <br />It's very easy to detect thirdhand smoke - if you can smell it, it's there. But, Dr. Marbin says, it might be there even if you can't smell it. "Research studies found that even two months after a cigarette is smoked in a room, there are still measurable levels of thirdhand smoke," she says. Unfortunately, there's no publicly available test for it, and it's not easy to get rid of. Dr. Marbin suggests cleaning surfaces or fabrics with an acidic solution like vinegar, and washing walls with hot, soapy water. <br /><br /> Dr. Marbin says taking a shower and washing your clothes can remove the residue. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
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throat cancer in straight men in particular, Dr. Haddard says that there's no evidence to indicate whether throat cancer from orally-contracted HPV is more or less likely than cervical cancer from vaginally-contracted HPV. Dr. Haddard says that oral sex is just one of many ways of contracting the virus, and advises taking safer sex precautions with all sexual activity. And, having a partner with HPV-related oral cancer does not mean that you will necessarily develop the virus or the cancer: In a recent study of partners of people with HPV-related throat cancer, the HPV subtype which can lead to throat cancer was present in 2% of female partners and actually none of the male partners. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09833575818637694753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1921593041860075078.post-36598063894723687352013-05-31T16:04:00.000-07:002013-05-31T16:04:50.592-07:00Ambitious Cloning Projects<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A Siberian expedition found a well-preserved woolly mammoth. When scientists investigated, blood came running out.<br />
The mammoth-rebuilding project is<br />
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A paleontological expedition team from the Research Institute of Applied Ecology of the North, North-Eastern Federal University, and the Russian Geographical Society went to the Novosibirsk archipelago in Siberia. There, the researchers discovered a female mammoth in a remarkable state of preservation.<br />
"The fragments of muscle tissues, which we've found out of the body, have a natural red color of fresh meat," declared the expedition leader Semyon Grigoriev. "The reason for such preservation is that the lower part of the body was underlying in pure ice, and the upper part was found in the middle of tundra", he added.<br />
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The scientists gathered blood samples to get the first tests. "The blood is very dark, it was found in ice cavities bellow the belly and when we broke these cavities with a poll pick, the blood came running out," Grigoriev declared.<br />
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Australian scientists broke new ground in embryonic cloning by reviving a dead frog species. They used eggs from a distant cousin.<br />
The Rheobatrachus silus frogs have been extinct since 1983. This Australian kind of creatures used to swallow the own eggs and then to release the young from the mouth.<br />
During five years , the Australian researchers have conducted their experiments using somatic-cell nuclear transfer, a technique for creating a cloned embryo called the Lazarus Project. They took donor eggs from a related frog to replace those nuclei with dead nuclei from the extinct frog. Some of the eggs then started to grow.<br />
. The embryos didn't make it past a few days, but they gave the scientists a fresh cache of living cells for future cloning experiments.<br />
"We are watching Lazarus <span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct" ginger_sofatware_markguid="8c9b5fdb-9c4d-462c-b5e2-89636f854b4f" ginger_sofatware_uiphraseguid="0fdb6eaf-9769-4e40-9d14-495d907a172c" grcontextid="arise:0">arise</span> from the dead, step by exciting step," declared the leader of the Lazarus Project team, Professor Mike Archer of the University of New South Wales in Sydney. The scientists from the University of Newcastle are participating in this project, too.<br />
The extinct frog's cell nuclei being gathered from tissues collected in the 1970s have been kept in a deep freeze until now.<br />
"We're increasingly confident that the hurdles ahead are technological and not biological and that we will succeed. Importantly, we've <span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct" ginger_sofatware_markguid="2a7077f9-b194-4285-8f30-fd90e5d799b3" ginger_sofatware_uiphraseguid="d7c68480-757e-4086-b548-c6424c418930" grcontextid="demonstrated already the:0">demonstrated already the</span> great promise this technology has as a conservation tool when hundreds of the world's amphibian species are in catastrophic decline," Archer declared.<br />
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The scientists in New Zealand found that DNA decays far quicker than previously considered, making be impossible to salvage the usable genetic material belonging to the dead dinosaurs.<br />
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The DNA fact-finding project involved a team of <span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_noSuggestion GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct" ginger_sofatware_markguid="77c0a487-deec-474b-a646-794d12a9af1f" ginger_sofatware_uiphraseguid="98f319df-8c42-45b7-a6f7-567d4146bc76" grcontextid="palaeogeneticists:0">palaeogeneticists</span>. They tested 158 leg bones belonging to three species of the extinct giant moa birds ranging from 600 to 8,000 years old.<br />
After running many comparisons between the age of the various bones and DNA degradation within each specimen, the scientists estimated that DNA's half-life works out to about 521 years after being kept in a swamp with an average temperature of 13.1 Celsius (55 Fahrenheit). Even a more ideal preservation temperature of minus 5 Celsius (23 Fahrenheit) would only result in readable DNA from specimens up to 1.5 million years old, meaning there is no possible way we can see a 65-million-year-old T-Rex waving its tiny arms about in this time frame.<br />
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DNA breaks down for a variety of reasons, including degradation from external influences such as temperature, water, soil chemistry, and so on. After half a millennium, the researchers assume that DNA continues to degrade as the nucleotide bonds within break in half. Each 521-year segment serves as another chapter of nucleotide structure breakdown and carries on until the bonds no longer exist. However, science has yet to determine the breakdown speed of DNA in environments that are more supportive of preservation, such as permafrost.<br />
Morten Allentoft at the University of Copenhagen and Michael Bunce at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia, worked with a large team on the findings, which were published today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B science journal.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09833575818637694753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1921593041860075078.post-43746489496782067502013-05-31T12:37:00.001-07:002013-05-31T12:37:34.306-07:00The Big Asteroid That is Zipping by Earth This Week is not Alone ,Because It Has a Traveling Companion<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The big asteroid -- 1.7 miles long -- that is zipping by Earth this week is not alone , because it has a traveling companion. NASA radar images , which are just released, show the asteroid called "QE2 '' and its previously undiscovered moon orbiting it. They technically make a binary asteroid system. The small asteroid circling the big one is estimated to be about 2,000 feet wide.<br />
NASA declared that about 16 percent of larger (over 655 feet) near-Earth asteroids are binary or triple systems.<br />
The closest approach of the space <span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct" ginger_sofatware_markguid="997583dc-4c6e-4664-9aba-5322974d749e" ginger_sofatware_uiphraseguid="332a08b0-cb1f-4f35-92a0-852b0a5bcf0e" grcontextid="rockin:0">rockin</span>' duo will take place on Friday, May 31 at 1:59 p.m. PT, when the system will get close to us almost 3.6 million miles ( 15 times the distance between Earth and the moon). The end of May passing of 1998 QE2 will be its closest visit for the next 200 years.<br />
"Asteroid 1998 QE2 will be an outstanding radar imaging target at Goldstone and Arecibo and we expect to obtain a series of high-resolution images that could reveal a wealth of surface features," declared radar astronomer Lance Benner from NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab.<br />
Despite flying by nearly 4 million miles away, the 230-foot wide antenna (telescope), belonging to Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in California's Mojave Desert, can zoom in very closely to 1998 QE2 in order to detect details 12 feet across.<br />
"We will also use new radar measurements of the asteroid's distance and velocity to improve our calculation of its orbit and compute its motion farther into the future than we could otherwise", declared Benner.<br />
The Carlo Zapponi's visual graph is called Bolides , and it puts the meteor strikes in a chronological view to get a historical perspective on the number of dazzling space rocks having fallen through our skies in recent times.<br />
Inspired by the Greek word <span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct" ginger_sofatware_markguid="e49663a3-6328-46a2-a46d-3fb710795a01" ginger_sofatware_uiphraseguid="b4f0ad0d-b26e-44bf-9c38-dc9121217ccd" grcontextid="bolis:0">bolis</span> (missile), Bolides features data from a range of historical <span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct" ginger_sofatware_markguid="88652f4c-5bc3-4915-b924-fcc40e9e3665" ginger_sofatware_uiphraseguid="b4f0ad0d-b26e-44bf-9c38-dc9121217ccd" grcontextid="meteor:1">meteor</span> records, ranging from MetBase to London's Natural History Museum catalog of meteorites, and displays the data in a special way to explore them.<br />
There are more than 34,842 recordings of meteorites from the year 861. <span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_noSuggestion GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct" ginger_sofatware_markguid="59b9d417-a448-4097-a537-2c2129a8d793" ginger_sofatware_uiphraseguid="fdfc07cf-6e41-44a6-bd1f-00efbf157571" grcontextid="Zapponi:0">Zapponi</span> graph only shows the 1,045 meteorites that couldn't be discredited or doubted.<br />
1933 was the year of 16 confirmed meteor strikes on Earth, and 1947 was the year , when the mega Sikhote-Alin meteor struck Russia.<br />
Immediately after a large meteor hit Russia on February, and injured about 1,000 people, President Obama's administration announced that the U.S. <span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct" ginger_sofatware_markguid="7a91e43e-1046-45d8-82a5-5e195be2e492" ginger_sofatware_uiphraseguid="fd62b37c-eb4d-4b82-94f9-236f636b3af3" grcontextid="would:0">would</span> work on the asteroid tracking technology to avoid other severe Earth collisions.<br />
Charles Bolden spoke at the Human to Mars Summit in Washington, D.C. <span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct" ginger_sofatware_markguid="da7aace0-3884-4293-9380-86ed2e393085" ginger_sofatware_uiphraseguid="497ac548-785a-491a-b3f2-b2649ded9f3f" grcontextid="on:0">on</span> Monday, and declared that a robotic spacecraft mission currently being planned will "prepare efforts to prevent an asteroid from colliding with devastating force into our planet."( U.S. News & World Report).<br />
The U.S. <span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct" ginger_sofatware_markguid="dc35e2b5-f29c-4a31-ad55-f6d9954539b4" ginger_sofatware_uiphraseguid="5c0a38da-b4ba-4470-b1e3-68e5a394721e" grcontextid="space:0">space</span> agency wants to lasso a small asteroid and to tow it close to our planet to be visited by the astronauts. They will be able to collect samples and to conduct research that could one day assist in a mission to Mars or save Earth from a catastrophic collision.<br />
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The Obama administration intends to put the U.S. Astronauts on a near-Earth asteroid by 2025, and perhaps, to follow up such missions with manned Mars flights in the following decade. Seventy-eight million dollars have officially been set aside in the next fiscal year budget for NASA to start the development of the asteroid capture plan.<br />
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NASA's science mission directorate associate administrator John Grunsfeld talked about the importance of the lasso mission of the Human to Mars Summit on Monday, as U.S. News & World Report declared.<br />
Grunsfeld also said that NASA has '' a pretty good theory that single-planet species don't survive ". "We don't want to test it, but we have some evidence of that happening 65 million years ago [when an asteroid killed much of Earth's life]. That will happen again someday ... <span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct" ginger_sofatware_markguid="6d6ee0bb-f6bf-40de-a820-47b227b5e530" ginger_sofatware_uiphraseguid="4dde6fba-caeb-434d-a460-b7bb9afcb0f8" grcontextid="we:0">we</span> want to have the capability [to leave the planet] in <span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct" ginger_sofatware_markguid="9158415b-b2fd-4022-8e50-d0e2e9d83791" ginger_sofatware_uiphraseguid="4dde6fba-caeb-434d-a460-b7bb9afcb0f8" grcontextid="case:1">case</span> of the threat of large scale destruction on Earth"<span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct" ginger_sofatware_markguid="9694b468-a937-44ee-b4f7-89192c8d381b" ginger_sofatware_uiphraseguid="4dde6fba-caeb-434d-a460-b7bb9afcb0f8" grcontextid=",:2">,</span>he added.<br />
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On Wednesday, the Origins-Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (Osiris-Rex) passed a key confirmation review , approving the development phase of the spacecraft , according to NASA.<br />
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NASA also has chosen and named the first asteroid it will visit and sample. The asteroid known as Bennu was previously called 1999 RQ36, but it was renamed as part of a contest involving suggestions from thousands of school children.<br />
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NASA declared that Bennu could hold clues to the origin of the solar system. NASA hopes that the new spacecraft can rendezvous with Bennu at 2018 . Osiris Rex wants to collect a minimum of 2 ounces (60 grams) of surface material to be returned to Earth by 2023.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09833575818637694753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1921593041860075078.post-73661978518645467882013-05-29T14:29:00.000-07:002013-05-29T14:29:53.395-07:00Judges Had Crowned Ontario's Denise Garrido, 26, the New Miss Universe Canada, but They Had Made a Mistake in Tabulating the Scores ....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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On Saturday night, the judges had crowned Ontario's Denise Garrido, 26, the new Miss Universe Canada out of 57 contestants, but on Sunday morning, they admitted that they had made a mistake in tabulating the scores . The new crowned beauty was Riza Santos, 26, of Calgary.<br />
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The 2013 pageant was held at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts in Toronto.<br />
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A follow-up post corrected the mistake, making a new list of the "final results" , and Riza became the queen.<br />
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Just 24 hours after being a winner, Garrido met Sunday with the pageant director Denis Davila, who stripped her of her sash, crown, trophy and the chance to represent the country at Miss Universe in the United States <span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct" ginger_sofatware_markguid="8955496a-724d-4a28-be45-566932c96a2e" ginger_sofatware_uiphraseguid="eef1bbd1-9194-47ca-a498-3aaf490db11e" grcontextid=",:0">,</span>on December<span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct" ginger_sofatware_markguid="7270db47-10f0-4119-84c2-f20dbd82103d" ginger_sofatware_uiphraseguid="eef1bbd1-9194-47ca-a498-3aaf490db11e" grcontextid=",:1">,</span>this year.<br />
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Garrido said , “My heart sank,” declared the Star.<br />
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Davila told her that a “typo” occurred when transferring the judges’ handwritten scores into a computer program that helps to decide the winner.<br />
"During the validation of the computerized scoring results (which occurs the following day), a typo was discovered in the top 5 entries, which significantly impacted the final results of the competition. This is the first instance of this type of error in the 11 years that Beauties of Canada (BOC) have produced the Miss Universe Canada pageant."<br />
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After the validation of the computerized scoring results, Garrido heard that she had not finished the first but the fourth, being the third runner-up to Santos, 26, of Calgary, Riza has to collect her crown in Toronto.<br />
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Organizers said that a typo had led to the wrong contestant being named the winner of the Miss Universe Canada pageant.<br />
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Usually, after judges score the contestants, someone inputs the results into a computer. Andrew Lopez, a spokesman for Miss Universe Canada, said that since 10 years, the lawyer Nick Macos of Black Sutherland LLP had been inputting the results, but he was not available this year. Thus, it was left to an inexperienced pageant employee to transfer the scores; it was he who made the error.<br />
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“Every single person who <span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct" ginger_sofatware_markguid="448f8e5d-8255-42e3-9345-8bd4889a73d2" ginger_sofatware_uiphraseguid="9d69b0bb-4fff-404f-ad26-e1d62082dd69" grcontextid="does the calculation needs:0">does the calculation needs</span> to be third party,” said Loza-Alvarado, a former production director and producer. “If not, it puts you in a very compromising situation.”<br />
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Davila, the pageant director , could not be reached to explain why another person not connected to Miss Universe Canada could not calculate the scores.<br />
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A third-party audit demanded the list of the handwritten scores wanting to to compare it with the computer results. Lopez could not confirm who carried out the audit, but declared that the person inputting the scores the night of the pageant is not required to be independent. He also declined to comment on Loza-Alvarado’s dismissal.<br />
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Marwa <span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct" ginger_sofatware_markguid="4fc5a2b8-6567-4521-ac79-c3c6b843aee4" ginger_sofatware_uiphraseguid="2aa42c35-ad4c-4a9f-abfb-ac7df76ab69d" grcontextid="Ishow:0">Ishow</span>, a contestant in the 2013 pageant, declared that Garrido deserved to win and the “typo” fiasco has left her and other competitors uneasy.<br />
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“How we do we know that everything else wasn’t wrong?” said <span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct" ginger_sofatware_markguid="f91551cb-11cc-45b1-b041-4b579d0efbc9" ginger_sofatware_uiphraseguid="91d0dbc8-4886-43c7-8720-566ee04351e8" grcontextid="Ishow:0">Ishow</span>, 22. “The whole pageant seems like it was staged.”<br />
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"I've grown a lot from this experience," Garrido told Yahoo! Shine in a phone interview. "It was a challenge at the time and was shocking to me...but it could be a great story for women everywhere.''<br />
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Last year's Miss Universe Canada pageant was also the center of controversy when transgendered contestant Jenna Talackova was barred from entering the final event. The reason was that she wasn't "born a woman." The decision was reversed some days later after public outcry.<br />
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This year, some fans, especially those from Garrido's hometown of Bradford, Ontario, couldn't accept the turnaround.<br />
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“I will always have the memory of being the 24-hour queen,” declared Garrido,. She is now too old to compete in this kind of competitions any longer.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09833575818637694753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1921593041860075078.post-74753240119982631322012-10-25T10:09:00.000-07:002012-10-25T10:09:24.230-07:00Sandy Packs Punch as a Strong Category 2 Hurricane, Claims 2 Lives.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The U.S. East Coast has a chance of getting blasted by gale-force winds, flooding, heavy rain and maybe even snow at the beginning of the next week due to an unusual hybrid of hurricane and winter storm, federal and private forecasters declared.<br />
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Hurricane Sandy in the Caribbean, an early winter storm in the West and a blast of arctic air from the North can collide, forecasters predict.<br />
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It is probably to hit during a full moon, when the tides are almost at their highest, increasing coastal flooding potential, NOAA forecasts report. The trees are still leafy and there is a potential for snow and power outages, some meteorologists warn.<br />
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It is a combination of different storm types that could generate a real whopper of weather problems, meteorologists declared.<br />
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The center's chief hurricane specialist, James Franklin, declared the threat keeps increasing for "a major impact in the Northeast, New York area. In fact it would be such a big storm that it would affect all of the Northeast."<br />
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The biggest problem is the snow and that depends on where the remnants of Sandy turn inland. The computer model that has been leading the pack in predicting the hybrid storm has it hitting around Delaware or closer to Maine. If it hits Delaware, the chances of snow increase in that zone. If it hits farther north, chances for snow increase in the mid-Atlantic , Masters declared.<br />
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Hurricane Sandy churned over eastern Cuba early Thursday having winds of 105 mph,the National Hurricane Center in Miami declared warning the residents living along the U.S. East Coast to be careful this weekend. Sandy claimed a pair of lives before reaching Cuba. A woman in western Haiti's Camp-Perrin died Wednesday while she was trying to cross a flooding river in the Ravine du Sud, Haitian news agency AHP reported .<br />
A man in Jamaica was killed ,according to CNN affiliate TV J.<br />
The wind has whipped the island since Thursday morning. Some 70% of its residents are without power and almost 1,000 people are in shelters, TV J declared. Sandy has its sights set on the Bahamas ,too.<br />
Hurricane warnings are in place for Jamaica, eastern Cuba, the central and western Bahamas, along with Haiti and southeastern Florida.<br />
Rainfall amounts could hit up to 12 inches . Sandy could make landfall somewhere between Maine and Virginia, bringing with it heavy rain, flooding, high winds and widespread power outages,Massachusetts Emergency Management reported.<br />
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Fort Lauderdale's Ocean Rescue told beach goers to stay out of the ocean.<br />
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The storm can shadow the east coast of the US in the coming days and can "potentially transition over the weekend into a powerful nor'easter",the National Hurricane Center reported.<br />
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The Hurricane Warning is in effect for Cuban provinces of Camaguey,Las Tunas,Granma,Santiago de Cuba,Holguin and Guantanamo,the Ragged Islands in the southeastern Bahamas,<br />
the central and the northwestern Bahamas.Preparations to protect life and property should be rushed to completion.<br />
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The Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for Haiti,Florida East Coast from Ocean Reef to Flagler Beach,Lake Okeechobee<br />
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At 800 am EDT...1200 UTC...the center of Hurricane Sandy was located by an Air Force Reserve hurricane hunter aircraft at latitude 21.6 north and longitude 75.5 west. Sandy is moving toward the north having18 mph-30 km/h-and this general motion is expected to continue today. A turn toward the north-northwest and a diminish in forward speed are expected tonight and Friday. The center of Sandy will move near or over the central Bahamas later today and tonight. It will move near or over the northwestern Bahamas on Friday.<br />
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Maximum sustained winds are almost 105 mph (165 km/h) with higher gusts. Sandy is a category two hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale, its gradual weakening being forecast over the next 48 hours. Probably ,Sandy remains a hurricane as it moves through the Bahamas.<br />
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Hurricane conditions can spread across the central and northwestern Bahamas later today through Friday,<br />
while tropical storm is expected in the warning area along<br />
the East Coast of Florida tonight and Friday.<br />
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Sandy is expected to produce total rainfall amounts of<br />
6 to 12 inches across Haiti,the Dominican Republic and eastern<br />
Cuba causing life-threatening flash floods and mud slides<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09833575818637694753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1921593041860075078.post-17876574506943483132012-10-24T19:23:00.001-07:002012-10-24T19:24:31.693-07:00The Most Recent Book, "Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Struggle to Save the World," by Evan Thomas and the Presidential Election<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The most important decision either President Obama or another President like Romney want to make in the next future is to bomb Iran and its nuclear facilities.<br />
Dwight Eisenhower was the first president to ponder his pre-emptive strike against a rising nuclear power. Immediately after Eisenhower became president, the Soviets detonated their own crude H-bomb, code named Joe IV (after Stalin) . Nine months before this, the United States had set off its own first H-bomb, code named Mike -- 500 times more powerful than those that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. At a secret national security meeting on September 24, 1953, the president Eisenhower gathered his closest advisers and asked: ''Would it be morally wrong not to attack the Soviets before it was too late?'' In the end,Eisenhower and his advisers concluded not to strike first, disregarding the wishes of the Strategic Air Command's Gen. Curtis LeMay. Eisenhower wanted to use nuclear weapons to stop communist aggression. He used the threat of their use to get America out of Korea in 1953, and similarly threatened during crises in Vietnam in 1954, with Red China in the Formosa Straits in 1954-55 and again in 1958, during the Suez crisis in 1956 and in Berlin in 1958-59. Ike knew how to hold his cards, even if doing so hurt him politically.<br />
In 1958, when he was under tremendous pressure to build more missiles to catch up the Russians, who had just launched the first satellite, Sputnik, Ike seemed strangely passive. He knew that the CIA's spy plane, the U-2, had not found any Soviet ICBMs, but he wanted to keep the existence of the spy plane a secret.<br />
In the winter of 1958, Eisenhower was visited by the poet, Robert Frost, who gave him a book of his poems inscribed with the notation, "The strong are saying nothing until they see." These words became Ike 's "favorite maxim."<br />
Usually,Eisenhower was carrying his great responsibility in<br />
the breast pocket. On D-Day, he carried this note , "The responsibility is mine alone," . On his first day as president in 1953, Ike wrote in his diary, "Plenty of worries and difficult problems. But such has been my portion for a long time."<br />
The most recent book , "Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Struggle to Save the World," by Evan Thomas was published last month by Little, Brown and Company.<br />
Now, both Obama and Romney have said that containment is not an option when it comes to Iran getting the bomb.<br />
Obama will no doubt try to reinforce foreign-policy campaign themes that his supporters feel are among his strongest credentials. But Mitt Romney will almost certainly try to lay out the narrative that Obama has weakened America and left it more vulnerable.<br />
Republicans have sought to present themselves as the party of foreign policy competence and national strength and to portray Democrats as weak, anti-military and too inclined toward multilateralist mumbo jumbo.<br />
The most resonant of the President Obama foreign policy achievements was the killing of Osama bin Laden ,this way dramatically weakening al Qaeda. But Benghazi provided palpable evidence that terrorists targeting Americans were still a reality .Combined with the continuing violence by the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan and by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah, it is hard to make the case that the threat has been reduced .<br />
Certainly the president ended America's long and costly involvement in Iraq. He has America on track to exit Afghanistan by 2014. He not only got bin Laden, but the U.S. military and intelligence community under his leadership also got a broad array of top al Qaeda lieutenants, such as Anwar al-Awlaki, and Moammar Gadhafi.<br />
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Obama's doctrine of fighting terror and enemies such as Iran through the use of covert means, cyberwarfare, special operations and unmanned drone operations seemed a more cost-effective.</div>
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<u>Exodus<o:p></o:p></u></div>
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‘’And the LORD said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand
into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out,
behold, <u>his hand was leprous as snow</u>.’’ 4;6<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘’And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also
these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the
water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the water which thou
takest out of <u>the river shall become blood</u> upon the dry land.’’ 4:9<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘’ And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so
as the LORD had commanded: and Aaron cast down <u>his rod</u> before Pharaoh,
and before his servants, and it <u>became a serpent</u>.’’7:10<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘’ And Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded; and he
lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of
Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in <u>the
river were turned to blood</u>.’’7:20<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘’ And the fish that was in the river died; and the river
stank, and <u>the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river</u>; and
there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.’’7:21<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘’ And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of
Egypt; and <u>the frogs</u> came up, and <u>covered the land of Egypt</u>.’’8:6<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘’ And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and <u>the
frogs died out of the houses</u>, out of the villages, and out of the fields.’’
8:13<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘’ And they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with
his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in
beast; <u>all the dust of the land became lice</u> throughout all the land of
Egypt.’’8:17<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘’ And the LORD did so; and there came a grievous swarm of
flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses, and into all
the land of Egypt: <u>the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies</u>.’’8:24<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘’ And the LORD did that thing on the morrow, and all <u>the
cattle of Egypt died</u>: but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not
one.’’ 9:6<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘’ And they took <u>ashes</u> of the furnace, and stood
before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it <u>became a
boil</u> breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast.’’ 9:10<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘’ For now I will stretch out my hand, that <u>I may smite
thee and thy people with pestilence</u>; and thou shalt be cut off from the
earth.’’ 9:15<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘’ Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain
a <u>very grievous hail</u>, such as hath not been in Egypt since the
foundation thereof even until now.’’ 9:18<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘’ So there was hail, and <u>fire mingled with the hail</u>,
very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it
became a nation.’’ 9:24<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘’And the locusts
went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very
grievous were they; before them <u>there were no such locusts</u> as they,
neither after them shall be such.’’ 10:14<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘’ And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and
there was a thick <u>darkness in all the land of Egypt three days</u>:<o:p></o:p></div>
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They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place
for three days: but all the <u>children of Israel had light in their dwellings.</u>’’
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‘’ And Moses said, Thus saith the LORD, About midnight will
I go out into the midst of Egypt:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<u>And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die</u>,
from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the
firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of
beasts.’’11:4-5<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘’ And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh:
and <u>the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart</u>, so that he would not let the
children of Israel go out of his land.’’11:10<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘’ And it came to pass, <u>that at midnight the LORD smote
all the firstborn in the land of Egypt</u>, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that
sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon;
and all the firstborn of cattle.’’ 12-29<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘’ And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the <u>LORD
caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind </u>all that night, and made
the sea dry land, and the <u>waters were divided</u>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea
upon the dry ground: and the <u>waters were a wall</u> unto them on their right
hand, and on their left.’’14:21-22<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘’ And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and <u>the
sea returned to his strength when the morning</u> appeared; and the Egyptians
fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And <u>the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and
the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh</u> that came into the sea after
them; there remained not so much as one of them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But <u>the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the
midst of the sea</u>; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand,
and on their left.’’ 14:27-29<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘’ I have heard the
murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even <u>ye
shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread</u>; and ye
shall know that I am the LORD your God.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And it came to pass, that at even <u>the quails came up, and
covered the camp</u>: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face
of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on
the ground.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to
another<u>, It is manna</u>: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto
them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of
it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number
of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents.’’16:12-16<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘’ And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna:
and <u>it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers
made with honey.<o:p></o:p></u></div>
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And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commandeth,
Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread
wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the
land of Egypt.’’16:31-32<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘’ And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the people,
and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest
the river, take in thine hand, and go.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in
Horeb; and <u>thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it</u>,
that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of
Israel.’’ 17:5-6<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘’ And <u>mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke</u>, because
the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke
of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed
louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the
mount: and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people,
lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And let the priests also, which come near to the LORD,
sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And Moses said unto the LORD, The people cannot come up to
mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and
sanctify it.’’ 19:18-23<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘’ And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the
mount.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And the glory of the
LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh
day <u>he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud</u>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring
fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up
into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights. ‘’
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‘’ Then <u>a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and
the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle</u>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the
congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the LORD filled
the tabernacle.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And when the cloud
was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in
all their journeys:<o:p></o:p></div>
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But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not
till the day that it was taken up.<o:p></o:p></div>
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For the cloud of the
LORD was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight
of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.’’ 40:34-38<o:p></o:p></div>
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<u>Numbers:<o:p></o:p></u></div>
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‘’ And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath
sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of mine own mind.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be
visited after the visitation of all men; then the LORD hath not sent me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But if the LORD make a new thing, and <u>the earth open her
mouth, and swallow them up</u>, with all that appertain unto them, and they go
down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked
the LORD.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all
these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them:<o:p></o:p></div>
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And <u>the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up,
and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their
goods</u>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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They, and all that appertained to them, <u>went down alive
into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the
congregation</u>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of
them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the
two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.’’ 16:28- 35<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘’ And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into
the tabernacle of witness; and, behold<u>, the rod of Aaron for the house of
Levi was budded</u>, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded
almonds.’’ 17-8<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘’ And Moses lifted up his hand, and <u>with his rod he
smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly</u>, and the
congregation drank, and their beasts also.’’20:11<o:p></o:p></div>
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<u>Joshua<o:p></o:p></u></div>
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‘’ And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the
people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the
book of Jasher? So <u>the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted
not to go down about a whole day.<o:p></o:p></u></div>
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And there was no day
like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a
man: for the LORD fought for Israel.’’10:13-14<o:p></o:p></div>
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Passengers on board the plane intercepted by Turkish jets declared that security forces were making the crew and passengers sign fraudulent papers suggesting that the plane made an emergency landing and no Turkish military were involved in the incident.<br />
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In USA,<br />
There is a presidential election fight,<br />
Well, everything seems to be alright,<br />
It might be alright, everything seems tight ,<br />
Sometimes,I dream of a red sky,<br />
The earth is cracking,<br />
I'm slowly dancing<br />
On your sweet love floor.<br />
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Turkey<br />
Sends bombs for free into Syria, on the other side,<br />
Well, it seems that nothing is more important than having pride,<br />
When Syrians in Turkey need to hide,<br />
I've never dreamt of a sky so red,<br />
The earth is cracking,<br />
I'm slowly dancing<br />
On your sweet love floor.<br />
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The Greeks<br />
Don't want to sell to Canadian consumers their gold,<br />
Well,it seems that in Canada it is very cold,<br />
Why is it so cold in Canada all the time and the gold isn't sold?<br />
I really dreamed of a huge red sun,<br />
The earth is cracking,<br />
I'm slowly dancing<br />
On your sweet love floor.<br />
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The world<br />
Is waiting for a new shift of magnetic poles,<br />
But,instead of this,earth makes gigantic craters called sinkholes,<br />
Smart money makers lose the remote controls,<br />
I really had a multicolored dream,<br />
The earth is cracking,<br />
I'm slowly dancing<br />
On your sweet love floor.<br />
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Much more protesters<br />
Want to change their lives and their presidents.<br />
To feed their kids, they work 12 hours per day for a few cents,<br />
It's something to think about ,when life has no sense.<br />
I dreamed of a world having a little pink,<br />
The earth is cracking,<br />
I'm slowly dancing<br />
On your sweet love floor.<br />
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An odd-looking sea creature locally christened the “bubble
shark” is breathing new life into a campaign to<i> preserve </i>a vital marine corridor straddling five provinces in the
Southern Tagalog region. The bubble shark also described as an “inflatable
shark” and is a <i>new</i> species of swell
shark being observed in waters off Batangas and Mindoro Island. It is so named
because of its defense mechanism to puff up<i>
to twice</i> its size in the face of danger. This discovery of the weird shark
adds a new meaning to efforts to <i>save</i>
the Verde Island Passage Marine Corridor (VIPMC), a bustling sea-lane renowned
for having some of the highest concentrations of shore-fish and underwater life
in the world. The presence of the bubble shark was discovered last year by a
group of researchers, who found a treasure trove of previously <i>unknown terrestrial and marine wildlife</i>
during the year 2011 on Philippine Wildlife Expedition spearheaded by the California
Academy of the Sciences. The shark found in the VIPMC “possesses a very
distinctive camouflaged color pattern,” the report said. Other swell sharks
feature dark round spots, but the species found in the Philippines, based on
pictures, have white or lighter spots instead. The deep water Oarfish is
estimated to be 50 feet in length. The Oarfish is the longest fish in the oceans.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Sumatran Orangutan is threatened due to poaching and
habitat <i>destruction</i> of the
rain forests in Indonesia. Only about 6,500 remain in the wild, and their great
ape species become <i>extinct</i>. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The Bactrian camel is critically endangered due to habitat
loss and drought. There are approximately only 950 Bactrian camels left in the
wild, struggling to <i>survive</i> in their
native desert habitat in northwest China and Mongolia being used as a Chinese <i>nuclear test</i> range. These animals are
also <i>hunted</i> for sport and because of
missing<i> food and water resources</i>. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The polar bears swimming and drowning between melting
patches of ice in their dwindling habitat have become synonymous with the
global<i> warming</i>. Currently, 20-25,000
polar bears still roam the wild, but if climate change trends continue, the polar
bears will be <i>extinct within the next 100
years. <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Forest clearing and
degradation</i> are main contributing <i>factors</i>
to the Mountain Gorilla’s pending <i>extinction</i>,
and only 720 animals of this species remain on the planet.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The last captive Quagga, a mare, died on 12 August 1883.The Quagga
was <i>hunted until extinction</i>. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Pigeon meat was commercialized and recognized as cheap <i>food, especially for slaves and the poor
people</i>, which led to a hunting campaign on a massive scale. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In the 1980s, a photograph of the Bondegezou was sent to
Australian research scientist Tim Flannery. In May, 1994, Flannery conducted a
wildlife survey of the area and discovered that the animal in the picture was <i>new to science</i>. Named Dingiso
(Dendrolagus mbaiso), this forest-dwelling marsupial has a bold coloration and spends
most of its time on the ground. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Central African tribes
and ancient Egyptians</i> described and depicted a bizarre creature for
centuries, colloquially dubbed the “<i>African
unicorn</i>” by Europeans. It is also known as the Atti, or the O’api,
resembling a cross between a zebra, a donkey and a giraffe. Despite explorers,
Western science rejected the existence of such a creature, viewing it as
nothing more than a fantastical chimera. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In 1901, Sir Harry Johnston, the British governor of Uganda,
obtained pieces of striped skin and even a skull of the legendary beast. Through
this evidence and the capture of a live specimen, <i>the animal now known as the okapi</i> (okapia johnstoni) was recognized
by mainstream science. The okapi is no less unusual today: it is the only
living relative of the giraffe, sharing a similar body structure and its
characteristic long blue tongue. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>In 1926, an expedition
approved</i> by the American Museum of Natural History confirmed that the tales
of a giant lizard were true. W. Douglas Burden, the leader of the expedition,
returned with twelve preserved specimens and two <i>live ones</i>. The world was introduced to the <i>Komodo dragon</i>, a massive monitor lizard that grows up to ten feet,
making it the largest lizard in the world. Komodo Dragons possess massive claws
and fangs with which they can kill almost any creature on the island, including
humans and water buffaloes. One particularly bizarre attribute of these
creatures is their venomous bite, which has been attributed to bacteria-laden
saliva or venom glands in the mouth.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A venomous, egg-laying mammal having a duck bill, a beaver
tail, and pelt, is known as the platypus, one of only five extant egg-laying
mammals. While formerly recognized by science, it is no less unique today: this
<i>semi-aquatic creature</i>, native to
eastern Australia, swims with webbed feet, uses electric location to hunt, and
possesses an ankle spur that, in males, can deliver a powerful injection of
venom non-lethal to humans.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Hybrid animals are crossbreeds between animals of similar
genetics. They mostly exist in captivity and are the result of <i>human intervention</i>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Liger is a crossbred between a male lion and a female tiger,
while Tigon is a crossbred between a male tiger and a female lion. Ligers are
the world’s largest cats. Tigons, on the other hand, are prone towards dwarfism
.Male Ligers/Tigons are sterile, while their females are often fertile.<o:p></o:p></div>
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For a dog wolf hybrid, it is not known when it displays a
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A zorse is the result of the crossbreeding between a horse
and a zebra. A zonkey is the result of the crossbreeding between a donkey and a
zebra. The Zony is the result of the crossbreeding between a pony and a zebra.
All these three are called zebroids. <o:p></o:p></div>
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A grolar/pizzly hybrid is the product of a grizzly bear and
a polar bear. Although the two bears are genetically similar, they tend to
avoid each other in the wild environment.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A Leopon is the result of the breeding between a male
leopard and a female lion. <o:p></o:p></div>
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A fluffy creature looks like a science experiment. It’s just
a rabbit, however. They were exceptionally popular in the 17th and 18th
centuries among European nobility as lap pets, and many different hybrids were
bred to suit changing tastes of <i>different
royalty</i>. The Angora rabbit is still popular to this day.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Pelochelys cantorii, or Cantor’s Giant Soft Shelled
Turtle, is one of the <i>most unusual
looking animals on the earth</i> .Yet; few people have seen it or know about
it. It’s not a sea turtle – the Cantor prefers to inhabit inland, close to
streams and wetlands. It grows very large, with adult shells often spanning
more than six feet. They are native to Cambodia, but they are very rare.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Pangolins are <i>toothless
and they have no external ears, though their hearing is very good</i>. Since
they have no teeth, they have a gizzard like stomach and swallow small stones
and sand to help the digestive process. Pangolins have very long tongues - up
to 16 inches in length - which are used to slurp up their favorite foods -
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They have a good sense of smell and a poor sense of sight.
Their scales, made out of keratin, (same material that makes up human
fingernails) make up 20% of their total body weight.<o:p></o:p></div>
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''Involution is the process of self-limitation, of
densification, by which the Absolute veils itself by <o:p></o:p></div>
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a stage until it assumes the appearance in the cosmos, the
universe we know of. It wishes to create <o:p></o:p></div>
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the universe to objectify itself and its spiritual
properties in infinite possibilities, for the purpose of <o:p></o:p></div>
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delight of discovery which it will achieve thereafter. The evolution is the movement forward by
which the created universe evolves from its initial state of divided, ignorant
forms, emerges as Life and Mind, and in that process rediscovers its Source. The
evolution occurs after the involution. It is the development and progressive
movement of all in the cosmos, including humans, to attain its fulfillment,
including rediscovery in delight of the spiritual aspect, that
Consciousness-Force, that was the source of the creation. Generally, evolution
is any process of change over time. In the context of life science, <o:p></o:p></div>
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evolution is a change in the traits of living organisms over
generations, including the emergence of new species. Since the development of modern genetics in the
1940s, evolution has been defined more specifically as a change in the
frequency of alleles in a population from one generation to the next.''<o:p></o:p></div>
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'' The theory of "devolution" or backward
evolution is the proposition that a species may evolve into <o:p></o:p></div>
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less primitive forms after having “evolved” over millions of
years into a higher form. The Theory of <o:p></o:p></div>
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evolution as a forward progression and devolution as a
regression is a reflection of the 19th century <o:p></o:p></div>
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ideas of Lamarckism and orthogenesis. Scientifically,
devolution does not exist. More recently the <o:p></o:p></div>
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genetically-based biological evolution theory proposes that
evolution occurs by mechanisms such as <o:p></o:p></div>
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natural selection, genetic drift, and mutation, and is
therefore not directional, forward or backward <o:p></o:p></div>
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in time; and consequently "devolution" cannot a
valid concept.''-<o:p></o:p></div>
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Involution, Evolution and Conscious Creation by Author Suzanne
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The paleontologists declared that ''a mass-extinction took
place between the Paleozoic and the Mesozoic.''<o:p></o:p></div>
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The extinction was triggered by the volcanism, oxygen deficiency,
salinity oscillation, temperature rise and fall, marine acidity and pollution
constituting a ‘‘gigantic ‘catastrophe group’, which led finally to a great
event, mass-extinction.''The extinction depends on the evolution, adaptability,
feeding habit and the mode of reproduction, as a research group noted in Yang
Zunyi.<o:p></o:p></div>
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''In May 2002, the world’s governments gathered in The
Hague, Netherlands, to address the planet’s biodiversity crisis. They declared
that by 2010, they would significantly slow the rate of biodiversity loss. But
subsequent reviews presented a gloomy outlook.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In 2005, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a $24 million,
United Nations–supported research program that focused on past ecosystem
changes and made projections about the future, released the results of its
first four-year study. Societies, it said, were responsible for the widespread
crippling of the world’s ecosystems. About 60 percent of global ecosystem
services—the goods and benefits people get from biological communities and
their environment—had been damaged. The assessment projected that things could
get even worse in the next 50 years.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Three years later, the United Nations Environment Programme,
with financial support from the European Commission, Germany, the United
Kingdom, Sweden, Japan, the Netherlands and Norway, issued an interim report on
The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity study. The idea for the study grew
out of a 2007 meeting of environment ministers from the G8 countries (plus the
five major newly industrializing countries) in Potsdam, Germany. TEEB
highlighted the cost of biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation and its
impact on human well-being. For example, in clearing forests for fuel or to
make room for growing urban areas, grazing cattle or agricultural crops,
enormous amounts of “natural capital” were being thrown away. According to
TEEB, $2 trillion to $4.5 trillion is lost every year from deforestation alone.<o:p></o:p></div>
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By the time the Convention on Biological Diversity released
the Global Biodiversity Outlook 3 in May 2010, it was clear that the brakes had
failed. The planet was losing biodiversity at an unprecedented rate. '', Hannah
Hoag, a freelance journalist in Montreal noted.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On 19 Mar 2011, an enormous crack, measuring 100 meters wide
and three kilometers long, appeared in the Huacullani district in the Chucuito
province, department of Puno. This crack determined Peru's geophysical
institute to rule out the occurrence of an earthquake in the area. Another
crack in the Earth's crust being located in the Afar region of Ethiopia was
open in just a few days in 2005, a study suggested. The crack can be the
forerunner to a new ocean. This crack is the surface component of a continental
rift forming as the Arabian and African plates drift away from one another. It
began to open up in September 2005, when Dabbahu volcano erupted. The magma
inside the volcano couldn't reach the surface and erupted as a fountain of lava
– instead, it was diverted into the continental rift underground. The magma
cooled into a wedge-shaped "dike" that was then uplifted, rupturing
the surface and creating a 500-metre-long, 60-metre-deep crack. Similar dikes
around 10 kilometers long and 1 meter wide also appeared in Iceland. Some
studies show that the formation of dikes can occur in large segments and over
much shorter periods than previously thought. "At some point, if that spreading and
rifting continues, then that area will be flooded," says Ken Macdonald, a
marine geophysicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Icelanders
were surprised when a large lake began to disappear into a long fissure created
by one of last summer's earthquakes on September 2001, Bijal P. Trivedi for
National Geographic declared. A geologist noticed a large gash in the landscape
about 20 kilometers (13 miles) from Reykjavik.
The fissure having a foot wide and 400 meters (1,280 feet) long led
straightly into Lake Kleifarvatn, so this lake has shrunk dramatically. ''Summerhouses
that were once mere steps from waterfront are now more than a kilometer away
from the water's edge'', Clifton said. "I couldn't find an earthquake in our
database that was big enough to cause such a huge rupture in the surface,"
said Clifton. Clifton tried to understand the relationship between the movement
of faults deep within Earth and their surface effects in the area. A giant,
deep and narrow crack was open in the ground of Seagi Gulistan, Pakistan on 7
March 2011. A large crack also appeared after a strange earthquake in Menominee
Township of Michigan, US, but no one really knows why such a massive crack
appeared thinking that there is no fault line in that zone. A crack over two kilometers
long and up to a meter deep has been discovered on the Baltic island of
Hiddensee on Jan 2012. Large zones of the German island’s coastline have been
blocked off amid fears of a big landslide. Authorities from the Western
Pomerania Lagoon Area national park have warned that the fracture line has been
widening, with smaller cracks developing off the main fault measuring up to 10 centimeters
wide. “We are preparing for a catastrophe,” park official Frank Martitz told
the Bild daily. The island measuring 3.7 kilometers at its widest point and 205
meters at its narrowest point is a destination for tourists.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There were two gigantic earth changing events in Mexico in
two weeks .A huge crack was open in Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato. Land sank in
Venustiano Carranza.Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato and Venustiano Carranza fall in
a right line from one another on the map. Similar cracks have formed recently
in 2012 in Spain, Peru, and other areas around the world. On July 1, 2012, a
huge crack was open in the earth between La Grulla and La Joya. The earth crack
is around 13 ft. (4 m) wide, 196 ft. (60 m) deep, and 9 miles (15 km) long.
Another hole was open to one side of the crack being so deep that the bottom
could not be seen. The communities of Jamaica, Fátima, The Crane and The Jewel
had to be isolated. Louisiana sinkhole also grows. (September, 2012)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Drastic fluctuations in ice accumulations were reported at both
poles on September, 2012. Coalition chairman, Hon Barry Brill, said the most
important aspect is the extent exceeds the usual Antarctica averages. “The sea
ice cover yesterday was 311,000 square kilometers above the 1979-2012 average.
The surplus ice is more than twice the area of New Zealand.” he said. “Over the
33-year period aggregate global sea ice volumes have remained steady, but there
are fluctuations between the two polar areas from year to year. The
fluctuations are the result of ocean currents and wind patterns, rather than
temperatures. Antarctic ice is much more important than that of the Arctic. The
area of its sea ice is a million square kilometers larger than the highest
value ever recorded in the Arctic. Then, of course, the Antarctic is an entire
continent, with more than 90% of the earth’s glacial ice,” Mr. Brill also
declared. '' The cap of the Antarctic is increasing in thickness in most
places, except around the Antarctic Peninsula. Sea ice extent is largely a
consequence of sea surface temperature, ocean currents and wind,” the chairman
concluded. New sea ice is finally starting to form again in the Arctic, scientists
reported. Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center, said
in a statement ,“While we’ve long known that as the planet warms up, changes
would be seen first and be most pronounced in the Arctic,” –MSNBC.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Because of the pressure under Japan’s Mt. Fuji volcano rising,
this eruption would be nightmare for Japan people being on Japanese soil at the
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Earth was cracking up under Indian Ocean. On 11 April 2012,
as Earth's crust began to break the tectonic plate. Two gigantic earthquakes
ripped through the floor of the Indian Ocean triggering large aftershocks on
faults of the world and providing the evidence that the Indo-Australian plate
is being torn in two parts, Colin Barras wrote in a magazine on 26 September
2012. Twin quakes having the magnitude 8.6 and 8.2 took place off the coast of
North Sumatra, geologists declared. These quakes usually occur at the boundary
between tectonic plates, where one chunk of Earth's crust slides beneath another.
These quakes took place at more than 100 kilometers from the subduction zone.
''Both involved rocks grinding past each other sideways with very little
vertical movement - what geologists call strike-slip earthquakes. Yet
strike-slip quakes this large had never been reported before.'', geologists
also said. Matthias Delescluse at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris,
France, and his colleagues have analyzed quakes in the zone since December
2004, when a magnitude-9.1 quake in a subduction zone near Sumatra triggered a
huge tsunami. They concluded that the earthquakes occurring this period were
nearly ten times more frequent compared with the previous 8 years, involving
rocks, which were pushed and pulled in the same directions. ‘The Indo-Australian
plate is breaking up along a new plate boundary'', said the researchers.
Although both are on the same plate, Australia is moving faster than India.
''This is causing a broad area in the center of the Indo-Australian plate to
buckle. As a result, the plate may be splitting.'' the same researchers declared.
“I think it's a fair argument that the 11 April earthquakes may mark the birth
of a plate boundary," Lingsen Meng at the University of California,
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A huge crack is also open in Antarctica. The Pine Island
Glacier's vast crack was pictured via NASA satellite the late last fall. ''With
a gargantuan crack slowly splitting it apart, Antarctica's fastest-melting
glacier is about to lose a chunk of ice larger than all of New York City,
scientists say.''-Richard A. Lovett at
National Geographic News noted on
February 2, 2012 .A Manhattan-size ice island also cracked in two parts.
''Snaking across the floating tongue of the Pine Island Glacier in West
Antarctica, the crack is expected to create an iceberg 350 square miles (907
square kilometers)''- according to NASA. ''Usually there's nothing
extraordinary about a glacier calving,'' declared glaciologist Ted Scambos of
the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colorado.''Glaciers
that flow into the sea, like the Pine Island Glacier, go through a normal cycle
in which the floating section grows, stresses mount, and an iceberg breaks off,
''Scambos said. ‘But when the pattern deviates, glaciologists take notice. In
this case, the crack is forming significantly farther upstream than has
previously been the case. That signifies that there are changes in the
ice," he declared. The ice will flow into the ocean at a faster rate, determining
the sea level to rise. ''As far as sea levels are concerned, changes in the
Pine Island Glacier and other West Antarctic glaciers are far more important
than shifts among the continent's other glaciers, such as East Antarctica's
Mertz Glacier'', declared oceanographer
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Knowing that the
oceanic crust is basalt, scientists declared that molten rock had been added to
the ridge as the ridge pulled apart at the center. The rock erupting under the
sea lava cools in the crack of the splitting ridge. The oceanic crust is made
up of long strips of caulking taking on the magnetic polarity of the earth's field.
When the floor moves away from the ridges, the striped pattern of magnetic
variation ends rather abruptly against the continents .Sometimes, the
distribution of earthquakes is deep beneath the margins of the continents. The
plates of the oceanic crust are moving down beneath the continental plates. The
zone between the ridge and the continental margin is one plate, and the
continent is another plate. The magnetic pattern off the coast of Washington
suggests that much of the Pacific oceanic crust plunged beneath the North
American continent. (Guide to the Geology of Olympic National Park by Rowland
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The earth has three concentric zones: the crust, the mantle
and the core. The core can be divided into two regions: a solid inner core and
a liquid outer core containing metallic iron .The crust floats upon the mantle
in two forms: the continental crust and the oceanic crust. The thick continental crust has deep buoyant
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Near the top of the mantle is a region of partially melted
rock called the asthenosphere. The hot magma rises and the cool magma sinks due
to differences in density. The layer of the mantle above the asthenosphere and
the entire crust form the lithosphere. The lithosphere is broken into plates that
“float" upon the asthenosphere being in constant motion. A convergent
plate boundary occurs when two plates collide. If this involves two continental
plates, the crust is compressed into high mountain ranges such as the
Himalayas. If an oceanic plate and a continental plate collide, the oceanic crust
is sub ducted under the continental crust and usually results in a deep ocean
trench such as the "Mariana Trench" in the Pacific Ocean. The sub
ducted crust melts and rises to the surface to form a volcano. A divergent
plate boundary occurs when two plates move away from each other. Magma
upwelling from the mantle region is forced through the resulting cracks to form
a new crust. The mid-ocean ridge in the Atlantic Ocean is a zone, where new
crustal material forms as plates diverge. Volcanoes can also occur at divergent
boundaries. The island of Iceland is an example. A third type of plate boundary
is the transform boundary occurring when two plates slide past one another
triggering earthquake. The San Andreas Fault in California is an example of a
transform plate boundary. An active volcano occurs when magma reaches the
earth's surface through a crack or vent in the crust determining the extrusion
of lava, the ejection of solid rock, the ejection of ash, and the release of
water vapor or gas. Volcanoes occur near plate boundaries, 80 percent at the
convergent plate boundaries. The Cascade Range was formed in this way. An
earthquake occurs when built up strain in rock mass causes a rupture below the
surface of the crust. Earthquakes
generally occur along breaks in the rock mass known as faults. Some 80 percent
of all earthquakes occur near convergent plate boundaries. Earthquakes are also
often associated with volcanic activity due to the movement of sub-surface
magma. When an earthquake occurs under the ocean, it can trigger a destructive
tidal wave known as a tsunami. Rocks can be classified into three groups:
igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic. Igneous rocks, like granite and basalt,
form when magma cools and crystallizes subsurface and on the surface.
.Sedimentary rocks are formed by the consolidation of the weathered fragments
of pre-existing rocks as a result of erosion and transport by wind, water or
ice, followed by sediments. The process of compaction and cementation is known
as lithification. Metamorphic rocks are formed when solid igneous or
sedimentary rocks change in response to elevated temperature, pressure and
chemically active fluids. Marble is a metamorphosed form of limestone.
Anthracite is a metamorphic form of coal. Soil formation begins with
unconsolidated materials that are the products of weathering. The weathering process involves the
disintegration and decomposition of the rock. (University of California College
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''Scientists claim that Earth is not expanding Since
Darwin’s time; scientists have speculated the planet might be expanding or
contracting. Even with the acceptance of plate tectonics half a century ago,
which explained the large-scale motions of Earth’s outermost shell, the
accusations persisted; some Earth and space scientists continued to speculate
on Earth’s possible expansion or contraction on various scientific
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My question is- Does the earth crust crack because of losing
lava, this missing making earth’s nucleus be smaller than before? The answer is,’’
Magma sometimes rises under enormous pressure, so it not only finds cracks in
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Early Monday morning, there were exchanges of fire in a southeastern zone of Turkey near Syria, Turkish authorities noted.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">A mortar shell launched from the Syrian zone landed in Turkey's Altinozu District,authorities said again.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Turkish forces fired "retaliatory shots" into Syria, because they think that the initial strike was launched by Syrian Security forces, the statement declared.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">The opposition Local Coordination Committees of Syria declared that 76 people died across Syria. </span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> The Syrian government has restricted any access regarding international journalists.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Syria's vice president may lead a transitional government and Syrian rebels are open to this idea,Turkish foreign minister declared.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Bessam Dade,a political adviser, declared that the the rebel Free Syrian Army may approve this plan only if Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is not granted immunity from prosecution, Turkey's TRT news agency declared.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Rebels want to seize a military camp and they had destroyed three tanks by Monday morning.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Government forces have been shelling the surrounding zone -- and firing mortar rounds that fell into Turkey, a witness said.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared the incident in Akcakale was caused "by artillery fire belonging to the Syrian regime forces." Turkey fired on Syrian government targets in response.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> U.S. presidential candidate supports arming rebels.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will announce his support regarding Syrian opposition members in a foreign policy speech ,on next Monday.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">The United States is helping Qatar and Saudi Arabia. </span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Obama's administration has limited aid to nonlethal materials.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"> The Australia's Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef. It has lost half of its coral reef in little more than a generation and it is declining faster than ever .The coral cover is at a high risk of falling to 5 percent , some studies and researchers from the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) in the northeastern city of Townsville shows.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The coral reef is under threat from Australia's surging coal, gas shipments, climate change, particularly rising sea temperatures, increased ocean acidity, more powerful storms,and a destructive starfish, AIMS noted.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br />AIMS scientists said that the cyclone damage caused almost half the losses, crown-of-thorns starfish caused more than 40 percent and coral bleaching from spikes in sea temperatures caused 10 percent.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br />The water of the seas is absorbing more and more carbon dioxide causing the ocean acidification to rise. This acidification</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"> is disrupting the ability of corals to build their calcium carbonate structures. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br />Climate change like increasing of the ocean temperatures, the storm activity, the ocean acidification, and the sea-level rise determine the coral bleaching and the diseases. Increasing the atmospheric carbon dioxide has already begun to reduce the calcification rates in reef-building and reef-associated organisms by altering sea water chemistry (ocean acidification). </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br />Greens say the centre-piece of a multi-billion tourism industry faces a growing threat from shipping driven by the planned expansion of coal and liquefied natural gas projects.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br />Shipping and new ports on the Queensland coast are another major threat, Greenpeace says.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br />''Coal is one of Australia's top export earners and the state of Queensland is the country's largest coal-producer. It also has a rapidly growing coal-seam gas industry for LNG exports.'',Reuters noted.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /><br />Overfishing, direct exploitation of fish, invertebrates, and algae for food and the aquarium trade has lead to the depletion of key functional fish, invertebrates, and algae species in specific locations having cascading impacts on coral reef ecosystems.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The removal of a group of species is impacting multiple levels.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br />The suite of problems regarding coral reef ecosystems from land-based sources of pollution subsumes the sediment, the nutrients, and other pollutants being a result of the land-based activities. These pollutants are transported in surface waters, runoff, groundwater seepage, and atmospheric deposition into coastal waters causing some diseases and even death in sensitive coral species. They impede the coral growth, their reproduction, and the settlement of the coral larvae.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /><br />Gunn said that there are methods to improve the water quality from rivers flowing into the reef area.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br />NOAA has a clear role to monitor the climate change and the ocean acidification by reducing the greenhouse gases (primarily carbon dioxide).</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br />Forty years ago, the Caribbean area had lost half of its coral.. After decades of human impacts, only remote reefs in the region show coral growth up to 30 percent.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br />The decline of algae-eating species like parrotfish and sea urchins, have left many reefs overrun by stifling algae.Symbiotic algae, zooxanthellae, leave the coral when water heats up, an occurrence known as bleaching. Zooxanthellae are living inside the corals and are assisting in providing nutrients and aiding photosynthesis.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Overfishing is still an issue in some places like Jamaica, and nutrient runoff pollution from land is a problem in U.S. Virgin Islands.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /><br />Coral reefs are made from calcium carbonate secreted by coral polyps and support intricate food chains of invertebrates and fish species. Furthermore, fishes provide certain nutrients that the coral feeds on, helping it maintain itself and grow. Some fishing practices can damage the coral reef. Pollution like oil spills negatively affects the coral reefs. Fertilizers and pesticides used in farming practices are transported in surface waters of the sea and cause algae to flourish. This algae deplete oxygen levels in the water. Deforestation and industrial development can cause silt, soil and sediment to wash into the ocean .This fact can increase the turbidity in the water preventing sufficient sunlight from reaching the coral.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /> The range from sewage belonging to tourist resorts is washed directly into the sea affecting the coral reefs. The divers and the snorkelers are breaking off many pieces of coral used as souvenirs.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"> The oceans have absorbed much of carbon dioxide affecting the pH balance of seawater and making seawater be more acid than before. This carbon dioxide has reduced the availability of carbonate ions, an essential chemical in the formation of coral.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">An increased ultraviolet radiation caused by the greenhouse gases is depleting the ozone layer . This increase in greenhouse gases is caused by industrial byproducts. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Another cause is the transfer of foreign species in ballast water .</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br />There is a clear evidence that major glaciers have retreated much more in the past than their current levels and that they expended again, only to retreat again starting about 250 years ago. As a result of regional climate change, the African sub tropical glaciers really started to shrink in a big way. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">''Tropical glaciers exist only at high altitude, and meteorological and surface energy balance studies of these glaciers can tell us much about the conditions and changes occurring in the mid troposphere.'',NASA noted.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br />These glaciers are a very poor “Canary” since we are in an Interglacial period with remnant glaciers. Since the last Interglacial period has been rather long at a bit over 11,000 years, the disappearance of glaciers is not something that really should be unexpected .</span></span><br />
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Lying is a sin of commission, when it is evident ,but it can be a sin of omission ,when people know to say the truth and don't do it.There are also truths, that are hidden because of greed, jealousy, envy, or pride.The most common sin is the sin of denial. This sin is about people lying to themselves or lying to anyone else. Denial is being out of touch with reality. It can become a silent killer. Some people deny their true feelings, or they deny their motives. In time, they deny many of their sins, and they end up believing their own lies while distorting the truth, including God's truth. They don't realize that this is a self-destructive way to live.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09833575818637694753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1921593041860075078.post-578192128764736942012-10-05T15:02:00.000-07:002012-10-05T15:51:23.981-07:00A Tiny Dinosaur With Vampire-Like Fangs Devoured Plants?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">P. africanus species were "scampering around between the toes of other dinosaurs at the dawn of the dinosaur era," declared Paul Sereno, a National Geographic Society explorer-in-residence. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Its fangs were more like those of the pig like peccary or fanged deer, or like plant-eating mammals using their teeth for self-defense and foraging, Sereno declared.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">The scientist said that P. africanus species would have lived along forested rivers in southern Africa in the period when this continent belonged to the super continent Pangaea,which split into landmasses long time ago.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Sereno concluded that P. africanus' fangs were very similar to those of fanged deer and peccaries, which use their fangs in self-defense and competition for mates.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;">While the red butterfly melts its wings</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;">Within the light red poppy chain, </span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;">The pink gray cloud of the sunset rings</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;">On the gray pink sky the light rays, </span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;">Seemingly thrown in a bloody pain.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;">The leaving sun abandons the sky</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;">For a few hours and like crickets crawl, </span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;">The whispers of oak leaves mean good bye, </span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;">While the coming night is a dark haul, </span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;">Looking at the moon with a black eye.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;">The sun and the moon finds synergy, </span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;">Light becomes gray regolith of moon</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;">With helium fusing energy, </span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;">Night makes moon looks like a big balloon</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;">Or like swaddled in a big cocoon.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;">Much more, like thoughts enveloped in words</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;">Or like souls carrying their divine love, </span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;">With feathers of light like Holy birds, </span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;">In the rain with drops of divine globes, </span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;">Falling down for giving love awards.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;">Like rain with drops of human spheres, </span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;">Pouring up to Him when they can hook</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;">Or falling right down to disappear, </span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;">Reverse arch getting a killer look, </span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;">Trying to provide fragrance of fear.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;">Their waves are liquid and drain in sight</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;">Of Earth to meet at infinity.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;">They are like dark rays in the pure light, </span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;">Light rays are arches for Trinity, </span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;">While dressed in wind seems to be the night.</span><br style="color: #333333; 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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The aftershocks were rapidly continuing<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>without decreasing in frequency </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">While a rupture near the boundary between those tectonic plates occured.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Usually, the Pacific plate slowly<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>moves to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>westwards at a very low velocity.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">This quake was caused by Pacific and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>American plates boundary rupture.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The dissipation of the heat from the mantle was a real source of energy </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">For Pacific plate thrusting underneath the <country-region w:st="on">Japan</country-region> and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><place w:st="on">Eurasia</place> plate. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">This drive of plate tectonics was possible because of the excess density,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">'Cause lithosphere became dense by cooling<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>until having a solid state.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The boundary between the Australian and Pacific tectonic plates</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are part of the “Ring of Fire” and runs from south of Fiordland</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Along the line of the Southern Alps, beneath wonderful <place w:st="on">Cook Strait</place> ,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Capital of <city w:st="on">Wellington</city>, and out to sea through the eastern <place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on">North</placename> <placetype w:st="on">Island</placetype></place>.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A section of the prehistoric supercontinent Gondwana broke away</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eighty million years ago comprising a few slithers of land left to drift</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Coalescing into a new continent ,Zealandia,under the Southern sun's ray.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">When magma heated continental crust above to crack open to form a rift .</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Due to seismic activity,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>sea levels<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>temporary fluctuated<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>looking so glum,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Zealandia sank beneath sea level<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>letting <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">New Zealand</place></country-region> to be a remnant .</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The pressure of opposing tectonic plates caused<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Alpine Fault to come.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The <place w:st="on">Southern Alps</place> rose above<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the water looking like the moon's crescent.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Earth’s surface is recycled through the volcanic emission<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and subduction. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The quake can be caused by a rupture near the boundary between plates.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The causes are high the level of carbone dioxide and sometimes erosion,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">But when the rupture is big, it can become a real monstruous Hell's gate.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Pacific plate had thrusted underneath <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Japan</place></country-region> and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in a late,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">It dipped<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>beneath <place w:st="on">Eurasia</place> plate and the earthquake occurred along</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The subduction zone at the interface between those two tectonic plates.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Two thousands people died because the earthquake was very strong.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The Pacific plate moves usually westwards at a very slow<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>velocity .</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The boundary between the Pacific and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Australian Plate runs broadly </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Along<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">New Zealand</place></country-region> ,where another quake occured with a strong ferocity,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">While planet is on a one-way warming trend triggered by human activity.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Poem by Marieta Maglas</div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09833575818637694753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1921593041860075078.post-29945115223877508042011-03-14T11:03:00.001-07:002011-03-14T11:04:20.762-07:00Nature And Sunset<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div id="body">While the red butterfly melts its wings <br />
Within the light in the poppy chain <br />
The pink gray cloud of the sunset rings. <br />
On the gray pink sky the light rays <br />
<br />
And throw our love in cold bloody pain.<br />
The leaving sun abandons the sky <br />
For a while and like the crickets crawl, <br />
The whispers of leaves seems to say "Bye!"<br />
<br />
The coming night seems to be a haul <br />
Looking at the moon with a black eye.<br />
The sun and the moon finds synergy <br />
Light becomes gray regolith of moon <br />
<br />
With helium fusing energy. <br />
The moon looks like a yellow balloon, <br />
Being swaddled in a big cocoon.<br />
Or like our thoughts enveloped in words, <br />
<br />
When our souls are surrounded by love <br />
Having white feathers like Holy birds <br />
Sometimes being like globs which rain down <br />
For giving us some divine awards.<br />
<br />
Like a rain of love human spheres <br />
Pouring up to Him when they can hook <br />
Or falling back down to disappear. <br />
People start to keep a dying look, <br />
<br />
And the air has a fragrance of fear.<br />
Their waves are liquid shocking insight, <br />
Never reaching the infinity. <br />
They are like rays in the pure light.<br />
<br />
The light is an arch for Trinity, <br />
While dressed in wind seems to be the night,<br />
Stars are candles and God lights them all. <br />
The colors withdraw in the lost light<br />
. <br />
In the black darkness they look so small. <br />
The seeds of dream germinate for fight <br />
Becoming real for breaking their wall.<br />
<br />
The poem is a double Quintain (English and Sicilian)</div><div sizcache="2" sizset="51"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" sizcache="2" sizset="51"><tbody sizcache="2" sizset="51">
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Burying vehicles under debris and collapsing buildings into the streets. <br />
The police announced a night time curfew and the city was shut down on Wednesday, <br />
The rescuers scrambled to reach beneath the rubble the bleeding residents.<br />
<br />
The fact that the quake destroyed the spire of the Cathedral is one of the real tales. <br />
The Pyne Gould Guinness Building really had collapsed and the people were trapped inside. <br />
Meanwhile, all around the city, this powerful earthquake strangely bent some rails, <br />
Moreover, it toppled the tall buildings and all we know is that seventy five people died.<br />
<br />
The latest earthquake combination of distance, depth and timing was so deadly, <br />
The streets were strewn with shattered concrete and people were stuck in office towers. <br />
The firefighters climbed extension ladders to pluck people trapped on roofs to safety. <br />
Now the buildings have gone because two aftershocks hit the city within two hours.<br />
<br />
There had been pre-World War II buildings badly damaged by the quake on September, <br />
The residents had wandered through streets strewn with debris and piles of concrete. <br />
The further damage to buildings was caused by a strong aftershock in December. <br />
Now there is a real carnage right throughout the city with bodies littering the streets..<br />
<br />
The women went into premature labor as a result of the quake, the city was in agony. <br />
The airport was shut down, on impassible roads and in ruins the people began to groan, <br />
After the strike, every child has been walking home trying to find the lost family. <br />
All corners of the city were suffering cuts to the water supply, the power and the phone.<br />
<br />
A thirty million tone block of ice sheared off a glacier of New Zealand. <br />
A few minutes after the earthquake had devastated the city groping it in Dark. <br />
The iceberg crashed into a lake shortly after the quake had rocked the South Island, <br />
The iceberg ripped off the Tasman Glacier at Aoraki Mount Cook National Park.</div><div sizcache="2" sizset="49">Poem by <br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Line 1 is one syllable syllable</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Segment of speech usually consisting of a vowel with or without accompanying</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">consonant sounds (e.g., a, I, out, too, cap, snap, check) . A syllabic consonant,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">like the final n sound in button and widen, also constitutes a syllable.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">line 2 is two syllables; line 3 is three syllables; line 4 is four syllables;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">and line 5, is ten syllables.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">The fourth and fifth lines may rhyme or rime, the most prominent of the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">literary artifices used in versification. Although it was used in ancient East</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Asian poetry, rhyme was practically unknown to the ancient Greeks and Romans.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">But this is not mandatory.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Waste</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Sea green</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Wavering</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">In slimy traps</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">In woozy circles</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Gushing at the deep water horizon</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Melody still rooting in bluesy rock</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Gloppy red icing</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Crooked letters</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Violet</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Colored</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Dream</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Fish</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Yellow</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Flimsy boats</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Lanky white man</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Muzzy from the work</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Cloudy indigo sky hanging round all.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09833575818637694753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1921593041860075078.post-21538532341625159262011-02-26T11:10:00.001-08:002011-02-26T11:10:25.229-08:00Existing outside myself<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="table23" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; width: 524px;" valign="top"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">I am transformed<br />
From my ego into a you<br />
I am passive<br />
Existing outside myself,<br />
My ego is also my non-ego.<br />
I am you only<br />
In so far<br />
As I am your sensuous being.<br />
I'm your idea<br />
Taking on sensuousness<br />
When nothing real is permanent<br />
I'm here for<br />
The realization of your aims<br />
In Omniscience,<br />
In Omnipotence<br />
In Omnipresence</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="color: black; cursor: text; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 8px;" valign="top"><strong>Sometimes I'm over and often in<br />
My crying jail<br />
Like a hand of a corporate body<br />
Encompassing both belonging<br />
To that sadness.<br />
An inflexible realness<br />
Forcing eyes<br />
To speak<br />
Against that malignant silence<br />
Upon that lower lip,<br />
Forcing that bloodcurdling<br />
Inner scream to be<br />
An outer space song<br />
When it's pushed through fractured teeth<br />
Into a totally weird reality<br />
Like a shadow of<br />
An incomprehensible dream<br />
With inlaid hopes<br />
This reality slipping out<br />
When I awake alone<br />
To nurture my love<br />
In my painful freedom</strong></td></tr>
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