By Mike Robbins
Hydrogen -- Star Gas, Everywhere, Yet Unseen. Sunlight is its Child.
(Haiku by Stephen Wetlesen)
March 29, 2016
Use the
readily available source of
sunlight to power your water
heater, hot tub, and more
Many can agree that solar
power is one of the best
alternative energy options
available today. People are
not just using it to produce
energy by placing solar
panels on their roofs, but
are using the technology in
new ways. Read on below for
five unique uses for solar
power.
Misconceptions take root in
our minds very easily. It
takes a determined spirit to
weed out all the
brainwashing and programming
we have taken on.
Many people never question
certain ideas or conceptions
they have. But people need
to be careful of confusing
what is true with what they
want to be true. Just
because we all want to live
in a just world doesn’t mean
we actually do live
in a just world. Great
problems arise when we take
our misconceptions and
assert them as fact.
One hundred and forty-seven
FBI agents are part of the
investigation into Hillary
Clinton's emails, said a
lawmaker who'd been briefed
by FBI Director James B.
Comey, reports The
Washington Post.
The
FBI is hurrying to avoid
announcing any action in the
case too close to the
presidential election, the
report said.
The new study reveals a
pretty huge revelation about
the Moon – that the exact
same face hasn't always been
the one we see now, as the
rotational axis actually
shifted by some five degrees
around 3 billion years ago.
With the recent terror
attacks, such as San
Bernardino, combined with
charges that President
Barack Obama wants to
further curtail the Second
Amendment, more people than
ever are buying guns and
applying for concealed carry
licenses across the country,
but especially in
“gun-friendly” states like
Texas.
The Belgium newspaper
Derniere Heure reported
Saturday that a guard at a
nuclear plant was found dead
after being shot several
times and having his
security credentials stolen.
The paper called the murder
an event “completely
ignored” by the media.
Protest of 300 people was
the latest in a string of
actions targeting federal
onshore and offshore oil and
gas leases. Activists
attempted to interrupt a
federal auction of offshore
oil and gas leases on
Wednesday in New Orleans.
Climate change and rising
global temperatures are just
a natural process that the
earth has experienced many
times over its long history.
What’s not normal right
now is the speed at which
those temperatures are
rising.
Solar eruptions from our sun
are nothing compared to
eruptions from some other
stars – so-called
‘superflares’. Two
scientists say our sun could
also be a superflare star.
The sun is capable of
producing monstrous
eruptions that can break
down radio communication and
power supplies here on
Earth. The largest observed
eruption took place in
September 1859, where
gigantic amounts of hot
plasma from our neighboring
star struck the Earth.
“From Prozac to caffeine to
cholesterol medicine, from
ibuprofen to bug spray,
researchers found an
alphabet soup of drugs and
other personal-care products
in sewage-treatment
wastewater and in the tissue
of juvenile chinook in Puget
Sound.”
The Justice Dept. did not
say how federal agents got
access to the shooter's
iPhone, but confirmed it
will no longer seek Apple's
help in this case.
CDC Issues False Statement
to Defame Raw Milk...
The FDA has spent years
aggressively warning people
against drinking raw milk
with the claim that it
causes hundreds more
foodborne illness outbreaks
than pasteurized milk. Yet,
there have been no cases of
listeriosis attributed to
raw milk consumption going
back forty years, or more.
Unlike raw milk, pasteurized
dairy has been linked to
several deaths in the past
ten years.
Global investment in coal
and gas-fired power
generation plants fell to
less than half that in
renewable energy generation
last year, in a record year
for clean energy.
It was the first time that
renewable energy made up a
majority of all the new
electricity generation
capacity under construction
around the world, and the
first year in which the
financial investment by
developing countries in
renewables outstripped that
of the developed world.
A new report backed by the
UN shows that 2015 had the
highest global investment in
renewable energy generation
ever, but oil, gas, and coal
are set to remain a major
part of the world's energy
infrastructure for years...
The UN report found that
$286 billion was invested
globally in renewable energy
in 2015, outpacing every
year since 2004 and bringing
the world’s 12-year green
investment total to roughly
$2.3 trillion.
“I think it’s hard to
realize for most of us that
live down here that water
really is a limiting
resource,” said Paul Brooks,
a hydrologist and professor
in the University of Utah’s
department of Geology and
Geophysics.
Despite the fact that the
American West is facing
serious water shortages —
Lake Mead, for example, is
at its lowest recorded
levels since the 1930s —
recent proposals to legalize
rain barrels in Colorado
have been stalled or
defeated.
Japan on Monday switched on
a radar station in the East
China Sea, giving it a
permanent intelligence
gathering post close to
Taiwan and a group of
islands disputed by Japan
and China, drawing an angry
response from Beijing.
...Napolitano asserted that
the 147 FBI agents who have
been working on the case for
more than a year “have a
mountain of evidence” that
they are “now ready to
test.” Yet Clinton’s former
aides do have a choice of
whether or not they want to
succumb to the FBI’s
interviews should they take
place. ..
He continued, “Prediction:
something will happen by May
which is now a little over a
month away.”
If the Millstone Power
Station in Waterford shut
down, more than a thousand
jobs in southeastern
Connecticut would be lost
and carbon emissions in New
England would increase by 27
percent, officials said
Thursday.
You can see how workers are
throwing fists on small
animals as if they are
objects rather than living
creatures.
“Let’s follow the real
footstep of beloved holy
Jesus Christ … and get the
real success in both
worlds,” he wrote on the
Facebook account widely
reported in the British
media to belong to him.
Former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton and her
presidential campaign staff
have insisted that she did
not use her private email
address for official
business until March 2009.
However, on Thursday, an
email between the
then-secretary and her chief
of staff from February 2009
surfaced
New rules under
development by the Obama
administration will take
data collected by the NSA,
supposedly for
“counter-terrorism” and put
it into the hands of other
federal agencies and even
your local law enforcement
for everyday use.
Proponents of federal
spying inevitably defend any
objection to mass
warrantless surveillance by
playing the terrorism card.
Nuclear fusion needs a
“Wright brothers” moment, to
convince the world of its
promise of unlimited clean
and safe energy and so
unlock significant private
investment, according to a
physicist whose says his
company is closing in on
that goal. ..
The plasma needed for fusion
energy reaches an
extraordinary temperature:
100mC, hotter than the core
of the sun.
The U.S. Forest Service
has started its formal
review of the environmental
impact of the proposed
Resolution Copper mine, but
opponents charge that the
outcome of the process is
“already pre-ordained.”
That’s because the land
being studied is going to be
handed over to the mining
company as part of a land
swap with the government,
limiting the amount of input
the Forest Service can have
on operations, they say
All told, 22 million more
people will have health care
coverage this year than if
the law had never been
enacted, CBO said. The
measure's coverage
provisions are expected to
cost $110 billion this year.
The number of uninsured
people this year is
anticipated at 27 million.
When the U.S. Department of
State released a statement
condemning the Pakistani
Taliban faction’s Easter
bombing in a Lahore park, it
noticeably omitted the fact
that Easter-celebrating
Christians were specifically
targeted.
Fresh research has
revealed that powerful solar
storms known as
"superflares" are generated
via the same process as
common solar flares produced
by our Sun. These
superflares are capable of
posing a significant threat
to our advanced technology,
and seriously harming
Earth's protective ozone
layer.
Earth's atmosphere is
bombarded by charged
particles from the Sun on a
constant basis.
Periodically, our star
throws off what is known as
a solar flare.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter
used his personal email
account for government
business for nearly a year,
until December 2015, when
news reports revealed the
practice, according to
hundreds of Carter emails
released by the Defense
Department.
County staff in Colorado’s
Boulder County have been
directed to draft a plan to
rid county-owned land of
genetically modified crops
in the relatively near
future. The directive was
given recently (March 2016)
by the Board of County
Commissioners in the best
interest of their people.
Play Your String
“We cannot change our past.
We can not change the fact
that people act in a certain
way. We can not change the
inevitable. The only thing
we can do is play on the one
string we have, and that is
our attitude.” ― Charles R.
Swindoll
C2 event observed.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a slight
chance for a C-class flare
on days one, two, and three
(29 Mar, 30 Mar, 31 Mar).
The geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
unsettled levels on day one
(29 Mar) and quiet levels on
days two and three (30 Mar,
31 Mar).
The conclusion that deep
cuts in net emissions of
carbon dioxide are required
to avoid a global calamity
is "a scientific
conclusion," he said. "It's
not advocacy. It's telling
you what is needed."
In Norfolk, Virginia, an
East Coast city that’s home
to the world’s largest naval
station and important
seaports, catastrophic
flooding could damage more
than homes and roads. A new
study from Sandia National
Laboratories assesses how
much the city, its region
and the nation would suffer
in damages to national
assets and lost economic
activity if it does nothing
to address rising sea
levels.
What does it really mean
to awaken? It is fair
to say that awakening is a
journey from limitation to
freedom — from unconscious
to conscious. Whether you
intentionally choose to take
this journey or an
unexpected experience
propels you onto the path,
once you start, there is no
turning back.
Residents returning home a
month after gas leak ends
report lingering illnesses
as SoCal Gas prepares to cut
off relocation housing
payments this week...
Although the 112-day leak
from an underground gas
reservoir was permanently
sealed more than a month
ago, relocated residents
returning to their homes
report health symptoms
similar to those that drove
them out weeks earlier.
There is, perhaps, no other
food source surrounded by
such magic and mystery as
mushrooms. In the videos
embedded below, leading
mycologist Paul Stamets
offers a glimpse into some
of the roles medicinal
mushrooms play in health,
such as activating your
immune system, naturally
fight flu viruses and other
diseases, and potentially
fighting cancer. Mushrooms
may even help to save our
environment by restoring
habitat that’s been
devastated by pollution, and
creating sustainable fuel.
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In April 2014, the state
of Michigan took over
Flint’s city management
and decided to switch
Flint’s water supply
from Detroit’s treated
water to water from the
Flint River — a
notoriously polluted
waterway
-
Virginia Tech scientists
discovered Flint’s tap
water was contaminated
with lead, in some cases
twice the level
considered to be toxic
waste, as well as other
toxins and dangerous
bacteria
-
In October 2015,
Michigan switched
Flint’s water supply
back to the Great Lakes,
but the damage was
already done. Water is
still not drinkable in
many areas, due to the
corrosion of lead pipes
caused by Flint River
water
Andrew rocketed to the
forefront of the anti-vaxxer
movement when he published a
study in British medical
journal The Lancet
that claimed to find a link
between the administration
of the measles, mumps and
rubella (MMR) vaccine and
autism. After 10 years, in
2010, hoping the study would
get no traction, the vaccine
industry falsified charges
against Wakefield to
discredit him, and the study
was retracted and Wakefield
lost his license, for
extremely questionable
charges.
Some 3.6 million pounds of
nuclear waste is stored at
the now-shuttered San Onofre
Nuclear Generating Station
(SONGS) but when the waste
will be transferred and
where it will end up are
still very open questions.
In the immediate future,
..Sea-level rise could
destroy teeming shorelines
and coastal cities housing
hundreds of millions of
people. Ever-worse
hurricanes, twisters and
floods — along with
droughts, wildfires and
tropical diseases — could
inflict enough damage to
cripple the economy...
Oxford physicist Raymond
Pierrehumbert says the
ultimate destiny will be
incineration, hundreds of
millions of years from now
when the sun comes to the
end of its life-cycle and
swells to a lethal furnace,
exterminating all living
things on Planet Earth.
March 25, 2016
First, much of the
institutional setup for
providing financial services
to millions in systemically
important advanced economies
was not designed to operate
for long with negative
nominal interest rates.
Second, persistent negative
interest rates may compel a
growing number of
individuals to disengage
from a financial system that
now taxes them for placing
deposits and savings.
Third, if negative interest
rates go beyond perceived
thresholds of reasonableness
and sustainability, the
operating modalities of
certain markets could
change.
“There are only two
emotions: love and fear.
From love flows happiness,
contentment, peace, and joy.
From fear comes anger, hate,
anxiety and guilt. It’s true
that there are only two
primary emotions, love and
fear. But it’s more accurate
to say that there is only
love or fear, for we cannot
feel these two emotions
together, at exactly the
same time. They’re
opposites. If we’re in fear,
we are not in a place of
love. When we’re in a place
of love, we cannot be in a
place of fear.” ~
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
The US is set to become one
of Japan's top 10 oil
suppliers in May when
roughly 2 million barrels of
US crude and condensate
arrive in the month, just
months after Washington
lifted crude export
restrictions put in place 40
years ago.
She also learned that the
ROTC cadets will be
conducting the drills for
the next couple weeks, and
they have permission to do
so. But Czerwiec still
wasn’t satisfied.
Authorities this month
said that areas of the World
Heritage site were
experiencing the worst
bleaching in 15 years, at
least partially as a result
of the current El Nino, one
of the strongest in two
decades.
Coral bleaching is a
process by which coral
expels living algae, causing
it to calcify. Coral can
only survive within a narrow
band of ocean temperature.
The U.S. charged seven
hackers linked to the
Iranian government with
executing large-scale
coordinated cyberattacks on
dozens of banks as well as a
small dam outside New York
City — intrusions that law
enforcement officials said
reached into America's
infrastructure, disrupted
the nation's financial
system and cost tens of
millions.
“There is one, and only one,
reasonable inference that
can be drawn from the facts
before this court: that the
GMA intentionally took steps
to create and then hide the
true source of the funds …
from the voting public of
Washington state,” Thurston
County Superior Court Judge
Anne Hirsch wrote in
a pretrial ruling.
A group of Boulder
businesses, organizations
and individuals are among a
100-member Colorado
coalition that this week
co-signed a letter imploring
the Environmental Protection
Agency to stop two Utah coal
plants from creating hazy
skies in some of the
region's most prominent
wilderness areas.
Lexi’s family made
sure they were part of
Lexi’s life, and they have a
relationship with her. Each
month, they made the long
drive to see Lexi. Twice
each week, her family had
SKYPE visits with Lexi. In
addition, Lexi has had
extended visits in her
family’s home in Utah. Lexi
has a relationship with her
biological sisters and she
knows them as her sisters.
Researchers have discovered
how to use a fungus to
create materials that could
be used to make more
sustainable lithium-ion
batteries
The IRS must produce
information about tax-exempt
applications for a tea party
lawsuit that alleges the
agency subjected
conservative groups to
additional, often burdensome
scrutiny, a federal appeals
court ruled Tuesday.
A three-judge panel
unanimously rejected a
request by government
attorneys to block a judge's
order to turn over
information about applicants
and chastised the agency for
resisting such requests "at
every turn."
Cree, Inc. has demonstrated
a single high-power LED
delivering nearly 1,600
lumens at 134
lumens-per-watt (LPW) with
similar color quality as an
incandescent light bulb.
"As soon as the markets
realize that the Fed and the
ECB are out of ammunition,
it's over," Stockman
recently told CNBC.
"I think we're in an
extremely unsafe world —
we've never been here
before," he said.
"Global deflation is going
to turn into a recession
worldwide," said Stockman.
"They're out of ammo to deal
with it," he said.
Don't Watch the Clock
“Don't watch the clock; do
what it does. Keep going.” ―
Sam Levenson
A round solar filament that
had just rotated into view
burst out from the sun over
a three-hour period on March
13, 2016 in a dramatic
display.
Two environmental groups
have filed a federal lawsuit
accusing Rocky Mountain
Power of violating clean
water laws by allowing
toxins from coal ash waste
to leach into the
groundwater and two streams
near its Huntington coal
plant in central Utah.
The settlement covers
violations of the water
authority’s wastewater
discharge permit. EPA
inspectors found ABCWUA
experienced several sanitary
sewer overflows and exceeded
its permit limit for the
amount of E. Coli bacteria
in the discharged effluent.
ABCWUA was also cited for
discharging about six
million gallons of sewage
into the Rio Grande on
February 27, 2015. EPA
issued administrative orders
to ABCWUA to correct these
violations in March 2015.
Dangerous nitrate levels
in drinking water could
persist for decades,
increasing the risk for blue
baby syndrome and other
serious health concerns,
according to a new study
published by researchers at
the University of Waterloo.
Nitrogen fertilizer
applied to farmers’ fields
has been contaminating
rivers and lakes and
leaching into drinking water
wells for more than 80
years....
Five bald eagles have died
in Delaware, state officials
said on Tuesday, weeks after
13 of the U.S. national
birds were determined to
have been killed by humans
in neighboring Maryland.
A Frenchman in the
"advanced stages" of a plot
to attack the country was
arrested Thursday northwest
of Paris and security forces
locked down the area during
a major search, France's
interior minister said.
Bernard Cazeneuve said
there were no links "at this
stage" between the plot and
the attacks against Brussels
this week or Paris in
November.
The ongoing trade dispute
between China and the United
States continues to affect
the manufacture of
polysilicon used for
photovoltaic modules in both
countries, but not equally,
according to a new report of
IHS Inc.
(link is external)
on the global PV market. A
rush to install projects in
China before the deadline
for feed in tariff levels of
those projects on June 30,
2016, has led to increasing
polysilicon prices In fact,
before the Chinese New Year
in February 2016,
polysilicon was sold for
just $12 per kg, on average.
Now, prices are expected to
rise to $19 per kg (i.e.
more than 50 %) by April
2016.
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The USDA has come under
increasing scrutiny
following charges of
harassment and
censorship. Due to
mounting complaints from
scientists, the USDA
inspector general is
opening an
investigation.
-
USDA whistleblower
Jonathan Lundgren,
Ph.D., claims he was
retaliated against when
he started talking about
his research, which
shows neonicotinoids
cause decline in bee and
Monarch butterfly
populations.
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Krysta Harden, former
deputy secretary of the
USDA, has been hired by
chemical giant DuPont to
head up its "public
policy and government
affairs strategies”
department.
Leaders for Clean Air,
founded in January 2015, has
an ambitious goal --
installing 2,000 new EV
chargers up and down the
Wasatch Front by 2017.
The nonprofit works with
business owners and
executives to install EV
stations for their employees
for free. If the companies
decide they're benefitting
from the chargers, they
donate funds -- usually
around $550 -- so chargers
can be installed elsewhere.
- The large fire and
several smaller fires
spread from late January
to early February in
northern Republic of
Congo.
- Fires are uncommon
in rainforests, which
are usually perpetually
moist.
- Researchers say El
Niño is largely to
blame, but that human
activities in the region
may also have
exacerbated the
situation.
The results showed those who
meditated reported
significantly lower
sensations of pain than
those who did not, even when
they received the medication
or the saline placebo. At
the same time, participants
in the non-meditation groups
reported increases in pain,
whether they received the
naloxone or placebo-saline
injection.
Under state-run systems like
utilities and roads, poorer
communities are the last to
receive attention from
government plagued by
inefficiencies and corrupt
politicians. Perhaps no
group knows this better than
Native Americans, who have
been victimized by
government for centuries.
...that the Page family
has reportedly known since
2011 about the relatives in
Utah who have wanted to take
Lexi in.
“Court transcripts
indicate the Pages were
aware since 2011 that their
foster daughter had loving
relatives wanting to welcome
her into their home and
reunite her with her
siblings, one of whom she
will now live with,”
...previous investigations
have shown that the decline
in Rio Grande silvery minnow
may be attributed to
modifications of the natural
streamflow regime, channel
drying, construction of
reservoirs and dams, stream
channelization, declining
water quality, and
interactions with nonnative
fish. Understanding native
species habitat limitations
is important for decision
makers to better plan future
flow operations to meet
desired resource goals.
A so-called “nightmare
bacteria” that kills nearly
half of its victims has been
found in a wastewater
treatment plant in Southern
California, and sewage
plants do not seem capable
of killing it.
A paper released
yesterday by the European
science journal
Atmospheric Chemistry and
Physics argues that
climate change may be
accelerating at a much
faster rate than previously
thought.
The scientists argue that
sea levels could increase by
so much over the next
hundred years that coastal
cities like New York,
London, Rio de Janeiro and
Shanghai could be underwater
by 2100.
"Restraint does not equal
leadership when you are
under attack."..
"When will people realize he
literally does not care"
Coal is not king -- at least
not in Oregon. Earlier this
month, Oregon became the
first state in the nation to
pass legislation to
completely do away with coal
from its resource mix. The
law puts Oregon among a
handful of states with
renewable energy standards
of 50 percent or higher.
What's more, the legislation
could very well spell the
end for coal throughout much
of the West.
The Panama Canal will next
month impose new draft
restrictions on ships due to
falling water levels at
nearby lakes that form part
of the waterway, the
authority that administers
the canal said in a
statement on Monday.
A new report compiled by the
U.S. Geological Survey
(USGS) concludes that
different types of
pesticides are showing up in
America’s streams and
rivers, threatening our
planet’s innate aquatic
life.
As the mainstream matrix of
society is becoming
completely out of sync with
the nature of the original
Spark, our instruments
(mind, body, spirit) are
purposely being made out of
tune with the organic source
of life. The evolution of
human consciousness through
artificial and synthetic
means is promoted over
natural ways. This can
eventually lead to the
creation of a completely
controlled culture and
humanity. A restrictive
education system and the
media’s so-called “news”
facilitate the molding of
our opinions by misinforming
and dis-informing (truth
mixed with lies makes for
the most convincing
manipulation).
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a chance
for a C-class flares on days
one, two, and three (25 Mar,
26 Mar, 27 Mar). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet
levels on days one and two
(25 Mar, 26 Mar) and quiet
to unsettled levels on day
three (27 Mar).
After the Paris terror
attacks in November, Belgian
authorities reportedly
discovered 12 hours of
footage indicating that
Islamic State adherents were
spying on a senior official
with Belgium’s
nuclear power program,
according to Derniere Heure,
a French-language newspaper
based in Brussels.
The Rockefeller Family Fund
said on Wednesday it would
divest from fossil fuels as
quickly as possible and
"eliminate holdings" of
Exxon Mobil Corp saying the
oil company associated with
the family fortune has
misled the public about
climate change risks.
In the energy world, the
ability to store electricity
at an affordable price is
the treasure sought by
utility engineers and
financial wizards...
Because of the cost of solar
thermal, ESolar and other
firms began pursuing molten
salt storage as a cheaper
alternative.
Sen. John McCain said
Wednesday that the Obama
administration knows that
Islamic State has a chemical
weapons factory in Syria but
that "I'm not sure they know
where it is."
"We
have information, public
information, that they have
established a chemical
weapons factory there in
Raqqah," the Arizona
Republican told Wolf Blitzer
on
CNN. McCain is
chairman of the Senate Armed
Services Committee.
Like many problematic
pieces of legislation, this
one sounds innocent enough.
But it has major
repercussions — which could
expedite a worldwide flight
from the U.S. dollar and
ultimately result in
billions in potential losses
for U.S. citizens.
“There’s some concern that
the storms might be too much
of a good thing. At the top
end, the series of storms
could double the current
snowpack in the Sierra, and
fill Shasta Reservoir...
These would be milestones
almost too difficult to
exaggerate in a state where
every drop of water counts.
The downside, of course, is
the storms will create a
risk of significant
flooding,” he wrote in
Slate.
You may have seen the recent
poll results announced by
the Value of Water Coalition
indicating near universal
agreement (95 percent) on
the need for reliable water
systems, along with the
somewhat surprising fact
that a majority (60 percent)
would agree to higher water
bills to support them. The
real surprise, however, is
who is willing to pay the
most.
The accelerated
decommissioning of Swedish
nuclear power plants
requires operators to tackle
potential skill gaps in the
shift from operations to
dismantling and prepare for
a surge in demand for waste
technicians, industry
experts said...
[Editor: We do not now have
the skill power to dismantle
what we have built.]
A Texas man on death row for
killing a worker who was on
his property looking for
city code violations was put
to death Tuesday.
The hijacking of our minds
and our consciousness with
fear-based societal
manipulation is the
foundation for many of our
most deeply rooted beliefs
and perceptions. The
institutions of our society
are designed to produce
fear, stress and trauma via
manufactured systems of
power, governance,
education, religion and
finance (just to name a few)
— all of which serve to
propagate institutional
instead of personal
power. And, while we are
spiritual beings having a
human experience, we are
human after all, and
our psychology and biology
play compelling parts in our
behavior and reactions to
those manipulative stimuli.
The
takeover of the American
food supply by genetically
modified organisms, or GMOs,
was done without the consent
of the public, and now most
of the country is still
coming to grips with the
fact that 70-80% of its food
products contain GMO
ingredients that are banned
in dozens of countries.
This radical change to
our food supply could only
have happened with the
support of our major
politicians and the silence
of the media, and that’s
exactly how it came about.
Again and again, we are
attacked by people who have
warned us of exactly what
they intend to do, who have
explained exactly what
motivates them, and who have
proved beyond doubt that
they are sincere. Again and
again, we respond to the
violence with shock,
psychoanalysis, and a brief
surge of force before going
back to life--and business,
and security--as usual.
Nearly half of the world’s
workers are employed in
water-related sectors, while
at the same time, the water
security of eight out of 10
people is under threat, the
United Nations said today,
highlighting the links
between water, forests and
jobs.
E-mail
has been around in various
forms for decades, but the
underlying technology used
to send it is almost as old
-- and that’s a big problem,
according to engineers who
develop e-mail protocols.
So, representatives of the
world's biggest e-mail
service providers have
united to improve the
security of e-mail traffic.
BPA (bisphenol-A) is a
chemical that is added to
many commercial products,
including food containers
and hygiene products...
BPA has a similar structure
as the hormone estrogen. It
may bind to estrogen
receptors and affect the
function of your body.
So let me get this
straight…they are afraid of
this man because of he
brings a gun into the
school…..yet they have him
escorted in and out of the
school by….wait for it….a
police officer who has a
GUN!
These people are beyond
stupid!
These people think that
the cop will protect them
but I wonder if anyone of
them know that a cop only
has to go to the range 1
time a year to
practice/qualify. I
guarantee that father goes
more than that and is a
better shot them the cop
escorting him.
The World Bank has
approved a $500 million loan
to China to support
financing of projects to
help control air pollution
in and around Beijing.
The money is part of a
broader program expected to
reach $1.4 billion for
"green financing" over the
next six years that includes
another half billion dollars
from Hua Xia Bank Co Ltd and
$400 million in equity
contributions from
sub-borrowers, the World
Bank said.
March 22, 2016
...technologies to monitor
drivers have taken on a
whole new meaning in recent
years, as car companies
accelerate their efforts to
develop autonomous cars.
A new implantable capsule
may provide a novel way of
tackling Alzheimer's
disease, preventing the
buildup of harmful protein
plaques in the brain. The
small device, developed by
researchers at the Swiss
Federal Institute of
Technology in Lausanne
(EPFL), has been
successfully tested on
laboratory mice.
Just a few hours ago,
a comet zipped by the Earth
in one of the closest
displays in decades. While
the nearby comet was a rare
event in and of itself, the
spectacle didn’t stop there:
tomorrow morning, a second
one is due to zoom past our
planet in the closest
encounter with a comet since
1770.
Arithmetic
“In the arithmetic of love,
one plus one equals
everything, and two minus
one equals nothing.” ―
Mignon McLaughlin
A new report released by the
World Meteorological
Organization shows that
climate change is
accelerating at an
"unprecedented" rate,
warning that actions must be
taken "before we pass the
point of no return."
Many take offense to advice
when they don’t ask for it,
including suggestions.
Unsolicited advice can feel
intrusive. It can threaten
our personal space and
privacy. There are also
different degrees of
criticism and advice, and
the tone of delivery has
lots to do with how well we
can hear it. So does the
nature of our relationship
with the person from whom we
receive it.
Criticism is another level
of “advice,” which often
comes with more punch and
can push our buttons.
Farm-grown fish are an
important source of food
with significant and
worldwide societal and
economic benefits, but the
fish that come from these
recirculating systems can
have unpleasant tastes and
odors. To clean contaminated
water for farmed fish,
drinking and other uses,
scientists are now turning
to an unlikely source -- the
mucilage or inner "guts" of
cacti.
Doctors should be
prescribing more exercise
for common chronic problems,
including knee
osteoarthritis, heart
disease, diabetes, and
chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease, says a
review in CMAJ (Canadian
Medical Journal Association),
yet it's often overlooked as
a treatment.
Part of
the reason doctors don't
prescribe exercise is that
they simply don't understand
how effective exercise can
be, and haven't a clue how
to advise patients
One of the largest
nuclear power facilities in
North America plans to
double in size.
The Nuclear Regulatory
Commission recently gave the
South Texas Project the
green light to build two new
reactors at its plant
between Bay City and
Palacios . The company is
holding off on building the
reactors because of low
natural gas prices and a
lack of demand for new
energy in Texas.
Whenever you’re on Facebook,
do you ever get the feeling
that you’re being watched?
An ad pops up that’s right
up your alley, or three new
articles show up in your
feed that are similar to
something you’ve just
clicked on.
Here’s a natural phenomenon
you might never have
imagined. That is, the sun
actually sets faster around
the time of an equinox.
All
through 2014 and into 2015
the FBI was given direct
access to all of the data
the NSA was vacuuming up
from the Internet, according
to a report by the Privacy
and Civil Liberties
Oversight Board (PCLOB).
This means that all the
while FBI Director James
Comey (shown) was
complaining about the “going
dark” problem and a
shrinking pool of
surveillance tools, his
agency had nearly limitless
amounts of the very data he
claimed he was missing out
on.
Heavy winter rains have
left the Missouri and
Mississippi River basins,
from Iowa to Louisiana, at
an elevated risk of moderate
flooding through June, U.S.
government forecasters said
on Thursday.
The risk extends to
eastern Texas and the
southeastern Coastal Plain,
the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA) said in issuing its
spring outlook
For the first time since
Gallup first asked the
question in 1994, a majority
of Americans say they oppose
nuclear energy. The 54%
opposing it is up
significantly from 43% a
year ago, while the 44% who
favor using nuclear energy
is down from 51%.
Five years have passed since
a massive tsunami washed
over the seawall around the
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear
Power Plant, sending three
reactors and a whole nation
into meltdown. The event
claimed the lives of 15,891
people and around 160,000
were forced from their homes
following the most
devastating day in Japan's
modern history, but in many
ways the country is only
just beginning to pick up
the pieces. With the cleanup
expected to take decades,
radioactive materials still
unaccounted for and the
health effects still very
much the subject of debate,
what comes next for
post-Fukushima Japan?
Researchers look at changes
of Earth's temperature and
atmospheric carbon dioxide
(CO2) since the end of the
age of the dinosaurs. Their
findings suggest humans are
releasing carbon about 10
times faster than during any
event in the past 66 million
years.
According to 580 KIDO, Greg
Pruett, president of Idaho
Second Amendment Alliance,
reacted to the Senate vote,
saying, “We
are pleased that the Senate
has passed SB 1389 with an
overwhelming majority. Idaho
citizens are one step closer
to seeing Permitless Carry
in Idaho. On to the House!”
There have been
stories coming from Indian
country for decades about
fractionated lands. Many
Natives see humor in the
fact that they receive a $2
check from the U.S.
Department of Treasury for
their land ownership and/or
their oil and gas leases.
But there is a deeper story
and reasoning why this
tragi-comedy is impacting
Indian country.
In June 2013, former
National Security Agency
(NSA) contractor Edward
Snowden leaked documents
about a program called
PRISM, claiming it collected
users’ data right from the
servers of American tech
companies, such as Yahoo,
Google, and Apple. Those
companies immediately fired
back, saying there was no
knowledge of it and that
they did not give the NSA
such access. But now, U.S.
Federal District Court Judge
John Gleeson has just
admitted that the infamous
PRISM program does, in fact,
exist.
A fire in one of Mumbai's
three rubbish dumps on
Saturday has triggered a
fall in air quality to
"poor"...
Astronomers have discovered
an entirely new breed of
super massive galaxies that
had previously been hiding
in plain sight among spiral
galaxies such as our own
Milky Way. The vast galactic
structures rank among the
most luminous and largest of
any galaxies discovered to
date, and are believed to
shine up to 14 times
brighter than the Milky Way
galaxy
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown on
Friday, March 11, signed
into law a measure (Senate
Bill 1547) making Oregon the
first state to eliminate
coal from its energy supply
by legislation, which will
happen in phases through
2030.
Picture yourself on a
jury, realizing that even
though the defendant broke
the law, the law is wrong.
Must you obey the judge’s
commands to consider only
whether the law was broken?
Or can you do more?
You should judge whether
the violated law should
exist, and whether the
potential penalties — even
when the judge tells you to
not consider them — are too
severe.
In the courtroom, all
power and authority is
yours.
It's not the end of the
war, nor even the end of a
battle.
Last week's U.S. Supreme
Court decision temporarily
halting federal regulations
to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions from power plants
merely signals a pause,
albeit a very pregnant one,
in the clash between the
White House on one side and
a coalition of states and
industries on the other.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a chance
for a C-class flares on days
one, two, and three (22 Mar,
23 Mar, 24 Mar). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
unsettled levels on days one
and two (22 Mar, 23 Mar) and
quiet levels on day three
(24 Mar).
Savchenko had been
accused of helping the
Ukrainian army target the
shelling that led to the
June 2014 deaths of two
Russian journalists in
eastern Ukraine at the
height of fighting there.
Little known before her
capture, Savchenko has since
become a national symbol of
resistance in Ukraine and a
target for Russians to focus
their anger about the
killing of eastern Ukrainian
civilians.
Roadblocks
“If you're trying to
achieve, there will be
roadblocks. I've had them;
everybody has had them. But
obstacles don't have to stop
you. If you run into a wall,
don't turn around and give
up. Figure out how to climb
it, go through it, or work
around it.” ― Michael Jordan
According to footage, the
crew’s tumultuous day began
as a car filled with
migrants approached the
crew. When the discussion
between the crew and the
migrants began to get tense,
one of the crew’s cameramen
was deliberately run over as
the car sped off.
An unprecedented alliance of
30 major cities and
districts from three
countries has joined forces
to try to shut down two
ageing Belgian nuclear
reactors close to their
borders.
A molecule in the venom of a
Bothrops asper pit viper has
been found to stimulate
enzymes that degrade plaques
in the brain of Alzheimer’s
sufferers
Falling coal use in China
and the US and a worldwide
shift towards renewable
energy have kept greenhouse
gas emissions level for a
second year running, one of
the world’s leading energy
analysts has said.
Preliminary data for 2015
from the International
Energy Agency (IEA) showed
that carbon dioxide
emissions from the energy
sector have levelled off at
32.1bn tonnes even as the
global economy grew over 3%.
The human brain is capable
of 1016 processes
per second, which makes it
far more powerful than any
computer currently in
existence. But that doesn’t
mean our brains don’t have
major limitations. The lowly
calculator can do math
thousands of times better
than we can, and our
memories are often less than
useless — plus, we’re
subject to cognitive biases,
those annoying glitches in
our thinking that cause us
to make questionable
decisions and reach
erroneous conclusions. Here
are a dozen of the most
common and pernicious
cognitive biases that you
need to know about.
Scientists
already know that it works,
and they also understand why
it works.
Telomerase is an enzyme
your body produces. It has
been demonstrated to help
construct and repair
telomeres. These are the
protective parts of DNA.
This allows replication of
this DNA in order to grow
new cells to replenish old
ones.
The Greatest Mistake
“The greatest mistake you
can make in life is to be
continually fearing you will
make one.” ― Elbert Hubbard
It’s cold in England right
now. The leaves are on the
ground, the birds are
flitting around the garden,
feeding on last minute bugs,
building fat for the winter.
Nature knows how to work
with the changing seasons.
Sadly, humanity
all-too-frequently does not!
But no matter. Just the
sense and the idea of
‘hibernation’, if only for a
few hours, can feel like
you’ve been sleeping all
winter (if you get it
right).
Sometimes that’s exactly
what you need. It’s
important to honour these
feelings. Because you’re
worth it!
Oil. From farm to
pharmaceutical, diesel truck
to dinner plate, pipeline to
plastic product, it is
impossible to think of an
area of our modern-day lives
that is not affected by the
petrochemical industry. The
story of oil is the story of
the modern world.
A new
report revealed that the
Pentagon has flown a number
of spy drones over U.S.
territories between 2006 and
2015
A new report revealed
that the Pentagon has flown
spy drones over U.S.
territories for non-military
missions for close to a
decade. Specifically the
report states that the
Pentagon flew “less than 20
drone missions between 2006
and 2015.”
Apple CEO
Tim Cook says the
company's fight with the
Federal Bureau of
Investigation over
an encrypted iPhone is about
more than one device.
During a lengthy
interview with Time magazine
published Thursday, Cook
echoes the company's stance
on the case, where a judge
ordered Apple to break into
an iPhone used by one of the
assailants in the San
Bernardino, Calif.,
shootings.
The figure was about twice
the level of the previous
estimate, pointing to
increased volumes of product
loaded in recent weeks...
According to the estimate,
11 of the cargoes due to
land in March are headed to
the Northwest European
market, while 18 have set
sail towards the
Mediterranean.
The total US rig count,
which on Friday stood at
476, is now at its lowest
point ever in the 67-year
history of the Baker Hughes
numbers, according to data
released by the oilfield
service company.
That
is down by four from last
week and down from 1,069
working the same week in
2015...
We all wish for our children
to be healthy and free of
disease. We wish the same
for ourselves as adults,
too. But it’s time to
critically examine and have
an open conversation about
whether multiple vaccines in
early childhood should be
our nation’s No. 1
disease-prevention strategy.
In 2006, H.E.S.S. uncovered
a very compact source of
gamma rays in the region of
the galactic centre, as well
as diffuse very-high-energy
gamma-ray emission from the
surrounding area. This
diffuse radiation, produced
when cosmic rays interact
with gases in this area,
provided a clear indication
that there must be a source
of cosmic radiation in this
region. However, at the time
the researchers were unable
to identify it.
For all their
extraordinary power, black
holes are not immortal.
They have a life cycle
just like we do. Forty years
ago Stephen Hawking, the
world’s foremost expert on
black holes, announced that
they evaporate and shrink
because they emit radiation.
But if a black hole
evaporates and shrinks, what
happens to everything it
devoured during its
lifetime?
Most mathematical
calculations have suggested
that the information and
everything else inside the
black hole simply vanishes,
a conclusion that raised
more questions than it has
answered.
There were only
10 "near miss" incidents at
U.S. nuclear reactors last
year, but more than 60
percent of these near miss
safety violations occurred
at three plants owned by
Entergy Corp., according to
the Union of Concerned
Scientists' (UCS) annual
review of Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) performance
and nuclear plant safety.
March 18, 2016
Spring is almost here,
and that means the plant
nations are beginning to,
once again, make an
appearance. Whether you are
trying to return to a more
traditional diet, or if you
want to learn more about the
plants around you, there are
a multitude of spring plants
that can improve your
health, provide creative
recipe ideas, and save you
some cash.
Wild vegetables and
fruits contain far more
nutrients than those we
purchase from the store.
..
One in three Syrian children
have known nothing but a
lifetime of war, Unicef said
on Monday in a report on the
eve of the country entering
its sixth year of war.
The hacking collective
Anonymous has vowed once
again to “dismantle” Donald
Trump’s presidential
campaign and to “expose what
he doesn’t want the public
to know”.
The group announced its
re-engagement of “OpTrump”
through its traditional
propaganda video, aiming to
take down one of Trump’s
property websites for
Chicago on 1 April.
Anonymous said: “We have
been watching you for a long
time and what we’ve seen is
deeply disturbing. You don’t
stand for anything but your
personal greed and power.
The scamsters behind a
sophisticated solar-power
fraud scheme exposed by
Phoenix New Times finally
have been held accountable
in a U.S. court.
Last month, Arizona U.S.
District Judge David Bury
handed down a $3.1 million
judgment against the men
behind Matinee Energy - a
group of swindlers who
include a former Clinton
administration official.
The water will be
released until April 10 from
the Jinghong dam, ministry
spokesman Lu Kang told a
daily news briefing.
It will benefit Cambodia,
Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and
Vietnam, Lu added.
Hillary Clinton said at the
MSNBC Democratic town hall
Monday night that “we didn’t
lose a single person” in
Libya, despite the fact that
four Americans died in
Benghazi while she was
secretary of state.
And yet, a stigma persists.
Last year, University of
Pennsylvania psychologist
Paul Rozin found that of
2,000 consumers surveyed,
only 49 percent were willing
to drink recycled water...
Some of the water molecules
you drink today, Adam drank,
some Moses drank, some Jesus
Christ drank, and some
Mohammad drank, some Buddha
drank, etc. I would not be
too concerned. Especially
when the workers and
engineers have provided such
excellent water quality as
most all of our improved
cities enjoy.
On
March 8, 2016, Mexican
farmers, consumers and
activists scored a major
victory when a federal
appeals court ruled that
genetically engineered corn
can’t be grown in Mexico
until a class action
lawsuit, filed by
scientists, consumers,
farmers and activists has
been resolved.
Toilet flushing is the
biggest use of water in
households in the United
States and the United
Kingdom, accounting for
nearly one-third of potable
water use. But there is no
reason that clean, treated,
municipal water needs to be
used to flush a toilet —
rainwater could do the job
just as well.
The city of Davis and Yolo
County are taking a step
toward energy independence,
and other municipalities
ought to take notice.
[Editor: At North East
Arizona Energy Services, we
promote the concept of
Energy Independence ON A
PERSONAL LEVEL. Each
household should be energy
independent!!]
European scientists have
discovered that bee
populations are experiencing
a resurgence after three
neonicotinoid insecticides,
clothianidin, imidacloprid
and thiamethoxam were banned
by the European Commission
in 2013. Unfortunately, all
three are still used heavily
in the USA.
Earliest spring since 1896!
.. In 2016, this equinox
arrives on March 20 at 4:30
UTC, or on March 19
at 11:30 p.m.
The Federal
Reserve didn't raise the Fed
Funds Rate after its
March 2016 meeting, but it
managed to ease monetary
policy regardless.
After adjourning from a
2-day meeting, the
nation's central banker
voted to hold the Fed Funds
Rate in a target range near
1/4 percent.
Local courts accused of
effectively punishing poor
people for their
poverty...Though the state
court system operates
independently of the Justice
Department, the memo is
intended to put local judges
on notice that ordering jail
time for unpaid fines can
violate federal law, open
the door to constitutional
challenges and trap
residents in a cycle of
escalating debt, unnecessary
incarceration and
unemployment.
As soon as she found that
bromelain contains extremely
effective cancer-fighting
power, Candice started
consuming 3 pineapples a day
together with lemon, kiwi,
grapefruit, bananas, apples
and papaya. She was
consuming only fruits for
days. At the same time, she
gave up smoking and using
cosmetics and cleaning
products, and what is even
more important, she tried to
reduce stress.
Gazprom's now 100%-owned gas
supply and trade subsidiary
Wingas can play an important
role in helping Gazprom
expand its presence in
Europe, the head of the
German company said in an
interview this week.
The Obama administration’s
proposed new fiduciary rule
could mean that financial
talk show hosts such as Dave
Ramsey, Suze Orman, Jim
Cramer and others would be
regulated by the government
based on the advice they
give their audience about
money, according to a report
examining the regulation
that could take effect next
month.
A Miami woman shot and
killed a teenage home
intruder last week,
authorities said. Now,
relatives of the teen are
saying she acted unjustly
and should be prosecuted.
-
A clueless government
seeks "treatment" for
the opioid epidemic
without addressing
irresponsible
prescribing and drug
industry marketing, and
high level financial
conflicts of interest
-
Opioid makers have
targeted taxpayer
supported programs like
Medicaid, Medicare and
military programs to
supply them rich opioid
revenues
-
Opioids have been
promoted for uses once
not accepted because of
the drug class’ dangers
and addiction potential.
As users can no longer
get or afford pills,
they turn to heroin
A video posted online
Sunday by North Survival
shows an individual
demonstrate how to make fire
with a lemon.
“This is an awesome
survival tip that you don´t
want to miss,” he said.
The Obama administration
is planning to block any oil
drilling in the Arctic and
much of the Atlantic until
2022, the Guardian reported.
The move represents a
final year executive action
through the Interior
Department that could be
announced as early as
Tuesday, according to the
British newspaper. It is
part of the administration’s
agenda to fight climate
change, but it could also
impact the nation’s energy
needs.
On April 7 , Iran will
unveil new nuclear
achievements in power
generation and medical
fields, according to Atomic
Energy Organization of Iran
spokesman Behrooz
Kamalvandi.
Judge Andrew Napolitano said
Monday that Hillary Clinton
could face a “horrific
catch-22″ in her ongoing
email scandal — and it could
come as soon as the next
couple of months. ..
the Justice Department
has not “cleared” her. He
added that he expects the
FBI’s investigation to be
completed sometime in May.
When the federal
investigation has concluded,
investigators will then ask
Clinton to appear for an
interview, Napolitano said.
But he added that “no
lawyer” would allow their
client to answer questions
without knowing what
prosecutors know.
May the Road Rise Up to Meet
You
“May the road rise to meet
you. May the wind be always
at your back. May the sun
shine warm upon your face.
And rains fall soft upon
your fields. And until we
meet again, May God hold you
in the hollow of His hand.”
― Author Unknown
A mysterious and often
misunderstood Native
American ritual, the Ghost
Dance once inspired fear
among white Americans during
the late 19th century.
…but, this ominous spirit
dance actually began as a
nonviolent religious
movement called “fight no
one and hate no one”...
On December 29, 1890, this
atmosphere of volatile
distrust finally erupted in
a bloody massacre – the
Ghost Dance ended in tragedy
at Wounded Knee.
A small Native American
community in coastal
Louisiana is to be resettled
after losing nearly all its
land partly due to rising
seas, a first in the United
States.
The band of
Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw, a
Native American tribe living
in the Louisiana coastal
wetlands, has lost some 98
percent of its land since
the 1950s.
Some 650 million people,
or one in 10 of the world's
population, do not have
access to safe water,
putting them at risk of
infectious diseases and
premature death.
Dirty water and poor
sanitation can cause severe
diarrheal diseases in
children, killing 900
under-fives a day across the
world, according to United
Nations estimates - or one
child every two minutes.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a chance
for a C-class flares on days
one, two, and three (18 Mar,
19 Mar, 20 Mar). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
active levels on day one (18
Mar), quiet to unsettled
levels on day two (19 Mar)
and quiet levels on day
three (20 Mar).
Russian energy minister says
Gazprom, Russia's state gas
monopoly, has put forward
proposals for the
development of oil fields in
Iran.
Sanctions against Iran were
lifted in January and
Western and Russian gas and
oil companies have been keen
to close deals with Iran and
gain access to the country's
natural resources.
Could replace phone and
electric car batteries and
create a zero-emission
solution
Excessive atmospheric carbon
dioxide is reaching
catastrophic proportions,
forcing national
governments, industrial
leaders, and scientists to
band together and come up
with a solution. So far,
most talks have dealt
reducing future carbon
dioxide emissions, but few
have designs for reducing
the carbon dioxide already
in the atmosphere. That is,
until now.
The U.S. Senate on
Wednesday blocked a bill
that would nullify state and
local efforts to require
food makers to label
products made with
genetically modified
organisms, or GMOs, as the
industry races to stop
Vermont's law from taking
effect on July 1.
The proposed legislation
from Republican Senator Pat
Roberts of Kansas comes amid
growing calls for
transparency in the U.S.
food supply. Labeling
advocates have criticized
the bill as toothless
because it leaves the
decision to disclose GMO
ingredients to the companies
whose products contain them.
Researchers at the
University of Michigan have
developed a new
ice-repellent substance that
could keep industrial and
aviation equipment ice-free.
The spray-on formula
combines several synthetic
rubbers, adding a clear,
rubbery coating the causes
ice to slide off of car
windshields, wind turbines
and airplane wings.
Tests for cities, rural
subdivisions and even
schools and day cares
serving water to 6 million
people have found excessive
and harmful levels of
lead...The water
systems, which reported lead
levels exceeding
Environmental Protection
Agency standards,
collectively supply water to
6 million people. About 350
of those systems provide
drinking water to schools or
day care
...the CDC explains
that places with an
elevation of above 6,500
feet do not usually host the
mosquitoes that cause Zika.
The horse-sized dino species
had smarts and a keen sense
of smell, setting the stage
for the evolution of the
enormous predator
...if utilized to its full
potential, Aruvian Research
predicts concentrated solar
power could provide for 25
percent of the world's
energy needs by 2050.
Currently, there is 679 MW
of installed CSP capacity
worldwide and more than 2000
MW under development.
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Recent research found
that giving a
multivitamin supplement
to seniors suffering
from mild cognitive
impairment and
depression helped
improve both conditions
-
Compared to placebo,
seniors with high
omega-3 levels who were
given high doses of
vitamins B6, folic acid
(B9) and B12 experienced
a 40 percent reduced
brain atrophy rate over
the 2-year treatment
course
-
Not only do B vitamins
slow brain shrinkage,
but they specifically
slow shrinkage in brain
regions known to be most
severely impacted by
Alzheimer's disease
According to a 2016 research
paper in the Journal Nature,
a 40 percent shortfall of
available water across the
globe by 2030 could affect
not just water for drinking,
food production, and public
health, but 98 percent of
global electric power
generation...calling for
immediate action in order to
secure resilient energy
infrastructure through
improving understanding of
the water footprint of
energy technologies in order
to mitigate the risks of
stranded assets
This year's update, produced
by the Sustainable
Development Solutions
Network (SDSN), shows that
the U.S. ranked 13th of all
countries for its happiness
level this year, up from
15th last year and 17th in
2013. In 2012, it was 11th
on the list.
Turkey lashed out Monday at
Kurdish targets, bombing
military positions in
northern Iraq and rounding
up dozens of militants at
home after a suicide car
bombing in the heart of the
capital drew the country
even deeper into the complex
Syrian conflict.
On March 14th, Iran
announced that it will never
pay the $10.5B that a U.S.
court demanded it pay for
the 9/11 attacks.
The
same Bill-Clinton-appointed
judge who had ruled, on 29
September 2015, that Saudi
Arabia has sovereign
immunity for 9/11 and so
can’t be sued for it, ruled
recently, on March 9th that
Iran doesn’t have sovereign
immunity and fined Iran
$10.5 billion to be paid to
9/11 victims and insurers;
but, on March 14, Iran’s
Foreign Ministry said Iran
won’t pay,
Where to Place Your Love and
Affection
“You can search throughout
the entire universe for
someone who is more
deserving of your love and
affection than you are
yourself, and that person is
not to be found anywhere.
You yourself, as much as
anybody in the entire
universe deserve your love
and affection.” ― Buddha
Dr. Brogan’s straightforward
message is that depression,
which according to the WHO
is the #1 global cause of
disability, and which feeds
into a 80+ billion dollar a
year psychiatric medication
industry, is completely
treatable and even
reversible with a
nutrition-based approach
that does not require
psychiatric medications. The
book not only reveals the
unscientific nature of
psychiatric definitions of
mental illness (which are
arrived at by the psychiatry
guild’s process of consensus
and not any form of
empirical or scientific
validation), as well as the
conspicuous lack of
scientific justification for
treating mental illness with
pharmaceuticals, but gives
the readers access to
exactly those protocols,
nutritional recommendations,
and mind-body practices, she
discovered could
successfully treat and yes,
sometimes cure, her
patients.
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Fish in Washington’s
Puget Sound are being
contaminated by
drug-laden discharge
from wastewater
treatment plants
-
Antidepressants,
diabetes drugs,
cholesterol-lowering
medications, and
triclosan were detected
in fish
-
More than 40
contaminants were
detected in Puget Sound
salmon, including some
at levels that could
harm their growth,
reproduction and
behavior
March 15, 2016
This amazing time-lapse
shows 20 spectacular
cloud-to-ground lightning
strikes that took place
during two very local
afternoon thunderstorms on
February 27, 2016. Sixteen
of these occurred in just 14
minutes around the margins
of a single intense storm
cell that developed over the
suburbs of Chikanga,
Hobhouse and Zimta Park,
which are all near Mutare,
Zimbabwe.
with close to a 50 percent
chance for La Niña
conditions to develop by the
fall.
While there are many
different ways to rid your
body of accumulated toxins,
from detoxifying foods and
chemical and/or natural
detox agents to saunas, a
biological process known as
autophagy plays a key role.
The term autophagy means
“self-eating,” and refers to
the processes by which your
body cleans out various
debris, including toxins,
and recycles damaged cell
components.
That the human body contains
good fat and bad fat has
been known to scientists for
some time, but mechanisms
that allow us to convert one
into the other have been a
little harder to come by. In
search of such a trigger,
scientists have uncovered a
switch in the fat cells of
mice that helps them shed
the extra pounds. The good
news? That very same switch
is present in humans.
Bolstered by new pipeline
connectivity, Canadian
exports to the US Gulf Coast
increased to about 389,600
b/d from about 186,000 b/d
in 2014. Nearly 99% of that
increase, or around 201,000
b/d, was heavy crude, for
which many Gulf Coast
refineries have a healthy
appetite.
Analysis of more than 40
years of water samples
archived at the Hubbard
Brook Experimental Forest
(HBEF) in New Hampshire
tells a vivid tale of how
the sources of precipitation
have changed. Over the
years, there has been a
dramatic increase,
especially during the
winter, of the amount of
water that originated far to
the north.
You may have already heard
about how the introduction
of probiotic "beneficial
bacteria" to the gut can aid
in digestion. Now,
scientists from the
University of Florida are
proposing doing something
similar with peoples'
mouths. The result could be
a cavity-prevention pill.
With plastics abounding
throughout the environment,
many scientists argue that
we are living in the Plastic
Age. There is so much
plastic that bits of the
petroleum-based material now
form composite rocks called
plastiglomerates. And the
oceans are a veritable stew
choked with 5 trillion
plastic bits.
Amid growing public concerns
over plans to discharge coal
ash pond water into Virginia
waterways, Dominion Virginia
Power has agreed to treat
the wastewater at one site
more thoroughly before it's
discharged into the James
River, and monitor fish for
adverse health effects.
Do you ever feel like a
misfit, a renegade or a
maverick? Like somehow you
don’t belong here on this
Earth? Join the club! Here
at Openhand we connect with
evolving people all over the
world, and so often we hear
from people who feel out of
place somehow, have probably
always felt that way, and
have always struggled to fit
in. You tell us you’ve felt
judged, marginalised,
penalised and persecuted.
Being in a body feels
strangely weird, and you
just can’t figure out why
the world works the way it
does. It’s like you belong
somewhere else or have come
from somewhere else. It’s
probably because you have!
These contaminants get into
the water through human drug
waste in sewage, medicines
flushed down toilets,
agricultural runoff and the
wide use of endocrine
disruptors like pesticides,
flame retardants and
plastic-related compounds
like phthalates and BPA.
(BPA has ironically been
used in bottled water that
people drink to avoid
tap water risks!)
The hybrid
ultracapacitor-battery
energy storage system (HESS)
will demonstrate extended
operational life, rapid
response, real-time solar
smoothing and load shifting.
Nearly 18 GW of electric
generating capacity was
retired in 2015, according
to the U.S. Energy
Information Administration
(EIA), and more than 80
percent of that was
coal-fired.
Electricity sales in 2015
totaled about 3.72 billion
kWh, down 1.1% from 2014,
driven by a decline in sales
in the Midwest, the US
Energy Information
Administration said Monday.
The year-on-year dip is the
fifth time sales have fallen
in eight years.
The biggest pluses for the
electric cars are that the
vehicles need no gasoline
and are environmentally
friendly, he said.
Everybody is a Genius
“Everybody is a genius. But
if you judge a fish by its
ability to climb a tree, it
will spend its whole life
believing that it is
stupid.” ― Albert Einstein
Everyday a New Beginning
“It's a wise man who
understands that every day
is a new beginning, because
boy, how many mistakes do
you make in a day? I don't
know about you, but I make
plenty. You can't turn the
clock back, so you have to
look ahead.” ― Mel Gibson
A new far-right German party
that campaigned aggressively
against the refugees who
have poured into the country
in the last year scored
stunning victories in three
state elections on Sunday as
voters rejected Chancellor
Angela Merkel’s open-door
policies and abandoned her
conservative party in
droves.
A newly released video from
the Islamic State warns
American leaders that the
terror group intends to
“kill, slaughter and burn
your people” in the same
fashion as the November 2015
attacks in Paris.
“The environmental impacts
of the Fukushima Daiichi
nuclear disaster will last
decades to centuries, due to
man-made, long-lived
radioactive elements are
absorbed into the living
tissues of plants and
animals and being recycled
through food webs, and
carried downstream to the
Pacific Ocean by typhoons,
snowmelt, and flooding,”
Sarcasm aside, it is clear
they did not want anyone to
take notice of this
declaration of weather
manipulation that has been
fervently denied up until
last year. Many were also
unaware that in 2014 the
Navy publicly confirmed
previous conjecture in
regards to weather
modification and the HAARP
facility.
Throughout the day today,
take 1 minute and just
breathe. Close your eyes,
stop what you are doing and
just breathe. Focus on your
body, the feeling of your
breath; what your clothes
feel like on your body or
what it feels like to stand
or sit where you ar
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The U.S. Surgeon
General, the American
Academy of Dermatology,
and The Skin Cancer
Foundation all view
sunlight irrationally as
a dangerous skin cancer
risk
-
Sun avoidance fuels
health problems
associated with vitamin
D deficiency, including
hypertension,
cardiovascular disease,
cancer, depression, and
poses special health
risks to pregnant
mothers and their
children
-
The evidence supporting
sensible sun exposure is
strong and clear, while
there’s little evidence
that sunscreen use
protects against skin
cancer, or that vitamin
D supplements are
bioequivalent to
sunshine
The unfortunate superpower
of the negative is that it
has a stronger impact than
the positive. In
fact negative impact of
setbacks in your work is
three times as powerful in
affecting motivation than
positive progress. It’s just
easier to remember the bad
stuff that has happened to
you during the day than the
good. ...We can
harness the brain’s
plasticity by training our
brain to make positive
patterns more automatic.
Donald Trump's predominance
in the GOP primary reflects
"nothing less" than the
"peaceful overthrow" of the
government in a "revolution"
against the "ruling class,"
former 2016 presidential
aspirant Mike Huckabee
declared on Newsmax TV
Saturday.
The system enables utilities
to transform residential AC
load into a grid resource
and supports homeowners'
efforts to lower their
electric bills and carbon
footprints. The center has
already created a dozen jobs
and will partner with local
universities on research
projects and training
opportunities for recent
graduates. Ice Energy joins
a growing number of tech
companies in Riverside,
diversifying the city's
institution-, government-
and legal-based economy.
Oil prices might have
bottomed as production
declines in the United
States and other non-OPEC
producers accelerate and an
increase in Iranian supply
has been less than dramatic,
the International Energy
Agency said on Friday.
After a spectacular 2015,
growth in global demand was
slowing - with India and the
Middle East being rare
pockets of improvement, the
IEA said in a monthly
report.
The Modi government remains
tight-lipped about the
negotiations, but official
sources confirm that
Toshiba-Westinghouse made a
formal "techno-commercial"
offer to NPCIL and "uranium
fuel offer" to the
Department of Atomic Energy
(DAE) last week....
Registration forms detailing
phone numbers and family
contacts are handed to Sky
News by a disillusioned
convert to the group.
Once the recording is heard,
the recipient can listen to
it again and again by
removing the lid. When it's
time to erase the message,
you simply tip the pot as if
you were pouring out water
and the recording vanishes.
The pot can only hold one
recording at a time, so it
becomes a fun way to hold a
very unusual form of
conversation.
As if it wasn’t bad enough
to have fracking operations
in our backyards —
destroying local ecosystems,
human health and property
values — the oil and gas
industry has expanded into
public lands, with many
national parks now under
threat. Not only does
fracking for petroleum and
natural gas promote
ecological and climatic
changes, but it also
destroys the water we drink
and the air we breathe.
Artist Lillian
Pitt,
Wasco/WarmSprings/Yakama,
has been internationally
known for her ceramic masks,
cast-glass sculpture,
sterling silver jewelry, and
prints for over 30 years.
Much of her work is inspired
by the rock carvings and
rock paintings of her
Columbia River ancestors.
A Las Vegas homeowner is out
more than $18,000. A company
claims it is owed more than
$700,000. A $20,644 lien is
slapped on the home of an
insurance agent. The list of
claims stretches into the
hundreds.
While you might generally
associate cataracts with
more mature patients, as
many as three in every
10,000 children suffer from
the condition, which can
cause significant vision
loss. Now, researchers at
the University of
California, San Diego (UC
San Diego) have tested a new
approach to tackling
congenital cataracts,
turning to existing stem
cells to repair the patient
lenses post-surgery,
restoring vision.
But now scientific
detective work has revealed
that the 1812 earthquake
might have been the result
of two faults acting
together—and that means the
people of southern
California are on shakier
ground than anyone thought.
New Hampshire lawmakers
are seeking to make a key
financial incentive for
solar power available to
more homeowners and
businesses.
The House has passed a
bill to raise the cap on a
program known as net
metering,..
The utility said in a letter
to the county datedit has
over 25,000 acres of that
already under lease or in
negotiation. The letter
shows hundreds of landowners
have signed on.
Hundreds of newly elected
legislators, a majority of
them from pro-democracy
leader Aung San Suu Kyi's
party, on Monday began a
parliament session that will
install Myanmar's first
democratically elected
government in more than 50
years.
That plants possess an
intelligence is not new
knowledge, but according to
Modern Farmer, anew study
from the University of
Missouri shows plants can
sense when they are being
eaten and send out defense
mechanisms to try to stop it
from happening.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a chance
for a C-class flares on days
one, two, and three (15 Mar,
16 Mar, 17 Mar). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at active to
minor storm levels on day
one (15 Mar), unsettled to
minor storm levels on day
two (16 Mar) and quiet to
active levels on day three
(17 Mar).
Five years after the
disaster at Japan’s
Fukushima nuclear plant,
radiation levels remain so
high that some cleanup
robots that took years to
build are dying before they
can carry out their
tasks...Yet the bots remain
the only hope of
decommissioning the
devastated nuclear reactors,
a necessary step to
regaining public trust
President Vladimir Putin
announced out of the blue on
Monday that "the main part"
of Russian armed forces in
Syria will start to
withdraw, telling his
diplomats to step up the
push for peace as
U.N.-mediated talks resumed
on ending the five-year-old
war.
A powerful new review on the
toxicity of glyphosate
signals a growing consensus
among non-industry-sponsored
scientists that the
relatively unmonitored and
unregulated exposure to
this ubiquitous toxicant can
no longer be promoted as a
justifiable risk. The review
is open access and can be
downloaded as a PDF and/or
read in its entirety here.
Australia's stunning Great
Barrier Reef is changing,
and not for the better. In
the years since the
industrial revolution, the
increasing amount of carbon
dioxide in the atmosphere
has made the oceans warmer
and also more acidic, which
is bad news if you're young
coral trying to make your
way in the world. In the
first study of its kind, a
team of scientists has
altered the seawater
chemistry in a natural
section of the reef to mimic
pre-industrial conditions...
Four straight days of
rain have replenished
several key reservoirs in
Northern California,
delighting a state in its
fifth year of drought and
raising hopes that water-use
restrictions might be eased.
The series of storms that
started late last week
drenched the state, closing
roads and schools while
causing flooding and power
outages.
Northern California was
the hardest hit over four
days. Other parts of the
state saw the heaviest
rainfall late last week.
Although mice in the study
were fed much higher amounts
of the artificial sweetener
throughout their lives than
most people consume,
researchers say people
shouldn't use it.
The swelling ocean may
threaten the homes of up to
13.1 million coast-dwelling
Americans by the end of this
century, according to the
study published Monday in
the journal Nature Climate
Change. Led by Mathew Hauer,
a doctoral candidate at the
University of Georgia, the
research is novel because it
combines population
projections with sea-level
rise projections.
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Humans are the only
animals that shed tears
of emotion
-
Shedding tears may be a
way to heighten the
facial appearance of
sadness, thereby
providing a survival
advantage
-
Tears contain nerve
growth factor (NGF),
which is a neuropeptide
that plays a role in the
development and survival
of neurons
As electric car maker Tesla
has expanded this year on
the super-fast charging
stations it opened in
Augusta in December, Gov.
Paul LePage and Quebec
Premier Philippe Couillard
announced a joint planning
effort for new charging
stations between Quebec and
Maine tourist destinations.
Everyone says you are what
you eat, but, for some
reason, the majority of the
world’s population seems
completely oblivious to this
fact. Yet pure science and
simple experiments have
managed to definitively
prove what naturopaths have
been saying for centuries:
What you eat changes
you,down to your very DNA.
..
The discovery of
a bacterium with the
ability to
completely break
down PET plastic
could be a boon for
cleaning up plastic
waste
Hundreds of millions
of tons of PET
(polyethylene
terephthalate) plastic
are produced each year
to package everything
from sodas to shampoo.
That only a fraction of
this is recycled leaves
much of it to rest in
landfills and the ocean.
But efforts to deal with
this monumental mess may
soon receive a
much-needed boost, with
scientists in Japan
discovering a new
bacterium with the
ability to completely
break down PET plastics
in a relatively short
space of time.
We advocate that consumers
buy certified organic
products whenever possible.
But for consumers in
Minnesota and other states,
where you can’t walk into
your grocery store and buy
raw milk, we feel it’s time
to explain why we believe
grass-fed raw milk and dairy
products, whether certified
or not, are actually better
for you, better for the
animals, and better for the
planet than any other dairy
products.
The rising evidence of the
brain's ability to produce
healing is throwing a curve
ball at drug makers, who are
finding it increasingly
difficult to get their drugs
through clinical trials.
It's so powerful,
researchers are scrambling
to explain it. Take
advantage of this potent
phenomenon today.
More than 80 percent of
electric generating capacity
retired in 2015 was
conventional steam coal,
according to a report
released earlier this week
by the U.S. Energy
Information Administration .
The retired coal-fired
generating units were mostly
older and smaller than the
ones still in operation, the
EIA found.
The United States has
deployed three B-2 Spirit
nuclear stealth bombers to
support U.S. Pacific
Command, U.S. Strategic
Command announced Wednesday.
The aircraft are the
United States' most advanced
bomber and part of its
nuclear deterrent defenses.
Thimerosal, aluminum and
other toxic ingredients
found in vaccines can cause
serious side ffects, which
is why the government has
paid out billions in damages
since the National Childhood
Vaccine Injury Act was
passed in 1986. They range
from headache, fever, and
nausea; to allergic
reactions, seizures, severe
pain, life-threatening
severe illness and permanent
brain damage.
These toxins are
especially dangerous for
children with a not yet
fully developed immune
system.
March 11, 2016
Bloomberg New Energy Finance
and the World Bank Group's
Lighting Global platform is
forecasting the off-grid
solar market to reach a $3.1
billion by 2020.
The asteroid – whose precise
trajectory was unknown –
passed Earth on March 7 at
13:42 UTC (8:42 ET) at some
10 times the moon’s
distance.//
The flyby distance was about
10.64 times the Earth-moon
distance, and the next
closest approach dates
predictions may change
again, as the asteroid’s
orbit is better understood
and more precisely defined
using new observations.
Blessed are They
“Blessed are they who see
beautiful things in humble
places where other people
see nothing.” ― Camille
Pissarro
Jailed Nevada rancher Cliven
Bundy refused Thursday to
acknowledge federal
authority and declined to
enter a plea to federal
charges that he led an armed
standoff against a round-up
of cattle two years ago...
Hansen said Bundy's refusal
to enter a plea was a
statement that he couldn't
have done anything wrong
because federal law doesn't
apply.
Five years after a powerful
earthquake and tsunami sent
the Fukushima Dai-ichi
nuclear power plant in Japan
into multiple meltdowns,
cleaning up the mess both
onsite and in surrounding
towns remains a work in
progress. Here's a look, by
the numbers..
As the (New York) state
moves toward ambitious clean
energy goals backed by Gov.
Andrew Cuomo, energy
regulators tackle two
important issues this month
-- how nuclear power will
figure into the mix and how
much it might cost to
transform the state's energy
supply.
Iranian state
television showed footage of
two Qadr missiles being
launched from northern Iran,
which the Islamic
Revolutionary Guards Corps
(IRGC) said hit targets
1,400 km (870 miles) away.
Iranian agencies
said the missiles were
stamped with the Hebrew
words, "Israel should be
wiped from the pages of
history," though the
inscription could not be
seen on any photographs.
They added a sneaky
clause to pending chemical
safety legislation.
Last year, we told you
about a chemical safety
bill—one drafted by the
chemical industry, and one
that will do little to
protect consumers from the
estimated 84,000 chemicals
registered for use in the
US. That bill, sponsored by
Sens. Mark Udall (D-NM) and
David Vitter (R-LA), passed
the Senate unanimously late
last year and now must be
reconciled with House-passed
legislation from earlier in
2015.
The automotive company
Daimler is expanding its
activities in the area of
electric mobility and
investing approximately €
500 million to build a new
factory for lithium-ion
batteries. This will expand
the production capacity of
its subsidiary Deutsche
Accumotive. As a first step,
Daimler has purchased
approximately 20 hectares of
land just next to the
existing factory.
llington referenced the
death of Herminio Padilla
Jr., whose body was pulled
from a sewage pipe at the
East Central Regional Water
Reclamation Facility last
year.
The robots sent in to find
highly radioactive fuel at
Fukushima's nuclear reactors
have “died”; a subterranean
"ice wall" around the
crippled plant meant to stop
groundwater from becoming
contaminated has yet to be
finished. And authorities
still don’t know how to
dispose of highly
radioactive water stored in
an ever mounting number of
tanks around the site...
Today, the radiation at the
Fukushima plant is still so
powerful it has proven
impossible to get into its
bowels to find and remove
the extremely dangerous
blobs of melted fuel rods
A pediatrician’s group warns
of new possible dangers
associated with the HPV
vaccine—yet another reason
why we must preserve freedom
of choice.
Hospital-acquired infections
are a significant problem.
According to 2011
statistics, 1 in 4 patients
in the U.S. end up
contracting some form of
infection while in the
hospital, and 205 Americans
die from hospital-acquired
infections each and every
day.
An MFC is a
bio-electrochemical device
that converts the power of
respiring microorganisms
into electrical energy.
Specifically, MFCs
contain anode-respiring
bacteria (ARB) that can
produce electricity when
electrons from wastewater
organics are transferred to
an anode.
If you’re like the
majority of Americans, you
labor under the faulty and
quite ridiculous assumption
that everyone should have
the right to vote. Even more
outrageous, you probably
think our nation is somehow
benefited when everyone
exercises that right.
It should be of some
interest that our Founders —
you know, the guys who came
up with this whole “America”
idea — had no such notion in
mind. They only gave the
vote to landowners, which,
of course, had the effect of
automatically
disenfranchising blacks and
women.
An Israeli man man who was
stabbed by a Palestinian
terrorist during an attack
in Israel Tuesday pulled the
bladed weapon out of his own
body and used it to stab his
attacker, killing the
assailant
"Rewilding" landscapes to
return them to a natural
state might sometimes be
ineffective and even harmful
Order to close two reactors
previously declared safe
comes days before fifth
anniversary of Fukishima
atomic disaster...
“This court order is not
something the company can
accept,” it said in a
statement. Television
footage showed plaintiffs
and local residents cheering
and holding banners after
the ruling.
JPMorgan has promised a
transition away from
financing for coal mining
companies, and an end to the
financing of new coal mines
-- responding to a global
call by Anote Tong, the
president of the
climate-vulnerable small
island nation of Kiribati,
for a global moratorium on
new coal mines.
The ritualistic use of plant
smoke stretches back to the
prehistorical era and is
still used, the world over,
as a way of ‘cleansing’ the
spirit. Now modern
scientific research reveals
that the practice may
actually have life-saving
implications by purifying
the air of harmful bacteria.
Economic crises convulsing
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus
mean testing in areas
contaminated by the
Chernobyl nuclear disaster
has been cut or restricted,
Greenpeace said, and people
continue to eat and drink
foods with dangerously high
radiation levels.
Many people, upon taking
their first sip of raw milk
— dubbed real milk
by some — are surprised at
its richness and flavor. Raw
milk from a high-quality
source is a far cry from the
pasteurized, homogenized
version sold by most U.S.
grocery stores.
You may scarcely believe
it actually comes from the
same animal.
Joe Balistreri didn’t think
twice about shooting a home
intruder — but had he known
ahead of time how much it
would cost him, he just
might have.
Roll up your sleeve or die.
How many times has
the federal government given
us that same message when
flu season rolls around?
Uncle Sam would have you
believe that unless you line
up for a flu jab, you and
everyone you love could be a
sitting duck for a deadly
case of flu.
Natural gas will power a
larger share of electricity
generation than coal this
year in the United States ,
the federal government
predicted Tuesday,
continuing what a regional
grid operator calls an
unprecedented shift in
fuels.
North Korean leader Kim
Jong Un said the country has
miniaturized nuclear
warheads to mount on
ballistic missiles and
ordered improvements in the
power and precision of its
arsenal, state media
reported on Wednesday.
Kim has called
for his military to be
prepared to mount
pre-emptive attacks against
the United States and South
Korea and stand ready to use
nuclear weapons, stepping up
belligerent rhetoric after
coming under new U.N. and
bilateral sanctions for its
nuclear and rocket test
The U.S. solar market is set
to grow a staggering 119
percent this year, according
to research conducted
jointly by the Solar Energy
Industries Association
(SEIA) and GTM Research.
A federal jury ruled on
Thursday that Cabot Oil &
Gas Co must pay more than
$4.2 million in damages to
two families in northeastern
Pennsylvania who said the
company's fracking
operations contaminated
their ground water.
Being buried next to
President Reagan at the
Reagan Library is exactly
what Mrs. Reagan intended
from the time the Library
was built.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a chance
for a C-class flares on days
one, two, and three (11 Mar,
12 Mar, 13 Mar). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet
levels on day one (11 Mar)
and quiet to unsettled
levels on days two and three
(12 Mar, 13 Mar).
A total solar eclipse of
August 22, 1142 may have
coincided with the birth of
the Iroquois Confederacy,
oldest democracy in North
America and possibly on
Earth.
A new study led by
researchers at UC Berkeley
and Clinica de Salud del
Valle de Salinas
demonstrates how even a
short break from certain
kinds of makeup, shampoos
and lotions can lead to a
significant drop in levels
of hormone-disrupting
chemicals in the body.
The shampoos, lotions and
other personal care products
you use can affect the
amount of
endocrine-disrupting
chemicals in one’s body, a
new study showed.
A new study from researchers
at Loyola University has
found a strong link between
wastewater treatment and
plastic pollution in
rivers...
“While rivers are considered
a major source of
microplastic to oceans,
little is known about
microplastic abundance,
transport, and biological
interactions in rivers,” the
presentation said.
One of the most critical
questions surrounding
climate change is how it
might affect the food supply
for a growing global
population. A new study by
researchers from Brown and
Tufts universities suggests
that researchers have been
overlooking how two key
human responses to climate —
how much land people choose
to farm, and the number of
crops they plant — will
impact food production in
the future.
“Water is the precious
common denominator that we
all share,” Doug said during
an interview with the
HarvestH2o Newsletter at his
office in Santa Fe, New
Mexico. “And many
individuals and builders
want to harvest rainwater
from their roofs and lots
but do not know where to
start the process. The
HarvestH2o Site Analyzer
provides valuable
information that previously
would have required hours of
work.”
On Sunday, I sat down to
watch "60 Minutes" just to
catch Anderson Cooper's
piece on Don Blankenship,
the coal CEO convicted of
conspiring to willfully
violate mine safety laws
after 29 miners died in an
explosion in West Virginia
in 2010. Unfortunately, that
charge is only a misdemeanor
and Blankenship will serve
less than a year, most
likely.
The Wide World
“The wide world is all about
you: you can fence
yourselves in, but you
cannot forever fence it
out.” ― J. R. R. Tolkien
...solar thermal energy has
the highest tariff in the
RHI, which makes it the
least cost-effective
technology when compared to
biomass and heat pumps. A
survey apparently also
showed that half of the
owner-occupier applicants
said they would have
installed a solar thermal
system regardless of the RHI
support.
A decision to reset the
password on an iCloud
account tied to one of the
San Bernardino attackers did
not effectively thwart the
investigation into the
shooting, FBI officials said
in a court filing Thursday
as part of the Justice
Department's ongoing
encryption dispute with
Apple Inc.
Verizon will pay a $1.35
million fine over its
“supercookie” that the
government said followed
phone customers on the
Internet without their
permission. Verizon will
also have to get an explicit
“yes” from customers for
some kinds of tracking.
Washington's renowned cherry
trees are expected to hit
their peak bloom from March
18 to 23, earlier than first
predicted due to
unseasonably warm weather,
the National Park Service
said on Tuesday.
March 8, 2016
President Obama's proposal
to cut $1.4 billion from the
U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers' budget would set
maintenance of the nation's
water infrastructure "back
more than a decade."
Researchers at the Mineta
National Transit Research
Consortium surveyed New
Jersey residents
approximately five months
after Superstorm Sandy
struck the East Coast in
October of 2012 in what
seemed to be a perfect test
case of a population that
had seen first-hand what
natural disasters could do
to a region.
One of the most significant
events at the recent UN
climate summit in Paris went
largely unnoticed...
So what happened on
December 1?
That’s the day the French
government launched the 4
per 1000 Initiative: Soils
for Food Security and
Climate, a plan to fight
climate change with soil
carbon. The initiative’s
goal is this: to increase
global soil carbon stocks by
0.4 percent per year by
drawing down atmospheric
carbon dioxide (CO2) via the
increased photosynthesis of
regenerative farming and
land use.
Sens. Ted Cruz and Marco
Rubio criticize Donald Trump
for using eminent domain,
but both—like many
Republicans—support
pipelines that would use it.
This week, people in
parts of Indonesia and
Australia will get a chance
to watch the sun briefly
slip behind the moon.
Starting at around 6 P.M.
local time on March 9, the
eclipse will sweep east over
Indonesia and drift to the
northeast towards Borneo and
the Pacific ocean for the
next three hours.
While the full solar
eclipse, known as the
totality, will only be
visible along a narrow
corridor, people
in southeast Asia, the
Pacific, and even parts of
Hawaii and Alaska can catch
a glimpse of a partial
eclipse,..
On 17
isolated acres in Osceola
County near towering Duke
Energy Florida transmission
lines, workers are
installing thousands of
solar panels to capture the
unending stream of power
from the sun.
Once it is finished in
the spring, Duke's solar
array south of Orlando will
produce 3.8 megawatts of
electricity.
Bacteria living among dust
particles from the African
Sahara Desert have been
found trapped in ice and
snow high on the Swiss Alps.
Bacteria living among dust
particles from the Sahara
have been found trapped in
ice and snow on the Swiss
Alps at an altitude of over
11,000 feet
The US oil rig count slipped
another eight rigs this week
to 392, Baker Hughes said
Friday, amid a rally in
crude not seen since the
first few days of January.
Oil rigs are down 57%
from 922 during the same
week in 2015, Baker Hughes
said in its weekly rig
count, to a level not seen
since the last downturn in
2009. In addition, the
horizontal rig count -- an
indicator of shale
drilling--weighed in at 389,
also down 57% from 895
during the same week a year
ago.
"We need to move fast to
combat climate change and
prevent catastrophe, and a
commitment to generate more
than 50% of America's
electricity from clean
energy by 2030 is a great
step in that direction,"
said the delegation. "We
know firsthand the
devastation of climate
change, with superstorms
like Hurricane Sandy, but
our state also has the
opportunity to continue to
be a leader in this clean
energy innovation economy.
A
proposed constitutional
amendment to spend $13
billion in taxpayer money on
clean energy projects is
coming back to Ohio
officials for a fifth time.
While some details have
changed, the Ohio Clean
Energy Initiative remains
essentially the same. It
calls for the state to issue
$13 billion in bonds over 10
years to invest in wind,
solar, geothermal and other
energy projects.
Despite a decade of soaring
economic growth across much
of sub-Saharan Africa
through extractive exports
and billions of dollars in
inward investment, our
continent is still
struggling to come to terms
with issues such as poverty
and poor electricity grids.
The American Coalition for
Clean Coal Electricity
(ACCCE) is touting the
results of a Morning Consult
poll, which appears to
indicate an increase in
support for coal-based
electricity. In the
meantime, Oregon is
increasing its clean energy
stakes and activists are
taking Citigroup to task in
New York and California for
its coal activities.
DARPA’s Vertical Takeoff and
Landing Experimental Plane
(VTOL X-Plane) program seeks
to combine fixed-wing and
rotary-wing technologies
2015 was a banner year for
climate news...
Despite all these critically
important stories, as in the
presidential debates,
climate change was largely
absent from US broadcast
news. Climate coverage
fell in 2015.
Compelling evidence suggests
exercise is an important
component of cancer
prevention and care;
slashing your risk of
developing cancer, improving
your chances of successful
recuperation, and
diminishing your risk of
cancer recurrence.
Former Attorney General
Michael Mukasey said
Thursday that there could be
four laws that Hillary
Clinton broke by using a
private email server that
had classified information
on it.
As a panelist on MSNBC’s
“Morning Joe” on Thursday,
Mukasey argued that Clinton
may have broken one “that
says you can’t put
classified information in an
unclassified setting.
Nancy Reagan, one of the
most high-profile and
influential first ladies of
the 20th century, has died.
She was 94. ..
Her step-son Michael Reagan
posted on Facebook: "She is
once again with the man she
loved. God Bless."
Since the 1999 Columbine
High School massacre, school
districts across the U.S.
have studied ways to keep
kids safe from the threat of
an active shooter...
Recently a new and more
aggressive response has been
gaining popularity. The
concept is known as
A.L.I.C.E. training — the
acronym stands for Alert,
Lockdown, Inform, Counter,
Evacuate. One major
difference from the standard
procedure is that if
students and teachers can’t
escape, they are taught to
attack the gunman with
whatever they have at hand.
There are some events in
history that change the
timeline forever, marking
the rest of the story for
thousands of years. These
events supersede all others
before, and after, for some
time. The Fukushima Daiichi
experiment is spewing
radioactive waste with a
million-year ecological
effect into the Pacific
Ocean, nuclear disaster
fractures the present and
causes dire effects for the
future — as far as humanity
is concerned, forever.
Fukushima is ground zero and
time zero.
A new scientific study
released Thursday has
delivered yet another burst
of bad news about Greenland
— the vast northern ice
sheet that contains 20 feet
of potential sea level rise.
The ice sheet is
“darkening,” or losing its
ability to reflect both
visible and invisible
radiation, as it melts more
and more, the research
finds. That means it’s
absorbing more of the sun’s
energy — which then drives
further melting.
Hydrogen Energy California,
the $4 billion clean coal
project heavily subsidized
by the Obama administration
but opposed by its neighbors
in western Kern County, was
placed on indefinite hold
Thursday by its
Massachusetts-based
developer.
Hawaiian Electric Co., the
state's largest electric
utility, serving 95 percent
of the population, said
Thursday it hit a record
high last year in renewable
energy use across its three
service territories.
Babak Zanjani was accused of
pocketing billions of
dollars of oil revenues
during Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's
presidency
Monsanto says it has nothing
to do with the clause that
our corrupt Congress just
passed in a piece of
legislation exempting the
St. Louis-based company from
ALL financial liability
involved with lawsuits and
financial settlements
related to PCB contamination
and cleanup sites. REALLY?
"It's been seven years,
eight years since we had the
last recession in the U.S.
and normally, historically
we have them every four to
seven years for whatever
reason—at least we always
have," he said. "It doesn't
have to happen in four to
seven years but look at the
debt, the debt is
staggering."
Legal marijuana may
be doing at least one thing
that a decades-long drug war
couldn't: taking a bite out
of Mexican drug cartels'
profits.
The latest data from the
U.S. Border Patrol shows
that last year, marijuana
seizures along the southwest
border tumbled to their
lowest level in at least a
decade. Agents snagged
roughly 1.5 million pounds
of marijuana at the border,
down from a peak of nearly 4
million pounds in 2009.
“We are gathered here
today to… bring attention to
the problems of drug abuse
so prevalent on all of our
reservations and urban
communities today. We also
intend to bring attention to
the problems of domestic
violence which are often
made worse when drugs are
involved,” event organizer
and co-founder of the
American Indian Movement
Dennis Banks, Ojibwe, said
to those gathered.
A bill under consideration
in the Louisiana Senate
would legalize limited raw
milk sales in the state,
taking an important step
toward effectively
nullifying a federal
prohibition scheme in
effect.
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Sayings like “I love you
with all my heart,” and
“my heart swelled with
joy,” or the reference
to someone being
“broken-hearted” or
“cold-hearted” —how much
of this poetic language
is based on something
real?
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Your brain and heart
work together in
producing emotions. Your
heart actually contains
neurons, similar to
those in your brain, and
your heart and brain are
closely connected,
creating a symbiotic
whole
-
Your amygdala processes
fear in combination with
the signaling from your
heart. This brain-heart
connection is also at
work when you experience
feelings of compassion
and empathy
After decades of work
and hundreds of millions of
dollars, the end could be in
sight for the federal office
charged with relocating
Navajo and Hopi families in
a land dispute between the
two tribes...
The relocation office
has its roots in a
long-running land dispute
between the two tribes that
resulted in litigation and
legislation. In 1974,
Congress passed the
Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement
Act, which set up a process
for the tribes to work out
boundaries between
themselves. When they were
unable to do so, a federal
court stepped in and drew
boundaries in 1978, ordering
members of each tribe to
move if they had been drawn
into the other tribe’s
territory.
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One of the best and
least expensive ways to
optimize your gut
microbiome is to eat
traditionally fermented
and fiber-rich foods.
Probiotic supplements
can also be beneficial
-
One of the reasons a
healthy diet is able to
influence your health is
by creating an optimal
environment for
beneficial bacteria in
your gut, while
decreasing pathogenic or
disease-causing
bacteria, fungi, and
yeast
-
If you have to take an
antibiotic, be sure to
also take a high-quality
probiotic. To ensure the
bacteria’s survival,
take the probiotic a few
hours before or after
taking the antibiotic
Mandamin was
recognized for her role in
founding the Mother Earth
Water Walk in 2003 as well
as for holding symposiums
and conferences in First
Nations communities. She has
walked the perimeter of all
the Great Lakes, and
numerous other waterways—for
a total of more than 10,500
miles over the past five
years.
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown is
expected to sign into law a
bill that would eliminate
the state’s use of coal for
power production.
Senate Bill 1547 requires
Oregon’s electric utilities
to abandon coal by 2030.
The bill also increases the
Renewable Portfolio Standard
for the state’s three
largest utilities, requiring
them to procure at least
half their electricity from
renewable energy sources by
2040.
A study published in the
Journal of the American
Medical Association found
that the rate of deaths
related to painkillers were
25 percent lower on average
in states with legal medical
marijuana laws, when
compared to states where
cannabis is still illegal.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a chance
for a C-class flares on days
one, two, and three (08 Mar,
09 Mar, 10 Mar). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
unsettled levels on days one
and two (08 Mar, 09 Mar) and
quiet levels on day three
(10 Mar).
Hawaii residents will have
two opportunities to view
the Solar Impulse 2, the
plane attempting to travel
around the world powered
only by the sun, before it
departs for the U.S.
mainland.
With drones exploding in
popularity over the past
couple of years, it follows
that concern around exactly
who is flying them and where
is also on the rise. From
lurking around the Japanese
Prime Minister's office to
crash landings on the White
House lawn, the potential
for malicious or
irresponsible use of the
technology has inspired some
imaginative approaches to
ensuring public safety.
Climate change's impact on
species could include snakes
slithering northward in the
U.S. with warming
temperatures, study says.
ISIS attacks in California
and Paris may be just the
beginning of an
unprecedented plot to bring
America to its knees by
targeting our nation's
scandalously vulnerable
electric grid, warn
officials at the Pentagon
and FBI.
Why? Because terrorist
groups like ISIS realize
they can't beat us with
brute military force on the
conventional battlefield.
We're way too strong for
that.
But when the
electric grid fails, it will
be like watching America
have a heart attack right
before your eyes.
The US Nuclear Regulatory
Commission has "made
insufficient progress in
improving US nuclear power
safety in light of lessons
learned" from the 2011
Fukushima I accident in
Japan, the Union of
Concerned Scientists said
statement.
UCS, in a
statement, said that "all
too often the agency
abdicated its responsibility
as the nation's nuclear
watchdog by allowing the
industry to rely on
voluntary guidelines, which
are, by their very nature,
unenforceable."
The US oil rig count fell by
eight to 392 in the week
ending Friday, down from 922
in the comparable week a
year ago, Baker Hughes said
in its weekly report.
Gas rigs dropped by five
to 97 week on week, down
from 268 rigs working a year
ago. The total US oil and
gas rig count fell by 13
rigs from the week prior to
489.
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Assessments made of
fossilized bowel
movements from the
Paleolithic era have
demonstrated your
ancestors ate large
amounts of fiber
-
Low-fiber diets can
reduce or eliminate
specific strains of
bacteria in your gut
necessary to maintain
the health of your
immune system and your
intestinal tract
-
I recommend consuming
about 25 to 50 grams of
fiber per 1,000 calories
consumed per day,
primarily from
vegetables, nuts, seeds
and organic psyllium
March 4, 2016
In the wake of the
environmental commitments
countries have made with the
Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) and the Paris
COP21 climate change
agreement, the report
focuses on how the market
for second-generation
biofuels can be exploited,
and how to make the
technology available in
developing countries.
Several noted energy
experts warn that the price
of oil will continue to
plummet in 2016.
Goldman Sachs and Morgan
Stanley expect oil to
plummet to $20 a barrel …
and Royal Bank of Scotland
says $16 oil is on the
horizon.
The fact is each water
source contains contaminants
that occur naturally and
those that result from human
activities. Natural
contamination of drinking
water occurs as the water
flows into rivers or
streams, filters through
soil layers and rocks, or as
it sits in lakes.
During these processes the
water absorbs or dissolves
the substances that it comes
into contact with. Depending
on its exposure, water
changes in terms of its
physical parameters and
composition.
Tourists staring in
wonder at the full force of
the Zambezi River cascading
over Victoria Falls struggle
to believe the region is
suffering one of its worst
ever droughts, but local
guide Patrick Sakala knows
all is not well.
Flows have dropped to
30-year lows at the
waterfall straddling Zambia
and Zimbabwe's shared
border, as poor rains and
soaring temperatures take
their toll across southern
Africa.
Global aid agencies are
responding to a call for
assistance by Mongolia as
harsh winter weather raises
fears for the safety and
livelihoods of the country's
traditional pastoralists,
who have already been hit
hard by a drought last year.
Blame an unusually
warm winter for the lack of
snow in Anchorage, which
hosts the ceremonial first
stretch of the sled race. El
Niño winters are
historically warmer in
Alaska, and this year is no
exception.
One Republican lawmaker
criticized the FBI for
arguing that the government
needs "more tools and more
compulsion," but that even
members of Congress "can't
even see what you're already
doing."
The universe is an
unfathomably vast place, but
so far it feels very empty.
Scientists have been looking
for evidence of
extraterrestrial life for a
few decades, and nothing has
presented itself. The sheer
mathematical probability
would seem to make
extraterrestrial life a
certainty, although how can
we know when E.T. comes
calling? Researchers from
McMaster University in
Ontario have put forth an
interesting proposal: We
need to make sure they can
see us in the first place.
Cyclotron Road recruits
entrepreneurial researchers
and embeds them at Berkeley
Lab for up to two years in a
mentored technology
entrepreneurship program.
During that time, the
program guides its cohort
members as they work to
achieve focused technology
development objectives in a
discrete period of time to
facilitate the transition
from lab to market.
Total revenue for global
advanced energy set a record
at $1.4 trillion in 2015,
making the industry twice as
big as the airline industry,
bigger than apparel/fashion,
and approaching worldwide
spending on media and
entertainment.
The U.S. energy storage
market just had both its
best quarter and best year
of all time.
The research showed that
during the peak of the Aliso
Canyon event, enough methane
poured into the air every
day to fill a balloon the
size of the Rose Bowl. Total
emissions during the 112-day
event were equal to
one-quarter of the annual
methane pollution from all
other sources in the Los
Angeles basin combined.
It is extremely important
for the health and well
being of the nation that we
choose leaders who will help
regulate Big Pharma better
to prevent future
prescription drug deaths, to
revamp the system to allow
for more independent,
long-term safety testing as
well as keep the industry in
check so that they don’t
shake down the consumer
financially even more than
they already have.
But will the new
president be able to make
their own decisions or will
he or she play by Big
Pharma’s rules...
Financial companies will
be hard-pressed to meet
long-term growth
expectations as decades of
credit expansion come to an
end and central-bank
policies and tighter
regulations squeeze profits,
according to bond investor
Bill Gross.
Several top officials in
Crystal City, TX, were
recently arrested by the FBI
on corruption charges.
The circumstances have
left local residents with
little recourse amid a
sudden tap water crisis that
saw their tap water turn
black and smelly.
“Not dark or murky water
— black water,” ...
China aims to lay off 5-6
million state workers over
the next two to three years
as part of efforts to curb
industrial overcapacity and
pollution, two reliable
sources said, Beijing's
boldest retrenchment program
in almost two decades.
China's
leadership, obsessed with
maintaining stability and
making sure redundancies do
not lead to unrest, will
spend nearly 150 billion
yuan ($23 billion) to cover
layoffs in just the coal and
steel sectors in the next
2-3 years.
Of the 47 states affected by
the rule, nine are weighing
whether to stop preparing or
perhaps slow down now that
they may have an extra year
and a half to work out
plans. The other 20 states
-- mostly supporters of the
climate action -- will press
on with discussions about
how to meet the carbon
emissions limits for power
plants, even though EPA can
no longer legally require
them to do so.
Perhaps the greatest shift
in clean tech over the past
15 years has been the
transition from proving
economies of scale among
early technology disrupters
(serving initially small
niche markets) to the
deployment of renewables
among mainstream consumers –
with all the financing and
development tools that come
with mass adoption.
Some experts think this
ruling could set a precedent
for future cases involving
tech companies.
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Cramming more into every
hour negatively impacts
your relationships,
health and peace of mind
-
Giving kids more time to
daydream and just be
kids may be better for
them in the long run
than constant scheduling
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A philosophy called The
Slow Movement can help
you bring balance to
your life and focus on
your true priorities
An ongoing El Nino
weather pattern is now at
moderate levels, the
Australian Bureau of
Meteorology (BOM) said on
Tuesday, as associated
climate indicators have
eased.
Pacific Ocean sea
temperatures have eased in
the last two weeks, the BOM
said, pushing the severity
of the El Nino down from
strong to moderate levels.
The El Nino is expected
to end by the second quarter
of 2016, the BOM said.
The U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) is
issuing a notice of intent
to cancel all Bayer
CropScience, LP and Nichino
America, Inc., flubendiamide
products that pose a risk to
aquatic invertebrates that
are important to the health
of aquatic environments.
Among the 16 EU member
states still operating
nuclear plants, only Britain
has sufficient dedicated
assets to cover the expected
costs of nuclear
decommissioning.
What happens when eight
children are let into a room
where a real gun is
partially hidden — lodged
next to a couch’s seat
cushion?
Apple was handed a crucial
win in its fight for
encryption on Monday, as a
New York federal judge
denied a government All
Writs Act-based motion to
compel Apple's assistance in
bypassing the encryption
safeguards of an iPhone
linked to a years-old drug
case.
A major food industry trade
organization is spearheading
the opposition to the
legalization of raw milk
sales and the easing of
restrictions throughout the
United States.
Eggshells contain the
perfect amount of the ideal
substances for healing
cavities – massive amounts
of calcium and 27 other
minerals. The composition of
eggshells resembles our
teeth. Eggshells provide the
necessary amount of calcium
to remineralize teeth. Just
boil shells from one organic
free range egg for about 5
minutes. You can add them
daily into your smoothies or
grind them into a fine
powder and add it to your
food.
The paper hones in on the
shared interest of the two
groups, namely the supply of
freshwater counted on by the
energy industry, which in
turn fuels water treatment
operations, a relationship
that’s known as the
“water-energy nexus.”...
“Water use in oil and gas
production in the United
States, desalination in the
Middle East, and water use
in coal production and
electricity generation in
China; these are the biggest
pain points in the
water-energy nexus today, so
we thought it was important
to explore these in more
depth.”
— AP: “Uncontrolled spread
of contamination” —
Official: Contains “high
levels of radioactive
isotopes”
...the uncontrolled
spread of small
amounts of
radioactive waste
at Hanford after a Nov. 17
windstorm is
alarming. The winds
pushed specks of
contamination beyond Route
4...
Now, Edward Snowden, former
National Security Agency
(NSA) contractor, is joining
the hack party, suggesting
that the FBI can use acids
and lasers to pry out the
data without Apple’s
assistance.
It goes without saying that
safety is of primary concern
during and after such winter
storms, and an important
part of the effort is the
application of sodium
chloride — road salt, rock
salt, ice melt, etc. — to
reduce slippery conditions
on roads, parking lots, and
sidewalks. But there is a
downside to the liberal
application of road salt: it
eventually ends up in
waterways and groundwater,
affecting ecosystems and
water quality.
The new iOS devices with the
Secure Enclave were supposed
to be unhackable, even by
Apple, but they aren't. What
could Apple do to fix this?
A new study identifies 25
ways to tell if your kitty
isn’t feeling well
In Europe we have been
leading the world in terms
of installed capacity of
solar power, ever since the
start of the solar
revolution almost 10 years
ago. This year will see
Europe hit and exceed 100 GW
of grid connected solar, the
first region to do so and a
moment worthy of a
celebration..
Pagliano will likely be
asked how he was able to
“migrate a State Department
secure system onto her
private server.” He then
presented this theoretical
question: “Mr. Pagliano, did
Mrs. Clinton give you her
personal Secretary of State
password to enable you to do
that?”
The move is a sign that the
FBI investigation into
possible criminal wrongdoing
is progressing, the Post
reported.
Researchers from the Chinese
Academy of Sciences have
successfully created
functional sperm cells from
mouse stem cells in the
laboratory, then implanted
those cells into rodents'
egg cells to produce
healthy, fertile
offspring...
70% of those polled want to
see more renewable energy
such as wind, solar, wave
and tidal and two-thirds
agreed that the next
government should "continue
to take forward policies
that tackle greenhouse gas
emissions and climate
change".
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Short term, lack of
sleep has an immediate
effect on your mental
and emotional states.
Over the long term, poor
sleep can contribute to
a whole host of chronic
health problems, both
physical and mental
-
Going just one night
without proper sleep
starts to impair your
physical movements and
mental focus, comparable
to being drunk
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Your problem-solving
skills dwindle with each
passing sleepless night,
and paranoia,
hallucinations, and
sleep deprivation
psychosis can set in
after as little as 24
hours without sleep,
mimicking symptoms of
schizophrenia
Fossil fuel barons have
invested more than $100m in
Republican presidential
Super Pacs – raising
concerns over special
interests if GOP takes White
House
Ce:wi Duag, the
O’odham name for the Santa
Rita Mountains, are located
about 30 miles southeast of
Tucson, Arizona, and are
sacred to the tribe.
In 2007, Rosemont Copper,
a subsidiary of
Toronto-based Hudbay
Minerals Inc., proposed
building a mile-wide and
half-mile deep pit in the
mountain range.
But the attack apparently
didn’t last long.
It turns out the victim
has a concealed carry
license and put it to
use,...
Parts of Australia's
Great Barrier Reef face
permanent destruction if the
current El Nino, one of the
strongest in two decades,
does not ease this month,
scientists said on
Wednesday.
The El Nino is a result
of a warming of the ocean in
the western Pacific -- ideal
conditions for coral
bleaching, where coral
expels living algae, causing
it to calcify. Coral can
only survive within a narrow
band of ocean temperature.
Jury selection began this
month for a court case over
fracking water contamination
in Pennsylvania.
The suit over
contamination in Dimock, PA,
centers around “the
explosion of a shed on New
Year’s Day in 2009,” NPR
reported. That event
“provided the first evidence
of water mixed with
dangerously high levels of
methane. State regulators
concluded that Cabot Oil and
Gas had built faulty wells,”
the report said.
The Puget Sound, the
waterway along the
northwestern coast of
Washington that borders
Seattle, is thick with drug
residue from treated
wastewater, and the
contaminants are showing up
in salmon.
“Puget Sound salmon are
on drugs — Prozac, Advil,
Benadryl, Lipitor, even
cocaine. Those drugs and
dozens of others are showing
up in the tissues of
juvenile chinook,
researchers have found,
thanks to tainted wastewater
discharge,..
Electrical energy
was converted from
structural
oscillations of a
small "trunk and
branch" device.
Step aside windmills,
there's a new way to
harvest kinetic energy
in the works. A research
team at the Ohio State
University has created
electromechanical
devices that look like
tiny leafless trees and
can generate electricity
when they are moved by
seismic activity, the
slight swaying movements
of a tall building, or
the vibrations from
traffic on a bridge.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a slight
chance for a C-class flare
on days one, two, and three
(04 Mar, 05 Mar, 06 Mar).
The geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
active levels on days one
and two (04 Mar, 05 Mar) and
unsettled to minor storm
levels on day three (06
Mar).
History has proved to make
some incredible discoveries
that have made their way
into teachings that we, as a
society, are taught to
absorb as true statements
and must believe, memorize,
and analyze. The human
anatomy is no exception.
We already know the brain
is a complex organ, so it
should come as no surprise
to us that scientific
research continues to reveal
new information about it,
and that old ideas we
thought to be true must
often be rejected.
Scientists in developing
countries are scrambling to
find a cure for a
devastating fungus that
threatens to wipe out the
global banana trade and
plunge millions of farmers
into poverty.
Around the world, banana
farmers are fighting a
losing battle against
Tropical Race 4, a soil
fungus that kills Cavendish
bananas, the only type grown
for the international
market.
Clear Channel Outdoor
(CCO) has shocked the media
by joining forces with AT&T
Data Partners and the
unveiling of RADAR, a
sophisticated new way of
surveilling the public for
data-mining purposes in
order to boost advertisement
revenue.
Even Senator Al Franken
wrote a letter asking for
more information on RADAR.
America's Dairyland is
seeing an influx of solar
power.
Dairyland Power Cooperative
has finalized agreements
with two developers to
purchase more than 15 MW of
renewable energy from
multiple new utility-scale
photovoltaic solar
facilities in Wisconsin.
South Africa's farming
sector may need up to 18
billion rand ($1 billion)
over the next three years in
financial assistance to
recover from a devastating
drought, industry group Agri
SA said on Wednesday.
What the government’s not
telling you about the
radioactive dump!
Tajikistan, which sits on
Central Asia's main water
source, warned its citizens
and neighbours in the region
on Tuesday of a potential
drought this year and urged
them to stock up on food...
Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan,
located downstream, have
repeatedly complained they
do not receive their fair
share of the river's
resources, because
Tajikistan is filling up its
reservoirs to ensure there
is enough for the winter.
Do you ever question what
doctors, nutritionists,
institutions and even
science tells you about your
health, food, environment
and lifestyle? You should,
because we live in an era of
deception and duplicity
where the most trusted and
valued sources of
information are hijacked by
much bigger interests than
you can imagine.
The reason they’re failing
us is because corrupt
governments, corporations
and the media are constantly
feeding us lies on a daily
basis, which through
repetition, the public
eventually accepts as truth.
The internet is one of the
last frontiers for truth,
informing and educating
billions on why our systems
of health, agriculture,
medicine and many other
areas we depend on are
failing us.
Researchers at MIT have
created prototype solar
cells so light and so thin,
that they can be balanced on
the surface of a soap bubble
without breaking it
Around the globe, our
relationship to energy has
hit a tipping point. Rapidly
expanding populations around
the globe are putting
increased strain on aging
grid infrastructure just as
the same people turn
increasingly mobile with the
advent of smartphones. In an
industry plagued by
uncertainty, if one thing's
for sure, it's that the
current energy model is not
meeting demands.
A consequential energy case
that cuts to the heart of
the delicate balance between
state and federal regulation
of electricity markets in
the United States made its
way to the U.S. Supreme
Court last week.
The $60 million worth
project will become
operational within 18
months, the official said,
adding the foreign party
will undertake 100 percent
of the investment share.
The heaviest vacuum gasoil
in the US Gulf Coast cash
market was cheaper than
crude for a third
consecutive day Wednesday,
extending a bear run not
seen since April 2010, with
feedstock remaining in
floating storage, sources
said...
Gulf Coast VGO has also come
under pressure this year as
a result of diesel and
gasoline being less
profitable.
If you value your life,
you should value
groundwater, the National
Ground Water Association
said recently in recognition
of National Groundwater
Awareness Week, March 6-12.
Quite literally, life as
we know it would not be
possible without
groundwater.
The undetectable attack is
perpetrated from up to 300
feet away
Security experts demonstrate
that wireless keyboards and
mice are extremely
vulnerable to outside
interference, allowing
attackers to easily
intercept the data packets
and hack your computer.
The United States continues
to lead the world in wind
energy production, according
to recently released data by
the Global Wind Energy
Council (GWEC) and the U.S.
Energy Information
Administration (EIA).
March 1, 2016
While Edward Snowden and
Chelsea Manning and John
Kiriakou are vilified for
revealing vital information
about spying and bombing and
torture, a man who conspired
with Goldman Sachs to make
billions of dollars on the
planned failure of subprime
mortgages was honored by New
York University for his
“Outstanding Contributions
to Society.”
Mikovits and her research
team claimed that 6% of
Americans were harbouring
this retrovirus, which was
appearing in a very high
percentage of people with
diseases such as prostate
cancer, Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome, autism, Lou
Gehrig’s Disease, treatment
resistant Lyme’s Disease,
and Parkinson’s Disease.
Pain is first energy, second
perception, and third
physical manifestation.
There is no other source of
pain but energetic. Physical
presentation is always
secondary. Every single
origin of pain in our bodies
can be traced back to a
specific emotional state
which functions to warn us
that there is still work to
be done in areas of our
lives for which we have yet
to integrate lessons. Once
we integrate those lessons,
the pain disappears.
Global sea level rose
faster in the 20th century
than in any of the 27
previous centuries, finds
new research led by Rutgers
University.
Without global warming,
global sea level would have
risen by less than half the
observed 20th century
increase and might even have
fallen, the scientists say.
Instead, global sea level
rose by about 14
centimeters, or 5.5 inches,
from 1900 to 2000, putting
vulnerable, low-lying
coastal areas at risk.
Gulf Cooperation Council
countries may struggle to
refinance $94 billion of
debt in the next two years
as the region faces slowing
growth, rising rates and
rating downgrades, according
to HSBC Holdings Plc.
Oil-rich GCC states have
to refinance $52 billion of
bonds and $42 billion of
syndicated loans, mostly in
the United Arab Emirates and
Qatar, HSBC said in an
e-mailed report. The
countries also face a fiscal
and current account deficit
of $395 billion over the
period, it said.
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Egg yolks provide
valuable vitamins (A, D,
E and K), omega-3 fats
and antioxidants, much
of which is not found in
egg whites
-
The cholesterol in egg
yolks is not associated
with high blood
cholesterol levels or
heart disease
-
The yolk is arguably the
healthiest part of the
egg and should be
consumed lightly cooked
or raw (provided it’s
free-range and organic)
Attitude Power
“The greatest discovery of
all time is that a person
can change his future by
merely changing his
attitude.” ― Oprah Winfrey
Australian residents may
have legal access to medical
marijuana.
Because
medical marijuana is not
yet legal in Australia,
Koessler was escorted by
police to jail. He was later
released, but still has
limited contact with his
little girl.Remember in
January of 2015, Adam
Koessler used cannabis oil
to benefit his 2-year-old
daughter’s health condition?
Reportedly, the cannabis oil
helped improve her
late-stage cancer, but there
were consequences of
taking such a risk.
Bakken sources in the US had
expected strength, but were
confused as to the
pronounced increase in
price. Bakken ex-Clearbrook
was last heard traded
Thursday for April at WTI
CMA minus 60 cents/b.
A woman in Russia reportedly
decapitated a little girl
who was in her care and
paced in the street as she
shouted “Allahu Akbar.”...
The girl reportedly had
learning disabilities and
could not walk. Her parents
rented the apartment where
they lived along with her
15-year-old brother.
As he states in the video,
it has become very clear to
those who are paying
attention as to what big
pharmaceutical companies are
doing with the hard earned
cash of citizens who feel
the need to donate and show
their support for those who
are suffering from a
critical disease such as
cancer.
Coal fell to just 27.6% of
US utility-scale power
generation in December, and
the spread between it and
natural gas-fired generation
widened to 616 basis points,
the largest yet seen,
according to Energy
Information Administration
data out Friday.
A December power outage
in Ukraine affecting 225,000
customers was the result of
a cyber attack, the U.S.
Department of Homeland
Security said Thursday,
marking the first time the
U.S. government officially
recognized the blackout as
caused by a malicious hack.
Security experts had
already widely concluded
that the downing of
utilities in western Ukraine
on December 23 was due to an
attack, which is believed to
be the first known
successful cyber intrusion
to knock a power grid
offline.
By using formic acid as a
fuel, the TU/e students hope
to combine the strengths of
electric and hydrogen
powered cars without any of
the drawbacks.
A new study by a team of MIT
scientists suggests that sea
sponges might have been the
first animals to inhabit the
Earth. The researchers’
genetic analyses confirm
that sea sponges are the
source of a curious molecule
found in rocks that are 640
million years old. These
rocks significantly predate
the Cambrian explosion — the
period 540 million years ago
in which most animal groups
took over the planet. The
research was published
February 22, 2016 in the
Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences.
The indictments, forced
through by a civilian
judicial panel, are the
first against officials at
Tepco and come just before
the fifth anniversary of the
meltdowns at the Fukushima
nuclear station north of
Tokyo.
In accordance with
Japanese law, the three were
indicted by prosecutors on
charges of professional
negligence resulting in
injury and death.
Super PACS supporting
Hillary Clinton are likely
already building up a list
of people victimized by GOP
front-runner Donald Trump
and will not hesitate to use
it in the general
election...
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Physical exercise
decreases risk of
age-related brain
shrinkage, and increases
cognitive abilities by
promoting neurogenesis —
your brain’s ability to
adapt and grow new brain
cells
-
Low physical fitness
correlates to smaller
brain volume over time
-
Any movement that
strengthens your leg
muscles, such as
walking, leg extensions,
and squats, helps
protect your brain
against cognitive
decline and memory loss
More than a mile below the
surface, our planet supports
diverse creatures that could
give us clues about life
across the solar system
Allies of Iran's reformist
President Hassan Rouhani
have won a landslide victory
in Tehran, in the first
parliamentary vote since
Iran signed a nuclear deal
with world powers.
With 90% of the votes
counted, the pro-Rouhani
List of Hope is set to take
all 30 parliamentary seats
in the capital.
“Is the purpose of the TV ad
to make you an informed
consumer?” asks Noam
Chomsky. “The purpose of the
ad is to delude and deceive
you with imagery so you’ll
be uninformed and make an
irrational choice.”
The conversation at
SolarCity’s hollowed-out
warehouse in Las Vegas felt
like it came after a
funeral, and in a sense it
did, with workers cycling
between sadness, disbelief
and anger at the untimely
death of the rooftop solar
industry.
The cause, as seen by
workers drifting in to clean
out their belongings, was
state-assisted suicide,
after the Nevada regulator
imposed costly new rules for
residential solar customers.
U.S. stocks have had a rough
start this year, to be sure.
The Dow Jones industrial
average and the S&P 500
index have both plunged
nearly 5 percent. The Nasdaq
composite, meanwhile, has
tumbled close to 9 percent
year to date, CNBC reported.
“But I think this is not
2008 all over again,”...
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Organic food crops have
fewer, if any pesticide
residues, and about half
the amount of cadmium, a
toxic metal and
carcinogen. They also
contain 18 to 69 percent
more antioxidants than
conventionally grown
varieties
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Organic grass-fed milk
and meat contain a
healthier fatty acid
composition, with higher
amounts of omega-3 and
CLA, and higher levels
of essential minerals
and antioxidants
-
Research looking at key
sustainability metrics
found organic farms are
more profitable, more
environmentally-friendly,
and provide unique
social and ecosystem
benefits
Electromagnetic radiation
has historically been the
only tool to observe and
understand the goings-on of
the universe. Gravitational
waves offer an entirely new
method for observation, as
they carry "information
about cosmic objects and
events that is not carried
by electromagnetic
radiation," LIGO noted.
The Obama administration is
committed to further oil and
gas drilling in the Gulf of
Mexico, but persistently low
oil prices are hampering
near-term interest in the
basin, a key administration
official said Friday.
"We'll continue with our
leasing program in the Gulf
of Mexico, there's no
question about that, but
what the demand is for new
leases and new acreage ...
is an interesting question,"
said Tommy Beaudreau, the US
Department of the Interior's
chief of staff.
It can obviously be proven
false if you're willing to
wait around long enough, but
researchers have added some
truth to the old adage that
a watched pot never boils.
They've managed to put a
boiling bubble on pause to
learn more about the way
such bubbles form when water
boils.
Heavy autumn rains have
transformed the barren
landscape into riot of
flowers not seen in decade.
Have a look!
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a chance
for a C-class flares on days
one, two, and three (01 Mar,
02 Mar, 03 Mar). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
active levels on day one (01
Mar), unsettled levels on
day two (02 Mar) and quiet
to unsettled levels on day
three (03 Mar).
A surge
of solar panel installations
made 2015 another record
year for the industry, and
for the first time,
electricity production from
new solar systems exceeded
the capacity from new
natural gas facilities,
according to solar industry
figures.
Photovoltaic panel
installations last year
totaled 7,286 megawatts -- a
17 percent jump from 2014,
according to numbers
released today by the Solar
Energy Industries
Association and GTM
Research.
The bigger they are the
harder they fall...Just like
the dinosaurs, giant
retailers like Walmart,
Nordstrom, Macy's, Staples,
Whole Foods and many others
may soon face extinction!
The following are 13
major retailers that are
closing down stores...
Guantanamo -Congress has
waited seven and a half
years for President Obama to
provide a plan to achieve
this goal. But what we
received was a vague menu of
options -- not a credible
plan for closing Guantanamo,
let alone a coherent policy
to deal with future
terrorist detainees.
There are more than one
billion cars on the road
worldwide today, and only
one tenth of one percent of
them have a plug. OPEC
contends that even in the
year 2040, EVs will make up
just one percent. But don't
be so sure. By 2020, some
electric cars and SUVs will
be faster, safer, cheaper,
and more convenient than
their gasoline counterparts.
What if people just stop
buying oil? In the first
episode of our animated
series, Sooner Than You
Think, Bloomberg's Tom
Randall does the math on
when oil markets might be
headed for the big crash.
The leak also released
some 2.5 tons of benzene, a
carcinogen, into the
atmosphere, they found. That
sounds like a lot, but cars
and other sources emit about
a thousand times more every
year, Ryerson says.
Individuals who were in the
way of the plume may have
been exposed to more
worrying amounts of the
substance, but for now
there’s no way to know.
More
and more parents around the
globe are choosing to opt
out of vaccinating
themselves and their
children. As a result of
this trend that’s been
gaining more and more
momentum, a harsh response
has come from the
“pro-vaccine” community
-criticizing parents for
their decision to not
vaccinate. At the end of the
day it’s not really about
“pro-vaccination” or
“anti-vaccination,” it’s not
one “against” the other or
about pointing fingers and
judgement, it’s simply about
looking at all of the
information from a neutral
standpoint. It’s about
asking questions and
communicating so people can
make the best possible
decisions for themselves and
their children. Parents love
their kids and the vaccine
“controversy” has made it
difficult for many parents
to know what to do.
It’s not just parents,
it’s doctors too.
All told, the Aliso
Canyon leak thrust an
estimated 96,000 metric tons
of potent methane — not to
mention benzene, nitrogen
oxides, and other noxious
substances — into the
atmosphere over a period of
months. So vast was the
impact of the leak, it has
been likened in impactful
scope to BP’s Deepwater
Horizon oil spill in the
Gulf of Mexico.
California, however,
isn’t the only state dealing
with mammoth methane
leakage.
The head of the U.N. nuclear
agency is warning of the
dangers of nuclear material
falling into the hands of
terrorists and is urging
world nations to apply an
agreement meant to minimize
such dangers...
He notes that nearly 2,800
incidents of radioactive
material going missing have
been reported to his agency
since 1995.
Though delayed for at
least another two months,
Canada's eventual decision
over the fate of a
15-year-old proposal to
build a deep underground
repository for low and
intermediate-level nuclear
waste a mile from Lake Huron
is being watched on both
sides of the border.
Many people believe the
decision has broader
implications for the U.S.
and the global nuclear
industry at large, as well
as future management of the
Great Lakes , which hold a
fifth of the world's fresh
surface water.