http://www.farmersalmanac.com/full-moon-namesThis was the time to set beaver traps before the swamps froze, to ensure a supply of warm winter furs. Another interpretation suggests that the name Full Beaver Moon comes from the fact that the beavers are now actively preparing for winter. It is sometimes also referred to as the Frosty Moon.
Farmers Almanac | Full Moon Names and Their Meanings
• Full Wolf Moon - January Amid the cold and deep snows of midwinter, the wolf packs howled hungrily outside Indian villages. Thus, the name for January's full Moon. Sometimes it was also referred to as the Old Moon, or the Moon After Yule. Some called it the Full Snow Moon, but most tribes applied that name to the next Moon.
• Full Snow Moon - February Since the heaviest snow usually falls during this month, native tribes of the north and east most often called February's full Moon the Full Snow Moon. Some tribes also referred to this Moon as the Full Hunger Moon, since harsh weather conditions in their areas made hunting very difficult.
• Full Worm Moon - March As the temperature begins to warm and the ground begins to thaw, earthworm casts appear, heralding the return of the robins. The more northern tribes knew this Moon as the Full Crow Moon, when the cawing of crows signaled the end of winter; or the Full Crust Moon, because the snow cover becomes crusted from thawing by day and freezing at night. The Full Sap Moon, marking the time of tapping maple trees, is another variation. To the settlers, it was also known as the Lenten Moon, and was considered to be the last full Moon of winter.
• Full Pink Moon - April This name came from the herb moss pink, or wild ground phlox, which is one of the earliest widespread flowers of the spring. Other names for this month's celestial body include the Full Sprouting Grass Moon, the Egg Moon, and among coastal tribes the Full Fish Moon, because this was the time that the shad swam upstream to spawn.
• Full Flower Moon - May In most areas, flowers are abundant everywhere during this time. Thus, the name of this Moon. Other names include the Full Corn Planting Moon, or the Milk Moon.
• Full Strawberry Moon - June This name was universal to every Algonquin tribe. However, in Europe they called it the Rose Moon. Also because the relatively short season for harvesting strawberries comes each year during the month of June . . . so the full Moon that occurs during that month was christened for the strawberry!
• The Full Buck Moon - July July is normally the month when the new antlers of buck deer push out of their foreheads in coatings of velvety fur. It was also often called the Full Thunder Moon, for the reason that thunderstorms are most frequent during this time. Another name for this month's Moon was the Full Hay Moon.
• Full Sturgeon Moon - August The fishing tribes are given credit for the naming of this Moon, since sturgeon, a large fish of the Great Lakes and other major bodies of water , were most readily caught during this month. A few tribes knew it as the Full Red Moon because, as the Moon rises, it appears reddish through any sultry haze. It was also called the Green Corn Moon or Grain Moon.
• Full Corn Moon - September This full moon's name is attributed to Native Americans because it marked when corn was supposed to be harvested. Most often, the September full moon is actually the Harvest Moon.
• Full Harvest Moon - October This is the full Moon that occurs closest to the autumn equinox. In two years out of three, the Harvest Moon comes in September, but in some years it occurs in October. At the peak of harvest, farmers can work late into the night by the light of this Moon. Usually the full Moon rises an average of 50 minutes later each night, but for the few nights around the Harvest Moon, the Moon seems to rise at nearly the same time each night: just 25 to 30 minutes later across the U.S., and only 10 to 20 minutes later for much of Canada and Europe. Corn, pumpkins, squash, beans, and wild rich the chief Indian staples are now ready for gathering.
• Full Beaver Moon - November This was the time to set beaver traps before the swamps froze, to ensure a supply of warm winter furs. Another interpretation suggests that the name Full Beaver Moon comes from the fact that the beavers are now actively preparing for winter. It is sometimes also referred to as the Frosty Moon.
• The Full Cold Moon; or the Full Long Nights Moon - December During this month the winter cold fastens its grip, and nights are at their longest and darkest. It is also sometimes called the Moon before Yule. The term Long Night Moon is a doubly appropriate name because the midwinter night is indeed long, and because the Moon is above the horizon for a long time. The midwinter full Moon has a high trajectory across the sky because it is opposite a low Sun.
Meteor Showers in November
Two meteor showers occur about a week apart in November. The first is the Taurid meteors, which begin around November 4 and peak overnight on November 11. Debris from Comet Encke is the source of the meteors, which appear to emanate from the constellation Taurus. The good news is that Taurus is already rising in the early evening so observers don't have to stay up late to catch the most meteors, but the bad news is that the shower is not a stronger performer, with only about eight meteors an hour at peak.
The second meteor shower in November is the Leonids. Predawn on November 17 and 18 is the best time to look. The meteors, courtesy of Comet Temple-Tuttle, appear to come from the constellation Leo, which does not rise fully until after midnight. For observers who get up in the early morning hours to try to spy some of the "shooting stars," note that Mars is leading Leo the Lion and Saturn is behind it.
NEBRASKA HITS THE NATIONAL NEWS FOR H1N1
Rense.com - Patricial Doyle, PhD | Ferret Dies of H1N1 Swine Flu in Nebraska - virus is widening its host range
Ferret Dies of H1N1 Swine Flu in Nebraska,From Patricia Doyle, PhD
11-2-9
Patty
http://vetmedicine.about.com/b/2009/11/01/h1n1-swine-flu-ferret-dies-in-nebraska.htm
VetMedicineAbout.com | H1N1 (Swine Flu) News - Ferret dies from H1N1 infection in Nebraska
A news station in Hastings, Nebraska (KHAS) has reported that Stormy the ferret, one of four ferrets in a family of humans sick with the flu, has died from the H1N1 virus.
According to the news report:
Testing was done by the University of Nebraska Veterinary Diagnostic Lab where the ferret tested positive for H1N1. The state public health veterinarian said it is not unexpected, but it is rare. Only 2 ferrets in the nation have died from H1N1. That includes Stormy.
A second sample has been sent to a national laboratory for confirmation of H1N1 infection.
Ferrets have respiratory systems similar to humans and are known to be susceptible to human flu viruses. Infectious disease specialists do not think dogs and cats are at risk for H1N1 infection and there have been no reports of dogs or cats with H1N1 infection at this writing. Pet birds may be at risk, since the H1N1 jumped to turkeys last summer. Caution is also advised for pet pigs.
Proper hygiene and sanitation (wash hands, bowls, tools and clothing) and isolating sick individuals are your best defense against the flu viruses.
Patricia A. Doyle DVM, PhD Bus Admin, Tropical Agricultural Economics Univ of West Indies Please visit my "Emerging Diseases" message board at: http://www.emergingdisease.org/phpbb/index.php Also my new website: http://drpdoyle.tripod.com/ Zhan le Devlesa tai sastimasa
Go with God and in Good Health
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October 20, 2009 - Can My Dog or Cat Get H1N1 (Swine) Flu?
Flu Q & A - Frequently Asked Questions About 2009 H1N1 Flu Virus
From the AVMA, updated often - Nebraska Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory
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FAQ about the vaccine and dogs considered at risk for this flu
NOW THIS IS A SINKHOLE!
EARTH CHANGES NEWS - NEW OCEAN FORMING!
African Desert Rift Confirmed as New Ocean in the Making - Geologists Show that Seafloor Dynamics Are at Work in Splitting African Continent
In 2005, a gigantic, 35-mile-long rift broke open the desert ground in Ethiopia. At the time, some geologists believed the rift was the beginning of a new ocean as two parts of the African continent pulled apart, but the claim was controversial.
Now, scientists from several countries have confirmed that the volcanic processes at work beneath the Ethiopian rift are nearly identical to those at the bottom of the world's oceans, and the rift is indeed likely the beginning of a new sea.
The new study, published in the latest issue of Geophysical Research Letters, suggests that the highly active volcanic boundaries along the edges of tectonic ocean plates may suddenly break apart in large sections, instead of little by little as has been predominantly believed. In addition, such sudden large-scale events on land pose a much more serious hazard to populations living near the rift than would several smaller events, says Cindy Ebinger, professor of earth and environmental sciences at the University of Rochester and co-author of the study.
"This work is a breakthrough in our understanding of continental rifting leading to the creation of new ocean basins," says Ken Macdonald, professor emeritus in the Department of Earth Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and who is not affiliated with the research. "For the first time they demonstrate that activity on one rift segment can trigger a major episode of magma injection and associated deformation on a neighboring segment. Careful study of the 2005 mega-dike intrusion and its aftermath will continue to provide extraordinary opportunities for learning about continental rifts and mid-ocean ridges."
"The whole point of this study is to learn whether what is happening in Ethiopia is like what is happening at the bottom of the ocean where it's almost impossible for us to go," says Ebinger. "We knew that if we could establish that, then Ethiopia would essentially be a unique and superb ocean-ridge laboratory for us. Because of the unprecedented cross-border collaboration behind this research, we now know that the answer is yes, it is analogous."
Atalay Ayele, professor at the Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia, led the investigation, painstakingly gathering seismic data surrounding the 2005 event that led to the giant rift opening more than 20 feet in width in just days. Along with the seismic information from Ethiopia, Ayele combined data from neighboring Eritrea with the help of Ghebrebrhan Ogubazghi, professor at the Eritrea Institute of Technology, and from Yemen with the help of Jamal Sholan of the National Yemen Seismological Observatory Center. The map he drew of when and where earthquakes happened in the region fit tremendously well with the more detailed analyses Ebinger has conducted in more recent years.
Ayele's reconstruction of events showed that the rift did not open in a series of small earthquakes over an extended period of time, but tore open along its entire 35-mile length in just days. A volcano called Dabbahu at the northern end of the rift erupted first, then magma pushed up through the middle of the rift area and began "unzipping" the rift in both directions, says Ebinger.
Since the 2005 event, Ebinger and her colleagues have installed seismometers and measured 12 similar—though dramatically less intense—events.
"We know that seafloor ridges are created by a similar intrusion of magma into a rift, but we never knew that a huge length of the ridge could break open at once like this," says Ebinger. She explains that since the areas where the seafloor is spreading are almost always situated under miles of ocean, it's nearly impossible to monitor more than a small section of the ridge at once so there's no way for geologists to know how much of the ridge may break open and spread at any one time. "Seafloor ridges are made up of sections, each of which can be hundreds of miles long. Because of this study, we now know that each one of those segments can tear open in a just a few days."
Ebinger and her colleagues are continuing to monitor the area in Ethiopia to learn more about how the magma system beneath the rift evolves as the rift continues to grow.
Additional authors of the study include Derek Keir, Tim Wright, and Graham Stuart, professors of earth and environment at the University of Leeds, U.K.; Roger Buck, professor at the Earth Institute at Columbia University, N.Y.; and Eric Jacques, professor at the Institute de Physique du Globe de Paris, France.
LOS ANGELES CONTINUES TO HAVE WATER MAINS BREAK!
LA Times | Crews working to repair Van Nuys water main break
A full shutdown is expected shortly of a water main that ruptured today in Van Nuys, unleashing a geyser three stories high at the corner of Van Nuys Boulevard and Sherman Way.
Los Angeles Fire Department and Department of Water and Power officials were on the scene shortly after the 10:42 a.m. rupture. The nearly 20-foot geyser was soon reduced to a steady flow of water rising through the hole in the street.
No injuries or evacuations were reported but the street was flooded, said Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Erik Scott. TV news coverage showed water shooting from the street well above a nearby one-story building. No damage was reported.
It was the latest in a string of major water main leaks in the Los Angeles area. Officials have attributed the problem to the city's aging water system, but the cause of today's rupture was unclear. The agency was investigating, DWP spokeswoman Gale Harris said.
The DWP originally reported that a 54-inch iron pipe ruptured, but officials have since learned it was an 8-inch connecting pipe, she said. It did not appear that the 54-inch pipe, known as a “purple pipe" that carries recycled water for irrigation and industrial purposes, was damaged.
EARTHQUAKE SWARMS ARE GOING ON IN ICELAND
EARTHQUAKE EXPERT SAY THESE QUAKES DON'T BODE WELL FOR CANARY ISLANDS AND EAST COAST OF USA
NOTE: These are automatic results from the SIL seismic system
| Date | Time | Lat. | Lon. | Depth | Ml | Quality | | Comments | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-11-02 | 17:18:38,5 | 64,049 | -21,394 | 3,8 | 0,7 | 43,30 | 1,3 km | N | of Hellisheiðarvirkjun |
| 2009-11-02 | 16:52:51,2 | 63,940 | -19,298 | 2,9 | 1,0 | 62,33 | 9,6 km | NNW | of Álftavatn |
| 2009-11-02 | 15:50:42,3 | 64,059 | -21,427 | 9,3 | 0,5 | 37,78 | 2,8 km | NNW | of Hellisheiðarvirkjun |
| 2009-11-02 | 14:46:59,0 | 64,055 | -21,398 | 4,0 | 0,8 | 90,01 | 2,0 km | N | of Hellisheiðarvirkjun |
| 2009-11-02 | 14:29:38,0 | 63,907 | -21,459 | 9,4 | 1,4 | 51,35 | 4,8 km | SW | of Raufarhólshellir |
| 2009-11-02 | 13:11:40,5 | 64,061 | -21,408 | 4,9 | 0,5 | 50,88 | 2,7 km | N | of Hellisheiðarvirkjun |
| 2009-11-02 | 11:16:07,1 | 63,965 | -20,336 | 8,0 | 0,5 | 88,92 | 9,5 km | SSW | of Árnes |
| 2009-11-02 | 10:42:27,4 | 63,704 | -23,280 | 9,1 | 2,1 | 90,02 | 2,9 km | N | of Geirfugladrangur |
| 2009-11-02 | 10:17:47,7 | 66,509 | -17,091 | 1,1 | 1,4 | 66,06 | 36,6 km | NW | of Kópasker |
| 2009-11-02 | 09:46:27,1 | 63,701 | -23,292 | 11,6 | 1,9 | 90,02 | 2,5 km | N | of Geirfugladrangur |
| 2009-11-02 | 08:57:50,4 | 63,742 | -23,172 | 10,5 | 2,9 | 90,03 | 5,3 km | NNE | of Geirfuglasker |
| 2009-11-02 | 07:32:04,9 | 65,190 | -16,313 | 6,1 | 1,6 | 90,01 | 2,4 km | NE | of Herðubreið |
| 2009-11-02 | 07:31:59,0 | 65,376 | -16,389 | 1,1 | 2,1 | 49,86 | 5,8 km | NNE | of Herðubreiðarfjöll |
| 2009-11-02 | 07:15:28,8 | 66,665 | -17,983 | 9,4 | 2,0 | 82,39 | 13,8 km | N | of Grímsey |
| 2009-11-02 | 07:05:48,4 | 66,107 | -16,688 | 0,5 | 1,7 | 56,72 | 13,8 km | NW | of Ásbyrgi |
| 2009-11-02 | 07:05:27,7 | 67,905 | -18,072 | 7,5 | 2,9 | 90,01 | 88,0 km | NNE | of Kolbeinsey |
| 2009-11-02 | 06:56:00,5 | 66,387 | -17,060 | 7,4 | 1,1 | 90,01 | 28,7 km | WNW | of Kópasker |
| 2009-11-02 | 06:55:59,4 | 66,430 | -17,018 | 0,9 | 1,0 | 32,73 | 29,0 km | WNW | of Kópasker |
| 2009-11-02 | 06:55:58,1 | 66,492 | -16,863 | 0,9 | 1,6 | 34,57 | 28,0 km | NW | of Kópasker |
| 2009-11-02 | 06:18:55,1 | 65,187 | -16,309 | 4,0 | 1,8 | 90,03 | 2,3 km | NE | of Herðubreið |
| 2009-11-02 | 05:55:31,3 | 66,319 | -18,614 | 2,5 | 1,3 | 66,57 | 22,5 km | NW | of Gjögurtá |
| 2009-11-02 | 04:49:34,4 | 63,743 | -23,047 | 6,5 | 1,7 | 33,35 | 3,2 km | WNW | of Eldeyjardrangur |
| 2009-11-02 | 04:27:31,7 | 63,769 | -23,156 | 11,8 | 1,7 | 65,95 | 8,4 km | NNE | of Geirfuglasker |
| 2009-11-02 | 04:27:12,0 | 63,418 | -24,449 | 1,1 | 2,4 | 71,10 | 32,9 km | WSW | of Eldeyjarboði |
| 2009-11-02 | 03:50:34,3 | 66,929 | -17,618 | 14,4 | 2,3 | 85,22 | 46,4 km | NNE | of Grímsey |
| 2009-11-02 | 02:16:35,2 | 64,593 | -20,064 | 1,1 | 1,4 | 90,01 | 25,3 km | SE | of Eiríksjökull |
| 2009-11-02 | 02:02:47,1 | 66,650 | -17,260 | 12,8 | 1,8 | 90,01 | 35,2 km | ENE | of Grímsey |
| 2009-11-02 | 02:02:42,1 | 66,937 | -17,588 | 8,8 | 2,0 | 90,01 | 47,7 km | NNE | of Grímsey |
| 2009-11-02 | 02:02:41,1 | 67,002 | -17,438 | 4,9 | 2,4 | 31,81 | 56,1 km | ESE | of Kolbeinsey |
| 2009-11-02 | 02:02:29,2 | 66,937 | -17,588 | 8,8 | 2,0 | 43,67 | 47,7 km | NNE | of Grímsey |
| 2009-11-02 | 01:53:42,0 | 66,989 | -17,667 | 19,4 | 1,8 | 32,71 | 47,3 km | ESE | of Kolbeinsey |
| 2009-11-02 | 00:39:02,7 | 65,083 | -16,241 | 5,2 | 0,6 | 65,30 | 4,7 km | N | of Upptyppingar |
| 2009-11-02 | 00:20:22,1 | 66,645 | -17,962 | 9,5 | 1,2 | 45,07 | 11,7 km | N | of Grímsey |
IT'S SHAKING AGAIN IN ARKANSAS TODAY!
DON'T SAY NEW MADRID....
Two earthquakes hit Arkansas Monday morning - November 2, 2009
MAG DATE LOCAL-TIME LAT LON DEPTH LOCATION
y/m/d h:m:s deg deg km
map 2.5 2009/11/02 09:55:54 35.602N 92.508W 0.1 18 km (11 mi) WSW of Shirley, AR map 2.3 2009/11/02 04:11:51 36.504N 91.566W 0.6 2 km ( 1 mi) WNW of Mammoth Spring, AR
MAP 3.6 2009/11/01 21:16:45 46.108N 74.753W 4.0 141 km (88 mi) NNW of Chateaugay, NY
map 1.5 2009/11/01 21:10:53 35.137N 84.855W 22.5 2 km ( 1 mi) ESE of South Cleveland, TN
map 0.8 2009/11/01 19:34:41 35.134N 84.856W 23.2 2 km ( 1 mi) ESE of South Cleveland, TN
map 2.0 2009/11/01 19:32:56 35.134N 84.855W 25.6 2 km ( 1 mi) ESE of South Cleveland, TN
map 0.9 2009/11/01 11:09:17 35.139N 84.863W 21.3 1 km ( 1 mi) ESE of South Cleveland, TN
MAP 3.0 2009/11/01 11:01:26 35.136N 84.856W 24.0 2 km ( 1 mi) ESE of South Cleveland, TN HEAVY RAINS ARE CONTINUING TO BE A PROBLEM!
Alabama's agriculture commissioner says heavy rains have damaged some Alabama crops and caused poor harvesting conditions.
Commissioner Sparks added the rains have reduced crop yields on many farms and says most affected crops are cotton, soybeans, corn and peanuts....
AP | Missouri, Illinois flooding - Flash Flooding and Rising Rivers - Midwestern flooding is usually associated with the spring or summer
Missouri, Illinois flooding: Casino, roads closedST. LOUIS — November 2, 2009 - Midwestern flooding is usually associated with the spring or summer, so even officials at the National Weather Service are perplexed about the unusual fall flood that is causing rivers to spill over their banks in parts of Missouri and Illinois.
Heavy rain fell last week over much of the two states, causing flash flooding and rising rivers. In fact, October rainfall was at record amounts at many spots.
The autumn monsoons are hard to figure, said Benjamin Sittrell, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service office in suburban St. Louis.
"Typically during the late-year period, it's our driest portion of the year," Sittrell said. "To see such astronomically high amounts of precipitation, where we got several inches above the previous record levels, is very abnormal.
"I think there's a lot of uncertainty about how this wet October unfolded."
The flooding is generally pretty minimal compared to events such as the floods of last summer and those in the summers of 1993 and 1995, but some problems exist.
Sittrell said thousands of acres of farmland are under water, particularly in the flat areas of southern and western Illinois, where the Illinois, Ohio and Kaskaskia rivers are among several that are flooding.
Near St. Louis, the Meramec River was over its banks at Pacific, Eureka and Valley Park. It did not appear that any homes were in jeopardy but several roads were closed. Busy Route 141 in southwestern St. Louis County was threatened by flood waters, near the Intersection of Interstate 44. The interstate itself is elevated enough to be out of harm's way.
The Meramec was expected to crest about 11 feet above flood stage on Monday at Valley Park and Eureka.
The Mississippi River is expected to crest at more than 7 feet above flood stage on Tuesday in St. Louis. The President Casino, which sits near the Gateway Arch, closed on Sunday for the sixth time in the past 18 months due to high water. General Manager Chris Strobbe did not say when it would reopen.
The most significant flooding along the Mississippi was expected to be at Cape Girardeau in the southern part of Missouri. The weather service expects the river to crest 9 feet above flood stage on Wednesday. The community is protected by a flood wall, and no significant problems are expected.
The Missouri River has already crested a few feet above flood stage at Gasconade, Hermann, St. Charles and other towns in eastern Missouri.
TORNADO NEWS
Weather Service confirms 2 more tornadoes Thursday in Arkansas
Associated Press - November 2, 2009 7:44 PM ET
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - The National Weather Service says Jefferson and Lonoke counties were also struck by tornadoes in last Thursday's storms.
The agency issued a news release saying survey crews on Monday had found evidence of tornadoes on the ground in both counties, in addition to four tornadoes further south confirmed over the weekend.
The Weather Service said one tornado - rated EF-1 on the 0-5 enhanced Fujita scale, with winds up to 110 mph - touched down southeast of Pine Bluff and was on the ground for 2.6 miles, while another followed a 3-mile path east of Scott, rated EF-0, with winds up to 85 mph.
A LITTLE BIT OF MONEY NEWS
The Reserve Bank of India is buying 200 tonnes of gold from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), nearly half what the IMF plans to sell
IMF earns 6.7 billion dollars in sale of gold reserves to IndiaUKRAINE UPDATE - KILLING FLU
BIO WAR BETWEEN EAST AND WEST
UrbanSurvival.com
Moreover, the whole 'swine flu' story is developing almost along two tracks in the public mind: One track follows the 'offishul' (sic) version which is that the 'swine' flu just arose ad hoc in a swine population in Mexico and spread to the USA and elsewhere. The second track notes that the evidence is thin on the swine part and that the dispersal and now coming of the killer version/bleeding lungs part of 'swine flu' to eastern Europe seems mighty awful suspiciously like a low-grade bio-war between East and West. But let's not get ahead of ourselves - this story will be incubating for another week or possibly longer.
The BIG story this morning, economic in nature, is that "Swine Flu Grips Ukraine". It's in the Wall Street Journal, after all, so it must have something to do with economics, right?
And indeed it does: Ukraine is something of a bread basket area to Russia populated by smart, hard-working people. Since independence in late summer 1991, Ukraine has been evolving into the 29th largest economy in the world on a mix of agriculture, aerospace, and manufacturing while being a critical chunk of real estate to the Russians since goods like natural gas from Russia to Europe through its borders.
As of this weekend, 53 people have died of swine flu, some by what's described as bleeding lungs which hark back to the 1918 Spanish Flu and cytokine storming where the body's defensive mechanisms got crazy and attack the host body itself.
Responding to the situation, the government is closing down schools, some businesses, banning large gatherings, and is trying to buy another 700,000 doses of Tamiflu from Roche. A stock to watch?
The thing we probably should watch over the next few days is how the neighboring countries fare. Already Hungary's health minister says the "Ukraine flu epidemic to create emergency in Hungary" as it may also do in Romanian, Moldova, Slovakia, Poland, Belarus, Russia, and anyone pulling into port from he Black Sea or the Sea of Azov.
Now we go into deep background mode on this with an email I received from a particularly well informed reader who expects this will be one for the history books that should be watched closely:
"This story may be the most important of our lifetimes. I'm a retired Ph.D. biochemist FYI. I conjecture that much of the coming troubles the web bot project speaks of may well arise from this new flu variant. I note that the first cases appeared a few days ago, just the length of the incubation period from October 25th.
OK, a Mossad microbiologist warned two months ago that a new deadly flu bug was going to be released into Ukraine in two months. He got the place right, the bug right, and the time right.
The sequence of all 8 pieces of RNA in the virus that caused the "Spanish flu" pandemic of 1918-1919 is public knowledge. A long dead Inuit woman buried in the permafrost was dug up and the virus taken from her body a couple of years ago and the RNA pieces were sequenced. Quite simple to synthesize these 8 pieces with widely available commercial machines and reagents. Then transfect mammalian cells with the RNA genes to obtain the intact, fully functional, virus. Another quite well known technology. Then grow all you want in fertilized chicken eggs or a mammalian immortal cell line. More quite well known technologies.
What scares the sh*t out of me is that the bleeding in the lungs is exactly what killed a lot of folks in the 1918-19 pandemic. See the great book "The Great Influenza: The story of the deadliest pandemic in history
." People would literally fall dead walking across the street. The bleeding out of the lungs was most likely the result of a "cytokine storm" that so increased the vascular permeability in the air sacks that blood filled the lungs. The reason why the mortality in the 1918-1919 pandemic was concentrated in the 18-25 year old cohort was that they had the most active immune systems.
Now I've NO conjecture as to who may have let this loose or why. But I do know that the technology is widespread to replicate the 1918-1919 virus that killed 2-4 million Americans and about 50 million world wide. And folks only traveled by ship in 1918. And there is NO vaccine for this flu type.
Hopefully we will know in a couple of weeks the sequences of the 8 RNA pieces in the Ukraine virus. I'll bet the farm that it is a replicant of the "Spanish Flu." If so, the odds are totally infinitesimal that this was NOT a deliberate bioweapon release.
I note that long haul truckers will simply go home and park their rigs if this flu reaches the USA. And exactly what reason do we have to suppose that it will be confined to Ukraine? The average city has 3 days of food. Connect the dots... please...............
A credit is due here. the word "replicant" is from the great sci-fi movie "Blade Runner."
All of this is puts us on the scale of impact somewhere in the middle between inconvenient to bad on one end of the scale to horrific and Biblical at the far end. But the linguistics seem to be pointing to the most terrible of all yet to come with temporal hints around the time of the Whistler Olympics (late February to mid March) for another round of dispersal.
The nonzero probabilities keep adding up and at some point, even the most skeptical human has to reach the point of non-coincidence and conclude what's for now only a possibility: Namely that the factions of the PowersThatBe are at war with one-another and we - humans down here at the worker bee level - are the unwilling cannon fodder for the coming year or longer.
Spanish Flu : Born Again Bioweapon?
NEBRASKA THE HAPPY AND NOT STRESSED OUT STATE NEWS UPDATE
Nebraska has only $335 million shortfall says the Gov in Lincoln
Sioux City Journal | Stressed about the economy? Not in Nebraska and South Dakota
The economic recovery is proceeding unevenly in its early stages, with areas hurt most by the housing slump still lagging behind other regions.
The Associated Press' analysis of economic stress says counties in the Southeast, the industrial Midwest and the Southwest have made the least improvement.
An analysis of the September data suggests that the northern half of the nation is stabilizing or improving faster than the southern half.
Nationwide, the average county's Stress score dipped to 10.1 in September from 10.3 in August.
States with the lowest scores in September were North Dakota (4.07), South Dakota (5.01) and Nebraska (5.71).
Midwestern and Plains states such as Nebraska avoided the worst of the housing and financial crises. Since the start of 2009, 12 states have improved their Stress scores, including Nebraska.
Lincoln Journal Star | Nebraska governor proposes widespread budget cuts
November 2, 2009 - Gov. Dave Heineman is proposing widespread cuts to balance Nebraska's two-year budget and account for a projected $335 million shortfall.....
Lincoln Journal Star | Recession problems linger for manufacture workers
Nebraska's manufacturing workers were hit harder than those in any other sector over the past year. While the economy is recovering, it's likely many of these workers will never have the jobs they had - or even similar ones - again....IS THIS WHY NEBRASKANS ARE SO HAPPY?
Norfolk Daily News | Nebraska's first distillers perfect vodka recipe
11/2/2009 11:03:00 AM
Doug Throener of West Point demonstrates how the bottling machine at Cooper’s Chase distillery works. Throener and his partner, Jim Brozek of Norfolk, are making vodka in Nebraska’s first licensed distillery.
WEST POINT — The liquor distillery on the acreage south of here is far removed from the Appalachian Mountains where Jim Brozek learned the art of making liquor.
There, “moonshiners” manufacture liquor in illegal stills tucked in the backwoods, far out of sight of local authorities.
But this still is legal. In fact, it’s the first licensed still in Nebraska.
And Brozek and his partner, Doug Throener of West Point, are openly distributing their Cooper’s Chase vodka to retailers in the area.
The duo met through mutual friends, discovered their common interest in making liquor, and decided to become Nebraska’s first distillers. They spent a year maneuvering through federal and state red tape, buying and building the necessary equipment and perfecting their “recipe.”
For that part of the process, Brozek drew on his experience with the people from the Appalachian Mountains that he met while living in Maryland. A Norfolk native, Brozek and his wife, Tess, had retired there from California where he had worked an engineer. FULL STORY
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Cooper's Chase vodka is make right here in Northeast Nebraska. Check out this video on the process.
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Monday, November 02, 2009
WHO HAS BEEN MESSING AROUND WITH MISSILES WHEN THEY SHOULDN'T BE....
FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS FAS | Missile Watch: Global Update (April – October 2009)
Missile Watch
A publication of the FAS Arms Sales Monitoring Project
Vol. 2, Issue 2
October 2009
Written by Matt Schroeder and Matt Buongiorno
Table of Contents:
Honduras/Mexico: Alleged arms trafficker offered to sell “17 or 18 surface-to-air missiles,” claims US informant
Kenya: MANPADS threat affects US air travel to Nairobi
Russia: 20 MANPADS seized from militants in North Caucasus region
Sri Lanka: Terrorist group had access to more than a dozen SA-14s
Venezuela: Video of new SA-24s posted on Youtube
UN Arms Register: New ASMP resource
In-depth: MANPADS Control and the Obama Administration
LEARN TO WATCH WHAT YOU THINK!
A computer may be watching
TimesOnline.co.uk | Psychic computer shows your thoughts on screen
November 1, 2009 - Scientists have discovered how to “read” minds by scanning brain activity and reproducing images of what people are seeing — or even remembering.
Researchers have been able to convert into crude video footage the brain activity stimulated by what a person is watching or recalling.
The breakthrough raises the prospect of significant benefits, such as allowing people who are unable to move or speak to communicate via visualisation of their thoughts; recording people’s dreams; or allowing police to identify criminals by recalling the memories of a witness.
However, it could also herald a new Big Brother era, similar to that envisaged in the Hollywood film Minority Report, in which an individual’s private thoughts can be readily accessed by the authorities.
Jack Gallant and Shinji Nishimoto, two neurologists from the University of California, Berkeley, last year managed to correlate activity in the brain’s visual cortex with static images seen by the person. Last week they went one step further by revealing that it is possible to “decode” signals generated in the brain by moving scenes. FULL STORY
HEALTH NEWS
| Fraudulent "Smart Choices" food labeling program crumbles as food manufacturers flee scrutiny (opinion) (NaturalNews) The fraudulent "Smart Choices" food labeling gimmick that sought to push sugary cereals as "healthy foods" is crumbling amid the pullout of Kellogg, Unilever and PepsiCo. These companies have been distancing themselves... |
| New research from Japan: Green tea fights blood and liver cancer, as well as pneumonia (NaturalNews) Three new studies by Japanese scientists add even more evidence to what already is an astounding mountain of data showing green tea protects and heals the human body. All of the research is based on findings from the huge Ohsaki National... |
Sedatives Increase Risk of Suicides in Elderly
(NaturalNews) Taking sedatives or sleeping pills increases the suicide risk of senior citizens by 300 percent, according to a study conducted by researchers from Gothenburg University in Sweden and published in the journal BMC Geriatrics. "Clinicians...
Glacial Dust off Alaska
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=40973&src=nha
Rising from the Copper Glacier, Alaska’s Copper River flows through a glacier-carved landscape of steep mountains and fields of sand dunes before emptying into the Gulf of Alaska. The river is choked with silt and lined with sand. It is also prone to high winds. The combination results in spectacular dust storms, such as the one observed by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite on October 30, 2009.
In this image, the wind is blowing from the snow-covered mountains to the Gulf of Alaska. The wind picked up fine sediment from the riverbank and carried it over the ocean. The pale brown plume of airborne dust contrasts sharply with the dark ocean beneath it.
The sand and silt come from the combined erosive power of flowing ice and water. Heavy glaciers grind rock into fine sediment and gravel as they flow slowly down mountain valleys. The sediment washes into rivers and streams, and much of it eventually makes its way to the Copper River. The flowing water of the river also erodes away rock, adding to the accumulation of sediment from glaciers. As a result, the Copper River is lined with sand, including broad fields of sand dunes in some locations.
The large image provided above is the highest resolution image available (250 meters per pixel). The MODIS Rapid Response System provides the image in additional resolutions.
References
- National Park Service. Copper River Float. Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. Accessed November 2, 2009.
- National Park Service. (2006, November 21). Forces of Change. Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. Accessed November 2, 2009.
NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. Caption by Holli Riebeek.
- Instrument:
- Terra - MODIS
Four month old elephant 'Rani' and her mother 'Thura' are pictured in Hagenbeck's zoo in Hamburg, northern Germany on Friday, Oct. 30, 2009.
(AP Photo/Fabian Bimmer)ROUND SOD HOUSE FROM NEBRASKA
Wanted to add this cool Nebraskan sod house (permanent version of the Mongolian GER?) - from approx. 1905
NOTE: Click on the picture to see a cool large picture showing details!
Round Sod House
Well ... I didn't fall in my pond when I was trying to upright my skimmer from it floating state this morning. That's always a bonus for the day! (Fish hate it when I do that - they don't think I'm tasty.)
Be good tonight! You know what they say about the cops always being busiest during the Full Moon!!
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