Good Morning! Interesting headline off of the Drudge Report right now: Economy's rebound not as strong as first thought.. wonder how much $$ someone got paid to figure that out?
All is well with me - no complaints - but as I frequently chuckle and say: "I'd complain but who would listen?".
OUR PLANET'S PROTECTIVE MAGNETOSPHERE UPDATE:
http://www2.nict.go.jp/y/y223/simulation/realtime/images/test_6.20091124124902.jpg
THIS IS THE PICTURE OF THE MAGNETOSPHERE AT THE APPROXIMATE TIME THE 6.8 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE HIT THE TONGA REGION (SEE BELOW UNDER EARTHQUAKES)
THE MAGNETOSPHERE RIGHT NOW: NOVEMBER 24, 2009 AT 9:00 AM CDT
http://www2.nict.go.jp/y/y223/simulation/realtime/index.html
MOON UPDATE
EARTHQUAKE NEWS
Large 6.8 Magnitude Earthquake hit TONGA REGION
- Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 02:47:14 AM at epicenter
Update time = Tue Nov 24 14:38:39 UTC 2009
5.1 | -20.325 | -173.956 | 10.0 | TONGA | |||||
5.6 | -20.629 | -174.097 | 10.0 | TONGA | |||||
6.8 | -20.641 | -174.068 | 10.0 | TONGA |
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/rea/index.php?pageid=seism_read&rid=162238
Nuclear facilities: | There are no nuclear facilities nearby the epicenter. | ||||||||||
Airport(s): |
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20.641°S, 174.068°W | |
10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program | |
TONGA | |
135 km (85 miles) ENE of NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga 220 km (135 miles) S of Neiafu, Tonga 480 km (300 miles) E of Ndoi Island, Fiji 2100 km (1300 miles) NE of Auckland, New Zealand |
RELATED:
Nov. 24, 2009, 8:22AM
NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga — A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the Pacific island nation of Tonga, sending panicked residents into the streets at night, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center reported shortly after the quake struck at 3:32 a.m. (1332 GMT, 8:32 a.m. EST) that there was no threat of a destructive widespread tsunami, although waves were possible within 100 kilometers (60 miles) of the epicenter.
"There's no indication of damage right now in this area," said Faleo Vico, the duty Weather Office staffer in the capital, Nuku'alofa, 120 miles (195 kilometers) southwest of the epicenter.
Residents in the capital said their homes rattled, and the tremors set off frantic barking of dogs.
In the town of Ha'apai, on an island 185 miles (300 kilometers) northeast of the capital, resident Lano Fonua said the quake was strong and lasted about 45 seconds.
"Many people went out into the streets as the quake was shaking the area quite a bit. It was really going," he said. "We don't have any reports of major damage here in the center of town."
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was 6.8-magnitude and was generated from a depth of 38 miles (62 kilometers) in the ocean.
On Sept. 29, a tsunami spawned by a magnitude-8.3 earthquake killed 34 people in American Samoa, 183 in Samoa and nine in Tonga.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/6736717.html
March, 2009 - One of Tonga's 36 Undersea volcano erupts off the coast
VOLCANISM NEWS
USGS Webcam Catches Minor Eruption of Kilauea Volcano at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
November 24, 2009 - This USGS Quicktime movie shows a small explosive event at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park in the Halema`uma`u vent at 9:20 a.m Saturday. The explosion was immediately preceded by a portion of the vent rim collapsing into the vent cavity.
The brown plume rises rapidly from the vent, and in the full resolution video large particles can be seen ejected in front of the plume. In the video shown here, it is possible to see some of these particles impact the crater wall—look for several small white puffs to appear on the crater wall just ahead of the rising brown plume (about 7-9 seconds into the video clip). No ejecta was found at the Halema`uma`u Overlook, indicating that few, if any particles, reached the crater rim. http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/podcast/2009/usgs-webcam-catches-minor-eruption-kilauea-volcano-hawaii-volcanoes-national-park4985
CLIMATE CHANGE NEWS
Surface Temperature Forecast Map
INCOMING FROM ABOVE
BRUSH, Colo. -A basketball-sized chunk of ice crashed through the roof of a family's Colorado home after apparently falling from an airplane passing overhead. Danelle Hagan and her 9-year-old daughter were at home in Brush on Saturday when they heard the kitchen ceiling come crashing down. They were not injured.
"I hear a huge, what sounded like an explosion. And I look over and my kitchen is basically in shambles," Hagan told KMGH-TV in Denver. "It was very terrifying."The Federal Aviation Administration was sending investigators to the home to investigate whether the ice came from an airplane. The Hagans put some of the ice in their freezer.
FAA spokesman Mike Fergus said Wednesday the ice chunk appears to be "Rime ice," which can build up on the outside of a plane's fuselage when it flies through cold and wet air.
Fergus says that it doesn't appear the ice was "blue ice," which comes from an airplane's toilet.
After investigators determine whether the ice came from a plane, Fergus said they'll look at which planes are in the area at the time to see if it's possible to tell which craft dropped the ice.
Fergus said that in cases of falling blue ice, FAA investigators would inspect any plane that was in the area to make sure it doesn't have a dangerous pressure leak. He said that ice falls from airplanes are alarming, but extremely rare.
He said the chances of getting hit by ice from a plane is "on the magnitude of a lightning strike."
Hagan's family is staying out of the house until it's repaired because the crash loosened some asbestos. She says people were in the kitchen just before the ice fell, so they're just glad to be OK.
"If we had been in that kitchen, it would have been devastating," Hagan said.
http://news.aol.com/article/chunk-of-ice-crashes-through-roof-of/773372
North Side mystery: Where did falling ice come from?
'The whole house shook and it felt like 'Boom!'' says homeowner
A large piece of ice fell from the sky Wednesday evening, tearing roofing from a North Side home before shattering into dozens of cloudy ice cubes and ice balls.
The roof of the Dowd family home, on the 4200 block of North Wolcott, sustained noticeable damage after ice apparently fell from a plane. (Jean Lachat/Sun-Times)
"The whole house shook and it felt like 'Boom!'" said homeowner Linda Dowd, who was watching "Freaky Friday" with her 11-year-old son Sean when the chunk struck. "We thought at first my son's drum set fell down or maybe the chimney, but it wasn't windy."
What she saw outside, the shattered pieces of ice in her gangway and front yard on the 4200 block of North Wolcott Avenue, didn't really answer any questions.
"We figured the ice fell from the sky," she said.
Dowd's husband Paul called Chicago police, bringing out four squad cars and a visit from a Belmont District sergeant, Linda Dowd said.
Linda Dowd said she was frosted over the $500 deductible her family would be paying on their homeowner insurance. Beyond the exterior damage, she said there is plaster damage in their bedroom next to where the ice struck the roof.
"It's like, why me?" she said. "It's falling out of the sky."
Tony Molinaro, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman, said investigators would track down any planes flying over the home around 8 p.m. last night to see if they sprung a leak. The home, he said, was about 10 miles from an O'Hare runaway.
"Ice is possible but it's an odd time of year for it," he said.
Neighbor Don Wilke walked over to survey the damage Thursday morning.
"It's a one in a million chance it would hit a house like this," he said.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1867094,falling-ice-home-north-side-airplane-110509.article
UFO NEWS
Nine UFO Mystery Lights Pass Over Witnesses In New Zealand
No-one used the word UFO but the lights seen in the sky over Upper Moutere, near Nelson, last night are definitely unidentified.
Several people reported seeing balls of fire in the sky about 9.30pm, with Matiu Noakes saying he saw nine, moving from the direction of Kina toward Upper Moutere. "They looked like skydivers coming down with flares attached to them."
He said they faded out over Upper Moutere and were going too fast to be flares.
Lisa Chambers, marketing manager for Skydive Abel Tasman and a keen member of Nelson's skydiving community, said "there is absolutely no way it could have been skydivers". She said night drops were too dangerous in that area and had there been a prank afoot, she would have known.
Mike Reed, a helicopter pilot, said he was driving toward Motueka along the Moutere Highway when he saw the lights. He saw several other cars parked at the turnoff to Neudorf Rd, and spoke to others there who had been watching the lights.
He said he expected to hear aircraft noise when he turned off his engine but it was completely silent. Even so, he double-checked with air traffic control at Nelson Airport, which knew of no aircraft in the sky nearby at the time.
He said the lights were below the clouds, which he estimated to be about 300 to 500 metres up, and one of them appeared to float up into the clouds.
"If I was going to take a guess on it, I would say somebody's got a bunch of helium balloons and they've tied something on to it." But he had discounted every theory he had come up with so far.
Astronomer Robert Rea, of the Nelson Science Society, said he doubted anything astronomical would have pierced last night's cloud cover. Motueka police said they received no calls.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/3089498/Mystery-lights-pass-over-Moutere-area
Interview: Zhang Yifang (a Professor of Physics) on UFOs and aliens in China
The 2009 International Astronomy Year and Extraterrestrial Life Forum was held from October 31 through November 16 at Dongfeng Plaza. GoKunming spoke on the sidelines of the forum with forum organizer Zhang Yifang (张一方), founder and former director of the Kunming UFO Research Association. We also spoke with Zhang's wife and son.
In addition to trying to bring attention to UFO sightings in China and around the world, Zhang, 62, is also a professor of physics at Yunnan University. He told Beijing-based Global Times that he thinks aliens are presently living in Yunnan, Heilongjiang and Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region.
"I believe they are nice and they have no intention of attacking us," he told Global Times.
"Perhaps they are shape-shifters camouflaged as human beings or they have manufactured human-like robots to watch us," he added.
Kunming has had more than 400 UFO sightings since 1972, according to Zhang.
Australian farmer has proof of UFO visits or unknown aerial life-forms?
Allnewsweb.com - 1 hour ago
A rural Australian claims to have in his possession absolute and scientifically verifiable proof of UFO type entities in Earth's atmosphere. ...
SINKHOLE NEWS
Officials: Delmarva's State-Maintained Bridges Inspected Regularly
WBOC TV 16
She noted that there were two sinkholes outside the roadway limits. Charlie Gischlar, a spokesman with the Maryland State Highway Administration, ...
TENT CITY NEWS
Fear sets up camp on a stretch of the L.A. River
Along the Los Angeles River are invisible cities whose population centers do not figure on official maps.
Jolene Musgrove, 51, cooks breakfast among tossed garbage under the 7th Street Bridge next to the Los Angeles River in Long Beach. She has lived off and on at the river for about 30 years, and for the last few months between two bridge pillars under the 7th Street Bridge. Audio slide show (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)
The river's littered banks have become a no-man's land for the homeless--the hard-core junkies, the mentally ill and those just trying to disappear. A dozen or so people live in tents and lean-tos under the 7th Street bridge in Long Beach, just one of the many invisible villages along the river.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-river-killings24-2009nov24,0,6475619,full.story
RELATED:
Tent City underway in Escanaba, Michigan
UpperMichigansSource.com
ESCANABA -- The TV6 and WYKX-WDBC Tent City event kicked off Monday morning, and will take place over the next three days. The event helps to raise money ...
New Haven hosts "Tent City 2009" in an effort to raise $40000 to fund the ...
Norwalk Plus Magazine - Nov 18, 2009
By City of New Haven The City of New Haven will host "Tent City", a community fundraiser, on November 19 from 6 pm to 10 pm on the Green in order to address ...
Tent event to aid overflow shelter New Haven Register (subscription)
Tents night in New Haven Examiner.com
City Leaders Hope To Tear Down Tent City
WHIOtv.com - Nov 18, 2009
Dayton city leaders are working to possibly tear down an old railroad trestle often called "Tent City." The trestle is home to some of Dayton's homeless and ...
Train trestle used by homeless should go, city says Dayton Daily News
Ohio city wants railroad company to tear down bridge that has become tent city ...
Cleveland News - Fox 8 - Nov 18, 2009
Forty-year-old Cindy Dant has been living in a tent on the bridge for nine months. She says she needs surgery on her back and help finding an affordable ...
NEWS ABOUT OUR NATION'S BIGGEST BUSINESS: WAR
USA IS NO LONGER AN INDUSTRIALIZED POWER - WAR IS ITS SPECIALTY!
SURPRISE! THE PREZ WILL BE ON TELEVISION ..."War of Necessity" DISTRACTION FROM Gore's "Climategate"
BREAKING: President Barack Obama is expected to address the nation Tuesday, Dec. 1, on his new Afghanistan policy, likely in prime time, officials tell POLITICO.
MCCLATCHY: "President Barack Obama met Monday evening with his national security team to finalize a plan to dispatch some 34,000 additional U.S. troops over the next year to what he's called "a war of necessity" in Afghanistan, U.S. officials told McClatchy.
Climategate: 'Greatest scandal in modern science'...
Call for Congressional investigation...
Paper: Junk science exposed among climate-change believers...
TheHouseIsSmall.org | Photo Stories: African Women and Kids Affected by AIDS Share their Lives
These photos are from The House is Small But the Welcome is Big - a project which explores the impact of HIV/AIDS as experienced through the eyes of women and children living in South Africa and Mozambique.
Kitchen table
A typical kitchen space is located outdoors, since homes in the neighborhood generally lack indoor running water, electrical power, or ventilation for fire-based stoves. The weathered kitchen table at Jeremiah's home is more than half disintegrated from age. But the parts of the tabletop that remain are still put to use.
The littlest one
The youngest member of Saquina's family, an infant baby, lays on the bed in a room where Saquina and her sisters live. Their home is a windowless cinder block shack next to a dump. Her brothers live in a separate shack on the same lot.
Girl with a Baby, Maputo, 2007
Peeking Out, Cape Town, 2006
Number of Newborns Declines in South Korea for 19th Straight Month
Have you ever seen cacao pods growing on cacao trees? Here's a picture I snapped over the weekend. Yes, this is really where chocolate comes from! (The seeds inside the pod are ground up to make cacao powder.) NaturalNews Tip of the day (from Mike):
NaturalNews.com | Today's Featured Stories - November 24, 2009
Nutrition Can Save America! Special report issued by NaturalNews.com |
NaturalNews partners with Ecuador tourism bureaus to promote eco-tourism opportunities throughout the country |
Fight Candida and Yeast with Natural Olive Leaf Extract |
Bee pollen superfood boosts immune system function |
How to Slow Aging and Prevent Alzheimer's |
Drug companies write their own drug information labels and leave out side effect information |
Acetaminophen linked to asthma in children and adults |
How to Improve Memory Naturally |
Why U.S. Companies Are Broke: Health Care Costs Rising Another 9 Percent in 2010 |
GPS tracking devices for kids getting cheaper |
Hypnosis Helps Reduce Symptoms of Tourette Syndrome |
Hope you all are having a good Tuesday morning ... talk at you later!
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