Sunday, March 20, 2016

LUCY JONES IS LEAVING HER JOB..**Those who know earthquakes know...



LUCY JONES IS LEAVING HER JOB..*

*Those who know earthquakes know her..

From the LA TIMES dispatch:

In a city defined by celebrity, Jones has a unique kind of fame. She’s been called the BeyoncĂ© of earthquakes, the Meryl Streep of government service, a woman breaking barriers in a man’s world.

Her son, now 25, recently texted her: “You’re on Jeopardy!” with a photo of the clue.

Authoritative yet nurturing, the “earthquake lady” has a knack for making a complicated point so simple it seems obvious. Along the way, she has dramatically changed the way the Southland prepares for earthquakes. Buildings are safer, first responders are better equipped and millions of residents have learned that the worst thing to do in an earthquake is to run outside.

“When the big one hits, people will be living because of the work that she has done,” Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said.

Now Jones hopes to leverage her earthquake credentials to tackle even more ambitious projects. She’s retiring from the USGS this month to help officials develop science-based policies related to climate change, tsunamis and other kinds of natural disasters.

But we still have Dutchsinse..


Saturday, March 19, 2016

February was the warmest month in recorded history, climate experts say.. MORE: From Alaska to Australia, an unprecedented heating of planet Earth is underway with rising temperatures across huge swaths of land mass and oceans

February was the warmest month in recorded history, climate experts say.. MORE: From Alaska to Australia, an unprecedented heating of planet Earth is underway with rising temperatures across huge swaths of land mass and oceans

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Kevin Dougherty was hospitalized after being assaulted Friday night in Philadelphia's center city by a homeless man

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Kevin Dougherty was hospitalized after being assaulted Friday night in Philadelphia's center city by a homeless man

Trump Catches Fire In Depressed Coal Region

Trump Catches Fire In Depressed Coal Region:

The war on coal… the battle lines drawn. Particular states may be of interest to the Trump campaign this fall..

In rustic Buchanan County, 94 percent of residents are white and pickup trucks are the vehicle of choice – many carry bumper stickers declaring the primacy of the region’s main industry through slogans like “Can’t Keep The Lights On in America Without Coal From Virginia” or “Stop The War On Coal.”

For generations, coal has been the lifeblood in the region known as Appalachia, which includes southwestern Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, and parts of Pennsylvania.

That’s changed drastically in the past 20 years. A major consumer of coal, the U.S. steel industry, has struggled against cheaper imports, closing down smelters from Pennsylvania to Ohio and cutting the demand for metallurgical coal, the higher-grade coal found in Buchanan and surrounding areas.

In the past five years, a global supply glut has driven down coal prices drastically. The company that operates Buchanan County’s largest functioning coal mine reported a steep fall in fourth-quarter prices, from $68.58 per ton in 2014 to $48.41 in 2015.



MIKE MYERS AGES! HAIR GOES WHITE! TMZ HAS THE ‘SCOOP’

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MIKE MYERS AGES! HAIR GOES WHITE! TMZ HAS THE ‘SCOOP’


DREADFUL WEEKEND IN DRUGLAND: A strong form of heroin being sold in Camden led to more than a dozen overdoses in less than 24 hours. Now police and emergency responders are worried that there may be more to come

DREADFUL WEEKEND IN DRUGLAND: A strong form of heroin being sold in Camden led to more than a dozen overdoses in less than 24 hours. Now police and emergency responders are worried that there may be more to come:

MORE.. 



“Right now we know that there is something out there that’s putting people in near death situations,” said Camden Metro Police Chief Scott Thompson.


Thompson says heroin at its purest form being sold in Camden caused 15 overdoses in several surrounding towns since Tuesday, 14 of those cases being young people.

“Generally young 20’s,” Thompson said. “We’re talking Washington Township, Cherry Hill and Haddonfield. Heroin doesn’t discriminate who it hooks into.”


did you ever see a UFO?

As a matter of fact, I did.. thanks for the question.

I detailed the UFO sighting I had back in October or so of 2010 – I remember it fondly. It was a beautiful autumn night before my son was born. My now deceased dog Bailey was finding a spot outside during a walk.. and I looked up and saw a hovering cigar shaped light which, after seeing it, sped away out of sight..

It remember it like it was yesterday.


Shocking moment Flydubai passenger jet explodes into fireball...





Shocking moment Flydubai passenger jet explodes into fireball killing 62 people


Atlantic Ocean off of the U.S. East Coast Rising 3–4 Times Higher than the Global Average.. beachfront property coming my way?

Atlantic Ocean off of the U.S. East Coast Rising 3–4 Times Higher than the Global Average.. beachfront property coming my way?:

The summary: 



This “hotspot” is due to the faster turnover of water through the Atlantic’s currents as compared to the Pacific, where water can take 200-300 years to make a full circuit from one end of the Atlantic to the other, as compared to the 600-900 years it might take for water to get around the Pacific.

In this case, warm waters from the Caribbean Sea that would normally be circulated northeast across the Atlantic Ocean are instead pooling off of the U.S. East Coast, due to the interruption of the North Atlantic Current. As water warms it expands, causing the ocean level to be higher wherever this expansion is experienced. NASA currently uses this effect to track ocean temperatures via satellite, using radar to record regional sea level changes to determine their temperatures.

Another recent study has shown that this has already happened, when a 4-inch sea level rise was recorded in a region of ocean between New York and Newfoundland that occurred in 2009 and 2010, due to a sudden change in the North Atlantic current.


Radar scans of King Tut’s tomb have revealed two spaces...





Radar scans of King Tut’s tomb have revealed two spaces on the north and east chambers of the pharaonic mausoleum that could contain the “discovery of the century,” Egypt’s antiquities ministry said



“It could be the discovery of the century. It’s very important for Egyptian history and the history of the world,” he said, adding that the chambers may well have belonged to a king or queen. Further tests will be done on March 31 to discover more about the newly-discovered spaces, he added.


Friday, March 18, 2016

One comet to swerve closer to Earth than any other comet in centuries: An emerald-green comet will brush the Earth Monday, followed one day later by a kissing cousin that will swerve closer to the planet than any other comet in nearly 250 years.

One comet to swerve closer to Earth than any other comet in centuries: An emerald-green comet will brush the Earth Monday, followed one day later by a kissing cousin that will swerve closer to the planet than any other comet in nearly 250 years.:

THIS IS ONE ‘FOR THE RECORD BOOKS,’ experts say..

An emerald-green comet will brush the Earth Monday, followed one day later by a kissing cousin that will swerve closer to the planet than any other comet in nearly 250 years.

The first and bigger of the two comets will be visible Monday to the naked eye in the southern hemisphere, as long as city lights are far away. Stargazers in the United States will probably need only binoculars to see the bigger comet in late March. Scientists, however, are bringing out the big guns. The Hubble Space Telescope, the powerful ground-based Gemini telescopes and others will be trained on the celestial visitors, which will provide an extraordinary close-up of objects usually glimpsed only at a distance.


It’s about to feel like 2000 all over again.John Titor–the...



It’s about to feel like 2000 all over again.
John Titor–the real time traveler!?–set for MIDNIGHT IN THE DESERT with Heather Wade!? 

Remember, TITOR never appeared on BELL’s COAST TO COAST AM, but was active in the AOL chat rooms of the early 20th century.. now 16 years later–and lots of time gone on–Heather Wade is able to brag up the fact that she may just have done the extraordinary: Contact made with the time traveler among us.. 

Fun times ahead .. ‘stay tuned’ appears to be the words..


HOGAN WINS!

The retired wrestler Hulk Hogan was awarded $115 million in damages Friday by a Florida jury in an invasion of privacy case against Gawker.com over its publication of a sex tape.

The wrestler, known in court by his legal name, Terry G. Bollea, sobbed as the verdict was announced in late afternoon, according to people in the courtroom. The jury had considered the case for about six hours.

Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker and a defendant in the case, was found personally liable, as was Albert J. Daulerio, the site’s former editor in chief.


VIDEO: Unidentified object hovers in downtown Cleveland Friday afternoon, March 18 2016

VIDEO: Unidentified object hovers in downtown Cleveland Friday afternoon, March 18 2016

And you thought selfies were only a thing of the modern age.....



And you thought selfies were only a thing of the modern  age.. this one is from the 1800s. It probably took a while.


Nothing like a clown at a birthday party…



Nothing like a clown at a birthday party…


Google Maps has a street view of some amazing stuff.. including...



Google Maps has a street view of some amazing stuff.. including this:



Hashima Island, commonly called Gunkanjima, is an abandoned island lying about 15 kilometers from the city of Nagasaki, in southern Japan. It is one of 505 uninhabited islands in Nagasaki Prefecture


Check it out..


SCIENTISTS are one step closer to cloning dinosaurs after the discovering the remains of a Tyrannosaurus rex that was pregnant when it died.

SCIENTISTS are one step closer to cloning dinosaurs after the discovering the remains of a Tyrannosaurus rex that was pregnant when it died.:

Soo…..welcome to Jurassic Park?


Happy spring.This is the SNOWSTORM potential for this weekend..



Happy spring.
This is the SNOWSTORM potential for this weekend..


A very large fireball was observed over London, UK at 03:16 UTC...

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A very large fireball was observed over London, UK at 03:16 UTC on March 17, 2016. The event was first observed by UKMON’s Church Crookham station, northeast Hampshire, England.

According to the United Kingdom Meteor Observation Network (UKMON), the fireball momentarily overloaded the camera with light.

“Preliminary calculations estimate the brightens to be around -7 mag and explosion -14 mag. An estimated terminal altitude was just 30 - 34 km (18.6 - 21 miles),” UKMON’s Richard Kacerek said.

“With the second video we will be able to triangulate and calculate the orbit,” he added.


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