November 10, 2014 - UNITED STATES - The United States is being
infected by Chagas, a deadly disease spread by the feces of a parasite
nicknamed the “kissing bug.” It bites sleeping victims, ingests the
blood and defecates on them; patients then unknowingly rub the feces
into open membranes.
Chagas disease is seen as a “silent killer”
by those who study and treat it, as it can often lurk in people’s
bloodstreams for up to two decades before causing their organs to fail.
The initial stage of the tropical illness ‒ the acute phase ‒ is mostly
symptom-free and lasts for the first few weeks or months, according to
the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. If a patient does
exhibit symptoms, they can easily be mistaken for another disease.
The
symptoms noted by the patient can include fever, fatigue, body aches,
headache, rash, loss of appetite, diarrhea, and vomiting. The signs on
physical examination can include mild enlargement of the liver or
spleen, swollen glands, and local swelling (a chagoma) where the
parasite entered the body, the CDC explained.
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"People don't normally feel sick,"
Melissa Nolan Garcia, a research associate at Baylor College of
Medicine in Houston and the lead author of two of three recently
published studies, explained in a statement, "so they don't seek
medical care, but it ultimately ends up causing heart disease in about
30 percent of those who are infected."
It is the second ‒ or
chronic‒ phase that is deadly. Patients can develop cardiac
complications, including an enlarged heart (cardiomyopathy), heart
failure, altered heart rate or rhythm, and cardiac arrest (sudden
death), as well as intestinal complications, such as an enlarged
esophagus (megaesophagus) or colon (megacolon) and can lead to
difficulties with eating or with passing stool.
WATCH: Tropical Medicine Research - Chagas Disease Study.
In
July, the Centers for Disease Control estimated that 300,000 people in
the US had been infected, and but now it could be closer to 400,000.
Medical research suggests that 40,000 pregnant North American women may
be infected with the disease at any given time, resulting in 2,000
congenital cases through mother-to-child transmission, according to Fox
News Latino. Garcia believes that the numbers may actually be higher
than that, the Examiner reported.
The Baylor team presented the
results of its work on Tuesday at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) in New
Orleans. In one of their pilot studies, her team looked at 17 blood
donors in Texas who tested positive for the parasite that causes Chagas
disease. “The concerning thing is that majority of the
patients [I spoke to] are going to physicians, and the physicians are
telling them, ‘No you don’t have the disease’,” Garcia said, according to Al Jazeera America.
Chagas
disease (American trypanosomiasis) is caused by Trypanosoma cruzi, a
protozoan parasite related to an African version that causes sleeping
sickness. It is endemic to Mexico, Central America, and South America,
where an estimated 8 million people have the illness, most of whom do
not know they are infected. If untreated, infection is lifelong and can
be life threatening, the CDC noted.
Garcia spoke to several groups
of physicians and cardiologists as part of an educational campaign to
increase physician awareness. “A lot of the cardiologists were
aware of Chagas disease, but they don’t make the connection when the
patient is sitting in front of them,” she said.
Dr.
Julie-Ann Crewalk, a pediatrician in Northern Virginia who has dealt
with Chagas, also thinks that the disease is being underdiagnosed. “It’s not something that we think of asking right away,” she told the Atlantic. “I wouldn’t be surprised if the numbers were higher and we’re just not seeing it.”
The
CDC says that most of the Chagas cases in the US are from people who
have traveled to Latin America, and were infected there. But Garcia told
HealthDay News her research showed that the parasite has arrived in the
US, and the government agency has admitted that triatomine bugs can be
found across the lower half of the country.
"We are finding new evidence that locally acquired human transmission is occurring in Texas," she said. "We were surprised to find that 36 percent had evidence of being a locally acquired case.” “Additionally,
41 percent of this presumably healthy blood donor population had heart
abnormalities consistent with Chagas cardiac disease," Garcia
noted. The illness can also be spread through blood and organ donation,
as well as from mother to infant during childbirth.
The
disease is also growing just outside Washington, DC. While the number
of people with Chagas disease in Northern Virginia is small ‒ about two
dozen cases, according to interviews by the Atlantic with local
physicians ‒ doctors and experts there say they wouldn’t be surprised if
the numbers were higher because, along with the lack of routine
screening for it, many patients tend to be undocumented immigrants
without health insurance.
Dr. Rachel Marcus, a cardiologist,
believes Northern Virginia could be “ground zero” for Chagas disease,
because of the volume of immigrants from Bolivia, where the disease is
endemic. She told the Atlantic that it’s easy to diagnose the disease
with an electrocardiogram (EKG), but that American doctors don’t know
what they are looking for. “If you were to find that EKG from an area
where Chagas is common, it’s diagnostic,” she said.
Garcia also agreed with the need to focus on EKGs as a diagnostic tool for the disease. "Physicians
should consider Chagas when patients have swelling and enlargement of
the heart not caused by high blood pressure, diabetes or other causes,
even if they do not have a history of travel," she said.
But
even if the deadly disease is diagnosed, there are no viable
government-authorized treatments. The Food and Drug Administration has
not yet approved two medicines ‒ nifurtimox and benznidazole ‒ that are
currently used to treat the disease but carry a risk of nerve damage,
nausea and weight loss, according to the ASTMH statement.
The CDC makes the drugs available "when no satisfactory alternative treatment exists," according to the FDA, adding that "subjects
are generally willing to accept greater risks from test articles that
may treat life-threatening and debilitating illnesses." - RT.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with his China's counterpart Xi Jinping (RIA Novosti/Mikhail Klimentiev)
November 10, 2014 - PARADIGM SHIFT -
President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have signed a
memorandum of understanding on the so-called “western” gas supplies
route to China. The agreement paves the way for a contract that would
make China the biggest consumer of Russian gas.
Putin, Xi Jinping sign mega gas deal on second gas supply route
Russia’s so-called “western” or "Altay" route would supply 30 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas a year to China.
The
new supply line comes in addition to the “eastern” route, through the
“Power of Siberia” pipeline, which will annually deliver 38 bcm of gas
to China. Work on that pipeline route has already begun after a $400
billion deal was clinched in May. “After we have launched
supplies via the “western route,” the volume of gas deliveries to China
can exceed the current volumes of export to Europe,” Gazprom CEO Aleksey Miller told reporters, commenting on the deal.
Speaking
to journalists on the eve of his visit to Beijing, Putin was optimistic
about prospects for the new gas deal with China. “We have reached an understanding in principle concerning the opening of the western route,” Putin said. “We
have already agreed on many technical and commercial aspects of this
project, laying a good basis for reaching final arrangements.”
The “western” route deal is one of the 17 agreements signed at the Sunday meeting between Putin and Xi.
They
also included a framework agreement between Gazprom and China’s CNPC on
gas deliveries and a memorandum of understanding between Gazprom and
another Chinese energy giant, CNOOC.
Gazprom and CNPC have also
signed a preliminary agreement for China National Oil and Gas
Exploration and Development to take a 10 percent stake in Russia's
Vancorneft.
Among the business issues discussed by Putin and Xi at
their fifth meeting this year was the possibility of payment in Chinese
yuan, including for defense deals military, Russian presidential
spokesman Dmitry Peskov was cited as saying by RIA Novosti.
Brendan P. O'Reilly, China-based writer and educator from Seattle, told RT that transport to China was extremely easy:
"One of the most attractive things about Russian gas for the Chinese is that it can be transported over land," he said. "Most
of China’s energy resources are imported via sea through the Pacific,
and this route is slightly threatened by the American military presence
now in the Pacific. Of course there’re a lot of territorial disputes
right now between China, Japan, and various other countries in the East
China Sea and the South China Sea. So basically by strengthening energy
ties with Russia, China can avoid the more dangerous maritime route."
"Russia
stands to benefit from this development with China very much because
right now the vast majority of Russian gas is being exported to Europe.
So Russian having a second large buyer improves the situation of
supply/demand for Russia by creating more demand in the east."
Russia ends dollar/euro currency peg, moves to free float
The
Bank of Russia took another step towards a free float ruble by
abolishing the dual currency soft peg, as well as automatic
interventions. Before, the bank propped up the ruble when the exchange
rate against the euro and dollar exceeded its boundaries. "Instead, we will intervene in the currency market at whichever moment and amount needed to decrease the speculative demand,” the bank’s chairwoman, Elvira Nabiullina, said in an interview with Rossiya 24 Monday.
The move is edging towards a floating exchange rate, which the bank hopes to attain by 2015. “Effective
starting November 10, 2014, the Bank of Russia abolished the acting
exchange rate policy mechanism by cancelling the allowed range of the
dual-currency basket ruble values (operational band) and regular
interventions within and outside the borders of this band,” the bank said in a statement Monday. "As
a result of the decision the ruble exchange rate will be determined by
market factors, which should promote efficiency of the monetary policy
of the Bank of Russia and ensure price stability," the central bank said.
Foreign exchange intervention is still at the bank’s disposal, and is ready to use in the case of “threats to financial stability,” according to the statement.
Propping
up the ruble can cost the Central Bank of Russia billions of dollars
per day, coming out of the country’s reserve fund. In October alone, the
bank was forced to spend $30 billion to defend the weakening ruble. On
November 5, the bank announced
it had limited the reserves it is willing to spend to inflate the ruble
to $350 million per day in order to slash speculation and volatility.
The decision triggered a three-day plunge for the Russian currency.
On
Monday, the ruble recovered slightly after Russian President Vladimir
Putin assured speculative drops would cease in the near future. The
Russian currency gained 1 ruble against the dollar and the euro on the
announcement.
The Russian ruble has weakened considerably along
with dipping oil prices, as well as the introduction of western
sanctions, which bars many Russian companies from long-term borrowing on
western capital markets.
New focuses in monetary policy
The
Central Bank of Russia’s un-pegging of the ruble from the dollar and
euro brings to an end two decades of exchange rate controls. The
transition to a free exchange rate means monetary policy in Russia moves
to interest rates and inflation targeting.
Experts say, this CBR
decision deprives speculators of baselines in the currency market and
will stabilize the exchange rate of the ruble against the dollar and
euro in the short-term, TASS reports.
Russia operated as soft peg
currency band from 1995 until 2008 when it was replaced by a dual
currency band of the euro and the dollar.
This mechanism allowed
interventions in the foreign exchange market to be adjusted by the
Central Bank conducting large-scale buying or selling of currency when
the ruble fell beyond the trading band perimeter. It was a mild form of
control over the ruble.
The Central Bank cancelled the currency
band in 2011, after the crisis of 2008. Then the ruble devalued by 40
percent and about a third of the country’s foreign exchange reserves was
spent supporting it. But the main reason for changing the CBR's policy
was its inability to curb inflation and reduce it to low single figures.
The
CBR then moved to a managed floating exchange rate, gradually widening
the currency band perimeters. The managed float assumed the Central Bank
didn’t prevent movements in the ruble exchange rate caused by the
influence of fundamental factors. Instead it smoothed out fluctuations
by intervening in the currency band. The rules were changed gradually
until foreign exchange interventions stopped today.
Ruble-yuan settlements will cut energy sales in US dollars – Putin
Reuters/Stringer
Doing
away with the US dollar and switching to ruble and yuan payments will
significantly increase Russia and China’s say in energy and financial
markets, Vladimir Putin has said, adding that the first deals are
already underway.
In short the President said the US dollar has no future, and that the ruble and the yuan have better long-term prospects. “Payments
in rubles and yuan are very promising. Switching to such a large-scale
work means that the impact of the dollar on the global energy sector
will objectively decline. This is not bad either for the global economy,
or the world of finance and the world energy markets,” Putin said at the APEC Business Summit in Beijing Monday. “It will help expand our capabilities in mutual trade and influence both world financial and energy markets," the president said.
Using
local currencies will speed up trade between the two countries who are
aiming to reach $100 billion by 2015. Trade between Russia and China is
already nearly $90 billion, and is scheduled to hit $200 billion in the
next six years. "The People’s Republic of China is one of our
key partners in the region. We will make greater use of settlements in
our national currencies in our trade with China. We are already carrying
out our first deals in rubles and yuan," Putin said.
Payments
in national currency are planned particularly in trading oil and that
Russian experts are currently assessing the possibility.
The two countries agreed on a currency swap worth up to $25 billion on October 13.
Moscow
and Beijing aim for a broader use of the yuan and the ruble in mutual
settlements across industries, including defense, telecoms, energy, and
mining, possibly by one of Russia’s major companies, according to Putin.
WATCH: Putin - Trade in rubles & yuan will weaken dollar’s influence.
Russia’s
second biggest bank, VTB, has already begun to reorient business
towards China and is working with Chinese regulators to remove
restrictions to allow ruble transactions. “Our contact with
the leadership of China’s biggest banks shows they share this interest.
This is consistent with the plan for China to bring the yuan to the next
level and make it a hard currency,”
VTB head Andrey Kostin said at the summit, as quoted by RIA.
A
switch to domestic currencies is a huge move for Russia and China as
both countries are members of the BRICS Bank which was established
earlier this year to try and challenge the global dominance of the US
dollar and such global lenders as the IMF and the World Bank.
China
and Malaysia also announced a new bank that uses the yuan as a reserve
currency, which means the dollar stands to lose its regional stronghold.
‘New level of cooperation’
The
currency swap is just a notch in the belt in developing Russia-China
economic ties. The two have grown closer over Russia’s disillusionment
with the West over the Ukraine crisis and sanctions. “Cooperation between Russia and the Asian-Pacific nations is of the utmost importance to us,” Putin said.
Symbolic of the deepening rapport was the signing of the second major gas deal in six months, which has the potential to make China Russia’s largest energy customer.
Putin named China as Russia’s biggest regional partner, and even offered the country stakes in Russian energy projects.
WATCH: Ruble Bounce - Currency strengthens as central bank loosens controls.
“We are also examining possibilities for our Chinese partners to acquire stakes in some of our biggest production assets,” Putin said.
On
Sunday, Russia’s oil giant Rosneft and China National Oil and Gas
Exploration and Development Corporation signed an agreement on the
acquisition of a 10 percent stake in Vankorneft, a Rosneft subsidiary
that develops oil in Russia’s Eastern Siberia. Rosneft has also offered
China a share in its second-largest oil field, Vankor, which is
estimated to have reserves of 520 million metric tons of oil and 95
billion cubic meters of natural gas.
Russia may opt to include
China in the big oil and gas projects in the Far East, namely on
Sakhalin Island, north of Japan. Among the international partners is
Japan which has a 30 percent stake in the Sakhalin-1 project and a 22
percent in the Sakhalin-2.
WATCH: Jim Rogers - By the end of this decade US dollar will lose world dominance.
Russia's second biggest bank VTB may leave London Stock Exchange
VTB Bank president, chairman of the board and Supervisory Council head Andrei Kostin (RIA Novosti/Vladimir Astapkovich)
VTB
Bank may quit the London Stock Exchange (LSE), and is currently in
talks to get more loans from Asia, CEO Andrei Kostin has said. “We hope they [negotiations with London exchange – Ed.] will recover the situation. If not, we are considering quitting,” Kostin told journalists at the APEC summit in Beijing, adding there’s a possibility of delisting.
Kostin
said the bank is complaining about demands made by the LSE, which he
considers tougher than those put forward by US sanctions. “The issue must be somehow clarified or finished with soon,” Kostin said.
He
added the bank is now talking with Asian bourses about drawing down
syndicated and subordinated loans. He mentioned both the Tokyo and
Shanghai exchanges.
He said the exchange of Shanghai may be of
particular interest due to the conditions created by the London and New
York exchanges. The issue of costs that may occur in switching from one
exchange to another hasn’t yet been negotiated, Kostin said.
On July 31 the EU introduced
sanctions against the Russian financial sector. Five major Russian
state-owned banks – Sberbank, VTB, Gazprombank, Vnesheconombank (VEB)
and Rosselkhozbank (Russian Agricultural Bank) – have been banned from
receiving any long-term (over 30-day) loans from EU markets.
Chinese banks to invest over $10bn in Siberian LNG project
RIA Novosti / Vitaliy Ankov
Russia's
largest independent natural gas producer Novatek is in talks with
Chinese banks to get over $10 billion for its Yamal liquid natural gas
(LNG) project, according to the company’s key owner Gennady Timchenko. "Given
the situation with the sanctions, we will work tightly with Chinese
banks. Negotiations are in full swing, it is necessary to agree on
conditions," RIA quotes Timchenko saying on Friday. He added the
total investment of Chinese banks is expected to be over $10 billion,
but everything can change. Timchenko said the issue will be discussed in detail during the forthcoming visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to China.
Novatek
is negotiating with various Chinese and Indian companies over the sale
of a 9 percent stake in the Yamal LNG project, says Timchenko.
The
Yamal project includes the construction of a plant capable of producing
16.5 million tons of LNG per year. The deposit located in the Northeast
Siberian Yamal peninsula has potential gas reserves of more than 900
billion cubic meters.
The total cost of the project is $26.9
billion. The first stage of the plant is expected to be opened by 2017.
It is planned to be developed in three stages. Yamal LNG is a joint
project of Novatek with a 60 percent share, Chinese petroleum
corporation CNPC with 20 percent, and France’s Total with 20 percent.
China announces $40 bn Silk Road fund
The Silk Road connected China and Europe from around 100 B.C. The
4,000-mile road linked ancient
Chinese, Indian, Babylonian, Arabic,
Greek and Roman civilizations [Xinhua]
Chinese
President Xi Jinping on Saturday announced China will contribute $40
billion to set up a Silk Road Fund to strengthen connectivity in the
Asia-Pacific region.
Xi said the goal of the Fund is to “break the bottleneck in Asian connectivity by building a financing platform.”
The
new Silk Road Fund will be used to provide investment and finance for
infrastructure, industrial projects along the “Belt and Road”, Xi said,
referring to China’s Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century
Maritime Silk Road initiatives.
He added that the fund will be “open” to investors from both within and outside Asia.
The
Asian Development Bank has estimated that in the next decade Asian
countries will need $8 trillion in infrastructure investments to
maintain the current economic growth rate.
“The Silk Road boasts a
3-billion population and a market that is unparalleled both in scale
and potential,” Xi said in September last year.
The Silk Road connected China and Europe from around 100 B.C.
The 4,000-mile road linked ancient Chinese, Indian, Babylonian, Arabic, Greek and Roman civilizations. A new map unveiled by Xinhua
shows the Chinese plans for the Silk Road run through Central China to
the northern Xinjiang from where it travels through Central Asia
entering Kazakhstan and onto Iraq, Iran, Syria and then Istanbul in
Turkey from where it runs across Europe cutting across Germany,
Netherlands and Italy.
The maritime Silk Road begins in China’s Fujian and ends at Venice, Italy.
One of the first projects of the new Bank is expected to be financing infrastructure projects along the “Silk Road Economic Belt” and the “Maritime Silk Road” re-establishment.
Meanwhile
on Saturday in Beijing, the Chinese President stressed that efforts
should be made to realize Asia’s connectivity by making Asian countries a
priority.
“Asian countries are just like a cluster of bright
lanterns. Only when we link them together, can we light up the night sky
in our continent,” he said.
China will provide neighboring countries 20,000 training opportunities for connectivity professionals in the coming five years.
Experts say these new announcements will boost China’s global influence and enhance its soft power.
November 10, 2014 - SPACE -
You know how you sometimes can sense that something is present even
though you can't see it? Well, astronomers are getting that feeling
about a giant, hidden object in space.
It orbits our Sun in a
far elliptical orbit, and is said to be 4x's the size of Jupiter! It has
a helium and hydrogen atmosphere. It's most likely to have moons! This
planet fits the exact description of Planet X or Nibiru.
Scientists have known about this planet since 1983 and they've been
using WISE and IRAS to monitor it. See the 1983 Washington Post "Front
Page" Story - Mystery Heavenly Body Discovered.
This
image is taken from 2011 Google Sky and it shows a green square. What
is Google hiding behind this square? Is this the position of Nibiru
about 4 years ago? Check out the coordinates: 8 20 03, -17 53 34
The last two/three years there is not too much news on this planet X or Nibiru.
Agreements have been made, between the main stream media and government
agencies not to publish articles related to the planet X / Nibiru
issue, since NASA mistakenly confirms Planet X / Nibiru during a
conference in 2011 for updating information about the database of
near-Earth asteroids in our solar system, tracked by Wide-field Infrared
Survey Explorer (WISE) telescope? See here the article and video on NASA mistakenly confirms Planet X / Nibiru.
It’s hard to get the real proof of the existence of planet X / Nibiru
but on October 20, 2014 a skywatcher in Houstan has filmed a remarkable
phenomenon what looks like a second sun or a planet.
Below the amazing footage. WATCH: Second Sun over Houston?
November 10, 2014 - NEW CALEDONIA - A strong earthquake has struck off New Caledonia in the southwest Pacific Ocean Monday morning.
The magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck at a depth of approximately 6 miles shortly after 2 a.m. Pacific Time.
No damage or injuries were immediately reported.
USGS earthquake shakemap intensity.
Strong
earthquakes with an epicenter off the coast can trigger tsunamis,
depending on the size and type of the fault movement.
The Pacific
Tsunami Warning Center tracks earthquake data for the West Coast. - CBS.
Tectonic Summary - Seismotectonics of the Eastern Margin of the Australia Plate
The
eastern margin of the Australia plate is one of the most sesimically
active areas of the world due to high rates of convergence between the
Australia and Pacific plates. In the region of New Zealand, the 3000 km
long Australia-Pacific plate boundary extends from south of Macquarie
Island to the southern Kermadec Island chain. It includes an oceanic
transform (the Macquarie Ridge), two oppositely verging subduction zones
(Puysegur and Hikurangi), and a transpressive continental transform,
the Alpine Fault through South Island, New Zealand.
Since 1900
there have been 15 M7.5+ earthquakes recorded near New Zealand. Nine of
these, and the four largest, occurred along or near the Macquarie Ridge,
including the 1989 M8.2 event on the ridge itself, and the 2004 M8.1
event 200 km to the west of the plate boundary, reflecting intraplate
deformation. The largest recorded earthquake in New Zealand itself was
the 1931 M7.8 Hawke's Bay earthquake, which killed 256 people. The last
M7.5+ earthquake along the Alpine Fault was 170 years ago; studies of
the faults' strain accumulation suggest that similar events are likely
to occur again.
North of New Zealand, the Australia-Pacific
boundary stretches east of Tonga and Fiji to 250 km south of Samoa. For
2,200 km the trench is approximately linear, and includes two segments
where old (>120 Myr) Pacific oceanic lithosphere rapidly subducts
westward (Kermadec and Tonga). At the northern end of the Tonga trench,
the boundary curves sharply westward and changes along a 700 km-long
segment from trench-normal subduction, to oblique subduction, to a left
lateral transform-like structure.
USGS plate tectonics for the region
Australia-Pacific convergence
rates increase northward from 60 mm/yr at the southern Kermadec trench
to 90 mm/yr at the northern Tonga trench; however, significant back arc
extension (or equivalently, slab rollback) causes the consumption rate
of subducting Pacific lithosphere to be much faster. The spreading rate
in the Havre trough, west of the Kermadec trench, increases northward
from 8 to 20 mm/yr. The southern tip of this spreading center is
propagating into the North Island of New Zealand, rifting it apart. In
the southern Lau Basin, west of the Tonga trench, the spreading rate
increases northward from 60 to 90 mm/yr, and in the northern Lau Basin,
multiple spreading centers result in an extension rate as high as 160
mm/yr. The overall subduction velocity of the Pacific plate is the
vector sum of Australia-Pacific velocity and back arc spreading
velocity: thus it increases northward along the Kermadec trench from 70
to 100 mm/yr, and along the Tonga trench from 150 to 240 mm/yr.
The
Kermadec-Tonga subduction zone generates many large earthquakes on the
interface between the descending Pacific and overriding Australia
plates, within the two plates themselves and, less frequently, near the
outer rise of the Pacific plate east of the trench. Since 1900, 40 M7.5+
earthquakes have been recorded, mostly north of 30°S. However, it is
unclear whether any of the few historic M8+ events that have occurred
close to the plate boundary were underthrusting events on the plate
interface, or were intraplate earthquakes. On September 29, 2009, one of
the largest normal fault (outer rise) earthquakes ever recorded (M8.1)
occurred south of Samoa, 40 km east of the Tonga trench, generating a
tsunami that killed at least 180 people.
Across the North Fiji
Basin and to the west of the Vanuatu Islands, the Australia plate again
subducts eastwards beneath the Pacific, at the North New Hebrides
trench. At the southern end of this trench, east of the Loyalty Islands,
the plate boundary curves east into an oceanic transform-like structure
analogous to the one north of Tonga.
Australia-Pacific
convergence rates increase northward from 80 to 90 mm/yr along the North
New Hebrides trench, but the Australia plate consumption rate is
increased by extension in the back arc and in the North Fiji Basin. Back
arc spreading occurs at a rate of 50 mm/yr along most of the subduction
zone, except near ~15°S, where the D'Entrecasteaux ridge intersects the
trench and causes localized compression of 50 mm/yr in the back arc.
Therefore, the Australia plate subduction velocity ranges from 120 mm/yr
at the southern end of the North New Hebrides trench, to 40 mm/yr at
the D'Entrecasteaux ridge-trench intersection, to 170 mm/yr at the
northern end of the trench.
Large earthquakes are common along the
North New Hebrides trench and have mechanisms associated with
subduction tectonics, though occasional strike slip earthquakes occur
near the subduction of the D'Entrecasteaux ridge. Within the subduction
zone 34 M7.5+ earthquakes have been recorded since 1900. On October 7,
2009, a large interplate thrust fault earthquake (M7.6) in the northern
North New Hebrides subduction zone was followed 15 minutes later by an
even larger interplate event (M7.8) 60 km to the north. It is likely
that the first event triggered the second of the so-called earthquake
"doublet". -USGS.
November 10, 2014 - BAHAMAS
- Bahamas pastor Myles Munroe and his family are feared among nine dead
aboard a small Bahamas-bound aircraft that crashed Sunday night,
according to local reports.
The internationally known motivational
speaker had been on his way to Monday’s Global Leadership Forum hosted
by the Bahamas Faith Ministries, an organization Munroe founded, when
his private Learjet crashed on approach to the Grand Bahamas
International airport, according to a Tribune 242 report.
Photos
show rescuers scaling piles of debris at the Grand Bahama Shipyard only
three miles away from the Freeport airport, where the aircraft
“exploded on impact” while attempting to land, the Tribune wrote.
Google Maps
“The
Department of Civil Aviation has been advised unofficially that the
aircraft was destroyed and that there were no survivors,” the Ministry
of Transport and Aviation said.
Nine passengers were aboard the
Learjet when it crashed around 5 p.m. local time after departing Lynden
Pindling International in the Bahamas capital of Nassau. The cause of
the crash has not yet been determined, though there had been heavy rain
across the region.
Munroe, a 60-year-old Bahamas native, is the
published author of more than 100 spiritual and inspirational works. He
is also a government and business consultant to Fortune 500 businesses,
according to a biography on the Ministries website.
Facebook
“The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but its life without a purpose. ...without purpose life has no meaning," Munroe wrote on Twitter in May.
Video
from the Ministries headquarters shows a group of supporters sobbing
upon hearing news of Munroe’s alleged death during the plane crash.
The Global Leadership Forum will continue as scheduled, according to a statement released by Munroe’s Facebook page. “This is what Dr. Munroe would have wanted. Please keep this family and the ministry in prayers,” a spokesperson wrote.
Bahamas Press
The page does not confirm his death.
The names of the victims and the cause of the crash were not immediately known.
Former
Atlanta Mayor (and former UN ambassador) Andrew Young was scheduled to
be on the jet, but didn’t travel due to concerns about bad weather, according to WSBTV. - NY Daily News.
Propeller smashes through plane window in Air Canada emergency landing
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A
plane’s propeller burst through a window, striking a passenger in the
head, when an Air Canada flight was forced to make an emergency landing
in Edmonton, reportedly following a burst tire.
Christina Kurylo,
one of five Grande Prairie radio station employees aboard the flight
last Thursday, considers herself lucky to be alive. The propeller, which
punctured the side of the aircraft during a rough emergency landing,
narrowly missed her head. “I'm really lucky. It could have been a million times worse,” Kurylo, told Global News. “I could have died, you know, you never know what could have happened.”
The
propeller knocked out part of the inside wall of the aircraft, sending
fiberglass and pieces of wall flying at Kurylo’s head. “All of a sudden I got hit in the head. It was pretty confusing for me. It’s bits and pieces for me after that,” she said.
Propeller smashes through plane window during emergency landing
Kurylo, who was taken to an Edmonton hospital, suffered bruises and scratches from the impact. “Just from the blow of it happening she had quite a huge head lump and it was quite purple and lots of bruises and scratches,” said Melissa Menard, Kurylo's colleague who was also aboard the flight.
Of the 75 people aboard the flight, three other passengers were injured by debris, but no one was directly hit by the propeller.
WATCH: Air Canada plane has rough landing at Edmonton Airport.
“The
sort of least worst scenario is minor injuries like this, so we’re
certainly very happy to be in a position that there are no worse
injuries than that,” said Heather Hamilton, a spokesperson for the Edmonton airport.
Genevieve Corbin, a representative of the Transport Safety Board of Canada (TSB) confirmed that “a portion of one of the propeller blades”
was partially lodged into the fuselage of the airplane, and said that
the TSB is continuing to investigate possible causes of the incident. “At
this stage, we cannot speak about how it got there and the damage that
it might have caused.
This will be determined as we gather more
information,” she said.
This angle from Global 1 clearly shows missing propeller blade.
The Jazz Aviation aircraft, which was en route to Prairie from Calgary, ended up flipped on its side after the Edmonton landing.
After conducting minor repairs, airport crews reopened the runway where the accident happened Saturday. - RT.
November 10, 2014 - SPACE
- To the Greeks, planets were wandering stars rightly named after the
pantheon of gods. Now, scientists have captured amazingly clear images
showing the birth of these amazing heavenly bodies around a star some
450 light years away.
The stellar new image was made possible by the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile.
Surrounded
by clearly defined concentric circles of dust and gas, the young star
HL Tau stands at the center of a massive, rotating, protoplanetary band.
Screenshot from almaobservatory.org
The
dense cloud in which the embryonic planets are born blocked out visible
light, complicating efforts to get a clear view of the planets forming
in the accretion disk. With the aid of ALMA, however, a clarity
previously unknown in human history was provided for the first time.
The
most expensive ground-based telescope in operation, ALMA was first set
up to explore the origins of the universe. Its towering 39-foot-tall
radio telescopes serve as the perfect tools to make detailed images of a
(relatively) nearby star and planet formation.
By using wavelengths much longer than visible light, ALMA was able to capture images of the massive cloud surrounding HL Tau.
WATCH: ESOcast 69 - Revolutionary ALMA Image Reveals Planetary Genesis.
“These
features are almost certainly the result of young planet-like bodies
that are being formed in the disc. This is surprising since such young
stars are not expected to have large planetary bodies capable of
producing the structures we see in this image," said Stuartt Corder, ALMA deputy director.
The
scientists were particularly surprised by the clarity of detail in the
image; the sharpest picture ever made at sub-millimeter wavelengths.
The image provides a “revolutionary”
resolution’ just five times the distance from the Sun to the Earth;
better than what is routinely achieved with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space
Telescope.
Screenshot from almaobservatory.org
“HL Tauri is no
more than a million years old, yet already its disc appears to be full
of forming planets. This one image alone will revolutionize theories of
planet formation," said Catherine Vlahakis, ALMA deputy program scientist and lead program scientist for the ALMA Long Baseline Campaign.
Amazingly, while HL Tau is much smaller than our own sun, the dust cloud is far wider than our own solar system.
But
despite its diminutive size, the distance from HL Tau to the edge of
the disc is 2.8 billion miles – three times that of our sun to Neptune.
The star has long been the subject of scientific inquiry. Previously,
researchers had witnessed one burgeoning planet in orbit around the
star, though they were unable to directly observe its formation.
Screenshot from almaobservatory.org
Screenshot from almaobservatory.org
Eventually,
these rotating rings will form all sorts of heavenly bodies, from
asteroids and comets to planets. With time, as the star evolves and
settles, the newly-born solar system will, in some small way, start to
look a bit more like our own corner of the Milky Way. - RT.
November 10, 2014 - TEXAS, UNITED STATES - What burns five times brighter than a full moon and flies through the air with its tail sticking out behind it?
Many Texas residents reported seeing a meteor streaming across the Saturday night sky.
They
were right, but scientists are still investigating the details, said
Dr. Bill Cooke, lead for NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office.
"This
was definitely what we call a fireball, which by definition is a meteor
brighter than the planet Venus," he told reporters in a conference call
Sunday.
"This event was so bright that it was picked up on a
NASA meteor camera in the mountains of New Mexico over 500 miles away,
which makes it extremely unusual," he said. "This was a very bright
event."
Based on data from NASA's camera, Cooke estimated that
the meteor was at least four feet wide, weighed about 4,000 pounds and
burned five times brighter than a full moon.
The American Meteor
Society has received more than 200 reports about it so far from people
in various parts of the Lone Star State, who reported seeing it within
minutes of the same time -- 8:45 p.m. Central (9:45 p.m. ET).
WATCH: Bright green fireball over San Antonio, Texas.
Descriptions
of the fleeting flash spread rapidly on social media. One YouTube user
apparently caught it whizzing by on camera and posted video online.
Did any pieces of it make their way to Earth?
It's possible meteorites from the fireball hit the ground, Cooke said.
To find out, investigators will be looking at things like weather radar data, he said.
The
Maverick County Sheriff's Department reported around 8:45 p.m. that the
ground shook when a meteorite landed, the National Weather Service in
San Antonio said.
Where did the fireball come from?
American Meteor Society
When
a piece of a comet or asteroid hurtling through space enters the
Earth's atmosphere, pressure causes it to break apart violently in an
explosion, Cooke said.
The fireball that Texans spotted Saturday
night could have come from the North Taurid meteor shower, which is
going on right now and is known for producing bright fireballs, Cooke
said. It also could have been part a piece of rock from the main
asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, he said.
"We're going to have to wait until we get more data to discriminate between the two of them," Cooke said.
Why did so many people notice it?
A
NASA camera near Mayhill, New Mexico, captured an image of the sky that
shows the brief, bright flash around 8:40 p.m. Central Time. Another
camera in Las Cruces, New Mexico, didn't capture the event itself, but
detected a change in the sky's brightness because of the fireball.
Fireballs aren't uncommon, Cooke said.
Thousands
of them occur in the Earth's atmosphere each day, the American Meteor
Society says. But most of them happen over oceans or uninhabited areas
-- or are masked by daylight, the society says.
"A city dweller in the U.S. might expect to see events this bright once or twice per year," Cooke said.
But depending on what time they hit, they tend to draw more attention.
"This
one was around 8:40, so there were a lot of people outside and those
events get a lot of notice," he said. "There would have been far fewer
reports if it happens around 3 a.m." - CNN.
November 10, 2014 - EARTH - A colossal blast of heavily chilled Arctic air is spreading across the Northern Hemisphere of Earth, engulfing towns, cities and countries in record low temperatures.
Blast of arctic air via polar vortex to chill 42 U.S. states
As
the polar vortex gets displaced to the south, the door will open for
arctic air to plunge over the most of the United States as the new week
progresses.
Only the Southwest, Hawaii, Alaska and South
Florida will escape the grip of the upcoming arctic blast that the polar
vortex can be blamed for.
"The polar vortex is a large pocket
of very cold air, typically the coldest air in the Northern Hemisphere,
which sits over the polar region," stated AccuWeather.com Senior
Meteorologist Alex Sosnowski.
"Occasionally, this pocket of
very cold air can get dislodged farther south than normal, leading to
cold outbreaks in Canada and the U.S."
For this current
outbreak, the harshest cold in relation to normal will encompass the
northern Rockies and Plains. However, temperatures will also plummet
throughout the Northwest and to the Gulf Coast and I-95 corridor.
The arctic blast will drop into the northern Rockies on Monday, accompanied by a snowstorm on its leading edge, then will spread across the Northwest and Plains through Wednesday.
Later in the week is when the cold will reach the I-95 corridor, but it
will not be of the same magnitude as earlier in the week.
Many
communities across the northern Rockies and Plains will experience a
20- to 40-degree drop in high temperatures from one day to the next.
Tuesday and Wednesday will prove to be the coldest days of the week
across the northern Rockies and northern High Plains, where highs will
be held to the teens with subzero lows.
"The combination of
cold air, wind and other conditions, including snow in part of the
Midwest and northern Plains, will send AccuWeather RealFeel®
temperatures plunging into the single digits and teens."
"Such cold will raise the risk of hypothermia and frostbite for those not properly dressed," Sosnowski continued.
Across the Northwest, South and I-95 corridor, the arrival of the cold
air will create a December-like feel with a 10- to 20-degree change in
high temperatures from the preceding day.
While the chill in
the South and East will not be as extreme as what communities to the
west are bracing for, Sosnowski is still urging people to winterize
their vehicles and plumbing.
"Freezing temperatures are possible in parts of the South and East that have not yet had such temperatures this season."
Once the frigid air arrives, it will not be quick to depart.
Temperatures are expected to remain below freezing for nearly two weeks in the Upper Midwest, Minneapolis included.
The impending cold may set off lake-effect snow downwind of the Great
Lakes later next week, when AccuWeather.com meteorologists are also
monitoring the potential for a storm to bring snow to other parts of the
Northeast.
Latest indications also point toward another winter
storm crossing the nation next Thursday to the following Monday. With
the cold air still in place, there could be a swath of snow stretching
from the Northwest to the central Plains to the Northeast.
Enough cold air could even be in place for wintry weather around Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington.
Continue to check back with AccuWeather.com for the latest details on the cold outbreak and any snowstorms.
Siberian Express to bring an early -30 degrees F to Wyoming, Montana
Even
though it's still early November, a January-like cold wave just
entering Montana and the Dakotas on Sunday will bring 30 below zero
temperatures to scattered locations in Montana and Wyoming by Wednesday
morning.
The cold will fill the nation's midsection by
mid-week, with no let up in sight. The coldest air to arrive in a series
of reinforcing surges is still a week away.
Temperatures are
forecast to run 15 to 30 deg. F below normal for at least 5 days over a
large portion of the central U.S. starting late in the coming week.
On individual days the temperatures will be as much as 50 deg. F below
normal for this time of year, which is quite exceptional. The air mass
temperature (850 mb, ~5,000 ft. altitude) will be as much as 4.5
standard deviations below normal, which is less than 1 in 100,000 in
probability terms.
Northern Rockies snowstorm to expand to Minneapolis, Great Lakes
The
snowstorm unfolding across the northern Rockies will spread a swath of
snow to Minneapolis and the upper Great Lakes through the first part of
the week.
Before reaching the Great Lakes, the system is expected to deliver snow from the Rocky Mountains to the northern Plains with accumulating snowfall reaching as far south as Denver.
The snow will then begin to build into the northern Great Lakes, moving
into the region on Monday and continuing into Tuesday night.
Due to the path of the storm, it appears as though some of the bigger
cities around the Great Lakes, such as Chicago and Detroit, will miss
out on the snow.
The heaviest snow is expected to focus on a
zone stretching from northern Wisconsin to central Ontario. A foot or
more of snow will fall over this area with localized pockets receiving
as much as 2 feet of accumulation.
Gusty winds also accompanying this storm will result in blowing and drifting snow.
While blizzard conditions are not expected, winds gusting up to 30 mph
can greatly reduce visibility, resulting in major travel disruptions.
This wind will also cause AccuWeather.com RealFeel® temperatures to be
held to the teens and single digits on Monday in places such as
Minneapolis, making it dangerous for people to spend extended periods of
time in the outdoors without wearing proper clothing.
Along the southern fringe of the snow, rain and/or sleet will mix in and hold down amounts.
A blast of frigid arctic air
is set to dive southward into the Plains and the Midwest in the wake of
the snowstorm, keeping temperatures as much as 30 degrees below normal.
This cold air blowing over the comparatively warm waters of
the Great Lakes can cause lake-effect snow to develop downwind of the
lakes, adding to snowfall totals Wednesday and Thursday.
Despite all of the negative impacts that this storm will bring, there will be some positives.
Ski resorts across the region will benefit from snow, allowing for some early season skiers to hit the slopes.
The cold air following the storm will also allow for ski resorts to
utilize their snow-making machines, adding even more snow to the slopes
for early season skiers.
Those planning to go skiing or snowboarding should check AccuWeather.com for the latest ski conditions forecast.
Polar vortex returns with 'Arctic blast' for parts of Canada
The
frigid cold of the polar vortex is coming back, with snow and an
"Arctic blast" of winter air set to sweep across Western Canada in the
days ahead.
Environment Canada issued cold weather statements for
all of British Columbia and parts of Alberta on Sunday, with
temperatures expected to plummet up to 10 degrees Celsius below the
seasonal norm. The polar vortex is expected to bring the coldest
temperatures of the season, along with freezing rain or snow for many of
the affected areas.
"Temperatures will drop across many regions
as the coldest air so far this season moves in," Environment Canada said
in a cold air statement
The southern part of Alberta is
under a heavy snowfall warning, with 10 to 20 centimetres expected to
fall in most areas by Monday morning.
Forecasters say the polar
vortex will engulf much of Canada and the continental United States in
the days ahead, and bring the first true chill of winter with it.
The
U.S. is already bracing for the full force of the Arctic blast.
Temperatures will plummet well below their November averages across the
country, with Minnesota expecting record-breaking snowfalls.
In
Canada, temperatures dropped below the freezing mark in Calgary to
around -10 C on Sunday, bringing snow and biting winds to the city.
Edmonton, Winnipeg and Saskatoon are also facing double-digit freezing
temperatures and snow.
Weather experts say Typhoon Nuri is the
main culprit behind the big chill, as the tropical storm's presence over
Alaska is forcing a cyclone of cold Arctic air to shift south in a
"polar vortex" effect.
The polar vortex is a large pocket of
intense cold air that typically sits over the North Pole. However,
weather patterns occasionally shift that pocket south, resulting in a
sharp, prolonged dip in temperature over the area affected.
Canadians last felt the icy grip of the polar vortex in January, when a deep freeze settled over the country for weeks.
Swath of Winter storms extend from Turkey to Japan
While
much of the tropical activity tends to diminish in the Northern
Hemisphere during the winter, sometimes the western Pacific can remain
active.
"The cooler waters southeast of Asia will likely yield
far less tropical activity in the western Pacific compared to last
winter," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Jason Nicholls said.
Six of the eight named tropical systems struck the Philippines from
November 2013 to February 2014. Super Typhoon Haiyan delivered a
devastating blow to the Philippines in November.
Nicholls and
AccuWeather Long Range Team expect no more than one named tropical
system [tropical storms and typhoons] to directly affect the Philippines
or to pass near Japan this winter.
Cold Air to Aim for Northeastern Areas
Cold air will make lunges toward the traditionally chilly winter locations of northeastern China and Manchuria.
According to Nicholls, "The most significant cold shots will occur during January and February but will tend to be brief."
By the end of the winter, the back-and-forth pattern should result in
near-average temperatures from Beijing, China, to Seoul, South Korea.
Comparatively less frequent cold intrusions will result in
above-average temperatures by the end of the three-month period from
Shanghai and Hong Kong, China, to Tokyo, Japan.
Active Storm Track Expected Turkey to Japan
Cooler-than-average water temperatures from the Philippines and South
China seas will play a role in the track of non-tropical storms during
much of the winter.
Most Pacific Ocean storm systems will tend
to track farther east, when compared to last winter. Most of the storms
will track near or east of the Mariana Islands. Much of the area from
southern India and Malaysia to Vietnam and the Philippines will be dry
and warm as a result.
"Storms are likely to focus from the North China Plain, across the Korean Peninsula and into southern Japan," Nicholls said.
Snowfall is forecast to average above normal in Seoul (normal is 15 cm)
and near normal in Tokyo (normal is 10 cm) as a result. However, a
slight shift in the storm track or a single major storm could greatly
affect snowfall in this swath. Snowfall in this area is not likely to
linger very long.
Visitors
walk in the snow at Enoshima Shrine in Fujisawa, near Tokyo, Saturday,
Feb. 8, 2014. Tokyo received 48 cm (18.8 inches) of snow during the
winter of 2013-14. The majority of the snow fell in two storms during
February.
Farther
northwest, a temperature contrast zone will likely set up a storm track
in a swath from Turkey to the Hindoo Koosh and the Himalayas. This
swath, which includes part of the Middle East, is forecast to be an
extension of the stormy zone across the Balkan Peninsula of Europe.
Episodes of locally heavy rain, snow and wind are in store in this
swath, which could disrupt travel. It is possible one or more winter
storms may affect Istanbul.
Quiet and Dry South of the Storm Track
The area south of the Himalayas and Hindoo Koosh tends to be dry during the winter. This winter should be no exception.
South of the storm track, over southwestern Asia, areas from near the
Arabian Sea to northern India, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Myanmar will have
temperatures averaging near normal this winter. Rainfall in this area
will be near to below average.
Storms passing by to the north could kick up episodes of wind and dust in parts of Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
November 10, 2014 - EARTH - The following constitutes the latest reports of unusual and symbolic
animal behavior, mass die-offs, beaching and stranding of mammals, and
the appearance of rare creatures.
187 dead sea lions found along the coast of Sechura, Peru
Less than a week after the appearance of one hundred seals killed in booking Illescas in the province of Sechura ( Piura ), again dead marine species were found in this jurisdiction. This time, a total of 187 sea lions were found dead between the beaches Saint Peter and Saint Paul, and the Turtle Cove. This was confirmed by sources from the National Service of Protected Areas Regional ( Sernanp ).
However, expressed ignorance about the reason for the killing of wolves. Meanwhile, local fishermen claimed that warming would cause sea. - Peru 21. [Translated]
Massive amount of dead sardines wash ashore along 4km of coast of Hokkaido, Japan
On
11/3/2014, numerous sardines were found washed ashore in Pacific
coastal area of Hokkaido. A fisherman found it around 6AM of the day.
The
location was Mukawa-cho in Hokkaido. The dead sardines were approx. 15 ~
20cm long, which have grown up. They were found washed ashore for 4km
along the coast.
The local fishermen state they have been fishing there for 60 years but haven’t seen such a thing.
Hokkaido
fisheries experiment station comment it might be due to the storm one
night before, but the exact cause is not identified.
On the other hand, local citizen commented on Twitter that that kind of storm was nothing rare, can happen quite often. - Fukushima Diary.
Group of five brown bears attack hunters, severely injuring one, Alaska
A hunting trip to the remote wilderness of Alaska went awry for a group of deer hunters after they were attacked by a group of brown bears. While most of the hunters escaped safely, an elderly man among the group was severely injured,
reports CNN. The bear attack took place on the remote Sally Island,
where the hunters had come for deer hunting. The injured man has been
identified as Michael Snowden from Alaska. Some reports mention his age
to be 68.
According to an official statement released by the U.S. Coast Guard, the man, along with his hunting party, were carrying the carcass of a deer they had shot towards their fishing vessel when the bear attack took place.
While the coast guard hasn't confirmed the number of animals that were
involved in the bear attack, the CNN report says the group was attacked by at least five bears. An earlier report
by NBC News had put the number of bears at three. According to that
report, two of the bears were fatally shot by one of the hunters. This
is yet to be confirmed.
While most of the members managed to fend
off the attack, one 65-year-old man was brutally mauled by one of the
bears and was seriously injured. The hunting party was initially unaware
of the bears congregating to attack the group of men. They were in fact
alerted by the master of the fishing vessel they had used to come to
the island.
It is highly unusual for a group of bears to carry out an attack on humans, the U.S. Coast Guard said in the statement.
"The
fact that there were five bears was an abnormality and this serves as a
reminder that anything can happen and we need to be aware of our
surroundings," said Lt. Joseph Schlosser, operational unit watchstander
for the Coast Guard 17th District.
Meanwhile,
the master of the fishing vessel Mary J alerted coast guard officials
about the attack and told them about Mr. Snowden requiring urgent
medical assistance. Soon, help arrived in the form of a Coast Guard Air
Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter. The man was medevaced from the
island and flown to the Kodiak Municipal Airport and then handed over to
emergency medical services.
This is not the first time we have heard of bear attacks in the United States this year. Earlier, the Inquisitr reported about quite a few bear attack cases, the latest one being late last month when the body of a hiker was almost completely eaten by a black bear. - Inquisitr.
Hundreds of dead Trout found 'is a mystery' in a river in Schelpe, Germany
In the Schelpe at Brenkhausen many dead fish were found on Wednesday afternoon.The fishing club is concerned that the entire portfolio has died in the village.Photo: WB
A mysterious fish kills in the Schelpe employed residents of Brenkhausen. There are several hundred trout have been found.
Citizens
in Brenkhausen have found a number of dead trout in the stream of
Schelpe on Wednesday afternoon and informed the water authority of the
circle Hoxter. From the department of water samples and dead fish were
seized for examination. Legged subsequent Bach commission gathered
members of the fishing club Brenkhausen a three ten-gallon bucket full
of dead fish. The first dead trout were about 100 meters above the
registered Tennis home, the last in the amount of the old sewage
treatment plant. In the Schelpe are due to the low water level mostly
undersized fish that migrate in larger state in the Weser.
So
about 300 trout were collected in size from ten to 15 centimeters and
about 15 large specimens from the dead stream. "I'm assuming that the
entire stock of fish is found dead in the area of the village
Brenkhausen," said Chairman of the Fisheries Association Brenkhausen,
Johannes Hahn angle. In addition to the financial loss to the club and
the environmental damage is large. For it was killed and the large
inventory of Mühlkoppen. Mühlkoppen, also known as sculpins, are ten to
15 centimeters big fish, which are among the endangered species and are
therefore particularly protected. The fishing club Brenkhausen filed a
complaint with the police. Notes accepts this answer with 0 5271/9620. -
Westfalen. [Translated]
Wolves return to Denmark for first time in 200 years
At least one male wolf has permanently settled in Jutland, Denmark, scientists say, in first case since 1813
Wolves have returned to Denmark for the first time in 200 years, according to researchers.
When wolves last roamed wild in Denmark, Napoleon was still terrorising
Europe and the Battle of Waterloo had yet to be fought.
But
now a team of researchers say they have conclusive evidence that wolves
have re-established themselves in much of the Jutland peninsula, the
part of Denmark that is in mainland Europe, and that at least one male
wolf has permanently settled there.
There have been sporadic
sightings of wolves in Jutland since 2012, but this is the first time
scientists have officially confirmed their return.
A team of
researchers from Aarhus University and the Danish National History
Museum studied locations where wolf DNA was found and where wolves were
photographed in the wild.
By analysing DNA traces they were
able to show that a particular male wolf was detected seven times in the
same area in 2013. Wolves are considered to have settled in an area if
they are seen there twice in six months.
"That is most
certainly the case with this wolf, which means we can say that we have
our first evidence that the wolf is settled in Denmark," Liselotte
Wesley Andersen, a senior researcher at Aarhus University, told
Denmark's national broadcaster, DR.
Wolves once roamed across Europe, before their numbers were heavily depleted in the 19th century. They
have been making a recovery since the 1950s, and wild populations have
re-established themselves in a number of countries, including France,
Germany, Norway and Sweden.
When a wolf was
spotted in Denmark in 2012, it was the first sighting since 1813. But
researchers caution that so far they have only found DNA traces of male
wolves resident in Denmark, and have not been able to locate any traces
of females or cubs, despite numerous claims of sightings of a wolf pack.
"We're hoping for a snowy winter so wolf tracks can lead us to
further documented finds," Thomas Secher Jensen, a senior researcher
with the Natural History Museum, told DR. - Telegraph.
Unusual animal behaviour: Sea lion chases down fishing boat and jumps on board
Incredible footage shows a sea lion chasing down a fishing boat before leaping on board to collect a fish
An amusing video has emerged of a sea lion jumping onto the back of a fishing boat.
The
video, captured off the coast of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico late last
month, shows the determined seal trailing behind the boat before leaping
on board to collect a piece of fish.
After collecting the fish, the sea lion reverses back into the sea and swims away.
"Sea Lions often follow fishing boats in Cabo San Lucas in the hope of getting a free meal," the filmer wrote online.
WATCH: Sea lion catches fishing boat and jumps on board.
U.S.
scientists have discovered a new species of deep-sea coral and a
nursery area for catsharks and skates in underwater canyons off the
coast of Northern California, the researchers said.
The
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said on Wednesday
the team used technologies including small submersibles to investigate
marine life that has adapted to survive in offshore waters up to 1,000
feet deep.
The team made two big discoveries off the Sonoma
coast, it said, including hundreds of egg cases from skates, which are
similar to rays, on the seafloor, and in bundles on the rocks
surrounding a catshark nursery area.
"This is a highly unusual nursery because rarely, if ever, are shark nurseries in the same area as skate nurseries," Peter Etnoyer, a deep-sea biologist at NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, said in a statement.
Separately, the researchers also discovered corals living at about 600
feet underwater that they said are a new deep-sea species belonging to
the Leptogorgia genus, NOAA said.
The work took place in
September close to the Gulf of Farallones and Cordell Bank national
marine sanctuaries, it said, and it was carried out by a consortium of
federal and state marine scientists.
Prior
to the expedition, it added, little was known about the areas except
that they were thought to contain nutrient-rich and biologically diverse
marine life.
The researchers also conducted video surveys of terrain that previously was documented only by sonar imaging.
Submarine canyons, such as the area's Bodega Canyon, act as a refuge
for important species of fish and provide a habitat for sensitive
species of deep water corals and sponges.
Coral is a stationary animal that slowly grows on sea floors over tens and even hundreds of years. Coral reefs are nurseries for many types of fish, and they also they help protect coasts from storms and tsunamis, as well as attracting tourists.
"This work helps inform our knowledge and understanding of ... areas
that are extremely important to the ocean environment," said Danielle
Lipski, Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary research coordinator and
expedition leader. - Reuters.
Elephant tramples man to death in Zambia
A 20- year- old man of Kalemba village in chief Nabwalya's area has been crushed to death by an elephant.
ZANIS in Chinsali reports that Muchinga provincial education officer Jobbicks Kalumba confirmed the incident today.
Mr Kalumba said the incident happened in the early hours of yesterday near Nabwalya primary school.
Mr. Kalumbamba who is on a 14-day mobile teaching service in the area
named the deceased as Mulenga Kalemba who died shortly after he was
taken to Nabwalya rural health center.
He added that Kalemba's
fate was witnessed by children who where going to school in the morning
when they shouted for help upon seeing the elephant stepping on him
leaving all his intestines out while his head was smashed beyond
recognition.
Mr. Kalumba explained that the deceased was
mentally disturbed and due to his violent behavior,his parents resorted
to be tying him to a tree during day time.
However, on Tuesday afternoon the deceased managed to cut the rope and went loitering in the village until he met his fate.
Mr Kalumba added that the incident has affected a lot of children in
the area who are refusing to go to school for fear of being attacked by
wild beasts hence affecting the lessons.
He further appealed to the Zambia Wild Life Authority(ZAWA) to keep vigil on the wild animals from going into villages.
In a related development, people of Mutekwe are also living in fear as
elephants from North Luangwa have gone on rampage destroying houses and
eating their harvest.
Councilor for Mutekwe ward Ernest Kaluba
told ZANIS that the situation has brought fear in the area as pupils and
teachers were failing to go to school.
Efforts to get a comment from ZAWA Senior Warden for Muchinga and Northern provinces Patrick Nyirenda failed by press time. - Lusaka Voice.
10-meter long dead whale cleared from Qatar's Al Huwaila beach
A 15-ton dead whale found on Al Huwaila beach in northern Qatar was removed by a government beach clean crew earlier this week.
Photographs posted by the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning
(Baladiya) show the 10-meter long whale being lifted by a digger off the
beach on Tuesday.
The ministry did not give any details of the type of whale or how they believed the mammal died.
A number of animals have been removed in recent years after washing up on Qatar's shoreline.
In September, a dead dolphin was removed from Al Wakrah port, while in March, a reader sent Doha News photos of a dead sea lion that remained out in the open for several days outside Al Khor. - Doha News.
Two women attacked by a group of bears in India
Panic gripped Kochdi village of Rampur subdivision in Shimla district on Friday after bears reportedly attacked two womenwho
were collecting fodder for the cows. The seriously injured women were
rushed to Indira Gandhi Medical College and Hospital (IGMCH) for
treatment. They have been identified as Hema Devi and Heera Devi.
Hema Devi, who is also the panchayat member of village, sustained
maximum injuries in the attack. According to official sources, it is a
common practice for villagers to head towards forest areas to collect
wood and fodder for domestic use during winter months. On Friday, Hema
and Heera had gone to forest like any other day.
As they reached near the forest, a group of bears attacked them on
their face, arms and other parts of the body. In panic, the two women
screamed, upon which the bears left and fled towards the dense forest.
Hearing their desperate cries, villagers ran towards the spot only to
find the two women lying unconscious in a pool of blood, they said. With
the help of ambulance, villagers shifted them to a nearby hospital from
where they were shifted to Indira Gandhi Medical College and Hospital
in Shimla for further treatment.
Man-animal
conflict has increased in Himachal Pradesh in recent years with wild
boars, black bears and monkeys damaging standing crops, besides
instances of lifting of domestic animals by leopards and attack on
humans were also being reported.
The otherwise
dwindling population of wild animals has seen an increase since the
imposition of total ban on hunting since 1984, sources said. Extension
of agriculture, coupled with increased human interference in hitherto
undisturbed areas, has led to greater human-animal conflict, said an
official from wildlife department. Stray cases of injuries to people and
loss of human lives in attacks by leopards and black bears have been
reported in the state, he added. - The Times of India.
Woman killed in elephant attack, Nepal - 6th fatality in 10 weeks
A
woman has been killed at Chisapani of Banke district at 1 pm on
Thursday after being attacked by an elephant. The deceased, identified
as 32-year-old Sharmila Chaudhary, had gone to Shree Krishna Community
Forest situated at Chisapani-4 to fetch fodder for her cattle.
The elephant attacked and killed Chaudhary while two other women who
were with her managed to save their lives by running away.
On
basis of the information provided by the women who saved their lives,
police went for a search in the forest where they found the dead body of
Chaudhary, said DSP Janak Shahi of Area Police Office, Kohalpur.
The dead body of woman has been sent to Bheri Zonal Hospital, Nepalgunj for post-mortem. - Ekantipur.
Global Canine Insurrection: Another week of savage dog attack
A best friend?
Sensational
headline, right? Maybe not. Below I have included reports of dog
attacks from around the word in just the last few days. These reports
are in no way anywhere near comprehensive. They are simply offered up as
examples of typical canine attacks of late. But some are doubly
notable, as they are assaults on owners or other family members. In other words, they're not your typical stories of freak attacks on strangers. Something else seems to be going on.
An Indianapolis man is being called a hero after rescuing a 12-year-old boy from two attacking pit bulls Sunday afternoon.
An Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) officer responded to
a report of aggressive animals actively attacking a young mentally
challenged child in the 3000 block of N. Gladstone Ave Sunday afternoon.
While in route to the scene, the officer was told that the dogs were
attacking an adult male that was trying to protect the child.
The officer arrived and saw a man in the middle of the intersection of
31st and Gladstone being attacked by two pit bulls. The man, later
identified as Russell Hill, was on the ground with both dogs biting him.
Hill's clothing had been ripped off and he was bleeding profusely from
numerous wounds. The officer exited his vehicle, and immediately shot a
black and white pit bull twice. The wounded dog started limping away,
but eventually turned around and came back towards Hill and the officer.
The officer then shot the dog two more times. The dog stumbled a few feet away and laid down on the ground.
The second pit bull, brown in color, stopped attacking Hill when the
officer fired his weapon at the animal. It fled back to its residence in
the 3100 block Forest Manor.
Animal Control Officers arrived at the home and were able to capture the brown dog.
The mother of a toddler mauled by two dogs in an estate near Queenstown says the attack was ghastly.
Her son, 3, was playing with other children in Herries Ln, Lake Hayes
Estate, at 5pm yesterday when the youngsters were startled by barking
dogs.
The children started to run but the toddler fell over and two dogs, a rottweiler and a labrador cross, bit his legs.
His mother, who wished to remain anonymous, said the family hoped no-one else had to go through anything similar.
''It's been a ghastly experience. I would hate to see something like
this repeated in our lovely community and hope this sends a message to
dog owners.
''I would also like to acknowledge the owners of the dogs that were
involved. They have been very kind and co-operative. They are distraught
about what has happened."
The toddler was taken to Lakes District Hospital with lacerations,
where he needed stitches for two of three deep cuts on his legs, and the
attack was referred to Queenstown Lakes District Council animal control
by police.
In a statement, a council spokesman said the dogs were immediately impounded pending an investigation.
The outcome potentially included an infringement notice, a menacing or
dangerous dog classification, prosecution and the destruction of the
dogs, he said.
Two dogs attacked a three-year-old boy in Lake Hayes Estate, mauling his leg
Two dogs attacked a three-year-old boy in Lake Hayes Estate, mauling his leg
The
owner of four dogs which viciously attacked a 7-year-old Japanese girl
in Murupara has admitted a criminal charge against him.
Gareth Clive Boyt, 35, pleaded guilty in the Rotorua District Court
today to a charge under Section 58 of the Dog Control Act for owning
four dogs that caused serious injury.
He was originally jointly charged with his wife, Charlotte Boyt, 31, but police withdrew the charge against her today.
After standing in the dock next to her husband she returned to the
public gallery in tears where she was supported by family and friends.
Defence lawyer Bill Lawson entered a guilty plea on behalf of Gareth Boyt.
"He was the owner of the dogs at the time even though he did not have
formal control of them, however the responsibility is attached to the
owner," Mr Lawson said.
At the end of October in the UK, a pitbull was busy sinking its teeth into a woman attempting to deliver a parcel in Eastbourn:
A 42-year-old woman whose leg was savaged in a dog attack on Friday afternoon has spoken of her horrific ordeal.
Kerry Stevens, who works with businesses in the Rye and Battle area in
newspaper sales, was delivering a parcel to a flat last Friday when the
dog rushed out and sank it's teeth into her thigh.
She is now recovering after two operations at the Conquest Hospital in
Hastings and faces the prospect of having plastic surgery.
Kerry said the moment the dog, a cross between a pit bull and an America
bull dog, bit her on the thigh and refused to let go was one of the
"most terrifying" of her life.
The attack happened at a property in Eastbourne.
Kerry said: "It was communal flats so I pushed the buzzer and got let
in. The woman I was dropping the package off to and her toddler came to
the door.
"We were talking then her husband came to the door and started talking
too when the dog pushed out of the doorway and launched at me and bit me
several times before locking onto my thigh.
"The woman's husband was punching the dog to release the jaws. She ran
inside the flat with her toddler and locked the door leaving us out in
the hallway. Eventually the dog let go, the man sat on it and called an
ambulance.
"I crawled to the front door and he slid his phone across the floor do I could talk to the ambulance people outside in safety.
"It was the most terrifying experience of my entire life. I was in such a state of shock, trauma and pain. It was horrible."
Police and ambulance crews arrived at the scene and Kerry was rushed to
hospital. A vet was called out and the animal was destroyed.
An
18-month-old Jurupa Valley boy was attacked Wednesday by the family pit
bull, which ripped off one of the toddler's ears before neighbors
scared away the dog.
The child, whose identity was not released, was apparently playing with the
canine in the back yard of his home on Pontiac Avenue around 7:40 a.m.
when 2-year-old ''Poncho'' bit the boy several times and tore away his
left ear, according to the Riverside County Department of Animal
Services.
''It just broke my heart -- he's just a baby,'' said animal control Officer Tiffany Fuller. ''He'll be scarred for life.''
Fuller was one of two Animal Services officers called to the house to
seize the dog. She said when she and her partner rolled up, neighbors
were standing on the property, holding baseball bats for protection.
''They ... heard the attack and went out to help the boy,'' Fuller said. According to county officials, the boy's mother was out of the house shopping
at the time, and his grandmother was supposed to be watching him, but
evidently didn't notice when he got up from a nap and wandered into the
backyard.
The tot's screams alerted the household.
He was taken to Loma Linda University Medical Center for treatment,
according to Animal Services spokesman John Welsh, who said the child's
mother surrendered Poncho to the county to be euthanized.
Police in Newport say a 5-year-old boy has about 100 puncture wounds after a pit bull attacked him on Tuesday.
Newport Police Lt. William Fitzgerald tells WPRI-TV that the boy was
playing outside the Park Holm Housing Complex when the dog ran out of an
apartment at about 3 p.m. and attacked him. One of the boy's parents
fought off the dog with a pipe.
The boy is being treated at Hasbro Children's Hospital for non-life-threatening wounds on his faces, hands and legs.
A visiting Fall River, Massachusetts, woman who owns the dog has been cited for not restraining it.
Police were still looking for the animal Wednesday.
It's amazing (or maybe not) how this same breed keeps popping up in these and similar reports. This dog is bred for its loyal, protective,
bloody vicious characteristics, so perhaps it's no big surprise really?
Take a look at the pie chart below, which vividly illustrates which
breed of dog has caused by far, the most fatalities in the US over an
8-year period, between 2005-2012:
But
it's not just pit bull attacks. To bolster my bold headline claim,
consider this recent report from the Yarra Ranges in Australia:
Yarra Ranges Council is desperately trying to get dogs under control as the number of attacks continue to skyrocket.
But despite the surge in attacks, the council has only declared six dogs as dangerous in the municipality.
Early this year, Yarra Ranges Mayor Fiona McAllister said the council
was "at a loss" to explain why so many dog attacks had occurred within
the first few months of the year, with 51 attacks by the end of
February.
But numbers have continued to climb, with 179 dog attacks reported by September.
This is up from 157 dog attacks at this time last year.
According to Wikipedia
the population of Yarra Ranges is just 144,541. To experience 179 dog
attacks in only 8 months for an area containing 144,500 people does
seems rather excessive, to put it mildly.
In addition, there is this September story about Rumbek in Sudan:
At least nine people have died in Lakes state's Rumbek Central county after being bitten by stray dogs.
The public health department in Rumbek has confirmed the deaths, saying the presence of dogs in town is on the rise. There has been more than 500 separate dog attacks on residents in Rumbek, while 40 people are also undergoing treatment.
The population of the Rumbek district is 82,500 (again going by Wikipedia data), the 500 attacks here are even more striking, with a ratio of 165 to 1.
These reports should additionally be viewed in the much wider context of all the recent wild animal attacks
by numerous diverse species, currently being recorded from across the
globe. Whatever is going on, it is certainly out of the ordinary and not
just more of the same. Deadly elephant attacks, bears, bobcats, muskox,
hyenas, foxes; the animal world in general is going wild recently.
Running in parallel are the increasing amounts of stories of bizarre human behaviour.
Just as the craziness in the human population increases, perhaps this
is being reflected in the animal kingdom, including, not least of all,
our domesticated canine friends? - SOTT.
31,000 birds killed to outbreak of Avian flu in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Heinrichswalde / Schwerin first time, a previously known only from Asia and dangerous avian pathogens in Germany has surfaced. The affected turkeys operation with about 31,000 animals in the Vorpommern-Greifswald was locked. The turkeys are infected with the influenza virus of subtype H5N8. On Thursday began with the killing, which is to be completed on Friday.
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Agriculture Minister Till Backhaus (SPD)
said, on the evening cautious confidence that the disease remains
limited to operation in Heinrichswalde.
In contrast to the first major bird flu outbreak in February 2006 was
so far been discovered in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern no infected wild bird. In the turkey fattening there was increased death rates since the
beginning of the month, which would have increased in the past few days,
the President of the Friedrich-Loeffler Institute (FLI), Thomas
Mettenleiter dpa said. The FLI is the Federal Research Institute for Animal Health.
As the causative agent of avian influenza or bird flu came in the stock, is therefore unclear. The FLI have four experts sent in the place, the search for the causes. Finally, a highly contagious H5 Virus in 2008 occurred in Germany. "We must assume that any highly pathogenic virus can also be a hazard to humans," Mettenleiter said.
For the H5N8 pathogen transmission to humans had not yet been observed -
not even in South Korea, where previously hundreds of thousands of
animals had to be killed. But experts see no reason to panic. Backhaus warned, however, that it must be crucial to ensure that the virus does not jump to mammals. Within a radius of 50 kilometers around the outbreak of the bird immediately have to stay in the stable.
Even pet owners in the vicinity of water resting places for migratory
birds on lakes and along the Baltic coast to bring their chickens, ducks
or geese in the barn. In the
words of the District Veterinary Officer Holger Vogel Anklam in the area
in which animals have in the stall last, beyond the circle of
Vorpommern-Greifswald addition to the Uckermark (Brandenburg), the
Mecklenburg Lake District and to Poland. - Handelsblatt. [Translated]
Thousands of dead fish found in a canal in Valencia, Spain
Large die off of fish in Indian River Lagoon, Florida, United States
The Indian River Lagoon system is experiencing a major fish die-off.
Florida Today (http://on.flatoday.com/1tq0TNj ) reported Saturday that dead fish are fouling canals around Merritt Island.
Among the dead fish are catfish, flounder, mullet, pinfish and red drum.
A
spokesman for the Fish and Wildlife Research Institute in St.
Petersburg told the newspaper that a recent water test on Merritt Island
found no evidence of a harmful algae bloom or raw sewage. Biologists
continue to monitor the fish kills.
The latest fish die-off is happening in an area from Satellite Beach to Fort Pierce.
Researchers have been testing the tissues of hardhead catfish but haven't reached conclusions about a cause of the die-off.
"You're
talking about a wide span of area," Doug Adams, assistant research
scientist with the institute's Melbourne field office, said of the
hardhead catfish deaths. "We've seen these hardhead catfish die-offs in
the past. We've even seen them Florida-wide."
In 2005, scientists
suspected a toxic algae similar to red tide caused thousands of baby
hardhead catfish to die near Rockledge and Melbourne.
The same algae bloomed in Port St. Lucie the previous year and killed several species of fish.
During
the summer of 1996, thousands of hardheads floated up dead in the
lagoon and statewide. Biologists never identified the exact cause, but
suspected a virus that killed only hardheads. - The Republic.
20 Tons of fish washing up, 'agonizing and dying' is a 'mystery and concern' in Guanabara Bay, Brazil
20 tons of shads, a species of fish, have been found agonizing and dying in the bay. (Photos: AFP)
The
unusual situation is harshly affecting the local fisherpeople’s life,
while authorities have finally started an investigation to find the
cause of the problem.
For reasons
as yet unknown, huge numbers of fish from the same species have been
dying on the tourist beaches of Ganabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
over the past month, an unprecedented situation that is scaring the
population.
The municipal cleaning service have found 20 tons of
shads, a particular species of fish similar to sardines and herrings, as
well as four sea turtles.
Surprisingly, “the tests proved that it
is not a matter of chemical or toxic contamination of water,” declared
the oceanograph David Zee to AFP, from the State University of Rio de
Janeiro (UERJ).
The fisherpeople have complained of being forced
to buy fish to resell, as their weekly wage has been cut by more than
half, and have blaimed the activities of the giant national oil company,
Petrobras.
“The fisherman aren't going to poison the water as
it's their lifeline. This is not because of fishermen. Why are
[the authorities] not checking the activities of the petrochemical
industry? Why are they not checking the refineries? It is very clear
that we are witnessing a crime against the environment. What we need to
know is who is responsible and what products are being used," said
Alexandre Anderson, president of the Men & Women of the Sea
Association to AFP.
Two years ago, the Brazilian general attorney
accused the Petrobras company of environmental crime, for contaminating
the bay and one of the rivers.
As only one species seems to be
involved so far, another possible cause would be thermal pollution: the
water would be too warm, therefore diminishing the solvability of
oxygen, something the shads are very sensitive to, explained Zee.
According to the scientist, this phenomenon would be aggravated by the
fact that the circulation and change of water is more difficult in this
part of the bay.
Five specimens of shads have been sent for
examination on Tuesday to the department of biology of the UFRJ, and the
results should be known within the next week. - Telesur.
Tons of fish die along several miles of the River Aumance in France
In crossing Hedgehog, a stench rises from the waters of the Aumance, whose bottom is littered with dead fish. There, at the dam, bubbling froth ... - The Mountain
While
a new set of government measures announced is to "curb rising cost of
living," the waters of the Au- mance are victims of a new pollution.
Once again, the waters have been polluted Aumance at the beginning of November.
In July already, between Neuville and Cosne-Allier, hundreds of pounds
of fish were destroyed, but this time the disaster is greater. Indeed, for several days, about eight kilometers from Cosne-Allier, to
the deck of Hollow at Hedgehog, "large pieces and small fry were victims
of water contamination," as stated Centre-Matin newspaper, in its issue of Tuesday, November 10. Naturally, the fishing company Aumance Roach, by its president, Jean
Pichard, has once again moved to "the disastrous turn was taking the
situation".
The samples were taken, for the purposes of analysis and the gendarmerie Hedgehog was seized of the matter.
But the first experiments performed using reagents used to assume "that
the poisoning was caused by ammonia from industrial residues." And the damage would be several tons of fish.
Rugby:. ASF-Commentry Montluçonnais Stadium in a friendly
part of the cut-Albert Legrand, first name, a friendly match away in
the city of Blacksmiths, ASF Commentry, Auvergne current leader of the
championship, the Montluçonnais stage, resident of the second division. If the first were full, the latter lined a mixed team. They imposed on the score of 24-9, scoring eight tries, none of which transformed (test worth three points at the time). The Commentryens entering, for their part, a test, a drop and a penalty. Salon des Amis des Arts: an award for Jean Bougret The seventeenth Fair Friends of the Arts, held in the conference room of City Hall, closed its doors and, as usual, the counting of the vote. Visitors took place for the Prize of the public. This distinction has returned this year to Jean Bougret for his painting "La Halte Gypsies." He beat Lucien Mandosse Roland Houot-Pierre and Laloire Auberger. - La Montagne. [Translated]
Thousands of dead fish, crabs, shrimp, eels suddenly die in a river in Pangkajene, Indonesia
KOMPAS.com/IKA FITRIANA
The
last two days, since Saturday (11/08/2014) through Sunday (11/09/2014),
residents on the banks of the River Pangkajene, Pangkajene District,
Islands, South Sulawesi, shocked by the rare natural occurrence. Fish,
shrimp, crabs, eels, and creatures of the main river that divides the
city districts within 56 km north of Makassar, the capital of South
Sulawesi province, floating dead in the water. At the mouth of the river, Like a natural phenomenon of fish poisoning occurs around 13:00 pm Saturday."Pas
bonang water (tidal)" said Endang (35), a housewife in the village of
Toli-Toli, Tekonglabbua, Pangkajene, Pangkep Saturday (11/09/2014). Meanwhile,
Bachtiar Mattoangaing who lived in the village about 3 km from the
river mouth Pangkajene, see for the incident on Saturday at about 17:20
pm."When the rain runs, shrimp shrimp rose all, jump to the edge," he said. Until Sunday morning, not unlike the river Pangkajene harvest fish pond again.The
fish are usually caught with a fishing line, nets, or nets since
yesterday afternoon, just caught with a bucket, hand, or glove that is
created. "I've
been 60 years old born and raised in the village of Solo, but only this
time the fish rose all, as requested arrested," said Zainuddi, of
Hamlet Solo, Bucinri Village, Bungoro, at the western end of the river
estuary Pangkajene on Sunday (9/11 / 2014) morning. Zain is working as a fisherman at the mouth of this river, since last Saturday, did not go to sea.He
and dozens of neighbors, enough to provide a simple nets to catch the
tiger prawn, mud crab, grouper, baramundi, and other estuary fish. He
claims this natural phenomenon in his favor, but he is concerned, after
this disaster, he would lose the eye pencabariannya for a long time."If the big fish are floating, this blessing, but this was a baby fish and Ambari (ebi) also die all," he said. Kekahawatiran also experienced fisherman Hasan (54) and Amir (42).Tolo-Toli
village residents, Tekolabbua village, district Pangkajene, Pangekp is
also 30 years since the last of their livelihood on fish catches in the
river. "Maybe
people who live in cities Mattoanging, Tumampua, and Jagong happy,
because they are servants and merchants, but our life of these fishermen
fish in the river," said Hasan, owner of butterflyfish shrimp in his
backyard. - Kompas. [Translated]
