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Magnitude 3.2
Region AZORES ISLANDS, PORTUGAL
Date time 2014-08-28 23:12:48.0 UTC
Location 38.20 N ; 26.60 W
Depth 1 km
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Google is developing a secret drone-delivery program called Project Wing


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All the better to eat you with... lol

Right! Haha!

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Magnitude 4.2
Region GUATEMALA
Date time 2014-08-28 22:32:49.7 UTC
Location 14.26 N ; 91.77 W
Depth 83 km
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M2.7 - 48km WNW of Circle Hot Springs Station, Alaska
2014-08-29 00:08:27 UTC
[link to earthquake.usgs.gov]

TWC Breaking ‏@TWCBreaking now
Tornado Warning for Yankton County in SD until 8:00 PM CDT [link to www.weather.com] …

China Landslide Kills Eight: Report

BEIJING: Eight people died and another 17 were left missing by a landslide in China, state media reported Thursday.

The landslide engulfed a village near Fuquan city in the southwestern province of Guizhou, the Xinhua news agency said.

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I'm not upgraded anymore. It took me a little while to find the thread. It was buried, way back at the bottom of page 2. lol

By the way, that's one ugly yellow, white and blue striped ambulance. I'm sure the kid that got hit is OK. If the pedestrian especially a child was hit and killed, it definitely would have been on your local 6 p.m. News.

Here's a picture of my breakfast this morning. Sausage, over easy eggs and potatoes, with green bell peppers.
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Texas man acquitted of murdering drunk driver who killed his sons

A Texas man was acquitted of murder this week after prosecutors failed to convince a jury that he fatally shot the drunk driver who killed his two young children in late 2012.

Attorneys for the prosecution argued that David Barajas, 32, produced a gun and then shot Jose Banda, 20, in the head in December 2012 moments after that man’s vehicle struck and killed the defendant’s two sons as they pushed the father’s stalled Ford pickup truck down an unlit road near Alvin, TX. Tests later revealed that Banda had a blood alcohol level of twice the legal limit at the time of the incident.

Banda died of a gunshot wound to the head shortly after the fatal collision, but the prosecution could not convince the jury to convict Barajas of murder.

[link to rt.com]

THAT looks delicious!!

It wasn't a child that was hit. She was maybe late teens/early 20's...

The ambulance pic I posted was a separate incident...still not sure what happened over there.

Stand-by for upgrade. : )

Magnitude 3.0
Region CENTRAL TURKEY
Date time 2014-08-29 00:19:10.4 UTC
Location 36.60 N ; 34.35 E
Depth 5 km
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Last Edited by Simple27 on 08/28/2014 11:33 PM

My bad. You just seem so concerned with your post today. So I thought maybe it was a kid. Anyways, still an ugly ambulance. It was a good breakfast. I like my eggs pretty sloppy and runny.

I thought you upgrade me last time? Thank you simple27. Below is a joke for upgrading me. Really a joke I think everybody will get a laugh at.

How many Germans does it take to change a lightbulb?
One.
Germans are efficient and not very funny.

I have been over on the Ebola thread and taking care of a sick son. 2nd week of school


Did notice this:

Warning
A fissure eruption has started north of Dynjujökull.

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Thread: Volcanic Iceland: Earthquake with magnitude M 5,2 in Þorbjörn mountain (Fagradalsfjall mountain)!!!p1492 (Page 219)

Last Edited by WhiteAngel on 08/28/2014 09:24 PM

just want to say HI!! to everyone...

hey simple a boston funny


The Devil Came Up To Boston
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WA....

Last Edited by 4thhorseman on 08/28/2014 10:42 PM

Ebola is rapidly mutating as it spreads across West Africa

For the first time, scientists have been able to follow the spread of an Ebola outbreak almost in real time, by sequencing the virus’ genome from people in Sierra Leone. The findings, published Thursday in the journal Science, offer new insights into how the outbreak started in West Africa and how fast the virus is mutating. An international team of researchers sequenced 99 Ebola genomes, with extremely high accuracy, from 78 people diagnosed with Ebola in Sierra Leone in June. The Ebola genome is incredibly simple. It has just seven genes. By comparison, we humans have about 20,000 genes. “In general, these viruses are amazing because they are these tiny things that can do a lot of damage,” says Pardis Sabeti, a computational biologist at Harvard University and the lead author of the study. Hidden inside Ebola’s tiny genome, she says, are clues to how the virus spreads among people — and how to stop it. “As soon as the outbreak happened and was reported in Guinea,” she says, “two members of my lab flew out and worked to set up the diagnostics to pick it up in Sierra Leone.” The team helped to find the first Ebola cases in Sierra Leone. They also immediately shipped diagnostic samples from the patients back to the U.S. and started sequencing the viruses’ genomes. “We had 20 people in my lab working around-the-clock,” Sabeti says. Their furious pace paid off. After just a week or so, the team had decoded gene sequences from 99 Ebola viruses. The data offered a treasure-trove of information about the outbreak. For starters, the data show that the virus is rapidly accumulating new mutations as it spreads through people. “We’ve found over 250 mutations that are changing in real time as we’re watching,” Sabeti says.

While moving through the human population in West Africa, she says, the virus has been collecting mutations about twice as quickly as it did while circulating among animals in the past decade or so. “The more time you give a virus to mutate and the more human-to-human transmission you see,” she says, “the more opportunities you give it to fall upon some [mutation] that could make it more easily transmissible or more pathogenic.” Sabeti says she doesn’t know if that’s happening yet. But the rapid change in the virus’ genome could weaken the tools researchers have to detect Ebola or, potentially, to treat patients.
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4H!!

Volcano erupts in PNG spewing ash and rock, officials say

A volcano erupted Friday in eastern Papua New Guinea, spewing rocks and ash into the air and forcing the evacuation of local communities, seismologists and reports said.

Mount Tavurvur, which destroyed the town of Rabaul when it erupted simultaneously with nearby Mount Vulcan in 1994, rumbled to life early in the morning on the tip of the island of New Britain.

"The eruption started slow and slowly developed in a Strombolian (low level) eruption with incandescent projections accompanied by explosion noises and ongoing loud roaring and rumbling noises," the Rabaul Volcanological Observatory said.

The Australian government issued a warning against travelling to the area.

"Authorities have evacuated communities close to the volcano. Residents of Rabaul town have been advised to remain indoors to avoid falling ash," it said.

more and pics!
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Oil spill in Mexico

A dying bird covered in spilled oil lies on a rock on the banks of the San Juan river in Cadereyta August 26, 2014. An oil pipeline spill that contaminated the river in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon will take months to clean up, the country's top water authority said on Thursday. The 24-inch Madero-Cadereyta pipeline, owned by national oil company Pemex, was ruptured when thieves attempted to tap into it, the company said on Sunday.

more and pics
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Brain-Eating Amoeba Found in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, Water Supply

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ugh oh!

Preliminary magnitude-5.6 earthquake strikes 80 miles south of Athens, Greece

60km (37mi) W of Adamas, Greece
121km (75mi) S of Vari, Greece
122km (76mi) S of Voula, Greece
123km (76mi) S of Kalyvia Thorikou, Greece
137km (85mi) S of Athens, Greece

[link to earthquake.usgs.gov]

Last Edited by AKObserver on 08/29/2014 12:42 AM

We shook but it was in the sea and we had a strong aftershake 2-3 minutes later. I hear the seismologist now saying that in this depth of close to 90 klm, the quakes are about the stress escaping from the crash of the tectonic plates and have little to do with surface faults.

Good thing it was so deep

Stay Safe

And in the sea! thank you!

18 Photos You Have To Look At Twice To Understand

Real-life optical illusions.

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