Earthquake swarms and a region-wide rotten egg smell recently reminded Southern California residents they live next to an active volcano field, tiny though it may be. At the time, scientists said the phenomena did not reflect changes in the magma chamber below the Salton Sea. But now, researchers may need to revise estimates of the potential hazard posed by the Salton Buttes — five volcanoes at the lake’s southern tip.
The buttes last erupted between 940 and 0 B.C., not 30,000 years ago, as previously thought, a new study detailed online Oct. 15 in the journal Geology reports. The new age — which makes these some of California’s youngest volcanoes — pushes the volcanic quintuplets into active status. The California Volcano Observatory, launched in February by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), already lists the area as a high threat for future blasts.
New Zealand scientists investigating an active undersea volcano that erupted three months ago have discovered significant changes to the seafloor. Niwa research ship Tangaroa has mapped the Kermadec volcano that erupted 800km northeast of Tauranga on July 19, producing a pumice raft the size of Canterbury. The eruption was strong enough to breach the ocean surface from a depth of 1100 meters.
It was captured by a Nasa satellite, and a Royal New Zealand Air Force Orion patrol spotted the pumice on their way back home from Samoa. Niwa’s volcanologist Dr Richard Wysoczanski, who is leading the 23-day expedition, said there had been volcanic activity every year for the past decade, but this was the largest by far. “It is a substantial eruption. Had it occurred on land in New Zealand, it would have been a bit of a disaster.”
The Following are recommendations as the release of all the old programming is coming up to the surface for many. Make sure you breathe, Be Patient with yourself and with others and stay focused in the Present Moment. This is going to be uncomfortable for Some as this clearing takes place. Let us Love Each Other and Support One Another
Nine more banks have received subpoenas in connection with a probe into alleged widespread interest-rate manipulation by banks, a person familiar with the investigation said.
The probe, a joint effort by the offices of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen, could lead to civil enforcement action related to breaches of antitrust and fraud laws.
Urgent Press Release: Michael Tellinger -- founder of the UBUNTU Liberation Movement and the UBUNTU political party in South Africa. Organised professional hit squad attacked their legal adviser Raymondt Dicks, his son and a friend, in Johannesburg on 20 October 2012, and kept them hostage and tied up, face down on the floor for 3 hours at gunpoint, while going through all his legal files and evidence gathered in favour of exposing criminal activity by the banks. The only legal document missing were the files related to Tellinger's case, the UBUNTU Party and NewERA -- Scott Cundill's non-profit organisation to help people against the abuse of banks. Michael reveals a sinister attempt by corporations that include the banksters who can only be defined as organised crime syndicates, that seem to use rogue groups within the SA Police Services as hit squads to take people hostage at gun point, intimidate people and steal sensitive documents, computers and other items that may implicate such corporations in financial fraudulent activity and be exposed in the courts. Until recently the courts have ignored our attempts to bring the banksters' corrupt action to light, but in the past month -- during October 2012, we have had a string of small but critical victories in the form of judgements against banks. These have now set a precedent for future judgments and with our own actions against the banksters together with many other people around SA and the world, we expect this to become an rapid exponential expose of their criminal activity against the good, honest, but mostly ignorant and gullible people of the world. www.ubuntuparty.org.za
The following is significant because it is an MD who is a medium who is giving a message from a deceased RN to his widow wife, who is also an RN. We all worked in the OR together, and are friends. Here is the story:
It is not enough to say that we are happy, if we are still suppressing deep or unconscious sadness, resentment, fear, trauma, guilt, or any number of other negative emotions. It is not enough to just say they are gone if they are not completely gone.
There are techniques that can help us to release past feelings even if we are not fully aware of those troubling feelings.
One way is to notice when one is upset with someone else. This kind of upset means that the person is somehow activating unconscious pain – or it may be that we perceive their pain and feel responsible for it.
Puppies. Kittens. Fat babies. These are the cute things in life we love to coo about, but who knew that the mere sight of them could heighten our mental skills? A new study by Japanese researchers now shows there are more benefits to looking at pictures of these universal delights than just getting a case of the warm and fuzzies. Afterwards, we concentrate better.
Such is the “Power of Kawaii”, as a paper documenting the research is appropriately titled. The Japanese word “kawaii” means cute. The paper was published in the online edition of the U.S. journal Plos One on Thursday. Through three separate experiments a team of scientists from Hiroshima University showed that people showed higher levels of concentration after looking at pictures of puppies or kittens.
GUATEMALA CITY – Chanting and waving signs to protest high electricity prices, thousands of unarmed indigenous demonstrators blockaded a highway in western Guatemala, forcing a standoff with police. Two truckloads of soldiers arrived and gunfire erupted, killing eight protesters and wounding 34.
What happened next after the Oct. 4 incident was virtually unprecedented in a country scarred by decades of civil war as well as violence against its indigenous majority and years of impunity for its powerful military. Authorities actually investigated the violence, and the alleged perpetrators were arrested.
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RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian authorities have arrested the chief executive of a bank engulfed in an accounting scandal and detained him in prison, a rare step that has focused attention on the weaknesses emerging among an increasing number of small banks there.
Large banks hold exceptional sway in Brazil and are still viewed as solid institutions, even as their profits have declined recently.
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