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Water Moves to Front Burner at Texas Capitol

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Weather.com - Matthew Tresaugue/The Houston Chronicle, 10/15/12

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It has been dry enough in Texas that water may be, finally, at the fore of the legislative session that convenes in January.

House Speaker Joe Straus said Friday the state's water supply will be among his priorities after years of inaction by lawmakers. In the previous session, the House balked at two bills intended to create the first permanent funding source for a new round of reservoirs, pipelines and other projects to avoid grave shortages in 2060.

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More than 100 small earthquakes shake Spanish Springs

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News 4 - Ashley Cullins, 10/16/12

RENO, Nev. (KRNV & MyNews4.com) -- Some rattling and rolling in the area has earthquake experts on alert. In the past week more than 100 small earthquakes have shaken the earth beneath Spanish Springs.

So far they've been too small to feel, but quake experts want you to know they're happening. There's no reason to panic - but it's a good reminder to make sure you're prepared.

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Klyuchevskoy volcano erupts in Kamchatka

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Source: The Extinction Protocol, 10/15/12

October 15, 2012 – KAMCHATKA – The Klyuchevskoy volcano, the highest active volcano in Eurasia, has started erupting in Kamchatka, in the Russian Far East. The luminescence over the volcano summit is evidence that glowing lava is flowing in the crater. The volcano may start blowing out ash any moment now. The Level of Concern Colour Code has been raised to Yellow, which is a potential danger warning for aircraft. The giant volcano last erupted from September 2009 to December 2010, and it began to again wake up in June this year. Klyuchevskoy volcano is 4,750 meters above sea. –VOR

Colombia’s Cerro Machín volcano rattled by more tremors – volcanic swarms reported Iceland, US, Canary Islands

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Source: The Extinction Protocol, 10/15/12

October 15, 2012 – COLOMBIA - According to the Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of Manizales, an earthquake measuring 2.6 on the Richter scale occurred yesterday at 11:54 am. The statement also notes that the incident “is associated with rock fracturing within the volcanic edifice.” The volcano-tectonic earthquake was presented to the southeast of the main dome at a depth of 12.33 miles.

 

Although the movement was felt in the district Tapias, rural Ibagué, Eduardo Rodríguez, director of the Departmental Committee for Risk Management, confirmed that no emergencies have been reported so far. The Cerro Machin volcano alert remains yellow. There have been three earthquakes reported in the vicinity of the volcano within a week.

 

Latest Volcanic Activity

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El Hierro volcano (Canary Islands) activity update: small earthquake swarms

Source: Volcano Discovery - By T, 10/15/12

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A new small swarm of small quakes (10 so far) has started this morning under the center of the island. The earthquakes are located at about 10 km depth.

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Volcanic activity world-wide 13-14 October 2012

Source: Volcano Discovery - By T, 10/14/12

Physicists say there may be a way to prove that we live in a computer simulation

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Source: io9.com - George Dvorsky, 10/10/12

Back in 2003, Oxford professor Nick Bostrom suggested that we may be living in a computer simulation. In his paper, Bostrom offered very little science to support his hypothesis — though he did calculate the computational requirements needed to pull off such a feat. And indeed, a philosophical claim is one thing, actually proving it is quite another. But now, a team of physicists say proof might be possible, and that it's a matter of finding a cosmological signature that would serve as the proverbial Red Pill from the Matrix. And they think they know what it is.

According to Silas Beane and his team at the University of Bonn in Germany, a simulation of the universe should still have constraints, no matter how powerful. These limitations, they argue, would be observed by the people within the simulation as a kind of constraint on physical processes.

Walmart Strike Memo Reveals Confidential Management Plans

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Huff Post - Christina Wilkie and Alice Hines, 10/13/12

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Walmart employees strike outside a store in Pico Rivera, Calif., on Oct. 4. (aurelijosebarrera.com)

Walmart launched a large-scale response this week to a series of unprecedented labor strikes, according to a confidential document obtained by The Huffington Post.

The seven-page internal memo, issued Oct. 8, is intended for salaried employees only, and contains instructions on how to respond to strikes by hourly workers that spread to 28 Walmart stores in 12 cities earlier this week. The strikes were the first by Walmart retail employees in the company’s 50-year history.

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Giant Eyeball Washes Up on Pompano Beach, Florida

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And I mean GIANT! Look at this thing! Is it from a whale? We’ll have to wait for that answer.

ST. PETERSBURG (FOX 13)
A giant eyeball found on the east coast of Florida, is a real-life fish story that’s fascinating the world. They’re still studying it over near Pompano Beach, but very soon it’ll be on the way to St. Petersburg, to the main research hub of the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission.They’ve gotten calls from England, from Germany — it seems the whole world’s got their eye on the giant eyeball. The eye-popping photographs have folks around the world asking who or what does that thing belong to?

“It was round in the sand,” said Gino Covacci, who found the giant eye while walking on the beach Wednesday. “I just gave him a kick and it looked at me and I said, ‘Wait a minute, this is an eyeball!’ Mama Mia!”

“It’s kinda between the size of a baseball and a softball,” said Kevin Baxter, who is with the Florida Fish & Wildlife Research Institute in St. Petersburg, where the eye will eventually be studied.

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