NASA Scientists Build First-Ever Wide-Field X-ray Imager

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NASA.gov - 2/07/13, Lori Keesey

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This Black Brant IX rocket carried two instruments designed to study charge exchange, a physical phenomenon that occurs when the solar wind collides with Earth's exosphere and neutral gas in interplanetary space. Credit: NASA

Three NASA scientists teamed up to develop and demonstrate NASA's first wide-field-of-view soft X-ray camera for studying "charge exchange," a poorly understood phenomenon that occurs when the solar wind collides with Earth's exosphere and neutral gas in interplanetary space.

The unique collaboration involved heliophysics, astrophysics and planetary science divisions at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and resulted in the first successful demonstration of the Sheath Transport Observer for the Redistribution of Mass (STORM) instrument and a never-before-flown X-ray focusing technology called lobster-eye optics.

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15 Songs Inspired by Weather, Nature

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Weather.com - 2/08/13, Jess Baker

'Here Comes the Sun'

'Here Comes the Sun' is among the trifecta of George Harrison's Beatles' classics, along with 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' and 'Something.' (Image: John Pratt/Keystone/Getty Images)

Songwriters explore the world around them, and the power and mystique of weather - and nature - is often something from which our favorite lyricists draw inspiration.

 

 

 

 

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Blizzard alert: Northeast snowstorm could be among the worst of all time

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February 8, 2013 – BOSTON, MA – A crippling and potentially historic winter storm barreled toward the Northeast on Thursday, threatening tens of millions of people with 2 feet of snow. Boston canceled school and braced for one of its worst blizzards of all time. Airlines encouraged fliers to change their plans and get out of the way. There were already delays of more than two hours at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, where tangles can snarl air traffic across the country, and hundreds of flights were canceled. The culprits were a so-called clipper system moving through the Upper Midwest and a low-pressure system headed for the waters off New England. When they converge, probably late Friday, they are expected to sock the region with its heaviest snow in at least two years, and perhaps much longer. “When this hits, it’s going to come down very hard,” said Tom Niziol, a meteorologist for The Weather Channel. “This is something we haven’t seen in a while, particularly in New England.”

State of disaster declared on Santa Cruz Islands, as earthquake swarm continues

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Source: The Extinction Protocol - 2/08/13

February 8, 2013 – SANTA CRUZ, ISLS - The Government today has officially declared a State of Disaster for Santa Cruz Islands in Temotu Province following Wednesday’s deadly 8.0 magnitude quake and subsequent tsunami that claimed lives and property. The Minister for Environment, Climate Change, Disaster Management and Meteorology, Hon Bradley Tovusia made the declaration following a decision reached by the National Disaster Council on February 7.

 

The National Disaster Council has satisfied itself that the logistical challenge inherent in responding to the disaster in Temotu means that support has delayed departing Honiara to reach the affected population. This challenge coupled with the number of dead already reported, the huge disruption to normal functioning in the province and that the capacity at the local, provincial and national levels to deal with it alone has been exceeded there has led to the NDC recommending a declaration of disaster be made. –Scoop

RBS investment chief John Hourican to resign and waive £4m bonus

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The Telegraph - 2/06/13, By Helia Ebrahimi, and Harry Wilson

The head of Royal Bank of Scotland’s investment banking arm is set to give up a bonus pot worth £4m as he resigns from the lender over its involvement in Libor-rigging.

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John Hourican is expected to leave the bank at the end of the month, with a successor to be announced in due course Photo: Getty Images
 

John Hourican, chief executive of markets and international banking, will leave the bank with the minimum pay-off to which he is entitled – a year’s basic salary of £700,000 – as he becomes the most senior executive at the taxpayer-backed lender to leave his job in the wake of the rate-rigging scandal.

Bangladesh politician jailed for war crimes

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Aljazeera.com - 2/05/13

Abdul Qader Molla, senior Jamaat-e-Islami party leader, sentenced to life for crimes against humanity during 1971 war.

Activists from Mollah's party clashed with police in the capital Dhaka following the announcement of the verdict
 

A Bangladesh war-crimes tribunal has sentenced a senior leader of the country's biggest Islamist party to life in prison, the second verdict in trials that have reopened wounds about the country's independence war and sparked riots.

 Abdul Qader Mollah, 64, was found guilty on Tuesday of charges including murder, rape, torture and arson during Bangladesh's war to break away from Pakistan in 1971.

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Peregrine’s Wasendorf Gets 50 Years for Theft of Millions

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Bloomberg.com - 1/31/13, By Karen Gullo & Edvard Pettersson

Russell Wasendorf Sr., the founder of the bankrupt commodities firm Peregrine Financial Group Inc., was sentenced to 50 years in prison for what prosecutors said was a theft of more than $215 million from customers.

Wasendorf, 64, was sentenced today in federal court in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Acting U.S. Attorney Sean Berry said in a statement. The financier used a printer, software and a post office box to create false bank statements and other documents and hide his 20-year embezzlement starting in the early 1990s, prosecutors said.

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Djwhal Khul ~ Chinese New Year And Mardi Gras

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Terri Newlon | January 24 2013

Djwhal Khul here. Tashi Delek.

Alright. We have Chinese New Year on the New Moon. It’s the year of the Black Water Snake, it can be quite a prosperous year for many. You can set your intent towards that energy and know that it will require some changes.

What is being called for now is to actively change self, so self-improvement, correcting wrong doings, working in the world from a higher vibration, responding to situations with more mastery, etc. And that is the true guide to prosperity there.

We will also have Mardi Gras and the vibration under the current influence of Jupiter energy, that is also very prosperous. The energy on the inner planes around Mardi Gras looks very festive, vibrant.

Again probably a more appropriate time to make New Year’s resolutions right around Mardi Gras, that day and the next day.

So vibrationally think about how you’re putting yourself forward in this New Year and what you want to receive as an outcome and what you are willing to do to achieve those.

DEEPAK CHOPRA FOR EARTH STAR NETWORK! HELP BRING IN AN AMBASSADOR FOR THE REAL LIGHTWORKERS

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DEEPAK CHOPRA FOR EARTH STAR NETWORK!  HELP BRING IN AN AMBASSADOR FOR THE REAL LIGHTWORKERS OF THE WORLD AND CO-CREATE OUR SHARED DREAM OF A HIGHER REALITY 

 

In August 2012 Earth Star Network (ESN) started gathering together lightworkers of every kind, from writers and musicians through to architects and graffiti artists, with the message that they would bring in the much anticipated change of the new age through working together and being love in action.  In November we set it as our collective intention to find a public ambassador to represent us all and in December 2012, Deepak Chopra published his own dream to be the representative of a network of "creativity and love in action".  ESN-ers, Unity in Oneness pledgers and other lightworking friends - here we have someone resonant with our own dream - let's truly begin to use our collective energy to see if we can bring this synchronicity into an exciting manifestation! 

 

 

 

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