Sunday, April 28, 2013

Week of 4/28/13 - 5/4/13


April 28, 2013 SPACE - Comet TENAGRA: Announces the discovery of an apparently asteroidal object (discovery magnitude ~19.6)  The new comet has been designated COMET C/2013 G9 (TENAGRA).  –Astro Watch
 
April 28, 2013SANTA MONICA, CA. — A minor earthquake shook the Santa Monica Bay area at approximately 7:52 p.m. Friday, April 27. With a preliminary magnitude of 3.2, the tremor occurred roughly two miles north of El Segundo and two miles south of Marina Del Rey.
 
April 28, 2013 - 6.2 magnitude earthquake also struck the Kermadec Islands. It was the 13th major earthquake to strike the planet in the month of April
 
April 28, 2013NEW ENGLAND - Atlantic sea-surface temperatures off the U.S. Northeast coast during the second half of 2012 were the highest recorded in 150 years, according to a report released on April 25 by NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center.  It is also an amount of warming not seen in any other ocean. Warming ocean temperatures off the Northeast have meant changing distributions of some fish populations; black sea bass and summer flounder are among the species shifting northeastward. One NOAA scientist said while it’s not yet clear what these findings will mean for the Northeast Shelf ecosystem and its marine life, that ecosystem is changing. –Sports Fishing Mag

April 28, 2013CANADA - What may have been Saskatchewan's snowiest winter ever is being followed now by the coldest spring in more than a century.
 
April 29, 2013PRAGUE, CZ.A powerful explosion has hit the center of Prague, injuring at least 40 people in what initial indications suggested was a gas explosion.
 
April 29, 2013 GEOPHYSICS - Think it’s hot on the sun? Well it’s just as hot under your feet, according to new research suggesting the Earth’s core is a scorching mass of iron that’s roughly the same temperature as the sun. Scientists at France’s CEA research agency revealed their new findings Friday in a study published in the journal Science. The Earth is believed to have a solid core, consisting mainly of iron in a crystalline state. Surrounding that solid core is an outer core comprised of scorching-hot liquid. The temperature of the crystalline centre has been the subject of an enduring debate, with scientists unable to agree on how the iron might behave in the intense pressure and heat of that environment.
 
April 30, 2013AZORES - An earthquake of magnitude 6 struck in the Atlantic Ocean 38 miles east of Ponta Delgada in Portugal’s Azores archipelago on Tuesday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, but local authorities reported no immediate damage.
 
April 30, 2013ISRAEL - An Israeli aircraft attacked a motorcycle in Gaza on Tuesday, killing a man who the military said was a top militant in a shadowy al Qaeda-influenced group who had been involved in a recent rocket attack on southern Israel. It was the first deadly airstrike in Gaza since a truce was reached with Palestinian militants last November, and is the most serious test yet of the Egyptian-brokered agreement. The strike came alongside the fatal stabbing of an Israeli settler in the West Bank, the first killing by a Palestinian of an Israeli in the territory in over a year.
 
April 30, 2013 BAGHDAD - Shiite-dominated areas in southern and central Iraq were rocked Monday by car bomb explosions that killed at least 22 people and fueled fears that the country is sliding into a civil war. The violence occurred as Iraqi security forces surrounded the Sunni cities of Ramadi and Fallouja demanding that the area’s tribes hand over those responsible for killing five Iraqi soldiers over the weekend.
 
April 30, 2013SYRIATwo people were killed and 20 others were injured in northwestern Syrian province of Idlib Tuesday after warplanes dropped bags containing “strange substances,” Al-Jazeera reported, saying the suspicious material was apparently chemical weapons. Videos uploaded by the Qatari news network show casualties having difficulties breathing treated in makeshift hospitals.
 
April 30, 2013 - Jet Stream in chaos: Spring has gotten off to a colder- and snowier-than-average start in parts of the United States, particularly in the eastern Rockies and Upper Midwest. Duluth, Minn., for example, has seen 51 inches (130 centimeters) of snow this April. That’s not only the most snow the town has seen in any April — breaking the old mark of 31.6 inches (80 cm) — but the most snow the town has received in any month, ever, according to government records. As of Monday (April 22), a total of 995 snowfall records have also been broken so far this month, according to AccuWeather.
 
April 30, 2013 NORTH KOREANorth Korea appears to increase its cyber-activity in step with its controversial nuclear program, while the United States boosts its own programs and Chinese espionage attacks continue. Nation-state attacks through the Internet continue to escalate, with a massive surge in cyber-reconnaissance activity appearing to come from North Korea at the same time the country ratcheted up its nuclear rhetoric, according to security experts.
 
May 1, 2013ICELAND - The famous Icelandic volcano is showing further signs that indicate an eruption could occur in a near future. Significant rapid inflation, concentrated in the northern part of the volcano, has been detected since early April and likely represents accumulation of rising magma underneath. Already in mid March this year, an earthquake swarm, volcanic tremor and deformation caused an alert, because it was believed that this was caused by rapid movement of magma under the volcano.
 
May 1, 2013 KASHMIR“The quake happened at 12.27 p.m. and measured 5.8 on the Richter scale. The epicenter was near Kishtwar town at the Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh border region,” R.S. Dattatreya, director, Department of Seismology, India Meteorological Department (IMD), said. “It is a moderate tremor in Delhi and other northern regions.
May 4, 2013 - Iran -Giant ‘mutant’ rats are being hunted down by a team of snipers.
Although Tehran has had a decades-long struggle with rats, the problem seems to have grown to epic proportions. Rodents – estimated to number millions – have been flushed out of their nests by melting snow and some reportedly weigh as much as 5kg. Authorities have imported 45tonnes of rat poison but have had to ramp up their efforts.
‘They are now bigger and look different,’ he said, according to the International Business Times. ‘These are changes that normally take millions of years of evolution. They have jumped from 60g to 5kilos, and cats are now smaller than them.’

Thursday, April 25, 2013

April 25, 2013 Answer to Prayer

Answer to prayers.

Kevin has not smoked for over 15 days.

Kevin went to church at the Baptist Church with a friend last night.

Kelli loves going to Ignite and is becoming very active with the youth group.

Christopher is doing so well in school and will follow Your will.

Karen and Scott are happy and content.

Thank You Lord for blessing my family with favor and prosperity.  You are a mighty God!

Sunday, April 21, 2013

April 21-27, 2013

Week of April 21 - 27, 2013

April 21, 2013 NORTH KOREA - North Korea has moved two short-range missile launchers to its east coast, apparently indicating it is pushing ahead with preparations for a test launch.

April 22, 2013ARGENTINA - Thousands of residents of the Argentine city of Santiago del Estero in the early hours of Sunday morning caught a glimpse of a suspected meteor that lit up the sky. 

April 22, 2013 – MEXICO – A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck western Mexico.

 April 22, 2013 – INDONESIA  - Moderate earthquake near Dieng, Volcano, Java, Indonesia.  

April 23, 2013 – CHINA – The death toll in China’s earthquake rose to 193 today with over 12,000 injured in the catastrophic disaster, as rescue work was hampered by rain and 3,000 aftershocks.

April 24, 2013 – CHINA – A new bird flu strain that has killed 22 people in China is “one of the most lethal” of its kind and transmits more easily to humans than another strain that has killed hundreds.

April 24, 2013 – AFGHANISTAN – A moderate earthquake hit Afghanistan Wednesday and its tremors were felt in Kabul, Islamabad and as far away as New Delhi. The U.S. Geological Survey said the 5.6-magnitude earthquake was 65 kilometers deep.

April 24, 2013 – PAPUA, NG – The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center says there is no tsunami threat for Hawaii after a strong earthquake near Papua New Guinea. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the 6.5-magnitude quake struck at 1:21.

April 25, 2013LATVIA - Set in Dviete, Latvia, near the banks of the Daugava River, there is a mysterious whirlpool churning -- and destroying -- all that enters. Huge chunks of ice? Gone. Floating islands of debris? Annihilated. “Swallowing everything dragged towards its direction,” reads the description by Jānis Astičs, “this monstrous whirlpool looks as if a plug has been pulled from the ground beneath.” Astičs isn't too far off in his analysis, actually. While most whirlpools in nature occur as a result of fast moving currents meeting one another in opposite directions (often caused by ocean tides), the phenomenon in the video shares a lot in common with a draining bathtub. Indeed, a longer version of the same video shows the mysterious “monstrous whirlpool” in Latvia has been formed by water from the swollen river flowing into an inlet on the upstream side of a bridge. All of the debris is funneled under the road on which spectators are standing and flows downstream.

April 25, 2013ECUADOR - A landslide swept into a village in northern Ecuador, burying homes and killing at least 14 people, authorities said Wednesday. “There were 14 people killed in a landslide in Tabete” civil defense reported on Twitter, of the town near the Colombian border. After days of heavy rain, the landslide buried homes in tonnes of earth and debris in the town located in Esmeraldas province, said Mayor Ernesto Estupinan of nearby Esmeraldas city.

April 25, 2013 - The Israeli air force shot down a drone approaching the nation's coast today, the Israel Defense Forces said.  "An unmanned aircraft (UAV) was identified approaching the coast of Israel and was successfully intercepted by IAF aircraft five nautical miles off the coast of Haifa," the IDF said in a statement. "This is the second time a UAV has been intercepted in Israeli air space within the past seven months."

Saturday, April 20, 2013

Week ending 4/20/13

Today is 4/20/13, This week in the world:

1. The Boston Marathon bombing occurred.
2. Bombs exploded at the JFK Library in Boston.
3. Letters with poison were sent to Obama and a republican senator.
4. A fertilizer plant exploded in West, TX.
5. Pakistan/Iran boarder was hit by a 7.8 earthquake.
6. An MIT security guard was killed by the Boston bombers.
7. China was hit by a 6.6 earthquake with at least 102 killed.
8. Boy Scouts are discussing and will be voting on accepting gays.
9. A 5-yr old girl was tortured and raped for 2 days in New Delhi,
    India.
10. A Minnesota hospital found remains from a stillborn baby
      wrapped in linens at the hospital morgue and was discovered in
      the laundry with another stillborn's remains.
11. Dr. Gosnell, an abortionist, is charged with killing 7 babies who
      were born alive and also over medicating and killing a 41 year
      old refugee. Mainstream media has not been covering this trial.
12. A Museum of History of Polish Jews was opened this week and
      greatly funded by 82 year old Taube who lives in California but
      was born in Poland.  
13.  George Beverly Shea, singer with Billy Graham, died at 104
       this week. 
14. Massive  hot water geyser erupts in parking lot in Russia.
15. A massive snow storm hits the US midwest.
16.  Illinois has excessive flooding.
17. A large sinkhole swallows 3 cars in Chicago.
18. A 6.8 magniture earthquake strikes the northern coast of New
      Guinea.