Muslim Leaders Want Mecca to Be Center of World Time Zones
April 22, 2008
Greenwich Mean Time GMT could be replaced by “Mecca Time,” if a group of Muslim leaders get their way.
At the conference, “Mecca, the Center of the Earth, Theory and Practice,” Muslim scientists and clerics called for the change, arguing that the holy city in Saudi Arabia is the center of the Earth and should be the reference point for world time, not Greenwich, England, the British Broadcasting Corp. reports.
One geologist at the Qatar conference said Meccas longitude is perfectly aligned with magnetic north and should therefore replace the English city, which has been measuring time zones since 1884, the BBC reports.
Attendees of the conference also reviewed the “Mecca Watch,” an invention by a French Muslim which reportedly rotates counter-clockwise and displays Meccas direction from any point in the world, the BBC said.
The conference is part of a trend called “Ijaz al-Koran” or “miraculous nature of the holy text,” which tries to find precedents for modern science from passages in the Koran, the BBC reports.
But its critics say Ijaz al-Koran confuses spiritual truth — which depends on constant faith — with empirical truth, which depends on ever-changing science, the BBC said.
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Bizarre Flooding Continues in Bellevue, Ohio
April 21, 2008
Beautiful weather, no river, no stream and yet hundreds of residents are flooded here.
No sudden thunderstorms or drenching rains can explain it. For some reason, the earth in Bellevue continues to heave up millions of gallons of water to the surface.
Against gravity and against logic, the flooding continues day after day. Homes and barns suddenly turned into islands trapped in muddy water.
No one knows why it began or when it will end. It is a disaster for every homeowner for miles around Bellevue. The residents north of town on state route 269 have especially been hit hard.
Mike Willis and his wife, Deb, are exhausted from battling the flood waters in their home.
“It’s been 24/ 7 of filling the pumps with gasoline every two hours,” Willis said. “It’s been our worst nightmare.”
A few hundred yards down the road, Lenora Adams has a stack of sandbags around her house.
“Right now it’s like we’re just maintaining,” Adams said. “There is not much else we can do but keep fighting.”
Neighbors need boots just to walk next door. The sump pumps in many basements are barely staying ahead of the upwelling flood waters.
Dean Instone has already lost the battle. The wooden stairs to his basement are now floating in six feet of water. Dean and his wife have been forced to live with family members in Bowling Green, Ohio. He returns every day to check on his home.
“It’s not good,” Instone said. “It’s been really tough for my wife. She’s in bad shape.
“I’m waiting for my basement walls to collapse any day now.”
Neighbors have volunteered the use of heavy equipment to try and dig a channel in the backyard fields that have become muddy lakes. So far, nothing has worked.
Because there are no lakes, rivers or streams nearby, none of the residents have flood insurance.
Scientists believe that underground artesian springs in the area normally drain toward Sandusky Bay and Lake Erie. There are large artesian springs at Miller’s Pond, Green Spring, and Castalia, Ohio.
Midwest Quakes Continue - Another Earthquake Near Mt. Carmel Illinois
April 21, 2008
Another earthquake measuring 4.5 has struck near Mt. Carmel Illinois.
Earthquake List for Map Centered at 38°N, 88°W
Perfect Storm - Food Crisis Grips Globe
April 21, 2008
Hunger smashed in the front gate of Haitis presidential palace. Hunger poured on to the streets, burning tyres and taking on soldiers and the police. Hunger sent the countrys prime minister packing.
Haitis hunger, that has become fiercer than ever in recent days as global food prices spiral out of reach, rising by as much as 45% since the end of 2006 and turning staples such as beans, corn and rice into closely guarded treasures.
Saint Louis Meriskas children ate two spoonfuls of rice apiece as their only meal and then went without any food the following day. His eyes downcast, his own stomach empty, the unemployed father said: “They look at me and say Papa, Im hungry, and I have to look away. Its humiliating and it makes you angry.”
That anger is palpable across the globe. The food crisis is not only being felt among the poor but is also eroding the gains of the working and middle classes, sowing volatile levels of discontent and putting new pressures on fragile governments.
In Cairo, Egypt, the military is being put to work baking bread as rising food prices threaten to become the spark that ignites wider anger at a repressive government. In Burkina Faso and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa, food riots are breaking out as never before. In reasonably prosperous Malaysia, the ruling coalition was nearly ousted by voters who cited food and fuel price increases as their main concerns.
“Its the worst crisis of its kind in more than 30 years,” said Jeffrey D Sachs, the economist and special adviser to the UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon. “Its a big deal and its obviously threatening a lot of governments. There are a number of governments on the ropes, and I think theres more political fallout to come.”
5.2 Magnitude Earthquake Rocks Midwest
April 18, 2008
A 5.2-magnitude earthquake centered in southern Illinois rattled homes and skyscrapers across the Midwest early Friday, causing little damage but surprising residents unaccustomed to such a powerful temblor.
The quake — one of the strongest ever recorded in Illinois — occurred just before 4:37 a.m. and was centered six miles southeast of West Salem, Ill., and 45 miles west of Evansville, Ind.
Initially pegged as a 5.4 earthquake, the U.S. Geological Survey revised its estimate to give it a value of 5.2.
Two aftershocks during the next three hours measured 2.6 and a 2.5, the agency reported.
The strongest earthquake recorded in Illinois was in 1968, a 5.3-magnitude temblor centered near Dale in Hamilton County, about 75 miles southeast of St. Louis, according to the USGS. Minor damage was widespread, but there were no serious injuries or fatalities.
West Salem is in Edwards County, and dispatcher Lucas Griswold said the sheriff’s department received several calls about the earthquake but only reports of minor damage and no injuries.
Oregon Earthquake Swarm Continues To Puzzle Researchers
April 17, 2008
That’s how researchers at Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center (HMSC) are describing a swarm of earthquakes they are monitoring off the central Oregon coast, about 150 nautical miles southwest of Newport. Since April 1, they have recorded more than 600 quakes in an area not known for a high level of seismic activity.
“We’ve never seen a swarm of earthquakes in an area such as this,” said Robert Dziak, who is among the scientists from OSU using a network of underwater hydrophones to listen for the sounds of ocean floor earthquakes and other phenomena from their labs at HMSC. “We’re not certain what it means.”
A marine geologist and seismologist who works with both OSU and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Dziak called the swarm “unique” because it’s occurring in the middle of what’s known as the Juan de Fuca plate, rather than at the edges where it rubs against other such plates in the earth’s crust.
Bow Your Head, Break The Law
April 17, 2008
A federal appeals court has ruled a New Jersey high-school football coach who bowed his head while students on his team led prayer was actually breaking the law.
The decision, though, will be appealed, said John Whitehead, president of the Virginia-based civil-liberties group the Rutherford Institute.
“If this ruling is allowed to stand, it will mean that high-school teachers across the United States will have no free speech or academic freedom rights at all,” he said. “This undermines a time-honored tradition that has less to do with religion that it does athletic tradition. It’s a sad statement on our rights as Americans that schools are no longer bastions of freedom.”
The ruling came in the case involving Coach Marcus Borden.
World Population to Hit 6,666,666,666 on May 10th, 2008
April 17, 2008
The worlds population is expected to hit 6,666,666,666 on May 10th 2008.
As Australia Dries, A Global Shortage of Rice
April 17, 2008
Lindsay Renwick, the mayor of this dusty southern Australian town, remembers the constant whir of the rice mill. “It was our little heartbeat out there, tickety-tick-tickety,” he said, imitating the giant fans that dried the rice, “and now it has stopped.”
The Deniliquin mill, the largest rice mill in the Southern Hemisphere, once processed enough grain to satisfy the daily needs of 20 million people. But six long years of drought have taken a toll, reducing Australias rice crop by 98 percent and leading to the mothballing of the mill last December.
Ten thousand miles separate the mills hushed rows of oversized silos and sheds — beige, gray and now empty — from the riotous streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, but a widening global crisis unites them.
The collapse of Australias rice production is one of several factors contributing to a doubling of rice prices in the last three months — increases that have led the worlds largest exporters to restrict exports severely, spurred panicked hoarding in Hong Kong and the Philippines, and set off violent protests in countries including Cameroon, Egypt, Ethiopia, Haiti, Indonesia, Italy, Ivory Coast, Mauritania, the Philippines, Thailand, Uzbekistan and Yemen.
Drought affects every agricultural industry based here, not just rice — from sheepherding, the other mainstay in this dusty land, to the cultivation of wine grapes, the fastest-growing crop here, with that expansion often coming at the expense of rice.
Colombian Authorities Issue Volcano Warning as Nevado del Huila Erupts
April 15, 2008
Colombian authorities have issued a Volcano Warning as Nevado del Huila Erupts.
The Nevado del Huila, which is topped with a crown of ice, is Colombia’s third-highest peak at 18,484 feet. Located 170 miles southwest of Bogota, it became active again in March 2007 with a series of internal rumblings.
The Nevado del Huila volcano’s eruptions in 2007 were its first on record since Colombia was colonized by the Spanish 500 years ago.
There are about 10,000 people living in the area around the volcano.
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