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.
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California In For Devastating Earthquake Within 30 Years - The Big One
April 14, 2008
A strong and potentially deadly earthquake is virtually certain to strike on one of California’s major seismic faults with a magnitude of at least 6.7 within the next 30 years, scientists said Monday in releasing the first official forecast of statewide earthquake probabilities.
By their calculations the probability of such a strong and damaging quake hitting somewhere the Golden state is now more than 99 percent.
A much more damaging quake of magnitude of 7.5 or greater is at least 46 percent likely to hit on one of California’s restless web of active fault systems within the same three decades, but probably in the southern part of the state, the team of federal and state earthquake scientists warned.
The new report by the team of federal and state geologists, seismologists and geophysicists does not significantly change the current probability estimates for future large quakes on the Bay Area’s major faults that were calculated five years ago, but it does provide the first detailed forecasts for the odds of future quakes on faults in the Los Angeles area: on the southern San Andreas, on the San Jacinto and on the Elsinore faults specifically.
“In our two major metropolitan areas where odds are high that a large quake is coming, people think a lot about quakes whenever even a smaller one shakes … but ten days later most folks forget them, and they shouldn’t,” said David Schwartz, an earthquake geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park who served on the scientific review panel that evaluated the new probability estimates. The analysis was requested by the California Earthquake Authority, a public agency created by the state Legislature in 1996 and funded by companies throughout the state that offer limited quake insurance to all comers.
The report’s details should also prove useful for city planners, building code designers and home and business owners “who can use this information to improve public safety and mitigate damage before the next destructive earthquake occurs,” said geophysicist Ned Field of the U.S. Geological Survey who headed the Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities that developed the forecasts.
“This new, comprehensive forecast advances our understanding of earthquakes and pulls together existing research with new techniques and data,” Field said.
Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey, the Southern California Earthquake Center and the California State Geological Survey participated in the report. Aside from the scientists in California who evaluated the Working Group’s conclusions, both the California and National Earthquake Prediction Councils evaluated the study too.
The scientists used complex analytical tools that they have developed over many years and new computer programs to arrive at their new forecasts of earthquake magnitudes and the faults they may rupture.
By their calculations, the probability that a 6.7 magnitude quake will hit on any one of the faults in the Bay Area is now set at 63 percent, only a tiny bit higher than the 62 percent estimated in 2003. But the probability for that kind of severely damaging quake on the Hayward-Rodgers Creek fault was increased in the new forecast from 27 percent to 31 percent.
The analysis was the first the scientists done of probabilities for quakes on several Southern California faults. They calculated the odds of a 6.7 magnitude quake striking within 30 years somewhere in the greater Los Angeles at two-to-one, a probability of 67 percent, according to the report.
The single fault in all California with the highest probability of a large quake occurring within the next 30 years is the Southern San Andreas, and the seismic odds-makers set the number for it at 59 percent.
Looking at Northern California’s farthest region - actually the southern end of the 750-mile-long Cascadia Subduction Zone which stretches far up the Pacific Coast into British Columbia - the quake experts set the probability for a large quake within 30 years at only 10 percent, but concluded it could register a magnitude of 8 or even 9. Quakes that powerful occur once every 500 years on average.
Estimating probabilities for future earthquakes is highly complicated and calls for analysis of many factors: the average time between quakes that have struck on a given fault; the location, the size and the time when a quake last ruptured a given fault; the type of quake that hit, the geology of the region, and the rate at which the Earth’s crust is moving.
“The further you are in time from the last quake on a fault, the higher the probability is for the next one,” Schwartz said.
Obama’s Bitter Taste of Own Words
April 13, 2008
Speaking Sunday at a closed-door fundraiser in San Francisco, Obama had said he understands why some working-class voters become frustrated and vote on single issues. “It’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations,” he had said, in an address revealed in bits and pieces this week by The Huffington Post online, delivering the controversial words on Friday.
Yet speaking today, he didn’t say it all that differently — leaving the opposing campaign the same opening to take offense at a sweeping characterization of working class voters in small towns where Clinton and Obama are competing for the Democratic presidential nomination.
“I said something that everybody knows is true, which is that there are a whole bunch of folks in small towns in Pennsylvania, in towns right here in Indiana, in my hometown in Illinois, who are bitter,” Obama said today in Muncie, Ind. “They are angry. They feel like they’ve been left behind. They feel like nobody is paying attention to what they’re going through.
“So, I said, well you know, when you’re bitter, you turn to what you can count on,’’ Obama said today. “Some people, you know, they vote about guns, or they take comfort in their faith, and their family and their community. And they get mad about illegal immigrants who are coming over to this country, or they get frustrated about, you know, how things are changing.’’
American Idol Features “Shout To The Lord” But Censors Name of Jesus
April 11, 2008
The prospect that America’s most-watch television program would feature a popular Christian worship song to close its fundraising special last night generated a buzz on the Internet, but some now are crying foul after the lyrics were altered to eliminate the word “Jesus.”
In the grand finale of “American Idol Gives Back,” eight “Idol” finalists performed “Shout to the Lord,” the song by Darlene Zschech of Australia’s Hillsong Church that has been sung in thousands of congregations around the world.
Zschech’s lyrics open with “My Jesus, My Savior, Lord there is none like You, All of my days, I want to praise, The wonders of Your mighty love.”
Instead of “My Jesus,” however, viewers last night heard the “American Idol” stars begin the song with “My shepherd,” as seen in a clip posted on YouTube.
Demand For Rice Threatens Global Food Supplies
April 9, 2008
The run on rice is threatening to disrupt world food supplies as much as banks’ lack of confidence in each other has seen global credit markets dry up.
Workers unload rice imported from Vietnam: Demand for rice threatens global food supplies
Workers unload rice imported from Vietnam from a ship docked in Manila. Rice is the staple food for half the world
China, Egypt, Vietnam and India, representing more than a third of global rice exports, curbed sales this year, and Indonesia says it may do the same.
The price of rice, the staple food for half the world, rose 2pc to a record $20.910 per 100lbs in Chicago, double the price a year ago and a fivefold increase from 2001.
“Rice will gain substantially over the next two years,” said Roland Jansen, chief executive of Switzerland-based Mother Earth Investments, which holds 4pc of its $100m funds in the grain.
Pope to Visit New York City Synagogue
April 4, 2008
When Pope Benedict XVI enters a U.S. synagogue for the first time, it will be an emotional encounter between a Holocaust survivor and the German pontiff bonding over their suffering in the same war.
“Both of us experienced the tragedy of World War II,” said Arthur Schneier, senior rabbi of Manhattans Park East Synagogue, which the pope is to visit on April 18, the nations bishops announced Thursday.
The Vienna-born rabbi told The Associated Press in an interview at his office that he and the pope have the same mother tongue, German. “So we have a common language — at least in terms of meine Muttersprache, my mother tongue,” he said.
Schneier, 78, fled Adolf Hitlers forces in Austria for Budapest in 1939 with his mother and worked in a labor camp before Hungary was liberated by the Red Army. He said most of his family had been deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and died there. He moved to the U.S. in 1947.
The rabbi said sharing the war experience with the pope brings the two men closer.
“When you emerge from that kind of tragedy with all the human lives lost,” he said, “it does something in terms of shaping your outlook and what you need to do to make sure that this becomes a better world and we dont repeat the mistakes of history.”
The 80-year-old pontiff is a native of Bavaria whose father was anti-Nazi. He enrolled in the Hitler Youth against his will and was then drafted into the German army in the last months of the war. He wrote in his memoirs that he deserted in the wars last days.
Student Sues ‘Anti-Christian’ Teacher Over Remarks in Class
April 3, 2008
A student and his family have filed a federal lawsuit demanding that a popular European history teacher at California’s Capistrano Valley High School be fired for what they say were anti-Christian remarks he made in the classroom.
Chad Farnan, a 16-year-old sophomore, says the teacher, James Corbett, told his students that “Jesus glasses” obscure the truth and suggested that Christians are more likely than other people to commit rape and murder.
Farnan recorded his teacher telling students in class: “What country has the highest murder rate? The South! What part of the country has the highest rape rate? The South! What part of the country has the highest rate of church attendance? The South!” Farnan said he took the tape recorder to class to supplement his class notes.
“It was very hard for me because it’s like basically telling me all this stuff that I’ve believed my whole entire life — it’s just basically trying to throw it out the window,” Farnan told FOX News.
Farnan’s family has filed a federal lawsuit against the Capistrano Unified School District, claiming Corbett’s remarks violated the First Amendment, which prohibits laws “respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” They are demanding that Corbett be fired.
UK Paper Calls It - USA 2008 The Great Depression
April 1, 2008
We knew things were bad on Wall Street, but on Main Street it may be worse. Startling official statistics show that as a new economic recession stalks the United States, a record number of Americans will shortly be depending on food stamps just to feed themselves and their families.
Dismal projections by the Congressional Budget Office in Washington suggest that in the fiscal year starting in October, 28 million people in the US will be using government food stamps to buy essential groceries, the highest level since the food assistance programme was introduced in the 1960s.
The increase – from 26.5 million in 2007 – is due partly to recent efforts to increase public awareness of the programme and also a switch from paper coupons to electronic debit cards. But above all it is the pressures being exerted on ordinary Americans by an economy that is suddenly beset by troubles. Housing foreclosures, accelerating jobs losses and fast-rising prices all add to the squeeze.
Emblematic of the downturn until now has been the parades of houses seized in foreclosure all across the country, and myriad families separated from their homes. But now the crisis is starting to hit the country in its gut. Getting food on the table is a challenge many Americans are finding harder to meet. As a barometer of the country’s economic health, food stamp usage may not be perfect, but can certainly tell a story.
Iran: Parliament To Discuss Death Penalty For Converts Who Leave Islam For Christianity
March 24, 2008
In its first session since last week’s general elections, the new Iranian parliament is expected to discuss a law that will condemn to death anyone who decides to leave the Muslim faith and convert to other religions.
The parliament, also known as the Majlis, will debate the new law which has been presented by the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Under the proposed law, anyone who is born to Muslim parents and decides to convert to another faith, will face the death penalty.
Currently converts, particularly those who have decided to leave the Muslim faith for Evangelical churches, are arrested and then released after some years of detention.
The new legislation, which has caused concern in Iran and abroad, was proposed mainly because of fears of proselytising activities by Evangelical churches particularly through the use of satellite channels.
There has also been concern over fact that many young people in Iran have abandoned Islam because they’re tired of the many restrictions imposed by the faith.
According to unofficial sources, in the past five years, one million Iranians, particularly young people and women, have abandoned Islam and joined Evangelical churches.
This phenomenon has surprised even the missionaries who carry out their activities in secret in Iran.
An Evangelical priest and former Muslim in Iran told Adnkronos International (AKI) that the conversions were “interesting, enthusiastic but very dangerous”.
“The high number of conversions is the reason that the government has decided to make the repression of Christians official with this new law,” said the priest on condition of anonymity.
UFO’s - Strange Lights In Skies May Have Been A Warning Of Earthquake That Sent Tremors Across Britain
March 19, 2008
Strange lights spotted in Lincolnshire’s skies may have been a warning of the earthquake which sent tremors across Britain.
Several sightings of lights appearing in the sky were reported in the days leading up to the quake, which had its epicentre near Market Rasen when it struck early on February 27.
And some believe that these could be “earthquake lights” - caused by changes in the electrical properties of the ground before a quake occurs.
There have been many similar reports of “earthquake lights” throughout history.
The most well known case was in Lincoln’s twin town, Tangshan, in China in 1976, before a massive quake that killed 240,000 people across the country.
Husband and wife Jamie and Emily Goddard, of Alexandra Terrace, in Lincoln, managed to capture the lights on a mobile phone camera just as they appeared above Drury Lane at around 8.30pm on February 22.
And other people have contacted the Echo to say they saw lights on the same night - with some wondering at first whether it was a ‘UFO’ from an RAF base.
Dr Richard England, from the Department of Geology at the University of Leicester, said that there is little evidence to explain the phenomenon - but there have been enough sightings to suggest there could be a link.
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