China Posted February 18, 2023 Author Share Posted February 18, 2023 Oh, and BTW, the toll from the Turkish earthquake is now past 46,000: Earthquake death toll passes 46,000; desperation for signs of life More than 46,000 people have been killed in the earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria and the toll is expected to soar, with some 264,000 apartments in Turkey destroyed and many still missing as rescuers listen for signs of life under the rubble. As Turkey tries to manage its worst modern disaster, concerns were growing over the victims of the tragedy in Syria, with the World Food Programme (WFP) pressuring authorities in the northwest to stop blocking access to the area as it seeks to help hundreds of thousands of people ravaged by earthquakes. Click on the link for the full article 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted February 18, 2023 Author Share Posted February 18, 2023 Faecal indicator bacteria on indoor floors linked to exterior sidewalk contamination in New York City Although sources of faecal pathogens abound in urban environments, faecal bacteria on city streets remain largely unquantified. The extent to which faecal pathogens transfer between outdoor and indoor environments is also poorly understood. We use defined substrate analysis to quantify enterococci and coliform faecal indicator bacteria (FIB) on interior floor surfaces in a New York City institutional building, on shoe soles of building occupants and on exterior sidewalks. Enterococci and faecal coliforms are ubiquitous on interior floors, varying with foot traffic and floor surface type. Mean enterococci counts are highest in the heavily trafficked building entryway compared with less trafficked interior locations, and counts are significantly higher on carpets than on adjacent uncarpeted flooring. Enterococci and faecal coliforms appear on shoe soles of building occupants as well. Susceptibility of shoe sole bacteria to antimicrobial agents is commensurate with that of cultivated E. coli, E. faecalis and S. aureus strains. In pooled rainwater on city sidewalks, enterococci average 31,000 per 100 mL. Overall, our evidence indicates ubiquity of FIB on sidewalks, a translocation pathway via shoe soles and accumulation on indoor floor surfaces, particularly carpeted areas. These findings present ample opportunity for human exposure to faecal pathogens in the indoor environment. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted February 18, 2023 Author Share Posted February 18, 2023 On 2/14/2023 at 9:51 AM, Spaceman Spiff said: Can't believe no one's talking about what's going on in Ohio. That area won't be safe to inhabit for a long time, maybe ever. Don't worry, Trump's on the case. Maybe he'll throw out some paper towels to residents so they can soak up the chemicals. Donald Trump to visit East Palestine, says Trump Jr. Former President Donald Trump is expected to visit East Palestine next week, according to his son, Donald Trump Jr. “If our ‘leaders’ are too afraid to actually lead real leaders will step up and fill the void,” reads the tweet. Click on the link for the full article 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TradeTheBeal! Posted February 18, 2023 Share Posted February 18, 2023 (edited) Captain Planet Donald and his merry band of eco-warriors from Fox & Friends! #spiffandTsorboarenotseriouspeople Edited February 18, 2023 by TradeTheBeal! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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China Posted February 19, 2023 Author Share Posted February 19, 2023 As residents near Ohio train derailment begin to file lawsuits, some report lingering coughs or chest pain Since returning to work following the derailment of a Norfolk Southern train carrying hazardous chemicals, Rick Feezle said he has had a raspy voice and chest pain. His wife has experienced sore throats and headaches, he said. Feezle, 63, said he has worked in the area around East Palestine, Ohio, all of his adult life and operates two businesses there: a salvage yard and an auto shop. He's part of a group of people who live or work near the derailment site who have filed a class action suit against Norfolk Southern. The Feb. 3 incident resulted in a fire and chemical spill, forcing residents within a roughly 1-mile radius to evacuate. Several days later, the rail company released and burned vinyl chloride — a flammable gas — a move officials said would alleviate the risk of an explosion. Authorities said residents could return home two days after that. "Nobody can tell us what we should do other than 'It’s safe, go head on back in there,'" Feezle said, his voice crackly. "And the fish are dying and animals are dying and I can hardly talk and my chest hurts." His lawsuit is one of at least six class action suits already filed against Norfolk Southern since the accident. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted February 19, 2023 Author Share Posted February 19, 2023 Alaska woman pleads guilty to killing 'best friend' after man catfished her and offered to pay $9 million for murder videos An Alaska woman pleaded guilty to killing her "best friend" after a man she met online said he would pay her $9 million if she sent him photos and videos of her committing murder. Denali Brehmer, 22, pleaded guilty Wednesday to first-degree murder in the June 2019 death of Cynthia Hoffman, the Alaska Department of Law said. Hoffman, 19, died from a gunshot wound to the back of the head. Her body was dumped in the Eklutna River, about 27 miles northeast of Anchorage, court documents state. The Anchorage District Attorney’s Office previously said that Brehmer, who was 18 at the time of the crime, started planning the murder after a man she met online told her that he would give her money in exchange for evidence of her killing someone. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted February 20, 2023 Author Share Posted February 20, 2023 Another Earthquake Strikes Southwest Turkey, Stirring Panic The 6.3-magnitude quake struck near a town in hard-hit Hatay Province, one of the areas most devastated by the Feb. 6 quake that killed more than 46,000 people across Turkey and northwestern Syria. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 Yahoo:'Zombie fungus' lives among us and not just as HBO plot of 'The Last of Us' Quote Airborne spores of Cordyceps that fall upon a cricket enter its body and commence growing via long strands known as mycelia. The mycelia worm their way through the cricket’s innards, feeding on tissues but not killing its host, at least quickly. As a critical fungal mass develops, the Cordyceps moves to the head of the cricket and somehow rewires its behavior. In a horrific last hurrah, the fungal parasitoid forces its victim to climb to a prominent perch in a tree or shrub, causes it to clamp down tightly on leaf, and kills it. The fungus, which has mostly consumed the cricket’s inner workings by this point, prepares to reproduce. Stem-like spikes called stroma shoot from the insect’s body; these are capped by perithecia, or fruiting bodies. The accompanying photo shows a Carolina leafroller cricket completely zombified, eyes dead and white, bristling with fruiting bodies. The perithecia soon rupture, releasing scads of windborne spores, hence the reason for the fungal reprogramming of the victim: to force it into a breezier location for successful spore dispersal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Xameil Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 On 2/17/2023 at 11:22 AM, TradeTheBeal! said: If Spiff ever ran into this girl in the clurb on a Friday, her toes would be curled until Tuesday. A couple Ketel and crans and it’s straight to the DANGER ZONE! How much do you wanna bet she throws plastic forks and spoons in a camp fire after a BBQ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted February 22, 2023 Author Share Posted February 22, 2023 Corgi-sized meteor as heavy as 4 baby elephants hit Texas - NASA A meteor around the size of a Pembroke Welsh Corgi and weighing around the total weight of four baby elephants struck the Earth near McAllen, Texas last Wednesday, NASA confirmed this week. The meteor impact, reported by local Dallas-area Fox affiliate KDFW, took place at around 6 p.m. last Wednesday local time, with some eyewitnesses spotting a possible meteor impact in the sky at the time. This was later confirmed by the National Weather Service, which said a Geostationary Lightning Mapper spotted the flash of a meteor just half an hour earlier. At the time, it wasn't clear what made the flash, especially since there weren't any thunderstorms in the area that could have produced the flash. Home security camera footage obtained by KDFW seemed to have captured an apparent sonic boom, with the loud noise causing birds to flee, while many locals claimed to have felt a possible earthquake. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGoodBits Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 17 hours ago, China said: Corgi-sized meteor as heavy as 4 baby elephants hit Texas - NASA A meteor around the size of a Pembroke Welsh Corgi and weighing around the total weight of four baby elephants struck the Earth near McAllen, Texas last Wednesday, NASA confirmed this week. The meteor impact, reported by local Dallas-area Fox affiliate KDFW, took place at around 6 p.m. last Wednesday local time, with some eyewitnesses spotting a possible meteor impact in the sky at the time. This was later confirmed by the National Weather Service, which said a Geostationary Lightning Mapper spotted the flash of a meteor just half an hour earlier. At the time, it wasn't clear what made the flash, especially since there weren't any thunderstorms in the area that could have produced the flash. Home security camera footage obtained by KDFW seemed to have captured an apparent sonic boom, with the loud noise causing birds to flee, while many locals claimed to have felt a possible earthquake. Click on the link for the full article Americans really will use anything other than the metric system. 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted February 28, 2023 Author Share Posted February 28, 2023 Norfolk Southern is accused of plans to destroy evidence by moving Ohio train wreck that caused a toxic plume Norfolk Southern Corp.’s plan to remove wrecked rail cars from a derailment that resulted in potentially poisonous gas being released over a Ohio town will destroy evidence of the company’s liability, lawyers for residents say. Lawyers in proposed class actions over the Feb. 3 accident on Friday asked a federal judge to block the company from clearing the wreckage in East Palestine, Ohio. According to the lawyers, Norfolk Southern informed them last week that it planned to move the 11 railcars by March 1 and would only make them available for inspection for two days. Adam Gomez, a lawyer for East Palestine residents, said in a court filing that it was “common sense” to keep the wreckage where it is for now. “These communities have questions and we need the evidence to answer them,” he said. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted February 28, 2023 Author Share Posted February 28, 2023 Mystery as husband who went missing on his quad bike is found eight days later in SHARK’S STOMACH THE remains of a man who mysteriously went missing while out riding his quad bike have horrifically been found inside a shark's stomach. Diego Alejandro Barria, 35, disappeared on February 18 while driving his ATV cross country in Chubut, Argentina. His chewed-up remains were found by stunned fishermen while they were gutting a five-foot-long dogfish shark. The anglers immediately notified the Naval Prefecture of Caleta Córdoba in the province of Chubut. They discovered his forearm - which sported a distinctive green and red rose tattoo - inside the stomach of one of the three beasts they had caught on February 26. The remains were quickly taken to a nearby morgue while Diego's family members were informed. Police say the shark's stomach consisted of "dermis, fat and human meat". Click on the link for the full article 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted March 1, 2023 Author Share Posted March 1, 2023 Train Crash in Greece Kills at Least 36 Rescue workers in Greece frantically searched for survivors through flattened carriages and smoking wreckage on Wednesday after a head-on collision at high speed between a freight and passenger train killed at least 36 people, many of them young, and injured scores of others in what appeared to be the country’s deadliest rail accident. Kostas A. Karamanlis, the Greek transport minister, announced hours after the crash that he would resign, saying in a statement that “when something so tragic happens, it’s impossible to continue as if nothing had happened.” “It’s a fact that we inherited the Greek railway in a state that is not fitting for the 21st century,” he added. “In those three and a half years we made every effort to improve this reality. Unfortunately, those efforts were not adequate to avert such a tragedy.” Click on the link for the full article 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted March 3, 2023 Author Share Posted March 3, 2023 Florida Man Killed by ‘Brain-Eating’ Amoeba Likely in Tap Water A man in Florida died from a “brain-eating” amoeba likely contracted from tap water, according to health officials. The person, whose name hasn’t been released, died last week from a microscopic amoeba called Naegleria fowleri. But don’t stop drinking water from the tap just yet. It’s believed he contracted the illness from doing a sinus rinse, and health officials said infections like this do not come from simply drinking tap water. “You basically have to forcefully push water through your nose in order to contract this, it’s a very oddly specific way to catch it,” Florida Department of Health spokesperson Jae Williams told the Daily Beast. “The general public is not in any danger of being infected.” Infections are very rare, with just 31 Americans infected from 2012 to 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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China Posted March 5, 2023 Author Share Posted March 5, 2023 Two train derailments in a month. Norfolk Southern is having a good year so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted March 8, 2023 Author Share Posted March 8, 2023 Residents in China told to use umbrellas as city hit by 'rain storm of worms' Baffled Beijing residents were warned to use umbrellas after it started 'raining worms' in the Chinese capital city. In recent days, a video has gone viral on social media showing "rain of worms" in the streets of the capital, with the slimy bugs covering cars. El Heraldo reported that Beijing residents were told it was recommended to leave their home with umbrellas. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted March 8, 2023 Author Share Posted March 8, 2023 On 8/20/2022 at 4:54 PM, Renegade7 said: The Orca Uprising is upon us... Killer whales are 'attacking' sailboats near Europe's coast. Scientists don't know why https://www.npr.org/2022/08/20/1117993583/orcas-attacks-spain-portugal-killer-whales?sc=18&f=1117993583 2 orcas slaughter 19 sharks in a single day in South Africa, eating their livers and leaving them to rot An orca killing spree continues in South Africa. Their target: shark livers. A pair of killer whales has embarked on yet another killing spree, eating the livers of 19 broadnose sevengill sharks (Notorynchus cepedianus) and leaving their carcasses to wash ashore off the coast of Pearly Beach, a village located along the southernmost tip of South Africa. The baffling carnage caught the attention of Alison Kock(opens in new tab), a marine biologist with South African National Parks who tweeted(opens in new tab) about the "infamous" duo of male orcas (Orcinus orca) known as Port and Starboard and the feeding frenzy that ensued on Feb. 23. However, this isn't the first time that the orca duo has wreaked havoc in this area. In 2017, the pair slaughtered at least eight great white sharks. And in all but one case they dined solely on the sharks' livers, leaving the rest of their bodies to rot. So, what is it about shark livers that seemingly whet the appetite of these blood-thirsty orcas? In her tweet, Kock explained that "they likely initially learn by experience when first predating a new species," meaning that once the orcas were aware of the liver's location on a shark "they will remember it forever and become more efficient [hunters]." It also helps that shark livers are "highly nutritious and have large quantities of fats and vitamins," Kock told Live Science in an email. Click on the link for the full article 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted March 8, 2023 Author Share Posted March 8, 2023 Illinois woman finds husband’s body in home eight months after he went missing An Illinois woman found her husband's body in their home eight months after he had gone missing. According to a report, an autopsy released last week explains what happened to a Troy, Illinois, man who was found deceased in his home months after being reported missing. Richard Maedge had last been seen on April 27th, 2022, when his wife Jennifer spoke with him over the phone and he said he was leaving work early. But when Jennifer arrived at their home, Richard was gone and his car was parked outside. She reported him missing to the Troy police, who initially searched the residence but found no trace of him. The search for Maedge's body had been hindered by the fact that his home was described by police as a "hoarder home." With items stacked up throughout the residence, there were limited places to look and it became difficult to identify any suspicious odors present in the house. After several months of searching it was finally uncovered that there was indeed an unpleasant sewer-like smell emanating from within the house - which ultimately led them to discover Maedge's body. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted March 9, 2023 Author Share Posted March 9, 2023 Alaska volcano dormant for a century delivering ominous warning signs: 'Significant unrest' The Alaska Volcano Observatory raised the alert level to advisory status for Tanaga Volcano on Tuesday following a series of earthquakes. "Earthquake activity beneath Tanaga Volcano began to increase slowly starting at about 1:30 p.m. AKST today. At roughly 8:45 p.m. AKST this evening, the activity escalated with earthquakes occurring as often as two or three each minute," the office said in a Facebook post. The largest of the quakes have magnitudes between 2.0 and 3.0, with initial locations at shallow depths beneath the volcano's summit. "That indicates that we’re seeing significant unrest at the volcano," John Power, a research geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey stationed in Anchorage at the Alaska Volcano Observatory, told The Associated Press. Tanaga Volcano near Adak, Alaska, on May 23, 2021. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted March 11, 2023 Author Share Posted March 11, 2023 Elsewhere on the ring of fire: 'Ring of fire' volcano about to blow as hot 'Doomsday' smoke and lava spews for miles A mountain branded a "doomsday" volcano in Indonesia may be about to blow as hot smoke blankets the local area. Indonesia's Mount Merapi erupted Saturday with avalanches of searing gas clouds and lava, forcing authorities to halt tourism and mining activities on the slopes of the country's most active volcano. Merapi, on the densely populated island of Java, unleashed clouds of hot ash and a mixture of rock, lava and gas that traveled up to 4.3 miles down its slopes. A column of hot clouds rose 328ft into the air, said the National Disaster Management Agency's spokesperson Abdul Muhari. The eruption throughout the day blocked out the sun and blanketed several villages with falling ash. No casualties have been reported. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted March 14, 2023 Author Share Posted March 14, 2023 Cyclone Freddy returns killing 70 in Malawi, Mozambique Cyclone Freddy, packing powerful winds and torrential rain, killed at least 70 people in Malawi and Mozambique on its return to southern Africa's mainland, authorities said Monday. Freddy, on track to become the longest-lasting storms on record, barrelled through southern Africa at the weekend for the second time within a few weeks, making a comeback after a first hit in late February. More than 60 bodies were found during the day in southern Malawi where heavy downpours triggered flooding, according to the Red Cross. "Sixty-six people have died in Malawi, 93 injured and 16 people are missing due to Tropical Cyclone Freddy," tweeted the humanitarian organization, which is helping with search and rescue operations. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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