Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Monday, August 28, 2017
"Have You Ever Seen The Rain" by Creedence Clearwater Revival
CosmosUp (@CosmossUp)This horizontal lightning is in real time. More commonly Referred to as "anvil crawlers" pic.twitter.com/ohJ9ygONAS— CosmosUp (@CosmossUp) August 24, 2017
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Related: 'Who Stop the Rain' by Courtney Jaye
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Sunday, August 27, 2017
Dog carrying bag of food after Hurricane Harvey becomes viral hero
Here's Otis Saturday afternoon after returning home from adventuring around Sinton, Tx, with his bag of food in his mouth.Photo: Salvador Segovia
Otis, a German shepherd mix, got loose Friday night from a screened-in back porch in Sinton, Texas, while in the care of Salvador Segovia, 65. Segovia was watching the dog, who belongs to his 5-year-old grandson Carter who had fled the city due to flooding...http://www.chron.com/news/houston-weather/hurricaneharvey/article/hurricane-harvey-otis-dog-texas-food-mouth-viral-11990775.php?cmpid=twitter-mobile#photo-13934280
Dog Spotted Carrying An Entire Bag of Dog Food After Harvey
A photo of a golden retriever mix carrying a large bag of dog food in the aftermath of Harvey has gone viral.
(Tiele Dockens)
A Texas woman's photo of a dog appearing to carry an entire bag of dog food — in the hours after Harvey barrelled through the state, leaving behind a trail of devastation — has gone viral, illustrating the impact that severe storms can play on pets as well.
Local resident Tiele Dockens told weather.com that she was surveilling the damage from Harvey around Sinton, which is located just outside of Corpus Christi, when she spotted Otis, a golden retriever mix, carrying the large bag...https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/dog-spotted-carrying-dog-food-bag-photo-harvey
A Texas woman's photo of a dog appearing to carry an entire bag of dog food — in the hours after Harvey barrelled through the state, leaving behind a trail of devastation — has gone viral, illustrating the impact that severe storms can play on pets as well.
Local resident Tiele Dockens told weather.com that she was surveilling the damage from Harvey around Sinton, which is located just outside of Corpus Christi, when she spotted Otis, a golden retriever mix, carrying the large bag...https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/dog-spotted-carrying-dog-food-bag-photo-harvey
Saturday, August 26, 2017
Friday, August 25, 2017
The truth is out there! These people claim to have been abducted by ALIENS
By
Sean Martin
GETTY
THE people of Reddit have taken to the social news aggregator to share their experiences of ALIEN ABDUCTIONS – and the accounts are terrifying.
Encounters with ET have been claimed by thousands and a few people have posted their experiences on Reddit...http://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/845339/UFO-aliens-alien-abduction-reddit
THE people of Reddit have taken to the social news aggregator to share their experiences of ALIEN ABDUCTIONS – and the accounts are terrifying.
Encounters with ET have been claimed by thousands and a few people have posted their experiences on Reddit...http://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/845339/UFO-aliens-alien-abduction-reddit
Thursday, August 24, 2017
Disturbing New Footage Shows Diseased, Deformed Salmon in B.C. Fish Farms
By Carol Linnitt
New footage released to DeSmog Canada shows deformed and disfigured salmon at two salmon farms on the B.C. coast — just as British Columbia reels from news of the escape of up to 305,000 Atlantic farmed salmon from a Washington salmon pen.
Wild salmon advocate and fisheries biologist Alexandra Morton said she was shocked by the footage.
“I was shocked and frankly disgusted,” Morton told DeSmog Canada. “These fish have open sores, sea lice, blisters all over their skin and a disturbing number of them are going blind.”
Morton said the footage also gives an indication of what is now travelling through Pacific waters after the escape of potentially hundreds of thousands of farmed Atlantic salmon in the San Juan Islands just east of Victoria. Atlantic salmon are considered invasive in Pacific waters.
“Now you have potentially 300,000 farmed salmon traveling with wild salmon. We know that is what they do.”
The footage was shot at two salmon farms owned by Grieg Seafood and located near Broughton Island, B.C., in the traditional territory of the Musgmagw Dzawada’enuwx Nation...Continue reading, video@https://www.desmog.ca/2017/08/23/disturbing-new-footage-shows-diseased-deformed-salmon-b-c-fish-farms?utm_source=DeSmog+Canada+Newsletter&utm_campaign=1dd5e9f098-DSC_NEWSLETTER_2017_08_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f6a05fddb8-1dd5e9f098-103215319
New footage released to DeSmog Canada shows deformed and disfigured salmon at two salmon farms on the B.C. coast — just as British Columbia reels from news of the escape of up to 305,000 Atlantic farmed salmon from a Washington salmon pen.
Wild salmon advocate and fisheries biologist Alexandra Morton said she was shocked by the footage.
“I was shocked and frankly disgusted,” Morton told DeSmog Canada. “These fish have open sores, sea lice, blisters all over their skin and a disturbing number of them are going blind.”
Morton said the footage also gives an indication of what is now travelling through Pacific waters after the escape of potentially hundreds of thousands of farmed Atlantic salmon in the San Juan Islands just east of Victoria. Atlantic salmon are considered invasive in Pacific waters.
“Now you have potentially 300,000 farmed salmon traveling with wild salmon. We know that is what they do.”
The footage was shot at two salmon farms owned by Grieg Seafood and located near Broughton Island, B.C., in the traditional territory of the Musgmagw Dzawada’enuwx Nation...Continue reading, video@https://www.desmog.ca/2017/08/23/disturbing-new-footage-shows-diseased-deformed-salmon-b-c-fish-farms?utm_source=DeSmog+Canada+Newsletter&utm_campaign=1dd5e9f098-DSC_NEWSLETTER_2017_08_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f6a05fddb8-1dd5e9f098-103215319
Euthanasia for disabled babies?
Another fruit of evolutionary thinking
by Dominic Statham
Professor Jerry Coyne is an evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago, a prominent critic of creationists and author of Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible.1 In his blog (which goes under the name ‘Why Evolution is True’) he recently argued for the euthanising of severely disabled new-born babies.2Coyne asks, “If you are allowed to abort a fetus that has a severe genetic defect, microcephaly, spina bifida, or so on, then why aren’t you able to euthanize that same fetus just after it’s born?” I have to admit that I find his logic perfectly sound; and this demonstrates so clearly why abortion is wrong. Once we accept the destruction of the baby in the womb, then the sanctity of all human life is brought into question...http://creation.com/euthanizing-babies
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
This man has just broken the record for most bird species seen in a year
By Shaun Hurrell
Arjan holding a Sclater's Crowned-pigeon in Papua New Guinea, that he bought in order to save and release © Arjan Dwarshuis
Interview: Arjan Dwarshuis has just broken the world record for the number of bird species spotted in a single year. And he is doing it to raise money for BirdLife...http://www.birdlife.org/worldwide/news/man-has-just-broken-world-record
Arjan holding a Sclater's Crowned-pigeon in Papua New Guinea, that he bought in order to save and release © Arjan DwarshuisInterview: Arjan Dwarshuis has just broken the world record for the number of bird species spotted in a single year. And he is doing it to raise money for BirdLife...http://www.birdlife.org/worldwide/news/man-has-just-broken-world-record
Hundreds of firefighters battling largest wildfire ever recorded in B.C.
Tinder dry weather, wind and dry lightning have caused fires to spread aggressively in B.C.'s Cariboo region this season. (B.C. Wildfire Service)
Hundreds of firefighters and dozens of aircraft are working to contain the largest wildfire ever recorded in British Columbia's history...http://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4257021
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Monday, August 21, 2017
The white moose mystery: Video catches a brief glimpse of rare animal in Sweden
Though there are some albino moose in North America,
some scientists believe there's something different about the
stark-white creatures in Scandinavia...
But is it just a case of albinism? The congenital disorder, which has been observed in moose and across the animal kingdom, results in the absence of pigment in the skin, hair and eyes. Albinism is not uncommon among the ghostly moose spotted in North America...http://nationalpost.com/news/world/the-white-moose-mystery-video-catches-a-brief-glimpse-of-rare-animal-in-sweden/wcm/6f548070-5130-4d71-8c02-2bf8cf445b70
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
B.C. to end grizzly bear trophy hunting after this season
B.C's new NDP government is ending the province's controversial grizzly bear trophy hunt, saying British Columbians can no longer stomach the killing of grizzlies as trophies.
The ban will take effect Nov. 30, 2017, throughout the province — after this year's season, which opens Tuesday in the Peace River region, and later elsewhere...http://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4247060
Monday, August 14, 2017
Rare white moose spotted in Sweden
@BBCWorldRare white moose spotted in Sweden pic.twitter.com/jwPayHmzmC— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) August 13, 2017
Korean baseball is so great
Korean baseball is so great pic.twitter.com/3sjWhup8iO— Baseball Fam (@ShtBallPlayrsDo) July 15, 2017
To give you a smile on a Monday morning
To give you a smile on a Monday morning ☺️☺️☺️🐱🐖🐷 pic.twitter.com/lsgIIdAn3u— 🎀M™️🎀 (@MichLdogs) July 24, 2017
Sunday, August 13, 2017
MUSIC IS LIFE , WHERE WORDS FAIL MUSIC SPEAKS
"The Eyes of that Species of Extinct Giants ..." - Abraham Lincoln
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 2.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Niagara-Falls! By what mysterious power is it that millions and millions, are drawn from all parts of the world, to gaze upon Niagara Falls? There is no mystery about the thing itself. Every effect is just such as any inteligent man knowing the causes, would anticipate, without [seeing] it. If the water moving onward in a great river, reaches a point where there is a perpendicular jog, of a hundred feet in descent, in the bottom of the river,---it is plain the water will have a violent and continuous plunge at that point. It is also plain the water, thus plunging, will foam, and roar, and send up a mist, continuously, in which last, during sunshine, there will be perpetual rain-bows. The mere physical of Niagara Falls is only this. Yet this is really a very small part of that world's wonder. It's power to excite reflection, and emotion, is it's great charm. The geologist will demonstrate that the plunge, or fall, was once at Lake Ontario, and has worn it's way back to it's present position; he will ascertain how fast it is wearing now, and so get a basis for determining howlong it has been wearing back from Lake Ontario, and finally demonstrate by it that this world is at least fourteen thousand years old. A philosopher of a slightly different turn will say Niagara Falls is only the lip of the basin out of which pours all the surplus water which rains down on two or three hundred thousand square miles of the earth's surface. He will estim[ate with] approximate accuracy, that five hundred thousand [to]ns of water, falls with it's full weight, a distance of a hundred feet each minute---thus exerting a force equal to the lifting of the same weight, through the same space, in the same time. And then the further reflection comes that this vast amount of water, constantly pouring down, is supplied by an equal amount constantly lifted up, by the sun; and still he says, ``If this much is lifted up, for this one space of two or three hundred thousand square miles, an equal amount must be lifted for every other equal space, and he is overwhelmed in the contemplation of the vast power the sun is constantly exerting in quiet, noiseless operation of lifting water up to be rained down again.
But still there is more. It calls up the indefinite past. When Columbus first sought this continent---when Christ suffered on the cross---when Moses led Israel through the Red-Sea---nay, even, when Adam first came from the hand of his Maker---then as now, Niagara was roaring here. The eyes of that species of extinct giants, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara, as ours do now. Co[n]temporary with the whole race of men, and older than the first man, Niagara is strong, and fresh to-day as ten thousand years ago. The Mammoth and Mastadon---now so long dead, that fragments of their monstrous bones, alone testify, that they ever lived, have gazed on Niagara. In that long---long time, never still for a single moment. Never dried, never froze, never slept, never rested...http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln2/1:6?rgn=div1;view=fulltext
Nicholas Winton was responsible for saving the lives of 669 children form the Nazis
Nicholas Winton was responsible for saving the
lives of 669 children. He never spoke of this episode in his life and
certainly did not think of himself as a hero © 2011 Yad Vashem The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority.
Nicholas Winton was born in London in 1909 of German-Jewish parents. As an adult he became a banker, working initially in Hamburg, Germany and then Paris, before returning to Britain as a stockbroker.
In December 1938 Winton was due to travel to Switzerland for a skiing holiday. A friend who was involved in Jewish refugee work in Prague, Czechoslovakia, suggested that he travel to visit him instead. On arrival in Prague, Winton was horrified at the treatment of Czech Jews at the hands of the Nazis. He decided that he had to help the Jews.
After Kristallnacht, the British government had extended the quota to allow child refugees into Britain. They had to have an agreed place to live and a sponsor, who would pledge £50, so that they would not be a burden on the British state. Subject to these conditions, Winton was able to take children from Prague to Britain.
Winton believed that saving children was more important than his career. He gave up his job to stay in Prague in order to organise the rescue of Czech Jewish children. Winton built up biographies of children whose parents had asked him to take them to safety. He placed advertisements of these children in England seeking families to take them in...http://www.theholocaustexplained.org/ks3/responses-1933-1945/what-did-organisations-do/nicholas-winton/#.WY-2tbgYFNR
THIS is how you own your MLB debut.
THIS is how you own your MLB debut. #LetsRise pic.twitter.com/JJSDDUonNr— Blue Jays (@BlueJays) August 12, 2017
Saturday, August 5, 2017
Songbird in action!
Note to self:— Kawalpreet (@peetahuja) August 4, 2017
You're far more capable than you think !
Believe in youself.....you can do it👊
Wishing y'all a terrific day🍃🌺🍃 pic.twitter.com/wv4eztELPs
Kawalpreet (@peetahuja)
See also: Songbirds in Action
Tubal ligations of Indigenous women in Saskatoon 'troubling': Bennett
In an interview with The Canadian Press, Carolyn Bennett called last week's report "completely troubling" and a sign that some doctors are still willing to project onto certain patients what they consider an "optimal family size."
"It is a very paternalistic approach," Bennett said. "I think that we yet again are confronted with the racism in all of our institutions."
The report was researched and compiled by Yvonne Boyer, a lawyer and a Canada Research Chair at Manitoba's Brandon University, and Dr. Judith Bartlett, a physician and researcher.
They documented how some Indigenous women from Saskatoon and the surrounding area were coerced into having their Fallopian tubes clamped or severed after giving birth in hospital.
Most of the women who were interviewed for the report either did not recall consenting to the procedure, or did so because they were exhausted and too overwhelmed to fight any longer, the researchers found...http://www.thestarphoenix.com/health/tubal+ligations+troubling+bennett/14049443/story.html
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