Author Archives: marcia

More on Bohol, Phillipines 7.2 Quake

Posted on by

Massive extremely dangerous earthquake in Bohol, Philippines – At least 198 people killed, 11 missing, over 600 injured, around 4 billion PHP damage, 7 billion PHP reconstruction costs.

Last update: October 24, 2013 at 9:33 am by By Armand Vervaeck and James Daniell

Understanding the Bohol, Philippines earthquake

What happened exactly in Bohol?
At 8:12 AM on 15 October 2013, Tuesday, a destructive earthquake of magnitude 7.2 shook the island of Bohol and nearby provinces. Smaller-magnitude earthquakes followed afterwards, and as of 1:00 pm, 16 October 2013, 885 earthquakes have been recorded by the PHIVOLCS seismic monitoring network. At least 15 events were reportedly felt in the epicentral area. The main shock and succeeding aftershocks were located in the vicinity of Bohol. These recorded events were shallow, with a depth of at most 32 kilometers. Based on spatial distribution of succeeding events and characteristics of the earthquake, the event is tectonic in origin.
Based on preliminary intensity reports, the strongest ground shaking at PEIS VII (comparable with MMI VIII) was felt at Tagbilaran City and several cities in the province of Cebu. Neighboring island provinces of Cebu, Negros Occidental, Negros Oriental, Camiguin, Panay, Leyte, and several areas in northeastern Mindanao felt the earthquake at varying intensities of PEIS I-VI.

Screen Shot 2013-10-24 at 11.23.40-bis

Moderate-magnitude (M5 to 6.9) earthquakes have also affected Bohol Island in the past!
On 08 February 1990, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurred at Bohol generated by an offshore reverse fault east of the island. Sixteen municipalities felt the strongest intensity of ground shaking at PEIS VIII. There were reports of severe property damages, numerous casualties, hundreds injured, and several thousands homeless. The towns of Jagna, Duero, Guindulman, Garcia Hernandez, and Valencia experienced tsunami inundation.

Why do earthquakes occur in Bohol?
Bohol Island is one of the seismically active areas in the country. Instrumental monitoring of earthquakes for the past century has detected many small to moderate-magnitude earthquakes in Bohol Island. There is at least one known earthquake generator on the island, the East Bohol Fault. In addition, there are other local faults which can be sources of small to large magnitude earthquakes. Earthquakes can also occur offshore or undersea because of local offshore faults near the island or trenches in the vicinity of the region.

Can these present earthquakes indicate volcanic activity?
No. There are no volcanoes in Bohol Island.

What can we expect from the current earthquake activity?
The current seismic trend indicates that the magnitude 7.2 earthquake on 15 October 2013 is the mainshock, and the succeeding small magnitude earthquakes are the aftershocks. Aftershocks are expected, some of which will be felt (ER:and some of them might be dangerous). These may continue for weeks to months, but diminishing in number and strength as time passes. In this case, a higher magnitude earthquake related to this event is no longer expected to occur (ER: True, not related to this event, but as earthquakes cannot be predicted and as the Philippines have many fault systems, a new powerful earthquake can never be excluded).

What can we expect after a large-magnitude/high-intensity earthquake like this?
People are reminded to be cautious of structures visibly weakened or with signs of damage by the 15 October 2013 earthquake, as these may be further damaged by succeeding earthquakes. Strong ground shaking may cause extensive damage to or even the collapse of houses, buildings, bridges, and other infrastructures. Collapsed structures usually account for most of the casualties during a strong earthquake. Falling objects may also cause injuries.

Congratulations to Phivolcs Philippines for their very good explanation of this earthquake

Why are some places sinking and is the sea retreating away from the shore in other locations ?
Answer : deformation and partly liquefaction. In some locations
Isla Batasan is one of the islands located between Bohol and Cebu. It is experiencing sudden floods, causing its residents to believe that their island is slowly sinking. Phivolcs explains that there is indeed a big possibility that some islands may start sinking after the earthquake, due to liquefaction and earthquake deformation. Liquefaction happens when the soil loses its strength and stiffness due to an earthquake, causing it to soften and behave like liquid. Earthquake deformation, on the other hand, refers to a change in the original shape of a material.

Screen Shot 2013-10-24 at 10.57.29

Retreating sea : This can only be explained by an upthrust of some parts of the island. More detailed measurements in the near future will show serious deformations as can be seen on the images below.  The focal mechanism below shows a mainly thrust earthquake = 2 parts of the fault are pressed into each other. The earthquake was triggered when the extreme forces became too big. The released energy did create all the deformations.

Retreating see in the thrust part of the island

Retreating see in the thrust part of the island

Screen Shot 2013-10-24 at 11.05.54

Sinkholes are also generated by the shaking of the underground. Some sinkholes are produced when underground caves are caving in (the island of Bohol had a lot of caves) others are made by the shaking of loose material (some sources say that limestone is abundant in the islands).

Screen Shot 2013-10-24 at 10.59.06

Tectonic summary according to the USGS (a little more detailed)
The October 15, 2013 M 7.1 earthquake near the city of Catigbian on Bohol Island, Philippines, occurred as the result of shallow reverse faulting on a moderately inclined fault dipping either to the northwest, or to the southeast. The depth of the event indicates it ruptured a fault within the crust of the Sunda plate, rather than on the deeper subduction zone plate boundary interface. At the latitude of this earthquake, the Philippine Sea plate moves towards the west-northwest with respect to the Sunda plate at a rate of approximately 10 cm/yr, subducting beneath the Philippine Islands several hundred kilometers to the east of the October 15 earthquake at the Philippine Trench.
The Philippine Islands straddle a region of complex tectonics at the intersection of three major tectonic plates (the Philippine Sea, Sunda and Eurasia plates). As such, the islands are familiar with large and damaging earthquakes, and the region within 500 km of the October 15 earthquake has hosted 19 events of M6 or greater, a dozen of which have been shallow (0-70 km).

Update 23.10.2013 13:20 UTC:
Bad news once again with now 209 presumed dead. The other numbers remain the same.
The infrastructure cost has risen to 1.426 billion PHP counted (approx. 35 million USD).

Update 23.10.2013 04:35 UTC:
Unfortunately again we have had a rising death toll without reducing the missing. 195 dead and 12 missing is the current count.
– 651 have been injured
– 53,000 homes have been damaged – 14,000 of these have been destroyed.
– The public infrastructure loss including all hospitals, buildings, roads, flood control, schools is 1.097 billion PHP (25.47 million USD)
– 344,437 people are displaced (approximately the same amount of people as after the Tohoku earthquake.

Update 22.10.2013 07:35 UTC:
– All towns are now fully accessible by road given the hard work of DPWH in the last week. This is a huge accomplishment and will make it easier for relief to flow.
– The estimates of homeless range from 70,000 to 150,000 long term, with 377,000 currently displaced.
– The affected number has dropped below 3 million with a few barangays removing their “affected status”.

Update 22.10.2013 03:05 UTC:
The fault has been found! A previously unknown fault caused the Bohol earthquake. It caused at least 3m movement across a road in Inabanga. Click above to view the news article (GMA).
– The total number of destroyed buildings is at 14,253 (extra buildings in Loon and Maribojoc counted). It is still expected to rise further.
– The total number of damaged buildings is at 39,186.

for more information and to see others affected, photos, current conditions, etc., go to:    http://earthquake-report.com/2013/10/15/very-strong-earthquake-mindanao-philippines-on-october-15-2013/

Your Color Vibe for Thursday, 10/24

Posted on by

Thursday,  October 24:    Pumpkin Orange

It is time that you realized that there are things that are just good for you.  It is time also to act upon that.  This is a day for shifting focus.  Take a moment to go within and take a look at what you have been prioritizing and see whether it might be a good idea to make some changes.  The energies now are upsetting so many things.  This is not an even time nor is it an easy day.  Step back from everything that is jumping out at you, trying to grab your attention, blinding you with its glare, and step within to look through the clear filter of your heart’s knowing.  These times are not hard, but it does not mean that they are difficult.  They are challenges, and they are challenges you are up to for you had chosen them as part of your destiny right now.

DSCN1017

Questioning Cancer Diagnoses

Posted on by

Millions Wrongly Treated for ‘Cancer,’ National Cancer Institute Panel Confirms

Wednesday, July 31st 2013 at 7:00 am

Written By:

Sayer Ji, Founder

Millions Wrongly Treated for 'Cancer,' National Cancer Institute Panel Confirms

A devastating new report commissioned by the National Cancer Institute reveals that our 40-year long ‘War on Cancer’ has been waged against a vastly misunderstood ‘enemy,’ that in many cases represented no threat to human health whatsoever.

If you have been following our advocacy work on cancer, particularly in connection with the dark side of breast cancer awareness month, you know that we have been calling for the complete reclassification of some types of ‘breast cancer’ as benign lesions, e.g. ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), as well as pointing out repeatedly that x-ray based breast screenings are not only highly carcinogenic but are also causing an epidemic of “overdiagnosis” and “overtreatment” in US women, with an estimated 1.3 million cases in the past 30 years alone.

This week, a National Cancer Institute commissioned panel’s report published in JAMA online confirmed that we all – public and professionals alike – should stop calling low-risk lesions like DCIS and high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (HGPIN) ‘cancer.’

There are wide-reaching implications to this recommendation, including:

  • Millions of women in this country have been diagnosed with DCIS, and millions of men with HGPIN, and subsequently [mis]treated. Are they now to be retroactively reclassified as ‘victims’ of iatrogenesis, with legal recourse to seek compensation?
  • Anyone engaged in a cancer screening will now need to reconsider and weigh both the risks and benefits of such a ‘preventive’ strategy, considering that the likelihood of being diagnosed with a false positive over 10 years is already over 50% for women undergoing annual breast screening.
  • The burgeoning pink ribbon-bedecked ‘breast cancer awareness’ industry will be forced to reformulate its message, as it is theoretically culpable for the overdiagnosis and overtreatment of millions of US women by propagating an entirely false concept of ‘cancer.’

As reported by Medscape:

The practice of oncology in the United States is in need of a host of reforms and initiatives to mitigate the problem of overdiagnosis and overtreatment of cancer, according to a working group sanctioned by the National Cancer Institute.

Perhaps most dramatically, the group says that a number of premalignant conditions, including ductal carcinoma in situ and high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia, should no longer be called “cancer.”

Instead, the conditions should be labeled something more appropriate, such as indolent lesions of epithelial origin (IDLE), the working group suggests. The Viewpoint report was published online July 29 in JAMA.

Fundamentally, overdiagnosis results from the fact that screen-detected ‘cancers’ are disproportionately slower growing ones, present with few to no symptoms, and would never progress to cause harm if left undiagnosed and untreated.

As you can see by the graph above, it is the fast-growing tumors which will be more difficult to ‘detect early,’ and will progress rapidly enough to cause symptoms and perhaps even death unless treated aggressively. But even in the case of finding the tumor early enough to contain it through surgery, chemotherapy and/or radiation, it is well-known that the minority subpopulation of cancer stem cells within these tumors will be enriched and therefore made more malignant through conventional treatment. For instance, radiotherapy radiation wavelengths were only recently found by UCLA Jonnsson Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers to transform breast cancer cells into highly malignant cancer stem-cell like cells, with 30 times higher malignancy post-treatment.

hat this means is that not only are millions of screen-detected abnormalities not ‘cancer’ in the first place but even those which can be considered fast-growing are often being driven into greater malignancy by the conventional chemotherapy, radiation and surgery-based standard of cancer care itself.

Our entire world view of cancer needs to shift from an enemy that “attacks” us and that we must wage war against, to something our body does, presumably to survive an increasingly inhospitable, nutrient-deprived, carcinogen- and radiation-saturated environment, i.e. Cancer As An Ancient Survival Mechanism Unmasked.

When we look at cancer through the optic of fear and see it as an essentially chaos-driven infinitely expanding mass of cells, we are apt to make irrational choices. The physiological state of fear itself has been found to activate multidrug resistance proteins within cancer cells, explaining how our very perception of cancer can influence and/or determine its physiological status and/or trajectory within our body.

The NCI panel report opined:

“The word “cancer” often invokes the specter of an inexorably lethal process; however, cancers are heterogeneous and can follow multiple paths, not all of which progress to metastases and death, and include indolent disease that causes no harm during the patient’s lifetime.”

For more details on what our founder Sayer Ji calls the “Cancer Malignancy Meme,” see his video presentation at the Mind Body Week DC conference, wherein he discuss the ‘Rise of Biomedicine’ within the context of the mind-body connection, and breast cancer overdiagnosis in particular.

Sayer Ji, Mind Body Week D.C., Cancer Lecture

We must keep in mind that this proposed redefinition of cancer is no small academic matter, but will affect the lives of millions of women. Consider that every year, approximately 60,000 women in this country are diagnosed with DCIS, a diagnosis so traumatic that it results in significant psychiatric depression 3 years after even a ‘false positive’ diagnosis. For those less fortunate women, numbering in the millions over the past 30 years, who were told they had ‘cancer’ and needed to undergo lumpectomy, radiation, chemotherapy and/or mastectomy, the NCI panel’s recommendation is a hard pill swallow after the damage has already been irrevocably done.

So, what’s the solution? There is a growing movement towards the use of thermography as a primary diagnostic tool, as it uses no ionizing radiation, and can detect the underlying physiological processes that may indicate inflammation, angiogenesis, cancer-specific metabolic changes, etc., many years before a calcified lesion would appear within an x-ray mammogram. Also, the mainstay of any truly preventive strategy against cancer is diet, nutrition, exercise and avoiding chemical and radiation exposures – the things that we can do  in our daily lives to take back control of and responsibility for our health.

For related research read ‘Hidden Dangers’ of Mammograms Every Woman Should Know About

from:    http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/millions-wrongly-treated-cancer-national-cancer-institute-panel-confirms?page=2

Spring Mobile Users Take Note – UNKNOWN #

Posted on by

 

Warning to all Sprint mobile users: mysterious phone calls from 865-6696 may install NSA surveillance code on your iPhone

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger

NaturalNews) All across America, people who have Sprint service on their iPhones and other mobile devices are receiving repeated calls from the number “865-6696” without any area code. Sprint message boards are full of thousands of complaints of people experiencing this issue, but no one seems to understand the true reason why these calls are being made.

When the call is answered, no one is there. Attempting to call the number back does not work. Spelled out on the phone keypad, the number “865-6696” spells out “UNKNOWN,” adding to the mystery of where these calls are originating or what their purpose might be.

Comments on message boards such as 800notes.com say things like this:

I receive 3 or 4 calls per day from this number… with no area code. just 865-6696. i’ve not answered it for fear of who might be on the other end. i’m not sure how to report this and get this number to stop calling me. VERY aggravating!

Investigation turns up frightening possibility of surveillance code payload

After hearing about this issue from several people I know personally, I decided to investigate.

First, a scan of the message boards indicates this issue is limited almost exclusively to iPhone owners using Sprint. Some people on the message boards have incorrectly assumed these calls must be from telemarketers, but if that were the case, it wouldn’t be limited to just iPhone users, as telemarketers have no way to know what hardware device exists at their target phone numbers. Furthermore, even after blocking this number, people continue to receive calls from it, confirming that these calls are exempted from call blocking.

Here’s another fascinating point: I’ve been able to confirm over and over again that these calls are being placed with foreknowledge of the exact hardware of the target phone number. The originator of these calls, in other words, knows in advance that the user has an iPhone and not an Android or other mobile device.

As user “JMillz” describes in his comment post:

I have an iPhone 4 with Sprint and I just started receiving these calls a couple days ago. I have been reading you guys’ posts on here and we pretty much ALL have the same things in common: All with Sprint AND ALL have either iPhones 4 or 4s’… I’ve been getting calls from this number non-STOP! When I do pick it up they just either hang up or its dead air and then hangs up. VERY annoying! I opened up a case with Sprint tech support and they had NO solutions for this issue other than to do a master reset (which would just erase all media in my phone not backed up to icloud) or change my number! Not cool at all.

This all but proves these are not random telemarketing calls. The calls are clearly being placed by an organization that knows who owns iPhones and wishes to get them to answer their phones.

But why?

NSA surveillance Trojan Horse installed if you answer?

To find out, I called a contact I’ve known for a few years who is an expert in cyber security. He’s been one of the people closely watching the Edward Snowden disclosures and the NSA surveillance issue. He obviously asked me not to reveal his identity, so I won’t.

He told me that this has been going on for over a year and that he believes the phone calls are a vector by which the NSA can install surveillance code onto iPhone devices but only if you answer the phone. Once you answer, a so-called “digital payload” is quickly downloaded to your phone while you are saying “Hello? Hello?”

“The digital payload requires several seconds for a complete download,” my contact told me. “If you hang up before the download completes, your device won’t be infected [because the code cannot be executed].” The code is carried with the call, I was told, as a parallel digital stream encoded into the call data itself, in much the same way that secret messages can be encoded into JPEG images. Apple deliberately built in this “back door” payload receiving system, a fact which has been confirmed by releases of information from former NSA worker Edward Snowden that show how Apple, Google, Microsoft and other corporations deliberately built in back doors for NSA surveillance.

The purpose of this digital payload, I was told, is not known, but it may be Trojan Horse code that attaches “bread crumbs” to your phone calls that allow the NSA to more easily locate, track and archive your phone calls, text messages and mobile web surfing activity.

CNET and others confirm iPhones can be easily hacked

It is not unusual for iPhones to be hacked in ways that allow other users to access all your private details and even bypass your iPhone passwords. CNET, for example, independently confirmed that an iOS 6.1 hack “lets users see your phone app, place calls.”

“CNET can confirm it works,” says the article. It goes on to explain the hack allows others to “access your phone application, listen to your voice mails, and place calls.”

iPhoneHacks.com also reports on a hack in iOS 7 that “allows anyone to make a phone call from the lockscreen.”

ZDnet also reports that iPhones can be “hacked in 60 seconds,” and the article even explains how it’s done.

None of these hacks are digital payload hacks installed using phone calls, of course, but they clearly demonstrate the vulnerabilities or back doors built into the iPhone operating system (iOS).

So why are people receiving repeated calls?

If all this is true, it begs the question of why people would be receiving repeated calls from the 865-6696 phone number. When I asked my contact why this would be happening, he answered that, in his belief, this program was a test rollout on the Sprint network only, and that testing was being done to establish human behavior patterns such as answer rates, hold times after answers, and payload install time requirements. This information could then be used to determine whether a more expanded rollout across other phone networks would make sense.

Skeptical of all this, I asked why the NSA couldn’t just install these surveillance programs in the phones when they are manufactured. Why bother with the complication of digital payloads? He answered that surveillance programs ARE installed at the factory, and that “all iPhones already ship with surveillance code installed,” but that older phones such as the iPhone 4 did not have the most up-to-date surveillance code installed and so needed to be remotely updated with the new code via the “digital payload” described in this article.

Personally, I’m not sure if I buy all that, but in an age where the NSA has now had to admit it routinely spies on nearly ALL phone calls of Americans, this scenario is no longer far-fetched. It may, in fact, be routine.

Bottom line? If you receive a call from 865-6696, don’t answer it. Far better to call 867-5309 and ask for Jenny. (Nod to an 80’s rock song, if you’re curious…)

 

from:    http://www.naturalnews.com/042598_Sprint_iPhone_4_865-6696.html

New Sunspot Activity

Posted on by

SUNSPOTS OF INTEREST: Two large sunspot groups, AR1875 and AR1877,have emerged over the sun’s eastern limb and they are turning toward Earth. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this three-day movie of their approach:

AR1877 is large, and AR1875 is rapidly growing to match it. Both sunspot groups have ‘beta-gamma’ magnetic fields that harbor energy for M-class solar flares. So far, however, neither one is actively flaring. Perhaps this is the calm before the storm. NOAA forecasters estimate a 25% chance of M-flares in the next 24 hours.

fr/spaceweather.com

Your Weekly Chromoscope 10/20-26

Posted on by

October 20-26:

The theme this week is the focus is shifting, ready or not.  This means that places, people, and things that have been in the limelight, in your face for quite some time will be replaced.

 

Overall Color for the Week:    Yellow Ochre

You probably have been wondering just when thing will start to happen.  Well, if they did not start last week, you will find that this week will bring a flurry of activity.  Things that you thought were certain are going to be changing, so leave your schedule open.  Be aware of comments made casually by others, by remarks that you hear offhandedly, by little signs and symbols that keep recurring.  There are no accidents, and something or some things is/are trying to get your attention.  This is a week for awareness.  Take nothing for granted.  This is a week for making note of, journaling, listing the odd events, people, dreams that come your way.  The pattern is coming together more quickly at this time, and all these seemingly random occurrences actually have an important piece to play in the overall pattern as well as in your individual unique pattern.  You are not done.  There is much to do, and this week can bring some rather unsettling inter-dimensional occurrences.  Take note of them when they happen and be open to the information that is there.  You had, in your past, set yup your own reference library, sort of a private Akashic record, that you were going to open at a significant point in your many turns of the wheel.  That point is now.  The answers are there for you as well as the larger questions that you have been gathering information on throughout many cycles.  This week brings so many things to the forefront.  It can be unsettling.  It can be scary.  It can be mind-blowing.  Most of all, however, as you relax into the energy, I know, hard to do with the energies being so chaotic, but just allow and as you align with the energies, you will see that is all so very, very right.  And the time is now.  And you have the power.  So, be ready for the week.  Move forward grounded in your core self, work for your heart, and act from love.

On the larger scale there are going to be a lot of backwards movement and then moving forward and then back and then forward, and if you can see from a distance, you will observe that none of it is making any sense at all.  This is because the political systems in their old paradigms are no longer working.  The have no relevance.  So you will be finding new voices coming forward this week.  They will be making some sense.  And this will be happening in countries throughout the world.  There are alliances being made on different levels and by people who were considered irrelevant by those who thought they held the reins, and those guys are learning a lesson.  There can be some backlash.  Things can get out of hand in some areas.  This can be hard on the surface but it will become a kind of rallying call for others who are tired of the injustices that they are seeing in their own countries.  A lot of stuff will be coming to the fore this week, a lot of secrets revealed and a lot of nonsense shown to be just that.  Emotions can run high in all areas.  Some really unusual earth movements and storms will further accentuate these things.  The net effect of the Earth’s activities will to be to let us know that there is no longer the predictability that we had counted on for so long.  Time is taking on a new aspect, and it is so outside of the usual realm of experience that there can be some rather interesting time issues this week — time crashes, schedule mix-ups, leakages of temporal dimensions outside this one.  This will be reflected in atmospheric disturbances.  There can be discharges of energy in the atmosphere that most will choose to ignore, however those who deal with electronics for their livelihoods, must take care to back up their systems.  There will be an underlying rhythm in the movements of Gaia this week which will reflect the craziness of time, so that cause and effect and pattern and flow will be jumbled together making it very difficult to predict with any certainty where things will go.  In general, cause and effect are becoming muddled, so you will see answers being given before questions are asked, and then those is the media will rush to make sense of it all.  Ah, blessed confusion, you have come to characterize this period right now.  This week on the larger scene will put to the test many time honored assumptions, but it is not to cause fear, but rather to be a lesson to look beyond the appearances, for that which was the standard outline is no longer defining the steps.

Your Color Vibe for Monday, 10/21

Posted on by

Monday, October  21:    Graphite Grey

There is no telling what will be coming out of the shadow’s today, so the best thing is to be ready for anything and everything.  There is a strong possibility that you will be getting a message from someone who has information for you that they have been sitting on for quite some time.  When this happens, listen well for they are not telling the whole story, only what they are comfortable with.  There is a lot of morphing going on in the energies today so there really is nothing solid to hold onto.  This is the perfect time to observe.  There is a certain beauty in what is unformed.  Take time to appreciate that.  The time will be coming when you will need to mold energies to your needs, but today is merely an exercise.  It all sounds rather strange and cryptic, but it will make sense as the day progresses.  Additionally, this will give you an exercise in how to BE as the year winds down.

Iceland UFO Sighting

Posted on by

UFO Sighting Over Iceland Landing In Public Neighborhood, Live Cam Footage, Sept 29, 2013, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: September 29, 2013
Location of sighting: Akureyri, Iceland
This UFO was caught on live cam of Akureyri, Iceland last week. The glowing UFO shows up from the clouds and then slowly descends until it lands in an area that appears to be a housing area. This particular live cam takes still images ever few seconds so yes its normal.
Something that bothers me is that the name Akureyri…its from the “friendship case.” What I’m saying is that in Rocca Pia, Italy there was a group of aliens that met with locals back in the 1960s-1970s. They called themselves the W56 and sometimes by the name Akrij, which sounds very similar to the pronunciation of the city name Akureyri. Was it this alien group which founded this city long ago to hide yet another underground alien base? Click here to view that sighting. SCW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlLzDbCd_xU
from:    http://www.ufosightingsdaily.com/2013/10/ufo-sighting-over-capital-of-iceland.html

Yummy Oatmeal Recipe Links

Posted on by

50 recipes for oats for superfood meals

oats in different forms photo

CC BY 3.0 USDAgov

Our Superfood Recipes Series gathers up great recipes for the most amazing superfoods, inspiring you to add these healthy ingredients to any meal.

Oats are an important grain — so important, they’ve been named a superfood. Oats contain manganese, a mineral that helps bone formation. In fact, just one cup of oats gives you 70% of your daily manganese dose. Along with that comes healthy helpings of vitamin B1 and magnesium. The fiber content of oats helps regulate your blood sugar, keeping you full and satisfied for longer periods of time. And that’s not all; the fiber in oats can also help your cholesterol.

According to Mother Nature Network:

In a review of several studies on oatmeal’s benefits, published in the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine, the data concludes that the soluble fiber in oats does indeed lower cholesterol and contains properties that bolster cardiovascular health.

Other oatmeal benefits mentioned in the study include:Preventing oxidation of arteries
Curbing weight gain
Preventing type 2 diabetes
Bolstering the immune system

From helping ward off cancer to regulating your digestive system, from reducing hypertension to helping with weight loss, oats are a real wonder-food. Not only are oats good for you, but they’re really fun to cook with, providing practically limitless possibilities for recipes throughout the day. There are amazingly delicious ways to add oats to your diet, from smart breakfasts to savory lunches, from comforting breads to sweet desserts. We found lots of vegan ideas, too! Let us know which of these you try, and add your own recipes to the list in the comments.

Breakfast:


© Jaymi Heimbuch

Pan-Seared Oatmeal with Blueberries
Recipe: TreeHugger

Oatmeal Cottage Cheese Pancakes
Recipe: Yummly

Pumpkin Breakfast Bake with Streusel Topping
Recipe: Attune Foods

Tropical Pineapple Boozy Baked Oatmeal
Recipe: Oh She Glows

Strawberry Banana Overnight Oats
Recipe: Free People

Blueberry-Oat Breakfast Squares (Vegan, Gluten-Free)
Recipe: 86 Lemons

Portable Baked Oatmeal – Snack Size!
Recipe: Oh She Glows

Strawberry Oatmeal Breakfast Smoothie
Recipe: AllRecipes


© Jaymi Heimbuch

Basic granola recipe for quick and healthy breakfasts and snacks
Recipe: TreeHugger

Breakfast Parfaits in Mason Jars with Granola
Recipe: TreeHugger

Strawberry Oatmeal Bars
Recipe: Food Network

Apricot Oatmeal Bars
Recipe: Food Network

4-Ingredient Banana Oat Bars
Recipe: The Kitchn

Essential Travel Oatmeal
Recipe: Family Fresh Cooking

Chocolate Oatmeal Pudding Breakfast Cake
Recipe: Family Fresh Cooking

Lunch and Dinner:

Savory Oatmeal with Sauteed Mushroom/Onion & Thyme
Recipe: A Bachelor and His Grill

Avocado & Kale Oatmeal
Recipe: Whisked

Spicy oatmeal with peanuts, cilantro and ginger
Recipe: The Mija Chronicles

Savory Spinach Oats
Recipe: A Girl and Her Food Processor

Savory Oatmeal with Spinach and Roasted Butternut
Recipe: Spoonful of Sugar Free

Vegetable Oats Upma
Recipe: Archana’s Kitchen

Savory Oatmeal with Scallions and Soy Sauce
Recipe: Serious Eats

Oatmeal with Apples, Gruyere and Rosemary
Recipe: Shelbs and Cheese

Curried Oatmeal with Caramelized Onions
Recipe: Tea and Cookies

Baked Breads:

to get links to the other recipes, go to:    http://www.treehugger.com/easy-vegetarian-recipes/50-recipes-oats-superfood-meals.html

More on Bee Colony Collapse

Posted on by

Scientists discover another cause of bee deaths, and it’s really bad news

So what is with all the dying bees? Scientists have been trying to discover this for years. Meanwhile, bees keep dropping like… well, you know.

Is it mites? Pesticides? Cell phone towers? What is really at the root? Turns out the real issue really scary, because it is more complex and pervasive than thought.

Quartz reports:

Scientists had struggled to find the trigger for so-called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) that has wiped out an estimated 10 million beehives, worth $2 billion, over the past six years. Suspects have included pesticides, disease-bearing parasites and poor nutrition. But in a first-of-its-kind study published today in the journal PLOS ONE, scientists at the University of Maryland and the US Department of Agriculture have identified a witch’s brew of pesticides and fungicides contaminating pollen that bees collect to feed their hives. The findings break new ground on why large numbers of bees are dying though they do not identify the specific cause of CCD, where an entire beehive dies at once.

The researchers behind that study in PLOS ONE — Jeffery S. Pettis, Elinor M. Lichtenberg, Michael Andree, Jennie Stitzinger, Robyn Rose, Dennis vanEngelsdorp — collected pollen from hives on the east coast, including cranberry and watermelon crops, and fed it to healthy bees. Those bees had a serious decline in their ability to resist a parasite that causes Colony Collapse Disorder. The pollen they were fed had an average of nine different pesticides and fungicides, though one sample of pollen contained a deadly brew of 21 different chemicals. Further, the researchers discovered that bees that ate pollen with fungicides were three times more likely to be infected by the parasite.

The discovery means that fungicides, thought harmless to bees, is actually a significant part of Colony Collapse Disorder. And that likely means farmers need a whole new set of regulations about how to use fungicides. While neonicotinoids have been linked to mass bee deaths — the same type of chemical at the heart of the massive bumble bee die off in Oregon — this study opens up an entirely new finding that it is more than one group of pesticides, but a combination of many chemicals, which makes the problem far more complex.

And it is not just the types of chemicals used that need to be considered, but also spraying practices. The bees sampled by the authors foraged not from crops, but almost exclusively from weeds and wildflowers, which means bees are more widely exposed to pesticides than thought.

The authors write, “[M]ore attention must be paid to how honey bees are exposed to pesticides outside of the field in which they are placed. We detected 35 different pesticides in the sampled pollen, and found high fungicide loads. The insecticides esfenvalerate and phosmet were at a concentration higher than their median lethal dose in at least one pollen sample. While fungicides are typically seen as fairly safe for honey bees, we found an increased probability of Nosema infection in bees that consumed pollen with a higher fungicide load. Our results highlight a need for research on sub-lethal effects of fungicides and other chemicals that bees placed in an agricultural setting are exposed to.”

While the overarching issue is simple — chemicals used on crops kill bees — the details of the problem are increasingly more complex, including what can be sprayed, where, how, and when to minimize the negative effects on bees and other pollinators while still assisting in crop production. Right now, scientists are still working on discovering the degree to which bees are affected and by what. It will still likely be a long time before solutions are uncovered and put into place. When economics come into play, an outright halt in spraying anything at all anywhere is simply impossible.

Quartz notes, “Bee populations are so low in the US that it now takes 60% of the country’s surviving colonies just to pollinate one California crop, almonds. And that’s not just a west coast problem—California supplies 80% of the world’s almonds, a market worth $4 billion.”

from:    http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/scientists-discover-another-cause-bee-deaths-and-its-really-bad-news.html