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Your Color VIbe for 6/28

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Friday, June 28:     Pink

Today brings some unexpected events as things become much easier than you anticipated.   However you must work with your attitude as the current energy is bring up emotions and reactions that are going to tempt you to make inappropriate responses, to overlook things, and to want always to be the one that everyone is paying attention to.  This is good and bad.  When these things happen, it is important to step back and take a look at what is happening around you.  Is it reminding you of a situation in the past?  Are you tuning into feelings that were associated with this kind of an event before but perhaps are not appropriate right now?  Have you reached the end with this kind of thing?  Lots of questions today.  You have the answers, and many will be much easier to face right now than they have been in the past.

Activity at Alaska’s Pavlof Volcano

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Reinvigorated Eruption at Pavlof Disrupts Air Traffic

The explosive opening phase of the Pavlof eruption, seen on May 18, 2013. The current activity at Pavlof is likely very similar to what occurred during the first days of the eruption. Image: Brandon Wilson / AVO-USGS.

The eruption at Pavlof in Alaska looks to be increasing over the past few days, according to the latest reports from the Alaska Volcano Observatory. Not since the eruption initually started has Pavlof produced ash plumes as impressive as the ones generated Tuesday and Wednesday, with estimates based on satellite imagery (which are somewhat obscured by clouds as well) and pilot observations of ~8.5 km (28,000 feet). Without clear views from the ground, it is hard to determine the exact nature of the eruption, but likely Pavlof is experiencing another bout of lava fountaining from the active crater, similar to the activity in early May. However, most terrestrial views have been obscured by clouds. The seismicity at Pavlof over the last 48 hours has been the most intense since the volcano rumbled back to like over almost two months ago, supporting the idea that the eruption has been reinvigorated into a new explosive phase. Ash fall has also been reported in communities to the southwest of Pavlof, including King Cove, 48 km (30 miles) distant.

 

This betrays the importance of remote sensing when it comes to volcano monitoring. Without satellite observations and seismic stations, we would know very little about this eruption at Pavlof — and it has caused some flight disruptions for airlines that service the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutians. So far, the winds have been blowing the ash out to sea rather than towards the Alaska mainland, however, if the winds were to change, more flights could see disruption as far inland as Anchorage.

from:    http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/06/reinvigorated-eruption-at-pavlof-disrupts-air-traffic/#more-162466

Sheveluch Volcano, Russia Eruption

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Sheveluch volcano, Kamchatka, Russia – (AV & CultureVolcan – June 27 – 15:37 UTC)
KVERT report of June 26 : According to seismic data, strong ash explosions began from 19:10 UTC on June 26, and continued about 40 min. Probably ash plumes rose up to 33,000-39,400 (10-12 km) a.s.l. Ash plumes are extending to the SOUTH-WEST of the volcano. Ashfalls was in Klyuchi Village – about 02 mm red ash. Density clouds obscure the volcano at now.
Explosive-extrusive-effusive eruption of the volcano continues. Ash explosions up to 23,800 ft (10 km) a.s.l. could occur at any time. Ongoing activity could affect international and low-flying aircraft.

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Ash falls at Klyuchi Village on June 26, 21:00-23:00 UTC – Courtesy and copyright – Yu. Demyanchuk – Institute of Volcanology and Seismology FEB RAS, KVERT

Ashfall in Lazo village - image courtesy and copyright vmdaily.ru - also thanks to http://laculturevolcan.blogspot.fr/ for pointing us

Ashfall in Lazo village – image courtesy and copyright vmdaily.ru – also thanks to http://laculturevolcan.blogspot.fr/ for pointing us

from:    http://earthquake-report.com/2013/05/27/wordwide-volcano-activity-copahue-volcano-chile-alert-raised-to-red/

Nepal Large Earthquake

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Dangerous earthquake in Rukum, Nepal injures 20, damages 14 houses

Last update: June 28, 2013 at 3:15 pm by By

Update 15:10 UTC : At least 20 people are reported to be injured in earthquake in Rukum, Nepal. Earthquake has damaged more than 14 houses in Rukum. Still have to wait for tomorrow morning for details. People rushed out of their houses in Salyan, Jajarkot, Rolpa and other neighboring districts.

Update 13:28 UTC : We have just added the data of the Nepal National Seismological Center to the list. NSC has reported a Richter Magnitude ML 5.5. They are never disclosing the depth, at least not online. A same difference in data was seen at the earlier Rukum earthquakes. ER keeps his denomination as “dangerous”.

Update 12:59 UTC : Light to weak shaking has been reported from Dailekh, Pokhara, Birendranagar and Tulsipur

Update 12:33 UTC : On March 24 a similar, although a little weaker, earthquake struck the same area. Some prople had to be treated for minor injuries + a number of houses were damaged and others collapsed. Check our in-depth article about this earthquake here.

Update 12:30 UTC : the earthquake was well felt in Kathmandu as well as in Pokhara. We do not expect damage outside the perimeter we have referred to below.

Update 12:25 UTC : It will take many hours before we will be getting news from the epicenter area. We consider a radius of 20 km around the epicenter as a potentially dangerous landslide area

We do not immediately fear shaking damage from this earthquake, but we do fear dangerous landslides as the monsoon has began his yearly work in the Himalayas

Different epicenters are being reported by the most important seismological agencies.

Image of the landscape near the epicenter - Image courtesy MaMaTa

Image of the landscape near the epicenter – Image courtesy MaMaTa

42km (26mi) NNE of Salyan, Nepal
58km (36mi) E of Dailekh, Nepal
66km (41mi) ENE of Birendranagar, Nepal
67km (42mi) N of Tulsipur, Nepal
318km (198mi) WNW of Kathmandu, Nepal

Most important Earthquake Data:

Magnitude : 5

Local Time (conversion only below land) : 2013-06-28 17:25:51

GMT/UTC Time : 2013-06-28 11:40:51

Depth (Hypocenter)  : 10 km

from:    http://earthquake-report.com/2013/06/28/moderate-earthquake-nepal-on-june-28-2013/

On Processed Foods & Health

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10 Things the Processed Food Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know

shutterstock_3154260124th June 2013

By Donna Gates

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

Okay, they taste good… and they’re easy. In fact, they’re everywhere you look. Processed foods seem like the answer to today’s busy lives. And new fads and fancy advertisements make promises that keep us coming back for more.

But before you hit the vending machine or the fast food window, find out what the processed food industry doesn’t want you to know.

1. Processed foods are addictive and can cause you to over-eat.

Whole foods are made up of carbohydrates, proteins, fats, fiber and water. When foods are processed the components of these foods are modified (for example, fiber, water and nutrients are removed) and in other cases, components are concentrated. In each case, processing changes the way they are digested and assimilated in your body.

Eating highly processed or highly concentrated foods can artificially stimulate dopamine (the pleasure neurotransmitter), which plays a role in addiction. In this way, you are eating foods that lack nutrients and fiber, but create a pleasurable feeling

A food addiction starts because you feel good when you are eating these foods and they make you think they taste better. You crave that pleasurable feeling again and again and viola… this is what starts a food addiction.[1]

2. Processed foods are linked to obesity.

Additives in processed foods, like high fructose corn syrup, sugar and MSG have been linked to weight gain and obesity.[2]

Dr. Mercola recently reported about a new study that showed childhood obesity could be reduced by 18 percent, simply by cutting out fast food advertisements during children’s programming.[3] The Australian government is clearly more concerned about their children’s health as television advertisements to children were banned several years ago.

3. Processed foods often contain ingredients that do not follow the principle of food combining, which can lead to low energy, poor digestion, illness, acidic blood and weight gain. 

An example would be a frozen meat and cheese pizza. Cheese (a dairy product), meat (an animal protein) and pizza crust (a grain product) make a terrible food combination that can wreak havoc on your digestive health.

4. Processed foods contribute to an imbalanced inner ecosystem, which can lead to digestive problems, cravings, illness and disease. Beneficial microflora cannot survive in your digestive tract when you are poisoning them. Like us they thrive on foods that are made by nature not by man.

5. A diet high in processed foods can lead to depression, memory issues and mood swings.

Ingredients in processed foods are often the lowest cost and sub-par, nutritionally. For example, the fats and oils used in processed foods are refined, which means they are stripped of the essential fatty acids necessary for healthy blood sugar levels, moods and memory. Your heart, hormones and brain suffer when you choose to eat these fats and oils. Instead choose the organic, unrefined or “virgin” fats and oils that are recommended on The Body Ecology Diet.

6. Processed foods often go hand in hand with “eating on the run” or multitasking.

Most people will choose convenience if they are on the run and in today’s busy lives, who of us isn’t? Unfortunately, multitasking while eating causes people to lose touch with their natural appetite, often leading to weight gain. Additionally, multitasking sends the wrong signals to your digestive system, which needs to be in a restful mode to digest properly.

7. Nutrition labels on processed foods are often misleading and have harmful health effects.

Many labels say “sugar free,” but contain other sweeteners like agave, which is like high fructose corn syrup. Additionally, product labeling may hide ingredients like GM (genetically modified) foods and harmful additives like MSG. These are hidden behind words on the label like “natural flavorings” or “approved spices”.[4]

8. Diets high in processed meats (like hot dogs and deli meats) have been linked to various forms of cancer, such as pancreatic cancer, colorectal cancer and stomach cancer.[5]

9. Eating too many processed foods can lead to infertility and malnutrition.

Processed foods, like cereal, are stripped of important vitamins and nutrients that your body truly needs. You could be eating a large amount of calories and still be malnourished if your diet is high in processed foods. Animal studies have shown that over three generations, a deficient diet causes reproduction to cease.[6] Today, infertility is on the rise, affecting 7.3 million people in America alone.

10. Processed foods are made for long shelf-life, not long human life!

Chemicals, additives and preservatives are added to processed foods so that they will last for a long time without going rancid or affecting the taste of the food. Food manufacturers spend time, money and research on beautiful packaging and strategies to lengthen shelf-life, with little attention on how the foods will lengthen your life or create lasting health.[7]

Honor Your Body With Body Ecology

Eating processed foods is a vicious cycle. They are convenient, they taste good, we get quick energy and pleasure… then comes the slump. We rebound from this slump by eating even more processed food and the vicious cycle continues. Over time, your energy drops. Perhaps you notice weight gain or other signs of aging.

So how do you break the vicious cycle?

By following the 7 healthy eating principles of the Body Ecology program and choosing our delicious, properly prepared “real” foods. Body Ecology is a whole foods diet that can create new health in your digestive system, and your immune system and also restore your youthful vitality.

One simple, convenient change can boost your health and immunity!

If you are living life on the go, how about adding at least 2-4 ounces of probiotic-rich Coco-Biotic to your daily routine? Fast, easy AND super healthy, Coco-Biotic aids your digestion, boosts your energy and is a best-kept beauty secret for beautiful skin and hair. Forgo those so-called energy drinks and choose Coco-Biotic for long lasting health and beauty!

If you are not ready to change your diet completely, here are two quick, easy steps that pack a huge punch in health benefits:

1. Add fermented foods and drinks to your diet.

Fermented foods and drinks, like cultured vegetables and probiotic liquids are key to aiding your digestion, boosting your immunity and providing lasting energy. Start today by committing to a shot of probiotic-rich Coco-Biotic before breakfast and again for a mid-afternoon pick me up. Quick and convenient, it’s a much more potent treat or “pleasure-booster” to give  your body during your busy day.

2. Ditch your sugar and substitute with all-natural Lakanto.

Zero-calorie, zero-gylcemic index and safe for diabetics, Lakanto is the best way to break your sugar addiction. We have received e-mails each week from people who tell us that by discovering Lakanto they now can avoid sugar. They feel great, have lost a lot of weight and couldn’t have broken their sugar addiction without it. It’s natural to want to satisfy your sweet tooth, but you deserve to be healthy too! Simply replace your sugar with Lakanto, which looks, tastes and bakes like sugar – and you’ll be on your way to delicious health!

These two steps alone may have you feeling so energized that you are ready to tackle the Body Ecology program for even better health!

Honor your body, your taste buds AND your health with the 7 principles of Body Ecology. Changing a few habits today can lead to a lifetime of good health!

from:    http://wakeup-world.com/2013/06/24/10-things-the-processed-food-industry-doesnt-want-you-to-know/

Thank You, Texas Senator Wendy Davis! #SB5 is Dead

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Cecile Richards

President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Planned Parenthood Action Fund

Some Amazing News Out of Texas

Posted: 06/26/2013 10:08 am

You can practically hear the shouts this morning as folks all over the country wake up to – I can’t believe I get to write this – some amazing news out of Texas.

The final hours of the fight against one of the most extreme anti-abortion laws in the country ended the way it all began: with a citizens’ filibuster – albeit somewhat less official.

For eleven hours, State Senator Wendy Davis led a marathon filibuster while the whole nation watched. Opponents of women’s health did everything they could to push her aside, and she held her ground to block a bill that could have shut down 37 of Texas’ 42 providers of safe and legal abortion.

When some politicians finally used legislative maneuvers to stop her, the crowd took over. For more than 15 minutes, supporters who had packed into the capitol screamed, cheered, and chanted to bring the Senate to a halt. I was standing on the Senate floor, and I can tell you that the sound of democracy was nearly deafening.

Even Lt. Governor David Dewhurst was forced to admit that this “unruly mob” was “the most incredible thing” he had ever seen in his life. And as long as I live, I will never forget the moment I was lucky enough to stand in the capitol rotunda and read a text message from Senator Davis:

“I love you guys. The Lt Gov has agreed – #SB5 is dead.”

The fact of the matter is, here in Texas, we’ve started something no one can stop. They lit the fuse in Austin – but the fire is catching all over the country. People don’t want politicians making women’s private medical decisions, cutting off access to lifesaving preventive care or safe and legal abortion – and they absolutely will not stand for it.

A few nights ago, as things were heating up on the ground in Austin, Rachel Maddow asked: “Texas – who knew?”

We knew.

And we did it.

from:    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cecile-richards/some-amazing-news-out-of_b_3503092.html

Cancer Studies Funded by

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Industry-backed studies more prominent at meetings

By Genevra Pittman

NEW YORK | Tue Jun 18, 2013 3:11pm EDT

(Reuters Health) – Studies that are funded by pharmaceutical companies or involve industry-backed scientists tend to be more prominent at cancer meetings than independent studies, a new report suggests.

“Figuring out the reasons behind these findings is critical,” said Dr. Beverly Moy, who led the analysis at Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center in Boston.

She and her colleagues also found the proportion of presentations with a financial conflict of interest increased between the 2006 and 2011 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meetings.

“As long as the studies are done well, I don’t think there’s any objection to them becoming more prominent,” Moy told Reuters Health.

However, she added, past evidence suggests industry-funded research is more likely to be published if it’s positive – in favor of a product or pill – than if it’s negative, a phenomenon known as publication bias.

So it’s important to make sure relationships between scientists and companies stay “productive,” she said, rather than become untrustworthy.

The researchers analyzed conflicts of interest, ratings and conference prominence for more than 20,700 scientific abstracts, or research summaries, presented at ASCO meetings in 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011.

Over those years, the proportion of studies reporting a financial conflict of interest rose from 33 percent to 38 percent. Their abstracts were rated as slightly better quality by peer reviewers, on average: 2.76 on a scale from 1 to 5, where lower is better, versus 3.01 for studies without a link to industry.

Abstracts tied to pharmaceutical companies were also more likely to have their own session at a conference, or to be presented during a talk or poster discussion. For example, the ratio of industry-supported to non-supported studies was twice as high among oral presentations as among general posters, which receive less attention.

The findings appear in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, which is published by ASCO.

“With the increase in these relationships, we really need to figure out how to manage them,” Moy said. It’s possible, she said, that such academic-industry teams “yield an alliance that produces better research.”

Alternatively, companies might seek out the most prominent researchers for partnerships, or vice-versa.

“I think a lot of the work that gets a high profile is, of necessity, work that has a relationship with industry. They are, after all, providers of most of the ‘breakthrough’ drugs,” said Dr. David Johnson, chair of internal medicine at the UT Southwestern School of Medicine in Dallas.

But the study does serve as a caution as well, said Johnson, who has studied conflicts of interest in medical research but wasn’t involved in this analysis.

“It again points out that there is this potential for greater and greater influence in the relationship of industry and the direction that biomedical research takes, and we have to constantly be on guard,” he told Reuters Health.

“I think there is a pretty clear influence that industry has on research that’s not always bad, but it’s not always good either … We just have to be really, really cautious.”

SOURCE: bit.ly/128Yg4U Journal of Clinical Oncology, online June 17, 2013.

from:    http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/18/us-health-industry-study-idUSBRE95H16R20130618

Your Color Vibe for June 27

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Thursday, June 27:   Red

These days people are changing so much, or perhaps it is just you yourself who is changing so much.  This can lead to a lot of questions and questioning.  It can also evoke some memories of the past.  This is a good day for going within and taking stock of just WHO you are.  Using the lens of the true eyes of the heart to observe what is going on around you, how people are acting, what themes there are that keep repeating, the bits of déjà vu, whatever strikes as meaningful.  It is also a good day to go within and truly feel your physicality.  Listen to what the body is saying to you and acknowledge that it is all part of the greater shift that is going on around you.  Today is a kind of pivotal day.  There are choices to be made, and based upon them, you will go one way or the other.  Remember, that if you work from your core and listen to your intuition, then you will truly know/feel the ways of your heart.

The Perils of Over-THinking

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Peggy Nolan

Chief Executive Stepmom

10 Ways Over-Thinking Destroys Your Happiness

Have you ever been stuck over-thinking something that happened or something you think will happen only to get your knickers in a bunch? I know I have! This over-thinking thing keeps most of us stuck. It keeps us rooted in fear, uncertainty, and doubt. It’s a major contributor to the FUD factor and a huge reason why most people can’t find their happy.

I don’t know about you, but my over-thinking habit robbed me of my own happiness and joy. If I could put my finger on it, I’d say the trigger for breaking up with this soul-sucking, life-leeching habit over 10 years ago was when I decided I was sick and tired of being sick and tired. I had headaches, IBS, and that God awful pit in my stomach that never seemed to go away.

To make matters worse, I was in a toxic relationship (even though I didn’t know it at the time) that made my over-thinking monkey mind spin out of control. I was on my own crazy-go-round 24/7. When life as I knew it ended after my first marriage imploded, I gave up soda, coffee, and over-thinking. (For a while, I gave up men, but that’s another story!)

Here are 10 ways over-thinking destroys your happiness. Leave a comment and let me know if you can think of other ways over-thinking is a buzz kill.

  1. Over-thinking a problem will keep any problem a problem, which will keep you stuck inside the same problem until you quit thinking about it.
  2. Over-thinking a situation will make the situation worse in direct proportion to the time and energy you spend over-thinking it.
  3. Over-thinking anything prevents your creative problem solving skills from bubbling up.
  4. Over-thinking makes you worry, and worry is nothing more than your imagination concocting a negative future state.
  5. Over-thinking is a time suck — you’re so busy in a negative future state or negative past situation (which you can’t change) that you completely forget about right here right now.
  6. Over-thinking robs you of energy that could be better focused on things that are worthy of your attention.
  7. Over-thinking leads you to second guessing yourself and creates self-doubt.
  8. Over-thinking is a TNT drama that occurs on a stage, inside your head, where you are the director, producer, actor, actress, supporting cast, key grip, sound manager, and executive assistant to the executive assistant of the casting director.
  9. Over-thinking fabricates problems and gory “what if” horror stories.
  10. Over-thinking creates heightened feelings of anger, resentment, jealousy, fear, doubt, indecision, confusion, etc., as if whatever you are over-thinking is happening in real life.

When you break up with over-thinking it’s like writing your own “get out of jail free” card. It doesn’t cost you anything to end your relationship with the drama inside your head. You can decide to focus on things in the present that are deserving of your time and attention whenever you choose. The here and now is calling… will you answer?

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Your Color Vibe for 6/26

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Wednesday, June 26:    Pale Violet

Well, it is finally here.  The question now is what are you going to do with it.  That is a big one because you have been hiding your power and your true abilities from yourself.  Actually, you have always known they were there, you just preferred to ride the tide (different from go with the flow) and let others take the helm.  So, now that you need your power and ability, you can do it.  Once again, it is a matter of choice.  This day’s energy carries with it a number of bumps and turns.  That Trickster has dashed onto the scene with his bag of tricks full and at the ready.  There are things that he has to show you, however you need to be able to play a bit with him in order to get his information.  (The Trickster has your best interests at heart, he just likes to have some fun.  It is his nature.)  You can do it, and actually, you will enjoy it.  Do not let this opportunity pass.