tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48866952581407466852012-06-18T11:29:08.507-07:00Doom’s Day ጥፋተ-ዓለምWorking together to understand , bring awareness and help to those victims of Earth’s Natural Dynamic of Change and Cleansing in her eternal voyage though the galaxy and prepare ourselves for the coming events…Ethiopianismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00031877528043535274noreply@blogger.comBlogger269125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4886695258140746685.post-88567156383730225672012-06-18T11:29:00.001-07:002012-06-18T11:29:08.519-07:002012-06-18T11:29:08.519-07:002012 Doomsday and The Arrival of Planet X | Scienceray<h2 class="post-excerpt" style="color: #392f23; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="padding: 0px 0px 15px;">The Mayans:The Mayan Long Count calendar, dating back to at least the 6th century BC, has greater significance to us today because the end-date for this calendar is fast approaching. The Mayan’s were a particularly advanced civilization, and their calendar was one of their greatest achievements.</div></h2><div class="KonaBody" data-iceapc="3" data-iceapw="492" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left;"><div data-iceapc="1" style="padding: 0px 0px 15px;"><img alt="" height="219" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/readers/2012/06/13/mayao_1.jpg" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="350" /></div><div data-iceapw="492" style="padding: 0px 0px 15px;">The Mayans:The Mayan Long Count calendar, <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD5" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-image: none !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 171, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: #7fab00; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">dating</span> back to at least the 6th century BC, has greater significance to us today because the end-date for this calendar is fast approaching. The Mayan’s were a particularly advanced civilization, and their calendar was one of their greatest achievements.The ancient Mayan Long Count calendar ends on December 21st, 2012. Although this is obviously just a date and the calendar had to end sometime, rather than spiral into infinity, there is general uncertainty among many people as to what this means. Why does the calendar end on this specific date, and does it hold any significance for us?2012 Doomsday:Some people think that 2012 Doomsday will bring the <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-image: none !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 171, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: #7fab00; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">end of the world</span>, or at the very least we will see catastrophe and destruction on an epic scale. Let us not forget the wholesale panic and confusion that the approaching millennium brought us. The World was going to end on New Year’s Day, 2000. Obviously it didn’t, as we all lived to ‘fear’ another day. Now we need a new date to dread the approach of.Many more people think that 2012 Doomsday might not be such a bad year and this date might bring a “new beginning”, or a new enlightened era of human-kind.The Mayan’s were extraordinarily accurate when predicting the movements of the planets. One theory is that on this date in 2012, the planets of our <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD4" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-image: none !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 171, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: #7fab00; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">solar system</span> will align with the center of the Milky Way galaxy.Planet X:Another theory is that a rogue planet, called Planet X, will either collide with the Earth or come close enough to cause catastrophic destruction. Planet X, often referred to as the 12th Planet, is also called Nibiru – a name derived from author Zecharia Sitchin and his works on Sumerian and Babylonian mythology.Nibiru is a planet-sized object that was first observed moving toward our solar system in the 1980s by scientists, although most scientists deny its existence. It is believed, by some people, to have already entered our solar system on a course that has brought it around the far side of the Sun, obscuring it from the Earth.Beyond 2012 Doomsday:The effects of a collision with the Earth would be disastrous. An asteroid colliding with the Earth would almost certainly result in an Extinction-Level Event, or ELE, but a planet-sized object hitting the Earth would probably result in the total destruction of our planet.Fortunately, the chances of a collision are extremely remote. Probably as remote as you or I winning <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-image: none !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 171, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: #7fab00; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">the lottery</span>, but let’s not forget that some people do win the lottery. Every week someone wins the lottery!A near-miss would be unfortunate, but not fatal. The Result would be severe weather conditions, millions of deaths and probably a new Ice Age.Looking on the bright side, most scientists don’t believe that Planet X even exists. Even so, there are countless other ways for fate to get it’s claws into us.<span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD11" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-image: none !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 171, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: #7fab00; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">The year</span> 2012 might pass uneventfully into 2013. It probably will – if we’re lucky.</div></div><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Read more: <a href="http://scienceray.com/astronomy/2012-doomsday-and-the-arrival-of-planet-x/#ixzz1yAevdY9L" style="color: #003399; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">http://scienceray.com/astronomy/2012-doomsday-and-the-arrival-of-planet-x/#ixzz1yAevdY9L</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4886695258140746685-8856715638373022567?l=ethiopianism-doomsday.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ethiopianismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00031877528043535274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4886695258140746685.post-20058403370891052522012-06-14T01:25:00.001-07:002012-06-14T01:25:54.514-07:002012-06-14T01:25:54.514-07:00Solar Flare of June 13, 2012 - YouTube<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v4gvCwTQPM&feature=g-all-bul">M1.2 Solar Flare & Earth DIRECTED CME June 13, 2012 - YouTube</a>: "<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/7v4gvCwTQPM" width="560"></iframe>"<br />
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outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;"><h2 class="h2" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Welsh Secretary Cheryl Gillan has praised the 'impressive' efforts of an RAF Sea King helicopter crew caught on camera evacuating people from a flooded caravan park near Aberystwyth, west Wales, as the mammoth clean-up begins.</h2><div class="art-fd fd-gr1-b clrd" style="background-color: white; background-image: url(http://f.metro.co.uk/i/f/fades/fd-spt-sm.png); background-position: 0px -1593px; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-top-color: rgb(209, 209, 209); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 12px 0px 0px; min-height: 1px; outline: 0px; padding: 9px 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;"></div></div><div class="clrd" style="background-color: transparent; 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border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="466"></object></div></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The River Leri burst its banks overnight under pressure from the driving rain and winds of up to 70mph, as homes in villages across the area were battered by the elements. </div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The huge clean-up operation has now started as locals, of which up to 150 were displaced, attempt to repair the damage from flood water lashing up against properties.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Welsh Secretary Ms Gillan said the situation is now 'under control' and praised the 'very impressive [rescue] operations' in 'horrific weather conditions' that had earlier been caught on camera. </div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The worst-hit areas were several parks and river-side properties, including the Riverside Caravan Park in Llandre where struggling families were rescued by lifeboats and three people had to be airlifted from the roofs of caravans and other mobile and static homes.</div><div class="img-cnt figure" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 0px auto 15px; min-height: 1px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 466px; zoom: 1;"><img alt="Beachside Holiday Park near Aberystwyth Wales floods rain UK weather" height="310" src="http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2012/06/09/article-1339249202524-13868784000005DC-719553_466x310.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="466" /><span class="img-cap legend" style="background-color: black; border: 0px; color: white; display: block; font-size: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 4px 6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Clear skies: The heavy rainfall of earlier has subsided, but the flood waters remain at the Beachside Holiday Park near Aberystwyth (Picture: PA)</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">One Royal National Lifeboat Institute crew assisting in the rescue effort even became trapped themselves - prompting an RAF Sea King helicopter to be called in from the neighbouring district to pull them to safety.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Earlier, the full scale of the challenge facing the rescue teams was revealed in a video taken from the helicopter, which shows emergency workers being winched down onto the roof of a static home.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The building appears to be almost completely submerged as the crew extract people stranded inside, as the wind and rain swirls around - making the mission all the more treacherous.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">'Those involved in the rescue mission at the caravan parks in Llandre have acted quickly and with courage,' Ms Gillan added.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">'Wales Office are in contact with the teams involved and I would like to offer them my support and thanks for the way in which they have come to the aid of all the residents and holiday makers affected, and kept disruption to a minimum.' </div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Stephen South, the owner of the Riverside Caravan Park, said everyone had been accounted for and has confirmed the operation to begin repairs has begun.</div><div class="img-cnt figure" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 0px auto 15px; min-height: 1px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 466px; zoom: 1;"><img alt="Talybont Wales rescue floods UK weather" height="309" src="http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2012/06/09/article-1339239697270-13863D84000005DC-272193_466x309.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="466" /><span class="img-cap legend" style="background-color: black; border: 0px; color: white; display: block; font-size: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 4px 6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Large parts of the nearby village of Talybont lie underwater (Picture: Alamy)</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Earlier on Saturday, he said: 'At 2am the river that runs alongside the site breached the banks.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">'Some people left of their own accord when water levels were around 2ft but it gradually got worse and we have been evacuating people ever since.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">'They launched the life boat to get people but the force of the water swept the lifeboat into one of the buildings.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">'The last people to be rescued were the lifeboat crew.' </div><div class="art-img" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 12px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 304px;"><img alt="Lifeboats are being used to rescue people from a Welsh caravan park (BBC)" height="185" src="http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/dn/2012/06/09/801381100_14062412-596x362-1339231938672_304x185_inline.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="304" /><span class="img-cap legend" style="background-color: black; border: 0px; color: white; display: block; font-size: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 4px 6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lifeboats are being used to rescue people from a Welsh caravan park (BBC)</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A spokesperson for Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said: 'There is a large amount of water and a heavy current running through the caravan park.'</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The representative went on to explain that dozens of personnel from the fire service are in attendance at the scene.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Many were, and continue to be, armed with a range of rescue aids, including boats as the conditions affect various surrounding areas in different ways. </div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Measures are also being taken to stave off flooding in villages, with images from the scene showing front doors almost half-submerged beneath the water. </div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Royal Air Force Sea King helicopters were used in the emergency operation, while lifeboats are also available to stricken holidaymakers.</div><div class="img-cnt figure" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 0px auto 15px; min-height: 1px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 466px; zoom: 1;"><img alt="Breakdown truck floods Wales" height="310" src="http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2012/06/09/article-1339249132492-13869B5D000005DC-245392_466x310.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="466" /><span class="img-cap legend" style="background-color: black; border: 0px; color: white; display: block; font-size: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 4px 6px; vertical-align: baseline;">A breakdown truck is stranded in flood waters near the town of Machynlleth (Picture: Getty)</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Another 11 people in the region were rescued from nearby Mill House caravan park at Dol-y-Bont, also in Llandre. They were attended by the fire service.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Between 4ft and 5ft of water has been reported as running through the nearby town of Talybont, leading to a crowd of about 30 local people seeking refuge in the local community hall.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Emergency services first received a call-out with news that the water had reached serious levels at about 3am this morning.</div><div class="img-cnt figure" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 0px auto 15px; min-height: 1px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 466px; zoom: 1;"><img alt="Riverside Caravan Park west Wales extreme weather floods flooding winds monsoon" height="310" src="http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2012/06/09/article-1339232273832-1385E5C6000005DC-26416_466x310.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="466" /><span class="img-cap legend" style="background-color: black; border: 0px; color: white; display: block; font-size: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 4px 6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Caravans and mobile homes lie submerged at Riverside Caravan Park (Picture: BBC)</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PICTURES: <a href="http://pictures.metro.co.uk/wales-hit-by-floods-9-june-2012" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Wales hit by floods and heavy rain</a></div></div></div></div><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
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Three thousand people in northern <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/italy" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Italy">Italy</a> bedded down in tents or temporary accommodation on Sunday night after a strong earthquake in the early hours killed six people, injured scores more and toppled centuries-old churches and clock towers.</div>
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Aftershocks in the Emilia-Romagna region continued to bring down damaged buildings during the day, injuring a firefighter, as emergency services scrambled to find temporary shelter for residents afraid to return home.</div>
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"Right now our absolute priority is for people to spend the night in acceptable conditions," said civil protection chief Franco Gabrielli. With storms forecast for the area, the Italian government was due to meet on Tuesday to consider declaring a state of emergency.</div>
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The 6.0 magnitude earthquake, which struck the Emilia-Romagna region 3.2 miles below ground at 4.04am, was felt across northern Italy, from Liguria to the Veneto, and was described by one official as the worst in the area since the 1300s. The last serious earthquake to strike Italy was the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/07/italy-earthquake-cultural-damage" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">6.3 scale shock in L'Aquila in 2009</a> which killed nearly 300.</div>
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"There's nothing to be done," said Valeria Balboni, standing amid shattered glass in her family's bathroom fittings factory near Sant'Agostino. "We're going to have to close, like so many of the others."</div>
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The earthquake left major <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/20/italy-earthquake-kills-five-history?newsfeed=true#" id="_GPLITA_3" in_rurl="http://www.textsrv.com/click?v=Q0g6MjAxNzA6NTE1OnRvd25zOmViZTQzODUzZGQwZWUyYzQxMzhkNjZlYWI0YmJhYWFjOnotMTExMi0zMzkyMTp3d3cuZ3VhcmRpYW4uY28udWs%3D" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="Powered by Text-Enhance">towns</a>such as Bologna unscathed but wrought havoc in small towns and villages dotting the countryside between Bologna, Ferrara and Modena.</div>
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In San Felice sul Panaro, the tops of several towers of a 14th-century castle collapsed while fresco-filled churches in the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/20/italy-earthquake-kills-five-history?newsfeed=true#" id="_GPLITA_0" in_rurl="http://www.textsrv.com/click?v=Q0g6MjAxNzA6NTE1OnRvd246ZjFjZDBlMzgzMDE5NTllOTk5ZmM1ZDVkNTM5MTQxY2Q6ei0xMTEyLTMzOTIxOnd3dy5ndWFyZGlhbi5jby51aw%3D%3D" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="Powered by Text-Enhance">town</a> were seriously damaged.</div>
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"We have practically lost all our artistic patrimony," said mayor Alberto Silvestri.</div>
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In Finale Emilia, the historic Palazzo dei Veneziani partly collapsed and 11 residents survived after knocking down a wall to escape.</div>
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The Castello delle Rocche in the town was also damaged while a clock tower was split down the middle, with one side disintegrating into rubble before the remaining side collapsed during an aftershock.</div>
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"A thousand years of history disappears just like that," said mayor Fernando Ferioli.</div>
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In the tiny hamlet of Buoncompra, 700 residents were evacuated to a makeshift emergency centre on the outskirts of town, overlooking the destroyed church of San Martino.</div>
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Italy's cultural ministry said: "After an initial survey, damage to cultural patrimony appears significant."</div>
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As a precaution, 500 prisoners were evacuated from a prison in Ferrara.</div>
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Four night shift workers were killed at three different factories which collapsed, including Gerardo Cesaro, 57, one of 10 employees working at Tecopress, an aluminium car parts maker in Sant'Agostino. "We think everyone else got out of the factory, but he didn't make it out in time," the firm's human <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/20/italy-earthquake-kills-five-history?newsfeed=true#" id="_GPLITA_1" in_rurl="http://www.textsrv.com/click?v=Q0g6MjAxNzA6NTE1OnJlc291cmNlOjY5ODQ4MTJkYjNhZjZkYTQxZWE0N2JlZDk5YjBkNzk3OnotMTExMi0zMzkyMTp3d3cuZ3VhcmRpYW4uY28udWs%3D" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="Powered by Text-Enhance">resource</a> director, Adriano Orlandini, said after rescuers located Cesaro's body amid the rubble of the 45-year-old factory.</div>
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Two of the other fatalities were workers at a nearby ceramics factory where staff drove up to the gates with their families on Sunday to peer at the mountain of twisted blue steel where the factory had stood. "He wasn't supposed to be there," the mother of one of the victims told Reuters. "He changed shifts with a <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/20/italy-earthquake-kills-five-history?newsfeed=true#" id="_GPLITA_4" in_rurl="http://www.textsrv.com/click?v=Q0g6MTg1MDQ6Nzk3OmZyaWVuZDpjYTZmMDc3ODI1MjRiYTE3ZDhiYzc5MDgzOWM0N2VkNTp6LTExMTItMzM5MjE6d3d3Lmd1YXJkaWFuLmNvLnVr" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="Powered by Text-Enhance">friend</a> who wanted to go to the beach."</div>
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A fourth man, a Moroccan, died when he was hit by a falling beam at a plastics factory in Ponte Rodoni di Bondeno.</div>
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A woman aged 106 was also killed in her bed at her rural house by a falling beam.</div>
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Cheese producers said 300,000 wheels of grana and parmesan cheese had been lost as warehouses collapsed, while farmers were fighting to save livestock trapped in collapsed barns.</div>
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In Finale Emilia, a five-year-old girl was pulled out of a collapsed building two hours after the quake when rescuers were telephoned by a doctor in New York.</div>
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The girl's mother, who had been unable to get through to emergency services, had managed to call the doctor for help.</div>
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On Sunday, stunned and tired residents in Finale Emilia who had been outside their homes since 4am walked up and down the rubble-strewn city centre, many running and crying in the streets as aftershocks struck, including one shortly after 3pm which measured 5.1.</div>
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"In the middle, get in the middle," one woman yelled to people on the pavements as a deep rumble shook the ground, sending bricks and cornices tumbling off a number of unstable old buildings.</div>
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Describing the earthquake, resident Franca Zucchi said she was thrown out of bed and saw her chandelier swinging from wall to wall. "We all ran out into the streets in our pyjamas and underwear," Zucchi said. "I've never felt anything like it."</div>
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Pope Benedict prayed for victims in his Sunday address and prime minister Mario Monti decided to cut short his trip to Chicago for the Nato summit in order to oversee the earthquake relief operation and follow the investigation into a bombing in Brindisi on Saturday which killed a schoolgirl.</div>
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This process of diverting rift on the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Africa" rel="wikipedia" title="East Africa">Eastern African</a> Plates is active to open the coming new ocean formation dividing the Horn of Africa from the rest f the continent. Recent studies proved that this rift is divided in two two section that of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=9.03,38.74&spn=10.0,10.0&q=9.03,38.74%20(Ethiopia)&t=h" rel="geolocation" title="Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a> and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-13.95,33.7&spn=10.0,10.0&q=-13.95,33.7%20(Malawi)&t=h" rel="geolocation" title="Malawi">Malawi</a>. That of the Ethiopian is in oldest and in these last phase of ocean formation. Read the following article by <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.03771,-75.33755&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.03771,-75.33755%20(Villanova%20University)&t=h" rel="geolocation" title="Villanova University">Villanova University</a> :-<br />
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<span class="storyCaption" style="background-color: white; font-family: Trebuchet, arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 15px;">The huge changes in the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crust_%28geology%29" rel="wikipedia" title="Crust (geology)">Earth's crust</a> that shaped the face of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa" rel="wikipedia" title="Africa">African continent</a> are being redefined. The <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-0.1,36.1&spn=1.0,1.0&q=-0.1,36.1%20(Great%20Rift%20Valley)&t=h" rel="geolocation" title="Great Rift Valley">East African Rift system</a> has two main segments, the eastern branch passing through Ethiopia and Kenya and a western branch that forms a giant arc from Uganda to Malawi. The new research says the two rift segments developed together.</span> <br />
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Scientists from Australia's <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-19.328,146.757&spn=0.01,0.01&q=-19.328,146.757%20(James%20Cook%20University)&t=h" rel="geolocation" title="James Cook University">James Cook University</a> and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.ohio.edu/" rel="homepage" title="Ohio University">Ohio University</a> said their findings suggest a major tectonic event as far back as 25 million to 30 million years ago rearranged the flow of large rivers such as the Congo and the Nile to create the landscapes and climates found in East Africa today.</div>
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The East African Rift system has two main segments, the eastern branch passing through Ethiopia and Kenya and a western branch that forms a giant arc from Uganda to Malawi.</div>
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Most scientists had believed the eastern branch of the region is much older, having developed 15 million to 25 million years before the western branch, but the new research provides evidence the two rift segments developed simultaneously.</div>
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"The findings have important implications for understanding climate change models, faunal evolution and the development of Africa's unique landscape," geologist Eric Roberts of James Cook University said.</div>
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Ohio University researcher Nancy Stevens found the area to be a rich source of fossils, including of some of the earliest anthropoid primates.</div>
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"This formation is the only late Oligocene terrestrial fossil-bearing deposit known from continental Africa below the equator," she said in an OU release Tuesday. "It has already produced several species new to science."</div>
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The research was funded by the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.nsf.gov/" rel="homepage" title="National Science Foundation">U.S. National Science Foundation</a>, the Louis B. Leakey Foundation and the National Geographic Society.</div>
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padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 3px;">Needless to say, Alabama is in the top 16.</div><div style="line-height: 1.55em; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 3px;">"The extensive destruction wrought by convective storms in 2011, which produce hail, strong winds and tornadoes, captured the attention of the public and forced many insurance companies to rethink the way they assess natural hazard risk," said Dr. Howard Botts, vice president and director of database development for CoreLogic Spatial Solutions. "The apparent increase in the number of incidents and shift in geographic distribution of losses that occurred last year in the U.S. called the long-held notion of risk concentration in Tornado Alley into question, and is leading to changes in risk management policy and procedure."</div><div style="line-height: 1.55em; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 3px;">Tornado Alley is typically considered to encompass mainly the Great Plains states and surrounding areas, spanning Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota and Illinois.</div><div style="line-height: 1.55em; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 3px;">Last year's "Super Outbreak" that included April's tornadoes that ripped through this state and, later on, the tornado the practically destroyed Joplin, Mo., was considered by some to be an "anomaly" because it happened outside "Tornado Alley." </div><div style="line-height: 1.55em; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 3px;">"The big surprise was the insurance companies thought the risk was in the Great Plains," Botts said.</div><div style="line-height: 1.55em; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 3px;">However, CoreLogic's data suggests that the frequency and severity of storms is much more widespread than commonly believed.</div><div style="line-height: 1.55em; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 3px;">And, in the wake of the tornadoes here on March 2, the frequency is likely to continue.</div><div style="line-height: 1.55em; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 3px;">"It seems like there's been a lot of activity this year," Botts said. "We're in a very dynamic phase."</div><div style="line-height: 1.55em; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 3px;">He said the report was made to help insurance companies and homeowners realize the risk from tornadoes and hail in their regions.</div><div style="line-height: 1.55em; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 3px;">"CoreLogic has two sides," Botts said. "There's the housing data side and the other side focuses on flood and hazard risks, to sell that information to insurance companies."</div><div style="line-height: 1.55em; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 3px;">He said the report includes hail risk because "most of the losses are to wind and hail damage."</div><div style="line-height: 1.55em; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 3px;">"In your area, the hail risk is quite pronounced."</div><div style="line-height: 1.55em; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 3px;">Some findings in the report include:</div><div style="line-height: 1.55em; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 3px;">• The perceived dramatic increase in the frequency and severity of tornado and hail events in recent years could be attributed to a number of factors, including improved observational tools, Doppler radar, population growth and migration to suburban areas;</div><div style="line-height: 1.55em; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 3px;">• "Wall-to-wall" disaster news reporting via television, online coverage and social media has greatly affected public awareness and likely heightened sensitivity to severe weather events in recent years; and</div><div style="line-height: 1.55em; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 3px;">• There is growing scientific evidence that there has been an increase in the actual number of severe weather outbreaks as the result of rising global temperatures. <br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" />The report also said that the losses associated with severe weather events in 2011 will likely cause many insurers and enterprise risk managers to approach states with rate change requests this year.</div><div style="line-height: 1.55em; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 3px;">And, in the case of dozens of local residents, even the outright cancellation of policies.</div><div style="line-height: 1.55em; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 3px;">"I think the insurance companies are trying to be more intelligent by working with city officials, states and homeowners to understand the risks they take," Botts said.</div><div style="line-height: 1.55em; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 3px;">Budd McLaughlin can be reached at <a href="mailto:budd.mclaughlin@htimes.com" style="color: #305cb6; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">budd.mclaughlin@htimes.com</a> and 256-532-4527.</div></div><div class="clear" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></div><div class="alert right" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: url(http://media.al.com/design/baseline/img/icons/icon-ban.png); background-origin: initial; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #444e5c; float: right; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 17px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">Inappropriate post? 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</div><div style="font-family: Arial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><img align="middle" alt="" border="0" src="http://news.usf.edu/article/articlefiles/4281-cwells.JPG" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Photo: Daylina Miller | USF News</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">By <a href="mailto:dmmille4@mail.usf.edu" style="color: #007a0e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Daylina Miller</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.usf.edu/" style="color: #007a0e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">USF</a> News</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">TAMPA, Fla. (March. 20, 2012) –</span> With doomsday looming in the near future, Christian Wells, associate professor of Anthropology at the University of South Florida and a well-known scholar of ancient Maya culture, sought to dispel misconceptions about the fate of the world on Dec. 21, 2012.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Wells’ presentation Monday night was a kick-off to “Visions of the Apocalypse,” a three-day lecture series held by the Humanities Institute as part of their annual science fiction symposium.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">“Dec. 21 is really about the winter solstice, when the sun is at the lowest point on the horizon,” Wells said. “Cultures around the world over long periods of time have always celebrated the solstice.”</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The Spanish forced some reinterpretations of the Maya doomsday through torture to make it match Revelations, a book of the Bible filled with images of hellfire and damnation, Wells said.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">From this, individuals ripped off ideas from various New Age religions and science fiction writers to create the concept of “Mayanism,” which includes the belief that the world will end this December, Wells said.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Little evidence exists to support destruction of the world on the particular date. Archaeologists don’t know why the Mayan calendar begins in the year 3,114 BC and ends in 2012 – all they have are some hieroglyphics and vague documents depicting a feathery serpent god and an allusion to the time when “quetzal, green bird, and blood vomit will come – the end of the cycle.”</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">It’s unlikely the Maya thought the world could end Dec.21, 2012 considering they had predictions of future cycles thousands of years beyond our future.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">New Age religions and the popular press globalized the narrative, Wells said, and by wrenching it from its cultural, historical and geographical context, shifted the context from sustainability, the end of an old cycle and beginning of a new one, to doomsday.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">On Tuesday, March 20, science fiction authors, Joe Haldeman and Nancy Kress, read excerpts from their books and discussing apocalyptic beliefs in the TECO Room in the Education Building. Kress signed copies of her new book, After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, while Haldeman presented his 2011 book Earthbound.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">On Wednesday, March 21, Kress and Haldeman will be joined by USF chemistry professor David Merkler and religious studies professor Dell de Chant for a panel discussion on our cultural obsessions with the apocalypse. That event will be held at 2 p.m. in Marshall Student Center, room 3705.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
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Again. | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine<div id="blog-image" style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; height: 125px; line-height: 14px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; text-align: left; width: 637px;"><a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy" style="color: #df6615; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Bad Astronomy" src="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/wp-content/themes/discover/img/badastronomybn.png" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial;" /></a></div><div class="navigation" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;"><div class="alignleft">« <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/03/13/when-the-earth-photobombs-the-sun/" rel="prev" style="color: #8a7a4a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">When the Earth photobombs the Sun</a></div><div class="alignright"><a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/03/14/jupiter-and-venus-still-blaze-in-the-west/" rel="next" style="color: #8a7a4a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Jupiter and Venus still blaze in the west</a> »</div></div><div class="weblog-entry" id="post-45830" style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; padding-bottom: 18px; text-align: left;"><h2 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/03/14/msnbc-interview-2012-the-year-the-earth-doesnt-end-again/" rel="bookmark" style="color: #8a7a4a; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; line-height: 24px; text-decoration: none;" title="Permanent Link: MSNBC interview: 2012, the year the Earth doesn’t end. Again.">MSNBC interview: 2012, the year the Earth doesn’t end. Again.</a></h2><div class="entry" style="margin-bottom: 15px;"><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4em !important; margin-bottom: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 7px;">I was at the SXSW tech conference over the weekend to be on a panel about 2012 doomsday nonsense. Right after, Helen Popkin of MSNBC <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42218772/vp/46714239#VpFlash" style="color: #8a7a4a; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">interviewed me</a> about this stuff:</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4em !important; margin-bottom: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 7px;"><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" height="356" id="msnbc462433" width="610"><embed name="msnbc462433" src="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640" width="610" height="356" flashvars="launch=46714239&width=610&height=356" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></object></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4em !important; margin-bottom: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 7px;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4em !important; margin-bottom: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 7px;">[If the video above doesn't load, hit refresh; I've found that happens sometimes and refreshing usually fixes it.]</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4em !important; margin-bottom: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 7px;"><a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/03/09/will-i-be-at-sxsw-you-bet-your-asteroid-i-will/" style="color: #8a7a4a; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The panel</a> was fun — I gave an overview to and quickly debunked a bunch of 2012 claims, while JPL scientists Don Yeomans and Veronica MacGregor talked about asteroid impacts, and what NASA is doing to calm unfounded fears about them. <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/03/06/asteroid-2011-ag5-a-football-stadium-sized-rock-to-watch-carefully/" style="color: #8a7a4a; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Asteroids are indeed a threat</a>, but that danger is routinely exaggerated way beyond reality by lots of folks (YouTube fearmongers, I’m looking at<em>you</em>). There’s no real danger of the Earth ending in 2012, Mayan calendar-wise or otherwise — but the real danger <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/02/23/debunking-doomsday/" style="color: #8a7a4a; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">is the overhyped fear of nonsense</a>.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4em !important; margin-bottom: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 7px;">Forewarned is forearmed. Be aware of the reality of the situation, and save yourself a lot of trouble</div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4886695258140746685-7655631586321526693?l=ethiopianism-doomsday.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ethiopianismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00031877528043535274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4886695258140746685.post-30006652080150388452012-03-12T14:00:00.001-07:002012-03-12T14:00:51.841-07:002012-03-12T14:00:51.841-07:00Ethiopian Magnetic Stripes Hold Clues to Ocean Formation | Seafloor Spreading | OurAmazingPlanet.com<span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; float: left; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"></span><br />
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<div style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px;">Several winters ago, a team of geophysicists from Missouri flew to the eastern edge of Africa, strapped on bulky backpacks and began walking. They were looking for a set of huge stripes in the Tendaho Graben, a place within the Afar Depression of Ethiopia, where Africa's continental crust is stretching thin and a new ocean will eventually form.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px;">But the stripes they sought — and eventually found — aren't visible to the naked eye. They're magnetic stripes, similar to the ones lining the ocean floor at <a href="http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/27-worlds-deepest-undersea-vents-discovered.html" style="color: #31719f;">mid-ocean ridges</a>. David Bridges, a geophysicist from the Missouri University of Science and Technology, and his colleagues sniffed them out using a bit of geological detective work, lots of walking and the hulking magnetometers strapped to their backpacks.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px;">The Tendaho Graben's magnetic stripes are important because they're the first ones scientists have documented on land, Bridges said. 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margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px;">"The really interesting thing is that some of the oceanic basins may perhaps be a little bit younger than we currently believe," Bridges told OurAmazingPlanet.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px;"><strong>Stripes and flips</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px;">The underwater relatives of Tendaho's magnetic stripes were first documented in the 1950s by geophysicists who set sail to take thousands of seaboard magnetic readings. The researchers eventually began to see that their readings sketched out distinct sets of stripes running parallel to mid-ocean ridges, and that each stripe's magnetic alignment was the reverse of neighboring stripes.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px;">The striped magnetic pattern develops because, as oceanic crust pulls apart, magma rises to the surface at mid-ocean ridges and spills out to create new bands of ocean floor. Ferromagnetic minerals in the hot magma align themselves with the Earth's magnetic field, which <a href="http://www.livescience.com/2897-earth-magnetic-field-flip-flops.html" style="color: #31719f;">completely reverses its north-to-south polarity</a> every now and then, and freeze in that alignment as the magma cools. Later, after the planet's magnetic field flips again, the next stripe of new ocean floor aligns its polarity in the opposite direction.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px;">"For many ocean basins, the timing of their openings has been based on the appearance of these magnetic stripes," because scientists long believed that the stripes first appeared <a href="http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/2042-gulf-california-rapid-formation.html" style="color: #31719f;">when seafloor spreading started</a>, Bridges said.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px;"><strong>Tendaho breaks the trend</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px;">But the stripes that Bridges' team found in Tendaho may prove that conventional wisdom wrong.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px;">Tendaho's magnetic bands, which measure 6 miles (10 kilometers) wide, are embedded in continental crust, not oceanic crust. And unlike magnetic stripes on the ocean floor, Tendaho's formed through diking: as the African crust stretched thin, streams of magma intruded the continental crust and hardened. Like in the oceanic stripes, ferromagnetic minerals in the dikes aligned with the planet's magnetic field as the magma hardened. Their magnetic signals are very similar to those of ocean-floor stripes.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px;">This all happened sometime between 1.8 million years ago, when the region's continental crust began to break apart, and 780,000 years ago, when the Earth's magnetic poles last flipped, Bridges said.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px;">Scientists predict it could be as many as 2 million years before the crust in the Tendaho Graben ruptures and <a href="http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/1049-rifting-of-ethiopia-unearths-clues-to-continents.html" style="color: #31719f;">begins to form an ocean basin</a>. Altogether, this means that Tendaho's magnetic stripes could predate the future ocean basin by nearly 4 million years.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px;">And magnetic stripes may predate other ocean basins, too.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px;">"Other groups have found evidence suggesting that perhaps the Atlantic basin opened up a little later than what's currently believed," Bridges said. 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background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; ">Messenger</div></td><td id="ShareToolBarTop-reaction2-right" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; "><img id="ShareToolBarTop-reaction2-right_img" src="http://cdn.gigya.com/gs/i/shareBar/button/buttonRightImgUp.png" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; 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width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; zoom: 1; "><div class="gig-button-container gig-button-container-count-none gig-button-container-email gig-button-container-email-count-none gig-share-button-container" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; "><div class="gig-button gig-share-button gig-button-up gig-button-count-none" id="ShareToolBarTop-reaction3" title="" alt="" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; cursor: pointer; "><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; font-size: 10px; color: rgb(77, 77, 77); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; "><tbody style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; "><tr style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; "><td id="ShareToolBarTop-reaction3-left" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; "><img id="ShareToolBarTop-reaction3-left_img" src="http://cdn.gigya.com/gs/i/shareBar/button/buttonLeftImgUp.png" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; display: block; " /></td><td id="ShareToolBarTop-reaction3-icon" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: url(http://cdn.gigya.com/gs/i/shareBar/button/buttonCenterImgUp.png); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; vertical-align: middle; text-align: left; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; "><img id="ShareToolBarTop-reaction3-icon_img" src="http://cdn.gigya.com/gs/i/shareBar/icons/email.png" width="16" height="16" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; display: block; " /></td><td id="ShareToolBarTop-reaction3-text" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: url(http://cdn.gigya.com/gs/i/shareBar/button/buttonCenterImgUp.png); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; vertical-align: middle; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; "><div class="gig-button-text gig-share-button-text" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; font-size: 11px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; ">Email</div></td><td id="ShareToolBarTop-reaction3-right" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; "><img id="ShareToolBarTop-reaction3-right_img" src="http://cdn.gigya.com/gs/i/shareBar/button/buttonRightImgUp.png" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; display: block; " /></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></td><td nowrap="" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; zoom: 1; "><div class="gig-button-container gig-button-container-count-right gig-button-container-share gig-button-container-share-count-right gig-share-button-container" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; "><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; font-size: 10px; color: rgb(77, 77, 77); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; "><tbody style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; "><tr style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; "><td class="gig-button-td" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; vertical-align: middle; "><div class="gig-button gig-share-button gig-button-up gig-button-count-right" id="ShareToolBarTop-reaction4" title="" alt="" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; cursor: pointer; "><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; font-size: 10px; color: rgb(77, 77, 77); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; "><tbody style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; "><tr style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; "><td id="ShareToolBarTop-reaction4-left" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; "><img id="ShareToolBarTop-reaction4-left_img" src="http://cdn.gigya.com/gs/i/shareBar/button/buttonLeftImgUp.png" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; display: block; " /></td><td id="ShareToolBarTop-reaction4-icon" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: url(http://cdn.gigya.com/gs/i/shareBar/button/buttonCenterImgUp.png); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; vertical-align: middle; text-align: left; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; "><img id="ShareToolBarTop-reaction4-icon_img" src="http://cdn.gigya.com/gs/i/shareBar/icons/share.png" width="16" height="16" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; display: block; " /></td><td id="ShareToolBarTop-reaction4-text" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: url(http://cdn.gigya.com/gs/i/shareBar/button/buttonCenterImgUp.png); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; vertical-align: middle; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; "><div class="gig-button-text gig-share-button-text" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; font-size: 11px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; ">Share</div></td><td id="ShareToolBarTop-reaction4-right" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; 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margin-left: 0px; ">Numurkah and Nathalia, north of Shepparton, are the towns the State Emergency Service now says are most under threat.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; ">Patients were evacuated from Numurkah's hospital, while about 30 residents were relocated from an aged-care home in the town on Sunday.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; ">About 38 soldiers joined emergency services in sandbagging ahead of the water's expected peak on Monday.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; ">SES crews are preparing a flood barrier at Nathalia in an effort to protect properties. At least eight properties in the town were isolated on Sunday, SES spokeswoman Dimity York said.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; ">"Flooding has exceeded 1993 levels, so this is now a one-in-100-year event," Ms York told AAP.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; ">Technically, the term "100-year flood" means there is a one per cent chance of it happening in any given year.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; ">Waters are starting to recede in the towns of Tallygaroopna, Tungamah and Katamatite, Ms York said.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; ">Roads into Tungamah have reopened, allowing food supplies in.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; ">Mr Baillieu said residents would face significant challenges in coming days as water continued to move through some towns.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; ">"We can be comforted by the fact that for the next few days the forecast is not as daunting, but that means that everybody needs to continue to pay attention, continue to stay in touch with their neighbours and to listen to broadcasts," he said from Wangaratta.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; ">Mr Ryan said residents had shown extraordinary resilience.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; ">"For some of these people they are having water over the boards for the fourth time in a little over 12 months," he said.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; ">"It is a terrible experience for them and we will continue to do everything we possibly can to support them. But their resilience in the face of this is nothing short of amazing."</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; ">More than 100,000 sandbags have been filled in the state's northeast as 800 SES volunteers fight to hold back advancing waters.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; ">State Emergency Service regional officer John Newlands says residents in affected towns must be patient, as water would take time to clear from plains.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; ">"It is a very slow-moving area. 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margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">However, within days the small town of Miva, north of Gympie, is expecting moderate flooding and further northeast, the town of Tiaro is bracing for a major flood, senior flood forecaster Andy Barnes told AAP.</div><div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Mr Barnes says no significant rain is expected to fall in the Gympie area on Sunday night.</div><div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Joint state and federal government-funded assistance measures have been activated for the Sunshine Coast and Gympie council areas.</div><div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Queensland's Emergency Services Minister Neil Roberts says that will help the councils cover the cost of restoring flood- and storm-damaged infrastructure, and counter-disaster operations.</div><div style="color: black; 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