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Wolf

Pack of Wolfhounds maul woman in New Zealand: 'There were pieces of flesh everywhere - it was like a shark attack'

Wolfhound
Irish wolfhounds were developed from war hounds and are strong enough to kill a wolf.
A Dunedin woman required surgery after a dog attack so horrific it was "more like a shark attack".

The woman, who did not want to be identified, was delivering the Otago Daily Times in Walter St, in The Glen, about 6.30am yesterday when she was attacked by as many as three Irish wolfhounds.

Her partner said the attack was so frenzied it left "blood everywhere and pieces of flesh everywhere".

The woman would require multiple operations, including plastic surgery, and it was not yet known if she would walk again, as one of her calf muscles was "virtually all gone", said the man, who did not wish to be identified.

"It's that extreme - it's more like a shark attack,"
he said

Cloud Lightning

Lightning strikes kill five in Rajasthan, India

lighting
Five persons, including two women were killed and another one injured after being struck by lightning in separate incidents at four districts of Rajasthan during sudden rains and thundershowers, police said today.

All the victims were working in agriculture fields at the time of the incidents yesterday, they said.

In Bharatpur district, Dinesh Gurjar (25) and Sampat Mali (35) were struck down by lightning at Methna and Govindpur village respectively. Ramji (55) too was killed in a similar incident at Mathhingota village in Dholpur district, they said.

In Dhablana village of Bundi district, a woman named Bhuri Bai Meghwal (45) was killed, while another woman Panabai Meena (50) was injured after being struck by lightning, police said.

The injured was rushed to a government hospital, where her condition was stated to be stable, they said, adding a 50-year-old woman named Surjo was another victim of lightning in Piplet village of Sawai Madhopur district.

Fire

Carbon tax this! Momotombo Volcano in Nicaragua erupts for first time in over a century, forcing thousands to evacuate

Nicaraguan Momotombo
© AFPNo damages or victims have been reported after the Nicaraguan Momotombo volcano erupted Tuesday
Thousands of people in Nicaragua have been asked to evacuate an area of about four miles surrounding the Momotombo volcano after it erupted for the first time in 110 years spewing lava, ashes and smoke.

"The seismic tremor is increasing and in the volcano's crater there are explosions every four seconds," said Wilfried Strauch, a scientific adviser for the Nicaraguan Institute of Territorial Studies or INETER.

Snowflake

Record December depth of snow for Reykjavik, Iceland

Snow on bench in park
© Gúna
Residents of Icelandic capital Reykjavik woke up to 42 cm (16.5 inches) of snow this morning - the highest depth of snow in December since records began.

According to the Icelandic Met Office, the previous record was set back in 2011, when snow lay 33 cm (13 inches) deep in Reykjavik on 29 December that year.

The highest ever depth of snow recorded in in Reykjavik was 55 cm (21.5 inches) back in January 1937, and if snows continues to fall on the city, this record might also be broken - and soon.

Now at 42 cm, snow levels in Reykjavik were 32 cm just four days ago on Saturday.


Attention

Big early morning boom shakes Arcata, California

Arcata, California
© Wikipedia/MarinaArcata, California
Your Lost Coast Outpost woke up to reports of an ungodly loud explosion that rocked residents of the Windsong/Greenview/Coastal Grove neighborhood of Arcata this morning at about 3:40 a.m.

Another reader writes:
Hey LoCo, there was a ground shaking boom over here in Arcata, Windsong Village area. Any ideas what it was? Just happened maybe 20 minutes ago, setting off car alarms, people coming out on porches, etc. Any info?
And still another:
We just had a HUGE boom in the bottoms of arcata. Villa way and Haeger intersection. Set off car alarms everywhere. It was the loudest explosion I've ever heard.
Even an Arcata police officer patrolling near the intersection of Sunset and H heard it, as evidenced by this clip of police radio communication at 3:45 a.m., the first mention of the boom on our scanner tape.

For at least the next 15 minutes or so, officers patrolled the area and spoke with some people who were shaken from sleep. Most of the activity seemed to be centered on the Iverson/Blakeslee/Zehndner corridor near Coastal Grove Charter School. One person told the police that he believed it to be a gas explosion of some sort, as his or her heaters started acting funny right after the boom. Another person reported seeing smoke a few blocks away, at the corner of 11th and Villa.

If police cracked the case, it is not immediately apparent from the record of their communications. We'll try to get hold of someone later today. But the fire department and/or ambulance services seem never to have been notified, so we can probably cross "hash-lab explosion" off the list.
Loud boom Arcata

Info

Hong Kong's pink dolphins at risk of disappearing

Pink dolphin
Pink Dolphin
As Hong Kong seeks to expand its international airport and with a major new bridge project under way, campaigners warn that the dwindling number of much-loved pink dolphins in surrounding waters may disappear altogether.

Conservationists say their repeated concerns have fallen on deaf ears, with what they describe as a "rapid" decline of the mammal in the past few decades.

The Chinese white dolphin—popularly known as the pink dolphin due to its pale pink colouring—draws scores of tourists daily to the waters north of Hong Kong's Lantau island.

It also became Hong Kong's official mascot for the handover ceremony in 1997, when Britain returned the territory to China.

But despite the affection felt towards the dolphin, campaigners say there may soon be none left.

The proposed construction of a third runway at Hong Kong's busy Chek Lap Kok airport could be the nail in the coffin, they say.

Attention

Magnitude 4.6 earthquake strikes southern Alaska

map alaska
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck in southern Alaska.

The U.S. Geological Survey says the earthquake hit just after 2 a.m. local time and was centered about 48 miles (79 kilometers) northwest of Valdez and 93 miles (150 kilometers) east-northeast of Anchorage.

The survey says the quake was about 21 miles (35 kilometers) deep.

The National Tsunami Warning Center says a tsunami is not expected.

Source: AP

Snowflake Cold

German geologist accuses NASA of altering temperature records to support the global warming myth

Dr. Friedrich-Karl Ewert
Dr. Friedrich-Karl Ewert (University of Paderborn)
A German scientist has accused the National Aeronautics and Space Agency's (NASA) Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) of altering temperature records between 2010 and 2012 to produce the illusion that the Earth has been warming since 1950.

GISS datasets are used by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to document global warming.

In a presentation at the 2012 EIKE Climate Conference in Germany, Professor Friedrich-Karl Ewert, a retired geologist and data expert from the University of Paderborn, said that he examined publicly available archived temperature records from 1,153 weather stations around the globe going back to 1881 and found evidence of "massive" tampering by GISS between 2010 and 2012.

Comment: More and more scientists are exposing the global warming myth but the myth lives on for political and economic reasons. The fact is, as Dr. Ewert pointed out, the earth is in a cooling phase.


Attention

Eastern Taiwan shaken by two moderate earthquakes

map taiwan earthquake
© Central Weather Bureau
Two earthquakes measuring 4.7 and 4.5 on the Richter scale, respectively, hit eastern Taiwan Wednesday afternoon, according to the Central Weather Bureau.

The magnitude 4.7 earthquake took place at 1:21 p.m., with the epicenter located at sea about 37.9 kilometers east of Hualien County Hall at a depth of 5 km.

The strongest tremor, which posted an intensity of 4 on Taiwan's 7-tiered intensity scale, was felt in Hualien County's Taroko scenic area, bureau data showed.

The temblor was followed by a smaller one at 1:53 p.m., also centered at sea about 34.5 km east of Hualien County Hall at a depth of 21.9 km.

It measured an intensity of 3 in Heping Township in Hualien.

Attention

Earthquake of 5.0 magnitude recorded in Arequipa, Peru

Earthquake register
An earthquake of magnitude 5.0 grades *on the Richter scale struck the region of *Arequipa this morning, according to a report by the Geophysical Institute of Peru (IGP).

The quake was recorded at 8:39 a.m. this morning and surprised locals with a regular intensity, reports El Comercio.

The epicenter was located 29 kilometers southeast of Arequipa, with a depth of 128 kilometers.

According to INDECI, no material damages or personal injury were caused by the earthquake.