Earth Changes

Man attacked by deer he shot with arrow

Sharon Roznik
Fon du Lac Reporter
Sun, 04 Jan 2015 18:53 UTC

© Dan Powers/Gannett Wisconsin Media
A white-tailed deer forages for food Monday, April 14, 2014, at the Heckrodt Wetland Reserve in Menasha.

It's not often a deer get its revenge.

A man was injured Friday evening, Jan. 2, in Fond du Lac County when he was attacked by the deer that he had wounded with an arrow.

The 72-year-old man was transported by ambulance to St. Agnes Hospital in Fond du Lac, according to Fond du Lac Sheriff's Officer Jeff Bonack. The ambulance call came in around 7:30 p.m. The man's condition is unknown.

The man was out bow hunting earlier with a crossbow on the Peebles Trail near Highway K in the town of Taycheedah. He wounded the doe with an arrow and went back out later to track the animal, Bonack said.

"Apparently the man was going through some thick brush and the deer leaped out and went after him," Bonack said. "The doe struck him in the leg with her head."

The injured hunter was transported by Mount Calvary Ambulance.

Bonack said the 72-year old had been out hunting with other family members.

"I'm guessing the deer got away," Bonack said.

Bear mauls forest official to death in India

Ritesh K Srivastava
zeenews.india.com
Mon, 05 Jan 2015 17:52 UTC

Footage shows the hunter being mauled by the bear

A middle-aged man employed with the Chhattisgarh Forest Department died after he was attacked by a full-grown bear in the dense forests of Surjapur on Monday.

According to reports, the forest official was badly mauled by the enraged bear. The man soon succumbed to injuries and died on spot. The victim was part of the forest department team that went to hunt down the bear following complaints of attack on several persons in the recent past.

Some locals, who witnessed the incident, tried to shoo away the animal by shouting but in vain as nobody cold gather enough courage to go near the wild animal and save the dying man.

It is claimed that the bear had attacked two more persons in the past. The bear was also shot dead by the authorities later. The victim's body has been sent for post-mortem.

This is the second such incident of a wild animal attacking and mercilessly killing a human being in the recent past.

Few months back, a teenage boy was attacked and killed by a tiger after he accidentally fell inside its cage in the national capital.

150,000 customers without electricity in the Montreal area

cbc.ca
Mon, 05 Jan 2015 16:17 UTC

As of 4 p.m. ET on Sunday, more than 150,000 Hydro-Québec customers were without electricity on and around the island of Montreal after freezing rain encased southern Quebec in ice.

The power failures began on Sunday afternoon and affected small pockets around the greater Montreal region.

However, by late afternoon the blackouts were widespread across Montreal, the Montérégie (South Shore and areas west of the island of Montreal), the Richelieu Valley and elsewhere in southern Quebec.

Hydro-Québec spokeswoman Elaine Beaulieu said many of the power failures are due to fallen branches.

"Our crews are presently patrolling to find out where the power outages are and trying to restore the power as soon as possible. It's mainly due to the weather conditions," Beaulieu said.

Some Hydro poles and wires seemed to bow to the weight of the ice. Tree branches snapped and fell to the sidewalks and roads below in the Montreal region as the day wore on.

Rare Arctic Ivory gull spotted in Quincy, Illinois

Bryant Clerkley
wgem.com
Sat, 03 Jan 2015 21:27 UTC

Bird enthusiasts from all over the Midwest descended upon Quincy Saturday to get a glimpse of the extremely rare Ivory Gull.

"It's a fairly small gull but very elegant, pure white with very dark eyes and legs, with this cute little bill that's dark with a yellow tip on it," biology professor Jim Mountjoy said.

It was rainy, cold, and damp. But that didn't stop Knox College Biology Professor and bird expert Jim Mountjoy from getting a glimpse of the Ivory Gull. He says the bird is a native of the high Arctic Islands and is rarely seen in the lower 48.
"This is an exceedingly rare bird to spot this far south," Mountjoy said. "Anywhere in the continental United States it's pretty hard to see, even if you go to Alaska it's sometimes quite difficult."

Mountjoy says he's been bird watching for over 40 years, and has only spotted the Ivory Gull one other time. He calls Saturday a very rare sighting in the state of Illinois.

Dead whale washes up on Sandøy, Norway

newsinenglish.no
Mon, 29 Dec 2014 21:06 UTC

Locator map of Sandøy, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway

Norway's Coast Guard faced a grim and smelly task over the weekend: Discarding a dead whale whose cadaver was in danger of exploding.

The dead whale had washed up in a bay at Sandøy outside Bergen on Norway's West Coast. It was found by a local resident on Friday and immediately raised concerns because it was showing clear signs that gas had formed inside the whale's stomach.

That meant it could explode, so the coast guard ended up towing the dead whale out to sea and shooting it to puncture the inflated intestines, so the cadaver would sink.

Indo-Tibetan Border Police sound high alert after early heavy snowfall on Himalayan border

The Tribune (India)
Sat, 03 Jan 2015 20:21 UTC

The ITBP, which guards the high-altitude Himalayan border posts with China, has sounded a high alert as moderate to heavy snowfall has been reported in the region in the last 24 hours.

The snowfall continued in the higher reaches of this part of the Himalayas today, ITBP sources said here. "The snowfall has broken records of recent years. After 2005, dense snowfall used to occur in this part of the Himalayas after January 15, but this year it has started early," said Kedar Singh Rawat, an ITBP officer.

According to ITBP sources, while 120 cm snowfall was recorded at Joligkong Ridge, near the China border in the Vyans valley of Dharchula subdivision, the last border post at China border at Nabhidhang received 90 cm snowfall in the last 24 hours. "The snowfall, which started ahead of the Garbiyang post of the ITBP, witnessed 40 cm to 80 cm snowfall in the last 24 hours," said Rawat.

In Munsiyari, the peaks of Panchachuli, Rajrambha, Chiplakedar and Hansling received heavy snowfall in the last 24 hours. Weather Department sources said snowfall in higher reaches and rainfall in lower valleys would continue for the next 24 hours.

Pope embraces false prophets of doom - Why I'm disassociating myself from the Vatican and church

P Gosselin
NoTricksZone
Sun, 04 Jan 2015 18:59 UTC

I'm Catholic and this Sunday I'm announcing that I'm disassociating myself from the Vatican and its pope. I urge other skeptic Catholics to consider doing the same. This is not a step I've taken lightly.

I'll be opting out of Germany's Kirchensteuer (Church Tax) and will not attend any services in the future. With their latest planned encyclical they are indicating that they have shifted back to the Dark Ages of bad-weather witches, superstitions and Medieval indulgences. Worse, they are openly subscribing to nutty end-of-times theories.

This comes on the heels of a recent announcement that Pope Francis intends to issue an encyclical on climate change. I am not renouncing Catholicism, rather I am solely renouncing my recognition that the Vatican and Pope are the faith's administrator and moral compass. It's the last straw in an unending string of corruption, child sexual abuse and scandals that have raged within the Catholic Church in recent times.

15-foot-deep sinkhole appears on Pierce Street, Omaha

Alissa Skelton
Omaha World-Herald
Sat, 03 Jan 2015 15:38 UTC

A large portion of Pierce Street near 20th Street caved in on New Year's Day, exposing a hole 15 feet deep.

The sinkhole spans both lanes of traffic, an estimated 25 feet in diameter, said Craig Christians, manager of Omaha's sewer maintenance division.

"This cave in is on a much bigger scale than we usually see," Christians said. "A big one like this we don't see very often."

The city shut down Pierce Street east of 20th Street on Christmas Day after someone noticed the street sagging, he said. Pierce is 12 blocks south of Dodge Street.

Maintenance workers who opened a manhole cover discovered that a brick manhole, more than 100 years old, had collapsed, allowing water to wash out the soil underneath the street.

Christians said a hole at the bottom of the manhole likely started everything.

City workers monitoring the street on New Year's Day saw the giant hole for the first time.

"The pavement, under its own weight and (with) no support under it, collapsed," Christians said.

Because the hole is so deep, Christians said, it could take months to repair the street.

The last major sinkhole Christians could remember was at the intersection of 20th and Farnam Streets. A leaking pipe caused that sinkhole, which spanned about a quarter of the intersection.

Temple elephant goes berserk and kills one person in Maharashtra, India

Saurabh Gupta
ndtv.com
Sat, 03 Jan 2015 14:53 UTC

The elephant went out of control during a procession which was part of Khandoba celebrations.

One woman was killed and another injured when a temple elephant went out of control during a temple procession in Maharashtra on Saturday. The incident took place in Pali village of Satara District, during a procession to celebrate the regionally popular Khandoba festival. Three lakh people were part of the procession and many had a lucky escape.

"There was a huge crowd. Two women were injured and amongst them one woman died. People were running helter-skelter to save their lives and that is when the accident took place," Police Sub-Inspector Mohan Tawde told reporters

"We were sitting in one place. Suddenly the elephant went out of control and trampled people," said an eyewitness.

Another eyewitness said, "The elephant suddenly charged towards us. People ran and in the chaos my son got hurt in the leg."

The incident once again brings to light the dangers of keeping elephants in captivity and using them in religious and marriage processions. While this a common practice in India it often leads to stress for pachyderms and lead to accidents.

2 quakes with more than a dozen aftershocks strike north of Los Angeles

RT
Sun, 04 Jan 2015 07:30 UTC

Two earthquakes, of 4.2 and 3.0 in magnitude, have occurred 80 kilometers to the north of Los Angeles, generating over a dozen aftershocks.

The first tremor shook the area at about 7:00 pm local time on Saturday (3:00 am GMT on Sunday). It occurred 13 kilometers from the town of Castaic, and was reported to be a foreshock to the second tremor.

It happened at 7:18 pm local time on Saturday (3:18 am GMT on Sunday), about 10 kilometers from the town of Castaic and 80 kilometers from Los Angeles, the US Geological Survey reported.

Initially, the magnitude of the second tremor was reported at 4.5.

I don't care how minor it was, my bed was rolling #laquake

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Earth Changes

Man attacked by deer he shot with arrow

Bear mauls forest official to death in India

150,000 customers without electricity in the Montreal area

Rare Arctic Ivory gull spotted in Quincy, Illinois

Dead whale washes up on Sandøy, Norway

Indo-Tibetan Border Police sound high alert after early heavy snowfall on Himalayan border

Pope embraces false prophets of doom - Why I'm disassociating myself from the Vatican and church

15-foot-deep sinkhole appears on Pierce Street, Omaha

Temple elephant goes berserk and kills one person in Maharashtra, India

2 quakes with more than a dozen aftershocks strike north of Los Angeles

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