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Dog touted as 'good with children' kills mother of two in Snug Harbor, North Carolina


13wmaz
Thu, 11 Feb 2016 17:59 UTC
dog attack
A mother of two in Snug Harbor died Wednesday after her dog mauled her inside her home.

Perquimans County Sheriff Eric Tilley said the attack happened around 1 p.m. in the 1200 block of Snug Harbor Road.

Suzanne Story, 36, died just as a medical crew from Norfolk landed to take her to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital.

Story's family told 13News Now she got the female Pit Bull from Virginia about a week ago after she saw an advertisement in a newspaper. The ad said the dog was good with small children.

"I think they had a problem with the dog and didn't know how to handle it, and they were just trying to get rid of it, and they did," said Story's stepfather, Randy Brown. "Found somebody that would take it, and ended up with a death."

Brown added that the people who had the dog gave her to Story at no charge.

"Brought the dog down here, and said that the dog was gentle, it was good with people, good with children, it had never attacked any person," Brown stated. "Why a dog would attack her, I mean, is beyond me, but it had to have been the dog, not her."

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Attention

3 tropical cyclones form at the same time in the Southern Hemisphere


Strange Sounds
Thu, 11 Feb 2016 17:28 UTC
3 tropical storms
© Google Maps3 tropical storms
Three tropical cyclones formed almost simultaneously in the Southern Hemisphere.

Daya was born in the Indian Ocean, whereas Eleven and Tatiana formed in the Pacific Ocean.

The tropical cyclone Daya formed east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean and is moving in a south-easterly direction. In the eye of the storm, wind speeds were measured at 72 km / h, with gusts reaching 97 km / h.

Tropical cyclone Daya
Tropical cyclone Daya
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Attention

Fuego volcano spews ash onto nearby towns in Guatemala


9news.com.au
Thu, 11 Feb 2016 16:45 UTC
Guatemala’s Fuego volcano erupts with fiery lava.
Guatemala’s Fuego volcano erupts with fiery lava.
A restive volcano near Guatemala's capital spewed ash on nearby towns Wednesday, including on a colonial-era city popular with tourists, officials said.

The overnight eruption of Fuego Volcano - whose name means "fire" in Spanish -sent ash billowing up to five kilometers (three miles) into the sky and rivers of lava up to two kilometers long, according to Guatemala's Volcanology Institute.

Light tremors were also felt up to 25 kilometers away.

Strong gusts of wind could carry the clouds of "fine ash particles" to Guatemala City, 45 kilometers distant, said David de Leon, a spokesman for the government's disaster coordination service.

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Question

Mysterious bubbling sand filmed in Gaza


Strange Sounds
Wed, 10 Feb 2016 16:09 UTC
Sand bubbling in Gaza.
Sand bubbling in Gaza.
The sand is bubbling in Gaza.

Check out this video and look at what these people are gawking at... A mysterious bubbling desert.

How would you react, if you were looking at sand on the ground and it would suddenly start to move and make bubbles?

This mysterious phenomenon is just out of this world and still unexplained.

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Cloud Lightning

Lightning strike sparks a huge explosion at steelworks in Port Talbot, Wales

Amie Gordon
Daily Mail, UK
Thu, 11 Feb 2016 15:54 UTC
Fire crews from Mid and West Wales Fire Service were called to the Tata Steel plant in Port Talbot, Wales, around 8am, after a blaze ripped through the site
Fire crews from Mid and West Wales Fire Service were called to the Tata Steel plant in Port Talbot, Wales, around 8am, after a blaze ripped through the site
Steelworkers escaped with their lives after a huge explosion ripped through Britain's biggest steelworks plant this morning.

The massive blast - believed to have been caused by a lightning strike - rocked the Tata steelworks in Port Talbot, South Wales, shortly after a shift change at 8am.

Flames could be seen for miles around - and parts of the plant were evacuated as emergency services rushed to the scene.

Onlooker Mike O'Neill said: 'My car shook with the explosion as I drove past. I can see massive 100ft flames.

'There was also a huge plume of black smoke.'


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Attention

Number of turtles with body tumors dramatically increasing in Florida

Josh L Davis
IFL Science
Tue, 09 Feb 2016 15:18 UTC
The tumors are thought to be caused by a herpes virus, and can blind the reptiles.
© Peter Bennett & Ursula Keuper-Bennett/Wikimedia The tumors are thought to be caused by a herpes virus, and can blind the reptiles.
Off the coast of Florida, the population of green sea turtles has dramatically rebounded. From fewer than 500 nests recorded on the beaches nearly 30 years ago, last year saw a record 28,000 clutches of eggs laid. But despite this impressive recovery, they now seem to be facing another problem. More and more of the reptiles are being found infected with a potentially deadly disease, which causes tumors to grow all over their bodies.

The disease, known as fibropapillomatosis, is thought to be caused by a herpes virus and is specific to sea turtles. Despite looking harmful, the tumors that develop on the surface are mainly benign, but problems arise when they grow over the turtles' eyes, which prevents them from seeing and therefore feeding. Around 20 years ago, vets at the Turtle Hospital in the Florida Keys were seeing around eight turtles a month with the tumors, but recently they have seen a massive increase, now seeing around eight a week.
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Extinguisher

Records broken as winter heatwave hits Southern California

Jenna Lyons
SFGate
Tue, 09 Feb 2016 12:38 UTC
heatwave SOCAL
Several Bay Area cities broke temperature records for the day during a mid-winter heat wave that continued Tuesday, but San Francisco came just one degree short of tying its record, forecasters said.

"Close, but no cigar," said Diana Henderson, a forecaster with the National Weather Service.

San Francisco high Tuesday was 72 degrees, compared with the record of 73 set in 2006, Henderson said.

The unseasonably warm weather started on the weekend. On Monday, San Francisco's 75-degree high beat the 2006 record for that day by a degree.
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Bizarro Earth

Earthquake 'swarm' rattles village in New Brunswick, Canada


CBC.ca
Wed, 10 Feb 2016 18:28 UTC
McAdam earthquake swarm
© CBCA window was cracked at Lindsey Wilson's McAdam home during a recent earthquake.

McAdam again hit by dozens of small quakes as seismologists search for answers

A swarm of small earthquakes is again rattling residents in the southwestern New Brunswick village of McAdam.

Officially, nine earthquakes hit the area on Monday night alone, coming on the heels of more than 23 temblors recorded since Feb. 1.

Mayor Frank Carroll estimates there were 20 to 30 small quakes on Monday night, with many of them not picked up by monitoring equipment located about 95 kilometres away in St. George. One of them registered 3.3 in magnitude.

No injuries have been reported and damage has been minor.

"Some people kind of describe it as a bomb going off," said Carroll.

"The community was really on edge on Monday," he said. "It was a horrific day in the world of earthquakes for us."

The village is giving all residents an "earthquake safety action plan," advising them on what to do if the quakes worsen.

Lindsey Wilson says a quake rattled her windows hard enough to break one of them.

"We've had some damage to our house. We've actually had a window get cracked on Sunday night," Wilson said.

A seismologist with Natural Resources Canada says it isn't known whether the small quakes are a precursor to a larger one.

"Magnitude 3.3 was quite a bit bigger than they had before," said John Adams. "But the pattern of activity is unpredictable."
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Cloud Precipitation

Ship faced with terrifying 100-foot waves during North Sea storm caught on film

Jake Polden
Daily Mail, UK
Wed, 10 Feb 2016 21:03 UTC
Rocking: Worryingly the ship can even be heard creaking under the sheer weight of the devastating storm
Rocking: Worryingly the ship can even be heard creaking under the sheer weight of the devastating storm
This dramatic footage captures exactly what it was like to be on board a ship being battered by strong waves as Storm Gertrude caused chaos across Britain last month.

The intense video was filmed by a man standing on the bridge of the ship stranded in the North Sea around 100 miles from land on January 29.

The clip shows powerful waves - some estimated to be around 100-foot high - crashing against the vessel, brutally rocking it from side to side and soaking the entire deck.

Worryingly the ship can even be heard creaking under the sheer weight of the devastating storm.

Video from inside the large vessel creates more sea-sickening viewing as the waves throw it around and encapsulate it in water.


Comment: See also: Giant Royal Caribbean ship damaged in 'extreme' storm will return to port

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Arrow Up

USDA study proves it was wrong about GE alfalfa

Karen Graham
digitaljournal.com
Sat, 23 Jan 2016 20:09 UTC
GM alfalfa
© blisstree.com
Monsanto's genetically engineered (GE) Roundup-Ready alfalfa has already cost farmers millions of dollars, and now, a new study by the USDA, the same agency that re-approved it, has found that GE alfalfa has really gone wild, literally.

In a study published in December 2015, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) verified that genetically engineered alfalfa had gone wild in our western states, in a very big way.

The study lends confirmation to and explains the number of transgenic contamination episodes over the past few years that have cost American alfalfa farmers and exporters millions of dollars. More telling is that the study exposes the failure of the USDA's "coexistence" policy, says EcoWatch.

Comment: More GMO contamination
I'd like to say it was surprising that these events happened, but it's not, really. It's become the norm, rather than the exception," said the Center for Food Safety's Bill Freese, a frequent critic of biotech crops.
"They're not able to prevent contamination from these experimental (genetically engineered) crops to commercial crops, and that's just caused headaches, huge headaches, very serious financial losses for American agriculture. What's it going to take to have proper oversight?"
Bayer Admits GMO Contamination is Out of Control
Bayer has admitted it has been unable to control the spread of its genetically-engineered organisms despite 'the best practices [to stop contamination]'(1). It shows that all outdoors field trials or commercial growing of GE crops must be stopped before our crops are irreversibly contaminated.


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