EARTHQUAKE WARNING FROM RUSSIAN INSTITUTE of PHYSICS of the EARTH Posted by Real News Reporter on March 12th, 2011 var addthis_product = 'wpp-254'; var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; A new report released today in the Kremlin prepared for Prime Minister Putin by the Institute of Physics of the Earth, in Moscow, is warning that the America’s are in danger of suffering a mega-quake of catastrophic proportions during the next fortnight (14 days) with a specific emphasis being placed on the United States, Mexico, Central America and South American west coast regions along with the New Madrid Fault Zone region. This report further warns that catastrophic earthquakes in Asia and the sub-continent are, also, “more than likely to occur” with the 7.3 magnitude quake in Japan today being “one of at least 4 of this intensity” to occur during this same time period. Raising the concerns of a mega-quake occurring, this report says, are the increasing subtle electromagnetic signals that are being detected in the Earth’s upper atmosphere over many regions of the World, with the most intense being over the US Western coastal and Midwest regions. Important to note are that Russian and British scientists are at the forefront of predicting earthquakes based on these subtle electromagnetic signals and have joined in an effort to put satellites in space to detect more of them. More ominously in this report are Russian scientists confirming the independent analysis of New Zealand mathematician and long-range weather forecaster, Ken Ring, who predicted the deadly Christchurch quake and this week issued another warning of a quake to hit on or about March 20th. Ring explains his methodology for predicting earthquakes as follows: “The planets very much affect the earth, indirectly, by having an effect on the Sun. Some planets are very large. If the Sun was a basketball the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn would be the size of grapefruits, and the Earth would be, on that scale, the size of a peppercorn. Jupiter and Saturn cause extra tides on the Sun when they get on either side of the Sun (as with Moon – Earth-Sun when the moon is full) and when these gas giants get on the same side as the Sun, (as with Earth -Moon – Sun when the moon is new). These greater solar tides become sunspot activity and solar flares and can be understood as akin to the increase in tides caused by the Moon when it too gets alongside Earth or opposite Earth. At the moment we have Jupiter and Saturn on either side of the Sun and creating a tug of war with Earth in the middle. That started last September and will continue until about May. In September the Earth was right in line with Jupiter, Saturn and the Sun too. That’s why there were several 7+ earthquakes around, it wasn’t just us. For instance there was one in Pakistan on the same day as Christchurch. This Jupiter/Saturn alignment continues until about May, and the Earth comes back into line as well in March. It is why there may be an extreme event, perhaps a large earthquake, around 20 March, which is when the Moon may be again in a trigger position.” According to this report, however, where Ring is correct in assessing blame for our Earth’s earthquakes on the Sun and Planets, his substituting of Perigean Spring Tides (also known as King Tides) for the low pressure systems associated with them may be incorrect. The mention in this report of massive low pressure systems being associated with catastrophic earthquakes is especially dire to the United States Midwestern region, which even today is continuing to be pounded by horrific rainfall amounts, and most especially impacting the New Madrid Fault Zone State of Arkansas which has suffered over 800 earthquakes in the past 6 months alone. Equally in danger, this report continues, is the South American Nation of Bolivia which has, likewise, suffered catastrophic low pressure system storms that in the past week have killed over 52 people. Most ominous in this report, though, is its warning that the fault-riddled State of California may be about to suffer its most catastrophic earthquake in decades as new reports for this region show the mass death of millions of fish is now occurring, and just like the mass stranding of whales on New Zealand beaches days prior to the February 22nd destruction of Christchurch. Making the situation for our Planet even grimmer are the reports that our Sun is continuing to spew forth massive solar flares, the latest warned to hit our Earth today or tomorrow thus prompting the Hermanus Space Weather Warning Centre (SWWC) to issue a Solar Flare warning for the Southern Hemisphere. Interesting to note in all of these events is the United States Army announcing this week that it is holding a rare training event involving the US Military, the CIA, Canadian officers, US Treasury and State departments, the US Agency for International Development, the Defense Threat Readiness Agency and the International Red Cross between March 21-25 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and which should the worst happen they will certainly be prepared for it. As this report concludes, that as of yet, “no firmly reliable” method for predicting earthquakes has been scientifically recognized, it is well worth noting the too many to be ignored anomalous coincidences leading up to catastrophic mega-quakes are breaking out all over the World and should only be ignored at ones peril. In other words, it is always best to be prepared should disaster strike, wherever the warning comes from. 来自： http://www.realnewsreporter.com/?p=843
After months of behind the scenes negotiations, Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Joe Lieberman (I-VT) unveiled their climate and energy bill, the American Power Act (APA), on May 12. The draft bill aims to reduce carbon emissions by 17 percent by 2020 and by over 80 percent in 2050 through a cap and refund regime, which would return two-thirds of revenues not dedicated to reducing the nations deficit back to consumers with the rest spent on ensuring a smooth transition for American businesses and investing in projects and technologies to reduce emissions and advance our energy security. Below is a summary of APA provisions of interest to the research community. Climate Change Research and Adaptation Provisions APA provides less direction and financial support for climate change research and adaptation activities than its House counterpart, the Waxman-Markey bill. This is largely attributed to the fact that many of the Senate Committees that have jurisdiction of pieces of climate and energy legislation have not yet inserted their respective provisions into the Kerry-Lieberman draft. Climate Services The Senate bill does not include a provision establishing a national climate service, or even a climate service program within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Waxman-Markey includes language that would establish a 3-year process for creating a trans-agency national climate service as well as a climate service program within NOAA. The Senate Commerce Committee has been working on language for the last several months to develop a national climate service; however, it appears that the current APA draft does not include the Commerce Committees contributions. It remains to be seen if or when the Committee will insert its provisions into the larger package; the Committee is said to be waiting on indication from leadership that APA will receive floor time this spring or summer. Global Change Research Unlike the Waxman-Markey bill in the House, the Senate bill does not include reauthorization of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP). Again, the Senate Commerce Committee has been working on USGCRP reauthorization legislative over the last several months. It remains to be seen if the Committee will include its provisions into the Senate bill. Natural Resources Adaptation The Senate bill includes nearly identical language to Waxman-Markey pertaining to natural resources adaptation. The provisions would establish a Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Panel responsible for developing a national strategy to assess the vulnerability of natural resources to climate change and identify protocols and actions for adaptation. Both bills would also codify the National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Centers at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) within DOI and require the Centers and NOAA to work together on providing technical assistance and sponsor research to address natural resources adaptation to climate change. NOAA and DOI would appoint a Science Advisory Board, which could include representatives from universities, to advise on the state of the science as it relates to natural resources adaptation. Additionally, states would be eligible to receive funding to assist in adaptation efforts by preparing state natural resources adaptation plans. International Adaptation APA includes a nearly identical section to Waxman-Markey on the creation of an International Climate Change Adaptation Program. The Senate bill is slightly more inclusive by including the Departments of Commerce and Agriculture, in addition to the Department of State, Department of Treasury, USAID, and EPA which were included in the House bill, in the program to provide assistance to countries vulnerable to climate change. Funds through this program could be used to promote resiliency and adaptation to water scarcity; enhance diversification of agriculture, fishery and other livelihoods; support disaster risk management; assist in the development of sustainable infrastructure; and promote healthy and productive marine and coastal ecosystems. Other Adaptation Activities Unlike Waxman-Markey, the Senate bill does not include a general state adaptation program, which would allow for funding to states to build resiliency to climate change, nor does it include a section on the public health implications of climate change. Fast Mitigation The Senate draft includes a section that is not included in Waxman-Markey relating to options for fast mitigation of climate change. The bill calls for the establishment of an interagency process to review existing and potential policies and measures that promote fast mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions. The process would include recommendations on what further steps should be taken to implement fast mitigation measures. The bill specifically discusses hydrofluorocarbons, black carbon, and international methane.
After months of behind the scenes negotiations, Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Joe Lieberman (I-VT) unveiled their climate and energy bill, the American Power Act (APA), on May 12. The draft bill aims to reduce carbon emissions by 17 percent by 2020 and by over 80 percent in 2050 through a cap and refund regime, which would return two-thirds of revenues not dedicated to reducing the nations deficit back to consumers with the rest spent on ensuring a smooth transition for American businesses and investing in projects and technologies to reduce emissions and advance our energy security. Below is a summary of APA provisions of interest to the research community. ------------------------------------------- Energy Provisions The APA was drafted to try to bridge the differences within the Senate in realization that at least 60 votes would be needed to pass energy and climate change legislation. As such, the APA includes provisions to promote the development of a U.S. nuclear industry; to allow offshore oil and gas exploration and drilling (modified in view of the unprecedented BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico); to enable the use of domestic coal resources by facilitating a national strategy to develop and deploy carbon capture and sequestration technologies; to accelerate large-scale deployment of renewable energy technologies and energy efficiency by establishing a Clean Energy Technology Fund; and to promote workforce development in clean energy technologies. The APA is not a complete companion bill to the House-passed American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454), also known as the Waxman-Markey bill that passed the House of Representatives on June 26, 2009. Many of the provisions of interest to the academic and research communities are addressed in a separate Senate bill, S. 1462, the American Clean Energy Leadership Act of 2009 authored by Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), that has been pending before the Senate since last July. These provisions include the authorization of the Energy Innovation Hubs, improvements to ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy), and establishment of a Clean Energy Deployment Administration. The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee recently approved a package of bipartisan amendments to S. 1462 that align more closely with the Waxman-Markey bill (a separate report will be prepared on S. 1462). The APA and S. 1462 are envisioned to be combined into one bill if the Senate considers climate change and energy legislation this year. The American Power Act includes the following energy-related provisions of interest to universities: Nuclear Energy Research Initiative The Senate bill requires the Secretary of Energy to develop and publish a schedule that contains an outline of a five-year strategy to conduct research to lower the cost of nuclear reactors, including research regarding modular and small-scale reactors; balance-of-plant issues; cost-efficient manufacturing and construction; licensing issues; and enhanced proliferation controls. The bill authorizes $50 million per year for each of fiscal years (FY) 2011 through 2015 for this program and would need to be funded through the Congressional appropriations process. The House (Waxman-Markey) bill does not include such a program. National Strategy for Carbon Capture and Sequestration The Senate bill tasks federal agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Interior (DOI), and other agencies the President may designate with reporting to Congress on the key legal, regulatory, and other barriers to the commercial-scale deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. The Administrator of EPA is charged with establishing a task force composed of experts, including academic researchers, to study existing laws, regulatory frameworks, and private sector mechanisms to assess their applicability to risk management, financial responsibilities, and environmental liabilities associated with CCS. The House bill does not include this initiative. Carbon Capture and Sequestration Program Technical Advisory Committee APA establishes a special funding program for the development and deployment of carbon capture, sequestration and conversion technologies that would be funded by a special assessment on electric utilities for all fossil fuel-based electricity. This program would be governed by a Carbon Capture and Sequestration Program Partnership Council that would appoint a technical advisory committee, whose membership could include universities and independent research institutions, to provide independent scientific review of applications for grants, contracts, cooperative agreements and other transactions funded under the special funding program. The House bill includes provisions to establish a Carbon Storage Research Corporation that would invest $10 billion in carbon capture and storage technologies. Electric Vehicle Infrastructure APA authorizes the Secretary of Energy to work with stakeholders that could include universities to develop a National Transportation Low-Emission Energy Plan and a Pilot Program. The plan would assess the near- and long-term need for and location of electric drive vehicle refueling infrastructure across the nation and identify the infrastructure and standardization needs for electricity providers, infrastructure providers, vehicle manufacturers, and consumers necessary to deploy electric vehicles by January 2020. The proposed pilot projects in different regions of the country would demonstrate the electric drive vehicles and infrastructure. These initiatives are subject to future appropriations. The House bill would direct $20 billion to electric and other advanced technology vehicles. Clean Energy Technology Fund The Senate bill establishes a Clean Energy Technology Fund to support programs that enhance the economic, energy, and environmental security of the United States through the development of clean energy technologies and the development and deployment of advanced energy technologies. The fund would be capitalized by allowances distributed by the Secretary of Energy on a competitive basis to institutions of higher education, companies, research foundations, trade and industry research collaborations, or consortia of such entitles to support research and development of clean energy technology, including nuclear energy, energy transmission and storage technology, energy efficiency improvements, the Smart Grid, and energy efficiency improvements for transportation. There is no estimate for the amounts that would be available from the allowances. The House bill would allocate approximately one and a half percent of cap and trade allowances to specifically fund the Energy Innovation Hubs and ARPA-E. The House bill would also direct $20 billion to electric and other advanced technology vehicles, and $20 billion to basic RD activities for clean energy and energy efficiency programs largely focused on industry. The House bill would establish a Clean Energy Deployment Administration to support private investment in clean energy technologies, including nuclear power. Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction and Sequestration Advisory Committee APA authorizes the Secretary of Energy and Administrator of EPA to establish an independent advisory committee composed of scientists and other experts to provide scientific and technical advice on the establishment and implementation of the offset credit program for domestic Greenhouse Gas reductions, including methodologies and types of projects or activities to be funded. There is no comparable advisory committee in the House bill. International Offsets Integrity Advisory Committee APA provides for the establishment of an independent International Offset Integrity Advisory Committee to provide scientific and technical advice on establishing and implementing the international offsets program authorized in the bill. The advisory committee will also provide recommendations on offset project eligibility, scientific uncertainty, quantification methodologies and related issues. There is no comparable advisory committee in the House bill. Clean Energy Technology and Jobs The Senate bill authorizes three initiatives related to developing the clean energy workforce. The Secretary of Education is authorized to award competitive grants to partnerships to develop programs of study focused on emerging careers and jobs in the fields of clean energy, renewable energy, energy efficiency, climate change mitigation, and climate change adaptation. The Secretary is to consult with the Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of Energy in developing these funding solicitations. An eligible partnership includes a post-secondary education institution, a local education agency, and representatives of businesses, labor, and industry. The Senate bill also authorizes these three agencies to develop an Internet-based clearinghouse to aid career education and job training programs for the renewable energy sectors. The Secretary of Labor is to solicit information from universities, businesses, career and technical schools, and community colleges in crafting the clearinghouse. APA also authorizes a clean energy construction careers demonstration project to promote vocational training and workforce development in the green energy sector. The House bill includes provisions to direct cap and trade revenues toward programs to train the energy workforce and to establish a vocational education and job training clearinghouse. Low-Carbon Industrial Technologies RD The Senate bill authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to establish a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC)to support development and demonstration of technology to improve the competitiveness and job creation in the domestic manufacturing sector. The FFRDC is to be known as the National Industrial Innovation Institute and is to be located in a facility owned and operated by a nongovernmental, nonprofit organization selected by the Secretary.The Institute is to collaborate with research universities and other research and technology entities as well as industry and manufacturers. This initiative is subject to funding through the Congressional appropriations process. The House bill has no comparable provision.
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By A. Kam Napier All in a Name Zuojun: If you want to know what DMV stands for, just google it. Oh, there is a typo in the article, too. I was thinking of writing a Blog on The Namesake, but this one will do for now.
This is how Moore opened SiCKO. A young man had a deep cut that required stitches; since he had no insurance, he stitched together his cut himself. (I had to close my eyes, because I could not stand watching him.) A middle-aged man accidentally sawed off two finger tips of his left hand, and was given a price tag of reconnecting each one: the middle finger $60,000, and the ring finger $12,000. (You wonder HOW the hospital decided the middle finger was five times more important than the ring finger! I can think of only one reason: you need the middle finger to gesture the f-word.) Things got worse: someones young husband died of cancer because he was not allowed to receive certain treatments by the decision of the medical board; some mother lost her little girl because her insurance company insisted that her daughter be treated at a specific hospital in order to be covered by her insurance They are all Americans, citizens of one of the richest countries in the world! Why should we care about US health care system, since this is Chinese sciencenet? I think we can learn something from other countries, because sooner or later China will have to reform its own health care system. I visit China on average once a year for the last 10 years, and I heard one sad medical incident after another, not in the news but from my close friends. Yes, their loved ones died because of poor hospital care or careless medical incidents For someone like me who never worried about hospital visit as a child thanks to my mothers job, its hard to comprehend that my mother is now saving all she can because she is concerned about her ability to pay in case of medical emergency. She is better off than most Chinese, because her medical expenses are 80% covered. However, the 20% is such a burden that she doesnt know if she will have enough saving for the 20%x(unknown medical bills). If a retired medical school professor like her has to worry about health care, what about the average Chinese? p.s. The US health care system I have been using just before my sons birth is the so-called HMO (health maintenance organization), the very system criticized by Michael Moores movie, SiCKO. Do I like HMO? I think I am 85% satisfied with its service. However, I have heard incidents from friends, and horrible ones in the news. If you put the worst cases into a movie, as Moore did, the viewers are going to be shocked and scared, as I was. However, there is hope, even for Americans. To find out the answers, please watch SiCKO.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sicko (typeset as SiCKO ) is a 2007 documentary film by American film maker Michael Moore . The film investigates the American health care system , focusing on its health insurance and pharmaceutical industry . The film compares the for-profit, non-universal U.S. system with the non-profit universal health care systems of Canada , the United Kingdom , France and Cuba . Sicko opened to positive reviews, but also generated criticism and controversy. Some policy specialists have praised the film while others have criticized the film for its positive portrayal of the publicly funded health systems of Canada , the United Kingdom , France , and Cuba , and for its negative portrayal of the health care system in the United States. Zuojun: This is a movie everyone in U.S. and China should watch. Only after seeing this movie, I have learned what has been robbed from a citizen of these countries. (Oh, there was no mentioning of China's medical system, but we know there are many problems with the system.)
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