Ida still has potential, especially when it moves out over the Gulf of Mexico

November 6, 2009
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UNISYS Infrared GOES East Satellite (click here for 12 hour loop)

Posted: Nov. 6, 2009
Headlines: Nicaraguan coast walloped by storm (click title to entry - thank you)
COMPILED FROM REPORTS BY FREE PRESS NEWS SERVICES
HURRICANE IDA: Nicaraguan coast walloped
Hurricane Ida ripped into Nicaragua's Atlantic coast Thursday, destroying homes, damaging schools and downing bridges before losing steam and and later becoming a tropical depression.
Ida, clocking 75-m.p.h. winds, struck land around sunrise in Tasbapauni, about 60 miles northeast of Bluefields, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said.
About 80% of homes were destroyed in nearby Karawala, a fishing village of about 100 shacks, Nicaraguan officials said. No deaths or injuries have been reported....

News RELIABLY without propaganda content or spin or Murdock ads or priviledged Wall Street agendas. No extra flu vaccine in their refrigerators.

Grape Seeds produce Omegas.

Q: Which oil is best for deep-frying? (click title to entry - thank you) If polyunsaturated fat is unstable at a high temperature, then grape seed oil should not be used even though its smoke point is very high. Also, I've read that even monounsaturated fats should not be used for deep-frying. So what should I use?

A: Grape seed oil is an exception -- its rich antioxidants prevent the formation of free radical chains that typically are produced when oils are exposed to high temperatures. Olive oil and canola oil are safe for heating at lower temperatures (for sauteing or warming), but the longer they are heated, the faster they break down. Ironically, butter and organic coconut oil are the ideal fats for frying. They are saturated fats (which means that if used excessively, they might contribute to heart disease over time) but are highly stable.

The controversy to much of this is the manipulation of genetics to achieve a goal for the imporverished.
The African community and those being addressed within this 'corporate' paradigm feel they are sacrificing the biological safety net to achieve an end.
I believe those that are seeking to 'impose' these standards on the impoverished need to conduct research 'first' to insure the safety of their product, rather than producing a product that will make them 'feel good' about their efforts.
I don't see anything wrong with genetic altered crops so long as they are SAFE. And proven safe. My guess is that there is a problem.
I perfer cross breeding crops to achieve a better grape, wheat or corn that is a natural product.
While the 'idea' is noble it is not well received, therefore, why 'go there' in the first place?

Seed maker Monsanto opening first research center in China (click here)
Monsanto opening first research center in China
ST. LOUIS — Monsanto Co., the world’s biggest seed maker, on Tuesday said it is opening its first research center in China.
The Monsanto Biotechnology Research Center in Beijing will boost Monsanto’s ties with Chinese research institutions in plant biotechnology and genomics....

Bill Gates addresses 2009 Borlaug Dialougue (click here)
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle)
Bill Gates' Speech at the World Food Prize Symposium (click here)
15 October 2009
...Melinda and I believe that helping the poorest small-holder farmers grow more crops and get them to market is the world's single most powerful lever for reducing hunger and poverty....

Muscadine grape seeds contain up to 10 times the antioxidant value of other high-antioxidant foods such as blueberries and cranberries. Compared to other grape seeds, Muscadine grape seeds have 40 times the antioxidants and more Resveratrol - the polyphenol found in red wine and proven to benefit cardiovascular health, blood sugar levels and the aging process, among other health issues. In addition, Muscadine grapes offer a unique combination of phytochemicals and phenolic compounds not found in other grapes, fruits or vegetables, such as Resveratrol, Ellagic Acid, OPCs, and Quercetin.




-Grape Seed Extract may be useful to treat heart diseases such as high blood pressure and high cholesterol. By limiting lipid oxidation, phenolics in grape seeds may reduce risk of heart disease, such as by inhibiting platelet aggregation and reducing inflammation.


-A polyphenol contained in grape seeds is resveratrol which may interfere with cancer cell growth and proliferation, as well as induce apoptosis, among a variety of potential chemopreventive effects.


-Grape seed components may also be active against HIV by inhibiting virus expression and replication.





Possible Anti-disease Properties


Wound Healing - grape seed proanthocyanidins induced vascular endothelial growth factor and accelerated healing of injured skin.


-Tooth Decay - seed phenolics may inhibit oral sugar metabolism and retard growth of certain bacteria causing dental caries.


-Osteoporosis - grape seed extracts enhanced bone density and strength.


-Skin Cancer - grape seed proanthocyanidins decreased tumor numbers and reduced the malignancy of papillomas.


-Ultraviolet Damage to Skin - dietary proanthocyanidins may protect against carcinogenesis and provide supplementation for sunscreen protection.

Palm Oil is very high in saturated fats. It is NOT like vegetable oil.

There are excellant alternatives, the forests are better left for carbon sink management and preservation of our natural world. Omega 3 is stated to stave off and improve human depression. Leave the trees alone !!!!

Palm oil contains several saturated and unsaturated fats in the forms of lauric (0.1%, saturated), myristic (0.1%, saturated), palmitic (44%, saturated), stearic (5%, saturated), oleic (39%, monounsaturated), linoleic (10%, polyunsaturated), and linolenic (0.3%, polyunsaturated) acids, Like any vegetable oils, palm oil is designated as cholesterol-free, however saturated fat intake increases LDL cholesterol
Palm oil is a very common cooking ingredient in southeast Asia and the tropical belt of Africa. Its increasing use in the commercial food industry in other parts of the world is buoyed by its cheaper pricing and the high oxidative stability of the refined product.
Palm oil contains more saturated fats than other vegetable oils. The palm fruit yields two distinct oils - palm oil and palm kernel oil....

Will palm oil drive deforestation in the Amazon? (click here)
Posted on 23, March, 2009
Rhett A. Butler & William F. Laurance, mongabay.com , March 23, 2009 “Already a significant driver of tropical forest conversion across southeast Asia, oil palm expansion could emerge as threat to the Amazon rainforest due to a proposed change in Brazil’s forest law, new infrastructure, and the influence of foreign companies in the region, according to researchers writing in the open-access journal Tropical Conservation Science.
William F. Laurance, a senior scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama City, Panama, and Rhett A. Butler, founder of environmental science web site Mongabay.com, warn that oil palm expansion in the Brazilian Amazon is likely to occur at the expense of natural forest as a result of a proposed revision to the forest code which requires land owners to retain 80 percent forest on lands in the Amazon. The new law would allow up to 30 percent of this reserve to consist of oil palm....

Absolutely NO postponement of Climate Polcy. The delegates are letting their backbone slip too much.

The phrase vanished completely on the last day of UN climate talks in Bangkok in October.

— "safeguards against the conversion of natural forests to forest plantations" —

— "safeguards against the conversion of natural forests to forest plantations" —

— "safeguards against the conversion of natural forests to forest plantations" —

— "safeguards against the conversion of natural forests to forest plantations" —

— "safeguards against the conversion of natural forests to forest plantations" —

The Geophyscial Dynamics override Bush Era political backpeddling. The CO2 content of Earth has to come down immediately. There needs to be work on methane as well. Earth is in a dangerous negative feedback loop and the food supplies are being drastically effected for many reasons. The carbon sinks are going down and if the ocean becomes to hot for primary producers it will just too bad.

Forest protection hinges on 10-word phrase (click here)
Tue Nov 3, 2009 4:40pm EST
...The 10-word provision — "safeguards against the conversion of natural forests to forest plantations" — was part of the proposal on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation, known as REDD. The words were enclosed in brackets. Meaning, they were still up for negotiation....

What effects the land, effects the seas.


Postponement is NOT an option. NOT ! The dangers and damage are exponential and every moment that passes without resolve creates more possbility the next tipping point might be the last.

Climate change deal must be global priority, says Darling (click title to entry - thank you)
World leaders have been urged not to let money stand in the way of a global deal on climate change.
Published: 11:24AM GMT 06 Nov 2009
The UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December has been billed as humanity’s last chance to stop global warming by reducing greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.
But negotiators meeting in Barcelona this week for the latest round of negotiations have admitted that any meaningful deal is unlikely until the end of next year because the US and other rich nations will not commit to cutting carbon emissions....

Earth is good at OVER ABUNDANCE. It produces far more than any biological entity can consume, BUT, it has a delicate balance and humans have destroyed that balance. Earth's over abundance can no longer 'handle' the MISTAKES of humans and their narcisstic ability to destroy their own home!

Chapter 13: The Sixth Extinction (click here)
by Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin (Doubleday, 1995)
AN ACCIDENT OF HISTORY we may be, but there is no question that Homo sapiens is the single most dominant species on Earth today. We arrived late on the evolutionary scene and at a time when the diversity of life on the planet was near its all-time high. And, as we saw in chapter 10, we arrived equipped with the capacity to devastate that diversity wherever human populations travelled. Blessed with reason and insight, we move toward the twenty-first century in a world of our own creation, an essentially artificial world in which (for some, at least) technology brings material comfort and leisure brings unprecedented artistic creation. So far, unfortunately, our reason and insight have not prevented us from collectively exploiting Earth's resources-biological and physical-in unprecedented ways....

The vaccine is not a killer, the flu is.

Hi risk of misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis!

“The data suggests it starts as a diffuse viral pneumonia,”

It is a wicked virus. What is this 'thirty something?'

I'll be honest, it looks like a designer virus. The appearance even looks engineered. All four components have large surface areas to each other and there are definate boundaries to the four components that are almost like 'organs' to each other. It is weird.

A virus that targets children and those that are productive. Seems odd to me.

What 'biochemical perference' do thirty somethings have?

...Doctors in the study conducted in Australia and New Zealand identified 68 patients critically ill with flu symptoms, most of whom were eventually confirmed to have H1N1. Despite having a median age of 34 years, their fatality rate was 21 percent. Six of the survivors were still in intensive care units when the data were reported....

H1N1 vaccine: Counting side effects (click title to entry - thank you)
By Janet Raloff
Web edition : Monday, November 2nd, 2009
miscarriage within 24 hours.
...But not BECAUSE of their flu shots.
These miscarriages would have normally occurred even if the moms-to-be had foregone vaccinations. And that’s because the average background miscarriage rate for any given day (among women far enough along to recognize they are pregnant) is about 397. Or so reports a new international analysis, which appeared online October 30, ahead of print, in the Lancet. To see an impact of the vaccine on pregnancy losses, miscarriage rates would have to spike well above that roughly 400-per-million figure, it notes....

Inhalers aren't going to help. Asthmatics are especially at risk for detecting the worse case scenerios. People with lung conditions need to be vaccinated, especially children, as they are already compromised.

Getting to the core of H1N1 flu deaths (click here)
Fatalities show lungs are overwhelmed; antiviral drugs, ventilation to replace lost oxygen can rescue patients
By Nathan Seppa
November 7th, 2009; Vol.176 #10 (p. 13)
Lung inflammation and respiratory failure are largely responsible for the fatal cases of H1N1 (swine) flu seen so far, three new studies show. The findings also confirm observations that the influenza hits young adults the hardest but can be fought off in many cases with the use of antiviral flu drugs and a mechanical ventilator to aid breathing.
The new studies offer the first large-scale analyses of how the H1N1 flu causes life-threatening illness. All three reports find a consistent pattern of oxygen deprivation in the blood of critically ill patients, a dangerous condition that in the worst-case scenario leads to shock, organ failure and death, the researchers report online October 12 in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The studies were conducted between early March and late August in Canada, Mexico and Australia and New Zealand....

It didn't have to do with redeployment stress, he'd never been in a war environment.

The military is sorta like the Catholic Church, they manage to get 'em all. He'll probably be the star in the next al Qaeda video. Can we please do something about the 'cracks in the sidewalk' here? Okay?


Rampage: Video footage shows Major Nidal Malik Hasan shopping at a 7-11 store just outside Fort Hood, Texas, hours before he shot 13 people

...He received his medical degree from the military's Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, in 2001.
While an intern at Walter Reed, Hasan had some 'difficulties' that required counseling and extra supervision, said Dr. Thomas Grieger, who was the training director at the time.
Grieger said privacy laws prevented him from going into details but noted that the problems had to do with Hasan's interactions with patients.
He recalled Hasan as a 'mostly very quiet' person who never spoke ill of the military or his country....

There were reasons for the harassment. He scared people. He scared military people that saw him as a threat. And he had PRACTICE issues. What did his superiors think, to put him in a war environment would straighten him out? I mean for real here.

...At least six months ago, Hasan came to the attention of law enforcement officials because of Internet postings about suicide bombings and other threats, including posts that equated suicide bombers to soldiers who throw themselves on a grenade to save the lives of their comrades.
They had not determined for certain whether Hasan is the author of the posting, and a formal investigation had not been opened before the shooting, said law enforcement officials....

He had identity issues? He should not have been where he was doing what he was doing. He was sending out sparks in a powder keg, BUT, he was really nice guy, 'ya know.'

...On a form filled out by those seeking spouses through a programme at the mosque, Hasan listed his birthplace as Arlington, Virginia, but his nationality as Palestinian, Khan said.
'I don't know why he listed Palestinian,' Khan said, 'He was not born in Palestine....


Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan

He was a CO. Conscientious objector. How did a CO ever get to be a Major in the military deploying to Iraq? He shouldn't have had guns in his hands. What the heck happened here?

He is a devout Muslim and he was being harassed by some military bozos. He convinced himself he was going to die in Iraq, possibly by the hand of his own peers. He was paranoid as hell.