Yesterday, Dec. 22nd at approximately 0455 UT, magnetic fields around sunspot 1036 erupted, producing a C7-class solar flare. NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft was almost directly above the sunspot at the time of the blast and recorded this extreme ultraviolet movie.

The shadowy wave racing away from the blast site is a "solar tsunami"--a swell of hot, magnetized plasma about 100,000 km high packing as much energy as a million megatons of TNT. The tsunami petered out before it went more than halfway around the sun, but another manifestation of the blast is still going.

The eruption hurled a faint coronal mass ejection (CME) into space and the billion-ton cloud should cross Earth's orbit on or about Dec. 25th.
A glancing blow to Earth's magnetic field could spark polar auroras for Christmas.

Posted: 11:11:34 PM  

I am not alone at all, I thought.

I was never alone at all.

And that, of course, is the message of Christmas.

We are never alone.

Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent.

For this is still the time God chooses.

Taylor Caldwell, 1900-1985
American Author and Novelist
inspirationpeak.com

Posted: 9:24:09 PM  

The Miracle Herbs

A Film By Producer/Director Kurt Sherrard

Note from MM: posted without seeing it, will do that on a later date.

Posted: 10:19:18 AM  

Pharmacratic - Inquisition . com

Dutch subtitles

Posted: 10:00:37 AM  

People are finally becoming cognizant that their destiny lies in their own hands and within their own consciousness.

WE, the people ...
I am that
I am.

Posted: 9:57:40 AM  

The jury did not believe Holden's insistence that he made the confession only because he had been held down by soldiers who placed a towel over his face before pouring water from a bucket over his nose and mouth, creating the sensation that he was drowning.

But now the Criminal Cases Review Commission has referred Holden's case to the Court of Appeal in Belfast after unearthing new evidence, and because of doubts about ''the admissibility and reliability'' of his confession. The appeal will be heard in the new year.

Posted: 9:29:48 AM  

NIB to stop handling cash

The bank says the idea of "cashless banking" will be rolled out over the next 18 months, and that the model is that used by its Danish parent company.

Posted: 9:28:33 AM  

Iran's president on Tuesday dismissed a year-end deadline set by the Obama administration and the West for Tehran to accept a U.N.-drafted deal to swap enriched uranium for nuclear fuel. The United States warned Iran to take the deadline seriously.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also accused the U.S. of fabricating a purported Iranian secret document that appears to lay out a plan for developing a critical component of an atomic bomb.

Posted: 9:22:52 AM  

Terrorist attack feared after Jackson arrest

The FBI concluded there were no threats, but did note the presence in an early court appearance of "The Nation of Islam, represented by its security unit Fruits of Islam," and of a New Black Panther Party member whose name was left blank in the files. Jackson used Nation of Islam bodyguards during the legal proceedings.

Posted: 9:20:53 AM