The dark core of sunspot 1084 is twice as wide as Earth itself.
More impressive, however, is the enormous swirl of hot gas and magnetic fields suspended overhead. Today's extreme UV image from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory reveals the sunspot's pinwheel canopy:
This magnetic architecture must be stable, because sunspot 1084 is remarkably quiet. There hasn't been the slightest hint of a flare from this "active" region for the past two days. It is, however, photogenic.
Posted: 11:02:34 PM
When I "asked" ... 'should I post about Alex', the "answer" was 'NO, minor storm, some but not much devastation'.
Later I posted about ALEX T H I S P O S T I N G (scroll down) - Emergency declared as Hurricane Alex approaches coast of Texas
"They" were right (as always .... this is WHY Marina'sMasters IS what IT is ....)
ABOUT a quarter of the swine flu vaccine produced for the US public has expired - meaning the 40 million doses, worth about $US260 million ($310 million), are being written off as rubbish.
bout 30 million more doses will expire later and may go unused, according to one government estimate. If all that vaccine expires, more than 43 per cent of the supply for the US public will have gone to waste.
GOVERNMENT authorities will have the power to enter Victorian farms and spray locusts even without a farmer's permission, under measures to combat a ''perfect storm'' of conditions now threatening south-eastern Australia.
This spring and summer, locust swarms in Victoria could be bad enough to destroy crops, disrupt sporting events and possibly cause temporary closures of Melbourne and regional airports, the Victorian Plague Locust Commissioner warned farmers yesterday.
In a stark assessment of shootings of locals by US troops at checkpoints in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal said in little-noticed comments last month that during his time as commander there, "We've shot an amazing number of people and killed a number and, to my knowledge, none has proven to have been a real threat to the force."
The comments came during a virtual town hall with troops in Afghanistan after one asked McChrystal to comment on the "escalation of force" problem. The general responded that, in the nine months he had been in charge, none of the cases in which "we have engaged in an escalation of force incident and hurt someone has it turned out that the vehicle had a suicide bomb or weapons in it."
In many cases, he added, families were in the vehicles that were fired on.
Gen. McChrystal is replaced by Gen. Petraeus, who will betray us ... (and THAT's not the first time ...)
I am not suprised if McChrystal will get a deadly disease like cancer or fall of a balcony, "suiciding" himself ... or something like that ...
Posted: 9:44:17 AM
Daily Motivator
Relax and richly live
When you don't have time to relax, that's when relaxation will help you most. Go ahead, and allow yourself to relax.
Let go of the thoughts that race through your mind. For a while, put your focus on being here and now, dropping your concerns of later and before.
There is immense inexhaustible value deep within you right now. Relax, and feel the gentle power of authentic presence.
To relax, you don't have to stop what you're doing. You just have to stop fighting against it.
Stop clinging to what you think you need. Start allowing the beauty of what is.
Relax, and discover that relaxing does not waste your time. Relax, and richly live the moment.
Dig: Archaeologists have uncovered a mass grave containing the complete skeletons of 51 horses buried side-by-side, possibly belonging to the equine victims of a 17th-century Dutch battle
Tests on shoppers' bags revealed that half contained traces of the lethal toxin E.coli, which killed 26 people in Scotland in 1996 in one of the world's worst food-poisoning outbreaks.
A toxin? ... right, a quick search on scroogle helps: about - ecoli. com (just to put one up ...
Dr Kelly, who worked for both the UN and later the Ministry of Defence, was found dead seven years ago next month in an Oxfordshire wood.
Assassinated ... and when HIGH ppl are involved, the truth will not see the light ... in daytime ... in nighttime, it does!
Need some more help with these subjects ("how to handle in cases like this: I know/feel what happened and "nowwhat"??) C l i c k h e r e
It turns out that Mikhail Semenko, one of the arrested "spies", was an active user of a popular Russian website odnoklassniki.ru (classmates), where he uploaded his pictures.
Posted: 12:19:45 AM
EXPOSED! - G20 Police in Black Bloc Anarchist Gear - Toronto