Addictive: Scientists have found power has the same effect on the brain as cocaine

The Great Earthquake 2012

Radioactive Iodine-131 was found in drinking water samples from 13 cities. Those cities are listed below, with the amount of Iodine-131 in picocuries per liter. The EPA’s maximum contaminant level for Iodine-131 in drinking water is 3 picocuries per liter.

Painesville, OH collected 3/29: 0.43

Repubicans worth reading about: Washington Post OpEd as syndicated by Detroit News.  Hopefully Plain Dealer will pick up on this OpEd.

http://blogs.detroitnews.com/politics/2012/04/28/the-problem-with-republicans/

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Wood's Pulitzer marks the first win for the seven-year-old Huffington Post and a milestone in the influential Pulitzer committee's recognition of online-only news organizations.

David Wood’s long career as a military correspondent, and an affirmation that great journalism is thriving on the Web."

Some media watchers said the Pulitzer committee's recognition of The Huffington Post represents a milestone for the organization and digital news outlets in general.

http://youtu.be/6IoVSbjmTZs

For a new vocabulary word how's "corruscading" -

I learned the word when I saw the palm frawns oscillating rapidly back and forth in the wind making the sunlight flash brightly off the waxy surface of the frawn with each oscillation.

How to discribe that bright flashing?   

"Corruscading" light - I was told. 

Cool, a new word...

I had the lucky opportunity a few weeks ago to visit a navel orange grading and packing plant that was built from scratch by 3 brothers and their parents.   The experience was exhilarating - so much creativity and ingenuity on display. 

for years i have called folks emailed about when our sister brother Centipede come out in the open of our home its a omen of a disaster an earthquake killer storms floods hostilities tornados etc.

State wildlife and environmental protection officials have finished counting the number of fish found dead along a three-mile stretch of the Rocky River.

Their tally totals 28,613 fish and other aquatic species such as crayfish and frogs, dead as a result of a still-unknown cause.

The fish were discovered late Sunday by an angler who alerted the Ohio Division of Wildlife through that agency’s poacher-reporting hotline.

Meet with a couple visting from Dayton to research her family--specifically, the Fish Family, one of the original settlers in Cuyahoga County.  It helps that the Brooklyn Centre neighborhood retains some of the architecture and landmarks that can help her trace her family and provide a touchstone. 

How many of us, will be able to have that comfort ten, twenty, thirty years from now??

This week, the local and national news exploited the fact that there are countless "GHOST FACTORIES" remaining in the Cleveland area which have left remnants of LEAD POISION in the GROUND which continues to adversely affect residents indefinitely due to bureacratic steering of responsibility.

In Israel, the Knesset made Yom Hashoah a national public holiday in 1959 and in 1961 a law was passed that closed all public entertainment on Yom Hashoah. At ten in the morning, a siren is sounded where everyone stops what they are doing, pull over in their cars, and stand in remembrance.

In whatever form you observe Yom Hashoah, the memory of the Jewish victims will live on.

http://history1900s.about.com/cs/holocaust/a/yomhashoah.htm

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There are so many  great ironies in NEO--one is the School of Medicine at CWRU located immediately adjacent to the facilities plant that contributes to asthma, cancer and other chronic disease.

all the secret service agents i met and know are the best law enforcement in general - when i was envolved with undercover working with the military etc. - i was arrested by the secret service as agencies don't normaly share intell - they didn't know my role - the agents were so respectfull kind spiritual that i was even offered chocolat - fast forward - all charges were dismissed - and i ended working under cover with mr.

old legal rules: If the facts are against you, argue the law; if the law is against you, argue the facts. And if the facts and law are both against you, confusing everyone with science can't hurt.

http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/judge-says-she-didn-t-understand-...

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Back in the days before Iams or Purina, what did our grandparents feed their dogs? Table scraps mostly or their own recipes. There weren’t the hundreds of dog food varieties as there are now. After World War II, Gaines and Kennel Ration began with canned horse meat. Mostly as a way of getting rid of surplus horses and using up cans made for the war effort. It wasn’t until the 60’s and 70’s when dog food really come into its own.

Greece was the first country to defect from the non-default game theory regime of the European Union (a move which ultimately will be in its great benefit, as it is forced, very shortly, to default higher and higher into the 177% of GDP secured debt, until finally even the Troika's DIP loan is impaired).

A leading earthquake scientist has warned that the planet could be cracking up after a series of massive quakes in just 48 hours.

Expert Gheorghe Marmureanu - from Romania's National Institute of Earth Physics - says 39 quakes had hit the globe within two days.

The series started with two massive quakes in Indonesia measuring 8.6 and 8.2 on the Richter scale rapidly followed by three more only slightly smaller in Mexico within hours.

California area citrus is one of the few global citrus growing regions which has not yet been infected with Huanglongbing disease.    (link to wikipedia)

The sticky surfaced yellow card (image above) is hung on citrus trees across Southern California - hoping to collect the vector insect - and be an early warning system for the disease.  

Perhaps the biggest shortcoming of Detroit "ruin porn" is it inherently ignores the very real people who still live in the city. Now there's a convergence — the amazing story of Allan Hill, the man who legally lives inside the city's abandoned Packard Auto Plant.

CLEVELAND - The Best Buy store at Steelyard commons is closing.

Best Buy store representatives said they will be permanently closing the store on May 12, or when supplies run out, whichever is earlier.

The store was closed to customers temporarily on Saturday April 14.

They plan to re-open Sunday April 15 through May 12, while supplies last, for a sale of up to 20% on select, remaining merchandise.