With the holidays gone I wanted to give some ink to Operation Comix Relief. Chris runs this non-profit organization and is nearing ten years of sending comics to soldiers around the globe – approaching 2,000 packages! With year end approaching I sent over a check as part of my charitable donations goal for the year [...]
Summer capital Srinagar was slightly warmer Saturday at minus 0.4 degrees Celsius, still below the freezing mark but Jammu and Kashmir’s cold desert region of Ladakh continued to reel under the intense cold wave. “Due to the nightlong cloud cover, the minimum temperature again rose today (Saturday) in Srinagar from Friday’s minus 2.2 to minus [...]
Nonprofit organization Direct Relief has unveiled its Online Medical Aid Distribution Map with help from Esri’s ArcGIS, Google Earth and SAP applications to keep the flow of aid transparent. – Humanitarian
organization Direct Relief International has launched an online aid-tracking portal
called the Online Medical
Aid Distribution Map. Announced on Dec. 16, the Web tool provides
pharmaceutical and medical manufacturers with precise data on where their aid
packages have been shipped t…
An oil and gas industry veteran with 30 years experience who goes by the alias Fishgrease gave a pretty good recap of BP and the government’s record of failure in capping the oil well: BP does a superhuman job of creating conditions favorable to los…
A day after saying that relief wells may not be needed, the government has decided that they are.That’s good news, as it greatly increases the odds that the oil well will permanently be capped.Oil industry expert Robert Cavnar pointed out on July 14t…
Yesterday, I pointed out that – while everyone is claiming that the oil well has been capped – it hasn’t really been capped.AP reported last night:BP, U.S. mull whether to skip ‘bottom kill’***The federal government and BP have recently raised the poss…
As oil industry expert Bob Cavnar writes:The National Hurricane Center this morning forecasted a 70% chance that Invest 97, now just south of the Bahamas, would form into a tropical cyclone. Destination? The central Gulf. In his McBriefing yesterd…
Yesterday, I explained what is happening with the efforts to stop the oil gusher.I have some important updates.Initially, it turns out that it was the government which ordered the delay in the well integrity test. As Bloomberg points out:BP Plc delaye…
Officials have praised Sean Penn’s relief work in Haiti, branding it as “an amazing achievement”. The actor co-founded the Jenkins-Penn Haiti Relief Organization after the devastating disaster, and has flown out to the country numerous times since to help implement a relief camp in Petionville and facilities in the community, near to the capital, Port-au-Prince. [...]
Many technical experts have said that the first attempts to complete the relief well in August could miss entirely on the first try, as it is difficult to intersect the blown-out well at the precise location and angle needed.As PBS notes:Several expert…
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VINCE AND THE BOYS DO THEIR PART TO HELP WEST VIRGINIA MINERS
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Just in time for Earth Day (April 22), Great American Taxi, whose current album Reckless Habits (JamBase review) is climbing the Americana radio airplay charts, has donated a free download of a song, “Appalachian Soul,” culled from its debut album Streets of Gold, to raise awareness of the plight of coal miners and their communities in West Virginia. The track is offered free to radio stations that agree to direct listeners to www.greatamericantaxi.com, which in turn links to West Virginia Council of Churches website, which collects donations for the miners.
GAT frontman Vince Herman, who grew up in West Virginia, comments, “Great American Taxi sends our thoughts out to the families and communities affected by the mining disaster at the upper big branch mine. We hope that their unconquerable Appalachian spirit and families can help them navigate these difficult times. The country and the world share in their grief. We need coal. We need our miners to be safe. We need understanding on all sides of this contentious issue of our national energy policy. We would like to make Taxis’ tribute to that Appalachian spirit available as a download here and suggest a donation to the WV council of churches to assist the families of our fallen brothers. Let’s all come together and honor the families who have paid that ultimate price for our energy needs and hope that this is the last such disaster we must face.”
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Body, mind and genes all play a role in influencing the perception of pain
PAIN, unfortunately, is a horrible necessity of life. It protects people by alerting them to things that might injure them. But some long-term pain has nothing to do with any obvious injury. One estimate suggests that one in six adults suffer from a “chronic pain” condition.
Steve McMahon, a pain researcher at King’s College, London, says that if skin is damaged, for instance with a hot iron, an area of sensitivity develops around the outside of the burn where although untouched and undamaged by the iron the behaviour of the nerve fibres is disrupted. As a result, heightened sensitivity and abnormal pain sensations occur in the surrounding skin. Chronic pain, he says, may similarly be caused not by damage to the body, but because weak pain signals become amplified. …
Sean Penn has expressed his ire at critics who have slammed the Oscar winner’s role in the earthquake relief effort in Haiti as a move to distract the world’s attention from his messy divorce: he hopes they all die of rectal cancer. The actor’s divorce with Robin Wright Penn hit headlines this month after critics [...]
After an 8.8 magnitude earthquake hammered Chile Feb. 27, Google tailored its Web services to help users access information related to the disaster. Google’s Maps team is making Chile map data available to relief and aid organizations through the Google Map Maker tool. Also, the Person Finder tool is available to help people locate missing family and friends. Google’s YouTube video site also offered video clips Chilean citizens uploaded regarding the crisis.
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