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Anderson Cooper Is A Hero (Graphic Video)

Im not sure if my moms favorite television personality has a death wish but man he sure gets good TV going. What a tragedy this Haiti earthquake is and if you haven't given to relief efforts please do by clicking below.

Haiti Relief

Haiti Earthquake Relief......Please Help

Please give to the relief effort going on in Haiti currently. I have included a bunch of links where whatever you can donate will go along way.



Where You Can Donate
The American Red Cross has a full-time staff on the ground in Haiti, providing ongoing HIV/AIDS prevention and disaster preparedness programs, and has already pledged an initial $200,000 to assist communities impacted by the earthquake. They seek additional donations to continue providing food, water, temporary shelter, medical services and emotional support.

UNICEF saw its offices in Port-au-Prince suffer heavy damages in the earthquake, but is ready to provide relief, deploying "essential aid" — safe water, sanitation supplies, therapeutic foods, temporary shelter materials and medical supplies — to assist in recovery efforts.

Yele Haiti is Wyclef's own charitable organization, and has established an online donation site to help victims of the earthquake. Through his Twitter account, he's also asking his fans to lend a hand, by making a $5 donation by texting YELE to 501 501.

Direct Relief International is a U.S.-based organization that provides medical assistance to impoverished nations, and has committed up to $1 million to aid emergency response efforts. Already, they have sent two 40-by-20-foot containers packed with more than $420,000 of medicine, supplies and food to St. Damien Children's Hospital in Port-au-Prince.

World Vision has worked in Haiti for 30 years, and is seeking donations to provide victims with food, water, blankets and tents.

Operation USA already operates in Haiti, and is sending medical aid, water-purification supplies and food supplements to the nation.

Convoy of Hope has established a command center just outside of Port-au-Prince, and is distributing food, water and supplies to the victims of the earthquake.

Samaritan's Purse is a Christian organization that, for over 35 years, has provided assistance to victims of natural disaster, war, disease and famine. In Haiti, they are helping survivors with food, water and temporary shelter.

Good Read - Could I Am Legend Be A Reality

Ok so this is a old article "de-bunking" some of the events that happened in the movie I Am Legend. Thought I'd post it as its a very interesting read about what would happen if everyone died/left a metropolis like NYC as depicted in the film.

Read The Article By Popular Mechanics

Volcano Eruption From Space

The Sarychev Volcano, located on a Russian island off the coast of Japan, erupted on June 12, 2009. The video was captured by the International Space Station. So thats what they do on the ISS...

To All My Italian Blog Visitors

Hope Everyone is safe out there. Have a ton of you guys checking out the blog and supporting the podcasts and everything I do. Hope you and yours are ok. If you didnt know a huge earthquake hit Italy :

L'AQUILA, Italy – Officials say more than 90 people have been killed in Italy's earthquake and that 1,500 people have been injured.

A Cabinet minister, Elio Vito, said at least 91 deaths have been confirmed. Vito, who is minister for parliamentary relations, gave the news in a briefing to lawmakers in the Chamber of Deputies in Rome.

Hardest hit by Monday's pre-dawn quake that rocked the Apennine mountains in central Italy was the medieval town of L'Aquila.

Officials say that a university dorm collapsed and a hotel was heavily damaged in L'Aquila, and many small towns nearby saw whole blocks collapse when the quake struck about 70 miles (110 kilometers) northeast of Rome at 3:32 a.m. local time.

The powerful earthquake in mountainous central Italy knocked down whole blocks of buildings early Monday as residents slept.

Ambulances screamed through the medieval city L'Aquila as firefighters with dogs and a crane worked feverishly to reach people trapped in fallen buildings, including a dormitory where half a dozen university students were believed still inside.

Outside the half-collapsed building, tearful young people huddled together, wrapped in blankets, some still in their slippers after being roused from sleep by the quake. Dozens managed to escape as the dorm walls fell around them but hours after the quake, a body of a male student was pulled from the rubble.

"We managed to come down with other students but we had to sneak through a hole in the stairs as the whole floor came down," said student Luigi Alfonsi, 22. "I was in bed — it was like it would never end as I heard pieces of the building collapse around me."

"There was water gushing out of broken water pipes, and the corridor which led to the stairs was partially blocked when a piece of the wall came down," Alfonsi, his eyes filling with tears and his hands trembling, told The Associated Press.

The quake has also taken a severe toll on the city's prized architectural heritage. L'Aquila was built as a mountain stronghold during the Middle Ages and has many prized Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance buildings.

Parts of many of the ancient churches and castles in and around the city have collapsed. Centuries-old churches in many isolated villages in the area are believed partly collapsed, and damage to ancient monuments has been reported as far as Rome.

L'Aquila, capital of the Abruzzo region, was near the epicenter about 70 miles (110 kilometers) northeast of Rome. It is a quake-prone region that has had at least nine smaller jolts since the beginning of April. The quake struck at 3:32 a.m. The U.S. Geological Survey said the big quake was magnitude 6.3, but Italy's National Institute of Geophysics put it at 5.8 and more than a dozen aftershocks followed.

More than 70 people were killed and the death toll was likely to rise, civil protection chief Guido Bertolaso said as rescue crews clawed through the debris of fallen homes. Some 1,500 people were injured.

The quake hit 26 towns and cities around L'Aquila, which lies in a valley surrounded by the Apennine mountains. Castelnuovo, a hamlet of about 300 people 15 miles (25 kilometers) southeast of L'Aquila, appeared hard hit, and five were confirmed dead there. Another small town, Onno, was almost leveled.

"A few houses have remained standing, but just a few," Stefania Pezzopane, provincial president of L'Aquila, told Corriere della Sera. Rescue workers in Onna, population about 250, said the town was virtually deserted as survivors sought shelter elsewhere.

The four-star, 133-room hotel Hotel Duca degli Abruzzi in L'Aquila's historic center was heavily damaged but still standing it was not known if there were any casualties, said Ornella De Luca of the national civil protection agency in Rome. "The information is very fragmentary," she said.

L'Aquila Mayor Massimo Cialente said about 100,000 people were homeless. It was not clear if the mayor's estimate included surrounding towns. Some 10,000 to 15,000 buildings were either damaged or destroyed, officials said.

Premier Silvio Berlusconi declared a state of emergency, freeing up federal funds to deal with the disaster, and canceled a visit to Russia so he could deal with the quake crisis.

Condolences poured in from around the world, including from President Barack Obama, Pope Benedict XVI and Abdullah Gul, president of quake-prone Turkey.

Slabs of walls, twisted steel supports, furniture and wire fences were strewn about the streets of L'Aquila, and gray dust carpeted sidewalks, cars and residents.

Residents and rescue workers hauled away debris from collapsed buildings by hand or in an assembly lines, passing buckets. Firefighters pulled a woman covered in dust from the debris of her four-story home. Rescue crews demanded quiet as they listened for signs of life from other people believed still trapped inside.

Elsewhere, a man dressed only in his underwear wept as he was pulled from the debris and embraced.

A body lay on the sidewalk, covered by a white sheet.

Parts of L'Aquila's main hospital were evacuated because they were at risk of collapse, and only two operating rooms were in use. Bloodied victims waited in hospital hallways or in the courtyard and many were being treated in the open. A field hospital was being set up.

In the dusty streets, as aftershocks rumbled through, residents hugged one another, prayed quietly or frantically tried to call relatives. Residents covered in dust pushed carts full of clothes and blankets that they had thrown together before fleeing their homes.

"We left as soon as we felt the first tremors," said Antonio D'Ostilio, 22, as he stood on a street in L'Aquila with a huge suitcase piled with clothes. "We woke up all of a sudden and we immediately ran downstairs in our pajamas."

Evacuees converged on an athletics field on the outskirts of L'Aquila where a makeshift tent camp was being set up. Civil protection officials distributed bread and water to people who lay on the grass next to heaps of their belongings.

"It's a catastrophe and an immense shock," said resident Renato Di Stefano, who was moving with his family to the camp as a precaution. "It's struck in the heart of the city, we will never forget the pain."

The Culture Ministry said a wall of the 13th century Santa Maria di Collemaggio church collapsed and the bell tower of the Renaissance San Bernadino church also fell. The 16th castle housing the Abruzzo National Museum was damaged.

This was Italy's deadliest quake since Nov. 23, 1980, when one measuring 6.9-magnitude hit southern regions, leveling villages and causing some 3,000 deaths.

Many modern structures in Italy over recent decades have failed to hold up to the rigors of quakes along Italy's mountainous spine, or in coastal cities like Naples. Despite warnings by geologists and architects, some of these buildings have not been retrofitted in terms of seismic safety.

Pezzopane, the provincial president, said residents may have been lulled into complacency because so many smaller quakes had jolted the area, including two or three earlier in the night.

"Considering what happened, a bit more concern, more attention might have saved lives," she said.

National officials insisted no quake can ever be predicted and that no evacuation could have been ordered on the basis of the recent jolts.

"There is no possibility of making any predictions on earthquakes. This is a fact in the world's scientific community," Civil protection chief Guido Bertolaso told reporters.

The last major quake to hit central Italy was a 5.4-magnitude temblor that struck the south-central Molise region on Oct. 31, 2002, killing 28 people, including 27 children who died when their school collapsed.

Volcano Eruption Video

I gotta say the internet is great for this and probably porn. Otherwise its horrible with people like me having a say, whores on facebook/youtube,myspace etc (well maybe not bad if they are hot and will bang me), tough typers that criticize every post I do via email (get a life virgins). Seriously though gotta love having webcams pointed to volcanoes just on the slight chance of an eruption. Very cool.

We Are All Going To Die

The super volcano in Yellowstone Park, which includes parts of the states of Wyoming, Idaho and Montana, is making its presence felt. On New Year's Day, the situation was so alarming that geologists called for an immediate evacuation of an area within a radius of 325 kilometres around the national park. At a rate of four tremors per hour, an eruption appeared imminent. The tremors have subsided slightly since 1 January, but it would appear the beast is slowly coming awake.
The volcano's caldera, which accounts for much of the park's terrain, measures about 40 by 60 kilometres. About 10 kilometres beneath the surface, a giant reservoir is slowly filling up with magma. Through cracks and fissures, some of its heat rises to the surface in the form of steam and gas, creating the geysers the park is so famous for.
Boom!
Since a few days ago, it has become abundantly clear this volcano is no longer dormant. Geologist Jan Nieuwenhuis of the Technical University in Delft explained what fate would await the planet if a super volcano like the one below Yellowstone were to explode:

"It would create a hole about 30 kilometres deep and 30 kilometres across. Most of the debris would be blasted into the stratosphere, which means minute particles would be distributed all across the higher layers of the atmosphere. This would obscure the sun and effect global temperatures, which could easily drop by several degrees Celsius. At the site of the explosion, the edges of the huge crater created by the blast could collapse, triggering earthquakes strong enough to destroy the entire United States."

A drop in global temperatures of just a few degrees may not sound catastrophic but would have far-reaching consequences. The 1883 eruption of the Indonesian volcano Krakatau sparked a ten-year period of global crop failures. And compared to the Yellowstone super volcano, Krakatau is what a tea-warmer is to a blast furnace.
Extremely dangerous
A subterranean volcano may be tucked away far below the surface, but that does not make it any the less dangerous. This is what geologist Jan Nieuwenhuis has to say on the subject:
"Yellowstone sits atop a reservoir filled with a highly viscous sort of magma, which can not simply flow away through cracks, which means that the gases produced by the magma cannot escape and the pressure keeps building. Also, the magma wants to rise up; after all, the gases it contains reduce its specific gravity, and at some point in time the layers of rock on top the reservoir will simply be blown away in a gigantic explosion."
It's about the time the Yellowstone volcano blew up. It 'explodes' about once every 600,000 to 700,000 years and the previous eruption occurred 650,000 years ago. This means it could blow up at any moment now. Christopher Sanders, the US geologist who wanted to evacuate the area on New Year's Day, did not exactly mince his words:
"We have all of the early warning signs of a major eruption from a super volcano. - I want everyone to leave Yellowstone National Park and for 200 miles around the volcano's caldera."
So what were the early warning signs Mr Sanders was talking about? In the week prior to 28 December, the number of tremors in the area steadily increased to a maximum of 103 a day. In the week after, the number was still 10 a day. Park rangers and visitors could feel the tremors for miles around.
Not for the first time...
Similar series of tremors have been registered before. In 1985, and also in 2004, the tremors came so hard and so fast, they were nearly impossible to count, and the ground in the park was so hot, that it melted the soles on people's shoes. Three thousand moose did not live to tell the tale. But the tremors eventually subsided.
The next major alert was raised in 2007: the bottom of the volcano's bowl-shaped caldera was rising by seven centimetres a year, clear evidence of mounting pressure in the magma chamber underneath.

Geologist around the globe are keeping a close eye on the old volcano, but even they have to admit that, in geology, time is measured in millennia rather than days.