China Struggles With Rising Heatwave

China Struggles With Rising Heatwave

China Struggles With Rising Heatwave

 

The impact of the killer heatwave in China has resulted beyond 10 people to experience death in China's commercial hub Shanghai, a local health official said on Wednesday as the city struggles with its highest temperatures in at least 140 years. Much of China is in the grip of a summer heatwave, and the China Meteorological Association issued a high temperature caution for several eastern and central provinces, as a special mention that temperatures could mount 41 deg C on Wednesday.

Furthermore, Mr Leng Guangming, a spokesman at the Shanghai Municipal Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, expressed there had been a minimum of 10 victims of heat stroke up to preceding Friday in the city. He declined to give a more precise or more recent number. City forecasters said temperatures were rising rapidly and could reach 40 deg C in People's Square on Wednesday.
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Blackfish Documentary

Blackfish documentary gaze at SeaWorld's whales in Orlando 

  

 

Blackfish may do on similar line for killer whales living in captivity while performing at marine parks as The Cove, the Oscar-winning 2009 documentary  did for dolphin slaughter in Japan. Blackfish, discovers what may have caused Tilikum, a 12,000-pound orca, to kill three people, including veteran SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau in 2010.

 

News of Brancheau's death during a show at SeaWorld in Orlando inspired director Gabriela Cowperthwaite to explore what happened. SeaWorld first demanded that the trainer had slipped and fallen; afterward it mentioned Tilikum had been spooked by Brancheau's ponytail.

 

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Fossilised Remains Of 72 Million Year Old Dinosaur Tail Discovered

Fossilised Remains Of 72 Million Year Old Dinosaur Tail Discovered

Excitingly it was announced that a team of archaeologists have discovered the fossilised remains of a 72 million-year-old dinosaur tail in a desert in northern Mexico. Francisco Aguilar, director of the country's National Institute for Anthropology and History expressed saying that the 'unusually well-preserved' five yard-long tail was the first ever found in Mexico.

Furthermore, the team which is consisting of archaeologists and students from INAH and the National Autonomous University of Mexico, recognized the fossil as a hadrosaur, otherwise duck-billed dinosaur. The tail, found near the small town of General Cepeda found in the border state of Coahuila, likely made up half the dinosaur's length, Aguilar said. Archaeologists explored the 50 vertebrae of the tail completely intact following behind spending 20 days in the desert slowly lifting a sedimentary rock covering the creature's bones. INAH mentioned  spread widely around the tail were other fossilised bones, including one of the dinosaur's hips.

According to INAH, the dinosaur tail finds are relatively rare. Aguilar said that the new discovery could further understanding of the hadrosaur family along with aid research on diseases that troubled greatly dinosaur bones, which possessed similarity those of humans.

Scientists have already resolved that dinosaurs suffered from tumors and arthritis, for example. Dinosaur remains have been found in many parts of the state of Coahuila, in addition to Mexico's other northern desert states. 

Aguilar said they have a very rich history of paleontology. He noted that during the Cretaceous period, which concluded nearly 65 million years ago, much of what is now central northern Mexico was on the coast. This has empowered researchers to unearth remains of both marine and land-based dinosaurs.

The presence of the remains was accompanying statement described in detail to INAH by locals in June 2012. Subsequent to the initial examination, excavation commenced earlier this month and that the remains of the tail will be transferred to General Cepeda for cleaning as well as further investigation.

Once a mystery gets resolved it leads us towards another mystery, it's an unending thrill.

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Six Million Muslims Performed Umrah

Six Million Muslims Performed Umrah

The governor of Makkah has brought into prominence that near about six million Muslims performed Umrah, the smaller Islamic pilgrimage during the first ten days of Ramadan. Furthermore, Saudi daily Al Eqtisadiya reported on Monday, Egyptians moved ahead the list of foreigners who arrived in Saudi Arabia for the Umrah accompanying 700,000, coming in sequence by Indonesians. Iranians were third with 331,000. Many Muslims choose rather than to perform Umrah in Ramadan, the month during which physically able adult men along with women cease from food and drink from sunrise until sunset. Prince Khalid Al Faisal expressed saying nearly 5.6 million people who came for the Umrah have left the country.

Interestingly Saudi authorities, under pressure linked to expansion work at the Grand Mosque in Makkah, have been engaged in compromises to meet increasing applications to perform Umrah, yet also guarantee there is no high-risk overcrowding. On Thursday, the authorities extended the deadline for Umrah visa applications from Ramadan 10 to 15. The decision was established with an intention to help a higher number of Muslims faithful perform the lesser pilgrimage during Ramadan.

Nevertheless, the authorities have also pushed for a limited stay in the religious city to accommodate the large numbers of locals and foreigners. Visitors have been told that they cannot stay more than two weeks and that they have to leave by the end of Ramadan. A major issue for the authorities has been the numbers of overstayers, precisely foreigners from Asia and Africa who made an effort to remain in Makkah for the longest time possible. Saudi Arabia beforehand this year said that it was reducing the numbers of pilgrims during the Haj season by 50 per cent among those living in the kingdom and by 20 per cent among those living abroad.

May God bless the humankind!

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Palaeontologists In Utah Discovers Horned Dinosaur Fossils

Palaeontologists In Utah Discovers Horned Dinosaur Fossils

 

Palaeontologists in Utah on Wednesday announced they had discovered the fossil of a unusual horned dinosaur, which roamed an island continent known as Laramidia.


In fact, dubbed Nasutoceratops titusi, the creature lived during the Late Cretaceous approximately 76 million years ago. As a matter of genuineness, it belonged to the family of herbivore ceratops dinos, of which the famous triple-horned triceratops was a member.

The researchers expressed that N. titusi is extraordinary even for a ceratops.

That's a true adventure accompanying mystery!

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Ecuador Volcano Tungurahua Explodes

Ecuador Volcano Tungurahua Explodes

Authorities in Ecuador expressed saying that at least 200 people have been vacated from near the Tungurahua volcano after it discharged an ash formation furthering beyond 5 kilometres into the air.

Lourdes Mayorga, the regional director of the National Risk Management Secretariat, mentioned that the explosion produced ash along with volcaniclastic flows as well as could be felt hundreds of kilometres away. She added saying on Sunday that at least 200 people were vacated from the zones of Cusua, Chacauco and Juive near the volcano. In fact, authorities publicly professed an orange alert, which permits officials to attain the goods at the same time carry out works to make available humanitarian assistance if there is necessary duty.

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Politics intensify Over Bodh Gaya Blasts

Politics intensify Over Bodh Gaya Blasts

Dirty politics seems to intensify over Bihar serial blasts, as BJP takes the stage to lash out at Nitish government. The opposition has slandered the CM of Bihar for security lapse, despite a prior alert from the Center.

Nine low-intensity blasts shook the Mahabodhi temple and adjacent areas in Bodh Gaya in Bihar on early Sunday morning that left two monks severely wounded.

What emerged as a “heaven-sent” opportunity for the BJP, politicians and ingrates descended on the scene to rant their condemnation against Kumar.

Even his former confidante, Prem Kumar, a former urban development minister, took to the roads, hollering 'go back' slogans against the man, who until now, was his much-extolled boss.

Questioning the CM's integrity, Prem Kumar demanded immediate resignation and arrest of Nitish.

In response to the brickbats, a few JD (U) activists menacingly marched towards the Prem group to demonstrate their support for Nitish. The police had to intervene too prevent a scuffle between the former alliance partners.

Nitish Kumar, too, joined the war, by accusing 'divisive forces' for the blasts. Although Nitish has left the job of nabbing the saboteurs to NIA, the premier investigating agency, he did drop hints on the blasts being “politically motivated”.

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Egyptian Fury Continues

Egyptian Fury Continues

Muslim Brotherhood expressed that the Egyptian security forces destroyed 16 Islamist activists early on Monday during a declaration of objection in Cairo calling for expelling president Mohamed Morsi to be established again.

Deadly scenes:

Furthermore, the group's spokesman Ahmed Aref told AFP that sixteen people were killed at the same time a hundred experienced critical injury while leaving many of them in serious condition. In fact, police barricades obstructed journalists from admittance in that area.

Seriously horrifying!

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Kai Tak Airport Notoriously Challenging Airport From Hong Kong

Kai Tak Airport Notoriously Challenging Airport From Hong Kong

 

Kai Tak Airport - Hong Kong, the most dangerous airport in the world!

Extraordinary as to seem impossible pictures showcases precisely why the world's most dangerous airport in Hong Kong was shut down 15 years ago.

To bring into prominence, Kai Tak airport was shut in 1998 subsequent to the deadly incidents resulted accompanied by more repeated at the same time airport was overcrowded. These pictures taken between 1992 and 1998 by teacher Daryl Scott Chapman, 41, who moved to Hong Kong from Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire aged 16. Accompanied by a hazardous runway that jut out into the sea, at the same time a descent through skyscrapers as well rugged mountains, Kai Tak airport in Hong Kong was seen as the ultimate test of a pilot's skills. The airport- which was shut down in 1998- was the site of mismanaged landings that included planes crashing into the water as well clipping buildings on their downward inclination. These extraordinary as to seem impossible images showcases the moment experienced pilots struggled with the outrageously dangerous landing, in precedence of the airport was closed by the government in 1998 for its poor safety record.

The Kai Tak landing required special training as pilots had to take a challenging last-minute manual turn known as a 'Hong Kong Turn' after they saw a checkerboard reference point above Kowloon Tsai Park. The fearsome lofty downward inclination over the harbour as well as crowded high-rise tower blocks meant Kai Tak was welcomed as the sixth most dangerous airport in the world. Moreover, Kai Tak was Hong Kong's main airport until 1998 who was known to have experienced distress a shocking 12 air disasters with 270 people killed during this time - yet was manipulating near-about 30 million passengers per-year by 1996. The prominent at the same time deadliest incident was a US Marines Hercules flight which was thrust forcibly into the harbour shortly subsequent to it's take-off in 1965, destroying 59 passengers. In fact, 24 passengers were killed during a typhoon landing in 1967  as well as in 1993, a Boeing 747 overran the runway during a typhoon. The site of those dramatic flights has now been gained with determination once considered to be the new Kai Tak Cruise Terminal with the purpose of the cruise liners.

Enjoy the slide-show to know why the Kai Tak Airport- Hong Kong is so dangerous!

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Scolecophidia The Least Understood Creature On Earth

Scolecophidia The Least Understood Creature On Earth

Scientists brought into the revelation dozens of Australian species to the family of small worm-like snakes known as Scolecophidia, which are some of the least-understood creatures on Earth. Researchers from France, Australia along with the United States discovered the full set of chromosomes of 741 animals from 27 recognised species in a subgroup known as Australian blind snakes. Furthermore, a summary of the results published in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society exposed the fact that the data recommended the number of species is at least two times the current number of recognised nominal species.

Another prominent fact revealed that snakes are divided into two major groups such as Scolecophidia, which are generally less than 30cm long, at the same time the more common Alethinophidia inclusive of boas, pythons, cobras as well vipers.

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