Picture and Video’s of the Day — Tsunami’s

May 19, 2013 – Picture and Video’s of the Day: The tsunami strikes the coast of Japan on March 11, 2011.

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Astrologocal Aspect Patterns and Gloabl Earthquakes.

May 19, 2013 – Aspect Patterns in Global Earthquakes: I maintain an earthquake database of 5,497 global earthquakes, greater than or equal to 6.0 magnitude, from 1973 to 2013. “Planets” used were the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Plus and the True North Node of the Moon. An orb of five degrees longitude was used for the search.

I summarized the number of aspect patterns found in the database, shown in the chart above, reflecting the top ten patterns out of 24 used. A brief description and picture of the top three patterns are shown below:

Yod: This is a quincunx-sextile-quincunx. It features a crisis of – and a need for – perspective, in which the energies of the two sextiled planets find difficulty integrating with that of the apex, quincunxed planet.

YOD

T-square: A configuration of aspects formed when two points of a horoscope are in opposition to each other and in quadrature to a third planet.

T-Square

Thor’s Hammer: Thor’s Hammer is an aspect pattern consisting of a square (90 degrees) and two sesiquadrate (135 degrees) interconnecting aspects. It is part of the dynamic series of aspects that are based on the 8th harmonic (45 degree) aspect sequence.

Thor’s Hammer

The value in this type of research is searches of these patterns in the future reveal periods of seismic unrest. The chart below forecasts the probability of global earthquake greater than 6.0 magnitude by Month, from June-2013 to December-2013.

For example, based upon the three strongest aspect patterns explained in the narrative, Feb-14 and Dec-14 will be low in global earthquakes; while Aug-14, Jun-13 and Jul-14 are forecast to be high in global quakes.

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Picture of the Day – Sky On Fire at Sunset.

May 18, 2013 – Picture of the Day: The sky “on fire” at sunset.

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Pressure of War Is Causing Syria to Break Apart – NYTimes.com

May 18, 2013 - Syria Begins to Break Apart Under Pressure From War:  The black flag of jihad flies over much of northern Syria. In the center of the country, pro-government militias and Hezbollah fighters battle those who threaten their communities. In the northeast, the Kurds have effectively carved out an autonomous zone. Pictured above, fighters from the Free Syrian Army.

After more than two years of conflict, Syria is breaking up. A constellation of armed groups battling to advance their own agendas are effectively creating the outlines of separate armed fiefs. As the war expands in scope and brutality, its biggest casualty appears to be the integrity of the Syrian state.

On Thursday, President Obama met in Washington with the Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and once again pressed the idea of a top-down diplomatic solution. That approach depends on the rebels and the government agreeing to meet at a peace conference that was announced last week by the United States and Russia.

“We’re going to keep increasing the pressure on the Assad regime and working with the Syrian opposition,” Mr. Obama said. “We are going to keep working for a Syria that is free of Assad’s tyranny.”

But as evidence of massacres and chemical weapons mounts, experts and Syrians themselves say the American focus on change at the top ignores the deep fractures the war has caused in Syrian society. Increasingly, it appears Syria is so badly shattered that no single authority is likely to be able to pull it back together any time soon.

Instead, three Syrias are emerging: one loyal to the government, to Iran and to Hezbollah; one dominated by Kurds with links to Kurdish separatists in Turkey and Iraq; and one with a Sunni majority that is heavily influenced by Islamists and jihadis.

“It is not that Syria is melting down — it has melted down,” said Andrew J. Tabler, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and author of “In the Lion’s Den: An Eyewitness Account of Washington’s Battle with Syria.”

“So much has changed between the different parties that I can’t imagine it all going back into one piece,” Mr. Tabler said. Pictured above, men purportedly being executed.

Fueling the country’s breakup are the growing brutality of fighters on all sides and the increasingly sectarian nature of the violence.

Recent examples abound. Pro-government militias have hit coastal communities, targeting Sunni Muslim civilians. Sunni rebel groups have attacked religious shrines of other sects. A video circulating this week showed a rebel commander in Homs cutting out an enemy’s heart and liver, and biting into the heart.

Analysts say this shift in the nature of the violence will have a greater effect on the country’s future than territorial gains on either side by making it less likely that the myriad ethnic and religious groups that have long called Syria home will go back to living side by side. As the momentum seesaws back and forth between rebels and the government, the geographic divisions are hardening. Click on the link below for the complete story.

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Pressure of War Is Causing Syria to Break Apart – NYTimes.com.

Picture of the Day – Red Sunset.

May 17, 2013 – Picture of the Day: This photo was taken on April 28, 2013 in Döse, Lower Saxony, DE:

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Remote Alaskan Volcano Pavlof Continues to Erupt.

May 17, 2013 - Pavlof volcano continues to erupt with lava, ash: A remote Alaska volcano continues to erupt, spewing lava and ash clouds.

The Alaska Volcano Observatory said Thursday a continuous cloud of ash, steam and gas from Pavlof Volcano has been seen 20,000 feet above sea level. The cloud was moving to the southeast Thursday.

John Power, the U.S. Geological Survey scientist in charge at the observatory, estimates the lava fountain rose several hundred feet into the air.

Onsite seismic instruments are picking up constant tremors from the eruption at Pavlof, located about 625 miles southwest of Anchorage.

Residents of Cold Bay, 37 miles away, have reported seeing a glow from the summit.

Pavlof is among the most active volcanoes in the Aleutian arc, with nearly 40 known eruptions, according to the observatory.

Pictured above, Pavlof Volcano in eruption May 13, 2013 11:26 AM AKDT. View is from the southwest in Cold Bay. Lava fountaining is visible near the summit, and steam and ash clouds rise from the northwest flank where a lava flow advances down the slope. (Photographer/Creator: Kremer, Rachel).

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Picture of the Day – Beautiful Sunset.

May 16, 2013 – Picture of the Day: Beautiful sunset.

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Asteroid 1998 QE2 to Sail Past Earth Nine Times Larger Than Cruise Ship – NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

May 16, 2013 - Asteroid 1998 QE2 to Sail Past Earth Nine Times Larger Than Cruise Ship:  On May 31, 2013, asteroid 1998 QE2 will sail serenely past Earth, getting no closer than about 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometers), or about 15 times the distance between Earth and the moon. And while QE2 is not of much interest to those astronomers and scientists on the lookout for hazardous asteroids, it is of interest to those who dabble in radar astronomy and have a 230-foot (70-meter) — or larger — radar telescope at their disposal.
NASA places a high priority on tracking asteroids and protecting our home planet from them. In fact, the U.S. has the most robust and productive survey and detection program for discovering near-Earth objects. To date, U.S. assets have discovered over 98 percent of the known NEOs.
Of course, it is that other 2 percent that is the biggest concern relative to this issue.  Click the link below for the complete story from NASA.

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Asteroid 1998 QE2 to Sail Past Earth Nine Times Larger Than Cruise Ship – NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Picture of the Day – A beautiful Day in the Bahamas.

May 15, 2013 – Picture of the Day: A beautiful day in the Bahamas.

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Grisly Killings in Syrian Towns Dim Hopes for Peace Talks – NYTimes.com

May 15, 2013 - An Atrocity in Syria, With No Victim Too Small:  A disaster of unspeakable atrocities is taking place in Syria and the world does nothing to stop it. Syrians have been shocked by video from coastal towns (see map above).

I will not print much of this story, because it is to gut wrenching and hard to look at, however, if you wish to read the entire story, see video and comments; just follow the link below.  Warning – the descriptions of the atrocities, photographs, video and comments are not suitable for young children and the squeamish.

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Grisly Killings in Syrian Towns Dim Hopes for Peace Talks – NYTimes.com.