Real Time Disaster Monitoring Map

The Hungarian National Association of Radio Distress-Signalling and Infocommunications (RSOE) operates Emergency and Disaster Information Service (EDIS) within the frame of its own website which has the objective to monitor and document all the events on the Earth which may cause disaster or emergency. Our service is using the speed and the data spectrum of the internet to gather information. We are monitoring and processing several foreign organisation’s data to get quick and certified information.

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Not only do they track disasters on Earth, but they track objects possibly on their way to Earth.

If you end up clicking on the link, don’t just check out the map, but scroll down for all the details and other info.

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Bag of Randomness

  • I got bill in the mail yesterday relating to the anesthesia WifeGeeding received when delivering BabyGeeding . . . nine-and-a-half months ago.  Sheesh, I thought all that stuff was behind us.
  • Oh, the worst part is . . . they don’t accept payments online or via billpay . . . I actually have to write a check and mail it.  I haven’t written a check in . . . well, a very, very long time.
  • There are 65 U.S. nuclear facilities, and here is a ranking of there vulnerability.  For you local folks, Comanche Peak comes in at 35.  I always thought that was the only nuclear power plant in Texas, but I’m wrong, there’s a second one in Bay City.
  • I thought it was pretty cool of companies like Verizon and Time Warner to allow free phone calls to Japan.  Now Chase is calling card holders in Japan to make sure they are safe.
  • If you have been wondering why flags have been flying at half-staff it’s in honor of the last WWI veteran who recently passed away.  I’m sure with all the coverage of Japan his story has been lost in the headlines.  I saw that the president and vice-president even attended his funeral.
  • My heart goes to all those affected by the tragedy in Japan, but it really goes out to those 50 working at the troubled nuclear reactor.
  • Lactic acid is your friend
  • Even wondered what things would be like under the McCain/Palin administration?
  • Pepsi bottles – No more plastic
  • Pastor tells congregation to F thy neighbor
  • Most Expensive Dog Breeds
  • I stared at this for way too long.
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The Jefferson Bible is Restored

A Smithsonian museum is restoring the “Jefferson Bible,” a unique volume the third president cut and pasted himself — omitting lots of theology — from portions of the New Testament.

Thomas Jefferson assembled the book in 1820 when he retired after two terms as president. ‘The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth’ resembles a scrapbook that puts Jesus’ life in chronological order. Its 86 pages include clipped passages from the Gospels in English, Latin, French and Greek.

It includes the Crucifixion and burial of Jesus but not the Resurrection and leaves out the miracles attributed to him.

Conservators at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will repair the fragile book’s torn pages. It is scheduled to be displayed starting in mid-November for four months. The project, paid for by private and federal funds, will cost about $225,000.

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