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You'll Find Doomsday Monacle Archives for July 2004. Please be aware not all links will work. Some newspapers only link articles for a few weeks. These are 'as is' links and this page will be updated perhaps once a year.
July 30, 2004
ECO-FEUDALISM in the Adirondacks
The New American - USA... The park itself has been designated by the United Nations Educational , Scientific and Cultural Organization as part of a "Biosphere Reserve." It has also been ...
SHARP Introduces New 'Illuminating Solar Panel' and S-powered street light...
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,United States... module. 2. Uses Crystalline Thin-Film Tandem Cells with a conversion efficiency 1.5 times higher than previous cells
DOOMSDAY scenario
Al-Ahram Weekly - Cairo,Egypt
... reduced to ruins," said Yehuda Tzion, who in 1980 headed the underground Jewish group ... would have been used to blow up the mosque were found hidden behind its ...
DYING of Thirst-- Finding water when your life depends on it
Field and Stream - USA
... dehydration. Dry creek beds often have water underground. Dig ... evening.Also, bird droppings around rock fissures may indicate hidden water. Investigate
WANT To Lose Your Family In A Corn Field?
WISC - Madison,WI,USA ... communication and logical thinking. Some groups even get to practice wilderness survival skills if they are lost for long enough!". ...
NEW bio-technology helps raise shrimp yield
Viet Nam News Agency - Hanoi,Vietnam In 2003, the Mo O Aquaculture Company (SEA Co.) decided to use the VITEDI technology in all 104 breeding ponds with a density of more than 50 black shrimps per ...
July 28, 2004
1BN megaton solar storm 'to hit Earth'
This is London - London,England,UK A major solar storm with the force of a billion megaton bombs could be set to hit the Earth, scientists warned yesterday.
HAILSTONES hit farms in north China
Xinhua - China TIANJIN, July 8 (Xinhuanet) -- Farmlands in north China's Tianjin Municipality were hit by sudden hailstones on Wednesday evening ...
RESEARCH May Put a 'Damper' on Earthquake Destruction
Newswise (press release) - USA Newswise - The next time the New Madrid fault zone produces a strong earthquake, buildings in the Midwest may see less damage if they use a
new device ...
A SECOND NORMANDY INVASION!
American Homeowners Resource Center - USA... We all know how bravely and well the allied troops fought, and how Hitler eventually committed suicide in his underground bunker. ...
July 26, 2004
'COOL' Fuel Cells Could Revolutionize Earth's Energy Resources
Science Daily (press release) - USA... A breakthrough in thin film solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) is currently being refined in labs at the University of Houston, making that dream a reality. ...
SILVER Found In Manzanos
East Mountain Telegraph - Cedar Crest,NM,USA... Ramirez and his father have been looking into urban legends about Spanish gold bars hidden underground in the Manzano Land Grant for several years.
CREATIVE treetop 'places' inspire
Cincinnati Post - Cincinnati,OH,USA By Shruti L. Mathur. A tree house stood in the back yard of Phyllis Williams' last home. ... Everyone can relate to a tree house," he said..
GOING down into the depths for a faint glimpse of Reading's...
ic Berkshire.co.uk - Reading,England,UK... The deep caverns played a secret role during the Second World War, when ... me understand where the attraction lies in crawling around in dark underground holes. ...
OLD cemetery found under Quebec city street
CBC News - Canada... As well as the skeletons from the cemetery, they found more than 10,000 artifacts, including buttons, bullets and belt buckles. ...
BLOWING Life into Rural Kenya
Islam Online - UK... Electricity Generation Company, KENGEN, and the Kenya Power and Lighting Company, KPLC ... that owing to high demand of their wind power technology, they intend to ...
STAYING nice and warm all summer long
Slovak Spectator - Bratislava,Slovakia... purposes, others are so hot that they are best used as heating energy for ... Since 1970, when the search for geothermal waters to be used for recreation and ...
CANADA lagging badly on geopower
Toronto Star - Toronto,Ontario,Canada... (Low-temperature geothermal "heat pump ... This helps offset the need for electricity-sucking air conditioners or heating systems based on natural gas, but it isn't ...
SOLAR power pioneers putting West to the test
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA... On a shadeless expanse of high-desert plateau near the New Mexico border, Hansen manages the nation's largest solar-powered electric-generating station. ...
SUNSPOT grows to 20 times size of Earth
USA Today - USA A sunspot group aimed squarely at Earth has grown to 20 times the size of our planet and has the potential to unleash a major solar storm. ...
July 24, 2004
IN Addition To The Heat, Mother Nature Puts On A Light Show
KOMO - Seattle,WA,USA... It's semi-rare that the Northern Lights can be seen from this far south , but a powerful solar flare touched off a dazzling display. ...
FOR sale: a very enigmatic estate
The Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK... the camp at Montreathmont Moor had been directly linked to Bletchley Park, near London, the top-secret base known ... None of the complex isunderground, but it ...
July 23, 2004
`SLOW slip' silent earthquake occurs again under North Olympic...
Port Angeles Peninsula Daily News - Port Angeles,WA,USA by JEFF CHEW. They call it a ``slow slip,'' a silent earthquake on the deep part of the Cascadia subduction zone. That silence one ...
NASA goes to the 'SORCE' of Earth sun-blockers
EurekAlert - Washington,DC,USA Scientists using measurements from NASA's Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) satellite have discovered that Venus and sunspots have something in ...
GIMME shelter
Missoula Independent - Missoula,MT,USA ... to ensure survival of a hundred or more people for several weeks underground.... urged every American city to draft plans for a coordinated military and civilian ...
BALITANG BETERANO: ECONOMIC DISCRIMINATION AGAINST FIL-AMVETS Philippine Headline News - Manila,Philippines.. Corregidor and the Philippine Campaign (1941 t0 1946) are dying by the hundreds each day sans relief and felt cheated by the US.in their peaceful quest for ...
FOURTH wave in displays
The Hindu - Chennai,India Inkjet process was used to deposit the organic layers during fabrication of the world's largest OLED-based displayed screen. FIRST ...
.July 22 , 2004
IS Israel Winning The War On Suicide Bombers?
Jewish Press - Brooklyn,NY,USA... underground, concentrating on their own survival instead of planning new attacks. ... Israel currently holds over 6,600 Palestinians in military and government-run. ...
ENHANCED LEDs Promise To Transform Lighting
ScienceBlog.com - USA... reflects light at nearly 100 percent -- up to twice as much as previous reflectors -- we now have an LED that could revolutionize today's standard lighting.''. ...
NURSING home to use co-generation units
Capital News 9 - Albany,NY,USA... Steve Diraimo of Siemens said, "We produce electricity on site, and we capture all of the heat from that process, and we utilize that free
energy.".
LIFE atop the ridge is joyful, healing for couple
Coalfield Progress - Norton,VA, USA... home, he ran the electric cable and phone cable 1.6 miles underground, reducing concerns ... have gotten hold of some of the old furniture from the house -
July 20 2004
PEACEKEEPER launch set
Lompoc Record - Lompoc,CA,USA 7/20/04 A Peacekeeper missile poised to blast off from Vandenberg Air Force ... The unarmed Peacekeeper is scheduled to blast out of its underground silo on North ...
FEDS' secret complex hidden in plain sight
Columbia Daily Tribune - Columbia,MO,USA Known familiarly to government insiders as the "underground Pentagon," this is where Vice President Dick Cheney set up shop in the aftermath of the attacks on ...
REMARKS by Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge at the Public ...
Department of Homeland Security (press release) - USA... supplies, keeping extra batteries handy, and even having a hurricane evacuation route ... attack, until every business has an evacuation or "shelter in place ...
RUMBLES of danger in Yellowstone Park
Helena Independent Record - Helena,MT,USA... The park sits on a still-active 30-by-45-mile caldera, a depression created when a volcano erupted 640,000 years ago. Chances of a lava eruption in the next ...
July 20
REGION works to regroup after floods
Philadelphia Inquirer (subscription) - Philadelphia,PA,USA... The federal government needs to recognize the severity of this event," he said yesterday as he toured hard-hit Medford Lakes. "This was a thousand-year event. ...
EARTH on the verge of a major flip
Pravda - Moscow,Russia... of molten iron inside the Earth's core. One can hardly predict consequences of such global cataclysm. First of all, and this is ...
M5.1 earthquake hits northeastern Japan
Xinhua - China TOKYO, July 20 (Xinhuanet) -- An earthquake registering an estimated magnitude of 5.1 on the Richter scale shook northeastern Japan early Tuesday morning,the ...
July 19, 2004
SUNSPOTS reaching 1,000-year high
BBC News - London,England,UK... have been monitored on the Sun since 1610, shortly after the invention of the ... This is put down to a human-produced greenhouse effect caused by the combustion ...
TOWN Hall's geothermal cooling system malfunctioning again
Siftings Herald - Arkadelphia,AR,USA By Wendy Plyler. Arkadelphia Town Hall's geothermal cooling system is malfunctioning again, causing the temperatures in upstairs offices to reach into the 80s. ...
PORTABLE benefits
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA ... Tipis are very romantic structures," said Chip Meneley, director of sales and marketing for the Colorado Yurt Co. in Montrose, which also sells tepees. ...
FOR yurt-dwelling couple, it's a natural way of life
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA ... They live in a yurt with their sons, Tristan, 7, and twins Dennis and Dylan, 4. A yurt is a one-room, circular building with a conical-shaped roof. ...
COLORADO Couple Likes Low-Tech Comfort, Low Cost of YurtGetaway ...RisMedia.com - Norwalk,CT,USA RISMEDIA, June 29 - (KRT) -When Duane and Lisa Raleigh decided to purchase a second home near Moab, Utah, they broke from tradition and bought a yurt. ...
THE K7RA Solar Update
ARRL - Hartford,CT,USA... trend for solar activity is up. The big news is a huge X-class solar flare , detected July 15 at 0140 UTC. If a coronal mass ejection ...
SCIENTISTS Follow Progress of Solar Storm Past Planets
Billings Gazette - Billings,MT,USA ... On Oct. 28, a solar flare triggered two "coronal mass ejections" that headed straight for Earth at 5 million miles per hour. While ...
TESLA power plant gets final OK from state Energy Commission
East Bay Business Times - Contra Costa,CA,USA The California Energy Commission on Wednesday licensed the 1,120-megawatt Tesla power plant planned on eastern Alameda County land near the San Joaquin County ...
COMPANY needs 30,000 more acres for wind farm
Clinton News-Record - Clinton,Ontario,Canada... Another participant asked whether the company would consider providing free energy to a participating landowner in exchange for allowing the installation of a ...
NEW Zealand hit by earthquakes
News24 - South Africa The earthquake swarm was focused on a farming and forestry area already badly hit by floods and severe storms battering the eastern Bay of Plenty province in ...
CAMPING By Crater Lake, The Jewel Of The Pacific Northwest
NewsAshland.com - Ashland,OR,USA Medford, Oregon Crater Lake National Park offers unique beauty and evidence of an ancient cataclysm that dwarfs all the power of the human race. ...
UNDERGROUND lab raises mountain of controversy
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA .. of more than 300 scientists from around the country is behind the move to develop a new underground laboratory somewhere ... I went to the first open house at the ...
THESE aren't your traditional tree houses
Virginian Pilot - Norfolk,VA,USA Imagine if the Swiss Family Robinson were looking to downsize from their sprawling tree house in the tropics and were searching the local market for a ..
TUCSON brothers harvest sun and water in their home
KVOA.com - Tucson,AZ,USA
... The more water-needy trees live closest to the house, to catch the roof runoff ... in a trick anyone can do, he plants unglazed terra cotta pots in his garden plots ...
A slice of paradise
Prague Post - Prague,Czech Republic
... brainchild of Jiri Haager, former director of the Botanical Garden, Fata Morgana ... The path gradually slopes downward to an underground tunnel with glass walls. ...
THE truth about global warming - it's the Sun that's to blame
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK
... To determine the Sun's role in global warming, Dr Solanki's research team measured magnetic zones on the Sun's surface known as sunspots, which are believed to ..
LUMILEDS makes Penang plant global manufacturing hub
The Star - Malaysia
LUMILEDS Lighting, which produces one billion luxeon light emitting diodes (LEDs) a year ... Chief executive officer Mike Holt said the global LED market was valued ...
EARTHQUAKE With Magnitude of 5.5 Shakes Central Japan (Update1)
Bloomberg - USA
July 17 (Bloomberg) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 on the Richter scale occurred on the seabed off the coast of central Japan, NHK television said. ...
COMPANIES make garden areas better looking with more options
Munster Times - Munster,IN,USA
... Window boxes, shutters and roof vents also are popular additions. ...said, probably 80 percent are buying them for additional storage for garden tools, fertilizer ...
SPLASH with class
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... Changing Seasons" utilizes a system that funnels rainwater from the roof and pours it into cisterns, which spill into a pond in the Japanese garden. ...
UNDERGROUND Storage of Carbon Dioxide Reduces Emissions
Newswise (press release) - USA
Newswise - A new approach that is one of the first to successfully store carbon dioxide underground may have huge implications for global warming and the oil ...
FIRE and Iceland
The Globe and Mail - Canada
... our guide, has witnessed nine volcanic eruptions during his lifetime, including the last eruption in 2000 by Mount Hekla. Thankfully, the volcano kept its cool ...
BRUCE Johnston in Naples reports on a scheme to render Vesuvius ...
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK
... It is one of 18 towns in greater Naples clinging to the volcano's slopes in the so-called Red Zone considered a high risk in the event of an eruption.
ASTRONOMERS Say 'Fireball' Was Large Meteor
Kansas City Channel.com - Kansas City,MO,USA
EAST Texans React to Nighttime Fireball
KLTV - Tyler,TX,USA
A journey to the end of the world - or the beginning
USA Today - USA
By Karin Stanton, Associated Press. VOLCANO, Hawaii - When the world's most active volcano begins belching molten rock into the
SMALL is beautiful
The Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
... has evolved to use every available space and with the rise of roof gardens in ... emphasis on entertainment, while a patio has every right to call itself a garden. ...
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