Damaging major flooding in Illinois as Mississippi River crests

Wunderground.com- 4/23/13, Dr. Jeff Masters

Figure 1. Thursday, April 18, 2013: Aerial photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard shows the dam in Marseilles, Ill., after seven barges broke free from a tow and came to rest against the dam. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the U.S. Coast Guard, Petty Officer 3rd Class John Schleicher.)

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MS patients increasingly use alternative treatments to improve lives

Naturalnews, By: Sherry Baker, 04/23/2013

(NaturalNews) Although they often don't let their mainstream medical doctors know it, large numbers of people with multiple sclerosis (MS) use alternative treatments such as dietary supplements, acupuncture and herbal medicine to improve their lives. Thanks to researchers at the University of Copenhagen, for the first time a major research project has been undertaken to map the use of these alternative therapies by MS patients. It's a subject of special importance to Denmark which has highest incidence of the disease worldwide.

The results of a new study were just published in two scientific journals, the Scandinavian Journal of Public Health and Autoimmune Diseases. The researchers gathered information over the course of three years from 3,800 people with MS in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland.

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Sunny end to a wet month in Sydney

Weatherzone, By: Rob Sharpe, 04/23/2013

Sydney has had its second wettest April in 14 years, but the sun should shine every day until the end of the month.

At the start of April many people were shocked by the return of wet weather in Sydney after a warm and dry March. Rain has fallen on 16 of the past 23 days with more than 10mm falling on five occasions. Most of this rainfall has been due to high pressure systems positioned to the south of Sydney, directing moist onshore winds before an east coast low brought rain on Saturday.

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Wind easing and showers clearing for TAS and VIC

Weatherzone, By: Brett Dutschke, 04/23/2013

Victoria and Tasmania experienced more windy and wet conditions overnight after a noticeably dry start to the month.

A blustery change moved through Tasmania and Victoria overnight bringing more wet weather to the states. The change brought wind gusts over 80 km/h and widespread rain up to 10 mm for each state. Tasmania's Cape Grim received the brunt of the strong winds gusting up to 116km/h with Wilsons Promontory producing gusts of 85 km/h in Victoria. The greatest rainfall occurred in eastern Victoria and north western Tasmania reaching around 30 mm in some areas.

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Sophia Love - Earth Day Manifestation

Sophia Love 04/22/2013

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Solar Dynamics Observatory: Three Years of Sun in Three Minutes

The Watchers - 23 April 2013 - by Adonai

In the three years since it first provided images of the sun in the spring of 2010, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has had virtually unbroken coverage of the sun’s rise toward solar maximum, the peak of solar activity in its regular 11-year cycle. This video shows those three years of the sun at a pace of two images per day.
SDO’s Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) captures a shot of the sun every 12 seconds in 10 different wavelengths. The images shown here are based on a wavelength of 171 Angstroms, which is in the extreme ultraviolet range and shows solar material at around 600,000 Kelvin. In this wavelength it is easy to see the sun’s 25-day rotation as well as how solar activity has increased over three years.