Musicians on Kindness

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Musicians on Kindness

 

The Kindness School

 

 

The Train Maker

Will of California is one of three winners of the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation's Kindness Challenge! The retired carpenter crafts toy trains for kids in his neighborhood and beyond. Learn how his unique acts of kindness are bringing smiles to hundreds of children!

Do-Gooder Leaves Note on Car Directing Driver to Get Free Tires

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Good News Network Monday, November 05, 2012

 

Note for driver gives tires anonymously

 

 

Last week a photograph was posted to a social media website showing a typed note left anonymously on a truck. The Good Samaritan wrote, “You do not know me but I saw that you needed some tires for your truck and I wanted to do something nice for a stranger because one day a stranger did something nice for me. The receipt is in the envelope and all you have to do is go by Warehouse Tire on 3rd Street and ask for Steven Hodges and they will be put on for free.

 

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Ash emission detected at Alaska’s volatile Cleveland volcano

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Source: The Extinction Protocol - 11/12/12

November 12, 2012 – ALASKA – Earth-orbiting satellites detected a small ash cloud from Mount Cleveland – otherwise known as Cleveland Volcano – which makes up a large part of a remote and uninhabited island in the east-central Aleutian Island chain. The satellites took note of the small eruption at 11:47 a.m. local time in Alaska (20:47 UTC). The ash was drifting slowly toward the east-northeast from the volcano’s summit. Scientists keep an eye on this volcano, because it can be hazardous to aircraft. The aviation code color for Cleveland Volcano currently has been raised from yellow to orange. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said in a release: Sudden explosions of blocks and ash remain possible with little or no warning.

 

70% of Venice slips underwater in the worst flooding in 140 years

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Source: The Extinction Protocol - 11/12/12

November 12, 2012 – VENICE - Tourists attached plastic bags to their legs or stripped off to take a dip in St Mark’s Square in Venice on Sunday as rising sea waters surged through the lagoon city. High water measuring 1.49 metres (5ft) above the normal level of the Adriatic sea came with bad weather that swept Italy at the weekend, causing floods in historic cities including Vicenza as well in the region of Tuscany 250 miles further south. Venice’s high water, or “acqua alta,” said to be the sixth highest since 1872, flooded 70% of the city and was high enough to make raised wooden platforms for pedestrians float away.

 

Floods claim as many as 16 lives in Haitian city: officials

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Source: Space Daily.com - 11/09/12


Flood waters inundated impoverished areas of Cap Haitien, Haiti's second largest city, killing as many as 16 people, including three children, city officials said Friday.

"The city has been struck by disaster. There are many dead and major damage. All the populous areas are flooded," Cap Haitien Mayor Wilborde Beon told AFP by telephone.

Beon said many people had to be rescued and given shelter from the high waters, which swept through the northern city Thursday night amid heavy rains in the region.

"The entrance to the city is completely flooded, all the rivers and ravines are swollen," he said, appealing for aid and support.

Researchers find undersea gas leaks off Israel's coast

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Source: The Extinction Protocol - 11/12/12

November 12, 2012 – ISRAEL – A new geophysical study, the first of its kind in Israel, has uncovered a system of active gas springs in the Haifa Bay seabed, at relatively shallow depths, only a few dozen meters below the surface. A study, published in the journal Continental Shelf Research, describes the entire system, from its sources under the sea floor through the natural springs emerging from the seabed. “This is a natural laboratory for researching gas emissions from the sea floor – natural springs and less natural ones.

 

Concerns About Furnace Fuel Indiana Blast Probe

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ABC News - 11/12/12, AP/Charles Wilson and Tom LoBianco

As investigators try to determine what caused a deadly explosion that ravaged an Indianapolis subdivision, an expert says people shouldn't be alarmed by a homeowner's suggestion that his faulty furnace could be to blame.

Investigators have been looking at gas meters and pipelines as they try to figure out what happened Saturday night when a blast killed two people, obliterated two homes and left dozens more uninhabitable.

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6.5 magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of Guatemala

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Source: The Extinction Protocol - 11/12/12

November 12, 2012 – GUATEMALA – A 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck this afternoon in the Pacific off the western coast of Guatemala, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. Striking about 17 miles (27 kilometers) below sea level, the tremor was centered about 19 miles west-southwest of Champerico, Guatemala, and 115 miles from the capital, Guatemala City. The quake was not far from southern Mexico, with the USGS reporting it was 27 miles south-southeast of the border community of Suchiate, Mexico.

 

Earlier Sunday, the U.S. agency had said it was a 6.2-magnitude tremor, but later revised the report with the higher magnitude. It was followed by a number of significant aftershocks with magnitudes as strong as 5.0. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said that “based on all available data, a destructive Pacific-wide tsunami is not expected.” Sunday’s earthquake is the second major one in four days to strike the region. The quake triggered at least four strong aftershocks.

 

Magnitude 6.4 earthquake reported in Gulf of Alaska region; no tsunami warning

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Calgary Herald - Becky Bohrer, 11/13/12

 

10-degree map showing recent earthquakes

JUNEAU, Alaska - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 struck in the Gulf of Alaska on Monday — the largest quake in that region in nearly 25 years.

No tsunami warnings were issued, and there were no reports of damage despite tremors being felt across a large part of southern Alaska. A series of aftershocks also were recorded.

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