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Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Why men have become morally bankrupt ... ???



                       Why men have become morally bankrupt. ???

In India, ladies' security has dependably involved huge concern. It doesn't make a difference which city you live in, in lack of the fact that, unfortunately, absence of regard for ladies is profoundly injected in the Indian attitude. 
Bangalore's New Year's Eve festivities saw a dishonorable show of sexual assaults. Ladies, who were leaving bars in the wake of commending the New Year's Eve, kept running into nasty law breakers who supposedly attempted to attack them.



~ Rani





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Monday, January 9, 2017

A truck slammed into a group of Israeli soldiers at a Jerusalem bus stop Sunday, killing four soldiers and wounding 17 other people



A truck slammed into a group of Israeli soldiers at a Jerusalem bus stop Sunday, killing four soldiers and wounding 17 other people before the Palestinian driver was fatally shot, police said about the latest round of deadly violence in more than a year.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while visiting the scene, said the attacker had been identified and “according to all the signs he was a supporter of the Islamic State.”

He said there “definitely could be a connection” between Sunday's incident and recent truck attacks into crowds in Berlin and in Nice, France, but did not offer any proof, the Associated Press reported.

Police chief Roni Alsheich described the crash as a terror attack. He said the truck driver was from an Arab neighborhood in East Jerusalem. Police did not release the driver's name.

The driver had veered off the road toward a group of off-duty soldiers who had just exited the bus to grab some food. After plowing into the group — and with several soldiers stuck beneath the wheels — the driver backed up, revved the engine and rammed into the group again, Jerusalem police spokesman Luba Samri said.

The soldiers, on a bus tour of Jerusalem, were visiting the Tayelet, a popular pedestrian promenade that provides a panoramic view.

Israel’s Channel 2 TV News identified the driver as Fadi al-Qanbar, 28, and said he had served time in an Israeli prison, but did not give details.

Sunday’s attack marks an intensification of the 16-month-long series of attacks carried out by Palestinians in Israel and the West Bank, and it was the first in three months to cause Israeli casualties. The attacks, mostly by knives and vehicles, had waned in recent months because of tightened Israeli security.


~ Rani


source: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/01/08/4-killed-15-wounded-jerusalem-truck-attack/96312336/



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Thursday, December 22, 2016

The True Story : How Lost Child Saroo Brierley Found His Birth Mother More Than 20 Years Later



 How A Lost Child Saroo Brierley Found His Birth Mother More Than 20 Years Later

Sara Brierley (born 1981) is an Indian-conceived Australian specialist. Her adopted son Saroo Brierley who was isolated from his introduction to the world mother, has after 25 years rejoined with his world mother. His story created huge universal media consideration, particularly in Australia and India. 

A personal record of his encounters 'A Long Way Home' (book written by him) was distributed in 2014 and selected for the 2016 film 'Lion' which got an Oscar Award.




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Sunday, December 11, 2016

The real IAS officer ....





 The real IAS officer, who is trying to work for people ... We are proud to have such an officer !






B. Chandrakala is an individual from Indian Administrative Services and presently serving as District Magistrate of Bulandshahr, UP, she is an IAS officer of 2008 cluster of UP Cadre. She was born in Garjana Palli Village Ellareddy Mandal Karimnagar Dist Telangana State.


~ Rani



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Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Jayalalitha, the chief minister of tamilnadu, our "amma" died but will never die in "people's heart"


Jayalalithaa Jayaraman was an Indian actor and politician who served five terms as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, for over fourteen years between 1991 and 2016. Jayalalitha Passed Away.



   


Jayalalitha, the chief minister of tamilnadu, our"amma"died but will never die in "people's heart"

People gather outside Marina Beach in Chennai to pay their last respects to Amma. PM Modi pays last tributes to Jayalalithaa at Rajaji Hall.

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Saturday, December 3, 2016

How a humanoid robot agree to destroy the humans.



An incredibly itemized and reasonable facial following and movement extend; likewise, a robot at SXSW concurs with a human question to destroy Humans. Specialists accept humanlike robots are the way to smoothing correspondence amongst people and PCs, and understanding a fantasy of empathetic robots that imagine the eventual fate of life.

Why do we require robots to help us? We don't have enough employments for us humans ? I don't comprehend this.













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Thursday, December 1, 2016

Complete Football (Soccer) team lost in a Colombian plane crash. Tragedy hits Brazil ...



Colombia plane crash: 71 Passengers dead including Chapecoense football team from Brazil with only six survivors. 
"What was supposed to be a celebration has turned into a tragedy,"









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Sunday, November 13, 2016

Protest Against Trump Now Continue Across The U.S. Even As You Read This !




Protesters across the US were on Friday gearing up for weekend demonstrations over the election of Donald Trump, as other activists began work on plans to disrupt the Republican’s inauguration in Washington early next year.

Rowdy protests against Trump and his divisive campaign have spread to cities all over the country following his victory on Tuesday, leading to dozens of arrests and a complaint from Trump in one of his first public remarks as president-elect.

More than 10,000 people have signed up to attend a noon march on Saturday from New York’s Union Square to Trump Tower, the future president’s home and corporate headquarters, while several other actions are planned for other cities.

“Join us in the streets! Stop Trump and his bigoted agenda,” the organizers of the New York event said in a Facebook post.

Trump complained in a tweet late on Thursday that “professional protesters, incited by the media” were tarnishing his electoral success, which he said was “very unfair”. Amid intense criticism, Trump said hours later in a second post that he appreciated the “passion for our great country” shown by demonstrators.




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Source : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/10/anti-trump-protests-election-president-new-york-chicago


Saturday, November 12, 2016

20 Things Donald Trump Has Promised To Do In Office ! CNN

A video of BJP MP from Delhi, Meenakshi Lekhi, talking about black money and impact on common people

A video of BJP MP from Delhi, Meenakshi Lekhi, talking about black money and impact on common people has now gone viral on social media.



Her comments are now being linked to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement on demonetisation.

In the video Lekhi is heard saying how the rich will convert their black money into new currency notes but it’s the poor who will suffer the most. She was responding to reporters’ questions on the possibility of demonetisation by the then UPA government (See videos).

In one video, she is heard saying, “The present government is not in a position to measure the correct quantum of black money because those who have the black money will actually convert into new currency notes. Now the sufferers are the aam aurats(women) and aadmis(men). Those who are illiterates, who have no access to the banking facilities. And they will be ones, who will affected by such diversionary measures. People who have no bank accounts, their life savings will be targetted.”


Lekhi’s statement will cause huge embarrassment to the BJP leadership including the prime minister. The government has justified the ban on Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 claiming the move to be a masterstroke in the fight against black money.

The opposition parties, however, have condemned Modi’s announcement with some even calling it draconian.







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source : http://www.jantakareporter.com/business/meenakshi-lekhi-on-black-money-goes-viral/75096/

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Donald John Trump was elected the 45th president of the United States


Donald John Trump was elected the 45th president of the United States on Tuesday in a stunning culmination of an explosive, populist and polarizing campaign that took relentless aim at the institutions and long-held ideals of American democracy.




The surprise outcome, defying late polls that showed Hillary Clinton with a modest but persistent edge, threatened convulsions throughout the country and the world, where skeptics had watched with alarm as Mr. Trump’s unvarnished overtures to disillusioned voters took hold.




The triumph for Mr. Trump, 70, a real estate developer-turned-reality television star with no government experience, was a powerful rejection of the establishment forces that had assembled against him, from the world of business to government, and the consensus they had forged on everything from trade to immigration.



~ Rani Jha



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Thursday, November 3, 2016

Russia Is Hacking 2016 U.S. Election



Donald Trump is correct that somebody is attempting to meet with the US election, however it is not Hillary Clinton: it is the Kremlin, and Trump is an accessory, regardless of whether he understands it.

Trump has parroted no less than one charge which started in the Kremlin media. He has profited from Kremlin-connected programmers, and there are clues that his online support is being affected by Russian-connected web-based social networking accounts.

Trump has since quite a while ago contended that the discretionary framework is fixed against him. For the most part, his allegations are sweeping to the point that it is difficult to realize what precisely he has at the top of his mind - focusing on the "nauseating and degenerate media" or the "100 percent slanted" arrangement of primaries, for instance.

In any case, on September 28 he turned out with a considerably more particular affirmation, asserting that Google has been "stifling the terrible news about Hillary Clinton."

Claims that Google's autofill element is rigged to disguise terrible news about Clinton had been accounted for by various preservationist American media outlets in September, including Breitbart, Infowars and Fox. We can't say for certain which outlet was the prompt wellspring of Trump's claim.

However, every one of the three of those outlets credited their reports to a solitary source: a select article composed for Sputnik by therapist Dr. Robert Epstein on September 12. "It appears to be sensible to guess that Google workers physically smother negative hunt proposals identifying with Clinton," Epstein composed.

The noteworthy thing about Epstein's claim is the way it appears to have picked up footing notwithstanding sketchy causes. Epstein's late piece in Sputnik was evidently provoked by a video presented on the SourceFed YouTube direct in June. That video credited an August, 2015 Wired magazine article that had given significant flag support to a recent report on the hypothesis whose lead writer was - you got it - Robert Epstein.

That 2015 concentrate, in any case, was distributed in the diary PNAS, which has, generally, had a notoriety for an occasionally not exactly careful associate survey prepare. How did a bit of flawed scholarly legitimacy get so much media scope?

In this way, the trigger for Epstein's 2016 Sputnik article was a video; one trigger for the video was Epstein's 2015 research, distributed on PNAS. This does not, of itself, negate Epstein's Google assert (however Bloomberg later did as such); it creates the feeling that he is fairly a solitary voice in the scholarly world.

Another odd thing here is the quantity of times that Sputnik and its sister TV outlet, RT (the previous Russia Today), had effectively provided details regarding Epstein's speculations. Six months before he distributed his Sputnik piece, RT ran a 10-minute meeting with him, when Clinton's fundamental opponent was Democratic contender Bernie Sanders. The meeting was a great of the RT type, with moderator Afshin Rattansi regarding Epstein's disputable claims as though they had as of now been demonstrated: "Given that Sanders scored a 35% swing, perhaps, in Michigan, I mean, it hasn't worked so well for Clinton, has it?"

RT talked with Epstein again on April 8, titling the meeting "Google will take this decision and how." Sputnik then talked with him on May 13, August 12 and September 3, preceding running his article on September 12 - not simply in English, but rather in Spanish, Italian, German, Turkish, French, Japanese and Russian.

So, the Kremlin's media have been pushing Epstein's message of Google predisposition for no less than six months. On September 28, the exertion paid off.


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Saturday, October 15, 2016

Shaheed jawan par bole Ompuri, kisne kaha tha fauj mein jaaye !!!...


On Monday, during a live TV debate, senior Bollywood actor Om Puri made a comment that has infuriated a lot of people. Defending Pakistani artistes who have been banned by Indian producers from acting in Indian films until hostilities between the two nations are resolved, Puri made a clear case of why art and war shouldn't be mixed.



During the debate, referring to the soldiers, he said, "We didn't force the soldiers to join the army." "Prepare 15-20 people as suicide bombers and send them to Pakistan," the actor further added.


His comments came in the backdrop of escalating tensions between the two countries that led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) led by Raj Thackeray to issue a 48-hour ultimatum to Pakistani artistes to leave the country.



The ban on Pakistani artistes have split Bollywood down the middle. While several Indian artistes, such as Mahesh Bhatt, have spoken in favour of using art to build bridges, many others, including Nana Patekar, have supported the ban.


Puri said Pakistani artistes are not working illegally here and if they are sent back, Indian producers, who have signed them for their films, will suffer heavy losses.



"When the government is taking an action, we all should stay quiet. It hardly matters if we send back the artists from Pakistan, who are working here, or let them stay. I have been to Pakistan six times and have met people from all strata," he told News 18.


His opinion on TV debate wasn't well received on the social media and he started trending on Twitter.



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Monday, October 3, 2016

U.S. gives up efforts to work with Russia on Syria




U.S.- Russia relations tumbled to another post-Cold War low Monday as the Obama organization deserted endeavors to collaborate with Russia on closure the Syrian civil war and shaping a typical front against fear based oppressors there, and Moscow suspended a point of interest atomic understanding.




The last move, abandoning an arrangement the two nations marked in 2000 to discard their loads of weapons-evaluation plutonium, was to a great extent typical. In any case, it gave the Kremlin a chance to refer to a progression of what it called "unpleasant activities" toward Russia — from Ukraine-related and human rights assents to the organization of NATO powers in the Baltics.


               

The United States, the Russian foreign service said in an announcement, that "it has done everything it could to devastate the air empowering collaboration."

Of much more prompt concern, the end of the Syria bargain left the organization with no obvious strategic alternatives staying to stop the slaughter in Aleppo and past after the breakdown of a brief truce bargain arranged a month ago.

The State Department reported that it was pulling back U.S. work force who have been meeting in Geneva in the course of recent weeks with Russian partners to arrange composed airstrikes against al-Qaeda and Islamic State psychological oppressors in Syria. The coordination was to begin when a truce, started Sept. 12, grabbed hold and helpful guide started to stream to blockaded groups where regular people have borne the brunt of Russian-upheld President Bashar al-Assad's reaction to a five-year push to expel him.





The Syria assention was a piece of a year-long exertion led by Secretary of State John F. Kerry to induce Russia to convey an arranged political end to the war. In return for utilizing its influence with Assad to ground his aviation based armed forces and permit help to stream, the United States said it would work to isolate U.S.- supported restriction bunches from fear based oppressor strengths with which they have turned out to be progressively interlaced.

Monday, September 19, 2016

New York Bombing Suspect Caught In New Jersey After Heavy Firing Showdown.


Ahmad Khan Rahami, prior named a man of interest for the weekend blasts in New York City and New Jersey, has been accused of five numbers of endeavored homicide of a law requirement officer. He is likewise accused of second-degree unlawful ownership of a weapon and second-degree ownership of a weapon for an unlawful reason. 

Rahami was arrested and hospitalized today after a shootout with police in Linden, New Jersey, the Union County acting prosecutor said today. He has been "specifically connected" to the gadgets utilized as a part of the New York and New Jersey blasts on Saturday, FBI official Bill Sweeney said. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said this evening there is "every reason to trust this was a demonstration of fear." 

In any case, there is "no sign that there is a cell working in the region or in the city," Sweeney said, including that "the examination is continuous." 

"We will keep on conducting investigative action to guarantee we totally comprehend Rahami's informal organization," Sweeney said. "Therefore, I don't plan to answer particular inquiries regarding our methods, or our insight into the gadgets." 



Rahami was arrested in Linden, around 4 miles south of Elizabeth, in the wake of being harmed in the squabble, amid which a reacting officer was shot in his impenetrable vest and second officer was harmed.

Rahami was taken to a hospital in Newark, where he is experiencing surgery, said Grace Park, the Union County acting prosecutor. The degree of his wounds was not promptly clear. 

The showdown happened at around 10:30 a.m., when a proprietor of a Linden bar reported that somebody was dozing in a corridor of his foundation, Linden Mayor Derek Armstead told ABC New York station WABC. 

The bar proprietor, Harry Bains, told ABC station WABC in a selective meeting that "it was my gut response" to call the police. 

Armstead said, "One of our cops went to research and to wake him up and understood that he was [Rahami], the suspect that had been being looked for in the bombings." 

"He understood it was the suspect, and in minutes, the suspect terminated on him," Armstead said. "What's more, say thanks to God that he had his vest on. Also, I surmise that was exceptionally useful for him. I feel that spared his life."



President Barack Obama said this evening he talked on the telephone with the officers who secured Rahami. 

"They will be fine, they maintained some humble wounds yet ones that they'll quickly recoup from," Obama said. "They were in great spirits and I imparted to them of how thankful the American individuals are." 

A source advised on the examination said specialists are looking for other individuals they need to converse with and that the examination is not over. 


A ready sent in the blink of an eye before 8 a.m. today said police were looking for a man regarding the Saturday night shelling in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood - recognized by powers as Rahami, 28. He is accepted to be the man found in reconnaissance video at both the scene of the blast on West 23rd Street and on West 27th Street, where the unexploded gadget was found, a police source said.

His last known location was in Elizabeth, New Jersey. The location of a home sought by FBI specialists in Elizabeth this morning is connected to a man with a comparative name. Rahami is a U.S. national of Afghan plummet.

Sunday, September 18, 2016

An Explosion Injures At Least 27 People In The Streets Of New York City.


An effective blast brought on by what the authorities accept was a custom made bomb harmed no less than 29 individuals on a packed walkway in the clamoring Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan on Saturday night.

A couple of hours after the fact, the powers found and evacuated what they depicted as a second unstable gadget four blocks away, raising the likelihood that two bombs had been planted in the heart of the city.

The Mayor, Bill de Blasio called the blast — which happened around 8:30 p.m. on West 23rd Street — "a deliberate demonstration" yet at first said there was no association with psychological oppression and no quick claim of obligation.

Cops swarmed Chelsea's avenues after the impact, which resonated over a city scarred by fear based oppression and watchful about dangers, days after the fifteenth commemoration of the Sept. 11 assaults.

"Whatever the cause," Mr. de Blasio said, "New Yorkers won't be scared."


As the authorities tried to distinguish what had created the blast, they portrayed the second gadget as a weight cooker looking like the one utilized as a part of the fatal Boston Marathon bombings in 2013, as per a police authority, who talked on the state of namelessness to examine a proceeding with examination.

It was hazy whether the impact on West 23rd Street had been brought on by the same sort of explosion.

In the prompt result, the police close down a swath of Manhattan south of Midtown. The range from fourteenth Street to 32nd Street was shut to movement amongst Fifth and Eighth Avenues. In any case, by 7 a.m., just 23rd Street stayed shut.

A dismal Mr. de Blasio, talking at a news gathering at the scene around 11:15 p.m., said "wounds are critical." But for the occasion, he said, none of them were life-debilitating.

Majority of the wounds were created by shrapnel from the blast, which witnesses said appeared to have begun inside a walkway Dumpster close to the Avenue of the Americas. Pictures of a destroyed Dumpster amidst West 23rd Street immediately multiplied on Twitter.



A large portion of the wounds were created by shrapnel from the blast, which witnesses said appeared to have begun inside a walkway Dumpster close to the Avenue of the Americas. Pictures of a wound Dumpster amidst West 23rd Street immediately multiplied on Twitter.

The effect smashed windows, harmed autos and sent group running from the scene at a hour when Chelsea, dependably a famous goal, was loaded with inhabitants and travelers.

"It was the greatest impact I ever would envision, lights blazing, glass shattering," said a lady who was harmed in the blast.

The power of the blast, she said, flung her into the air.

"It happened so quick I was hurled and arrived down, I didn't know where it had originated from," said the lady, who just gave her first name, Helena, as she stumbled out of Bellevue Hospital Center around 4 a.m. after she was dealt with for wounds to her eye and legs. "I understood there was blood gushing down my face, and I couldn't see out of my eye."

Luke McConnell, who was visiting from Colorado, was made a beeline for an eatery on West 27th Street when the impact happened. "I felt it, similar to a concussive wave, heading towards me."

"At that point there was a billow of white smoke that originated from the left half of 23rd Street close to Sixth," he said. "There was no flame, simply smoke."

Witnesses said they could feel the blast from a few blocks away. Daniel Yount, 34, said he was remaining on the top of a working at 25th Street and the Avenue of the Americas with companions.

"We felt the stun waves experience our bodies," he said.

It was a startling scene, brimming with dim conceivable outcomes, for a city that persevered through the assaults of Sept. 11, 2001, yet has so far been saved the sort of disorder that has threatened city after city around the globe in the 15 years since.

The nearest New York has gone to an assault was in 2010, when the police found a rough auto bomb of propane, fuel and firecrackers inside a game utility vehicle in Times Square. In spite of the fact that the gadget had evidently begun to explode, there was no blast.



On Saturday night in Chelsea, the gadget found on West 27th Street additionally brought on no damage.

Pictures shared on online networking and affirmed as genuine by a senior police official demonstrated a silver-shaded bit of cookware with wires and a cellphone connected.

The authority said the Police Department's bomb squad was taking the gadget to a division office in the Bronx, where robots would assess it.

Around 2:25 a.m., a Police Department truck towing a round load, which contained the gadget, traveled east on West 27th Street and turned up the Avenue of the Americas. A few cops who had spent the night on alarm were noticeably mitigated, as one by one they let the couple of occupants who had been holding up throughout the night alongside the alert tape return home.

It was a cool Saturday night, and the organizations along West 23rd Street, the busiest east-west lane in Chelsea, were overflowing with clients.

The impact appeared to shake the whole piece, crushing windows in a five-story brownstone building and sending trash into the road, a law requirement official said.

The walkway where the blast happened is before a dull building wedged between a congregation and a condo building.

Video caught before the blast demonstrates a man intersection "the road toward where the gadget was found," the same authority said. Be that as it may, no video had yet been acquired obviously indicating anybody setting the gadget in the spot where it exploded.

"We don't comprehend the objective or the essentialness of it," the police official said. "It's by a heap of Dumpsters on an arbitrary walkway."

Marcello Begu, 58, was turning pizzas at the close-by Ciao Bella Napoli eatery when he heard the impact.

"I've never heard a commotion like that in my life," he said. "The ground was shaking. I was frightened to go outside."

In Washington, the White House issued a brief articulation saying that President Obama had been advised on the creating circumstance in New York.


Both the Democratic and Republican presidential applicants broke from their battle schedules to address the issue.

Donald J. Trump, in Colorado Springs, hurried to portray the blast as a bomb well before the powers had made any conclusions about what had happened keeping in mind the circumstance was still in flux.

"I should let you know that just before I got off the plane, a bomb went off in New York and no one knows precisely what's going on," he said. "Be that as it may, kid, we are living in a period — we better get extremely intense, people."

The Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton, was educated of the scene after she gave a discourse at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's yearly recompenses supper, her crusade said.

She appeared to admonish Mr. Trump for his fast appraisal.

"I believe it's generally smarter to hold up until you have data before making conclusions," Mrs. Clinton said.

Authorities said the New York blast was not associated with an impact that happened 11 hours before when an extemporized gadget detonated in a refuse can close to the course of a philanthropy race that was going to begin in a residential area on the Jersey Shore. That gadget went off around 9:30 a.m. close to the promenade in Seaside Park, N.J., as indicated by the Ocean County sheriff, Michael G. Mastronardy.

There were no wounds. The race, the Seaside Semper Five, a five-kilometer run and philanthropy occasion along the waterfront that raises cash for individuals from the United States Marine Corps and their families, was scratched off.

Saturday, September 17, 2016

A Sinkhole In Florida Leaks About 215 Million Gallons Of Radioactive Contaminants In A Nearby Aquifer




A massive sinkhole at a fertilizer plant in Mulberry, Florida, has caused about 215 million gallons of radioactive water to drain down into the Floridian aquifer system, according to ABC affiliate WFTS.
The aquifer system supplies drinking water to millions of Florida residents, according to the St. Johns Water Management District's website. Additionally, water that escapes from the aquifers create springs used for recreational activities like snorkeling and swimming.
The fertilizer company Mosaic wrote on its website that it discovered a sinkhole 45 feet in diameter at its New Wales facility after noticing water levels had dropped in a stack of radioactive waste product known as phosphogypsum in late August.
Phosphogypsum is a waste product resulting from the processing of phosphate to make fertilizers, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The byproduct is often stored by industrial plants in mountainous piles known as phosphogysum stacks.
"Based on the nature of the water loss and what we've learned so far," the sinkhole damaged the liner system at the base of a phosophogypsum stack, Mosaic said on Thursday. "The pond on top of the cell drained as a result" and "some seepage continues."
The fertilizer company added that it believes the sinkhole reached the Floridian aquifer, and WFTS reported that the company told the station about 215 million gallons of contaminated water used to process fertilizer drained had into the hole.
After learning of the water loss, "Mosaic immediately implemented additional and extensive groundwater monitoring and sampling regimens and has found no offsite impacts," the company said. Additionally, Mosaic "began pumping water out of the west cell" of the affected phosphogypsum stack "into an alternative holding area on site to reduce the amount of drainage."
The company has also "begun the process of recovering the water" drained through the sinkhole "by pumping through onsite production wells," it said.
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) "confirmed that Mosaic immediately took steps to investigate and initiate corrective action," according to FDEP Deputy Press Secretary Dee Ann Miller.
"As required by their state permit and federal requirements, Mosaic notified both EPAand DEP of a water loss incident at their New Wales facility," Miller told ABC News today. "Mosaic continues to regularly update the department and EPA on progress."
Miller added that along with reviewing daily reports, the FDEP "is performing frequent site visits to make sure timely and appropriate response continues in order to safeguard public health and the environment."




Sources:

Yahoo -
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/florida-fertilizer-plant-sinkhole-reportedly-leaks-215-million-205305504--abc-news-topstories.html

ABC Video - 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iWvD08F_4w



Friday, September 16, 2016

Watch How These Girls Thrive After Acid Attacks. Must Read !

Close to the Taj Mahal, in Agra, India, in a small cafe tucked between trinket shops, five women–all maimed in acid attacks–are waiting tables downstairs or cooking curries in the kitchen upstairs. Their work at Sheroes Hangout is designed to give them the confidence to show their faces in public after being disfigured.“The primary focus has been to create awareness,” says Alok Dixit, the founder of Stop Acid Attacks, the Delhi-based non profit behind the establishment, which opened in December. The cafe and its popularity–it attracted more than 5,000 customers in the first six months, according to the nonprofit–reflect a shifting attitude toward survivors of acid attacks.


From behind the counter at Sheroes, 23-year-old Neetu Mahour, greets customers wearing a white shirt with Stop Acid Attacks written in bold red letters on the back. Scars snake across her face. Acid, thrown in her eyes by her father 20 years ago, left her almost blind. Her mother Geeta, who also works in the cafe, was injured in the attack, her infant sister Kishna died as a result of it. “I didn’t go to school because of the attack,” said Ms. Mahour. Sheroes has brought her back into public view. 


Before starting work at the cafe, the women meet other survivors. The idea is for them to see that it is possible to thrive even after an attack. “We show them that nothing is wrong with them,” Mr. Dixit says. His team of 10 work with individuals to break down barriers to them speaking out. They also encourage the women to be proud of the way they look. The cafe was inspired by a similar concept at a beauty salon in Pakistan and crowd funding helped get it off the ground. Believed to be the first of its kind in India, it has so far not turned a profit. “The idea at heart isn’t a business,” Mr. Dixit says, though they are working “to develop more of a business model.” 

The five women employed in the cafe share similar nightmarish histories but all say they want to inspire others who live through similar situations. Ritu Saini, 20, was attacked in Haryana, a state in Northern India, three years ago by her cousin whose romantic advances she rejected. After 10 reconstructive surgeries, that were “as painful as the attack itself,” Ritu lost her left eye. “Before Sheroes, I used to cover my face,” Ms. Saini said. “I wanted to know why he did this to me.” Now, as the cafe’s floor manager, she walks around with her face on show and encourages other women to do the same. “I want every girl to believe in herself,” she says. Ms. Saini is also learning English. “Now, I am busy. I am forgetting. I don’t care to know why he did it.”


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