Autumn Stripped Bare #photography

penned in moon dust


“My sorrow,when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be. she loves the bare, the withered tree, she walks the sodden pasture lane.” ~Robert Frost

This Week’s picture and quote prompt  provided by Ese is bare. Autumn a fitting time for bare and black and white.

Photography the copyrighted work of L. Moon 2013

 

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Avian Flu Diary: Eurosurveillance: Environmental Stability Of MERS-CoV

Avian Flu Diary: Eurosurveillance: Environmental Stability Of MERS-CoV.

The bottom line, under favorable temperature and humidity conditions (such as you might find in an air conditioned hospital), the MERS virus survives quite well on surfaces, and in the air. This may help explain the high rate of nosocomial outbreaks we’ve seen in the Middle East.

Aussie Coalition scraps Climate Commission, dispensing with Tim Flannery | Environment | theguardian.com

Greens leader Christine Milne went further, calling prime minister Tony Abbott a “climate criminal” for dismantling bodies such as the commission and the Climate Change Authority, which sets targets on Australia’s emissions reductions.

“Shooting the messenger does not alter the fact that Australia has to do a lot better than 5% in order to contribute fairly to the global challenge of constraining global warming to two degrees,” she said.

“In the context of global warming this action is a crime against humanity. In one swoop, [Abbott] has demonstrated his contempt for climate science and for the health and wellbeing of future generations.

“Prime minister Abbott has distinguished himself as one of the only leaders of a western democracy to deny the severity of global warming and to actively undermine infrastructure which is bringing down emissions,” she said.

“Future generations will look back on this day and remember it as the day Tony Abbott condemned them and their peers to climate chaos.”

via Coalition scraps Climate Commission, dispensing with Tim Flannery | Environment | theguardian.com.

The Gun Report: September 19, 2013 – NYTimes.com

Two men, ages 43 and 56, shot each other dead during a road rage incident in Ionia, Mich., Wednesday evening. After being followed by a Ford Taurus, the driver of a PT Cruiser pulled off the road to let the car pass, but the driver of the Taurus got out of his car and began shooting. The driver of the PT Cruiser also pulled out a gun, returning fire, and both drivers were killed.

via The Gun Report: September 19, 2013 – NYTimes.com.

‘This is the line in the sand,’ House Republicans say – latimes.com

(/// News Flash! President Obama won re-election! If Obamacare is something people did not want, he would not have been re-elected! Try governing instead of whining over loss!///)

But many rank-and-file Republicans believe stopping the healthcare law is their constituents’ top priority.

“We’re doing what the American people are asking us to do,” said third-term Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-Ind.). “I think now is the time. You take the best opportunity that you have.”

via ‘This is the line in the sand,’ House Republicans say – latimes.com.

Raw milk and cheese safe? Not! One Dead, 16 Sickened in B.C. E. coli Outbreak Linked to Raw Cheese | Food Safety News

The outbreak of E. coli linked to Gort’s Gouda Cheese Farm in Canada has resulted in one death, as well as 10 confirmed and six suspected illnesses, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada.

The victim who died was from British Columbia. Three more B.C. residents fell ill, while the other seven cases are in Alberta. The agency is investigating another six illnesses that appear to be connected.

Health officials have linked the outbreak to unpasteurized cheese products sold by B.C.-based Gort’s Gouda Cheese Farm. The Public Health Agency has recalled 14 of the farm’s cheese items, which were sold at the farm in Salmon Arm, B.C., in retail stores in B.C. and Alberta, and over the Internet between May 27 and Sept. 14.

The farm agreed to stop selling its cheese.

via One Dead, 16 Sickened in B.C. E. coli Outbreak Linked to Raw Cheese | Food Safety News.

House to Vote on Cutting Food Stamp Aid

House to Vote on Cutting Food Stamp Aid.

The House is poised to vote on cutting nearly $4 billion a year from food stamp assistance, now used by 1 in 7 Americans.

House Republican leaders were still working for support as they scheduled a vote on the measure for Thursday. Some GOP moderates questioned the 5 percent cut to the almost $80 billion-a-year program as Democrats united strongly against it.

WHO | Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) – update

(Beginning to look like H7N1 outbreak in China and as if natural system is “probing” the human system for a path to re-balance the system to the state before so much of agriculture had become industrialized)

WHO has been informed of an additional 18 new laboratory-confirmed cases including three deaths with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection in Saudi Arabia.

The patients are reported from Hafar Al-Batin, Medina and Riyadh. Their ages ranging from three to 75 years old. These cases were announced by the Ministry of Health in Saudi Arabia on 1, 5, 8, 10 and 11 September 2013.

Additionally, in Qatar, a previously laboratory-confirmed patient with MERS-CoV died on 6 September 2013.

Globally, from September 2012 to date, WHO has been informed of a total of 132 laboratory-confirmed cases of infection with MERS-CoV, including 58 deaths.

via WHO | Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) – update.

Diplomacy may make Bashar disposable | Opinion , Columnist | THE DAILY STAR

Within a week, one story – punishing Bashar Assad for his probable use of chemical weapons against civilians in the Ghouta region – has been pushed aside by another: the possibility of a rapprochement between Iran and the United States, even as Washington is coordinating its policies toward Syria with another adversary, Russia.

It’s best in these cases not to get carried away by optimism. Diplomacy and dialogue are not ends in themselves. Yet the potential opportunities are great, whether for Syria or the rest of the Middle East, if broader understandings can be reached between the main regional and global actors. And tectonic shifts, if they occur, may ultimately ensure that Assad is politically disposable.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has made normalization with the West a central plank of his political program. Critically, he seems to have the support of the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. On Tuesday, Khamenei endorsed Rouhani’s position, saying Iran should embrace diplomacy over militarism and that it was time for “heroic leniency.”

In remarks to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Khamenei said, “[I]t is not necessary for the IRGC to be active in the political field, but defending the revolution requires that they understand political realities.” This appeared to be Khamenei’s way of legitimizing Rouhani’s opening in front of an institution that, potentially, may pose problems for the president down the road.

From the Obama administration’s perspective, bringing Iran into negotiations on Syria’s future is necessary, even if the pitfalls are many. Supporting Assad’s regime has become a burden even for his closest partners, who might welcome a transition away from the Syrian president if it means they can preserve their interests in Syria.

via Diplomacy may make Bashar disposable | Opinion , Columnist | THE DAILY STAR.

Despite missteps, Obama hasn’t done badly in Syria | Opinion , Columnist | THE DAILY STAR

Here’s what I see when I deconstruct the Syria story:

Russia has been drawn into a process of collecting and destroying Syria’s chemical arsenal. This has been a goal of U.S. policy for two years. It finally worked thanks in part to Obama’s pledge to use military force to punish Syria if the Russians didn’t step up. In this messy world, there is considerable value in agreement by Moscow and Washington on the “soonest and safest” destruction of Syrian chemical weapons, with a timetable for implementation.

The United Nations has taken new steps to affirm the international norm against use of chemical weapons. The 41-page report delivered this week to Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon isn’t a joke, as some predicted; it’s a surprisingly thorough, careful documentation of the horrific attack on Aug. 21.

via Despite missteps, Obama hasn’t done badly in Syria | Opinion , Columnist | THE DAILY STAR.

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