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Vatican ET Signal Report : Simon Holland

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www.kob.com Public UFO records archive opens in Rio Rancho

The National UFO Historical Records Center is a nonprofit organizing hundreds of thousands of declassified government documents.

Public UFO records archive opens in Rio Rancho

RIO RANCHO, N.M. – Another New Mexico city is shining a spotlight on UFOs, but not in the way you might expect.

The portable classrooms at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary are the new home of the National UFO Historical Records Archive. It’s the largest collection of UFO sighting documents in the country, and maybe the world.

Now, thanks to a partnership with Rio Rancho Public Schools, the amateur collectors who kept all these records safe over the years are finally making them available to the public.

“It’s literally overwhelming. People don’t have any conception until they come here how much material that we’re talking about. And it really, I think, makes people pause and realize there’s a lot more to this UFO subject than I ever thought,” said David Marler, executive director of the National UFO Historical Records Center.

Marler knows the idea of a UFO records archive probably sounds silly to some folks, but he says that skepticism is welcome.

“We really don’t care what your take is on the UFO subject. In fact, we welcome differing opinions, differing perspectives,” said Marler.

The National UFO Historical Records Center is a nonprofit organizing hundreds of thousands of declassified government documents, news clippings, photos, videos and more evidence from across the globe all under one roof.

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www.dailystar.co.uk Exact location on Earth of 'major alien base for hundreds of UFOS' exposed

'The USS Nimitz was placed there to monitor them, and they have monitored over 100 of these UFOs coming and going, coming down from out of space and going under the water at that spot'

Exact location on Earth of 'major alien base for hundreds of UFOS' exposed

The exact location of a major alien base has been revealed. Danny Sheehan has been involved in bringing UFO whistleblowers to the United States Congress in recent years.

He has been helping to provide explosive evidence of alleged government cover-ups regarding real encounters with extraterrestrial beings.

And after making bombshell claims at the weekend regarding the potential locations of two bases, a new video has emerged where he gives the exact location of one of them... and claims that hundreds of UFOs have been seen going “in and out of it”.

“There is one of these bases just down off Baja, down off the south of Los Angeles in California, off a place called Guadalupe Island – or Isla Guadalupe.

“The USS Nimitz was placed there to monitor them, and they have monitored over 100 of these UFOs coming and going, coming down from out of space and going under the water at that spot.

“Being monitored under the water by the nuclear submarines that were attached to the USS Nimitz battle group. They have analysed this, and we know there is a base down there.”

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metro.co.uk Mystery 'UFO cloud' has reappeared at the same spot for more than 100 years

Many people constantly report seeing the strange cloud formation.

Mystery 'UFO cloud' has reappeared at the same spot for more than 100 years

A cloud that resembles a UFO has been spotted in the same location for more than 100 years.

The phenomenon occurs around the Taieri Plain, an area of agricultural land, to the south west of Dunedin, New Zealand.

While many may feel creeped out by the unusual appearance, locals have come to affectionately called it the ‘Taieri pet’.

People in the towns of Middlemarch and Hyde report often seeing the strange cloud formation.

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phys.org A growing number of Canadian households contain dangerous levels of radon gas, finds survey

The 2024 Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Exposure in the Residential Buildings of Urban and Rural Communities indicates that radioactive radon exposure in Canada is rising and continues to be a critical public health concern.

A growing number of Canadian households contain dangerous levels of radon gas, finds survey

The 2024 Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Exposure in the Residential Buildings of Urban and Rural Communities indicates that radioactive radon exposure in Canada is rising and continues to be a critical public health concern.

There are an estimated 10.3 million Canadians living in houses with high radon, increasing their risk of developing lung cancer in the future. The report reveals nearly 18% of Canadian homes contain radon levels at or above 200 Bq/m3, the threshold at which Health Canada advises action to reduce indoor radon levels. This is more than double the 7% of households that were estimated to have radon levels at or above this limit in 2012.

Canada has among one of the highest rates of lung cancer globally, despite one of the lowest rates of tobacco smoking,

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Full article: Dietary tendencies of the Early Jurassic pterosaurs Campylognathoides Strand, 1928, and Dorygnathus Wagner, 1860, with additional evidence for teuthophagy in Pterosauria

CONCLUSIONS

Fossilized gut contents are described for the Toarcian non-monofenestratan pterosaurs Campylognathoides and Dorygnathus, based on two well preserved skeletons revealing the former to have fed on belemnoid teuthids, and the latter on small actinopterygian fishes.

These specimens represent the first records of pterosaur gut contents from the Toarcian Posidonia Shale, and the only identifiable remains of a pterosaur meal known from the Early Jurassic.

Campylognathoides is the only pterosaur known to have predated on belemnoids, and represents additional evidence for teuthophagy in Pterosauria. Belemnoid hooklets in the gut of Campylognathoides are identified as belonging to Clarkeiteuthis conocauda, a belemnoid teuthid with inferred vertical migration behavior, meaning that in order to catch this elusive prey, Campylognathoides may have hunted nocturnally.

Although based on just two specimens, it is suggested that the differences in gut contents between these two Toarcian pterosaur genera may reflect niche partitioning, with teuthophagy in Campylognathoides and piscivory in Dorygnathus.

Trophic partitioning is supported by the very different skull and dental morphologies seen in these two taxa, but our suggestion for a nocturnal lifestyle for Campylognathoides requires further scrutiny. The somewhat larger orbit of Campylognathoides may lend some support to this, as yet, tentative conclusion.

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phys.org Tardigrades are less cosmopolitan and more diverse than believed, researchers show

Tardigrades are microscopic invertebrates measuring between 0.2 mm and 1.1 mm in length. They are close relatives of arthropods (spiders, insects, crustaceans), and can live in a wide variety of environments. Yet little is known about them.

Tardigrades are less cosmopolitan and more diverse than believed, researchers show

Indestructible

The internet abounds in photographs and drawings of tardigrades, as well as articles claiming that "water bears," as they are also known, are indestructible and can survive drought, radiation, starvation, and even zero gravity—many tardigrades sent into space have returned alive.

Their capacity for cryptobiosis, or suspended animation, is a response to hostile environmental conditions. They curl up into a ball, reduce their metabolism to a minimum, and can remain dormant for years without food or water, reanimating when conditions return to normal.

Cryptobiotic (or dormant) tardigrades are extremely hard to detect. Samples of material in which they may be present have to be placed in water so that they become visible.

Many possible ecological functions of tardigrades are unknown, the researchers noted. They feed on decomposing organic matter and other microorganisms, so they may control the populations of other beings that could be pathological to humans or crops, for example.

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journals.plos.org A new Late Cretaceous metatherian from the Williams Fork Formation, Colorado

Heleocola piceanus, a new, relatively large metatherian from Upper Cretaceous (‘Edmontonian’) strata of the Williams Fork Formation in northwestern Colorado is described, based on a recently discovered jaw fragment (MWC 9744), in addition to three isolated teeth initially referred by other studies t...

A new Late Cretaceous metatherian from the Williams Fork Formation, Colorado

Fossil mammals from the Williams Fork Formation are rare and almost entirely represented by isolated teeth. Our report is the first jaw fragment of a therian from this rock unit. Our referral of Heleocola piceanus to the Glasbiidae based on the phylogenetic analysis extends the temporal range of the family from the Lancian back into the “Edmontonian” and westward into western Colorado. Prior to our study, the Glasbiidae included only Glasbius, which occurs in Lancian faunas in Wyoming, Montana, and Saskatchewan, Canada to the north and in New Mexico at its southernmost range extent.

Lower molars of Heleocola piceanus are large relative to other pediomyoids, similar in size to those of Aquiladelphis incus, but over twice the size of Lancian Glasbius intricatus and Pediomys elegans measured by Clemens , and over three times the size of lower molars of contemporaneous (“Edmontonian”) pediomyid Unnuakomys hutchisoni from northern Alaska measured by Eberle et al. Its large teeth beg the question, how large of a mammal was Heleocola piceanus? A commonly used proxy for estimating body mass of fossil mammals relies on dental dimensions, specifically the size of the first lower molar . For dentally conservative metatherians including opossums, the first molar is highly correlated with body size, although there is a strong relationship between body size and tooth size in the more posterior molars too. We estimated the body mass of Heleocola piceanus by incorporating the length of the m1s (n = 2) into the regression equations for didelphids and dasyurids of Gordon. Body mass for Heleocola piceanus is estimated to have been 855–1170 g, which is similar in mass to today’s muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus; 910–1250 g) H. piceanus weighed about half that of the largest known Late Cretaceous metatherian, the stagodontid Didelphodon vorax whose estimated body mass ranged from 2.4–5.2 kg

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Paleoinspired robotics as an experimental approach to the history of life

We envision a future where paleontologists, biologists, and roboticists work closely to study the link between form and function across the evolutionary history of groups of organisms from different angles. Much as the field of bioinspired robotics has driven roboticists to study biological mechanisms and biologists to learn engineering techniques, including paleontology in the partnership will further enhance the training of early-career researchers in interdisciplinary thinking and problem-solving. Not only does collaboration produce more conclusive paleontological and biological theories, it also creates new paradigms for physical evolution of higher-performance robots.

Understanding evolution from the sparse information remaining from deep time will require the fusion of fossil evidence, observations of and experiments with extant animals, and robotic models with soft materials and intricate rigid structures that can both perceive and act within the physical, natural environment. Examining life in the past will help scientists of all disciplines understand more about the world as it is today and how our ever-changing environment may possibly influence form and function in the future.

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phys.org Researchers model how the first use of the wheel may have developed

A pair of engineers and a historian have teamed up together to model the means by which the first use of the wheel may have happened. In their paper published in Royal Society Open Science, Lee Alacoque, from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Kai James, with the Georgia Institute of Techn...

Researchers model how the first use of the wheel may have developed

Nobody knows who invented the wheel, or when it was first used. Most historians suspect it was invented in many places at different times around the world. What is known is that it was widely in use around the world as early as 3,000 BC.

In this new study, the researchers suggest the invention and use of the wheel may have originated in an Eastern European copper mine. Such a site, they note, makes sense because of the greatly improved efficiencies that would have resulted as heavy ore was extracted from a mine and carried down a mountainside.

A likely precursor might have been a roller, essentially a tree trunk with limbs removed. It is likely people discovered that things could be moved downhill more easily when they were tossed on rollers thousands of years before the wheel was invented, including ore products moved down mountainsides in Eastern European copper mines.

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www.scientificamerican.com Largest-Ever Pair of Black Hole Jets Stretches 23 Million Light-Years

Supermassive black holes can expel jets of material so vast and powerful that they may shape the large-scale structure of the cosmos

Largest-Ever Pair of Black Hole Jets Stretches 23 Million Light-Years

In a galaxy 7.5 billion light-years away, a supermassive black hole shoots out streams of magnetized plasma that span 140 Milky Ways in length. This mind-boggling structure—nicknamed Porphyrion, after a giant from Greek mythology—contains the largest black hole jets physicists have ever seen, a team reported in Nature last month. And its existence suggests that black hole jets may have played a more important role in shaping the cosmos than previously thought.

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www.medievalists.net In Search of the Once and Future King: Arthur and Edward I

King Edward I of England found not only a role model but a political tool every bit as puissant as the legendary king himself.

In Search of the Once and Future King: Arthur and Edward I

In Arthur and the distinctive genre of literature that had grown up around the celebration and adaption of his mythical exploits, King Edward I of England found not only a role model but a political tool every bit as puissant as the legendary king himself. Through the conscious emulation and glorification of the Arthurian ideal, King Edward would come within a hair’s breadth of matching Arthur’s legacy, the unification and domination of the British Isles. In chasing the specter of a manifest destiny swathed in the trappings of Arthurian iconography, Edward formalized and enshrined the hegemonic and imperial inclinations of his predecessors, fundamentally altering the way in which England related to its neighbours.

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www.sciencealert.com Scientists Revived a Pig's Brain Nearly a Whole Hour After It Died

Scientists have revived activity in the brains of pigs up to nearly an hour after circulation had ceased.

Scientists Revived a Pig's Brain Nearly a Whole Hour After It Died

Scientists have revived activity in the brains of pigs up to nearly an hour after circulation had ceased. In some cases, functionality was sustained for hours through a surprising discovery by researchers in China.

This achievement represents a huge step forward in working out how to restore brain function after a patient has suffered a sudden cardiac arrest. It suggests that doctors may be able to widen the brief window for successful resuscitation of patients following cardiac arrest.

The trick? Incorporating the patient's unharmed liver – the organ the body uses to purify its blood – into the life support system used to revive the brain after the time had elapsed.

Source:

Liver protects neuron viability and electrocortical activity in post-cardiac arrest brain injury

https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.1038/s44321-024-00140-z

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16 young workers suffering deadly lung disease from kitchen revamps in UK

In August, doctors released a report detailing the first eight cases of silicosis in men cutting engineered – or artificial – stone, which is primarily quartz, a surface which has soared in popularity with homeowners having kitchen refurbishments in recent years.

The majority were migrants working in small workshops who weren’t provided with adequate safety measures, echoing a trend seen in other countries, with an average age of 34 and the youngest aged 27.

One person has died with the disease and two were referred for lung transplant assessment.

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theferret.scot Secrecy over radioactive pollution from nuclear bases

The Ministry of Defence has blocked the Scottish Government’s environmental watchdog from releasing information about radioactive pollution from nuclear bases.

Secrecy over radioactive pollution from nuclear bases

The Ministry of Defence has blocked the Scottish Government’s environmental watchdog from releasing information about radioactive pollution from the Clyde nuclear bomb bases for the last nine years.

Emails released under freedom of information (FoI) law reveal that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) asked the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) not to publish information about “environmental issues with radioactivity” at Faslane and Coulport near Helensburgh to protect “national security”.

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theconversation.com Walk or run in the rain? A physics-based approached to staying dry (or at least drier)

You have certainly experienced this situation before. Let’s approach the problem from a physics perspective and try to calculate the amount of water that will fall on you based on your speed.

Walk or run in the rain? A physics-based approached to staying dry (or at least drier)

When moving forward in the rain, vertical surfaces such as a person’s body will be hit by more raindrops as speed increases. From the walker’s perspective, the drops appear to fall at an angle, with a horizontal velocity equal to their own walking speed.

While walking faster means encountering more drops per second, it also reduces the time spent in the rain. As a result, the two effects balance each other out: more drops per unit of time, but less time in the rain overall.

When the walker is stationary, rain only falls on horizontal surfaces – the top of the head and shoulders. As the walker begins to move, she or he receives raindrops that would have fallen in front, while missing the drops that now fall behind. This creates a balance, and ultimately, the amount of rain received on horizontal surfaces remains unchanged, regardless of the walking speed.

However, since walking faster reduces the total time spent in the rain, the overall amount of water collected on horizontal surfaces will be less.

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phys.org Smallest dinosaur egg ever found confirmed in China

A team of paleontologists, geoscientists and evolutionary specialists affiliated with multiple institutions in China has found that a fossilized egg unearthed in 2021 is the smallest dinosaur egg ever found. In their paper published in the journal Historical Biology, the group describes where the eg...

Smallest dinosaur egg ever found confirmed in China

A team of paleontologists, geoscientists and evolutionary specialists affiliated with multiple institutions in China has found that a fossilized egg unearthed in 2021 is the smallest dinosaur egg ever found. The group describes where the eggs were found, the techniques used to study them, and what the researchers learned about them.

Prior to this new find, the smallest dinosaur egg ever found was 45.5 mm by 40.4 mm by 34.4 mm.

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medicalxpress.com Snake research reveals insights into human intestinal regeneration

All animals possess some capacity for repairing and replacing the lining of their intestines, a process called intestinal regeneration. In mammals, including humans, this constant but relatively minor turnover of cells helps the intestine keep up with the daily requirements of eating. It is accompli...

Snake research reveals insights into human intestinal regeneration

All animals possess some capacity for repairing and replacing the lining of their intestines, a process called intestinal regeneration. In mammals, including humans, this constant but relatively minor turnover of cells helps the intestine keep up with the daily requirements of eating. It is accomplished by stem cells that originate in intestinal crypts—microscopic depressions in the intestinal wall.

In stark contrast, snakes that feed infrequently—such as boas and pythons who can go weeks without a meal—do not possess intestinal crypts, yet they undergo some of the most extreme examples of intestinal regeneration found in the animal kingdom. When these snakes fast for long periods, their intestines become atrophied, shrunken and almost entirely non-functional.

However, when they feed, their intestines undergo massive regenerative growth, more than doubling in mass in 48 hours and rebuilding much of the intestinal cells and structures required to digest and absorb food. This shift is also accompanied by huge changes in the snakes' physiology and metabolism.

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medicalxpress.com Systemic inflammation may play a role in how air pollution contributes to cognitive impairment

Air pollution is often viewed as an outdoor hazard and a threat to respiratory health. Emerging research shows that air pollution may also affect our brain health. Fine particulate matter (PM2.5), is a complex mixture of many chemicals that can be inhaled deep into the lungs. While PM2.5 exposure ha...

Systemic inflammation may play a role in how air pollution contributes to cognitive impairment
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medicalxpress.com How vitamin D deficiency can lead to autoimmune diseases

As Canadians brace for "vitamin D winter"—months when the sun's angle is too low to produce the vitamin in the skin—a McGill University study explains why vitamin D deficiency early in life is associated with a higher risk of autoimmune diseases.

How vitamin D deficiency can lead to autoimmune diseases

The study is published in the journal Science Advances.

"An aging thymus leads to a 'leaky' immune system," said lead author John White, a Professor in and Chair of McGill's Department of Physiology. "This means the thymus becomes less effective at filtering out immune cells that could mistakenly attack healthy tissues, increasing the risk of autoimmune diseases like type 1 diabetes."

He noted that researchers have known for years that vitamin D helps the body absorb calcium for strong bones, and that more recent research has discovered its crucial role in regulating the immune system.

"Our findings bring new clarity to this connection and could lead to new strategies for preventing autoimmune diseases," he said.

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Pink cocaine: the party drug cocktail putting a growing number of lives at risk
  • That shit is mass produced over here in garages and garden sheds, the only substance that does go into every batch of whatever the manufacturers have to hand is the colouring. Taking it is even more dangerous than giving it a label !

  • You can’t always judge a viper by its color
  • My apologies , twas merely a slip of the finger .. I shall replace the missing Z and O forthwith.

    Thank you for pointing this out, Jings, I hadn't actually noticed the missing letters !

    This is what happens when you play around on small phone screens without your glasses on ..ha ha

  • The origins of the Scots language
  • I think it all depends on which app you are using .

    On some apps the title link is the thumbnail along with the link under the header.

    Whereas on other apps the title or header link is to be found below the post!

    Confused? ..So am I

    Yip - There are two separate videos in the post, Modern Standardised English is definitely being spoken in video 1..The Title ..Just as it says 'In English'

  • Rocket engine explodes during test at UK spaceport
  • Rocket Engine Goes Up In Flames During Test At SaxaVord Spaceport In Britain

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EESJVNmXbI

  • Discovery solves baffling mystery around Gulf War Illness in veterans
  • This is exactly what the research guys have concluded, whether it be dusty folks in war zones, emergency service personnel or just your ordinary, average everyday dusty dude in the street. The inflammatory response is triggered by a build up of nasties in the body, a combination of toxins, fine particulates and biological pathogens, the end result is immune dysregulation...Bingo!

  • Earth Is Running Out of Sand, Spurring a Cutthroat Black Market
  • And again, what you consider to be merely an economic issue is exactly where you seem to be missing the point.

    Quarrying is environmentally destructive. It has contamination and pollution issues. It carries health issues. As well as the costly logistics of transporting bulk around the planet. Governments these days no longer wish any company, large or small, to go around tearing rock, in any form - pre ground or otherwise -out of the ground. So your next problem would be sourcing the base materials for your manufactured product legally.

    Economically, even if you did manage to quarry,crush,sieve,grade and mix your sand for lets say £1000 a ton. What architect on the planet would specify the use of such an environmentally unfriendly and costly material and what construction company in the world would pay such a price?

    Architects are already specifying more sustainable materials and construction techniques are changeing, but at present, people are still destroying the planet and killing each other for sand ! That's the current economic situation.

  • Earth Is Running Out of Sand, Spurring a Cutthroat Black Market
  • Nobody is saying that without a time limit and at great expence sand can not be manufactured, but it is not even that simple.

    Firstly : You would have to quarry your rock of preference before crushing, sieving, grading, and more than likely, also having to transport your specific rock grains to be mixed with other types of crushed and graded chips, depending on your sands ultimate purpose.

    Secondly : It is not cheap to extract stone from the earth plus quarrying leaves very big holes in the ground! Permission from authorities to open new quarries or pits is not easily obtained in most countries.

    Thirdly: Crushing is hazardous, polluting, environmentally destructive and very expensive .

    The sand problem has been bubbling away on the back burner for years, hence the many and various ongoing efforts from all around the globe to recycle or create new and innovative construction materials.

  • Earth Is Running Out of Sand, Spurring a Cutthroat Black Market
  • Why the world is running out of sand

    Our planet is covered in it. Huge deserts from the Sahara to Arizona have billowing dunes of the stuff. Beaches on coastlines around the world are lined with sand. We can even buy bags of it at our local hardware shop for a fistful of small change.

    But believe it or not, the world is facing a shortage of sand. How can we possibly be running low on a substance found in virtually every country on earth and that seems essentially limitless?

    The problem lies in the type of sand we are using. Desert sand is largely useless to us. The overwhelming bulk of the sand we harvest goes to make concrete, and for that purpose, desert sand grains are the wrong shape. Eroded by wind rather than water, they are too smooth and rounded to lock together to form stable concrete.

    The sand we need is the more angular stuff found in the beds, banks, and floodplains of rivers, as well as in lakes and on the seashore. The demand for that material is so intense that around the world, riverbeds and beaches are being stripped bare, and farmlands and forests torn up to get at the precious grains. And in a growing number of countries, criminal gangs have moved in to the trade, spawning an often lethal black market in sand.

    https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191108-why-the-world-is-running-out-of-sand

  • Engineered stone is now banned. But how safe are the alternatives?
  • You could be right on the governments dislike of a popular and profitable imported product!.. But what about RPE ?

    RPE will not eliminate disease in cases of extended long term exposure.

    RPE has only to be used as 'The very last resort'..and is only supposed to be used as..'The very last resort'..and only as..'The very last resort' for short periods of time, as..'The very last resort'

    Why do so many people equate the usage of respiratory protection with 'A Safe Working Environment ?'

    In areas where long term usage of such protection is required, an operatives working environment is exactly the opposite of 'SAFE' !

    There is No Known Safe Working Exposure Limit when working in respirable crystalline silica dust..NONE !

  • Aliens Now | Big Picture Science
  • Nope the link is there , just hit the thumbnail

    Why no image attached.. I do not know..Another of life's little mysteries I suppose 👽👽😳

  • Parkinson’s Linked With Industrial Solvents in Drinking Water
  • Do I sound upset ? Crikey! ha ha

    Sorry duder ,I am immune to upset and trivialities such as social media comments do not even register as irratation on my ragged toenail scale.

    I do attempt to upload the original paper where possible, but when (As is par for the course these days) the publication is behind a paywall and as in this case, without even an abstract ,then the news article has to be the option for the post.

    Take care and have an article annoyance free day .

  • Parkinson’s Linked With Industrial Solvents in Drinking Water
  • Not my headline and I did not write the article

    Here is the actual report ,crikey you have to pay for it !!.. Well what a bummer ,there is the reason for posting the news article instead of the actual report..Happy Now ?

    Large Study Links Industrial Solvent in Drinking Water to Parkinson Disease Risk in Camp Lejeune Veterans

    Neurologist Samuel Goldman, MD, MPH, had long felt obligated to dive into the question of whether the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that had contaminated the drinking water at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune up to the mid-1980s were associated with an increased risk of Parkinson disease.

    https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2805182

  • UK research reveals hand car wash sector is awash with exploitation
  • I would say that slavery could perhaps be considered an occupational hazard!

    Slavery or the imprisoning /detaining personel against their will to enforce labour was once common in farming ,construction and many other industries in this country and probably still goes on.

    Gangs would (and probably still do) convince unwitting refugees to come over here to work for them on the promise of great wages and full board. Once here these people would be kept in shacks,caravans and the likes, but usually in overcrowded slum conditions, threatened with violence or beaten daily and forced to work without pay or for food (if they were lucky)

    A few years back the construction industry raised awareness of this problem and asked the workforce to be vigilant,to keep their eyes open and report any signs or suspicions of enforced labour. Thanks to this awareness campaign many of these gangs were caught and imprisoned ,thousands of illegally detained people were released... The car wash app was set up for a similar purpose

    Raising awareness on the subject of occupational hazards is not solely about RPE ,employees face many risks and many hazards...

    As for car washing ,PPE required would be waterproof footwear and clothing ,protective gloves , eye protection, a respirator for use when cleaning the inside of dirty vehicles , a respirator would also be required when the likes of chemical sprays, special waxes, sealers, body finishes or any other solvents were in use... Take care

  • Tusk claims Poles will be richer than Brits by 2029 as ‘it’s better to be in the EU’
  • Scotland voted to remain in the Tories 'Advisory' Brexit Poll The Tories used their 'Merely Advisory Poll' to drag us all out though,without consultation.

    The penny has finally dropped for the majority in England, they now know for a fact that they were sold a box completely devoid of lollipops and Brexit was simply just another Corporate Westminster Corruption con.

    I wonder if todays English and Welsh local elections might reflect this slight change of opinion by the masses ,mmmmmm?..ha ha

  • Lungs of stone: How Silica has sickened a generation of quartz cutters - The World from PRX
  • Masks are only supposed to be used as the very last resort ,it matters not a jot if you have a top of the range respirator ,in those conditions workers could put a new filter in their masks every morning and they would still be breathing in dust . No fit is ever perfect and they all leak.

    There simply should be no people working in such areas, full stop. Not even if they were kitted out with PAPR respirators and the unit had a regulator specified and fully certified LEV system running 24/7. These are areas where only machines should be employed . But once again it all comes down to production costs and profit..People are cheap. Take care ,stay safe and dust free.

  • LA City Council trio takes aim at lung disease impacting countertop workers
  • Silica is in many things and widely used everywhere, apart from the obvious dusty trades,sandblasters ,stonemasons,bricklayers,plasters,roofers,painters and decorators, demolition workers frackers ,miners, quarrymen and highway workers.

    Plumbers,electricians,refractory workers ,military personnel,tech workers ,lorry and machine drivers ,jewelers ,dental technicians ,farmers,foundry workers,glass workers,horse trainers,potters,metal grinders ,greenhouse gardeners and even teachers of old have been known to succumb to the masons cough ( Which was once known as Potters Rot )and/or one or more of the myriad of silica associated diseases .

    ( My apologies if I missed anyone out )

    Unfortunately there is no known or quantifiable safe occupational limit for silica exposure (Despite what the corporately owned politicians and regulators quote as fact ) and respirators are only supposed to be used as the very last resort ,none are 100% efficient ,they all leak ,hence the coding .