Earthquake alert SMS to start this year

The mayor of Mexico City plans a warning system that will send alerts directly to mobile phones seconds before an earthquake strikes.

Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, a likely contender in the 2012 presidential election, said that the service will start by September. The capital s government is in talks with cell phone service providers to make the alert happen. Ebrard declined to mention which companies would be included in his quake alert plan for wireless phones.

The capital suffered the devastating effects of an 8.1 magnitude quake in September 1985 that killed thousands. In order to avoid any further destruction steps are being taken in order to send the alert messages on mobile. These alert messages will help people to evacuate homes and buildings. A top executive from America Movil, the largest cell phone brand in Mexico confirmed that the company s existing network allowed for this kind of quake alerts to users.

Army supports democracy: PM Gilani

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LAHORE: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that army is pro democratic and there is no need to worry over Shahbaz Sharif’s meeting with the army chief, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani.

While inaugurating a liver transplant centre at Shaikh Zayed hospital Lahore, PM Gilani said the journalists that Pakistan army is supporting the democracy in the country.

“To differ is the part of democracy and we welcome the criticism of opposition parties,” he added while answering a question regarding statement of Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, the Opposition Leader in the Parliament.

PM Gilani said that there is no political prisoner.

Gilani said that despite of the destruction caused by flood, the budget on education and health would not be decreased and every effort was being made to strengthen these sectors.

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Last nights quake leaves a girl dead; 15 injured

The last nights quake demolished at least 100 houses in the Khanpur area of District Haripur whereas a girl died of the debris of the house falling on her while 15 people, including 4 women, got severely injured.The quake-affected areas include Chach, Khoee Narra, Gujraan village, Narra, Wajyaan and Masoomabad whereas according to the official statistics the quake affected the areas of UC Village Kamal Khan and Khanpur only resulting in death of a young girl and 5 injured people including a woman. Assistant Coordination Officer Haripur Khizar Hayat Khan told the media personnel that a survey of the affected areas is being conducted and further statistics are being gathered. However the affectees told that the concerned authorities and police did not come to their rescue even though they were informed about the destruction in time.

China rescuers seek 90 missing after landslide

BEIJING : Chinese rescuers scoured a remote valley in the nation’s southwest for survivors on Thursday, after a landslide decimated a village, killing at least one person and leaving 90 missing.

The landslide in Puladi, a settlement in Yunnan province, was the latest of a succession of such disasters to have battered China this summer, when torrential downpours have unleashed floods and dislodged hillsides on to towns and villages.

In the worst landslide, at least 1,287 people died in Zhouqu in northwest province of Gansu after rains. More than 450 residents remain missing, probably dead. Storms in neighboring Longnan and in Sichuan province to the south killed dozens more.

Pictures from Puladi showed a swathe of the green valley covered in mud, with rescuers laying down planks across the destruction to reach a stricken village with about 100 residents, some

Israeli army forms team to learn from deadly flotilla raid

JERUSALEM: Israel”s army announced late Monday the creation of a team of high-ranking officials charged with examining and learning from the deadly May 31 operation against a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.

The team — to be headed by a general in the reserves, Giora Eiland — would “examine the unfolding of the operation and to draw lessons from it,” an army statement said.

“It must submit its conclusions between now and July 4,” it added.

Besides Eiland, the panel includes two other generals in the reserves, a colonel in the marine reserves and a high official in the defence ministry, it said.

Israeli Special Forces stormed a flotilla of six ships carrying aid for blockaded Gaza, killing nine Turks on board one of the vessels and sparking international outrage.

Israel has defended itself saying it must stop vessels from travelling to Gaza since they could be carrying weapons for Hamas, an Islamist movement committed to the destruction of Israel which controls that Palestinian territory.

It also says the aid the activists wanted to deliver is not needed.

Israel has resisted calls for an international enquiry, but the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced plans for an internal examination of the events and whether the blockade and its implementation were in keeping with international law.

Media reports said the panel could include international figures chosen by Israel.

10 killed as tornado strikes Miss.; others injured

YAZOO CITY: Tornadoes ripped through four states in the South on Saturday, leaving broken crosses in front of a flattened church, splintering houses and overturning vehicles as they killed 10 people, including three children.

One of the hardest hit areas was Mississippi”s Yazoo County, where Gov. Haley Barbour grew up. He described “utter obliteration” among the picturesque hills rising abruptly from the flat Mississippi Delta.

More than 15 other counties in Mississippi also had damage. The swath of debris forced rescuers to pick up some of the injured on all-terrain vehicles the west-central part of the state. Tornadoes were also reported in Louisiana, Arkansas and Alabama, and the severe weather continued to track eastward.

In Yazoo City, Malcolm Gordon, 63, stood with members of his family peering out at the neighborhood through a broken window.

Above them, the roof was gone, a tree lay across part of the house and power lines stretched across the yard. The smell of shredded pine trees hung in the warm breeze in the neighborhood of modest houses and mobile homes surrounded by hills and ravines.

Gordon and his wife, Diane, hid in a closet while much of the neighborhood was blown away.

“I”ll just bulldoze what”s left and start over,” he said.

It was one of several unlikely survival stories to emerge from the destruction.

Essie Hendrix, manager of Peebles department store in Yazoo City, said she and other employees were inside with about 15 customers when the tornado struck. An assistant manager took the customers to the back of the store, and Hendrix saw the tornado barreling through the parking lot. She huddled between a safe and a sturdy desk to avoid flying glass and debris.

“It was like a rumbling and a roaring and stuff was falling,” Hendrix said. “It sounded like it was going to suck us out of there. It lasted about two minutes, but it felt like it lasted an hour.”

No one in the store was injured.

About 100 yards away, the owner of Ribeye”s Steak House said everyone ran into a walk-in freezer to safety when they saw the tornado.

“The roof was caving in, TVs flying off the shelves and it was horrible,” Mitchell Saxton said. “… We got in the walk-in freezer, sat in there for about ten minutes. When I came out it was really bad. Just thanking the good Lord I”m here and able to talk with you all.”

Saxton”s restaurant was destroyed but no one was hurt.

The severe weather started in Louisiana, just across the state line from Mississippi when a tornado destroyed 12 homes and warehouses at Complex Chemical Co., which makes antifreeze and other automotive fluids, owner Jerry Melton said. A small nitrogen leak was reported but didn”t cause any problems.

The storm system moved east, with the twister hitting nearby Yazoo County, Miss., killing four people. In adjacent Holmes County, another person was killed. A little farther northeast, a tornado hit Choctaw County, where another five victims were reported, including children ages 3 months, 9 and 14.

Authorities in Choctow County were going house-to-house in the areas with the worst damage to check for any injured.

Meteorologists said it was too soon to tell whether a single long-lasting tornado — or multiple shorter ones — caused the death and damage in the different cities.

In Yazoo City, stunned residents stood on a hill overlooking the destruction. A National Guard helicopter sat nearby, and later took the governor on an aerial tour of the town.

“Sad, man,” said 22-year-old Rafael Scott, shaking his head. “It”s really hard to believe it. I heard they found a couple of bodies.”

Three broken crosses stood near a flattened church, and religious materials were scattered among twisted steel, broken wood and furniture. A nearby funeral home was reduced to rubble. In a patch of woods, pieces of tin were twisted high up in the broken trees.

Josh Nicholson, 26, was driving home through the storm with his wife, 1-year-old son and 4-year-old daughter when a power line fell across the road in front their sport utility vehicle.

“There was nowhere we could go,” he said.

Nicholson and his wife took the children out of their car seats and they all huddled in the back of the vehicle. All of the sudden, Nicholson said, the vehicle spun around and a tree clipped part of the truck where the 4-year-old had been sitting. Luckily, nobody was hurt.

“It was scary,” Nicholson said.

Thousands across the state were without electricity, and downed power lines and trees blocked roads. At least four people had been brought by four-wheeler to a triage center at an old discount store parking lot, Yazoo City Mayor McArthur Straughter said as sirens whined in the background.

Jim Pollard, a spokesman for American Medical Response ambulance service, said four patients from Yazoo County were airlifted and some 20 others were taken to hospitals. At least four people were in critical condition.

Houston Astros pitcher Roy Oswalt, who pitched on Friday, was returning to Mississippi after a tornado damaged his parents” home in Weir, Miss.

Willie M. Horton, 78, said he hunkered down in the hallway of his house in Holmes County, which borders Yazoo. “Everything is down. A lot of trees. Big trees,” Horton said.

He said his sister-in-law”s house nearby was damaged, and a nephew”s mobile home was carried away by the storm.

“My cousin — half his barn is gone,” Horton said.

The weather hampered crews trying to clean up an oil spill after an offshore rig exploded earlier this week off the coast of Louisiana. Several sporting events and festivals also were rescheduled.

Gavin Degraw Follow Through Lyrics

Gavin Degraw Follow Through Lyrics, The lyrics of ‘Follow Through’ by Gavin DeGraw is hot in the trending topics now. It seems like a lot of people were captivated by this song.

For the sake of tose who are searching for the lyrics, here it is!

Follow Through by Gavin deGraw

Oh, this is the start of something good
Don’t you agree?
I, haven’t felt like this in so many moons
You know what I mean
And we can build through this destruction
As we are standing on our feet

So, since you wanna be with me
You’ll have to follow through
With every word you say
And I, all I really want is you
you to stick around
I’ll see you everyday
But you have to follow through
You have to follow through

These reeling emotions they just keep me alive
They keep me in tune
Oh, look what I‘m holding here in my fire
This is for you
Am I too obvious to preach it
You’re so hypnotic on my heart

So, since you wanna be with me
You’ll have to follow through
With every word you say
And I, all I really want is you
you to stick around
I’ll see you everyday
But you have to follow through
You have to follow through

The words you say to me are unlike anything
That’s ever been said
oh what you do to me is unlike anything
That’s ever been
Am I too obvious to preach it?
You’re so hypnotic on my heart

So since you wanna be with me
You’ll have to follow through
With every word you say
And I, all I really want is you
you to stick around
I’ll see you everyday

So since you wanna be with me
You’ll have to follow through
With every word you say
And I, all I really want is you
you to stick around
I’ll see you everyday
But you have to follow through
You have to follow through
You’re gonna have to follow

Oh, this is the start of something good
Don’t you agree?

Here’s aYouTube video featuring the song. Enjoy!

Heavy Rain Causes Further Destruction Across Haiti

Heavy rains have soaked and caused destruction across Haiti, raising fears about flooding and the spread of disease among the estimated one million people left homeless by last month’s earthquake. Homeless people in the capital, Port-au-Prince are now confronted with a new challenge of the rain.
Due to inadequate facilities, people have protested.

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Heavy Rain Causes Further Destruction Across Haiti was first posted on February 12, 2010 at 3:16 pm.

Syed Ali Gilani Arrested in H-Kashmir

SRINAGAR: Syed Ali Gilani Arrested in H-Kashmir, The Indian authorities arrested senior Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani and lodged him at Humhama police station.

According to Kashmir media service, Syed Ali Gilani was arrested by Indian troops when he was going to the hospital to enquire about the health of injured Hurriyet activists.

On the other hand, a complete strike was observed marked with anti-India demonstrations for the second consecutive day, today, in Maisuma against injuring a 14-year-old boy and the destruction of property by Indian troops.

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Syed Ali Gilani Arrested in H-Kashmir was first posted on December 12, 2009 at 2:22 pm.

Allahu Akbar Meaning

Allahu Akbar Meaning: Allahu Akbar is probably the most commonly spoken phrase today. There are over a billion Muslims out there and since this is said during each stage of prayer, which is supposed to be performed five times a day, it adds up to being spoken over a billion times a day worldwide, by a conservative estimate. This statement is said by Muslims numerous times; During the call for prayer , during prayer , when they are happy, and wish to express their approval of what they hear, when they slaughter an animal, and when they want to praise a speaker

Allahu Akbar Meaning:Allahu Akbar is probably the most commonly spoken phrase today. There are over a billion Muslims out there and since this is said during each stage of prayer, which is supposed to be performed five times a day, it adds up to being spoken over a billion times a day worldwide, by a conservative estimate. This statement is said by Muslims numerous times; During the call for prayer, during prayer, when they are happy, and wish to express their approval of what they hear, when they slaughter an animal, and when they want to praise a speaker. Even if they don’t say it, they can also hear it, since it’s proclaimed loudly as part of the Azan at mosques.

The phrase is actually short for “Allahu Akbar min kullisay” which means God is greater than everything.

Allahu Akbar by itself translates to “God is greater.” (akbar is an elative form, meaning greater, greatest, or very great.) Muslims leave the phrase unfinished, with the implication that whatever you can think of, God is greater than that, too.

The actual title of this phrase is Takbeer , while the phrase itself is “Allahu Akbar.” Instead of applause, it’s better to have someone yell “Takbeer” and the crowd to respond “Allahu Akbar” in chorus.

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