COLD INJURY PREVENTION: CDC Webpage on Cold Injury Prevention

[This is an indepth, long version for Cold Injury Prevention.  It is geared for Workplace Safety, but anyone going outside during cold weather, would be smart to re-familiarize themselves with this information.  Be safe.  SDF Blogger]

Types of Cold Stress

cdc.gov

Hypothermia  | Frostbite |Trench Foot | Chilblains

Hypothermia

When exposed to cold temperatures, your body begins to lose heat faster than it can be produced. Prolonged exposure to cold will eventually use up your body's stored energy. The result is hypothermia, or abnormally low body temperature. A body temperature that is too low affects the brain, making the victim unable to think clearly or move well. This makes hypothermia particularly dangerous because a person may not know it is happening and will not be able to do anything about it.    Read more

FREE BROCHURE: NIOSH Cold Injury Prevention

[This is a short and sweet printable document on the signs, symptoms and prevention of cold injuries including:  hypothermia, frostbite, trenchfoot and chilblains.  SDF Blogger]
 
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2010-115/pdfs/2010-115.pdf

EARN MONEY: DARPA Offers $50,000 for Ideas to Re-assemble Shredded Documents

Government Security News (GSN)
Fri, 2011-10-28 08:03 AM

By: Mark Rockwell

The sometimes enigmatic government agency that has been in the vanguard of historic computer network development, including creation of the Internet, is taking a more popular approach to a more prosaic problem --  how to re-assemble shredded documents.

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gsnmagazine.com

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) said it is offering computer scientists, “puzzle enthusiasts and anyone else who likes solving complex problems” a $50,000 prize for the best ideas in putting shredded documents back together again.

The agency said its “Shredder Challenge” is aimed at solving a nagging problem in warzones where soldiers find remnants of destroyed documents that could possibly contain important battlefield intelligence. Piecing those documents back together could be a valuable source of information that could save soldiers’ lives. Additionally, the agency said, understanding how shredded documents could be re-assembled by clever day-to-day citizens and scientists could also help the U.S. national security community, it said.  Read more

CYBER SECURITY: New Stuxnet-like Virus Hits Europe

Duqu provides the parthways for Stuxnet to do its damage //
Source: inquisitr.com

Published 24 October 2011

The dreaded Stuxnet worm, which was the first instance of a computer virus creating physical damage, may have spawned a dangerous new piece of malware; researchers at Symantec believe they have discovered a new computer virus that uses many of the same techniques in European computers  Read more

CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: Napolitano: Hackers "came close" to Shutting Down Critical Infrastructure

courtesy of:
www.ccip.mst.edu

Infrastructure protectionPublished 28 October 2011On Thursday DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano revealed that hackers have "come close" to shutting down parts of the nation's critical infrastructure; at a press conference Napolitano stated that hackers have attempted to infiltrate financial systems, transportation networks, and other key elements of U.S. critical infrastructure, making cyberattacks on these facilities one of her top concerns  Read more

HOMELAND SECURITY NEWSWIRE: Secretary Clinton Demands Libya Return Lockerbie Bomber to Prison

Published 27 October 2011

courtesy of americanglob.com

Now that the fighting in Libya has drawn to a close with the death of Muammar Qaddafi, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is pressing the new Libyan government to return the only individual convicted in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103; Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al Megrahi, was convicted and jailed in Scotland for the Lockerbie bombing which killed 259 people, mostly Americans; in 2009 Scotland released him on the grounds that he had been diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer and only had three months to live; al Megrahi returned to Libya where he has been living since; over the weekend Clinton said, "We want to see him returned to prison, preferably in Scotland, where he was serving the sentence"

TERRORISM: FBI Training Elite Deep-diving Counterterrorism unit

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Underwater terrorismFBI training elite deep-diving counterterrorism unit

Published 18 October 2011

To bolster its counterterrorism capabilities, the FBI has created an elite group of special agents trained to track terrorism underwater.
Next year the ten-member Technical Dive Team will begin searching for evidence left behind by international terrorists in waters contaminated by chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear waste.
Pointing to the 2008 attack in Mumbai, India where terrorists entered the city by boat, supervisory special agent James Tullbane, a Technical Dive Team member, said, “There have been enough scenarios recently,” to justify the creation of the special unit.  Full article

MILITARY: Man Promotes War Medic Memorial

BY JOE SEELIG

Highlands Today

Published: October 18, 2011

SEBRING - Any soldier who was assisted by a corpsman in the field or by medical staff back behind the lines may appreciate the efforts of John Vawter, past commander of VFW Post 4300, who wants to honor military medical personnel.

Vawter said Monday he is trying to find a location in Highlands County to erect a small-scale version of a bronze statue like the one for the National Medical War Memorial and Youth Center in Blue Springs, Mo., where groundbreaking is already under way.

A statue that's 1½ times life-size will eventually be sculpted in wax, cast and placed on a 30-foot round pedestal in Blue Springs.

A scale-model statue, sculpted by Lewis Lee Millett Jr., depicts Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Donald L. Ballard, HM2, U.S. Navy, who on May 16, 1968 jumped on a live grenade while aiding three wounded Marines in Vietnam.

Actually, Ballard was treating seven Marines at the time of the incident while receiving small arms fire and grenade attacks, according to the event described by the citation.  Full article

9/11 UPDATE: Why the Twin Towers Collapsed: New Theory

Just before the two skyscrapers collapsed on September 11, 2001, powerful explosions within the building could be heard, Photo: Jim Collins / AP / SCANPIX

Twin Towers attackWhy the Twin Towers collapsed: new theory

Published 22 September 2011

Materials scientist says that a mixture of water from sprinkler systems and molten aluminum from melted aircraft hulls created explosions that led to the collapse of the Twin Towers on 9/11

Just before the two New York skyscrapers collapsed on 11 September 2001, powerful explosions within the building could be heard, leading many people to believe that overheated steel beams in the building were not the cause of the collapse.

The explosions fed the conspiracy theories that someone had placed explosives inside the towers.

At an international materials technology conference in San Diego, senior scientist Christian Simensen of SINTEF Materials and Chemistry present an alternative theory, based on the physics of materials, of what happened in the towers when they were attacked by the aircraft. Siemensen believes that his theory is much more likely to reflect the actual situation than the official explanation of the collapse.

In the wake of the conference Simensen had an article published in the journal Aluminum International Today, describing his theory.  Full story