volkswagon inventing a wood burning car, does not only help in alternative advancement in sidelining the use of gas to run a car. Is the global warming scientifically consider? Air breathtaking? NRDC do something.
Climate change is the greatest humanitarian crisis of our time, responsible for rising seas, raging storms, searing heat, ferocious fires, severe drought, and punishing floods. It threatens our health, communities, economy, and national security.
Worldwide, nations have begun taking steps to combat this growing threat, working toward an international agreement in which every country on earth plays its part. Many of the world's largest polluters have stepped up with significant commitments, amplified by efforts from cities, businesses, sports leagues, churches, and many other individuals and groups that have responded to the urgent need for climate action.
In the United States, power plants represent the single-largest source of carbon pollution, spewing two billion tons into the air each year. In response, President Obama's U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has developed the Clean Power Plan, which sets the first national limits on carbon pollution from power plants and provides states with the flexibility to meet them.
The plan represents the most important step the United States can take right now to combat climate change and help spur climate action around the globe, as world leaders look toward an important meeting in Paris this December. With nations working together to cap carbon pollution, expand renewable power, and embrace energy efficiency, we'll have a fighting chance at getting off this destructive path.
Time may be running out to fight climate change, but they're are not running out of solutions.
That for the natural reaction .
What about human health?
In a chemical reaction, the molecules of one substance break apart and join together with those of another substance to create a different compound (combination of molecules). Many chemical reactions are NON-REVERSIBLE CHANGES .You cannot turn a baked cake back into its raw ingredients.
Burning is a non-reversible chemical change. When you burn wood, the carbon in the wood reacts with oxygen in the air to create ash and smoke, and energy in the form of light and heat. This is a permanent change that cannot be undone – you cannot turn ashes back into wood.
I am not concern with reversibility here, am concern with prevention and not slumber because money speaks.
Let me coin your knowledge more.
It is as a result of a hypersensitive immune system. The B-lymphocytes in the immune system misidentify a harmless substance (an allergen) as harmful and so return back to the lymph node where they came from and change into a plasma cell. These plasma cells then produce antibodies designed to attack the allergen. In an allergic reaction the antibodies associated with it are IgE antibodies which are a type of protein (also known as immunoglobulin E). The IgE antibodies then attach themselves to mast cells.
When this happens the mast cells break open .These are located in body tissues and derived from bone marrow. These cells contain many chemicals including histamine. The histamine is then what causes the allergic symptoms. One of these symptoms is inflammation. The histamine causes this reaction by dilating the blood vessels, allowing blood to enter the area which causes swelling.
Another symptom of an allergic reaction is tightness of the chest and a shortness of breath. This is due to the fact that the histamine causes the constriction of muscle. Therefore muscle around the airways constricts causing difficulty breathing. Other symptoms can include vomiting, itching and a rash. Often, the symptoms you experience depend on the parts of the body involved and where in your body the histamine is released.
How might wood smoke cause it?
Simple! Let me give you a gist on it.
When you breathe in the smoke from wood, this can sometimes cause an allergic reaction. This could be due to a couple of factors. One of these is that in some types of wood burnt, the allergen present in the pollen on the tree is also present within the wood. These can survive combustion and therefore are within the smoke. Examples of trees this could happen with include oak, hickory and mesquite.
Another aspect of wood smoke that can cause allergic reactions is the irritants contained in it. These include nitrogen dioxide, formaldehyde, phenols and sulphur oxides. These can aggravate the respiratory system and irritate the eyes and nose and trigger an allergic reaction.
In point; Breathing air containing wood smoke can:
• reduce lung function, especially in children;
• increase severity of existing lung diseases such as asthma, emphysema, pneumonia and bronchitis;
• aggravate heart disease;
• increase susceptibility to lower respiratory diseases;
• irritate eyes, lungs, throat and sinuses;
• trigger headaches and allergies.
Long term exposure to wood smoke may lead to:
• chronic obstructive lung disease;
• chronic bronchitis;
• increased risk of cancer and genetic mutations (based on animal studies.
If such is left to exist, imagine humanity life span.
What’s in Wood Smoke?
My research as a curious scientist though a law student, feeds my curiosity with the gist that
Many individual components of wood smoke can cause health problems. These compounds include:
• Carbon monoxide - invisible and odorless; fatal in high concentrations; impairs thinking and reflexes; causes heart pain; associated with lower birth weights and increased deaths among newborns.
• Formaldehyde - causes nose and throat cancer in animals - circumstantial evidence suggests it may cause cancer in humans.
• Organic gases - includes aldehyde gases and other respiratory irritants which can interfere with lung function and can cause inflammation of the throat and sinuses, or allergic reactions.
• Nitrogen oxides - linked to hardening of the arteries, immune system damage; facilitates the spread of cancer (effects all based on animal research).
• Tiny smoke particles - can cause chemical and structural changes to human lung tissue; measured decreases in human lung function; cancer and genetic mutations clearly established in animal studies.
Smoke Particles
The tiny particles in wood smoke pose especially important health concerns. T hey are less than 10 microns across (the period at the end of this sentence is about 500 microns wide). Our bodies’ natural defenses cannot protect us from these pieces of matter. Instead, we inhale them deep into our lungs where they can become lodged. These particles can cause structural damage and chemical changes to the lung tissue, and reduce resistance to infection. Cancer-causing and toxic compounds often attach themselves to the tiny particles and hitchhike on them into the lungs. Wood stoves and fireplaces release more of these particles into the air in Washington each year than industry and motor vehicle exhaust sources combined. Air polluted with tiny particles, such as those in wood smoke, has been linked to increased deaths in London and U.S. cities where daily records of fine-particle air pollution are available. The increased death rates occur mainly among people over 65 and those suffering from lung and heart diseases. Based on this research, as many as 60,000 U.S. residents may die each year from exposure to air polluted with these particles at levels which may not even violate the current federal health standard for this kind of pollution.
Will leave you with a question for your thoughts to dance with while you are triggered with awareness of humanity.
What is the state of human going to be when volkswagon succeed to sell those car all round the world?
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-A J Broun
Student
University of Abuja
Faculty of Law
Tuesday, 3 November 2015
Friday, 25 September 2015
Row over Gayatri Devi’s estate after her death in 2009 ends with supreme court awarding assets of around £200m to Devraj Singh and Lalitya Kumari
The grandchildren of a glamorous Indian aristocrat who personified a lost era of wealth and privilege have won a lengthy legal battle to inherit her assets, following her death in 2009.
Gayatri Devi was one of the most celebrated beauties of the last century, mixing traditional palace life in the royal city of Jaipur with private planes, cocktail parties and shopping trips to London.
Her death triggered an acrimonious showdown over a fortune that Indian media estimated at between $200m and $400m (£131m-£262m), including two spectacular Jaipur palaces that now operate as luxury hotels.
She was the third of the maharajah of Jaipur’s three concurrent wives and when he died on the polo field, the title passed to the son of his first wife.
Gayatri Devi’s only son, Jagat Singh, died in 1997 and her own death 12 years later triggered a showdown between her grandchildren, Devraj Singh and Lalitya Kumari, and other descendants of the former maharajah.
On Wednesday, the supreme court upheld an earlier judgment by a lower court in favour of the pair, saying they had been deprived of their rightful share in the Jai Mahal and Rambagh palaces and other companies.
“All these years my sister and I have only been asking for our father’s shares in the family company and nothing beyond that,” said Singh in a statement after the ruling.
“Finally, I am one step further to be able to do my various duties towards my ancestral land.”
Different branches of the family still exert control over the Jaipur estate, which remained partially intact long after the system of “princely states” was dismantled following independence from Britain in 1947.
Devi, the matriarch of the clan, was once named as one of the most beautiful women on earth by fashion magazine Vogue. She was accorded a royal funeral in Jaipur following her death at the age of 90.
Dotcom partners feared legal trouble, court told
A court has heard Kim Dotcom's business partners privately expressed fears he would take the money and flee if their business ended up in legal trouble.
Kim Dotcom arrives at the court in Auckland for a preliminary hearing on Monday.
Photo: RNZ/Kim Baker Wilson
The United States is attempting to extradite Mr Dotcom, Mathias Ortmann, Bram van der Kolk and Finn Batato on copyright violation and money-laundering charges related to their file-sharing website, Megaupload.
The main extradition hearing started yesterday in Auckland after a preliminary hearing earlier in the week.
In court today, Crown lawyer Christine Gordon read out conversations Mr Ortmann and Mr van der Kolk had online, worrying that the website was vulnerable to legal action.
In 2007, they discussed their concerns about what Mr Dotcom would do if that happened.
"What if the s*** really hits the fan," Mr van der Kolk asked Mr Ortmann in a Skype message. "Would he grab the last little bit of money and take off?"
The pair also repeatedly referred to themselves as "modern-day pirates" in online conversations, Ms Gordon said.
In another conversation, they speculated the reason Megaupload had not been able to find a buyer was because the business was not completely legitimate.
"If we were a 100 percent clean site with that growth and profit, we would have sold for a nine-figure sum already," Mr Ortmann wrote to Mr van der Kolk.
In reply, Mr van der Kolk said: "We have to think of a work-around for that, otherwise we'll never cash in and we'll just end up with legal problems in a few years ... This cannot last forever, I think."
Messages to Megauploaders 'enough for extradition'
The Crown argued communication between Megaupload and its users was enough evidence to make Mr Dotcom and his co-accused eligible for extradition.
Ms Gordon told the hearing Mr Dotcom, Mr Ortmann and Mr van der Kolk personally communicated with some users of the site, who repeatedly uploaded infringing material, and paid them rewards.
She said those communications alone were enough evidence to show there was a case against the men that would meet the threshold for extradition.
The way the men interacted with some of their users showed they knew their business was largely based on infringing files, Ms Gordon said.
Megaupload paid rewards to uploaders whose files proved popular among other users - which tended to be movie, television and other copyrighted content.
That was the "big flaw" in the rewards system, Mr van der Kolk told Mr Ortmann in an email. "We are making profit off more than 90 percent infringing files."
Despite that, Megaupload continued to routinely pay uploaders who were repeat infringers, Ms Gordon said.
Judge Nevin Dawson hears a submission from Christine Gordon, who is acting for the Crown on behalf of the US.
Photo: RNZ / Kim Baker Wilson
Ms Gordon also said Megaupload defrauded copyright holders.
It allowed them to either directly delete any links they came across that led to copyright-infringing files or notify the website of infringing material, she said.
The website then sent the copyright holders a notification informing them the infringing material had been removed.
However, Megaupload only deleted the individual link, not the underlying file nor any other links that led to the same file, Ms Gordon said.
In some cases, there were dozens of links that led to the same file, leaving the illegal file intact and still easily accessible.
Wednesday, 23 September 2015
Awwww! Klint Da Drunk & Wife Celebrate 8th Year Wedding Anniversary
Comedian Klint da Drunk and his lovely wife Lilien are celebrated their 8th
wedding anniversary September 20, 2015.
The duo took to Instagram to celebrate their day with sweet words.
Klint wrote “
#togethersince2007 @prettylilien, I thank
God for a lovely, humble, beautiful and wonderful wife given to me on a platter
of gold! You gave me the two most wonderful boys, Tobi (Denzel) and Afam
(Andre). I’m most grateful. God bless you dear. You brought light into my dark
and lonely life. I bless God for giving me you! I
bless the day I found you. I love you! #anniversary #togethersince2007
#timedondeygo #ilovemyfamily
#justthetwoofus”
Lilien wrote
“Life is better with your best friend….. So I
married mine Thank you Lord for another blissful year. #TogetherForever.”
Klint tied the knot with Lilien in 2007 and they are blessed with two kids.
Congrats To Them!
wedding anniversary September 20, 2015.
The duo took to Instagram to celebrate their day with sweet words.
Klint wrote “
#togethersince2007 @prettylilien, I thank
God for a lovely, humble, beautiful and wonderful wife given to me on a platter
of gold! You gave me the two most wonderful boys, Tobi (Denzel) and Afam
(Andre). I’m most grateful. God bless you dear. You brought light into my dark
and lonely life. I bless God for giving me you! I
bless the day I found you. I love you! #anniversary #togethersince2007
#timedondeygo #ilovemyfamily
#justthetwoofus”
Lilien wrote
“Life is better with your best friend….. So I
married mine Thank you Lord for another blissful year. #TogetherForever.”
Klint tied the knot with Lilien in 2007 and they are blessed with two kids.
Congrats To Them!
Tuesday, 22 September 2015
Nigeria’s Senate President Abubakar Bukola Saraki appeared in court Tuesday morning in Abuja on criminal charges of corruption and false declaration of assets after he failed to attend trial last week. Saraki, who arrived at the Code of Conduct Tribunal with “about 50 senators and some members of the House of Representatives,” is facing a 13-count corruption charge, according to Nigerian newspaper Premium Times.
The tribunal ordered Saraki to appear before the court at 10 a.m. local time Tuesday after the embattled senate president did not show up for trial Friday, claiming his attorneys had filed an appeal against the warrant of arrest. But the tribunal argued that filing an appeal could not constitute a stay of execution of the initial order.
“While the Senate President Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki had stated and maintained that he is ready to submit himself to due process of the law on any issue concerning him, he also believes that he has an inalienable right to resort to the same judiciary for protection when he feels his fundamental rights are about to be infringed upon,” read a statement posted on the senate president’s official Facebook page Monday. “The Senate president is a law abiding citizen, and his absence from tribunal was based on legal advice he received from his counsel that it is not necessary for him to appear before the tribunal at this stage since the jurisdiction of the tribunal and the process of initiating the matter are being challenged before the federal High Court [of] Abuja. ”
Saraki – ‘I will be at the Tribunal Tomorrow, Tuesday’http://t.co/tsW8fMJVU0
— Bukola Saraki (@bukolasaraki) September 21, 2015
The 13 charges against Saraki brought by Nigeria’s Code of Conduct Bureau mostly relate to his ownership of land. Other charges refer to his transfer of $3.4 million to a bank account outside Nigeria while he was governor of Kwara state and sending 1.5 million pounds to a European account to pay for a mortgage on a London property. Saraki’s press team has fiercely dismissed the allegations of corruption and false declaration of assets as “false, incorrect and untrue.” They also said the senator did not hold any foreign bank accounts while he was governor, Reuters reported.
Nigeria’s senate president holds the third most powerful position in the West African country. Saraki, a former member of the once-ruling People's Democratic Party, easily secured the nomination in June with support from the opposition. Saraki, 52, and several other People's Democratic Party members defected to the All Progressives Congress last November as support for the then-opposition party was growing.
Former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and his People's Democratic Party lost re-election to opposition candidate Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress by a couple million votes. It was the first time an incumbent lost the presidential poll in Nigeria, Africa’s richest and most populous nation. The People's Democratic Party has lost popularity in recent years largely because of corruption allegations and the Boko Haram insurgency.
Monday, 21 September 2015
Japan arrests former Israeli ambassador’s grandson over arson attacks
Mon Sep 21, 2015 7:24AM
Izaya Noda (seen), the grandson of a former Israeli ambassador to Japan. Noda has been arrested on suspicion of involvement in recent arson attacks along Tokyo train routes. (Photo by Japan Times)
A grandson of a former Israeli ambassador to Japan has been arrested in the Asian country over involvement in a series of recent arson attacks along Tokyo train routes.
Police in Tokyo recently detained Izaya Noda, the grandson of Moshe Barter, Israel’s ambassador to Japan between 1966 and 1972, the Israeli news website Ynet reported on Sunday.
Noda, 42, has only admitted to setting an East Japan Railway Company electricity substation on fire on August 23, police said, adding, however, that he denied involvement in the other six incidents, which occurred during August and September, and disrupted train services and caused damage.
Security cameras at the electricity substation in Shinagawa ward showed a man throwing a burning object into the facility on August 23, and then leaving the scene by bicycle.
Tokyo police said they searched Noda’s home and found a bicycle similar to the one seen on the video. They also found a plastic bottle containing a flammable liquid.
Investigators quoted Noda as saying that he “could not tolerate Japan railways for consuming massive amounts of electricity.” They said he was likely involved in other arson attacks, which took place at a wide range of locations, including in Shibuya, Nakano and Meguro wards as well as the city of Kokubunji.
A photo of Noda’s Israeli ID card has been published by Japanese media outlets, indicating that he has an Israeli mother named Dorit, and a Japanese father named Tatsuya.
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