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Hi all,

These are some of the most useful links for those interested in following the current eruption in Iceland …

You can see the effect the eruption is having on air travel by looking at this screenshot from Radarvirtuel.com

Flight disruption in Europe - 15th April 2010 (click for larger image)

And a bit later on … the skies are clearing …

A bit later .....

Overviews of the area are of course available via Wikipedia …. use with care!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyjafjallajokull

Nearby Katla has been showing signs of unrest since 1999 and geologists have concerns that it might erupt in the near future. Particularly, monitoring has been intensified following the March 2010 eruption of volcano beneath the Eyjafjallajökull glacier.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katla

Webcams and Images :

There are some active webcams nearby …obviously these may be subject to seismic activity in the area!

On Katla – a live cam (appears to be down as of 19/04/10

This cam is (I think) at Hvolsvelli near the eruption, and this one is at Valahnúk

These cams are from the Icelandic Met Office in Reykjavík

I’m not quite sure where these cams at http://www.mulakot.net/myndavelar.html are sited, but they offer very large high quality inages.

High quality webcams from Vodafone Iceland.

A new Flickr group for the volcano.

Earthquake/Seismic Activity :

You can see the latest seismic activity in the area here, again at the Icelandic Met Office . Both the map and the corresponding graph are updated every five minutes.

Information on aviation disruption :

UK Met Office advisory and latest news.

Current Volcanic Ash Advisories (VAA) from London and Toulouse

BAA latest news

UK National Air Traffic advisory (NATS)

The excellent Radarvirtuel.com now shows a projection of the ash layer along with the transponder information from flights.

Ash Cloud: latest news and information from Flightglobal

Other news and discussion links :

Eruptions (Science blog and discussions)

Icelandic news in English (Icenews)

More Eyjafjallajökull links

Pprune professional pilots forum

I have just got a Galaxy Android phone from T-mobile and couldn’t get any joy with the Samsung studio. There was a clue in a forum at Phandroid about what to do …this worked for me and it seems to be a common issue – I hope this is of some use ….

(Thanks Ankit at Phandroid)

I’m on XP by the way

1. DON’T INSTALL SAMSUNG STUDIO OR DRIVER

2. Plug in phone USB

3. ‘usb connected’ shows in phone notifcation bar (grey strip at top of phone’

4. Drag strip down to fill screen – you should see a “USB connected” message.

5. Click on that message – you get an option box

6. Click on ‘Mount’ and then you should be able to access the SD card from the PC.

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John Martyn died yesterday , January 29th 2009

I was privileged to have seen the great man play a couple of times, once in the 80’s at Cheltenham with his band, and once in a sublime duo performance with Danny Thompson at the Huntingdon Hall in Worcester, which I think was the last tour he did before the amputation of his leg. Once you heard JM’s incredible guitar playing and famous slurred vocal, you couldn’t forget it. If you ever have the need to stay up late and just think with a glass of whisky, you need to play either JM’s “Solid Air” or Joni Mitchell’s “Blue”.

John was one of the players to whom the word ‘original’ truly applied. The musical world is a lot poorer now JM and his great mentor Davy Graham have left us within the space of 6 weeks.

Bless the weather that brought you to me
Curse the day you go away
Bless the weather that brought you to me
Curse the storm that takes you away

Go and have a listen and raise a glass to Johnny Too Bad.

Danny Baker’s programme from BBC London on 29th January which became a tribute to John is here for a while, and is available as a torrent here.

Or here …

Here’s John playing “Spencer The Rover” in 1977.

Rolling Stone Obituary

The Word

The military invasion of the Gaza Strip by Israeli Forces bears a direct relation to the control and ownership of strategic offshore gas reserves.

This is a war of conquest. Discovered in 2000, there are extensive gas reserves off the Gaza coastline.

Article by Michel Chossudovsky…

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=CHO20090108&articleId=11680

David MacKay, a Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge has released a new e-book on Sustainable Energy. “Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air”

It can be downloaded for free in a variety of low and high resolution formats from

http://www.withouthotair.com.

The book has a number of notable endorsers, including Sir David King, Tony Juniper and Lord Oxburgh.

Professor Mackay’s site also features a number of relevant downloadable presentations and talks.

The US election result seems to have been desired by the whole planet, and not just the US population. An extraordinary poll reveals that 87.3% of 868,144 voters from 213 countries wanted Obama to win. Of course, in 1997, we felt the same way when Tony Blair was elected …….

http://www.iftheworldcouldvote.com/results

Rob Hopkins at Transition Culture does a great job of summing up the election result.

Not everyone is happy that Obama is in….

A new report from the newly-formed UK Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security is the first multi-company alarm bell to be sounded on peak oil. It sets out a series of practical recommendations for Government, including action to grasp the significant economic and environmental opportunities from a step-change in investment in renewable energy and sustainable transport.

http://www.peakoiltaskforce.net

The Financial Times has leaked (28/10/08) the results of the International Energy Agency’s long-awaited study of the depletion profiles of the world’s 400 largest oilfields, indicating that, “Without extra investment to raise production, the natural annual rate of output decline is 9.1 per cent.”

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e5e78778-a53f-11dd-b4f5-000077b07658.html

(It should also be noted that the IEA have responded to the news of the leak)
http://www.iea.org/journalists/arch_pop.asp?MED_ARCH_ID=477

There are several Peak OIl / Oil Depletion type movies that have become staples of the PO/Transition community. Films For Action has collected several of these and seems to allow anyone to see the full versions for free. Here’s a few for starters :

The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil.
http://www.filmsforaction.com/film/?Fil … d_Peak_Oil

A Crude Awakening.
http://www.filmsforaction.com/film/?Fil … _Awakening

The End of Suburbia.
http://www.filmsforaction.com/film/?Fil … f_Suburbia

Lots of other good stuff on the same site.
http://www.filmsforaction.com/