Nearly 600 days have passed since we first swooned over Belkin's Thunderbolt Express Dock all the way back in September 2011
Johnny Manziel ups Aj Mccarron Girlfriend linkedin linkedin CES 2013 joe budden
Nearly 600 days have passed since we first swooned over Belkin's Thunderbolt Express Dock all the way back in September 2011
Johnny Manziel ups Aj Mccarron Girlfriend linkedin linkedin CES 2013 joe budden
WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama joked Saturday about his plans for a radical second-term evolution from a "strapping young Muslim Socialist" to retiree golfer, all with a new hairstyle like first lady Michelle's.
Obama used this year's annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner to poke fun at himself and some of his political adversaries, asking if it was still possible to be brought down a peg after 4? years as commander-in-chief.
Entering to the rap track "All I Do Is Win" by DJ Khaled, Obama joked about how re-election would allow him to unleash a radical agenda. But then he showed a picture of himself golfing on a mock magazine cover of "Senior Leisure."
"I'm not the strapping young Muslim Socialist that I used to be," the president remarked, and then recounted his recent 2-for-22 basketball shooting performance at the White House Easter Egg hunt.
But Obama's most dramatic shift for the next four years appeared to be aesthetic. He presented a montage of shots featuring him with bangs similar to those sometimes sported by his wife.
Obama closed by noting the nation's recent tragedies in Massachusetts and Texas, praising Americans of all stripes from first responders to local journalists for serving the public good.
Saturday night's banquet not far from the White House attracted the usual assortment of stars from Hollywood and beyond. Actors Kevin Spacey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Claire Danes, who play government characters on series, were among the attendees, as was Korean entertainer Psy. Several Cabinet members, governors and members of Congress were present.
And despite coming at a somber time, nearly two weeks after the deadly Boston Marathon bombing and 10 days after a devastating fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, the president and political allies and rivals alike took the opportunity to enjoy some humor. Late-night talk-show host Conan O'Brien headlined the event.
Some of Obama's jokes came at his Republican rivals' expense. He asked that the GOP's minority outreach begin with him as a "trial run" and said he'd take his recent charm offensive with Republicans on the road, including to a book-burning event with Rep. Michele Bachmann.
Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson would have had better success getting Obama out of office if he simply offered the president $100 million to drop out of last year's race, Obama quipped.
And on the 2016 election, the president noted in self-referential irony that potential Republican candidate Sen. Marco Rubio wasn't qualified because he hasn't even served a full term in the Senate. Obama served less than four years of his six-year Senate term before he was elected president in 2008.
The gala also was an opportunity for six journalists, including Associated Press White House Correspondent Julie Pace, to be honored for their coverage of the presidency and national issues.
The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza won the Aldo Beckman Award, which recognizes excellence in the coverage of the presidency.
Pace won the Merriman Smith Award for a print journalist for coverage on deadline.
ABC's Terry Moran was the winner of the broadcast Merriman Smith Award for deadline reporting.
Reporters Jim Morris, Chris Hamby and Ronnie Greene of the Center for Public Integrity won the Edgar A. Poe Award for coverage of issues of national significance.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-jokes-radical-2nd-term-changes-023742499.html
buster posey eric holder eric holder carole king crystal renn matilda cab calloway
Paul Krugman?s got it right when it comes to the economic crisis, says Paul Krugman.
The Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist responded in a blog post Sunday to his countless critics who claim he?s choosing specific facts and ignoring others to make his case that budget-tightening policies are hurting economies around the world.
His comments come as debate rages in Washington and in Europe over whether slashing spending -- which has led to high unemployment and slowed immediate economic growth in some places -- is the best way to boost economies in the long term.
?Maybe I actually am right, and maybe the other side actually does contain a remarkable number of knaves and fools,? Krugman wrote in the post Sunday.
Krugman faces a chorus of detractors on a regular basis. The latest criticism came from Ken Langone, the CEO of investment bank Invemed Associates and co-founder of Home Depot, who argued on Bloomberg TV that Krugman?s push against focusing on closing the deficit is at odds with the realities businesses face.
Langone joins the company of the Prime Minister of Latvia, conservative Harvard historian Niall Ferguson and an entire website with the URL krugmaniswrong.com in accusing Krugman of having his facts mixed up on deficit reduction and economic growth.
For his part, the left-leaning Krugman has called deficit hawks ?remarkably foolish,? and he?s gotten the chance to double down on his criticism in the wake of revelations that one famed pro-austerity study is riddled with errors. Krugman wrote earlier this month that austerity advocates seized on the now-disgraced findings of Ken Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart because they were finding ?excuses for inflicting pain.?
?The point is not that I have an uncanny ability to be right; it?s that the other guys have an intense desire to be wrong,? Krugman wrote in his Sunday blog post. ?And they?ve achieved their goal.?
Also on HuffPost:
"; var coords = [-5, -72]; // display fb-bubble FloatingPrompt.embed(this, html, undefined, 'top', {fp_intersects:1, timeout_remove:2000,ignore_arrow: true, width:236, add_xy:coords, class_name: 'clear-overlay'}); });
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/28/paul-krugman-critics_n_3174726.html
lytro camera lytro camera andrew brietbart branson mo monkees songs rail gun harrisburg
By Bill Cotterell
TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - Public university students in Florida next year will be able to start working toward college degrees without actually going to college, under a law Governor Rick Scott signed on Monday in front of educators and business lobbyists.
The state-run University of Florida plans to start a series of online bachelor's degree programs next year, with $15 million start-up funds for 2014.
Until now full-time online education has just been available to elementary and high schools in the state.
"This bill transforms education in Florida," said House Speaker Will Weatherford, a Republican who has long been a proponent of "virtual learning" in public schools.
"Now, we will be home to the first fully accredited, online public research university institute in the nation," said Weatherford. "These bold higher-education reforms will help increase Florida's global competitiveness and ensure our students have meaningful opportunities after high school."
Colorado State University began offering online university courses in 2007, according to Kyle Henley, a university spokesman, though students must first have 13 credits from another university to be eligible.
California and Texas are also developing totally online university programs, while Illinois considered the idea and discarded it, according to a spokesman for the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU)in Washington.
State Senator Bill Montford, a Democrat from Tallahassee who is executive director of the Florida Association of School Superintendents, said, "I haven't heard of any state that's moving as aggressively as Florida can" in online education.
The online courses will cost no more than 75 percent of in-state tuition for regular classes at the University of Florida.
The online university degree programs are part of an education package pushed by Scott and the state's Republican party leadership that they say will more closely link curriculums with the needs of employers.
The state's new education law also retreats in some areas from the toughened curriculum required in 2010, the year before Scott became governor. Students can select "scholar" courses, but others can focus more on job skills and will be able to graduate without passing tougher courses in math and science.
The governor, who campaigned in 2010 on a platform of creating 700,000 jobs in seven years through a series of business-friendly tax cuts and regulatory changes, has made job-oriented education and low tuition a big part of his economic development package.
Scott last year caused a stir by saying he did not want Florida's higher education system producing anthropologists or other specialized graduates whose main job prospect is teaching others to do what they do.
Before the session, he persuaded all 28 state colleges to come up with four-year bachelor's programs costing $10,000 or less in tuition, emphasizing skills sought by employers.
(This story is corrected with name of APLU in paragraph 7 to Association from American. Inserts paragraph 6 to clarify that Colorado also offers online courses)
(Editing by David Adams and Vicki Allen)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/florida-approves-online-only-public-university-education-144118267.html
michigan football askew blue moon ann romney Paul Ryan Speech chris cooley chris cooley
By Jonathon Burch
ANKARA (Reuters) - If you are looking for one sure way to split public opinion in Turkey, just bring up the word alcohol.
That is what Turkey's often divisive prime minister did late on Friday when he pronounced that the national drink was not beer, nor the aniseed spirit raki - choice tipple of Turkey's founding father - but the non-alcoholic yoghurt drink ayran.
Given the setting of his speech - a symposium on global alcohol policy in Istanbul - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's comments appeared far from controversial, but so sensitive is the topic that the mere mention of it by the pious leader, known for his dislike of alcohol, has Turkey's secularists up in arms.
During the single-party rule of the Turkish Republic's early years by what is now the country's main - and staunchly secularist - opposition party, state promotion of alcohol amounted to propaganda, Erdogan said.
"Beer was unfortunately presented as a national drink. However, our national drink is ayran," he said, referring to the staple lunchtime refreshment of yoghurt, water and salt, usually swilled down with a meaty kebab.
"There is no way you can defend as a lifestyle the consumption of alcohol which has no benefit to society, but on the contrary inflicts harm," Erdogan continued.
No sooner had he made his remarks, broadcast live on television, than social media lit up with derisive comments symptomatic of the gaping divide between Turkey's conservative Muslims on the one hand and secularists on the other.
"It's true, all of you drink ayran with your pasta inside your mosques," read one comment directed at Erdogan's official Twitter account.
"We take example from our FOREFATHER who drank our National Drink: raki," the message continued, referring to Turkey's founder, soldier-statesman Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who was often photographed with a glass of the anisette spirit in hand.
"Erdogan, will you do a shot of ayran with me?" taunted another user on Twitter, while others lamented the prime minister's intrusion into their lives: "What's it to you what the nation drinks? You go drink ayran. Leave me alone."
SECULAR UNEASE
Behind the jibes lies a deeper unease among Erdogan's opponents who say his government, which has its roots in political Islam, is eroding the secular foundation of modern Turkey, not least through its policies on alcohol.
Erdogan's government has imposed some of the highest consumption taxes on alcohol in the world, and under its tenure an increasing number of municipalities have imposed restrictions on drinking in public as well as on national advertising.
Most recently it banned alcohol sales on all domestic and some international flights of its national carrier.
The government says it is not attempting to interfere in people's lives and is simply trying to bring the country up to European norms by controlling alcohol sales and protecting the younger generation as it negotiates to enter the European Union.
But unlike Western countries, which also impose restrictions, Turkey does not have an alcohol problem. Only six percent of Turkish households consumed alcoholic drinks in 2008, down from eight percent in 2003, according to the Betam research centre at Istanbul's Bahcesehir University.
For many Turks it is simply the prime minister's authoritarian style they have an issue with. Often brusque in manner, Erdogan can come across as a stern father, also lecturing people on the dangers of cigarettes and even suggesting how many children families should have.
But in a country where Erdogan has dominated politics virtually unchallenged for the past decade, his word is final. Shares in Turkey's top listed dairy producer Pinar Sut, which makes ayran, rose 3 percent shortly after Erdogan's remarks.
(Writing by Jonathon Burch; editing by Mike Collett-White)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/turkeys-leader-hits-nerve-over-countrys-national-drink-115036245.html
kareem abdul jabbar miramonte elementary school mark jenkins super bowl commercials 2012 mia amar e stoudemire m.i.a.
A big thanks to everyone who participated in our Administrative Professionals Week celebration! We're delighted we could give you a little something here and there as a tribute to everything you do. The giveaways that we offered to celebrate this special week are still available:
Below are the winning responses?and just a few of our other favorites?to our Tuesday survey! The winners will each receive a $25 American Express gift card.
Question #1. If you were granted one superpower to help you do your job better on a day-to-day basis, what would it be, and why?
The runners-up:
"Wonder Woman's lasso of truth, that way they can tell me what they want the first time around."
"My choice for superpower would be ultrasonic hearing. So much ...(register to read more)
To read the rest of this article you must first register with your email address.
jon bon jovi jon bon jovi Kliff Kingsbury Amish Mafia Dave Grohl 121212 Cal State Fullerton
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ? Roughly three quarters of the 175 South Koreans still at a shuttered factory park in North Korea are scheduled to return Saturday after Seoul decided to withdraw them over Pyongyang's rejection of its demand for talks on the last symbol of inter-Korean cooperation, the government said.
The industrial complex in the border city of Kaesong bustled with more than 53,000 North Korean workers and 800 South Korean managers before Pyongyang pulled its entire work force out and banned South Koreans from entering it earlier this month.
The park, the biggest employer in Kaesong with a population of 200,000 according to North Korean officials, is the most significant casualty in the recent deterioration of ties between the Koreas. Operating with South Korean know-how and technology and with cheap labor from North Korea since 2004, it has weathered past cycles of hostility between the rivals, including two attacks blamed on North Korea in 2010 that killed 50 South Koreans.
On Thursday, Seoul issued a Friday deadline for North Korea to respond to its call for talks because it was worried about its workers not having access to food and medicine. North Korea hasn't allowed South Korea to send supplies to its managers in Kaesong since the ban.
Just hours after Pyongyang dismissed Seoul's demand for talks as "deceptive," Ryoo Kihl-jae, South Korea's top official on relations with North Korea, said Friday in a televised statement his government decided to pull all the remaining South Koreans in Kaesong.
"We've made the inevitable decision to bring back all the remaining personnel in Kaesong for the protection of our people as their difficulties continue to grow," Unification Minister Ryoo said, urging the North to protect the property of South Korean companies at Kaesong and ensure the safe return of South Koreans home.
His ministry said later Friday in a text message that 127 of the remaining South Koreans in Kaesong would return Saturday. The remaining workers are expected to leave Kaesong on Sunday.
In Friday's statement, a spokesman for the North's powerful National Defense Commission promised the workers' safety if they withdrew, while lashing out at Seoul over ongoing U.S.-South Korean military drills and the spreading of anti-North Korea leaflets at the border as proof of Seoul's insincerity.
"If they are truly worried about the lives of South Korean personnel in the (complex), they may withdraw all of them to the south side where there are stockpiles of food and raw materials and sound medical conditions," said the statement carried by official media.
"If the South's puppet group looks away from reality and pursues the worsening of the situation, we will be compelled to first take final and decisive grave measures," it said.
Impoverished North Korea has objected to views in South Korea that the Kaesong park is a source of badly needed hard currency. South Korean companies paid salaries to North Korean workers averaging $127 a month, according to South Korea's government. That is less than one-sixteenth of the average salary of South Korean manufacturer workers.
The complex, conceived following the historic 2000 summit between late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and late South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, broke ground in 2003. The plan was for South Korean firms to build 500 factories as part of a pledge to help develop North Korea's economy, Pak Chol Su, vice director of the General Bureau for Central Guidance, which manages Kaesong, told the Associated Press in September.
The statements on Kaesong this week follow what had been something of a lull after a weeks-long tirade of warlike North Korean rhetoric that included threats of nuclear war and missile strikes. Tension rose as Seoul responded with its own tough language to Pyongyang's outburst, which was unusually violent, even by the standards of the already hostile relationship between the Koreas.
"This is a war of pride between the Koreas, but they are conducting it while leaving some room for talks," Lee Hochul, a political science professor at Incheon National University in South Korea, said, adding neither side is mentioning a permanent shutdown of the industrial complex.
Meanwhile, North Korea said Saturday it will soon put a detained American on trial for allegedly trying to overthrow the government, further complicating its already tense relations with the United States. Earlier in Washington, Republican and Democratic lawmakers introduced a bill calling for the punishment of companies, banks and governments that engage in illicit dealings with North Korea. Pyongyang has already come under a series of U.N. and U.S. sanctions for its three nuclear tests since 2006, including the latest in February.
In South Korea, regular U.S.-South Korean military drills, which Pyongyang complained bitterly about, are set to end Tuesday.
"Even at this moment, South Korea is ramping up the intensity of coastal landing drills with the United States in the east, driving the already tense situation to a point of explosion," North Korea said in its statement, complaining about alleged South Korean military plans in the event the North held the Kaesong managers hostage.
__
AP writer Youkyung Lee contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/majority-skoreans-nkorean-factory-return-035959799.html
jackie robinson Coachella 2013 Scary Movie 5 MTV Movie Awards 2013 masters masters leaderboard Psy Gentleman
'Millions and millions and millions of kids listen to hip-hop and don't blow up bombs,' rapper/actor tells MTV News.
By Rob Markman
Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1706437/boston-bombings-slaine-hip-hop.jhtml
v for vendetta Voting Locations atlanta falcons voting hours election results Doug Martin Barack Obama & Joe Biden
Director Michael Bay trades in the Transformers for body builders in his latest (and definitely not greatest), Pain & Gain. The movie is based on the morbidly outlandish true story of the Sun Gym Gang, headed by Miami personal trainer Daniel Lugo (Mark Wahlberg). Obsessed with the American Dream but sick of working hard while catering to the rich and famous, Daniel hatches a plan to capture and extort one of his wealthy clients (Tony Shalhoub). The extraordinary real details of the case (think explosions, barbecued body parts, and a stripper who believes she's been invited to join the CIA) are bizarre and fascinating. It's a shame the movie is so overloaded with silly, gratuitous slow-motion shots and over-the-top action sequences that the style overshadows the story.
The film takes place in the early '90s in Miami, and the vibrant colors reflect the era but not the dark story that Pain & Gain is telling. When manipulative Daniel convinces ex-addict Paul (Dwayne Johnson) and roided-out pal Adrian (Anthony Mackie) to help him with his plan, the ensuing disaster is gruesome, dark, and depressing. What nobody ever told Daniel is that to achieve success, you have to be smart as well as a hard worker. (Wahlberg does however, look amazing, even giving a tongue-in-cheek shout-out to his modeling days when he sports Calvin Klein briefs in one scene.) The movie could have ended several times before it does, but it just keeps going, as the details get progressively sloppier and the plot holes keep piling up. Get more of my thoughts on Pain & Gain after the jump.
Bay may be a master of action, but here it feels like he's taking on source material that requires a more delicate touch and trying to make it into a high-octane action-fest. Pain & Gain struggles to find its tone, and its combination of action, drama, and humor don't blend seamlessly. Bay also isn't known for being PC, and this movie is unsurprisingly full of offensive comments as well the obligatory clueless hot girl. On the positive side, Rebel Wilson is a crude delight as Adrian's love interest-turned-wife and Ed Harris is refreshing as a retired detective.
Some of the gang's amateurish hijinks are funny (their first kidnapping attempts ends with their fleeing the premises when they realize he's hosting Shabbat dinner), but the overall execution of the story fails. Bay takes an already insane story and injects it with action scenes on steroids, which is precisely what it doesn't need. The result is a movie that's loud, boisterous, and ? like Daniel himself ? seems to be having an identity crisis.
Source: http://www.buzzsugar.com/Pain-Gain-Movie-Review-29816491
aladdin black forest ufc 144 fight card ufc 144 results acura nsx all star weekend 2012 giada de laurentiis
By Stephanie Nebehay
GENEVA (Reuters) - Iran is ready to resume talks with world powers on its disputed nuclear program and awaits word from the European Union on timing and details, Iran's deputy nuclear negotiator said on Thursday.
Ali Bagheri, in an interview with Reuters in Geneva, said Iran needed 20 percent-enriched uranium for its Tehran research reactor and four others being built, and was continuing to convert some of its stockpile into reactor fuel.
"We are waiting for Lady Ashton to call Dr. Jalili, and Dr. Jalili is obviously ready to take the call," Bagheri said.
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton oversees diplomatic contacts with Iran on behalf of the the United States, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany. Saeed Jalili is Iran's chief negotiator.
"We are waiting to see whether Lady Ashton's response is going to cover the time and venue of another round of negotiations, or will she limit her response to just discussing the substantive side of things," Bagheri said.
In Brussels, a spokesman for Ashton said she had consulted with foreign ministers on how to move forward the process. "Arrangements for a phone call with Dr. Jalili have already been made in order to discuss next steps," Michael Mann said.
The six powers and Iran failed in talks in the Kazakh capital Almaty this month to end the deadlock in a decade-old dispute over Tehran's nuclear program, prolonging a standoff that could yet spiral into a new Middle East war.
At those talks, the six asked Iran to suspend its most sensitive uranium-enrichment work in return for modest relief from international sanctions, an offer Tehran did not accept.
Iran's presidential election is set for June 14, leading to speculation on whether the next round of talks will take place before the poll. "We are ready to continue with the talks ... We have no limits as far as time is concerned," Bagheri said.
Israel, which has long hinted at possible air strikes to deny its arch-foe any means to make a nuclear bomb, suggested this week it would be patient before taking any military action.
Iran says its nuclear work is entirely peaceful and that it is only refining uranium to power a planned network of nuclear energy plants and for medical purposes. Critics accuse it of covertly seeking the means to produce nuclear weapons.
"NO CAUSE FOR CONCERN"
Bagheri, referring to the U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said: "I need to point out the Islamic Republic of Iran uranium enrichment activities to the level of 20 percent is under strict agency monitoring. Obviously activities that are being monitored by the agency are no cause for concern."
An IAEA report in February said Iran had in December resumed converting to oxide powder some of the uranium it has enriched to 20 percent fissile concentration, for the production of reactor fuel.
That helped restrain the growth of Iran's higher-grade uranium stockpile, a development that could buy more time for diplomacy.
In a potentially encouraging sign for the powers, Bagheri said on Thursday this conversion was continuing.
"We produce 20 percent uranium to provide fuel for Tehran's research reactor, also four other reactors in four different parts of Iran which are under construction. With this in mind, plans have been drawn up to convert 20 percent uranium to 20 percent oxide," Bagheri said.
"This is very much going according to plan. This activity is ongoing," he added.
The IAEA said on Tuesday it would hold a meeting with Iran on May 15 aimed at enabling its inspectors to resume a stalled investigation into suspected nuclear bomb research, the 10th round of talks since early 2012.
Bagheri said Iran was already cooperating fully with the IAEA but was willing to discuss requests "which go beyond our obligations" under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
"We are very much hoping in this round of talks between my country and the agency, we no longer have such meddling and sabotaging of talks," he said.
"Experience tells us that usually certain Western parties, including the U.S., whenever we are close to striking a bargain, reaching an agreement, they interfere."
The IAEA-Iran talks are separate from, but have an important bearing on, the negotiations between Tehran and world powers. Iran's refusal to curb sensitive nuclear activity with both civilian and military applications and its lack of openness with IAEA inspectors have drawn U.N. and Western sanctions.
"Once we reach an agreement with the agency, we also expect the (six powers), because of such cooperation with the agency which goes well beyond our obligations, to lift a number of sanctions. Unilateral sanctions which are illegal," Bagheri said.
(Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; additional reporting by Fredrik Dahl in Vienna and Justyna Pawlak in Brussels; editing by Andrew Roche)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/iran-ready-resume-talks-world-powers-awaits-call-144538391.html
black and tan dwight howard trade ncaa bracket 2012 kyle orton kyle orton 2012 ncaa bracket john carlson
The April full moon will pass through Earth's shadow in a partial lunar eclipse on Thursday (April 25). While the lunar event won't be visible for U.S. stargazers, moon fans can still catch the sight live online in two free webcasts.
The?lunar eclipse on Thursday will mark the first eclipse of any kind in 2013, and by sheer cosmic coincidence it will occur during the April full moon, which is also known as the "Pink" Full Moon. It is the first, and likely the best, of three lunar eclipses occurring this year.
You can watch the partial lunar eclipse live on SPACE.com here courtesy of webcasts provided by the U.S-based Slooh Space Camera and Italy's Virtual Telescope Project. NOTE: Both events depend on good weather at the observing sites. The entire lunar eclipse will be visible to the unaided eye for observers in Eastern Europe, Africa, Central Asia and Western Australia. [How to Photograph Lunar Eclipses (Photo Guide)]
"It will be a great event!" Gianluca Masi, an astrophysicist with the Bellatrix Astronomical Observatory who runs the Virtual Telescope Project in Ceccano, Italy, told SPACE.com.
The first of the two webcasts will be provided by the Slooh Space Camera and begins at 3 p.m. EDT (1900 GMT). Slooh's broadcast team will be joined by solar scientist Lucie Green of the Mullard Space Science Laboratory in the United Kingdom, and feature views from the company's observatory on the Canary Islands, off the west coast of Africa. The webcast can also be accessed directly at the Slooh website: http://www.slooh.com
The Virtual Telescope Project webcast in Italy will begin shortly after the Slooh event at 3:30 p.m. EDT (1930 GMT). It will be carried live on SPACE.com as well, and can be accessed directly here: http://www.virtualtelescope.eu/webtv/
Lunar eclipses occur when the moon, Earth and sun align, with the moon positioned on the opposite side of the Earth from the sun.
Thursday's lunar eclipse may be the best lunar eclipse of 2013, but will not be as impressive as stunning total lunar eclipse, in which the entire moon is obscured by Earth's shadow. During total lunar eclipses, the moon can take on a blood-red hue due to light refracted by the Earth's atmosphere.
"This will not be a spectacular event, as the moon will enter only marginally the Earth?s shadow, but it will be well worth a look," Virtual Telescope officials said in a statement.
The other two lunar eclipses this year will occur on May 25 and Oct. 18. Both of those events are so-called "penumbral" lunar eclipses because the moon will only pass through the outer edge, or penumbra, of Earth's shadow.
In addition to following Thursday's lunar eclipse in online webcasts, Slooh has launched a new iPad app to make celestial events more accessible. The Slooh iPad App is available via iTunes, officials said.
"The free Slooh iPad app is a great way for individuals to experience Slooh's broadcasts and understand how the night sky works," Slooh President Patrick Paolucci said in a statement.
In addition to the lunar eclipses of 2013, there are also two solar eclipses to for stargazers to look forward to.
Next month, on May 25, the moon pass between the Earth and sun to create an annular, or "ring of fire" solar eclipse. That event will be visible from parts of Western Australia, eastern Papua New Guinea and several other island locations in the southern Pacific Ocean.
A rare hybrid solar eclipse, in which an annular eclipse transitions into a total solar eclipse depending on where a viewer is observing from, will occur on Nov. 3 and be primarily visible along a thin corridor that begins in the northern Atlantic Ocean and crosses to equatorial Africa, according to eclipse expert Fred Espenak at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
Editor's note:?If you live in the observing area of Thursday's lunar eclipse and snap an amazing picture of the moon that?you'd like to share for a possible story or image?gallery, send photos, comments and your name and location to managing editor Tariq Malik at?spacephotos@space.com.
Email Tariq Malik at tmalik@space.com or follow him?@tariqjmalik?and?Google+.?Follow us?@Spacedotcom,?Facebook?and?Google+. Original article on SPACE.com.
Copyright 2013 SPACE.com, a TechMediaNetwork company. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.Source: http://news.yahoo.com/partial-lunar-eclipse-occurs-thursday-watch-live-online-222131911.html
Amy Weber Happy Halloween! Star Wars Episode 7 jfk airport faith hill metro north taco bell
REDDING, Calif. (AP) ? A Northern California grocery store owner is trying to profit from a suspected thief's botched burglary attempt that was caught on video and went viral.
Footage shows the man breaking the Redding store's window last month and tripping twice as he ran away.
Now store owner Kent Pfrimmer has turned it into a television commercial for his business, Kent's Meats and Groceries.
The Record Searchlight of Redding reports (http://bit.ly/11CzlcU ) that the ad for the store's pastrami features footage of the suspect throwing something at the store's window. The sound of shattering glass can be heard before pastrami appears on camera, followed by the voice-over: "So good, some people will do just about anything to get more."
A call to Redding police to check on the investigation was not immediately returned.
Associated Presssuper bowl recipes planned parenthood kobayashi margaret sanger paul george eddie long ufc 143 weigh ins
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) ? Slain Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier was remembered Wednesday for his dedication to law enforcement and his love of people as thousands gathered at a campus memorial.
Vice President Joe Biden joined students, faculty and staff, and law enforcement officials from across the nation at Briggs Field for the service to honor an officer who was already well-respected by his colleagues and superiors, and popular with students after little more than a year on campus
Collier was fatally shot on April 18, three days after the Boston Marathon bombings that killed three people. Authorities say he was shot by brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was charged Monday in his hospital room, where he is in fair condition with a gunshot wound to the throat suffered during his attempted getaway. His brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan, died Friday after a gunbattle with police.
"My heart goes out to you," Biden told Collier's family. "I hope you find some solace in this time of extreme grief."
Biden called the bothers suspected in the bombings and Collier's killing "two twisted, perverted, cowardly, knock-off jihadis"
He said he is constantly asked the question of why terrorists do what they do against the U.S.
"I've come to conclusion they do it to instill fear," Biden said. "To have us, in the name of our safety and security, jettison what we value most in the world, our open society, our system of justice that guarantees freedom. ... Our transparency; that's their target.
"It infuriates them that we refuse to bend, refuse to change, refuse to bend to fear."
Collier's casket was positioned in front of the thousands who gathered on a bright, sunny spring day. Music of bagpipes echoed through the field and a large American flag, suspended high about the crowd between two fire department ladder trucks, flapped slowly in the breeze.
Boston native James Taylor sang "The Water is Wide" and led a sing-along during "Shower the People."
Biden told the Colliers that no child should predecease their parents, and that better times are ahead.
"The moment will come ... when the memory of Sean is triggered and you know it's going to be OK," Biden said. "When the first instinct is to get a smile on your lips before a tear to your eye."
Andrew Collier said his 26-year-old brother would have loved everything about the day, including the bagpipes and the American flag.
"He was born to be a police officer and lived out his dream," Andrew Collier said.
MIT President L. Rafael Reif told those gathered that Collier made countless friends on campus.
"Sean Collier didn't have a job at MIT, he had a life at MIT," Reif said. "In just 15 months, he built a life with us. He touched people across our community."
Campus Police Chief John DiFava acknowledged the risk that accompanied the position of police officer, but questioned whether the risk of a job in law enforcement needed to come with such devastation.
"Sean left a lot behind," DiFava said. "He left us a lesson: Do it right!
"If you want to cherish his memory, remember to do it right," he said.
State police said between 4,000 and 5,000 attended the service. The line of mourners stretched for about a half mile at MIT ahead of the service. They had to make their way through tight security, including metal detectors and bomb-sniffing dogs ahead of the service.
"He is the one of the nicest people that I've ever met," said Kelly Daumit, 25, of Seattle, an engineering student at MIT who had gone on hikes with Collier as part of the MIT Outing Club. "Everything people are saying about him is completely genuine; it's not because of what happened."
MIT employee Larry Clark said he had only talked to Collier a couple of times but wanted to pay his respects.
"It's very tough. It's still a shock," he said.
Bagpipers played "Amazing Grace" as Collier's casket was carried from the service, and there was a fly-by with three helicopters over the campus.
A funeral was held for the officer on Tuesday.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/slain-mit-officer-memorialized-campus-163649349.html
Jael Strauss Alison Pill Sam Bacile sprint britney spears At&t Wireless 9/11
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ? A group of foreign civilians captured in eastern Afghanistan when their helicopter made an emergency landing are in good health, the Taliban said on Tuesday, as increased violence was reported around the country.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid told The Associated Press that the 11 captives were "being investigated," and denied reports that negotiations were underway for their release.
"They are healthy and in a safe place," Mujahid said. "A primary investigation has been started to find out who these people are."
The civilians have been tentatively identified as eight Turks, an Afghan translator and two pilots ? one from Russia and the other from Kyrgyzstan. They were captured by insurgents on Sunday after their civilian cargo helicopter had to land in a remote part of eastern Logar province because of bad weather.
Although the Turkish government has not said what the Turks were doing in Afghanistan, it's believed that they were working for a construction company.
Logar Deputy Police Chief Rais Khan Abdul Rahimzai said local elders had started negotiations to see if the Taliban would release the men, but Mujahid said there were no talks.
"I am rejecting that. Before the end of the investigation there is no negotiation," Mujahid said.
The crisis began when the civilian transport aircraft was forced down in strong winds and heavy rain in the village of Dahra Mangal in the Azra district of Logar province, southeast of Kabul. The area is heavily influenced by insurgents.
The MI-8 helicopter went down in a ravine in the densely forested region, known for narrow gorges and rugged mountains, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the Pakistan border.
Afghan police who tried to get to the scene were forced back by insurgent gunfire.
Afghan security forces believe the foreigners have been taken to neighboring Nangarhar province, which borders lawless tribal areas in Pakistan where insurgents have hideouts.
Although the capture or kidnapping of foreigners is not uncommon in Afghanistan, large-scale captures of foreigners are rare.
The last such instance was in July 2007, when the Taliban abducted 23 South Korean church volunteers as they traveled by bus along a dangerous road in southern Afghanistan. The militants killed two men soon after taking them and gradually released the remaining captives during the next month.
Also on Tuesday, NATO said two of its service members were killed in an insurgent attack in eastern Afghanistan. It provided no other details. Their deaths bring the total of foreign forces killed in April to eight; 34 have been killed since the start of the year.
April already has been the deadliest month this year for security forces and Afghan and foreign civilians as the U.S. and other countries prepare to end their combat mission by the end of next year. According to an Associated Press tally, about 238 people ? including civilians, foreign troops and Afghan security forces ? have been killed in violence around the nation this month.
Five people were killed on Tuesday in northern Faryab province, including a local prosecutor, his wife and three associates, provincial spokesman Jaweed Didar said. One of the gunmen also died in an exchange of gunfire, he added.
In southern Kandahar, nine civilian de-miners were captured by insurgents and negotiations were underway for their release, said provincial spokesman Javeed Faisal. The men were being driven back from a minefield on Sunday when they were captured, he said. Afghanistan has a legacy of land mines going back decades and remains one of the most heavily mined countries in the world.
___
AP writers Mirwais Khan in Kandahar and Amir Shah in Kabul contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/taliban-foreign-prisoners-good-health-114652590.html
white sox chuck colson ufc 145 results orrin hatch marlon byrd charles colson humber
JERUSALEM (AP) ? U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Tuesday that the U.S. and Israel need to ensure that their alliance remains close, as Mideast security challenges grow more complicated.
"This is a difficult and dangerous time," Hagel said before starting a closed-door meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "This is a time when friends and allies must remain close, closer than ever."
In his remarks, Netanyahu thanked the Obama administration for deepening ties over the past four years. He said the U.S. and Israel's shared interests and values are especially challenged by "the arming of terrorist groups by Iran with sophisticated weapons, and equally, Iran's attempt to arm itself with nuclear weapons.
"This is a challenge that Israel cannot accept, and as you and President Obama have repeatedly said, Israel must be able to defend itself, by itself, against any threat," Netanyahu said.
On Monday, Hagel was asked whether he believes it would be advisable for Israel to attack Iran on its own.
"That calculation has to be made by" Israel, he replied after noting, "Israel is a sovereign nation; every sovereign nation has a right to defend itself."
Hagel did not mention a concern that U.S. officials have voiced in the past ? namely, that an Israeli strike would run the risk of igniting a wider war that could draw in the United States.
Hagel wrapped up his three-day trip to Israel by visiting an special forces unit that trains military dogs to find hidden explosives and weapons. He mingled with the soldiers and watched a brief demonstration of the dogs' skills.
The Pentagon chief then headed to Jordan to consult with government officials. Later he was to fly to Saudi Arabia.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/hagel-emphasizes-close-us-israel-ties-071241935--politics.html
halo 4 jewel san francisco earthquake san francisco earthquake terminator salvation terminator salvation jarhead
By Alan Mozes
HealthDay Reporter
TUESDAY, April 23 (HealthDay News) ? The United States appears to be in the throes of a prescription drug abuse crisis among teens, with a new survey showing that 24 percent of high school students ? more than 5 million kids ? have abused these medications.
That?s a 33 percent increase from 2008, the survey authors noted. They said that 13 percent of teens acknowledged having experimented at least once with either Ritalin or Adderall (normally prescribed for the treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD) that was not prescribed for them.
What?s more, 20 percent of teens who admit they have abused prescription drugs said their first experience doing so was before the age of 14, with 27 percent mistakenly believing that prescription drug abuse is safer than ?street drugs,? such as cocaine or ecstasy.
Compounding the problem: The parents surveyed seemed to share in this misperception, with almost one-third buying into the notion that Ritalin or Adderall can boost a child?s school performance even if the child is not diagnosed with ADHD.
The findings stem from a nationally representative poll launched in 2012 by The Partnership at Drugfree.org, in conjunction with the MetLife Foundation. The survey involved nearly 3,900 teens currently enrolled in grades 9 through 12 at public, private and parochial schools, along with more than 800 parents who participated in at-home interviews.
?From my perspective, one way to look at this is that we?ve got a real public health crisis,? said Steve Pasierb, president and CEO at the Partnership organization. ?And it?s not getting better. In fact, it?s getting deeper and more complex,? he said.
?The key here is that kids and often their parents are buying into the myth and misunderstanding that prescription drug abuse is a safer way to get high, a safer alternative to street drugs, and that they can control it,? Pasierb continued. ?And it?s very important to note that, on this, kids and parents are in the same place. Kids say that they don?t think that their parents are going to be upset if they know about this, and parents are essentially saying the same thing,? he pointed out.
?Now, if cocaine or heroin use was going up the way prescription drug use is parents would certainly be freaking out,? Pasierb added. ?And they should be now, because prescription drug abuse is no better.?
Among the findings: one-third of teens think there?s nothing particularly wrong with the notion of using prescription medications that were never prescribed for them to tackle a specific injury or illness, with almost one-quarter believing that their parents are more concerned about street drug use than the misuse of prescription drugs.
Sixteen percent of parents also said they think prescription drugs are less dangerous than street drugs.
Perhaps this explains another survey finding: While about four in five teens said they had discussed both alcohol and marijuana use with their parents and almost one-third said they had talked with them about crack/cocaine, only between 14 percent and 16 percent said that the topic of painkiller/prescription drug abuse had ever come up.
This was true despite the fact that a parent?s medicine cabinet is the repository for 56 percent of the prescription meds teens say they are abusing, the poll found, with nearly half of parents acknowledging that there are no barriers to access at home.
Indeed, 20 percent of parents actually admitted to willfully giving their teen a prescription med that they had on hand, for which their child had no prescription.
That said, Pasierb stressed that the goal of the survey was to draw needed attention to the misconceptions that are at the heart of a rapidly growing problem.
?We know that kids who start abusing when they are very young are much more likely to have an addiction problem as adults,? he said. ?So, parents need to intervene. They need to control supply and demand by locking up their medicine cabinets and throwing out old expired drugs. And they need to constantly weigh in, starting at very young age, even if they think they have the greatest kid in the world. They need to tell their child about the risks, and make clear how upset they will be if their child abuses these drugs.?
One parent speaks from experience.
?I had to learn to set real rules for our home,? acknowledged Kat Carnes, a single mom from Houston who has been helping her teenage daughter struggle with an addiction problem that involved a mix of alcohol, street drugs (such as ketamine, ecstasy and cocaine), and prescription meds (including antidepressants).
?She was in 8th grade when all this happened,? Carnes recalled. ?[But] as I learned more, I discovered that she had been using for a couple of years already, especially during her 7th-grade year, when I was battling breast cancer and not able to focus as closely on her as I probably should have.?
Yet, Carnes said the mistakes she made as a parent who initially overlooked her child?s growing addiction problem were ?pretty common,? despite the fact that she is well-versed in medicine and health issues, through her work as a scientific editor and a manager at a major local cancer center.
?I just sort of counted on her to do the right things,? Carnes added, ?and when she didn?t I either tried to minimize it or just hid from it because I didn?t know what to do.?
Carnes explained that her daughter has now been sober for almost 22 months, with the assistance of a local drug abuse 12-step program and the camaraderie of other families struggling with teen drug abuse. Although careful to describe her daughter?s recovery as an ongoing ?process,? she suggests that much of the progress has been rooted in open and honest communications.
?We hold each other accountable,? said Carnes, ?for our words and actions.?
More information
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will host National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day this Saturday, where residents can drop off unused or expired prescription drugs at collection sites around the country.
Source: http://news.health.com/2013/04/23/prescription-drug-abuse-up-among-u-s-teens-survey/
Opening ceremony London 2012 Olympics Schedule 2012 Olympic Medal Count 2012 Olympics 2012 Olympic Schedule 2012 NBC Olympics NBC Olympics schedule
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Sweeping immigration legislation would improve U.S. security by helping authorities to know who is in the country, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Tuesday, as supporters of an immigration overhaul marshaled arguments against opponents trying to slow it down in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings.
Testifying at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Napolitano said a wide-ranging bill circulating in Congress devotes more money to securing the border, requires employers to verify their workers' identity and implements new systems to track people as they leave the country ? something that might have helped flag when one of the suspected Boston bombers traveled to Russia last year. Of great importance, Napolitano said, is the eventual path to citizenship for the 11 million immigrants here illegally.
Republicans have criticized such a path as a divisive proposal that rewards law-breakers. But Napolitano said it is a fundamental tool to help law enforcement authorities know who is here.
"One of the real significant improvements made by this bill is to bring people out of the shadows," she said. "We know who they are. We know where they are. And by the way, from a police perspective, once these people know that every time they interact with law enforcement they won't be subject to removal, it will help with the reporting of crimes, the willingness to be a witness and so forth."
Napolitano's support for legislation that's a top second-term priority for President Barack Obama was no surprise. While in the past she has criticized the idea of making a path to citizenship conditional on accomplishing border security goals first ? as the new bill does ? Napolitano didn't repeat that criticism Tuesday. Instead she said that the border security "triggers" in the bill are achievable, suggesting they wouldn't loom as major impediments to citizenship.
Napolitano's testimony came as last week's Boston Marathon bombings have clouded the introduction of the landmark immigration legislation, with Republicans suggesting it should be slowed down or revisited until more is known about any loopholes in the immigration system that the Boston bombers may have exploited, or national security flaws that should be addressed in the bill.
An author of the bill, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., was considering an amendment to require tougher background checks for certain immigrants deemed to pose a higher risk, such as those seeking asylum, an aide said late Tuesday.
But so far there's no indication the two suspected bombers, brothers of Chechen origin, violated U.S. immigration laws. They came legally about a decade ago when their family sought asylum, and both became legal permanent residents while one eventually attained U.S. citizenship.
Napolitano defended the asylum system now in place, describing an extensive process with multiple screenings.
She said any asylum applicant is thoroughly interviewed and vetted, run through databases, fingerprinted and vetted again when they become eligible for a green card and ultimately citizenship.
Napolitano also said the process has improved in the past four years, and she said the new immigration bill would build on that.
But the top committee Republican, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, raised concerns because the bill eliminates a requirement that people apply for asylum within a year of arriving in the country, and allows new applications from those whose cases have been unsuccessful because they didn't comply with the one-year bar to reapply. Napolitano said that nothing in the bill would weaken asylum procedures.
Authors of the bill, including Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., have said they're open to changes in the legislation should any issues come to light in the wake of the Boston situation.
So far, though, there have been no obvious flaws exposed in the immigration system by the Boston events that aren't already addressed in the bill. The FBI apparently missed a trip to Russia by one of the suspected Boston bombers last year because his name was misspelled on a travel document, but that would be fixed in the bill because passports would be swiped electronically, not entered manually as now happens, Schumer said.
Napolitano disclosed Tuesday that despite the misspelling, the Homeland Security Department had known of the Russia trip because of "redundancies" in the system, but she praised the new electronic entry-exist system proposed in the bill. "It really does a good job of getting human error, to the extent it exists, out of the process," she said.
Schumer and three other authors of the immigration bill sit on the Judiciary Committee, and they repeatedly elicited Napolitano's praise for security enhancements in the bill. She found less to agree on with some Republicans on the panel, who questioned her claims that border security had already been improved under the Obama administration and that the bill would do even more.
"I'm concerned that the bill we're discussing repeats the mistakes of the past and won't secure the border and stop the flow of illegal migration," said Grassley. He contended that the border security provisions in the bill don't amount to much because millions would get a provisional legal status once the Homeland Security Department has completed plans aimed at enhancing border security and fencing, even if the plans are flawed or inadequate.
"If enacted today, the bill would provide no pressure on this secretary or even any future secretary to secure the borders," Grassley contended.
___
Follow Erica Werner on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ericawerner
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/napolitano-immigration-bill-boost-security-180212839--politics.html
paul pierce pope joan pope joan strikeforce tate vs rousey strawberry festival knicks the monkees
2299 articles
Milwaukee Waterproofing contractors are those who assist the clients by means of corrective actions to prevent avoidable leakage and cracks that might take place in the basement. These service providers are connected with the National organization of Waterproofing and Structural mend Contractors board. The contractors facilitate to efficiently and successfully administer the vault waterproofing. The outworker not only verifies whether there is any leak, but as well makes certain the house altitude and associated facets of constructed structure are exact.Make certain to get the correct waterproofing outworker to get the work done
previous to taking the resolution to do waterproofing plan at your residence you should do a careful investigation on the Internet regarding the service and the populace occupied in this deal. You can receive suggestion from the local business agency and from associates as regards to a precise waterproofing contractor in the region. Reviews with reference to contractors will offer information on their performance and trustworthiness. It will in addition provide you information on the missions that they have already completed in the past, which will aid you to take the correct decision.
Hiring waterproofing company is the most excellent idea
previous to trying to do any work by yourself, you require comparing and contrasting. If the instance taken to discover the ability of waterproofing, purchasing the essential products and lastly doing the venture acquires so much of your time and wealth, it is well again to employ a reputable waterproofing company of Milwaukee. It is certain that employing waterproofing companies will be a way to obtain improved results and will also save your valuable time. There are skilled professionals with superior knowledge who can succeed the job in the most expert way and the concluding results will be incredible.
Hold back while deciding upon a particular waterproof contractor
doesn?t be in a rush to make a decision on the contractor previous to considering the conditions of agreement and as well their background. Be cautious of sellers who attempt to advertise hard and pressurize you to formulate the decision of selecting them. You should consider the entire alternatives previous to making a choice and you might even need to take opinion from a friend or relative who has made used of one such services in the past, before taking a concluding call on a particular Milwaukee waterproof contractor. All in all, give more importance to excellence rather than the price charged.
About author: William Klein
View by 0 people
Posted by William Klein in , Need Of Houston Glass Repair Services ? Get The Hired In Different Damage SituationsView by 5 people
Posted by William Klein in , Check Out For Commercial Roof Repair St Louis ServicesView by 0 people
Posted by William Klein in , Classic Home Furniture Adds Elegance To Any HomeView by 1 people
Posted by MyReviewsNow in , The purchasing skills for the home furniture in our daily lifeView by 1 people
Posted by Irfanuddin in ,Earl Weaver Inauguration Schedule barack obama dear abby WRAL John Harbaugh jill biden