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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
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Willie Nelson Shows Love For West, Texas Community With Benefit Show (VIDEOS)
Willie Nelson Shows Love For West, Texas Community With Benefit Show (VIDEOS)
Thousands showed up to The Backyard at Bee Cave on Sunday to attend a benefit concert by Willie Nelson to benefit the people and community of West, Texas. Willie Nelson was originally scheduled to have an 80th birthday celebration, but the kind-hearted singer insisted on turning the bash into a benefit concert for the victims ...
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Monday, April 29, 2013
Explosion shakes Prague
Injured people leave a scene of an explosion in downtown Prague, Czech Republic, Monday, April 29, 2013. Police said a powerful explosion has damaged a building in the center of the Czech capital and ... more?Injured people leave a scene of an explosion in downtown Prague, Czech Republic, Monday, April 29, 2013. Police said a powerful explosion has damaged a building in the center of the Czech capital and they believe some people are buried in the rubble. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek) less?
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Saturday, April 27, 2013
Lebanon dragged in as Hezbollah joins Syria war
By Oliver Holmes
BAALBEK, Lebanon (Reuters) - Along north Lebanon's highways, the portraits of Hezbollah militants who have died in skirmishes with Israel are fading. But there are glistening photos of those killed in Hezbollah's new fight.
These men died in Syria, battling alongside the army of Hezbollah's close ally President Bashar al-Assad against rebel units in a conflict which has killed more than 70,000 people and risks reigniting Lebanon's 15-year sectarian civil war.
The Shi'ite Muslim group, designated a terrorist organization by the United States, is the most effective military body in Lebanon and its growing involvement in Syria's quagmire has angered Lebanese Sunni rebel sympathizers.
The Hezbollah stronghold of Baalbek, famed for its colossal Roman ruins, now feels like a garrison town. Hezbollah men in military fatigues and police outfits are everywhere. As are Jeeps and Chevrolets with blacked-out windows - the group's vehicles of choice.
On Wednesday afternoon, machine gun fire rang out through Baalbek's narrow streets, signaling the arrival of another dead Hezbollah fighter from Syria, 12 km (7 miles) to the east.
Around 30 of his comrades quickly aligned in the street and straightened their green berets, readying themselves to carry the corpse on their shoulders.
"We have one or two of these funerals every day in Baalbek," said a young electronics shopkeeper, who asked to remain anonymous due to the sensitivity of the issue.
A Hezbollah policeman in a polyester blue shirt told Reuters not to film the public funeral. "There are five or six Hezbollah martyrs every day from northern Lebanon," he said quietly, ushering the car away.
AN OPEN SECRET
Lebanon endured a military presence by its historically dominant neighbor for 29 years until 2005 and has tried to maintain a policy of "dissociation" from Syria's once-peaceful uprising against four decades of family rule that turned violent after Assad's men killed and arrested thousands.
But insulating Lebanon's four million people from Syria proved impossible; refugees flooded in, Sunni villagers along the border began giving shelter, food and medical care to Syrian rebels and rebel supporters in Lebanon sent guns and fighters across the border to fight Assad's troops.
With no command structure, how many is hard to establish, but 12 Lebanese gunmen were killed by the Syrian army near Homs in November and residents in the Lebanese coastal town of Tripoli, where Sunnis sporadically clash with Alawites, say some local Sunnis fight in Syria, too.
Assad has told Lebanon, where power is distributed between Sunni Muslims, Maronite Christians and Shi'ite Muslims, it must help him fight what he calls "foreign-backed terrorist groups".
His men have regularly fired mortars into Lebanon and occasionally entered in pursuit of fleeing Syrian rebels.
Hezbollah, which was formed as a resistance group to the Israeli occupation during Lebanon's own civil war between 1975 and 1990, has been called in to help.
It maintains that it is keeping its weapons and huge missile caches to defend the country, but fighting a foreign war has stretched the definition of the group's mandate, angering those Lebanese who want to distance the country from Syria.
Officially, Hezbollah denies fighting in Syria. Asked about the latest escalation in the border area, Ibrahim Mussawi, Hezbollah's media relations officer, said: "For two years it has been our official policy not to comment."
But the secret is an open one. Michael Young, an opinion writer for the Beirut-based Daily Star, said in a column on Thursday that the pressure is likely coming from Shi'ite Iran, Hezbollah's main financier and supporter of Assad, who is himself an Alawite, an offshoot of Shi'ism.
"Hezbollah's becoming cannon fodder for the Syrian regime, at Iran's request, is not something the party must relish," he wrote. "There is a price to pay for Hezbollah's pushing the boundaries of Lebanon's sectarian system to its limits. And this price may be the party's gradual destruction, or worse, a Lebanese sectarian civil war."
Late on Wednesday, prominent Syrian opposition figure Moaz Alkhatib issued a direct appeal to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah to withdraw fighters from Syria to prevent sectarian war engulfing the Middle East.
"The blood of your sons in Lebanon should not be spilled fighting our oppressed sons in Syria," Alkhatib said in a video message, following days of heavy fighting in Syria's Homs border province where rebels say Hezbollah is most active.
"Hezbollah's intervention in Syria has complicated matters greatly," he said.
Alkhatib, a Sunni former preacher in Damascus, said Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims had to overcome "a thousand years of strife" between their communities, or risk an explosion of sectarian conflict reaching from Syria and Lebanon to Turkey and Iran.
But already there have been calls to arms by influential Sunni Muslim preachers in Lebanon against Hezbollah, the "Party of God", risking a return to Lebanese bloodshed.
One of the most outspoken, Ahmad al-Assir, urged his supporters to fight Hezbollah inside Syria to help rebel groups, many of whom are hardline Islamist.
And on Saturday, Syria's al Qaeda-linked al-Nusra front broadcast a statement on the opposition Orient Television, saying rebel brigades would "move the battle into Lebanon" if the Hezbollah-backed offensive in Homs continued.
The statement said rebels would use tanks and missiles to hit Baalbek and move fighters into Lebanese territory to attack Hezbollah there.
SYRIAN REBEL HATRED
Over the past two weeks, eight Grad rockets have landed in Shi'ite Hermel, a sprawling agricultural town of around 100,000 next to the Orontes river on Lebanon's border with Syria and about 45 km (28 miles) north of Baalbek.
One empty building was hit along Hermel's main thoroughfare, leaving a meter-wide hole. Another hit a house next to an orphanage further into the town and shrapnel pock-marked a nearby house. None have caused injuries, yet.
The mayor of Hermel, Hajj Saqr, said the missiles were fired by Syrian rebels, or as he calls them: "terrorists".
"If (the rebels) want change, then why do they fire into Lebanon?" he asked, saying Hermel has taken in 4,000 Syrian refugee families and helped the wounded.
"If the terrorists continue to attack and enter Lebanon, then we will protect ourselves," he said.
Saqr denied that men from his pro-Hezbollah town are making the 10 km (six mile) trip north to fight in Syria.
He said only that Lebanese citizens living just within Syria have set up their own civilian militia to protect themselves. Hezbollah also says its members in Lebanese-populated villages in Syria are "defending themselves."
But further up the road to Syria, lined with pictures of Assad and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, there is an evident military buildup. Hezbollah fighters are everywhere, some carrying big bags and walking north.
The group's private ambulance service runs back and forth across the Orontes. And as frogs croak by the river, a Syrian air force jet briefly enters Lebanese airspace before banking sharply and releasing two bombs on a town over the border.
(Additional reporting by Dominic Evans; editing by Philippa Fletcher)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/lebanon-dragged-hezbollah-joins-syria-war-071508597.html
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Friday, April 26, 2013
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Mayoral run revives the name Rodney Allen Rippy
In this photo taken Wednesday, Mar. 13, 2013, former child actor Rodney Allen Rippy poses for a photo outside Compton City Hall in Compton, Calif. Rippy is running for Mayor of Compton in the upcoming April election. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
In this photo taken Wednesday, Mar. 13, 2013, former child actor Rodney Allen Rippy poses for a photo outside Compton City Hall in Compton, Calif. Rippy is running for Mayor of Compton in the upcoming April election. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
In this photo taken Wednesday, Mar. 13, 2013, former child actor Rodney Allen Rippy poses for a photo outside Compton City Hall in Compton, Calif. Rippy is running for Mayor of Compton in the upcoming April election. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
In this photo taken Wednesday, Mar. 13, 2013, former child actor Rodney Allen Rippy poses for a photo with an unidentified supporter, near Compton City Hall in Compton, Calif. Rippy is running for Mayor of Compton in the upcoming April election. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
COMPTON, Calif. (AP) ? Before he suddenly surfaced in the race for mayor of this hardscrabble Los Angeles suburb, Rodney Allen Rippy's name was likely to evoke that question inspired by that class of former child stars who didn't die young, end up in jail or a celebrity rehab series: "Whatever happened to that guy?"
Rippy was just 3 in 1972, when he became the toast of a generation as the pint-sized TV pitchman for the Jack In The Box fast-food chain. When he picked up a hamburger that looked as a big as a hubcap and tried to cram it into his mouth, America was entranced. When he finally said, "Too bigga eat!" a national catchphrase was born.
Soon the cute, chubby-cheeked youngster with the Afro as big as his head was hanging out in Hollywood with Michael Jackson. He made movie cameos and recorded a hit album called "Take Life a Little Easier."
Then the 1970s ended, and so did Rippy's career.
More than 30 years, he resurfaced as a candidate for mayor in a city known variously over the years as the birthplace of gangsta rap, the murder capital of the country and the home of the drive-by shooting.
Although he got only 75 votes, finishing 10th among 12 candidates, his earnest but futile campaign raised the inevitable question of where he had been.
Rippy never strayed far from Hollywood, it turns out. He simply stepped away from the cameras.
When his Jack In The Box career ended about the time he was finishing high school, he went to college and earned a marketing degree.
"I wanted to continue to act, but at the time acting was a thing that unless you were really burning hot, you better have something on the back burner," he said recently over lunch at a Compton restaurant down the street from City Hall.
Seeing how the adults around him had turned a cute little kid from Long Beach into a national star, he decided marketing was the way to go.
He formed Ripped Marketing Group in 2000 and has promoted everything from smokeless cigarettes to leisure wear to country music. It gave him the idea, he says, that he could promote Compton too. He wanted to change the image of a city that, although financially troubled, has seen crime and gang violence drop precipitously in recent years.
He wasn't the first child star to remerge from anonymity to run for office. His contemporary, the late Gary Coleman, did the same when he launched his quixotic campaign for governor of California in 2003.
Unlike Coleman and many other former child stars, Rippy never got into a fistfight with an autograph seeker. He hasn't been caught in a crack house or drunkenly crashed his car.
"Don't get me wrong, I know the good, the bad, the ugly, but I have sense enough to stay away from it," he said. "My mom always said, 'Rodney, you need to understand this: It's very easy to get into trouble. It's very difficult to get out."
The Afro and the chubby cheeks are gone, but Rippy's appearance often has people scratching their heads, wondering where they've seen him before. Their reaction when they find out is sometimes like that of Saudia Pearsall's.
"THE RODNEY ALLEN RIPPY?" the waitress shouted with glee after she spotted him at a back table.
"Ahhhhh! I might vote for you just because I like you," she added, laughing. "That little Afro. 'This burger's too bigga eat!'"
A day later, she was having second thoughts, realizing she didn't know much about his campaign.
Her reaction ? delight at meeting a celebrity but wondering what the heck he's doing here ? is something Rippy says he sees often.
Rippy lost out on a marketing job once, when the person he was to work for started to believe he was being punked for a reality show: "He thought it was some kind of game, like I had some sort of hat-cam on."
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NASCAR defends penalties against Matt Kenseth
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ? Joe Gibbs understands that NASCAR must enforce the rule book and his team deserved a penalty for an illegal part in Matt Kenseth's engine.
The team owner just disagrees with the severity of the penalties levied against Joe Gibbs Racing this week.
More importantly, he's deeply troubled with the perception JGR cheated.
"You spend your life trying to live a certain way. That's a real personal thing and is something that has a big effect on me," said Gibbs, who added that when someone wrongs him, he always searches for intent.
"The first thing I wanted to know was: 'What was their intent?'" Gibbs said Friday. "Was it an accident, was it a mistake or did they purposefully try to do something? That's important to me. This motor and what happened, there was not an attempt to circumvent the rules or have an unfair competitive advantage."
JGR made a strong statement that the organization is weathering this storm in Friday qualifying at Richmond International Raceway, where Kenseth won the pole. Brian Vickers was second to make it an all-JGR front row for Saturday night's race.
The pole-winning run negates at least one portion of the penalty levied against Kenseth on Wednesday, when NASCAR said the pole he won last week at Kansas would not count toward eligibility for next year's preseason race at Daytona.
It was part of a harsh penalty levied by NASCAR, which maintained it's not its responsibility to determine intent or if the infraction provided an advantage when doling out punishment.
"Everybody's asked the same thing ? why aren't things more black and white?" NASCAR vice president of competition Robin Pemberton said. "It's too light. It's too heavy. It's too wide. It's too high. It's too low. It's black and white, and we can't judge the performance because some guys do a better job of it than others, quite frankly."
The issue is not whether the part was illegal, because JGR admits one of eight connecting rods failed to meet the minimum weight requirement. But the engine came from manufacturer Toyota Racing Development, and JGR is questioning the fairness in NASCAR's harsh ruling against the team.
The reasoning, Pemberton said Friday, is two-fold.
"When you talk about engines, you talk about tires, and you talk about fuel, that's a common thread that's been understood, and it's stood the test of time for the last 65 years: Don't mess with those areas, and the penalties are severe," Pemberton said.
But NASCAR also holds the team ultimately responsible for every piece of the car presented at inspection.
"At this time we will not and cannot penalize vendors," Pemberton said. "We'd be at it all day long, whether it was a shock that went bad, a spring that collapsed that caused the car (to be) low or any of those things.
"But when you go down that road, there are a million pieces on these cars, and so we choose to go down the path that it's the team's responsibility for quality control, to check on the parts and pieces that they bring and compete with at the racetrack."
Per NASCAR policy, Kenseth's race-winning engine from Sunday at Kansas was taken back to the North Carolina Research & Development Center for a thorough inspection. Once opened up to NASCAR inspectors, one connecting rod was found to be approximately three grams ? less than the weight of an envelope ? too light.
Kenseth had everything but his trophy taken away, with NASCAR docking him 50 points, plus the three bonus points he earned for the win. Crew chief Jason Ratcliff was fined $200,000 and he and Gibbs were both suspended for six races.
JGR is appealing, so Ratcliff and Gibbs could work Friday at Richmond International Raceway, where Kenseth has gone on record in calling the penalties "grossly unfair" and "borderline shameful."
It's the first technical penalty JGR has appealed in 22 years, Gibbs said.
"One thing that is very important to me is the intent here was not to get an unfair advantage in any way. That's very important to me," said Gibbs, adding that 10 TRD engines have been inspected this year, eight from JGR, without an issue.
"I think basically that's what our appeal is going to be. We want to go forward and go through that process and what we'll be appealing will be the severe nature of the penalties."
Ratcliff also insisted that the No. 20 Toyota had no advantage from the one light connecting rod.
"I respect NASCAR's view on it as far as the part was illegal so by the letter of the law, the part's illegal and there's consequences for that. I do not feel like the spirit of the law was compromised," he said. "That's where we felt like the severity of the penalty is extremely harsh.
"We won Kansas, you can bet your bottom dollar on that. You make that change in that engine and that race doesn't change a bit."
The engines are made by TRD in Costa Mesa, Calif., and shipped to JGR's shop in North Carolina. JGR can't touch the engines beyond installing them in the cars, and TRD has accepted responsibility for the mistake. TRD officials said the manufacturer shipped the part with paperwork that indicated its correct weight, and TRD employees simply missed the fact it was not legal.
Ratcliff argued TRD should have felt the burden of the penalty, not JGR. Although NASCAR did dock Toyota five manufacturer points, the bulk of the penalty went against Gibbs and Ratcliff, who wasn't sure if he would have to pay the $200,000 himself. "I hope not. If I do I'm going to be broke ? we need to start a relief fund," he said.
"Back in the day, most of the engines were built by the race team," Ratcliff said. "Now you have a handful of major engine builders that supply engines to most all the teams in the garage. How do you hold them accountable? I think it's time for some change on how NASCAR approaches it because times have changed so much."
The penalties against JGR came a week after NASCAR penalized Penske Racing for allegedly using illegal parts in the rear suspension of defending champion Brad Keselowski and Joey Logano's cars.
Keselowski and Logano were docked 25 points apiece, their crew chiefs were fined a total of $200,000 and were suspended along with five other Penske employees for six races. Penske's appeal will be heard next Wednesday, and team owner Roger Penske has maintained they were working in a gray area of the rule book.
The Penske and Gibbs cases aren't similar in that Penske has a difference of opinion about a rule, where the Gibbs group will argue the severity of the fines.
Pemberton stood by his rules are rules defense.
"We feel like we're consistent, but not every violation is exactly the same," Pemberton said. "We do our best and we feel like we do a good job interpreting the rules and levying the penalties they deserve."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nascar-defends-penalties-against-matt-kenseth-164618779.html
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Legendary Country Singer George Jones Dead At 81 (VIDEO)
Legendary Country Singer George Jones Dead At 81 (VIDEO)
George Jones, the popular country singer who had tons of hit songs about party times and regrets, has passed away at the age of 81. The “He Stopped Loving Her Today” star died at Vanderbilt University medical Center in Nashville today after being hospitalized with irregular blood pressure and a high fever. George Jones had ...
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Monday, April 8, 2013
Pastor Rick Warren?s son commits suicide: church
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The 27-year-old son of Pastor Rick Warren committed suicide on Friday, Saddleback Valley Community Church said in a statement. Here Warren acknowledges the audience at the popular church.
LAKE FOREST, Calif. ? The Southern California church headed by popular evangelical Pastor Rick Warren said his 27-year-old son committed suicide on Saturday.
Warren?s Saddleback Valley Community Church near Los Angeles said in a statement that Matthew Warren had struggled with mental illness and deep depression.
?Matthew was an incredibly kind, gentle and compassionate young man whose sweet spirit was encouragement and comfort to many,? the church?s statement said. ?Unfortunately, he also suffered from mental illness resulting in deep depression and suicidal thoughts. Despite the best health care available, this was an illness that was never fully controlled and the emotional pain resulted in his decision to take his life.?
Warren, the author of the multimillion-selling book ?The Purpose Driven Life,? said in an email to church staff that he and his wife had enjoyed a fun Friday evening with their son. But Matthew Warren took his life Saturday after ?a momentary wave of despair at his home.?
Over the years, Matthew Warren had been treated by America?s best doctors, medication, counselors and prayers for healing, Warren said.
?You who watched Matthew grow up knew he was an incredibly kind, gentle, and compassionate man,? he wrote. ?He had a brilliant intellect and a gift for sensing who was most in pain or most uncomfortable in a room. He?d then make a bee-line to that person to engage and encourage them.?
Saddleback?s website says that about 20,000 people attend weekend services at the Orange County church.
In 2008, the church sponsored a presidential forum with Barack Obama and Republican John McCain. Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney had been invited to a similar forum last fall, but Warren canceled it, saying the campaign had become too uncivil.
Warren was named the top newsmaker of the year for 2009 by the Religion Newswriters Association, gaining attention with his invocation at Obama?s first inauguration and comments in the aftermath of California?s Proposition 8, which overturned gay marriage.
Warren also has made headlines for his fundraising abilities, raking in more than $2.4 million after making a plea for donations in 2010 to fill a $900,000 deficit at his Southern California megachurch.
The evangelical pastor made similar pleas after Hurricane Katrina and the 2004 Asian tsunami, raising $1.7 million and $1.6 million from Saddleback parishioners.
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Sunday, April 7, 2013
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Build This $25 Toy Mars Rover
Mars is hot! Well, actually, it's frigid. But since searching for signs of former life on the Red Planet is all the rage, we asked Jenny Young of the Brooklyn Robot Foundry to help us devise a minirover project. It teaches the basics of electrical circuitry, motors, and even lighting. The build is complex enough to engage experienced gearheads, yet simple enough for novices to do with a little help. They'll learn the fundamentals of robotics?for a fraction of NASA's budget.
Degree of Difficulty: 6/10
Ages: 7+
Build Time: 2 hours
Parts Cost: $25
Materials and Tools
? Elenco 2-in-1 Gearbox kit
? AA-battery case with switch
? 3-volt 10-mm LED (one that can handle 3 volts or more)
? Two AA batteries
? 22-gauge multistrand black wire, cut into two 6-inch lengths
? 22-gauge multistrand red wire, cut into two 6-inch lengths
? One baby-bottle cap or other plastic-dome piece (large bottle top, capsule for vending-machine toys)
? Two 2-inch-diameter handballs or other hollow, squishy balls
? ?-inch-thick foam board, cut into a 2.5 x 4.5?inch piece
? One wine-bottle cork
? Aluminum foil, crepe paper, construction paper, gift paper (optional)
? Pipe cleaners (optional)
? Hot-glue gun and glue sticks
? Drill and 7&fracsl;64-inch drill bit
? Wire cutter/stripper
? Ruler, scissors
? Electrical tape, adhesive tape
Build the Engine
1. Assemble the Elenco 2-in-1 Gearbox by following the instructions included in the kit. For this project, use the longest of the three shafts provided as the front axle and disregard the nylon connectors. The rover's speed is determined by the cogs you choose: Gear ratios of 1:60 and 1:288 are fast and slow, respectively.
2.Strip 3/4 inch of insulation from each end of two 6-inch black wires and two 6-inch red wires.
3.Thread the end of a black wire through the hole in one of the motor terminals and secure it by folding the wire back on itself and twisting; repeat the process with red wire at the other terminal.
4.Carefully separate the legs of the LED; they're fragile, so take care not to break them off.
5.Tightly wrap one end of the exposed part of the black wire around the short leg of the LED; do the same with the red wire around the long LED leg.
6.Strip ? inch of the battery-case wire ends.
7.Twist together the black wires from the motor, battery case, and LED; repeat with red wires.
8.Wrap all exposed wires tightly with electrical tape, including those around the legs of the LEDs and the terminals on the motor.
9.Put batteries in case; flip switch to test circuit.
Assemble the Craft
1. Drill a 7/64-inch hole into each ball. Slide the balls onto the axle ends.
2.Decorate the piece of foam by wrapping it in foil, construction paper, or gift paper?go nuts!
3.Use a glue gun to secure the gearbox to the body.
4.On the opposite end, glue on the cork. You may need to cut down the cork to ensure that the body is level. Let the glue dry.
5.Flip over the body and glue the battery pack near one end of the surface; let dry. This is the top of the rover's body.
6.Glue the LED terminals and wires to the top of the rover.
7.Glue the translucent baby-bottle cap to the top of the rover, covering the LED. Let dry.
8.Decorate with pipe cleaners, crepe paper, or other gewgaws to make your rover look galactically awesome!
Source: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/toys/build-this-25-toy-mars-rover?src=rss
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It's Not Just You, Twitter's Latest Android Update Doesn't Let You Access Your Profile Or DMs On The ?Me? Tab
Twitter rolled out sweeping updates to all of its mobile properties this week, mostly to support the new Twitter Cards, but unfortunately, those who are using the service on Android aren?t so happy.
The app has always been a bit buggy on the Android platform, but the issues that are being reported are more than just a little problematic. Users have experienced not being able to open the ?Me? tab which allows you to access your DMs and switch accounts, important parts of the service. I?ve experienced this bug from the second that the update was released, and I?ve heard that Twitter is working on the issue. It?s not affecting all devices, but this tweet search shows it as being pretty widespread.
You?re presented with a blank screen and a small spinner, with no information or message that says that the service is having any problems. At first, I thought that I just had a poor connection, but after using the app with WiFi turned on, it became clear that this was a big ol? bug:
Since Twitter has been streamlining all of its apps, and site, it?s a glaring issue when one of the four tabs don?t work.
While no timeframe is being offered, and Twitter hasn?t made an official statement on the issue, it?s safe to say that the beautiful redesign that the Android app received is overshadowed by these issues. If you?re having the same issue, you might have to revert to using the mobile version of the site, as I?ve done. Or, you could search for yourself and get to your profile that way.
The nice part about Google Play is that as soon as Twitter updates the app with a new build, it will go live for everyone to grab without any submission process like Apple?s.
Hurry up, Twitter, people are cheesed off about not being able to get their DMs from cute girls and stuff.
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Saturday, April 6, 2013
Why I Quit Drinking Coffee
in my early thirties for a?number of reasons. I had a lifelong anxiety disorder with panic?attacks, and anything I could do to calm down was good for my?mind as well as my body.?
I also had extreme symptoms of PMS: bloating, cramps,?and breast tenderness. My gynecologist told me that these problems?would be relieved by eliminating caffeine from my diet. I also?developed migraines around this time, and I discovered that a cup of?coffee with caffeine could reduce the severity of these headaches, and?even eliminate them totally. But only if I used caffeine on an?infrequent basis, around once a month when I had a migraine.Quitting caffeine cold turkey wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.?I had a headache every morning for a couple of weeks, but that was?manageable. The end results were well worth the two-week struggle. My?panic attacks lessened in frequency, my PMS symptoms all but?disappeared, and the magic cup of coffee for my monthly migraine was?sure to make the headache go away.I continued to drink coffee, about a cup in the morning and maybe one?in the afternoon, but it was always decaf. But I didn't like my coffee?black, it always had half and half or soy creamer in it. And sometimes?sugar, if I was craving a treat.
Recently I discovered the ancient traditional medicine system known as?Ayurveda, which?is a holistic approach to the body and health,?based on three primary life forces in the body: air, fire and water.The key is to balance these three life forces, and that will lead to?optimum health. One of the ways to achieve this balance is by focusing?on one?s morning rituals to begin the day in alignment and with?nature?s rhythms. Ayurveda tradition believes that the first thing one?eats or drinks sets the tone for the rest of the day, and the best?thing to promote a healthy day is to drink a cup of warm water with?lemon upon awakening. The warm water gets your GI tract moving and the?lemon can release toxins in the digestive system.I started my warm lemon water ritual four weeks ago, and I feel much?lighter and more energetic than I previously did after my morning?coffee with cream, even though it was decaf. My digestion is smooth,?and the knowledge that I am not putting processed soy creamer, or?dairy cream, into my body, allows me to start my day more peacefully.
Giving up a 20-year relationship with decaf coffee wasn't difficult at?all, and the benefits have been amazing. I advise you to try it for a
week and see how you feel, you may be surprised.
Source: http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-8358/why-i-quit-drinking-coffee.html
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LJCD's Plum named California's Ms. Basketball
Kelsey Plum became the second player from La Jolla Country Day High and the fourth player from San Diego to be named California?s Ms. Basketball when Cal-Hi Sports bestowed that honor on the senior on Friday.
Plum joins former Torreys guard Candice Wiggins (2004) as well as Terri Mann, a two-time winner from Point Loma (1986-87), and El Camino?s Sharon Turner (1985) as other section players to receive the honor.
Plum. the section?s player of the year, capped her career with a fourth consecutive San Diego Section Division IV championship this season. It was the 10th title in the last 11 seasons for the Torreys.
?This whole thing is very humbling,? Plum said. ?I?ve heard of a few of the past winners and I?ve got bigger fish to fry before I can bring their shoes into the gym.?
The 5-foot-9 guard, who will play at Washington next year, averaged 27.1 points, 8.5 rebounds, 3.7 steals and 3.3 assists this season after leading the Torreys to the Division IV state championship as a junior.
Plum scored 32 points, including five 3-pointers, in a 72-41 blasting of Richmond Salesian in the finals.
?I feel super blessed to have had both Candice and Kelsey here,? La Jolla Country Day coach Terri Bamford said. ?Most coaches are happy to have one player like that. To have two like that is a blessing.
?You cannot replace a player like Kelsey. It is tough to lose a player who is so competitive, has a work ethic that is off the chart, her leadership and her statistics. I know it will be a lot tougher coaching next year without Kelsey running the show.?
Her four-year totals of 2,215 points, 683 rebounds, 382 assists and 370 steals showed off her all-around skills in helping the Torreys to a 103-22 record, including this year?s 18-12 mark.
?It?s been a privilege to play at La Jolla Country Day,? Plum said. ?Maybe if I go anywhere else none of this happens. It sure worked out pretty well for me.
Plum scored seven points and collected two steals in leading the West to a 92-64 win Wednesday in the McDonald?s All-American Game in Chicago.
Now Plum, whose team was eliminated from the state playoffs in the Southern California Regional semifinals this season, is in New Orleans for tonight?s Women?s Basketball Coaches Association All-Star Game.
Also honored by Cal-Hi was Horizon?s DiJonai Carrington, who was chosen as the top freshman in the state.
The 5-11 guard led the Panthers to the section Division V championship by averaging 20.3 points, 11.5 rebounds, seven assists and 5.2 steals before the season ended with a loss to Chatsworth Sierra Canyon in the Southern California Regional finals.
Source: http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/apr/05/ljcd-basketball-girls-plum/
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Israel, Turkey may go for Med energy pact
The expected reconciliation between Israel and Turkey could lead to a ground-breaking strategic energy partnership in the politically turbulent eastern Mediterranean, analysts say.
This would center on the former allies, the two most powerful non-Arab states in the Middle East, ending a three-year separation that will see Israel pumping its new-found offshore natural gas resources to Turkey via an undersea pipeline for sale in energy-hungry Europe.
But there would be a geopolitical downside: hydrocarbon wannabes Cyprus and Lebanon could find themselves hard put to market their offshore gas reserves on which they're pinning their economic future.
Even so, officials on both sides are talking about how the surprise olive branch proffered by hard-line Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu March 22 removed the major obstacle for the joint development of vast gas fields discovered in the eastern Mediterranean since 2009.
Netanyahu, pressed by U.S. President Barack Obama to end the rift with Turkey, formally apologized for the Israeli navy's May 31, 2010, interception of a Turkish-organized humanitarian flotilla bound for the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip.
Naval commandoes killed nine Turks in the action in international waters.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan broke off relations with Israel, demanding an apology and compensation for the victims' families.
Netanyahu stubbornly refused to concede Israel was culpable, despite an international outcry against the Jewish state that erupted when it invaded Gaza in December 2007 in a bid -- futile as it turned out -- to crush the ruling Palestinian Hamas movement there.
The confrontation between the two military heavyweights, which also dated from the Gaza incursion, was a major setback for U.S. policy in the region at a time when American influence was waning in the aftermath of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
The Americans have been pressing the two sides, both longtime U.S. allies, to patch up their differences amid a cascade of crises in the region, including a U.S.-Iran stand-off in the Persian Gulf and the civil war in Syria that threatens to totally destabilize the region.
The Financial Times quoted a senior Turkish official as saying the rapprochement made the idea of a gas pipeline from Israel to Turkey "a much more viable" prospect.
Turkey, with no energy resources of its own, wants to become the main east-west energy hub between Russia and Europe.
Indeed, Israeli sources say the economic gains that restoring relations with Ankara are likely to bring were central to Netanyahu's decision to end the rift.
Israel has two major deep-water gas fields off its northern coast that contain a total of at least 25 trillion-27 trillion cubic feet of gas.
Production from the Tamar field, the first discovery in 2009, began Saturday. It holds at least 8 tcf. The larger Leviathan field further west contains some 16 tcf. These finds will transform the economy of Israel, which has had to import all its fuel.
The Financial Times reported that the main investors in Israel, Nobel Energy Inc. of Houston, and its main local partner, Delek Energy, "have in recent weeks sounded out possible customers in energy-hungry Turkey, but until now the countries' rift appeared to preclude progress."
Oxford Analytica observed that Erdogan "does not like Israel but Turkey's national interest takes precedence over his personal antipathy."
By reconciling with Israel, he hopes Washington will drop its objections to his burgeoning links with Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdish zone.
U.S. oil majors there are poised to develop the enclave's reserves of 45 billion barrels of crude despite Baghdad's bitter opposition and Washington's fears that will mean the breakup of the Iraqi state the Americans established after the 2003 invasion.
None of this will benefit Cyprus, gripped by a toxic economic crisis even though the island's sitting on large gas fields, or Lebanon, which is moving toward issuing licenses to drill for its estimated reserves of 25 tcf.
Israel and Cyprus had talked of jointly exporting to Europe via Greece but it's financially on its knees as well.
Whether Cyprus and Lebanon find hooking into that pipeline to be their only feasible export plan remains to be seen.
Source: http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Israel_Turkey_may_go_for_Med_energy_pact_999.html
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Friday, April 5, 2013
Scientists at UH partner with NASA, astronauts to study immune system
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Research examines stress, space flight impact on body's ability to fight viruses
Fighting viruses is a regular battle for your body, one it routinely wins if it has a healthy immune system. But compromised systems, as experienced occasionally by astronauts during space flights, can allow viruses to return.
A research study from the University of Houston Department of Health and Human Performance (HHP) partners with NASA and astronauts aboard the International Space Station to examine how spaceflight affects the immune system.
"All of us have viruses that we're already infected with, and our immune system does a very good job of controlling them," said Rickie Simpson, principle investigator and assistant professor of exercise and immunology. "When astronauts are in space, those viruses reactivate a lot. What we don't know is if altered immunity and viral reactivation pose a significant risk to the health of astronauts when they're in space for a prolonged period of time." Simpson and his research team will collect blood, saliva and urine from two astronauts before, during and after an upcoming mission. They'll be measuring natural killer cells, potent cells capable of killing even cancer cells, and monitoring their health for several months.
"Space flight is this unique environment that is very stressful. We know that these viruses come back, but we don't know if it's because of the stress or if it's because they're in space," Simpson said. "This may be very helpful in understanding how this works for stressful environments on Earth. Students' examination stress, medical students taking final exams, psychological stresscaregivers for examplethose are stressful situations capable of triggering latent viral reactivations."
Blood and saliva samples will be collected from the astronauts 180 days before launch for a baseline measure, then again 60 days before launch. While aboard the International Space Station, the astronauts will collect further samples several times before coming back to Earth. They'll then be monitored for six months.
"Our goal is to have six astronauts enrolled in the study, which will take several years," Simpson said. The University of Houston has partnered with NASA on other HHP research projects, including the creation of a microfiber sweat patch to study bone loss in astronauts.
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University of Houston
Research examines stress, space flight impact on body's ability to fight viruses
Fighting viruses is a regular battle for your body, one it routinely wins if it has a healthy immune system. But compromised systems, as experienced occasionally by astronauts during space flights, can allow viruses to return.
A research study from the University of Houston Department of Health and Human Performance (HHP) partners with NASA and astronauts aboard the International Space Station to examine how spaceflight affects the immune system.
"All of us have viruses that we're already infected with, and our immune system does a very good job of controlling them," said Rickie Simpson, principle investigator and assistant professor of exercise and immunology. "When astronauts are in space, those viruses reactivate a lot. What we don't know is if altered immunity and viral reactivation pose a significant risk to the health of astronauts when they're in space for a prolonged period of time." Simpson and his research team will collect blood, saliva and urine from two astronauts before, during and after an upcoming mission. They'll be measuring natural killer cells, potent cells capable of killing even cancer cells, and monitoring their health for several months.
"Space flight is this unique environment that is very stressful. We know that these viruses come back, but we don't know if it's because of the stress or if it's because they're in space," Simpson said. "This may be very helpful in understanding how this works for stressful environments on Earth. Students' examination stress, medical students taking final exams, psychological stresscaregivers for examplethose are stressful situations capable of triggering latent viral reactivations."
Blood and saliva samples will be collected from the astronauts 180 days before launch for a baseline measure, then again 60 days before launch. While aboard the International Space Station, the astronauts will collect further samples several times before coming back to Earth. They'll then be monitored for six months.
"Our goal is to have six astronauts enrolled in the study, which will take several years," Simpson said. The University of Houston has partnered with NASA on other HHP research projects, including the creation of a microfiber sweat patch to study bone loss in astronauts.
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WWE pay-per-view events coming to Xbox Live
Just in time for this week's WrestleMania XXIX, that goliath of Wrestling Entertainment is setting up shop on Xbox. The service starts today and is available to any fans with an Xbox Live Gold subscription. There's not a lot of detail on what you'll be getting, although you will be able to watch "all" of WWE's pay-per-view events direct from the Microsoft console. You can also put that folding chair down now. Thank you.
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Sheriff fatally shot outside courthouse
WILLIAMSON, W.Va. (AP) ? A sheriff known for cracking down on the drug trade in southern West Virginia's coalfields was fatally shot Wednesday in the spot where he usually parked his car for lunch, a state official said, and a suspect was in custody.
State Police told Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin that Mingo County Sheriff Eugene Crum died of his wounds, said his chief of staff Rob Alsop. The suspect, who was also shot, was taken to a hospital in Logan, Alsop said.
The courthouse was evacuated, streets into the city were blocked off and officers held white sheets around the crime scene, Crum's body further shielded by two vehicles.
The shooting occurred within a block of the county courthouse, said Office of Emergency Services head dispatcher Willis Spence. Officials planned a news conference for 6 p.m. in the county in the southwest corner of West Virginia, on the border with Kentucky.
Delegate Harry Keith White, who campaigned with Crum last year, said his friend was shot to death in the same place where he parked his car most days to eat lunch, near the site of a former pharmacy known for illegally distributing. Crum led a drug task force and an initiative called Operation Zero Tolerance, making good on a campaign pledge, White said.
"I think anybody you ask would tell you he was a great guy, always with a positive attitude, always trying to help people," White said. "It's just a sad, sad day for Mingo County and the state of West Virginia."
Crum had resigned his post as a county magistrate before launching his sheriff's campaign as a signal of integrity, preferring to run as a civilian rather than an official, White said. He won the primarily handily and ran unopposed in the general election in the fall.
Crum had been a magistrate for 12 years and had previously served as police chief in Delbarton.
White said Crum was dedicated to improving the community and devoted to his grandchildren and adult children.
"He always had family around him," he said.
After dozens of indictments were issued earlier this year, Prosecutor Michael Sparks issued a press release declaring that Crum "exceeded my highest expectations" and "has provided a game changing boost to our drug enforcement program."
Delegate Justin Marcum, D-Mingo and an assistant county prosecutor, called Crum "a true friend to the county."
"He'll be dearly missed," he said.
Though there is no indication of a direct connection, the killing comes on the heels of a Texas district attorney and his wife being shot to death in their home over the weekend, and officials suspect a white supremacist prison gang. Those killings happened a couple of months after one of the county's assistant district attorneys was killed near his courthouse office.
Colorado's corrections director, Tom Clements, was killed March 19 when he answered the doorbell at his home outside Colorado Springs. Two days later, Evan Spencer Ebel, a white supremacist and former Colorado inmate suspected of shooting Clements, died in a shootout about 100 miles from Kaufman. On Monday, judicial officials acknowledged Ebel was freed four years early because of a paperwork error.
Over the last century, 14 prosecutors have been killed, according to news reports and statistics kept by the National District Attorneys Association. At least eight of them were targeted in the line of duty. At least several were slain in incidents unrelated to their jobs, apparently random acts of violence.
The Officer Down Memorial Page says 197 police officers in West Virginia have died in the line of duty, 136 of them from deliberate gunfire.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/w-va-sheriff-fatally-shot-suspect-custody-180541061.html
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Interesting Chef Interviews from Around the Web - - Portland Food ...
Portland restaurant news hasn?t been terribly interesting lately, but here are a few stories from around the web which have caught my eye.
Men?s Journal has a great article on Gordon Ramsay. It puts a more human face on the?volatile?celebrity chef, and almost has me liking him.
The story talks about his childhood, current home life, the upcoming show ?Junior MasterChef? which features kids, his swearing, and the great deception he pulled off in 2007, where he garnered publicity after accusing a competing chef for stealing his reservation book, which it turns out he had arranged himself.
You can read the article here.
The Huffington Post sat down with Thomas Keller for a lengthy, honest interview about tasting menus, the rise of the celebrity chef, how he manages all four restaurants plus his cooking line and Cup4Cup gluten-free line of foods.
The interview starts off with Keller?s no BS style -
Chef, you bought the French Laundry in 1994 when Yountville was a ghost town. How has it been to watch the area change over the years? I think that?s pretty much common knowledge; you can find that on the website. Did you do any research on me whatsoever? I?d rather just talk about what you really want to know.
Ouch! Has anyone tried his C4C flour? I?m not a gluten-free fan, but I know many people are.
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Eater National has an interesting interview with Andy Ricker, on his first year in NYC.
Were there pleasant surprises?
Oh yeah, totally. I was pleasantly surprised by what people ordered here in comparison to what people ordered in Portland.Like what?
There are certain things on the menu that I feel are more emblematic of what Pok Pok means to me. In Portland, for instance, we sell zillions and zillions of chicken wings. In New York, when people come out to eat, we sell a huge quantity of northern Thai laab, and to me, that?s one of the more esoteric items on the menu. I was pleasantly surprised by that.I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that more than 50 percent of our clients in Portland are tourists who are brought to Portland for whatever reason but have heard of us through the TV shows or whatever, which feature the wings prominently. I think in New York we?re still getting the dining crowd. We also have a very high number of Thai diners here.
Good interview. If you are a fan of Ricker, it?s a must read.
"I have a wide-range of food experience - working in the restaurant industry on both sides of the house, later in the wine industry, and finally traveling/tasting my way around the world. Whether you agree or disagree, you can always count on my unbiased opinion. I don't take free meals, and the restaurants don't know when, or if, I am coming."
Source: http://portlandfoodanddrink.com/interesting-chef-interviews-from-around-the-web/
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Parents of kidnapped journalist seek answers
MILWAUKEE (AP) ? The parents of an American journalist kidnapped in Syria more than four months ago said Thursday that his latest disappearance is more upsetting than an earlier one in Libya because they don't know who is holding him.
James Foley, 39, was working in northwest Syria with another journalist when they were kidnapped by unknown gunmen on Nov. 22, his parents said. Foley, a freelance journalist, had been working in Syria for about a year and was contributing videos to Agence France-Press when he disappeared.
It's unclear whether he's being held by the government, a rebel group or a criminal gang, said his mother, Diane Foley.
"We don't know who to direct our plea to," she said. "We don't know who is holding him or why."
Foley was held for six weeks by the Libyan government in 2011, but his parents said that situation was very different because the U.S. government worked with the Libyan government to secure his release and provided them with regular updates.
The U.S. does not currently have a formal relationship with Syria and there has been no regular or reliable information about Foley, his parents said. Though they have been in touch with federal officials, they said the most they've received are rumors of their son's whereabouts.
"I joked a while ago that it would be nice to hear from a terrorist asking for $10 million just so we know he's alive," said his father, John Foley.
The Foleys traveled to Milwaukee from their home in Rochester, N.H., for a Friday night vigil for their son at Marquette University, where he studied history. He taught in Arizona, Massachusetts and Chicago before switching careers to become a journalist.
He had been working in war zones for about five years when he was taken captive in Libya while covering that country's civil war. Another journalist ? South African photographer Anton Hammerl ? was shot during their capture and left to die in the desert. Foley and another journalist were released.
"I'll regret that day for the rest of my life," Foley told The Associated Press in 2011. "I'll regret what happened to Anton."
Friday is the two-year anniversary of his capture in Libya. If he had doubt about going back to a war zone, his parents said he didn't share it with them.
His father said he doesn't feel his son was reckless. Any journalist committed to covering conflict and war takes some risk, he said.
"It's just the nature of the occupation and the environment," John Foley said. He added, "He wanted to tell stories about people that were truthful and that would help them."
Twenty-eight journalists were killed in Syria in 2012, prompting the Committee to Protect Journalists to name it the most dangerous country in the world to work in last year.
Those who lost their lives include award-winning French TV reporter Gilles Jacquier, photographer Remi Ochlik and Britain's Sunday Times correspondent Marie Colvin. Also, Anthony Shadid, a correspondent for The New York Times, died after an apparent asthma attack while on assignment in Syria.
Foley had agreed to text his mother about every 48 hours so that she wouldn't worry, and he had a video conference with his parents once a week. They learned about his disappearance in a phone call from Clare Morgana Gillis, the journalist held captive with him in Libya.
His parents said federal officials have advised them to keep quiet, and they did for more than a month. Diane Foley said they decided to speak out because publicity seemed to help secure their son's release in 2011. Still, they second-guess themselves.
"Are we going to make him too valuable?" John Foley asked. "If we don't say anything, is he not valuable enough?"
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/parents-talk-journalist-kidnapped-syria-221837504.html
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Listening to the Big Bang ? in high fidelity
Apr. 4, 2013 ? A decade ago, spurred by a question for a fifth-grade science project, University of Washington physicist John Cramer devised an audio recreation of the Big Bang that started our universe nearly 14 billion years ago.
Now, armed with more sophisticated data from a satellite mission observing the cosmic microwave background -- a faint glow in the universe that acts as sort of a fossilized fingerprint of the Big Bang -- Cramer has produced new recordings that fill in higher frequencies to create a fuller and richer sound. (The sound files run from 20 seconds to a little longer than 8 minutes. See link at bottom of article.)
The effect is similar to what seismologists describe as a magnitude 9 earthquake causing the entire planet to actually ring. In this case, however, the ringing covered the entire universe -- before it grew to such gargantuan proportions.
"Space-time itself is ringing when the universe is sufficiently small," Cramer said.
In 2001, Cramer wrote a science-based column for Analog Science Fiction & Fact magazine describing the likely sound of the Big Bang based on cosmic microwave background radiation observations taken from balloon experiments and satellites.
A couple of years later that article prompted a question from a mother in Pennsylvania whose 11-year-old son was working on a project about the Big Bang: Is the sound of the Big Bang actually recorded anywhere?
Cramer answered that it wasn't -- but then began thinking that it could be. He used data from the cosmic microwave background on temperature fluctuations in the very early universe. The data on those wavelength changes were fed into a computer program called Mathematica, which converted them to sound. A 100-second recording represents the sound from about 380,000 years after the Big Bang until until about 760,000 years after the Big Bang.
"The original sound waves were not temperature variations, though, but were real sound waves propagating around the universe," he said.
Cramer noted, however, that the 2003 data lacked high-frequency structure. More complete data were recently gathered by an international collaboration using the European Space Agency's Planck satellite mission, which has detectors so sensitive that they can distinguish temperature variations of a few millionths of a degree in the cosmic microwave background. That data were released in late March and led to the new recordings.
As the universe cooled and expanded, it stretched the wavelengths to create "more of a bass instrument," Cramer said. The sound gets lower as the wavelengths are stretched farther, and at first it gets louder but then gradually fades. The sound was, in fact, so "bass" that he had to boost the frequency 100 septillion times (that's a 100 followed by 24 more zeroes) just to get the recordings into a range where they can be heard by humans.
Cramer is a UW physics professor who has been part of a large collaboration studying what the universe might have been like moments after the Big Bang by causing collisions between heavy ions such as gold in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York.
Creating a sound profile for the Big Bang was something to do on the side, Cramer said.
"It was an interesting thing to do that I wanted to share. It's another way to look at the work these people are doing," he said.
Sound of the Big Bang are available in several lengths here: http://faculty.washington.edu/jcramer/BBSound_2013.html
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Thursday, April 4, 2013
Why Roger Ebert mattered to movie lovers
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By Randee Dawn, TODAY contributor
Roger Ebert may have started out as a film critic. But before his death Thursday he had become much more: Television host (his shows ran on and off in various iterations from 1975-2011), pioneer of a 15-year-old film festival, "Ebertfest," popularizer of the "thumbs up/thumbs down" manner of fast reviews, author of 15 books, screenwriter ("Beyond the Valley of the Dolls") and hearty cultural critic (his online journal covered everything from climate change to religion?to everything good (and bad) about Chicago ... and beyond).
He was a big man, bigger than life -- but never in pursuit of his own stardom. The films were everything, and in the end, he was clearly never happier than when he was in the presence of the art of the movie.
"Film criticism is important because films are important," he said in a 2005 interview. "Films are important because they are the art form of the 20th Century ... They can be both a good influence on society and a negative influence."
That was the sort of approach that earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, the first film critic to do so, in 1975. As he saw it, Ebert's mission was not just to separate the wheat from the chaff when it came to movies; he wasn't focused on merely elevating highbrow work and finding new ways to denigrate big-budget blockbusters. He also acknowledged that his perception of what a "good" film might be would change over the years, just as he as a person would change. He stood by his critical decisions, even when he himself?was criticized himself for a lack of consistency.
"I am uninterested in being 'consistent,'" he wrote.?
But he was consistent in several areas: He routinely opposed the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings system, angered that a film like "Whale Rider" was rated PG-13 and "The Passion of the Christ" wasn't given an X rating for its violence. He also regularly debated with video game creators and players over whether games could be art.?
The reason anyone wanted to debate him in the first place, however, is that Roger Ebert found a way to make movie criticism interesting and relevant, an art form of its own. His arguments on "At the Movies" with Chicago Tribune film critic Gene Siskel (who died in 1999) made them both household names, taking their debates on to other TV arenas like "The Tonight Show." They made it possible for the average viewer to understand that two very opposing takes on the same film could be right at the same time. The pair, and later Ebert by himself, influenced generations of up-and-coming critics.
"For those of us practicing criticism on a regular basis, Ebert was both a figurative and literal mentor who was graceful in his ability to spend time responding to the requests of hundreds of aspiring critics over the years, including this one," wrote Indiewire's Eric Kohn, noting that Ebert moved with the times -- he Tweeted and moved onto the Internet to interact with those next-generation critics.
Meanwhile, Ebert's books ranged from summations of the best of the best to best-of compilations to fun titles like "I Hated, Hated, Hated this Movie" (2000). He even co-authored (with Daniel Curley) a book on small walks in London in 1986, and in 2011 finally won a New Yorker cartoon caption contest, a long-time goal. That expansive, Renaissance Man-level polymath approach to films and the greater world beyond also elevated him from being "just" a newspaper's film critic.?
Ebert's illness, then, in its own way, was just another area to explore and understand through writing and engagement. His disinterest in hiding out -- even when the cancer operations severely altered his appearance -- was undoubtedly courageous, but it literally put a new face on his career: Yes, he was still writing reviews, but his writing now included discussing his illness and the greater world beyond. When he announced Tuesday that he would be taking a step back from his regular writing duties, calling it a "leave of presence," he clearly had every intention of continuing to write, but the topics would be on his own terms.
In the end, Ebert may not have been a "critic's critic" the way legend Pauline Kael was -- but he was the popular man's film lover: Never just a critic, never just a fan, always a blend of both. His last published words (from his "leave of presence" post) say it all: "Thank you for going on this journey with me. I'll see you at the movies."
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