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Aug 30, 2011

USA News, Aug 30, 2011


Obama's day: Talking to veterans
USA Today
"As we approach the 10th anniversary of 9/11, (the president) will pay special tribute to the 9/11 Generation of troops and their families who have borne the burden of a hard decade of war," says the White House. Obama will also "discuss how ...
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Obama puts together jobs speech for next week
USA Today
By David Jackson, USA TODAY Thanks to President Obama himself, we now know that his big jobs speech will be next week. White House spokesman Jay Carney said aides have not made the final decisions on the day and the venue, and that the president "is ...
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Playbook: Driving September
Politico
The other includes themes for Americans here and underscores the importance of national service and what the government has done to prevent another major attack in the United States. … After weeks of internal debate, White House officials adopted the ...
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Climate change skeptic Inhofe endorses Perry for White House
USA Today
... USA TODAY Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe formally endorsed Texas Gov. Rick Perry for president today, saying his fellow Republican has the right combination of executive experience and know-how about government regulations to beat PresidentObama. ...
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Obama Taps Labor Expert To Head Council Of Economic Advisers
ABC News (blog)
Today's announcement completes a shake-up of the White House economic team that has left Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner as the only remaining official from Obama's original circle of advisers. You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the ...
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Internet advertisers begin offering new do not track icon
USA Today (blog)
Even so, the IAB continues to push hard for President Obama to endorse self-regulation, including the turquoise triangle, in a forthcoming White House white paper, says Chester. And the group's most influential members, led by Google and Facebook,...
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USA Today (blog)
PROPOSAL: TIE UN DUES TO PALESTINIAN STATUS, OFFSETTING IRENE, OBAMA SOURCE ...
Politico
http://nyti.ms/qZPMaD WHITE HOUSE FIRES BACK AT BLACK CRITICISM -- Glenn Thrush, Julie Mason and Joseph Williams write about the developing tension between President Obama and other black political leaders, who have become increasingly public in their ...
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Bachmann memoir coming in November
msnbc.com
and they recognize -- well, remember who has been running washington . it's president obama , nancy pelosi was the speaker of the house for the majority of the time that i was there, and harry reid . obviously they weren't interested in my pro-growth ...
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Obama's Favorite Pizza Finally Comes to DC
Forbes
President Obama declared it the best he ever had, and after winning the election, even invited the owners of Pi to come cook their pizza for him in the White House kitchen, which they did. Now Pi, which gets its pun name from the roundish mathematical ...
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China: United States: Biden in Beijing, embarrassment and servility
Spero News
Yet, the White House called it a success. Biden made it clear that, in the States, the perception towards human rights in China is changing and this is a defeat for the world. But the Communist ... By Asia News Washington - Last week we talked about ...
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Shining light on Obama's tar sands pipeline decision
Greenpeace USA (blog)
Update: Phil Radford, Executive Director of Greenpeace USA was arrested in front of the White House today as part of a peaceful protest against the Keystone XL pipeline. This week, President Obama will find hundreds more people in front of the White ...
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Greenpeace USA (blog)
Entrepreneur: $510 million biofuels initiative not enough
istockAnalyst.com (press release)
30--The Obama administration's $510 million biofuels initiative doesn't go far enough to be considered a serious attempt to develop the industry, according to a local biofuels expert. Announced Aug. 16, the White House described the initiative as part ...
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Labor Economist Picked As Next Top White House Economics Adviser
Intellectual Conservative
The White House, as Obama prepares his jobs plan speech, announced today (Monday, 29 August, 2011) it plans to nominate Alan Krueger of Princeton University as the next top economic adviser to President Obama. If confirmed, will be joining a group that ...
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Obama's uncle charged with DUI, could face deportation
USA Today (blog)
By David Jackson, USA TODAY President Obama's uncle, arrested on a charge of drunken driving near Boston, is being held without bail on suspicion he may be in theUSA illegally. Onyango Obama, the half brother of Barack Obama, Sr., told police he would ...
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Record Floods Affect US Northeast After Irene
Voice of America
US President Barack Obama said Monday it will "take time to recover from a storm of this magnitude." At a White House event, he said FEMA and other federal bodies will do "everything in their power" to help local and state authorities with recovery ...
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Debating Obama's Black Record
OpEdNews
Wright's church in Chicago did for years) is not approved, but holding Jewish seder ceremonies at theWhite House is a must and must be televised so the world can see it also. A pardon for Marcus Garvey is no good, but kind words for the Pope and the ...
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Why My 9-Year-Old Neice Is Smarter Than Our Genius President
OpEdNews
"My grandparents cared enough to get arrested for standing on the sidewalk outside the White House, peacefully objecting to the Keystone XL project, and frankly, I'm quite glad they did. "Martin Luther King used words. Mahatma Gandhi used words. ...
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6 people stabbed at nightclub
Detroit Free Press
Police said that when asked whether he wanted to make a phone call, the 67-year-old said: "I think I will call the White House." Onyango Obama is from Kenya and is the half-brother of the president's late father. Party arrests: Four people were ...
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Hundreds arrested in front of the White House — RT
By RT
The United States trade deficit has surged to the highest it has been in over two-and-a-half years, according to statistics released today by the Commerce Department out of Washington DC. AFP Photo / Vanderlei Almeida 25.02, 22:59 ...
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ABC News' Mary Bruce (@marykbruce) Reports: President Obama today announced that he is ...The Presidential Planner: After The Storm, Obama Spends Day In White House Meetings ... During the wet and windy weekend in Washington, senior advisors and cabinet officials have ... Top Al Qaeda Leader Killed, U.S. Govt. ...
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SPACE, Astronomy News, Aug 30, 2011

'Exotic galaxy' with black hole heart is a jaw-dropper

msnbc.com
"This is probably the most exotic galaxy with a black hole ever seen," said the study's principal investigator, Ananda Hota of the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA) in Taiwan, in a statement. "It has the potential to teach ...
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Stargazing
Ashland Daily Tidings
Photo by Julia MooreJulia Moore By John Darling When the recession put an end to the Phoenix Day Spa in Ashland, owner Jessica Vineyard turned to her lifelong passion — astronomy — to make a living. Now she's charted a new course as a wandering star ...
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Space journey takes one small step for Manitoba
MetroNews Canada
Astrophysics professor Samar Safi-Harb, a Canada Research Chair in the department of physics andastronomy, joins a team of Canadians for a Japanese-led space exploration that's bringing the latest from the skies into the classroom. ...
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Recommended: Milky Way galaxy re-created
msnbc.com
For 20 years, astronomers have been trying to come up with a simulated galaxy that comes close to the look of the Milky Way and other spiral galaxies — but fell short of the mark. Guedes and her colleagues were more successful in part because of the ...
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Keck: Uncovering secrets of the great supernova
Hawaii 24/7 (press release)
... images of the Pinwheel Galaxy taken by the Hubble Space Telescope before August 25 and see if there was a star in the same location. “Keck and Hubble are pretty well matched in terms of spatial resolution,” Keck support astronomer Jim Lyke said. ...
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Hawaii 24/7 (press release)

Cardiff student discovers two new asteroids
WalesOnline
“This project, which we decided to squeeze in to the normally quiet summer months when the telescopes are not being used by schools, has been an amazing success”, says Dr Paul Roche, head of astronomy at Glamorgan and space ambassador for Wales. ...
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Beyond the Horizon
Morning Star
Holst researcher Kendric Taylor explained on www.gustavholst.info that “The Planets” was based not on astronomy but astrology, which uses Earth as a “reference point.” Holst “dabbled” in celestial predictions with his astrologer friend Clifford Bax. ...
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Q&A: Beyond the Rim of the Grand Canyon
New York Times (blog)
Bryce Canyon National Park, filled with amphitheaters cut naturally out of eroding rock, offers multimedia astronomy shows by the park's rangers and volunteer astronomers, whom they call “the Dark Rangers.” The show is at 7 pm on Saturday nights during ...
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New York Times (blog)

Glendale Man Wins NASA Trip Through Twitter
MyFox Phoenix
"I've loved it since I was 8 years old, I started studying astronomy, my father got me interested." There's probably no better candidate than Buxton, a NASA fanatic. The NASA channel is always on, and check out all of his memorabilia he's collected ...
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Home Fashions Market to feature new, expanded showrooms at 7 W New York
Home Accents Today
During the Sept. market, Kaleen will introduce two new collections, Astronomy and Bimini, as well as several new Khazana Designs. www.kaleen.com Berkshire Blanket (939) Opening in time for the market, this Massachusetts-based company produces blankets, ...
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Look At This Crazy Laptop: GScreen's Spacebook
Geekosystem
by James Plafke | 4:28 pm, August 29th, 2011 For those video editors and graphic designers on the go, GScreen's Spacebook is a laptop that employs the other definition of “space,” in that it provides double the screen real estate than those old, ...
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"Blood in the Corners" by J. Robert Lennon
Salon
They would have a lot to talk about, he thinks -- astronomy, socialism. He considers masturbating, but is too depressed. He misses Halyna and his wardrobe. He misses feeling good about himself. The '80s! he thinks, still gazing at the row of videotapes ...
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Astronomers at NUI Galway achieve pulsars breakthrough
Siliconrepublic.com
The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope opened a new era for pulsar astronomy, according to the NUI Galway astronomers. To give you an idea of the density of pulsars, they are about one and a half times the mass of ...
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Drawing pictures key to learning science
ABC Science Online
"So much reasoning in science is visual," he adds, giving the example of astronomy. He says understanding night and day and the seasons requires a visual understanding of the relationship between the Sun and the Earth. Tytler and colleagues own ...
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ABC Science Online

New discovery sheds light on the ecosystem of young galaxies
EurekAlert (press release)
Rauch and his team, using the Magellan Telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory and archival images from the Hubble Space Telescope, discovered a galaxy with an extended patch of light surrounding it. The objects appearance means that roughly half of the ...
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Notre Dame astrophysicists identify missing fuel for galactic star formation
Astronomy Magazine
Astronomers have hypothesized that the ionized fast-moving gas clouds could be this reservoir of gas, but it was not known if they were interacting with the Milky Way. “Our findings explain why the Milky Way can keep having star formation,” Lehner said ...
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NASA May Leave ISS Unmanned After Russian Rocket Crash
International Business Times
ISS, which is expected to remain in operation until at least 2020, and potentially till 2028, is the largest space station ever constructed and serves as a research lab to conduct experiments in biology, physics, astronomy and meteorology. ...
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International Business Times

Astronoblog » Space Astronomy Summer Program 2011 at ... - News
By ttasnimana
Space Astronomy Summer Program 2011 at STScI. ttasnimana | August 29, 2011. A week ago, my internship at STScI ended. Too many amazing things happened that I am grateful for, and here are some (non-project related) highlights of my ...
Astronoblog
Webb: Who Cares What It Costs - Don't Bother Us - Just Send ...
By Keith Cowing
... the problem and the prominence of James Webb for the agency was such that it should be considered an agency-wide solution," William Smith, president of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, told Space News Friday ...
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Astronomy news Astronomy / Space. ... The discovery of a small fast spinning star known as a pulsar has led to astronomers to detect a companion planet, likely ...
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