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thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com — On Thursday afternoon, President Obama will give a speech at National Defense University during which he is expected to provide his first detailed justification for the targeted killing program run by the C.I.A. and the Pentagon.
Attn: @OxfordWords MT @nickbilton Inventor of the gif: “They are wrong. It is a soft ‘G,’ pronounced ‘jif.’” j.mp/14Oy0R9
GIF Creator, Steve Wilhite, Receives Lifetime Achievement Webby Award
bits.blogs.nytimes.com — Among the thousands of file formats that exist in modern computing, the GIF, or Graphics Interchange Format, has attained celebrity status in a sea of lesser-known BMPs, RIPs, FIGs and MIFFs. It was honored as a "word of the year" in 2012, and Tuesday night, its inventor, Steve Wilhite, will be accepting a lifetime achievement award at The Webby Awards.
Gerard Depardieu, now Russian, says “the Tsarnaev brothers have a Chechen family name but American education.” nyti.ms/1a2k7je
Depardieu, Newly a Russian, Will Play a Chechen in Films
nytimes.com — MOSCOW - The French-born actor Gérard Depardieu, who renounced his French nationality and became a citizen of Russia as a protest against high taxes, said Tuesday that he would turn into a Chechen, in two new films to be set in Moscow and in Grozny.
RT @AP BREAKING: Weather service confirms tornado that hit Moore, Okla., was a top-of-the-scale EF-5.
“You could taste the dirt falling from the ceiling." @jeligon on those inside the tornado: nyti.ms/12JAiAM
A Familiar Roar, Then Sadness and Resolve
nytimes.com — MOORE, Okla. - This is it, Mark Ellerd thought. Insulation rained down on his head. He could hear glass shattering, walls crumbling and the roof tearing from his one-story home that sits in the shadow of a multiplex here. And, of course, there was that familiar roar like a train.
With a disaster in his home state, Sen. Tom Coburn sticks to his call to pay for aid with cuts elsewhere: okne.ws/16JKiii
Sen. Tom Coburn says tornado aid should be paid for
newsok.com — WASHINGTON (AP) - Conservative Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn says that any additional federal aid to help tornado victims and to rebuild devastated areas of his state should be financed with cuts to other programs in the government's $3.6 trillion budget.
At least 37 are dead in the Oklahoma tornado nyti.ms/10hkrKd
Vast Tornado Strikes Towns Near Oklahoma City
nytimes.com — A huge tornado, perhaps a mile wide, tore through towns near Oklahoma City on Monday, flattening homes and businesses, starting fires and sending residents scrambling to find friends and neighbors possibly buried in rubble. There were no immediate reports of injuries, and a spokeswoman for the National Weather Service said it was too early to say how strong the tornado was.
I covered the 1999 tornadoes. A Moore cop who lost his home helped "in his sneakers, because his shoes blew away.'' nyti.ms/10IFLDY
FURY ON THE PLAINS: THE RESCUERS; Their Own Homes Gone, Workers Console Others
nytimes.com — Assistant Fire Chief John Hansen was on his first call after the tornadoes hit on Monday night, helping hundreds of dazed and injured students out of their ruined high school, when his eyes turned homeward. His two-story town house was on the other side of a small creek to the east of the school, Westmoore High.
Flattened homes, crushed cars, bloodied residents, neighborhoods turned to debris. Oklahoma tornado on TV: news9.com/category/25821…
Weather: Severe Weather Control Center - News9.com - Oklahoma City, OK - News, Weather, Video and Sports |
news9.com — News9.com is your local source for information in Oklahoma City, delivering breaking news, weather, sports, lifestyle and classifieds.
RT @nycjim Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla. is leveled by tornado.
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