Halperin: So Governor, the economy is the big issue in this campaign. I want to talk about a range of things, as much as we can fit in in the time, but, obviously, jobs is the biggest issue. You’ve started to tell people what you believe in, but you could be President in eight months, so it’s very real. You’ve got a new ad out that tells people some of the things you do, but I want to go broadly on jobs and then drill down in some of the other areas that relate to the economy, about what you’d do as President. So, Americans would like to know what you’d be like as President, and I know you want them to know. So let ... Continue reading →
This video takes SDO images and applies additional processing to enhance the structures visible. While there is no scientific value to this processing, it does result in a beautiful, new way of looking at the sun.The original frames are in the 171 Angstrom wavelength of extreme ultraviolet. This wavelength shows plasma in the solar atmosphere, called the corona, that is around 600,000 Kelvin. The loops represent plasma held in place by magnetic fields. They are concentrated in "active regions" where the magnetic fields are the strongest. These active regions usually appear in visible light as sunspots. The events in this video represent 24 hours of activity on September 25, 2011. Credit: NASA SDO Continue reading →
Sounds from Saturn Download: cassini-space-project.mp3 In 1997 the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral, its primary objective being the study of Saturn’s geology. As the spacecraft neared Saturn in 2002 it began to detect intense radio waves from the planet’s polar auroras. This sound piece modifies some of the recordings made by the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft. In order of their appearance the sounds include: solar oscillations, radio emissions from Saturn, waves of light from Kepler’s Supernova, comet dust hitting the craft, Saturn’s rotation, a rocket launch. To hear the original unmodified recordings visit the NASA home-page. About soundslikenoise Sound artist and field recorder. Based on the east coast of Australia. Continue reading →
Enlarge image Greek Euro Exit Kostas Tsironis/Bloomberg A customer withdraws cash from an ATM operated by the National Bank of Greece SA in Athens. A customer withdraws cash from an ATM operated by the National Bank of Greece SA in Athens. Photographer: Kostas Tsironis/Bloomberg Greece may have only a 46-hour window of opportunity should it need to plot a route out of the euro. That’s how much time the country’s leaders would probably have to enact any departure from the single currency while global markets are largely closed, from the end of trading in New York on a Friday to Monday’s market opening in Wellington, New Zealand, based on a synthesis of euro-exit scenarios from 21 economists, analysts and academics. Over the two days, leaders ... Continue reading →
And even as his fame grew, Mr. Lucas earned his neighbors’ respect through his discretion. Marin, one of America’s richest counties, liked it that way. But after spending years and millions of dollars, Mr. Lucas abruptly canceled plans recently for the third, and most likely last, major expansion, citing community opposition. An emotional statement posted online said Lucasfilm would build instead in a place “that sees us as a creative asset, not as an evil empire.” If the announcement took Marin by surprise, it was nothing compared with what came next. Mr. Lucas said he would sell the land to a developer to bring “low income housing” here. “It’s inciting class warfare,” said Carolyn Lenert, head of the North San Rafael Coalition of Residents. Mr. ... Continue reading →
The first Gil Evans repertory concert — or at least, the first one expressly presented that way — took place at Carnegie Hall in 1974, when Evans was still around to steer his orchestra clear of sentimentality. Billed as “an evening devoted to the music and career of Gil Evans,” it was one of the earliest productions of the fledgling New York Jazz Repertory Company, for which Evans was one of several musical directors. He was in his early 60s then, an arranger and composer of pioneering achievement in jazz, and a bandleader not much in the habit of retracing his steps. That’s worth remembering now, in the face of two big commemorative events. The first, Thursday through Sunday at the Jazz Standard, features the ... Continue reading →
A campaign playbook by high-profile Republican strategists. WASHINGTON — A group of high-profile Republican strategists is working with a conservative billionaire on a proposal to mount one of the most provocative campaigns of the “super PAC” era and attack President Obama in ways that Republicans have so far shied away from. Timed to upend the Democratic National Convention in September, the plan would “do exactly what John McCain would not let us do,” the strategists wrote. The plan, which is awaiting approval, calls for running commercials linking Mr. Obama to incendiary comments by his former spiritual adviser, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., whose race-related sermons made him a highly charged figure in the 2008 campaign. “The world is about to see Jeremiah Wright and ... Continue reading →
Brendan Kennedy Staff Reporter A week and a half before Byron Sonne was arrested and accused of masterminding a plot to bomb the G20 summit, he and his wife Kristen Peterson went to dinner at an Italian restaurant near their Forest Hill home. After the meal, in a burst of spontaneous affection, Sonne whispered into his wife’s ear: “The single greatest pride in my life is my relationship with you.” Days later the couple were both behind bars — Sonne would spend nearly 11 months in pre-trial custody; while Peterson, arrested a day after her husband, was released after three nights in jail — and they have not said a word to each other since. MORE: Byron Sonne not guilty on G20 explosives charges Together ... Continue reading →
