Looks like the federal government denied a visa for Amy Winehouse to perform at the Grammys this year. A good move in my opinion because we don’t need another crazy druggie bitch like Brittney Spears around here again.
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Mitt Romney suspended his bid for the Republican presidential nomination Thursday, saying if he continued it would “forestall the launch of a national campaign and be making it easier for Sen. Clinton or Obama to win.”
“In this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign be a part of aiding a surrender to terror. This is not an easy decision. I hate to lose,” the former Massachusetts governor said.
“If this were only about me, I’d go on. But it’s never been only about me. I entered this race because I love America, and because I love America, in this time of war I feel I have to now stand aside for our party and for our country.”
Romney made the announcement Thursday afternoon at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington.
With Romney out, Sen. John McCain is locked in as the front-runner in the GOP race.
Romney had won 286 delegates in through the Super Tuesday contests, compared with McCain’s 697.
From CNN.
Here’s their headline on an article released yesterday:
” Precise AccuWeather Forecast in Deadly Severe Weather Outbreak”
Here’s what they claim:
“Beginning on Monday, the free AccuWeather.com website correctly warned users in the Memphis area of “Severe thunderstorms (which) can bring downpours, large hail, damaging winds, and a tornado (Tuesday night).” Other popular forecasting web sites were calling only for strong storms, even as Memphis was hit by a tornado.”
Their claim that other “Popular” websites were just calling for storms is just absolute BS. The Storm Prediction Center has that area highlighted in its’ 4-8 day outlook for severe weather and had the area in a first moderate, then high risk for severe weather.
Here’s another blatant lie on Accuweather’s part:
“AccuWeather pinpoint-accurate forecasts for numerous business clients, including one manufacturing plant north of Oxford, Miss. Two tornado warnings had been issued by the National Weather Service for parts of the county, but none for the area of the plant itself. AccuWeather.com correctly warned their client that the manufacturing plant would be hit by a tornado between 5:50 p.m. and 6:15 p.m”
Here’s the tornado warning for that area:
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
541 PM CST TUE FEB 5 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR…
SOUTHWESTERN LAFAYETTE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI…
* UNTIL 600 PM CST
* AT 541 PM CST…NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES WEST OF
SPRINGDALE…OR ABOUT 6 MILES WEST OF WATER VALLEY…MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
OXFORD.
The plant was covered by a warning yet Accuweather just lies about it. It’s no secret that they hate the NWS and the Storm Prediction Center but this is a new low.
One of the strengths of Google News is the diversity we can provide by crawling thousands of sources from around the world. Recently, we’ve also focused on building on the strength of our local news sources. Today you can do just that: find local news by typing your city name or zip code. As always, we’ll bring you results from multiple sources. The biggest change is that top stories in your local area will appear at the top of your results. Our ranking system will take into account the location of the source so we can promote the local sources for each story.
There’s more information about this on the Google News Blog and our help pages. We encourage you to try it out yourself as we keep working to bring you a better news experience.
On Super Tuesday, voters couldn’t cast their ballots online, but we were excited to see so many people turn to the Internet to participate in the election. Americans and many others from around the world sent a clear message on Tuesday — and we heard you! Here are some of our favorite highlights:
Of course, we had a favorite:
Raise your hand if you’d have a hard time getting things done without the Internet. Arranging a reunion with school friends? You can figure out schedules, vote on a venue, share a map, post pictures and videos and later share everything with those who couldn’t make it, and all without leaving your chair. It’s become so easy to coordinate and share with friends and family that we’ve wondered why the same couldn’t apply to teams of co-workers at work or classmates at school.
That’s why we’re launching Google Apps Team Edition. Now you and your co-workers or classmates have a new way to share documents, spreadsheets, presentations and calendar information online. Just sign up with your work or school email address. After confirming that you belong to that organization, it’s easy to invite others from your company or school and start collaborating. There’s no hardware, software or setup involved (and no burden for IT folks).
Of course, organizations need a level of security and control that individuals don’t have to worry about. Team Edition enables co-workers and classmates to choose to share information just with each other, and not with outsiders, and it lets IT departments actively manage Google Apps, so admins can customize the Google Apps experience for users, including who should have access and which applications are available. You can learn more about all the administrative capabilities on the admin site for Google Apps.
Josh Lederberg, whose pioneering work laid foundation stones for modern genetics and biotech — and then for space biology and artificial intelligence — passed away on February 2. His creative and deep thinking on these subjects helped generations of scientists blaze trails in information and bio-sciences. Even more important, his thoughtful approach to new ideas has contributed to dialog on such critical matters as disarmament, genetic engineering, and public health policy.
In technology circles, he’ll be remembered among other things for the expansion of the role of computers for scientific research. While at Stanford he and Edward Feigenbaum developed a computer program called DENDRAL, now recognized as the first expert system for use in science. He was also an early proponent of Digital Libraries. I have benefited in many ways from his tutelage. At one point, after briefing him on the possibilities of the idea of a Digital Library, he looked at me and said “Do something!” I could not have had better advice.
As a child, Josh said he wanted to be “like Einstein.” His Nobel Prize and National Medal of Freedom attest to just how far he got. We will miss him greatly, but his legacy of thoughtful advice will sustain many friends and colleagues well into the 21st century.
