Saturday, August 27, 2011

Irene rakes up East Coast (Reuters)

Irene rakes up East Coast (Reuters)

Irene rakes up East Coast (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 06:19 PM PDT

Pedestrians walk past sandbags used to control possible floods at downtown Manhattan in New York August 26, 2011. REUTERS/Eduardo MunozReuters - Hurricane Irene charged up the East Coast Saturday toward New York, shutting down the city, and millions of Americans hunkered down as the giant storm halted transport and caused massive power blackouts.

Airlines abandon Northeast, N.Y. closes subways (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 07:00 PM PDT

People reach the path system before it stops at noon during the arrival of Hurricane Irene at downtown Manhattan in New York August 27, 2011. REUTERS/Eduardo MunozReuters - Flight cancellations blamed on Hurricane Irene topped 10,000 on Saturday and rail and transit systems in New York and other eastern cities initiated sweeping storm-related shutdowns and slowdowns.

Gov. Cuomo orders dam check after small New York quake (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 04:04 PM PDT

Reuters - Days after a rare 5.8 magnitude earthquake jarred buildings and nerves across the East Coast, a much smaller tremor in upstate New York prompted Governor Andrew Cuomo on Saturday to order inspections of a dam and other structures.

What ESPN's 'White Michael Vick' Story Got Wrong (Time.com)

Posted: 26 Aug 2011 12:50 PM PDT

Time.com - If the point of a good magazine story is to get people talking, consider a piece in the new issue of ESPN The Magazine, "What if Michael Vick Were White?," a grand success

The Lawrence King Case: In Court, Has the Bullied Become the Bully? (Time.com)

Posted: 26 Aug 2011 11:10 AM PDT

Time.com - There is no question that Brandon McInerney killed his classmate Lawrence King. But did he do it because he was sexually harrassed? His prison term may hinge on that

New York shuts down ahead of Hurricane Irene (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 06:01 PM PDT

A woman jogs before the arrival of Hurricane Irene at downtown Manhattan in New York August 27, 2011. REUTERS/Eduardo MunozReuters - Times Square emptied out and evacuation shelters filled up as New York City shut down on Saturday ahead of Hurricane Irene, which charged up the East Coast on a direct path toward the world financial capital.

Addiction? Video games crowded out man's real life (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 07:19 AM PDT

In this June 3, 2011 photo, Ryan Van Cleave holds a copy of his book 'Unplugged' at his home in Sarasota, Fla. Gaming and thinking about video games was all-consuming for Van Cleave. Yet living inside the game World of Warcraft, which became his obsession, seemed preferable to the drudgery of everyday life. Especially when the life involved fighting with his wife about how much time he spent on the computer. While the game made him feel 'godlike,' life's small hitches could be 'profoundly disempowering.' Despite thoughts like this, recorded in his new book, despite dissociative episodes in supermarkets when he felt as if he was inside a game, he did not think he had a problem IRL — gamerspeak for In Real Life. But he did, and a reckoning was coming. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)AP - At the height of what he calls his addiction, Ryan Van Cleave would stand in the grocery store checkout line with his milk and bread and baby food for his little girls and for a split second think he was living inside a video game.

Irene another test of capital's disaster prep (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 04:14 PM PDT

A tourist walks up the step to the Lincoln Memorial as the wind and rain from Hurricane Irene reaches Washington, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)AP - Already bruised by an earthquake that damaged two of its iconic structures, the nation's capital was watching and waiting Saturday for its first hurricane in more than a half-century, a storm that could test its ability to protect both national treasures and vulnerable residents.

Perry blasts Obama, notes own job-creating record (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 05:12 PM PDT

Republican presidential contender, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, speaks at the Polk County GOP summer picnic event held at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)AP - Texas Gov. Rick Perry warned during an appearance in Iowa that President Obama has driven the nation's economy into a ditch, arguing that his own record as governor qualifies him to lead the way out.

Texas city rips up grass in effort to save water (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 10:59 AM PDT

In this Friday, Aug. 26, 2011 photo, postal worker Chris Turner, 49, walks in front of a yard that has gravel instead of grass, in El Paso, Texas. The city started a successful water conservation program 20 years ago that included replacing grass with water saving landscaping plants and materials like gravel. (AP Photo/Juan Carlos Llorca)AP - For decades this city in far West Texas defied the look of most desert communities, with neighborhoods boasting lush, green lawns and residents freely running their sprinklers.

Obama: Getting through Irene will be 'tough slog' (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 06:31 PM PDT

President Barack Obama listens to an update on the status of Hurricane Irene at Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) headquarters in Washington Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011, by FEMA director Craig Fugate, right. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - President Barack Obama offered moral support Saturday to federal emergency management workers hunkered down for Hurricane Irene's weekend march up the East Coast and 14,000 active-duty and National Guard troops were put on standby for post-storm relief work.

Irene lashing Va coast with hurricane winds, rain (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 06:47 PM PDT

A stranded sailboat founders in the surf along the Willoughby Spit area of Norfolk, Va. as Hurricane Irene hits Norfolk, Va., Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011. The live-aboard couple attempted to outrun the storm and got caught up in the high surf and wind. They were rescued by local fire and rescue personnel. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)AP - Still menacing Hurricane Irene knocked out power and piers in North Carolina, clobbered Virginia with wind and churned up the coast Saturday to confront cities more accustomed to snowstorms than tropical storms. New York City emptied its streets and subways and waited with an eerie quiet.

NYC streets empty ahead of Irene; subways stop (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 07:13 PM PDT

Workers at a residential building in the financial district of downtown Manhattan stack sand bags in anticipation of flood waters in the hours before Hurricane Irene's arrival, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011, in New York. Mayor Bloomberg advised all New Yorkers to prepare as the region girded for wind, rain, and flooding as the storm stood poised to bear down on an already saturated New York state. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)AP - The normally bustling streets emptied out and the rumble of the subways came to a stop.

Obama to the nation: Rekindle post-Sept. 11 unity (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 08:19 AM PDT

President Barack Obama exits Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, MD, Friday, Aug. 26, 2011. The President cut short his Martha's Vineyard vacation by one day to return ahead of of Hurricane Irene. Urging everyone in Hurricane Irene's path to get ready, President Barack Obama decided to cut his vacation short Friday and return to the White House for a storm he described as potentially historic. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)AP - President Barack Obama is calling on Americans to rekindle the spirit of unity that characterized the response to the Sept. 11 attacks. "It can be a lasting virtue," he said. "Not just on one day, but every day."

Chicago-bound train derails in Neb.; 22 hurt (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2011 08:15 PM PDT

In this photo provided by Bill Coe via the McCook Daily Gazette, an Amtrak train sits derailed near Benkelman, Neb., Friday, Aug. 26, 2011. The Amtrak train carrying more than 175 passengers from California to Chicago derailed Friday after striking equipment on the tracks in southwest Nebraska and a small number of people were taken to hospitals, a spokesman said. (AP Photo/Bill Coe via McCook Daily Gazette) MANDATORY CREDITAP - An Amtrak train headed from California to Chicago struck a demolition crane in southwest Nebraska on Friday, forcing two locomotives and three passenger cars off the rails but causing no major injuries, officials said.

A look at Irene's wake — and what's ahead (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 01:05 PM PDT

A lone beachgoer is seen in Nags Head, N.C., Friday, Aug. 26, 2011 after evacuations in preparation for Hurricane Irene have left the area mostly deserted. The full force of Hurricane Irene was still a day away from the East Coast but heightened waves began hitting North Carolina's Outer Banks early Friday. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)AP - The latest on what's happening with Hurricane Irene — in its wake and in its path as it moves north along the Eastern Seaboard:

Unusual invite gives gifted boy a chance to belong (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 07:16 AM PDT

In this Aug. 2, 2011 photo, Noah Egler, 13, of Bourbonnais, Ill., holds a prosthetic leg during a workshop on electronic prosthetics at the Indiana University Northwest medical school in Gary, Ind. Because of his love for science and electronics, Egler was invited by the director to participate in the summer program. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - He is about half the age of other students in the room. Yet 13-year-old Noah Egler is completely in his element, wearing powder blue medical scrubs and answering questions with an enthusiasm that draws smiles from those around him.

Scandal threatens Shalala's ambitions at UMiami (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 08:52 AM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 17, 2007 file photo, former Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala, a co-chair on the President's Commission on Care for America's Returning Wounded Warriors, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee. In her decade as University of Miami president, Shalala has strived to get a school once called 'Suntan U' mentioned with the likes of Duke, Vanderbilt and Stanford รข€AP - In her decade as University of Miami president, Donna Shalala has strived to get a school once called "Suntan U" mentioned with the likes of Duke, Vanderbilt and Stanford — world-class private research universities that also win big on Division I courts and playing fields.

The day that `changed everything' (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 09:57 AM PDT

This Aug. 10, 2011 photo provided by Sam Kittner shows Gillian Caldwell and Louis Spitzer with their children Tess and Finn at their home in Takoma Park, Md. 'It was like a total reset,' Caldwell says of the 9/11 attacks, an experience so traumatizing and disorienting that she and Spitzer chose to dramatically transform themselves - and the direction of their lives. 'I was surfacing a clarity about who and how I wanted to be in the world.' (AP Photo/Kittner.com, Sam Kittner)AP - Gone is the brownstone in Brooklyn with the tiny garden but room for little else, and 10-hour days devoted to building careers. Gone are the social lives filled with close but mostly childless friends, and a biological clock that seemed on snooze.

Mel Gibson and ex-girlfriend reach settlement (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 03:38 AM PDT

This combo image of two file photographs shows Mel Gibson and his ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva. (Left) Mel Gibson appears at a Los Angeles Airport Courthouse, regarding a misdemeanor spousal battery charge, in Los Angeles, on March 11, 2011. (Right) Oksana Grigorieva talks during a news conference in Moscow on April 19, 2010. Los Angeles Superior Court officials said in a statement late Friday, Aug. 26, 2011, that after sparring for more than a year, Gibson and Grigorieva have reached a financial and custody settlement. (AP Photo/Mark Boster, Pool (Left), Mikhail Metzel (Right), Files)AP - After sparring for more than a year, Mel Gibson and his ex-girlfriend have reached a financial and custody settlement of a bitter dispute that spawned a criminal case and left the Academy Award winner's reputation damaged.
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