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Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Gov't dysfunction may be baked into the system
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, following the Democratic policy luncheon. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, following the Democratic policy luncheon. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, following the Republican policy luncheon. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The works do seem to be "gummed up" on Capitol Hill. And President Barack Obama isn't the only one to say so.
Yet despite years of hand-wringing in both parties, little progress has been made toward changing congressional rules on filibusters, senatorial "holds" on presidential nominees and other stalling ploys.
Inhibiting forward motion is the fact that all lawmakers are keenly aware that their party is always just one congressional election away from losing ? or gaining ? majority control.
"I'm sure my colleagues are familiar with the old adage: 'Be careful what you wish for. You just might get it,'" said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., who spearheaded a largely unsuccessful effort in January to restrict filibusters.
In fact, many GOP delaying tactics now decried by Democrats were used by the Democrats themselves just a few years ago when Republicans were in charge.
Adding to the present obstacle course on Capitol Hill is a sudden rash of investigations into Obama administration steps and missteps.
Congress is taking off its legislative hat for now and donning detective garb as it rushes to probe three simmering controversies: the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups that sought tax-exempt status; allegations of a cover-up after the terrorist attack last September that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya; and disclosure that the Justice Department secretly obtained a raft of phone records from Associated Press reporters and editors in search of a leaker.
By nearly all accounts, use of congressional obstructive tactics ? especially in the Senate, where debate time is generally unlimited ? has been rising.
In particular, the flurry of procedural roadblocks ? mostly by Republicans ? have "gummed up the works," Obama says. "Right now, things are pretty dysfunctional up on Capitol Hill."
Gridlock is being reinforced by the refusal of many Republican incumbents to buck the party line on certain hot-button issues ? a measure of the clout wielded by tea party activists and conservative lobbies like the National Rifle Association. GOP incumbents fret about possible primary challenges from the right in the 2014 midterm elections.
Strong GOP resistance to tighter gun-control measures, for instance, ignores polls showing overwhelming public support for more gun-sale background checks. And nearly lockstep Republican opposition to tax increases ignores wide public backing for higher taxes on the wealthy.
The legislative carnage for Obama increases even as he wrestles with damage control.
? Despite rising gun violence and the Boston Marathon bombings, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives hasn't had a director for six years. Obama's nomination of Acting ATF Director B. Todd Jones for the job remains mired in Senate GOP obstruction.
? Obama's nominations of Gina McCarthy to head the Environmental Protection Agency, Thomas E. Perez as labor secretary and Penny Pritzer to lead the Commerce Department also face stiff GOP resistance.
? Some 85 federal judgeships around the country remain vacant. (In many cases, Republican senators are breaking with tradition and refusing to even make recommendations to Obama for their own states.)
These days, hardly anything can be approved in the 100-member Senate ? even commonplace measures ? with fewer than 60 votes. Democrats control 55 votes at most. It takes 60 votes to overcome procedural delaying tactics and move ahead with legislation.
"Divided government in a time of extreme partisan polarization is a formula for gridlock," said congressional scholar Thomas E. Mann at the Brookings Institution think tank.
Mann, co-author of "It's Even Worse Than It Looks ...," a book about governmental logjams, said filibusters historically were reserved for weighty issues like civil rights legislation or widely controversial appointments. "Now we have an automatic 60-vote hurdle for virtually every piece of legislation ... and a willingness to use tactics and to automatically oppose the president whenever he's for something."
And it's not just Congress that is stuck in the procedural mud, suggests Paul Light, a New York University professor who studies governance and political leadership. "I also think the presidency is dysfunctional. The state legislatures are dysfunctional. I think the entire government at this point is dysfunctional."
Light traces much of this dysfunction to sophisticated computer-assisted, once-a-decade redrawing of congressional and legislative district lines. Republican districts have become more purely conservative and Democratic districts have become more purely liberal as new lines are minutely drawn and fine-tuned by both sides for political advantage.
People who live on one side of a street can suddenly find themselves in a different congressional district from their neighbors across the street.
That's helped officeholders of both parties keep their seats. But it's also worked against consensus-building and compromise in Washington as national lawmakers play to their carefully sculpted home-district audiences. Reid tried to restrict filibuster use after the November elections gave Democrats continued ? if narrow ? Senate control. But the deal the majority leader thought he'd struck with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., fell through.
Instead, Reid and McConnell agreed to a watered-down plan that tweaked the filibuster guidelines ? but left the rules largely unchanged.
Filibusters historically are talk fests in which senators hold the floor with speeches for hours and days on end. But now, even the mere threat of a filibuster is usually enough to bring things to a grinding halt.
Blame the Founding Fathers in part for today's gridlock.
While filibusters and "holds" are not expressly mentioned in the Constitution, by giving each state two senators, the Constitution bestowed disproportionate leverage to small-population states, which today includes many Southern, prairie and Western Republican-leaning "red" states.
And in the House, Republicans benefit from being more evenly distributed across states, while Democrats tend to cluster in cities and inner suburbs, which effectively dilutes their vote.
"There are all kinds of anti-democratic features in our system, which, I think, if Americans thought about it enough, it would depress them," said Ross Baker, a Rutgers University political scientist. "Some of them were built in by the framers and some of them were added later on."
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There's a reason that many eyes were on Plaza Towers Elementary as Moore, Oklahoma began to assess the damage from a deadly, devastating tornado that blasted through the town Monday evening?and killed at least 51 people: the school was leveled, with dozens of children still inside. And so far, some of the most emotionally charged news has emerged from the story unfolding there.?
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Gillibrand's Student Loan Proposal Follows Warren's Lead - Truthdig
Gillibrand?s Student Loan Proposal Follows Warren?s Lead
Posted on May?20,?2013
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., has proposed legislation that would allow holders of student debt to refinance their loans at lower interest rates, a move that could save tens of millions of borrowers a combined $14.5 billion in the first year. Under the plan, government loans with interest rates above 4 percent would be refinanced to a fixed rate of 4 percent.
?At a time when corporations, homeowners and even local governments are refinancing at historically low interest rates and saving millions of dollars, students and families who take out loans to pay for college are getting left behind,? she said. ?Ensuring that our graduates are not saddled with unmanageable debt by keeping interest rates low is just common sense.?
Gillibrand?s move comes less than two weeks after Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., introduced a bill that would effectively give new students seeking federal loans to finance their education the same low interest rates as the bailed out Wall Street financial institutions.
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Holders of federal student loans haven?t seen a drop in their interest rates even as other borrowing costs have fallen. Many loans have interest rates of 6.8 or 7.9 percent, while the interest rate for the average 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage is 3.5 percent.
And as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) recently pointed out, banks have even lower borrowing costs when they come to the federal government to borrow. They can get an interest rate of 0.75 percent on loans through the Federal Reserve discount window. Warren has also introduced a bill to address high levels of student debt by calling for student loan rates to mirror those that benefit banks.
...The Center for American Progress estimated that Gillibrand?s legislation would save borrowers $14.5 billion in the first year, leading to a $21.7 billion boost in economic activity.
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NFL, Xbox enhancing interactive television viewing
Imagine Sean Payton holding up a Surface tablet instead of a cardboard playsheet on the sideline.
Envision Peyton Manning sitting on the bench and dissecting the last series from a variety of camera angles on his hand-held device instead of looking at still photos. Or sitting at home and pulling up real-time highlights on a Sunday afternoon.
It's coming.
The NFL and Microsoft, through its next generation Xbox device, are combining to upgrade interactive TV viewing of pro football games in a multiyear agreement announced Tuesday. The next step after that, perhaps as early as 2014, will be bringing technology to the sidelines on tablets.
The deal is worth $400 million over five years for the NFL, according to a person familiar with the agreement. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because financial details have not been made public.
"When you think about the sidelines, what is most important for us is how you make the game of football better, make what the coaches and players do better, using technology but preserving the competition," said Brian Rolapp, chief operating officer of NFL Media. "The challenge is how to bring technology to make it a better experience for them and for the fans.
"You can start with how we communicate with each other, whether it's game officials or coaches. Coaches can look at formations as they develop. We'll look at how do you do the still photos better, get more into real time? Is there a more efficient way to give replay officials a way of doing reviews better through technology?"
That's for the future, albeit the not too distant future.
Fans will get new television viewing innovations including the ability to watch games, Skype video chat with other fans, view statistics, access highlights in real time, and gather fantasy information about players and teams ? all on a single screen. For those who prefer multiple screens, fans can get an even deeper experience on mobile devices and tablets with SmartGlass technology.
"From the use of instant replay to the yellow first-down line that has become an important element of the at-home television viewing experience, the NFL is committed to leveraging technology to improve our game for coaches, players and fans," Commissioner Roger Goodell said. "We're thrilled to be teaming with a true innovator like Microsoft to shape the future of the NFL game experience both on-field, and in the living room."
Such technology is expected to keep fans not one step but several strides ahead of what's being presented live on TV now.
Consider that a Bears fan in Chicago could be watching his team take on the Giants at Soldier Field while conversing visually with a friend in New York on the same screen. Also on that screen could be all pertinent statistics for the game, access to NFL Red Zone and to replays from the Giants-Bears matchup.
Plus ? and perhaps as significant as anything to the NFL given the popularity of fantasy football ? real-time updated stats from around the league. Call it seamless fantasy integration with the real product.
"This partnership will redefine NFL experiences through exclusive and interactive content that you will find only on Xbox," said Don Mattrick, president of the IEB Division at Microsoft. "For fans, the NFL on Xbox will provide the most complete way to enjoy live football by bringing the first fully integrated fantasy football experience to the TV."
Branding of Microsoft products on the hoods of the referee's on-field instant replay station and other sideline areas will begin this season. In coming years, coaches or coordinators figure to have Surface tablets to aid in-game planning and for play calling.
The prospect presents enough competitive challenges that the NFL's competition committee will discuss guidelines for their use before making any recommendations to the owners next year or beyond.
"Anything we do will go through the proper approval processes," Rolapp said. "Whatever we do, it's of paramount importance it enhances the competition. We have some gospel points we will not break."
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
New method for tailoring optical processors
May 21, 2013 ? Rice University scientists have unveiled a robust new method for arranging metal nanoparticles in geometric patterns that can act as optical processors that transform incoming light signals into output of a different color. The breakthrough by a team of theoretical and applied physicists and engineers at Rice's Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP) is described this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Rice's team used the method to create an optical device in which incoming light could be directly controlled with light via a process known as "four-wave mixing." Four-wave mixing has been widely studied, but Rice's disc-patterning method is the first that can produce materials that are tailored to perform four-wave mixing with a wide range of colored inputs and outputs.
"Versatility is one of the advantages of this process," said study co-author Naomi Halas, director of LANP and Rice's Stanley C. Moore Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a professor of biomedical engineering, chemistry, physics and astronomy. "It allows us to mix colors in a very general way. That means not only can we send in beams of two different colors and get out a third color, but we can fine-tune the arrangements to create devices that are tailored to accept or produce a broad spectrum of colors."
The information processing that takes place inside today's computers, smartphones and tablets is electronic. Each of the billions of transistors in a computer chip uses electrical inputs to act upon and modify the electrical signals passing through it. Processing information with light instead of electricity could allow for computers that are both faster and more energy-efficient, but building an optical computer is complicated by the quantum rules that light obeys.
"In most circumstances, one beam of light won't interact with another," said LANP theoretical physicist Peter Nordlander, a co-author of the new study. "For instance, if you shine a flashlight at a wall and you cross that beam with the beam from a second flashlight, it won't matter. The light that comes out of the first flashlight will pass through, independent of the light from the second.
"This changes if the light is traveling in a 'nonlinear medium,'" he said. "The electromagnetic properties of a nonlinear medium are such that the light from one beam will interact with another. So, if you shine the two flashlights through a nonlinear medium, the intensity of the beam from the first flashlight will be reduced proportionally to the intensity of the second beam."
The patterns of metal discs LANP scientists created for the PNAS study are a type of nonlinear media. The team used electron-beam lithography to etch puck-shaped gold discs that were placed on a transparent surface for optical testing. The diameter of each disc was about one-thousandth the width of a human hair. Each was designed to harvest the energy from a particular frequency of light; by arranging a dozen of the discs in a closely spaced pattern, the team was able to enhance the nonlinear properties of the system by creating intense electrical fields.
"Our system exploits a particular plasmonic effect called a Fano resonance to boost the efficiency of the relatively weak nonlinear effect that underlies four-wave mixing," Nordlander said. "The result is a boost in the intensity of the third color of light that the device produces."
Graduate student and co-author Yu-Rong Zhen calculated the precise arrangement of 12 discs that would be required to produce two coherent Fano resonances in a single device, and graduate student and lead co-author Yu Zhang created the device that produced the four-wave mixing -- the first such material ever created.
"The device Zhang created for four-wave mixing is the most efficient yet produced for that purpose, but the value of this research goes beyond the design for this particular device," said Halas, who was recently named a member of the National Academy of Sciences for her pioneering research in nanophotonics. "The methods used to create this device can be applied to the production of a wide range of nonlinear media, each with tailored optical properties."
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Brighten Up Your Living Space With These Helpful Home ...
Your living space continually influences you as you go about daily life. It affects your mood and outlook. Your home is intended to be a place where you can be comfortable, entertain and enjoy some rest and relaxation. When you decorate your home in a way that expresses your personality, you will be happier spending your time there. This article has tips that will help you make your home a more relaxed and comfortable place to spend time.
When considering home improvements, keep your own comfort in mind. Even though everyone?s house has some flaws, you should make sure to fix anything causing you major discomfort. Small changes can make your life more pleasurable. You can replace your kitchen chairs and table or maybe buy a nice sofa.
Enlarge your storage area. Running out of room is common and when it happens to you, you may want to think of expanding. Even just a few feet of extra space can reduce clutter and stress.
Turn your home into a place that you enjoy being. Installing a pool, hot tub or sauna can make your time at home enjoyable. You can also opt for more affordable options, such as a basketball net, home gym, or other recreational project.
It is easy to overlook the tremendous difference high-quality lighting can make in the appearance of the home. If you replace the lighting in a home, it can make it very different and cause less strain on your eyesight.
Start being a gardener. Look around your yard, and select a bright, sunny spot that would be ideal for your garden. Or, consider landscaping the entire yard to make it an enjoyable haven. If you do not have the leisure time or the talent to maintain your own garden, you can still reap the benefits by hiring a professional lawn care person. Adding any type of garden area to your home will also help in cleaning the surrounding air of pollutants, as greenery is a natural filter. Additionally, depending on what you choose to grow, freshly picked fruit or vegetables can grace your dinner table every night. Your meals can be enhanced with fresh herbs, while your decor is perked up with a bunch of your own flowers.
Alter the outside of your home. Changes like a new roof or a paint job can make your home look so much better. Whenever you make it home from a hard day, you will pull up to a nice place you love to call your home.
Since you spend so much time at home, you are much happier overall if you are happy with your house. Home improvements are great for increasing your home?s value and improving your well-being.
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Monday, May 20, 2013
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The Panama City Beach Relay for Life took place Friday night through Saturday Morning.
More than 200 people showed up throughout the night to rally for the cause.
The event was held at Arnold High School?s Gavlak Sports Complex and raised over 70 thousand dollars for the American Cancer Society.
30 local teams prepared for the event for months, and despite how exhausting the event can be, they say they are happy to support those who have been affected by cancer.
"The Relay for Life is one of the biggest fundraisers of any non-profit organization. Panama City Beach alone raised 70,000 dollars, Relay for Life as a whole has raised 4 billion dollars since 1985," said Brandon Greve, Relay for Life Event Chairman.
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AP CEO calls records seizure unconstitutional
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press on Sunday called the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records "unconstitutional" and said the news cooperative had not ruled out legal action against the Justice Department.
Gary Pruitt, in his first television interviews since it was revealed the Justice Department subpoenaed phone records of AP reporters and editors, said the move already has had a chilling effect on journalism. Pruitt said the seizure has made sources less willing to talk to AP journalists and, in the long term, could limit Americans' information from all news outlets.
Pruitt told CBS' "Face the Nation" that the government has no business monitoring the AP's newsgathering activities.
"And if they restrict that apparatus ... the people of the United States will only know what the government wants them to know and that's not what the framers of the Constitution had in mind when they wrote the First Amendment," he said.
In a separate interview with the AP, Pruitt said the news cooperative had not decided its next move but had not ruled out legal action against the government.
"It's too early to know if we'll take legal action but I can tell you we are positively displeased and we do feel that our constitutional rights have been violated," he said.
"They've been secretive, they've been overbroad and abusive ? so much so that taken together, they are unconstitutional because they violate our First Amendment rights," he added.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said the government needs to stop leaks by whatever means necessary.
"This is an investigation that needs to happen because national security leaks, of course, can get our agents overseas killed," he said.
Republican Sen. John Cornyn, a member of the Judiciary Committee, said the government should focus on those who leak sensitive national security matters and not on journalists who report on them. The Texas Republican said his committee should hold hearings on how the Justice Department obtained phone records from AP reporters and editors.
"What confuses me is the focus on the press, who have a constitutional right here and we depend on the press to get to the bottom of so many issues that we, as individuals, cannot," Cornyn said.
Cornyn said the Justice Department's actions were part of a pattern for President Barack Obama's administration to quiet its critics.
"It's a culture of cover-ups and intimidation that is giving the administration so much trouble," Cornyn said.
He also renewed his call for Attorney General Eric Holder to resign, citing the contempt citation the House of Representatives voted against him last year for refusing to turn over documents in a failed government gun smuggling sting.
White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said the president "has complete faith in Attorney General Holder." He also insisted the White House was not involved in the decision to seek AP phone records.
"A cardinal rule is we don't get involved in independent investigations. And this is one of those," Pfeiffer said.
Although the Justice Department has not explained why it sought phone records from the AP, Pruitt pointed to a May 7, 2012, story that disclosed details of a successful CIA operation in Yemen to stop an airliner bomb plot around the one-year anniversary of the May 2, 2011, killing of Osama bin Laden.
The AP delayed publication of that story at the request of government officials who said it would jeopardize national security.
"We respected that, we acted responsibly, we held the story," Pruitt said.
Pruitt said that only after officials from two government entities said the threat had passed did the AP publish the story. He said the administration still asked that the story be held until an official announcement the next day, a request the AP rejected.
The news service viewed the story as important because White House and Department of Homeland Security officials were saying publicly there was no credible evidence of a terrorist threat to the U.S. around the one-year anniversary of bin Laden's death.
"So that was misleading to the American public. We felt the American public needed to know this story," Pruitt said.
The AP has seen an effect on its newsgathering since the disclosure of the Justice Department's subpoena, he said.
"Officials that would normally talk to us and people we talk to in the normal course of newsgathering are already saying to us that they're a little reluctant to talk to us," Pruitt said. "They fear that they will be monitored by the government."
The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of personal and work telephone records for several reporters and editors, as well as general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and for the main number for the AP in the House of Representatives press gallery.
"It was sweeping and broad and beyond what they needed to do," Pruitt said.
He objected to the "Justice Department acting on its own being the judge, jury and executioner in secret," saying the AP would not back down.
"We're not going to be intimidated by the abusive tactics of the Justice Department," he said.
McConnell and Pfeiffer were interviewed on NBC's "Meet the Press." Cornyn appeared on "Face the Nation."
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Plane makes belly landing at Newark airport (+video)
Plane makes belly landing Saturday with no injuries. A US Airways flight from Philadelphia made an emergency belly landing in Newark when the landing gear could not be lowered.
A US Airways flight made an emergency landing on its belly at Newark Liberty International Airport early on Saturday after the plane's landing gear failed to deploy, but no one was injured, airline and government officials said.
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Piedmont Airlines flight 4560, operating for US Airways from Philadelphia with 34 passengers and three crew members, landed safely at 1 a.m., and passengers were evacuated on the tarmac and transported to the terminal, a Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman said in an email.
Belly landings are unusual and dangerous because of the threat of fire from the plane fuselage skidding on a hard surface, according to aviation experts.
The airport was closed for more than an hour, and the runway was closed for more than eight hours following the incident, officials said.
The National Transportation Safety Board said in a Twitter post that it was investigating. A US Airways spokesman said the plane is a Dash 8-100 with a capacity of 37 passengers. The plane was made by De Havilland of Canada, which is owned by Bombardier Inc.
The plane left Philadelphia late on Friday night and the pilot made an emergency declaration after the left main landing gear failed to deploy, according to airline and FAA officials. The pilot circled the airport and then decided to land with no gear deployed.
The incident comes nearly three weeks after a Scandinavian Airlines plane with 252 people on board clipped the wing of an ExpressJet, operated by Skywest Inc., with 31 passengers as they were preparing to take off from the same airport. There were no injuries.
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Sunday, May 19, 2013
A Native American tale with international pedigree
Actors Mathieu Amalric, left, and Benicio Del Toro pose for photographers during a photo call for the film Jimmy P. Psychotheraphy of a Plains Indian at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
Actors Mathieu Amalric, left, and Benicio Del Toro pose for photographers during a photo call for the film Jimmy P. Psychotheraphy of a Plains Indian at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
Actors Benicio Del Toro takes his place during a press conference for Jimmy P. Psychotheraphy of a Plains Indian at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
Actor Mathieu Amalric, left, is embraced by director Arnaud Desplechin as they pose for photographers during a photo call for the film Jimmy P. Psychotheraphy of a Plains Indian at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
Actor Benicio Del Toro poses for photographers during a photo call for the film Jimmy P. Psychotheraphy of a Plains Indian at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
From left, actor Benicio Del Toro, director Arnaud Desplechin and actor Mathieu Amalric pose for photographers during a photo call for the film Jimmy P. Psychotheraphy of a Plains Indian at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)
CANNES, France (AP) ? It took an international production starring a Puerto Rican and a Frenchman to bring the Native American tale "Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian" to the big screen.
The film, an English language one from French director Arnaud Desplechin, made its premiere Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival, where it's among 20 movies competing for the prestigious Palme d'Or.
It's principally a tete-a-tete between two men: the Blackfoot Indian Jimmy Picard (Benicio Del Toro), who's suffering from head trauma after serving in World War II; and an eager anthropologist and psychologist from France, George Devereux (Mathieu Amalric), who treats him at a Topeka, Kansas, military hospital.
"The film has one foot in Europe and one foot in America," Desplechin told reporters Saturday. The "A Christmas Tale" director shot the movie in the Midwest and on a Blackfoot reservation in Montana.
In the genre of psychotherapy films ? from Hitchcock's "Spellbound" to David Cronenberg's "A Dangerous Method" ? "Jimmy P." is particularly faithful to the probing dialogue between patient and analyst. It's a case study of a film, adapted from Devereux's 1951 book, "Reality and Dream," that includes lengthy transcriptions of sessions. Desplechin said he wanted to grasp "the adventure" between the pair as they become friends while sifting Jimmy's memories for the roots of his pain.
Much of it rides on the chemistry between Del Toro and Amalric, both widely-respected, shape-shifting international actors. They operate, though, on very different rhythms, with Amalric's frantic energy contrasting with Del Toro's weary heaviness.
"I'm very impressed with Benicio as a person," said Amalric. "I thought: How can I use this, the fact that I'm deeply impressed?"
Del Toro, who said the two first met several years ago in Cannes, said that two actors either connect, or they don't. He identified with one quality of Jimmy, whose Indian name means "Everybody Talks About Him."
"Everybody talks about him," said Del Toro. "Everybody talks about me."
As for whether "Jimmy P." constitutes an American film, Desplechin said he sides with the festival's classification, which goes by director. But, he said, the film is ultimately about a transitional kind of nationality, and the friendship that blooms between a discriminated-against Native American and an immigrant doctor, both finding their way in a country foreign to them.
Said Desplechin: "It's the story of two men becoming American."
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Saturday, May 18, 2013
Obama Pivots to Jobs Tour at End of Scandal Filled Week
obama After a week filled with political scandals, President Obama turned to promoting his jobs tour in his weekly address Saturday.
"That's why I like getting out of the Washington echo chamber whenever I can - because too often, our politics aren't focused on the same things you are. Working hard. Supporting your family and your community. Making sure your kids have every chance in life," Obama said in his weekly address Saturday.
"I'm going to keep trying to work with both parties in Washington to make progress on your priorities. Because I know that if we come together around creating more jobs, educating more of our kids, and building new ladders of opportunity for everyone who's willing to climb them - we'll all prosper, together," he said.
The president traveled to Baltimore, Md. Friday on his second stop for the "Middle Class Jobs and Opportunity Tour." He spoke at a dredging company, visited with children at an elementary school, and stopped at a community center focused on helping fathers and families.
Obama's trip came as he tried to pivot attention back to his second term agenda as a series of political scandals involving the IRS, Benghazi, and the Department of Justice dominated much of the week.
But while the president attempted to divert attention from the political scandals of the week, Republicans used the incidents as a rallying call to repeal the healthcare law.
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"Now: just think about the fact that it's the IRS that will be responsible for enforcing many of these regulations. If we've learned anything this week, it's that the IRS needs less power, not more'" Rep. Andy Harris, R-MD, said in the GOP weekly address, "As a matter of fact, it turns out that the IRS official who oversaw the operation that's under scrutiny for targeting conservatives is now in charge of the IRS's ObamaCare office. You can't make this stuff up."
"Well here's the problem: the train wreck is already here. ObamaCare is knocking Americans off the ladder of opportunity, and the sooner we repeal it, the sooner we can start fixing health care for working families," he said.
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CBO: Obama budget cuts deficits $1.1T by 2023
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Congress' nonpartisan budget analyst says President Barack Obama's budget would trim projected federal deficits by $1.1 trillion over the coming decade.
The Congressional Budget Office said Friday that after four straight years of annual shortfalls exceeding $1 trillion, Obama's budget would leave this year's deficit at $669 billion.
The report says annual budget gaps would fall slowly to $399 billion in 2017 before gradually rising again.
The budget office says that of the overall savings Obama proposes, $974 billion would come from higher revenues and $172 billion from spending cuts.
Overall, the budget office says Obama's budget would produce $5.2 trillion in red ink through 2023. But that is $1.1 trillion less than the deficits that would be generated over that time if no tax or spending laws are changed.
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Investigation into Powell disappearance may close
SCOTTS MILLS, Ore. (AP) ? After a search in rural Oregon failed to yield any trace of missing Utah mother Susan Powell, authorities say they may close the investigation.
Wayne Pyle, who is city manager in West Valley City, Utah, said Thursday that leads in the case have dried up in the three and a-half years since Powell went missing.
Police said earlier Thursday they found no signs of Powell after searching for two days at a rural site near Salem, the capital city of Oregon.
Susan Powell was reported missing in December 2009 after she didn't show up for work. Her husband said he had taken the couple's young boys on a midnight camping trip the night she disappeared.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/investigation-powell-disappearance-may-close-191609175.html
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Iraqis mourn 2 Shiite fighters killed in Syria
BASRA, Iraq (AP) ? Hundreds of Iraqis attended the Friday funeral in a southern city of two Shiite fighters killed in Syria. Several such funerals have been held in recent months, the latest sign that the conflict has taken on a sectarian regional dimension.
Mourners in the oil-rich city of Basra carried the coffin of Mohammed Aboud, whom they say was killed by sniper fire near the shrine of Sayida Zeinab outside the Syrian capital Damascus five days before.
They said Aboud went to Iran two months ago before flying to Syria in order to join a group of fighters protecting that country's Shiite shrines against attacks launched by the rebel Free Syrian Army.
For months Iraqi Shiite fighters have trickled into Syria, where mostly Sunni rebels are fighting a regime dominated by a Shiite offshoot sect. Their relatives say the fighters are drawn by a sense of religious duty to protect the Sayida Zeinab shrine, which marks what is believed to be the grave of the granddaughter of the Prophet Muhammad. Iraq remains officially neutral in the Syrian conflict.
There have been regular clashes in the area of the shrine, but it is impossible to verify what the Shiite fighters are actually doing. The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah has also recently said that supporters of the Shiite militant group are fighting in Syria and said Shiites have "a duty to protect the Sayida Zeinab shrine."
Six men wearing military camouflage carried Aboud's coffin, painted in the colors of the Iraqi flag. "Sigh in grief, Zeinab," was written on its front.
The coffin of the other slain fighter, Hassan Ali, was rushed to Baghdad at the start of the funeral. Relatives said both bodies were transported from Syria via Iran before being returned to Iraq.
Aboud's uncle Ali Abbas said that the family received a phone call from a Shiite fighter in Syria informing that his nephew was killed during clashes near the shrine.
"We are proud of our martyr who was sacrificed his life while defending the religion, holy shrines and righteousness," Abbas said.
Some of the mourners chanted slogans against the Sunni-dominated Free Syrian Army rebel group and the al-Qaida-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra, which in the past year has become the most effective fighting force within the opposition trying to topple Assad.
Relatives said that the two bodies were received at the Shalamja border crossing with Iran. Earlier this month, another body for killed Iraq Shiite fighter was also brought through Iran.
Tehran's alleged role in repatriating bodies strengthens suggestions that it is coordinating the movement of foreign fighters to aid its embattled ally, Syria.
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Associated Press Writer Sameer N. Yacoub in Baghdad contributed reporting.
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Friday, May 17, 2013
Hines Plans a Shiny New 18-Story Office Building Across San Felipe ...
Hines is planning to build an 18-story office building on a 3-lane section of San Felipe between Shepherd and Kirby, across the street from tony River Oaks. The site is the 35,000-sq.-ft. former lushy garden and grounds of a Vermont Commons home, which features several trees and at least one giant oak. ?No one knows anything about this,? a source tells Swamplot. ?They think a few nice townhouses are about to rise from the earth. That is the story that?s circulating the hood.?
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The site is on the southwest corner of San Felipe and Spann. The proposed building, designed by HKS and Ziegler Cooper, is meant to include approximately 170,000 sq. ft. of office space in 10 office stories; they?ll be sitting atop an 8-level parking garage. The main street entrance appears to front Spann St. Randall Davis?s now-reportedly ?sold out??Chateau Ten 10-unit condo building is going up across that street, at 2221 Welch. The leaked rendering above is a preliminary design.
Hines appears not to have announced the project to neighbors, though obsessive Googlers might have come across a company press release from late last month that happened to drop the name of the project, which also happens to be its address: 2229 San Felipe. ?The neighbors are only now starting to learn the truth,? claims a source. ?They were led to believe that nice River-Oaks-type luxury townhomes were going to built on that corner. Who knows who started that rumor, but that?s what we heard . . . To say that people are upset is an understatement . . . it?s going to be another Ashby Highrise brawl. . . . The River Oaks folks are not going to like tenants looking down on their pools, backyards, terraces, balconies . . .?
An entity connected to Hines bought the property last November. The company expects to complete the building at the end of 2014 or the beginning of 2015.
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High School Students From Nevada To Perform With The Rolling Stones (VIDEO)
One group of teen musicians from Nevada is about to get the opportunity of a lifetime: performing on stage with real-life rock stars.
According to Channel 8 News, the 24-person choir at Green Valley High School in Henderson, Nev. is going to perform at the Rolling Stones' concert in Las Vegas on Saturday. They'll join the band on stage and sing along to the hit song,"You Can't Always Get What You Want," for the encore performance.
Kim Ritzer, the school's choir director, was originally contacted about the opportunity through Facebook, then the students auditioned for a Rolling Stones representative over Skype.
Watch the students' reactions to the news in the video above.
Not only are the high schoolers looking forward to the upcoming show, but their parents are just as thrilled -- if not more so.
"I called my dad. He was screaming at me over the phone and said, ?Are you kidding me?'" student Kyle Sorenson told Channel 8 News. "And my mom told me -- she said, ?You better get an extra ticket or else I'll come with a chaperone.' They're beyond excited, and so am I."
Michael Pollack is another student musician who took advantage of a unique opportunity to get on stage with a celeb who visited his college. When iconic singer-songwriter Billy Joel visited Vanderbilt in March, the two performed "New York State of Mind" in front of a packed audience. Pollack rocked out on the piano and Joel sang the accompanying lyrics.
And more recently, 19-year-old Marie Sowler told the Internet just how much she wanted to meet her idol Kellin Quinn, lead singer from the band Sleeping With Sirens, and the power of social media made it happen. Quinn chatted with the teen cancer patient over Skype before he left to go on tour.
He then took to Twitter and said, "Hey guys thank you so much for your support in rallying for Marie :) she's my hero! So grateful to have such caring fans!"
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Thursday, May 16, 2013
Dr. Dre, Iovine donate $70M for new USC center
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Hip-hop mogul Dr. Dre, whose real name is Andre Young, and music industry entrepreneur Jimmy Iovine have donated a combined $70 million to create a new institute at the University of Southern California, the school announced Tuesday night.
The huge gift from the two who have been music business partners in the past will be used to create the Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy for Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation.
The academy will provide a special four-year program for undergraduates whose interests span several fields from marketing to computer science to visual design and other arts. It will include one-on-one faculty mentoring with professors from programs around the university and interaction with entertainment industry luminaries.
"The vision and generosity of Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young will profoundly influence the way all of us perceive and experience artistic media," USC President C. L. Max Nikias said in a statement. "We are committed to encouraging our students to use their intellectual and creative resources to effect change in all segments of society. Our goal is to ensure that the academy is the most collaborative educational program in the world."
The academy will accept its first class of 25 students in the fall of 2014.
Iovine is the co-founder of Interscope Records, chairman of Interscope Geffen A&M and a mentor on "American Idol."
Dr. Dre is best known as a producer, solo rapper and co-owner of Death Row records. He later started his own record label, Aftermath Entertainment.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/dr-dre-iovine-donate-70m-usc-center-050913973.html
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HP announces two new dockable Android and Windows 8 tablets
May 15 (Reuters) - Post positions for the 138th running of the Preakness Stakes, to be run at Pimlico on Saturday (Post Position, Horse, Jockey, Trainer, Odds) 1. Orb, Joel Rosario, Shug McGaughey, even 2. Goldencents, Kevin Krigger, Doug O'Neill, 8-1 3. Titletown Five, Julien Leparoux, D. Wayne Lukas, 30-1 4. Departing, Brian Hernandez, Al Stall, 6-1 5. Mylute, Rosie Napravnik, Tom Amoss, 5-1 6. Oxbow, Gary Stevens, D. Wayne Lukas, 15-1 7. Will Take Charge, Mike Smith, D. Wayne Lukas, 12-1 8. Govenor Charlie, Martin Garcia, Bob Baffert, 12-1 9. ...
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Senate panel approves US ambassador to Libya
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday approved President Barack Obama's nominee for U.S. ambassador to Libya, a post that has been vacant since insurgents attacked the diplomatic mission in Benghazi last September, killing Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
With little discussion, the panel on a voice vote approved Deborah Kay Jones, a career diplomat who has served in Kuwait, Argentina, Syria, Iraq and Turkey.
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., chairman of the committee, praised Jones and spoke of the imperative of filling the job amid increasing lawlessness in Libya. On Monday, a deadly car bomb exploded near a hospital in Benghazi and officials gave conflicting numbers on the death toll.
"There is simply no substitute for having a confirmed U.S. ambassador on the ground, reaching outside the wire to the Libyan people as they shape a safer, more productive and inclusive future," Menendez said.
At her confirmation hearing earlier this month, Jones promised to work to ensure sufficient security at U.S. facilities, saying the ambassador was the principle security officer and vowing to simply pick up the phone and call Washington if she felt security was lax.
If confirmed by the full Senate, Jones would take over an ambassadorship that has been vacant for nearly eight months.
The Obama administration's response to the attacks has been the subject of a long-running and bitter dispute with congressional Republicans. The GOP has accused the administration of trying to cover up details of the assault and its aftermath.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., ratcheted up the political criticism on Tuesday, saying the GOP was hyperventilating about the Benghazi attack.
"It's about smear politics and nothing else," Reid told reporters.
He highlighted the Republican budget cuts, including the $300 million from the Obama administration's request of $2.6 billion for diplomatic and embassy security last year.
"Again and again Republicans have blocked, opposed or reduced embassy security funding .... so again, where is the outrage on this. The real fact is Republicans are more concerned about giving President Obama a black eye and taking shots at Secretary (Hillary Rodham) Clinton than actually tracking down the people who performed these outrageous acts of terrorism."
Privately, Democrats have expressed frustration with the administration's recent handling of the issue as new details from emails on Friday showed that political considerations influenced the editing of talking points used by U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice five days after that attack.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/senate-panel-approves-us-ambassador-libya-184611187.html
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Man dribbling soccer ball to Brazil killed by car
By JEFF BARNARD
updated 2:01 a.m. ET May 15, 2013
A Seattle man trying to dribble a soccer ball 10,000 miles to Brazil in time for the 2014 World Cup died Tuesday after being hit by a pickup truck on the Oregon Coast.
Police in Lincoln City, Ore., said 42-year-old Richard Swanson was hit at about 10 a.m. while walking south along U.S. Highway 101 near the city limits. He was declared dead at a hospital. The driver has not been charged.
Lt. Jerry Palmer said investigators found materials among Swanson's belongings listing his website, breakawaybrazil.com.
Swanson set out on the trek to promote the One World Futbol Project, based in Berkeley, Calif., which donates durable blue soccer balls to people in developing countries.
"We are deeply saddened to learn about Richard's death," Lisa Tarver, chief operating officer of One World Futbol Project, said in a statement. "He was a very inspiring man who in a very short time walked his way into many lives. Our thoughts are with his family."
Police said Palmer's soccer ball was recovered.
Kristi Schwesinger, a Seattle interior designer and close friend of Swanson's, said he had been a private investigator for many years, and switched to a new career as a graphic designer, but was laid off recently, and looking for an adventure.
"He was at a point in his life where he had raised his kids," she said. "Both his boys (Devin and Raven) had graduated from high school. He had no mortgage. He had sold his condo recently and was between jobs.
"And he loved the game of soccer," she said. "He stumbled on this great organization, One World Futbol, and decided this would be his passion the next year."
In an interview with The Daily News in Longview, Wash., Swanson said he picked up soccer just five years ago and played on club teams and rooted for the Seattle Sounders.
"I felt destined that I should go on this trip," he said.
His website said he left Seattle on May 1, and the trip would take him on foot for more than a year through 11 countries before reaching Sao Paolo, Brazil, where the World Cup soccer tournament will be played.
"It will be a trip of a lifetime where I will push myself further than I ever thought possible," he wrote.
Swanson started out in flip-flops, and managed to spend 13 nights but switched to hiking sandals in Portland, Ore., Schwesinger said. He stayed two nights in Vancouver, Wash., with his son, Devin, but otherwise had been able to sleep on on the couches of one stranger after another who befriended him and helped him on his journey.
"It was all by word of mouth, Facebook, media contacts, friends and family who put the word out," Schwesinger said.
Swanson spent Monday night in Lincoln City, where he was able to soak in a hot tub, and eat a gourmet breakfast, before he set off for Newport, not knowing where he would stay, she added. He posted photos and stories about his new friends on a Facebook page chronicling his journey.
Friends are talking about creating a foundation in Swanson's memory, and sending his two sons to Brazil for the World Cup, Schwesinger said.
"The hardest thing is he was so young," Schwesinger said. "Just today we were planning his surprise birthday party for Sunday. He was so young, so full of life, so excited by the journey he was on. To be taken from us so soon is really heartbreaking."
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I/O 2013: One Google, Under Page, With Unification And Usability For All
This is the evening before Google's I/O developer conference and there's already been quite a bit of chatter about what the company will announce and share at the conference. One important thing to note is that there will only be one keynote this year, a mega three-hour session where Google will talk to the attendees about all of the important things that have happened over the past year and what to expect moving forward.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/E8VEtyat-58/
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Bieber's earnings stolen during concert heist
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Justin Bieber performs at FNB Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa, on May 12.
While Justin Bieber was serenading Johannesburg, South Africa, during a Mother?s Day concert, criminals reportedly were hard at work pulling off an elaborate heist backstage.
According to the local Eyewitness News, a group of suspects executed an "Ocean?s 11"-type stunt involving ropes and chisels to lower themselves into a safe room at the FNB stadium. They made off with the night?s concert earnings, which TMZ estimates to be approximately $330,000 in cash.
The suspects managed to pull off the break-in undetected Sunday, and it was not until Monday morning that stadium management and concert promoters were made aware. Police, forensic experts and security company officials placed the stadium on lockdown later Monday to investigate.
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Ideas For A Dynamic Web Marketing Strategy
Ideas For A Dynamic Web Marketing Strategy
Depending on your drive and ambition, network marketing has the potential to be a thrilling new venture for you. If you want to become successful at network marketing, here are some tips.
Consider the ways you want to promote your site. Some easy ways to share your site are to post on blogs, use social media, and put posters in businesses in your area. There are a number of methods that you can use to attract visitors to your site. Creativity helps when you are trying to set yourself apart from the rest.
Before you set out to get your website ranked, you should concentrate on building a quality site. This needs to be the first thing anyone does in online business. The better your site looks and operates, the less work you will have to do going forward.
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If your company website does not change very often, it may be a good idea to add a blog. Making sure your site has updated content is a good way to move up in rankings. You could, for instance, write weekly articles on topics related to your products or services.
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The appearance and performance of your website is just as important as the in-store buying experience. Test all website functionality on a regular basis. Customers won?t shop at a store if they can?t get through the front entrance; online customers won?t likely wait around while you fix site bugs.
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Customize your site for worldwide access. You can do this by implementing a version of your site in several different languages. This can expand your global audience significantly and quite possibly send sales soaring. To do business with you, a customer needs to be able to read and understand your website in a language familiar to them.
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Starman falls to Earth after five-month space odyssey
By Dmitry Solovyov and Irene Klotz
ALMATY/CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - The Canadian astronaut who became a music sensation when his zero-gravity version of David Bowie's "Space Oddity" went viral on the web returned to Earth along with two crewmates on Tuesday after a five-month stint on the International Space Station.
Chris Hadfield landed safely in central Kazakhstan with his American and Russian colleagues. Their Soyuz space capsule descended under an orange parachute and raised clouds of dust as it ignited an engine to cushion its landing about 150 km (90 miles) southeast of the town of Zhezkazgan.
"The crew are feeling well," Mission Control outside Moscow said in a radio transmission, as several search and rescue helicopters hovered around the capsule on a bright morning.
The three astronauts were shown smiling, seated in semi-reclined chairs and covered with blue thermal blankets, waiting for medical tests after their landing.
Space station commander Hadfield, NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn and Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko had left the $100-billion orbital outpost about 3-1/2 hours earlier as it sailed 255 miles over eastern Mongolia.
"It's just been an extremely fulfilling and amazing experience," Hadfield radioed to flight controllers on Monday.
Hadfield, the first Canadian to command the space station, made more history on Monday when he released the first music video shot in space - his poignant "cyberspace" rendition of Space Oddity, which was first released in 1969 just before the Apollo 11 moon landing.
The video, with its familiar refrain "Ground Control to Major Tom" had more than 5 million hits on YouTube on Tuesday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo
The space mission included an impromptu spacewalk on Saturday to fix an ammonia coolant leak that had cropped up two days earlier. Without the repair, NASA likely would have had to cut back the station's science experiments to save power. The cooling system dissipates heat from electronics on the station's solar-powered wing panels.
During the 5-1/2-hour spacewalk, Marshburn and Chris Cassidy, who remains aboard the station, replaced a suspect ammonia coolant pump, apparently resolving the leak. Engineers will monitor the system for several weeks to make sure there are no additional problems.
The mission of Hadfield, Marshburn and Romanenko, who blasted off 146 days ago, was the 35th expedition aboard the space station, a permanently staffed laboratory for biomedical, materials science, technology demonstrations and other research.
Their replacements are due to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on May 28. Until then, a skeleton crew commanded by Pavel Vinogradov and including NASA astronaut Cassidy and cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin will keep the station operating.
The crew's return to Earth comes on the 40th anniversary of the launch of the first U.S. space station, Skylab. Three crews lived and worked on the relatively short-lived Skylab between May 1973 and February 1974.
The project helped NASA prepare for in-flight research aboard the space shuttles and the International Space Station, which was constructed in orbit beginning in 1998.
The outpost, which is scheduled to remain in orbit until at least 2020, has been permanently staffed since November 2000.
(Editing by Pravin Char)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/space-trio-lands-kazakhstan-five-months-orbit-044631446.html
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