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Watch the lunar eclipse from anywhere … from the Offical Google blog

06/15/2011 Nativegrl77 1 Comment

Posted: 15 Jun 2011 06:00 AM PDT

my source … the Official Google blog

(Cross-posted on the YouTube and Lat Long blogs)

We’re always fascinated by the unique wonders of space and the world—what can we say, it’s the geek in us! Naturally, when we learned that part of the world will be treated to a rare 100-minute long total lunar eclipse starting at 11:20am PDT today, we were both excited and disappointed that this rare occasion wouldn’t be visible from our Mountain View campus like last year’s eclipse. We suspect we aren’t alone, so you’ll be glad to know that we’ve worked with Slooh Space Camera to let you experience the spectacle wherever you are in the world, in real time.

Slooh will host a live mission interface using Google App Engine that lets anyone not lucky enough to live in certain areas (South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia) take part in this rare astronomical event. It’s equipped with audio narrations from real-life astronomers so you can hear a firsthand, expert account of the event. You can also watch the live stream on the Google YouTube Channel or from the Sky layer in Google Earth (download this kml), while exploring the fascinating world that exists in our galaxy. Finally, those of you on the go can download the Slooh Space Camera Android app to view the images right on your phone.

If you’re fortunate enough to be able to view this event in the sky, we hope you’ll get the chance to step outside and indulge in the spectacle. For everyone else, we hope our moon madness helps brighten your day.

Posted by Noel Gorelick, Chief Extraterrestrial Observer and Technical Lead in Special Projects

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The Daily Show Takes on North Korea — Watch Now!

12/01/2010 Nativegrl77

Samantha Bee – Il Communication

After the leak of the U.S. government‘s Perez Hilton-like conversations, the Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robot war between North and South Korea escalated. Senior War Analyst Kim Sam Bee analyzes the hostility-based economy of North Korea.

Pit the President against paper and/or scissors in the new Indecision Mobile game “Barack Paper Scissors.” Play it now or text BARACK to 44686 for the link.

Watch Now!

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tempest Tuesday …&some News

11/23/2010 Nativegrl77

The President will be handing out the Medal of Freedom to Rep. John Lewis -we support this action and love John Lewis with all the things he has done for the rest of us so that we might be able to move forward, have access and achieve great things in our own lives as well as our children and their children in the future. Congratulations to Rep. John Lewis.

Day 3 of snow has the 206 gripped in panic closed schools and more snow on the way. The snow that fell yesterday has turned into a sheet of ice and in some parts of the 206; more snowfall is on top of that. The roads definitely look okay –they are not so stay home if you can because folks are clogging stalling and blocking the work that the people, who snow plow, dump salt, and or dirt. The ice is the problem currently causing a whole lot of accidents so again be safe than sorry and call in or ride the bus which is also causing delays what with all the SUV’s thinking they have this and obviously they do not or the number of cars trucks and SUV’s parked on streets would be a lot less. Stay home and let the good people do their jobs so people can begin to drive again. !

How odd it was to be watching the late night shows when all of a sudden breaking news that N.Korea opens fire with several rounds of fire on S.Korea and while there has been frayed contentious relations between these two the idea that a war ..An actual war could or would break out seems very strange and disturbing to say the least. The background story is that S.Korea usually holds drills at this time of year, they let N.Korea know a head of time but instead of dealing with this N.Korea decided on pre-emptive strikes against S.Korea and is by far not only violent in that several S.Koreans were injured at least 2 of their troops was killed.

The last thing for today

“Never doubt that a small Group of thoughtful, committed citizens change the World. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”

The 2008 Machine needs to get started now for the 2012 campaign -the base needs to hear from you!! Latinos, Women, Gays, the young ,our elders and with only 4.7% Blacks voting for the mid-term elections we need to go deep -rural as well, and last -Progressives need to be rubbed the right way to get their votes

Other News …

Rep.Ortiz concedes House race in TX

Plouffe to WH, Axelrod may exit sooner

Battle over who speaks for Tea Party movement

Jawbone not Holloway’s

S.Korea leader calls for enormous retaliation against NKorea

FCC updating 911 for the texting generation

11 arrested in terrorism probe, Belgian officials say

Wesley Snipes says no to being arrested by the IRS

Winter blows in fast and hard in the NWest and could complicate Thanksgiving travel

CSPAN …

American Association for Budget and Program Analysis 2010 Fall Symposium
Today

White House Briefing with Press Secretary Robert Gibbs
Monday

American Constitution Society Discussion on Arizona Immigrant Workers Law
Monday

NGA News Conference
Saturday

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Save the girls …

09/02/2010 Nativegrl77

Nearly three million young girls are at risk of female genital cutting this year. Stop this human rights abuse now.

Across parts of Africa, the Middle East and Asia, the following scene is replayed over and over: A girl, often between 4 and 12 years old, is held down by three or four women while all or part of her external and internal genitalia is cut off.

Complications from this brutal procedure can include severe hemorrhaging, infection, long-term difficulties with intercourse and childbirth, and even death.

Female genital cutting (FGC) reflects deep-rooted inequality between the sexes, and is recognized internationally as a violation of the human rights of girls and women.

Urge Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to do all she can to encourage the governments of the countries where this practice takes place to put a stop to it >

More than 100 million women and girls worldwide are affected by different forms of cutting. Infibulation is the most severe form, where some or all of the external genitalia are cut, leaving only a very small opening for urination and menstruation.

The practice of female genital cutting is hard to talk about. But ignoring it only guarantees more suffering, and leadership from the United States would go a long way in urging the countries where FGC occurs to end this human rights abuse.

Nearly three million young girls are at risk of female genital cutting this year alone. Please take action and help save these girls from a lifetime of pain and suffering >

Thank you for taking action,

The Change.org Team