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Showing posts with label world news. Show all posts

Ina Garten takes over Google

A news by 4usnews:Google is prepping for Thanksgiving early today with Ina Garten recipes. The famous Google Doodle is not a doodle today — it’s a photograph of Thanksgiving ingredients handpicked by the Barefoot Contessa herself. At first, I was a bit dismayed by the doodle forgoing a drawing, but Garten makes up for any slight with her recipe offerings. Especially her popover recipe. It’s sort of a Bell family mainstay, and although you really should have them for breakfast, smothered in butter and hot syrup, I can’t really get mad at anyone who loves popovers.

The Post’s Liz Seymour wrote of the famous chef in 2008:

She is an icon because her message is universal and empowering. Don’t cook all the food; buy some. Keep the table settings simple. Do most of the work the day before the party. All good rules to follow at this most stressful entertaining time of the year. It is hard, she said, but you can do it.

Tyler Clementi: Rutgers Students Freshman Suicide

A news By yahoofreeshop:,its very harmful news for Tyler Clementi.He is the freshman at Rutgers University who committed suicide last week by jumping off of the George Washington Bridge into the Hudson River.

What drove the 18-year-old student to kill himself? Reportedly, two of his classmates, Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei, planted a hidden camera in Clementi’s dorm room and used it to stream his “sex session” with a man over the Internet.

His death came after his roommate allegedly posted a tape of Clementi having a sexual encounter with a man on the internet.

Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, & Bill Maher First To Slam Rick Sanchez


A news By yahoofreeshop:So if you haven’t heard (and we really, really doubt you haven’t at this point), Rick Sanchez was fired from CNN today. The cause: this radio rant where he went off on Jon Stewart and made what could be (and indeed were) construed as untoward remarks about Jews. Several pundits spoke up on the matter later this evening, and let’s just say there’s not much mourning out there for Sanchez.
Keith Olbermann came first and dropped the hammer on “[his] old back-up host,” awarding Sanchez “Worser” on “Worst Person in the World” and punctuating it with an unceremonious, “Bye Rick.” Rachel Maddow got in a dig too, though hers was in the context of poking fun at Alaskan Senate nominee Joe Miller, who found himself in hot water over an overconfident tweet, which a spokesman later blamed on a campaign volunteer.

‘One Nation’ rally offers ‘antidote’ to Tea Party


A news By yahoofreeshop:Thousands of people from dozens of liberal groups across the USA are marching on the National Mall today as “one nation,” saying they want to call attention to the needs of working-class Americans, USA TODAY staffers Marisol Bello, Oren Dorell and Marisa Kendall report.

One Nation Working Together, the coalition organizing the event, wants the powers of Washington to create jobs and help those without them, end racial profiling and other discrimination in the criminal justice system, and push for immigration changes and quality, affordable education.

* Photos: “One Nation” rally in D.C. underway
* Watch the rally live

Updated at 2:19 p.m.: Sirius XM radio personality Joe Madison tells crowd the turnout is larger than the one drawn by conservative Fox News commentator Glenn Beck five weeks ago.

Updated at 2:13 p.m.: AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka just spoke. “If we are going to build our dreams, turn them into reality, we have to be bold,” he says. He presses for better schools and better jobs. “We believe in America. … Our best days are ahead of us, not behind us.”

Updated at 1:47 p.m.: While rapper and beat poet Black Ice reads his piece about the plight of impoverished Americans, Marisa reports that people are stretched out on the grass on the outskirts of the crowd, basking in the sun. Someone in a Grim Reaper costume holds a sign that reads “Death thanks the G.O.P. for its stance on health care reform. You guys sure make my job easy.” Six men in chains and prison outfits protest the criminalization of immigration.

Updated at 1:28 p.m.: Marc Morial, head of the Urban League, spoke to the crowd. “We march today because … too many people are hurting. Without good jobs to support our families, our nation cannot recover.” Morial called for “a targeted jobs program to create 3 million jobs to build our streets and rebuild our cities. … We are for economic empowerment for all. We are one nation working together.”

Updated at 12:55 p.m.: Our Marisa Kendall reports that the Urban Nation H.I.P.-H.O.P. Choir of Washington, D.C., has fired up the crowd with a rendition of Celebration. Marisa says the area between the Lincoln Memorial and the World War II Memorial is almost filled. Groups of family members and political organizations are setting up little camps with blankets, folding chairs and sandwiches.

Marilyn Robinson, 55, from Nashville, is dancing. Wearing a shirt with Obama’s face on it, Robinson tells Marisa she is here to give President Obama “cover” against those who criticize him. “We’re here for him,” she says. “We believe he’s on point.”

Updated at 12:42 p.m.: Oren reports that the crowd is growing fast – filling the open space around the Lincoln Memorial halfway down the Reflecting Pool area toward the World War II Memorial.

Karolina Bodner, a retired teacher from Barrington, N.H., told Oren she is at the rally because “most people I know are getting Social Security checks from the government and getting disability checks from the government and driving on roads that are built and repaired by the government. I don’t know who the people are that are saying, ‘Get rid of all that.’ ”

John Gardner, 60, from Pittsburgh, is also a retired schoolteacher. He is carrying a sign that says “Amnesiacs vote Republican. Those who remember vote Democrat.” He told Oren he’s on the Mall because he thinks Democrats are being blamed for the mistakes they inherited from Republicans.

Updated at 12:08 p.m.: Crystal Sutphin, 20, came from Manassas, Va., saying she is rallying for gay and lesbian equality. She hopes the rally will draw 10,000 people. “I hope it’s crazy,” she told USA TODAY’s Marisa Kendall. “The crazier the better. It will bring (more) attention.”

Updated at 11:09 a.m.: Oren Dorell, at the rally, reports that busloads of people are streaming toward the Lincoln Memorial carrying signs such as “jobs, justice and education” and “fund jobs, not war.”

Britons Killed In Peru Plane Crash Named


A news By yahoofreeshop:Two British tourists killed in a plane crash in Peru have been identified.
But there have been claims of lax supervision of the several dozen planes that make the flights after a series of crashes.

In February, four Peruvians and three Chileans died in a similar crash over the lines.

Five French tourists were killed in April 2008 when the plane they were traveling in went down near the Nazca lines, prompting the French government to issue a warning.

Foreign Office travel advice warns about the incidents.

It says: “Following the latest incident the Peruvian Directorate of Civil Aviation (DGAC) has carried out an inspection of aircraft operating from Nazca airport.
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