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Homemade bomb found at mall near Columbine high (Reuters)
Last Updated on Thursday, 21 April 2011 05:35 Written by admin Thursday, 21 April 2011 05:35
DENVER (Reuters) – A occupied buying mall close to Columbine Large College was evacuated on Wednesday following authorities responding to a modest fire at the retail complex discovered two propane tanks and a pipe bomb, officials mentioned.
Twelve a long time to the day soon after two Columbine High College pupils shot dead a teacher, twelve students and by themselves on April twenty, 1999, the units were discovered at Southwest Plaza Mall, about a mile from Columbine.
Jacki Kelley, spokeswoman for the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Workplace, stated the protection scare began when a small blaze broke out in the mall’s meals court about noon on Wednesday.
Firefighters arriving on the scene found out the propane tanks “at the origin of the fire,” and police ordered an believed 10,000 shoppers and mall workers out of the complicated, Kelley explained.
Bomb squads later uncovered the pipe bomb nearby as they combed by way of the sprawling plaza with explosives-detecting canines, she mentioned.
Amid the arsenal that Columbine assailants Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris brought to college during their assault in 1999 had been pipe bombs and propane tanks fashioned into bombs.
The similarity of units identified at the mall to the explosives in the school assault was not misplaced on investigators, Kelley mentioned.
“It is very disturbing that this transpired nowadays of all days,” Kelley said.
FBI agents named to the scene had been treating the bomb placements as “a circumstance of domestic terrorism,” Kelley stated.
FBI spokesman Dave Joly later told reporters that investigators think the pipe bomb was meant to set off a more substantial explosion of the propane tanks.
Kelley said the bomb fell apart whilst explosives technicians have been managing the gadget as they ready to detonate it, and it was “rendered secure.”
Investigators reviewed videotapes from surveillance cameras for clues, and later on introduced two nonetheless photos from the tapes displaying a gray-haired guy with a mustache and baseball cap they described as a “man or woman of interest.”
The FBI asked for the public’s help in finding the unidentified man, who was captured in a single photo close to a door by a stairwell, carrying a plastic grocery bag in one hand.
Columbine cancels classes every single year on the anniversary of the massacre there. But other universities in the region had been put on lock-down for the duration of Wednesday’s bomb scare at the mall as a precaution till the all-obvious was given, Kelley mentioned.
The mall will continue to be closed until the investigation is complete.
Discovery of the pipe bomb came a day following police in Colorado Springs, about 50 miles to the southeast, confronted a teenage boy who admitted posting “Columbine-type threats” versus his large school on his Facebook account.
A police spokesman mentioned the Palmer Substantial College ninth grader informed officers who visited his residence Tuesday that the threats ended up meant as a joke, and he apologized, along with his loved ones.
The university student, whose name was not released, also agreed to remain house from college on Wednesday. Police patrols and protection at the school ended up stepped up for the day, police said.
(Reporting by Keith Coffman and Steve Gorman Editing by Dan Whitcomb, Greg McCune)
Ein Gedi and oasis near the Dead Sea Israel
Last Updated on Tuesday, 22 February 2011 12:54 Written by admin Tuesday, 22 February 2011 12:54
Ein Gedi and oasis near the Dead Sea Israel
On the slopes of the Judean Desert west of Dead Sea Israel the traveler will find Ein Gedi, an oasis in the middle of the desert. The name meaning “The young goat’s spring” in Hebrew is mentioned in the Bible several times. In the Song of Songs of King Solomon it’s mentioned several times.
In the middle of a dry and arid land that leads to an even drier Dead Sea, lies Ein Gedi with many streams of sweet water that flow freely for the pleasure of tourist and locals alike. There are a few pools and people swim and take advantage of this miracle at 400 meters below sea level. As you may know the Dead Sea is the lowest point on Planet Earth.
There are ruins of ancient synagogues, streets and buildings from the Byzantine periods some depicting the signs of the Zodiac. The ancient Ein Gedi was an important source of Dead Sea minerals and balms for the Greco Roman World. In 1956 a Kibbutz of Collective farm was founded here.
Flora and Fauna
Due to the special conditions and the supply of water, Ein Gedi features hundreds of species of trees, shrubs and flowers including some Biblical plants like the Myrrh and the Frankincense as well as trees like the Baobab, the Sodom Apple and many palm trees, fruit trees and tropical plants.
As part of being a park showing all these marvels, the site is a sanctuary for wild animals like mammals and reptiles. For the bird-watching enthusiasts there are many species of birds supplemented by another 200 species during migration periods.
Israel, more specifically the southern Negev Desert is in the path of hundreds of thousands of birds migrating north from Africa to Europe during spring and backwards during autumn.
While staying at Ein Gedi you may enjoy their famous spa with all kind of Dead Sea treatments, you can also visit the Dead Sea and swim ( I mean float) there.
A visit to Masada, the last stronghold of the Jews against the Romans is a short distance away. It is a visit no tourist should miss.
On your next visit to the Holy Land of Israel make a point to visit Ein Gedi. I always recommend to my friends that come to visit Israel to spend a couple of days at Ein Gedi. You’ll leave totally rejuvenated.
Eddy Tuchman, 68 has been involved in the Travel Industry for more than 40 years. He has covered all facets of travel, as an airline employee, a travel agent and tour operator owner.
Eddy has lived in Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Florida before moving to Israel where he lived once many years ago.
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As elections near, voter outreach intensifies – Washington Post
Last Updated on Monday, 1 November 2010 12:04 Written by admin Monday, 1 November 2010 12:04
Candidates and their supporters launched their last round of ads, door knocks, calls and pleas over the weekend, as Republicans made their final push to take over Congress and Democrats did all they could to try to hang on to it.
The Democratical National Committee announced Sunday that it would send $ 3 million to state parties around the country, largely to try to sway a number of too-close-to-call Senate races that could determine the balance of power in that chamber.
Much of that money was aimed at defending Democratic turf, including $ 100,000 that went to Massachusetts, where Republicans are trying to gain two House seats and the governor’s mansion in Tuesday’s midterm elections.
But in a sign of how volatile races remain in the final hours, Democrats also started airing ads over the weekend in Alaska. Party leaders there think Scott McAdams could win the Senate race over GOP nominee Joe Miller and incumbent Lisa Murkowski, who is running a write-in campaign after losing in the GOP primary.
Organizing for America, the Democratic grass-roots group formed after the 2008 campaign to keep Barack Obama supporters active in politics, said it planned to make more than 10 million contacts on the phone or in person with voters in the week before the election.
Republican Party efforts were bolstered by groups affiliated with the conservative tea party movement, whose supporters from across the country called into states with tight races to try to rally votes.
For Democrats, turnout isn’t just important: It could be the only way to save themselves from a rout. Experts say the Democratic turnout operation cannot just match what the GOP does; it will probably have to exceed it. Many Republicans, angry about Obama and Democrats in Congress, are fired up to vote, regardless of whether they are called and encouraged to do so by GOP volunteers.
Many Democrats, meanwhile, lack the enthusiasm of the 2008 elections, according to polls.
“The question is whether [Republican] motivation is going to win the day or the Democratic mobilization,” said Michael McDonald, a government professor at George Mason University who studies voting patterns.
Beyond the bad economy and apparent unpopularity of Democrats in Congress, Democrats face one other major challenge: People who vote in midterm elections are more likely to be white and are generally older than the electorate in presidential elections. This is a particular concern for the Democrats in the Obama era, as the party’s victories in 2008 were aided by strong turnout among blacks, Latinos and voters under age 30.
Early voting is key
Democrats are confident that their efforts will get Obama supporters to the polls on Tuesday, and they cite the results of early voting in states such as Nevada, which have shown voter turnout for Democrats equal or higher than that of the GOP. Early voting efforts and absentee ballots could be a major factor, as an estimated 40 percent of voters will vote before Tuesday.
Democrats are relying on their Washington-led party operations, along with labor unions, who have long aided Democrats. The AFL-CIO is planning to send more than 10 million pieces of mail to voters this week and to knock on the doors of 4 million voters.
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Obama touts job creation as midterm elections near – Reuters
Last Updated on Monday, 25 October 2010 06:06 Written by admin Monday, 25 October 2010 06:06
WOONSOCKET, Rhode Island |
WOONSOCKET, Rhode Island (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday touted his administration’s job-creation efforts just eight days before elections in which voters’ economic anxiety threatens his Democrats’ grip on Congress.
Making a campaign stop in the tiny state of Rhode Island, Obama acknowledged some of his policies were not popular and that Americans were frustrated by the weak economic recovery. But the steps he took averted a second Great Depression, he stressed.
“It took us a long time to get us into this economic hole that we’ve been in. But we are going to get out and I am absolutely convinced there are brighter days ahead for America,” Obama told workers after touring the American Cord & Webbing plant in Woonsocket, outside Providence.
It was the start of the last full week of campaigning before the November 2 elections, with polls showing Obama’s Democrats at risk of losing control of the House of Representatives and headed for a slimmed-down majority in the Senate.
U.S. voters will elect 435 members to the House of Representatives and fill 37 of the 100 seats in the Senate.
Projected Republican gains could put the brakes on Obama’s legislative agenda.
Obama used his Rhode Island visit to highlight a $ 30 billion small-business lending program to help generate jobs, a package he pushed through Congress in September. Republican opponents have called it wasteful spending.
TALKING A GOOD GAME
Obama repeated his charge that Republicans had played politics with the small-business lending package by holding it up in the Senate for months. The bill finally cleared the U.S. Congress in September.
“They talk a good game about tax cuts and giving entrepreneurs the freedom to succeed,” he said. But “they voted against tax breaks for companies creating jobs here in the United States,” he said.
Obama’s attacks on Republicans have done little to dent voter disappointment with his economic policies, which have so far failed to bring down unemployment stuck near 10 percent.
Delivering change is hard and it is understandable that people are discouraged, “but we’re just in the first quarter,” Obama told a Democratic fundraising event in Providence. “We have a whole game to play.”
The fundraiser was one of two for the congressional campaign of Providence Mayor David Cicilline and other candidates in Rhode Island, a traditionally Democratic-leaning state.
Polls show Cicilline with a lead of about 10 percentage points over Republican state lawmaker John Loughlin in the race to succeed Democrat Patrick Kennedy in the U.S. House, but Obama’s visit showed he was taking no chances.
Obama has found himself in a bind, however, over the governor’s race in Rhode Island.