| Former NBA superstar Michael Jordan visits Slidell Boys and Girls Club ...
At least he is putting it in the hands of people that are going to make a difference. If he would have given it to Orleans Parish the mayor and his cronies would have stole most of it and only put less then half of it into building a Recreational Center. Thanks Micheal for thinking of the children of LOUISIANA!!!!! I don't even watch the NBA no more because it's not the same without MJ....THE BEST EVER TO PLAY THE SPORT!!!!!!!!! .
Blog: Science ESA OKs Ion Thruster for Trip to Mercury
Few space propulsion technologies have generated as much recent interest as the ion engine. This weekend, the ESA announced it will it an advanced ion thruster to propel an upcoming probe to study the planet Mercury. The mission is named BepiColumbo after Giuseppe Columbo, a pioneering scientist in the study of Mercury. It will launch in 2013 and arrive six years later. BepiColumbo will be the ESA's first mission to the hot regions of the solar system well inside the Earth's orbit. While approaching Mercury, the spacecraft will have to endure extremely hot temperatures on its sun-facing side, and extremely cold temperatures on the side facing away from the sun. One of the primary goals of the mission is to discover whether pockets of water ice exist on Mercury's cold, shadowed side. The ion engine will be built by Astrium, a subsidiary of the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (EADS).
No. 5 Maryland rides Toliver's 24 past Florida St. in OT
Toliver hit a 3-pointer and Crystal Langhorne made a layup to put Maryland up 83-81, and after the Seminoles got within a point, Marah Strickland scored in the lane and Toliver made two free throws to make it 89-84 with 55 seconds to go. Langhorne, who had her No. 1 hung from the rafters after the game, finished with 21 points and 11 rebounds. Harper contributed 12 points and 10 rebounds, and Coleman had 13 points and nine rebounds. It was the fifth time the Terrapins finished undefeated at home, the first since 1988-89. Maryland had never won more than 15 home games in a single season. Coach Brenda Frese made her first appearance on the sidelines after giving birth to twins on Feb. 17. She didn't coach the first half, but returned after the break to guide the team from an oversized chair at the end of the bench while assistant Daron Park roamed the sidelines.
Stocks await Bernanke
Investors shrugged off a string of bad economic news on Tuesday, including a surge in wholesale prices and a weak reading on consumer confidence, to finish that session higher. But they appeared less upbeat on Wednesday, as the dollar sank to an all-time low against the euro and crude prices kept up their record run. All eyes are on Bernanke, who is due to testify before the House Financial Services Committee. Investors will be looking for clues about what the Fed plans to do with interest rates. They'll also scrutinize comments any comments he makes about the economy and credit problems. Also, two economic reports are expected today. Durable orders are expected to show decline of 4% in January, according to economists surveyed by Briefing.com. In December, durable goods orders fell 5.2%.
Futurepedia: The tragic nature of Nick Saban
November 2007: After a three-game losing streak against LSU, Mississippi State and Louisiana-Monroe, Alabama's $4 million-per-year coach Nick Saban challenged his players to unify and reverse their fortunes. "Changes in history usually occur after some kind of catastrophic event. It may be 9-11, which sort of changed the spirit of America relative to catastrophic events. Pearl Harbor kind of got us ready for World War II, and that was a catastrophic event." A school spokesman later clarified that Saban was not directly comparing the outcomes of football games to those invasions of the homeland. The thousands of innocent people killed in those events could not be reached for comment. December 2007: Following an Iron Bowl loss to Auburn and an Independence Bowl loss to Colorado that ended the Crimson Tide's year with a five-game losing streak, Saban summed up the disappointment of his first year at the helm of the storied program by saying it felt like "riding off the top of the Empire State Building on a bicycle that had no seat, and I landed on the pole that held the seat when I hit the ground." A school spokesman later clarified that Saban was not directly comparing the inept first season to fantasy dares that third-graders make in their elementary school cafeterias.
Big-ticket bikes: Why buy a Chevette when you can have a Ferrari?
Sandro doesn't want you to know where he lives, where he works or even what his last name is. He has a secret - a lie, some might call it - that mustn't get out. But here it is anyway: Sandro paid $7,000 for a bicycle. Why the cloak-and-dagger act? "My wife would probably kill me if she knew," he says discreetly from work. "I told her I bought it with my sister." Like many big-spending weekend warriors, he fell for Cannondale Bicycle, a company whose bikes have been ridden to stage victories at the Tour de France and world championships in mountain biking. "Why have a Chevette when you can have a Ferrari?" says Sandro, who rides a few hours a week during the warmer months to keep in shape. On Monday, Montreal-based Dorel Industries announced a deal to buy Cannondale for about $200-million (U.S.).
Music legend Aunty Genoa Keawe dies
Pomaika'i Keawe knows that Thursday night's show will be particularly special when she takes over for her grandmother at the Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa. Her grandmother, Aunty Genoa Leilani Keawe an icon of Hawaiian music famous for her soaring, seemingly endless falsetto in the song "Alika" died early yesterday at her Papakolea home as she slept. She was 89. Pomaika'i, 26, has been sitting in with Keawe's four-piece band every Thursday night at the Marriott's Moana Terrace since Keawe was admitted to The Queen's Medical Center on Feb. 1. Not all of the performances have been easy for Pomaika'i. "But this Thursday will be a good one," Pomaika'i said. "She'll be here in a better spirit." Asked about filling the same stage that her grandmother held for 14 years, Pomaika'i said, "I feel it's more of a responsibility than a privilege." LONG ILLNESS Keawe had cancer, heart, stomach and kidney problems.
Bike-theft suspect hangs self in hospital
A Longview man who faced multiple charges for allegedly stealing a string of expensive bicycles throughout the Northwest killed himself Saturday morning in a Longview psychiatric hospital where he'd been admitted after two previous suicide attempts. Jacob J. Bos, a 35-year-old podiatrist, was the subject of a Page 1 story Friday in The Seattle Times. Longview police spokeswoman Deborah Johnson said Bos committed suicide at St. John Medical Center in Longview at 6 a.m. Bos hung himself with a belt in a hospital bathroom, according to Dr. Richard Kirkpatrick, who owns the clinic where Bos worked. Bos had pleaded not guilty in Cowlitz County Superior Court to 12 counts of possessing or selling stolen bikes. Seattle police arrested him last month after they traced him through DNA on a coffee cup left at a Fremont bicycle shop, where he'd allegedly stolen a $6,800 bike, and on another occasion, a $5,500 bike.
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