Rare Rallies in Vietnam Over Mysterious Mass Fish Deaths by REUTERS

By REUTERS

Hundreds of people demonstrated in Vietnam on Sunday against a Taiwanese firm they accuse of causing mass fish deaths along the country’s central coast, with some also blaming the government for a sluggish response to a major environmental disaster.

Published: April 30, 2016 at 09:21PM

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Moon over Makemake

Makemake, second brightest dwarf planet of the Kuiper belt, has a moon. Nicknamed MK2, Makemake’s moon reflects sunlight with a charcoal-dark surface, about 1,300 times fainter than its parent body. Still, it was spotted in Hubble Space Telescope observations intended to search for faint companions with the same technique used to find the small satellites of Pluto. Just as for Pluto and its satellites, further observations of Makemake and orbiting moon will measure the system’s mass and density and allow a broader understanding of the distant worlds. About 160 kilometers (100 miles) across compared to Makemake’s 1,400 kilometer diameter, MK2’s relative size and contrast are shown in this artist’s vision. An imagined scene of an unexplored frontier of the Solar System, it looks back from a spacecraft’s vantage as the dim Sun shines along the Milky Way. Of course, the Sun is over 50 times farther from Makemake than it is from planet Earth. via NASA http://ift.tt/26DRj0x

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China Trains ‘Fishing Militia’ to Sail Into Disputed Waters by REUTERS

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The fishing fleet based in this tiny port town on Hainan island is getting everything from military training and subsidies to even fuel and ice as China creates an increasingly sophisticated fishing militia to sail into the disputed South China Sea.

Published: April 30, 2016 at 06:10PM

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Johnny Belinda by WARNER HOME VIDEO

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Jane Wyman (“Magnificent Obsession,” “The Yearling,” TV’s “Falcon Crest”) won an Academy Award for her moving portrayal of a deaf mute who lives in a remote Nova Scotia fishing village. After learning sign language from a compassionate doctor, she i

Published: April 30, 2016 at 02:20PM

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Paid Notice: Deaths HURLOCK, JAMES by Unknown Author

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HURLOCK–James Bickford, died peacefully with family by his side on April 27th. A beloved husband, father, grandfather, sportsman, and sailor, Mr. Hurlock led a distinguished forty-one-year career at the law firm of White & Case, where for twenty…

Published: April 29, 2016 at 04:11PM

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Pacers Beat Raptors 101-83 to Force Game Seven by REUTERS

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When the Indiana Pacers are more than All-Star forward Paul George’s prolific scoring, they usually are difficult to beat.

Published: April 29, 2016 at 08:19PM

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Fermi’s Gamma-ray Moon

If you could only see gamma-rays, photons with up to a billion or more times the energy of visible light, the Moon would be brighter than the Sun! That startling notion underlies this novel image of the Moon, based on data collected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope’s Large Area Telescope (LAT) instrument during its first seven years of operation (2008-2015). Fermi’s gamma-ray vision doesn’t distinguish details on the lunar surface, but a gamma-ray glow consistent with the Moon’s size and position is clearly found at the center of the false color map. The brightest pixels correspond to the most significant detections of lunar gamma-rays. Why is the gamma-ray Moon so bright? High-energy charged particles streaming through the Solar System known as cosmic rays constantly bombard the lunar surface, unprotected by a magnetic field, generating the gamma-ray glow. Because the cosmic rays come from all sides, the gamma-ray Moon is always full and does not go through phases. The first gamma-ray image of the Moon was captured by the EGRET instrument onboard the Compton Gamma-ray Observatory, launched 25 years ago. via NASA http://ift.tt/1NFCW5y

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Review: ‘The Outgoing Tide’ at the Dreamcatcher Repertory Theater by KEN JAWOROWSKI

By KEN JAWOROWSKI

Bruce Graham’s play, which is having its New Jersey debut, employs a passionate anger while tackling the tough, emotional subjects of aging, memory loss and dementia.

Published: May 7, 2016 at 08:00PM

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Philip Kives, Pitchman Who Perfected ‘As Seen on TV’ Infomercials, Dies at 87 by MARGALIT FOX

By MARGALIT FOX

Mr. Kives’s company, K-tel, saturated airwaves for decades with ads for gadgets like the Veg-O-Matic and compilation albums like “Hit Machine.”

Published: April 29, 2016 at 08:00PM

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Summer Movie Release Schedule 2016 by ANITA GATES

By ANITA GATES

A look at upcoming movie releases

Published: April 30, 2016 at 08:00PM

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Cellphone in Missing Florida Teens Case to Be Reviewed by Apple by REUTERS

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A recovered cellphone at the center of a dispute between the families of two Florida teens who went missing during a fishing trip will be examined by its manufacturer, Apple Inc, in an agreement hammered out during a hearing on Friday, according to a…

Published: April 29, 2016 at 01:42PM

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Senior Pentagon Official Criticizes House Benghazi Probe by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A senior Pentagon official criticized the House Republican-led investigation into the deadly attacks in Benghazi, Libya, saying the panel has made a “crescendo” of costly, duplicative and unnecessary requests, including some based on claims made on…

Published: April 29, 2016 at 09:07AM

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Paid Notice: Deaths LINTON, ROBERT by Unknown Author

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LINTON–Robert E. Robert E. Linton, former CEO and Chairman of Drexel Burnham Lambert, Inc., died April 26, 2016 at the age of 90. During the early 1980s, Mr. Linton served as the head of the storied investment banking and securities firm that…

Published: April 28, 2016 at 04:11PM

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A Dust Angel Nebula

The combined light of stars along the Milky Way are reflected by these cosmic dust clouds that soar some 300 light-years or so above the plane of our galaxy. Dubbed the Angel Nebula, the faint apparition is part of an expansive complex of dim and relatively unexplored, diffuse molecular clouds. Commonly found at high galactic latitudes, the dusty galactic cirrus can be traced over large regions toward the North and South Galactic poles. Along with the refection of starlight, studies indicate the dust clouds produce a faint reddish luminescence, as interstellar dust grains convert invisible ultraviolet radiation to visible red light. Also capturing nearby Milky Way stars and an array of distant background galaxies, the deep, wide-field 3×5 degree image spans about 10 Full Moons across planet Earth’s sky toward the constellation Ursa Major. via NASA http://ift.tt/1QCgbtZ

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Review: ‘Papa: Hemingway in Cuba,’ a Mild Voyage With the Old Man and ‘the Kid’ by HELEN T. VERONGOS

By HELEN T. VERONGOS

In Bob Yari’s autobiographical film, a young Miami journalist’s fan letter leads to a fishing trip and a long friendship with his literary hero.

Published: April 28, 2016 at 08:00PM

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Islamic State Turns to Selling Fish, Cars to Offset Oil Losses: Report by REUTERS

By REUTERS

Islamic State earns millions of dollars a month running car dealerships and fish farms in Iraq, making up for lower oil income after its battlefield losses, Iraqi judicial authorities said on Thursday.

Published: April 28, 2016 at 07:52AM

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Omega Centauri: The Brightest Globular Star Cluster

This huge ball of stars predates our Sun. Long before humankind evolved, before dinosaurs roamed, and even before our Earth existed, ancient globs of stars condensed and orbited a young Milky Way Galaxy. Of the 200 or so globular clusters that survive today, Omega Centauri is the largest, containing over ten million stars. Omega Centauri is also the brightest globular cluster, at apparent visual magnitude 3.9 it is visible to southern observers with the unaided eye. Cataloged as NGC 5139, Omega Centauri is about 18,000 light-years away and 150 light-years in diameter. Unlike many other globular clusters, the stars in Omega Centauri show several different ages and trace chemical abundances, indicating that the globular star cluster has a complex history over its 12 billion year age. via NASA http://ift.tt/1WpI4MP

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