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Those who love watching the sky at night can view early Wednesday what’s being called a “Super Blue Blood Moon”. A super moon occurs when the moon is at its closest point to the Earth. A blue moon happens when two full moons take place in the same month. A blood moon is a total lunar eclipse that fashions a shade of re... |
The eclipse will begin when the moon is low in the western sky, at about 5:48 a.m. Wednesday. It will reach totality by 6:51. You won’t be able to see the eclipse end due to the moon setting at about 7:15. |
The last time all three events happened on the same date was more than 150 years ago in 1866. |
The BYU women's tennis team celebrated its lone senior, Taylah Beckman, in its match against No. 8 Pepperdine. |
PROVO – Sophomore Anastasia Abramyan claimed BYU’s lone singles victory against a ranked opponent in the BYU women’s tennis 1-4 match against West Coast Conference opponent and No. 8-ranked Pepperdine on Saturday. |
Abramyan upset Pepperdine’s No. 84-ranked Adrijana Lekaj in a dominating 6-0, 7-5 No. 2 singles matchup. With the loss to Pepperdine, the Cougars are 10-9 overall and 3-4 in WCC action. |
To begin the match, the Waves took the advantage, 1-0, winning two doubles matches in a row. BYU’s Kate Cusick and Abramyan were able to tally a set against Pepperdine’s No. 31 Jessica Failla and Anastasia Iamachkine, but ultimately lost 1-6 in the No. 1 position. The Cougars’ Taylah Beckman and Samantha Smith then fel... |
Pepperdine carried momentum into singles, tallying two more victories. BYU’s Cusick fought to take two games in No. 1 singles against No. 43 Ashley Lahey but fell 1-6, 1-6. The Cougars’ Almeida put up a good fight in her first set against Milovanovic, but was downed 4-6, 0-6 in No. 4. |
To clinch the match, BYU’s Beckman lost 2-6, 4-6 to opponent Daria Kuczer at No. 5 singles. Malykh and Smith left matches unfinished at the No. 3 and No. 6 positions. |
The Cougars travel to California for their final WCC games of the year next weekend. They’ll kick off the weekend on Friday, April 19 at Pacific for a 12 p.m. PDT match at the Eve Zimmerman Tennis Center. |
A couple weeks ago, we asked our readers to tell us what they think are the best routes to take to Denver International Airport, and where to park once they get there. We did some Googling, tested out a couple of your less familiar routes and searched the web for the best parking deals. |
Below are some of the routes we liked, some we don’t recommend and some of the best parking options. |
Greeley to Denver International Airport: How to get here? |
The route: Weld County Parkway (Weld County Road 49) to Interstate 76, I-76 to E470, E470 to Pena Boulevard. |
Estimated distance: 57.8 miles, according to Google maps. |
What we like: This is by far the most stress-free route to DIA. Since the expansion of Weld 49, there’s no longer the risk of getting stuck behind a full oil tanker cruising to I-76 at 45 mph. And rarely is there any congestion on I-76 or E470. |
What we don’t: A stress-free ride comes with a cost by way of tolls on E470. For ExpressToll customers, it’ll cost $2.95 each way to use E470, and $4.50 for everyone else. Nevertheless, $5.90 to $9 in round trip toll fees is a small price to pay to avoid traffic. |
The route: Weld County Parkway to I-76, I-76 to 136th Avenue, 136th to Buckley Road, Buckley to 120th Avenue, 120th to Tower Road, Tower to Pena Boulevard. |
* Shawn Harmer, who submitted this route, promises it’s nowhere near as complicated as it sounds. |
What we like: Big ups to Harmer for discovering a route that takes tolls out of the equation without adding an excessive amount of time — just 9 minutes longer than taking E470, according to Google map estimates. |
What we don’t: Not much. |
The route: U.S. 85 to 120th Avenue, 120th to Tower Road, Tower to Pena Boulevard. |
What we like: This is the most direct route to DIA. We also like the money-saving option of avoiding the tollway. |
What we don’t: We have to admit U.S. 85 isn’t one of our favorite highways. High semi truck volume coupled with 19 stoplights between 8th Street in Greeley and 120th Avenue doesn’t equate to a stress-free drive to us. An hour and 10 minutes? We’re not buying it. |
The route: U.S. 34 to Interstate 25, I-25 to E470, E470 to Pena Blvd. |
What we like: We like that not one of our readers recommended this route when we posed this question earlier this month on our Facebook page. And for good reason. I-25 might be the most congested highway in the state, except for maybe I-70 through the mountains on a powder day. |
What we don’t: I-25 is a nightmare. We’d almost rather not go anywhere in the first place. Plus, the fees for using the tollway from I-25 also cost double at $5.90 each way for ExpressToll customers and $9 for everyone else. Staycation, anyone? |
What we like: Of the 800 parking spaces, 609 are beneath canopies that double as solar panels. Covered parking at $4 per day is tough to beat. Jump on RTD’s A Line after you park and ride it for 11 minutes to DIA. An escalator greets you at the end of the line and takes you straight up to security check-in. |
What we don’t: A round trip A Line fare costs $9, which still makes this one of the most inexpensive options when traveling solo, but not so much when traveling with a family (Kids 5 years old and younger ride free with an adult). If you have older kids in your group, it makes as much sense to hit one of DIA’s auxiliar... |
Address: 18000 E. 81st Ave. |
Deals: Coupons available online, frequent parker program and prepaid parking options available. |
What we like: Decently competitive with DIA’s lots, if using online coupons. Shuttles run every seven to 10 minutes and drop off at curbside check-in. |
What we don’t: It’s one of the farthest lots from DIA. |
What we like: Signing up for Canopy’s 5280 Club saves customers 30 percent and drops the price to $6.95 per day for uncovered parking and $12.50 for covered. The rewards cards makes them even less expensive than USAirport Parking, which is located across the street. |
Rates: $8/day at Pikes Peak and Mt. Elbert lots; $16/day at East and West terminal economy lots; $25/day for East and West terminal garages. |
What we like: The options. We’re all guilty at one time or another of speeding down Pena Boulevard with 30-45 minutes to spare before a flight. It’s good to know in those instances you can park in the garage, head straight to the top level, walk across the bus lanes, get in line for security and maybe, just maybe, make... |
What we don’t: Buyers remorse of forking over $100 for garage parking after a four-day trip. |
On Oscar night Nina had tweeted about it turning into a once-in-a-lifetime occasion which sparked engagement rumors. She and Ian were attending Elton John’s Oscar party together, which no doubt was a huge deal, but I’m pretty sure she has many Oscar parties in her future. An engagement on the other hand, would be once ... |
Did Ian hesitate to call Nina his girlfriend because she’s now actually his fiance, but they aren’t ready to actually go public with it yet? He seemed to really respect her and was extra cautious in his answers so that is leading us to think that there might just be some truth to the engagement rumors. |
The couple has managed to work together, live at least part of the time together and then travel the world hand in hand. Ian says he loves how Nina just lives in the moment and appreciates what is happening in front of her eyes. Obviously there have been a lot of moments together that have bonded them in the last year ... |
Ian Somerhalder and Nina Dobrev Engaged Soon! – Are They Hollywood’s Next Power Couple? |
Did Ian Somerhalder And Nina Dobrev Replace Justin Bieber And Selena Gomez As Hollywood’s New Young Power Couple? |
Ian Somerhalder and Nina Dobrev Madly In Love: When Does Love Become Too Much? |
BRENDAN RODGERS has admitted Liverpool will not end their long wait for title success this season. |
The Liverpool manager plays host to Premier League leaders Arsenal on Saturday but also has Manchester City and Chelsea visiting over the coming weeks. |
But Rodgers believes his side do not possess the strength in depth to last the course. |
Liverpool trail Arsenal by eight points, and the immediate concern is cementing fourth place by staving off challenges from Everton and Tottenham, who meet on Sunday and are two and three points behind respectively. |
“For us, as a team, it’s too early for that,” said Rodgers. |
But a boost for Rodgers is that both Glen Johnson and Daniel Agger are in line to return from lengthy injury lay-offs next week. |
England defender Johnson had been ruled out “indefinitely” but is making progress after groin and ankle problems and does not need surgery. |
He will not be back in time to face Arsenal this weekend but does have the FA Cup tie against Arsene Wenger’s team, on February 16, in his sights. |
In between, Liverpool travel to rock-bottom Fulham next Wednesday. |
Agger is working to a similar timescale after a calf injury ruled him out of five matches. |
The Danish international has resumed training with the physio team on his own away from the main group. |
He is expected to step up his comeback in the coming days, though. |
This post first appeared on the TomDispatch website. |
I’ve written about how we first met on the page (as I was his book editor, starting with his now-classic volume Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire) and about his death on November 20, 2010. I still miss him. In our present world, overflowing with explosive, unexpected moments, I regularly wonder ju... |
That said, I’m pleased to offer a special kind of goodbye to him today, a memory piece on his work by Sheila Johnson, his wife, partner in so many endeavors, and an impressive figure in her own right. It seems like a fitting way to say goodbye, remember the breadth and stature of the man, and take in the scope of his l... |
In the introduction to his final book, Dismantling the Empire, America’s Last Best Hope (just out in paperback), he took up a recurring topic of interest to him: “the choice between republic and empire,” and the way “our imperial dreams stretch our means to the breaking point and threaten our future.” Among “the altern... |
Ireland’s Fiscal Advisory Council Tuesday said a slower-than-expected growth outlook may oblige the Irish coalition government to bring in €400 million more in tax increases and spending cuts to meet a key 2012 budget deficit target required by its bailout lenders. |
Ireland is in its second year of a program with the European Union and the International Monetary Fund that requires the government to reduce a budget deficit of about 10% of gross domestic product in 2011 to 8.6% this year. |
To reach that target, the government announced €3.8 billion in austerity measures in December. However, slower-than-expected economic growth will require an additional €400 million in adjustments for 2012, the fiscal council said. |
It was set up to provide independent non-binding advice to the government after the country needed to agree €67.5 billion in EU and IMF loans in late 2010, when the cost of rescuing its banks escalated. |
A Brooklyn imam whose relatives were arrested in a raid of a New Mexico compound spoke out Thursday to combat rumors that have transformed what he described as a months-long family drama into allegations of terrorism. |
Law enforcement officials raided the barren compound in northern New Mexico last week and found the body of a young boy and 11 hungry children, who officials said were clothed in filthy rags and living without running water or electricity. |
They arrested the imam’s son, Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, who was wanted since last year on suspicion of abducting his critically ill 3-year-old son, as well as four other adults who were with him. The imam confirmed Thursday that those adults were also family members. |
The child’s body has not been identified, the Taos County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday. |
All five adults have been charged with 11 counts of felony child abuse. |
County authorities have alleged, without publicly releasing evidence, that the adults were training the children to carry out school shootings, and that the group subscribed to “extremist” Muslim beliefs. |
Siraj Wahhaj, the Brooklyn imam, confirmed during an impromptu news conference on Thursday that he is the father of suspects Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, 40; Hujrah J. Wahhaj, 37; and Subhannah A. Wahhaj, 35. He said he also is the father-in-law of Lucas Allen Morten, 40, and Jany N. Leveille, 35, who also were suspects taken fro... |
But he said he had no knowledge of the group’s intentions when they disappeared last December, and that they quickly “cut ties, not only with me, with their brothers and their sisters and their mother,” and that the family has had “no direct contact with any of them” since then. |
After Siraj Ibn Wahhaj disappeared with his son, Abdul-Ghani Wahhaj, the boy’s mother filed a missing-person report in the Atlanta suburb where they live. |
Hakima Ramzi, the mother, said the boy suffers from a severe brain condition that causes seizures and that his father did not have the boy’s medication. |
Ramzi’s attorney said Thursday that Siraj Ibn Wahhaj had been acting “differently” and “more argumentative” for a few weeks before his disappearance, but gave no other warning of what was coming. |
Wahhaj said Thursday that his son was “a little bit high-strung” and sometimes prone to anger, and that he was licensed as a private security guard to carry guns. |
Wahhaj said he was unaware of any political or religious beliefs, or violent intentions, that could have motivated his son and daughters’ disappearance. |
Hints of the circumstances surrounding the disappearances emerge in Facebook posts and message exchanges between relatives over the months, but many details remained unclear. |
The posts indicate that Ibn Wahhaj and Hakima Ramzi were experiencing marital strife, and that another brother, Mohammed Wahhaj, had been involved in trying to mediate before Ibn Wahhaj’s sudden departure. |
The group disappeared without warning last December, and Wahhaj and other family members have worked closely with local law enforcement and the FBI ever since in an effort to track them down, he said. |
The search came to an end last week, after Subhanah Wahhaj contacted another family friend, he said. |
“She said, ‘We need some food, we’re starving,’ ” the imam said. Subhanah provided a location to send food, and the family turned that over to the police. |
Alice Crites and Eli Rosenberg in Washington, Neda Semnani in New York, Sonam Vashi in Atlanta and Ben Neary in Albuquerque contributed to this report. |
UNITED NATIONS, October 1, 2010 -- Hours after the publication of the UN's “watered down” report on war crimes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky refused to disclose who in the UN, particularly in the Secretariat of Ban Ki-moon, was involved in making the changes from the stronger draf... |
Ban delayed publication of the report after President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, criticized in the report, threatened to pull Rwandan troops from UN peacekeeping missions including in Darfur. Ban flew to Kigali and discussed -- or negotiated -- with Kagame. |
an earlier reference to "damning elements" that could be used by a court to conclude that genocide took place has been changed to "inculpatory elements.” Another section elaborates at length — compared with the earlier draft — on a number of "countervailing factors" that could be used to argue that such a crime didn't ... |
I think you've got it backwards, Nesirky replied. |
Inner City Press asked, “it wasn't watered down?” Nesirky never answered this, rather emphasizing that the HCHR has experience lawyers. Yes, but what was the involvement of the legal office of Ban, who negotiated with Kagame? |
Nesirky denied that Ban negotiated with Kagame, and then was questioned by BBC and Al Jazeera about Ban's failure to now make any recommendations about prosecution, and by CNN about Ban not making himself available for questions on this long anticipated day of publication. |
Ban's only listed appointments of the day are with the Ambassador of Pakistan, and hosting a reception about the MDGs. It should be noted that after Ban named Kagame and Spain's Zapatero as the co-chairs of his MDG Advocacy Group, Zapatero refused to meet with Kagame due to war crimes charges pending against him in the... |
As UN Council Prepares Trip to Uganda & Sudan, DRC Report to Raise Peacekeeping Price? |
UNITED NATIONS, October 1, 2010 -- As the modified Mapping Report on war crimes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was issued today, at the UN in New York Ambassadors of the accused countries as well as the DRC scrambled to make their nations' complaints and addenda heard. |
On the eve of the Report's release, Uganda's Permanent Representative Rugunda took congratulations from a stream of other Ambassadors for the alphabetically honor of assuming presidency of the UN Security Council of October. There was little to no mention of the UN's charge of war crimes. |
Several well wishers noted that for the first time, a president of the Council would be leading a mission of the 15 members to his country, just as his month began. The phrasing was conditional, as Sudan had yet to issue visas for the second part of the already controversial trip. |
There is, however, a connection between the Mapping Report and the Uganda leg of the trip, on which Inner City Press has been told it will be included. Ugandan foreign minister Sam Kutesa has in writing urged that the Mapping Report, which accuses UPDF troops of terrorizing civilians in the Congo, not be published at a... |
After the UN's Somalia mini Summit, from which as Inner City Press exclusively reported Eritrea was at the last minute dis-invited, African Union Commission chief Jean Ping took Press questions. Inner City Press asked about complaints that the Ugandan and Burundian troops in Somalia aren't being paid enough. |
Jean Ping said that even with a recent increase, the AU troops in Somalia are compensated at the level of $750 a month, rather than the $1080 the UN pays. |
This, Ping said, results in a situation in which “all the peacekeepers want to go to Darfur” to receive the higher pay. Of course, it is the troops' country which decide where they go, and which receives the compensation. |
The Council, Ambassador Rugunda told Inner City Press on Thursday night, is slated to meet with President Museveni. How will the issue of the mapping report come up? Will commitments be sought or made about additional payments for Somalia peacekeeping? Watch this site. |
Footnote: Not only is the Council trip to Uganda and Sudan, slated to begin October 4, still not confirmed as of 9 am on October 1 -- the terms of reference are not even being negotiated by the whole Council, but only the US and UK, the leaders of the Sudan legs of the trip, Inner City Press is told. |
Meanwhile, last minute questions were raised about how many journalists, and even which journalists, should be allowed to cover the trip. These should and must be resolved today -- watch this space. |
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