Photo credit to the National Park Service
Welcome to your Open News Thread! This diary will remain open and monitored through Sunday night, when I post my big fat diary. Jan F will add stories in the comments, and you are invited to add stories too.
Today my stories all came from twitter links.
People in China standing in line for a civil service exam.
Welcome to your nearly-nightly news diary that we leave open throughout the weekend! JanF and I are combining forces for an open news thread we hope will please all of you.
Please comment on any of the stories in the diary or comments, or share any news stories you like from anywhere! I tend to share lesser-known stories, and especially look for stories from original journalists w/ byline credits. And I frequently highlight my home state of Utah.
News stories may be added in comments throughout the day and night, so please stop back if you are inclined.
Welcome to your nearly-nightly news diary that we leave open throughout the weekend! JanF and I are combining forces for an open news thread we hope will please all of you.
Please comment on any of the stories in the diary or comments, or share any news stories you like from anywhere! I tend to share lesser-known stories, and especially look for stories from original journalists w/ byline credits. And I frequently highlight my home state of Utah.
News stories may be added throughout the day and night, so please stop back if you are inclined.
This will serve as the open news thread until Monday.
Warm sunny photo, Arches National Park, October 2012. Every photo I took of my kids, okay 95%, they had the sun in their eyes.
Welcome to your nearly-nightly news diary that we leave open throughout the weekend! JanF and I are combining forces for an open news thread we hope will please all of you.
Please comment on any of the stories in the diary or comments, or share any news stories you like from anywhere!
News stories may be added throughout the day and night, so please stop back if you are inclined.
This will serve as the open news thread until Thursday or Friday overnight.
Because sometimes we need warm sunny beach pictures.
Welcome to your nearly-nightly news diary that we leave open throughout the weekend! JanF and I are combining forces for an open news thread we hope will please all of you.
Please comment on any of the stories in the diary or comments, or share any news stories you like from anywhere!
News stories may be added throughout the day and night, so please stop back if you are inclined.
This will serve as the open news thread until Tuesday overnight.
2/3 of these came from my twitter and fb feed. 1/3 from my usual sources & topics, the last 5 in the International section. Because I am compelled to include Afghanistan (war), Pakistan (neighbor to Afghanistan & India), and India and China (population).
Photo Credit to JanF, from her old J-town diaries.
Please leave a comment if you read – I love comments the best.
Share news from your communities, if you can.
Cross-posted in orange.
This diary will be cross-posted at the GOS, also.
(add link when posted).
We are melting, yes. Finally.
I ended up writing the OND at the gos again tonight – so here it is:
I think I hit seven continents (counting the Shackleton voyage re-creation) and several states (whose legislatures are up to NO good in general).
Welcome all, please comment on stories, or share your own news, and consider this a late-night open thread . . .
Pat Bagley for the Salt Lake Tribune, please look closely.
OND is a community feature on Daily Kos, consisting of news stories from around the world, sometimes coupled with a daily theme, original research or commentary. Editors of OND impart their own presentation styles and content choices, typically publishing each day near 12:00AM Eastern Time.
OND Editors consist of founder Magnifico, regular editors jlms qkw, maggiejean, wader, Oke, rfall, and JML9999, alumni editors palantir, BentLiberal and ScottyUrb, guest editor annetteboardman, and current editor-in-chief Neon Vincent. We invited our readers to comment & share other news.
I generally survey a number of news sites around the world and country, choose around 15 articles I can quote, and a few links. Sometimes I editorialize.
NASA photo
Remembering Fallen Heroes: A Tough Week for NASA
NASA’s First Disaster Happened on the Launch Pad
In NASA’s early years, the agency learned by doing; developing tests and procedures as programs wore on. One test developed and used in the Mercury program was the “plugs-out test,” a prelaunch test of the spacecrafts systems through a simulated countdown on launch. It was never considered a dangerous test, but on Jan. 27, 1967, Apollo 1′s plugs-out test claimed the lives of the crew.
Typical for the first flight of a new program, the plan for Apollo 1 was a simple shakedown cruise. The crew – Mercury astronaut Gus Grissom, Gemini veteran Ed White, and rookie Roger Chaffee – would take just the Command and Service Module (CSM) into Earth orbit.
The plugs-out test started out routinely with the flight-ready spacecraft mounted on its unfueled Saturn IB rocket. The umbilical power cords that supplied power were removed – the plugs were out – putting the spacecraft on its internal batteries and the crew cabin was pressurized with 16.7 pounds per square inch of pure oxygen. As the crew entered the spacecraft around 1pm that afternoon, a full launch-day staff of engineers in mission control took their positions for the test. There was also a staff of men in the White Room; the room that gave the astronauts passage to the spacecraft remained attached to the vehicle.
Is the ISS today a high-oxygen interior? Was this changed?
Official White House Photo by Pete Souza
I generally survey a number of news sites around the world and country, choose around 15 articles I can quote, and a few links. Tonight I am leaning toward social justice. Sometimes I editorialize. I also tend not to cover the headlines, but look for smaller stories.
I am so pleased that our country has re-elected Barack Hussein Obama and I love the overlap of these historic dates. Yes We Did Again.
Photo by Flip Schulke, hosted by Alabama Tourism Department. I was hoping to find a photo in a pulpit, but I liked this one too, Dr. King looks happy.
It’s not about glamorizing people, it’s about honoring imperfect people who made a sacrifice for us. Jeff Johnson (@JeffsNation)
Newsworks: Solomon Jones
There Would Be No Obama Without King
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” King wrote in one of the more familiar passages. “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial ‘outside agitator’ idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.”
As I read King’s brilliant argument for direct action against injustice, I saw more than a man who lives only in old footage. I saw a father fighting for a better future for his children. I saw a man who was not willing to wait for change. I saw myself.
King wrote of seeing “the vast majority of … twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society.” When I read that I saw Philadelphia, a place where 28 percent of the population-many of them African American-live in poverty while surrounded by wealth.
King went on to write of tears welling up in his six year old daughter’s eyes as he explained to her that she couldn’t go to the amusement park because of segregation. He wrote of the concerns that any husband and father would have for his family, and at that moment I saw King for who he truly was-a man.