By Ryan J. Downey
Seth MacFarlane at the 2013 Oscars
Photo: Kevin Winter/ Getty Images
Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1702558/oscars-funniest-moments-2013.jhtml
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VATICAN CITY (AP) ? Pope Benedict XVI has given his pontificate's final Sunday blessing from his studio window to the cheers of tens of thousands of people in St. Peter's Square.
Benedict says even though he's retiring on Thursday from the papacy, the first pope in 600 years to do so, he's "not abandoning the church." Instead he says he'll serve the church with the same dedication he has till now, but will do so in a way "more suitable to my age and my strength." Benedict, 85, will spend his last years in prayer, meditation and seclusion in a monastery on Vatican City's grounds.
He has one more public appearance, at his weekly audience on Wednesday in the square.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/popes-last-blessing-window-drawing-crowd-102544451.html
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The Libertarian Party of Indiana has hired two new staff members to help manage the day-to-day operations of the party. Lauren Rumpler has been hired to serve as the Communications Specialist while Alyssa Salgado joins the Libertarian Party of Indiana as Business Manager.
?The LPIN received dozens of applications for the two positions with quite a few qualified applications from inside and outside the party,? said Sam Goldstein, State Chair of the Libertarian Party of Indiana. ?Ultimately the hiring decisions were a unanimous decision of the Central Committee.?
Alyssa Salgado comes to the Libertarian Party of Indiana with strong nonprofit leadership and organizational skills. Salgado is a native from Noblesville, Indiana, and currently resides in Zionsville, Indiana. She attended Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and received a Bachelor?s of Science and Organizational Leadership and Supervision with a Certificate in Human Resource Management. She also serves as Office Manager and Project Coordinator for EarthWing Inc. Her focus will be the development of inter-party operations and membership development.
Lauren Rumpler hails from Cincinnati, Ohio, and is now a current resident of Muncie, Indiana. She currently attends Ball State University for Political Science. She spent three years working for Cardinal Communications, a student-run public relations firm at Ball State University as an account coordinator. In her time with the firm, she worked for Hairball8 Records in Houston, Texas, planned Paint for Peace at Ball State University, and worked on reputation management for the Ball State Choral Group. Rumpler also served as an intern for the Libertarian Party of Indiana under former Executive Director Chris Spangle. Rumpler will manage the online presence and media relationships for the Libertarian Party of Indiana.
?I am exited to grow with the party,? said Rumpler. ?I think that the party has gained a lot of forward momentum in the past and I am hoping that I will be able to help them grow in the future. I look forward to sharing with Hoosiers the libertarian vision for Indiana.?
The Libertarian Party is America, and Indiana?s, third largest political party, founded in 1971 as an alternative to the two main political parties. Its vision is for a world in which all individuals can freely exercise the natural right of sole dominion over their own lives, liberty and property by building a political party that elects Libertarians to public office, and moving public policy in a libertarian direction.
The Libertarian Party of Indiana was formed in 1974, and has maintained ballot access since 1994.
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If you or your kids are into the cartoon show Pok?mon, we?re about to improve your Monday with Pok?mon TV, today?s leading app worth downloading, which allows users to stream Pok?mon straight to their Android devices. Following that is an update to info-sharing app Bump that lets you share files between your Android device and computer. Lastly we have DIE HARD, a Temple Run-style title meant to promote the new movie A Good Day to Die Hard.
What?s cool? There have been a lot of episodes of various animated versions of the video game Pok?mon over the years, and Pok?mon TV makes them available to users for streaming instantly over a Wi-Fi or cellular Internet connection. You can watch entire episodes of Pok?mon from your device, and the app includes other content like Pok?mon movie trailers and special features.
Who?s it for? For Pok?mon cartoon show fans (who are mostly little kids), this app is a must.
What?s it like? For more streaming videos, TV and movies, try Crackle and Cartoon Network Video.
What?s cool? Bump simplifies the sharing process, turning it into a sort of digital handshake, by which you can exchange info with another person through their Android device. It?s not just contact information, either ? Bump will also share photos and videos when you bump devices. The latest update to the app makes it possible to bump files between your smartphone or tablet and your computer, as well.
Who?s it for? If you find yourself networking a lot or just like the freedom to quickly share photos and files with other people (or computers), check out Bump.
What?s it like? There?s a similar premise behind SocialThump, although that app is geared toward sharing social media info. You can also use Sonar to find people you know from the Internet the next time you?re at a convention or similar event.
What?s cool? DIE HARD successfully borrows from (or maybe rips off) the Temple Run formula by putting players in an over-the-shoulder perspective of protagonist Jack McClane. Just like other runners, your goal is to keep moving while taking corners and dodging obstacles, but DIE HARD adds to the formula by putting a gun in your hand and requiring you to quickly take out enemies before they shoot you. The mixture of fast reflexes and a little bit of tactical strategy successfully helps DIE HARD feel fresh in an overcrowded genre.
Who?s it for? If you like DIE HARD, running games or shooting guys, you?ll like DIE HARD.
What?s it like? You?ll obviously see similarities between DIE HARD and Temple Run; another similar title is TheEndApp.
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Fortunately, experienced gardeners can be some of the most generous people ? especially where seeds are concerned ? and they are often willing to part with seeds to help a new gardener.
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Below are some tips on places you can go online and in real life to get your green thumbs on free garden seeds.
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Gardening forums
When I started my first real outdoor garden, I was lucky enough to have been part of an online forum filled with gardeners who where as generous with their knowledge as they were with the seeds from their gardens. The popularity of social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest has depressed participation in online forums, but they're still the place to go to meet serious seed savers and swappers. There are many gardening websites with active communities and seed swapping forums that are worth checking out.?
Sometimes gardeners unload excess seeds on newbies for what is known as Self-Addressed Stamped Envelopes offers. A SASE seed offer means you will have to send the gardener an envelope with your name and address and stamps that cover the cost of postage of the seeds they are sending you. How many seeds you get will depend on the gardener, but they?re usually more seeds than you could buy for the cost of two postage stamps. GardenWeb is a good place to get started, but also search for some smaller forums where you won?t get lost in the crowd.?
Seed swaps
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Late winter and early spring is the time of year when gardeners get together and swap seeds saved from their garden the previous year. Gardeners bring in their own saved seeds, and sometimes extra seeds they've purchased, and exchange them at these swaps for seeds they are interested in growing. Usually, to participate in a seed swap you have to take seeds to exchange, but some seed swaps may be set up so that new gardeners who don?t have seeds can take some home with them too. Do a Google search for seed swaps in your community and attend as many as possible to get to know the gardeners in your area.
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Seed libraries
Seed libraries have been rising in popularity the past couple of years. They can be a standalone project, or they can be connected to the library in your municipality. They work on an honor system; you are allowed to take seeds for free with the understanding that you will return seeds at the end of the season. SeedLibraries.org is a recently formed social network of seed savers and seed librarians. There you?ll find seed libraries across the country and information about starting one in your community.?
Ask a gardener for free seeds
Maybe you're the kind of person who does not feel comfortable asking strangers for something free. But chances are that you already have a friend who is a gardener, someone you can ask for seeds. It might be a neighbor, family member or even a coworker, and they probably have a seed stash of their own that they will happily dip into to help a new gardener get started.
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Save your own seeds
Remember the saying "beggars can't be choosers" when you're asking for free seeds. Do not turn your nose up at any seed that is offered for free that you can actually put to use in your garden. Even if it isn?t something you particularly care for, think of seeds as a currency. Grow it in your garden, enjoy the blooms, or eat the fruit, and then save the seeds. By saving these ?unwanted? seeds you will build up your own seed bank. These seeds can be your entrance into a seed swap at the end of the season, they can be used to barter for seeds you do want, and you can use them to make deposits in the seed libraries and seed banks that provided you seeds when you had none. Visit the ?Engage & Grow? tab of the SeedMatters.org website for helpful information on seed saving.
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Ramon is the original urban garden blogging male espousing a DIY philosophy to gardening and garden projects. Better known online as MrBrownThumb, he?s been demystifying gardening secrets for average gardeners online since 2005. Besides writing the popular?MrBrownThumb?garden blog he?s co-founder of?@SeedChat?on Twitter, the creative director of?One Seed Chicago, and founder of the?Chicago Seed Library.?
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Witnesses say two waves about five feet high each hit the west side of the Solomon Islands following an 8.0 magnitude earthquake, resulting in fatalities. TODAY's Al Roker reports.
By Becky Bratu and Alastair Jamieson, NBC News
Updated at 9:40 a.m. ET: At least five people were killed on Wednesday after a strong earthquake in the South Pacific generated a 3 foot tsunami that aid workers said washed away homes and wiped out remote island communities.
A tidal surge moved houses by up to 30 feet, and there were reports of people and fishing boats being washed out to sea, according to local volunteers for humanitarian charity, World Vision.
The magnitude 8.0 quake struck Wednesday about 3 miles under the Santa Cruz Islands, a thinly-populated part of the Solomon Islands that lie east of Papua New Guinea and northeast of Australia, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
A 3 foot wave hit near the town of Lata, swamping some villages and the town's main airport as people fled to safety on higher ground, Reuters reported.
There was no tsunami threat to Hawaii, the?Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.?
According to Reuters, Lata hospital's director of nursing, Augustine Pilve, told New Zealand television that five people had been killed, including a boy aged about ten. Pilve added that more casualties were possible as officials were making their way to villages that may have been hit.
It was not immediately clear if the deaths were caused by the tremor or the tidal surge.
World Vision said two communities in the province of Temotu had been "almost entirely wiped out by a one metre sea surge."
In the town of Venga, with a population of about 750, the surge shifted homes by up to 30 feet, damaging around 90 percent of them, the charity added. Nela, with a population of almost 200 people, saw 95 percent of its homes washed away, the charity said.
"I am currently walking through one community [in Lata], and I'm knee-deep in water," Jeremiah Tabua, World Vision's emergency response coordinator in the Solomon Islands, said in a statement?released by the charity. "I can see a number of houses that have been swept away by the surge."
Solomon Islands police commissioner?John Lansley told Australian Broadcasting Corporation?that the worst hit area was around Lata.
"We understand a part of the airstrip has been damaged, which is going to cause some issues in respect to getting relief aid out there, but that is being assessed at this moment," he said.
The quake struck at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday local time (8:23 p.m. Tuesday ET) and was followed by dozens of aftershocks including a 6.3 magnitude tremor at 5:35 p.m. local time (1:35 a.m. ET) Wednesday. A magnitude-6.0 quake struck at 12:55 a.m. Thursday local time.
USGS officials said the later shocks were "not at all surprising."
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued and later cancelled a tsunami warning for the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Tuvalu, New Caledonia, Kosrae, Fiji, Kiribati, Wallis and Futana.
A tsunami watch was issued and later cancelled for Samoa, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia and Guam.?
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