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Liberals Invite People to Join Rally

The Liberals invited people to participate in a rally they are calling One Nation at a mall in Washington, D.C.

The Liberals are inviting their supporters to come to the mall in Washington, D.C. this Saturday, October 2, 2010, for the gathering. The group expects to draw a large crowd to contribute to the group’s initiative. The Liberals also believe that this will serve as their move to gather support before the midterm elections in the U.S.

According to the group, this rally’s primary goal is to restore the massive support and enthusiasm that was taken from the liberal group since the 2008 elections. They believe that the support for the Liberal group has been declining over the past years, which causes them to hold this upcoming rally.

Those who are putting this rally together are coming from a variety of group of people. People will partake on this event are ranging from people against war, environmentalists, gay rights activists, and more. These people consider this event as the “most diverse march in history”. The said event will last for four hours.

As of now, the number of people who will participate is not yet certain. In spite of the fact that the number of people remains uncertain, people behind this rally remains hopeful that the number will be high. In contrast to Glenn Beck’s rally where it focused more on American patriotism, “The progressive groups will repeatedly remind attendees at their rally to vote in November’s mid-term elections”, this stated by Arlene Holt Baker, who is executive vice president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO).

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Blazing Weather in Los Angeles, San Diego Set New Record

The blistering weather sets up the hottest day ever recorded at Los Angeles and San Diego on Monday afternoon.

On Monday, Los Angeles and San Diego had a blistering day that they have ever experienced since weather experts started keeping records. Based on the gathered data, the temperature reached 113 degrees at 12:15 in the afternoon in downtown L.A, which was considered as the hottest day in history today. This phenomenon broke the record of 112 degrees that occurred on June 26, 1990. Because of this, people continuously talk about the scorching heat they have experienced.

This happened because a high pressure system remains over the West, which causes heat blocking the cool moist air to get on shore. Due to the blazing atmosphere, beaches were surprisingly packed even though it is Monday. People seem to skip work and school, for them to find some relief.

As for San Diego, they have experience the same occurrence on Sunday and Monday. According to meteorologists, they are expecting to experience relief from this weather by Tuesday. By that time, cooler air is anticipated to make its way on shore.

In addition, chances of fire danger increase because of the high temperature for the last few days. This is due to brush fires are common occurrence during this season in Southern California. That is why fire departments remains alert for whatever might possibly happen during this season.

According to battalion chief of Los Angeles County Fire Department Mike Brown, they are continuously receiving calls that are heat related such as heat strokes and heat exhaustion. Brown added that this is happening all over Los Angeles, which made them very busy today than they’ve been for the past few months.

By tomorrow, it is expected that San Diego will experience 79 degrees temperature, while Los Angeles will have 88 degrees.

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Space Station Crews Set for Second Attempt to Undock from Space Station

Space Station crews are getting ready for their second attempt to return to Earth after Soyuz spacecraft failed to undock from the outpost yesterday.

Three astronauts on the International Space Station are gearing up for another effort to return to earth. The Soyuz spacecraft experienced an unprecedented glitch that prevented the spacecraft from undocking from the International space station.

The three astronauts are Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Mikhail Kornienko and NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson. They will try to return to earth and start their second attempt tonight at 10:02pm. If their second attempt will go according to plan, the astronauts will land on the steppes of Kazakhstan in Central Asia on September 25, Saturday at 1:21 am.

The return of the three astronauts from the International Space Station was delayed by a day because Russian Engineers are unsuccessful in correcting the malfunctioning microswitch. It prevented to release set of hooks and latches on the Russian Poisk of the space station preventing the Soyuz spacecraft from undocking.

Russian flight controllers failed to command the hooks and latches on the Poisk module to release the Soyuz spacecraft on its first attempt. There are different sets of hooks and latches that are connected to Soyuz spacecraft, however, the hooks and latches from the Poisk module must be released first before the other hooks.

The malfunctioning of the microswitch caused many hours of delay to the astronauts. It also resulted in the scrapping of the undocking and landing plans and Mission control for the day. The Soyuz crew returned to the space station and the 12 recovery helicopters that are waiting for their landing in Kazakhstan returned to their base.

The three astronauts of the space station rigged up cables and tried to fix the docking port for their second attempt to depart from the space station.

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North Korean Ruling Party Declares Conference Date

After several postponements, the ruling party in North Korea announced their first conference meeting this coming September 28.

There are growing speculations about that meeting that the North Korean Leader Kim Jong-il is going to announce his successor.

This will be the biggest political gathering to happen in North Korea for almost 30 years now.

The party is widely believed that the event is a way for Mr. Kim to promote his third son, Kim Jong-un, into a senior position in leadership.

If this thing going to happen, this will be a promotion on his part, and it indicates him to be the heir of his father, on its high ranking position as the leader of North Korea.

The rumor about Kim Jong-un as the chosen descendant of Mr. Kim came out a year ago. However, there is only little information known about this Swiss-educated man and everyone expected him to be the next leader of their secretive state.

The announcement about the coming party meeting been revealed by the Korean Central News Agency on early Tuesday.

On the statement it said that the conference of the Workers Party of Korea will held in Pyongyang this coming September 28 for electing their supreme leadership body.

This statement was released to end the speculations about the meeting precise date, after it was been delayed for several times already.

However, the news agency did not give any hint why the party been postponed the meeting several times earlier.

There are some speculations that after the North Korean leader suffered stroke, in recent years they believed that the leader sought medical treatment in one of their few allies, in China. Still, there is no given confirmation been stated by both parties regarding Mr. Kim; illness and his treatments.

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PG&E issues list of Top 100 hazardous places of natural gas

The Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) issued the list of Top 100 hazardous pipeline segments of natural gas.

Furthermore, the PG&E noted that places near or in Silicon Valley such as Livermore, Sunol, Milpitas, Fremont and Peninsula are some of the handful places that have multiple segments.  On the other hand, the California Public Utilities Commission requested the Top 100 list of hazardous pipeline segments following the pipeline outburst happened in San Bruno last September 9 that left three unaccounted for and four deaths.

According to the utility, the documents are used to show the problem about the series of deterioration to land issues and to plan purposes, rather than problems that create an instant risk to the public. In addition, Chris Johns, president of PG&E was questioned by the reports at one press conference regarding about why San Bruno was not in the list where it was also ruptured last September 9.

However, Johns said that the reason of that accident is still being in the process of investigations by the National Transportation Safety Board. He also said that there is an issue concerning safety it is deal with in an instant.

Johns added that they do not place it on the Top 100 list and if there is an issue for safety procedures, they instantly send a team to that place to look for that issue and nothing is more crucial. Moreover, the transmission pipeline is parted into 20,000 segments; some are only few feet long while the others are mile long.

Johns noted that the segments were placed according to their complex algorithm that acquires into report population such as the age of the pipeline and other aspects. In addition, a segment can be high on the Top 100 list because structure is being done close to it.

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Allen says BP Well Completely Dead

Thad Allen, national incident commander, announced that the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico is effectively dead after the pressure test by British Petroleum (BP).

According to Thad Allen, there are additional regulatory steps that must be undertaken but he said that they can already conclude that the Macondo well located in the Gulf of Mexico poses no threat at the Gulf. The well released more than 4m gallons of crude oil in the Gulf of Mexico before it was capped temporarily on July 15, 2010. The oil spill disaster cost the job of BP chief executive Tony Hayward, took almost £45bn on the market value of BP and brought the deep sea drilling in the Gulf to be stopped temporarily. Almost 400 lawsuits are waiting for the company.

BP hoped to finish the permanent plugging of the well in July but because of bad weather, it was postponed to avoid any complications. Five months after the well started leaking, a 75-ton cement was plugged 2.5 miles below the surface of the Gulf. The well leaked an estimate ranging from 5,000 barrels or 210,000 gallons of oil every day. The oil spill cost BP almost $8 billion in the cleanup and other costs.

BP will face lawsuits from the businesses near the Gulf whose livelihoods were affected by the worst oil spill in the history of the U.S. It includes environmental workers and fisherman along the Gulf. The company also needs to pay a compensation bill worth $148 million from the state of Alabama.

Barack Obama, president of the United States, obliged BP to set aside a compensation fund worth $20 billion. If the company will be found guilty of gross negligence, the company will face another penalty worth $18 billion.

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Plano, Texas, Celebrates 31st Annual Balloon Festival

The City of Plano, Texas, celebrates its 31st annual Balloon Festival at Oak Point Park today.”

This year’s celebration of Plano Balloon Festival officially started at 6:00 P.M. last night. The weeklong celebration took place at the Oak Point Park in Plano.

Plano Balloon festival is one of the most awaited events of the year in Texas. This event is held every September of the year. Yearly, over 90,000 partakers are expected to witness and join the celebration. Ever since Plano Balloon Festival had started, it has magnificently evolved into an essential fundraiser for most local nonprofit organizations

Hot air balloons took off in the evening of Friday at the Pak Point, situated at some 40-miles southeast of Denton, as a start of the festivities. According to the event organizers, there are over 100 hot-air balloons participated on this spectacular celebration.

As part of the event’s program, spectators could look forward to some activities where they can participate like Skydiving. Also, fireworks display and a series of great music entertainments are included as well as Arts & Crafts display and concerts.

Moreover, plenty of foods and drinks are present at the Plano Balloon Festival 2010.

Even kids will surely enjoy the festivities due to there are programs and activities that are specially designed for them. The admission fee at this wonderful festival is discounted by $4 starting from 09:00 A.M up to 03:00 P.M. Kids shorted than 36” are free, while senior citizens, who are above 65, are privileged to $1 discount.

The City of Plano, the ninth largest city in Texas, is referred as the wealthiest northern community of Dallas, Texas, and in the entire United States. This is due to Plano on has 6.4% of poverty rate compare to other states. Plano Balloon Festival is among of the famous annual events held in this city.

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American Scientist Denies Nuclear Bomb Plot Allegation

American physicist Dr. Leonardo Mascheroni declared his innocence about the case charging him with criminal plot of helping Venezuela in developing nuclear weapons.

The Dr. Leonardo Mascheroni  and his wife Marjorie Roxby Mascheroni, are both arrested on Friday and been charged with criminal scheme of helping Venezuela in construction of an atomic bomb after being caught by an FBI agent who posed as Venezuelan government representative.

Dr, Mascheroni denies the allegation, and he declared his innocence about the 22- count of cases being charged with them.  He said to the reporters that if he was a spy, he must leave the country a long time ago in the first place.

The two both worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted an extensive operation,   from 2008 to 2009 before they raid the physicist’s home last October and pull out their cameras and computer together with hundreds of its files as their evidence.

The couple attended in federal court in Albuquerque, after the two been arrested on Friday. The government did not accuse the Venezuelan government, and anyone who works for the government in building up for a secret weapon. The couple was charged in handing over information about secret weapons and the physicist as a spy of Venezuela.

If the defendants been convicted of all the charges been filed against them, they will face life sentences in prison.

He was been accused of handing over secret weapon information in exchange for $20,000 and the promise of obtaining $800,000. Dr. Mascheroni, 75, is a naturalized Argentinean citizen, while his wife Mrs. Mascheroni, 67, is an American citizen.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez denies the allegation that his government has the interests in developing nuclear arms.

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Mexico commemorates 200th Independence Day

Thousands of Mexicans on Wednesday have gathered into the streets to celebrate their 200 years of independence from Spain.

The event occurred even if there is an increasing drug violence that dealt blows in Mexico’s national pride.

Moreover, planes have painted the sky with Mexico’s national colors of green, white and red, as thousands of Mexicans watched a huge parade in the main Reforma avenue, which will head to a fireworks display at night time at the enormous Zocalo central square.

Likewise, hundreds of smaller commemorations were being celebrated all throughout the country, with beats coming mariachi music and with streets swarmed by Mexican flags.

Also, several partygoers put on straw sombreros and stick-on mustaches, which dig enjoyment at a nationwide label, and the government promoted a more solemn side with an outdoor philharmonic orchestra.

Momentarily, prior on hitting midnight, President Felipe Calderon will give the well-known cry of the call to arms, which is known as El Grito in Mexico City, which is repeated by state governors and mayors over the towns and cities in jungle and desert.

In addition, “Viva Mexico!” is a recent-day twist on rebel priest Miguel Hidalgo’s genuine battle cry back in 1810. Eventually, in 1821, Mexicans have achieved their independence against Spain.

In spite of sluggish recovery from deep recession last year, many cities have arranged lavish celebrations, consisting of eight ton of fireworks intended for Mexico City. Also, the Mexican media said that the cost of the party is around $40 million.

Subsequently, among the first one to march were about 250 teenagers that carries replica of native, paddle-shaped nopal cacti over their heads.

Furthermore, marchers were also carrying Mayan gods representations filled with helium behind a rebel soldier’s replica that is pulled piece by piece to the Zocalo, where it will be put up as a gigantic statue.

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