Fans of train-wreck reality television, it's time to buckle your seat belts. ABC's Splash (premiering Tuesday at 8 p.m. ET) is your next opportunity to watch TV through your fingers as minor celebs risk humiliation for money (and maybe a bit more fame).
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Trace the Curiosity rover's journey to Mars and see the pictures that the six-wheeled robot has sent back from the Red Planet.
By Mike Wall
Space.com
NASA's Curiosity rover is back in action on Mars after being sidelined by a computer glitch for the second time in three weeks.
Curiosity went into a precautionary "safe mode"?on Sunday, apparently because a file slated for deletion was connected to one still in use by the rover. But the mission team has now sorted things out and returned the robot to active status, NASA officials announced Tuesday.
The car-size?Curiosity rover?has not resumed science operations yet, however. It's still recovering from a separate memory glitch that knocked out its main, or A-side, computer in late February. Engineers swapped Curiosity over to its backup (B-side) computer at the time, spurring the rover to go into safe mode on Feb. 28.
Curiosity bounced back on March 2, only to stand down briefly once again a few days later to wait out a Mars-bound solar eruption. [Curiosity Rover's Latest Amazing Mars Photos]
Mission engineers continue to configure and check out the B-side computer, which remains the Curiosity rover's active computer. The A-side is now available as a backup if needed, officials said.
All of this drama has delayed Curiosity's activities at a Martian site called Yellowknife Bay, which mission scientists announced last week?could have supported microbial life. This discovery was based on Curiosity's study of material pulled out of a hole it drilled last month into a Yellowknife Bay rock. Further such analytical work should be possible soon, rover team members said.
"We expect to get back to sample-analysis science by the end of the week," Curiosity mission manager Jennifer Trosper, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., said in a statement.
The rover team also wants to drill another hole in the Yellowknife Bay area to confirm and extend their previous observations. But this won't happen until May, partly because of an upcoming unfavorable planetary alignment.
Engineers won't send commands to the six-wheeled robot for most of April, because?Mars?and Earth will be on opposite sides of the sun during this time. "The moratorium is a precaution against interference by the sun corrupting a command sent to the rover," NASA officials wrote in a mission update.
Curiosity is the centerpiece of NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory mission. The huge robot touched down inside Mars' Gale Crater last August, kicking off a planned two-year surface mission to determine if the area ever could have supported microbial life.
While Curiosity has already achieved its main mission goal, the rover's handlers have no desire to rest on their laurels. They still plan to send Curiosity on to its main science destination ? the base of 3-mile-high (5 kilometers) Mount Sharp ? when it's done at Yellowknife.
Mount Sharp's foothills, which lie about 6 miles (10 kilometers) from the rover at present, show signs of long-ago exposure to liquid water. The mountain's many layers also contain a record of how Mars' environmental conditions have changed over time, and researchers want Curiosity to read these layers like a book as it climbs up Mount Sharp's slopes.
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WASHINGTON - President Obama departs tonight for his first presidential trip to Israel, a largely symbolic visit aimed more at mending rocky relationships than forging substantive policy.
While Obama once said he was putting off visiting Israel until "we are actually moving something forward," he is not expected to make progress on any new peace initiatives during his four-day trip to Israel and Jordan.
The president will land in Israel less than 48 hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new coalition government was installed, circumstances that further lower political expectations for Obama's visit.
"We've been very clear that this visit is not about trying to lay down a new initiative or complete our work on a particular issue," Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes told reporters. "Frankly, there's value in traveling precisely at a time when there is a new government in Israel and a new government in the United States and just having a broad strategic conversation."
"With a new government, you don't expect, again, to close the deal on any one major initiative," he said. "But you, on the other hand, want to begin a broad conversation about all these issues where we're cooperating on a day-to-day basis. And there are obviously going to be significant decisions in the months and years ahead about Iran, about Syria, about Israeli-Palestinian peace. And so by having this opportunity to speak with Israeli leaders, it can frame those decisions that ultimately will come down the line. And that's the way in which the President is approaching the trip."
While more Americans continue to sympathize with Israel rather than the Palestinian Authority, most prefer for the U.S. not to take the lead in peace negotiations, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
With the bar set low, the president will spend the bulk of his trip participating in choreographed photo-ops and speaking to the Israeli people, in an attempt to mend relations with America's primary ally in the Middle East.
Obama will also meet with both President Shimon Peres and Netanyahu shortly after his arrival on Wednesday.
The centerpiece of the trip, however, will be the president's speech to the Israeli people, in which he will underscore the strong ties between the U.S. and Israel.
"The president will visit Israel with a message about the enduring relationship between the United States and Israel, about the unshakable commitment the United States has to Israel's security, a commitment that is measured not just in the amount of assistance but in the strong bonds that our people share," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said.
The president may have his work cut out for him. A new poll finds just 10 percent of Israelis view the president favorably, 19 percent had an unfavorable opinion of Obama and 17 percent had a highly unfavorable opinion.
While many of his predecessors have delivered remarks at the Knesset, Israel's parliament, Obama is opting to address Israeli youth and government officials at the convention center in Jerusalem instead.
"The president will speak to all of the Israeli people in front of an audience of young Israelis who ? have it within their hands the power to shape Israel's future," Carney said. "He thinks that's entirely appropriate. And he will be meeting with Israeli leaders and government officials, of course. And you know, the president's, I think, message will be heard by Israelis who are both members of the Knesset and who are not."
The president will also travel to the West Bank to Ramallah, where he will meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and other leaders, who are frustrated with Obama's staunch opposition to their bid for statehood through the United Nations.
Obama will visit Bethlehem as well, to tour the Church of the Nativity, considered to be located on the site where Jesus was born. The cultural stop is also an attempt to highlight some of the challenges facing the Christian communities in the region.
Then, Obama is off to Jordan, where he will tour the sites of Petra and meet with King Abdullah to discuss a range of issues, including the crisis in Syria.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - One of the world's leading experts on debt restructurings has proposed extending the maturities of Cypriot sovereign bonds and giving uninsured depositors in its banks certificates of deposit (CDs) as a solution to the Mediterranean island's crisis.
In a paper entitled "Walking Back from Cyprus", Lee Buchheit of New York law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and his frequent collaborator, Mitu Gulati of Duke Law School, say European governments "trespassed on consecrated ground" with their plan to impose a levy on insured depositors in Cyprus.
They sketch out an alternative which would protect savers with deposits under 100,000 euros ($130,000) and grant those above that level 5-10 year interest-bearing bank CDs corresponding to the amount of their savings in excess of the insured threshold.
In addition, the maturities of all sovereign bonds would be extended by a fixed number of years, for example five.
"By our reckoning, this would reduce the total amount of the required official sector bailout funding during a three-year program period by about 6.6 billion euros," the paper says.
Euro zone finance ministers reversed course and urged the Cypriot government on Monday to exempt small savers from a planned levy on deposits agreed at a meeting in Brussels in the early hours of Saturday.
But the Cypriot parliament was still expected to reject the 10 billion euro bailout deal in a scheduled vote on Tuesday, which may be pushed back if failure looks inevitable. Cyprus risks default and a banking collapse if it is unable to find a way out of the impasse.
That is why the Buchheit and Gulati proposal, a draft of which was published on the website of the Social Science Research Network on Monday, may be relevant. Buchheit has crafted or advised on debt restructurings for the past 30 years, including those in Uruguay, Greece and Iraq.
The authors argue that the CDs would lock in funding for Cypriot banks for many years, while the bond extension would avoid the need for those maturities to be repaid out of official sector bailout funds.
They concede that their solution could raise a number of objections - among them that Cypriot banks would still need to be recapitalized and that the banks themselves own most of the country's debt.
European governments and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) might also object to a solution which may not address their concerns about debt sustainability in Cyprus.
But the authors present their proposal as the least painful and risky of a limited number of unattractive options. ($1 = 0.7717 euros)
(Writing by Noah Barkin, editing by Mike Peacock)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/debt-expert-advises-stretching-cypriot-bonds-cds-depositors-101212533.html
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GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) ? Somber athletes, students and school staff hugged and cried in a century-old chapel on the campus of a small Catholic university outside Pittsburgh, mourning the loss of a coach who died along with her unborn child when the team's bus crashed on the way to a game.
Members of the Seton Hill University community have tearfully gathered on the hilltop campus' Saint Joseph Chapel to memorialize victims of the crash ? especially head lacrosse coach Kristina Quigley, who was remembered as warm, outgoing and a natural leader.
The Rev. Jeremiah O'Shea reminded those in attendance of their own mortality asking: "Aren't we all so helpless in the face of death?"
The 30-year-old Quigley died of her injuries in the crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike near Harrisburg. She was about six months pregnant, and her unborn son didn't survive. The bus driver, 61-year-old Anthony Guaetta, died at the scene.
The school said Quigley was married and had a young son, Gavin.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/college-mourns-pregnant-pa-coach-killed-crash-214049025--spt.html
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HEAVY rain is expected to hit south China in the coming days, while mild snow will fall in northern regions, meteorological authorities predicted today.
The National Meteorological Center predicted that areas south of the Yangtze and Huai rivers will see strong rainfall in the next three days, with some regions expected to be hit by downpours or even thunderstorms.
Meanwhile, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Tibet Autonomous Region, Hebei Province and most of northeast China will receive light snow and sleet, while some areas in Liaoning and Jilin provinces will see heavy snowfall, the center said.
It also forecast sandstorms and gales in Gansu Province, western Inner Mongolia and southern parts of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region from today to Tuesday.
Source: http://www.shanghaidaily.com/nsp/National/2013/03/17/Rain+snow+to+hit+south+north+China
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