Skywatchers will have quite the treat tonight and tomorrow night as the Delta Aquarid meteor shower reaches its peak.
Those in the Southern Hemisphere and the southern portion of the Northern Hemisphere will have the best view, USA Today reports. The meteor shower promises up to 20 meteors per hour.
"The Delta Aquariid meteor shower takes its name from Delta Aquarii, a 3rd-magnitude star in the constellation Aquarius, the water carrier," Bob King writes for Sky and Telescope.
The best time to see the meteors is in the early morning hours, after midnight but before the sky starts to lighten at dawn. According to King, 2 a.m. local time is the sweet spot.
If the weather is clear, you have an even better chance of getting a clear view of the meteor shower because the moon is a waning crescent. If you don"t have such luck, you can watch the meteor shower live on Slooh.
The Aquariids are a preview of an even more dazzling meteor shower coming in August. According to EarthSky, the Perseid meteor shower peaks August 11, 12 and 13.
Jennifer Granholm: A clean energy proposal -- race to the top!
I want to speak tonight to those Americans who feel you"ve been left behind. Who believe you"ve been cheated. Who believe that those at the top don"t care about you.
I know a little something about that. I was Governor of Michigan the epicenter of America"s manufacturing rise, and its fall, AND its resurgence. Michigan built the automobile and the automobile built America. But when the manufacturing industry fell on hard times, so did Michigan. We were angry about it about jobs going to low-wage countries. About unfair trade.
But we were also determined to build industries of the future. We said we wanted advanced manufacturing. We wanted new jobs. We started the hard process of moving in that direction. And then, in 2008, we elected a Democratic President for us to work with. And you know what he did?
He saved the American auto industry. And then that renewed auto industry paid America back in full.
And THAT"S what we can do when we work together.
I"m a fierce Democrat. But I know there are Democrats AND Republicans across the country who want to create jobs in America. Liberals and conservatives. Public sector and private industry. Because we"re not in this alone we"re all in this together.
One candidate for President gets that. And one candidate, as Joe BidenJoe BidenFULL SPEECH: Hillary Clinton closes out Democratic convention Biden to appear on "Law & Order: SVU" FULL SPEECH: Jennifer Granholm speaks to convention delegates MORE said last night, doesn"t have a clue.
Some people are worried. Some people are angry. I get that. But the answer isn"t to tear our country down, it"s to build our country up.
Not to build walls that keep the rest of the world OUT, but to keep building the industries and universities that the rest of the world wishes they could get into.
Hillary ClintonHillary Rodham ClintonWinners and losers of the Democratic National Convention Trump unloads on Clinton moments after speech Clinton paints chilling image of Trump with nuclear codes MORE gets it.
That"s why she has huge plans to create good-paying jobs in America.
Imagine that actual plans! I must have missed that night of the Republican Convention!
Detailed plans, people! Written down! With numbers! That add up!
Wanna see them? You can actually see them! Just text JOBS to 47246.
Now, last week, we heard Trump"s hopeless vision of our country. Then he said: "I alone can fix it."
Imagine Donald TrumpDonald TrumpWinners and losers of the Democratic National Convention Trump unloads on Clinton moments after speech Clinton paints chilling image of Trump with nuclear codes MORE"s version of the Constitution: "I, the person, in order to form a more perfect union"
Or, centuries later, "I, shall overcome."
Or, "Ask not what I can do for my country, ask what my country can do for me!"
Donald: You"re so vain, you probably think this speech is about you.
Here"s what I know: WE have to stop Donald Trump!
Our great country spans a continent, but we"re all connected to each other, no matter where we live.
When a miner in Virginia has the dignity of a new job in the advanced steel industry, we ALL have dignity.
When the engineering student in the Sunshine State builds the solar panels of the future, we ALL succeed.
When the autoworker in Detroit builds the electric vehicle, that drives all of us forward. Right? Whether you"re in Michigan or Maryland or Missouri or Montana.
And this, too: When Flint"s water poisons its children, that hurts all of us. These are our children. We are all Flint!
Right, Philadelphia?
Our next President knows that a nation is a village. That we are ONE family.
And in a family, NO ONE gets left behind: Not the steelworker in Pennsylvania! Not the farmer in Iowa! Not the DREAMer in Nevada! Not the factory worker in Ohio!
As our next president says we"re Stronger Together.
We"re Stronger. How? Together!
We"re going to keep America great. How? Together!
And we"re going to work our hearts out to elect Hillary Clinton President. How? Together!
Everyone on staff is helping our celebrity spotting during the DNC. Here are some more highlights:
From Elizabeth Wellington: BET Networks and Airbnb hosted a DNC soiree Tuesday night at Coda nightclub (1712 Walnut St.). The jawn - the official name of the party - was packed.
Singers Bilal and Raheem Devaughn entertained the well-dressed, packed-to-capacity crowd. The Daily Show host Trevor Noah milled through the space like he was everybody"s homeboy along with one of the show"s funniest correspondents, Roy Wood Jr. (The two are at Penn"s Annenberg Center taping the show.)
BET CEO Debra Lee addressed folks. Extra"s A.J. Calloway was in the house as well as was one of the convention"s best-dressed politicos, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake.
Two administrations at PoliticalFest 2016
Tony Goldwyn, who plays President Fitzgerald Grant on Scandal, participated in a Q&A at the Constitution Center (525 Arch St.) on Wednesday afternoon with Melissa Fitzgerald, who played White House staffer Carol Fitzpatrick on The West Wing and now works for Justice for Vets.
Fitzgerald, Hrishikesh Hirway (who cohosts a West Wing podcast with show star Josh Malina), and West Wing star Richard Schiff also participated in a game of "West Wing Quizzo" at PoliticalFest 2016. Melissa called her friend and costar Allison Janney to help her out with a question. Richard called costar Bradley Whitford. Dul Hill also called in. Both had teams consisting of mega fans of the show. Melissa"s team won.
DNC"n IN TOWN
Always-working Michael Klein reports that Rydal-raised actor and former Daily News intern Bradley Cooper and supermodel girlfriend Irina Shayk joined a party of six for an early dinner upstairs at Vernick (2031 Walnut St.), the hot bistro near Rittenhouse Square.
The DNC couldn"t reunite Art Garfunkel with Paul Simon to sing "Bridge Over Troubled Water," but it was able to reunite Tyne Daly with Sharon Gless (Cagney & Lacey) to sing "What the World Needs Now."
Sen. Bernie Sanders and his family held forth at Butcher & Singer steak house Tuesday night. At another table was filmmaker Lee Daniels (Empire), enjoying dinner with his mother, Clara Watson. Daniels grew up in Wynnefield, and is the son of a Philadelphia police officer slain in the line of duty.
Barclay Prime on Rittenhouse Square was NBC central around the dinner hour Wednesday, as Carson Daly, Matt Lauer, and Al Roker chowed down, while a slew of network executives gathered at a nearby table.
Grey"s Anatomy/Scandal creator Shonda Rhimes Instagrammed from a Planned Parenthood event, where she saw New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker.
Speaking of Planned Parenthood, The Affair"s Maura Tierney stopped by the group"s private party Tuesday night at Union Transfer. (1026 Spring Garden St.).
A very interesting table at the start of the DNC at V Street (126 S. 19th St.). Booker was there, seated with CBS"s Gayle King and local filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan.
TV"s Judge Mathis attended the Black Caucus Cocktail Party at Del Frisco"s steak house Tuesday afternoon.
Vice President Biden cooled off at More Than Just Ice Cream (1119 Locust St.).
Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, was at the DNC on Wednesday night to promote the fight against climate change.
Acknowledging climate change was not an issue at the RNC in Cleveland.
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The possibility of Alabama having a state lottery has everyone talking.
Governor Robert Bentley announced yesterday that he plans to call a special session of the Legislature to discuss having a lottery,which would help with the ongoing budget issues in the state.
"This solution will provide funding that we can count on for year after year without ever having to raise your taxes or put one more band-aid on our state"s money problems," Bentley said in a video posted on his website.
AL.com asked people at the Flora-Bama what they thought about having a lotto, and the response was overwhelmingly positive.
Byron Lipsomb, a Gulf Shores resident who plays the lottery, said, "Many of our citizens drive to Florida and spend that money in Florida constantly, and it could be money that"s coming to our state."
No one interviewed said they saw any negatives to having a state lottery.
Another Gulf Shores man said he drives to Florida to buy tickets three times a week.
While Bentley did not give a date for the session about the lotto, other state lawmakers said the best time to call a sessionwould be by August 24, so that the lottery proposal would be on the general election ballot in November.
Everyone in the video said that they hoped some of the revenue generated by the lottery would be used for education.
What do you think about the state lottery proposal?
Charges Dropped Against All Officers In Freddie Gray Case
The lack of charges against the officers implicated in Freddie Gray"s death weighed heavily on the minds of Black Lives Matter co-founderAlicia Garza and others participating in a Rock the Vote panel today (July 27) in Philadelphia.
"Police are allowed to be judge, jury and executioner," Garza said during panel, which was focused on the militarization of police. "Marilyn Mosby came out today and said that"s what happened with the aquittal of all officers in the murder of Freddie Gray. We have really bad a*s policy and organizingthat"s being moved, which tells me that there"s something so deeply corrupt about the system that we"re trying to temper with, that we might want to start over again."
JournalistErica Williams(Time, Upworthy)moderated the panel, which also featured journalist Chris Hedges (Truth Dig), Justice League NYC co-founder Carmen Perez,former NAACP presidentBen Jealousandactor Kendrick Sampson ("How to Get Away with Murder"). Panelists also addressed the profit-driven underpinnings of agresssive policing, with Hedges criticizing the "forces of capitalism and neoliberalism"s" role in fostering the demonizedunderground economy.
Perez also shared personal experiences with police: "I think about the way in which they dealt with my family, when we were having weddings and maybe there was a fight or a gun brandished," said Perez. "There would be tanks, [police] would come in and hold our family at gunpoint."
The panel, like a Melissa Harris-Perry-moderated one we covered yesterday,was part of Rock the Vote"s Truth to Power event series and pop-up art exhibit. Presented parallel to the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Philadelphia this week, the series concludestoday.
Check out our livestream of Garza and Perez"s opening remarks below.
[FULL] 1st GOP 2016 Presidential Debate Top 10 Republican Candidates - Aug. 07, 2015 - FOX News -
On27 July 2016, Internet users Googling the term "presidential candidates" noticed an unusual phenomenon in their search results a display of pictures and links to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, (non-nominated) Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders, and Green Party candidate Jill Stein, but no mention of Republican nominee Donald Trump (or Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson):
On 19 July 2016, Donald Trump took the stage at the Republican National Convention to accept his party"s nomination for president. Prior to that date, Trump was included in Google"s search results for "presidential candidates":
The above-displayed screenshot was posted by Jill Stein on 17 July 2016, a few days before Trump accepted the Republican Party"s nomination for president, as Stein was petitioning Google to be included in their search results for "presidential candidates":
Google searches for Jill Stein have spiked dramatically since Tuesday July 12.
But if you do a Google search for Presidential candidates, heres all you see: Donald Trump. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Bernie Sanders. Gary Johnson.
So were asking the #1 most visited website in the world what about Jill Stein?
One speculative explanation is that (since the results are notated as reflecting "active campaigns") Donald Trump was removed from Google"s search results for "presidential candidates" upon becoming a "nominee" rather than a "candidate," but that hypothesis wouldn"t explain why Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson also no longer shows up in search results (since his candidate/nominee status has not changed), nor why Jill Stein still does.
When Google was accused of manipulating search results in favor of Hillary Clinton in June 2016, the company released a statement asserting that their search results had no political bias:
Google Autocomplete does not favor any candidate or cause. Claims to the contrary simply misunderstand how Autocomplete works.
Later in the day,Trump and Johnson were bothincluded in the search results:
A spokesperson for Google said that the error was caused by a technical glitch:
We found a technical bug in Search where only the presidential candidates participating in an active primary election were appearing in a Knowledge Graph result. Because the Republican and Libertarian primaries have ended, those candidates did not appear. This bug was resolved early this morning.
