After JFK, a Secret Service transformed

The date most closely associated with the Secret Service probably isn’t its founding in 1865. It’s not 1902, when it took over full-time protection of the president following William McKinley’s assassination. It’s probably Nov. 22, 1963 — when John F. Kennedy was killed, shot dead as he rode in a convertible with the top down, his government bodyguards powerless to help.

But 50 years later, there’s no mistaking that JFK’s death — and the June 1968 killing of Robert Kennedy, and the March 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan — utterly transformed the small agency with one of the government’s biggest jobs.

 

Obama administration knew millions wouldn't be able to keep insurance

Monday, former Obama adviser David Axelrod said on MSNBC's Morning Joe that "most people are going to keep their own plan." When asked about Axelrod's admission of "most" as opposed to all, White House spokesman Jay Carney acknowledge that some individual's plans will be cancelled, but countered that the plans they switch to will be better and affordable.

"What the president said and what everybody said all along is that there are going to be changes brought about by the Affordable Care Act to create minimum standards of coverage," Carney said. "… So it's true that there are existing health-care plans on the individual market that don't meet those minimum standards and therefore do not qualify for the Affordable Care Act."

You can now buy your friend a Starbucks coffee on Twitter

The Seattle-based coffee behemoth recently launched a program called "Tweet-a-coffee." Here's how it works: Interested users link their Twitter and Starbucks accounts and set up a payment method. Then, it's as (supposedly) simple as tweeting "@tweetacoffee" with the recipient's Twitter handle. The lucky person gets a $5 Starbucks gift card, which can be redeemed on a smartphone

Astronomers discover most distant galaxy yet

Astronomers have found the most distant galaxy yet, a discovery that pushes back scientists' view of the universe to about 700 million years after it is thought to have come into existence.

"It could be that this one galaxy lives in an over-dense region of (ionized hydrogen) so we can see it ... but that's a little bit of conjecture. For all we know these other galaxies have just a lot more hydrogen gas within the galaxies themselves and that's why we can't see them," Finkelstein said

What Makes You Fat?

 

Why do so many of us get so fat? the answer appears obvious. “The fundamental cause of obesity and overweight,” the World Health Organization says, “is an energy imbalance between calories consumed and calories expended.”

 

 

Put simply, we either eat too much or are too sedentary, or both.

 

 



Russian Space Program

Russian Space program is for the journey outside Moscow to Star City, the formerly secret training facility for Soviet cosmonauts.

You can enjoy VIP viewing at the launch site to seethe Soyuz spacecraft break free of the earth’s atmosphere on its way to the International Space Station.

I have been staying in the US since 2011 Mar as a ESL Student. I came to the US to improve my English  to be fluent level by living and studying here with native speaker. I have lived in Naperville and commuted to Chicago downtown to go to school. My first 2years were in the BIR trainging center in Chicago. Now, I am taking a class at CSI for the Advanced Intensive English course. I hope that I can obtain a lot of vocabulary so that I can communicate with fluent English in the future.