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Explanation: The Mars Ingenuity Helicopter, all four landing legs down, was captured here on sol 39 (March 30) slung beneath the belly of the Perseverance rover. The near ground level view is a mosaic of images from the WATSON camera on the rover's SHERLOC robotic arm. Near the center of the frame the experimental helicopter is suspended just a few centimeters above the martian surface. Tracks from Perseverance extend beyond the rover's wheels with the rim of Jezero crater visible about 2 kilometers in the distance. Ingenuity has a weight of 1.8 kilograms or 4 pounds on Earth. That corresponds...

For some it's too much to watch. Others just can't turn away. The televised trial of Derek Chauvin, the former white police officer charged in the death of George Floyd, has provoked strong emotions among many Black men and women — all tinged with an underlying dread that it could yield yet another devastating disappointment. For many, it has brought back memories of the disturbing video of Floyd's last moments as he gasped for breath with Chauvin's knee on his neck. The video galvanized protests in cities across the U.S. and the world, as the words "Black Lives Matter" took...

(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update) (75% of Americans 65 or older have now received at least a first dose - 40% of all adults) Total Vaccine Doses Delivered: 207,866,645 (8,693,700 J&J) Administered: 161,688,422 (3,840,647 J&J) People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 104,213,478 Fully Vaccinated: 59,858,146

“Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come” (2 Thessalonians 2:1-2). What disturbed the Thessalonians was they thought Christ had already come, and that they’d missed it. Paul reassures them in the next verse, “Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin...

“Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane” (Matthew 26:36). The agony of Jesus’ death, beginning with His ordeal in the Garden of Gethsemane, is something finite believers will never fully comprehend. C.H. Spurgeon, in an 1880s sermon, said this to his congregation: “It will not be enough for you to hear, or read [about Christ]; you must do your own thinking and consider your Lord for yourselves. . . . Shut yourself up with Jesus, if you would know him.” However, even those who most conscientiously follow Spurgeon’s admonition to meditate on Jesus’ Person and ministry find...

Requiring photo ID is “racist,” except when it’s done by Obama, the NAACP, unions, Apple, or any other liberalsBy Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)April 3, 2021The people who claim that requiring photo ID is “racist” have a huge double standard. Here are some examples of this double standard: In March 2012, Obama’s Justice Department blocked Texas’s voter ID requirement, claiming that it was “racist.” Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20120315041828/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/us/justice-dept-blocks-texas-photo-id-law.html However, Obama’s Justice Department required photo ID for everyone who enters. So let’s say that in 2012, someone was denied their right to vote because they didn’thave voter ID, and they wanted...

Cassandra Star (10) & her big sister Callahan (19) sing this beautiful & meaningful Easter version of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah. These Easter lyrics were written by Kelley Mooney, the piano track was arranged by Jeff Buckley of Karaoke Studios & the recording by Maverick Judson of MJ Interactive.

Memphis, Tenn. — A Memphis man is behind bars after police said he admitted to firing shots at 2 people on a busy Memphis interstate. Memphis Police said that just after midnight Wednesday morning 37-year-old Hurrie Gilliam sat outside of the Mote 6 on East Brooks Road and watched a man and woman leave the motel. According to MPD, Gilliam, known to one of the victims as “Husky” followed the couple out of the Motel 6 and towards I-55.

There's no line too high for Gonzaga bettors. Even though the Bulldogs were 14-point favorites at BetMGM, the largest spread for a national semifinal game in at least 25 years, it's another round of bettors loading up on Gonzaga. Of all the money bet on the Gonzaga-UCLA game at BetMGM, 79 percent is on Gonzaga laying a huge number. That pattern follows the first four rounds of the NCAA tournament. Bettors haven't lost on Gonzaga yet. Despite having the largest spread in each of the first four rounds, Gonzaga has covered the spread in each of their four tournament games....

Americans have suffered too long from this pandemic. But we can see a new day dawning on the horizon. Coronavirus infections are on the decline, and with three different vaccines now on the market, an end to the pandemic is within reach. Our economy is beginning to recover as people return to work. The unemployment rate plummeted from nearly 15 percent last April to just over 6 percent this February. State lockdowns are finally being lifted and our economy is getting back on its feet. Unfortunately, some lawmakers intend to exploit this critical time in order to pass a partisan...

The circus and attention-seeking have not stopped. Cannon is raising funds and still getting in front of microphones. She is also wearing a sling for what may or may not be an injury related to her arrest. You may make your own assessment. And the entourage seems permanent. On Wednesday, members of the Georgia Republican Party were on-site to witness the spectacle, and they noticed something interesting: an armed guard escorting the entourage.

Kansas lawmakers voted Thursday along party lines to repeal the state’s mask mandate despite a bid by Democrat Gov. Laura Kelly’s attempts to extend it, becoming the latest Republican-led state to refuse to extend or reimpose requirements to wear facial coverings. After the Kansas state legislature recently passed a law permitting the Legislative Coordinating Council—a legislative standing committee—to revoke executive orders, the Council decided in a 5-2 party-line vote to overturn the mask mandate immediately after Kelly took executive action (pdf) extending facial covering protocols. “There is no worrying spike today, and no circumstances which justify the continued impositions …...

Also swept up in the dragnet — according to observers and activists on social media — was Prince Hamzah bin Hussein, one-time crown prince and stepbrother to Jordan’s King Abdullah II. The monarch replaced him with his eldest son, Hussein, four years into his rule. State news later quoted an unnamed security official who denied reports that a 20-vehicle force had raided Hamzah’s home in a suburb of West Amman, placing him under house arrest and detaining members of his security detail and members of his staff. His head of office, Yasser Majali, was picked up after a heavily armed...

Ocasio-Cortez introduced a total of 21 bills that the center defined as "substantive" — but that is where the story ends. Her legislation received no action in committees, no floor votes, and none ever became law, according to the center, which takes its data from Congress.gov.

Any honest person with a lick of sense that’s paying any attention whatsoever knows Joe Biden is not in charge of his own mind, much less in charge of running the nation. The real question then is, if it is not Joe, who is it? Certainly it is a group of people, a cabal, if you will, however, there are a few major players and one in particular whose ideological DNA is all over everything. In a Frontpage magazine article on March 18, 2021, Daniel Greenfield makes the case that the central power figure over the Biden Administration is Nancy...

The footage shows a gang wearing Original Black Panthers of Milwaukee jackets hollering at patrons of Jade’s Nails about “disrespecting the black community.” “Look at him runnin’,” one BLM militant says to the Asian owner. “Why you runnin’? The man continues to berate the owner for allegedly calling the police on one of their members. “You disrespecting Black Lives Matter!” he shouts. “I’m here to tell you that’s going to stop!” “He disrespects black women by calling them ‘bitches’!” continued. “That’s gonna stop! Do I make myself clear?” The stunned owners try to avoid the confrontation but the BLM leader...

Michael Burry's Twitter habit led to a visit from federal regulators. "The Big Short" investor has blasted Tesla, bitcoin, Robinhood, and meme-stock buyers. Burry indicated that he's not planning to tweet anymore. Michael Burry's incendiary tweets have piqued the interest of federal regulators, the investor revealed this week. "Tweeting and getting in the news lately apparently has caused the SEC to pay us a visit," the Scion Asset Management boss said in a now-deleted tweet. "Lovely," he continued, adding the hashtag "#nomoretweets." He also linked to the song "Lovely" by Suicidal Tendencies, a hardcore punk band, and changed the header...

Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.(Isaiah 53:1-3)It is the climax of human history, the apocalypse, the very...

From clam-covered pizza in Connecticut to tater tot toppings in Missouri, here is each state's best pizza place. Alabama - Post Office Pies Post Office Pies sources its ingredients locally, and its mozzarella is made in-house. The pies are cooked in a brick oven, which gives the crust a charred, crispy texture. Alaska- Moose's Tooth Pub and Pizzeria Moose's Tooth Pub and Pizzeria is popular for its wide variety of specialty pies with toppings such as apricot sauce and reindeer sausage. Arizona- Pizzeria Bianco In 2015, chef and owner Chris Bianco was hailed as "America's Best Pizza Maker" by Eater....