Celebrate Arbor Day 2010: Plant a tree, volunteer, learn about Arbor Day Arbor Day is Friday, April 30, 2010. There are many ways to celebrate this is national holiday set aside to plant trees across the nation.How can you celebrate Arbor Day 2010? Buy a tree online, gift a tree to a friend, read an Arbor Day book to a child or improve your community by volunteering at a tree planting event.Arbor Day is a national holiday is celebrated...

Beltane Countdown: WalpurgisnachtIn the parts of Germanic Europe, Walpurgisnacht is celebrated each year around April 30 - right around the time of Beltane. The festival is named for Walpurga, a Christian saint, who spent a number of years as a missionary in the Frankish empire. Over time, the celebration of St. Walpurga blended with the Viking celebrations of spring, and Walpurgisnacht was born.In Norse traditions - and many others - this...

Obama on Height: 'A place of honor in American memory'The President Obama called on Americans to pray for and remember Dorothy Height and "the Union she made more perfect.""She too deserves a place of honor in American memory," Obama said of the civil rights leader who died last week at age 98. The president delivered one of the eulogies during Height's funeral at the National Cathedral in Washington.Height's many works -- de-segregating...

Jamie-Lynn Sigler Has a New BF – Jets Mark SanchezActress Jamie-Lynn Sigler came to her senses and dumped Turtle – that would be actor Jerry Ferrara – and has apparently hooked up with New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez.Sigler met Sanchez at a party recently after taking a hiatus from the dating scene since December 2009 following her breakup with Ferrara.According to sources, Sigler and Sanchez made no effort to hide their feelings...

Noah S Ark Found In Turkey; A Plethora Of Belief And SkepticismA Plethora of Belief and Skepticism has engulfed the world, as a new claim by and evangelical Christian filmmaker about finding the remains of Noah’s ark at the Mount Ararat surfaces. The Hong Kong based Wing-cheung has said that he is ninety nine percent sure that he hit upon the religious treasure when he shot the wooden structure along with Turkish Scientists and archeologists.According...

Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Grows A growing fleet of the air and sea craft is fighting a rapidly expanding oil spill emanating from a well at the bottom of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, as communities around the Gulf Coast brace for its likely impact on commerce and the environment.Seen from a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter flying at 2,500 feet, the slick—which looks like a thin skin laid on top of the ocean—seems to extend beyond the horizon. Aircraft...

Supreme Court to Review California's Violent Videogame LawThe U.S. Supreme Court opts to review the controversial California legislation involving violent games.The United States Supreme Court announced (via The New York Times) today that it will review a decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to throw out a California law that would ban the sale of violent videogames to anyone under the age of 18.The law, which was signed by...

Bret Michaels Condition After Brain HemorrhageCelebrity Apprentice contestant Bret Michaels is currently in critical condition after suffering from a brain hemorrhage on April 22nd. The former Poison singer reported having an agonizing headache before the hemorrhage took place. Bleeding at the base of the brain stem was discovered by doctors.On April 12, Michaels had an emergency appendectomy (in layman’s terms: his appendix was removed)...

Raiders draft defensive tackle Lamarr Houstonthe Raiders were riveted by the national-title game in the January between Alabama and Texas. A day after taking Crimson Tide linebacker Rolando McClain in the first round, Oakland selected Longhorns defensive tackle Lamarr Houston in the second round Friday.He will play defensive end as the Raiders plug in physical players with pedigrees to fix a run defense that was 29th in the NFL last season."Getting...

King Tut Comes To Manhattan (Video)King Tut is on display in New York for the first time in more than 30 years as part of the "Tutankhamen and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" exhibit at the Discovery Times Square Exposition.Lines were up the block ahead of the opening.There are more than 130 ancient artifacts in the show, making it the largest King Tut exhibit ever assembled.Visitors can expect some exclusive pieces, which have never been...

George Campbell, Cooper Union President, To Retire In 2011 The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art announced Tuesday that its president, George Campbell Jr., will retire at the end of the 2010-11 academic year, after 10 years at the college.Under Mr. Campbell’s leadership, Cooper Union—which offers free tuition for every student—has made $200 million in capital investments, replacing 40% of the school’s aging facilities...

Mass Save Rebates on Earthday 2010 (Video)Mass Save Rebate starts at 10:00 AM on Thursday, April 22, also Earthday 2010. Mass Save Rebate saves Massachusetts residents money on certain appliance purchases. One of your conservation Earth Day activities should be checking out the Mass Save rebates, especially if you need new appliances.Energy saving appliances qualify for the Mass Save Rebate to save money and our world. To get a Mass Save...

Christina Hendricks: Best Looking WomanThere is some real good news for all the fans of noted actress Christina Hendricks, as the “Man Men” star has been named the best looking American woman in a poll by a leading men’s magazine. The poll, in which all the readers of the magazine got the opportunity to cast their votes about who according to them is the most beautiful actress, resulted in the 34 year old “Hunger Point” star getting an...

MondMarathon ay: Boston Marathon 26000 Running the Course (course map)April 19, 2010 the city of Boston shuts down (almost, I am still working) for Marathon Monday. This year 26000 (registered) people have come out to run the Boston Marathon, and unlike other years Americans are among the contenders--which may have to do with the volcano in Iceland grounding all flights from Europe due to the volcanic ash.Last years Boston Marathon defending...

Norfolk Island is situated on the Pacific Ocean in between Australia and New Zealand. This island is of great importance to biological experts. The Norfolk Island is also famous for its famous national park which is now a permanent part of the island. The full name of the island is therefore Norfolk Island national park. This island is full of a variety of animals, birds and plant species. It has widespread flora and fauna forestry. This...

Rumors are swirling around that Mexican singer Luis Miguel has been dead but point to note is that there are no authentic confirmations of these rumors. Neither the spokesman nor any other authentic source confirmed that the star was dead so, most likely it was just a hoax that had nothing to do with the reality.Meanwhile, there are reports about him which say that he is hospitalized at the Cedars-Sinai Hospital of Los Angeles and it seems...

Weird News: Huge Green Fireball Meteor in Wisconsin – VIDEOA giant green fireball assumed to be a meteor freaked out residents in the Wisconsin and Iowa Wednesday night. The fireball lit up the night sky like it was daylight and reportedly caused multiple sonic booms over the state.The object blazed across the skies at around 10 p.m. CDT, spurring a frenzy of calls to local media. The National Weather Service reports it was probably a meteorite...

Apple updates MacBook Pro line of laptopsApple is updating its MacBook Pro line of the laptops. The new computers will feature faster processors, more powerful graphics and up to 10 hours of the battery life. The MacBook Pros come in models with 13-inch, 15-inch and 17-inch screens. They are priced from $1,199 to $2,299. The laptops come with 4 gigabytes of memory, expandable to 8 gigabytes, and with hard drives of 250 gigabytes to 500...

Clyde Drexler & Scottie Pippen Celebrity Apprentice episodeWhile athlete Michael Johnson left Celebrity Apprentice on the latest episode, 2 other athletes were guest stars on the show. Former NBA stars Scottie Pippen and Clyde Drexler were featured in Celebrity Apprentice Season 9 episode 5. The object of the task for the teams was to create anew Right Guard commercial using the basketball stars.Clyde Drexler and Scottie Pippen are...

Katyn massacre claims more victimsOn their way to commemorate the anniversary of the 1940 Katyn massacre, members of the nation’s top leadership, including President Lech Kaczynski and his wife, were killed in a plane crash.The dead included the governor of Poland’s Central Bank, its army chief of staff, its deputy foreign minister and head of the National Security Office.Some of the people on board were relatives of victims of the Katyn...

Wachovia online banking downWachovia online banking is down since a few hours and people are not really satisfied with this, several reports on Twitter confirm the situation. This in not the first time Wachovia is in the buzz.This is the entity that during the crisis was rescued by Wells Fargo. Agreed to pay $ 160 million to the U.S. government to defer prosecution for allegedly laundering money to promote a drug cartel in Mexico Wachovia...

Obama's Nuclear Strategy: What's Changed, What Hasn'tIt is 72 pages long and filled with arcane deterrence language, but there's arguably no more important document in the world right now than the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) that President Obama released on Tuesday. After all, the text spells out how many nuclear weapons the U.S. will continue to deploy around the world and the conditions under which it would be prepared to use those weapons...

NCAA Championship Game 2010 Time Nears for Duke, ButlerThe NCAA championship game 2010 time is at the 9:21 pm est. Once the NCAA championship 2010 game time comes, some kind of Hollywood ending will be written. Either Butler will clinch perhapsthe most unlikely national title in 25 years, or Duke will bring some hard reality into this 'Cinderella' story. Most fans and pundits expect the latter, especially after Saturday's semifinals. But...

Hopkins vs Jones Live Stream Online Results 2010 Part 1 (Video)Mandalay Bay Resort was the place to be last night as night as the boxing world watched two veteran boxers duke it out for 10 rounds. The fight last night was a rematch of a fight that originally took place 17 years ago.The fight last night featured Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones Jr, with Bernard Hopkins coming out the winner. Hopkins goes out on top and avenges his loss to...

The Executive Director with Autism services says 1 out of every 150 Canadians has a diagnosis of autism and those numbers will continue to rise.Today is World Autism Awareness Day which kicks off Autism Awareness month.Shannon Friesen says doctors are more successfully diagnosing forms of autism where someone would have simply been considered socially quirky and she says they are still researching the cause but believe there is some genetic...

Topeka: Google pulls April Fools' prank after Kansas's renaming stuntTopeka? Today's Google name change may confuse visitors at first. But check the date.Google has a long history of April Fools' Day pranks. From upside-down YouTube clips and replacing videos with text to partnering with Virgin to create the Mars expedition team Virgle, Google has pulled more gags than the MIT frats to which many of its employees once belonged.However today's...

Ruben Studdard returns to American Idol, to tour with Clay Aiken (video)Remember when Ruben Studdard was a long shot on American Idol and Clay Aiken was a shoe-in? Remember when the reverse happened, though Aiken came in second and the two became friends (and faux foes of Simon, who was meaner back then).If you don't (and you probably won't since that was seven years ago), take a look at the video below to jog your memory.In any case, Rueben...