http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7046bo92a4
Linda Lopez video
http://www.examiner.com/american-politics-in-vancouver/fnc-segment-video
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabrielle_Giffords
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Giffords was born in Tucson, Arizona, to Gloria Kay (née Fraser) and Spencer J. Giffords. Her father is the first cousin of director Bruce Paltrow, whose daughter is actress Gwyneth Paltrow.[54] Giffords was raised in a mixed religious environment by her Jewish father and Christian Science-practicing mother. She has identified herself solely with Judaism since 2001, belonging to Congregation Chaverim, a Reform synagogue, in Tucson.[2][1] She is Arizona's first Jewish Congresswoman.[55][56] She married U.S. Navy Captain and astronaut Mark E. Kelly on November 10, 2007. He was the space shuttle's pilot on STS-108 and STS-121, and commander of STS-124[57] and future flight STS-134 (scheduled for April 2011), the penultimate flight of the space shuttle program before its planned end in 2011.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blythe_Danner
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Early life
Danner was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Katharine and Harry Earl Danner, a bank executive.[1] She has a brother, opera singer/actor Harry Danner, a sister, former performer turned director Dorothy (Dottie) Danner, and a half brother, violin maker William Moennig. Danner is of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry.[2] She attended George School, a private Quaker secondary school in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and Bard College, where she graduated in 1965.[citation needed]
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/bruce-paltrow-613189.html
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Bruce Paltrow
Producer and director of the television series 'St Elsewhere'
Saturday, 5 October 2002
Bruce Paltrow, the father of the Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow, was the patriarch of a show-business family that includes his wife, the Tony-winning actress Blythe Danner, and his son, the television director Jake Paltrow. A writer, producer and director of note, Bruce Paltrow was one of the creators of the hit television series St Elsewhere, the offbeat medical drama set in a run-down Boston hospital. It ran for six years, won several Emmy awards and set a new trend with its cast of dedicated but humanly fallible staff and its deft mix of comedy and tragedy. In the UK it gained a large following when screened by Channel 4.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_E._Kelly
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Mark Edward Kelly (born February 21, 1964, in Orange, New Jersey) is an American astronaut. Kelly is the commander of STS-134 Endeavour, the final planned mission of the American space shuttle program.[1]
Kelly first went into space as the pilot for STS-108 Endeavour December 5–17, 2001. He returned to space as the pilot of STS-121 Discovery July 4-17, 2006. On Kelly's third mission he served as commander of STS-124 Discovery May 31 to June 14, 2008. Kelly's fourth mission, STS-134, has a target launch date of April 1, 2011.[2]
While three members of Congress themselves have flown in space, Kelly is the first to fly in space while married to a member of the U.S. Congress.[3] Kelly is married to U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.
His twin brother, Scott J. Kelly, is also a NASA astronaut. The Kelly brothers are the only twins and the only siblings who have both traveled in space.
Jake Paltrow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZslPG1hl8o
Gweneth Paltrow Bette Davis Eyes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPcxZSLzU0Y&feature=related
http://www.hollywoodactress.org/Gwyneth-Paltrow-Profile.php
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Gwyneth Paltrow Personal Details :Actress Name: Gwyneth Paltrow
Actress Full Name: Gwyneth Kate Paltrow
Gwyneth Paltrow Nicknames: Gwynnie
Date of Birth: September 27th, 1972, Los Angeles, California, USA
Born at: 525 PM (PDT)
Gender: Female
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Race or Ethnicity: White
Religion: Jewish
Zodiac Sign: Libra
Party Affiliation: Democrat
Nationality: American
Speaks: Spanish, French
Family and Friends of Gwyneth Paltrow :
Father: Bruce Paltrow (Television Director, Writer, and Producer)
Mother: Blythe Danner (Actress)
Brother: Jake Paltrow (Television Director)
Daughter: Apple Blythe Alison Martin
Son: Moses Bruce Anthony Martin
Cousin: Katherine Moennig (Actress), Hillary Danner (Actress), Gabrielle Giffords
This came up as I was researching and altho it doesn't seem to be realated to Gabrielle Giffords I thought it worth including. ...cal
http://www.click2houston.com/money/26416137/detail.html
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Germany Pledges Tough Action On Dioxin Scandal
POSTED: Sunday, January 9, 2011
UPDATED: 1:10 pm CST January 9, 2011
BERLIN -- Germany's agriculture minister on Sunday vowed tough legal action against those responsible for contaminating livestock feed with dioxin-laced fat that has prompted farm closures and import bans on German products.
The case, which appears to be an intentional wrongdoing "with alarming unscrupulousness," needs to be thoroughly investigated, Ilse Aigner told the newspaper Bild am Sonntag.
"The judiciary has to clamp down hard here," she was quoted as saying.
German investigators have found excessive levels of cancer-causing dioxin in eggs and some chicken meat. Authorities initially froze sales of poultry, pork and eggs from more than 4,700 farms as a precautionary measure.
Test results, however, led authorities to lift most of the sales bans, with only about 1,500 farms remaining closed, said the agriculture ministry in the Lower-Saxony state, which was worst hit.
Dioxins are contaminants that often result from industrial combustion, and exposure to them at high levels is linked to an increased incidence of cancer.
South Korea and Slovakia banned the sales of some German food imports, while Britain, Italy and the Netherlands launched investigations into food safety.
Germany's agriculture ministry on Sunday strongly condemned Slovakia's sales ban as "unfounded and completely unacceptable."
The ministry statement also said talks are ongoing with South Korea to convince authorities there that all necessary precautions have been taken.
"We make it very clear that German exports were at no point posing any health risk," the statement said.
The European Commission on Friday said it was "closely monitoring the situation" but praised German authorities' rapid reaction.
Investigators are probing the German firm Harles & Jentzsch GmbH, which had produced fat used in the tainted feed pellets. Samples of the fat contained more than 70 times the approved amount of dioxin, according to tests published Saturday by the Schleswig-Holstein state agriculture ministry.
http://www.salon.com/wires/techbiz/2011/01/09/D9KL292G0_us_congresswoman_shot_space_family/index.html
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SUNDAY Jan 09, 2011 16:12 ET
NASA won't speculate on flight by Giffords' hubby
AP
The shocking gundown of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has left NASA reeling: Her astronaut husband was due to rocket away in just three months as perhaps the last space shuttle commander, and her brother-in-law is currently on the International Space Station.This undated photo provided by NASA shows Capt. Mark E. Kelly. The astronauts wife, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., was shot Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011 when an assailant opened fire in an area where the lawmaker was meeting with constituents in Tucson, congressional officials said. (AP Photo/NASA)
Shuttle commander Mark Kelly rushed to his wife's hospital bedside Saturday as his identical twin brother, Scott, did his best to keep updated on the Arizona shooting through Mission Control, the Internet and the lone phone aboard the space station.
"I want to thank everyone for their thoughts and prayers, words of condolences and encouragement for the victims and their families of this horrific event," Scott Kelly tweeted from space.
It was the worst news to befall an astronaut in orbit since Christmas 2007, when a space station resident learned of his mother's death in a car-train collision. That astronaut, Daniel Tani, was working in Mission Control in Houston last week, in touch with Scott Kelly and the five other members of the space station crew.
The chief of the astronaut office broke the news to Scott Kelly that a gunman had shot his sister-in-law at a political gathering in Tucson soon after it happened.
NASA officials said Sunday it was premature to speculate on whether Mark Kelly would step down as commander of the April flight of the shuttle Endeavour.
But it was hard to imagine how he could keep up with the grueling training in the next three months, primarily in Houston, and still spend time with his wife of three years, hospitalized in critical condition in Arizona.
Kelly's mission is higher profile than most. Endeavour's final flight will deliver an elaborate physics experiment by a Nobel Prize winner.
For now anyway, it's slated to be the last voyage of the 30-year shuttle program. That fact alone propelled 46-year-old Mark Kelly onto the cover of this month's Air & Space magazine of the Smithsonian Institution; he shares the cover with the first shuttle commander, moonwalker John Young.
In an interview with The Associated Press last fall, Kelly, a Navy officer and three-time shuttle flier, said it was "timing and luck" that snared him one last coveted commander's seat, not his influential wife. She loved sharing his adventure. "She's excited about going to Florida for the launch," he said then.
Until last month, NASA hoped the Kelly brothers would meet in orbit, a PR dream for a space agency often confronted with bad news. But after fuel tank cracks grounded another shuttle mission, Mark Kelly's flight was bumped to April. His brother is to return home in March on a Russian spacecraft, so the reunion in space is off.
As for the rippling effects of Saturday's shooting, there is no precedent for anything like this at NASA. Astronauts have had to bow out of space missions over the decades, but never a commander so close to flight and never for something so brutal.
Mark Kelly's co-pilot, retired Air Force Col. Gregory Johnson, could take over. Or NASA could free up another astronaut with flying-to-the-space-station experience.
"It is premature to speculate on any of this," NASA spokesman James Hartsfield said in an e-mail Sunday. "For now, the focus is on supporting Mark and Scott, and things need to be taken day by day, and all thoughts are with the victims."
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden called Giffords a "a long-term supporter of NASA... who not only has made lasting contributions to our country, but is a strong advocate for the nation's space program and a member of the NASA family."
Mark Kelly's two teenage daughters from a previous marriage were reportedly with him in Tucson.
The couple met in China in 2003 during a young leaders' forum and married in November 2007 at an organic farm south of Tucson. Giffords, 40, a Democrat, served on the House Science and Technology Committee, and took on NASA affairs while heading the space subcommittee.
She admitted to being nervous at her husband's shuttle launch in 2008. "It's a risky job," she told The Associated Press. "You don't really relax" until touchdown.
Mark Kelly readily accepted his wife's fame. He considered her the bigger star in the family.
Scott Kelly, who like his brother has two daughters, will end his 5 1/2-month mission in March, flying in a Russian Soyuz capsule to Kazakhstan.
On Sunday, Scott Kelly and his crewmates -- another American, one Italian and three Russians -- kept busy with maintenance work. A busy few weeks are ahead with a spacewalk by two of the Russians and the late January arrival of the first-of-its-kind Japanese cargo ship.
The brothers describe themselves as best friends. Both are Navy captains and former test pilots, and both became astronauts in 1996. They grew up in West Orange, N.J., the sons of police officers.
Neither ever missed the other brother's space launches. Mark was there in October, right at the launch pad, when Scott boarded a Russian Soyuz rocket for the space station.
Both were disappointed when, just weeks later, shuttle fuel tank cracks conspired to keep them apart in space.
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