Space travel coming to an airport near you? Maybe, if Skylon keeps its cool

Want to get from New York to Perth in under 4 hours, or maybe just head to outer space on a lark? Reaction Engines' "Skylon" mach 5 spaceplane might be your chariot -- or not. Its scheme of ingesting oxygen from the atmosphere instead of stowing it like a 50-year old modern multi-stage rocket sounds good, but the project's fate may hang on critical new tests. Failure is still a possibility, but if the high-speed, superhot gases can be cooled enough for the hybrid Sabre engines to work, and if Reaction Engines Limited can secure another round of funding, punching your space-ticket could soon be a very real possibility.

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Bill Clinton teams up with Obama for re-election fundraisers (reuters)

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PSA: Pottermore is no longer colloportus, open to muggles and magicians alike

It's been a waitus longissimus, but finally Pottermore has raised the portcullis to the rest of us muggles. You can sign up right now, after which you'll be allocated to your respective Hogwarts house, but it might take a few more days before you're fully initiated into the hallowed halls proper. Just don't tell Voldemort.

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ATTSaving?s Fiction to Reality Timeline

ATTSavings has released a cool Fiction to Reality Timeline for gadgets (you can also click on the graphic above for a full size version). ?From the screen to your hand, I suspect there’ll be some debate about some of the associations and claims put forward, but still a bit of fun anyway. Much is the [...]

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Interesting: Law Firm Leading The Antitrust Charge Against Apple Shares A Seattle Address With Amazon

Coincidence, or conspiracy? It's a classic question that gets brought up when the details of any intriguing story start to surface. And some industry insiders are asking it in relation to the antitrust charges being brought against Apple and a group of book publishers over alleged collusion on the pricing of e-books. One fact in particular I'm hearing chatter about is that Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, the Seattle-based law firm that was the first to file charges regarding an alleged e-book price-fixing cabal back in August 2011, is very close neighbors with Amazon, the e-commerce giant that is said to be the chief corporate victim of the alleged Apple/publisher collusion. The thing is, it's not just the city of Seattle that Hagens Berman and Amazon have in common. They literally share an address.

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Racing the Ritual Dragon -- Breast Cancer Survivors Paddle in ...

They wear pink shirts, pink hats or white ones with pink ribbons, and they paddle -- racing against a ritual dragon that tried to keep them down and couldn't. ?They are breast cancer survivors (BCS) who paddle in one of the fastest growing sports in the world -- Dragon Boat Racing. ? Three teams of Breast Cancer Survivors will be competing this weekend in War on the Peace, Punta Gorda's Annual Dragon Boat Racing Event.
One of the teams is the Punta Gorda Team just formed last year by Alice Walker, a BCS from Punta Gorda and two Canadian ladies, Bev Nelson and Gerri Church. ?Having always been active during her life, Alice ?was not one to believe that sitting still was the best way to deal with the disease. ? " I started exercising as soon as I could," she said. ?She herself became involved with Dragon Boat Racing when the Charlotte Paddlers formed the Draggin Dragons Team at Burnt Store Marina. ?Later at an event in Tampa, she saw ladies participating in a pink boat, which sparked the idea for a a Punta Gorda BCS ?team.

Alice pointed out to us that historically ?"breast cancer survivors had been advised to avoid physical activity". But in 1996 a Canadian physician, Don McKenzie challenged this long held belief and created the first cancer survivor dragon boat team. . Today, there is an emerging body of research suggesting that physical activity not only has a positive effect on quality of life following a diagnosis of cancer, but may also improve and enhance survival.

The dragon boat community promotes breast cancer awareness by organizing breast cancer survivor (BCS) teams across the world. The BCS teams have formed their own International Committee, called The International Pink Paddlers Council. ?They will hold a major event in Sarasota in 2014 with BCS teams from all over the world participating. ?

The Punta Gorda team consists of 15 local survivors including one gentleman, also a breast cancer survivor, Herb Wagner (Herb's website). ? Also on the team are ladies??from Canada, Iowa and Pennsylvania. ?"The team is fairly new as is the knowledge of the sport around here," noted Alice. ?"We've grown a lot in one year but are eager to recruit more members so that we can have an all local team," she said noting that the benefits are many to cancer survivors "plus, we have a great time... we have become good friends as well as team mates." ?"You don't need experience to join. It's ?something everyone can do. ?You just need the willingness to participate in this fun sport."

The three teams participating in the Punta Gorda Dragon Boat Races on Saturday are the Punta Gorda team, CHP Peacemakers, a team from Miami "Save our Sisters," and the Pink Dragon Ladies from Tampa.

If you are interested in learning more about participating on a BCS dragon boat team, contact Alice Walker joeal36@yahoo.com. ?Better yet go on down Saturday and cheer on the team, and talk with some of the paddlers as they disembark from their boat. ?Oh and not to forget "Paddles Up" CHP Peacemakers!

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Rick Warren: Contraception Debate About 'Greater Principle' of Religious Freedom

Pastor Rick Warren is interviewed on "This Week."

In our Easter Sunday conversation for "This Week," Pastor Rick Warren told me why he believes the Obama administration is on the wrong side of the recent contraception debate.

TAPPER:?You've written about this, especially on Twitter?a great deal when it comes to the Obama administration's health care ruling when it pertains to contraception. You objected to that initially.?They dialed it back.? How are you with what they called an accommodation??Were you okay with that??Or no?

WARREN:?Well, no, I'm not, because in the first place, there is a redefinition from freedom of religion to phrases - now you hear people talking about freedom of worship. That means its limiting what the church does to only what happens in the one hour on Sunday morning as worship.?In other words, if I have a school, which is part of my commission as a church, education, or if I had a clinic which is part of my - the Bible says Jesus went into every village, preaching, teaching, and healing. He didn't just care about the spirit.?He cared about the mind and the body, and you go into almost any country, the first school and the first hospital were founded by the missionaries, almost every country in the world.?You go to Africa, 25 percent of the health care is done by Catholics.

WARREN: Now people are starting to frame this as women's health issue. I'm 100 percent in favor of women's health, obviously.?But the issue here is not about women's health.?There is a greater principle, and that is do you have a right to decide what your faith practices? I would be just as opposed to someone making a law that says every Jewish deli now has to serve pork.?Well, I would be - I would protest that. Why??There are 100 other delis ?you can get pork at. Why do I have to insist that the Jewish delis also serve pork??There's plenty of places to get contraceptives.

WARREN: Now I don't have a problem with contraceptives. I'm a Protestant. I'm an evangelical. But I do support my Catholic brothers and sisters to believe what they want to believe.?And I would support my Jewish brothers and sisters to believe what they want to believe, and say if you say we don't eat pork, we don't want to serve it in our deli, then you shouldn't have to serve it in your deli, because there's plenty of other places to get pork.

TAPPER:?But as far as you're concerned, does that - you think that should apply beyond houses of worship, but houses of worship are already exempt?

WARREN:? The Constitution says freedom of religion, not just freedom of worship. And churches, synagogues, mosques do far more than worship. In fact, if you took out all of the social services that it provided by Christian churches, and for that matter synagogues and mosques, too, America would go bankrupt in about six months, because the vast amount of social services, the free clinics and the feeding the poor and caring for the sick and educating the next generation is done a lot by these religious organizations.?And they should not have to say, well, I have to put my religion on the shelf to care for people.

TAPPER:?So you believe that this should also apply to - this exemption should apply to religious schools - religious charities?

WARREN:? I do?

TAPPER:?But just to clarify, the accommodation, as the administration calls it, doesn't require the Catholic charities or the Jewish schools or the Protestant -

WARREN:? So here's the dirty little secret about that.? It says we're going to put it onto the insurers -

TAPPER:? Right.? Insurance companies have to -

WARREN:? Most or many religious organizations insure themselves.?We insure ourselves here at Saddleback Church.?I have 350 staff.?We have a self-insurance program, where we do our own insurance.?So we're basically robbing from ourselves to pay for ourselves.

TAPPER:?But weren't you already required to do this under California law?

WARREN:?That's not the issue.?The issue is on a national level, on a national level, to start limiting churches and their organizations, the church and organizations - or any organizations, whether it's Christian or not, in what they believe that that limits what they do with their school or their health care, that is a violation of the First Amendment, in my opinion.

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